The Elk Grove City Council held both a special meeting to certify election results and their regular meeting. The session included ceremonial oath of office events featuring Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis.
Considered aesthetic concepts for Laguna Creek trail crossing at Highway 99
Voted to dissolve existing Arts Commission and establish new Arts & Creative Economy Commission
Meeting adjourned at 8:39pm
We have reconvene from our closed session and there is nothing to report out. So I will adjourn the special meeting at 6.01 p.m. and switch over to our regular meeting. At this time I would like to call to order the regular Elk Grove City Council meeting today is Wednesday, December the 11th, 2024. The time is 6.02 p.m. Clerk. Thank you Mayor, this meeting is recorded with closed captioning. The recording will be cable cast on Metro cable channel 14, the local government affairs channel on the Comcast and direct TV, U-verse cable systems. The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14live.seccounty.gov. Tonight's meeting replays will be on Friday, December 13th at 1 p.m. and Tuesday, December 17th at 6 p.m. on Metro channel 14. Once posted the recordings of this and previous meetings can be viewed on demand at 3ws.elgrovescity.org or youtube.com. For members of the participating audience who may have personal electronic devices please place them on silent mode during the meeting or on mute when you are not speaking. The Elk Grove City Council welcomes, appreciates and encourages participation in the City Council meeting. City Council requests that you limit your presentation to 3 minutes per person so that all the President will have time to participate. City Council reserves the right to reasonably limit the total time for public comment on any particular notice, agenda item as it may be necessary. For student resolution number 2010-24 no individual speaker concerning public comment may address the City Council for more than 3 minutes. If you wish to address the Council during the meeting please complete a blue speaker card which can be found at the back of the chamber and provided to Deputy City Clerk prior to consideration of the agenda item. With that Mayor I will move into the roll call and for the roll call I will start with Council Member Robles. President. Council Member Speys. President. Council Member Suen. Here. I'll note that Vice Mayor Brewer is absent and Mayor Singh Allen. Here. We have a quorum that will take us on to the land acknowledgement. Thank you. Next up is our land acknowledgement and assisting will be Council Member Suen. Thank you Mayor. We honor, respect and acknowledge Elkrow's first inhabitants, the Plains Miwok, who lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since time immemorial. We commemorate and advocate for their descendants, the Wilton Rancheria tribe, the only federally recognized tribe in Sacramento County who endure because of the bravery, resiliency and determination of their ancestors, tribal members and leaders. All right. Thank you. Next up is our Pledge of Allegiance. We have a very special guest with us this evening. The Lieutenant Governor has graced us with her presence and I would like to invite up our esteemed Lieutenant Governor, Eleni Sikopoulos Kunalakis, to lead us in the Pledge this