Remarks by Victoria Fleming
17 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 4:14
“Thank you. Whereas public transportation plays a vital role in connecting communities, supporting economic vitality, and enhancing quality of life, and whereas Santa Rosa City Bus and Santa Rosa Paratransit provide safe, reliable, and accessible climate-friendly transportation that which connects residents to essential destinations, including employment, education, healthcare, and recreation, whereas Santa Rosa City Bus and Santa Rosa Paratransit provide essential transportation services, supporting mobility throughout the community, including 1.5 million passenger trips annually and more…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 21:16
“Yeah, I do have a question. I'm just curious if we go back to the housing pieces. I know there's actually a lot of housing options. Some require financial commitments, but a fair few we put in there don't. Can you talk about how you decided to choose that one over the other ones that don't require financial commitments and maybe say what they are for the council?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I guess what I'm wondering is like I think one of the options is coordinating with the county on one of their housing options. I don't know which is one that we put in there intentionally to relieve cities of of a really big burden. I know that rent stabilization was another option that doesn't require a financial investment from the city. So I just am curious when you say they're limited, I'm just curious how we ruled out those other options as we got here to your recommendation.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 23:24
“It's okay if you don't have the answer right now. I just know we put in a few of them so that there were some real options for cities. Sure.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 24:30
“I just think that because at MTC I mean I was intimately involved in making the menu of these like me and two other people were negotiating this we put forth a pretty big menu and I can't say that we ever envisioned not having i didn't envision that we wouldn't be discussing all of the options and having the council make some decisions obviously with staff input but i think that the council probably doesn't even know all of the options that are available under the policy and so i just um you know put a lot of effort into it and would love it if we could go through the options so that the…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 52:54
“Yeah, one of the questions that I have is that, and I think this goes to Council Member McDonald's point, is that there are tiers for funding based on how many TOCs a jurisdiction has. I think at present, the City of Santa Rosa has three. To get to the next tier, we would have to have one more, which is four. I'm wondering if any of these tiers options would best get us to four TOCs in a way that's efficient with staff time and maximizes our return on our staff time investment.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 54:16
“we did have a conversation with mtc staff just to see if there was a way or what the process would be to qualify for additional incentive money and it's tied to those those two criteria one of the things that i was thinking when um when i was looking at this originally is like a city like petaluma which has you know a third of our population size has two two toc's because they have two train stations um and that that it's hard for me to imagine that there's not a way that we could maximize densities or potential zoning densities around a couple of other locations in the city that would help…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 55:19
“Well, so there's points, but there's also just the fact of having two TOCs, and one is at the north station, one is at the downtown station. I was wondering if you had evaluated other sites to try to qualify them as TOCs, because it's just kind of mind-boggling that we'd be in the same class as a city a third our size, and probably if we'd had a good census, we'd be close to 200,000.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 57:21
“Yeah, because I do understand the piece about, I mean, it doesn't make more sense necessarily to add more rail stations, but we do have other transit hubs in the city that are larger than a lot of transit hubs across the Bay Area. Thanks.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:23:23
“Yeah, would it be possible to put the slide up with the choices? So I wanna just like step out and say like it was sort of noted as a side note, the thing about climate change. The whole TOC policy was developed in order to be compliant with state requirements. around climate change in order to reduce vehicle miles traveled and to reduce parking and car infrastructure in order to better meet the challenge of the moment around climate and so while parking maximums might seem. to be burdensome for folks the idea is then we could be investing in bike and pedestrian and transit infrastructure to…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:35:57
“Yeah, can you elaborate what that would look like?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:39:55
“Mayor, if I may, just so that they hear it from four people, I am also in support of that.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:18:21
“Yeah, I had a question about going back to the idea around banking funds in order to buy additional buses. I'm just curious how much money on an average year is sitting there and what is being done with those funds?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:19:28
“operations I'm not sure if that's what you were interested in or yeah what I'm trying to understand is it's a little bit like it's related to the scope of this but I think it's really interesting is like what's happening with those funds while we're waiting I assume they're invested and managed by our they're just they're not even getting bond revenue no they just sit appreciating with with inflation. They sit at MTC. Yikes. They sit at MTC. They don't sit with us. They sit with MTC, depreciating at MTC. Oh, that's really, I did not know that. That's fascinating. What I would have, my next…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:33:33
“Yeah, I was just wondering if you could put up the slide that you had one more time that shows the adjustments to the lines.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:33:42
“I stepped out for a moment and just as you were talking about adjustments to the lines and I'm wondering if you have that slide or a slide that shows the proposed adjustments. Or if we're not there yet.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:43:25
“Yeah, thank you. I support your approach to this. I think it's really well thought out. And I would just add to that, that in this process, that if it comes to the unfortunate point of having to cut service, that we not just keep in mind transit dependent folks, but we also try to maintain and upgrade services for choice riders in such a way that preserves interest and competence in the system. And so that in the long range, the council can achieve our goals around reducing vehicle miles traveled and meeting our climate change goals. I think that bringing in folks who have a choice is really…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026