Remarks by Dianna MacDonald
15 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 44:40
“Hi, thank you. And I appreciate the opportunity. I just wanted to thank my representative on the Parks and Recreation Board, Keating Vogel, for coming to the Park Month event with me, not this month, but the month before. And her eagerness to share with me that the pickleball courts she had heard were opening in Howard Park. And so I recently drove by there and saw that in fact, everyone was playing on the pickleball courts in Howard Park and just thank the staff and our contractor for getting those open earlier than anticipated. I know this has been a long time coming uh over in district…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation today. This is not an area that I find that I'm an expert in at all, so I appreciate how much you dove into each of the sections. And it seems to me that the amount of money that we're getting in grants for this, it's worth it to do the policy work to get the correct amount of points is what I'm hearing from. Director Hennessy, as well as all of you today. So I look at it as a little bit of a tiered approach, and I'm wondering if you can walk me through this a little bit. The first one seems that there's some kind of low-hanging fruit, things…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That's kind of where I'm heading is if we're able to accomplish these, you know, certain ones fairly easy from here to July 1st, 2027. To me, that makes sense to focus on those ones that you feel like you could do in-house or with the consultants that we have already. So it's not really reaching too far into the financial commitments and all those other things. But my question is, if we're able to do that, and then we actually wanna take it a step further for the competitive grant after that, and we wanna dive in further to some policy, or looking at if we are committing to something…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm in alignment with Council Member Rogers on the parking maximums just because maybe I'm just part of that old school that I can't imagine still living in Santa Rosa without a vehicle traveling from the east side to downtown corridor and where I would park if I was using transportation, so yeah, I'm not gonna be able to ride a bicycle with my high heels on to get downtown to catch a bus. I don't see myself, I think I'm too old for that. But I also was part of the Santa Rosa where public transportation was not really part of the culture of the year, and I feel like we have…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Do we get more points for expanding it out?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Just the good part about doing the expansion, and it wouldn't be any heavier of a lift to do it. Dan, you talked earlier about people are already putting in curbs. I mean, we've seen it even in some of these small developments around Santa Rosa. They're putting in curbs, they're putting in gutters, those types of things to make sure that there's pedestrian walking when they're doing development. Are you saying that they already do all of those things, but if we added it to an extended area, they would get more credits by whom? Who do they get the credits from?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So I'm seeing a lot of heads on your side nod yes, that this would be a good thing for us to expand just past the area, the specific plans.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:39:06
“But also helps with all of our gas emissions and everything else.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:39:11
“Yeah, I would be comfortable then expanding it out. I think it meets some of the other goals that we might not be able to get to as quickly through the parking minimums and maybe because we have some transitions. So hearing you talk today, to me, that makes more sense. It's something that you're able to accomplish in-house. And so I'd be comfortable doing that if the rest of my colleagues are.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. What's interesting is when school bus systems were cut, they continued to serve the outer areas for equity to ensure that children could get to school in time and those that were sort of in the center who were able to walk to school or have closer proximity or ride their bike potentially, those were the ones that they reduced service to. So as I look at some of the routes that you're proposing, it sounds more like some of these outer routes just have low ridership. So I wanna be cautious about that because of who it serves, sort of in the…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you again for the presentation. Something I didn't mention, but I know I spoke to you about it, Rachel, was to work with the county on their bus routes. I know Route 30, as you suggested, goes into Oakmont, but if that is potentially something that we're looking to either reduce or far reduce, that we work with the county on doing maybe some additional stops in Oakmont, um so that they can make sure that they are able to use that to the maximum and reaching out to our supervisors to see if they have plans on those outer outer liars to be able to pull them onto their transportation…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yes, I move the adoption of the resolution as presented by staff.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I think it's really important, and I know you touched on it tonight, Misty, we've said it over and over and over, that this increase is not going to increase the budget to increase services, but to just ensure that the services we have now, with the response times we have now, are to remain here. And I wanna make sure that that's not only clear to the community, but to everyone who works even for the City of Santa Rosa, that to just maintain what we have now. this is critical for us to be able to do that. And I just wanna make sure that I've heard everything correctly and read everything…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:28:28
“Thank you. Thanks for driving that home. I appreciate it.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:56:50
“Yes, I just wanna do a brief report. I had the opportunity to go on the 11th annual Oyster Run out to Bodega Bay. That was an event that was done by the Chicano Style Motorcycle Club. There was over 300 motorcycles that got to participate. We went out to Bodega Bay and the event ended in Doyle Park. And it was a really great family event with barbecue and lots of fun activities for kids and adults to participate in. And I just want to say thank you to them for their inclusiveness. And I appreciated the opportunity to be part of such a fun event. So thanks to the Chicano Style Motorcycle Club…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026