I'm ready when you are and I will unmute you. Good evening. We will call this meeting to order. This is the 7th of January. The Sacramento City Council. Happy new year, everybody. Welcome back to your city hall. We will start tonight's meeting with our city clerk. Thank you. Councilmember Kaplan. Councilmember Dickinson. Here. Here. Pro Tem Telemante. Here. Councilmember Flinson. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Telemante. Here. Councilmember Pleckibaum. Here. Vice Mayor Maple. Here. Councilmember Gatta. Here. Councilmember Jennings. Here. Councilmember Vang. Here. And Mayor McCarty. Here. You have a quorum. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. All right, please rise if you are able. Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Galleon Plains, Miwaak, Puttuin, Win-Tun peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. Maybe acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands, but choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contribution, and lives. For main standing, salute and pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and to visible with liberty and justice for all. So Madam City Attorney do we have a report out from closed session? I think you have that as an item to report out later mayor but there other than that there's nothing to report out later, Mayor. But there other than that, there's nothing to report out of closed session. Thank you. And good evening and welcome to the Sacramento City Council meeting. Members of the public who wish to address the council should complete a speaker slip, which could be found at the back of the room. Speakers slips need to be turned into the clerk prior to the beginning of each item. We will no longer accept speaker address the council. Everyone has the opportunity to address the council members of the public or ask to observe rules of decorum. The council rules of procedure outlined a court expected in chambers can be found on our website, copies in the back of the room and is summarized on the back of the speaker slip. For instance, use of swear words yelling from the audience physically threatening conduct and displays of disrespect or discourage. The presiding officer requested a person ceased his reflective conduct and not immediately stopped. The presiding officer will direct the person to leave the council meeting. This meeting is being video streams and can be viewed live or later on the city's website. If you need a parking validation that can be picked up from the clerk at the front of the room. So to the consent calendar, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Count some members. Do we have any items that you'd like to pull from the consent calendar for discussion or for voting issues? And Mr. Mayor, I do have two items to read into the record. Yes. Perfect. Agenda item number one on the resolution section seven. We're striking the code section 4730.11 as that's no longer an existing code. And then on item number 8, your action would be to no longer adopt a resolution but pass a motion. Resolution is not necessary. Okay. Thank you. Council members, any items to be pulled from the council member Kaplan. Yes I'd like to briefly speak on items item 5, 8 and 14. Vice mayor Maple. Yes just a quick comment on item number four please. Councilmember Gera. Just a comment on item 16. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. So, Mayor, if I may, it looks like we're not pulling any agenda items, so we have comments on a few. So, maple on item four. All right, thank you Madam City Clerk. Just really quickly, I wanted to thank our Director of Emergency Management Daniel Bowers and his team for this wonderful all hazard emergency operations plan. I know it's some of these things, they go on our consent calendar, but they're really important and impactful for our city. In particular, this addresses things go on all the time and we wonder about our preparedness as a city in terms of in emergencies and rest assured that we have staff that think about this all the time, 24 or seven and they're constantly implementing and reassessing our plans. This is another great example of that. And so this just addresses things that came to fruition in the 2023 wildfires in the 2024 flood season. We took a look at those things and then we are now implementing through community feedback, enhanced coordination and resilience in our communities. And so I just really want to thank the staff for their time for making sure that we are constantly on the lookout for ways to make our city better and safer. So thank you. And then council member Kaplan on item 5, 8 and 14. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Item 5 is really excited that we are naming a new 11 acre park to keep consistent with what Natomas does up in North Natomas. We name parks after trees. So this will be Crate Mertle Park and we'll actually have an area where it'll have an abundance of Craype Mertles to create play areas, picture areas amongst a ton of other amenities. So I'm just really excited that work and one continuing the theme Get finding tree names is getting scarce But that a new park is is coming to Northomas. On item eight, I just want to thank our city staff and really appreciate all the work that pro youth is doing and working with over 70 organization schools, private sectors to empower our younger generation to become leaders and game changers. And I really appreciate how they are working on finding the data that can come back with, what are they doing, how are they doing it, and how is it making a difference in having an impact for our youth. So I just want to say thank you for pro youth and Yipsey for this organization. And then on consent item 14, I do want to register a no vote and just explain why. The concept and feasibility study has been released and I know that this is just a supplemental agreement with Doakan, but I do want to register that none of the concepts. When we talk about the city of Sacramento as we have to look at how do we get cars off our roads? How do we increase public transit? How do we reduce air emissions and improve our air quality? We can only do that by getting vehicles off the road. And all the concepts that are being presented to the council all have where vehicles will use the road, not just it being public transit bike and walking. And so we need to have that alternative presented to us. I'm not worried because I know emergency vehicles can go on any bridge at any time even if it is only transit related. I've already had these conversations with staff and have been very adamant that I am not supportive of a Truxel bridge that includes vehicles. It should only be transit walking and biking. So I just want to make that public as to why I am voting now. Councilmember Gatta on item 16. Thank you very much, Madam Clerk. Mr. Mayor, I wanted to express my gratitude sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I the work that we're moving there in the Avondale Glen Elder community. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Did I miss anyone? Oh, Mr. Mayor. I'll move consent with that. I And I have four speakers on consent calendar Lambert Davis on item one Macworthy on item one Henry Harry on item eight and 17 and then Kiombliss on item two The consent calendar which I have said many times I study City Hall as though I'm trying to get a degree. And I believe this year I'm going to graduate on what I come down here to achieve. Number one thing I noticed is that there's five assistant city managers. Somebody should be sitting in that seat. That's a dereliction of duty. They get paid too much money not to sit there. They should be sitting there, somebody. I also wanted to send some shouts out to some people. I don't think I've ever seen this on the consent calendar, but I study the reports. I would like to congratulate Vice Mayor Telemontes. I think that's a great selection. Pro-Chem, Gera, outstanding, the chair of the race equity. My vain. That's an outstanding choice. And as a person whose family and elders and a lot of people voted for this person, I'm glad to see City Councilman Dickerson as the chair of the budget and audit committee. Maybe things will change and not be the same but somebody should be sitting in that seat. They're paid too much not to sit there. Thank you for your comments. Macquarie. Miss Mcworthy? The name is Mcworthy. It's not Mr. Worthy. We want that clear. I'm not an African American. I'm an American, I want that clear. But the media, the mayor, that said he's black, black, black. We got to get liars out of here. Now, the consent calendar, she just proved that she studied, you make a decision on the background, she just said that you've been dealing with the bridge over there. You've been dealing with the kids, you just said, but you're just here, you come out here and you act like you ain't never seen before. Quit lying. Just the treasurer, investment. How in the hell can you have a stretch and tell the people you invest that money in your never-see or word about it, put on a consent count? You say it. How many people in your district know anything about all these things on the consent count? Discuss it with nobody. in your district, no anything about all these things on the St. John's. Discuss with nobody. We are illiterate when it comes to educating of corporate America. This is why I second minute. Cross the boat, not just minority, that's cross the boat. I try on the house that everybody own 100,000 above, equity to put it together and probably it and build all your loincom housing. on the house that everybody owned a hundred thousand above, equity that put it together and probably it and bill all your low income housing. But no, you went with developers. A friend of mine, Bill Berger's son still living, bill with the mastermind, coming well, Jeffersey, a living, Jeffery could have come here, he had his broker and put it together. You're something in come. So when you got more to pay, when you change, if you ever change, I'll be dead and gone. You'll never change from gas to electrical. How can you do? You don't have to put a lien against your property. Wait, cut people. Understand, you got to be represented properly. You weren't put up here to be no leader. You were right here to represent the people in your district. Thank you for your comments. Henry Harry on item eight and 17. Thank you members of the council and I'll echo what my friend just said about being informed about what's on the consent calendar. I'm here to speak about the pro-UV contract. I don't know anyone over there, I have nothing against the folks, but I'm reading this, and under the terms of the contract takes effect on July 2024 and expires on December 2025. Now are we back dating part of that and FSOY? Under the contract in item number six, the contract E is obligated to furnish data to the city. And with that, I'd request that they post the information, I should say the city post information on the website about the contract E, their address, the amount of money that they're getting. And what each person is getting in income. And that's critical when we say that we're gonna increase transparency and oversight, and it gives the people an opportunity to help this councilor of the city keep track of every one of our dollars. One of the things in that contract was interesting is that for these guys to meet what I think is a big condition of their contract and attachment one under youth scope outcomes, they only have to have 25 kids complete 75% of their learning modules to earn a certificate. But in their information, they don't describe what those learning modules are. So how can the public make a comment about this and be forward or against it? So thank you. Thank you for your comments. Key on bliss on item 2. Greetings, council. Just to note on item 2, I am glad to hear that the newest council members have had the opportunity or having the opportunity to appoint their newest members to the commission. I noticed that per my prediction that I was not reappointed, but I'm glad to hear that the police review commission will be whole sooner than what I initially expected. However, I hope that with this new appointment and new members on this body that this is an opportunity to reset and also for council to get, the mayor and council to give clear direction to city staff, particularly the city clerk's office, to enforce the rules in a consistent manner and actually treat all commissioners and commissioners with respect regardless of their personal opinions. I say this because there have been several inconsistencies with how the rules were enforced, most particularly when the calendar was ultimately decided for our commission. We were set to an off day year, an off day meeting for this month where we were supposed to meet yesterday and that was canceled because the city clerk decided that we needed to confirm a quorum before our meeting was actually held. Which is I've known many people on other commissions that was never the case and it was apparently so it gives commissioners the opportunity to new commissioners and opportunity to weigh in on leadership elections. However, I don't imagine our work plan which we approved in December is going this is impacted adversely given that we now have only eight working meetings in the year. Because rather than scheduling us on our usual second Monday of the month, like we could have on the 13th, but we're denied by the clerk's office, we now have to do that on in February, which is going to be a new- Thank you for your comments, your time is complete. Mr. Mary, have no more speakers on the consent calendar. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Mr. Mayor, I have no more speakers on the consent calendar. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Thank you. I will help you as we can have relief. Thank you. Thank you. So, Mr. Mayor, I have no more speakers on the consent calendar. You have a motion by Council Maggada, a second by Maple. Council Member Kaplan is registered a no vote on item 14. Thank you. Please call the roll. Council member Kaplan. Council member Dickinson. Mayor Prattem Telemontes. Council member Pluckybom. Vice Mayor Maple. Council member Gatta. Council member Jennings. Council member Vang. And Mayor McCarty. Hi. Your motion passes on the consent calendar. So Mayor, we move to discussion calendar. Item number 21 is update on recruitment for city manager and appointment of interim city manager and appointment of interim city manager. You have three speaker slips on this item? Go ahead and take the speaker slips. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Just looking at what it says here, it's already you've over past something here. It says discussion calendar items include an oral presentation. I haven't heard any oral presentation here. Where's the oral presentation? You can't receive and file unless you do an oral presentation and that was supposed to be before we came up here to speak. That's a violation to me of the Brown Act. You should stay focused on what you put on the agenda. About a year ago, I was invited to the Brown Act inside this chamber. A lot of people were stunned to see me at that meeting, but one thing I learned from that meeting was that if something is put on the agenda, it's supposed to be acknowledged. There's no way around it. It's supposed to be acknowledged. And by the way, people get paid to put an agenda together. You can disregard it if you want, but that's, to me, a derelection of duty on display. How hard is it to do an oral presentation? I only have two minutes. I can do a presentation. And I bet you I can operate this equipment. And this should be fixed this year. I mean, people shouldn't have to come up here and can't put their paperwork up here. I think that's a violation of freedom of speech. I bet you I can fix this. All I got to do is look in here and go to some store and fix it. It's a key right there. What's in there? You need to fix that because I'm going to have some things. I'm going to display in a minute and that should be fixed. Thank you for your comments. Henry Harry, then MacWorthy, Marbella Salah, and Jeffrey Tartigia. And for members of the public, the Councilor's procedure prohibit displaying pictures using the document camera. So thank you for the opportunity to make some comments about the city manager. When I was here last, what I expressed is that the great concern about city manager making $400,000 and I'm sure a lot of people felt like that. So now we're here and there's two things on the table, I guess. You're going to point an interim city manager and you're going to get an update on the search for new city manager. So time both together. My real concern is that we have some decent basis of figuring out how much we're going to pay a city manager and not going into a room and saying well the guy got 400,000 before let's take it down to 350. You know should it be a comparison of what's going on in the six major cities in the region? Should it be a comparison of what's going on with cities across the nation with the same size population? I'm just afraid that politics being what it is, we're going guys are gonna go back in a room and say hey, you know We've got to keep this city manager salary high, but But what's the metrics? What are you measuring that against is it just paid? This is what it's been before so we got to do it again or Can this be an opportunity to reset what I see is widely overpaid city managers. And when you look at just online research, you see those that pay varies from state to state city to city. And I'll just close by saying, I don't see a reason. I don't see a reason why a city manager should get maybe three times more than a police officer. Tidows things together and give them similar benefits. These officers are out with guns pointed at people, that stress, a city manager system. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete, Macworthy, then Marbella Salah. You know, this is under a handicap classification of law. The people that I can't make it here. So you check that out. And now I got an electronic background. I could change all that stuff out from city college. I got a B in that class. So now what we are talking about, And now I got an electronic background. I could change all that stuff out from the city college. I got a B in that class. So now what we are talking about, a manager. You ain't going straight now to management of the city that you're getting rid of all those other thugs. They were right here when you buy those countries. That woman right there is in the second end of the year. She was in the media and raised it. And you didn't listen to her that the brown act would be violated. Change your charter. The mayor should never be able to put a motion on the floor. He invoked you. That's your job. Even if it's tied he will change your charter. Change your charter. We never know who will do the charter. I mean know who would do charter me. How many charter meters did you have last year? I don't know. Long-dage, we can go to long-dage. How many of you have? Just one more note here, it's a turning. That's the only turning you can speak out here. It's sitting like that. You must have been tickets. No law firm, you represented over there for my knowing. I know it nice to associate it with some of the top attorneys in the city, which is like Nathania College, hot air can brown, Northern California, defense and justice attorneys. So if you're there, I know I read across sleep there for 11 years when in a univarma, I have to want to go back to your college campus because nobody walk around with that experience in the electronics. I had it. Oh well look at the people at Radical America's in military. John Mahami, we military. Tim and Frank Bay was military. That boy down there and Louisiana's military. I dealt with foot lies. I didn't know that that stuff would explode. So it will be blown from interior. And Trump can't change at all. You better start doing something. Thank you for your comments. Marbella Salah and Jeffrey Tartigui will be a final speaker on this item. Thank you and welcome. And first I just wanna congratulate Mayor Pro Tem Tala Mantis and Pro Tem, no, Vice Mayor Pro Tem Tala Mantis and pro-tem, I think those are excellent appointments. But I'm here because I wasn't going to say anything because I was going to wait to hear the report on your process for the hiring of the city manager, but I don't know what it is because you're not reporting on it yet. And we have to comment on something. We don't know what's coming before us. So I think you need to revisit this process of allowing comments before a report is made from the staff. It makes no sense. But my comment was going to be, because I wanted to make sure when you do the recruitment for the new city manager, that there would be a process that you form a community panel, a community interview panel, some way that the community can come together, weigh in on the finalists and give feedback to all of you from the community's perspective. I don't know if it's in there, but if it is in, I would urge that you include that. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Mr. Tartigiel. Council, I left one meeting to be here because like has been proceeding so far. We can say Baldur Dash and we'll use that word because an Inglewood this occurred some years ago, like 20, 30 years ago, where you have a high paid city manager. And yet, what is the criteria? Here you are going where to the public. You don't explain the criteria by which the individual is being selected. You don't have any guidelines as far as what his duties are. You don't have anything to offer. And what I read in the City Manager's jurisdiction explanation is just he runs the city. Please be better about explaining to the public what you are seeking for in a city manager. What are the tasks and translations of what is needed? And again, as I'm hoping that this previous manager trained the people so there is a good interim selection possible. But I don't know that. Again, you do not do a great job of informing the public about what's going on. It's not politics as usual. You need to realize politics is changing. I'll make public comment a little later to say thank you Phil for after eight plus years noticing that there wasn't a disability entrance into the council facilities. Ironically, nobody noticed that getting in through the door there needed help. That's my public comment for this city manager's position. Thank you for your comments, Mary, have no more speakers on the item? Thank you. Thank you to the public that spoke on this item and I acknowledge that just how the sequence of this is that there's public comment before we have the opportunity to talk about this. We get it. There's was an issue that was discussed in our closed session last afternoon. Certainly is a big topic for 2025. We have a new mayor to new city council members. We need to make sure we have leadership at the top as far as our city managers office. So as far as the recruitment process in the update, nothing or shaking to announce today. There is a process, it's a robust process. We have a search firm, multiple entities ready to work with us for the 2025 year. Hopefully to report back in several months. But most importantly, we have one city manager at least to leave the city in the interim. And we had a chance to deliberate this afternoon with the council talking about our options. We have fine individuals in the city of Sacramento who are leading us as far as assistant city managers and I believe that one of our council members, Tallah Montes, is going to give us a motion in a few moments but we want to move forward and have the opportunity to have a city manager individual leading us in the interim while we focus on a robust national search to bring us to conclusion later this year. Thank you Mayor. As as he mentioned you know we have a lot of pressing issues here in the city of Sacramento including our massive budget deficit and it's a large part of you know as we were discussing our next step as a city how we were going to go about it so this evening I'd like to make a motion to point Laney Milstein as an interim city manager. We're going to designate our mayor, Kevin McCarty as a negotiator. And next week on Tuesday we'll be coming back to council for approval of the terms and conditions. I'll second that, Mayor. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Comments or questions from Council Members? Council Member Vain. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I really appreciate the full fledged close session. I appreciate Vice Mayor, congratulations congratulations motion on the table. I just want to share my comment because you know all of our votes are we're going to be voting on tonight and kind of just want to share why I'm going to be taking my vote. First I just want to say that I have the absolute full confidence in our four assistant managers to run the day-to-day operations. And I know that this city wouldn't run without our 4,000 incredible staff who is the backbone of the city. But I simply can't support the motion on the table. I think it's really important that we foster a healthy culture at City Hall with community, with working families, and with our city staff. And I don't believe that's currently happening. And I think this is an opportunity for us to actually do a reset. And so I look forward to actually working with our new mayor and council to find a permanent city manager who is committed to working with us to implement mayor and council's policies and directions to ensure that we uplift all of our neighborhoods. And so for my constituent particular, I'm voting no on tonight's motion because I don't agree with the interim pick. I have full confidence in all four assistant city manager, but I do believe it's really important that we do a reset. And with that, I'll be voting no on the motion on the table. Thank you, Vice Mayor Maple. do a reset and with that I'll be voting no on the motion on the table. Thank you, Vice Mayor Maple. I guess now I'm the, no just council member but go in, congratulations to my colleagues on your new rule and leadership. I just want to say that I want to appreciate the robust discussion and also just want to appreciate all four of our assistant city managers and the work that they do every day. The city runs incredibly smooth because of our 5,000 employees, our department heads, our directors and their leadership too. And so just really grateful for that. But I think it's really important that enough time is a lot, so we really do need someone in that position to make sure that we can ensure leadership and continuity and make sure that things are continuing on. And for me without a doubt, the two most important issues that are in front of us in the next six, eight months, which is approximately how long we anticipate a search for a new permanent city manager to take, is the budget. We know that we're in an impending budget deficit. It is going to be a very, very challenging year, more challenging than last year. And we need someone who really knows what they're doing at the budget. I have my utmost respect to Laney for her 20 plus years at the City of Sacramento, her work with budgets and negotiations. The other is our negotiations with our labor unions. And that is going to take all of us, this entire council, all of our ACMs and all of our staff, our labor staff, Aaron Genato as well and his team. We're going to work together and we're going to make this happen, but we need that steady leadership and so I'll be supporting the motion today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Dickinson. Thank you mayor. I just want to take a moment to express agreement with my colleagues who have indicated their confidence and I share that confidence and not just our assistant city managers but in our entire city staff. These are dedicated professionals who do an outstanding job for the people of the city, each and every day, fulfilling the purpose and the intention of public service. For this particular motion, I will not be supporting the motion, not because the person who has been moved to become the interim city manager, but because I simply believe a different path would be superior in terms of filling the vacancy that we have and looking ahead to the next six to eight months. But I am hopeful that we will move together collectively, aggressively and productively in the months ahead, notwithstanding my own difference of opinion with respect to the course we're taking this evening. Thanks. Thank you, Councilmember Kaplan. Thank you, Mayor. I will be supporting the motion on the table. I have utmost confidence that while we may be appointing Laney Milstein as our interim city manager Each of our assisted city managers are fully qualified and have full faith in them to work together as a team Because one of the things we need to do as we move forward and look for a permanent city manager is, is, have stability. And it's not about bringing somebody in from the outside. It's about taking staff who know how to run the city very well. But it's also acknowledging that we can do better and we can build bridges and continue building relationships that exist or that may be broken for how we do that. One of the things I would hope because this is both appointing an interim and giving a report on the search process is that the council I think did a really good job on how we came together to search for our auditor and we just hope that we kind of use the same model and process, but add as public comment was stated, I think the public deserves to have the opportunity of what they are looking for in a permanent city manager, as well as I hope that we have a discussion publicly. So that because I believe our public deserves to hear from us as council members what we want and what our priorities are and what we are looking for as a city manager to be as transparent as possible and one of the things I'd like to suggest is the new chair of P.P. N. e. potentially look at holding a special meeting to just review while there were interviews last year about those firms we have on hand maybe just getting the update of what they do but having PP&E look at all of the search firms and make a recommendation of who we believe would be the best fit for city manager and then bring it back to council for discussion and approval. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion and a second on the table. No further questions from council members. As I said during the intro, this is the number one issue out of the gate for the city of Sacramento. It's an important topic. It's important to have one individual at the helm. And I have full confidence in Laney Milstein, who I met as a young council member. She was the young budget director and she's rose through the ranks. And I know knows the city backwards and forwards. But this city is bigger than one person. It's bigger than Laney. It's bigger than the mayor, bigger than all of us. So there are 5,000 outstanding individuals who serve the city for others. Three others currently serving as assistant city managers and the show will go on. We have work to do for the residents of the city of Sacramento, certainly dealing with our budget, our labor negotiations, city issues, housing homelessness, our youth, the issues are long. And so, you know, we are confident that this team we have together will lead us forward. And with that, please call the roll. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Councilmember Kaplan. Aye. Councilmember Dickinson. Epstein. Mayor Pro Tem Telemontes. Aye. Councilmember Pleckibon. Mr. Stang. Mayor Prutem, Telemontes. Aye. Councilmember Pluckybaum. Vice-member Maple. Aye. Councilmember Getta. Aye. Councilmember Jennings. Yes. Councilmember Vang. No. And they're recording. Aye. Motion passes. Okay. That concludes the business for this evening. Now we're to the point of the agenda. We're at Council members ideas and questions. Council member Maple. Oh, thank you Mayor. I move more quickly than I can open up my little document here. But I would like my first comment to be a hearty congratulations to our new Vice Mayor, Kareena Tala Montes. Just so thrilled to see you in this position. You're going to excel and just really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here and I'm really excited to be here Thank you. Vice Mayor Alamantes. Thank you. Mayor, we have our taco plaza sign and veiling this Saturday at 11 o'clock on Northgate 2600 Northgate Boulevard. We're going to have Maria Chi free tacos for the first 25 people. And just really excited. We have beautiful public art spaces now. And we're working hard to make Northgate the taco destination and so please join us. I'll be really fun. Thank you, Councilmember Gera. Mayor Patem. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First I want to thank you, you know, Vice Mayor for her or our services vice as Vice Mayor or Vice Meredith, as they more work same pay. But wanted to make comment regarding the item 14 that we had earlier today. This was a apply for a grant which I support anytime the city is going after a grant. But I do think that it's important that this is a direction to our city manager and staff that we have a real discussion about the future of the the Truxel bridge and what the options are. And I think it's important that we be presented with appropriate options. So Mr. Mayor, I just want to make sure that when appropriate that the staff be ready to respond and look at those concerns and options that we're discussing right Council Member Kaplan. Appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Council Member Kaplan. On Saturday, January 18th, we have our first tree planting of the year. We're going to have two more after this. So if you want to come out and help, we're going to be at Regency Community Park from 10 to noon and we're planting 15 trees and hoping over the next couple. We're going to plant a total of 100 trees this year, so hope to see you. And then I would just like to just say that today is the second anniversary of the murder of Sacramento's very own Tyree Nichols and his family held a vigil tonight at the Tyree Nichols skate park which is in my district and I just want his family and friends to know he's in my heart. Okay, thank you. I have some merit announcements. How about that? I don't have a district, but I have events in the community. Yeah, so the first I went to announce is this Saturday we're having our first listening tour event. That's gonna be in the Gardenland Northgate neighborhood over there are the Stanford settlement on El Camino. We're there from 9 a.m. Till 1030 so residents in the area, please come by and share your thoughts on what the mayor's office and the city of Sacramento should be focusing on. And then I want to ask the city clerk to work with our office and agenda in the coming weeks and issue related to prop 36 implementation. I like to have our district attorney, Tien well as our police chief Kathy Lester come to the City Council meeting and give a briefing on what implementation looks like within the city of Sacramento and we could have certainly robust discussions on on that topic and and what happens going forward in the city of Sacramento Thank you Now let's proceed with public comment for items not on the agenda. Thank you, Mary. I have 10 speakers. The first is Michael Barnbaum and Robin Ware, Lambert, Jerry Landruth and Devon Strecke. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you. I want to acknowledge and thank Council members. Maple, Pluckybomb and Dickinson for attending last Thursday's vigil for 32 individuals that unfortunately are no longer with us due to them being victims of traffic accidents in city limits. The vigil was organized by a group slow down Sacramento. There were candle lightings and discussions about this very topic. My takeaway from it, Mr. Mayor, is that I would like to request some public safety agenda items after that vigil had occurred. On traffic safety, I would like to second the motion from Council Member Maple that this be declared an emergency in the city limits. And that we look at things to slow down Sacramento, including measures looking at diagonal crossing for pedestrians where all lights are red and vehicles are stopped for pedestrians, along with delayed green at all intersections in Sacramento so that lights don't change red and green simultaneously, but within five to 10 seconds. In that report, I would like to have the council request that every signalized intersection be a part of that agenda item and to help the council members that that item have the number of intersections broken down by number in each district. So we could take a look at how to improve public safety through traffic management. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Robin Ware and Lambert and Jerry Landruth. Thank you one and all. I have a request that a resolution be adopted by the City Council. Regarding the Donald Trump or the Republican Party, etc., etc. One of them has always irritated me that grabbing women by the blank, blank, to get them to do anything you want. The other thing is the Donald Trump, et cetera, et cetera, are sewing, anxiety, and fear in the community throughout the United States. We are the Sacramento IS the State Capital of the Great State of California, and it is sewing fear. And I know so many people who are fearful, particularly when you rounding up, I'm sorry, oh I'm sorry I missed, rounding up Mexicans for whatever reason, illegal, whatever it is, that's the shame. I live in a predominantly Mexican-American area. Now, having said that, I would like to have a resolution put together by the city condemning this and the sewing of fear and anxiety, etc. in the Sacramento area. And that's about it. I think it's a disgrace what's happening. And I too am fearful. But that's about it and I want to thank you one and all for serving. Thank you for your comments Lambert and Jerry Landred. I hope that everybody on the Ross from Pays Attention because I'm here talking about a group of teenagers called the Grant High School football team. You're talking about a group of teenagers that accomplished something from Thanksgiving all the way to the end of the year, the Grand High School Pacers have done something that I don't think's ever been done in this city. They won four games on the road. They sent them as far as Mountain View, which was cool, because they got to see Google, because Google was born before them. But then they sent them way to Orange County and Grant has one of the best fields. And so the youngsters won everything and we celebrated with them. I made sure I went with them. And then when they get home, they go for vacation and what happens in the Sacramento B. And you should be upset Mr. in the Sacramento B since she can't show it, show it. It has the Sacramento B picks grant high school number two. Now these are teenagers, they're crushed behind this. They're, they ended up number two. You know who they ended up behind? Folsom. And into, this right here is the San Francisco Chronicle and it shows where Folsom lost. So the Sacramento Bee rewarded Folsom for losing and they punished Grant for winning. They picked the head coaches. The head coaches were not grand. That's a tremendous injustice. And these are teenagers. The Sacramento Kings and the Sacramento Republic get more kudos and together they have one one championship and their adults. I think that's a disgrace. I have a list here of things that you should do for these youngsters, tickets for the games, rallies. It's right here. Thank you for your comments. Jerry Landruth, Ben Devon's Trecker, and Henry Harry. Actually, Mayor, I just wanted to thank Lambert for giving us a promotion. We're looking forward to celebrating the Pacers Championship here with the council on January 21st. The council on January 21st. Excellent. We get a little head start with Lambert. By the way, Lambert, the Pacers are number one with us no matter what the Sacramento Bee says. You're Lambert? Okay. Hello, councilmembers to the new ones that are here. I just want to say I've been here before several times. I think everybody's seen me before. We had a big tent problem out in our neighborhood, which is in front of our houses. I'm glad that you guys took care of that. We had a hundred tents out there. And somebody took care of that. I'm happy about that but we still have an illegal gambling that's across on traction that I've been trying to work on for almost a year. I'm not sure what's going on with the city with that. I have contacted the FBI about it, considering I'm a former FBI agent from the Bay Area. So I want to know what's going on. Why is this continuing to go on for a year and a half and these people are coming all night long in our neighborhood? Coming and going, coming and going, coming and going. And I don't quite understand why that isn't being taken care of. Councilman Dickerson, that's in your area. So just to let you know, because I'm in your area. And I know we had a lot of problems before you showed up because we had Sean Loewe here, which he's gone, but he had some issues. But a lot of things out there did not get taken care of. And as far as this homeless problem goes, it's bad here. I came from Brentwood, two people in that entire city are homeless. You have a big problem in this city, and it needs to be taken care of. There are ways to do this, and if you guys don't know how to do it, come and talk me. I know ways, certain ways that you probably wouldn't think of in a hundred years how to do this. And I understand it, but you can't have what you got going on here. When I come into the down, I don't want to see homeless in your streets. I don't want to come down here to this building and see homeless in the front and the back. It's embarrassing to me as a citizen being here. It shouldn't happen. And I don't understand it. So those are things that need to be taken care of. I don't know what you guys are going to do. I don't want to get on the mayor right now about this because I know he's new to this problem. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Devon Strucker, then Henry Harry, then Mac Worthy. Good evening and happy new year. I want to welcome the new mayor and our new council members, especially our mayor, council member Pluckybaum, who is now representing the river district. We were just a deferred area for the last two years, so very much appreciate having a council member. I'm Devon Strucker, executive director of the river district, and I'm also a resident. I know some of you know about some of the great new developments that we have in the district, including the May-Lease State Office Complex, the Haley at Township 9, the Museum of Science and Curiosity and the beautiful Hanemi Line Park right next door. But tonight I want to talk about our historic 16th Street Districts just north of Midtown. There are some amazing businesses over in this part of town, including Piperks Climbing Gym, one of if not the top climbing gym in the state. We have the Sacramento Roller Derby that just opened their facility last year and they're going to be welcoming teams from all over the country into their new spaces this year. We have photography studio, Mealoo and Olin that has people coming from all over to take food wall photos and wedding photos and all kinds of photo shoots. We have a sack town eats where you can go order food on an app from many different cuisines. There's over 20 different restaurants to operate out of that building. And over at PyPorks, there's also a brand new brew pub and brewing company in their parking lot that's really fantastic. So I would love to invite you all to check out these businesses. If you like to walk in the neighborhood, I would be cautious because most of the sidewalks are taken up by encampments So you will be walking in the street You will often be walking in the middle of the street to dodge the trash and the liquids that come out from the encampments If you want to bike like I do or drive I would also caution you because there are tents in the street and the vehicular lanes are traffic There's a lot of cars coming in and out of sack town eats, picking up food. It's very dangerous when you have tents on the street with no separation, no curb. That's very unsafe and dangerous. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Henry Harry, then Mac Worthy. Thanks again, members of the council. In a few days, we will once again celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday. And you guys will be out in the neighborhoods and on the streets walking and smiling and hugging people. And in theory, promoting our black community. But here, I don't see you guys taking the simple actions on my request that are no cost items like building a website around reparations and Sacramento so that people can get the information they need and move it forward. Taking action to own a denifying land in the city of Sacramento that we might use for reparations. And not taking actions to find a community member and point them as an envoy to move this process forward Shifting gears now because they have to make some comments about law enforcement The other day I witnessed a disruptive person in the community and it took 45 minutes for the police to respond. And I'm thinking here, so I have a question, maybe you guys can look into it. How many officers do we have assigned, to assignments contracted out of the city? If you remember, I think about two years ago, we brought back 25 people who were on the sign and outside of city services, but we brought them back into city service and started attacking crime. The question is how many people or how many officers are signed outside of the city, and if we have people getting shot and killed, we need to bring all of our officers back. The last thing I'll say real quick and I'll come back to Councilwoman this way again. Maybe you guys can talk to the police chief. If you look at the website in the city of Sacramento, homicides and people who are shot are rolled together and you cannot distinguish a murder victim from just a simple shooting. Thank you for your comments. I have four more speakers. Mac Worthy, Jeffrey Tartigia, Keon Bliss, and then Rebecca Sandeval. Thanks for that. Congratulations. I told you so. But we look at here a competition. Now, just one more here. Be it pebbly. You had to steal, you got three people here, didn't say anything about choosing to say the match. Not no comment at all. They can only say, I, yes. Why is that? Because they are ignorant. That's why they can't do anything of that. Here's a man coming here from New York, say he's here, but what did you learn in a black car because it just ate nothing? We need economics here. We don't need nobody. Can't claim any part black to get a position here. Young man that's here and talk about Trump, was he on his medicine? That's him. Oh, four years. That boy has to his medicine. That's funny. Oh, for years. That boy had to take medicine. So he didn't take his medicine. So you got to wake up people. We looked at Fox. Why would two jazz get a patient of what would shot up the post-legs and say they adopted two dogs from the Middle East and that's patriotism that's a disgrace type of military and nobody said word about me but you're still got over Trump can't stop crime the police department can't stop crime do you realize 62% of the crime here is bought on by your system. You cry about a buzzing. You were about a buzzing. A nonprofit organization deals with a buzzing all the time because somebody gonna come along with some big down money. Just like the guy coming to America. If he can't spend his money here and not a citizen, you can vote here, not a citizen. But y'all ain't saying the word. But you're still, everybody to put Trump and jail wake up people truck key changes country you're gonna have a crime up to your ass for minimal thank you for your comments our next speaker is Jeffrey Tartiguiya well mayor one of the things I thank you guys, I see more of you when public comment looking at the people, whether you understand what they're saying, please appreciate the fact that they are here making public comment because these things are not being addressed. Tomorrow morning, the COC, your Sacramento steps steps forward have their meeting from eight to ten o'clock in the morning You may as said that you were going to look into the funding for the homeless Please start that process of understanding where the dollars are going in the city of Sacramento Phil for you there is up on third street a complex that was a hotel that's been sitting there vacant for how long? Look into it. Find out how long that that's been still sitting there vacant having no one in it. That's important. I will also say the reason I talked to you here because I'm hoping mayor that you will move public comment from being the last damn item on the agenda. It needs to get moved up somewhere close to your consent. Not, you know, necessary the first item, but somewhere up there so it's not the last item on your agenda. Guys, I appreciate something what you do but at the same time as you've heard repeatedly what you tell the public and I will offer to you as the website. I'm looking outside trying to find where the public agenda was posted because right now I have cataracts in my eyes. Your print is so damn small, trying to even find to try and get the agenda. Other sites have increased and realized that dealing with disability, dealing with the other aspects, you need to have an active available agenda to people. Thank you for your comments. Our next two speakers are Keon Bliss and then Rebecca Sandivall will be our final speaker. The general speaker just spoke before me is absolutely not wrong. He is part of the much needed cultural reset that you all have as an opportunity right now as you, as some of you embark on your first terms on this council and look for new leadership in the city. Because I can tell you 100% from my experience here on the commission, if there's like the change in city's internal culture, particularly when it comes to how city leadership who are your staff, your employees, treat members of the public, which includes members of our commission. I have already, like many of you probably are well aware of my history and struggles with the commission, and I can tell you 100%, I am not the only one that experiences this. Not on the police review commission, and there are many other people across our city, boards and commissions who volunteer their time and effort and expertise to actually do this work, but with very little appreciation and oftentimes very passive aggressive disrespect and outright disrespect from certain city staffers. I've explained it to you well in fact I filed a formal complaint last year detailing my experiences on the commission how certain city staff retreated me. And one of the things that you can begin doing is exactly what he's suggested right here, which is changing how council actually takes public comment and treats members of the public who come up here to speak. Because I can tell you 100%, you're not protecting yourselves by having us speak first and then you all give your comments afterwards. It doesn't engender trust much less respect for our opinion. It simply says you're checking a box. And a lot of times the council rules and procedures that are set are being treated as this ceiling rather than the floor. And you, Mr. Mayor, have absolute authority to actually expand. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our final speakers, Rebecca Sandevol. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. Two minutes, just two minutes. Thank you. Rebecca Sandevol is our final speaker this evening. I'm here asking for transparency and accountability. Last night I attended a city meeting regarding a wall that was planned for Northgate Boulevard, which we hope will someday happen. At that meeting we were given a handout which contained erroneous information regarding Northgate Boulevard economic recovery funds. I want to clarify, those recovery funds were allocated 450,500 Joshua House and 17,500 to Joey's Food Locker of $500,000. Neither of those addressed North-Aid Boulevard Economic Recon. Recovery fund. I asked for clarification at last night meeting. It was not addressed at all. Now I'm going to continue my concerns about Joshua House. It's been over two years since groundbreaking took place. The community has now been given, or been able to see a rendering of the project, nor given a good neighbor policy. I'm a trustee on Twitter for school district. That would never be allowed by the school district. Joshua House has received 450,500 from the city, and recently $1.5 million from the county to date. After two years, all the Northgate community and Twin River School Districts are piles of dirt in a lot with the flimsy fence that gets thrown over three yards from our elementary school. I ask this council once again to address the concerns of our community. We can't even get an answer to our question. How and when will the dead bodies be transferred? So they do not affect our students and staff. No answers, no outreach, nothing. This council received over 150 e-commerce from the community and currently the school district and send letters asking for answers concerning mitigation measures knows of all gone unaddressed. And I've heard that if we make noise will be heard. But you know how many times I've. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Mary, I have no more speakers this evening time is complete Mary have no more speakers this evening Mary have no more speakers this evening Okay, thank you Madam city clerk. I have one adjournment in memory tonight Wasn't sacramentan but all somebody that we knew of and that was our 39th President of the United States. Jimmy Carter passed away two weeks ago at the age of 100 served as our 39th President of the United States. Serve for four years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as President but serve for 40 plus years uplifting and benefiting all Americans and so with that I'd like to be adjourned in his memory. Thank you, Mary Arjun. Thank you. We'll drink. Thank you.