Remarks by Jeff Okrepkie
14 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I think a few of us are headed there after the fact.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I'll move items 13.1 and 13.2 as submitted by staff.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Thank you for the presentation. Can you remind me what the benefits at the state level are for having this designation?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“However, that's all great and good for us, but do we receive any ministerial control back for doing what's right by housing according to the state?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“hours that go into something like that thank you thank you vice mayor thank you um my colleagues have already played one side of the coin so i'll play devil's advocate on this just to you know try to help me get an opinion um or further formulate my opinion so parking maximums you had said um was sort of a new uh subject or topic that um for the city of santa rosa Based on feedback to your department on changes in the past with parking minimums, how do you feel parking maximums would be received by surrounding neighborhoods of some of these developments?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And then my final question, again, playing devil's advocate, is from the developer side or the investor side, I know you're not a banking institution, so you can't give financial projections, but the appetite or desirability to build projects with some of these imposed on them, would that hinder the the appetite for developers to come in and do it if they can't to your point earlier like if there's only so many parking spaces allowed for a certain amount of units in your experience is there a an argument to be made by some of these uh developers that like hey i won't be able to to sell these…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I appreciate that. Those are all my questions. I will just say that I don't look at these station area plans as twins. I think you'd look at them as maybe sisters. They're related, but they're very different. My biggest concern is for Northwest Santa Rosa, which I share part of that station area plan in my district with one of my colleagues. And it is notorious for two things, being underserved and being, we'll call it, not engaged with local government. And that is my biggest concern is if we were to put something like parking maximums forward, how that area would be impacted because that…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm in agreement with my colleagues on the TDM. I think that's a fairly straightforward one. I'm not all in on parking maximums just because of some of the concerns that were brought up before of the amount of parking that we have versus the demand in our downtown station and then also my concerns I said before of the areas in northwest Santa Rosa being more residential than they are commercial and how that could negatively affect the residents there. There's definitely gonna need to be some outreach and some more deliberate and outreach than we're typically used to in order to make…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I guess just my one quick question is we're not alone in having some of these difficulties among other municipal buses. Can you comment on that a little bit?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So when we get emails about somebody's neighbor's yard, do we email them to you then? Yeah, you can. Okay. Yes.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I think it's really important to focus on what we've done leading up to this point, right? If we're going out to ask for something, we've got to show them that we've done our side of it, right? And we've made some significant cuts and also done some other things. So one of the things that we... You generally hear as a council member is you know, there's too much fat there needs to be you know you know trim from the top and You always say there's a budget issue and You know, we just passed EE EE and FF. Could you address some of those concerns that some…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“The only thing I had I wanted to report was I was able to attend on the 22nd the North Bay Division General Membership Meeting for the California League of Cities. President Rogers presided over it and we were able to see an awesome presentation from one of our stars of today, our CFO Scott Wagner presented his strategy for how he addressed the CalPERS unfunded liability to various other municipalities of the North Bay and did a great job in doing so.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'll move items 13.1 through 13.6 as submitted by staff.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026