I would like to call to order the outgrow of City Council regular meeting today is Wednesday, March 26, 2025. The time is 6.01 p.m. Clerk.

Thank you, Mayor. This meeting of the outgrow of City Council is recorded with closed captioning. The recording will be cable cast on MetroCable Channel 14, the local government affairs channel on the Comcast and direct TV universe cable systems.

The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14live.setcounty.gov.

Tonight's meeting replays will be on Friday, March 28th at 1 p.m. and Monday, March 31st, also at 1 p.m. on Metro Channel 14.

Once posted, the recordings of this in previous meetings can be viewed on demand at the 3w.elkgrovecity.org or youtube.com slash MetroCable 14.

Thank you. All right. Next up is our land acknowledgement. I will ask council member Brewer to help read the land acknowledgement, please.

Thank you, Mayor. We honor, respect and acknowledge Elk Grove's first inhabitants, the Plains Mewock, who lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since time immemorial.

We commemorate and advocate for their descendants, the Wilton Rancheria tribe, the only federally recognized tribe in Sacramento County, who endure because of the bravery, resiliency and determination of their ancestors, tribal members and leaders.

All right. Thank you. Next up is our pleasure. Allegiance. And if I could ask our educator retired, Mr. Dave Nevis to help lead us this evening.

Please stand. Solution.

Pledge.

The United States of America.

And it's a republic for which stands.

One nation under God in the invisible.

The liberty and justice for all.

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

All right. Thank you. Next up is our approval of the agenda. May I get a motion, please?

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

Aye.

Next item. Close session.

Under section three, the closed session. There are no closed session items on the regular agenda, which will advance us to section four presentations and announcements.

And the first item being item 4.1, which is a proclamation recognizing March as nutrition month.

Excellent. I would like to call up as it's Sarah Delett and your guests and assisting and reading the proclamation is council member Spies.

Good evening. Thanks for being with us today.

So national nutrition month is March 2025.

And whereas the national nutrition month is an annual campaign established in 1973 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

And in the month of March, everyone is invited to learn about making informed food choices and developing healthful eating and physical activity habits.

And whereas this year's theme is food connects us. Food is a connecting factor for many of us.

Food connects us to our cultures, our families, and our friends.

Sharing a meal is an opportunity to learn about its preparation, who made it, and where the ingredients are sourced.

Whereas health memories, traditions, seasons, and access can all impact our relationship with food.

While these factors influence the foods we eat, the foods we eat also affect our health.

And food is a substance by which food life is sustained and the type, the quality and amount of food that individuals consume each day plays a vital role in their overall health and physical fitness.

Whereas there is a need for continuing nutrition education at a wide scale effort to enhance healthy eating practices.

Now therefore be it resolved that the city council of the city of Elk Grove hereby affirms and proclaims March 2025 as nutrition month in the city of Elk Grove and encourages the community to learn, excuse me, to join the campaign and become concerned about their nutrition and the nutrition of others in the hope of achieving optimum health for both today and tomorrow.

Thank you. You have some. Go ahead.

Yes, I mean, I went back to you, meaning you were going to invite them. Yes. Thank you. Now.

Would you like to make some comments? Thank you, Mayor. My name is Susanna and I. I am a registered dietitian. I am here with Sarah, who is a dietetic intern.

And first of all, I want to thank Elk Grove for being a champion of registered dietitians. As you may be aware, there are approximately 6000 dietitians in California.

I am the past president of California's dietitians. I live right down the street in Old Town. I am proud to be a registered dietitian.

I am also for the world on have been the vice share of the commission of dietetics, which is their enforcement and to help dietitians to be ethical.

And what I want to share with you is how important dietitians are. There are very few of us.

But what we do is we do the least cost medical nutrition therapy for nutrition for therapeutic conditions for diabetes, heart disease, renal and other types of nutrition-related diseases that can be dealt with therapeutically.

And their low cost effective measures can help people live healthfully as well as quality of life. So food is the language and also the therapeutic answer whenever possible.

Yes, thank you so much for your support. I am about to start at the Elk Grove WIC as part of my rotations this year. It's very excited to be able to serve the community.

And I have already at UC Davis Hospital where most of my rotations and I've had transplant patients from Elk Grove cancer patients.

And yeah, food is a major part of these diseases and supporting the citizens of Elk Grove. And I greatly appreciate your support.

I also say that California dietitians are like very active in advocacy for California nationwide policies related to nutrition and Elk Grove is certainly an exemplar of like very high quality nutrition policy in schools.

And that's very admirable coming from nutrition professionals like ourselves. Thank you.

The last thing I want to say is and I know you know this, but Elk Grove is very multicultural. So what dietitians do is to make sure that the nutrition that they provide is culturally appropriate.

And that is critical because the food is not culturally appropriate. You are not helping people to live healthy lives. So we cherish Elk Grove as a standard for the nation.

And because we are one of the most culturally diverse places in the United States. So we thank you.

Thank you. We'll join us here.

One, two, three.

One more time.

One, two, three.

Thank you.

I think you're actually really grateful.

Thank you.

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Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

Next item is 4.2 Sacramento Area Council of Governments presentation. I'll turn it over to Councilmember Darin soon to provide the intro to the intro.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

So I've been serving on say cogn now for several years and I'm the chair of the 22 city six county regional board this year.

I'm going to introduce a great honor to privilege to represent in Elk Grove in this capacity.

It's my honor to introduce James Corless, our executive director of Sacramento Council of Governments.

Tonight he's here to talk about the blueprint 2025. This is the long range transportation and land use plan for the region.

Just to be clear, we hear that are the decision makers around land use and every jurisdiction has that authority and power.

But we need to think about how all our individual city and county decisions roll up and affect the entire region in the way of how we plan out transportation infrastructure development.

So we need to think about how we can make these things influence economic growth and environmental sustainability.

It's especially important to do this because we don't have enough money to fund everything. The money that rolls in for state and federal dollars for transportation projects is limited as many folks can imagine.

So being able to make these decisions, these very critical decisions around again six counties in 22 cities around the region.

It's a very difficult and complex one. And so again, how we how we plan how we develop all these things matter in the long term.

But really yours. So pleasure to be here. I just want to say it's fantastic to have Elk Grove chair the say cox board of directors. I think that is the first time Elk Grove Councilmember soon has chaired the board and chairs prerogative the board to treat this year this fall will be right here in Elk Grove district 56.

Everyone every city from Ileton to the city of Sacramento to Sacramento County to Colfax to Wheatland to winters because we can fit 22 cities and six counties around that table many regions this big cannot. And so it is that table where a lot of these very difficult decisions come into play and we wrestle with things like growth and development and traffic and air quality and meeting state carbon and climate goals.

As well as now what's happening what's happening federally as well. So we start this plan and this really is a plan we update every four years. It is the plan as councilmember soon said that really nits together it starts with all of your general plans so every land use assumption in here comes straight out of your general plans but it did looks across six counties 22 cities it also looks across 25 years so we're really looking out to the year 2050 and we start with a framework which you called triple bottom line should be familiar to all of you here in this year.

So how do we get a more equitable region how do we actually grow our economy especially around things like tradable sectors where we can actually grow wealth and GDP and how do we protect our environment clean water and clean air.

So we've done more outreach and engagement in this plan cycle than we have ever done before we've reached more people in every single county and every jurisdiction through a multiple means of engagement whether it's surveys and polls and focus groups and multiple languages and we've distilled all of those things that we've learned the last two years into these seven sort of themes around around the plan around what the public has been saying and I'm sure this is probably not going to be too much.

So I think a lot of you have seen a lot of a surprise for you here I looked at some of your polling citywide as well with your residents right one of the big things we're hearing back in terms of the future of the region is making sure that we have enough housing we have enough housing for all income levels and all life stages there is a big theme around safety and making sure that our streets are safe.

So we're going to have a lot of people who are in chapter 3 and reduce injuries and fatalities on our on our road and street and highway network which are actually trending up.

And so and that we have good transportation options here's one of our focus group members and one of the the quotes that that sort of has stuck with us which is the importance of having a safe and clean and robust public transportation system.

So the number one as I said number one sort of survey result in terms of challenges for the future thinking about the next 25 years is housing and affordable housing and the ability to have our kids and our grandkids actually be afford to stay here followed by crime and public safety followed by a lack of transportation choices and followed by traffic congestion again maybe this resonates to those of you here in El Grove.

So in terms of what we've learned so we look out again 25 years and we've actually been pretty good in the past on on our demographic forecast and population growth.

So again you may all maybe feeling it here the Sacramento region across our six counties is a metropolitan region is the fastest growing region in California.

So from the 2020 census and since we are the fastest growing region we are the green line on an annual average population growth here in this chart.

You can see we're ahead of the California growth rate and we're ahead of the US growth rate right so that's a good thing and it also comes with its challenges right which we have to manage that that rate of population increase will slow down over time as it will for the rest of the state and the rest of the nation.

But we will still be above the state average and the national average.

What that means is we are going to grow from a region right now across six counties of 2.5 million people to 3.1 million people that is the size of Metropolitan Denver today which is why we took a delegation of our board of directors and others back to Denver last summer to look at the decisions Denver made 25 years ago and see what we could learn from those.

I also don't have to tell you that you're you're also growing remarkably fast right here in all growth right you have a population that's increasing and one of the key parts of this plan is where we have a lot of housing being developed we want to make sure we have jobs and economic development.

So that your local priorities the things you're working on locally and that actually contribute to the goals of our region actually show up here so things like your old town streetscape improvements the trails plan and the Luginic Creek and regional trail crossing project elevate getting transit down here right we know that's a real high priority so those kinds of things we're working with your staff on so they will literally show up and I'm going to end on this note but not to bear the lead what's in this plan.

In this plan is a strategic plan on growth and infrastructure but it is critical so when we go to the state capital we go back to DC being in this plan is going to help us basically make the case for competitive funding at the state level and the federal level.

So again transportation challenges certainly here among other places across the region we are as council members soon said the reality is we're going to have a very hard time in the immediate we have to hold on to federal funding and federal grant funding in particular so being back in DC and working with our congressional delegation really important but also in the next five to 10 years with the gas tax the state gas tax is going to is is going to be a lot of things that we're going to do.

So the state is going to be phased out and so there's a big question about what replaces the gas tax and that's because vehicles are getting more efficient we are switching the fleet over and so those the revenue is declining sharply and so there's a talk at the state level about going to what they call a road usage charge you pay by the mile the longer we wait to do that the less revenue we're going to have so we need to be thoughtful we need to be at the state level and advocate for a replacement for the gas tax that will be fair but we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to do.

So we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the transportation needs we have.

We need to think about in addition to capital projects we also need to think about safety I mentioned actually as a region one things we're not proud of right now is that fatalities and injuries in our region are increasing and we're actually worse off than some other regions around the state and the nation.

So we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to do and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep investing in the state level and we're going to have a lot of things that will allow us to keep

the project is in your plan especially I should development project you shouldn't have to go through as many reviews if it's in the regional plan that all comes back to the SAICOG board to review the final plan in September and then we hope adoption in November.

And finally all of your great trail systems that you're trying to build out here we have a plan to connect every corner of this region with paved biking and walking trails it'd be a thousand mile trail network if we could do it and it would be transformational.

So with that Mayor Sang Allen you and I talked a little bit about both the opportunities but the challenges ahead and I would say we have a bipartisan delegation to state capital we have a bipartisan delegation and Washington DC and now is more important to us.

And that is more important than ever that we work together and make sure that our members of Congress and our state assembly members and senators work across those aisles and look at that it's time to be a team you all look good and purple.

I'm very happy to answer any questions and thanks again for your time.

Great presentation thank you opening it up for comments questions I'll start to the right any questions or comments yes.

Thank you for the presentation James this was really good and I like the high level detail that that you touched on of how all of this can work together if we work together.

But one of the things I was curious about so in the trip that you made the Denver to really study their region to see what things they did right as part of their growth to get to their 225,000 and then beyond into the millions.

As you look at the Sacramento region we're in that similar position right now.

Did they share what their priorities are and were in terms of transportation amenities and just really what they're what they were looking for in terms of an economy was it built on.

Military what were what were they looking at and did you see similarities that Sacramento could possibly either replicate or improve on.

Yeah and I'd be happy to share we actually wrote up a whole series of findings from that trip.

One thing is they they you know the DIA airport right moved out of Stapleton a long time ago and they basically looked at that as an incredible.

And that really is I mean DIA has accelerated the Denver region so you've now got international non stops I applaud G.

So I've been doing the same thing here with Sacramento Metro right that we have to see that as a regional asset super important when when Stapleton the old stapleton airport was freed up because of that new airport but not just Stapleton an old mall they actually had a mega mall which was incredibly exactly the same acres.

As sunrise mall is right now so we had the mayor of citrus heights with us who are they are trying to revitalize and reinvision that entire mall well Denver did it they actually built a whole new community mixed use community with housing and jobs and office to repurpose and rethink like where retail is not working and where it's failing.

They think face a lot of their housing and infrastructure and jobs they thought a lot about the jobs housing balance not just in their downtown core but through their suburbs.

So there's a lot that they did that I do think we can learn from.

Looking to my last year any questions comments.

Yes I'm also comments I just want to say thank you for the presentation and thank you Darren for stepping up and for being the chair.

For those who don't know say Kaga's super super important and very crucial for our six counties that's where the federal government comes down and does that so thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you Vice Mayor.

So yeah thank you so a couple of things first James I thought you might want to give the folks at home and audience here what role the say cog play in affordable housing that in terms of the regional housing needs allocation.

So we play an interesting role which I think as vice mayor said you know not just a federal level but a lot of the state stuff comes down through us as a regional entity right so one is the regional housing needs allocation arena.

I know sometimes that is very challenging at a local level but that comes through us but again the idea that everybody sits around that table and it will start again in 2026 I believe for the 27 cycle so that's coming that's a zoning law right so that's all about zoning.

I think the thing that we have heard through our plan and all of our outreach is the housing crisis in the region is bigger than anyone jurisdiction can handle.

I will just to I'll be the first to tell you say cog will not fix this but we're we don't have that skill set but we can convene and we can tackle the the crisis across jurisdictional boundaries so I think it's a really important question how do we not just how do you get in addition to zoning how do we get to production right much like you are thinking about capital a affordable but also missing middle right how do we clear some of those hurdles how do we work with the legislature how do we get incentives so.

We haven't solved those questions but they are there the first and foremost thing that the public all across communities in the region are saying you have to tackle housing and homelessness is the number one issue yeah thank you and that's I just want to give folks that an idea of just how massive like the broad I should say that the topics are very important transportation housing affordable housing and so you know James has a very very tough job because he's balancing urban cities.

Urban cities rules cities a suburban cities so James I want to give you kudos that sister here and you haven't been here in a very long time but when you first came here you use went to every single city and county in the region to learn about them and since then you've started to take us around these tours and not just urban areas but suburban areas like Denver like Baltimore

to learn about the how these patterns and how people are doing things differently you mentioned the redevelopment mall so very tough job you have thank you for being here in this presentation slide of good information.

Thank you and I'll just conclude also thank you for coming to our city I appreciate you continuing to work with our staff and additionally other regional leaders particularly in the transportation sector thank you for your collaboration and partnerships there and looking forward to seeing more of that in the coming years.

And just want to congratulate you on a great staff and a great team we know whenever we're working with your staff they are top notch they know how to go get grants and also your your focus on things like project elevate in district 56 and the zoo right and getting high capacity transit.

We see that we recognize that we want to support it economic development and jobs right to bring that to your community so keep going we're here to support you and thank you.

Sounds good. Thanks. All right. Thank you. All right. We will move on to our next item which is public comment and we have three people sign up to speak we will start with Emily followed by Jacqueline can use.

I don't have a last name here so.

Good evening I'm reaching out to bring attention to the ongoing harassment and discriminatory treatment we're facing in regard to building a masonry wall along our property which has become a significant burden on our families well being we are currently experiencing racial profile within our community and we're informed by code enforcement.

We are being targeted because of our ethnicity this officer has also mentioned experiencing discrimination as others wrongly assume that they share ethnic background this situation is deeply troubling as we believe it's a violation of our basic rights to feel safe and secure in our own home.

And despite our full compliance with code enforcement regulations our fence was wrongfully removed costing us a lot of money and health issues from the stress when we contacted the code enforcement department for clarification they explicitly stated that the action was taken due to our race.

They further suggested that should we have any concerns we should consider taking legal action against the city of Elk Grove we have attempted to address safety concerns on our property by seeking to build a wall along our property line to provide much needed security and privacy.

This is not only to protect our home from constant trash drug paraphernalia and dangerous items being thrown on to our property but also to prevent ongoing threat store health and safety.

Unfortunately our neighborhood has become an unsafe area and we've had to regularly clean up items such as glass used condoms and other hazardous materials which is both distressing and dangerous.

This issue has escalated to the point where we have lost two dogs due to poisoning we have filed police reports but there has been no substantial improvement we need the ability to build a secure fence that will withstand the unstable soil as we've had to replace and repair multiple times due to foundation issues.

Our contractor has explained the necessity of building a stable structure which is consistent with the practices seen in other homes in our area many of which have built similar walls for privacy and safety reasons.

What is particularly concerning is that despite this practice being common in neighborhood where the only household facing resistance which we believe is indicative of racial discrimination and harassment.

The situation has created a hostile environment where we feel marginalized and unsafe we kindly ask for your understanding and support and addressing this matter fairly and without bias we seek the ability to proceed with our fence installation ensuring the safety and security of our home and family.

We trust that our concerns will be addressed promptly and that steps will be taken to ensure that discrimination and harassment no longer affect us.

All right thank you for your comments we cannot provide any feedback to you right now because this is public comment I will either direct you to staff and encourage you to reach out to me I don't know the facts of this situation but feel free to reach out to me directly and I can try to help navigate but if there's a staff member that's available.

Christopher Jordan there can meet with you thank you thank you one more to you can I'm sorry sorry you can sign up to speak.

We are in the safety.

Yeah the time's up okay I appreciate it thank you all right all right next up is Jacqueline Canoos followed by one for Nandas.

Good evening at the last meeting on the 12th I posed a couple of questions and I'll review that do Elk Grove citizens speak at the City Council meetings only to vent are my questions and concerned reviewed or delegated out or was nothing done expecting expressing respect of

follow through and a pricing citizens of the speakers time and effort would benefit us all.

I am here tonight to say thank you in appreciation of the city and especially there's a couple of people that I would like to point out and one is Kevin Spence and Jeff Werner Jeff got a hold of me before the meeting was even over last time and I'm

going to be a little bit more careful and I've been in touch with him and Jose Mendez and I really appreciate the quick turnaround of the response and the respect show me and my concerns for Elk Grove so thank you very much.

Thank you one for Nandas along those lines good evening.

Good evening Madam Mayor members of the Council I've spoken here before and I've asked for your help in addressing a quality of life issue with regard to nuisance noise I realized I've asked for your help and tonight I stand before you to thank you.

For assistance in gaining some relief in that situation while much of our government currently seems to be dysfunctional I want to take this moment to thank my city council member rod burr and Jason bearman thank you and especially captain Ryan Elmore of the Elk Grove police department.

For helping demonstrate the government can be functional and accountable my family and I literally sleep better at night due to your direct and positive influence is in our life.

After much collaboration with captain Elmore and guidance from Mr. bearman my situation is vastly improved however I encourage you to to support captain Elmore in his procurement in his plan to procure technology to record and confirm nuisance noise.

A portable recording device will reduce the manual effort currently needed to confirm nuisance noise and thereby release animal control officers from having to be there to personally witness the nuisance noise event especially after hours thank you again and I look forward to continuing to be a resident of and a servant to the city of Elk Grove.

Thank you Mr. Fernandez that is my final speaker for public comment I will close the public comment opportunity and move on to our next item which is our city manager's report.

Good evening Madam Mayor vice mayor members of the city council Jason bearman for city manager happy to report on a few items this evening.

First of all Sacramento Sierra building and construction trades council and people working together are taking it to the streets for a unique career fair and block part of this Friday March 28th from 10 am to 2 pm at district 56 and 10 these will have a chance to talk with representatives from 28 local construction union affiliates and meet with construction companies government agency schools and public utility.

And public utilities with job openings anyone is able to attend that this event free of charge.

Second item like to congratulate our public works department for achieving the top award when the league California cities for outstanding local streets and roads project awards competed against cities all across the state came away with the number one overall award.

There were awarded for the recognition of their surface treatment projects on roadways cutting edge cost effective techniques extending the pavement life improving safety and enhancing public access while staying on budget and minimizing disruptions to our community so want to give our public works team a big shout out for this as well deserve recognition.

To improve accessibility and ensure ADA compliance curb ramps across city are being upgraded workers underway will continue through the end of May cruise will be out Monday through Friday 7 am to 5 pm with adjusted hours of 9 am to 3 pm near schools and on major roads expect minor road delays and temporary pedestrian detours.

Our animal services team celebrating national adoption week by waving fees for adoptable animals at their shelter at local events that will be bringing adoptable pets to pets mark on the global bar the Saturday March 29 from 11 am to 2 pm in view adoptable pets and learn more on the city's website.

One of the city's largest run events will take place this Sunday March 30 at the 14th annual Kaiser Permanente running of the Alcoa start and finish at district 56 race activities begin at 8 am and road closures and detours around district 56 will be an effect until noon proceeds benefit the Elk Grove View sports foundation you did you traffic details and how you can register for the fun event on the city's website.

The part is housing complex is opening its first phase this summer and a new housing lottery has opened for 96 modern energy efficient apartments for individuals and families earning 30 to 80% of the area meeting income details a link of out to eligibility requirements and a form to enter the lottery can be found on the city social media platforms application for lottery for units is available through Monday March 31st.

Recruitment is open for positions on the diversity inclusion commission historic preservation committee these are non paid volunteer appointed positions for Elk Grove residents anyone interested in either these positions have until Wednesday April 2 to apply.

And the final item is the recycling waste team is bringing back their compost give away which was a great success just a month ago and this time it will be at Elk Grove Park 9950 Elk Grove floor and road next weekend April 12 through the 13th.

Between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. for this free self serve event bring your own containers buckets bags are even a truck bed and a shovel to load up on free nutrient risk compost and that concludes my report happy to answer any questions the council might have.

Thank you for that excellent report any questions or comments to the left.

I'm sure you'll all join me in saying thank you very much to our public works and congratulations.

You know writing on roads that are nice is something that we do here in Elk Grove and I don't know that everybody appreciates it every day but we certainly should and it's more public works and just more than streets right drainage and all sorts of things and you know it would be a lot less comfortable in Elk Grove if we didn't have a fantastic public works team so I want to say very thank you very much to your team.

Thank you for your here for sure thank you.

All right we will go on to our next item which is our consent calendar at this time I will open up public comment.

Nobody sign up to speak I'll close the public comment opportunity and look for a motion to approve the consent calendar so moved second.

Please say aye aye thank you.

Next item.

I guess section eight are public hearings and the first item is 8.1 which is public hearing to consider funding recommendations for fiscal year 2025 26 community development block grant and community service grant programs and provide direction on the 2025 2030 consolidated plan priorities.

Good evening mayor vice mayor and council members I am Alicia TET management analyst and housing and public services division.

The item I have before you tonight is our annual discussion on how you would like to allocate the community development block grant and community service grant funds for the next fiscal year.

We are aware the city receives community development block grant or CDBG funding from HUD each year and the priorities for these funds are outlined in our five year consolidated plan which we are updating this year.

CDB fund CDBG funds must primarily benefit low income individuals and can only be used for specific eligible activities a limited portion of funding is available for public service.

This year 2020 24 25 fiscal year this city also began receiving direct federal income funding from HUD through the home investment partnership program or home.

While this funding is not part of the nonprofit grant process it's mentioned here because these program priorities were also be included in the five year consolidated plan.

The service grant program supports nonprofits that serve Elk Grove residents historically council has allocated these funds from the general fund for this program.

This funding is more flexible than CDBG and can cover a wide range of funding requests with the exception of event sponsorships which have a separate grant program the council will review funding recommendations for that program next month.

While not part of a specific grant program tonight's funding recommendations also include the use of some measure e funding.

The Elk Grove community identified key priorities for measure e spending including addressing homelessness which has been a long standing focus of the city CDBG and CSG programs.

As a result when evaluating applications and making funding recommendations for the coming year measure e funding was also considered for those activities aimed at addressing homelessness.

To receive CDBG and home funding the city must develop and submit a consolidated plan to HUD this five year plans that goals and strategies for allocating these funds and a key component of the plan is the action plan which is completed annually.

The goal is to provide the funding and details the budget and specific projects for each year.

As we develop a new consolidated plan staff has conducted a good deal of outreach in the community this year and will continue over the next few weeks to identify Elk Grove's highest priority needs.

Outreach efforts so far have included participation in large community events like the Dickens fair and the multicultural festival discussions with the disability advisory committee and use commission.

We have a meeting with clients at the food bank, a weekend meal program and our local shelter.

Staff has also held conversations with local nonprofits met with various city departments and divisions conducted outreach at several affordable housing complexes and hosted a public meeting specifically focused on the consolidated plan.

We have identified several high need priorities community needs including affordable housing housing and services for individuals experiencing homelessness accessibility improvements such as the curb grant program that we just heard about direct emergency financial assistance programs affordable child care expanded mental health services reliable and accessible internet and cellular service and services for specific populations.

We plan to release the draft consolidated plan for review in mid April and before doing so we also want to include any input that council provides this evening on what UC is the highest priority needs in the community.

For the next program year our estimated CDBG allocation is 982,758.

This estimate is based on level funding from our current 2425 program year as you know federal allocations have not been released from HUD at this time.

Up to 20% of these funds may be used for administration and for housing activities though the city plans to allocate only 15% of that towards those.

Federal regulation cap also also caps funding for public services at 15% of that amount and the city has historically used the full 15% for public services.

In addition to the new funding allocation we are recommending the reallocation of almost 261,000 in unspent funds from prior years resulting from projects that either didn't complete.

The didn't either move forward or did not fully use their allocated funding along with over 88,000 in program income that we have received from loan repayments through our home repair program.

Federal regulations restrict the use of the reallocated funds to capital projects.

So over 15% of the program income may be allocated towards program services so that it is now is included in recommendations tonight.

Additionally one other regulation with the CDBG funds is that they cannot be used to replace recent local government funding.

So we must ensure that any activities previously funded with local dollars are not funded through CDBG funding.

The CDBG funds that we have allocated home allocation is just over 359,000 and as a reminder these are not included in tonight's nonprofit grant programs being reviewed.

New for fiscal year 2526 the CSG program or community service grant program is been restructured into two funding categories.

First is the CSG traditional and then the CSG capital projects the traditional funding programs activities that directly benefit Oak Grove residents enhancing their quality of life community engagement and local services.

CSG capital projects provides one time funding for capital improvements equipment or supplies that support the mission and operations of eligible entities serving Oak Grove residents.

The city is tentatively earmarked 462,313 for CSG traditional program reflecting a slight increase from the previous year.

This allocation is based on 0.5% of the prior years budgeted general fund expenditures.

Additionally staffed proposes allocating up to $100,000 for new CSG capital projects category preventing additional funding that was not previously available with this expansion the total available funding under the CSG program will be $562,313.

And finally we have included $106,352 of measure e funding in the recommendations for activities that address or prevent homelessness.

The city released a joint application in January for the CDBG and CSG programs and funding availability was announced through the city's website weekly updates and social media postings several notices were also sent via email to our extensive nonprofit list.

We received a total of 42 applications for both nonprofits and city departments for a wide variety of activities.

The total funding request exceeded $5 million, which always makes it a tough challenge for us given that we have limited limited funding available.

After determining if an applicant was eligible for funding, the applications were reviewed by an inter-disciplinary team based on factors such as the impact they would have on the Elk Grove community and residents and high need populations.

Feasibility of implementation within the time period established budget reasonableness if the organization has the administrative and financial capacity to implement the program and if the project had match funding either in kind or cash.

The review process applicants were given the opportunity to provide and clarify aspects of their application.

So in your packet, you have a way more detailed list of all the funding requests received and short descriptions of each proposal proposed activity.

The next several slides represent those applications that are being recommended for funding.

The recommended capital projects for funding this year is our annual citywide curb ramp improvement project, which was submitted by our public works department.

This program focuses on reconstructing non-compliant EDA ramps throughout the city to improve accessibility.

Next are the CDBG public service recommendations. So an asterisk next to the funding total genotes that these two projects also are being recommended for funding either under CSG or a measure to supplement these amounts.

These recommendations, all of them are for returning grantees that have been funded two or more years in the past.

So they're all organizations that we have worked with previously under CDBG.

As for our CSG traditional recommendations, the next three slides are covered on these. Again, you will see a lot of familiar organizations this year that have received funding previously under the CSG traditional program, the maximum amount eligible to be awarded to any single organization in a given year is $100,000.

We are recommending funding for a variety of organizations offering public service assistance to the homeless persons with disabilities, low income families, victims of domestic violence, youth and senior programs, animal services, and as well as support for theater and arts programs.

Of the 19 nonprofits recommended for funding under CSG traditional three are new grantees to the city under this program.

So for this slide, just a few I wanted to highlight the Chicks and Crisis is represented at a 40% increase from their prior year funding or their current year.

Elk Grove Community Foundation is a new organization funded under this program. And then Elk Grove Community Garden and Learning Center is a returning they've been gone for a couple years that they're returning.

On our next slide, the few I want to point out the two new ones Elk Grove Musical Theater Company is a new organization being recommended for funding under this program, as well as goals, growth oriented adaptive learning skills program.

And then meals on well as you'll note was mentioned here as well as in CDBG.

And then on this slide, all of these organizations are returning organizations to the CSG program.

For the new CSG capital projects recommendations, we are recommending these three organizations to have been receiving funding under CSG for other programs.

And then Laguna Creek High School Band Booster Club is new to the city as a funded entity.

And then finally for measure E our recommendations for the two programs that are addressing homelessness, our food bank utility assistance program and this program.

The funding has been increased significantly from prior years due to the high level of need in that program and then waking the village, the youth transitional shelter.

So our next steps after tonight's public hearing staff will release the CDBG draft of the 2025 2030 Consolidated Plan for public comment from April 14th to May 14th.

And then return to council on May 14 to formally adopt those recommendations.

Once the final allocation is released from HUD, those funding recommendations may need to be revised as necessary if that is before or after that date and before that the con plan has gone out.

The CSG and measure E allocations will be adopted as part of the annual city budget process.

And then once those are all formalized staff to work with individual grantees to write scope of work and budget for incorporation into a formal grant agreement and funding will be available beginning July 1st 2025.

So that concludes my presentation for tonight. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

All right, excellent. This time I will go ahead and open up the public or declare that the public hearing is now open and open up public comment opportunity.

We have several folks lined up. We will start with Dr. Simonsinger followed by Dave Nevis.

Good evening Madam Mayor and council members. My name is Simonsinger and I'm the chair of the outgrow food bank board of directors.

I'm here on behalf of our executive director Marie Juquino and our 8,000 clients to tank the council and the city for its support of the food bank.

Over the past 20 years it has been an honor for the food bank to partner with the city to serve our most vulnerable citizens who face in food insecurity.

We are grateful for the vision and support of the city as we work together to meet the needs of our community.

As you are aware the future appears to be even more challenging than the past.

If USDA funding support and other federal grant funding is reduced we will attempt to direct more of our limited resources to meeting the basic needs of our clients.

These are challenging challenging times especially for our over 2000 senior clients who face the dire future in their so called golden years.

These individuals worked all their lives many in low wage jobs that barely allowed them to make ends meet.

Barbara Erlenreich wrote a book back in 2001 titled Nickel and Dymed on Net Not Getting Buy in America on the sad state of the working poor.

Regrettably the fortune of the working poor has not improved since 2001.

That said we rely even more on assistance from the city for the public facing and component of our Kent Street facility.

Even though we have surrounded our facility with the high quality fence, vandals have repeatedly tried to break in through a pedestrian entrance gate, the repairs of which have cost $8,000 twice and it has broken again.

Since we submitted our proposal our main entrance gate has been damaged and is in need of repairs.

We thank you for recommending the $35,000 in upper funding.

In the event there is any funding remaining in the upper pool, we would greatly appreciate an additional $20,000 so we can make the necessary repairs to our main gate and the pedestrian gate.

Staff is committed to having all the necessary repairs completed in accordance with our guidelines.

Once again, thank you for your continued support and for a consideration of the upper request. Thank you.

Next up is Dave Nevis, followed by Gina Tilkey.

Good evening Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Council.

I am honored to be here tonight to represent Elk Roves Heart, which is the Homeless Assistance Resource Team and to express our sincere appreciation for consideration for our grant to keep our organization functioning the level that it has been.

Our grant request is to keep funding and administrative assistant who works for us, who keeps our phones going, our emails going, and lines up people with other agencies and helps us significantly.

That individual is an employee with the Community Services District and has been invaluable over the last few years in terms of making our meetings documentable and getting the message out and doing the work that he does.

On top of that, Elk Roves Heart has appreciated the support and the relationship that we've had with the City of Elk Roves for the number of years that we have.

You're your support for our organization and your support for people experiencing homelessness.

I don't think can be compared to any other county or city that I've ever heard of.

You care about our citizens and as two of our citizens who already commented tonight, you respond when people are asking for help.

You have been there for us and heart will be there for our people that are experiencing homelessness.

So once again, thank you on behalf of an organization that I'm so very proud to be a part of. Thank you.

Thank you. Next up is Gina Tilkey, followed by Carol Lack.

Mayor Vice Mayor and Council Members, good evening. My name is Gina Tilkey and I'm the local program coordinator for X Hope.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak for me to have this opportunity to speak to you tonight and thank you to the City of Elk Roves for your ongoing support of our mission over the past few years.

Thank you for your time.

I'm very proud of our mission over the past few years.

Your investment has played a vital role in helping us grow our reach and deepen our impact among some of the most vulnerable youth in our city.

In 2022, recognizing the growing need in our community, we took a leap of faith and secured our first physical location, a 950 square foot space on East Stockton Boulevard.

We have a great support and support in just three short years are impact has grown by nearly 150% with 748 Elk Roves served at least once in 2024 through our local programs.

Our close partnership with Elk Roves Unified School District along with other local organizations, businesses and community members has played an instrumental role in identifying needs and supporting our efforts.

The backbone of our mission is not only to provide a social essential items, but also build connections with the youth and their caregivers, creating moments that restored dignity, offer belonging and plant seeds of hope.

Our current opportunities include caring for kids, kids and community closet, extracurricular and activity support back to school pick up experiences, scholarships, summer bash and holiday bash outreach experiences and our say yes to the dress for more opportunities.

As the man for our programs grew, it became becoming increasingly difficult to serve effectively in our small space.

We knew that to continue offering meaningful relational support, we needed a larger more functional facility.

Work cited to share that just two weeks ago we moved into a new 4,500 square foot location off of Elk Montway.

This space gives us room to grow and dream, a warehouse for storing and distributing essentials, a welcoming office space, a future classroom for enrichment and life skills programming and an outdoor area we hope to activate for community markets and seasonal outreach opportunities.

However, with this expanding growth comes a significant increase in facility and operational costs.

This is why we respectfully ask for reconsideration regarding the 2025 CSG funding allocations recommended for ex-hope.

As we step into this next chapter, increased operational support is critical to sustaining and expanding our work and continuing to show up for youth impacted by foster care, homelessness and economic hardship.

Thank you.

I will like to personally invite you to visit our new facility at 9096 Elk Montway.

Thank you.

All right. Next up is Kara Lack, followed by Shelley Elrod.

Hello. Good evening. Madam Mayor, City Council members.

My name is Kara. I am here as a parent representing musical mayhem productions.

My daughter is 11 and about to perform in her 27th musical at MMP, including multiple summer camps. She's there tonight as she is every single day.

I would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the city for awarding us funds from this grant, which will enable MMP to provide free tickets to our productions to schools and nonprofits.

Life theater holds immense power in shaping young minds. It offers more than just entertainment, if fosters creativity, empathy and critical thinking.

For students experiencing life theater open stores to new worlds, introduces them to diverse perspectives and encourages them to express themselves in ways that they may have never considered before.

I am also a volunteer for the arts program at my daughter's school, where many of our students face financial barriers and would benefit from the tickets provided by MMP through this grant.

For those students access to cultural experiences like life theater can be life changing. This grant makes it possible for students to see stories come to life on stage, sparking their imagination and inspiring them to pursue their own passions, whether in the arts or other fields.

For that, we are incredibly thankful. We ask for your continued support of life theater programs in our community.

These programs do so much more than just entertain. They offer young people a chance to develop important life skills, including creativity, teamwork, communication and confidence.

By investing in youth theater, we provide a safe space for children and teenagers to express themselves and build relationships with peers who share their interests.

These programs help shape the leaders of tomorrow, fostering not only artistic talent but also critical thinking and resilience.

Now more than ever, our youth need these outlets to grow, learn and thrive. I urge you to continue supporting life theater in our city so that we can ensure every young person has access to the power of the arts.

Finally, I'd like to invite you all to come see one of our upcoming productions. There are shows performing every weekend in April, including Aladdin Kids, a pilot production of Once Upon a One More Time Junior,

and the Drowsy Shaperone Junior. You can visit mmpkids.com for show info and times or reach out to any of us and we'd be happy to help you.

On behalf of musical mayhem productions and the students that they serve, thank you again for supporting the arts and making these opportunities possible.

Your investment in our youth today will undoubtedly help shape the leaders, artists and thinkers of tomorrow. Thank you for your time and your ongoing commitment to our community.

Thank you. Next up is Shelley Elrod, followed by Jennifer Macello and I have Michelle Bustamonte listed next to each other so I don't know if you're speaking together or separately.

So we'll address that when we get there. Thank you.

Good evening. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak tonight on behalf of mmp and I have an 18 year old daughter who's been very involved in mmp.

I'm sad this is her last year as she's 18 and a senior and will be moving away in the fall. She started doing shows mmp in sixth grade and at that time she was very shy and content with being in the back row of any production.

And I never would have imagined her performing in front of hundreds of people now. She's gone from being in the last row to being cast in some leading roles last year she was sandy in Greece.

And I was blown away by how much she has grown in the last six years. Some of her elementary school teachers came to her performance and could not believe that this was the same girl that they taught back in elementary school.

MMP has really brought my daughter out of her shell. They are building confidence in our youth by encouraging them to take risks and a safe environment.

Musical theater provides opportunity to make new friends inspire creativity boost self esteem and strengthen social skills.

Being part of a cast fosters teamwork broadens communication skills and helps kids develop respect for all types of people.

Many of the mmp kids go on to pursue theater in college, but even those that don't have developed skills that make them confident speakers and team leaders.

MMP is asking the city to cover the cost of tickets to be donated to local nonprofits and schools.

And this is important because the kids work so hard to put on productions. We want them to have a packed house cheering them on the larger the audience.

And they are more excited they are about performing. Some people don't know about the program or maybe attending show is simply not in their budget.

Exposure to performing arts is something everyone should be allowed to experience.

So thank you so much for including mmp in the allocation.

And if you have never been to a performance, we encourage you to come.

And as the previous speaker spoke about their are shows almost every weekend.

And they are held here locally at Kissoomis Oak High School. But some of them are downtown at the 24th Street Theater.

And if you come you won't be disappointed. It's definitely something that you have to experience to get the full picture of how much work these kids put in in a short period of time to put these shows together.

And they do a great job from you know learning their roles to designing the costumes, building the stages, everything.

So thank you again for your time.

Thank you. Jennifer Macello. Are you speaking separately because I have Michelle Boost-Monte but I have you together.

You're good together. You still get three minutes then if it's a together situation.

All right. I offered you that opportunity for six but let's go.

Thank you.

Mayor and council good evening. I'm Jennifer Macello and I'm the director of programs from Meals on Heals. It's not coming to County.

I've been joined tonight by my colleague Michelle Boost-Monte who is our director of home delivered meal operations.

It's so appropriate that you just made March National Nutrition Month for the city felt good because that is so near and dear to our heart and our mission.

But I do guys together we're here to express our gratitude for this staff recommendation of full funding and for grant request for this coming year.

The proposed award of $84,000 will allow us to serve 21,000 meals to 184 senior participants in the city of Elk Grove.

This funding is not just about meals. It's about nourishment, dignity and ensuring that our seniors remain collected to their community.

With your support we can continue providing not only essential nutrition but also the human connection and care that make a real difference in their lives.

So I have a story to share.

It's a sad one but it really kind of illustrates how important the connection is between our our drivers our program and the participants that we serve.

Every week meals on meals driver George made his regular delivery to Sam a participant he'd come to know well.

Over time he learned about Sam's family his beloved pets and even his daily routines. This time something felt off.

When Sam didn't answer the door George grew concerned. The television was on there was a stack of an un-up and mail on the porch and signs that Sam had been home but he hadn't stepped outside in a while.

His gut told them something's really wrong.

So he was calling him quickly on the route she there was a daughter's phone number and so George quickly called her and explained the situation.

She was alarmed and guided him through the process of entering the home through the back door so he could check on him.

A George found Sam collapse on the floor barely responsive.

Without hesitation George called 911 and stayed by Sam's side as they waited for emergency services.

Weakly Sam reached out for gent for George's hand and he whispered to him. Please call my family. I'm not going to make it.

Fighting back emotion George uses work phone instead of a three way call connecting Sam to his two daughters.

As they tearfully said their goodbyes George did buy offering quiet support in this heartbreaking moment.

Minutes later the emergency responders arrived and took Sam to the hospital.

Sam survived the night and long enough for his family to arrive to say goodbye in person.

In the days that followed we received heartfelt calls from his family thanking George and the meals on wheels program.

So we want to thank you for your support and supporting moments like that.

Thank you. Thank you for sharing that story.

Thank you for your investment in our program.

Thank you.

Next up is Rachel and Lily. I've got another duo.

You speaking together or just moral support someone.

Okay excellent.

Hi. Thank you so much for giving us the time to talk.

I'm Rachel.

This is Lily. I am Rachel.

And Lily learned about MMP through her older brother.

So she started as a patron in the seats watching the arts and as she grew to about three years old decided she wanted to get up there on stage herself.

And she has been acting with them since 2000.

I think it's a little bit of a bump in that one.

But we're here to say thank you for giving the opportunity for more students to participate in MMP as patrons as students and seats and to get exposed to what a wonderful community of theater is.

Through theater, Lily has learned to sing and act and dance and has really built self confidence and a new group of friends that I know she'll have through a lifetime.

And we have how many friends have we drug into MMP.

We have so many friends now that are involved in MMP after coming and seeing the shows.

And so the money that we are able to use to get more kids in the seat to aren't traditionally exposed to this is very exciting.

MMP's motto is creating awesome adults when musical at a time.

And this gives us the opportunity to hopefully create more awesome adults.

In fact, MMP annually creates approximately or contributes to creating 1400 awesome adults in the making as they are able to perform on stage.

So with that being said, I know you've heard that we have lots of shows coming up.

Lily will be in the lad in there's actually seven shows in the next six weeks coming up through MMP.

So again, thank you for the opportunity to keep people coming to see us.

Next up is Heidi Kaiser, followed by Alma Wilcox.

Good evening mayor and council members. I'm Heidi Kaiser, director of government affairs for child action.

I'd like to comment around the plans for the 2025 2030 consolidated plan.

Child action has empowered Sacramento County families through early care and education for almost half a century.

And we've led last year we administered over 127 million in child care subsidies directly supported almost 9,000 families and over 16,000 children many here in outgrowth.

We partner with local child care providers to expand access to affordable quality child care, licensing support capacity building resources and training for early educators.

We have a very strong community development block grant outreach highlighted child care as a critical need address.

A challenge child action is uniquely equipped to address already millions of our annual funding is going towards uplift in outgrowth children families and educators.

And we think it's important to deepen that impact here. We already were already live abilities.

Top place to live in California and I say we because after living and working everywhere from Washington DC to London, I chose to raise my family here and out group.

This is where families come to thrive. Let's ensure every family here keeps thriving.

Child action is eager to collaborate with you to tailor solutions that sustain outgrove prosperity and outgrove Sacramento County is already a model for California and the communities that value our children.

So we're excited for the day when we serve as the national prototype. I look forward to discussing with staff how child action can inform this work. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you. Next up is Alma Wilcox followed by Carol con.

Hi, how good evening. On behalf of Alchemist CDC's CalFresh at Farmers Markets program at the Laguna Gateway Center Farmers Market.

Thank you to the city and the Council for funding this program year after year.

In 2024, we facilitated the distribution of more than $180,000 in combined CalFresh benefits and market match incentives.

At this farmers market alone. This is a 40% increase from the year prior and program usage is only continuing to grow.

This means that every dollar you invested into this program last year facilitated $13 in purchasing power for fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables.

We are confident that you're renewed funding in 2025 will maintain this level of impact. Thank you.

Thank you. Next up is Carol con followed by Shelley Cousin.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and Vice Mayor and Council members. I'm Carol Connum, the Executive Director of Project Sentinel. We're a fair housing comprehensive fair housing center that operates in the South Bay, the peninsula Sacramento County and Stanislaus County.

By way, we're extremely grateful for the continuing support almost a decade going now with the city of El Grove, not to mention other cities in the county of Sacramento.

By way of reminder about the nature of fair housing work, which is under incredible scrutiny right now with HUD and DOGE and we're fighting for every last time of funding right now.

We provide services to affirmatively further for fair housing, which is a term of art that means that in consolidated plans and housing elements, we're going to make provisions to fight housing discrimination.

There are many protected classes under the under the rubric of fair housing law that protect some of our most vulnerable citizens in our communities.

Those are veterans seniors survivors of domestic violence who might be legally evicted because of the actions of their abuser persons with disabilities, people of color, LGBTQ and so on.

On average, the project Sentinel investigates about 400 cases a year, approximately 30 to 40% of those investigations reveal evidence substantiating a claim of discrimination.

Housing discrimination complaints are investigated by testing surveys and document review and the majority of the meritorious complaints are either resolved through conciliation and mediation and or through enforcement, which usually engages the California Civil Rights Department.

In closing and as we near the fair housing month in April, I wish to again express my support for the ongoing wisdom of the council to continue to fund fair housing activity.

It is absolutely a remedy to our housing crisis and our homelessness problem, which I know are also priorities.

I think I'll leave it at that and answer any questions if you have them. Thank you.

Next up is Shelley Kesson, followed by Michelle Campbell.

Good evening. I'm Shelley Kesson, also here on behalf of musical mayhem productions, MMP.

My son, Charlie, has started with MMP in fifth grade. He's a junior this year at Pleasant Grove High School. So I know firsthand what a bright spot MMP is in our community.

So beyond my own personal experience, more than 1400 kids each year go through an MMP program, whether it's their shows, academies, workshops, in addition, MMP puts on 22 different shows each year, and employees 17 people.

And just this week, more than 2000 elementary school students are going to have the opportunity to see Juni B. Jones firsthand.

So MMP casts a broad net within our community. And I will say that beyond simply instilling and appreciation for the arts, what the kids learn as part of MMP will last a lifetime.

Confidence building, public speaking, teamwork, discipline, time management, and then also a bit of resilience when they don't quite get that part that they were so excited about.

All of these things will follow them throughout their lives and serve them very well. So I want to commend you for supporting MMP and theater among our youth within our community.

It's vitally important. And not to be outdone by my fellow theater moms, I want to invite you all to a show. We would love to have you join us.

You will see pure joy on stage. And I hope you would be delighted by your role in that and your support of that. Thank you.

All right. Next up is Michelle Campbell, followed by Mark Headlin.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor and members of the council. I'm Michelle Campbell. I teach theater arts at Catherine L. Albionny Middle School here in Elk Grove Unified School District.

And I'm here to speak on support of two local programs who have applied for community service grants, musical mayhem productions, MMP as you've heard, and Elk Grove musical theater company.

Both of these theater programs are near and dear to my heart. Both programs have assisted productions at my school through the loan of sets, props and costumes, and they make my students very happy.

Musical mayhem has requested a grant to provide free tickets to local schools and nonprofits. As you know, audience opportunities improve quality of life for Elk Grove citizens.

If children are going to shows, parents are going to shows. It's a great thing for the whole family.

Audience members learn empathetic listening, critical thinking, and connection with others as they learn about others through story.

Audience members show support and appreciation for the arts and for their peers who take risks up on stage.

There are fewer and fewer opportunities for field trips and in-school productions and performances.

Students don't get to learn how to be an audience member at school because we just don't have the time with the rest of the curriculum and the schedules that we're trying to fit in.

Tickets for evening and weekend shows allow students to go with their families during outside of school time.

MMP has provided blocks of tickets for my students to attend shows. So not only do they get to learn to be a performer in an audience member at school, they get to practice it out there in the community.

Elk Grove musical theater company EGMTC has requested funding for continuing their theater nonprofit and volunteers. There is an entirely volunteer program.

The programs love the program just as they do MMP. And they're also looking for support to bring shows to Elk Grove.

More and more often, both MMP and EGMTC have to go to Sacramento, West Sacramento, or Rancho Cordova to find theater space.

We have a very robust theater arts program in Elk Grove Unified, but we're using our theater spaces regularly.

We need a community theater space and so that's something that I would hope that you would consider in the future.

Both since both of those productions go outside families and audience members often go out to lunch dinner or dessert to celebrate, meaning that their dollars are going to those other cities.

A performing arts space in Elk Grove would be super helpful. Thank you for recommending CSG grant funds for both MMP and EGMTC theater kids are worth your investment. Thank you.

Next up is Mark Headlin, followed by Angie Wanksgard.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Councilmembers. I'm here to thank you for your ongoing support for all the dozens of great nonprofits that we have that help this community thrive.

I'm speaking tonight on behalf of Elk Grove and your support has been invaluable for us.

But just in general, I know that it's very important for you and it's very important for our community to keep funding and supporting these various nonprofits that help those in need in our community.

As many of you know, up close is a nonprofit organization providing support in a community style setting to individuals and families who face a variety of forms of financial and life skills poverty.

With classes, group discussions and goal setting instruction uplift offers resources to participants seeking the skills to overcome financial poverty, manage health problems and to face the challenges of aging require, require parenting skills and much more.

It's an opportunity for our clients, individuals and families to become part of a supportive community.

They learn about stretching their income dealing with conflicts and improving their health among other things while developing positive relationships.

We provide a family meal and child care during our weekly meetings to allow them the freedom to work on creating a more abundant life and this is all provided free of charge.

We recently asked some of our clientele, some of our participants, what uplift means to them and I'd like to share with you a couple of quotes from them.

One single mom said, we talk a lot about finances and budgeting and I recently got my first own, my very own first place.

And so I've learned how to adapt, pay my bills, how to create a new lifestyle of having stability in my own home and how to make it lasting, how to take care of it.

Another participant says, I've been able to set some goals that I never really looked at that hard, that goal setting is really important because it helps keep me on task.

Another client says, my kids know this is a stable place where we go and work on our lives.

One of our volunteers said, I came to uplift because I wanted to give back to my community and help people in need.

But once I got here and became involved, I realized that we all suffer poverty in some part of our lives.

Turns out I get more from uplift than I give.

And another one of our clients who is a single mom, who has really appraised uplift for really helping her out, wrote a short poem and I'm not going to read the whole poem but I'll give you a couple of excerpts.

I've gone from homeless to housing, isolated to invited, hungry to fed, strangers to friends, glances to hugs, understand my before, motivate my after.

No longer will defeat have me circling the same street waiting for someone to come and save me. I'm learning how to save myself.

I know I don't have to be a doormat to be kind. So thank you again for your support.

Thank you. Next up is Angie Wingsguard, followed by Nettie Fisher.

I stand before you today as the president of Elc Grove Musical Theatre Company.

We are so grateful for the city's tradition of helping the groups that are accomplishing good things in Elc Grove.

Your investments via the CDBGs and the community service grant make our community stronger and healthier.

We recognize the difficult decisions that you are facing in this process and we want to thank you for including and supporting the arts.

As MMP supporters have already established, the arts are vital to our community's health.

We had a difficult few years since 2020 and your support will make a huge difference to our program.

Elc Grove Musical Theatre Company is an all-volunteer run, nonprofit theatre company devoted to providing low cost theatre opportunities so that anyone regardless of income or ability to pay can participate.

We provide performing, we've been performing in facilities outside the city limits recently because the one big auditorium in Elc Grove,

Consumeness Oaks is highly impacted with high demand between their own school and the many other groups that would like to use it.

And it's also more expensive than some of the other facilities in the area.

So this community service grant will help us to reach our goal of coming back to Elc Grove to perform here in our city.

It will also help us provide more low cost performing opportunities for Elc Grove youth regardless of their ability to pay.

It also lastly will help us provide scholarships for Elc Grove youth in need.

Thank you so much for your efforts and the time you spent listening to all of us go on and on about the things that we care so passionately about.

We're very grateful.

Thank you.

Next up is Nettie Fisher, followed by Christine Wynn.

Thank you.

Coming with me.

Thank you.

I'm kind of in prompt to here.

I want to tell you that I greatly appreciate the fact that you're considering goals to be one of the recipients of your grant.

I want to thank you for the opportunity to be part of this organization that services persons with disabilities from 16 to 87, I think is our oldest folder.

These are young and these are adults and people that after they've out of the school system, their social activities become very minimal.

What we offer them is an opportunity to participate in a community activity that the general population just kind of goes and does.

It's blind and deaf and it's exciting to see the thrill on his face when he throws that ball or actually slides it down the ramp and we explain where the ball is going and when he hears the pins fall down, he wants to know where they went.

Working with this organization since 2003, I've kind of much adapted most of the guys starting with my own son.

When I watch these folks bowl, knowing that the majority of them are either in a care home or on very limited funds, our goal is to make sure that they can bowl whether there's money there or not.

So we've always kept everything down at a minimal price picking up the balance.

This grant that you are considering giving us will allow us to make sure that our bowlers can continue to bowl and when they don't have the money, we just pick up the tab.

Which we do anyway, but this will make it easier for us to go on and continue.

We want to work for another 10 to 15 years.

Thank you so much for considering goals is one of your recipients.

Thank you.

Our final speaker is Christine Winn.

Good evening, good evening, Mayor and council member.

My name is Christine Winn. I'm the CEO of my sister's house.

I just want to take a second to thank you and the staff and the reveal panel for putting my sister's house on the funding recommendation for this upcoming year.

We're going to be able to serve several of the 46 ladies that are on our waiting list to be served through my sister's house has you know my sister's house is a domestic violin service provider.

We have shelter services housing program employment counseling legal services. So our homes are in confidential areas, but know that we are serving the city of El Grove through this grant.

And through other funding streams at my sister's house. So thank you so much.

I'm very honored to be a part of such amazing organization that spoke tonight and their mission. Have a great evening.

Thank you miss Winn and that concludes our final speaker. So I will go ahead and close the public comment opportunity and declare this public hearing is now closed and look for some comments questions direction from my colleagues.

I'll start to.

So before we start we have two potential grant recipients in which councilmember speech has an interest. So you are called the way we've done this in the past as we asked councilmember speech to step out.

The council makes a preliminary determination on those two grant recipients and he comes back. So if you don't mind councilmember speech.

You have to come back.

I'm going to say that he says that have to.

So the two matters are El Grove Community Foundation recommended it $15,000 and running for rent recommended it $10,000.

All right. Let's address those two so we can bring them back in. We good with current action.

All right. This is not a motion so we support it. We can.

There's consensus. That's good enough. Thank you. All right. We can bring them back in someone to let them know.

All right. We'll start with some conversation here about the grants will start to the left here councilmember. So on.

Thank you, Mayor. There's a lot of great need a lot of great missions out there.

And it was great to hear from folks tonight. MMP coming out and force that was great to hear.

But really appreciate your advocacy for the arts because it is important and it's important to all of us.

I just want to thank not only all of you for that mission and I want to thank the staff, you know, Alicia and her team.

It's such a difficult process or challenging process to allocate you limited funds as you saw earlier.

I just wanted to quickly say a testament to all of you because if you're on this list, it doesn't it means not only do you have a very good mission, but you've been implementing you've been doing things in a very effective manner and also in I would say good stewards of your of your funds because that is one of the things, you know, we're looking at how you're benefiting

from the bulk of residents and and how are you using those monies are using them wisely. So are these these these very slim dollars are being put to the to the best use.

So could just all of you there in I support staff for accommodation. Thank you.

Vice mayor.

Thank you, Madam Mayor and thank you to everyone who applied. It's always hard when you're talking about funding and making sure that every nonprofit is being taken care of especially in our city.

But we thank you for your hard work and everything that you've been doing.

And in reviewing some of the grants, I was actually can we ask for another nonprofit to be requested to have more funding.

I guess that's a question.

So just remember that as you request to add the way.

Okay, so there's that reality.

Okay, well, I would I'll put it out here. I would like to see if we can give hope X X help sorry.

X hope an additional 10,000.

So what I will offer up also is we all have discretionary funds.

So those can also be there to augment some of these. So if you're making that recommendation, I mean, there is.

You've got discretionary funds and I would just say that if you're looking to add more funding there, what are what are you looking at decreasing?

Okay, well, that's why I like to put it out there and then kind of hear what I call except.

Okay, so is that it?

Yeah, okay, very good.

So yeah, just as a reminder, if we're if we're adding, we're also then taking away.

So that's that's that's a tough call.

And as a reminder, we all have discretionary funds to augment some of those more those nonprofits that we are more passionate about.

Although I feel like we're passionate about everything, but there are some that we are maybe more so than others.

So I will go to councilmember Brewer.

So I want to thank everyone for coming tonight and putting their best foot forward and presenting a case on.

Why their program should be funded and to give us a little glimpse into each of their programs.

I also want to thank our group of scouts who brave the entire evening.

Because I know some of you, this is not fun work.

This is not easy work.

It will it will bore you to tears and may make you go to sleep at the end of the day.

You'll have a full heart at the end of the end.

No, remember the batch process.

But I do appreciate is.

Because there were some programs that I saw that did not get awarded.

But if you apply and that just keep in the loop, keep applying.

Because and and just continue building your case on why your program should receive funding because I did see a couple of programs that did not make the cut.

And but at the same time, I saw programs that made the cut this year that were very, very, very worthy of consideration.

As a matter of fact, the one that really got me specifically, the goals bowling league.

So growing up, I've had five cousins who were developmentally disabled.

And I just and going and while it's going to elementary school, we had a we had a school across the way where we went and we were mentors.

And we were and we meant and we refriended them, did a lot of activities with those students.

And it was really enriching.

If there was there was ever an opportunity where you could spend time with someone of that nature.

It makes your life that much more enriching. It really does.

And to have four cousins that I grew up with.

And they were older, but in their mind, they were the same ages me.

And to see and do activities with them was it was really was really heartening.

So I really am happy that we were able to give as much as we could for goals this year.

And I really hope that we can come back next year and provide them with something as well.

I know I definitely intend to use some of my funds for big day giving to help goals out.

That is for sure.

But a lot but these other programs obviously we have our mainstays, Elk Grove Food Bank services, Al Mizba.

Ex hope definitely see the need in helping them, Chicks and Crisis.

Elk Grove Heart, uplift, Elk Grove.

On the front lines helping people enhancing and making things better for for the community, helping uplift people and being that hand up when they need to is very important.

And I'm very happy that we're providing that.

Through this through the CSG grants and for these community development block grants.

With the list that I see tonight, I'm comfortable with what we have in front of us and providing.

What we can in terms of our block grants and community service grants.

Thank you.

How's my recipes?

Thank you Madam Mayor.

First I want to thank Miss Tut.

I appreciate that as well as this is the first time I think I've seen you since last time I had a comment relative to your assistance with the Sacramento Metropolitan Gable Television Commission.

And the grant process there so I appreciate you for that.

So first I guess relative to giving some direction on the consolidated plan.

In general most of these things.

Pretty much the consolidated plan.

I have three H's that I'm most concerned about and that's hunger housing and health and I recognize that those are almost intricately entwined together.

But those would be ones that I would certainly prioritize within the consolidated plan.

So without going into a long dissertation I think we can all recognize that housing and hunger and again the health being connected to it are extremely difficult problems that we're expecting that we're.

That we have throughout California and the rest of the United States and so those will always continue to be my priorities.

That said when it comes to reallocating or any of these I you know I've received calls from other organizations who have their own concerns as well that they would like to have had more.

They would have appreciated more that they have some even have programs that they will they will cease to operate if they don't get.

So what I'm saying is I think that Miss Tut and her team have done a very very good job in balancing the grants as drafted and I would support the plan specifically is drafted.

Thank you. Thank you to my colleagues here for your excellent and thoughtful comments.

We saw what the need was the request was $5 million and more.

That's a lot. Obviously we don't have that to allocate with a record number of 42 applications.

I want to thank everyone that came out to speak and this is hard so I want to thank staff for your due diligence in helping us really and I also really appreciate the review committee.

It was very diverse and getting that input and feedback from everyone is is very very important.

At the end of the day what I see here and I appreciate as the nonprofits that all of you are is that the government can't be all things to everyone and I really want to recognize and thank all our nonprofits for stepping up and helping our community in all of your respective ways.

So thank you for all that you do in the city of Elk Grove.

So with that I too support staff recommendation. I wish we had more money to allocate for all of these organizations and some that we didn't allocate funding for.

The need continues to be great but I want to thank and recognize our city for stepping up and doing our role for our community.

So thank you and thank you everyone that came this evening.

So I think we have sufficient direction on this item we will move on to item 8.2 yes.

No we don't need a motion.

There's not a motion it's just basically direction council direction consensus.

We're all consensus that is supporting staff recommendation. Sorry.

Thank you.

Good evening Madam Mayor and members of the city council Joseph Daghameen associate planner and the community development department.

Item 8.2 this evening is the Gravengo determination of public convenience or necessity.

The project is consist of a determination of a public convenience or necessity also known as a PCN to allow the Gravengo convenience store to obtain a type 20 alcohol beverage license from the California Department of alcoholic beverage control.

The type 20 is for the sale of beer and wine for off site consumption.

The project site is located at 96 30 East Stockton Boulevard sweet number 140 within the Plaza shopping center along the west side of East Stockton Boulevard just south of the intersection with El Grove Boulevard.

Just a little bit of project background history back on September 1st of 2022 the planning commission approved phase three of the shopping center.

The project is consisted of a fueling station a 5,050 square foot retail building with a drive through.

Gravengo is occupying approximately 1650 square feet of that building a 2020 square foot Starbucks building with a drive through.

The Starbucks open in late 2024 the construction on the fueling station and the Gravengo are just about complete and they are set to open shortly.

This is the floor plan for the Gravengo convenience store the area outlined in red is the area where beer and wine products are going to be sold and displayed inside the convenience store.

So ABC requires that an applicant obtain a PCN from the affected jurisdiction when the establishment is located within a high crime area or when the census track is deemed over concentrated by ABC standards.

A high crime areas defined as a crime reporting district that has a 20% greater number of reported crimes than the average number of reported crimes for all districts in the city.

Elk Grove is separated into 26 sectors for crime reporting purposes that is for data from by the police department.

The project site is located in sub sector 50104 which had 46 crimes reported in the year 2024 the average number of crimes per beat is 116 so this project is not in what is determined to be a high crime area.

However, it is under census tract 93.09.

This census tract is determined to be over concentrated as there are two licenses are considered to be over concentrated there's currently three active licenses in the census tract.

So the city council determines whether public convenience or necessity will be served by the issuance of an alcohol license for the applicants premise based on the following factors does for them and I'll go over them individually.

So the first one is the proximity and number of other retail outlets selling alcohol the retail outlets near the project site that's currently served alcohol are the Elk Grove Chevron extra mile convenience store located 9603 Eastuct and Boulevard.

The loop neighborhood market attached to the show gas station at 8607 Elk Grove Boulevard and the CVS pharmacy located 8585 Elk Grove Boulevard.

The second one is the proximity to retail outlets to schools playgrounds and other facilities serving young people.

So the nearest facility serving young people is approximately 800 feet away that is the code ninjas at 8641 Elk Grove Boulevard.

The nearest school is more than half a mile away, which is Joseph Kerr middle school and nearest park is also nearly half a mile away, which is Baker Park.

The third one is the proximity to retail outlets to residential neighborhoods.

The nearest neighborhood is the Elk Creek metal subdivision, which is approximately 600 feet to the east.

And finally, whether the retail outlet provides a wide range of desirable goods and services or a unique type of goods and service.

So for this use, the property would allow for customers to fill their vehicles up with fuel at the fueling station, as well as purchase groceries while at the grab and go convenience store while reducing the number of trips they might need to make elsewhere.

So we believe a unique type of goods and services are being provided here.

So part of the request for the PCN, the applicant must show how the alcohol license will serve the public convened public's convenience and necessity in response, the applicant notes that the sale of beverages would offer customers the convenience of fueling their vehicles while purchasing the limited selection of beer and wine along with other groceries and a one stop shop atmosphere.

So if you data the location of the proposed business and the operating guidelines that have been presented by the business, the approval of this license will likely not result in increased calls for service.

The police department has determined that there is no public safety reason to oppose either a finding of the PCN or associated ABC license application.

The applicant has indicated that they will implement a number of security and safety measures as part of the sale of the products.

In terms of CEQA, the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to section 15061B3.

This is the common sense exemption. Granting of the PCN will expand the services at the convenience store, but will not bring any physical change to the environment.

So with that, staff is recommending approval of the PCN this evening.

That concludes my presentation, staff and the applicant are available to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation. At this time I will declare that the public hearing is now open.

Would the applicant like to make any statements or?

Are you? Yes, no?

Good evening, Madam Mayor. Vice Mayor, City Council Members. My name is Chip Tash Gill.

So thanks for this opportunity. You know, currently for the last probably 18, 20 years, I do own and operate several ABC licenses up and down.

You know, few cities mostly towards south from here in Central Valley.

So very familiar with the responsibility and accountability that comes with selling, you know, restricted products.

And sort of proud to say that over 18 years, we've had one violation so far.

We have a pretty robust, you know, program training program where we have bars program where we get these shops that we pay for where we have a third party that comes into our locations once a month for sure.

And they sort of test our employees to make sure they are checking IDs and making sure that they're following the ABC laws.

So and everything else that goes with, you know, the ABC laws, right?

So, I'll, you know, thanks for, I mean, it's a great city. I'm glad that we are here and we'd love to have your support. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. At this time, I will open up the public comment opportunity. Nobody has signed up to speak to on this item. I will close the public comment opportunity.

And I will declare that the public hearing is not closed. Any questions, comments? We'll start to left anything.

Nothing. I'm happy to move the recommendation or resume.

All right. Any questions or comments? Otherwise, I'll look for a second.

Second.

All right. I have a motion to second. All those in favor, please say aye.

Thank you.

All right. Next item.

To get section 9, the regular agenda action items of recommendations. And we have one item, which is item 9.1, which is receive a presentation of the Oak Grove Police Department's annual report for 2024.

Let's hope it comes up.

Before I start, I actually need to acknowledge the officer that was killed in Mary's Bill today.

So our thoughts and prayers are to the Mary's Bill Police Department, the officer's families and all the men and women that serve the communities that we all live in.

So mayor vice mayor and council. This is my opportunity to provide the annual report for the Elk Grove Police Department. My name is Bobby Davis.

And I am very fortunate to be the chief of police for the city of Elk Grove and the Elk Grove Police Department.

There are some bets going around about how long I'm going to be talking.

I am going to do my best to not make it too long.

I'm just kidding about the bets.

There are a couple areas that I am going to hit and I will talk about specifically.

And then a little bit about measuring because it's made a significant impact to our organization and the public safety in our city this last year.

So quickly, I just want to talk that the very first time I would like to read the message and the message that I put on this year and report and reset my definition means to start again or new.

So when we're presented with the opportunity to reset some anticipated some unexpected in 2024 was somewhat of a reset for the organization.

While unexpected, I also was reminded of a significant the significance of a reset stabilized in the foundation that has already been established and maintaining consistency has propelled us forward to welcome change in the coming year.

And as we've embraced the state, the start of a new year, we're diving deeper into service led leadership.

We must stand on all sides of the flag to lift it up as one and our efforts to serve with people of Elk Grove to the best of our abilities as an organization.

We preserve public peace and enforce the laws while we dedicate ourselves to service with concern while keeping our humanity and humility intact.

I am grateful to work with the women and men of the Elk Grove Police Department who honor our profession by maintaining the highest levels of excellence and integrity and their service to our community together in United, we will accomplish everything.

The organization itself.

We have a total staff of 325 allocated positions.

We have 282 out of 301 authorized currently 165 of 169 authorized sworn and that's a pretty significant number for law enforcement to have that low of vacancy rates speaks a lot to what you have done for us as electives what our city has done in support for us and what our staff, I believe has done to show that the employees here have a fruitful and supportive workplace and it keeps them here and we're very, very fortunate of that.

The other way that I gauge that is by the people who do the work here for free.

We have a significantly robust volunteer program at the city of Elk Grove.

We have over 300 volunteers for the city for the police department and the city of Elk Grove and that speaks volumes I think to what they want to do and continuing service to us and for us in the city and the support that they choose to provide to us.

Our overall budget is 73 million points 73.6 million dollars out of the general fund is 64.7 measure E is 5.9 million as well.

Part of our mission is a strong community outreach and partnership.

It's fair and impartial interactions is promoting public safety through prevention intervention and enforcement and developing and promoting a diverse and professional workforce.

That's extremely important to us and you'll see that theme throughout this presentation.

The way that we're able to do that and meet that vision mission and values really is by engaging our work product in our community through a spider tech company that we use and we send officers to a call for service.

In our community we call back we ask for feedback from those people that we've touched in our communities and by doing that we ask them a variety of things from the moment that the first contact they made with our dispatch to how our officers responded to them and as you can see we have excellent numbers as a result of contacts whether good or bad in our community we have a positive outcome for the majority of the things that we do.

The other way that we're able to maintain our success in our community is through wellness or city provides us a wonderful opportunity through health and wellness to include a

counselor for the organization itself who specifically deals with trauma for officers and culturally culturally competent therapy for the officers here in our organization and I'll just read a quick quote.

The local police department therapist Veronica Kennedy is played a pivotal role in promoting the wellness of our employees throughout the year along with providing therapy services to staff Veronica conducted trauma informed training for employees equipped them with the skills to understand recognize and respond to the effects of trauma and it's pretty significant when you consider if we are healthy internally we're going to be that much better exponentially better externally and it's extremely important to me and and the services that we provide our community.

The next area I'd like to talk about is measure E.

So on November 8th 2022 the Elk Grove voters approved measure E that would with a near 55% both this measure enacted a one cent sales tax local sales tax to fund identified import identified as important things for our community including reducing crime addressing homelessness improving emergency services enhancing youth crime and

gang prevention programs maintaining our streets parks and parks improving traffic and ensuring clean and safe public areas and supporting economic development.

And while I won't go through the measure E specific positions you're going to see that woven in throughout all of our services provided in this report.

Our professional standards bureau really is the meat potatoes of hiring for this organization through our professional standards were able to hire folks with the support staff from our city in human resources.

Professional standards is uniquely positioned with a diverse scope of responsibilities that support the organizations holistically.

In 2024 PSB experience a significant growth adding several new positions funded by measure E this expansion contribute contributed to the reduced reduced sworn vacancy rate allowing us to fully staff both both existing roles and new initiatives.

PSP also strengthen its training capacity by appointing its first full time training and development coordinator dedicated to providing ongoing training and professional development for all members of this organization.

From recruitment and hiring in house and post regulated training policy risk management internal affairs investigations and the use of force activity along with collaborating with the city attorney's office to minimize liability PSB plays a vital multi faceted role in advancing the organization's mission and goals PSB holds is accountable for all of our actions in our community.

And that's a very important piece along with hiring so one of the areas that we focus at is the diversity in this organization and hiring in our demographics and what does our department look like can we or do we match the people that we serve in our community and I believe that we do in 2024 we had pleasure welcoming 64 65 new employees 32 sworn staff and 33 professional staff to this organization.

In the new hires female we hired 48% and 52% male of those new hires you can see the demographics black Americans we had 2% we had 39% Hispanic 15% Asian and 44% white total personnel for the city for the Elk Grove Police Department we have a 45% and then the 55% male 45% female 55% male.

And they look at demographics for the total personnel and black Americans we have 8% Hispanic 22% Asian 14 and white 54% we have a very diverse organization.

The other way that we kind of measure the success in this organization is through internal affairs complaints this last year we had 3 internal affairs complaints and you can see from 2020 all the way through 2024 where we've been very consistent dropping those numbers and maintaining a level that I think through healthy.

We have been able to show that we have been better externally our numbers remain low because we take care and concern for all of the complaints that we get but moreover we take care and concern for the people that are serving the folks in our community and by doing so we're able to keep those numbers low.

In addition to that when we do get complaints we address it immediately and we address it effectively and that's an important piece of overall community and public safety.

We can also scroll through and see the other data that's associated with what professional standards keep which a lot of it has use of force and then overall comparisons to 2023 and 2024 when you can see some of our a lot of our force actually dropped in those years in our canine with the fully staffed unit has gone up that's because deployments and the use of that as a tool has gone up as well.

We have a lot of community relations.

Media and community relations is kind of an area where we not just focus on how we present socially through social media and what we represent when we do press conferences or when we respond to media requests but it's also part of our youth services program and again funded by measuring.

One of those areas that has the one of the greatest impacts in our community because we have a group of women and men who are out trying to not just push what we do as an organization and what we do as a city but what they're also doing is building relationships through interactions and through interactions that are positive and have very very little enforcement behind them.

So the real goal with our media and community relations is through our youth services program so our youth services unit was created last year as a result of measure and some other funding that we've been able to utilize and we have two officers now who spend the majority of their time at all they'll go and find school district schools within our city and they spend time with those schools building relationships without enforcement the idea is to foster healthy relationships for the kids in these schools so that they can come and talk.

Our officers meet them on a different playing field that has again little enforcement as far as contacts go with the folks in our community.

The other thing that we do in media and community relations is several programs they have they have done over a hundred programs this last year associated to everything in our community whether it's through the kicking it and out grove through rise through the explorer program our youth 911 safety and awareness.

Safety and awareness presentations our community and PD event participation coffee with the cop fries with the good guys things that we do in our community that our community comes to love out and comes out and loves to share time with us we had a one of our vehicles that we have is a jeep gladiator we were able to output this vehicle and as you can see like the kids love it we have videos now with kids playing basketball off of a hoop that we were mounted to the back of that gladiator and they love it they they can't.

I think I'm out I had I've had principles and and folks talk to me about how much they appreciate our officers coming out playing basketball sitting down with these kids building circle groups helping them learn how to become leaders in our community and it is again a wonderful program one of the other things and as you know one of my favorites is a barbecue in the beat every single year.

I have since I have had the opportunity to be the chief of our city we have done this barbecue in the beat not only is it one of the mainstays of our summer activities but it's one of the best ways we've been able to connect with the folks in our community going out and feeding the people as they come to us and each beat of our city and one of the other things that we've been able to do as a result of that is during the week leading up to each one of those events we take our city partners our public works our code enforcement and we hit the streets.

And we address the quality of life issues in every single street in our city literally every single street so by the time we start this program to the time that we end we have been on every single street in the city of Elgro and we're proud of that we're proud of the fact that we're able to do that and provide a service and address that the week after the barbecue in the beat when the when our community comes out we go back through when ensure that we try to address or touch all of those things and then provide them feedback as to what we're going to do moving forward if there are ongoing.

We're very proud of that and this has brought us closer to our communities and it's such a simple thing to sit and eat and break bread and share the things that matter to all of us in our community.

Oops I skipped real time.

Next thing I'd like to talk about is our real time information center.

As you know the real time information center is extremely important to our everyday service but it's more than policing the reason we call the real time information center is because it's information hub to the entire organization it's information information hub to you as our electeds it's information hub to our city our city staff and our community we put things out that are associated with real time as it happens in our city whether it's crime or it's floods or it's something that is

happening catastrophic in our community or in the positive we use this as a way to share what's happening with the police department internally and externally in our city and it's extremely important piece of the technology that we use as we respond to calls for service within our community in addition to that as we move forward in this presentation you'll see the drone is the first responder program which actually operates out of the deal out of the real time information center.

The other thing that real time has done is this annual report through Kristen and Andrea and Gabrielle have done wonderful work providing me the information that I can share with you today and we remiss if I did not mention them.

Operation so this is the forefront really the most forward facing thing that the people see in our community when we're talking about the old crow police department in our cars they are the folks that are on the streets basically doing all of the calls for service but also just being a visible presence for the people in our community being present showing that we're there making stops on people who are maybe speeding or not but just providing the people who are not going to be able to do that.

But just providing a service for our community whether it's a call for service or through proactive policing the operation division continues to be the home of our two most public facing units within the organization and that is field services and traffic.

The field services Bureau is better known as patrol where all of our new police officers start their law enforcement careers and work side by side with tenured officers although there's been a great deal of movement our patrol units have continued to keep our ranks filled to ensure that community that our community is provided with services they deserve.

And expected when they call us for help and just a quick glance at some numbers patrol operations this year through patrol and other services we've had 2100 arrests we have 8300 reports taken and they've responded to 91,000 calls for service very similar to the prior year but very consistent in the overall service.

In addition to that calls for service specifically we had a 1% increase which is not a huge number but it's 91,094 calls relating to patrol itself and then agency arrests we've had 2100 arrests this year as opposed to the 2600 we had last year which is a 22% decrease even though the calls were very similar we had a different result in a lot of those calls and not every call we go to is going to result in arrests.

And I actually think that those are positive numbers meaning that we've had contacts that don't always end up in arrests for the folks that we make contact with in our community and later on you'll see we had a rise in our crisis intervention response team when they respond to many many calls those are calls where there's crisis and and arrests aren't necessary and we'll talk about that as we get closer to that reports that were taken roughly the same as pretty flat 8300 reports 1% decrease.

And then into traffic traffic is obviously important for us in our city you know one of the one of the greatest volume of calls that I get or associated with traffic and so this year specific to our traffic unit our DUI checkpoints we did 10 and 10.5% of all traffic related activity was DUI checkpoints motorcycle safety operations was 17.5 our bicycle pedestrian traffic.

And motorcycle enforcement was 17.5 was my I need to get some glasses distracted driving is 17.5 and the traffic enforcement in general was 36.8 so as you can see our traffic unit is busy last year we lost a few traffic officers the retirement and movement and we're actually staffing the getting those back staff to full staff now.

So we had a 1,122 collisions in our city this year or last year and 73 of those were as a result of DUI you can see our DUI arrests were 12% down 30 31 less than the year before and then and as you can compare to 2012 I'm sorry to 2022 they went up in 2023 and then a little bit down or flattened out a little bit this year we like to believe that a lot of that.

So we have to do because our operations were standard this year for as they have been we believe that our folks are are starting to understand the importance of not driving if you have been drinking in our community.

As far as distracted driving you can see this has gone up 11% increase and I will tell you that the distracted driving is just as dangerous as any driving in our communities.

And so for us to go by vehicles see them on their phones or doing other things in their cars they will be cited in our city if we see that.

Special operations so here I'm not going to cover all of what our swap team does and what our key and I needed to do or even our UAS but I do want to cover for a few minutes what our DFR is a drone is the first responder program has brought to our city.

Everybody loves our canines and and that and that's great so I'm going to skip past them because I can't really.

But I do want to talk about is DFR so drones the first responder for those who don't know our DFR program our drone is the first responder program is now operational.

And is utilized it is utilized to provide real time updates from an aerial vantage point with drone being a remotely piloted from the real time information center.

The program enhances our response to active calls for service including incidents such as assaults record driving suspicious persons missing persons traffic collisions suspicious circumstances felony vehicles or pod hits thefts robberies fire life calls and burglaries and in particular this incident was one of the crimes that was part of our organized retail theft.

And we ended up catching them because DFR went to the first location that they showed up at we had reports they left in a vehicle DFR found it had gone into one of our other local businesses and we caught them as we staged on the way out.

They took off running obviously see what happened we ended up getting caught the other thing that we're able to do is address and it is a perfect beginning to this is we address the fireworks situation with DFR as you know as all of you probably received the calls that we get regarding the fireworks in our community.

DFR has also allowed us to launch fly over those areas identify specific individuals who were utilizing illegal fireworks and allows us an opportunity to go back to those locations without putting anybody at risk and issuing citations with our code enforcement partners and our fire our CSD fire partners as well.

So just quickly in the in the short time that we had DFR how they did 924 calls DFR assisted in 91 arrests DFR also dropped our response time to 2.2 minutes that's a huge number considering that our traditional response time for just general calls is 7.7 minutes and you can see that that number and this isn't a specific hot call this is a general number.

But if we have hot calls and I'll give you an example we had a fire life call we had a fire to house on the east side our DFR launched from our city hall it was at the call itself in 37 seconds with that information we're able to feed that to our CSD partners and they can make the determination on what apparatus or services to send without sending the whole house and potentially wasting or not having the right resources there they're able to see what it is and deploy based on the local government.

And deploy based on the information we can share with DFR it is a tool that has been absolute game changer for us and again it is it is measure we can't we we can't really say that the impact that measure is had for us in our community and for the police department.

Investigations division our investigations division is the voice for those who no longer have a voice and for me this is an extremely important piece of what we do and how we find closure for the people in our community who have been victims of crimes.

We're very proud of the work that they do this year in our investigation division and I'll cover just a few things with some of the numbers and we'll get into numbers later as well but we have a 12% increase in trust pass why that significant is exactly what our city sponsored our mayor sponsored in prop 36 and the change in prop 36 has given our community or the businesses in our community a reason to report and tell us that we don't want people who aren't supposed to be in our business in our business.

Trust passing goes up we're able to issue site or issue notices for them not to be there and it gives us another handle or opportunity to provide a service to the community if that person comes back and we're seeing a rise in trust pass notices and trust passes in our city we strongly believe as a result of prop 36.

So we're thankful mayor and to our state for allowing us to again have the authority to enforce the laws in our community.

Investigations cases assigned investigations is 625 cases closed by investigations are 428 missing person cases assigned is 101 and 96 that are still over that were closed.

One of the areas that we really focus on our domestic really is domestic violence in our community and we'll talk a little bit about that when we look at some of the numbers that were reported to.

The reporting index and we'll talk about why those numbers have gone up but support wrap around services and providing a closure for many of our victims include domestic violence which is really unpredictable crime that we have in our city is really hard.

Really hard to prevent.

One of the best awards that you can receive as an investigator and probably the highest award that you can receive Sacramento County is for the care of the children in our community.

Internet crimes against children detective Monroe received an award from the Sacramento County District Attorney's office essentially indicating that she was the best investigator when it came to protecting our kids this last year and she's one of ours and we're extremely proud of her.

We've been part of this program for gosh many many when I was in the sheriff's department I knew her from when I was a commander in that organization and she was doing the work then she has been consistent in her efforts to make sure that every child who's been victimized has a voice in our community and that is through her through the court system providing just in justice and ensuring that those people are victimized our children to go to jail.

And also part of our investigative division you know we don't have any of our cases cleared if we don't have the right evidence is being gathered and that's our friends extreme does.

Community resources another extremely important piece of our organization and probably is getting close to the to as forward facing as patrol our community resources bureau is specific to our problem or any policing our homeless outreach team our crisis intervention team school resource officers and then our volunteers and police services.

In collaboration with the Sacramento County D.A. District Attorney's office the bureau is excited to introduce a new community prosecutor as well this past year Anthony Ortiz from the district attorney's office had a full year with us and has helped us and several prosecutions and specifically to address the quality of life crimes we've had in our community as a whole this whole team truly does quality of life policing.

Our pop team is exactly what it is is probably policing they work with our code partners and our public works team to address things that happen specifically in neighborhoods whether it's you know cars park for the not supposed to be or you know unkempt yards or different things that are going on in communities neighborhood disputes there there to go and try to find a balance in between the two and try to address those concerns that are happening.

Homeless outreach homeless outreach is part of our team that goes out and cleans up areas where we have some folks who are unhoused what we've seen as a result of the shelter in our community is less camp clean ups which is a I think part of the overall mission of our organization meaning our entire municipality.

And as a result we're seeing areas that we don't have as many of these type of clean ups that are necessary but we still have them every now and again and you can see the difference between when we get before and after it's pretty amazing to see how clean those areas are and that when we go back there are less it's less likely to find people in these spaces because we have partnered with with our community our city has allowed us to have a shelter it is made a significant difference for us and what we're seeing is a lot of things that are happening in the city.

So we do as you can see we took 56,000 pounds of trash that were removed from a lot of these sites so obviously it makes a visual difference as well not just an enforcement handle.

And then our crisis response team so I'll kind of get back to some of the crime stats and some of the crimes that you've seen so in 2024 our CRT team and that is where we have a counselor assigned with the police officer to address mental health issue.

We use our families that are in crisis in our community as you know this is a hot topic for us and for the Elk Grove police department our response has never changed our response will not change we will respond to families that are in crisis and allow our mental health clinician and the officer to determine if it is a family that is in true mental health crisis or criminal crisis and for us the difference is extremely important to address.

And so as you can see the calls for service this year were 686 and the mental health interventions were provided at 548 of those that would have been 548 arrests arrests two years ago that is significantly different approach for us and has made a huge impact to all of those in our community who have had who needed crisis intervention from mental mental health aspect and not the criminal aspect.

So you can see the numbers from 2023 to 2024 we went from 387 to 548 and it was a 42% increase that's a really big number for us and how we respond to people in our community who are in true crisis and not criminal crisis.

So for us this is an extremely important program or adding another clinician now we have three that were finalized in interviews with so we will have two in our community to help handle these calls and I was to expect these numbers to rise because we're going to be able to respond to even more and hopefully help and get services for these communities or people that are in crisis.

Just an anonymous call or based on the spider report and the counselor and officer the crisis response team thoroughly answered our questions and give us steps to take to take that we're practical and helpful and searching for a way to resolve our issue that's what we want to see we really want to see that not everybody needs to go to a correctional facility to have their problems addressed.

Part of that too is our crisis negotiations team they have grown as well but in our school resource officers so this is really the last piece of the community resources and that is our sROs we have had a growing presence in the Elk Irvingan five school district with our sROs we have excellent feedback from our schools our principles our teachers who truly appreciate the relationships they have built with our school resource officers we have a very good program they are present in our schools they are responsive to the

kids and they provide people to go to that they can trust and they can build relationships with in the law enforcement community that will only create relationships it will be lasting and that is extremely important to us.

As you can see the short picture there some of our our Sacramento County partners and our partners as well.

Oops where was that animal services so animal services for us is a you know has become this a very important piece of who we are and I think it's part of our identity as a city the animal shelter continues to thrive as a temporary home for thousands of animals in the Elk Grove community thanks to the dedication hard work for animal services staff and through grant funding we have expanded our TNR program which we know has been a topic for us in the last year and we're excited that this is a way to get that we're going to be able to do that.

The work has continued in 2025 this year we also welcome the new veterinarian we conducted monthly high volume TNR services and we hosted for free vaccine clinics.

Also in collaboration with County supervisor supervisor human we offered some free space and new to surgeries and for Elk Grove pets and we partnered with pets smart we continue to partner with and in store adoptions and participating over community in 20 community sites.

Locations where we can share and offer adoption services to our community as you see animal services licenses issued were 93 hundred this year animals adopted 1800 animals fostered 1800 animals vaccinated at 3400 and then microchips administered we have a very busy animal services or animal shelter and we're really proud of the work that they do.

We have a 51% increase in trap newter and return or release to our community this year and that says a result of a lot of the work that's gone on there getting our new veterinarian and just honestly the love and care that our animal services folks have for the services that they provide.

Support services dispatch this last year we had our dispatch center was completely revamped it has now become extremely open and wide space part of that was through the help of measuring we were able to add positions and now our patrol staff services are I'm sorry our dispatch center has gone from a 12 hour shift model to match our patrol model which is a 10 hour shift model.

In the past they were sitting in front of the monitor for about 12 hours a day in some cases more than that but now they're having an opportunity to sit between 7 and 7 and a half to 8 hours in front of a monitor and they have overlap and they can take breaks and they can get away from the screen itself and we have greater staffing which is going to allow for healthier workspace and opportunity for them to promote as well so we have kind of created an ecosystem ecosystem inside there of not just.

New hires and growth but promotion and opportunity in upward movement which is extremely important to provide a workspace which is condensed into a happy and healthy place where people can grow in their professional lives we're very proud of them and you'll see the work that they do right here 166 16640 47 calls for service 54 54,000 272 of those were 911 so emergency calls and they were all answered in 15 seconds or less and I don't know about you.

But that is a huge number of calls to answer that fast but if you think about that that is almost 54,000 calls that people were in crisis or an emergency in our city and we were able to get to them relatively quickly and that's extremely important to us but to do that we had to have a healthy center and that's what we have.

Total calls or service were down a smidge this last year and so 169,000 from 2023 to 160,000 this year it's a relatively flat number but it is down this year.

And then let's get into some crime stats.

So in 2024 and I think this is an important piece to read and I'm almost done so this is an important piece though in 2024 the outgrow police department provided crime statistics to the national incident based reporting system that's neighbors administered by the FBI this system is tailored to collect report crime data ensuring that a uniform language for crime classification across the country.

Nibers plays a crucial role in adding law enforcement agencies in 80 law enforcement agencies in their criminal investigations through the lens of crime related elements, neighbors examines various aspects concerning victims their relationships arrestees and the property involved the system organizes crime reporting into three primary categories crimes against persons crimes against property and crimes against society.

This is different than the way we reported in the past this actually breaks them down and gives you true victimization and through ways to report the crime as it's occurred.

Elk Grove experience a rise in crime against persons and accomplishing offenses like domestic violence and general assaults unfortunately domestic violence incidents are unpredictable due to their complexity and various factors involved.

Recognizing this challenge the department remains committed to ensuring the processes and initiatives that support victims prevention occurrences and hold the offenders accountable crimes against property saw a decline largely attributed to the drop and theft of motor vehicle parts such as kind of let converters as well as a reduction in burglaries.

Further reductions are evident and our evident in crimes against society particularly in areas such as drug offenses driving under the influence weapons violations.

This improvement can be attributed to the advanced technology provided by the department and our city ultimately which supports our patrol investigators and support staff.

And as you can see property crimes 872 566 crimes against society property crimes not person crimes on sorry was the first one property crimes at 3425.

And it breaks us down into the very basic to what we typically would look at that's under person crimes you have homicide robbery assault crimes against society or drug violations weapon violations disorderly conduct property crime regularly vehicle and larceny.

The person crimes as you can see are not that public facing where in our city we have technology that really reduces people coming in and doing quality of life crimes that affect roadways and homes and anything that there is an opportunity for us to use technology to catch somebody.

And we've seen those go down those ones that are truly unpredictable such as homicide robberies and assaults that typically take place behind closed doors are those ones that have gone up and specifically the assault is associated domestic violence in our community.

And that's an area that we're continuing to work on continuing to provide a wrap around services on to ensure those victims that there is that their voices heard and if we can do anything that we can do in our communities to help them we will do that.

As you can see the property crimes have come down 3% crimes against society went down 35% and then the 273.5 or the assaults as 18% increase in reporting this last year.

And then in the end this is the end this we just wanted to show the folks who have served our community our city and the police department here through retirement and some of the pictures of those that have left.

And he makes comments in here if you go back to some of the areas that we went through and has comments about things that are important to him in the city and what he's been able to provide for our community.

And I just want to say thank you Paul for everything you've done.

And that is it if you have any questions for me I'm here to answer those questions and I hope that that wasn't too bad.

The baton, you know, where others have left off.

And you're really turning our police department into a force

of the 21st century from technology to expanding our responses

for crisis intervention, not just, you know, law enforcement type

of response, reduction in the response times.

That imaginar that the response times, that's incredible.

So just kudos to you for all of that work in your all your team.

I also want to recognize Paul Solomon for all his work.

We've been here.

I mean, when I came on, you were here and I'd seen you raising the rise

in the ranks and really going to miss you as well as great working

with you, Paul.

And I know we'll see around town as a community resident.

So look forward to that as well.

But again, thank you for the presentation.

Oh, I'm just going to say, now we know why we're going to be

in the next meeting.

I just want to say, now we know why you're such a big part

of our general fund expenditures.

There's so much.

It's so broad with what your department does.

So again, thank you.

Yes, thank you, sir.

Vice mayor.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Chief, I mean, I don't think thank you is enough for what you've been doing

for the organization, for what you're doing for every officer.

I hear it from several different folks that you're just amazing

and that they don't want you to retire whenever that will come.

They don't because that's so much of an impact you're making.

And Assistant Chief Solomon, you know, thank you for your years of service.

Thank you for everything you've done for our community and continue to do.

And we'll do even afterwards.

We really, truly appreciate you.

This presentation was a testament of just how good we are.

For public safety and hard-getting our community is.

And I've seen your work and I continue to see it.

And I'm amazed just by, as Councilman Suin said,

how we're leading in the 21st century.

Several police chiefs even share of this come and ask you and seek your advice

for how you're able to do what you're doing,

especially with our real-time information center.

And even our drone program,

you know, you're truly a testament of that in our region.

And I know it from the Sacramento Chamber when they're talking about public safety.

Everything they're trying to push and accomplish in the region.

El Prove has already been doing it.

And that's big.

And that's one, you know, we believe in our force.

And it's also true testament to your leadership.

Also for the youth programs.

I've seen the impact that it's having and we all continue to see it

in everyone's district and everyone, you know, in one outgrow.

So, I look at Councilman Suin, because it'll look at me and correct me on that one.

But thank you.

It's truly, truly thank you.

It says a lot, even with the SROs, what they're doing in our children's and in our teens

and in our high school.

That's right there where you start breaking barriers and you start building relationships

and law enforcement and our youth can then build that relationship.

So just thank you.

And I'll end my comment.

Thank you so much.

I will tell you that it's very little to do with me.

It has to do with the women and men in this organization.

Our success has very little to do with my position.

It truly is the work that they put in.

And ensuring that they have a safe place internally so they can be that much better externally.

That's really what it is.

So thank you.

I just want to add just a little bit.

I love that you say that.

Because we call it soldier care.

But obviously for law enforcement, it's a lot different.

And you truly prioritize mental health as one of the forefronts.

And when people shy away from it, you don't.

You lean into it.

And because of that, I truly believe that our officers are well off.

So thank you.

And you said it.

You said it best.

Thank you.

Council member Brewer.

Chief Davis, thank you for this great report.

I'm serving leadership is something that is infectious.

It breed a culture of positivity that permeates not only throughout the institution of the Oakville Police Department,

but it also extends to the community.

And it shows the degree of trust that the Oakville Police Department is building what the community and law enforcement circles.

definitely shows that you are a trusted resource, a valued ally, in the effort to

keep our community safe. And a lot of that does not happen without your

leadership and without assistant chief Solomon's leadership as well. Because

you know, do you work together as a team? It shows across the board and everyone

works together for the common good of protecting outgrowth, keeping outgrowth

residents safe and really leaving with care and consideration. And the numbers

very much show that in every area where we're working with the schools to

in the animal services division. And I know a couple of of cat advocates that

greatly appreciate your leadership in this space. It's all Sarah. And they

and they definitely appreciate the work that you and Sarah humbly do as well

because because it's a partnership. And it's something that is very that

that is not only shows not only in the work we do with the wellness but also

cutting edge work with the DFR, the drones as first responders. That is has

been a game changer. And I was going through my notes of that I do because one

thing that really shows and really shines is the crisis intervention

response team. Just knowing that there are people in distress, people that need

help. And being able to de-escalate the situation really shows how Elkrow

Police Department and your leadership is leading the way in crisis

intervention in the space where people need it the most. Because when when

someone's having an episode, there are loved ones don't know what to do. They

don't know who to call. And they call 911. So when an officer does show up,

not being equipped to handle it but to have someone who who is with them really

makes a world of difference. So I want to thank you so much for everything that

you do and everything that the Elkrow Police Department is doing for the city

of Elkrow. It's definitely not going unnoticed. We want to just keep up just keep

up the great work. Keep it the stellar work. Thank you so much.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Council Member Spees.

Well, Chief, I got to say that I'm greatly disappointed. Okay. That your presentation was

so short. Because I could have done that all night. Honestly, I mean, I really,

this is probably one of those reports that I could geek out on all night and have

conversations about because there's there's just a lot of fantastic news in

there. And so first out and foremost, I want to say thank you to our police

department, all of the men and women who are on our police force are held in

very high esteem by myself and my colleagues and by the community. You can see

that evidence by their interactions on social media and in the streets and

when we're walking around having conversations with people, a lot of people,

their words are I love Elkrow PD. I love them. Okay. Great. I'm glad to hear that.

So I'll just pick on a couple of things here or highlight a few things.

Having a little bit of law enforcement and background myself, one of the things

that I was happy to see is for even further reduction in the IA complaints,

right? Internal affairs, those are, you know, when folks have a beef,

they've got a big complaint with the police that it comes in as an IA complaint.

You know, one of them external, right? So one from the community, right?

That's incredible. And then two from internal, that's PD taking care of

themselves, right? And that shows integrity. So I'm very thrilled about that.

Of course, you know, we'll be happy to see it get to zero, but we're trending in work.

I mean, come on. That's awesome. The second one, you know, it's, you know,

it's enabled by measure E and, you know, the statistic of the 2.2 minute average

response time to get on scene from five minutes. I think you said it was a seven.

Seven points, seven point two. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a five minute decrease.

Folks, that is incredible, right? That it, it reduces the time that,

that that our PD can be on scene assessing what's going on. But even further,

I think you brought it up a little bit, but I think you skipped, you didn't really read it out.

That 24% of calls were cleared by the DFR prior to patrol arrival.

And that's extremely important because what that does is it allows the, you know,

the on, on duty police officers to go to another scene, they can reallocate, they can go to a

different place. And that is what in the military, we call a force multiplier, right? That is,

that is absolutely fantastic. So, you know, measure E as well, you know, with the purchase of the

DFR and the integration into our real time information center, that's, that's golden.

Yeah. So one of the things that disappointed me, it truly disappointed me is to see the increase

in, you know, the crimes against persons, attributed mostly to an increase in domestic violence

and assaults, other assaults. I would love to see if there's a way that we can, that we can

reduce that. I know it's not on PD, but I'm talking about, you know, community-wide. I don't know

if there's any, I don't know if there's any programs out there that successfully do that, right?

Unfortunately, DV is one of those things that we deal with after the fact. But it's really kind

of sad to see that most violence in El Grove starts at home. Yeah, it is. I think one of the things

that we do and can do is continue to wrap our services around the victims as well to try to

eliminate them from being an environment like that. And a lot of times these are repeat calls,

where we go back and they unfortunately have become victims again. And we try our best

with our advocates and our community, the advocates that we have here working for our city

through contracts and others with we even in other community groups, it's getting the victims

into the home. Some of the groups that were funded today are exactly what we want to see because

it gives us an alternative to take some of the victims away from that environment where they are

suffering. So those numbers will hopefully reduce. You know, they fluctuate every year and every

year we do ask ourselves why and how. And is there a way to get inside the space of that, of where

that's happening to try to prevent it? And you know, I would say that we have to continue to be vigilant,

we have to obviously respond, but the true impact will be getting people out of that environment

where they're being victimized. And that's really what we try to do once we get that call.

But I don't have an answer to stop it all, but I can tell you that when it does happen,

we're going to do the best that we can do to ensure that those victims don't continue to be victims.

And we're going to make sure to be wraparound services that we have in our community to help them

get out of that space. That's what we can do and that's what we will continue to do on top of

responding to the way that we do. Awesome. Yeah. I also like to see it in terms of the

reduction in, and I'll say it the wrong way you go ahead and correct me, but in when you have to

intervene, right, when you have to physically intervene to see that. Yes. To see that that's down,

right? So what I guess what I'm saying is while we see an increase there, we are seeing a more

humane approach, a more reasoned approach. And that's I'm sure partly through the crisis response

team, but that's that's great to see. So while it went up and there's little that we can

truly do about prevent, that's I'm happy to see that we're reacting to it in an even better way.

I didn't write down my third, my third item. So oh, I remember what it was because I will go on

all night folks. I just let you know, I'll let you know that I could probably double his presentation time.

But I told you I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed. This was so short. But what one of the things that

is interesting to me is we talked about it before. There's there's an ex is there is a connection

between stolen vehicles and other crimes that happen is it's not a surprise to anybody that typically

law abiding citizens are not rolling around in stolen vehicles. Just saying and typically

the stolen vehicles typically have some other sort of a crime associated with it whether it's

breaking into mailboxes or maybe weapons that they shouldn't have or drugs. And so I'm I don't think

you mentioned in it here, but the license plate readers, right? The license plate readers help out

significantly in that. And again, that's through coordination with the real time information center.

So anyway, regardless of what I promised, I won't go on forever, but I want to say thank you once

again to you. Thank you to Chief Solomon. Thank you very much to our to the sworn and the

non sworn folks, you know, the folks in forensics and the folks in, you know, in property and, you know,

it's oh, and the canines who you yes, the canines. Yeah, everybody loves the kids. I want to see the QS.

So anyway, I'll wrap there. Thank you very much. I appreciate the report. I appreciate that very

much. And I just want to hit on something that you talked about. And that's a DFR and that

clearing of 24% of the calls. And what we really appreciate is the officers not having to go and

make contact with maybe a member of a disparate community that didn't need contact. And having the

DFR as a tool allows us to not make contact with people who don't need it. And that can have a

significant impact on a community member for some reason if the call was to go sideways, right? And

it didn't need to. And so for us, DFR is used as a tool, not just clear calls, but ensure that we're

going to calls that we need to. And that's an important piece, I think, as we move into the future

and law enforcement. Thank you. Well, excellent comments. I'm not sure what's left for me to talk

about. But I will share some of the things that were important to me that stuck out. But first and

foremost, as you can see for my colleagues and myself, we love our Elk Grove Police Department.

And we hope that you all feel supported by sort of, you know, our actions here on the

Dias that we are not like many city councils. We fully support our police department. And you

go above and beyond, not only you as a leader, but our entire police department and building

those relationships. For me, those are key. It's those relationships that you build with our community.

And I've seen that with you directly. You know, we as we were engaged in conversations with a

community person who have their own biases against the police department and watching you navigate

through that with not only just the utmost respect and decorum, but dignity. And you really showed

me in those sort of tense moments who you are as a leader. And I know and just even that little

snapshot that that's who you are within the department. I recognize our entire police department,

all of the great work that all of you are doing. And really creating one of the most safest

communities in the state of California, perhaps in the country. It doesn't happen by accident.

It's investing. It's believing. It's supporting, supporting through mental health services.

It's recognizing those needs and making sure that you're fully funded and fully supported

in being able to provide those kinds of resources. The drones as first responders, I know that

our neighboring cities are very interested in this. We just I just connected you with a city council

member in the city of Sacramento who's interested in this technology. Seeing the 24% of calls that

were cleared, that is tremendous. And to council member species comments, that allows our officers to

go to other calls where there might be the need is different and more urgent. So the fact that we

can do this with just that with with the drones, that is quite remarkable. I appreciate that you

singlet, you talked about proposition 36. Obviously that was very near and dear to me. I worked very

hard on that statewide and seeing the impact at the local level. That's what it's all about. It's

always been about we know our city's best. Lawmakers are stuck there in the dome and have their ideas

of what's important to communities, but they failed to talk to those that are on the front lines

of what it actually looks like. So it was great to take on the leadership at the state capital because

we knew what the community wanted, what the communities needs were first and foremost. And we saw

that with the passage, but I'm really happy to see how it's being implemented and seeing the

impact. I know that the retailers are happy to see that. And so and you know that's an important

topic. If there is other cities are looking at they're doing presentation specific to prop 36

implementation and they look different in each city. So I would be curious maybe down the road

of having something very specific to what proposition 36 looks like at the local level,

how it's having an impact, where those gaps might be so that we can be better advocates. Perhaps

we're we know that we need more funding to really fully realize proposition 36. But that partnership,

obviously we have a great district attorney who also led on this as well. So somewhere down the

road would love to see what that looks like beyond the slide of just you know what the impact is

here at the local level. We can do that. The school resource officers that's near and dear to me as a

former school board member. I'm seeing the impact up close and personal. And you know the school

district has many jurisdictions. So you work with many different agencies. So it's not you know we're

unique with the Elk Grove Police Department having a partnership. But we know the district includes

city of Sacramento, Rancho Cordova and the county. So the contract is there with with the sheriff's

department. But I can tell you that the remarks the relationships and all of the you know the

positive relationships that were created. I respect all of the you know our sheriff partners but

Elk Grove PD always stood out above and beyond in the building that trust in those relationships.

Our officers I can tell you from just from back then they always received high high accolades

and as a parent I know the importance of building those relationships and trust when they're

much younger. Like these young young gentlemen that are here in the in the audience today. Building

those relationships and trust when it it's not related to enforcement of something or being

heavy handed it's building that trust that it happens when they're young. So those school resource

officers how they engage with the youth is so critical. And so I love all of the work that we

are doing with our youth and selfishly obviously I would love to see that contract with our police

officers because we do do an exceptional job with building that trust in relationships and it starts

with just recognizing and seeing our students when they show up at school and knowing that they

come from different walks of life and they have different struggles and different journeys and seeing

the humanity at that level is so so important. Our homeless outreach program fabulous seeing the

the results of that. So thank you again for that. Assistant Chief Solomon the good news is that

we're neighbors kind of we all we both live in stone lakes. I will see you around but thank you so

much for your service your dedication and commitment to public safety and the safety of our community.

It has not gone unnoticed we thank you for all of your service and years of service and we know

that you won't be a stranger to to our city. But thank you a tremendous report. Keep up the good work.

You know we talked about how can we be preventative in some of these some of these situations and

it's that it's very hard you can't you know how do you stop somebody how do you build good

relationships how do you have a strong happy healthy family life where those tensions don't happen.

But what I can say is that you know what I'm seeing in a lot of the education out there and with

young leaders like this that building character building trust and investing in our youth does

pay dividends down the road. So hopefully when they grow up they're much more responsible

humans and adults and know how to channel their their feelings and their anger. So I'm hopeful

for the future but it's not something that we can sit here and solve we can't be all things to

everyone but I love and respect the work that we are doing to make sure that the victims feel

get the support that they so badly need in those very difficult 10 situations. So thank you all

Elk Grove Police Department you're doing a fabulous job and thank you to the voters of Elk Grove

for measuring funding. This is how we keep our community safe so I want to thank everybody for that.

Mayor Vice Mayor and Council thank you so very much we're very appreciative

with the women and men in this organization are proud to work here and I'm proud to work with

them and and you thank you. Thank you sir. All right so we will go on to our next item which is

our council comments reports and future agenda items council member spes anything.

Nothing to report thank you council member Brewer. Tomorrow at three o'clock at the SAC County

administrative offices we have the Sacramento Public Library Joint Powers Authority board meeting.

If you'd like to have more extra credit scouts you can join us there.

And then also we have the Sacramento Sierra building and construction trades council.

They have with people working together the career fair that has taken a place at District 56.

Yep. Is that it? That's all. Council member Suen?

Well I'm a subject of career fairs. I also have a different career fair on April 5th at CRC

so I hope the colleagues can show up for that as well but it's a couple weeks away.

Other than that we had a sewer district meeting today and we reported out

harvest water project reported out that the calls that have come in about a hundred calls so far

in the roads. So hopefully folks are learning to avoid the areas that they're still under construction.

That's it. Thank you. Thank you vice mayor. Thank you Madam Mayor. As council member Suen said we did

have sewer district. I understand the struggles especially with the roads and everything that's

happening because I drive through Franklin every day so bear with us. Also I know that when we

end I would like to end in the honor of officer. I don't know one of butcher's name but Bozmar

Rathe who was the officer that lost his life in the line in duty in Mayor Spill. He's also

Army veteran and a hero had a lot to live in and just wanted up and into that.

Thank you I actually had that also on my list for adjourning in his memory. I will wave my report

but I do also want to adjourn in the memory of a long time old town resident Denise Walker who was

an ambassador with the Elk Grove Chamber. So both of both of the loss of life is quite tragic so

may may their memories be a blessing to all those that knew them. Thank you everyone.

With that we will go ahead and adjourn at 8.57 pm.