We have returned from closed session. I have the following disclosures by a 4-0 vote

with Councilmember Rodgera Absent. The City Council authorised and directed the City

Attorney's Office to defend the case of Mitchell versus the City of Elton Grove and

All as identified by the case number listed on the City Council agenda. Secondly, by

a 4-0 vote with Councilmember Brewer Absent. The City Council authorised the City Attorney's

Office to initiate litigation in one matter. The name of the defendants and details are

not subject to disclosure at this time. Once litigation is filed, this information will

be disclosed to any person upon inquiry. With that, we will adjourn the special meeting

at 6.14 p.m. and that takes us to our regular meeting. I would like to call to order the

Elcrop City Council regular meeting. Today is Wednesday, January 22, 2025. The time is

6.14 p.m. Clerk. Thank you, Mayor. This meeting of the Elcrop City Council is recorded

with closed captioning. The recording will be cablecast on MetroCable Channel 14, the

local government affairs channel on the Comcast and direct TV, UverseCable Systems. The

recording will also be video streamed at Metro14Live.SekCounty.gov. Tonight's meeting

replays will be on Friday, January 24th at 1 p.m. and Wednesday, January 29th at 9 a.m.

on Metro Channel 14. Once posted, the recordings of this and previous meetings can be viewed

on demand at the 3w.elcropcity.org or youtube.com slash MetroCable 14. For members of the

participating audience, may a personal electronic devices please place them on silent mode during

the meeting or on mute when you are not speaking. Elcrop 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 a particular notice agenda item as it may be necessary.

Persona 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 chambers

and provide it to assistant city clerk Brenda Haggard prior to consideration of the agenda

item. And with that mayor, I will then move into the roll call and with the roll call

I'll be starting with council member species. Present. I want to know that council member

Brewer is absent council member so here vice mayor Robles here and mayor sing Allen here.

All right. Thank you. Next up is our land acknowledgment existing is our vice mayor.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. We honor and respect the acknowledge Elcrop's first inhabitants,

the plain me walks who lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since

the time in memorial. We commemorate and advocate their descendants, the willton rancharia tribe,

the only federalized recognized tribe in Sacramento County who endure because of the bravery,

resiliency, determination of their ancestors, tribal members and their leaders.

All right. Thank you. Next up is our pledge of allegiance. And if I can get council member

Sue, I want to help lead us. Okay. Thank you. Please join us at this time for a brief moment

of silence. Thank you. May I get a motion to approve the agenda, please?

The move. Second. All those in favor please say aye.

Aye. Thank you. Next item. Under section three there are no closed sessions on the regular

agenda which will advance us to section four, our presentations and announcements. And item

four point one is the Youth Commission semi annual update. All right. Look at this great

group. Good evening, Mayor, Council. My name is Femi-Omotechio. And I'm a management

analyst with the City Manager's Office. I have the privilege of serving as the advisor

for the health reviewed commission. I want to begin by expressing my gratitude for the

opportunity to work along with this incredible young people. The education and the enthusiasm

are truly inspiring. I would also like to introduce Gabrielle Flynn. Who is now a co-advisor

for the commission? Gabrielle has great energy and a huge passion for helping youth. We

are lucky to have her. Gabrielle, please introduce yourself. Good evening. My name is Gabrielle

Flynn. I am a management analyst with the health growth police department. I want to

say again thank you for the opportunity and so far it's been a wonderful year working

with you and I'm looking forward to many more years of great things. Okay. Thanks. The Youth

Commission is here tonight to present their annual report highlighting the achievements

on ongoing projects. Before we dive in, I'd like to invite each one of them to briefly

introduce themselves starting with the chair. Hi. My name is Lindsay Nau and I'm a senior

at Pleasant Grove High School and I'm currently this year's chair for the commission.

My name is Andres Guzman and I attend with Gunnar Crick High School. I'm a junior and

I'm a commissioner. Hello. My name is a boss. Chaudhary. I attend a consumer service

high school and I'm currently part of the Youth Commission. Hi. I'm Prasem and I'm a

senior at Franklin High School and I'm currently the vice chair. Hi. My name is Adrian

Biotto. I'm a senior at Oak Rock High School and I'm the communications officer. Hi.

My name is Marl. I go to Harry Eddie Middle School. I'm an eighth grade and I currently

hold a position as secretary. Good evening. My name is Owen. I'm a senior at Consumer

Service High School and I'm a commission member. Good evening. My name is Minja and I'm

a senior at Consumer Service High School. I serve as the historian on the Youth Commission

this year. Good evening. My name is Kara Hughes and I'm an 11th grade at Pleasant Grove

and I'm a commissioner. Good evening. I'm Adi Nelson. I'm 12th grade. I attend Oak

Grove High School in this year and the youths as well. Thank you. So this year started

with a strong commitment to growth and improvement. The commissioners have embraced and always

improving mindset and the report will showcase the remarkable progress that they have made.

Now I'll turn the presentation over to our chair Lindsay, this step forward. Who will guide

you through the highlights? Thank you again Mayor and City Council for allowing us to be

here today. We're super excited to share all of our updates and I'm so far the commission

year has been super successful. We've demonstrated a lot of practice and dedication and we've

completed two projects which I will allow other commissioners to go into more detail about.

On August 7th we had a youth commission retreat where we discussed about our summer events

and ideas for upcoming events. We had our city clerk and city manager come and greet us

and we had our city clerk give us training on the brown act.

On October 26th we met at City Hall and us and other youth of Oak Grove we met up and we had our trash

clean up. We cleaned trails and parts of Oak Grove and I'd like to appreciate the support of our

vice mayor and council member. Thank you. In October we conducted the Oak Grove youth needs

assessment and to provide an opportunity for youth to share the perspectives on what we need to do as

the youth commission as a representative and we had a successful survey and I'll let the next

person tell you more about that but it's going to help us guide our planning for the future of the

youth commission. So a few things we wanted to highlight from the results of our survey. We had

447 responses across many schools which is pretty good and overwhelmingly the biggest issue is

mental health with most people or with the average stress level of all the responses being 6.32 out of 10.

So obviously what we got from that was we need more mental health education and support programs.

So one of the events we're doing this year is path to positivity and it's going to be on February 22nd

and basically it's going to be at work for as well and it's an event to help the youth's mental

health when well being to improve it and there'll be expert speakers and food, music games and free

resources. So one of our events we've done for many years now is Family Fund Day. This year we're

going to be holding it on April 19th. It's going to be an old town plaza just like always and Family

Fund Day is a free event for families to come out and enjoy a bunch of different carnival games,

free music. There's always some great fruit trucks there and this time I think we're also going to

have some Zumba and and a Bollywood dance group so I'm sure that's going to be great.

At the end of the year as usual any money left over from all of our events will go towards

multiple scholarships rewarded to ex we're going to the great students of Oak Grove.

In May we plan to host a food drive just like previous years it's planned to be during the first

two weeks of May, approximately that time and the draw-off locations will be at City Hall

the Animal Shelter and District 56 like previous years. So thank you so much for listening to our

presentation we appreciate your support and we're looking forward to the rest of this year. If you

would like more information you can visit our Youth Commission website and follow us on Instagram

for more updates. We also hope that all of you guys are following our Instagram as well and with

that we will conclude our presentation feel free to ask us any questions. Thank you.

Thank you all for that great presentation I'm so proud of all of you I know the future is bright.

I can't wait to see where your endeavors lead. So that survey I think was quite compelling

information in there. Are you going to be sharing that with the school district?

And if you're an I would highly recommend it I can reach out to you Femi and connect you with

the school board president. It could be as much as just sharing the findings because mental health I

do hear that from families and others when I'm out and about in the community but since you have

some good data it is definitely worth sharing with the school board who oversee the funding for

providing those kinds of resources in all of the schools. So I highly recommend that connection for

your data results. Any other questions comments? I'll go to the left here. Sure thank you Mayor.

Yeah I also want to thank all of you for your service and interest in our community. You

represent the youth in our city and so I agree with the Mayor thank you for doing the survey

and investigating on what is meaningful to all of your demographic that you thought there in our

city and look forward to this workshop that you have planned coming up. I also want to encourage you

in following up with the mayor said about going to the school board all of you represent the different

high schools in the area and I encourage you to maybe Femi we can talk about it but we can connect

you to the principles the individual high schools you are known to those high schools and being able

to introduce yourselves as the youth commission and things like this survey and bringing information

back to them I think would be a great way for you to connect with your schools directly so we

would forward to talking to you about that. My smare the future is most certainly bright I always say

that because of you guys we will definitely be out of a job in the next coming years because you

guys are just super bright so but I wanted to say thank you for the presentation and continue

doing the work it's awesome to see that positivity see that path positivity that's super cool and I

can't wait to see how many of your fellow classmates will go and participate in that it's a change

that you can do locally you don't need policy for that and you guys are already doing that so continue

making that impact and I just wanted a quick commissioner Lindsey is that a sea sun sweater I see

or a shirt that I saw so I'm a medidor for life so you're not my favorite commissioner just kidding

go hornet

council member species uh so first dr. Femi as always fantastic I feel like this is when we do this

every six months I feel like it's kind of a family gathering and every time I see the you know

the cousins and then you know growing up you know it's we see every six months or so of course

out in the community but my gosh you're all you're all um you're very some some you're folks to be

very very proud of and uh worth real to see your growth um not just you know in height or whatever

but in terms of um your um your maturity and your intelligence and your community awareness

and your commitment and so um thank you very much we're we're very proud of you so thank you

round of applause please

thank you again we'll see you all soon

all right next item is item 4.2 our new higher introductions

good evening madam air vice mayor members city council jason vermin your city manager

always um please be able to present all of our new employees and we have quite a few today to

share with you we also have a few promotions we're proud to introduce so

and to start with the police department yes kids comfortable um mayor vice mayor and council

my name is bobby davis i am very fortunate after beauty chief of police for the city of al-Grovenilco

police department we have um 11 or 12 of our 24 that we would have announced today but they have

different shifts and unable to be here um so we will start with um uh garrorarno uh garror

was born and raised in the bay area prior to join edelgrove police department he's spent three

years with the gulp police department where we heavily recruited him uh where he had the opportunity

to serve as part of the traffic unit and sorry to Brian Kellinowski from uh from there but we got one

of your good ones and it's going to be welcome sir yeah thank you thank you congratulations

uh i don't know do we want them over there after over here okay

uh police records tacked Nicole gremma and Nicole was born in mountain view and her family moved

to rosebell once she was a child prior to joining the al-Grove police department she worked in

the insurance world for approximately 10 years before coming to stand home on in 2013 and welcome

to our organization uh dispatcher supervisor Courtney eroso uh Courtney was born and raised in

sacramental prior to joining joining the al-Grove police department she worked as a dispatch

supervisor in el la rod at the el la rodo county sheriff's department um and uh one note she's also

has another family member as part of our organization uh brianoroso is one of our detectives so welcome

see you soon marie and perma son marie and was born and sacramena was raised in elk Grove she

graduated lagoonicry k high school in 2020 and earned her bachelor's degree in criminal justice from

csu this past December she's a brand new csl welcome

record supervisor erin hill promoted on the october 20th uh erin joined the al-Grove police

department on june 11th 2017 prior to her promotion she was responsible for training new hires

as a records tech two dispatch supervisor kelly archer kelly joined the al-Grove police department on

june 29th 2015 prior to her promotion she was working as a communications training officer in

dispatch and catch all does everything for us congratulations officer i'm a teen nazi promoted

october 20s i got you next hummary and martin was born in west sacramena and raised in elk Grove

he graduated from frank and high school joined elk Grove pd as a recruit on april 8th

2024 he graduated the sheriff's academy on october 21st martin is currently in field training

look officer hummary in car that you're getting skipped

hummary enjoying the elk Grove police department as a csl on february 27th 2022 she graduated the

sacramena county sheriff's academy on october 21st and is currently in field training

congratulations thank you officer edwin martin is

uh edwin joined the elk Grove police department as a cso on april 24th 2020 he graduated the sheriff's

academy on october 21st 2024 and is currently in field training congratulations to you

thank you officer tristan klingberg

tristan was raised in calirado earned his bachelor's degree at the university of calirado

folder he joined the elk Grove pd as a recruit on june 17th 2024 and graduate the delta academy

this past november tristan is currently in field training congratulations to you

officer persilla estrada

persilla was born and stalked in a raise in lodis she joined the elk Grove police department

as a recruit on october on august 25th 2024 and graduate the delta college academy this past

november persilla is currently in field training congratulations you know fun

you

officer lilyana serda lilyana was raised in san amerian earned her bachelor's degree from csu

where she was part of the lex program which is a great program yes

she joined the elk Grove pd as a recruit on may 6th 2024 and graduate the delta college

academy this past december lilyana is currently in field training and for those who don't know

sac state has a very robust criminal justice program and the lex program allows us to contact

the students at the end or millibar junior year when they graduate they have a job they go

straight into the academy from the agency that has picked them up and we were participating

in that program for the last several years now and we've had a couple of the of our new recruits

come from that program so thank you so much they come up with a degree

so I think that's it for me all right I know you've all met our new assistant city manager jack

e goose mom but I wanted to officially introduce her and welcome jack e comes with lots of experience

in local government having served with the cities of san osay kupertino and sunny veiled last two

specifically serving as deputy city manager she's overseeing our finance it and HR departments

and his hithi ground running we're excited to have her looking forward to to many years

together doing some great things working with city council and the staff here for the city

bill growth so thank you

an evening mayor council members christian lorence your public affairs manager and i'm here tonight

and pleased to introduce sydney robertson our new communications and marketing specialist in the

public affairs office sydney brings a strong background in marketing and public relations with

the experience in both the public and private sectors most recently with the uba county department

of health and human services sydney i'll be leading our social media efforts showcasing the many

exciting events and initiatives happening throughout the city and outside of work sydney's an

avid reader a big time foodie and some might even say chronically online staying connected to the

latest social media trends and insights please join me in welcoming sydney to our team

all right i'm going to invite karek taillard semen to come up she's a finance manager mad pollin

is out of town tonight so she's going to introduce our new employee in our finance department

good evening i am happy to introduce sydney tiffini to our finance department

sydney is born and raised native of solinas and has a graduate of cal poly in in san luci bispo

she's spent the last 10 years actually working on land financing and and doing special tax

districts which is exactly what why she's such a great fit and a great hire for us so um

she's lived here in city of al groshe was here with her family her husband and two children

and we are very very happy to welcome sydney to the city good to see sydney

evening mayor and council christopher jordan community development director welcoming two new

members to our team first is suveng covenforcement officer maro um su lives in elk roe with his wife

and kids from 2010 to 2022 he worked as a community service specialist with police department

at csu sacrameno started his career as a co-denforcement officer with a city of sacrameno for about

two and a half years or so recently joined us he's a certified co-denforcement officer

and in his free time and joys traveling and spending time with his family welcome aboard

second new hiring community development is jason hone our assistant director focusing on the

development services side uh joins us from city of sacrameno where he oversaw the project management

team within their community development department masters of public administration from

university down south uh he values opportunities you didn't put it on the list so i'm going

off a memory semberan and you know thank you uh i value his opportunities for his staff to

collaborate with developers on high quality built environment while enhancing livability and the

city's economic growth and his free time he enjoys getting outdoors with his children snowboarding

motorcycle rides in the delta and rowing crew with the river city rowing club all right

thank you

good evening everyone i'm Jeff Warner proud to be our city's public works director we also

have two new hires for you this evening first up is fabiola vasquez fabiola joined the traffic

engineering division and public works in december as an assistant engineer she has a background

in various engineering and construction roles before coming to the city she worked with the city

of ubacity and flat iron construction and during her free time she enjoys photography traveling

and trying new restaurants welcome to fabiola thank you next up is song and woo and song and may

look familiar to you he was here about a year ago and he's already being promoted so good for

song and uh he joined our cip group late in 2023 as an assistant engineer and he was recently

promoted to the position of associate civil engineer after passing passing the necessary exams

and receiving his registration as a professional civil engineer. Congratulations

song and has eight years of engineering experience performing design construction management and

project management of public works projects outside of work song and enjoy spending time with

this family working on house projects and gardening congratulations song yeah thank you all right

well congratulations to all our new hires and promotions let's give them all another round of applause

all right excellent excellent um next up is our public comment and i will go ahead and open up

public comment i do not have anyone signed up to speak i will go ahead and close the public comment

opportunity and turn it over to the city manager for the report great so i'll give you

me again a few items to report on this evening for the council and the public um first is city

council and staff will be participating in strategic planning work session on February 20th at

district 56 and we do this every two years um it's from nine to four o'clock during this time council

members will discuss key issues and set goals and priorities for the next two fiscal years executive

team members will also participate provide strategic planning and put this is a public meeting

members of public are invited to attend and uh and weigh in on the issues um of the agenda

lots of applications that are open right now we have elk r1-01 that's uh open till february

third we have our police department citizens academy the application period is open through february

fourth we have our arts and creative economy commission that's open until february fifth we have our

nonprofit grant pro annual process that's underway and those applications are due february 11th

uh and then we have the stars of service volunteer awards and those nominations are due on february

28th i think that's all the nominate all the applications we have um many of our residents are

going to be celebrating the lunar new year later this month uh this year will be the year of

this snake the city is pleased to once again support the norcal vietnamese chamber of commerce and

hosting the lunar new year festival february 1st and 2nd at okro park from lion dragon dances to

delicious food and camaraderie with other community members as free events offers another chance

to celebrate our diversity details can be found on the city social media accounts and finally the

city is currently developing its 2025 to 30 consolidated plan which sets forth goals and strategies

for using approximately 6.5 million in cdbg and home investment partnership program funding over

that five year period public is invited to a ten a meeting to provide input on february fourth this year

from six to seven thirty it does your fifty six to register and or find more information visit

okrovesciti.org slash cdbg and that concludes my report happy to answer any questions to council ask

any questions seeing none we'll go on to the next item thank you for your reports are

next up is our consent calendar items at this time i will open up public comment

i do not have anyone sign up to speak on close session or consent calendar items so i will close

public comment and uh look for a motion so moved second all those in favor please the i

hi thank you next item please i think it's section eight or public hearing and that is item 8.1

which is a public hearing to consider resolution adopting amendments to algrove general plan

and ordinance proving revisions to the algrove municipal code related to flood damage prevention

and floodplain allowances for public improvements and non-biddle structures good evening mayor

city council sarykert gesner planning the proposed amendments or text amendments

that would provide exceptions to allow for the construction of non-havitable structures and public

infrastructure within the 100 year floodplain in certain cases the amendments consist of

revisions to title 16 building and construction and title 23 zoning of the algrove municipal code

as well as concurrent revisions to the city's general plan the need for the proposed amendments

was identified while reviewing analysis for a recent capital improvement project which that

was unable to meet the current regulations pursuant to the municipal code no increase in water

service elevation is allowed according to fema's definitions no increase means zero feet the hydraulic

model used to calculate water service elevation is developed with assumptions that could easily

affect its accuracy so it's not reliably accurate within 100 of a foot city staff reviewed municipal

codes from other agencies in the region to see how they regulate elevation increases most of those

agencies limit water service elevations increases to one foot given the level of accuracy of modeling

and the policies of neighboring agencies staff determined that the current policies and regulations

are too restrictive during this review staff also determined that there was a clerical error in the

general plan follow flood policies related to non-habital structures that needed to be updated to

reinstate previously adopted policies that were inadvertently deleted the planning commission

reviewed the item on December 5th 2024 and no public comments were received the planning commission

recommended city council of the of the amendments 5 to 0 the general plan amendments would amend policies

ER2-6 and ER2-16 to allow for the development of non-habitable structures and infrastructure

such as trails non-habitable and structures and public infrastructure and similar facilities within

the 100 year floodplain on a case by case basis these exceptions are very limited they must result in

no net increase to the water service elevation adjacent to downstream and upstream of the development

as determined by the city that changes but also added definition of habitable and non-habitable

structures to the general plan the municipal codes would adopt those same provisions allowing the

floodplain administrator to permit the approval of bridges trails drainage and non-habitable maintenance

facilities if such improvements involve no more than one tenth of a foot of water service elevation

within open space or other approved undeveloped areas it must be within a floodplain easement or

other protected instruments and the physical and economic use of upstream and downstream property

will not be adversely affected the amendments would also revise and add definitions of habitable

and non-habitable to be internally consistent within the within the municipal code no further

environmental review is required under state secret guidelines the amendments are consistent with

the analysis of the 2019 general plan EIR the planning commission recommends approval of the

project adopt a resolution finding no further environmental review is necessary and amending the

elk rough general plan and adopting an ordinance amending the municipal code chapter 16 50 and

chapter 23 100 this concludes my presentation and I am available for any questions

all right thank you for your presentation at this time I will declare that the public hearing

is now open and open up public comment opportunity nobody has signed up to speak on this I'll

close the public comment opportunity and declare that the public hearing is now closed any questions

or comments on this item no I would like to make a motion we're going I got it a simple and quick

one I got to ask it it seems like it would be a no-brainer what is the definition of a non-habitable

building I can pull up the definition as we yeah that would be good I mean I just I mean I would

I would think it would be something like a garden shed or something to that effect but just

the clarification for everyone what is a non-habitable so per the definition as shown on staff report

page 10 it's any structure that is designed to be excuse me non-habitable you said not have it

a non-habitable buildings and our structures of an accessory character including but not limited to

agricultural buildings aircraft hangers barns no sleeping quarters allowed within car ports fences

grain silos greenhouses livestock shelters private garages with no sleeping quarters allowed

retaining wall shed stable swimming pools tanks and towers perfect thank you second

I didn't make the motion yeah but yeah I'll move I was about to but I made the motion to adopt

the resolution introduce the ordinance now I second okay all right all those are there please say

aye hi thank you next item please I'll take us to section nine the regular agenda action items

of recommendations and the first is item nine point one which consider resolution approving the

artwork for the Elk Grove library and authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with the artist

could you be mayor members of the city council my name is caroretic deputy city manager

I'm here to talk about the Elk Grove library public artwork design approval

as you know the city has a percent for the arts program that was established in 2016 the program

allocates 2% of construction costs for public art projects in October 2023 the city council

approved the Elk Grove library relocation project and the library project falls under the

percent for the arts program I'll give you a quick overview the project is the former right aid

building at the corn at the southwest corner of Elk Grove Boulevard and Waterman Road the artwork budget

is $140,000 and the artwork goals are to engage library visitors mark the library entrance

be accessible to people of all ages and consider the library goal which is to inspire our communities

to discover learn and grow there was an artwork selection review panel that was brought together

it included six individuals two of them are art commissioners three of them are professional artists

and one is a representative from the library I'm going to go over why this art selection process

is a little bit different in the past the review panel was brought together to review the proposals

and narrow down to one artist but in December 2024 the council passed a resolution dissolving

the arts commission and establishing the arts and creative economy commission so that recruitment

for that new commission is currently underway and staff recommends approving the proposed artist

and continuing the process to ensure the artwork is installed when the library opens a little bit

about the process I mentioned the budget $140,000 it was an open call for artists that was a nationwide

call for artists the RFQ was put out in spring of 2024 and there were 118 applications received

five artists were invited to present their conceptual designs to the review panel and the proposal

by Aaron Stephen was selected for related to the artist recommendation four of the six review panel

members felt mr. Stephen was the most qualified artist there were some concerns from the library

staff that the piece would get inquiries from the public but the review panel felt that through

education and signage that could be alleviated and the art commissioner stated they preferred a

piece that was more a book directly related to literature or the more closely connected to old town

so they did ask for outreach to the city's historic preservation committee and the old town

foundation which has been conducted so all panelists felt that Aaron Stephen as an artist is highly

qualified capable and capable of designing fabricating and installing the artwork so I'm going to

go ahead and invite up Shelley Willis the city's public art consultant and she's going to talk about

the artist and the artwork all right mayor council members it's really great to be here tonight and

talk with you about the artist and his proposed idea for the project so the artist is Aaron T.

Stevens as uh uh Cara said he is highly qualified for the project um he divides his practice between a

studio practice where he makes work for museums and galleries um more traditional exhibition spaces

but then he also has this really incredible public art practice he's done more than two dozen

public art projects across the country including at the San Diego International Airport the Tampa

International Airport he's worked at a hospital this piece on the right that you're looking at right

now is a Nashville Tennessee at the music center there um but his work you know generally his work

really type of love he takes those ordinary objects that we're very very familiar with

ladders and um you know stones and and in this case uh lights lamp posts and he turns them into

these extraordinary sculptures and installations um he has uh been awarded numerous awards and

fellowships including uh he was a Louise Bourgeois fellow an artist and resident at um

uh in in in New York um he has his work has been uh written about in numerous publications and Forbes

magazine Boston Globe Washington Post so he also knows his way around um construction you know he

he makes a lot of his own work uh he knows about engineers contractors how to collaborate and

get some of these works done I mean working in the public realm as an artist is very complex um as

you might imagine and artists are required just like any other contractor to you know make sure

that their their work is um maintainable and you know structurally sound etc so he's very very

qualified for this project so um the site was already uh mentioned uh the the artist were all

told to create a work at the corner in front of this um right eight old right eight building and

it's very very accessible by a car you know this work is going to be seen a lot by traffic that that

corner is very very active but there will be people that walk past it too you know getting into the

front door of the library maybe they'll you know be there to say hey mom you know beat me at that

sculpture um so it's at that corner at an existing site that has you know already a plaza area

there that's defined so if you photo so you get a sense of scale of the piece right now there's a

what was I think maybe a sign in a in a decommission fountain and some um you know

brick hard scape it's a little bit of landscape so this is the the piece to the right um a rendering of

the piece uh it's titled radiant eddie and erin titled at that as an acknowledgement to Harriet eddie

who I'm sure all of you know and um is beloved in this community she played a major role in the

development of libraries um throughout uh california and beyond she was the first female

principal at outgrove high school and established the school's first library which um became the first

county library branch in the state of california so she's well beloved and he really wanted to

acknowledge that in this piece so the piece is made and i'll show you some other renderings as well

but it's it's it's made with 30 street lights street lights um and poles and fixtures that

resemble those that you might find you know in old town um outgrove the poles they sort of start

out very regimented and load of the ground and they sweep up as the the piece moves around and then

the piece sort of breaks apart and i love this part of it because i think it really says something

about growth and also being an individual and and as i said before you know he he uses erin uses

these um ordinary objects that allow access into the piece because everyone is familiar with these

lamp posts but then ask questions you know as you go and i think that's one of the best characteristics

of public art because a public art piece unlike a museum or exhibition piece that's maybe seen once

or twice you know by a member of the public this is going to be seen over and over and over again

and i think it allows access um into the idea of the piece but also inspires questions and curiosity

and of course curiosity um and growth and or or big parts of what a library is all about so um erin

was really inspired by all of those things and again i'll show you a a picture of it at night but

this piece is also meant to be a beacon you know at night and and you know draw people to it

and to the library um it's i'm going to read you this quote that came from his artist statement

it says that radiant eddy so i think it's a beautiful quote is it literally illuminates

suggesting that the ordinary can become extraordinary and in fact that the ordinary

itself is already extraordinary if we simply adjust our perspective

so here's a couple of views at night and um from a different perspective and i like to always

point out that this is a conceptual design so there might be tweaks you know um we talked with

cj about you know maybe the pieces oriented you know slightly shifted one way or the other to allow

you know a different viewpoint from the street um so you can see that that that this piece is

interesting from lots of different perspectives it's um not something that you just look at and

you know you don't have an inspiration to look at again there's there's ways of looking at as

you move around it it's also he also is proposing to put it on to a pedestal that's maybe you know

12 inches high or something like that um to add a little height he's hoping that they'll you know

that we'll be able to put some landscaping around it to really um sort of visually say this is not

you're not supposed to go up on this pedestal and climate you know interact with it that way that

that you're supposed to stay outside of that and and observe it this is another uh rendering again

you get a sense of scale especially especially at the pedestrian level and how it might look in

front of the library from this viewpoint uh that lamp post the tallest lamp post is 12 feet tall

and then it goes all you know sweeps down the the top parts of the lamps are standard again and

they're about 12 inches um tall and eight inches in diameter and finally if you look at the piece

from above in that right hand picture you can see that it takes up most of that pedestal area

and that area the sort of diameter is about 17 feet so it's quite large and um I really think it

holds the site and again there it is in night view so at this point um we can answer any questions

that you may have we are asking you tonight staff is recommending that the city council adopt a

resolution approving the artwork for the librarian authorizing the city manager to execute a contract

with the artist all right thank you for that um excellent presentation at this time I will open up

the public comment opportunity nobody is signed up to speak on 9.1 so I will close public comment

and we will start um to the right uh thank you Madam Mayor so um yeah it's for me it's always

challenging with public art I usually look at it and go nah nah um but I like this one

yeah I mean this one I saw it I kind of got a little bit of a verbal preview of what it was

I thought it might have been traffic lights you know it but I saw it I like it I'm supportive of it

a couple of things though um so I noticed in in on the last slide where there was uh the top down view

um it does appear as though there's an opportunity for pedestrians to enter

you know there you go right there so the footing measures 17 foot 17 foot diameter it does

appear though that it provides the you know a pedestrian to uh get into the structure and actually

the way I look at it is I would kind of prefer them to have that ability to do so because in

today's day and age of the the selfies and uh you know um if you've ever gone to those parties where

they swing that camera around in front of you right I think this offers kind of an interesting

opportunity for the observer to get involved or get into that um uh into that art piece so I guess

if if the purpose is to keep them out you might want to close that gap but I would actually suggest

that you leave it just like that and perhaps even provide a pathway to there um but anyway I'm not

going to design for them I like this as it is um I'm happy to support it thanks thank you council

member brewer no thank you for for the presentation um I really like the setup how it's positioned but

more important it's a beautiful landmark that goes into uh to the new library structure it's a good

opening for people as they come in from the rural area into uh the historic area to see this

it's a new attraction but it's it still has that feel that looking feel of it um and for those who

are going through the historic area and going out into the rural area this is a nice look

a very nice look so um definitely want to thank the art selection panel for for for this and

and for them to um make this decision because it's one of those it's one of these cool things where

you are recruiting this bridge of historic outgrove and today's outgrove um it's very

complementary it's a matter of fact it's one of those things where uh council member speech probably

really fun thing it's like you do a grand opening for the for the new library when that happens

that you could do as part of it have people sitting in a little circle and do the little round thing

because uh not only will it give and make you dizzy and have a back-ass a vertigo

but um but it's it definitely makes one of these attractions that that really makes uh going to

the library but really coming into El Grover really cool experience so thank you again this is

really nice um council member soon thank you mayor i i do like this piece it's it's it's very

clean simple i i love i love the quote uh and the inspiration behind it so i i definitely and i'm

sure you will having uh having that prominently displayed and explaining how that what the intent is

i think it's it's very appropriate yeah thank you vice mayor thank you madam mayor uh i echo the same

sentiments as my council members um this is amazing i think of the urban lights in LA as we see this

on the corner and like council member speech says just voted people taking photos um it gets me thinking

like okay there there's gonna be different areas where folks can be like where in no-grow them i

right take a selfie take a snapshot and just do something really cool around the arts so

super excited and ready to support this and make the motion excellent and

i love this i'm so excited about it and i really appreciate that we raised the bar from books

to public art which we so sorely need an outgrow so this is just a wonderful community asset

i i do have and i and i really love the name that historical connection to somebody who's

transformed education in our community i really appreciate that i think that that was very clever

cleverly integrated um into the historical area so thank you for all of that just two quick

questions um who was on the review panel i didn't see that on the slide oh yes let me just

turn to that there were six members two members from the arts commission

salad bridge and um les irons okay gale gale heart okay there we go yeah so three professional

artists library representative and two members of the arts commission okay perfect and then last um

light pollution have any just any concerns will that factor and maybe the angle in terms of i

don't know if it's going to impact any neighborhoods i probably not but just as we think about that

and how it's going to be laid out obviously we don't want any uh intrusions for drivers and

and so forth so i'll just you know something to think about yeah that came up at the uh the

meeting with the historic preservation committee so that's something that as we do the final

site design and as the lighting um element is determined yeah we will certainly consider that

um to see will it will it have the functionality like the light at over at d 56 does the piece of d 56

right i'm so we'll certainly consider that in the final process no this is this is beautiful so

very excited to see it um installed so with that i will look for a motion for this so moved second

all right all those in favor please say hi hi thank you all right next item please

i'll be out of 9.2 we should receive an update on the new zoo at Elf Grove project

regarding design status leadership changes at the Sacramento zoo logical society

the fundraising efforts and the facility naming process and i consider a resolution

establishing the name of the facility and provide additional direction as appropriate

all right you guys ready all right good evening madameer and council members i'm sam grimm

senior civil engineer and public works um very excited tonight to present uh the first part of our

zoo update covering design progress since last June and kira is going to cover our remaining items

on the agenda uh so i'll cover design phasing um share updated renderings and exhibits

and touch briefly on offsite uh infrastructure and schedule

to get us all oriented we have here the location of the new zoo on the map in red for the rest of

the maps you see in the presentation will be rotated 90 degrees to the right clockwise

so on the map here we have shed sea to the right which is now north

lots parkway on the bottom class scoy on the left uh with camera rode a little bit further to

the left off the page and be drive at the top um the on-site design team has been hard at work

advancing the new zoo from a conceptual design level to the next step uh we call this next step

design development it represents approximately a 65 percent design level in addition to this

collections uh this collection of renderings and exhibits i have for you tonight our team has

been hard at work on all the details the civil work exhibitry structural architectural

fire protection plumbing mechanical electrical lighting technology life support systems and wetlands

a lot of work now everything in color here represents all of the on-site work for phases one a and

one b now this site is too large to advance the design at one time so we have split this design up

or we have split the site up into sub phases and what you're going to see tonight is progress from

these two sub phases and first up the giraffe zone the giraffe zone here includes the lodge

restaurant i'll be putting up little circles to guide us as we go through the figures here

the lodge restaurant the games area an events pavilion the west savannah a large watering hole

and the care quarter facilities for the giraffe and the other have stock

moving into some renderings this is from the front sidewalk looking at the restaurant entry

you'll notice that the notice the thematic pavement patterns guiding each other front door

with a natural wood handle there are plenty of seating options to hang out outside while you wait

through table stepping inside to the reception area the restaurant is designed for both non-ticketed

and ticketed guests you can simply park your car enter through the front door without a

zoo ticket you can also enter from the zoo park at a side door here on the right hand side with your

ticket the control point for handling those transactions is the reception desk here on the right

now further inside on the restaurant looking straight at the bar you'll all you notice the center

window that opens up and offers dual service for interior and exterior spaces and it leads out to

the games lawn area and outdoor seating there's also a large roll-up door on the left hand side that

can be opened up and fair weather turning around you can see now that the variety of seating options

inside the restaurant all the seating is designed to take advantage of the outstanding views

out onto the west savannah this is from the far side of the restaurant as parents we all know

it's important to know where the restrooms are so just behind this view you turn around that's

where the restaurant is to take the kids home all right now just outside from that viewpoint this

is the exterior deck looking back towards the restaurant offering weather protected outdoor seating

all right and if you're curious giraffe here's your view looking back at the deck seating right in

the center of the picture and just off the left is the games area with the fire pit on the left

these giraffe get to enjoy their own watering hole with functional wetlands so they're still having fun

and speaking of the games area here's a view from the fire pit looking back towards the restaurant

with the interior and exterior bar and there are a lot of seating opportunities outside

for eating or drinks and games also with lots of shade trees

moving on to the events pavilion it's a space designed for public events parties weddings ceremonies

and company functions here's the separate entrance from the parking lot with similar thematic

paving patterns patterns to guide you in once you're inside you can gather around this pre-function

space and grab a snack and further in here's the covered event space off back on the left you can

see the doors to dedicated restrooms and multi-function rooms that can be used for pre-wedding party prep

or breakout meeting spaces all right now moving on to the area we call the entry zone

this area includes the main entry the education entry dwarf mongoose the east savannah the giraffe

feeding shelter and our flamingo exhibit it includes some more but we'll get to that here in a minute

you'll notice I skipped the front entry slide I'm saving that for caras it includes the

proposed zooname so carry gets some design slides this here is our education entry just off to

the left of the main entrance and here into the entry plaza looking back this is the retail shop

and the coffee shop now inside the gift shop is plenty of space for displaying merchandise gifts

and numerous plushed animals here's our coffee shop with plenty of interior seating and easy access

to outdoor seating and as you start your day in the zoo the first exhibit you're going to come to

is the dwarf mongoose we're setting up their home to include play opportunities such as small trees

branches and rocks and due to their cute little size we have elevated this exhibit to provide optimal

viewing angles for everyone and for reference they're about the size of a football not a little bit

smaller next up we have the giraffe feeding shelter it provides an opportunity to overlook the east

savannah and interact and feed interact with the giraffes and feed them this structure is supported

by large natural logs as a fast route all right just pass the giraffe feeding shelter it brings us

to the flamingo aviary this is a large steel supported mesh aviary where guests can walk inside

and hang out with the flamingos in a variety of other bird species including inkaturns

now entering the aviary you can follow along the boardwalk and observe the flamingos playing in the pool

and relaxing on the beach this is a figure from one of our exhibit plans that shows different surfaces

and elevations just off to the top of this page is an observation platform if you want to view the

action from outside the aviary okay so leaving flamingo brings us around the last part of the entry

zone you'll notice flamingo there kind of top center with the white arches for the last part of

the entry zone we have the ocopy colobus and african aviary kind of a multi-part exhibit a lot

going on here so first we have the ocopy now they have two yards first up an open area yard here

on the right hand side and a second yard that they share inside the aviary the inside the aviary

we have a variety of african bird species including bee eaters and right in the middle of all the

action is the colobus monkeys okay here we can see the entry to the combined exhibit the first

story this building is the dedicated entry vestibule for the aviary so you enter the first door

look to the left and it offers direct views into the colobus exhibit pass through the second door

and you're inside the aviary on the second story this building is the care quarters for the colobus

and now you're inside the aviary looking back at the colobus

and you'll note that this space is now shared with zougas the mix of african bird species

and the ocopy who are hanging out just right behind us in their yard

all right now what's next for the design team we've taken the two blue regions through design

development next up the animal care center now this area includes exhibits such as the giant

tortoise the clip springer the high racks alligator squirrel monkey gelata thick build parrot and

lemur it's a lot to cover in our next presentation

as for the offsite infrastructure we're currently reviewing 30 percent plans for roadways

bicycle and pedestrian facilities utilities and our storm drain basin here is an image depicting

our progress on classical way with the roundabout configuration for safe and efficient access on

an off of camera road as for schedule our design work will continue through the end of 2026

for both onsite and offsite work we anticipate releasing our construction manager at risk solicitation

next month and looking for award of that initial contract in May pending fundraising efforts

and we're still looking for construction start in 2027 and i'd like to issue a special thanks to

the entire design team for all the hard work in producing these images and especially the

society for helping us make that happen so thank you and i'll hand off the carer

good evening may your members of the city council caror reddick deputy city manager

i'm going to continue the balance of the presentation so first i'd like to talk about a transition

of the zoo leadership as you're aware last fall Jason Jacobs the executive director and CEO of the

Sacramento zoological society resigned the society appointed two individuals to fill that role

mr. Robert Churchill as the interim executive director mr. Churchill has been a key figure in the

zoo's operations for over a decade and he has previously served as the interim director and mr.

Kevin Bell to lead fundraiser efforts mr. Bell as a renowned leader in the zoological community

and was a former director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago

transition to fundraising the city and the society have a have fundraising milestones in the

cost your agreement they're what came before council in june there are six milestones and right

now we're on the second milestone which was January 1st of 2025 and the society needed to account

for 17.5 million dollars as their minimum financial obligation this was met and confirmed by the

city through in-person review of their commitments as a reminder related to fundraising the

minimum financial obligation can be met in a variety of ways with cash contributions from third

parties or the society name and sponsorship rights and third-party in-kind material contributions

so if any milestones are not met the city can suspend design work and or not issue any further

task orders the cost sharing agreement also requires an operating agreement between the city

and the zoo and that is currently being worked on related to the zoo naming the city the society

and their partner runny and salt smite ink work to develop naming options they were brainstormed

in a linear fashion coming from hyper local to Sacramento regional California geographic and

global themes so the names are presented to the city's ad hoc committee the city's zoo ad hoc

committee which includes mayor sing allen and council member brewer as well as zoo representatives

out of that meeting the city's zoo ad hoc committee is recommending the following name

the greater Sacramento zoo ad algrove I'd like to talk for a minute about the different

components of the name the greater really reflects the zoo's broad regional draw as a key attraction

and it emphasizes the overall increase in size and scale from 14 acres to an eventual 63 acres

Sacramento zoo accounts for nostalgia with current and local patrons it helps with continuity

for donors in almost 100 years old the zoo has been a cherished gem and destination for our region

ad algrove emphasizes the geographic location celebrates the algrove community and underscores

the city's investment so I get my design slides that Sam saved for me thank you

this is really meant to just pair the name with a main entrance concept at this point it's not

meant to be the exact color or font but it's just really putting the greater Sacramento zoo ad algrove

in the front of the building at the main entrance so you could get a feel for what that might look like

the second design slide is really a retail interior so you can see on the right hand side

it would say the greater Sacramento zoo ad algrove along the wall space in this retail space

so the the ad hoc committee is recommending this name and if it's approved by the full council

staff recommends adoption of a resolution naming the naming the facility the greater

Sacramento zoo ad algrove then local branding and marketing concepts would be established

if the name is not approved there are some alternative actions that the council could consider

including restarting the naming process internally engaging a different consulting firm

conducting a community naming process or deferring the naming decision so staff recommends

the city council adopt a resolution authorizing the naming of the new zoo ad algrove as the

greater Sacramento zoo ad algrove so I'm available for any questions as well as Mr. Sam Grimm

and we have zoo representatives in the audience as well thank you all right thank you for those

presentations at this time we will go ahead and open up public comments we have three people

signed up to speak we will start with Walt Hess followed by Kathy Lee

good evening I don't really have a state but I just have a couple of questions just for clarification

I'm Walt Hess I live it outgrown I live in on Derby way I have a volunteer at the zoo it happened

for about 12 years now I think but I had two questions one on the milestones for pledges and or

payments that are due to understand the zoo get their first one are those pledges and or cash or

is it only cash in hand that's my question number one that really wasn't answered I'm not clear on

that in your website wasn't clear on that to me and my second question is more of an ask

also on your website sometime back at the base still be there I apologize if it is because I

didn't look recently there was a recap of pledges to date that only covered the first quarter

of last year January through April so the last nine months of this last year plus this but

are excluded I wonder if that's going to be available to the public in the future too because I

think both of those give great insight and transparency to the project which I know all of you

know that I support 100% I just need some clarification on those two points thank you thank you

there's the city manager or car I guess the the pledges are a combination of cash it's cash and pledges

and then the the sheet that he's referencing is attached to the city council staff report tonight

so we will put that up on the website which is a listing of the pledges and the gifts I believe

that's what he's referencing so that will go on the city's website after tonight okay you want

to wait oh I'm in a way but I maybe I'm missing something or maybe I've missed something before but

let's go ahead yeah yeah yeah all right we and then did you have another question did you answer

all the questions okay very good we will go on to Kathy Lee followed by Brooke is it co okay

good evening mayor and city council members thank you for giving me the opportunity tonight

I didn't get a chance to write a formal response I have a bunch of notes so I'm just going to read

my notes so I was looking at this attachment the zoo fundraising report date of January 2025 and

that's really what I'm going to speak to some people really aren't good at finance or financing I

spent 25 years doing budgets for the county of Sacramento so I pretty much understand how the budget

process works it can be very confusing and complicated and some people just aren't really good at

finance some people can't bounce a putt checkbook or they don't understand how to finance a car or a

home some people don't get their taxes paid on time but whatever it is some people just aren't good at

it and I don't really expect all of you to know everything about everything that shows up on the

agenda we there's just no way that you guys have the breath and knowledge of everything we ask you to

vote on so but when you don't know you really should hire an expert and and that will lend

some credibility to the process and give you the additional knowledge that you need to make sure

that we make sound financial decisions on this zoo I'm looking over this document it it it

the form itself doesn't say who filled it out doesn't give you contact information there's no

totals on it that there's no one accepting a responsibility for these numbers it's just a

holy inadequate document for how much money we're talking about you could drive a truck through this

document I've been over it a couple times and it doesn't make sense these numbers don't add up

it just doesn't I think we need an independent CPA firm that the first of every year they do a

year-in-review from the year before they provide you a document that's not an anonymous spreadsheet

that doesn't have any documentation or supporting reports attached we really must ensure that

the financial stability and integrity of this agreement or we're going to have a situation

where the zoo's going to come back and say we couldn't raise all our money and we're stuck with

the additional money a citizens because we are we I can't figure out this report I'm sorry I just

can't figure it out so in addition with with the executive director and our own finance director

leaving it's like someone's dropped the ball here we don't have anybody watching the store

so I really think I'm asking for you guys to get some expert knowledge in finance before you

make any more financial decisions thank you miss lady next up is Brooke co

hi good evening thank you for having me my name is Brooke co and I'm the education program manager

at the soccerman of zoo I've been working at the zoo for 17 years as an educator doing camps

classes pre-school scout days home school all kinds of it all everything pretty much but I have

also been an Elk Grove resident for the last 15 years and I'm raising my family here my oldest

daughter is going to start Harriet Eddie middle school in the fall so as a zoo employee as and an

Elk Grove resident I am extremely thrilled that this project continues to move forward I am very

excited for the new zoo and Elk Grove for a number of reasons one because I live here and it would

be a closer commute for me which is great not that as far now but you know Elk Grove is great

but also because as an educator I look forward to really creating excellent partnerships with

Elk Grove unified and Elk Grove community I love the new name and I am super excited about how it

incorporates the entire region running so many programs at the zoo I see people who come all the

way from Reno and Modesto to the Sacramento Zoo so having this new site is really going to be

an excellent destination for the greater Sacramento region so I encourage you to approve the name

and continue the process for the new zoo and Elk Grove thank you very much for your time thank you

Ms. Coe I believe that is our final speaker so I will go ahead and close the public comment

opportunity and open it up for questions comments and follow up we'll start to the left this time

council member soon thank you mayor just a clarification pledges are allowed right as I will be

said earlier okay thank you and let me let me clarify so there's various milestones into funding

agreement there was one last May there's one January there's another one coming up this May

through that process there's there's the obligation is that they submit pledges to us that show either

cash in hand or pledges and we have to verify that those pledges are accurate and so we send staff

up there verify that when they receive cash they remit that cash to us as it goes and we've received

$1.9 million in cash today before we go to construction on the zoo in any in any capacity we need to

have the full $50 million cash in the deposit in our bank account before we go to construction until

we go to construction pledges and or a combination of cash are sufficient that's what the funding agreement says

okay thank you that clarification I I like to I'd love to see the progress that the drawing is

coming along I had your say 30% design and beginning construction in in 2027 is that just on

the off sites or off sites and on sites it would be for both in 2027 for both oh that's fantastic

okay very very excited to hear that I I have to ask about the naming convention good I actually

I feel like we should have probably started off the conversation I know down the numbers you know

I'm gonna take that from you right now okay we don't want we can explain yes all right go ahead yes so

it there was a very robust committee not just that included public relations experts those

all zoological society city staff and then of course both of us and we were presented with

seven I want to have ten I'm seeing ten yeah a lot of options this is the only one that actually

received a unanimous support the others weren't even and say I would say even half and I don't want

to give you a sampling I'm because I didn't write them down but they were somewhere aspirational

you know but we're just that's we're out bro of it Sacramento the name having Sacramento zoo was

very important I think for a lot of people and then of course our city so we did not want to

separate the two and when it comes to fundraising and something that's been around for you know

a hundred years there is of course the nostalgic of impact for that but then and greater plays up

like they showed on the slide it's not only bigger but it's greater it's better it's going to

it's at a great civic amenity for the region not just the city of Elk Grove so we try to encapsulate

sort of all of those things and then Elk Grove was a nonstarter obviously as mayor and then our

council member Rod Brewer we wanted to make sure that obviously the name Elk Grove was well

represented so what you see is a result of a lot of discussions back and forth but this is the

one name I will say had unanimous support and how many were on our in our group gosh there was

15 20 maybe 20 people it was a big group so when you think of 10 names 20 people trying to come

back to something that everybody supported I was you know I was actually pleasantly surprised

when we all put forth you know what are our top two the top two were pretty much in sync too

between I would say top three but between two and three you still had a gap of probably four to five

that just you know they weren't supportive so the fact that this had unanimous support it captured

what the hopes were for for the zoological society what we think in terms of public relations

and then of course now we get to if we move forward with this name it really does help kick off

that fundraising drive once you have an actual name for a project it also helps I don't want to

necessarily go over all of those names what I do what I want to avoid is what happens I think

with district 56 when you when you committee something to death and and keep hiring and spending

money and then come back to something very simple this is this is something that I think has been

vetted by professionals that are in the you know with with the the public relations firm that

brought us some great names but some of the other names were just really just beyond who we are

it's they're they're just too big and it's not we're not the San Diego Zoo this is this is you know

this encapsulates sort of who we are and what we want to be so I don't know council member brewer what

else would you like to add to that I think you said you said concisely and correctly yeah when

when we went through the process we had of the names that were out there yet some that were

that definitely sound like we were having an amusement park and that's not what we wanted to do

you had some that were they were missing the mark and and what we were looking at especially from

a tourist standpoint where you're you're coming to Sacramento there's a number of attractions

that bring you to Sacramento and for a lot of those folks who have that nostalgia of the Sacramento Zoo

um but now they've heard and seen that the zoo is bigger more attractions um especially given

that the footprint right now was 14 points out of the nakers so that also pleaded into the to the

picture as well the imagery is when you're coming to Sacramento you have stuff you want to do

you know the Sacramento Zoo is still here but it's it's in a it's in a bigger facility it's in

elk grove and so it was it was one of them naming processes where people as we made things very grand

it was nice and concise it was it was the simplicity that made that made this decision work for

everyone and I think that's what what really brought this name to the forefront more than the other

recommendations and it's it's in a lot of ways it's fitting that the greater Sacramento Zoo

and elk grove ended up being that a key name because it embraces everything about the Sacramento

Region but it also embraces elk grove as well so I definitely appreciate that I haven't gone through

the the the district's sick naming process it's such sorry I forgot how to yeah I know it was you

know it was what it is same thing the marketing thing but but I just have to ask so I think I know

the answer but I still need to ask is the same plan on words the elk grove zoo of greater Sacramento

did it was at bounce that at all no you it wasn't thought it was actually not in that way

not in that way but there it was interesting it one of the names that were in the that was up there

on the board for consideration was the elk grove zoo of the greater Sacramento region and that

was just too long it just it sounded awkward I know but elk grove zoo of greater Sacramento is this

true but you have but the other alternative was elk grove's animal kingdom I know I'm not saying that

I'm keeping I'm keeping with exactly what you proposed but I'm I understand

I mean trust me as as mayor we want our name front and center but this is where we really had to

step back a little bit and say and and then look at just the big picture we're in Sacramento

County greater Sacramento where we're in the county we even I mean we even consider something like

this you know the San Francisco 49ers and where they're look but they're still San Francisco

there was zero interest obviously in just having this be the Sacramento zoo that was a non-strategic

starter and and the good uses that was actually never offered up but what was important was both

names whether they're you know what's first versus second we can have that discussion but I think

from a holistic perspective the name just sort of flowed if you want others that were in the

committee I mean this is not this should not be just you know this is not just Rod and I but others

yeah I mean I I would ask if since it wasn't brought up I would ask for consideration because

a couple of things what first of all I totally appreciate the nostalgia of the Sacramento zoo I

born and raised a Sacramento you know long time Sacramento family history took my kids all going

to Sacramento the same thing very very much so but here we are we're relocating it to outgrow we're

making a massive massive investment in the city of Elk Grove land that we acquired that we are

fundraising for that we are you know taking this mantle on to to build a new zoo expand on it

continue the tradition of the Sacramento zoo having it say Elk Grove Zoo in greater Sacramento

is very similar to Sacramento zoo of greater Elk or getter Sacramento zoo in Elk Grove now the

other thing I would point out is 50 years from now nobody is going very few people are going to

remember the nostalgia we're talking about that are that the Sacramento is you know our grandkids

and great grandkids they will only know the zoo that is in Elk Grove and that's why I I just

submit for consideration that having Elk Grove zoo greater Sacramento offers a lot of the same

things that the committee was looking for and but it it's appropriate because it literally is in

Elk Grove and if we want to keep putting our city on the map I feel like it that should be a

proud moment and it's it's it's it is very accurate to say Elk Grove zoo in greater Sacramento and

we could even put more you know whether it's a plaque or a note or something that talks about

the the Sacramento zoo right in front right front center so people can see what you know the

history of how it got there so I and I really appreciate all the hard work because I know it's

really hard to do the naming and there was a fun discussion I will say it there were there was

there were we were there for a while I agree I hear you and like said it that that particular name

sounded this like wasn't actually considered so I offer that up now to you I don't know that it

was considered in that quite way I what I don't and if someone has that list where it was we can

show the list I think one of the other things I think is important that the people that were around

the table was from the fundraising for such fundraising what what's what name what you know as the

zoological society and the city are going out to bring in naming sponsors and other people that

want to contribute to the zoo what name is going to resonate most to bring in the dollars necessary

to construct the zoo so that was part of the discussion and we had people in the room that were

kind of looking at it from that perspective and I don't know this name wasn't considered so I don't

know whether this would change that at all in that perspective but that was another lens that

that we viewed the name through yeah did you want to see that I don't do you actually have all of the

names we have we can see that yeah so these were I mean yeah I mean I know I hear you don't have

the name right now right I mean I well the kind of do because of fundraising oh it does matter

to have a name and I've been told that by the entire fundraising team particularly our fundraising

grew that having the name it helps with all of the collateral the marketing everything that's going

to go forward so can we bounce this off and bring it back next meeting for well let's do something

if yeah if that's okay let me just say just one moment so in the in the conversation there was kind

of two names that rose to the top one was the greater Sacramento Zoo at Elbrough which ultimately

is the recommendation and then another name was the golden state zoo at Elcrow here is a listing of

all the names kind of in the different categories you'll see the red names are where the top two names

I mean I'll let you just kind of read those I won't read them all out but yeah

yeah I mean I these these so you know like I said those two that you see in red one had unanimous

support the other had decent support but when it comes to anything beyond that there was really

no rallying around anything and we did look at creative you know I think we talked even about

I don't know what this combination but people were just offering up also just other names but

this is this is not an easy thing because this is going to be here forever absolutely I mean

that that it is will be it will be your forever I appreciate what you're saying yeah absolutely

we're putting Elcrow on the map right I mean and we are we are relocating this the Sacramento Zoo

are making sure it stays around I I think even from a fundraising perspective the I'll call it

just accurate geography the Elcrow Zoo at Greater Sacramento I think would still be a good fundraising

effort everybody knows what I will say is let's bring up somebody from the Sacramento Zoological Society

oh I see Liz already um to help us because this was you know it was hard this was hard I believe

you I do I do but fundraising of course being a critical path to getting to achieving all of this

is key and and first let me say I so appreciate that you all are so invested in coming up with the

right name for the zoo it just shows how much we all care about getting it right yeah I think it's

important just in and I'll kind of generally answer the the questions or the concerns you've raised

with respect to fundraising with respect to kind of identity and continuity to help us continue to

to one draw on our existing donor base as well as to motivate people in this region to support

our significant fundraising obligations over the next few years it really on our side with

respect to the society and the fundraising team we really believe it has to be Sacramento Zoo at Elcrow

there I think there's also some concerns we discussed in the committee about as people from outside

of the local region are orienting themselves and trying to figure out you know is this an attraction

I want to come see and where is it that they're going to look and and that's why some of these names

that weren't as geographically specific fell off because we want people to be able to go oh Sacramento

zoo I'm heading to the Sacramento area I know where that zoo is oh it's in Elcrow great you know we're

for people outside of the region who may not know where Elcrow is right over then you know that

period that also matters I think we also believed in you know as someone we we are very proud of the

nearly hundred year history of the Sacramento Zoo and certainly you know biased as the president

of the Sacramento Zoological Society it was really something that that on the society side we think

really matters to show that continuity of the commitment to this community and the reality is most

people are going to call it the Sacramento Zoo and so we want to embrace that but also then point

them to see more in Elcrow right and to recognize the that we wouldn't be doing this without Elcrow

right and it's so important to us that Elcrow would be part of a name I don't know if that helps at

all no because because I don't know that I agree that most people were going to call the Sacramento

Zoo if you call it the Elcrow Zoo at greater Sacramento how about people who relocate here from

another city how about the city of Anaheim before they had Anaheim Stadium were they just that

city that was LA that had Disneyland in it these these things take time and if we are forever you know

if we want to actually make our own identity something as huge as this think about this folks this

is the largest capital project that this city has ever embarked on it is on the scale of Golden

One Center arena in the city of Elcrow right and we are going to name it after our sister which I

beloved city of Sacramento which I loved here that grew up there again I 100 year history my

family there so it's not nothing against Sacramento I'm just saying we the city of Elcrow

are investing all that and yet we're going to we're going to give our name away and call it the

Sacramento Zoo at Elcrow and then even the even the graphic I'm sorry I care about it's not a

graphic it gives a big old you know greater Sacramento Zoo and then tiny little Elcrow on the bottom

I just think we are making huge investments of resources in capital costs and efforts to help

fundraise unless you tell me the Sacramento City Council I'd love all of them dearly are they

going to be helping us fundraise for this as well because if the city of Sacramento is not putting

up resources to and I just use this thing as a comparison I'm not not planning them at all

I'm just saying we're putting all this money up and we're giving away our naming rights

I'm our naming rights that's what we're doing we're putting so I just I want to give a nod to

to the Sacramento Zoo and the greater Sacramento region because everybody is going to come here

I just don't understand why having Elcrow the Zoo of greater Sacramento is so different than

Sacramento Zoo of greater of greater Sacramento Zoo of Elcrow I don't I don't know why that would

make such a big difference from fund fundraising perspective well I would say it does it does have

a continuity issue with respect to our fund raising that we do have people who have supported the

Sacramento Zoo in some cases generations through their family who live all over this region already

and so the fact that it's called the Sacramento Zoo hasn't impacted their support we do have

concerns about shifting the name the Elcrow Zoo and greater Sacramento doesn't it isn't really a

nod to the Sacramento Zoo it breaks the continuity of the Sacramento Zoo that that that I think would be

so here different in that way when you flip it it isn't the same but I guess I would just say

it isn't too for the with respect to the society the the fund raising consultants all the people

we talked to it's not so much about the city of Sacramento we are in Sacramento County and the

Sacramento Zoo is an institution with a hundred year legacy of supporting the community and so we

believe those values mattered in terms of of keeping the name uh I you know obviously they're you saw

there's so many other names and we we had a very spirited discussion and walked through a lot of

these topics but I think they're I think we we believe that the name and that we work through in this

process is the right name so well I've done the graphics are separate we didn't approve those or

make a deal on graphic so I think two council members soon's point and this is why discussion is

always good I hear what you're saying and here's so I'm not saying that I've changed my mind per say

but what I am saying this is a this is the largest commitment in our city nobody else is part of

you know there's the fundraising but that most of the money is coming from our city our residents

so I I completely understand where you're coming from um

I don't know yeah I I don't know that I am now I you've convinced me a lot right now

I don't necessarily want to start over because I you know we we need to we need to raise money we have

deadlines agreed you tell me why we need to have a name right now well I don't think right now okay

I think we we do believe that it needs to be resolved because we have fundraising deadlines that

you're all expecting us to meet and this is a challenge for us not having a name identified I will

also say if you shift the name around and it becomes to a morpheus you're also creating a fundraising

challenge for us I don't know what the final name but you you just need to be mindful of how the

naming can impact our fundraising efforts I I don't think it has to be right now but obviously

if there's a desire to take more time I think you should do that because it's an important decision

I just think it it needs to move relatively quickly well I would love to hear from other colleagues

what I think is important um is knowing that we have options and that is it doesn't have to be tonight

however I don't know like I said I don't I think I know where Rod is because we're on the subcommittee

but I myself feel a little bit on pause right now based on the passionately

um that you made which is very valid and strong but I'm also mindful of where we need to go

where we need to be so that we can have a zoo so those are those are important to I totally appreciate

that Marion and I thank you for for the consideration I I would if we can you know since we don't

have it today can we this just shop that one yeah let's see where we are let's see where we all are

um thank you but I will just put myself on pause for now I I understand what you're saying

but I also the process that we had I don't know that what kind of name would we would come out with

you if not your version or some other version um I'm not sure where where we would necessarily land

that would make everyone happy someone inevitably is going to be unhappy period right branding is

important so that's where you know when we had the PR folks come they were helpful

um in this process and so having a subcommittee um is part of that process as well so

do I want to start all over personally I don't want to start all over however if you know let

well let's just see where we all land um but I see the value of both of both of the arguments of

where we came together as a subcommittee we're not going to have a zoo without the funding period

right so that's important to me and now I would love to hear maybe even from our fund is our

fundraising guru here our outside consultants are not here they're not okay because I I would be

curious just you know as we raise money where how is that going to factor in to be honest we

because of the conversation and the expectation that we had resolved the naming issue we we didn't

anticipate that you would want to hear addition you know addition discussion well it's no you

you haven't met Alkar City Council and this happens and certainly you know there are the 300

million I just want to encourage you to remember too there's 50 million coming from our fund

raising community there's another 30 million that we're raising from third parties and there's

also a significant repayment obligation on the bonds that the society will be fulfilling

right so we are very significant partners in this as well um we obviously couldn't

doing this without you but we are partners and we want to be sure everybody is as happy as they

can be right with with every piece of this appreciate that Liz and look I we also learned through

the district of these like process that names whatever name you choose will adopt you know people

they'll they'll adopt it because that's what it's called in in the future so once we name it it's

name once we name and and from so from a fund raised perspective I mean I know people will

it may not like the name but I personally and suspicious that somebody is going to

who is passionate about the zoo there's that passionate they're writing you know seven figure

checks or whatever five figure checks they are not going to shy away because two words are switched

around and therefore not like the zoo that's hard for me to believe I mean so I know you might

feel differently but I I'm just saying if if that if no zoo is the alternative to a zoo with two

words swapped around and greater geographical accuracy I would say I mean I think that that would

they would still they would still contribute or I mean how hard are we selling it you know I mean

that that's the other thing so go ahead sorry no no I know you want to speak I know I appreciate

you giving you have anything otherwise I'm going to go down the I just wanted to reference that one

of the things that we will be doing in order to support our fundraising obligation is looking for

sponsorships from nationwide entities right that want to have a presence in this area Sacramento

will be more meaningful to those entities that are outside of the region and therefore want to be

able to say we're in the state capital region that that is a name a name draw that matters for people

who are outside of the community that's an example of some of the the thinking behind it

is it exclusive no there are people here and we all know where Elk Grove is but I think that's

part of the balance as well because some of the significant fundraising will come in the form of

sponsorships and multi-year kind of naming rights and those are likely to come from entities

outside of the region for whom Sacramento will will be more meaningful that help wrote so is it

because of the geographic or is it because this is the one of the for the for zoo in the world

that they are doing and would they have done it for any new zoo in the world in a different

city let's say if you're talking about you're reaching out out of the region they may have some

idea of where Sacramento is but my my hunch is they're investing because they believe a new zoo

is being built in the world and if that's the case it's almost it could be I mean again

well and it would not go pick any different city but it could be any city USA and the new zoo

with the with the top notch you know practices facilities if that type of donor is investing in

a zoo that is not within their region they're looking at what they're investing in not necessarily

because they have heard of Sacramento or El Grove or whatever city right I would I would hope

if they're writing this check not necessarily but I also think if that if the depending on what

the council believes if those are questions then they're probably better answered by I mean we

can have a more robust discussion about that if people are undecided about the current name

but generally speaking I think when you find that you know generally corporations who are

investing in it in the zoo project it's less necessarily because they are excited about our

facilities and more because they're thinking this is a big draw for people and families and we want

our name in front of people and so they'll look at the read they'll look at the region I don't even

know if we can we can say that they're saying because we love zoos right they're they're looking at

for marketing purposes and being located near the capital and so that those are the things that

we are at least understanding matter but again I'm speaking very generally and so I yeah but you

said all of that without using the name of the city that's my point that you you did all of that

without using a name of any city I think what what the councilman soon is trying to say is you don't

have to utilize the name of the city when doing the fundraising it can be the other greater

Sacramento zoo right but it's still one we want to put Elk Grove in the front as when it comes

to signage so do you want to wait you want to are you done so that we can go yeah sorry sorry thank

you Mary no no come back for more questions or comments and this is a very this we haven't we

haven't spoken on this passionately on on a single subject in a while so this is very good

and ultimately everyone will benefit from this process because it you know we have to take it out

to the community as well and we're also here to help you and and again and we may I may not have

I certainly don't have all the information yeah I think if there are questions that's why I was saying

I think maybe I'm not the person answer some of those okay no that's fair but let's go let's go

down the road um and let's let's hear from our vice mayor I believe the best thing would probably

be to push it out at least for the next meeting um because councilman so what you said you

articulated then the best way and I think that's correct okay so you feel a new name yes well

I want to say with with what he said in the edition like Elk Grove right I think you want Elk Grove

first I'm just saying Elk Grove Zoo at Greater Sacramento I just switched two words and the

made that you that was before and I understand the fundraising aspect when it comes to fundraising

you don't necessarily have to say the first part right you can say hey the Greater Sacramento Zoo

um so but we're talking about the naming of it as far as at least what I'm thinking and you can

correct me if I'm wrong as far as what the zoo is going to say from the outside walking in right

you can still do the fundraising you can drop you know the city of Elk Grove but you can say the last

part that you want to say at least that's the way I'm thinking right so if I'm doing fundraising I'm

going to fundraise for the for the zoo I'm going to say the Sacramento Zoo obviously it's in Elk Grove

it's just the name it's going to be different when you're walking in I mean I guess conceivably

conceivably there could be some multi billionaire that wants to name the zoo period that can still happen

to by the way and if that happens we don't have to meet anymore as a committee.

So I'm just throwing it out there like you know you've got the golden one arena I mean conceivably

things can happen I'm just saying more seriously our expectation was that whatever the name of the

zoo would be that if there were a sponsor who wanted to have naming rights over the zoo and

working with the city that you know it could be you know the the Allen family zoo at my five

hours no yeah we would we would find room to put the name for the significant donor that we'd

like to support the project right right I'm I'm come well we can let us know let's so we'll come

back to you council member broor because you've chimed in a bit but I'd love to hear from council

members please okay so on the subject in general I do want to put a punctuation point one more time

in that pledges are acceptable cash is acceptable but before a shovel is turned on site

there will be cash in hand correct correct we all got it bingo all right so my blood pressure comes

down all right so the okay so on the naming no no ill intent or no no insult

towards Sacramento but I think it also has to be recognized in marketing particularly outside

of the area Sacramento itself doesn't always have the best name either right so it people have

people outside of the state and even within the state have challenges with Sacramento so I don't

know that I'm certainly not beholden to using Sacramento in its current place right all right so two

things no matter what happens whatever name you have the longer it is it will be concatenated

okay and so if you have whatever the first suggestion was what was it the greater

Sacramento to do it also if you have that people will concatenate to Sacramento Zoo that will happen

district 56 I call it D 56 I actually call it D 50 tricks that's what I call it my friends

doko you know downtown commons became doko right so I I'm concerned about the length of the name

particularly as people will then concatenate it so with that then I also want it and with all

deference appreciation that this is absolutely a partnership with the Sacramento Zoo

A logical society as well as other organizations through the Sacramento Valley the single largest

donor to this project is the Oak Grove Tax Paying Homosapien and we need to make sure that their name

is accurately reflected in that so I can support delaying to have further conversation or I could

support councilmember suens recommendation to change it to Oak Grove Zoo at or in greater Sacramento

um but um I really appreciate your opinion relative to that Darren I think you said it better than

I could I couldn't figure out what was bothering me about it um I knew I didn't like it because

there's pride right I mean it's a it's a big deal and it's a big price tag again with with much

respect to a partners this is um the biggest donors Oak Grove Tax Pairs so good point that's

where I'm at with it um either I can support oh but you had one more uh why don't you go ahead and

you want me to throw that you were saying throw it out or you had it um I had one too okay well

forward you say it um it was Oak Grove Zoo in Sacramento Valley of Sacramento or of Sacramento Valley

instead of the greater uh greater Sacramento so I guess what I'm saying is I mean there there are

still some good ideas here I don't have to put a pin in Oak Grove Zoo and so I can either go

with Oak Grove Zoo or support a different conversation a off not enough like I was like further

conversation right so this is what I think I will offer out I think staff has an idea of where the

passions are and know that those passions were communicated um in the subcommittee we actually

wanted brought you know we did want our name front and center but I at the time we had you know

the we had consultants in the room and others in the room so I think it begs the conversation

um to continue this with you know with fundraising I don't know what you know what you might need

to put as a placeholder of anything um but we want to do this right because you don't get to

do this naming all the time and it is important to factor in what we heard this evening

from council colleagues and how passionate I think everybody is we love our city but most

importantly this is a very very big largest investment from the city of Oak Grove and so

just another further conversation taking in accordance of sort of you know what we heard this

evening would your preference um Jason be setting up another ad hoc meeting or do we want to do

this in a more smaller group I think I think we want to get to resolution relatively quickly in our

next meeting is not till February 12th yeah well I think we got we have direction from council I think

they're you know council's interested in exploring the name with Oak Grove Zoo at the front

I think there's probably some permutations surrounding that that we can explore a little bit we

can have some further conversations with the zoological site and we can we can bring this back to you

uh I know there's timing is important so I think the sooner we make a decision on this the better

there are some deadlines coming up with their funding we need to extend those deadlines a few weeks

to factor I why don't what I don't want to what I don't want to do is be an obstacle yeah I mean

I think we go for anything I think we can do that we need to adjust things by a month I'm good with

that but I I want to do this right and I don't want again this to be any catalyst for well we couldn't

move forward and therefore you know we didn't get to this the the amount that we needed because we

didn't have those critical three weeks so I I would rather move that around a little bit if needed

to factor in that because the name is important obviously um to everybody here we can't we can

we can't just move the the deadlines around there's funding agreements in place no yes

yes so my preference would be that that do we have some conversations and we schedule this as

quickly as we as we can so whether that's the next meeting or the meeting after that um I think

I think we can I think the next meeting is good yeah so we have some options I say we come back

with three options yeah and then we can share those options we so Rod and I can be available

since we're on the subcommittee with whomever immediately yeah I think try to get to some place

we'll circle with our our partners there's a lot of society and see if they have any input on

on that as well so we can come back with some options that addresses the councils intent and

that we think we can use for fundraising and other other other things so yeah I think we have

direction we need okay so this is a partnership we're we're in this to see this all the way through

and we're here to help you but of course we want to make sure that we get the name right yeah so

thank you for your passion there council members so and thank you and everybody else but thank you

specifically sorry media we don't have a name to share with you just yet but it's coming you can

do the fundraising plug on the media lovey Sacramento to lovey Sacramento to all right so with

that we we have direction on we're going to come back with some options at the next meeting all right

so we don't have anything to vote on right now so we will move on let's move on to our next item

that'll be item 9.3 to receive an update on city council priority projects and provide direction

as desired

Next, come to.

Thank you.

Good evening once again, Mayor and Council, I'm Femme Amotecia.

And this report is an update on City Council priority projects and for

Council to provide direction as desired.

At the Council's retreat on March 10, 2023, some projects were identified as

high priority to ensure the successful implementation of the adopted mission, vision, and goals.

This presentation is one of the manual staff reports on the progress of implementing

this priority projects.

Please note that the city's goals focus on fostering a vibrant and sustainable

community with the resilient economy, a safe environment, and a high performing

government and infrastructures that support current and future needs.

Of the 30 projects deemed as high priority, presenting some high-lighted accomplishments,

and this update covers the period through December 2024.

The first one is the Elbrough Library Relocation.

Construction contract was awarded for the new Elbrough Library, including enhanced

spaces for children and teens.

Construction is anticipated to begin in spring 2025, with a possible opening in spring or summer

2026.

The next highlighted accomplishment is the Lagnacric Trail Overcrossing.

Advanced planning has been approved, and the environmental document is currently

under review by Carl Trans.

A sum of 10.65 million in grant funding has been secured for this project.

And the next is the Climate Action Plan.

Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Focust has been completed, draft strategies and actions

developed, and staff is currently working on cost analyses and public engagements.

The fourth is addressing homelessness in Elbrough.

Two homeless service navigators have been filled.

A 24-7 homeless shelter operational with 30 beds, including five emergency beds for

Elbrough PDs used.

Staff continues to explore further solutions to addressing homelessness.

And the last one is road maintenance.

The sum of 2.05 million in major eFonds was allocated for pavement maintenance.

The Lagnac believer to be gone with the pavement project is currently on the way.

The public works inspector was hired to manage the projects.

Staff is currently developing a comprehensive pavement maintenance strategy.

This is the end of the highlighted accomplishment.

I just want to underscore the fact that the City Council retreats its plan for Thursday, February 2025,

the current mission, vision, goals and priority projects will be reviewed.

Thank you.

Any questions?

All right.

Well, thank you for your report.

I'm going to open up public comment.

I do not have anyone signed up to speak.

I'll go ahead and close the public comment opportunity.

Any questions, comments, directions, all star to the right.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Dr. Femme, thank you very much for the update.

I appreciate it.

A lot of good work out there.

I'm really glad to see that we've obviously got the shelter up and running.

And I think it's doing good things.

I don't know if it's the crummy weather later late lately.

I've seen that when I drive around recently, it appears there are less homeless on the street.

And that's just purely from unscientific review.

But I'm really glad to see that I think we're working in the right direction, particularly with new legislation that helps us.

And thank you again, not the update on the overpass.

I think that's going to be a very beautiful thing that particularly district three folks can be looking forward to in the next couple of years.

So thank you, Dr. Femme.

Councillor Member Brewer.

I concur with Councillor Member Speises.

Assessment is remarks and I definitely want to thank Dr. Femme for the summary.

I like what I'm seeing specifically with the progress that we're doing with the library.

And with railroad street.

And also looking at the camera road corridor urban design study implementation.

And the update for the old town special planning area.

Those things are very important for me because those two things they're going to really help in terms of the growth in the revitalization for those corridors of district two.

And especially the old town special planning area part because folks are asking when are we going to address the update for the SPA for old town.

And I think it looks like we're 75% there.

And I think that's a good progress.

But looking forward to those further discussions as we have something that we can talk to the neighbors about.

And as we get towards ratifying it.

And so a lot of good things to share in here.

Looking at the light rail extension.

The passenger inner city rail service projects as well.

Light rail extension obviously at 25%.

But there's the bus rapid transit that goes stand in for a temporary basis until that gets done.

And so it provides much needed resources, especially for as the kids are coming to and from fortune school.

They're having to walk up to white walk road over to.

Consumas or to Pinkerton middle school to catch the RT.

But as they make that walk, it's very dangerous as some of them find themselves walking on the street and on the sidewalk.

Looking at ways to help mitigate any sort of danger.

And that is very important for me as well.

But on the whole, this is very promising in terms of priorities.

I want to thank you for sharing this update with us.

And very appreciative of looking forward to engaging on February 20th.

Councilmember Sohn.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Dr. Femme, for this presentation.

Talk about the shiny thing earlier, but these are really important things.

So I'm really glad to see our trail moving along and as Councilmember Spiesen and Brub mentioned about the.

The homeless shelter being up and running critically important now for our city as well.

So this is very good news.

Thank you.

Vice mayor.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you, Dr. Femme, just for your hard work on this and for updating us.

I'm looking forward next week to helping out at the homeless shelter and providing food and then looking forward for the retreat.

So thank you.

Thank you, another excellent report.

Thank you for the update.

I don't have anything further to add than what my colleagues already have.

So thank you.

And you get to stay right up there for the next update.

That'll be item 9.4, which is receive information on regional planning commissioners stipends.

Okay.

I remain familiar.

This session is to provide information on the regional planning commissioners stipend and for the council to provide direction as needed.

The December 11, 2024 city council meeting council members, please.

Requested a review of the current monthly stipend for planning commissioners, which was supported by the mayor and other council members.

This is an informational report in response to that request.

A detailed review of planning commissioner compensation in 11 neighboring cities was completed by staff presented here at the findings.

Currently, Elgrouf planning commissioners receive a sum of $75.00 per meeting.

As we can see up here, some jurisdiction do not some jurisdictions do not provide their planning commissioners any stipend.

While the highest sum paid by any is the sum of $150 per meeting.

I like to know that an update was provided on the frequency of stipend for the city of Rockland to reflect a monthly average of two meetings per month.

And coincidentally, they have the highest of 150 per meeting.

The official survey identified an average meeting stipend of $57.92.

And of the jurisdiction survey, no jurisdiction indicated they had any planned increase.

So I'll leave this slide up for you to review.

And I'm available for any questions you might have this week.

Thank you for doing the research and getting us back this information.

As it relates to our planning commissioners, I know there's been some interest in this.

I will go and open up public comment. I don't have anyone signed up.

I'll start to our former planning commissioner.

I did bring this one up, but I know that there has been other conversation as well.

First, I want to say that past planning commissioner, George Murphy, after he was off the planning commission, I know he probably made a request to only one other of you because we certainly wouldn't do brown act.

But he made a request that we take a look at it.

And he said that he had thought about asking about it before, but he didn't want to ask while he was on planning commission.

So he had asked, you know, can you take a look at it and see if it's appropriate throughout the valley, right?

So they've done that.

And when I was looking through it, I said, OK, if I was doing back in the napkin math, right, of is this at that 80% or at the 80th percentile, right?

You know, you would throw out the zero and you throw out essentially the $150 per meeting.

And you basically wind up with that $75 at about the 80th percentile, right?

And so, you know, I don't think any significant drastic changes required.

I think it's OK if we leave it at 75, maybe, you know, at the most, you know, go up another $5 to $80, which in the grand scheme of things is not horribly significant, right?

Because I think that we're about right with where we are to the planning commission right now.

So that's where I'm at with it.

I'm OK with leaving it as is or a very small increment.

OK. Council member Brewer.

I want to thank Dr. Femme for the report.

And this is this is very helpful because as looking at the numbers about everyone is compared on.

You get a feel for how the other cities are and for comparisons looking at how Rockland and Lincoln are measured along with such as heights.

It definitely provides for good measurement of the two.

I mean, it feels like, especially as the city is continuing to grow, I wouldn't be opposed to increasing the stipend to $100 per meeting.

I just feel that the work that the planning commissioners do is definitely something that I've grown to respect, especially from my years on the CSD board.

And see how pass commissioners dive into the work, into the research, engaging with all the stakeholders and making sure that the decisions that they make are solid recommendations for a city.

And it holds true today from the original planning commission that Pat was a part of our supervisor, Hume, to the most past version of the planning commission that George Murphy led along with Council Member Spice, Council Member Roblas.

And seeing to the current composition of today's commissioners, I feel that it's a, it's a, knowing that they put a lot of hours, many hours into making these very difficult decisions on land use and how the community is being shaped before the Council makes the vote.

I mean, five dollars.

If the will of the Council is to go to some other number, I'm happy to go so I'm not going to die on this one.

If everybody says it's going to be $100.

Okay.

I'm going.

Okay, just checking.

Council Member Suen.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, I'm totally fine too with adjusting them to just be even, even $100.

Again, there's our S.R.C.

Can you just grow more?

She's a Council Member.

Bruce mentioned it.

I agree with what he was saying.

They do a lot of work.

So appreciate it.

Vice mayor.

Madam Mayor, I agree $100 and happy to make the motion on that.

All right.

And I to support the $100 increase.

So I'm looking for.

So moved.

I don't know that with some motion, we're just giving direction.

I just give direction.

Bring it back.

$100.

$200.

$200.

Exactly.

It's going from $75 to $100.

$100.

We're playing where games now.

Pro zero.

You got to be clear.

Okay, very good.

We are going to go on to the next item.

Council comments, reports, feature agenda items.

I'll start to the left.

Anything to report?

Nothing to report.

Thank you.

I was not able to make the sewer disremean today.

I did make the sewer district meeting.

I am happy to announce that I'm on a new committee.

I think it's for.

Econ development.

The sewer district.

Okay.

Continuing on.

Council member.

Sacramento Public Library.

Board meets tomorrow at three o'clock.

And we are going to be at the county administrative offices building.

I mean, we've been trying to move it over to the city hall.

But we tend to get pulled back to the county administrative offices,

which is totally fine with me.

But yeah, tomorrow at three o'clock.

Should be a good, strong one hour meeting if not 90 minutes.

All right.

Wait, Mayor Horton.

All right.

I had a hearty along with you as well.

Council member.

And then in terms of just what's coming up.

So we've all seen the horrific fire.

And so we've seen the horrific fires in Southern California.

So the era where I did reach out to CSD.

To Dr Amanda Sheaherazade and our fire chief.

To provide us with an update.

So that our residents have an opportunity to learn sort of,

you know, where we stand, where we are.

And do an assessment.

So I want to thank the CSD and for protocol purposes.

They're going to do a presentation first to the CSD.

But I want to thank Jason.

I'm going to be in your report.

But I'm just mentioning it.

That it's coming up in the next council meeting.

I believe correct.

Or one of the next council.

I think it's the next one.

Yeah, it's going to be on the 12th.

And this is so that we all, you know, I'm sure you're all getting questions from residents.

And so just being proactive.

It's a good opportunity to have a check in with our with our fire chief and get an update.

So that we know what, you know, how we're doing.

So I don't know if there's going to be any coordination.

I think with the police department, I imagine there would be.

Yes, we'll, we'll cover the evacuation.

Correct.

Okay, perfect. Excellent.

So that's, be looking for that.

And I did have a question for you, Jason.

With our youth that we're here.

And I meant to ask it then what I thought about it after I closed it out.

We have some measure, e funding when it comes to youth programs.

Are we funding anything that they've identified in their survey?

Or is that something that is open for discussion?

Or have we already just has measure e decided what that's going to look like for the youth component of measuring funds?

That's a good question.

Most of the.

I don't need the answer now, but.

Yeah, the.

Yeah, the measure right now.

I believe we have funds for our youth services program that's operating by PD.

Most of the other youth programs are operated out of the CSV because they provide most of the youth service programs and Elk Grove.

So I don't believe that any of the programs that they've identified are funded out of measure partly because a lot of those programs are continuing programs that we do every year.

One of the things we've committed to is we don't supplant existing funding sources.

So we've traditionally funded out of general fund.

So we continue to do that.

And so we've done a lot of research that they came forward with a new budget asked to do some kind of program that took significant amount of dollars then measure is absolutely appropriate funding source for that it would fall within those priorities.

Most of the stuff they're proposing to do is either previously funded or is really insignificant amount that we can just cover on existing resources.

Okay, just some coordination with their with their commission and some of their findings with the survey.

And I'm sure the school district as well.

Okay, so with that I will go ahead and adjourn this meeting at 830 have a great evening everyone.