City Council

Captions standing by... I am will Arnold the mayor and I recognize that all of my fellow city council colleagues are here today in person. So, first things first, I will ask for approval of tonight's agenda. Are there any changes folks would like to make to the agenda, or I'll entertain a motion to approve? I'll make the motion to approve the agenda moved by Josh. Is there a second? Second it. So I can hit by Donna any discussion all in favor. Please say aye. Aye any opposed passes unanimously. We have an agenda item number one, a city manager, brief announcements, Mike I'm a little rusty. It's been a few weeks, so a couple of announcements for you this evening. Good evening this this weekend, on Monday of next week is Labor Day. We recognize and celebrate Labor Day in our community city offices will be closed. Accordingly on Monday, SEPTEMBER 4th, of course, City Emergency Services, critical services will be unaffected as always since they. 24/7 365, operations, of course and just want to give a big shout out and thanks to our our entire staff team as those in our ranks that are helping keep the city running in our community day after day but also to those in the community who contribute to our society and so many different ways. And so in that sense, we're honoring honoring Labor day next week. Some grand opening coming up with Rose Creek Park. So grand opening celebration, scheduled for SEPTEMBER 7th from 5 to 6 P.M. Rose Creek Park who ae not familiar, is in South Davis, it's located just between Concord Avenue, and Evans court and the updated Park improvements iclude a new play area, new, picnic shelter, and some additional seating amongst other other adjustments. You see a photograph here, on the screen of some of that new place. Equipment that's in place and that's inmate in possible in large part by funding that came from the Hyatt House Development agreement, that the city had negotiated that developer when the hotel was built nearby allocated funds for for that project. And I also want to just give a big shout out to the Rose Creek neighborhood for their, a very active participation in that Park planning effort, and all the input throughout. Patients throughout during the construction phase and through the design phase. And also just the special thing for all the follow-up in diligence, during the construction So we're really looking forward to that again on SEPTEMBER 7th from 5 to 6 P.M. And then my last announcement for tonight, but certainly not least, is spin is preparing to launch their introduction of e Scooters and e-bikes in Davis in partnership with the uc Davis. So city of Davis and uc Davis partnering on a joint contract with spin, where they will roll out bikes and scooters in a sort of, a metered roll out, where they'll introduce. To start with Has a smaller number of devices. Sort of get folks used to the to the concept get folks used to their operations, the apps, and so forth that are associated with operating, the spin devices. They've begun community outreach and Davis Davis about their upcoming launch, and on campus and against that soft 8th and span. Again, the concept here is to provide Vide micro Mobility devices for, really what we refer to as that first and last mile of transportation to help people get access to employment places of employment, key destinations in town to, and from the Amtrak Depot Downtown. The couple quarter downtown, for example, in a way is very low greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable. And there's a lot more information about the ridership, their rates, how all works and operates on the web page, here, city of Davis dot org, slash spin for more information to folks want to find out, but we're doing a lot of messaging working with spend to get messaging out so the community about about teir program and how it wrks. We're very excited to see them. Come on board and we believe that I think very, You know, a lot of the things that had come up previously when we worked with Jump by Common initial plot a couple years back spin has the answers to all those all those sorts of questions that came up during that pilot and we're looking forward to great. Thank you, Mike. Well, that'll move us on to item number one, be city council brief announcements and liaison reports from 2x2 and other meetings. I will mention which I forgot to mention at the beginning of this meeting that we did have a close. Session prior this meeting. But there is nothing to report out from that solar session. Do any of my colleagues have comments that they'd like to make a descent, go ahead. So I just want to acknowledge the statement that will put out as mirror and thank you for that, oh, around the bomb threats and things that we've had around the librarian know, this has been top of mind for a lot of people in the community. And those of us that have children in schools and receiving these very disturbing messages, about the safety of our children. And I think it's really important for civic leaders in times like this to step forward and to reassure the community that, you know, we ake these concerns seriously and that it's important to us that everyone in the community feel supported and safe and seen. I think that is is really important. I think that's something that the city does. Well we have several proclamations throughout the year that acknowledges, that acknowledge are marginalized communities. And so I it's, it's something that makes me proud and And I am a supporter of free speech, As I think, you know, most people in our community are and part of that when we disagree we have, you know, every boy is is available to step forward and to call out things that are That are wrong. And this is wong because it's happening right now is wrong. And so, as I was really pleased to find this patch and the items that are, you know, here on the docese today and this is our new city of Davipolice patch, it's caught the rainbow and trance colors around it. And so thank you. Karen. Thank you Gloria. I appreciate the kind words and what kind of words of others over the last 24 hours or so since I put out that statement it's very meaningful that we call out that reasonable disagreement can exist but threats of violence or social community. And I hope that that point was reiterated. Comments from folks? Thank you. Item one, see City Council in indication of intent, to pull items from the consent calendar. Calendar for discussion. Are there any items that folks know at this time that they want to pull from the consent calendar? I don't need to pull an item of. I just want to make a comment on one before we vote, but it's okay because we can do that. Certainly, anyone else? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on. Now to item to this is our public comment, this is public comment and opportunity for folks to comment on items that are not on our agenda or which are on the agenda. But you're not able to stay with. This is your one bite at that Apple. So folks have two minutes to comment and we'll start with individuals who are in the room with us. Welcome. No other citizen of Davis in the Village of Skokie versus the Nazis. The Illinois Supreme Court held that the of swastika is did not constitute fighting words. And thus, the enjoining of that speech Was an unconstitutional prior restraint, The only noise decision would set a foundation for later. Hate speech cases. The court said, that the feelings of The Listener are not valid reason. For prohibiting speech greatest decision ever for free speech and I say this as a Jewish person, went to see Colin, right? A few months back, the library sponsored by the for Liberty because of publicity from the protesters. Otherwise I would never heard of it if you want. Alan Miller to see something, tell him that the event is so dangerous. That no one should see it. I happen to be standing near a couple of the remaining protesters after the event. The person from a library came out and started talking to them, he clearly was on there. Aside and he said, there was a library meeting coming from the fall and he would do what he could to see about changing the policy, the implication being to prevent the mob, some Liberty from meeting. Remember thinking, why in the library job, doing a group, he is going to try to stop another group just because they're not liked it'd be one thing if you're telling them this. So they could show up but that wasn't the case. So, a couple of days ago, I looked at the video, the incident, and same guy. Simply an on-duty government employees, should not be the judge jury and caught by instantly judging whether the words of a speaker at a gvernment. Facility are an exception to the first amendment. I believe that the librarian also be of found to be in joining the speech of moms for Liberty but please mom's for Liberty. Don't come up and thank me. I'm not on your side. I believe we should refer out of respect, how they want to be and I like rainbow crosswalk so please don't try to wash them away, not on the side of the protesters either. Not my aesthetic is not My clowns, thank you. Thank you to the public commenter. Welcome. This is the bottom of the iat wide and this board talk about this in JUNE 6, and you basically really wanted to have the transit alternative walk for you. Thought, this was really important, I'm sure. We've all had bosses. That said here's a study. I want you to study but this is the result I want to have all. This is the result. I want to have happen beforehand. I know this board does never takes a position. A particular she's going for you, but other places and other political they're a little more liberal about this. Now, we know we've Caltrans staff and everyone knows that he'll to avoid, they know them unless they come up with a light alternatives on the ei, r, they're not going to get the 86 million dollars in federal money. The transit alternate will not get funded That's what the staff knows. And three members Josh was not there. So you can accomplish three members to your County, Transportation District board. The last meeting I'm Drew 70 stated a preference for particular Alternatives and rejection of the transit alternative because it would your total revenue for that. They did not obtain support that and also yo laconic, just you're just planning director pineapple. Now, basically says, he thought, regardless of what the comes out with that basically the Caltrans is going to approve the project for the winding for overriding. Relations. He predicted that already So the irs pdp mitigation duster, the others, what's that? And the next slide, please, let me show you a statement that was made ten months ago before. The air is out by the chair of the old kind o Transportation District. He said, the result of are ruled that this is an environmentally sustainable project. Now, we have examples of bosses even though I've been to basically say, I want a particular outfit before the results are out and then people come up with your justifications confirmation bias. We've seen that happen. It happens in any organization. That's you did happen in transportation planning at you have to Road, plenty of one. That is what's happening in the environmental impact statement is all right. The staff has been told. This is the answer. W want out here it is right here, down, sailor CHAIRMAN, do you of treasure? He says it's going to be environmentally sustainable for the irs. For your public. Thank you very much. Public commenter. Thank you, mayor Arnold Good to be here. Janet's, Joker. Bosa Imperial. Avenue Des California. Janet shared an email that we sent on AUGUST 10th. With all of you. It's been crickets since then and I really expected one two of you might acknowledge this. But the subject is that your JULY 18th meeting questions were asked by councilmember partita and council member Neville about the placement of the stage, shade structure Royal Park and there. Responses by staff. A number of them were simply incorrect. They're not supported by the staff report tat you had in front of you. They weren't supported by the saff report that staff has prepared for you councilmember pappu. You exchanged with staff on some of the issues before the meeting you've shared that with us greatly Did your time on that what staff said to you is incorrect and we shared with you how it was incorrect. So we're mixing apples and oranges here. Apples to Apples is the shade structure outside of the pool at a Royal Park, was stated by staff, to always be anticipated at 400,000 dollars. That is incorrect. You made a decision on JULY 18th, was based on absolutely false information always been to be Added be two hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars. That's been in staff reports. The estimate for construction was a hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Instead the bid came in at three hundred and twelve thousand dollars, you ended the community sometime soon and asking for a revenue measure. It's been in the Enterprise now. Ben reported by MR. Dunning now and you need to care when something that's advertised at 2:57. That in 407, it's good news. There's two shade areas there, right there. Next to where you're planning, Put the shade area in place of a sycamore tree. That was providing great shade and you could enhance those. You could fix the barbecues that are pretty tired. You could fix the picnic tables. You can expand them. They're already. One of them is already accessible. A Ada wise. So there's good news here, there's things for you to do pick you. I think you need to pause on this decision and you need to do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you to the public commenter. Other other members of the that wish to make public comment and see some coming up. Welcome. Hi. I'm Janet for Rosa City staff and misled you in important ways that your last meeting in addition to stating that the Royal Pig, big structure had always been expected to cost 400,000, which is completely untrue staff. Also claimed that it was a quote unquote priority for the community based on the finding that two-thirds of survey respondents preferred a shaded picnic area outside the pool complex rather than inside. Give it a pull is off lmits to the public a year. This result is not, especially surprising, but at no time was the public asset if they even wanted a premier, that the word structure is not even in the survey question when the same survey asked people for a manatee suggestions of those common requests related to shade was for more trees. It's ironic that the city planted with this large. Matt pad, right where he shook him off. Once stood as further evidence of how far down this item is on the community's wish list. When the concept was first introduced to the rpc in 2021, not a single commenter in to express support, but you comment your did and they spoke about the feared loss of graphs for Ultimate Frisbee tbolts and activities indeed, the our pcs motion to move forward with cnceptual drawings was predicated on there, being community outreach to determine how that space should be used. This never happened. And you should also know that the application for rear which really not be passed. You have maybe had not seen my brought copies for everybody. We're funding was for quote improvements and new amenities at unquote and it included renovating and getting new playground. Yes. Staff told you, it would only be used for this one specific structure at the time of the application staff could have chosen to use funds for any number of facility needs including a splash pad new trails, walking paths or Landscaping. I hope you'll find some way to reverse this absurd expenditure and in the future we'll make it a priority t increase in countability and transparency and how and why our city funds. Thank you to the public commenter. Welcome. Well, good evening of City, handsome. My name is Javi. I am a member of the graduate student Association at uc Davis. And I'm Yoda voice and so on. But the graduates to share over the tests that surrounded, the Stephen Factory, which other feeling that security was Shackled week, I don't want to thank my run Arjun and prty Therefore acknowledging the threats of that have come in Swift action is certainly necessary. And I also urge the city council to advance work on the community engagement aspect of the agree, together campaign, the graduate student community at uc Davis is be go to partisan for them to contribute to these efforts. Thank you. To the public commenter. Welcome. Good evening. I'm Ria Degrassi, I wlk. West Davis parks and green dily. More than four miles per day. I've come in a previously hear about the conditions of the parks and City priorities for funds. Maintain them Since I last spoke in JULY of exchanged emails with City staff, and a council member, I appreciate their replies. Those responses compared those responses compel me to come. And again, in hopes of inspiring fruitful action steps, The Public Works staff wrote quote all our use paths and Davis are included in our payment program, and is Westwood Park. Did result in a pci of 13 or a failed condition. There are thirteen thousand seven hundred feet of paths that are in the same or Worse. Same pc r -- worse. It is a challenge to spread our gut pavement dollars and decide which failed has to do first. This path is not scheduled for a few years out. But we are exploring funding opportunities to try and Advance the timing of these failed paths. Unquote, I make a mental note of the people using the past, especially those with Mobility, aids, like Walker's, Wheelchairs, and poles, I recently passed a woman when you're a row, using a walker on oxygen and walking her dog solo. Imagine if she stumbled failed paths and fell ill chair user told me, she must Are Over The Lawns. Where the pads are too risky. I see on this department of wrecks and Recreation rear project. Scope cost estimate Grant frm that, the city could have applied to one install new to renovate, existing or three replace existing Recreation element of trails or walking paths. Instead, the city applied to the group pic, Nick's faces and play equipment. Recreation elements everyone who uses a park must use a pen. A first, picnic spaces and play structures are not, those are wants going forward. My appeal to you, is to please prioritize Necessities over wants. Tell us how we can help six years out is an accident waiting to happen last month. Someone here said that te both the wants in the Necessities could be addressed simultaneously. Obviously, that's not the case with 13,704. Feet of failed paths. Thank you. Thank you for the public. Comment are there other members of the live audience that wish to make public comment? I'm Stephenson and I brought a friend for this skit. Good evening, city council. My name is Steve and I'm here to express my support for the pesticide spraying program by the Sacramento, yolo mosquito Vector your District map, very places here that we would be carpet-bombed full of pesticides over the entirety of the city of Davis. And I'm just here to say, happy. The next day I was walking through my neighborhood. You know, there were tons of dead lady bugs and convulsing, dragon flies, and other insects that had died. But I don't really care because I knew our arch nemesis the mosquitoes that died. Now, that night I was out, I knew enjoy a cold beer out of my leafless spot fun. You might know I'm also an advocate of getting rid of all the leaves, but let's see here. Here here nor there, i was still getting And I thought we just carpet-bomb pesticides, over Davis and I went downtown, I saw the movie open Heimer and I got this great idea. Like, okay, this is wy I'm here today because I think, you know, what If there was a option to create a pesticide nuclear type bomb, didn't detonate it over the city of Davis to bring them as close down once and for all because they're just a you know, it's terrible. And I think they need to be eliminated at all costs and you know because there's no real oversight or regulatory body, that governs the I think it would be right in line with what we're already doing here and, you know, I think I think it should be granted under emergency use the officer, use athorization and we don't need any monitoring or anything like that. I just think we need to remove the msquitoes at al costs and, you know, it doesn't really matter the ecological impacts. There's a bunch of hippies on next door that are saying there's all these types of effects headaches, all kinds of stuff. So I don't think the city council needs to look into this at all. Thank so much. Thank you to the public commenters. Any other members of the the audience that wish t make public comments seeing none. We do have some recorded public comments. I understand. Is Carmen speaking on item to General Public comment. So as I'm sure a lot of other people are speaking on today. Iwant to talk a bit about the and threats. That have come into Davis quite strongly over the past few days. And in a lot of ways over the past few months. So the threat to the library are obviously a deplorable. But we also have to acknowledge that they are part of a larger pattern. These threats do not exist in a vacuum and the rhetoric and ideas. Have led to these threats have been existing for a long time. In the us, including in California, and in Davis, and especially over the past few months. So we need to be strongly opposing the Faithful, and by Omega b rhetoric and actions of various types. Instead of having to wait until there's threats, we need to be pre-emptive and we need to be addressing the rising fascism and of different types that are continuing to occur ad propagate, because there are a lot of ways of being violent and of harming people and direct physical. Violence is only one of those. So, we protect children, especially the most marginalized like trans children. And we need to make sure that they are safe and all of the ways possible. That was our final public comment. So with that, I will close public comment and move on. Now, to item number three. This is the consent calendar. I believe, we voted on this. You wanted to make comment on one of the items. Thank you. Me Ronald, I did. I just wanted to make a brief comment o item be regarding the plan to take a look at our needs assessment for our Park system. I just think tis is a fantastic use of arp funds And I'm really excited to see that we're going to take this thorough. Look to see What our community needs so that we can continue to have our Parks, really serve our community, so they're accessible and functional for everyone. So I'm just a great use o I'm glad to see you on the consent calendar. Thank you, Don. I concur with that and along with our downtown plan, our Urban Forest master plan, this is one of the many areas that will feed into our our larger General plan as well with that. I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar. So we move by bapu. Is there a second? Second it by Gloria any discussion. All Please say aye. Hi and you post it passes unanimously. Thank you. So that moves us on. Nw to item number for. This is a presentation by the Sacramento. Yolo Mosquito vector and Control District. Welcome. Thank you very much. My name is Gary Goodman. I'm the district manager for the sake of the mosquito vector control district and wanted to try to give an update to the council. Wanted to try to give an update to the Council on what we're seeing this season, and then where we are currently Now versus where we were a few weks ago with with the aerial applications that occurred. So for West Nile Virus, this This year is one of the worst years that we've had specifically, in Yolo County, it was kind of a perfect storm of conditions that we had with the tremendous amount of water that came through, in the spring that flled up a number of sources that for us, had been dry over the past few years of the drought coupled with high temperatures almost every day in AUGUST and JULY have been warmer than temperatures and that tends to amplify both the virus activity in the mosquito and in the birds. And then of course, An escape. And then this year, based on the water availability that we've had, we had a tremendous amount more rice than we have, are used to, or honestly used to used to, in the last two years. As an example, lasted a little over 18,000 Acres of rice planted In in Sacramento, in Yolo, County of the majority of that be any other County and 3,000 Acres of rice. And so rice produces a lot of mosquitoes. You mind standing water with vegetation and of course where you are here in Davis and webinar as well within the flight range of those mosquitoes that are coming off of some of those Rice Field down in the yolo, bypass the Conaway area and area West, or just east of winters, leading up into Davis. And so it's been a big challenge for us. We're not the only District that is facing this throughout. California West Nile Virus is on the rise this year, a number other districts have seen significant increases in virus activity, both in the bird population, the mosquito population, of course, you can be huge, I think, in California, or did cases are 55, Ibelieve in California so far. Yolo County has 4 confirmed cases. We have three confirmed cases. All of last year And of course, DR. Sisson the Yolo County Health officer put out a press release last week. Indicating that, there was already a depth associated with West Nile as well. And so we do that those cases are going to continue to rise because unfortunately the process from the time that a person It's what's now virus to the time that it gets reported, there's a significant lag, they have to exhibit symptoms or if they get bit by an infected mosquito takes anywhere from anywhere from you know 4 to 10 days to exhibit any potential symptoms and you have to get it diagnosed. You have to get the testing done and so, that lag time is going to be a significant number of weeks. And so we anticipate here as we get closer into SEPTEMBER, we will see those numbers of cases, and those cases essentially occurred in JULY, or early AUGUST here in, in our particular District, in Sacramento County, we have nine of the leaf confirmed cases. Again one death, and we anticipate that. Those numbers will rise significantly because are already being currently investigating now. After what led us to essentially, making the application or the aerial application, when we find West Nile Virus activity, in our district, whether It'd be a dead bird or a mosquito collection We trap essentially almost on a daily basis and we test those mosquitoes at or facility to see if they're carrying any diseases. Specifically, West, Nile Virus. We also test for st. Louis, Encephalitis. And Western equine Encephalitis. So, there are other mosquito-borne, diseases that we test for on a regular basis wen we start to see populations rise and then we start to see the number of infections rise That happens your risk to the human population, which essentially is what we're here to try to prevent We try to d things on a very local level. So location. We will do additional surveillance around that area which essentially means setting traps in about a half mile radius around the location to try to determine the extent And then do numbers essentially associated with say, infection rates to try to determine how bad the infection is, and the potential risk to human transmission. We then with adult mosquito control measures but typically those are ground based on tivities. So we do trucks or backpacks ATVs. Try to go through corridors open areas, where there might be harder to those types of things. But when we start to see significant elevated levels of virus activity, within the district, we will start to become a little bit more aggressive. And so, unfortunately, what happened this year was the fact that our ground interventions were not curbing, the infection rates and/or the abundance of mosquitoes. And so that's why we made the decision to do the aerial Asian since that time frame, we just got testing back actually to say up this afternoon that we set last night to pick them up today and tested them today, we have 39 different mosquito collections from the city of Davis. Five of those were so positive. So even though we're going to make the applications And do our adult mosquito control activities. We're not going to get rid of it until the season starts to end. And so, we're going to continue to start doing those ground based treatments. However, we are definitely not at a level where we were looking to do another airplane application and I think I, we were communication with and the City of Davis and staff on where we were immediately after the aerial applications, and there was some definite concern because we started to see the numbers not fall off as precipitously as we would have liked in the last time, the last three trapping Cycles. That we've had in Davis, we've seen things drop off sgnificantly but the risk is still real and want people to be aware that there that they should be protective of themselves when they're Outdoors, especially in the evening time when mosquitoes are actually, there is still snow about activity in the mosquito population, probably for another month or so start start to see things rally fall off when the weather cools down, which is usually in OCTOBER. We're getting a bit of a break this week. I mean, tomorrow's 99, but we're starting to see some 80s week and that will be very good. In terms of just the mosquito biology in the virus amplification within the bird process. So we hopefully will continue to start to see those drop off numbers as we go through SEPTEMBER, but we want the public t be aware. That there is still a risk. Try not to be bitten by we the district purchases mosquito repellent Wipes. We buy the stuff by the power. What we're more than happy a little bit more of it here to the city of Davis. And if there's any other activities that are happening in the evening, the more than happy to To provide thatbecause we want people to protect themselves. So the status of where we are currently now things are definitely looking better but we're definitely not out of the woods yet and so we want to make sure that the public is aware of that, but there are real true risks, to, for the disease specifically, obviously, it can lead of the general symptoms are flu-like symptoms. So General malaise, or rash headache, those types of aspects similar to what we've experienced over the last couple years with coded as well, but it can escalate late into what we call the neuroinvasive form of the disease. And so, the neuron basic form of the disease, is the lightest like Sms can can lead to blindness paralysis. And unfortunately, in Door County death. So, we want people to be aware that the risk is real and to try to help protect themselves If you're seeing mosquitoes are being bothered by mosquitoes, please let us know. We'll be more than happy to come out. Our activities that are going to happen, we're still going to pick those up, and we'll still be responding to those. But all of our responses will be opposed to the aerial applications. And with that, I know Chris is 20 from the city of Davis. He is a professor of Entomology at uc Davis, were very lucky to have one. Not only Chris on the board, his experience. I think, in understand in the mosquitoes genuine have been very invaluable to to guiding the district policies. With that does counsel have questioned my colleagues. So thank you, thank you for the presentation and for giving that information. You said that you did not see the numbers drop off. What numbers are you looking for? Is that the number of actual mosquitoes? So the number of West Nile. Well so like to a drop in the abundance of mosquitoes. There are two different. We have about 24, different species of mosquitoes. Not every mosquito can transmit disease, but of course the ones that we have mostly in abundance in our area of called qx 2pm's and qxr Salas, pipiens tend to be Urban mosquitoes and tar, Salas or tend to be the ones that come from. There are agricultural areas and migrate into town. Those are ones that are very efficient, vectors of West Nile virus. And so what we want to To see is a reduction in locations of those mosquitoes? And of course, the numbers that they're those number of mosquitoes tat are testing positive for West Nile. So, we monitor those essentially on a weekly basis as we pick up a traps and get our information in. And so, as we start to see those numbers drop off, that's a good sign. And especially if we get longer in the season and the weather starts to cool will see the general biology of mosquitoes, are to come down and so are testing this week actually showed that are are abundance of parse Alice. Those two types of mosquitoes are just a little bit below average or what we would normally see over a five-year period, which is a great sign for us. And then the numbers of people that have contacted the virus is, is increased this East year. Yes, it is increased. There were three confirmed cases this year. We have 42 date but there will be more. My expectation is that we might be, you know, or 30s. Which is significant a very bad year for for the city of Davis or for the overcome is. So yes, we will definitely see those numbers increase oer the next few weeks. And then the decision to do, the aerial spraying that's based on the amount of virus you see or is it based on like the amount of people that you are based on the mosquito population in the affections in the mosquito? So the challenge with human cases is the fact that there's a significant from the time that they would be bitten infected and exhibit symptoms to the time that it actually gets reported. So by the time the case comes through like if we were to get a phone call or case get on Friday, every Friday is when they give updates to it. So this Friday, you'll probably see an increase in Yolo County cases would be yes, from that perspective. And but those cases were transmitted and exhibited symptoms, three to four weeks ago. So that's not a very good measurement to be able to try to do intervention because already lost those mosquitoes. So we monitor the mosquito population and the number of infections in those mosquitoes and that's what drives the decision to try to escalate the efforts. We're going to respond any time. We find virus either do but we try to do it on a ground base, localized level, where it doesn't have as As large of an impact to their Community, to start to see widespread institutions throughout the city of like Davis or would we did Woodland as well? That's when we have to kind of ramp up, those efforts try to hlp protect public health and stop. Those essentially, those people from getting sick, great. And then, the last question that I have is that we've had a lot of folks come forward and what concerns about, you know, threats to other Wildlife. Can you speak a little bit to that? Yeah, I mean the products that we use are used extensively throughout the cuntry. Specifically for mosquito control, the the amount of product that we put out on a on a per acre basis is point 61 ounces per acre. If you were to take a bottle of white out, another uses wipe out any more nail polish and put that over an entire football field bounce. What the amount of pesticide that we're using to be able to try to do that and it's effective for mosquitoes on atom number, different ones. One mosquitoes are very small. It's aerosolized into very, very small droplets and essentially their content document sceeto as get over flying. So as that that pesticide comes through if it comes in contact with that mosquito that mosquito cannot process it And essentially from that perspective, so impacts obviously epa that registers, these products, California epa that registers in here in California. As extensive information and has no unreasonable impacts to Wildlife the environment human health, or the general community. And so that's why they're registered specifically for this type of use. Other other council members questions, just one quick question. Yeah. So how often historically are we doing it? Or have you done aerial spraying as uncommon as I mean, I'm trying to think back heard the planes with the prm. What? How in frequencies that? Yeah, it's interesting, I mean, the things some somewhat going, slick a cool pattern we in wasn't about first introduced to the United States, in 1999, work City, and within four years, is steadily made at the way across the country. It's a bird disease. It's carried by Birds Amplified in their systems and then transmitted or vectored by mosquitoes and mosquito bites. An infected bird passes it on to another bird or passes it on to a human. We as humans are dead end hosts. We transmit the virus from like to do in the kitchen at the virus. So it's it's a bird disease from them. It was first found in California in 2004, And then in 2005 we did the district petitions over Sacramento County and then 2006 we did. Applications over Davis and Woodland as well. So that was its first introduction. Then we did it again. Ibelieve Addy. I think we did one more time though, it seems to go in like maybe a six or seven just depending not the, don't hld me to that. It just depends on conditions. I think if we had had a similar water year, like we had in previous years, we MAY not have been experiencing this, but the fact that we haven't had a bad year as bad as what we've seen, what we're seeing this year and not just us again other districts throughout the state of California are seeing similar impacts from that. So you tend t see something like that, you know, every five or six or seven. So years or something like that, where your find the cycle where you just get a bad year. But just because a bad year, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to escalate into aerial applications, Right? Our ground based operations do work and they're very effective at it. We're going to continue to do that. So we don't have to do the aerial application. But once we get widespread and and the infection rate starts going through the roof then we have to we have to intervene in a much more dressing room. They're Buckley the bushings from. It's okay. Thank you with that. We'll do public comment on this item that there's members of the audience that wish to make comment on this item. Please come forward. Welcome. Helen Miller again when somebody gets lost and Davis or there is a another bomb threat at the library. We get notification. Email, text phone calls. I, you know, I, I was a youth in the Bay Area. When Governor Brown sprayed for The Med fly and everybody was just freaked out and was part of the reason he didn't get reelected back then, and I'm kind of surprised at the lack of Public freaking out over. Aerial spraying. But, you know, there are some of us hippies who, don't trust the government and, you know, we want to make our own decisions about bringing our pets and ourselves and our families in our lady bugs, inside during the spraying. And the only reason I knew about it is because of that the other persona of that freak, Steve put And out. And I that's the only reason I even knew that it was going on. And so you know, I don't know some restriction on those police warnings, but I would really appreciate if a warning one out day before there was an aerial spraying. Thanks, thank you. And yeah, I wanted to kind of explore, what Ellen was saying, because I was about, not getting any kind of alert about it. I understand it's about as low risk as anything can be, but yet generally speaking, you don't wnt to be out in it. If you and spread of the night when they're doing a localized ones driving on the pth, behind our house as a police officer walking. This is hitting truck apparently, and, and called to my daughter who doubt that the new moon with our dog, you know, get out of the way. Get out of the way, gives a s*** and into the House. But there could have been a situation where people are sitting out relaxing on the grass, maybe and washing the moon or something is had no idea. So I know the district does sent out press alerts to capture the city gets them and there could be a notification. That'd be helpful for those of us who are a little bit more uneasy about inhaling or having our windows open or something. Yes, bring that's it. Thank you. Welcome. Hi, I just heard about this plane accident friend, oui un whole house fans at night. So would be appreciative watch? This could be done to be supported by the public to we can not do that. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other members of the audience? Welcome. Because there was a bomb threat recently at the against the public library. I don't know, all the details. But what I heard was had something to do with, Auntie, lgbtq group, and it does make me feel unsafe, because I'm a part of that community. And I came the last time I came to this, the community public there were a number of public comment speakers who were openly anti lgbtq and I guess I just want to impose the direness, the situation that I don't feel safe but how And like you to try to get more. Thank you. To the public commenter. Any other members of the live audience? Do we have any public comments? We do not how close public comment. We did get one through specific question about public notification of these. This spring. Can you maybe have an absolutely when we do the aerial applications, we do post things on our website. Folks can sign up on our website for their zip code and essentially anytime we're Doing any activities in their area, they'll get an email that day we do. Press, releases, obviously to we send out information to the city's neighborhood associations, but we are always open to be able to try to figure out how we can improve because we recognize it's difficult to try to reach everybody. We have a very active social media program. We did make the announcement, I think on the Friday morning to the the application that was going to Be done on Sunday. We were staff that we're monitoring te phones, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, to be able to return any phone of questions, that the public MAY had. So, but we recognize that we're not going to be able to reach everybody. We're not everybody has the same level of interest in the news or social media or whatever the case MAY be. So we are open to working with the city. I think we, you know, we already hve a meeting scheduled to be able to try to get better information out to the public to your specifically your community. And we're definitely open to be able to try to figure out what other ideas are out there for us. Anything else that you add? My yeah just said in addition to. So first of all, just appreciation to MR. Goodman for coming tonight, and giving an overview of the vector control District Operations and sort of some of the very difficult decisions that they are charged with making for the community safety and how they balance those decisions with you know, other impacts and so forth, tough decisions to make for sure. So to that end though, with respect and messaging, we work closely. With MR. Goodman staff and we take their messaging and repeat that out to our community. Via our channels. Our social media channels are web, you know which are take all. Banner of forms that said we understand that not everyone is necessarily tuned into social. Media channels are always watching, you know those channels to understand, you know, what's coming. So we d have a meeting as he noted, we do have a meeting coming up to worked, that's both the county reps and City staff, reps, and MR. Goodman staff team to talk about how we could improve upon those communication channels. If we do have tools as Some of the public commenters mentions that we have not, as of yet utilized for these notifications, Nixle is a tool that we do use, we typically reserved it for Public Safety, emergency notifications. So we do, we will have some conversation around that and to see if that MAY be an option spraying thankfully happens. So infrequently that you know, perhaps that is a tool that we can turn to without oversaturating or overusing it. That's something we always want to be careful about with our Public Safety messaging. Farms, is that we're not over communicating or using a too much and too often that people become desensitized to it when messages do come through. So but we will have a conversation have engaged in that discussion. See how we can partner with the between the city, the county and the vector control district, the see how we can improve those those notification that can isms thank you. comment. No, I was thinking of pixel and then I was thinking that might be a great way to get this as you mentioned because it's not a very typical thing. There MAY be another opt-in separate thing to the folks can do but no good limiting the scope of who its side and Center I also did want to acknowledge our final public commenter and thank them for to be Keen to us. We it'd mke some comments at the beginning of the meeting and I put out a statement yesterday. Of course, two things. Number one, one, our public meetings. Here are always safe spaces for folks, and we take the safety of our community as our top priority and we are working with our law enforcement folks to get to the bottom of these threats that have that have come to our community over the last week, or so. And of course, our city city council. I firmly stand behind and support the rights of our lgbtq community. And of course, specifically transgender Lee for our community, that sort of, the Crux of the most traditional unwavering support on behalf of your city leadership. Any other questions or comments on the item itself? Okay, with that I'll close this item and will now move on to item number six, this is the Wastewater utility costs rate study and the prop 218 item and we'll welcome stand and tank you to our partners at the yolo mosquito vector control district for their time to make Play Skip something. My fault I moved. I ky misclick recycled water first. It was my fault. Yes But a short ride an though. I mean, come on what? And invited, the right people just to the wrong party. Okay? This would be 5 adoption of-the declaration. Okay. Thank you. Mayor. Arnold's council members were here this evening, do have a real short pesentation, just to kind of go over some of the facts around. What we're looking to do this evening, It's a somewhat of a middle step, but it's been a long process to get here. So happy to be in front of you for this important part. So, a little bit of background, we city's wastewater treatment plant back in 2017 is when 2017 is when it was finished basically and that that Wastewater the treated effluent was certainly upgraded and certainly much better much better beneficial use. That could be taken with that water. So we did talk with the Natural Resources Commission, open space commission and habitat we developed a recycle water near term plan. Part of that was definitely And we're front of council back in JUNE of nineteen to start the process and we're kind of getting to the culmination of that effort this evening. Little Little bit of factual information. So we have about 1.8 million gallons per day of water that we could potentially reuse in the community with this change. That is the amount of water that was previously lost to evaporation with the old treatment process. So we've petitioned to recapture that water and use it beneficially as we identify purposes moving forward. Currently those uses as identified for the near term the landfill which includes they're So they're cmposter, that is on site and then use for us near the Wastewater Plant the Overland flow that was previously part of our treatment, We potentially could use it there and then actually watering City trees in parks and green belts. We have plans to have some of that water brought into the courtyard and able to be used by tree Davis and other partners to potentially water. Some of our trees, in times of pain. So, next steps with this, we'd obviously receive approval for the waist petition. That's the 1.8 million that we'd like to be able to reuse receive notice of applicability for coverage under the general order incorporate, the recycle water uses and specification to the city's Wastewater discharge permit to te Central Valley board. And ultimately, approve that as part of our renewal for our Wastewater discharge permit I believe which is coming up in So with that, we'd like to open the public hearing, receive comments, and we'd like Council to approve the resolution and then direct staff to keep moving forward. Thank you. Stan. Any questions from Council Members before we open the public hearing. Seeing I will do. So right now. I open the public hearing on this item, there's members of te audience that wish to make public comment, Now's the Time. Not seeing ay. Do we have any recorded, public comments? We do not. So with that, I'll close the public hearing and bring it back to my colleagues and I for deliberation and action. Are there any questions or comments or obviously move forward? Go ahead. I'm really excited that we're doing. This is great. The staff was acting answered. All my questions. This is just out of curiosity. It's kind of technical question that the reason you need the waste discharge. Npdes permit is because theoretically some of this water could make its way to navigable Waters and if you don't know the answer, it's not essential to our decision. We just curious. So the the ReUse is a component of the discharge permit It's a process. We have to go through. So if we have monitoring requirements for the water, how we're going to use it, the the and how we're going to use it, that's all required to be within our permit, to be able to reuse it. Thank you, other questions or comments from Council Members at this time. I'll entertain a motion. We'll move to direct staff to complete the following steps unicef. It's a motion by bapu for the staff recommendation. Is there a scond? Second it s it by Any further discussion on the motion seeing none, I'll call for a vote all in favor please say. Aye aye. Aye any opposed motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Now we can move on to item 6. This is the Wastewater utility cost of service and rates study and approval to initiate the prop 218 process. Once again, mayor Arnold council members, thank you. I seem to be speaking just limited to go but that's okay, we're on a new item. Now, a bit longer presentation, bear with us here, we have a lot more information on this one to go through. So we'll a little bit of background. Most of you I think are aware of most of these things, but just want to take it up again and understand why we're here. So, the Wastewater utility is is one of our for Enterprise funds. It's housed in the public works, utilities and operations Department. That Enterprise fund is rate-based. So just keep that in mind as we move forward, roughly 24 ftes within the department, our support, It also obviously supports a lot of the activities He's from some of our spport teams Finance hr and those types management, it includes management of the collection system and our waste water plant and also includes regulatory aspects with our Wastewater discharge permit and including the Rcycled water item that was in of you just a minute ago we serve customers obviously within the city and then also some of our County service areas. We also provide Municipal Services as well as a reminder, the We're last adjusted in 2017. That was simply a allocation amongst user classes, that was not an increase in Revenue, the less Revenue adjustment to increase rates was back in DECEMBER of 2014. So purpose and goals of a study, certainly review current and projected costs along with our existing rate structure, develop a long-term plan for om, c ip and our debt. That we carry understand Ray Revenue. What the rate Revenue would be to meet those needs and then obviously to determine the rate payer share of expenses and how to allocate those costs across the different rate, payers the remmended rate schedule, kind of said that to actually recover costs and meet proposition 218 requirements, which is a obviously, a key component here and the city's Utility Commission is obviously the key commission that works. Of our Enterprise funds. Enterprise fund, snapshot we received roughly just under 14 million as a as a as a number for 2023. Our expenditures plan to be between 17 and 18 which deputymon of 2.1 million. That's significant cost, is basically what we use to build the Wastewater Plant. And do those upgrades will be paying that for a number of years still and then Capital cost plan this year. 4.3 million. So our study findings obviously expenses have outpaced revenues that to some degree was planned for a number of years, which is why we have an increased rate since 2014. We did have some some dollars the bank above our Reserve Target. And at that time, it was determined that we were going to basically use those funds and get down to a basically our Reserve Target. Before we would look at increasing rates. Also, the cost of ammonia is not captured in our current rate structure. We're looking to adjust that certainly with the new pant, I'll talk about that a little more with some additional slides here. Waste water costs are more fixed than variable, or then volumetric and our are about will get into that detail as well. But our car rates, do not support necessarily that ratio at this point and then obviously the highest drivers of cost increases are the capital Improvement projects that we have planned. And inflationary pressures on some of our resources that we that we use the other Factor, there is obviously Cost Containment is aways on our minds. We certainly looking for Grants. We look at other opportunities to leverage additional funds from other sources with lot of our Capital honestly in the Wastewater Arena. We're not building new. We're replacing existing. And that's, that's really not a large source of grant funding at this time. So that's that's a bit challenging. Structure. So, as w go through this first step, we look at our customer class has determined by strength, Wastewater is a bit different from some of the other things because we have to understand what what components make up the primary Wastewater we treat water. Obviously the amount of water that we receive is one b0d biochemical. Oxygen demand is another key. One total suspended. Solids is the third those are your traditional components that we would form our basis for our costs. You'll see the ammonia is in blue. That's a new one cost of service. Tugging and really the point there is with our new treatment process treating ammonia which was a key driver for the plant upgrades is a lot more expensive past and that was a key reason why we had to upgrade the plant. And there's a lot of power, a lot of Birdman in treating ammonia and removing them on you. So we felt it was important to include that in the cost of service center. Second step, we group, the classes based on shared string, faster factors. So restaurants. Different businesses they would be grouped together, We'll get into that detail. Your current classes right now or single family multifamily and with in multifamily or ten classes, also provide more Detail in a minute we currently have seven classes and then industrial somebody in an individual agreement. So if we have a business or we have a business that produces exceptionally High weight strength waste, we can enter into individual agreements to make sure we're capturing the appropriate funds from from their discharge. Residential monthly rate is a base rate, So there's three components a base rate which primarily captures your administrative of administering, an account per unit rate based on the housing type And then the volumetric rate is dollars per ccf based on your average winter use from NOVEMBER to FEBRUARY, which basically is not capturing, typically irrigation, which is what I use that. Commercial monthly rate is a base rate for all users. Aain administrative costs and then the volumetric rate we don't use a per unit rate for because it doesn't really fit in the and that perspective because there's such a variety of different variety of the businesses out there. Proposed rate adjustments. As I mentioned, we added a monument in the cost of service study for all customers. We adjusted the balance between fixed and volumetric cost. We condensed multifamily commercial and it reduces it introduced a new rate for larger dormitory style, housing units, and we have annual adjustments posed. Through MAY 20 2008. So I'll go through each of those in a little more detail, So adjusting fix to volumetric ratio currently we're 5050, you know the study identified that roughly seventy three percent of our costs are fixed. So you know, and in many agencies which would have liked to have to show that where there are 100 percent Vic's, there's no volumetric cost within their structure we certainly like to incentivize, you know, conservation of water. So we with in conjunction with the consultant and in conjunction with the Utilities Commission, went with recommending a slightly higher fixed of 60/40 versus the 50/50 that exists today and that proposed restructuring would be effective as we planned. It would be effective JANUARY 1 when we would do the first rate increase. The other addition, one of the is a large dormitory style, housing specific rate. We certainly heard a lot of comments as we were starting off at this effort. We've had a number of developments that have come in recently and been built or are in the process that have this by the bed type situation where it's more than five basically five beds within a unit. So we wanted to make sure that we were cognizant of that and capturing any additional cost to the Wastewater utility. So we did we walk through that with the commission with our consultant, is based on the average number of people per day in a single family residential, where one bed with equal 1/3 of that cost. So, as animal have a multi-family Housing Development, with 57 units with each five or more beds per unit, So you have 549 beds In this example, we the proposed rate would be eight. Seventy eight per bid which would be about 4,800 a month little over 1,400 a month for comparison. Is with our new rate structure for comparison, the per unit rate would be 1881 under our new structure proposed for about, Two months. So you can see there is, there is a difference and that's capturing that additional cost to treat that additional Multifamily customer class unit consolidation. So what we did is you can see on the left is our existing. And you can see has one rate and then you have a variety of multifamily rates that we have their through the process. Be told, he's commissioned the idea if we can simplify this rate structure. So what we've done and what will has been recommended is single family would have one rate still but multifamily would be condensed. All of those classes would be condensed into one rate eight and that the rates on the right or the ones proposed for the JANUARY 1. Cass. Something similar on the on the left is our existing. You can see, we have seven different classes again through the process tlking with Utilities Commission talking with our consultant, this low standard medium and high is is more of a norm that the consultancies throughout the industry and you can see examples o what those categories would be for the various businesses. We think that's easy more