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Redding City Council, Special Meeting
Civic Center Council Chambers
777 Cypress Avenue
Redding, CA 96001
February 22, 2018, 5:00 PM
The Special Meeting—Public Safety Workshop was called to order by Mayor Kristen Schreder
with the following Council Members present: Adam McElvain, Francie Sullivan, Brent
Weaver, and Julie Winter.
Also present were City staff members: City Manager Barry Tippin, City Attorney Barry
DeWalt,Assistant City Manager Sheri DeMaagd, Police Chief Roger Moore, Fire Chief Gerry
Gray, City Clerk Pamela Mize, and Executive Assistant Sharlene Tipton.
Mayor Schreder introduced the following Shasta County staff members present: Sheriff Tom
Bosenko, Senior District Attorney Bill Bateman; Shasta County Board of Supervisors Chair
Les Baugh; Shasta County Supervisor David Kehoe, Shasta County Administration Officer
Larry Lees, and Shasta County Superior Court Executive Officer Melissa Fowler-Bradley.
Mayor Schreder and each Council Member provided brief opening remarks and encouraged
comments and suggestions from the public.
Report and Results of Public Engagement Campaign; Receive Public Input Regarding Public
Safety and Direction for the Future.
[P-150-150/A-050-060]
City Manager Tippin highlighted the Report to the Redding City Council (staff report), and
provided a PowerPoint presentation, both incorporated herein by reference. Embedded within
the PowerPoint presentation were video statements by Police Chief Moore and Fire Chief Gray
regarding the challenges their Department's face and identifying steps necessary to overcome
those challenges.
Mr. Tippin outlined the three paths forward that the Council and the community should
consider in order for the City to match community expectations with the levels of service that
can actually be delivered: (1) Maintain Status Quo; (2) Press toward a"self-help" system; and
(3) Increase revenue, noting that to increase revenue would entail a potential sales tax increase.
Mayor Schreder invited public comment regarding questions and solutions pertaining to public
safety within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Redding.
Zach Jackson, Senior at U-Prep High School, requested that the Council and the community
support the March for Our Lives movement against gun violence created by students in
response to the Parkland, Florida high school shooting on February 14, 2018.
The following people spoke: James Crockett, Shannon Hicks, Dale Ball, Amanda Smith,
Monique Welin, Gary Cadd, Heather Miller, Tom Hayes, Les Baugh, and Kay Wilson.
A discussion amongst the Council ensued.
A MOTION WAS MADE by Council Member Weaver, seconded by Council Member
Sullivan, to direct staff to prepare staff reports for discussion at the March 6, 2018, regularly
scheduled City Council meeting regarding declaration of a"fiscal emergency" within the City
of Redding; and if unanimously approved,discuss placement of a sales tax increase on the June
2018 Statewide Primary Election ballot along with a possible advisory measure directing how
any money raised should be spent.
The Vote:
AYES: Council Members - Sullivan, Weaver, Winter, and Schreder
NOES: Council Members - McElvain
ABSTAIN: Council Members - None
ABSENT: Council Members - None
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ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Mayor Weaver declared the meeting adjourned at the hour of
6:46 p.m.
APPROVED:
• Kristen Schr r, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Pamela ize City CleY r
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