The Davis City Council met in regular session at 6:31 p.m. on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, in Community Chambers, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, and approved the agenda 5-0. The council issued ceremonial proclamations, approved the consent calendar, and heard discussion and public comment on the Village Farms schedule options, the Greater Sacramento Economic Council 2025 Market Velocity Report, the Police Department 2024 Annual Report, AB 1234 reporting, and the long-range calendar.
Welcome everybody to the meeting of the City Council, City of Davis, Tuesday, September 2nd. Time is 6 31, and I see that all of my colleagues are here. Is there anyone that would like to approve our agenda? So move, Councilmember Dayo. Second. Second, Councilmember Chapman. Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Nay, abstain. Motion passes 5-0. We have an agenda. We'll start with our ceremonial proclamations, our presentations of proclamations. Uh, and then we'll take a brief recess for us to take photos with all the folks who have received proclamations. We'll start with September Suicide Prevention Month. I'll hand it over to Councilmember Chapman. Thank you, Mayor Vitla. And I'll invite up um Diane Summers, Mary Joe Bryan, and Lynn Pratt to receive this proclamation. Uh come on up. Suicide Prevention Month is a time to raise awareness, discuss this urgently important crisis, and to spread hope and information to people affected by suicide and suicidal ideation. Suicidal thoughts, much like mental health conditions can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, or background. While suicidal thoughts are common, they should not be considered normal, and they often indicate more serious issues. Locally, suicide prevention of YOLA County began in 1966 as a grassroots organization with a small group of citizens recognizing a need for crisis response services, and later incorporated as a nonprofit in 1980. Prior to transitioning to the National Suicide and Crisis Line 988 in 2023, suicide prevention YOLO County responded to over 6,800 calls per year. In the U.S., suicide is the second leading cause of death for teens and young adults ages 10 to 34. SOS, which stands for Science of Suicide, is a school program which provides a one-hour classroom presentation to the secondary schools in YOLO County and reaches over 2,000 middle and high school students each year. Suicide Prevention Yolo County has made significant impacts in the lives of thousands of residents of Davis and of YOLO County as a whole. Now, therefore, we, the Davis City Council, on behalf of the citizens of Davis to hereby recognize September as Suicide Prevention Month and honor the work of Suicide Prevention Yolo County for their life-saving services. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Lynn Pratt, and I'm a board member of Suicide Prevention, and I want to thank the city and uh the mayor for this recognition and the good work that we do with the support of the community, particularly our Science of Suicide Prevention or excuse me, signs of or schools program, excuse me. Um we've served um several different schools this year. Um and as Josh said, um, over 2,000 students. I think we'll probably see more this year. Um and I just I know that um Josh commented that suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people, but um there are some other staggering statistics um that I'd like to share real quickly. Um according to the Center for Disease Control, uh 12.2 percent of young adults age 15 uh 18 to 25 had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year, and 12.3 percent of adolescents age 17, or excuse me, 12 through 17 had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year. Um but I'm proud to say that we've continued on with um our signs of suicide uh schools program. Um I think with uh given you know the current events that mental health uh awareness and um the services that we provide um uh are uh obviously very important in in this uh time and um I appreciate the um recognition from all of you. So thank you very much. I just wanted to, my name is Diane Summers, I'm an executive director, and I just wanted to thank everyone on the council for providing us with this uh proclamation. We've been in business over 60 years actually in this county, 40 years doing the school program. So the 1200 students that we saw this past year were from um Holmes, Harper, Emerson, Da Vinci, Davis High, and St. James. So we are continuing to work with the schools throughout the entire county and obviously with the schools here in Davis. So thank you very much. Thank you all for the work you do, literally saving lives. We'll move on to Councilmember Partido for National Hispanic Heritage Month. Thank you. And I'd like to invite uh Heimen Adias Jackson.