The Davis City Council met on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 6:31 p.m. in the Community Chambers. The meeting included seven ceremonial proclamations, approval of the consent calendar (with one item pulled for discussion), public comments, and action on several major items: a Valley Clean Energy presentation on a municipal electric utility, a Fifth Street safety improvement pilot project, a discussion on potential amendments to Measure J/R/D, and a kickoff of the General Plan Update. The meeting adjourned at approximately 11:07 p.m.
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the city council meeting, May 13th. I will note for the record that it is 6 31. I see that all my colleagues are here. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? So Councilmember Chapman is there. Councilmember Deos. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. No, abstain. Motion passes five to zero. We have an agenda. We'll start with uh seven ceremonial presentations of proclamations, uh, and then take a brief break to do photos and then return to the regular agenda. National Public Works Week. Is that you, Councilmember Chapman? Great. Thank you, Mayor. Uh so I'm gonna invite up Diana Jensen, who I think has one of the longest uh titles uh at the City of Davis Director of Public Works Engineering Transportation and Stan Gresgo, the Cassandra City Manager and Director of Public Works Utilities and Operations. I'll invite you up to the lecture. Uh the proclamation declaring May 18th through May 24th, 2025 as National Public Works Week. The services provided by Public Works personnel to the Davis community involving streets, transportation, wastewater, storm drainage, water, facilities, urban forestry, and parks infrastructure, as well as administrative, environmental engineering, regulatory, and fleet maintenance services are an integral part of our citizens' everyday lives. The sustainable health, safety, and comfort of the Davis community greatly depends on public works to deliver cost-effective capital improvements. The quality and effectiveness of these facilities, as well as their planning, design, construction, and maintenance is vitally dependent upon the efforts and skill of public work employees. The efficiency of the qualified and dedicated personnel whose staff public works departments is materially influenced by the people's attitude and understanding of the importance of the work that they perform. Now, therefore, we, the Davis City Council, on behalf of the citizens of Davis to hereby proclaim May 18th through May 24th, 2025 as National Public Works Week in the City of Davis, and urge all citizens and civic organizations to acquaint themselves with the issues involved in maintaining, operating, and improving our public work facilities and to recognize the contributions which public works personnel make every day to our health, safety, comfort, and quality of life. Thank you. I'll turn it. No. Come on, Stan. No, I'll just say on behalf of the over 120 uh team members that make up the public works department across two departments. Uh thank you for the recognition of the uh service they provide to the community every day. Appreciate it. Thank you all. We'll move on to the hepatitis B awareness week. That is Councilmember Deos. Okay, would um Dr. Eric Check and Walton Walton Lee come up, please. There you are. This one's is special to me. My brother has hepatitis B. And so it's thank you. Um we are recognizing May 18th through 25th as hepatitis B Awareness Week. The month of May is designated as Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States and is dedicated to raising awareness about the different types of hepatitis, promoting testing, vaccination, and treatment. May 18th to May 25th, 2025 is recognized as hepatitis B Awareness Week, with May 19th designated as hepatitis testing day. Center Health in Yellow and Team HBV San Jose are committed to raising public awareness about hepatitis B and liver cancer within our communities. In the United States, approximately 1.2 million individuals are living with chronic hepatitis B, with a notable overrepresentation among Asian and Pacific Islander communities who make up more than 50% of those affected. Due to appearing without symptoms, hepatitis B often goes undetected. As such, it is vital that awareness and testing be available.