Okay, let's call this meeting to order of the Sacramento City Council 5 p.m. Council meeting Tuesday, April 22nd. Please call the roll. Thank you. Council member Kaplan. Council member Dickinson. Vice-Mertel Amantes. Council member Plekibom. Council member Maple. Mayor Prutem Gera. Council member Jennings. Council member Vang. Mayor McC a quorum. We have Councilmember Dickinson, leaders in the land, acknowledgement and the pledge. This is the opening of an honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Mewok, Patwyn Winton and peoples and people of the Wilton Rancheria. Sacramento is only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands. By choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives. Thank you and now if you would join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the fire of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God in this world of liberty. So we did have a closed session for three items. Madam City Attorney, would you like to report on item number three? Yes, Mayor Councilman in closed session to discuss an item of pending litigation and there's nothing to report at this time. And then Mr. Mayor, would you like to report on items one and two? Yes, we'll do. On items one and two, the City Council had an initial discussion of the process for conducting evaluations and took no other reportable action. Thank you. You want to move on to special presentations? Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Okay. We have a busy night today with four special presentations. We'd like to limit them, but they're so important and timely that we wanted to do them all here today. So the first out of the gate, we want to recognize the Maclatchee High School Girls Basketball team, or here in the front row. Yes. So I saw them a few weeks ago that came to City Hall with a delegation and they were off to China. I thought you know a few a few weeks ago, they came to City Hall with a delegation and they were off to China. And I thought, you know, a few weeks ago, a Roger, we had the opportunity to recognize the Grant Boys football team who had an amazing season. I thought, you know what, or Lady Lion's here, or the Section Champ, and the first team ever out of Mc clatchy to go on to the open state finals and win around and I had a chance to see you in action over there at Golden One Center in the section game and so impressed by all of you and we wanted to make sure that we had a chance to celebrate your success. They had a great run and some scholar athletes as well. I did want to recognize, I don't have everybody written down here, but I know four we wanted to recognize with their achievements and scholarships. We want to recognize Nina Kane, who has a full-ride scholarship to the University of Washington. Congratulations, Dina. Applause Norette Lewis has a full-ride scholarship to Cal State Northridge. Applause Brianna Kimmins has a full-ride basketball and flag football scholarship to Th in college. There may be others but those are the ones I had on my list here. Council member Jennings who represents McClatchy in District 7 also want to make sure that we had a chance to celebrate your success. Council member Jennings. Thank you mayor and to the entire City Council and all you who are in our audience, we have an exciting resolution that we want to present to you today. And so I will do the honors of reading the resolution, honoring the 2024-25 C.K. McClauchy, high school lady-lions, basketball team. So whereas the City of Sacramento proudly recognizes excellent in academics, athletic, and leadership among its youth. And the 2425 CK McClatchy high school ladies, lions, girls, basketball team, exemplified these values both on and off the court. Whereas the lady, lions, achieved historic milestone by winning the CIF, SAC Joaquin, Section 1 Division title for the first time since 2007, defeating the top seeded, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. leading the top seeded, Folsom 64 to 53 at the Golden One Center. Congratulations. That's incredible achievement. Whereas the teams were remarkable, 25 and seven overall record, including an undefeated 10-0 league performance was a testament to their exceptional teamwork, their resilience, and their dedication to playing as a team. Whereas the Lady Lions roster featured our standing group of athletes, and the mayor has named most of them. I'll call the rest of them when we get up to present. Whereas the Lady Lions were guided by an exceptional coaching staff, including head coach Jeff Oda, who has mentored multiple generations of athletes, including current assistant Jessica and Jackie, along with dedicated coaches, Carlos and Aaron Perry and Q. I think I'm saying those names right, but I didn't please correct me later. Whereas the achievement of the lady lines during the 2024-25 season has bought immense pride and inspiration to the CK McClatchee High School community, the Sacramento City Unified School District, and the entire city and region of Sacramento. Now, therefore, let it be resolved that the mayor and city council of the city of Sacramento, here by recognizing congratulate 2425 C.K. McClatchy high school lady lions girls basketball team and coaches and parents and volunteers and student body for their historic season and outstanding contributions to youth sports sports and leadership here in Sacramento. Congratulations, ladies. Applause. We're going to come down and I want all of the players, coaches, parents, anybody who wants to be in this team picture. I want you to come up to the front so we can give you your resolution and we can also acknowledge you with a great picture to remember this in the annals of Sacramento history. I'm going to go back and try it. Take it. You want to taking two steps. Can I come in? Alright, can everyone take two steps in? As much as you have. There we go. One, two, three. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go. I Okay Yeah, come on you want to go first I'm just going to talk about how this sectioned championship was so great. It was so great because I feel like we came together as a team and we really worked together and we worked really hard all season. We all came together in the summertime and we worked hard since then and then we worked really hard in the fall. And then when it came crunched like to the really big games we would pray before each game and we really just showed that we wanted it more than everybody and it just really worked out for the best. So that's really why. It was a great city. I think for all of our students, we all came together as a team, talked after practice, hung out after practice together, seen each other in the hall, talked about the games, and like Bree said, prayed together, like studied our opponents together, and really came together to play. So yeah. Yeah. All right. I'll squat a little bit. OK. All right. God, it's hard being tall sometimes. I would like to first thank Mayor McCarty and council members for inviting us today and recognizing us for this high achievement. I would also like to thank my fellow teammates, my coaches, and also our parents and the rest of everyone that came to support from our school and student body. This was a very special season, very special team and I would just like to congratulate all of us and the amount of work that we input to achieve what we have achieved this year. And I would like to also thank everybody for the unforgettable memories that I personally will carry on with me towards my future. So thank all of you. Thank you all for inviting us here today and go Lions. Hey. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Wait. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now, if somebody told you that you had to stay for the rest of the meeting, they didn't tell you the truth. So, your prize if you want to get going early, you can leave anytime you want to. But congratulations again, ladies and gentlemen, to CK McClatchy. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our team. Woo! Woo Office. Councillor, I'd like to introduce two of our members of our office. Sorry. Who happened to also be some of the newest members of the bar? In fact, Carson Vanderlitten, Deputy City Attorney Carson Vanderlitten was sworn in here in December in Chambers by former Mayor Steinberg and then Car of Weatherby also is one of our newer members of the bar as well so they're going to present on law day today. Thank you very much. Good evening, Mayor and council members. We are here today to accept the council resolution recognizing law day May 1st, 2025 in the city of Sacramento. Law day was originally established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958, and in 1961, Congress designated its official date of May 1st. The purpose was then, as it is today, to observe a day of national dedication to the principle of government under law. President Eisenhower sought to highlight and honor for all Americans and for the world be enduring legal culture of the United States. Law Day is the national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law, underscoring how law and the legal process contribute to the freedoms that Americans share and providing an opportunity to recognize the role of the courts in a constitutional democracy. This year, the American Bar Association has established the Laudet theme, the Constitution's promise, out of many one. Facing the dysfunction and paralysis created by our first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the framers of the Constitution astutely recognized the need for greater national unification and cooperation. The resulting Constitution, which has been reworked and improved by successive generations of Americans, establishes a framework for government designed to unite us as one citizenry. Through means such as our representative government, jury service, a regular census, and more. Through our commitment to our union and to our community, the people of Sacramento fulfill the promise of E. Pluribus Unum every day. We come from all backgrounds, identities, classes and cultures. And yet we recognize the importance of bridging our differences and working together as a free people in a united nation. Our civil lives tie us together as one we, whether through legislative efforts that serve the common good, tireless public service, or taking action every day in ways big and small to improve and uplift our city, state, and country. The out of many one law-day theme encourages all Americans to embody the spirit of solidarity and common purpose. We invite everyone to join us on May 1, 2025 to celebrate law day by recommitting to the values that bind us together. The Sacramento City Attorney's Office will be celebrating law day with a speaker presentation featuring Natalie Fujicawa, president of the Women Lawyers of Sacramento, Judge Richard C. Maditch, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge, Professor Vikram D. Amar, distinguished professor of law, UC Davis School of Law, Go Aggies, Phoenicia Gattis, General Counsel of the San Juan Unified School District, Joe Ayala, former legislative council for the California legislature, and Professor Larry Levine, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. The speakers will be discussing current issues relevant to this year's Law Day topic. The doors open at 11.30 a.m. in historic city hall chambers with the panel discussion taking place from 12 to 1. Refreshments to follow. The activity is pending approval from the State Bar of California for one hour of MCLE general credit. Thank you very much for your time and attention and we hope to see you on May 1st. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. My name is Car Weatherbury and I'm from the City Attorney's Office, City of Sacramento. I won't take up much of your time. I would just like to take a moment to acknowledge our youth contest winners. As you may have heard in honor of this year's Laud theme, the City Attorney's Office invited 7th and 8th grade students to celebrate with us by participating in an essay and illustration contest. This was a great opportunity to involve local youth and not only learning about Law Day and the significance of the Constitution and our legal processes but also doing that in a fun and creative way. We are happy to report that we were overwhelmed by the number of and content of the submissions we received. The students really expressed their understanding of the topic creatively with clarity. It was an incredibly challenging effort to decide our winners, but we have them and they're here with us today. In third place, we have Antonia Videli McLeod, who is in the eighth grade attending MiWalk Middle School in city council district four. Antonia wrote a two-page essay and submitted artwork reflecting the diversity of our nation, and national symbols, including our flag, the American Bald Eagle, and the Lady Justice Statute, representing that justice is blind and should be administered without bias, regardless of wealth, power, or social status. Antonia's essay connected with the theme of Laude and current events very well and included a great analysis. I'd like to read an excerpt. On this law day, it is important to appreciate what was established by the founders of the United States in 1787, yet keep up with the Constitution standards. They have created the framework for a just system of government that perspacts every person of the United States as equal. For whoever calls his country home, belief in law provides unity that holds us together with the assurance of justice and equality. Out of many one is a promise made by the authors of the Constitution that continues to be relevant today. But we must agree to sustain the traditions to make certain of a peaceful future. It is up to the current citizens of the US to uphold the belief of equal law and justice for all. Congratulations, Antonio, and I would like to invite you to see us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. In second place, Somaya Kanger, who is in the eighth grade at Natoma-specific Pathways Prep Middle School in District, taught by Ashley Silas. Samaya wrote a poem for her submission. It is creative, inspiring, and compassionate, and gives a visual depiction of the theme in our daily life. In it, Samaya says, out of many one are just us to take pride in our constitution that has helped bridge our divide. In our military, our individuals of all race who are risking their lives for us to have a safe place. In our government, we have people working hard to protect the citizens by doing their part. At your workplace, you may face adversity. Maybe a coworker will take a stand and you'll appreciate all the diversity. Working together is essential because we go further together. along makes it easier just like running and warm weather We are here today as good Samaritan's living in unity and even though we have our disagreements We are all still a community Congratulations Samaya, I'd like to invite you to stand And in first place we have Rachel Saw. Rachel is in the eighth grade as well. She attends Miwaq Middle School in District 4 and is taught by Brian Mitchell. Rachel unanimously won first place by the level of detail and creativity in her submission. Rachel drew a picture with 27 hands relating to the 27 amendments in the Constitution. Each hand tells a very different story. If you look closely, you'll see cultural differences, political differences, occupational differences, social economic differences, and so much more. But all with one thing in common, we the people of our nation. Thank you and congratulations, Rachel. Thank you and congratulations Rachel. Before I leave you today I would like to say thank you to Kelly Tripani and the community development department Amy Williams and the City Manager's office and Katie Hoss-Hauser and Heather Koff from Youth Park and Community Enrichment. I would also like to thank the Mayor and the Council's Office for helping us get the word out about the contest. Most importantly, I would like to say thank you to all our students and participants. Thank you for showing us that our future is bright. Thank you, Susanna, Mayor and Council for your time. And the families and the contest winners would like to take a picture with you guys if you do you. Thank you guys for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. that was that closer. Okay. Ready, one, two, three. Oh. 30, 1, two, three. One, two, three. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm going to give you a hand. I'm sorry. Okay next item please. The next special presentation is presented by Council Member For Kaplan and Mayor Pro Tem Gera. It's sexual assault awareness month and denim day. Thank you, Mayor. I'll kick it off before I turn it over to the Mayor Pro Tem. It is my honor this evening to present along with the Mayor Pro Tem recognizing April as sexual assault awareness month and then on April 30th is called Denham Day. Every 68 seconds someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. Approximately one in five women and one in 33 men are raped during their lifetime and about 75% of harassment victims experience retaliation when they report it. We know between 40 and 45% of women in relationships experiencing domestic abuse are assaulted during the course of their relationship, while over half of the women who are raped by an intimate partner are also sexually assaulted multiple times by that same partner. It is more important today to stand up to fight, to believe victims, and to acknowledge it, where right now women are treated as treated as less than, and where it's being reported, we are chattel to bear children, and we don't deserve the equal rights. It's more important that we take the stand, and we have supporters, because so often women have experienced this and said nothing because of the victim shaming and the abuse. Also, International Denham Day, if you have not heard it, has been observed since 1999 as a symbol of protest, because believe it or not, while I was in law school during that time, an Italian high court decision overturned a sexual assault conviction, say, because the victim wore jeans and they're hard to take off. She obviously consented. So Denham Day encourages everyone to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence and speak up when they hear comments that blame victims because of what they're wearing or how they look. So this evening, we are recognizing several organizations that are in the same place. We are also in the same place. So this evening we are recognizing several organizations that each in their own way commits to standing up and supporting victims of sexual violence and harm. That includes weave, cash, my sister's house, impact, and the Sacramento Family Regional Justice Center that does not name them all but just a couple who are doing the hard work here in Sacramento and I just like to call special attention to we we visit the rape crisis center for Sacramento County for city and the county, and is the only agency that holds the confidential privilege for victims of sexual assault by the nature of their licensing and the training that they have employees go through. So at this time, I'd like to turn it over to Mayor Pro Tem Gera to share a few words before we bring up CEO of Weave Beth Hasett to say a couple of words. Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you very much, Council Member Kaplan. You know, in California, over 3 million, over 3 million, 250,000 survivors of sexual assault live here today. And it is an issue that happens regularly every day. And it's an important thing that today we recognize this work. I want to thank many of those in our city, our city government and our employees. I then want to thank our chief of police who sits on the family justice the center board of directors as well. I have the opportunity to sit there with her as well. And with organizations like the community, community and sexual harm cash that started by city employees as well here. And again, also to call a special attention to we, because since 1978, here in Sacramento, we began that effort to bring justice, to bring support through the Rape Crisis Center. And now they offer a plethora of services from therapeutic counseling, legal services prevention and housing and addressing all of the different aspects that lead up to the issues that many sexual assault victims face. I want to just thank everyone for their tireless work and effort that has gone into this. And even though one in 33 men do experience sexual assault as Councilmember Kaplan, it's one in five women that experienced that assault. And so today I stand in solidarity on denim day wearing my denim to city council. I rarely wear denim to city council but very strong in solidarity to bring awareness to this issue every day. And I want to thank, again, Beth Hassen, who's here today. Please come to the podium because the work that you have done, not only providing life and energy and back and hope to survivors is critical. So thank you, Big Round of applause to our Executive Director, Weave, Beth H. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. We've served as Sacramento County's rape crisis center since 1988, and every county has a rape crisis center that's charged with an array of statutorily dictated services, and we are honored to fulfill this obligation on behalf of Sacramento. This 1 million plus program receives no funding from the city or county. Recognitions such as this is vital to ensure that the community and victims know how and where to get help. Critical services include our 24-7 support line and our team of advocates that accompany victims to their evidentiary exams. In 2024, there were 351 exams conducted, so that's about one a day in our county. 40% of those assaults occurred in the city of Sacramento. The majority of sexual assaults are never reported to law enforcement, so we know this is a fraction of the sexual assaults that occurred last year. In addition to following up after the exam advocates and counselors assist victims throughout the investigation and as they heal from the trauma of their sexual assault. We've worked in partnership with Sac State and the Los Rios College District by embedding sexual assault advocates on campuses to reduce violence and support victims. I'd like to specifically thank Tina and John with the city's Office of Lifetime Economy for partnering with Weave this past year to train bar and night life staff to be active bystanders in preventing sexual assault through Weave's Safe Night Out program. We have a training this Thursday, and Alyssa is here from Mangoes who regularly call us and say, hey, we caught somebody who was up to no good. Please show your support by wearing denim on Wednesday, April 30th. You heard the story of denim day and this type of victim blaming is unacceptable. So we'll rally on the Capitol with our legislature who will also be wearing denim at 10 that morning. And again I want to thank you for shining a light on sexual assault and weaves work to ensure survivors have a safe place to get support, navigate the criminal legal system and to heal from the most intimate form of violence. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to call everyone up for a picture. All of our organizations that are here if they wouldn't mind coming up. My sister's house is over here as well, come on in. Jeans, come on down. Bring your dinner. Yes, they know. Come on, lad. Come on, impact part of it. Come on, y'all part. Come on. What's your name? Zeginya. No. Here. Oh, one of the first names here. All right. All right. All right. All right guys step over to the other side? Park. Okay. All right. One, two, three. One more. One, two. Got it. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. You wait for the kid to get in from the old bad light. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. I just come in. Okay, I just come in. I really ask, I should have been in the same living room. I just can see it. Yeah, okay. Okay, and next we have another special presentation by Councillor Marminge, autism acceptance month. Thank you, Vice Mayor. As you all know, if you didn't know, April is recognized as National Autism Acceptance Month. And it's really a time to go beyond awareness and really have a renewed commitment to inclusion, understanding, and really celebrating neural diversity in our community. And I actually believe this is the first time ever that the city of Sacramento is actually recognizing autism acceptance month because usually what we do is we ask the city clerk, you know, do you have a draft of this resolution and they say we actually don't have one on record, which means this is actually the first time that we've done this, which is for me a little bit disappointing, but really glad that we're doing this. And, you know, this month is also really personal for me as well as we celebrate autism acceptance month because I have enough you and a niece who are autistic and they both have unique strength to contribute to this world. It's been an honor of mine to watch them grow, learn, and also navigate the world in their own beautiful ways. And it has really taught me as an anti about creativity, about resilience, and also about patience and humanity. And the reason why this is not an awareness month, but is an acceptance month, because awareness acknowledged the existence, but acceptance actually centers, embraces, and really uplifts who they are. And it also means that as a city, as a state, as a country, as a world, that we create spaces where neurodiverse individuals feel seen, valued, and empowered. And so today, I actually want to take an opportunity to think three incredible organizations that have been doing this work and sometimes they may not be recognized on the big screen and you may not hear about them. And I want to make sure that we center them because they're doing this work every day. They're going to come up here as I announce you. And we'd love for you to say a few words before we take a photo. The first is Impact led by Leah. Impact actually just recently held their eighth annual autism festival this past weekend with over 100 attendees, 30 plus vendors. And they worked directly with our diverse communities to ensure that our families and our children have what they need to thrive. Autism is just one of many issues. They actually do so many issues. Everything from youth violence to DV, to gender-based violence, trafficking, so many issues, but this is also another topic of advocacy that they work closely on. The second group I would like to ask to come up is the group that leads, because it's one amazing woman, but she has an incredible team behind her, Valene Bird as well from artism. Artism is an annual event that occurs in the city of Sacramento and it is a volunteer run event. I think many of my colleagues here are sponsors, the annual event as well and their events actually happening this weekend at Luther Burbank so looking forward to that event. And then lastly, I would love for the director of the mine institute, Dr. Aubin, to come up as well. The mine institute, if y'all didn't know, is an institute at UC, but they're actually located right here in Sacramento. And the work they do inform policies and practices to ensure that we shape a region that's more inclusive. And so, the Mayan Institute developed more equitable, scientific, validated systems, a support intervention. And so really just want to highlight the research component, but also the practitioner on the ground that's uplifting this work. I think that's really important to acknowledge. So with that I love for the three of you to say a few words before we take a quick photo and really just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this heart work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This was awesome. Thank you so much. This is incredible. And that it's the first one. I did not know that. So that's really good to know. And it's just bringing awareness to things is one thing. The acceptance piece is another. And it's really important. So those of us that live with this every single day, not just this month. We understand the importance of bringing attention to all the contributions that autistic individuals bring to all of our lives. The truth is all of us know- every single day, not just this month. We understand the importance of bringing attention to all the contributions that autistic individuals bring to all of our lives. The truth is, all of us know somebody. That's on the spectrum. We may just not know it, but we all do. They're all around us, and they are a very intricate part of our community, and they have contributed so much, and they continue to do that. So it's very important, especially right now, with the time that we're in right now, it's very important that we highlight this. So I thank you so much for highlighting our efforts and everything that we do to bring attention to these things. So it's very important, especially right now, with the time that we're in right now, it's very important that we highlight this. So I thank you so much for highlighting our efforts and everything that we do to bring attention to these things and inclusivity. You know what I mean? Bring it inclusion into it. That's this wonderful too. So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. I'm just very, very happy to be here to witness this declaration of intent by the city of Sacramento. It is my hope that this encourages our Sacramento officials and their staff and their businesses to follow up with real actions. I just want to emphasize the need for promoting and participating and inclusive practices. Providing these accommodations are important, assisting with the access of these resources and not gatekeeping. And more importantly, educating your communities, the law enforcement, making sure that they understand the autism spectrum and how they can support our individuals. And that's about it. I appreciate you guys. I'm very happy to be here today for this. Thank you. I want to thank the city of Sacramento and especially my Vang for this wonderful honor and for partnering with us To do it. Recognizing autism acceptance months gives us an opportunity To reflect on the contributions of autistic people and their Families in the Sacramento community. And it allows us to recognize Sacramento's commitment to advancing inclusion, equity, and acceptance for autistic individuals all the time. This happens in large part because of collaboration across our city with the multiple agencies that are working with these folks. And on behalf of the UC Davis Mine Institute, I want to express our deep gratitude for the recognition of importance of science and shaping a better future for autistic individuals, especially now. By elevating both lived experience and scientific discovery, you help ensure that Sacramento leads the way in evidence-based inclusive practices that benefit our entire community. Thank you for this recognition, and I look forward to our continuing work together to make Sacramento wonderful for everyone. Thank you. If you can come to the grant, we're going to take a photo. We have a couple of minutes. We have a couple of minutes. I'm coming. I'm coming. We have a couple of minutes. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming, I'm coming. We have three. I don't know how many of the steps I've done. Do you want to come up with one? E-B-L. Okay. One more. And then if you all will join high maintenance, we all have copies for you. I don't ask if you know about that. All the moves. Very good. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Yeah, Councillor Mervang, for bringing forward this resolution. So important, especially given what's going on in our country right now. We're moving along to the consent calendar, so Councillor Members, who would like to move on to the consent calendar. Councillor Moor Dickinson. Item number seven. Mayor Pro Temgara. Item number five and eight. Council member Maple. 5. Seeing that. Okay. We'll start with actually clerk. Is there any comments on the consent calendar? Yes, I have six speakers. Would you like to take those now? Yeah, actually, we'll do Councillor commons first and then we'll do speakers. Thank you. Okay, so we will start with item five, Council Member Gera and then Council Member Maple and item five. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. First I just wanted to thank staff and also the folks at the California Energy Commission for this grant here. This will allow us to increase our EV charging accessibility throughout our city, particularly serving the South area we're going to have at George Sim Community Center, at Tahoe Park and also the Oak Park Community Center. And so we're making sure that it's not only accessible downtown but also throughout the area but for our district five and six here. Very grateful and this is part of the Sacramento Electric Vehicle Blueprint grant. That's looking at how do we make sure that we have a reliable and available charging for folks throughout the city. Thank you Vice Mayor Mayor. Councilor Maple, item five. Did it. Wonderful. Save exact comments, but just want to add one small additional thing, just that as an EV owner myself living in South Sacramento, it's really challenging to find the infrastructure that you need and we know that having the infrastructure is what's going to help, especially our families, long-come families, be able to adopt EVs into their lives. And so, the more that we can do to create that is a good thing and so I just love to see this out park and beyond and looking for a good expansion and really want to thank the staff. Thank you. And then Councillor Member Dickinson on item 7. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I wanted to make a couple comments about item 7 which I am very excited to see here here before us for acceptance and resolution accepting federal grant and moving to the next stages of implementing this. This began quite some time ago led by Jennifer, Dolan Wyatt of our transportation staff. And Jennifer is here this evening and other members of her staff. I think it started in 2023. Is that giving a nod? Yes. And when the question was whether or not to apply for a federal grant under the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment Act under the category of reconnecting communities, communities that had been historically separated by freeways and other major roadways had sacrificed some of their identity and lost some of the assets that they had otherwise had built community strength and resilience around. We had several community meetings so that the staff could the community's interest in in pursuing this grant and I think the response was overwhelming to proceed with that. Unfortunately this was a grant application we were successful with and so here we are tonight. The essence of this and this is perhaps the most fun thing you do in many times in life is reimagine the world and we're going to reimagine this little corner of the world that is that is dominated by state route 160 as a freeway which was extended from from downtown across the American River to what we now call business 80 And it had the effect of separating North Sacramento from one of the principal assets of our region, the American River Parkway. It also separated the neighborhoods on the north side of Highway 160 from those that were developing both business and commercial areas on the south side. It's had a number of effects that I don't imagine anyone in 1955 when Highway 160 was first built. Could ever have foreseen would have occurred over time. So notwithstanding the community input to this point, this grant is a planning grant. It's a start and so there'll be a significant component of additional community input. It goes as far north as El Camino Avenue with his scope from Northgate Boulevard. I know the vice mayor is going to have an interest in this as well to business 80 as I mentioned previously. And I think it has great potential to allow us to see how we can create better connections to Del Paso Boulevard, how we can provide more routes and safer routes in all times for people who live in gardenland and northgate, how it can help us realize pedestrian and cyclist access among others to the American Republic I mentioned earlier which is very difficult and not very safe. Today there are a host of potential benefits to this. I apologize for going on a little long about this, but maybe you can sense that this to me represents a huge opportunity and part of investment we're making in North Sacramento. So I'm just delighted. I know there are some people here who want to add comments. There's going to be a lot of conversation about it, what it should look like. That's as it should be. And my only proviso here is to ask Jennifer to go faster. She's heard from this. She's heard this from me before, probably from the others of here too. And she'll keep hearing it because we are energized, excited and motivated to get on with the work. Thank you, Vice Mayor. 100% agree with your comments and Councillor Mabel. I just really wanted to quickly add and support my colleague Councillor Dickinson, but just a little bit of historical context. I remember when my first came into office being briefed on the possibility of the city applying for this grant. And of course being the good Councillor of the I.M. I wanted to advocate for my own communities, no offense, because I thought there were some great examples including Highway 99 and how both Curtis Park and Oak Park were separated by that freeway. But through that briefing, I was educated at the expertise of our staff on really the background on the history of the 160 and how that really has impacted the community members and the businesses and just everything in that area. And I walked away, very convinced that would be the most successful application. And it was. Right? And so I think that really just goes to show the work of our incredible team here and so I was convinced from that moment on and so really happy to support this and help move it forward and both in the planning stages and everything that comes beyond it so it's a great, great program. Thank you. Well said and Councilmember Gare on item 8. Great thank you. You know very because this is just pass for publication, but I did have some questions from my neighborhood and one I'm very excited about this item. It's Recognizing Sam Francisco Boulevard as a historic landmark for our city for anyone who looks at any of all of our Photos there's some great photos of the palm tree line streets there. Back when we had the street car going there. And boy did what a tragic mistake of pulling out the street car. And so I still have my neighbor across the street Carol. She would remind me when she was a kid, how they could take the street car from 21st Avenue. And then they would go down Stockton Boulevard, but the original link went up to San Francisco Boulevard through that palm line street. And those are the original suburbs of Sacramento was the unincorporated area of colonial heights in that area. So very excited about this work here and looking forward to this getting across the finish line. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Wonderful. And then for myself on item 11, congratulations Juan de Velo and measure you appointment by the mayor. Congratulations. Okay, so now we would do public comment and then eventually an emotion in a second because I was made. Vice Mayor, I have six speakers. The first is Mac Worthy. Second is John Fiero, then Jeffrey, Christina Rogers, Matt King, and Rick Stevenson. We're still one who transportation. Here's a guy who's here for 10 minutes and talked about safe how transportation now you put transportation on, you know, do you have constituents that you encourage on how they come in and speak? I still can say to you, you don't because you're into the fact that you want to be the person, do it all your damn self, You can't deal with this, some of these people that have been here for years. Transportation is the worst transportation in America, right, your Sacramento. Safe hard talk, buddy. I just, on the day of Safe Hard, she robbed me, you know, really well. I had a friend on the commission when all that money first came here, the old Sacramento. But what does old Sacramento do here? You know, a crime, what do you case me to? I saw it change the triple time. Crime, crime. And here you said, you can't go cost time, cost this city on a schedule. That's the first station. You went in to mass switch education and kids come here and say, well, they couldn't get to school, every word for mass transportation. And they'll come to the other buses. You're about you. You're ignorant money. Go to somebody that is expert in dealing with money. And expert within here, to that. Have you ever spoke to a man that a woman that do a root, what a truck? What a woman's closer in the mind right here, God willing. And I want you to get to sunrise where they go. To wind away wait, check it out, I'll have a rest. But you want to say, you don't know one way from home. And a woman from the Lake California City from right here on street was killed. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is John Fierro on item seven. What did you say? Hi, I'm John Fierro. I'm a wood like resident. been there for 40 years. I'm about item 7. I love this idea. It's been a long time in coming. We need to join 1-16 and get the bicycle trail accessible to wood like. Our newest projects, we just approved in wood like we're a 70-story 700-year department building and a quickie mark. There are less than half a mile parts. There's's not a single sidewalk in between the two. So wood like needs a lot of attention and we need to get some attention now because of this building. I don't know if we can wait. I hope that traffic can move fast and get us some approvals. But wood like as you know is an old English sort of setting with no sidewalks, real narrow streets. And this building is affecting us really badly now. There's no sidewalks from the building to their quickie mart, not a single sidewalk around our house. There's no sidewalks and they want to allow this building to go in there and want to handle the parking after the building did. We don't need 700 more stakeholders voting to keep parking when we're trying to relive regulated now. They've done regulation of the parking in wood like to some extent for the stony end where they have no overnight parking. That's our basic thing. We want no overnight parking. This building was created under the idea that they had plenty of parking. There was going to be plenty of facilities for all the tenants of the building. They won't be parking on our streets and everything's going to be fine. Well, it's manifesting totally different now. If you're going to go to the police memorial next week, you'll get an idea of how big and impressive this building is. We're less than 150 feet away from it and it's we're at their front door. So it's like we've, the two of us live on one side, 700 people live across the street. We want to handle the parking and get this issue done before. The safe street money may help us. This is how we want 60 study. May say yes, you do have a problem. You need sidewalks. You need to regulate parking to one side of the street together. But we need to know that now before the bill is occupied. Thank you. Thank you. Give your comments Jeffery on item seven Jeff Tartigia and a habit. It's So be the third meeting today. So what this one was about now was gonna skip it except for your news reporters told me that this was happening today Some of these activities like this. I hope Barbara you inform her further what's going on in this regard, because I know how much she has been concerned about the old Sacramento. I remember 40 years ago coming up from Sacramento, or coming up from Los Angeles, with visiting with friends and some of the active groups that took place on Del Pas Passable of Art and these songs and everything else that were going on there in active places. For a long time, that has been really a desert. So Roger, I appreciate you going ahead and getting this area brought up and brought into life. As you know, there's really no bus service in that regard. It's everything's dependent upon white rail until you get to the Arden-Del-Passal light rail station. That was a decision made some years ago to remove the 15. So you do not have that. So I hope you make sure that the connection of public transportation in regards to 160 is considered to instance. You are on the RT board. I hope that he gets brought up soon. That's my comment on item 7 through now. I'll speak later. Thank you for your comments. Christine Rogers on item 10. and then more speakers on item 10, Matt King and Rick Stevenson. Good evening, city council. Tonight I represent the Land Park Community Association as their president. And having listened to my neighbors, it is clear that they do not want you to cut to core services like city parks. Previous cuts have eroded public safety and quality of life in every city park including William Land Regional Park. On Easter weekend, this last weekend, families from all over Sacramento celebrated in the land park. Several reckless drivers were speeding and doing side show type moves near them. And not only that, but the decibel levels from vehicles were so loud, windows rattled at homes homes and nearby, and those enjoying their own gatherings in the park were disturbed. We need more park ranges to patrol the area and remind people to be respectful and behave appropriately. But with only 12 park ranges for over 240 parks and bike trails, that's impossible. We understand the city of Sacramento is 44 million in debt and needs to generate more revenue. We suggest you invest in core services instead of cut. For example, many of the thousands of weekly visitors to William and Land Park don't pay permits. The city loses revenue every week because of it. Upgrading and permitting process can generate valuable revenue and it may even pay for some more park rangers. Please focus on cuts to non-essential areas. It may be a challenge. and groups may have gotten used to receiving city funds, but you just don't have it right now. And our parks serve everyone. So they are an inclusive investment. We love Sacramento. Many of us have lived here for generations. Sacramento is a new mayor and city council. And we support efforts towards smart governance, wise spending, and thoughtful investing moving forward. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments, Matt King. Baving council. Sir, we have those mics. Let me restart your name, Matt King. Baving council. Thanks for having me on Matt King. And you know, we had a lot of kids in here that, you know, grew up in sports and a lot of them have the opportunity to play these sports in our parks, whether it be Little League, whether it be basketball, soccer, football, our parks are valuable pieces of real estate that we have here. And I agree with her. They're really shouldn't try to cut the parks budget. It's little as possible. It's one of our core services. And without parks, people that don't have a lot and don't have the money to go other places like the mall or the movies or whatever they're not going to have anything to do because they won't feel safe in their own neighborhoods thanks. Thank you for comments Rick Stevenson is our final speaker on the consent calendar also item 10. William Land Park when the Great Recession hit in 2008 became so overgrown that we had to start a neighborhood organization which is still going. Starting the 15th year, Councilman Jennings has been to many of our park work days. We usually have 100 people or more at them. But the problem is, when you think about budgets, a lot of departments of the city can increase one year, decrease another, frankly. It's not desirable. When you have neglect in parks, the damage lasts, when you're worth of damage, can last 10 years or 15 years to recover because of trees and plants. So the recovery time is something, when you think of budgetary things, please keep that in mind. And again, Wameland Park depends heavily on volunteers because we used to have 17 staff members full time. And now we're down to just a few. And it's the neighbors that had to jump in and pick up a lot of it. And again, we've been doing it for 15 years and we'll continue. But remember, one year of neglect can mean 10 years of You're going to be a little bit more. a lot of it and again we've been doing it for 15 years and we'll continue but remember one year of neglect can mean 10 years of catch up thank you. Thank you. Can you give your comments advice mayor I have no more speakers on the consent calendar. Councillor Moura Dickinson. I'll move the consent calendar by hearing it but I just neglected I wanted to also mention that the Woodlike Neighborhood association expressed their support on the grant we were talking about earlier and we saw James Corpus here this afternoon but say cogs staff deserves a little recognition too because they really helped move the grant package through the federal and state agencies to get it signed in a timely way too. So I want to not overlook them. Wonderful. Can we have a motion by Councillor McKinston and seconded by Councillor Maple. Please call the roll. Thank you. Councillor McKellin. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Councillor McKinston. Member Maple. Mayor Prattim Gera. Councillor Merveginnings. Councillor Mervegvang. Mayor McCarty's absent. And vice-marchelementes. Yes. Thank you. Member Maple. Mayor Prattim Gera. Councillor Merveginnings. Councillor Mervegvang. Mayor McCarty's absent. And vice-marchelementes. Yes. Thank you. You have motion passes. Thank you. And now we're moving on to the discussion calendar item number 12. I want to welcome our city auditor, Verisha. Good evening. Are we just waiting for the presentation? There we go. All right. Good evening, Vice Mayor Talimantes, members of the City Council. I'm for Ishtar Rarri, or City Auditor. The recommendation that is before you today is to pass the motion approving the City Auditor's fiscal year 2526 work plan. The Office of the City Auditor plays a vital role in ensuring public accountability and transparency in municipal operations. As an independent body, the Office of the City Auditor provides objective and reliable assessments of the city's ability to achieve its goals and maintain an effective system of internal controls. My office has three divisions focused on our main areas of work, performance audits, research and analysis and whistleblower hotline. To develop my work plan this year, I met with city leadership including the city manager's office and department directors and conducted a citywide risk assessment that have reviewed various available data to identify the areas of highest risk in the city. In addition, due to the current financial situation of the city, I wanted to focus my work plan on projects that could identify efficiencies, cost savings, or potential revenue increases. As I reported last year, our office has dealt with some vacancies during this fiscal year, which has limited our ability to complete all of our anticipated projects. We have been working on filling our vacancies, and we're now down to one vacant position, the principal fiscal policy analyst position that oversees a performance audits division. We happen working to complete existing audits and anticipate completing quite a few before the end of this fiscal year. However as you know freezing the principal position is one of the strategies that are on the table to balance the fiscal year 26 budget. If this strategy is selected by the City Council it would impact this proposed work plan. In our performance audit division we currently have six audits and progress including a couple that have been on hold as we work to staff up the department. We anticipate four of these projects will be completed prior to the end of this fiscal year. The audit of the Animal Care Services Division was just completed and presented to the budget audit committee today. We also anticipate completing the audit of the emergency medical services, part one of the homeless response audit, and audit of the military equipment, use policies policies and inventory practices. We will resume the evidence and property division audit once the military equipment audit is completed. For our planned audits we have the second homeless response audit. I have been in discussions with the mayor on the objectives of the second audit and I will be bringing forward to the budget audit committee details on the scope and objective of the senate audit next month. I will then bring it to the full city council for approval shortly afterwards. This will ensure that the objective of that second audit will address the new city council's highest priority homelessness issues. For our planned audits, we have the pedestrian safety audit that was rolled over from our prior year work plan. We have added three additional projects for the upcoming work plan, the audit of the Code Compliance Night Team, the audit of the City's radio systems, and an audit of special event permitting process. I selected these projects as I believe that there are some efficiencies and cost savings the city can realize in these areas. I do want to note that this proposed work plan is the one that was approved by the budget and audit committee last month and so it does not include the recent request from Council Member Vane to add an audit of the police department over time practices. I can bring that proposal to the Budget and Audit Committee for a deliberation if the City Council doesn't take up that request tonight. As I previously mentioned, we had a couple of audits on hold from last year. I saw guidance from the Bajanotic Committee on the Prioritization of either resuming the complaint investigation and resolution practices audit or initiating the audit of pedestrian safety after we complete some of our current projects. The direction from Bajanotic was to resuming complete the complaint investigation and resolution practices audit. And I just want to confirm that the city council agrees with this direction. I do anticipate that I'll be bringing forward a more detailed scope and objective for this audit to the budget audit committee shortly. In September of last year, we were able to finally fill the cannabis auditor, auditor, auditor vacancy in our office. As we discussed last year, we were able to finally fill the cannabis auditor vacancy in our office. As we discussed last year, the cannabis auditor position has been reduced to a half FTE working on cannabis and the other half assisting with the office's measure, L, and other projects. The first few months of the cannabis auditor's work was spent working on the charter- children's fund, baseline funding verification report, and we have now started our ongoing monitoring of a variety of cannabis-related activities. In our discussions with the city manager and cannabis offices, we identified a project that could potentially help streamline the permitting and regulating of cannabis businesses. This project would compare the cannabis laws governing cannabis businesses by the state and the city to identify any regulatory overlap in code provisions, enforcement, mechanisms, and administrative activities. This would identify opportunities to streamline the city's cannabis regulation. We believe this project should be the next project to conduct and have listed it before the illegal cannabis cultivation audit that has been rolled over from the prior years work plan. We also anticipate contracting out the measure I'll required audit of cannabis business operations tax for the Sacramento Children's Fund with the city's external financial statement auditors. Our office also has a designated utilities auditor that's funded by the three utilities funds. We're currently working on an audit of the department's energy use that will evaluate the feasibility of DOU operations moving to 100 percent electric. Other utilities audits and special projects we plan to conduct include a series of audits regarding physical security and then another stormed drainage fund review as requested by the Department of Utilities. Next we move to our research analysis work plan. We just completed and presented the audit of the ethics commission to the Bajanotic Committee today. And we plan to bring it to the council shortly. In addition, due to staffing turnover, we had to put the audit of transient occupancy tax on hold last year. We were able to fill that vacancy in this division in January and we have resumed work on this audit. In addition, we have started a project to explore and enter into a contingency contracts with a vendor to conduct audits to recover potential taxes or other revenue owed to the city that were not properly attributed or paid to the city. We're currently working on an RFP for this project and we'll determine the feasibility of that once the RFP are received. We have also added a project of the business operations tax to evaluate the city's BOT and benchmark with other cities to identify any areas to consider updating. On our research and analysis side, we have a number of recurring reports planned. Measure L also mandated our office to annually verify that the baseline funding amount which we calculated December of 2023 for the Sacramento Children's Fund was expended in each previous fiscal year. In addition, last year the council approved changing the frequency of the community survey from being done annually to a buy annual survey. We did not conduct the survey this fiscal year and we're due to conduct it in fiscal year 26 However, this is also one of the budget reduction strategies for fiscal year 2026 So if the council selects this strategy to balance the budget this project would not be conducted in fiscal year 26 And then we also have a couple of diverse city projects that we rotate each year. Finally our office operates the whistleblower hotline. As of January 1st, 2025, we had 23 tips open and we anticipate receiving about 160 tips each fiscal year. This is an increase from prior year's estimate of 140 as we have experienced an increase in the number of tips this fiscal year. Increases in the whistleblower hotline activity reduces staff time available to conduct our other audits and projects as we don't have dedicated staff for the whistleblower hotline and all office staff take on cases. This last page of the discussion is our selection process for the work plan and our office staff take on cases. This last page discusses our selection process for the work plan and our office's authority. This concludes my presentation, available to answer any questions we may have. Okay, thank you. We're gonna take public comment first and then we'll do council member questions and move forward the conversation. Thank you, Vice-Maria, have three speakers. Mac Worvie, Keon Bliss Then, Jeffrey Tardigia. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. uh, it's, uh, different meetings. What do you mean? You done it. Today's, uh, today's, uh, you done it. I want to rough copy of that if I have a legal right to have it. Because now what we see here in this proposal here is a whistleblower. But we didn't see a whistleblower on which she, the report she made at the early meeting. Wow, that's a good one. She got a lot of things in that report today earlier that some legality got to be applied to it because somebody is breaking a brown hay and not telling the people the truth out here. So we're going to get some out of that. We want a hard copy of it and we will study that and we will study what she's doing now and you've done well today on early. But there's some things there that the public got have to be in on what you audit, and we got to have some rough drafts of what is putting that on. And especially when we got a whistleblower status. All I'm trying to do is get the corruption out of here. Because it's sitting on move forward if we don't get corruption we can use that information to eliminate corruption and you might want to face it because the people continue cooperating with me we will get you on oath and we will know where's the money going and quietly go out to where you go out. Next speaker's key on bliss Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank now going into a budget cycle where we are facing continuing deficit and years of projected budget shortfalls going forward that may require us to do layoffs then to look at the efficient and appropriate use of overtime practices here in the city, particularly within the police department. As you all should already be aware through the community police review commissions and in report, there have been a number of discrepancies that have been brought up regarding how the police department is using overtime, namely in which is the amounts to about $158 million since just 2011. And there are a number of officers, despite the vacancies, only a few doesn't seem to be making excessive amounts of overtime that exceed more than 60 and even 70% of their base salaries. And at least a dozen of them have managed to double their salaries using just overtime, including at least two who have been able to make somehow a crew more and over time than they have in their salaries since working here. I think this really requires an immediate step for this council to actually authorize the city auditor to take a hard look into this. This is something that's been coming up in the public eye since as far back as 2020 when the B first reported on discrepancies and overtime practices in the city. And given that we're not looking, that we're going to continue with these budget shortfalls and struggle financially, it is, you have a fiduciary duty to make sure that all of our city staff are using the limited resource to be have a pro- Thank you for your comments. Jeffrey Tartigui is our next speaker. Jeffrey Tartagia, again, after-kit. I have now seen the report because even though I've had cataract surgery, couldn't read a darn thing on that screen. So I'm hoping that I will get contact information about this. Unfortunately, both are mayor and Mr. Parabomb. My council member is not here to answer what other questions with the homeless community and jurisdictions because I know the LOWS project and the number of other things that don't seem to have city funds, but don't seem to have county funds, and yet they exist privately. So question mark, is there other things that are related to homeless that don't exist off of public funds? I don't know whether that's something that can be looked at as an audit, but want to be sure that indeed we know what's going on. The mayor swore that we are going to have a audit of all homeless funds, and I'm not sure that this answers what's going on, but hearing from one or two other members that this has been going on for more than a year of an audit of the homeless funds going on through there. And this is the preliminary report on one part to being completed. I'm hoping to look further and see what other information is available. As you will aware, I am very involved with the point in time count and do not want to see repeat of what happened last year as far as in the month of January where the homeless disappeared from downtown. So hopefully we will have something better happen to December January with the police department of Sacramento. That's my comment. Thank you for your comments, Vice Mayor of No More Speakers. Okay. Thank you so much. Mayor Pro Temgara. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. One, I want to thank Frish and her team on this. I would like to move approval of the budget and audit committee recommendation and priorities. I know we ask a lot of the city auditor and there are even more audits that we wish to look at and I understand that you wanted direction on priorities. So again, I think we've tried to narrow it down and narrow down our focus in our wants, but I'd like to make sure that we get some of the stuff that's been backlogged off. And so that'll be my motion. Vice mayor is to move forward the budget and audit recommendations on prioritization. Wonderful. Okay, we have a motion in a second. Council member Vain. Thank you, Vice Mayor. First, just really wanted to thank the city auditor for her leadership and also for your entire team, for all the work that you do. And I just also want to acknowledge that it does not go unnoticed the amount of workload. Heavy workload that we are requesting as mayor and council. And so I just want to acknowledge that and I know that there is a motion on the floor, but would like to just have a conversation. I know you have brought up the direction that I have provided in the last previous meeting. But I'm also want to be mindful of procedures in terms of mayor and council because your work plan did go to budget and audit. It was a proof and it came forth to the full city council now today for a vote. But I do want just to bring this back up in particular if it's not included in this work plan for it to be included in next year's work plan when you bring it to budget and audit. If the mayor pro-tum can include that piece, that would be really great. And I just want to speak to this in particular. The city, our city, is grappling with the deficit of $44 million. And it's so important that we monitor our city's spending. And in particular, I like to bring attention to our Sacramento Police Department because they make up the largest portion of our city budget. And I believe it is incredibly important to make sure that we're monitoring their usage of overtime and vacancy. Since I've been in office, we've increased the Sacramento Police Department budget by close to 100 million. And they again are the largest part of our city budget. And so I know that last week we voted to approve the police commission's work plan and in that work plan in particular there was several recommendation and while there are several recommendation there is only one that I am asking for us to consider tonight in particular and the ask from the commission was to conduct a complete audit of sacpities over time, policies, practices, and expenditures. And this audit could be done by the city auditor or by an outside agency. I am also cognizant that the city auditor has a heavy workload. And with that in mind, I know I have had previous conversation with the city auditor if there could be another option. And my understanding is that in previous practice, when there is internal capacity limited, we can also partner with external agency as well. And those dollars can come from that department that we're auditing. And so I just to share that as well and I would you know I don't want to make a counter-mervision because I don't know if I have the votes but I'm looking at Mayor Pro Tem right now to see if he would be okay with adding the direction that the city auditor adds that direction to her next year's work plan for budget and audit to consider for next year. Is that a question? That is, yeah, I'm asking you to get out that as a direction. And then the city meeting, in terms of managing manager wants to chime in. Sure. Well, first of all, one, I would probably, I would say no, and I would ask actually the chair of the budget and audit committee if he wishes to agenda is that then yes, because in this process we've had to eliminate audits and include and in fact elevate some to make sure that we get them done. For example, we're wanting to make sure that we have the even with the police department, the evidence and priority division, the military equipment and use policy. So those need to get done. We have to get through. How many total active audits do we have? Is it like... Question, I don't know. We had six in performance audits and I think a few, probably like a dozen, which is while we're trying to get them done without starting anything else. So to that point, so we've got not only six but also a dozen behind that. So to add this a year, well over a year prior, then I think the committee should have the discussion about what are they going to cut. I mean that's really the, it's not that we shouldn't do that't do that. I think any kind of overtime whether it's in any department figuring out where it's happening, where should we do it? But I don't know if adding it now for a year later to discuss is, it makes our work plan any better. In fact, what we've been trying to do is make a realistic work plan so that we can actually get through the items that we have. And we've already said no to a number of them. So that's my thought here. And so I know the chair is kicked up to speak and I don't know if the chair has an interest in saying how do we debate that because we've gone through to try to little this project down. I'm going to allow our interim city manager, Leney, Melstein to chime in. Thank you and Council Member Gary, you said something really important about finding out where it comes from. And I just want to remind council that for the past three or four years, probably four, we have published the prior year and how overtime was spent. An in-depth analysis is part of our supplemental budget information. Last year, in addition, if you go back to item three, those were our policies. And then item 35 was last year's analysis. And we've already asked the police department to do one for now the most recent past year. And what I think we'll do is compile all of those together along with the policies, along with the last prior year so that you can see the trends on how the department is spending over time. And you'll see that a lot of them are things like court mandated over time. Backfill for people who are sick or on vacation protests. When we have the big protest, the 5051 that was just there and we had hundreds you know, hundreds of hours of overtime. That is providing service on the street as is anticipated by our residents and our councils. So that is all documented and we will be providing that for you again. So, in the end, we welcome an audit of overtime if that is something that you choose to proceed with, I've requested, I've said, pull it back so that we can get through the list. So if it was anyone's audit here, even if anyone, I would say, let's get through the list that we have for. So, I think the question here is, I've even said, I'm not at that, I've requested, I've said, pull it back so that we can get through the list. through the list. So if it was anyone's audit here, even if anyone, I would say, let's get through the list that we can get through the list. So if it was anyone's audit here, even if anyone, I would say, let's get through the list that we have first. Sorry about that. Yeah, so maybe a solution here is, I know that was one of the recommendations from the police review commission. And so maybe those policies and how we did the analysis and the numbers on that, we can send it to the commission and maybe have ACM, Marlara presented to the commission commission so that they're aware of how it's going because I know that's where it originated. So we'll start there and then in terms of next year's audit maybe submit a proposal and then we'll go from the other side of the chair wants to do something. That might be an approach that works. I also noted the auditor's suggestion of bringing the issue back to the budget and audit committee. I want to say I'm appreciative of the interest that Councilmember Van has in doing an audit of this committee but I share the concerns about the workload of the auditor. I think we at least for those of us who sit on the The budget audit committee, we saw this morning how engrossing that work can be to do quality audits. So we've got limited resources, we've got limited capacity. We've got, I think, as Mayor Prattam got up pointed out, we have a full plate for the auditor. So I think adding something at this point into the work plan would complicate things more and potentially frustrate people who think that there's an audit that's going to happen which doesn't happen as soon or as quickly as they may like. So whether it's go back to the commission as the vice mayor has suggested or it's make a presentation with the kind of information that the interim city manager has outlined to the budget and audit committee. I think either of those approaches could work. I'm open to either of those and I don't think that I don't think that suggests that there's going to be an on-do delay in taking up the issue either way. In fact, I think it will probably be in certain respects more timely and more considered with that of one of those two approaches. Okay. And then Councillor Mournay, do you have other comments? Yeah, I'm requesting it just to be considered by budget and audit for next year's work plan. I'm not saying we're adding it to this year's work plan. I think what's in front of us is pretty heavy workload, but asking for budget and audit to consider to have that conversation when next year's work plan comes to council. So that is my request. I do think it would be good to, you know, circle back with our police commission to. Yeah. Thank you. Sorry. You know, I would like for budget and audit to consider it because again, we are in the middle of having a conversation about budget and the police department makes up the largest piece of our budget and they have over 100 plus vacancies and it's really important to understand the usage of those vacancies as we're having to make tough decisions about cuts, doing potential layoffs, we we're gonna have some tough decisions in front of us and I wanna make sure that Mayor and Council and the public is equipped with all the information. So I'm asking my colleagues to consider as a direction for a budget and audit to consider that as part of the work plan for next year, right? That conversation can happen in budget and audit and maybe it comes forth, maybe it does in, so. Okay, thank you so much. And then council member member Dickinson you were punched up and then she was undone yet so. I have no objection to the budget not it taking up consideration of this and that seems to me to be a sensible approach. Okay wonderful. All right so So now we're good. Councilmember Garrett? Yeah, I guess I don't disagree with that either. I just don't- possible approach. Okay. Wonderful. All right. So now we're good. Councilmember Gare. Yeah. I guess I don't disagree with that either. I just don't think it requires amending the work plan. That's all. Okay. So the motion stands as is and we have a second on the motion. So Councilmember Maple now. Thank you. Vice-me. And thank you. And thank you to our city auditor and your team for all the hard work. I appreciate it. And I especially appreciate you cramming an hour long, breathing into 30 minutes for me, because I had a really tight schedule and it really made me appreciate the amount of work that's on your plate because you were talking at classes you possibly could and at a very high level and still were barely able to get it all in. So just want to make hope everybody appreciates the amount of work that's on your plate and your team's plate. And especially I want to appreciate you for working in your team for working with my staff on prioritizing pedestrian safety and those policy audits because I think that's such an important thing that we obviously talk a lot about here on the council and is obviously a big issue in our city. I am really appreciative of that. Also I appreciate Councillor Vang's comments and I think it makes a lot of sense to me that that be something that go to budget not it for a conversation. Obviously we're kind of into this budget process as it stands so it might be difficult to get that looped in this time around, but definitely I think go worthy conversation for next year. And as always, it's just to answer the question of, what is it? What does it look like? Do we have challenges? Do we not? And is there anything that we can improve upon? And that's obviously the, that's your role in everything that we do here at the city. One of the questions I have is around our cannabis audits. So you notice that we currently we have four and the work in progress is a continuous monitoring. I know that the one related to measure L is in the charter. And so that's one that has to happen no matter what makes sense. Are the rest of these ones that are the origins of them, hey, this happened several years ago and so we've asked for this audit and it's just in the process of being completed or any of them also required either by charter or some other place in our code. Or the cannabis audits? Yeah. Well, the one illegal cannabis cultivation that was rolled over was the request from council member Getta. And then the new one that we actually prioritized above that was in discussions with the City Manager's office and Office of Cannabis Management as they've identified a lot of duplication in what we do on the city level and what the state does in enforcing cannabis businesses and doing that review of what is duplicated and where can we kind of streamline that process. So I thought it was a really great project that Laney brought up and so we tried to see if we can do that first because I really think it could free up some resources in the of cannabis management to then focus on other priority things such as cannabis launches and other things you guys want to do in that office. That's really helpful. I was just curious because I noticed it's a lot of work related to that policy area so I just want to make sure you're interested what was required, what was it. I actually very much support the comparative analysis as I've probably made it really clear to my colleagues and the public. I think that there is a lot of opportunities for us to align ourselves with state law and thus making it easier for our staff and us to do what we need to do. And so, okay, I really appreciate that. And pedestrian safety, and then of course, appreciate the work on homelessness. I can't remember who made the comment, But it was, hey, you know, that when we add new things, there's rightfully the public is then saying, hey, why is, when we add new things, there's rightfully the public is then saying, hey, why is it taking so long? And the first thing comes to mind is homelessness. And I've received no less than a handful of emails, even in a short period of time, about where we add on this. And so I think that one's a really key one that people are interested in. of course we're always operating within how much time do we have, how much people capacity do we have to actually do the work that's in front of us and that's just a real constraint. And so I really appreciate the prioritization of those things and hoping that as Council member Gara said that we can move the things forward and hopefully off your plate and diminish that workload and so you can focus your energy on the things that are forthcoming and then possibly I'm sure as we always do there will be things that come up that are at become priorities to this council and make sure that you have the space for that too. So just thank you thank you for all the work and it's a great plan. Wonderful and Mayor McCarty. Yes thank you. Just a few things to add one. I I just want to thank Freestitist as our first chance as mayor to see the presentation on your work plan. So of course, these audits focus on our policy programs, but as I stated earlier, every penny we saved in an audit and the performance audit helps us address issues down the road. So thank you. I did want to say two specific things. One, thank you for working with us to add the homeless part two. Homeless part one, our standing is the hotel motel program. And part two is more of a performance evaluation on the shelter programs we have throughout the city of Sacramento and some of the groups that we Fun to help provide those programs to help us understand which ones provide us the most dividends I know an ought's gonna take several months if not a year We're gonna have some discussion on this next Tuesday nights But this will certainly help us in the out years and I also want to address council member veins issue and I did this came up a couple of weeks ago and I asked the auditor in conjunction with our audit chair to really take a look at this issue because on every Tuesday night somebody could have an audit issue or a quick suggestion rightfully so. So we could have two for each of us and that's 18 issues and I don't think it makes sense to put it on the audit plan per se and then what do you take off and so I thought a better process is to bring the suggestion of a new audit to the committee and evaluate it in conjunction with how does this fit into the work plan because you only have so much work to do, you only have so many auditors, so putting something on is just like a plate. You have to take something off. And so I think we need to look at those in totality because in and of itself, all these ideas, if you ask our constituents, you want to add this program, that program up and oh yeah, that sounds good. But there's no free lunch and making these choices. So I think that's important. So I just want to allude to that. And yeah, I think that is an issue that I'll have difference to the audit committee to look at that. But compare that to all the other issues we want to address as well. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, today at budget and audit we heard about from the ethics report that you did, animal care well-being, and we just had so many reports and it was all coming, so I mean, just Kudos on finishing that. And I agree with Mayor McCarty, I mean, homelessness for me is front-minded center. I mean, everyone wants to know where the money is going because the problem is there, and people see it, and people feel it. So homelessness continues to be my priority in terms of your work plan. And then you did mention you have a vacancy in your office which audit was at that person would have to work on or what was it? Well, yeah, we have the principal, fiscal policy analyst, it's the division manager over the performance audit's division. We don't have an audit assigned to that person at the moment. We could either pick up one that where we have an hold or start a new project but we'd have to. And how many people are on your team again? We have nine at the moment and we have the one vacant position. Okay. And then Councillor Margarra, is it okay for your motion in terms of direction to have for us to have a city auditor make sure she fills that position. Okay and then Councilmember Marguerra is it okay for your motion in terms of direction to have forish our city auditor make sure she fills that position otherwise we're going to be down an auditor. Well yes I mean I think that was a directive we had given prior already to fill that they can see. Okay wonderful so you got clear direction to make sure you fill it so we can complete these audits. These audits are important to the people of Sacramento, the taxpayer dollars, and make sure that we're using them effectively. And if there's any efficiencies that we can do, we need to implement them and be able to move forward. The other piece with that is that when we have to contract out, some of them might be appropriate, but the contracting out, anything in the long run, is a higher cost for us. So. I agree. So we have a motion and a second to move forward with the City Auditors' work plan right now. And then the police overtime issue would be sent to budget and audit to discuss what the plan is for next year. And then city staff will be going to the police review commission to talk about the policies and the overtime usage. And so they're already on it. Just to clarify it's going to be coming to budget audit when we do our process next year for our work plan. Okay. For next year. And the chair will have a conversation about how we're going to move forward with any ask that comes. So say that, I mean the pedestrian audit or say I want to do a Northgate audit. How are we going to go about balancing that so we're not throwing you a million things and you can't accomplish them and we focus on what's most important at that time. So we're going to have a conversation about how we throw that out there. Yeah, I think I have some ideas on that for next year. Okay, but we welcome all ideas. meet with the chair so that we can move forward on a process that works for everybody. Vice Mayor, can I? Because I'm not on a process that works for everybody. Vice mayor, can I, because I'm not on budget and audit, just something, can I also add to something real quick? It's not part of the motion, but just given the amount of workload that you have and the various priorities, obviously, you know, majority accounts, if you can count to five votes, Like mayor pro-tum have shared that there are perhaps other audits that you know are just as important and you have to choose You know which audit takes presidents. I would love to just have understanding that if internally we don't have the capacity, what does the cost look like to do those audits if we were to contract with an agency and to support you? I know you would do the oversight of that, but think it's important for us to have that option or to have, to be able to share that with budget and audit so that they can see because I know that you do that for other audits as well. So the cost less to actually, for example, do the over the usage of overtime for the PD department. I think it's important for the public to know what that cost would be. So just wanted to just share that as well for the Budget and Audit Committee to consider if they so choose want to they want to see what that cost is. I think that's important. So just wanted to just put that out there. So yeah. Well, Chair Dickinson will be tasked with figuring out how we put the different audits that are requested from council members on the plate and see what we have to take out in order to be able to complete it. So, all right, please hold it up. Thank you. Council member Kaplan is absent. Put the different audits that are requested from council members on the plate and see what we have to take out in order to be able to complete it. All right, please hold on. You council member Kaplan is absent. Council member Dickinson. Council member Pluckybaum is absent. Council member Maple. Mayor Prattem Gera. Council member Jennings. Council member Vang. Vice-Mercelamentes. Yes. And Mayor McCarty. Aye. major passes. Nice, thank you. Wonderful. All right. And moving along to item number 13. And we will probably count to remember, Jennings, did you want to kick it off or are you good? Sure. So we are going to have a presentation tonight on the salary range adjustment that we're going to talk about tonight. And this will allow for the advertising for the position as we move forward in advertising for our city manager position. And then we will come back on May the 20th to report out on community engagement marketing materials as well as total compensation. So, Jennifer? No? Okay. Jennifer Wilkerson. Good evening. As again, I'm Jennifer Wilkinson. I'm in the Human Resources Department. As you're aware, CPSHR was selected for the City Manager recruitment. As part of that recruitment process, they completed the salary survey. At the March 25 meeting, City Council meeting, they presented the salary survey results and recommended adjusting the salary range to 273,211 to 420,684 annually. On April 1st, the personnel and public employee committee was presented with the proposal to Justice City Manager salary range as recommended by CPSHR and passed a motion recommending to the City Council approval of the salary range and the approval of the Justice Souther Range by City Council is required before we can go ahead and advertise for the City Manager recruitment position. And then lastly, I'll just like to state for the record that this item is listed as a discussion item because government code 54953 requires that we must orderly report a summary of the recommendation for final action on salaries and salary schedules or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits for local agency executives. That's the end of my presentation. If you have any questions. Okay. We will do public comment first and then count the comments. Vice mayor, I just have one speaker on the side and Mac Rudy. You know, I don't why we are rushing to make the citizens on city managers for any reason when the corruption is here. That should be the investigation who broke the brown hat. Is it a felony? Or is the city manager required to apply? Oh, no. That ain't been said yet. You know, it's just a while I say, Dixon, early to you. And I said to the mayor, when a person have violated the brown hat, they cannot make decisions on this table on this podium. Period. When you are under investigation or should be under investigation, not just change. You should be under investigation too. To black chambers should be under investigation. Or how that money went out. You ain't gonna get nothing done here by bypassing this and one person doing this. Help this woman name the audit where this policy or where this finance you'll get for the, I took account. I have a beard witness law. You got to identify what you're looking for. It's policy problems and you have a hell of a policy problem here in the administration. And finance. And as long as you ain't clear that up, it gonna get worse here. It gonna get worse. And you got to kind of, that's where you know, I say, I got to stick my Trump to mastermind and business. A lot of things that I'm going to say to his post when I get person to person to them. But he's going to help to bend some things here. To force this state, this state went to sanctuary state. There's some constitutionality should be talked about. What is the sanctuary state required to get from the government? Or what it should be good for the government. All this thing about, oh, he got turned. Thank you for your comments. Vice mayor, I have no more speakers on the side. Thank you so much. Council member Maible. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just a quick question and mostly for clarification for the public. When we pass a range for this position, what we're talking about here is it doesn't necessarily mean that whoever ultimately gets selected for this role is going to either come in at the lowest or the highest. What it means is that this is the range that we are required by a law to publish in advance. So those applicants know what to expect within a range. And then based on their experience and their negotiations and qualifications and everything else, then as salary be selected within that range by this body That is correct. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. I just want to make sure that that's really clear for folks because like some folks might see this and see This high let's say the high dollar amount me like oh my god, you know, and so I think it's you know It's important to recognize that it's arranged just like anything else. We have ranges for the positions in our offices and basically every position in the city of Sacramento. That's correct, yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Prattangera. Thank you very much. I appreciate that and I wanted to highlight that issue as well. Although, I do think that the range, and I appreciate the work that was done in the study and salary survey, and I wonder why the recommendation of the range, unless I'm understanding it differently, didn't even come at least maybe closer to an organization like the county of Sacramento where it has the same organization that has somewhat of a large entity. It isn't a full service say entity where they run the law enforcement and fire. They have those separately. But the complexities of the county system as well are significant but yet our numbers are much higher that are recommended. So I guess I want to understand how to make a relevant comparison. And I do recognize that some cities are full service cities and some are not full service cities. And clearly I think one, for example, Ranch Cordova, they're a contract city, right? So, and even some of our other cities don't even have parks departments. They have a special district that manages all of that. So, and so I understand those issues, but can we talk through a little bit about the high end? Because the fact is, the public is concerned about the high end of the range. Sure, well, in the study that CPS HR provided, the range that they, or sorry, in the, it's one of the, it's attachment to the council report tonight. On the last page of their recommendation, they provided the cost of living adjustment for the base salaries. And so the recommendation that they provided is the average, sorry, in that, sorry, the last page, that is the average of all the cities, the cities that are included as a comparable. And so the recommendation for the salary, they provided is based on just the base salary. And the standard process for the city is to be within five above or below the average. So their recommendation to increase the top rate by 5% would put us within that 5% variance within the top range. Thank you. Any other questions? Seeing no one else to push up to speak, I need a motion and a second. Second. Okay. Wonderful. We have a motion by Councillor Memor. Jennings and second by council member Dickinson. Please call it up. Thank you. Council member Kaplan is absent. Council member Dickinson. Councillor Member Coughlin is absent. Councillor Member Dickinson. Councillor Member Pluckybaum is absent. Councillor Member Maple. Mayor Pro Temguera. Councillor Member Jennings. Councillor Member Vang. Yes. Vice-Mertal LeMontes. Hi. And Mayor McCarty. Thank you.. Okay. Thank you. And this concludes the items for today. We are moving along to council comments, questions, ideas. And then public comment. We have 10 speakers lined up to speak. So council member Dickinson. Thank you, vice mayor. I just wanted to mention a few things that's getting to be a busy time of year I think everywhere but Speaking of the recruitment of the city manager there's a forum Tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. At the Higginwood community center so I think there are four of them scheduled around the city, but we're pleased to host one in North Sacramento. And coming up this weekend, the Woodlite Garden Club is having its annual plant sale from 10 to noon on Saturday at the Woodlite Swim Club. This is for you. All you gardeners out there, this is a great opportunity to get new and exotic and different plants and it's a great time to catch up with friends too. Also on Saturday we've got a community cleanup at Hagenwood Community Park from 11 to 1. So come on out and join us for that. On Sunday it's of course, Earth Day at Southside Park. So that's most of the day for those of you who want to join those festivities. We also have a spring on the boulevard. On Del Paso boulevard from noon to four with all kinds of bands and food and just fun. A storytelling corner, all kinds of good things. And then Sunday evening are the SEVA Awards at Hiram Johnson High School. I don't know how many of you have had a chance to attend the SEVA Awards in the past. These are the high school students that produce videos. And then they enter them for awards. It's really a very fun occasion. And the students are so creative. It's really quite amazing. So that's, as I mentioned at Hiram Johnson High School, beginning, I believe, at 5.30 on Sunday, on Sunday evening. So there's lots to do, lots of good things out there. Sounds like a lovely time. Council member Bain. Thanks, Vice Mayor. Just wanted to announce a few events happening in South Sacramento District eight. This Saturday at Luther Burbank is the fourth annual artism event happening. I think several of you are also a co-sponsor of this event. It's happening this Saturday from 11 to four. There's gonna be resources for families and just really come and join us and celebrate our families and also amazing artists on the autism spectrum. And then as you all know, we are currently conducting various listening session for the recruitment of our City Manager. There's been various listening session happening throughout the City of Sacramento. And in particular, this Saturday, after you go to the Artism event, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Penel community center, we'll be a listening session regarding the qualities that you want to see in our next city manager. So really encouraging folks to come out to that. And then annually, I also have an annual Heart and Hustle Scholarship dollars that I fund raised to provide scholarship for our high school students who live or go to school in district eight. And so letting you know that that is currently open, students can apply at heartenhustle.org, backslash scholarship 2025, and we usually have a prompt and you just answer it, and you could use those dollars to pursue higher education or vocational training. And then lastly, we are really excited to relaunch our Mediviewue Cert-5 Farmers market. And this Wednesday in particular, we are canvassing the MedaVue neighborhood. We have 5,000 door hangers because even though I am your elected official and we can send out newsletter, we often still miss people. And so back to organizing one on one, my team and I are going to be putting door hangers on 5,000 households. If you wanna join us, let me know as well. You can go to hardhustle.org, backslashmcfm-doorhanger. And we're gonna have lots of volunteers and wanna make sure we get the word out about that. Those are my updates. Love it. Farmers, markets, sounds nice. And getting your steps in, go join Councilmember Bang. It's a nice day. Okay, moving along. Councilmember Maidful. All right, thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to say we'll be welcoming our mayor, Kevin McCarty, for another stop on his tour. I always like to announce them, because we're so excited that you come to the neighborhood. So this will be at Hollywood Park at Two Rivers Cider on Wednesday April 23rd at 6 p.m. So this coming that's tomorrow This this tomorrow at 6 p.m. Come join us at two rivers We'll be really excited to see you there from you and not sitting here from the neighbors And just want to really thank you for your work doing this tour. This listening tour over the last 100 days. Are you getting close to 100 days? I think this is our final stop at the tour. We're going to have t-shirts printing. Amazing. The tour. And this is the final event. And it's the only event where you could have an adult beverage during the presentation. So, an amazing event. The song that came to mind was it's the final count anyway. So, please join us there. That sounds amazing. I'm looking forward to T-shirt. And then I will be, I wanted to also let folks know about our city manager recruitment process. Town Hall, as Council member of Aang mentioned, these are throughout the city we do we are having one at the Oak Park community center That is at 3425 Martin Luther King junior boulevard and that is going to be on the 29th so on next Tuesday at 6 p.m So I hope that you'll join us there learn more about the process and give your input about what you're looking for and your next city manager Thank you What if it's like the Ares tour but the mayor McCarty tour. So that's kind of what it is. All right. Mayor Pro Temgera. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. First, one, I wanted to just inform the council that over the holiday. I think about the Easter season or Easter time as a new beginning and in a turbulent time. So over the holiday I sent also a letter to Chair of the Board of Supervisor Surna about some of our discussions that we've had here and the request for for us to meet jointly as a city and a county and requested specifically that that that be done and agendized and You know that the after Easter I would say it's a it's a new beginning. He he responded promptly And is already going to be working with will be following up with the mayor, but he's already directed the Board Clerk and also the Board CEO to work with the mayor on how we can do this. I was inspired by his response because while I was asking for a meeting specifically for our body and the county, he did mention something that my colleagues have brought up which is looking at the stronger engagement with other city jurisdictions. And so in his response, you know, Chair Surnas has said that he will also be reaching out to the other mayors of the other cities to engage in this joint conversation and to really not only talk about homelessness but also housing as it affects with our SHRA agency and making sure that we're looking at this more of a as a county low county piece so you know for those that that celebrate Easter you know I always I believe that this is a time where we see optimism in a new beginning and With that I know he'll be falling up with the mayor specifically on this issue and I look forward to a positive positive new step forward Vice mayor if I may chime in mayor Prattemp getta I have already spoken with the clerk of the Board of Supervisors Flo Evans and we have a meeting on Thursday to start planning on New York. Clerk to clerk. I like that. I love the work. And then I have an event jump in the spring at Nino's Park on Saturday come jump houses free hot dogs, how all hot dogs and just a lot of fun. So please join us. All right. And moving on to the public comment. I smell 10 speakers. I'll call a few names. John Fiero, Mac Worthy, Larry Brock, then Mary Tappel. Hi, my name is John Fiero. I'm district two. I guess we forgot to mention that we were awarded a couple million dollars with a grants today, or apparently, for renovation in North Sacramento. Rogers was a champion of that. I'm surprised we didn't get a mention about it. I've been a resident of, actually, I've been protecting and protecting property and serving the public for Sacramento for 30 years. I spent 30 years with the fire department. I was given the city's highest award, the Medal of Valor. I live in the city, I paint taxes in the city, I bought a house in the city, I spend my money in the city. I'm the epitome of a firefighter that you'd want to keep in the city. The rest of them live way out of town. I retired and I bought a restaurant on Del Paso Bolvart, Little Joe's restaurant. It was a losing bid, a losing proposition. Known would buy it. I sacrifice my time. I haven't paid myself rent for the building. It's been a huge sacrifice. But it's become a little jewel of North Sack. It's serving the public and people really like it. Well we just had a grant program and little Joe's was denied. I don't know why. I'm the only public bathroom. I've asked for money for toilet paper from discretionary funds from my city councilperson. I get nothing. I have no sinks. I have floors in the back that need repairing. The plumbing is shot. I'm not asking for re-venvation, bringing new people in. I'm just asking to keep this community asset open. I'm really disappointed. You know, I've tried really hard. This is something that no one would go in and take on that I know of. And business proposition, you couldn't find partners to get together on the money that this made. This is really bad. I mean, they've $5 million worth of ARRP funds and little Joe's has gotten nothing at all. We're the center of North Sacramento. That was a good one. Thank you. Give your comments, MacWorthy. I'll put it in the box. I'll put a cup of what you asked to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. Just like that. How many people that work on a manager made a decision and sent it down to them? These are the things that you Just think about how many people that worked on a manager made the decision and sent it down to them These are the things that you forgot I'm gonna still laugh. I'll watch I'll be with that listen tomorrow Because I I just don't understand why are you Disacvenaging the people the way you are just a disadvantaged for years here. And when you ask the other person mentioned, I was the below. Then in one part, in the other part, don't have. Somebody been stealing money. Aud Audi must be identified by name before it be others. But it's finance, a policy. You put them both together, you never find the thief. Because one or cup of other one. And you got to look at this. And McCarty, you going to suffer with a consequence down the line. Because if this woman go to court, you're going to part back on you. How can a criminal make decision here? And all they don't know is where is the top person that she's working on? Guilty by participation. Right there. I mean, I, I should, I want to say you, I know your staff, I want to see the staff of each city council under oath of some policy. They may be standing. We'll tell you a lot. Thank you for your comments.. See, Braco. Hello. Thank you for letting me come up. I'm having an issue with the city right now. Over some property I have at 460 garden highway. And they took my road away here because SafeGo was doing levy work so I complied with them and I had to move stuff off the property at 460 and move it on my half acre. And so then after this happens they come up with the empty program for vacant lots. You can't have anything on a vacant lot. Okay, so now I'm paying fines to the city about this and I talked to them about it. So I'm paying one fine to co-enforcement and I keep telling my I complied with safe because I make everything work for them and so now I'm have a problem with the city co-inforcement on my issue and I just sort of think it's a little unfair and I just wanted to know I'm trying to combine the one lot with the other lot so I don't have the issue with the vacant lot program. So Michael Jazeau in the back assistant manager can help with the lot issue and in terms of safety I'm your council member and so I have your contact information now, and we'll follow up to you. Okay, I appreciate that. And also district two, I have a house on El Monte and Dale. And they cited me for that, because attendance had things in their backyard which they did get rid of. And then the last comment was which I couldn't understand. Everything, certain things they said were right and the people had too many refrigerators in the backyard which they removed. But then they said they couldn't have certain, they had like a weight lifting gym to work out in the backyard. They said they couldn't have that. Thank you for your comments, but your time is coming. I told him to put them in the shed or the little garage. And then I got $5, $928 for that which I paid to come to say. But. Well, you came to the right place. And so we'll follow up with Michael Jazo on the concern of your lot. Safegah, that'd be me. And then I appreciate that. That's a follow up. Thank you so much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Mary Tappel. Okay, thank you. Mary Tappel, then Sharon Jackson. Mayor and City Council members, thank you so much for yet another opportunity to address you. I want to speak again about the continuing need for looking after the public safety and public health concerns along the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail. There was enormous cleanup last year, very successful. City, city managers, city staff, a whole lot of people on the council supporting it and everything. And we just need to keep it up because we have unfortunately when illegal and trench campers are being removed from our lower arcade creek. They're going a bunch of them right back to the bike trail. And simply that our park safety rangers are just immediately citing them. They're having to keep this up. I want you to stay aware of it. So those gains that we had enormous gains that we had last year can't be maintained with the city going into being in a deficit this year without this continuous nipping it all in the butt. So you need to understand that residents who were involved like I was along with a whole lot of other people in North Sacramento involved in the bike trail cleanup. We saw that it was needing to get constantly maintained. The transit campments were so large for so long along along the bike trail, that people still think of it as an area where you can go try to camp again. And unfortunately, they come right back when they're moved from adjacent places. So any new proposals for homeless sheltering in the D2 area, we're just highly worried about all of those causing more people yet to come back to the areas that we all gave up so much and so much of public budget that we don't have this year to get that cleaned up that we just can't afford to be other than very, very protective of the bike trail safety. Thank you very much for staying aware of this issue. Thank you for your comments. Jackson, Nancy as a widow. I don't see Sharon. And then Nancy Ezevedo. And then following Nancy is someone about D2 housing and email is CJ Photography. Okay, good evening. What I'm here tonight to speak about is something that's coming up on the agenda next week. But I just wanted to get a jump on it. I'm here to talk about a proposed building of 100 units, 100 sheltered homeless shelter units basically along the bike trail again. As Mary talked about, there's been so much stuff going on the bike trail has been for several years and we've worked real hard along with the city to try to keep it clean. And we are really concerned about this one. There's a hundred units that they're proposing and we think that's too many. We think that what they're proposing looks very nice, but I think we all know in district two that district two usually ends up with short and it's thick and what they're proposing is not gonna be what comes to fruition. So that is a big concern for us. A lot of the people myself included have homeless homelessness PTSD along the bike trail. I literally lived with homeless in my front yard for a couple years. It's not something I want to revisit by any means. I think that bringing this new you to our district is going to promote that again. You guys can call it what you like, but we call it a bad idea. And we still want to say why don't we use that 102 acres in South Sacramento, the one that was bought initially for the homeless situation. That's still available, nothing's been done with it. So we're asking you, please, don't let D2 be a guinea pig for this new project that they wanna bring up, the housing project they're calling it. And if it's successful somewhere else, by all means, then we'll look at it. Thank you for your comments. I have four more speakers. The first C.J. photography. Ema. Christine Jefferson. I'm sorry. And then Sherry Martinez. So I'm Christine Jefferson. I'm in D2 and I too want to talk about the, it's coming on the agenda next week too. It's 100 units that's coming in. Been talking to my neighbors, and a lot of my neighbors is not really wanting that 100 unit because the city has the way in D2 of doing kind of a bait and switch. They'll tell us one thing, and then when they actually do it is something else. I mean, we got camp to look at that was a disaster the rail yard that was a disaster and we have limited resources you guys have limited resources when it's easier to fix something that's not there than to fix something that's there and it's a big junky mess. I asked a question to the developer when he came. How much stuff are you going to let these people bring when they come into these tiny houses? He couldn't answer that. Is this just going to be one big camp resolution where we have stuff everywhere on real end of Boulevard, 100 units? That's too many. We're mixing elders. I'm all I'm all for housing, believe me. I want us to find some housing for our folks. Elders, vets, and then some homeless. The homeless that are there, the elders I can see, they're kind of helpless, maybe in wheelchair sickly. The vets, probably the same. But when you mix the other homeless people in with that, I have this thing of them maybe taking over that whole community in that little bitty section. That's me imagining it. I'm not saying it's going to happen. But we're setting our homeless in our community up to fail. We are a food desert. Where are these people going to get food? I mean, it's so much we don't have. There's too many people in one place, and I just, I'm not for it. So, thank you. Here are comments. Sherry Martinez, Jeffrey Tartigia, and Fletcher Ligardi. Hello, Sheri Martinez. I would like to second what my fellow community leaders are saying about possibly bringing in another camp resolution. Since camp resolution has been gone, I've been seeing a lot of more activity on the bike trail. Actually, people walking and riding bikes and utilizing the bike trail as it should be. I feel like that would kind of do damage to what we have already done, like with the D2 bike fest. It's nice that we have over the bike bridge, that rubbish and stuff there got cleared up. So now, hopefully next D2 bike fest, we can venture off into downtown. So yeah, second, my community leaders with that. Another thing was I came in and made spoke about being assaulted, vehicular assault and hit and run by Caleb Talman. I came in again September and spoke again and Ryan from Katie Maple's office spoke to me and he said that your officer, the office would be willing to write a letter. And October 22nd he said it was getting ready for submission. I have written a couple emails and I'm not getting any responses. I volunteered. The river city brought send out another email and Eyes it guns always from slow down Sacramento wrote a letter for me So I'm just looking again for more support in my fight for justice. Thank you I'm sorry about that. I'll follow up with him and figure out what happened. Okay. Thank you next speakers Jeffrey then flitcher legarty will be our final speaker well Tartaglia. And this week is all started at 8 o'clock in the morning with the state and other issues. Homeless was one. Disability was another. Tomorrow will be housing and AJ3. But for our three members of City Hall that are part of regional transit, you did not mention any regard that today was Earth Day. Roger, I thank you for bringing that for Ecos next Sunday is an Earth Day. There are other things that guys you should be involved with and you should be supporting and doing. for Mr. Jennings, I hope that you explain what is going on for the homeless with up there at the, what is that? Underneath the freeway, but the, what is that damn street there there that has collected a lot of people through there. But anyway, I haven't heard an explanation of how RT is adruchting or handling that since supposedly it's been started and how many people are there. I appreciated some time ago when you held the thing, explaining what was going on with our refugees and how that is now an issue in a problem for our community. To Mr. Kevin McCarty, I thank you that today at two o'clock, first time I've seen where it's me, me, me matter's not on the agenda, on the two o'clock meeting. I'm not certain the significance and reason for that, but I appreciate it. I appreciate when you get this item moved to not be the last item on the agenda, because this is a Darrell Steinberg thing, and you've seen how much is already informants been missed by having the last item on the agenda. I have other meetings to attend. If your comment,letcher legarty is our final speaker this evening Those city council mayor my name is but your Sherman legarty. I've been there for you from the beginning of me moving to this town so the last city council meeting I came to was February 15, 2020. And at that meeting, the chief police came to this lectern and he said that he was not ready for anything new to happen in this city. So I made sure that what he asked for that day, that I brought to this city for you guys to use. If anyone in this room knows me, I'm your secret weapon, and I'm proud to stand here and tell you that. And I'm looking forward to do something with you, even though I brought this case for you to look at. It's not against you it's with us. Have a good day guys. Thank you for your comments. All right, next speaker's. Okay and then I did grow up Catholic so I like to join them the meeting today in honor of Pope Francis with the Catholic Church, passed away. And that concludes the meeting at 7.29pm. Thank you.