City Council - Special Meeting
The Santa Rosa City Council appointed Ashley Crocker as the new City Attorney with a 5-2 vote and Jason Nutt as the Interim City Manager with a unanimous vote during a special meeting. These appointments were the primary actions taken by the council.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- City Council
- Meeting Type
- City Council
- Location
- Santa Rosa, CA
- Meeting Date
- May 15, 2026
Transcript
13 sections (from 17 segments)
Hello, everyone. The time is 11:00, and we will call our special meeting to order. Madam City Clerk, would you please read the roll?
Thank you. Council Member Rogers? Council Member McDonnell? Here. Council Member Fleming? Council Member Banuelos? Here. Council Member Alvarez? Vice Mayor Krepe.
Here.
Mayor Stepp. Here. Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Council Member Alvarez.
Perfect. Alright. We'll go right on to our closed session items for the evening. Item is three point one and three point two, both dealing with confidential personnel matters. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment?
Seeing none in attendance, we'll close public comment and recess in a closed session. Alright. The time is, I guess, a what, 11:56, and we can reconvene in open session. Madam city clerk, would you please call the roll?
Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Rogers? Council Member McDonald? Here. Council Member Fleming? Here. Council Member Benuelos? Here. Council Member Alvarez? Vice Mayor Krebke? Here. Mayor Stapp?
Here.
Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of council member Rogers.
Thank you. Alright. We'll do our report out from closed session. With respect with respect to item 3.1, the city attorney appointment, council appointed Ashley Crocker with an effective date of 06/03/2026 to the city attorney position. The vote was five two, and I'm just double checking with, with our city clerk. Do I need to state who how the votes went?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay. So voting in the affirmative in the affirmative were, myself, vice mayor, Jeff Okrepki, mister Alvarez, miss Rogers, and miss McDonald, and voting in the negative were miss Fleming and, miss Benuelos. For item 3.2 with the interim city man for the interim interim city manager position, we are pleased to to, appoint, mister Jason Nutt to the interim city manager position, with the effective date of 06/27/2027 2026, and also pleased to report that that vote was unanimous. Congratulations. That was the, that ends the, the the report out from closed session.
We have to do public comment, public comment again, seeing no members of the public comment present. We will close public comment, and we are adjourned.
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