We have reconvened from closed session and I would like to make the following announcement

by a 4-2-0 with Council Member Sun absent vote.

The City Council authorize and directed the City Attorney's Office to defend the case

of flock versus City of Elk Grove and all as identified by the case number on the City

Council meeting agenda.

With that we will adjourn the special meeting at 6.01 PM and that brings us to our regular

meeting.

At this time I will call to order the Elk Grove City Council regular meeting.

Today is Wednesday, March the 12th, 2025 and it is 6.01 PM.

Clerk.

Thank you, Mayor.

This meeting of the Elk Grove City Council is recorded with closed captioning.

The recording will be cable cast on MetroCable Channel 14, the government affairs channel

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meeting, City Council requests that you limit your presentation to 3 minutes per person

so it all present will have time to participate.

City Council reserve the right to reasonably limit the total time for public comment on any

particular notice agenda item as it may be necessary.

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the City Council for more than 3 minutes.

If you wish to address the council during the meeting please complete a blue speaker

card which can be found at the back of the chamber and provide it to Assistant City Clerk

Brenda Haggard prior to consideration of the agenda item.

With that mayor will be moving into the roll call and for the roll call I will be starting

with Council Member Spees.

Present.

Council Member Brewer.

Present.

I will note that Council Member Suen is absent.

Vice Mayor Robles.

Present.

And Mayor Singalan.

Here.

Thank you.

Next up is our land acknowledgement.

With the vice mayor please read the land acknowledgement.

Thank you Madam Mayor.

We honor respect and acknowledge the Elk Grove first inhabitants.

The claim me walks who lived as a suffering caretakers of this land.

These waterways since time immoral.

We commemorate and advocate for their descendants.

The Wilson Rangeuria.

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

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

All right.

Thank you.

Next up is our pledge of allegiance.

Council Member Brewer please help lead us this evening.

Everyone please rise if you are able.

Hand over your right right hand over your heart.

Ready begin.

I would like to just to defy the United States of America and to the Republic for which it

stands one nation under God and the visible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Next up is our moment of silence.

Please join us as we observe our moment of silence.

All right.

Thank you.

Next up is our approval of the agenda.

I mean I get a motion please.

So moved.

Can I get a second?

All those in favor please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Next item.

Under section three for a closed session there are no closed session items on the regular

agenda which will take us to section four presentations and announcements.

That first being item 4.1 of proclamation recognizing March as women's history month.

All right.

Well, it is my great pleasure to recognize an extraordinary outgrowth resident.

So I'm going to read the covenants here.

It's a proclamation observing women's history month March 2025.

Whereas March was officially designated as women's history month in 1987 and the purpose

of women's history month is to honor and celebrate the contributions of women throughout

history.

I'm going to pause for a second.

I meant to call up Secretary Amy Tongue to the podium and I'll continue reading.

Thank you.

Whereas this year's theme moving forward together women educating and inspiring generations

celebrates the powerful influence of women who have dedicated their lives to education,

mentorship and leadership.

And whereas Amy Tongue a distinguished public servant and leader exemplifies the spirit

of women's history month through her dedication and commitment to serving the people of California

and the city of outgrowth.

And whereas Amy Tongue's commitment to the community includes her service on the city

of outgrowth planning commission where her foresight and hard work supported the foundation

for the city's present growth and prosperity.

And whereas Secretary Tongue has achieved extraordinary success currently serving as the

Secretary of Government operations for the state of California overseeing an agency with

over 22,000 employees and a $67 billion dollar annual budget demonstrating exceptional

leadership and management skills.

And whereas Amy Tongue's influence extends to critical areas such as workforce development,

technology and innovation, infrastructure projects and the implementation of generative

AI in state government showcasing her forward thinking approach and commitment to progress.

Now therefore be it resolved that the city council the city of outgrowth hereby proclaims

March 2025 is women's history month in the city of outgrowth and proudly honors Amy Tongue

for her outstanding contributions to our community and the state of California.

We celebrate her achievements, leadership and unwavering commitment to public service

and express our sincere gratitude for her service and the lasting impact on the city

of outgrowth, signed this day the 12th of March 2025.

Please recognize Secretary Amy Tongue.

Would you like to say something?

Yes, very briefly.

Oh my goodness.

Thank you so much for the recognition mayors and health and council and some of my former

planning commission.

Good to see you, Kevin.

I just say I am so honored on Humboldt by this recognition and as I was driving home from

leaving work at office at downtown, I was like, hey, what I'm going to say tonight because

I know this is a great honor.

It doesn't come very often even though you might be thinking for all of the work that I

do at this state.

There were many other recognitions in different form but coming from a city that I have spent

the past 30 years and being the resident, my husband, who's in the audience, in the

city as well as brought up our two children, now have all gone and somewhere else in California.

It's a special place for me and this is also the place that my parents brought me to when

I was a teenager and this is also the place that I bury my mom when she unfortunately

lost her battle to cancer.

Having this recognition from a place that we call home despite all of the work and everything

else that we have to do, especially in my role now as a cabinet secretary to serve the

governor in the administration to serve to California, I always enjoy my time here raising

my family, doing community service, meeting all the to give people, including Christopher

back then, like, to back in 2016.

So I guess I just couldn't express how grateful I am and thank you to your leadership, this

council's leadership and all of the wonderful leaders in the city of Elgrove for making

this place a great place to live.

Thank you.

Congratulations once again.

We're going to come down.

You should come in.

You have an election appointment now.

I'm sorry.

Thank you. Congratulations again.

How are you? Good to see you.

Good to see you.

You know, remember those.

I forget that you were planning.

Thank you.

How are we doing?

Not what you had to shake.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's really just like that.

Can we give another round of applause to Secretary Amy Tonkles?

Thank you.

All right.

Next up, we have public comment.

We will start with.

Is it up?

Ray Apidaka, followed by Max Kwan Tran.

Good evening.

Mayor and council members.

My name is Ray Apidaka and I'm the owner of 9635

Elk Grove, flooring road home to Anipione, find our gallery.

Our gallery is committed to enriching Elk Grove's cultural and

economic landscape by supporting local artists and small

businesses that bring vibrancy to our city.

I'm here to support Bing Bing,

shave ice and coffee in the request for a permit or entitlement

to operate at my property beyond the current three hour limit

stated in the municipal code section 2385-050.

As a business owner, I seek tenants who align with the city's

vision for growth and community engagement.

Max Emilian and Jacqueline's business just just that.

Their setup is safe, clean and professionally run.

They comply with all health and safety regulations and their

presence has not caused any issues with traffic, noise or

neighboring businesses.

The current three hour restriction makes it nearly impossible

for them to operate effectively despite having legitimate

lease and the full support of both myself and neighboring

businesses.

Elk Grove continues to invest in economic development and

community focused businesses.

I urge the council to consider granting them the ability to

operate longer so they can continue serving and contributing to

our city.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you.

Next up is Max Quantran.

Good evening.

Madam Mayor and council members.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.

My name is Max Quantran.

I'm the co-owner of the Bingbing Shea Bison coffee food truck.

I want to start by saying that we truly enjoy operating here

in Elk Grove.

We've been here since January and we're very grateful for the

support of the community.

We want to thank everyone that helped us get set up here and

get our business license.

As Mr. Apudaka mentioned, despite being fully licensed and

insured, we're still subject to the three hour operating time

limit in section 2385-058 of the municipal code.

As I'm sure you can imagine constantly relocating disrupts

our business, waste precious time and creates unnecessary

costs, especially with the costs of gas and utilities.

And it also confuses our customers being at a different

location all the time.

I'm asking for the council to please consider amending this

section of the municipal code.

After extensive consultation with the planning and economic

development departments, thank you to Tisha Man's God and

Joseph Daghaman.

I've decided that in my specific situation, the best

solution is to forego being a mobile vendor and open up a

physical storefront.

And although I'm very fortunate to have the means and the

opportunity to do so, I recognize that not everyone else may

have this opportunity.

So I'm here speaking not just for myself, but for on behalf of

all other mobile food vendors that wish to operate in your

own business, I think given that someone is properly

licensed and insured and handling food safely, there should be

no time limit on how long any food business should be able to

operate.

I think if we want to encourage innovation, local investment,

we need policies that support and not hinder these businesses.

These businesses create jobs, foster entrepreneurship, and

contribute to upgrove's growing reputation as a business

community.

So I ask that you please consider adding this issue to your

official agenda as it affects not just me right now, but all

those families and small businesses in the future that want to

contribute to your local economy.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Could you please get a hold of me, my email, and sell is on

the website.

I'd like to continue this conversation.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, sir.

All right.

Next up is Jacqueline Canuse.

Since prior to 2016, I have been in communication with our city and

utility companies regarding their damaged utility boxes, pipes, and

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in the job. They scratch and trip people, bikes and strollers. Who is responsible for

overseeing these infractions of code enforcement policies? Is there a particular system keeping

track of jobs and clean up within 30 days of completion? Brian Vrajiel, engineering service

manager on May 15th, 2017, sent me an email, stated in part. Standard practice is to remove

the utility flags by the construction crew after the project is completed. On August 4th, 2022,

I wrote letters to all utility companies and the city to walk with me around Laguna and Big Horn

to review the condition of their equipment. On August 12th, 2022, Joe Dixon, supervisor at Smud

attended Jeff Werner, public works director sent two staff members. Mr. Dixon followed through

with repairs and or replacements within the month. The low number of repairs made by other

companies has been acknowledged. Who is responsible for cleaning up damages, both vehicle and property

after a wreck? The owner, a light pole with damage that Laguna and Laguna Springs reported to

the city on June 19th, 2024. Another wreck at Iris and Arnie's Imbleman Park was reported to see

click fix on October 1st, 2024. I cleaned up what I could, the trash was full, therefore I left

some of the debris beside the can. It was not picked up, but the can was emptied.

A vehicle door was left at the corner of Big Horn and Laguna for weeks. I have reported it,

but as of March 11th, 2025, it was still there. The city clicked fix program may transfer an issue,

however, I do not hear back from them. Lastly, do Elk Grove citizens speak to the city council meetings

only to vent? Are my questions and concerns reviewed or delegated out or was nothing done? Express

the respect to follow through and apprising citizens of the speaker's time and effort would benefit us all.

Good evening. Thank you, ma'am. That concludes our public comment. I will go ahead and close the

public comment and go on to our next item, which is our city manager's report.

Good evening, Madam Mayor. Members of the city council, Jason Berman,

have to report on a few items for you this evening. First of all, our economic development staff

is in the process of doing a local business survey. We've sent out a lot of

invitations to participate in the survey, but if any business would like to receive that,

as not or receive that, they can email our economic development team at econdev.elk Grovecity.org.

Surveys are expected to be completed by March 19th. We are starting our annual civic

summer program application period that's open now and it will close on March 28th. So if you know,

a student here locally in Elk Grove that would like to participate and get great career

and mentorship opportunities through that program would encourage them to apply at our

Elk Grove Unified School District website, edusd.net by March 28th. We also have two

openings right now on one commission, one committee. We have an opening and our diversity

inclusion commission and we have another opening on our historic preservation committee.

Application for either committee or commissions are due on no later than April 2nd.

And the final item is discover the world of green stormwater infrastructure with

rescape expert Brian Rally on Saturday, April 5th from 12 to 2 p.m. at the Elk Grove Rainguard

in Plaza, which is close to here at 93, 85 Laguna Springs Drive during the guided tour. Brian will

share the expertise and insight into how green stormwater infrastructure works and it's

important to regenerative landscaping, bring your questions by lunch as we explore the innovative

approach to managing stormwater. Interested individuals can register for this event on the rescape

website at www.rescapeca.org and that includes my report. Happy to answer any questions that the

council might have. Thank you. Any questions or comments for a city manager? I see one here for

the council member. So with the opening for the diversity and inclusion commission and the

historic preservation committee, will those notices go out publicly and on social media so

the public is aware of these openings so they can apply by April 2nd?

So I'll fill that one council member brewer. So for the recruitment what's occurred is the vacancies

are posted on our website. We have the constant contact system that pushes that out to

interested parties that are signed up for information on vacancy appointments as well as those that

have signed up on the historic preservation committee for updates and the diversity and inclusion

commission and then the city clerk staff will be coordinating with pushing out on social media as

we get closer to those deadlines. We let it stew a little bit for folks to consider their applications

and then as we get closer we look at how many are coming in but there will be a push out on social

media as well. Thank you. All right. No other questions? We'll move on to our next item. Our

consent calendar items. At this time I will go ahead and open up the public comment opportunity.

Do not have anyone sign up for consent calendar. I'll close the public comment opportunity and look

for a motion to approve the consent calendar. So moved. Second. All is in favor. Please say aye.

Thank you. Motion passes. Next item 8.1.

And item 8.1 is a public hearing to consider an ordinance amending the Elk Grove municipal code

and various sections to exempt designated outdoor areas from certain city development

impact fees and to consider resolution authorizing execution of refund agreements and issue

refunds related to certain city development impact fees paid on designated outdoor areas.

Good. Good evening. Madam Mayor Vice Mayor and Council members. I am Renee Dagamann,

Finance Animals for the City. Here this evening with the presentation on outdoor area impact fees

and Elk Grove municipal code updates relating to them. We'll be going over the background on

development impact fees policy change EGMC updates, refunds and fiscal impact and then

staffing recommendations. So a little bit of background and development impact fees in the

city's current practice development impact fees are one time fees that are charged on new residential

and non residential projects and projects that are adding additional square footage to their

building. Impact fees mitigate the impact of new development. The more residents and visitors

you have in the city, the more road improvements parks and city facilities are needed.

Development impact fees are also charged on any outdoor dining area associated with the

non residential business whose primary purpose is the serving of food or beverages to customers

related to a restaurant brewery or winery or similar type of establishment. Development

impact fees charged for outdoor dining areas are financial burden for many prospective restaurants,

breweries and wineries that the city is trying to attract. These fees are often paid by the

business owner and not the property owner. This has resulted in several desirable businesses not

locating opening an Elk Grove and others not being able to execute expansion plans. In addition,

several existing businesses that inherited unparimated outdoor dining areas on which development

impact fees were never paid or who built outdoor dining areas without knowing about the development

impact fees are now being charged the fees causing a financial constraint and hindering their

ability to complete their entitlement and permitting process.

So staff reached out to 12 local jurisdictions in the region to identify whether they charge

impact fees on outdoor dining areas. Seven of them do not charge. Three of them charge a lower

percentage of the maximum development impact fee and two of them do charge 100% of the fee.

To meet the city's goals of attracting supporting local restaurants for recent wineries,

staff recommends that the city council consider accepting the square footage of outdoor dining

areas only not the building from certain development impact fees. These changes would only apply

to affect the city's development impact fees not impact fees collected on behalf of other agencies

such as CSD or STAs fees. The city would continue to charge impact fees on outdoor dining

dining areas for those agencies unless they inform us otherwise.

And one of the business owners will still need to go through their entitlement and permitting

process. It's just that the impact cities impact fees would be exempt on the outdoor dining area.

And as the next studies for each of the affected development impact fee programs is updated in the

coming years, staff will include the exemption regarding those done outdoor dining areas.

To implement this policy change, the following chapters of the Elk Grove Municipal Code

will need to be amended to add a new definition of designated outdoor area and at a fee exemption

section. That's chapter 16.81 city of Elk Grove, East Franklin facilities fee, chapter 16.82 city

of Elk Grove Laguna Ridge Park fee which covers the Laguna Ridge Park fee and Laguna Ridge Supplemental

Park fee, chapter 16.89 affordable housing fee for non, sorry for a new non-residential development,

and chapter 16.9 development impact fees which covers the city's roadway impact fee program,

active transportation capital facilities fee, CEPA cost recovery fee,

CEPA Laguna Ridge, Phase 3 drainage fee, CEPA park and trail fee, and the southeast industrial

area cost recovery fee. The additions will be the same for each chapter which will be adding,

again, the definition of designated outdoor area and the exemption section.

Staff also recommends that the City Council approve refunds for development impact fees included

in those chapters mentioned to business owners who paid these development impact fees on the

designated outdoor area of their business on or after January 1, 2020, and whose businesses are

still operating and or to property owners who paid these fees for a designated outdoor area on behalf

of a tenant on or after that date. We recommend going back to January 1, 2020 because the city began

to see increased interest in the types of local elevated dining and drinking establishments

with after dining at that time, the COVID pandemic, a number of businesses that opened in the

last five years reluctantly paid impact fees for those outdoor dining areas. Staff believes

that providing refunds equitable for current and future business owners and property owners

and recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute refund agreements

with those businesses and issue refunds equal to the amount of development impact fees that were

paid on the designated outdoor area. There will be an impact on the City's development impact fee

revenues as designated outdoor areas will be exempt from the fees indicated. However, the number of

businesses that have an outdoor dining area dedicated solely to their business and that would be

subject to impact fees on the square footage of those areas is low compared to other development

projects since we do collect on residential and all non-residential. Staff has identified a total

of six businesses that would be due a refund should counsel approve refunds.

The total amount of the refunds would be approximately $156,000 in total. The refunds would be

issued and allocated from the revenue fund lines of each of those exempted fee programs.

Each of those funds has sufficient revenue to issue the refunds and the chart just shows allocation

of the refunds by the fee program. Our roadway fee program is by far the largest

and it has one of the higher rates and so that's about 80% of the refund that would occur.

With all of that, staff has the following two recommendations. Introducing ordinance to amend

Elk Grove Municipal Code Chapter 16.81, 16.82, 16.89, and 16.95. To exempt designated outdoor areas from

certain city development impact fees and adopt the resolution authorizing the city manager to

execute refund agreement and issue refunds relating to certain city development impact fees paid

on those areas. That concludes my presentation. Thank you for your time. Staff is available for any

questions. All right. Thank you for your presentation. At this time, I will declare the public hearing

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

close public comment and declare that the public hearing is now closed. Questions, comments from

counsel? I'll start the left. Any questions to the right? Questions? I just have a comment.

This is great news. I'm glad that we're doing this. With that, I'll look for motion one and two.

I'll take second. All right. We have a motion. There's second. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye. Aye. Thank you. All right. Next item 9.1.

And item 9.1 was to receive and file the Elk Grove Aquatic Center annual report for calendar year

2024. Good evening, honorable mayor, vice mayor, council members. My name is Jess Scanlon and I'm the new

community center manager for district 56. I'm very excited to be here tonight and be able to present the

2024 Elk Grove Aquatic Center annual report. Tonight's presentation will begin with Lana Yoshimura,

director of recreation and community services with Kassuma CST to discuss the aquatic programming

and followed by myself to discuss the budget and current financials for the facility. So with that,

I'll turn over to Lana. Welcome back. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Members of the

CST Council, it is always a pleasure to be before you. I have to say it's a little bit different

being on this side of, but, um, may go work. On behalf of the Kassuma Community Services District,

we are very proud to operate the Elk Grove Aquatic Center for commonly known as EGAC.

We continue to build programming and create a very fine facility that people are always looking to

host meets and attend. Let me see. This is a brief program overview of some of the things that we

offer at EGAC. These are the core programs we offer at the facility. This evening, I will be talking

about several of them in depth. This is the aquatic programs by the numbers, both participation as

well as revenue. Last year, we had a strong performance in revenue. I know this has been a concern

of the Council in years past. Let me assure you that we continue to keep an eye on the revenue,

and it continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Last year, we served almost 50,000 people at our

facility, just in programs alone that doesn't count for swim meets and other things such as user

groups, which the city manages itself. And I want to highlight a couple of key areas of growth for you.

This is water fitness by the numbers, both program hours as well as revenue. Water fitness has always

been one of our strongest revenue generators, and we continue to capitalize on that. This past year,

we introduced several new classes, including H2O Strength and Aqua Hit, which stands for

High Intensity Interval Training. If you are ever looking for a class that will get your heart

pumping and into that target heart rate zone, this is the class for you. It is definitely sold out,

and we found a great following with it. We continue to build out our programming, innovating, as well as

trying to offer things that are not offering currently in the district.

Pull parties, rentals, and concessions is another area of growth. We actually expanded this

program to utilize deck space and host pull parties under canopies, which considerably enlarged our

ability to host pull parties this past year. We will continue to market the parties as fun

affordable options for people. It's a take advantage of this summer. This is our aquatic center staff

certifications. Our staff continue to be well trained to operate a safe and secure facility.

A couple of areas that I want to call your attention to are the lifeguard training instructor

and instructor training areas. What this allows us to do is basically train staff to be

lifeguards as well as instructors. This is a cost-stabbing measure that allows us to train staff

in-house, as well as to help our staff grow and build skill. This is a key point in retention.

Let me talk about some of the accomplishments of EGAC this past year. We want to thank the

city staff for its positive working relationship. That relationship really does aid tremendously

in our ability to function, as this is a joint effort by our agencies. Some of our highlights

include the growth in revenue. We have a 55% growth in revenue over 2023. We've hosted major

swim meets which have brought over a thousand attendees a piece. We added winter swim lessons which

have found a following. We continue to offer swim lessons in spring, summer, as well as fall,

slash winter. We expanded marketing last year. We had the largest staff recruitment in CST history,

which was great. We have staff retention of about 75 to 80% of seasonal staff, which helps keep

our costs down as training and rehiring as low. The facility does have ongoing challenges.

2024 is a positive story. We saw a resident revenue grow. The facility continues to find its

footing in a regional sense as more and more people know about it. But aquatic centers are

kind of like children. In the beginning, they're happy to play with the box. The toy comes in and

as they get older, gets more costly. They want iPhones and iPads. Now we're basically raising a

cardation. These costs are pretty typical of aquatic centers in the industry. You're going to see

operating costs grow due to inflation. Things like the minimum wage, staff increases. Those are very

hard to compete about and difficult to control. Utility costs are another area of concern just because

these are outside of our control. These are things that we are reactive to in the marketplace.

These are all normal within the span of operating a facility. In addition, as the facility ages,

we're going to see more maintenance costs. That is a natural ebb and flow of facility. So,

an ebb and flow for all of us as we get older, things happen. So, maintenance will continue to be one

of those things that we are working to be proactive about, but we will always try to create the

facility that is to the standard the city would like. That is part of the challenges. And let's talk

about 2025. We have a very exciting year coming up. Our water fitness demos actually start on March 22nd.

If you've never been to a demo or you are interested in taking a water fitness class, this is an

excellent way to basically try the different classes we offer for free. This is part of our

recruitment process to get people in the water. One is at March 22nd. The second will be April 6th.

We're just pre-registration is required, but it does give you a good sampler powder of what a water

fitness class is like. This year we're hosting two CIF meet-level meets the Delta League

Championship and the CIF San Joaquin Championships. We are happy to have local high school swimmers

in our pool all the time. Our WIC swim opens on Saturday, May 24th, which is Memorial Day weekend,

which is typical for us. We are hoping for a strong season. We're continuing to expand swim lessons

to maximize the demand for that. This year we're actually hosting the USA Swim Sierra Nevada

Western Zone. This brings swimmers from Utah, Colorado, Washington to our facility.

It has been a great highlight for us. This will be the second time that we are hosting the Western

Zone. We are bringing back Daivin movies last year. We started with our first one. I think

Despicable Me 3. We look forward to bringing back a movie we did sell out last year. Our hope is

that we will sell out again. That is my part of the presentation. I'm going to turn it back over

to Jeff to continue. All right. As Lana presented, the CSD annual report which focuses on the

calendar year. I will be presenting the fiscal analysis and budget impacts for the fiscal year,

starting with fiscal year 2024. For fiscal year 2024, the city budgeted $1,061,000 for operations.

This number includes all costs including landscaping, equipment, chemicals, utilities,

and the CSD professional services budget. The budget also includes $240,000 in city revenue

from our user groups and facility rentals which helps partially offset our operating expenses

resulting in a total operation subsidy of 821,000. The slide here represents actual expenses

versus the adopted budget for fiscal year 2024. Key budget numbers and takeaways we see from last

year are the increased revenue numbers with both the city and CSD revenues coming in over the

original budget, along with the closely managed expenses for budgeted operations throughout the year.

We did see some increases in budgeted expenses at year end with the CSD total net expense,

seeing a 4% increase of that $24,000 increase approximately half of these were

necessary additional expenses that were approved by the city prior to purchase.

Overall, there was an 8% increase in final expenses compared to the original budget,

approximately $63,000 over the original $821,000 approved subsidy. The increases primarily due to

the increase in both utility and chemicals supply costs for the facility. As we know, there are

many factors that contribute to both operational and revenue, operational revenues and expenses,

both positively and negatively, but we are beginning to see the improvement with aligning these

expenses to budget projections and improving the financial forecasts for the facility.

Moving forward to this year, we are now halfway through the fiscal year with these numbers as of

December 31st, and we are seeing a promising and positive trend for the facility. As of this report,

both the city and CSD are seeing revenue numbers well above our mid-year projections

with CSD accounting for almost 70% of their annual revenue, and while the city has collected 60%

of our user group revenue for the year. On the expense side, CSD is currently sitting at the 50%

threshold we'd expect to see for their operating expense with their total net expense,

well below that 50% benchmark mainly due to the increased revenues for the year.

Overall, the current total subsidy is just over $275,000 for the year and has a 72% remaining

budget for the fiscal year. Again, well ahead of that, 50% benchmark we want to see.

With that, staff will continue to monitor and track our budget expenses throughout the fiscal year,

but our financial forecasts for the Elk Grove Aquatic Center are very promising at this point.

With current financials, we are attracted to the, if not exceed, our budgeted goals for fiscal year 2025.

This final slide just touches on the operational baselines, and for the facility,

and reminded that in May of 2024, city staff did bring back an updated Aquatic Center annual report

to City Council. Mainly the goal of this report was to reset the expectations regarding the total

cost of operating facility and the current economy compared to that when it first opened.

As we continue to operate, we remain diligent in tracking and refining our operational

baselines and costs for this facility and doing so, it allows the city and the district to improve

our financial forecasts, set more accurate costs and revenue targets and optimize our facility use

and revenue potential, all of which I believe we are beginning to see the successes of

and our current financials and facility operations. With that, this concludes my presentation,

and Lana and myself are available to answer any questions. All right, thank you for that excellent

report. At this time, I'll open up public comment. Nobody has signed up to speak. I'll close public

comment and questions comments. I'll start to the right.

So first, I want to thank CSD and their partnership and for them continuing to help us to make this

even, well, it'll never be profitable. We recognize that, right? But to make this

neutral, right, our cost relatively neutral. So thank you very much to CSD. We appreciate you.

And Lana, we were really sad to see you go, but we're certainly happy to see that you were going

to CSD and I think that you definitely understand our perspective in the last couple of years,

or at least I'll speak for myself, my perspective, and I definitely appreciate that.

Kudas to you for the 55% increase in the revenue, there's two sides to the equation,

there's expenses and there's revenues. And with the expenses, with the increase in the utilities

and in the increase in labor, it's hard to chase that revenue side. I recognize that,

but I really appreciate that you're doing that. So I'm glad that we're as a team, we're performing

better, and I really appreciate that and that's all I have. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Council Member Burr.

No, I want to thank you for, for getting the report. It's really good to see that the progress

is being done because normally you would, you would wait several years before you see real progress

being made with the aquatic center, but the aquatic center has been, has been a community hit

from the beginning. And that's, that's always been a great thing to see and know. And I have the

partnership with consumers really crystallizes that we're working together for the community.

And I really like the programs that are coming out in our commitment to having

swim programs, not just on a youth level, but on a high school level and for the regionals,

because that continues the reputation of the aquatic center here and no growth. And the reason

why it was put together to begin with and that's, and that's a really good, that's a really good thing.

One of the things I was looking at in here is I noticed that we're looking at the numbers

for the Laguna Ridge discount for the neighbors in here. And I noticed that the numbers were

on the low side. And we've done a lot of promotions and advertisements to let the neighbors

and the neighborhood know of that benefit because it's, as we, as we looked at the landscaping and

lighting fees and knowing how much are being paid for that neighborhood, that's a benefit,

a direct benefit for them in that respect. What more can we do to,

to make that available or make it known for those neighbors that this is something that

is there for them if they were to do a season pass to the aquatic center.

I certainly appreciate that question, Council Member Rour. It's really hard in terms of how did it

a horse to drink water, right? You need a horse to water, you can't always make it drink. We can

always try to increase marketing to the Laguna Ridge residents to let them know that this is an

available benefit to their being part of the CFD, the CFD. The CFD, that's there. We continue to

have word of mouth and sometimes it's just like it's not a popular program with them. I will tell

you from the facility rental side, we do see a lot of facility rentals at the center itself and

that Laguna Ridge discount utilized. But it's one of those things where we, we can only offer the

program and hope that they walk through the doors. We will work to increase marketing and spread

the word, but certainly appreciate that question. No, I appreciate you, Lana, because you've seen

both sides and being the administrator at District 66 and now with CFD and I like that you've picked

up some of my roddisms over the years because that one that you just dropped on was a nice little nugget.

I don't know if I could say that nowadays, but I'm glad someone else is picking up that mantle.

Well, and I will also say like the impressive revenue growth, why I would like to take credit for

that in the month and a half that I was there, but I just got there. I do give credit to Andalineuma

and the Recreation Manager who is sitting behind me and her team for increasing that. They certainly

put their nose to the grindstone and made those revenues numbers go up and really thought outside

the box and how to do that. So I express my appreciation to the Inquatix team for that.

And I give a lot of big thumbs up for Angela for that as well and for Tracy Ferris in addition,

because it's all a big team effort and you're all doing it together and it's part of that larger

partnership. And so I want to thank you all for doing that report. Vice mayor.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. No questions. Just thank you for keeping our program busy and it's

awesome to see that there's a lot of stuff going on and excitement there. So appreciate it.

Great report meeting and exceeding budgeted goals. That's great. Those were great numbers. Great

to see the progress. Welcome home, Lana. Thank you.

Still your first home. Great to see that the partnership continue. That's wonderful news.

As it relates to marketing, communications outreach, I would also recommend the school district and

getting information to the school sites even directly, not relying it, not relying solely on the

district, but the elementary, middle and high schools. Great outlets for information for increased

users. So thank you, excellent report. Great to see. Thank you. All right. Next up 9.2.

And as to receive information from staff and consider a resolution approving names for five

park sites within the city.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council of the Caravere Redig Deputy City Manager.

I'm here tonight to talk about naming five park sites within the city.

The five sites, Park site one is currently called Sungrove. Park site two is currently called

Mendes. There are two pocket parks and one trailhead in Elliott Springs.

There's an existing MOU between the city and the Consumnes CSD regarding the development of

park and recreation facilities, which outlines park naming procedures. The city does have a facility

naming policy, which talks about facilities will not normally be named after living persons.

And naming of deceased persons shall not take place until two years after their deaths.

The Consumnes CSD does not have such a policy, but this policy was utilized in the decision-making

process. So how do we get here tonight? So in 2024 from July to December, there was a public

nomination process first to have names solicited. Nine names were solicited of those nine,

only seven met the criteria of those seven. Some of those were living individuals names,

so then they were also eliminated. The city and the Consumnes CSD staff then held a brainstorming

session to get some additional names to add to that list. The names were reviewed by a joint

naming committee, which included two representatives from the city and the CSD. Park names were presented

to the CSD board on February 19th, and they're being presented to the city council tonight.

So I'll go through each park site. So Park site one, which is currently called Sungrove Park,

is located in your White Loth Parkway in Bighorn Boulevard. It is a one acre park, and there is no

theme. You can see some of the amenities listed here. The recommended name is Coyote Oaks Park.

The nominator wanted to honor the animals and plants that were once in this area,

and they mentioned hearing Coyotes calling each other in the area. They also wish to pay tribute

to the indigenous peoples who revered the oak tree, recognizing the cultural significance and

connection to the land. So Park site two, which is currently called Mendez, is located in your

Bilby Road in Bighorn Boulevard. This is a much larger park. It's nine acres. It has a current theme,

it is a horse ranch theme, and those are some of the amenities. The recommended name is Mendez

Ranch Park. The nominator wanted to honor Joe and Mary Mendez. The immigrants from Portugal

who were the original owners and farmers of this property. The name Mendez Ranch Park would

recognize the lasting contribution of Joe and Mary Mendez, as well as incorporate the horse theme

of the park. The next two parks are very small parks. Pocket Park One is .23 acres. It is on

Alfonso Way. This is really close to camera and Bilby Road. There are a few amenities here,

but the recommended name is Creek Side Park. It is adjacent to a creek.

Pocket Park Two is located just a little bit to the east of Pocket Park One. It is also very small.

It is .22 acres. The recommended name is Trailside Park. They wanted to have Creekside Park and

Trailside Park complement each other. The final name, the trailhead is the final park. It is located

on the corner of Corvaz Street and still Wagon Street in the Elliott Springs Development.

The name is Hitching Post Trailhead. This was recommended by the City and Cosumist

DST staff brainstorming session. The trailhead connects to a popular trail used for horseback

riding and is also very close to a horse ranch and a horse rescue. The name Hitching Post Trailhead

reflects the local equestrian culture. The recommended names are Coyote Oaks Park, Mendez Ranch Park,

Creek Side Park, Trailside Park, and Hitching Post Trailhead. Staff recommends that the City Council

receive information from staff and adopt a resolution approving name for five park sites within

the City. So I remain available to answer any questions. Tracy Ferris, the Parks and Recreation

Administrator with the Cosumist DST is also here. Thank you. Hi Tracy. All right, at this time I'll

open up public comment. Nobody has signed up to speak to this. I'll close public comment. Any

questions or comments from Council? No, but I would be willing to make the motion. Any questions,

comments? Okay. So I was on the subcommittee and I think we'll also on it with our vice mayor.

Very exhaustive process. But you know, you do want to pay tribute to not only the area, the

neighborhood lifestyle, some of those aspects. And then we did sometimes fuse certain ideas together.

And so it was a really, it was an exhaustive process. I thought it was a lot of fun to do. And

then it we really recognized each other's comments throughout this process and sort of the vision

of what we saw. You want the name to last beyond the next five, 10 years that it should stand up

for something and mean something for future generations. So great process. So thank you for that.

We have a motion from Council Member Spees in a second. So all those in favor, please say aye.

Thank you. All right, next item, please.

Okay. I'm just going to stay right here. Okay, so care,

reetic deputy city manager, I'm going to be giving you an update on the city's diversity equity

and inclusion efforts for 2024. I just want to take a minute and talk about the context of what

DEI is for the city of Elk Grove and what it isn't. So what it is, is where we create and maintain

a culture of belonging and welcoming. We identify and remove barriers in employment. We relate and

thoughtfully interact with our diverse community. And we follow all state and federal employment laws.

It is not about hiring or representation targets or goals. And it is not about affirmative action.

What it is about is here's a pie demographic of our community. So we have a very diverse community.

It's really important that our staff are trained and how to be culturally competent and aware.

I'll just kind of highlight a few of the pie charts here. But 31.3% of our residents are Asian, 31.2

are white, 18% are Hispanic, and 10.5% are African-American. So we have a very diverse community.

So really a main focus of our DEI program is training. We partner with Circle of Education out of

Oakland. We had 291 staff that trained on one of the topics there regarding equity, gender,

diversity, and covered. We had 128 sworn staff and 22 non-sworn staff participated in an Elk Grove

PD training on inclusive communication. So 93.7% of the city organization was trained in a DEI

topic in 2024. We've continued with our campaigns, our stickers, our social media, and our

magnets. We pay tribute to 14 individuals on social media. We put out 40 posts,

acknowledging holidays or awareness months. And those six ribbons include the six signature

campaigns that we do every year. The city council put out 21 council proclamations. I won't

list them all, but we had one tonight. We have them at many of our council meetings.

We raised the pride flag in June, and we also participated in the regional pride march.

Regarding the municipal equality index, this is put out by the Human Rights Campaign.

The city received the score of 100 this year. This is our best score. This is really a nationwide

assessment on LGBTQIA plus inclusion and municipal law policies and services.

This is just a listness of other DEI initiatives we have. There's a lot in the report,

but we're really proud of our mentorship program where we pair staff up internally to mentor

them for their career development and our career panel discussions where staff can learn the

career paths of their peers. Our Human Resources Department completed a comprehensive

classification study for underrepresented classifications, which is a really big deal and

it's a lot of work. We advertise in a variety of locations. We prioritize diversity on panel

members. All of the first interview panel members are external. And we continue to conduct

blind screen and recruitment. So what that means is that the first two levels of review and

a recruitment process, the personal reviewing applications does not see anyone's name to remove

any implicit bias. And then we have specific DEI questions and interview in the interview.

So one thing that we do every year is we compare who we're bringing into the organization and

what our organization looks like. So this this pie chart shows new hire by race ethnicity. So 42%

of our new hires in 2024 were white, 58% were diverse, 2024 new hires by gender, almost 42 were

male, almost 48% were female. There was a small percentage of non-binary staff hired.

Our turnover ratio in 2024 was 3%. This is the act of replacing an employee that leaves the

organization with a new one. So this is a five year forecast of our entire organization,

the diversity ratio. And as you can see, it's held very steady for the last five years.

About 52% of the organization is male, 48% is female, and there's a very small percentage of

non-binary. This chart is a five year snapshot of our employee diversity, so it does not include

Caucasian employees. So in 2024, 46% of our workforce were non-white.

This is another listing of city initiatives. I do just want to mention that the city is a part

of gear, the government alliance, un-race and equity organization. And then in 2025, our focus

we're going to continue staff training and development. We're going to continue with our

community campaigns. The diversity and inclusion commission is updating the city's code of ethics,

which will come back to you. We're working on a staff driven recruitment video website.

We're going to be updating the city's website regarding the web content accessibility guidelines

that's due in 2026. And all sworn police officers will participate in eight hours of

principal policing, which includes subjects such as diversity and empathy. So this is the

conclusion of my report. If you have any questions. Thank you very much for your excellent report.

At this time, I'll open up public comment. Nobody has signed up to speak. I'll close public comment.

Questions or comments? I'll start to the left. Vice mayor.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just want to say thank you for presenting this to us.

I feel like sometimes we can go on the run or day and forget that we live in the most diverse

city. One of the most diverse cities in a region. And thank you. And thank you for leading the

front on on our hiring practices. Melissa, we truly appreciate you. And I'm excited to see that,

you know, 46% of our staff are other than Caucasian because it's like reflective of times, especially as of

you know, other jurisdictions, how they're trying to dismantle a lot of the great work and a lot

of the great stuff that we're doing. So we really appreciate of that. Thank you.

We'll go to council member Brewer. Thank you for this report. This is very helpful. It gives

us a good snapshot of where we are as a city right now. As I say, we have as as a being a bridge to

yesterday's outgrowth to today's outgrowth going into tomorrow's outgrowth, what does that look like?

What do we have services that we offer resources that we offer not only to our employees but to the

public, how we can be of assistance in places where it may not be our jurisdiction, but you probably

should offer our consultative services when it's needed. And the manner in which we do it,

we do it from a place of caring because we're looking out for what's best for for our residents

and for the city as a whole because obviously, I mean the city's history as we have our saying,

but some folks have a frame of reference of where we were at one time. Some folks still believe

that that reputation is still here, but it's how we represent how we show up, how we speak up

for each other, really plays to the bigger picture of how we can lead and move forward as a community

also. This is a good way to do it, especially through the work of our council that is put together

or staff driven council. In addition to our diversity and inclusion commission as well,

most recently one of our commissioners is now a member of the Alcourt University School District

in Deleab Baldwin. So it shows that we are moving in the direction that we do have a stake

as leaders in our community in this community, but we do it with intentionality,

and we do it in the spirit of working through our partners at the school district and at the

community services district to show that we are moving together in empathy, but also moving together

in the spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood. As I've long said, we are our brother and sister's keeper,

and we need to do our part to be that when it's called upon. And this is a good indication of what

we're doing, especially when we have partners as circle of education, being there to help walk

through those situations with lessons that help look at these lenses not only with empathy,

but also with a degree of intelligence and a degree of caring. So thank you so much. This is good

stuff. Thank you. Council member Spees. Thank you Madam Mayor. So they'll grow 25 years this year.

It's going to be a great milestone for us. I think it was about maybe eight to ten years ago,

maybe closer to ten. There was a significant effort on part of some residents to highlight

the fact that our Elk Grove staff did not represent what the community was. And there were workshops

and a lot of difficult conversations. One thing to note is that diversity in Elk Grove happened

actually relatively quickly, right? Because the city grew quickly. And of course it's very difficult

to maintain or to have the diversity as you have employees already who are not leaving retiring,

etc. I know not saying it eloquently, but the point is that I want to make is that from that time,

the city has put in considerable effort to make our staff or to have our staff more closely

mirror our community. And that's been a long effort. It's one of those rocks that you move and

it keeps getting, once you get it moving, it goes faster and faster. To a point where now,

you know, you can look at it and go, wow, you know, really done some great work over the last

eight to ten years. And so I want to thank you for the efforts that staff, everyone has put in.

It's not certainly a large part of it as human resources, but I think there's also a common

understanding amongst staff and city council that diversity is a very important part of Elk Grove.

And I think that we work better together when we cooperate together and we respect each other.

So I want to thank you very much. I appreciate the report. Thank you.

Thank you. Excellent, excellent report. Diversity, equity and inclusion.

Our live and vulnerability of Elk Grove. We're not just reflecting these in our policies,

but also our programs and the work that we do. So I want to thank you, our entire executive team

and our staff. This is important. Again, I think one of my colleagues mentioned where DEI is under

attack nationwide. But having this as something that we pay close attention to,

you see that in the community. You see that amongst your staff where you are seen.

It is so important when you come from another ethnic group or what, you know, minority group,

I remember growing up in Turlock and always feeling invisible. Not a part of my community anywhere,

whether it was in school or just even in the government in all aspects of life.

I'm so proud of the work that we're doing and it's not just the city of Elk Grove. It's our

partnership with the CSD and definitely with the Elk Grove Unified School District. Those kinds

of initiatives continue across the board. That's how we have an impact. It's not just one government

entity. It's all of them. And the work continues if we don't ever stop. So we have excellent numbers.

It's great to see that our staff really is starting to look like the communities that we're

representing. And that work continues. And I want to thank you for spending the time

in really focusing on something like this, particularly to now more than ever. Because I know

that our community, our children, they're watching to see how their government, how their elected

bodies react to some of the other news coming out of Washington, D.C. It's beautifully reflected

right here on our dius. We have a wonderfully diverse city council. And so just proud of the work,

proud of the work that everybody is doing and continues to do. And thank you again for this excellent

report. Thank you. If I may, I did remiss. I meant to thank Femi O'One Tessho, a manager

analyst in the city manager's office for all of her work in this space and on this report. She's

just a very valid asset to the city. So I wanted to recognize her as well. Absolutely. And thank you

for that shout out for family. She does exceptional work. And I know also even our students recognize all

of the exceptional work that you do in supporting them as well. So thank you. And with that, we will

move on to our next item. That's item 9.4, which is to receive information on the climate compass

and provide direction as necessary.

Okay. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor Councilmembers.

Carrie Whitlock, Strategic Planning and Innovation Program Manager. So the seedings climate compass

item is a follow-on to the sessions that we did last summer. At that time, we were discussing

potential strategies and actions that could be done to address the community-wide greenhouse gas

emissions in the Alcrove, and we provided some various different alternative approaches.

Staff, heard Council input at those sessions. We did further outreach consultation with restaurants,

businesses, key stakeholders. We refined the list of strategies and actions. And then we did

further analysis to complete a quantification of the expected greenhouse gas emission reductions

from that newly draft list of strategy and actions that we'll discuss tonight and that then

are included in attachment one with this staff report. So this list of strategy and actions is

all related to community-wide emissions. We're not discussing any this evening related to city

operations and services. We have that. We're working on that further and we will discuss that

at a future city council meeting. So the intent this evening is to receive any further council input

on this drafts, the a draft list for those community-wide emission reductions in order to finalize

the draft of the climate compass and a subsequent EIR document that will then go out for public comment.

So the expectation is still to bring those final documents for consideration before city council

in the fall. So the current cap, as you know, was adopted in February 2019. We've done a couple of

updates to that based on changes to the building code. The current update we're working on

is titled the Climate Compass, a plan for implementing Elk Grove's climate sustainability and

resilient schools. Staff began this update process in early 2023. This document is intended,

again, to be a SQL-qualified climate action plan similar to our current cap. This provides

efficiencies for new development applications and it reduces the time and expense of preparing

project specific analysis. So in order to be that SQL-qualified document, we must include certain

technical requirements. We have to include quantifying existing and forecasting greenhouse gas

emissions. We did that and presented those to city council as part of the information sessions

last summer. We need to establish thresholds for greenhouse gas emissions and then specify

measures and standards that would collectively achieve the target emission level and that's what

we're going to be discussing this evening. And then we also need to include a monitoring plan,

which will be included with the final document. The climate compass is also intended to address

address broader climate related issues, including adaptation, will have some things on resilience

and our sustainability work. So as a reminder, the state has a lot of specific goals.

Around greenhouse gas emission reductions, the most recent goal, which was adopted in 2022,

with the signing of the Climate Crisis Act, set a target of carbon neutrality or net zero greenhouse

gas emissions by 2045. The California Air Research Board then further expanded on this target in the

updated scoping plan that they did in 2022 and that lays out a path for achieving that carbon

neutrality goal. So the scoping plan includes a reducing human-related greenhouse gas emissions

to 85% below 1990 levels by 2045 and then uses carbon capture or carbon sequestration to achieve

the additional 15% reduction for that net zero emission target. So also included in the scoping plan

is an accelerated 2030 target. So that would be a target of 48% below 1990 levels in order to

better align the trajectory to reach that 85% by 2045. And then just as a reminder, we did the

presentation on our community-wide greenhouse gas emission inventory for outgrow back in the summer.

This was done from 2021 data and you can see that our largest emission sectors,

the on-road transportation is the large blue one at the bottom that accounts for 56% of our emissions

and then building energy, the red one at the top accounts for 38%. So those two together are 95%

of the emissions for elk growth and the other areas that are just over 5% of our emissions include

solid waste, off-road vehicles and equipment, wastewater treatment, water supply and agriculture.

So while the state talks about the target emission reduction set to 1990 levels,

emission reduction targets for elk growth have been set based on the 2021 greenhouse gas

inventory. And this is done in line with guidance that has been put out from CARB and is done because

there aren't community-wide emissions levels from 1990 for elk growth. We didn't actually

exist as a city then. So CARB has provided guidance on how to deal with that. So setting

them to our 1990 levels is accepted and the target reduction for 2030 would then be a 39% below

2021 level and the target reduction for 2045 is still 85% below 2021 levels.

So in development of the draft strategies and actions that we're going to discuss this evening,

we did do a lot of outreach efforts and we got a lot of input from a wide range of individuals

and organizations. Some of the key messages we heard last summer from all of you and then from

those consultations that we've done over the past several months include focusing on those areas

with the biggest emissions and the biggest impact, making sure we are minimizing unfunded

mandates working to not overly cost burden our residents, our community, particularly those who

are lowest income. We heard messages about providing incentives and encouragement to change

behavior rather than really prohibiting or banning things. We heard about the need to understand

more about our existing buildings and have a thorough strategy to decarbonize around those.

We wanted to ensure that new requirements are phased in based on availability and technology

advances as well. We heard that we should ensure we're promoting and educating residents and

businesses in these areas to help promote behavior change that we need to continue working to

preserve and protect our open space and our rural areas and promote nature-based solutions.

And we also heard that we need to address urban heat and support improved tree canopy. So we've

tried to incorporate all of that into this new list of draft strategies and actions that are

included in attachment one. So these are organized into six different categories. They're grouped

together primarily to provide a really clear link between with the greenhouse gas inventory

sector so you can see a clear link with those based on the quantification analysis that was done.

The categories that will provide the largest greenhouse gas emission reductions include building

an energy and transportation and this shouldn't be surprising because those are the two biggest

sectors or mission sectors that we have in our inventory. So not all of the strategies that

are included in the list, we're able to be quantified. There's a lack of data for some. There's

no methodology for others but we did include these because we think they're important in helping

to provide either adaptation to support greater resilience with our community or to help us

foundations to some of the other ones that were able to be qualified. In addition, many of the

strategies, both ones that were quantified in those that were not provide various co-benefits.

So in addition to being in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, they can be co-benefits around

improving equity, decreasing air pollution, improving overall health and quality of life,

enhancing infrastructure reliability, increasing community resilience, protecting natural resources

and improving economic diversity. So the strategies and actions which will have the largest impact

include BE1 around electrifying and decarbonizing buildings, BE3 around increasing local renewable

energy use and storage and TR2 around increasing zero emission vehicle adoption. So these three

strategies make up 95% of quantified emission reductions in 2030 and 87% of the quantified

emission reductions for 2045. So within the building sector strategies, the BE1 and the BE3

mentioned here actions such as adopting a reach code for new buildings, requiring a higher

energy design rating, adopting a heat pump replacement for space conditioning with existing single

family residential and then supporting smud in achievement of their 2030 zero carbon plan or all

key to really achieving that 2030 reduction target. Actions such as supporting smud's virtual

power plant program and working with smud to offer on bill financing for building electrification

projects or supportive actions that are seen as key to ensuring those actions are possible or

able to provide greater equity across our residents. For the 2045 reduction targets, those are

reliant on actions such as developing a comprehensive building energy retrofit plan for our existing

buildings, adopting a reach code for new commercial EV charging to meet Calgreen tier one or tier two

requirements and adding DC fast charging capabilities at new fueling stations. So modifications of

these programs could impact their feasibility, their results or ability to achieve the targets.

So as mentioned, we did a quantification with these strategies. So this analysis looked at what

the greenhouse gas emissions will be with legislative action, what the state and the federal level

has already adopted. Shown here in blue is the 2030 and 2045. It's labeled as no local action bars,

so that's just legislative state and federal action. What the emissions target level is here shown

in red, so the 39% for 2030 and then the 85% for 2045. And then what the emissions are expected to be

with the local strategies and actions that are included this evening, which are shown in blue,

or sorry shown in green. The legislative actions will make some reductions to emissions by 2030.

They'll reduce emissions by about 73,000 metric tons or about 7% of our 2021

emissions. However, to reach the target level of a 39% reduction from 2021 significant

local action is still needed. So the strategies outlined in attachment one are expected to reduce

emissions by about 41% from 2021 level, so a slightly beyond the target level. For 2045,

the legislative action will make a larger impact on emission reductions, reducing emissions by almost

556,000 metric tons or about 54% of our 2021 emissions. But again, additional local action would

be needed to reach the 85% reduction target with the local actions that are included here for 2025.

They would reduce emissions by 91% from the 2021 level.

So finally, just a quick wrap up. So these are the 21 different draft strategies that we have

included in here across the six different categories. So you can see those. And then with that,

I am available for any questions or to hear any council direction on this effort.

All right. Thank you for that very thorough presentation. This time I will open up public

comments. We have one person sign up to speak. Vance Gerard.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council members. Always great to be back here. Vance Gerard with

the North State Building Industry Association representing more than 500 member companies in the

home building industry. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. And I want to thank Keri and

her team for all of their hard work. Keri has reached out to me very consistently throughout this

entire process. And bless her heart has probably had to speak to me more than she wants to.

Unfortunately, we do find ourselves in a position where we cannot agree with any path that

does include a reach code for new construction. As you are aware, the state continues to adopt

regulations that further dictate how new construction will contribute to the state's ambitious

climate goals. These requirements already put our industry in a position where keeping up with

them has become challenging and often costly. Local ordinances that dictate developers go beyond

what the state requires are even more challenging. The home building industry is adapting to the shift

toward electrification to the best of its ability and that is still where the state and market are

pushing us. But new obstacles continue to present themselves. The latest in those challenges includes

uncertainty being created at the federal level with tariff and trade policies threatening to make

the materials necessary for construction and to comply with energy standards more expensive and

more scarce. Nationwide home builders are stockpiling materials they can they can before the policy

impacts are felt and necessary materials like aluminum copper and components for electrical

panels and HVAC systems become more expensive. Still with newly constructed homes already

complying with state standards and having a significantly smaller carbon footprint than existing

structures, we believe the city can move forward where it can with other components of the

climate compass and climate action plan that will have more significant impact while also not

adding to the housing affordability challenges in the region. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Gerard.

I will go ahead and close public comment did someone submit okay I thought so.

Okay I don't have the name pop up here. Can you?

Okay no worries yes come on up sir. Thank you. Okay right on time.

Hello. Matthew Espona with the associated bills and contractors another California chapter.

I just wanted to express our gratitude that we were grateful to be part of the conversation.

Carrie did reach out and part of the climate action plan did take our feedback in terms of

renewable energy and the generators. The construction industry wanted to express the concerns that a lot

of construction sites they often do not have generators that are powered overnight so we just

wanted to express that sometimes these mandates are not feasible and we are grateful to at least

be part of the conversation. So we are supportive of being included and we look forward to continue

work with the city belt grove and hopefully it serves as a road map how you can incorporate the

business and construction contractors as part of the conversation. So thank you. Thank you.

All right with that I will go ahead and close the public comment opportunity and questions and

comments we'll start on where did I start last time. Okay go ahead. Councilmember Spees.

Okay Miss Woodlock thank you very much I appreciate it. I appreciate the extra effort in

reaching out to stakeholders and I noticed in slides you also had you'd reach out to residents as

well and so can you tell me in what ways do we reach out to residents I think we had some

some workshops and things like that right what was yeah we also have a climate ambassador's group

that we organized early on in the process of residents that we've continued to consult with we've

done additional outreach and pop-up events and discussions with residents as we've found long.

Awesome okay and so I want to thank North State BIA for and ABC North Cow it's important that you

were here right you showed up you were you're you're very among the very few who showed up and

I appreciate that so can we talk about what the difference is between what the state requires and

what our reach code would would do what what additional things are we trying to tag on. So

already this the new 2025 building code will require heat pumps for both hot water and for

space conditioning so HVACs and hot water heaters will both be all electric heat pumps with the

new 2025 building code so what we're talking about with the reach code is we would not actually put

in place any reach code that would say you can't do gas that's not allowed under the Berkeley

ruling we would look and say rather you need to have a higher energy design rating for your

residents regardless of what fuel you include in that so it is just providing additional

energy efficiency with new construction so really looking at and and all of that would be adopted

based on cost effectiveness they're doing the cost effectiveness studies now and with Sacramento

it's looking like we are one of the fortunate geographic regions within the state that it is cost

effective to do all electric buildings for new residential so that is what we would look at as we

would adopt this if we were to adopt a reach code. Okay because my biggest concern comes in

in the small affordability of housing small eight and certainly understand

need to let me put it a different way I think all of us can agree that we want cleaner air is there

anybody in the room that doesn't want cleaner I don't think so is there anybody in the world

in the room that doesn't want clean water right I don't think anybody's going to say that right so

let's put all the other stuff aside right and one of the ways we can get cleaner air is by having

you know more effective buildings right but the challenge becomes when we're putting more on

that adds to the continuing escalating problem of affordability of housing in California and so

maybe there's a way we can take that back take a look at have other conversations see if there's

other areas that we can make up for it but I do have a concern relative to specific again I want

clean air I want clean water I also want affordability of housing and if we keep stacking

onto on to the cost of housing that's that's a concern to me and then can you talk to me relative

to the issue of the generators was so there is a and I can find the specific one of the

measures one of the actions that we included

the writing is way too small in this so one of the ones that we included was a measure around

four which one is it four so it's three TR 3.2 and it says prohibiting the use of fossil fuel

powered generators at construction sites on all discretionary projects so looking at how can

you use mobile battery energy storage at construction sites what we've done with that one is we've

postponed so the timeline for that one is farther off so we've looked at with all of these when would

they when would we look to adopt these some of them are more in the near term sort of before

between now and 2027 that one we shifted to the medium term so sort of 28 to 31 looking at

how technology advances and then revisit that to expect to you know see how that will work

right okay because I guess one of my concerns would be if we if we were to when the state does

it at their level we can we can debate whether the state is right or wrong about it but when they do

it at a level we don't have an issue of outgrowth requires electric put the rest of the state

requires you know is it will allow gas right and then you have a problem where folks will want to

come to all growth because they only have gas generators right so I just it sounds like we're

it's kind of a taken away and see so I appreciate that approach and so we're just doing

receiving direction so I think I'm good thank you very much and oh one last thing one of the other

things or what did you hear from residents what were their concerns relative to climate change

and just climate compass etc so many of the residents that we have engaged with are looking for

the city to take a little bit more of a proactive approach with us okay I wouldn't say that that

necessarily represents all but that's who we've heard from primarily right okay well I would say

most interested parties are typically going towards the side of right and I'm not negating I can

understand that so okay I just wanted to hear what what their concerns might have been relative

to it so thank you very much I appreciate it yep count remember thank you I think you I think you

made some really good assessments council member um we're at the at the end of the day it all comes

back to affordability uh affordability is on the table on a lot of different ways how we communicate

with people who we communicate how many we communicate really matters because when we're talking about

doing um building electrification and we're doing it for new construction and knowing or not knowing

what's going to come out the energy commission that we will adopt and then quantifying the intensity

of greenhouse gas emissions how much are we reducing and how much are we doing it by every year

also factors into the bigger picture as well and I think my council member to the right alluded to it

but it's um there's a lot of moving moving moving pieces of furniture on the deck because what's going

on in DC is going to have a direct effect that what happens here um and we can as a state we can

adopt so many policies but those policies are a wrap around effect that will affect us on an

everyday basis that affects our quality of life and as much as we want to do the right thing

to meet these requirements and meet these goals because their mandates um it's just looking at the

bigger picture and seeing what can we do realistically to meet some of these goals to address some of

these burdens especially when we're looking at electrifying decarbonized buildings um when we're

looking at um charging stations for electric vehicles for uh because we're going to do electric

vehicles we're going to do hybrids we're going to do zero emission vehicles in some way shape or form

making sure we have the right capacity the right amount of capacity but at the same time have the

ability to afford and go into partnerships with smud and with some of these auto auto manufacturers

and putting in these stations because the materials for these are going to cost more as well

because tariffs if we're using these goods if we're going from from abroad to use those to to build

and construct that's going to factor into the affordability as well so um as we look at the climate

compass and knowing that last year things were looking a lot different and we're looking a little bit

more we can get there if we make these adjustments now we're looking to make where we have to make

some some some choices now not just adjustments but choices because if um because of our residents

the taxpayers if they can't pay for these or if it's too high of an amount we may have to do a pivot

and that's that's a hard pill to swallow but that's something we have to really think about

thank you vice mayor thank you met him here just want to say thank you for the presentation um

i'm glad to see that we're still trying to move forward and uh thank you for the associations

for coming out and definitely speaking i'm happy remembers and and letting us know what's uh

what roadboxer coming up ahead so appreciate it thank you great presentation and why i also

want to recognize avans and mouthey for your comments i agree with many of the things that you have

stated generally speaking when there are mandates then everyone's trying to play catch up and see

how you can actually implement some of these mandates and you often do have to pause and reflect on

what is going to be the economic impact to everyday people if i'm being mandated to eat organic food

but organic food costs ten times more i'm going to keep buying the regular food so it's just if you

want change behaviors we need to see you know the prices reflect some of those things and that's just

i see that every day in in my daytime job so um you know i am concerned about mandates versus you

know these goals versus what we can do to meet um and be responsible stewards of the climate so it's a

balancing act of goals versus what we can actually implement and i really appreciate you looking

and having discussions with our stakeholders because that's how you have those balanced discussions

and weighing in all of the other points of view that are necessary when it comes to public policy

you don't often see that debate take place at the state capital unfortunately so it is important

to have these discussions um at the local level where we can see how that impacts our constituents

and businesses right here at the ground level so thank you for that i'm good good great report

and this is not a action item so i just will thank you and we will go on to our next item

which is our council comments reports and future agenda items i will start to the left vice mayor

i would like to start by saying that i've devoted the vice chair for the southeast connector

so like said it for that we'll be having a sewer meeting and an air quality port meeting at the end

of this month excellent thank you council member brewer i have no items to report

council member speeds you and i have sta tomorrow but other than that i'm good thank you great um

had sacr arti earlier two by two with uh ege usd other than sta tomorrow so thank you and with

that we will adjourn this meeting at seven thirty seven have a good evening