All right. Good evening, everyone. We have reconvened from closed session and there is nothing

to report. So with that, I will close the meeting, close the special meeting at 6.01 p.m.

And that takes us over to our regular meeting. I would like to call to order the Elk Grove

City Council of regular meeting. Today is Wednesday, February 26, 2025. The time is 6.01 p.m.

Clerk.

Thank you, Mayor. This meeting in the Elk Grove City Council is recorded with closed captioning.

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With that mayor, I would be moving into the roll call and for the roll call, I will start with Council Member Spees.

Present Council Member Brewer. Present Council Member Sue and here vice mayor Robles. Present and Mayor Sing Allen.

All right. Next up is our land acknowledgement. Assisting will be Council Member Robles.

We honor respect and acknowledge Elk Grove's first inhabitants, the plain mewoks, who lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since the time immemorial.

We commemorate and advocate their descendants, the Wulton Rancheria tribe, the only federalized recognized tribe in Sacramento County, who endure because of the bravity, resiliency and determination of their ancestors and tribal members and leaders.

All right. The next up is our pledge of allegiance. And if our Council Member colleague here, Rob Brewer, would you please assist this evening?

Thank you Mayor.

Right hand over your heart. Ready? Again.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for the distance,

one mission and another rally into this world with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Next up is our moment of silence. Please join us for a brief moment of silence.

Thank you. Next up is our approval of the agenda. I mean, I get a motion.

So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you. Next item, please.

Under section three, the closed session, there are no closed session items on the regular agenda that will advance us to section four presentations and announcements and that one item being item 4.1,

which is a proclamation recognizing March 2nd through 8th 2025 as women in construction week.

Excellent. I'd like to call up Michelle Nelson and representatives of the National Association of Women in Construction Sacramento, chapter 63 and members of the city public works department.

And Council Member Sue and we'll be reading the proclamation.

Thank you Mayor. Thank you, Michelle, for being here. Good evening.

So it's our honor to recognize the women in construction week for March 2nd through March 8th 2025.

That whereas the National Association of Women in Construction Sacramento, chapter 63 has distinguished itself for 60 years as the voice of women in construction in the Sacramento region, as well as Northern California.

And whereas work done by the Sacramento chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction has benefited the region through community development and educational programs.

And whereas the Sacramento chapter of NAWIC has unceasingly promoted the employment and advancement of women in the construction industry.

Whereas the construction community represented by the Sacramento chapter of NAWIC has been driving force in fostering community development through innovation and beautification projects, promotion of skill trades, careers and a positive vision of the future.

And whereas Sacramento chapter of the NAWIC has sought to achieve successful results of the Sacramento region surrounding areas in a cooperative spirit and other organizations.

Now therefore be a result of the City Council, the CDVL Grove hereby recognizes the National Association of Women in Construction Sacramento, chapter 63.

And it's many dedicated volunteers for its steadfast work on behalf and support of women in construction.

And do proudly proclaim the week of March 2nd through March 8th, 2025 as women in construction week.

Encourage all residents to congratulate the organization on its many accomplishments.

Congratulations and thank you for being here to see.

Thank you very, very much.

I will just say a short statement.

We would like to express our gratitude for this honor.

This is a testament to the strength, dedication, and the resilience of women in construction industry.

We look forward to continuing to build and inspire women.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

We'll be down there with the documentary.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations everyone.

Nice meeting you.

How are you?

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Go.

I'm fine.

Hi.

Hello.

I'm fine.

Good to see you.

Hello.

Good to see you.

I'm fine.

Hello.

Okay.

So this way.

That's okay.

Okay.

That was a good one.

All right.

One, two, three.

One more time.

One, two, three.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

It was nice to meet you.

Thank you so much.

And you guys can go.

It was easy.

I'll just say you have that.

Yes.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

All right.

Next up is our public comment.

I will go ahead and open up the public comment opportunity.

We have two speakers signed up.

Jamal Nyer,

followed by Steve Lee Jamal.

I'll make this brief.

Madam Mayor.

Please.

Please come up here and then use the microphone.

I was here in October 23 addressing the tenet problem we have

on Southern Way.

I'd like to thank you and the code enforcement for taking care of that

problem.

I thought it had already been addressed.

And now,

unfortunately it came up again.

And the same behavior.

That I was complaining about.

It's happened again.

This was Saturday night.

It's been on from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the morning.

Two officers came out.

Two elder police officers came out and one of them was apologize to this young lady

here who's making all this noise.

That he didn't know who the.

The neighbor who was calling the three.

I'm trying to go to sleep.

This is at 121 in the morning.

And the two officers came out there and you can see his.

The garage door is open and they're just talking out loud all night.

And this is the fourth time this year is happening.

For three this three this month and one last month.

It's getting a little tired.

Eight straight hours.

This went on.

Even with the two police officers there.

All he has to do is real it's real simple.

All he has to do is shut down the garage door.

Go in the house if they want a party.

But they do this all the time.

And all the.

The police do is go over and tell them.

The neighbor is complaining about you.

So.

And then they leave and they just keep doing the same thing.

It's just ongoing.

It's just ongoing.

It's just getting tired.

Thank you sir.

If you don't mind reaching out to me separately.

I'll try to set up a meeting.

Yeah, I can say I email you twice for this.

Oh, in 23.

For this one.

If you can reengage with me tomorrow.

Okay.

I don't know what we can do.

But I will certainly.

Sit down with you and see what we can do.

Okay. Thank you.

Let's see.

Next up is.

Steve Lee.

Good evening, council.

You know, I know you guys hate to see me up here.

And I hate to come up here.

I really do.

I dread coming up here because.

Usually I've got a complaint and.

I haven't been here since you guys gave yourselves at 310

percent increase salary increase.

I'm here to talk to that.

Back in the summer, you guys each gave yourselves a 310

percent increase on your your pay scale.

As a taxpayer.

I find it vehemently appalling that you guys gave yourself

that kind of an salary increase.

You five volunteers part time position to oversee

this city and it's tax dollars.

Thought it was prudent and well deserved to raise

your civil service pay over 300 percent.

For a part time job.

Our current national leader is looking for ways to slash

jobs and funding for every department in the national

government.

If he was aware of the ridiculous pay increase.

That you have a lot of yourself and he had your

restriction.

You'd all be fired.

Perhaps you should be fired.

A 300 percent raise is totally unjustified under the

most favorable of circumstances.

You should all be ashamed yourselves and embarrassed to

accept it.

And I've got a minute 40 left.

So let's just think about that for a second.

Okay.

300 percent your dry cleaning.

300 percent increase.

You know, it's it's crazy.

We've got people that are homeless.

We could be dealing with we could that money could be

put toward our tax dollars been putting toward better use

than paying you folks who work part time show up here

two nights two nights a month.

I know you do other work outside of being here and I

appreciate that.

But a 300 percent increase is just crazy.

My friends.

And I wish we had a full house because I don't think most

of the people in this town know about that.

But think about it.

300 percent increase each one of you.

Should all be ashamed yourselves.

Thank you about it.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Next up is Leroy Adams.

Yeah, some of you might know me my name is Leroy Adams.

I'm a great grandson of John Adams and John Quincy.

Adam 70 generations.

I'm also now the American Legion area of Chaplain.

I need to help with the city in the county to do the land

in the city in the county to do like to do and why you do

leachial agreements to build business parks.

So veterans could do business here with the national veteran

chamber of commerce.

Also, I'm honored to come from the city of North

Charleston, South Carolina.

My grandson is training now with Tim Scott.

I talk with his legislative director about the empowerment

zones and how we could get more money for the region to bring

more businesses and more veterans here.

Some of y'all might know my LinkedIn's on LinkedIn and

construction of 23,000 veterans in America in which

18, 100 are women owned businesses.

So I like them to come be a part of that stuff and make a

difference to our community.

Thank you.

Plus on the American Legion area one, Chaplain.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for being here.

If someone from our staff can connect with him on the

chamber issue, that would be great.

Mr. Don will connect with you.

Thank you or Tish.

Okay.

Excellent.

That is our final speaker for public comment.

So we will move on to our next item, which is our City

Managers report.

Good evening, Madam Mayor.

Vice Mayor members of the City Council, Jason Baram,

Intercity Manager.

Just a few items to report on this evening.

First of all, just a reminder, the city is inviting residents

to help honor the legacy of local veterans and emergency

responders by submitting a nomination for all across

veteran and public safety street naming program.

Nominations are accepted year round, but we're currently

promoting the program to repopulate the list for future

development program criteria and application details are

available on the city's website.

Shelves at the animal shelters pet food pantry are getting

low.

This program supports local pet owners in need.

Anyone interested in donating an open non prescription dry

pet food can drop up locations during the shelter hours,

which is 12 to 6 daily, and we're closed on Monday.

The recycling waste division is hosting a free compost

giveaway event for Elko residents this Saturday March 1st

from 11 to 2.

Just need to bring your shovel and any containers show up

at the at the swag and fill up as much as you need.

And then finally, this is the last week to submit a nomination

for the 2025 Stars of Service Volunteer Awards.

Help us to recognize extraordinary residents with the

annual award review, the award categories and submit

your nomination online before this Friday, February 28th.

And I close my report.

Happy answering questions to Council White House.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for your report.

Any questions, comments from colleagues?

Seeing none, thank you.

We'll move on to our next item, which is our consent calendar

items.

At this time, I will open up the public comment opportunity.

We do have two people signed up to speak on item 7.16.

We will start with Steve Lee followed by Kathy Lee.

Madam, there was 7.16 is that what you said?

That's what I'm going to say.

OK, that's fine.

I have got here at 17.6.

I knew that was wrong when I wrote it.

Related to item 7.16, I don't believe that it belongs

on the consent calendar.

It demands council discussion as a potentially

affects for distinct neighborhoods, all

the Mr. Brewer's district.

Both the developer and the city thought it prudent to reach

out to the neighborhoods for a public discussion of this

proposal.

Unfortunately, at the outset of the public meeting,

staff informed us all the matter had already

been decided.

Nothing we had to say really mattered.

Don't get me wrong.

And please, the city reached out to notify the citizen taxpayers.

It was absolutely the right thing to do.

However, having the issue decided before the meeting was

effectively a slap in the face to those who took the time away

from their families to attend the meeting.

There's engineering documents dating back as far as 1993

that state the Bond Road Trunkline needs improvement.

The only thing that's changed here

are the latest findings, which are erroneous at best.

If you look at page two of the staff report,

and I ask you to please do that if you

have it in front of you.

At the last paragraph, states the October, 2021 storm

equated to a 500-year event.

But the Bond Road stormwater didn't reach the level expected

of a 100-year event.

Why is that?

Because all of that water, mud, and debris

flowed into quail rancher states.

That's why the mayor witnessed this a day later

after much of the water had already subsided.

And it was just left with the mud and the gunk.

Cleanup took over for over two weeks.

And the Elliott people who were here tonight were gracious.

And they're clean up and ask what we needed.

And we're there for anything we needed

to have it done and done properly without complaining a bit.

And I'm very appreciative of that.

Tonight, I put the city on public notice

that our neighborhoods flood when we have heavy rains.

Whether it's getting more unpredictable and more severe.

We're prepared to sue the city when our properties flood.

Perhaps the city would be willing to purchase flood

insurance for those of us homeowners affected,

if they're so sure of their new findings and their document.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Next up is Kathy Lee.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

I'm here to talk about consent.

And I'm 7.16, the bond wrote up,

up sizing project that has been on the CIP since 2013.

We are being asked, you are being asked tonight to cancel

that up sizing project and subsequently ignore the continued flooding

events that occur on Bond Road near the Quail Rantor States

and the Fallberg communities.

Staff now says a re-evaluation of the technical data shows

that the up sizing is no longer necessary and provided a litany

of technical documents and mapping scenarios that apparently show

that the up sizing will result in very little improvement

to the flooding that occurs during prolonged rain events.

We strongly disagree with their findings and come to you

tonight with multiple documents that actually say otherwise.

The city has made a lot of assumptions in their new report.

This fact was brought to the staff's attention during the neighborhood

meeting and the staff did agree that some assumptions were made

due to lack of monitoring equipment at the site.

So I have with me tonight several documents

that definitively state that the Bond Road up sizing project

is a necessary component for the overall safety of our neighborhood.

First, I have the 1993 EIR done by Sacramento for the Oak Ridge

of States, which is now Elliott Springs, that EIR says

that the project drainage needs to be addressed

and the improvements of Bond Road drainage must be looked at.

Then I have the 2007 EIR report done

for the Silverado project, which is now Elliott,

and both the staff and Yost associates who completed the hydrology report

of the EIR stated, quote,

the Bond Road drainage system has deficiencies

that require mitigation impacts to Bond Road trunk pump lines

are potentially significant end of quote.

The solution was to upsize the Bond Road trunk line

to reduce the potential impacts to the existing drainage pattern

to less than significant.

Then there's the Wood Rogers report from June of 2012

that says quote, the city's stormwater master drain plan

has identified the existing trunk line on Bond Road to be deficient

and to receive any more acreage from the Silverado project.

Draining more into that line will abass or raster bait

the current flooding conditions on Bond Road end of quote.

Then there's the technical memo from Mark Tubek,

of Yost and Weist from July of 14 that says quote,

the study, our study has determined that the runoff

from the 12 acres of Silverado could be accommodated

in the Bond Road trunk pump line,

only if the proposed pipe sizes are incrementally increased.

So now the staff wants us all to believe

that all these people going back 25 years are wrong

in this new report is right.

You've been put on notice that this pipeline poses a quote

as potentially significant effect if not up size

and you're going to ignore that information

so that you can claw away $5 million

to put use somewhere else.

We want to be on the record.

We disagree over this consent item.

If our home sustained damage to water,

incursion, we will sue.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I will go ahead and close the public comment opportunity.

Does Mr. Warner want to respond to anything that we heard?

Or Mr. Behrman or even my council colleagues

who were present at the neighborhood meeting?

If you want to provide any additional comments.

I mean, I can respond.

I think that we did present information

at the meeting in no form or fashion.

Did we say that the situation was decided?

That decision is happening now.

As to whether or not we move forward with the project,

the technical memorandum that was developed

does include assumptions.

As does the Sormdrain Master Plan,

those are very high level assumptions

that have now been refined with this updated analysis

that shows that the bondroads Sormdrain System

meets our current performance criteria

for existing systems.

So that's the updated memo.

I think it speaks for itself technically.

And I'm happy to answer any questions.

So just for discussion, say, for my own clarification,

what protections do we have if the assumptions are wrong?

When what happens next?

Well, and no property damage has been predicted

in the Sormdrain Master Plan or in the current models

that have been developed.

And the current models were developed

based on that 500-year event that occurred

a couple of years ago.

And based on the in-situation performance of the system,

we decided to update that model.

The street, several streets within the city of Elgrove

are intended to convey the 100-year storm.

So you will see some street flooding that occurs

from time to time during storm events.

And again, we're not predicting any property damage.

None of the models predict property damage.

None of the homes are within the 100-year flood plain

that would require or warrant flood insurance.

So those are really the projections we have in place.

The other thing that gives us a lot of confidence now

is that we have much better maintenance practices

in place than we had in the past.

Certainly when the initial models were developed

and you may have seen historical flooding

in the neighborhoods previously,

that may have been the result of poor maintenance practice

or clogged gutters, et cetera.

We have much better equipment, much better technology,

a lot of monitoring equipment in our creeks and channels.

And we have proactive storm response plans in place

in the event of a major storm event

where we'll be reactive.

We work with police and fire partners

as well as our operations maintenance teams

to make sure that our streets,

primarily our drainage system is clear

and ready to go for these storms.

Excellent, very thorough response.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Did you want to add anything?

Well, I would like to add just a personal thing.

When we left the workshop the other day,

I thought this was all resolved.

And I don't say this is a challenge.

I say this as friends.

I wish you would have given me a call

and let me know you still had issues with it

because I certainly would have asked them

to pull it off of consent calendar.

So I'm going to support it tonight

because it's same as I mentioned to you the other night.

But I certainly understand why you're here

and why you're registering your complaint for the future.

I get it.

But just know that I just checked.

I didn't see any emails.

I would have had it.

OK.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

All right.

Thank you.

So did you have a go ahead, Councillor?

Jeff, I just wanted to give you

to explain a little bit more on whether this

this is an issue of the runoff that you're saying

is less now.

I understand the capacity in the streets.

But if I read this, right, you're saying whatever was

modeled before was to a 500-year frequency event,

but you're seeing different runoff now that's less.

Is that what I'm hearing or?

No, we're not predicting less runoff.

We think that systems more efficient than it was

when it was originally modeled.

So the rain event that occurred produced a creek level

in Laguna Creek that was below what

was predicted in the original model.

So based on that, we then extrapolated

and did some further analysis to show that ended up revealing

and showing that the points in Bond Road that were predicted

to flood in the 100-year event and the 10-year event

were actually predicted to now

perform pursuant to the city's performance criteria.

So there will be some ponding and puddling,

but it won't rise to the level that it was predicted

in the original Someday Master Plan.

Because the original master plan, the assumption is based

on a model where based on aerials and things that...

Correct.

Very high-level analysis.

And this is based on a more refined analysis

as well as in situation performance of the system.

So we took the actual data from that occurred during the

storm event and applied that to the model

and updated the assumptions based on that.

We also updated some soil condition assumptions as well.

Okay.

And that's all disclosed in the memo.

Yeah.

And back then, it's just because there's more of a rule area

that they did more high-level model in this...

No, that's consistent with storm...

The master plans at that level,

or you wouldn't do the level of refined analysis

that we do on a project.

In fact, the storm drain master plan that's adopted today,

that was adopted in 2012.

We're currently in the process of updating that.

Both versions of that document will say...

And will say that more refined analysis is required

in order to confirm the modeling assumptions and predictions.

Yeah, got it.

Thank you.

Madam Mayor, one more thing.

Sure.

If you could clarify for me please, Jeff,

if we...

Assuming that this item passes and we don't fund that,

the funding would then be used specifically where?

So I can't tell you exactly where,

but I can tell you that it's only allowed to be used

for drainage purposes.

So this fund...

The funds that are on this project are 95% of our drainage fund.

We have several aging pieces of infrastructure

that we're going to have to maintain in the future.

There are several other projects identified

in the storm drain master plan,

and we're in the process of updating it.

And that update will include better technology than we had

when the original one was developed.

So we hope that the results are even better

as far as predicting what projects we need to move forward with.

Right, so when we remove this drainage project,

that money will only be used for other drainage projects

in Elgrove.

Correct. Got it. Thank you.

Yes, Councillor Overr.

And on top of that,

they'll be used for existing projects, correct?

They can be used for existing projects

identified by the current storm drain master plan

or what we're expecting would be the projects

that are identified by the storm drain master plan update.

Or when we have a 10-year cycle of inspection

for all of our storm drain pipes,

that's possible through the new equipment and technology

that we have that's been approved by the City Council

that we've purchased.

So when we go out and we do our maintenance inspections,

which has a newer city and a growing city

and an aging city now,

where we're coming up on our 25th anniversary,

this infrastructure needs to be inspected

and maintained frequently.

We've had some corrugated metal pipe fail recently

ahead of schedule.

So we're a little bit concerned about that.

There's a lot of corrugated metal pipe that was installed.

Pre-incorporation when we're still the county.

We up until now haven't really had a good inspection program

to where we know the status of that

or the condition of that equipment or those pipelines.

So if we come across a damaged pipeline,

we get tree root intrusion.

We're gonna need to correct that

and replace those systems.

And those systems are the systems that are there today

to convey the storm drain away

and prevent flooding throughout the city.

So we definitely need to maintain that

before we start thinking about new projects.

I wanna thank you for providing us with that information

because a lot of technology has changed

since the initial master plan.

And the diligence that you and your staff, Mr. Werner,

along with the rest of our city staff

that have put into educating the public on this

has been invaluable.

Even so where you have the home builders being present,

being available and meeting with the public,

providing their insight on it.

And it's been very helpful, especially knowing

that the property itself before any of the development

took place was had Verne Pools flat pasture land.

So any of the flooding that did take place

in those major rain events, major storm events,

they were very telling.

Ever since the development has been put in place,

I would personally drive down Bon Road every morning,

every evening.

And I would drive inside the Elliott Springs neighborhood

to check out not only the basin,

but also the health of that basin

and how White House Creek is for me has been a concern.

But at the same time, seeing at the work

that everyone's been doing and the education

that's been put into it has been very helpful.

And I think as we move forward,

this will help in terms of looking at the overall fiscal

health of this fund for the project,

but also looking at the health of Quell Ranch Estates

and going forward because that was a very real issue.

We definitely heard, we definitely engaged.

And I feel confident that the action that we would take

in adopting this resolution will help.

One more go back.

OK.

One more go back, please.

Because what a lot of folks may not know this

or recognize this, that this Silverado project

is a long history project under different names

and different, it's a long, long thing.

And so what I first want to recognize and memorialize

is that it couldn't have been done

without the assistance of the residents who lived nearby.

It couldn't have been done without the patients

and their willingness to cooperate.

It couldn't have been done without Elliot Holmes.

It's been very patient in us getting this resolved.

I know that in other, there was the really bad storm event

that happened and that was neither the developers

nor the residents' responsibility.

But the subcontractor who was responsible

got out there, cleaned it up, did what they had to do.

But I can't leave it.

Also, I want to recognize what you had also

brought up, Mr. Lee, relative to your working relationship

or your not working relationship,

but your partnership with Elliot Holmes

and making sure that that eastern boundary of your homes

and all of your neighbors was adequately addressed to.

And so I don't know that this will be the prologue

to or the end to this long story.

I hope that the final story is that everybody's happy

and I expect that they will.

But I just wanted to thank not just the leaves,

but for many other residents who have worked through this.

Sometimes there was loggerheads and sometimes it was pleasant.

But I want to thank you very much for that.

I want to thank Elliot Holmes for this.

And with that, I'm ready to support.

All right, thank you.

We are now at the, unless there's any other questions,

I will look for a motion to approve the consent calendar.

So moved.

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

That'll take us to section eight, our public hearings.

And item eight point one is actually two public hearings

and they're in relation to annexations

that involve the Oak Grove Sports Center retail pad.

Thank you.

Hi.

I am here tonight.

I'm meeting Ms. Cindy Tiffany.

I'm a finance budget analyst.

I'm here to present annexations to special test districts.

The city maintains eight special test districts within the city.

And annexations are appropriate, properties are annexed

into appropriate districts.

And they're typically part of the original planning process.

The requirements are specified for each individual project.

And they're typically according to geographic location

or and or building use and the annual rates are adjusted annually.

The project today is the Oak Grove Sports Center retail pad.

And they will be annexed into CFD 2006-1 and stormwater drainage fee zone two.

This is the 101st annexation for the CFD 2006-1 and the 71st annexation

for the stormwater drainage fee.

The project is there's a map.

It is located off of Laguna Boulevard.

And it's a 19,680 foot square foot commercial building

on the northwest corner of the 20.8 acre parcel.

It's a commercial parcel.

Like I said before, the annexations will be

for CFD 2006-1, which is the maintenance service district

and the stormwater drainage fee zone two.

Any questions?

All right, thank you.

All right, at this time I will go ahead and open up the public comment opportunity.

Nobody has signed up to speak to this.

So I will close the public comment opportunity

and declare the public hearing for CFD 2006-1 and X 101 is now closed.

And let's see, look for emotion A1.

Do you want to move?

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

May I request the results of the ballot tabulation?

And expect things to go a little bit different tonight.

So we will have some kind of truncated actions

and you'll see as the process goes through.

But for this item of 21 possible votes,

21 opposition votes were cast protesting

the special tax of the rate of portion and a describe.

So the measure fails to attain the necessary two thirds threshold

of all votes cast in the election.

But we do have a resolution that declares the result of this election

and it's available for council consideration.

Okay, excellent, thank you.

So we still go through motion A2.

Motion A2.

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

And with that action, Mayor and council just wanted to say that based on those written protests

against the proposed annexation of the territory of the existing community facilities district,

there's no further proceedings to annex the territory under that action.

But we still do have our second public hearing.

So please continue.

Excellent.

I will now declare the public hearing for SWGF,

Annex 71 now open and open up public comment opportunity.

I don't have anyone sign up to speak.

I'll close the public comment opportunity.

Anne declare the public hearing for SWGF, Annex 71 is now closed

and request the clerk to provide the result to the ballot tabulation.

And then again, we do have this time a majority protest of 21 possible votes

weighted according to the proportional financial obligation for the property.

21 opposition votes were returned.

So based on the written protests against the proposed annexation of territory

to the existing assessment district, there are no further proceedings to annex the territory.

And that would conclude the side of.

All right, very good.

Madam, just before we move on, can I just make a note on these?

So we read these all the time to the public and they're probably like what?

No, what are they doing?

Well, the bottom line is the reason why we have the best maintained roads in the region

and the city looks so beautiful is because we require development projects

that want to pursue the head to annex into here and self-assess

that give us the funds to take care of the property

in the surrounding area and the city.

So that's why we do this.

Without that requirement, we would be struggling to maintain roads

and mediums and a lot of things that other cities that didn't have this tool

didn't employ this tool, you know, 50, 100 years ago, you know, older cities.

They have these legacy issues.

So that's what this all means essentially.

And I know we don't have a project tonight, but I thought since the opportunity came up.

Very, thank you for the lesson.

As educational because not everyone knows.

So, thank you.

Very good.

Thank you, sir.

All right, on to our next item, which is 9.1.

That's going to be to receive the fiscal year 2425 mid-year budget report

and consider a resolution that would amend the fiscal year 2425 budget

and the CIP and subsequent actions that staff will today.

Good evening, Mayor St. Allen, Vice Mayor of Robles and members of the Council.

Nathan Bagwell, I have the privilege of serving as your budget manager

and I am presenting tonight for you the mid-year budget review and check in

for the fiscal year 2425.

Before I get started, I want to acknowledge my super team.

It's consistent of Cicilia Long and that Ruiz as well as those sitting up here with us this evening

and our management team throughout the city.

It's truly a collaborative effort.

We have a $374 million budget that we monitor throughout the year.

And we bring it together as a family and we're very proud of this product.

So thank you to all of you as well.

That's what we're going to be discussing tonight is the General Fund Revenue's expenditures.

We will touch on Measure E, a couple major non-general fund updates.

We'll discuss recommended amendments as well as proposed changes to the position control

and salary schedule for the city.

And then we will conclude with the staff recommendation.

So we'll jump right into General Fund Revenue's.

Revenue sources listed here each represent the own nature of business.

They're largely trending close with their adopted budgets.

So what we're going to focus on here is the project variance is a year end

and that's what you can see there in the mid year adjustment column.

Bottom line the story here is at mid year.

General Fund revenues are currently tracking pretty close to our budget that we adopted.

It's about and we are projecting about a 3.3 percent revision.

This is a $321,000 out of the $104 million that we're anticipating to come in below our adopted

budget. What this consists of is a projected reduction to sales tax which we will get into.

In just a moment we are experiencing some economic headwinds.

We'll provide some context on that as well as offsetting increases to property taxes and investment income.

So what does that mean?

Sales tax accounts for about 37 percent of the city's general fund income.

Inflation, higher cost in general, they are affecting our local economy.

Specifically we're seeing folks we're seeing data that supports

folks are staying in their cars longer waiting for interest rates to come down.

It's also unknown how the economy will react to the new administration in DC,

tariffs and geopolitics will all be factoring in.

We do work closely with our sales tax consultants that informed this most recent forecast and

we will continue to monitor this very closely.

We've figured out it's the property taxes.

We found out after we adopted the budget from the county that we were going to get this

additional revenue. So it being unknown, we go ahead and we build it into our forecast

investment income. We are expecting at least a $1.35 million increase.

And what this is, it's the return on the city's investments.

So when rates are higher for borrowers, conversely they're actually higher for

city government and the type of investments that we utilize.

These are generally treated as one-time funds.

An example of some of the variants that we've been seeing, the local agency investment fund,

it's a module that a lot of local governments use for their investments.

In 2022, quarter two, 0.75%, two years later at the same time, 4.62.

So scale that up to significant dollars in the time you see how we are.

We're overall the city's portfolio continues to perform very well.

So we're going to now shift over to expenditures.

The bottom line is that thus far the city has expense about $40 million of our

roughly $93 million budget. The year to take activity column is where I'm going to turn your

attention to next. As you can see there, we are anticipating about $1.2 million of savings

that we've experienced thus far throughout the year. What makes this up is about half a million

dollars in salary savings and about 700,000 in benefit savings, largely driven by vacancies throughout

at this point in the year. So if you think and buy the 321,000 expected reduction in income

with $1.2 million reduced spending, we're looking at about $800,000, $880,000 of expected

surplus at the mid-year point. So now we're going to take a look at measure E.

Revenues, we're staying the course of what we're seeing. We've been largely close to budget

regarding expenditures. About $5.3 million have been expended to date. It's important to note that

there are a lot of new programs that the city is standing up and there's some big chunks of that

that have timing components. Specifically, there's a $2 million grant line business park infrastructure

program. There's $3.5 million for addressing homelessness. The city has worked to line up contractors

for the interim homeless shelter and transitional housing. These two initiatives I just mentioned

are anticipated to begin drawing down their measuring funding as the year progresses. There's also

a little over $5 million in the public works department for pavement management and traffic.

Those tend to pick up as weather improves throughout later in the year, so we expect that to

continue progressing steadily. There are two requests for additional funding through measure E.

These are relative to homeless and camping cleanup efforts, as well as purchasing a traffic

traffic-like grid smart system. That's a real-time computer vision product, and this is for

the intersection of bond and beta road. These projected increases are, however, offset by $100,000

reduction in capital outlay. That's a project that's simply changing funding sources, and we will

discuss that project further when we address the proposed CIPM. Briefly, we're going to touch on

major non-general funds. The roadway program fees are turning significantly higher than budgeted

projections. The main driver of this is residential development fee collections.

I've been coming in higher than anticipated. The step is recommending we increase this revenue

estimate by $1.5 million. For the major capital facility fees, the revenues that made

gear are generally trending above, and for certain cases they've actually exceeded already.

The revenues that made gear, and again, the story here is that construction activity remains

very strong here in Elk Grove. For all these funds, spending activity typically trends low,

first half of the year, the construction season starts later in the year, and the large capital

projects often span multiple fiscal years. With that, we will go ahead and turn our discussion

to budget amendments. As mentioned earlier, we are looking to decrease general fund revenues,

5 out 321,000, and reducing expenditures anticipated by $1.2 million. We talked about measure E,

reducing expenditures and net of $33,000, and increasing revenue for the roadway fee fund by about

$1.5 million. Next, we're going to get into some proposed public works budget amendments.

So for gas tax, there is a proposed net $130,000 change. This is a combination of 60,000

increased revenues, 190 expenditures. What this is, it's demand-driven sidewalk repair work. So we do

get paid for this work, but this is us being in response. We've had more demand within the fiscal

year than we anticipated, so this is how we're trying to get out in front of the second half of the year.

In the maintenance services community facilities district, there is 135, I say, services districts.

This is relative to the city wide maintenance services in Laguna Ridge. There's $135,000 fair share

of the city settlement related to landscaping costs. And just for district 56, that's CFD 2005-1

for Laguna Ridge. There is a proposed $75,000 for a UV system replacement for the fountain there.

Also, there is a $45,000 purchase proposed for the streetlight maintenance district. This is for

solar streetlights at Elk Grove Boulevard and Grant Line Road.

Continuing with public works, there is one CIP proposed amendment. This is the project we discussed

earlier relative to measure E. This is just a change in funding. This project is replacing

the existing police department monument sign. This is the sign that's in honor of Officer

Tylinahan, a member of our law enforcement family that we tragically lost in January of 22. We

are replacing that with a new sign. Staff determined that the city's general fund capital reserve

would actually be a more appropriate funding source for this project. For recycling and waste,

there is a request for $218,000. That is work relative to SB 1383 compliance. We originally

anticipated funding this with grant funds. We found out later that the grant funds were not

eligible for this use. However, we do want to continue with this work as this is a local multi-agency

effort and we want to fulfill our obligation for that. Facilities in fleet, there's a request

for $858,000. This is for 14 replacement vehicles and one new. There's also a request for $125,000

in expenditures. This is to bring on a consultant to manage the city's fleet while the city restructures

the fleet facilities division. A position request for a new maintenance supervisor for fleet

position will be discussed as further as part of the position control discussion.

To round out the budget amendment discussion, there are two further requests, one from housing.

This is for the $102,000 in the neighborhood stabilization fund. What this is for is the Adam's

Town Way project. That is a project that is a conversion of a city owned property into permanent

shared housing. City intends to use this particular funding source because it is restricted.

And it may only be used for very specific purposes and this project has been deemed

as suitable use for those funds. Lastly, insurance. There is a proposed adjustment of 1.7

million in revenues, 1.9 million in expenditures. This is relative to settlements. The city has

experienced thus far in the fiscal year for which we expect to recover most of it by the end of

the fiscal year by way of insurance reimbursements. We'll then move into position control.

The table before you shows staff's recommended changes to the current fiscal year starting with

public works. Staff conducted an evaluation, though they recently vacated fleet facilities manager

position. As service demands for the city continue to expand, staff has determined that two actions

would provide the city with greater efficiency and delivery of services, one of which is to

reclassify the fleet and facilities manager to an operations manager. This will come with

expanded duties including urban forestry, open space management as well as coordination of

contracted work with the CST. The facilities fleet manager and the operations manager salaries

are proposed to be the same so there's no net impact. There is a new position proposed.

This is a dedicated fleet supervisor. Their job is to solely focus on the oversight and coordination

of central fleet services for the city. The new proposed fleet supervisor position is estimated

to cost approximately $159,000 annually. Staff also evaluated a recently vacated senior administrative

assistant position. Determined the position would better suit the city's needs as a customer service

representative in the operations division of public works. The reclassification is a downgrade

of a current position within that annual savings of $27,000. It's important to note that these

movements I just discussed are non-general fund positions. Continuing with position control,

three additional reclassifications are proposed. One each from finance, information technology,

and the police departments respectively. Finance is recommending a downward reclassification

of the purchasing manager position to a coordinator position. This is based on changes to the scope

of open complexity of the position. Information technology is looking to reclass the senior

information tech analyst to a network engineer. The intent being to better support the city's

physical and virtual network until the communications infrastructure. Lastly, the police are reclassing

one of their community service officer positions to a public community and

part communications and community engagement specialist with the intent to support and assist

the department's public information officer to provide more specialized and consistent support

for public relations. The finance and police department positions are in the general fund and

there is a net savings of $55,000 annually projected. Rounding out the position control discussion are

two recommended funding amendments, the opioid and the Wilton Rancheria fund. Both of these

positions in these different funds were filled at a higher step than was anticipated for the

fiscal year. The youth services unit there is increased over time cost. So we are also looking

to amend that budget and with regards to Wilton Rancheria there's also been increased over time

activity as it relates to theft of deterrent. Lastly, the proposed salaries for the newly created

positions including reclassifications are displayed here and incorporated as part of the updated

salary schedule that accompanies the staff report for this item as exhibit C.

It brings us then to the recommendation staff is recommending that council adopt a resolution

amending the fiscal year 2024 25 budget and 25 to 29 capital improvement program

authorized changing to the position control listing adopting an updated cityways

salary and steps schedule and approving and ratifying city council health welfare.

This concludes my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions you may ask.

Thank you. Thank you for your thorough presentation. At this time I will open up public comment

opportunity. I do not have anyone signed up. I'll close public comment opportunity and questions

comments. I'll start to the left. Anything else in the comments? Thank you Mr. Bagwell.

Appreciate it. Vice Mayor any questions comment? Thank you so much for your end up.

Super knowledge of bond. Appreciate it. Thanks.

Councillor Mahoray. Anything?

No, I definitely thank you for providing us this walkthrough especially when you look at the

expenditures and how we're using measure E and the public works projects that are in play.

I'm definitely pleased with the author wise so thank you very much.

Councillor Spreese any questions comments? Just a quick comment. I mean in terms of sales tax

revenues we don't always know what the future is. We don't know what the future is.

I appreciate that you're looking forward with that and making sure that we're acting responsibly

and spending responsibly in it. We don't know what the future holds. I appreciate

Renny Day funds and I appreciate that we're doing all of the right things. Thank you very much

Mr. Bagwell. Appreciate it. Thank you. Great presentation. Before you adopt the resolution,

the resolution was inadvertently left out of the packet so we're going to ask Nathan to pull it

up. It's been added to the folder that's there. We'll pull it up. You'll be able to see it on your

screens and we'll be able to adopt it from there. There it is. Very perfect. Thank you Jason.

All right. We'll adopt the resolution. I'll second.

All right. All those in favor please say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes. Thank you very much. All right. Next up on 9.2.

I'll start this thing. There we go.

Okay. Good evening Madam Mayor. Mr. Vice Mayor,

members of the Council, I'm Darrell Donor, Economic Development Director.

And it's my pleasure to be here today to present an update on all of our economic

development activities in the form of this annual report. This is our team. I'm your

economic development director, but more importantly, I have two bright shining lights in our industry,

which we have been very lucky to find and bring on board in the last couple of years. Ms. Sarah

Rodriguez and Ms. Toshana Man Scott and they are just a... Can't say enough. A fabulous,

wonderful addition to the city and to the work that we do in economic development. And there's a

fourth position there that we are close to filling. So very excited about that as well. We should

have interviews starting in about two weeks. So soon we will be four back up to full strength.

We haven't been full strength in quite a while. So that will be nice. So that is our team.

This is our budget. We have a budget of about $4.3 million divided up as you see it there.

These are our mission, vision and values for our department. So you've heard me say this. We

believe this strong economies make strong communities and our mission and our values and our vision

and our goals reflect that. I won't read all of this, but I will highlight our vision and that is

very simply an innovative, inclusive, and resilient economy. And our values are important to us and

we model them every day. We are ethical. We are inclusive. We are transparent and we are innovative.

And everything we do is built on those principles and everything we do feeds into that vision of

making sure that we have an innovative, inclusive, and a resilient economy. I wanted to show this

slide. I know you all saw this at the at your city council retreat, but I think it's important for

our residents to see it as well. So every two years we survey our residents, something called the

National Community Survey. And these are the results for how our residents feel about our economy.

So we see some very positive trends there. All of those yellow lines are the most recent results.

We still have some work to do in visitation, according to our residents, and we are working on that.

And also in vibrancy, but those are all strategic focus areas. I'll show you in a minute. But I think

what this shows is that by and large, our residents are satisfied with the state of our economy

and feel like we are moving in the right direction. Rest assured, we will not rest in our laurels,

however. These are our strategic focus areas for the Economic Development Department,

Business Retention Expansion and Attraction is first and foremost in that order. I might add,

you've heard me say that. If we are not retaining businesses, we cannot make progress by attracting

businesses. We do property acquisition and development, certainly business support of all sizes,

shapes and types. We're focused on an innovation economy, a newly focused arts and creative economy,

a visitor economy. We do a lot of work in partnerships and leadership to make sure that the

city of Elk Grove is providing regional and statewide leadership in economic development. And of

course, marketing and communications is certainly part of our strategic focus. These are our

services that we provide to businesses. We tailor our services to each particular business need

as and when we know of a business that has a need. We do site selection, we help businesses find

space in our city. We occasionally do incentives in order to land or retain businesses. We do a lot

of work, a steady line of business and small business navigating. That's a small business who

has a problem who calls us. We solve their problem or put them in touch with the people who can.

We're in the workforce development space, which we talked about at the last city council meeting.

And we are also in the permit expediting space. These are our business services. Our programs

roll up into those services. We have tailored business incentives in a number of different

programs. We have a state and federal office incentive program. The only one of its kind in the

state of California that has landed us one major state headquarters and hopefully more in the

future. We have startup Elk Grove, which is our innovation economy. We have something called the

permit assistance smart start program. Great program that provides up to $10,000 to any business

wanting to set up shop and up grove. Generally speaking, it is free to a business to go through

our city's permit and entitlement processes. I don't know of any other city in the state of

California that does that. And of course, you know about our brewery restaurant and winery program

and our sought improvement program. You know about our workforce readiness certification program

or work. And we have a really strong impact fee to throw a program that we use occasionally to

attract and retain businesses. So what have we been up to in the last year or so? Well, there's

too much to tell you about. I would need an hour and I'm not going to take an hour. We're going to

take much less than that. But what we've done is we've pulled out a few highlights for you.

We've spent the last two years doing workforce development, which is something new that we've never

done. We've never done it in this way, right? So we ran programs that provided fully paid workforce

training for our residents in technology and manufacturing. And that went well. But at the last

meeting, you worked with us to transition that to more of an on-demand business services program.

But I would be impressed if I didn't point out that, you know, through those programs, we affected

about 190 of our residents and a number of them found meaningful, upskilling and employment

out of that. And I think in the future, when we're doing an on-demand, it's going to be even better.

We'll be even more tailored and even more targeted to the needs of our residents with this new paradigm

that you adopted a couple weeks ago. We've adopted some great new programs. We've always

had a really strong set of programs. But with brew and fixed and also an event grant attraction

program, I think we're stronger than ever. We hit a major milestone with my favorite program,

which is past the one I just told you about that makes it free to set up shop and oak grove.

We hit $100,000 in grants given out. Now the average grant size is about $2,500. So that's quite a

few businesses that we have helped. And we are rapid. I mean, it took us a couple years to hit that

deadline or that milestone and we are rapidly approaching the $200,000 milestone. So hopefully we'll

be in one of your districts soon popping the cork and celebrating with all the council members

when we hit that. We expanded in this took a while. This was about a year-long project. But

at the request of our hotels, we expanded our tourism marketing district. So we increased

the assessment, the guest pay on stays and oak grove from 3% to 4%. We added three years. So that

now sunsets in 2030 rather than 2027. So I don't have to take nine months to end that again.

And we expanded our boundaries to capture newly annexed territory. So that was a big lift.

Just last week, we announced the retention of all data. This was huge. It's not frankly getting

enough attention. As retention typically does not get the same attention that attraction gets.

But this is a legacy oak grove tech company. It's the original. It's the OG of tech startups in the

Sacramento region. And they've been here since 1986. They were at risk of leaving. And we worked hard.

I was on the phone with the broker and the business literally weekly, making sure they were feeling

the love from elk grove, offering them what we needed to offer them to get them to stay here.

It didn't come down to incentives. It came down to I think that work that our staff did to make

them feel loved and wanted. And it came down to then really enjoying their time in oak grove and

not wanting to leave. So we kept them here. They signed a 15 year lease. We saved 350 jobs and we

kept 70,000 square feet of space occupied. Railroad street. That project is complete. That took a

long time. You guys know that, right? We bought the first building back in 2018. This has been a

city council priority project for a long time. This was a multi departmental effort, particularly

our partners were our good friends and public works have built infrastructure roads, parking,

a plaza. We were able to facilitate redevelopment of two historic buildings as two great restaurant

concepts. One recently closed, but it's been replaced. All of these improvements will be here for

decades. So we're very proud of that project getting that done. I want to talk about retail momentum.

You've probably noticed over the last, this is a two year annual report. So let's talk about

the last two years. We have seen a major improvement in increase in the pace and quality of retail and

oak grove, right? Businesses like Amazon fresh, Nordstrom, RAC, Macy's, Tully Cafe,

Club Studio that you guys, a few of you were at on Saturday. Great new restaurant concepts. So we

are having our retail moment. The momentum is strong. We are hitting our stride. We have more

coming. We have REI. We have Whole Foods. We have Yardhouse. We have Menacean Farms. We have great

retailers coming. There was a time when we weren't thought of as a sort of elevated retail

destination. But now after a number of years of telling our story, we are. Talk about our visitor

economy for a minute. This is a big line of business for us. Council had the foresight back in 2014

to establish a tourism marketing district, essentially a P-Bid for tourism. I think people

thought it was a little premature at that time, but it has paid dividends and I'm glad we have it

now because it is working. We have great partners in Explore Outgrowth. At the time, Council created

the T-Bid. You also created Explore Outgrowth and entered into a contract with them for them to

administer that for us. We administer that contract for you. Sarah sits on the board and is our board

member doing a great job. Our ADR is some of the highest in the region. That is average daily revenue.

Our RevPAR, which is revenue-proof available room, is both of those are the highest in the region.

Our hotel occupancy covers around 80%. Those visitors spend heavily when they are in town. We now

have data on that. From some data platforms we use using TransUnion data. We know that

they spend approximately $386 million. That is just visitors. That is not residents. Their

average spend is about $183. These are great numbers. Last year, in the last two years, we welcomed

$62,470 athletes, meeting attendees and families to town. They spent $14.5 million and supported

about $6,300 jobs. Visitor economy is one of the pillars of our economy. We are going to keep pushing

that. Marketing and communication. Hopefully you have noticed. In the last two years, we have

greatly increased our storytelling and our marketing and our communication. We run two major

campaigns. One is shop support local. That encourages our residents to shop local. We also run

the Main Street campaign, which is both historic Main Street. It is Elk Grove Boulevard corridor

in East Elk Grove from 99 to Waterman. I am hoping that next year we will be talking about some

additional neighborhood business district marketing. Both of those programs are generating

sales. They are pushing our residents into businesses. They are attracting visitors. We have

the numbers on the screen to show you that those are working and we will, with your approval,

we will continue to fund those efforts. Business wise is our somewhat low tech approach to getting

our message out, but it is email. The great thing about email is you don't have to go find it. It

shows up in your inbox. When we have something, a story to tell about something great our business

is doing or something great we are doing, we blast that out over to 5,000 highly engaged followers.

We are not interested in 20,000 followers. We don't open our stuff. 5,000 engaged followers.

In the last two years, we have told 55 different stories through business wise. We have

greatly increased our social activity. We have added 2,000 followers to LinkedIn. We have

really pushed out reels and things like that on Instagram that are making a lot of impressions.

This is all part of how we tell our story and we do it in a very organic owned and earned way.

We try not to buy it unless we have to. More marketing and communications swag. When we are out

and about, we are handing out hats, we are handing out stickers, we are handing out bags, we are

handing out, we have got it all. That helps grow our brand. When we come back from a conference

that is full of developers, we send them a gift package. When we come back from a conference

that is full of site selectors, we send them a gift package and we put information in there so

they know that we are here to work with them. That is really working. We are getting emails all

the time from developers, brokers and site selectors thanking us for that stuff and wanting to build

information. Our build relationships with us. We are tabling all over the region and all over

the state everywhere we can. Every opportunity we have to tell our story at the table.

We are sponsoring events both regionally and statewide. We are hosting events that we are

very proud of. You know about pitch up growth and how great that has been. We are doubling down on

events in the coming year. In April, we are going to have a broker's mixer. We are inviting over

800 commercial real estate brokers from northern California to come and enjoy an afternoon of drinks

and food and listen briefly to our value proposition and then get them back to enjoying themselves.

So they have a good experience in Elk Grove and we will want to do business here and we will want

to put us at the top of their list when they are working with clients. We have startup happy hours

coming up that we are hosting in partnership with Startup Sacramento to better engage technology

companies. We have an event coming up celebrating small business week. Elk Grove will host the opening

reception for the capital region small business week this year and of course we will have our

third fourth, third annual fourth annual one of those two pitch up growth event in the fall.

We are doing more right now in the 10 years that I have been here than we have ever done

right in the economic development department. I am very proud of that. But as I said we are not

going to rest on our laurels and we are not going to let complacency set in. We have a number

of very important upcoming projects that we are excited about and energized about that I am going

to tell you about. First is the arts and creative economy strategy. So we just seated in a new arts

and creative economy commission and we are going to work in partnership with that commission

to create an arts and creative economy strategy that will be an actionable strategic plan

that seeks to tie together arts, culture and entrepreneurship in our city. Of course project

elevate sometimes these things take longer than we want. But we are staying the course on project

elevate and we are getting close to having a design and a transaction that we can bring to city

council for consideration. I hope to have that in front of you in the next one to two months.

Business engagement we have really doubled down on engaging directly with our businesses so that

we understand what their needs are and how we could better help them. We are working to something

called business license 2.0 which will take our current business license process and streamline it

so that we can gather better data and we can make the process of applying for a business license

more user friendly and what that does is it gives us a registry that we can rely on of who is in

business what they are doing and how many people they employ and how much space they occupy. So we

can tailor our programs and services to their needs. Along those lines we currently have the first

time we have done this the national business survey so similar to the national community survey.

That is open currently and responses are robust. We are asking our businesses to tell us about

themselves and what they need and what they do so again that we can better tailor our programs and

services to their needs. And then for some time and we are going to continue to do this and even do

it more but we are really doubling down on business owner and employee demographics so that we understand

the racial makeup of our business owners employees, the gender makeup, age, all of those important

factors so that we can identify maybe areas of weakness along demographic lines or even geographic

lines that then we can go to those places and to those people and focus our efforts using a more

DEI lens. Automall next this is what I am excited about. It too has been a little bit delayed

just because we haven't had the resources or staffing to really tackle it but the next

couple months you will see an RFP go out. We are working in partnership with the Automall

Association to re-invision what the future of our Automall looks like. You heard Nathan tell you

that our auto sales tax is about 30% of our general funds so we can't afford to let that

Automall get long in the tooth. We can't afford to let that Automall not respond to consumer

preferences and demand and so we are going to come up with again a very highly actionable strategic

plan that will set in motion a series of improvements and changes to the Automall that will make

that just much better customer and employee experience which will in turn drive more sales

in turn drive more revenue to the city. I told you about our brokers open house but I am going to

tell you again I am really excited about this 800 brokers invited April 24th. You are all going

to be invited the entire executive team. We hope you will be there. It is the first time we have

done something like this so we are excited about it. Another thing I am excited about is we are

working on a made in health growth program. This is a new incentive program that we are modeling

after startup health growth which will help launching and scaling instead of tech main street

companies launch in scale but we are looking for companies that have uniquely outgrowth offerings.

If speeds b's were still in business that would be a uniquely outgrowth offering that we would

be looking to support so if that helps you think about the kinds of things we are looking at but

makers, crafters, things of that nature so we can not only spur on to a neworship but then we

start to develop this brand as a city that makes things. Those are some of our upcoming projects

and this is our pipeline report so you probably want to know what the numbers are over the last

two years. We are looking at three things. We look at our business license momentum changes

in that we look at a plan to development and then we look at openings. Our business license momentum

is kind of all over the map on the renewal side. We are not 100% sure why that is and we are going

to look into that and try to figure that out. Our new license is pulled has definitely flattened.

You can see it has been doing that since 2018 probably before that. I think what is going on

there is that we have limited space and we do not see a lot of spec development. You are not going

to see these massive upward trends until we get some new space built. We will know more about what

graphs are trying to tell us once we implement business license 2.0 and build a better, more

accurate, more comprehensive business registry. Plan development. This is our pipeline. We track

pipeline over 5,000 square feet. Our current pipeline has 29 different projects in it and that has

the potential for the development of 4 million additional square feet of commercial space in Elk Grove

which would support approximately 10,200 jobs. We have a fairly robust pipeline that our friends

in community development are working through and we are also working through that where we need to

step in and assist. Business opening. We do not take credit for jobs and investment at the time

that the company commits to being here whether they actually open or not. We do not do that. That is

intentional because until a business is open we are not getting the benefits of that. That is how we

do that. Again, these are projects over 5,000 square feet. These for Elk Grove, these are considered

larger projects. In the last two years we have had 30 new business openings over 5,000 square feet

that totals about 665,000 square feet of space occupied or constructed. That equates to a

$49 million investment and those openings are supporting just around 1,000 jobs. In closing,

I want to thank the council for your support now and over the years. I want to thank all of my

colleagues. Economic development doesn't happen just in our department. Everybody touches it and again,

I want to thank my team and I want to let you know that we are here. We are energized. We are

looking forward to the next year and we hope to be back here in 12 months telling you about all our

great results. With that, I would be glad to answer any questions. Excellent. Thank you for that

report. At this time I will open up public comment opportunity. Nobody is signed up to speak

all close public comment opportunity and open it up for comments. Questions? I will start to the

right this time. Council Member Spice. Thank you. I appreciate your report, Mr. Downe. Just one,

well, two comments. There are a lot of fantastic things going on and I appreciate you giving us

this update. One of the things that I am most happy to see is focus on not just retention of

businesses are here but the opportunity for residents to grow or to start and grow a business here.

But one of the second thing is a little bit. I guess it's probably in the retention area,

something that you didn't mention but I have had an opportunity to talk with a number of folks

thanks for helping out a couple of small businesses that have had some landlord challenges

relative to keeping the buildings maintained. The reality is if we didn't intervene,

if your office and legal and I'm sorry, code enforcement and probably others that I don't know had

not intervened, it would have been very different for them. It's caused disruption of course,

right? But that's not on us. But I appreciate that you are helping them to find in some instances

a new location in another place, a temporary location and work and get some of the building issues

resolved. So I think that helps people who are here and who have a small business and are trying

grow and sustain or sustain and grow. It shows great support to them. So I want to thank you

to appreciate that. You're back. Council Member Brewer. I'm very appreciative of the update Mr. Dome.

This brings me back to the Vision 2020 outgrowth workshop that took place back in 2016.

I remember participating in that and engaging in that. I've still got that on my show.

And I love and I love the commercial so much that they took one part out. I didn't know why.

If you recall, I was in there on two occasions. Wait, that was before I got here.

And some people were like, yeah, no, that's 2015 or 2014.

That's the SD guy doesn't need to be on there two times. So we need to edit that commercial.

We won't do that to you. But I appreciate it because that workshop all day and

that was when I believe you had you were part you were already on the city at the time.

2016 and I was.

And a year and

everything that was taken in those workshops has been brought to life in some way, shape, or form.

And it's really cool to see because now we're in 2025. We're seeing the fruits of that work.

And we're seeing that businesses are opening.

Sections are coming to life.

It's all because of the vision that the folks in the room are particularly the vision that you had

in having the civic engagement and transforming outgrow and making it the city that it is today.

I want to thank you for that.

Because thank you.

That was that that was a large undertaking and to see it all come together is amazing.

You're giving me too much credit.

No, I will say thank you on behalf of the entire city organization.

But it's it's it's praise that needs to be given because

because I saw I saw I saw what you were envisioning.

I saw with the city council at the time was envisioning.

And it's it's remarkable to see that consistency and to see that build up.

But looking at how

permits have flattened and yeah we are having new businesses here and

we have some concepts that are that are cooking and that are moving and moving in the right direction.

Would it help as a recalibration to do a vision 2030 or or has things progressed in a way to where

we have programs in place that would not necessitate a large brain storming session like that

to help outgrow move to outgrow 3.0 that next level.

No, I I'm always I think it would help.

I do have confidence in our programs and services and our staff if we didn't do that right that we're

still going to be doing all the things that need to be done.

But I think it's always a good idea for our businesses and our residents and the institutions

that support our economy come together and and spend some time talking about what we want to see.

It was the chamber of commerce has historically been sort of the convener of that.

But there's no reason that that your office of economic development couldn't convene such a strategy.

So let us get back to you on that. I think that's a great idea.

Yeah, because you have you have an awesome team.

And then you have Explore Outgrow that's now in the fold.

And then you're going to have the arts and creative economy commission that is going to be a part

of that as well. And it helps in a way helps build that momentum and creating such a workshop to where

everything that you're envisioning and what you're and what you're seeing and what your team is seeing

of how Elk Grove can be transformed even more especially now at the market coming online.

Project elevate a little bit coming on in the very near future near immediate future.

Sky River Casino at the time we didn't see that coming right and it came and it's been such a

a catalyst for the city that everything that has been built over there with our partnership with

them definitely sets the table for this next stage. And so I just want to throw that out there

and get your perspective, get your thoughts because you're the subject matter expert when it comes

to economic development and just wanting to see exactly what the potential is in turning that

that other corner. Sure. We will we will take a look at that and put it on our

follow up list and be glad to come back and talk to the council about what that would look like.

They're like again I want to thank you because you're your leadership and you're in your focus

and attention to detail is what brings the city to where it is today.

Thank you sir. We'll go to council member Suen.

Thank you Mayor. Darrell great job on the presentation. I was joking with some earlier tonight

because of years ago a presentation that went that went long but it was a joke because

so you're the culprit. I am well I'm one culprit for sure but you know that I but in all the record

Mr. Lindgren I think has the longest presentation in the 10 years I've been here. I do remember that one.

It's civics 101 that's true that's possibly him on the zoo and also Chief Davis gave a very long

annual report but I am more than happy to shorten things. Well my point was there is a whole lot

a whole lot that you have done over the last 10 years a lot of good things and you were

bragging about all those things and so it was it it was a just it so but and rightfully so there

there was in in council member you know talked about it you've you've you've steered the ship I think

in a very good way when before I came on council any of us looking in the audience there were

an economic development is a tough industry in general right this is kind of it's more about I

feel like it's more about art than a science you know and so there were your predecessors and

people were always in the community I mean we always talking about how you know how to get that going

and I do feel like you're the first one to actually get things going and you know whether it's

timing or not it it it definitely was was you my opinion so all these things that that started

in in our flourishing from the first day permits to the brew and you know it's brew before it was

just breweries you know and the restaurants I continue to brag about the the old town

property investment because I think that is a great example of a public private partnership

and it's a it's a it's a huge success story for for this city I don't I don't know if people

you know just appreciate all the work that you were trying to do at the time trying to form a

P bid trying to get whole town people all town folks to reinvest in in their businesses and

no traction there and doing what we did really the dividends you see are paying off

um and so I like I also like uh you know building upon these earlier programs this new one made

in El Grove that the startup El Grove was it was a great one and that has continued to gain traction

and so things are maturing and things are are I think progressing in a good good direction

um as there's as you mentioned in this presentation there's a whole lot of of thing of programs

that you're starting and managing and um so I get it where the bandwidth might get difficult so

luckily you're getting a personal board um so all that's to say is when you go where we're going

next and the things that you're you're talking about I'm really anxious to see the outcome of the

survey to see where we can focus uh our energies on that workforce development I think that's a

that's a very good goal um I'd kind of similar to our council retreat or we're not similar but we

talked about this at the council retreat a way to to work on that education component so we get

it educated workforce that can help with the targeted industry like tech or whatever we choose

whatever survey you come back with that results of the survey you come back with but as we all know

Apple right is like you know it's it's here I know they they got their donut and they probably you

know don't want to invest in engineers but doesn't mean we keep we don't try and and part of that

I do believe is that education is is there um you know in any what are your thoughts on that specifically

and then the other thought I have this is kind of this is separate then the statewide economic

development um I don't know if you call it the the association I know you're part of it um I'm

curious what you're seeing at the state level with other cities in southern California and Bay Area

what they are doing that you think we can do uh if if there's anything or maybe some of these

are giving you maybe those things are giving you the ideas that you're talking about now I

yeah they they are uh two degree I mean we're we like to think we're good at original thought too

and some of this is that but I mean I mean you have to have a robust set of programs and services

and you have to have incentives right and so we've always been blessed financially to be able to

have incentives even if we don't um use them that much there are some cities that are doing some

great things in education uh I mean you know first and foremost I'd love to get some some

higher at more higher education here something you and I've talked about for years and believe me we

we have tried um and we're still trying and I think there's still some opportunity to do that right so

if we those are really hard things to pry out of other places and really hard things to start from

scratch so that's kind of an uphill battle um but we are that is still something that's very much

on my radar right if we could find our you know our our our sacks state engineering center our

you know move their mpa program here you know put a building here we've had robust conversations with

stack state over the years to do that and at times it looked like we were going to do something and then

and you know now they're they're putting it down by the capital right and and the rail yards and

things like that but there are other schools I think that we could um we could target as far as

attraction candidates um you know we're blessed to have CRC here and what I love about and we have

a great relationship with them and and Dr Edward Bush and uh you know Tishana sits on their um

the chambers DEI task force which is chaired by Dr Bush he's really committed to economic

development I think we could probably um double down on that relationship because what's great

about community college and I'm a proud product I'm a secretary of a city college panther very

proud that I went that route uh it's probably the only reason I've stayed in here you know a bunch of us

um yeah I really like it air see and I really like community college because it's virtually free

and they are the state's workforce development partner right so when we have a company who comes

in and says you know I need a hundred welders in in two months we're going to CRC to ask them to

plug our residents into their welding program so bullish on community college bullish on education

it's it's definitely a regional play um talent is a regional play doesn't care about political

boundaries but I think if we had if we you know we we have and if we had more um higher higher education

institutions here um I think that would be great we've built really strong uh we are building really

strong partnerships with our outgrow being a fight school district uh particularly Sarah and a

lot of work she is doing uh because she was running our workforce programs and we're starting to

open some doors there I think because they have a fantastic pathways program um that I think we could

do more with high school students graduating and if they're not university bound they should be

Loserios community college bound if they're not that college bound they should be getting trained

in a trade or skill in working for our company so more to come on education but I think there's

a lot we could do and as far as other cities that I'm looking at there I mean there are great cities

up and down to California we're always um we're always looking you know if I'd rather not create a

program with scratch I'd rather copy somebody else you know um there's there's some cities doing

some great things and we're very plugged into uh Caled and Team California I'm on the board of

Team California I've been on the board of Caled um we've got our partners in Greater Sacramento so

yeah we're always looking for when we see something we like uh we bring that back and we see if it

can fit here and that's where a number of our programs have come from. Also appreciate comments

Darren yeah thank you vice mayor thank you met him there um thank you for the presentation super

substance a lot of stuff that we're doing um when I go out in the region everyone says Elk Grove is

a place to go to um all the chefs saw the restaurant owners they're like just waiting for the right time

um and everyone starting to say Elk Grove is so undervalued so thank you for what you're doing thank

you for the team um Sarah and Tish for for doing the amazing work and uh I'm excited to see that

you know you're bringing uh 800 brokers together that way they can start seeing we invited 800

well hopefully we can get we have 800 now we're gonna be in the parking lot yes uh but hopefully

occupancy is 150 we intend to fill it up I'm still excited to see that um because most of the

brokers will just probably still think of Elk Grove as being a bedroom community and and we're not

right we we're we're already we're just hitting our strides right now and we're continuing to go

so might want to slow down on the three point now um just because we're just hitting it right now

and maybe after we get a couple we could move up after that but um excited to see what's going on

in the city and just thank you for for your hard work you bet thank you excellent presentation

I'm a big champion and proponent of economic development and love the work that you're doing but

really credit also goes of course to your dynamic staff I've enjoyed working with you over the last

several years um just compelling you know you've got just a dynamic staff so looking forward that

fourth uh the fourth position to round out the the the team there's a lot of incredible work that

has taken place and then also what's coming so very excited about all of that uh looking forward

to seeing the expansion of the workforce development I think that's going to be excellent railroad

street I mean what a game changer it's now a destination place and that's what dreaming big looks

like that's what would you know in visit california when you're creating these destination places

that become economic drivers that is exciting to see all of the the excitement there and the

investment the retail momentum not only the current but the future I mean I'm just thinking in

the last 60 days how many grand openings that I've gone to yeah it's quite a quite incredible

and just continues to play along with you know meeting the needs of our residents long awaited that

things that we've been waiting for I've lived here for over 30 years and I you know I'm so glad that

I obviously still live here because all the things that I had hoped for way back in the day we're

now getting to enjoy so that's really wonderful um our partnership with explorer outgrove they

do phenomenal work and I think that also is key to continuing what we're doing the the arts and

creative economy I am really looking forward to see how we are going to incorporate the commission

with economic development and see that next level of what economic development and truly the arts

commission can and will be so that's going to that's a huge and exciting opportunity for the city

of outgrove so I'm very excited about that the marketing that I've been seeing is wonderful so I know

that it takes a team to split that together just the communications and marketing pieces are excellent

looking forward to your project elevate coming up I know that that's very important for not only

this council but for the community I get lots of questions of what's coming when's it coming and

you know the excitement is definitely building love the made and outgrove concept I think that's

going to be really cool you know one of the hashtags I always use is outgrove proud because I am proud

of our city and all the things that we do so this you know reinforces that sort of pride that we have

in our city and then made an outgrove I think just as that next lends itself very well to that

and just all of the exciting business opening so great work congratulations to your team excellent

job and I look forward to continued success from everybody excellent presentation thank you

all right with that we will go on to item 10 which is council comments reports future agenda items

I'll start with council member speeds anything

yes one quick thing one quick thing so I chair the Sacramento Metro cable television commission we

recently did a grants process and there were some grants applications that were reviewed by

Miss Alicia Tut and the executive director of the Sacramento cable television commission ask me

to be certain that I thank Miss Tut and I figured that this would be a good time to do so they

really appreciated her participation and she offered to help in the grant process modification

for the future because this was our first time doing it and it was apparently it was less than

efficient so who would know government right but Alicia had some great ideas for that and she's

apparently she's willing to help next year and so I want to make sure that I thank thank her for

that so that's it thank you council member brewer so tomorrow Sacramento Public Library joint

powers authority we're going to have our meeting tomorrow at the county administrative offices

in their chambers and they're in solving to the public and we'll be on cable access TV so hopefully

a right will tune in it will be a quick meeting but it's always a good meeting especially when

we engage with the friends of the Sacramento library thank you council member soon thank you Mary

we had a sex ceremony today very short nothing to report thank you vice mayor anything report

their quality board meeting tomorrow looking forward to that all right I had sac our TNSTA over the

last couple of weeks and that's it so I will go ahead and adjourn this meeting at 739 pm

have a great evening everyone thank you