Thank you.

Hello.

Good evening.

Thank you.

We have reconvened from closed session and I'd like to make the following

announcement by a five to zero vote.

The city council authorized and directed the city attorney's office to

defend the case of Hernandez versus the city of outgrow as identified by

the city attorney's office.

The city attorney's office has a case number on the city council meeting

agenda.

With that, we will adjourn the special meeting at 616 p.m. and switch

that over to our regular meeting.

At this time, I will call to order the regular outgrow city council

meeting.

The time is 616 p.m.

Today's April the ninth, 2025.

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prior to consideration of the agenda item.

With that mayor, I'll move into the roll call

and starting with the roll call,

I will start with Council Member Spees.

Right.

Council Member Brewer.

Present.

Council Member Suan.

Here.

Vice Mayor Robles.

Here.

And Mayor Singh Allen.

Here.

All right, next up is our land acknowledgement.

Would the Vice Mayor please assist in reading that?

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

We honor and respect and acknowledge

the Elk Grove's first inhabitants,

Plain Mewaks, who live as sovereign caretakers of this land

and these wastewater's since the time of immoral.

We commemorate and advocate for the descendants

of the Wollton Rancheria tribe,

the only federalized recognized tribe

in Sacramento County who endure

because of the bravery, resilience, determination

of their ancestors, tribal members, and leaders.

All right, thank you.

Next up is our Pledge of Allegiance.

I would like to invite Council Member Suan to lead us.

Head over heart.

Ready pledge, I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America

and to the Republic for which it stands,

one nation under God, indivisible,

with liberty and justice for all.

At this time, please join us for a brief moment of silence.

Thank you.

Next item is our approval of the agenda.

May I get a motion?

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Let's see, next item.

Under section three, there are no closed session items

on the regular agenda, which will advance us to section four,

our presentations and announcements.

And that first item being 4.1,

which is recognition of Ethan Almighty

and the kindness tour.

So those representatives, yeah, if they can come on up.

Can we get the representatives to come up here by the podium?

And our vice mayor will assist us

in reading the recognition.

Aw.

It's always awesome when we have a pet here.

Can I, you want to go for the nish?

We're going to go ahead and read the,

and then you can provide some statements.

But I would like help with the pronunciation of the breed,

because he's a presa canario.

Presa canaria?

Presa canaria.

All right, my accent's coming out on there.

No, it's good.

Perfect.

Sounded perfect.

So Ethan Almighty, a presa canario rescue dog,

overcame an unimaginable adversity

after being found abandoned near the death,

and near death in January, 2021.

Providing that resiliency isn't just a human trait,

but sometimes it comes with four paws and a waggon tail.

Whereas Ethan's journey for survival and pet strudum

has not only earned him the title of American Humane

Hero Dog of the year, but also helped further animal rights

and then strengthening and protection

against animal cruelty.

Because when Ethan takes the sand or sits or rolls over,

people listen.

Ethan's kindness takes him across the country,

spreading awareness about dogs, welfare,

promoting the importance and the rescue efforts,

and reminding everyone that kindness,

whether pets or people, make the world a better place.

Elk Grove is honored to welcome Ethan Almighty

as he travels into town April 9th through the 13th, 2025,

making a special stop at local schools,

leading walking tours on the historic main street

and attending Denim and Paul's fundraisers at District 56,

where he will, without a question, steal the show.

Whereas our community values, kindness, resilience,

and second chances, whether for people or for pets,

Ethan's story reminds us of every animal

deserves love, care, and the opportunity to thrive.

Therefore, be it resolved that the city of Elk Grove

hereby recognizes an express a sincere appreciation

for Ethan Almighty and the unwavering dedication

of spreading kindness, advocating for rescue animals,

and inspiring communities afar and wide.

Welcome Ethan to Elk Grove with open arms

and maybe a few belly rubs.

Celebrate the powerful impact that he continues

to have in the world.

Signed this day, April 9th, 2025.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I'll be very quick.

You guys have a lot of really cool people

to recognize tonight.

My name is Jeff Callaway.

This is my beautiful wife, Dana Callaway, Dee Dee Cox,

Peggy Forseth Andrews, Stephen Camarillo.

Have all been wonderful people in this journey.

Ethan was a dog that was left to die in a parking lot

and was saved by one random act of kindness.

And that random act of kindness, that one person that

saved him that day just changed the life of so many pets

around our community and around the country.

And so our story has always been,

even though his story started horrifically,

our story has always been about spreading kindness

and spreading awareness and raising awareness

for animal abuse.

And so in Kentucky, unfortunately,

is not a good state for animal welfare.

And we fought for four long, hard years.

And eventually in the state of Kentucky last year

got Ethan's law passed, which makes

the intentional torture of a cat or a dog a first offense

classity felony in Kentucky.

We are very proud of that.

We're also very proud that we have taken Ethan's story

and so many people helped him at the beginning.

And now we are giving back.

So Ethan, we started a 501C3 nonprofit in his name.

And we do free spaying neuter in our community.

We do microchipping.

We do rabies.

And we spread kindness.

And that's where this Ethan's kindness tour came from.

And we've only been in Elk Grove for a few hours.

And they talk about being from Kentucky, having Southern

hospitality.

But you guys have been so very kind to us and so very nice.

So we appreciate it very much.

And thank you so much for having us.

Congratulations.

We'll come right.

We're going to come down right there.

So here they are.

We're going to get a picture of this town.

We're just cleaning up our mess.

Yeah, we're going to clean up our mess.

Thank you.

Everybody.

Thank you.

Give my name.

Yeah, I'll just write it.

Thank you, sir.

It's like church.

I just want to say thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, morning.

Thank you.

Oh, morning.

Oh, morning.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

We love dogs.

Absolutely.

It's just amazing.

It's just amazing.

We love animals here for sure.

You all have been great.

What a sweetheart.

Oh my goodness.

He's a Spanish man.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

How are you?

We're going to look over here.

There you go.

And this is for you.

All right.

I'll get the shot.

I gotta get the shot.

Gotta get the shot.

Here we go.

One, two, three.

Can I get you another camera?

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

I got a camera.

I got a camera.

I got a camera.

I got a camera.

I got a camera.

Can I get you some of the camera?

One, two, three.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Thank you so very much.

We are very honored.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

How old is he?

He will be five.

I know it.

Three.

Oh, boy.

I love him so much.

He's very nice.

All right.

We're going to move on.

We've got a lot of wonderful recognitions this evening.

Thank you.

All right.

Next up is our proclamation recognizing April 20, 25 as

Parkinson's disease awareness month.

And I would like to call forward Tim Lumson,

Myron Janssen and Darren Wilson to the podium and assisting

will be councilmember Darren soon.

Thank you, mayor.

It's our honor to honor recognize Parkinson's awareness month.

This disease touches many families,

including even our own Elk Grove family.

Whereas Parkinson's disease is a chronic progressive

neurological disease and is the second most common neuro

degenerative disease in the United States.

And whereas Parkinson's disease is estimated to affect

approximately one million people and the number of

Parkinson's disease is estimated to affect approximately

one million people in the United States.

Whereas research suggests the cause of Parkinson's disease

is a combination of genetic and environmental factors,

but the exact cause and progression of the disease is

still unknown.

And there is no objective test or biomarker for Parkinson's

disease with no cure or drug to slow or halt the progression

of the disease.

And whereas the symptoms of Parkinson's disease vary from

person to person and can include tremors,

slowness of movement and rigidity, difficulty with balance,

swallowing, chewing and speaking, cognitive impairment,

dementia, mood disorders, and a variety of other

non-motor symptoms.

And whereas increased research, education and community

support services such as those provided by the Parkinson's

Foundation, the Parkinson's Association of Northern

California and other organizations are needed to

find more effective treatments and to provide access to

quality care to those living with the disease today.

Now therefore be it resolved the City Council,

the City of Elk Grove here by affirms and proclaims April

2025 as Parkinson's Awareness Month in the City of Elk

Grove and encourages the community to join the

volunteers, researchers, caregivers and medical

professionals who are working to improve the quality of life

of persons living with Parkinson's disease and their

families.

Thank you so much for being here to represent.

It's good to see you again, Mr. Wilson.

Good evening.

On behalf of the Parkinson's Association of Northern

California, I want to thank Mayor Singh Allen,

Vice Mayor Robles, Member of Søen, Brewer and Spies,

and of course, Jim Wilson, who last year started this whole

thing.

Through the stats you talked about,

California currently has 117,000 people with Parkinson's.

That works out statistically to about 550 people in the

Elk Grove area, which is a large number if you think about it.

Evidence shows, as you've mentioned, environmental factors,

periquot, smog is now becoming just a possible causal factor.

So there's an increasing rate also of the disease itself.

Three or four years ago, it was averaging 60,000 patients per

year being identified as having Parkinson's.

It is now 90,000 a year, and it's growing.

And what that stats, the stats don't include is that

California from Bakersville to Sacramento is considered a

hotbed of Parkinson's activity, partially due to the

agricultural community that we've all lived in for most of our

lives.

Early signs of Parkinson's have you talked about earlier,

breaking conegy of slowness, you name it, and loss of smell.

People never realized that loss of smell could be an early sign

of Parkinson's.

I myself am a member of that one.

Since I was about 13, I had essential tremors,

which is another hereditary factor that means you're more

likely to get Parkinson's than the average person.

So when my hand was shaking when I was doing stuff,

I never thought about it.

I've had it for a long time.

But when my hand started to shake when I was at rest,

it's like, oh, what was this?

And then it was not until my neurologist diagnosed me as having

Parkinson's in 2018, loss of smell, which happened really about

20 years ago, which I blamed on my work environment,

was an early sign.

One of the best ways to slow the progression of Parkinson's

is exercise.

And for some of us, that is for rock-stated boxing,

a nationwide program.

The rock-stated program is run, the name here in Elk Grove

is Rock-Stated Warrior Fit.

It's run by Kevin Quinn.

Kevin and his trainers provide classes in El Dorado Hills,

Carmichael, and at the Reset Gym down in Elk Grove,

on East Elk Grove Boulevard, or East Stockton Boulevard.

The training involves a lot of aerobic strength, balance,

foot movement, going back and forth.

Yes, we do bond, don boxing gloves.

No, we don't box each other.

That would be counterintuitive.

But what I really enjoy is when the trainers get on the boxing

bits, or occasionally the full pads, and say, come on, Tim,

let's go spin on a minor and two sparring now in the middle of

the gym.

They'll tap me in the head and say, keep your hands up,

keep your foot moving, and stuff.

Watch what you're doing.

But it's that kind of movement and activity that keeps us going.

The trainers, they're key to this whole program.

They push us, they care for us, they cajole us, they teach us.

And at the end of the class, it's like, OK, we'll stand up.

And the last thing we'll do is we'll do a chant.

And we do it because vocalization is a problem for

Parkinson's people.

I myself, my wife keeps telling me, your voice is softer.

And now I've noticed myself, I'm sorry, my words a little bit,

which is not good.

But the chant goes, tough love on our side, that feeling of pride.

And that's really what we have.

It's a lot of tough love, a lot of pride.

The Parkinson's Association of Northern California Chapter

that meets here, or not here at the senior center at 10.15 on

the third Wednesday of each month is run by Myron Jansen and

Shay Rezor.

And so those two people that this proclamation should be given

because really, they're the force that holds us together.

And then finally, I'd like to thank my wife and my family because

without them, my disease would be a whole lot farther along.

Thank you.

Jim.

At a mayor, members of the council, it's great to be back.

Good to see all the colleagues.

I miss you guys.

As I tell people how retirement's going, I say, I miss the clowns,

not the circus.

That's good seeing everyone.

And I thank you, Jason, for reaching out to be able to speak as I made

this suggestion back in early or late July.

And kind of feed off of Tim, my notes are not about what Parkinson's

is about, but what's progressing in the treatment.

So although the proclamation talks about no biomarkers, there are

that are widely accepted.

There are the current biomarker that was detected by the decades

of clinical studies and hundreds of millions of dollars through

the Michael J. Fox Foundation biomarker found in the spinal fluid.

But anybody that's known that have a spinal tap, that's a very invasive

procedure and very painful.

I haven't had it, but trust me, I wouldn't want to have it.

But so right now, currently, doctors and researchers are looking

at other means to detect that biomarker through blood tests or imaging.

So that's key.

And why is that key?

Because a biomarker, it predetermines you, you'll get this disease,

but you can treat it earlier.

And the more people you treat earlier in the disease, not only do you treat

their disease, you have a better success for a cure.

So right now, the current diagnosis is just through clinical symptoms

that Tim mentioned.

I will say those, some of these motor or non-motor symptoms can be

detected very early.

You know, there's many, even before the tremors come along that,

you know, you should get tested.

It could be gait, it could be, you know, I have Parkinson's on my left side

and swinging in the left arm when I don't want, you know, it doesn't swing

when I walk.

So those are indications.

And loss of smell is one, I fortunately still have my nasal senses.

So that's good.

Constipation, chronic constipation is a, they're saying in men can be four

times if you have that, that you'll get Parkinson's.

So don't, don't look at the fact that you have tremors that now is the time

to get, you know, looked at.

I suggest people get online.

There's many resources.

I named one Michael J. Fox Foundation at MichaelJFox.org and then Parkinson's

Foundation at Parkinson's, or you can get information on symptoms, tests,

clinical studies that are occurring.

So I appreciate this council bringing this proclamation.

I'm very proud to be, you know, a former employee of Elgrove.

I miss you guys and thank you.

And hopefully we'll see you before next April.

Mr. Brother Daren.

Yes.

Thank you.

We're going to come and present the proclamation.

I think it's going to be a great time for us to get to the beginning of the

discussion.

I think we're going to get to the end of the discussion.

I think we're going to get to the end of the discussion.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Yes.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

I'm going to come here.

Everybody.

I miss you.

Thank you.

I promise it won't fall.

That's okay.

That be bad.

That be bad.

All right.

Our next item is 4.3, proclamation recognizing April 2025 as American Muslim appreciation

and awareness month.

At this time I would like to call forward the new executive director for care, Mr. Rashad

Nurzei.

And you can bring forward whomever you want as well.

And presenting is Rod Brewer.

Thank you, Mayor.

And congratulations, Mr. Rashad.

And thank you for being here tonight for us as we acknowledge American Muslim appreciation

and awareness month.

So whereas the city of Elk Grove takes great pride in supporting individual religious freedoms

and is strengthened by the diverse religious and cultural traditions of its residents,

including those who practice Islam.

And whereas Muslims in Elk Grove represent a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse

population united by shared values of compassion, service, family, education, and justice, and

have enriched the city through civic engagement, social services, interfaith collaboration,

and entrepreneurship.

And whereas Elk Grove benefits from the dedicated service of spiritual and community anchors

like Masjid El Tawheed, MAS Sacramento, and Tarbia House El Grove alongside vital nonprofit

contributions from Al-Mizbah, MAS Social Services Foundation, and Care Sacramento Valley, and

Central California.

And whereas the city's cultural and economic landscape is enriched by Muslim-owned businesses,

including Darbar Halal Restaurant, Marhaba Halal Market, Rumi's Oasis, Adams International

Market, and Medina Market, further contributing to a more inclusive and engaged community.

And whereas the continual efforts of Muslim residents, institutions, organizations, and

to inclusion, mutual respect, and the celebration of all communities who help shape our shared

future.

Signed on this day, 9th of April 2025.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

This is the day.

My apologies.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Good evening.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, and Distinguished Guests, thank you all for being here today.

I'm not Rashad, the Executive Director.

My name is Nayira Kulkaila.

I am the Outreach and Programs Manager for the Council on American Islamic Relations.

I'll be humbly accepting the AMAM Proclamation on behalf of CARES, SVCC.

It's an honor to join you as we celebrate American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month.

This occasion serves as an opportunity to reflect on the significant contributions of

the Muslim community in Elk Grove and the broader Sacramento Valley region.

Those in this area representing diverse backgrounds continue to enrich our city guided by core

Islamic values of sincerity, compassion, service, justice, and community.

In Elk Grove, our mosques such as Masjidat-e-Tohid serve as spiritual anchors and vital community

centers, especially for Afran families.

And institutions like Mass Sacramento and Tadbia House Elk Grove provide essential religious

education, youth programming, and community engagement inspiring future generations to

live by the values of Islam.

And organizations such as Al-Misbah and Mass Sacramento and Mass Social Services Foundation

and CARES Sacramento Valley are dedicated to supporting refugees and advocating for civil

rights and fostering interfaith collaboration.

And their work really truly aligns with the prophetic teaching that the best of people

are those who are most beneficial to others.

And these efforts truly help build an inclusive and compassionate Elk Grove where all residents

feel supported and valued.

And the Muslim-owned businesses in our city not only provide diverse cuisine but also

serve as spaces for cultural exchange, offering a window into the rich cultural traditions

that Muslims from various backgrounds and ethnicities bring to Elk Grove.

So this month we do celebrate these contributions and the collective efforts of the Muslim community

to live out the values of our faith like mercy and justice and service and community.

And together we're working on actively moving towards a shared future that's built on mutual

respect and understanding.

So on behalf of the Muslim community in Elk Grove, I want to express heartfelt gratitude

to the Elk Grove City Council for recognizing our efforts and for fostering a spirit of

inclusion and respect.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Peace be upon you.

Madam Mayor, Council Members, my name is Mohamed Aziz.

I speak on behalf of the Muslim community but particularly the Trabiyah Institute that

Every single one of us feels that pain, feels that pressure every single day to choose to

still be compassionate and loving indicates that you see hope in tomorrow.

If there's one shared value that we all have, I think it is that hope and a better tomorrow.

There's so many people in this country that are so invested in some type of an erroneous

understanding of what makes America great.

I think more energy needs to be spent in what makes America kind, what makes America

friendly, loving, supportive, what makes America cohesive, what makes America beautiful.

And perhaps if all that is taken care of, maybe America will become great.

Thank you so much.

And to my Muslim brothers and sisters, I want to thank you again for coming this evening

and I just want you to know that our city, we know that these are challenging times for

our Muslim brothers and sisters nationwide and globally.

And we are with you.

We stand with you in these challenging times.

You are but a phone call away from me, whatever I can do to step up and help heal those wounds.

Thank you.

All right.

Next up is our proclamation recognizing April 2025 is Autism Acceptance Month and presenting

that will be our Council Member Spees.

I would like to call forward Amanda Stark with EG Speaks and anybody else you would

like to bring forward.

Thank you.

And Mayor, as the folks are coming forward to the Speaker podium, there's a speaker also

on this item.

So just as a note.

That speaker is actually with me so we can just kind of slide her over if that's fine.

That sounds great.

Perfect.

Okay.

Autism Acceptance Month, April 2025.

Whereas Autism Acceptance Month, previously named Autism Awareness Month, celebrates

and promotes acceptance for the neurological disability that more than 5.4 million adults

and one in every 36 children in the United States has been diagnosed.

And whereas autism is a developmental disability that results in neurological changes that

may create differences in the way an individual interacts with others, thinks, feels, and experiences

the environment around them.

And whereas the City of Elk Grove acknowledges Autism Acceptance Month to foster acceptance,

awareness, and inclusiveness within the community.

And whereas the City of Elk Grove is honored to take part in the annual observance of Autism

Acceptance Month and World Autism Awareness Day in the hope that it will lead to a better

understanding and acceptance.

Now therefore be it resolved that the City Council and the City of Elk Grove hereby affirms

and proclaims April 2025 as Autism Acceptance Month and April, oh, and April 2nd, 2025 as

World Autism Awareness Day in Elk Grove, California, to raise public awareness about autism and

the resources and organizations which support affected individuals and families within our

community.

Sign this ninth day of April 2025.

Thank you so much for this incredible recognition of Autism Acceptance Month.

I speak on behalf of the autistic community here in Elk Grove as an autistic mom and of

autistic children.

For those of you who don't know me, I am the CEO and president of a local grassroots 501c3

non-profit organization, EG Speaks, students, parents, and educators advocating for kids

in special education.

Through the work that we have done in special education advocacy, we have identified several

other areas of need in our community, gaps that we are striving to fill through programs

that we have developed, support groups, social clubs and play groups, and mentorship programs

in addition to continuing to offer advocacy services.

We are going beyond addressing the needs in schools and within our district and our advocating

for more access to our disabled youth across the entire community.

I was at a state, the city event at District 56 a couple years ago where Mayor Sing Allen

acknowledged the transgender day of visibility and assured our community that Elk Grove

is a city for all.

And I see this lived and the efforts that our city puts forward to make this a reality.

I also want to highlight areas for our community where there is a lot more work to be done

and some of those areas are things like our parks and I'm really thrilled to see that

actually one of our members has become an oversight committee member there so that we

can start taking up work to make our parks more inclusive for our autistic children.

A lot of people don't understand that there are different needs that aren't always visible

to people where our parks actually need to be fenced in because our children elope and

it's very dangerous and unsafe so often times families don't have access.

They can't take their kids places that most people can.

And with a few simple changes that can be fixed.

And so in addition to that we attended the multicultural festival for the last two years

to create a sensory space to make the multicultural festival and other city events accessible to

families that have children with disabilities.

And actually I'd say not just children with disabilities we also had adults with disabilities

access that space.

We had many parents and adults tell us that they came to that event because they knew

that they had a safe place to have reprieve and otherwise wouldn't have attended something

like that.

So our community needs more education and exposure to disability in general.

When children with disabilities are offered these opportunities they thrive and we thrive

together as a community.

With our services and supports under threat now by the federal government it is even more

imperative now that we find ways within our smaller communities to support our autistic

and disabled family, friends and neighbors.

Our organization can act as a resource and a collaborator but there are also a lot of

other disability organizations across the state as well.

And opportunities to connect with disabled youth right here in our city.

So I'll wrap this up with an ask or to encourage all of you to think about what you can do

to participate as allies and help champion our community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Courtney Eerozina and I'm speaking today in strong support of the resolution

recognizing April's Autism Acceptance Month.

The use of the word acceptance and the resolution is an important step toward shifting the conversation

from simply being aware of autism to truly embracing and supporting the autistic community.

Acceptance means evaluating neurodiversity, advocating for inclusion and creating environments

where autistic individuals can thrive.

It's about more than awareness.

It's about listening to autistic voices, honoring their needs and building a community where

they are genuinely included and celebrated for who they are.

That includes providing more spaces that are welcoming and accommodating to autistic and

neurodivergent people.

Until this year, I believed my journey with autism began when my now 14-year-old son started

experiencing developmental delays.

But I've since learned that autism has always been a part of my life when I was recently

diagnosed myself.

For our family, autism isn't something to be feared or fixed.

It's part of who my son is, part of who I am.

It's something to be respected and embraced.

As my son Nathan would tell you, it just means our brains work a little differently.

Over the past 14 years, our journey has often been lonely and difficult.

Even well-meaning friends and family sometimes struggle to understand.

Then we formed EG Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting disabled students

and their families in our region.

It has become one of my greatest blessings.

Having this community has been life-changing.

If your parent and outgrow looking for empathy, understanding or support, please reach out.

We'd love to welcome you into the EG Speaks family.

Please continue working together to outgrow a city that truly values neurodiversity and

is committed to building a more compassionate, inclusive future for everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And just so everyone can hear, you guys are selling merchandise for EG Speaks.

Are.

Yeah, we're doing this.

There's a fundraiser on Saturday to see the table.

All right.

We are going to move to our next item, which is our Stars of Service Awards.

So April is National Volunteer Month, a month dedicated to recognizing the importance of

volunteering and honoring the significant contributions that volunteers make by generously

donating their time and talents to worthy causes.

One of the honors the City Council and I have is to recognize Elk Grove residents who volunteer

their time and talent to make Elk Grove a better place to call home.

Our Stars of Service Awards recognize residents in seven different categories.

With so many deserving nominations submitted for this year, for the program this year,

it is very difficult to choose.

But I do want to thank the group that assisted with reviewing this year's applications, which

included Vice Mayor Sergio Robles, Cara Taylor Seaman, Alicia Tutt, Sydney Robertson, Tina

Lee Vote, Jessica Carter, Mia Foster, Brenda Walker, Brett Bartholomew, and Matthew Arnold.

Now let me announce our recipients for 2025.

In the category of residents, neighborhoods, and community groups, the recipients are Catherine

and Kim Mendoza.

They were nominated by Estelle Drake.

The Mendoza sisters Catherine and Kimberly tirelessly worked to rescue and care for

Please join me in recognizing Catherine and Kim Mendoza.

Hello.

Hello, everyone.

Thank you, everyone, especially the council for choosing us for this award.

We also wanted to thank our volunteers, some of which are here today, including Estelle

Drake, Paula Shukliman, and Diana Shram Adnelo.

We also wanted to thank our family that came to celebrate us today.

They flew in from San Francisco and also our parents that are here today with us.

We also wanted to thank the shelter, especially director Sarah Humley for allowing us, for

also helping us with outreach and allowing us to host TNR workshops at the shelter.

We also wanted to thank the community of Elk Grove and for all of their support and donations

towards our 501C3.

We also have a website if anybody would like any more information or also needs assistance

with Feral Cats.

It's just www.elkgrovecatrescuegroup.com.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

and multiple local causes.

Her fundraising efforts have raised thousands for youth sports, families in need, and the

Firefighter Burn Institute.

Through her non-profit and events like the Color Run, she empowers women and strengthens

the Elk Grove community.

Please join me in recognizing Brittany Davis.

I didn't make a speech for tonight.

Thank you so much for the honor.

I couldn't have done it without my family.

Being a fireman's wife, I got to have a lot of reinforcements throughout coordinating

to be able to give this service back to Elk Grove where I've grown up.

I'm honored to be a part of Elk Grove and making it a better place.

Thank you.

Stay right there.

Thank you for your service.

I just told John.

Congratulations.

Anybody else want to join?

Okay, perfect.

All right.

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Ready?

One, two, three.

One more.

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Congratulations again.

All right.

Thank you so—

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

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If you could use the дерев YES sign, please join me in

Would our friends come forward?

I see some coming up.

I believe Ms. Guthridge is in Europe.

Yes.

Yes, please come forward.

Leslie is also absent.

Oh, okay.

There comes Nan.

Would you like to say something?

We're going to have our fearless leader here, Nan.

I don't want to say something.

Would either of you like to say something or all?

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

You want to?

OK.

Go ahead.

Thank you very much for this honor.

It's been my pleasure to serve on the Arts Commission.

I am proud that we have implemented utility box murals,

murals on bridges, Avenue of the Arts,

such as the Beautiful Dancer, artwork

at our beautiful animal shelter.

And our last project was the upcoming library.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Just briefly, I didn't have a speech.

But thank you for the opportunity for over 21 years

serving on this commission.

It's been wonderful.

And promoting the Give Us an Opportunity

to Promote the Visual and Performing Arts.

Thank you.

The arts community in Elk Grove is rather large.

And it grows every day.

We have wonderful art galleries here.

We have local musicians and writers.

We have an outstanding variety of the visual, performing,

and literary arts here.

I, for one, plan to continue in that community,

working as I can to help it sustain it and help it to grow.

We are proud as a commission of the work

that we have done over the past few years.

We've been able to fulfill some of our dreams.

And because art to us is a passion.

And we will continue to sustain it here in Elk Grove

in our own way, in our own time.

So thank you for this award.

We do appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It won't be any of the council.

All right, let's all walk in here.

There we go. Okay, I'm gonna take a few shots and then she's gonna take a shot.

Okay. Here we go. One, two, three, four, one, two, three.

One, two, three. Okay, go right here.

One, two, three.

One, two, three. Thank you.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.

I gotta get out of here. What?

Thank you. Thank you.

All right. In the category of culture and heritage, the recipient is Dennis Busher.

Dennis Busher is the heart of the historical preservation in Elk Grove,

dedicating decades to safeguarding the city's heritage.

As an integral part of the Elk Grove Historical Society,

he has documented and protected the region's history for future generations.

He was honored as the 2024 historian of the year and serves on the city's history.

He has been a great leader in the history of Elk Grove.

He is the first to be honored as the 2024 historian of the year

and serves on the city's historical preservation committee.

His passion and mentorship make history accessible and meaningful to the community.

Please join me in recognizing Dennis Busher.

Thank you.

I'm very honored and I want to thank you for this award for the service.

I'm the fourth generation resident to live in Elk Grove,

live within a mile from where my great grandparents immigrated in 1870 from Germany in the Elk Grove.

Elk Grove has a very rich history that I like to remind and get out to people.

It dates back over 2000 years where our Native Americans lived along the Kasumnis River.

During the Gold Rush period, our farmers along the Kasumnis, the McColony and the Sakamata River,

this was created a bread basket to feed the Gold Rush miners up in the Sierra foothills.

When this was part of Mexico, it was called Alto, California,

went a Mexico all the way up to the Oregon border.

The capital of this area was in Monterey.

We had the Sutter's Fort in Sacramento.

The trail between Sutter's Fort and Monterey was known as the Monterey Trail.

Along that trail, they needed a rest stop for the horses every so often.

So the beginning of Elk Grove began at Elk Grove House, which was along the Monterey Trail,

which the Elk Grove Historical Society has reconstructed at the west entrance to the Elk Grove Park.

This was the beginning of Elk Grove and the beginning of the post office in Elk Grove in 1850.

It is now our museum, our two-story museum, where we have documented and have on display the history of Elk Grove

from back about over 2000 years ago up to about the middle of the 1900s.

It's opened the first Saturday of every month.

We have an excellent research library there that documents the history.

And if anyone wants to research our history even more, they can make appointments to research it in our library.

I want to thank you again for this award, for doing something that I have such a passion for.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Dennis, I want to give this to you.

This is presented to us by the Elk Grove Library Board of Museums.

It has rich history on the Sacroiliac history as well.

Thank you very much.

I will read that.

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One more.

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Perfect. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Alright, continuing on in the category of sports and recreation.

All except sports.

Clearly we know who the recipient is, Harminder Kangura or Coach Harry as everyone calls him.

Coach Harry was nominated three times by Sikminder Kaur, Crystal, and I'm going to butcher this, and Bisk, and Deborah Carlton.

After retiring from law enforcement, Harminder Kangura dedicated himself to youth soccer, shaping young lives through mentorship and leadership.

As a coach and board member, he has expanded access to soccer, ensuring all children, regardless of background, can participate and thrive.

He played a key role in organizing major tournaments, bringing a national recognition to Elk Grove and boosting the local economy.

His efforts in securing sponsorships and financial aid have removed barriers, making soccer accessible to all families in the community.

Please join me in recognizing Coach Harry.

Wow.

Yeah. Well, Madam Mayor City Council, thank you for the award.

Little over 10 years ago, I was at the honor of serving protecting a local community as a police officer.

Fortunately, circumstances of near fatal car accident took that away from me.

For the next couple of years, as I recovered, I struggled to find out what my role was going to be in this world.

In Sikhism, there's a huge factor of what we call SEVA, which is service above self.

It's something that really has resonated with me my entire life.

I hope to pass that on to my kids, but not only them, but as you can see, the group of kids that are here right now.

During that time, when I was trying to find myself, Elk Grove Soccer came into my life.

I had the opportunity to go first as a parent, and then the guy that was on the, you know, I was the over-involved dad that just kept on, you know, I knew everything.

Oh, I thought, but, you know, I had the opportunity to start serving the community in other ways that previously that I felt was gone.

You know, and I personally feel that I'm up here getting the award, but I'm not the one doing the service here.

It's the community that I'm able to serve.

It's the kids, the parents.

It's Elk Grove.

And I'm truly honored for the opportunity to be a part of this community, to have the ability to hopefully shape it, and hopefully one day.

Actually, hopefully one day, Dennis has something about me in the historical society that says that, you know, hopefully I can say that at least Elk Grove was better than when I found it, and this world was better.

And hopefully all that can be done through the service that's been given to me by the fantastic parents at Elk Grove Soccer, the board, everyone that's come out here to support me.

I just cannot, this is amazing for me to be up here and have this opportunity.

I never really thought it, so.

But thank you so much.

I do appreciate it.

Thank you, everyone.

Congratulations.

2012 boys and the 2012 girls teams.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

And if you're interested, registration is open at Elk Grove Soccer.com if you want to get coached.

All right.

You want to bring?

Yeah, I want to call all of you.

Everyone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll move onto our next category.

We'll give a few seconds here for our students to exit.

All right.

We're going to continue on to our next category in the category of service organizations and

groups, The recipient of Sacramento Splash.

Whoo.

nominated twice by Eugene Lee and Shonda Moore. Sacramento Splash is a leader in

environmental education inspiring thousands of Elk Grove students to

explore and appreciate nature through hands-on learning. Their strong

partnerships with local schools and organizations have made environmental

education more accessible and impactful in our community. Even through

challenges like the pandemic Sacramento Splash remained dedicated to its mission

adapting and continuing to serve students with innovative learning

opportunities. Thanks to their work future generations will have a deeper

understanding and commitment to protecting our natural world. Please

join me in congratulating and recognizing Sacramento Splash.

This anymore. Oh what I'm on yay. Mayor and Council thank you for recognizing me

Mackenzie Weezer CEO of Sacramento Splash. How do I top the soccer team I

mean it's real hard not to follow that up but I echo Coach Harry's sentiments

exactly the reason I do what we do at Sacramento Splash is to leave the

communities better than we found them and to encourage kids to get off of this

and out into the outdoors and exploring in nature and I am not winning this award

but all of my staff is winning this award and we have our program manager

here at our project historic Nicholas Derry program that's here in Elk Grove

but technically not in Elk Grove in the county but in Elk Grove okay it's a

historic farmstead class a dairy farm that is now hosting over 7,700 of Elk

Grove Unified School District students where we're teaching them all about

sustainable agriculture composting parts of a flower pollinators you name it

anything circular economy thinking because we need to be thinking that way

in order to save all the precious resources so we're super glad to have

Elk Grove support and we're happy to receive this award.

One, two, three. One more. One, two, three.

There we go. Thank you.

One more.

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Thank you.

All right our final category is youth volunteer of the year and the

recipient is Brotham Rangwala nominated by Femi Omotesho.

Brotham has served as vice chair of the Elk Grove Youth Commission and has shown

exceptional leadership and dedication to youth advocacy in the community. He led

the Youth Needs Assessment Subcommittee gathering essential feedback from students

to shape future city policies and youth programs. Brotham co-MCed the city

leaders youth forum creating a platform for students to engage with local leaders

and played a key role in planning various community events. His positive

attitude collaborative approach and organizational skills have made him an

invaluable member of the Youth Commission and his contributions will have a

lasting impact in Elk Grove's youth. Please join me in recognizing Brotham Rangwala.

Hello mayor and city council members. Thank you for presenting me with this award.

I'm really honored to be recognized up here. Over the last three years I've had

so much fun working with the Youth Commission and seeing the reach of our

events and programs all around our community and with my peers and it's

really just been so rewarding and super fun and I know you mentioned the Youth

Needs Assessment. I'm glad that it got so much traction because that was one

of my favorite projects that I worked on as a commissioner and I saw it in the

city newsletter and that made me really happy too that it was such a big deal.

So thank you guys about for that and I also want to thank all of you for

appointing me to the commission in the first place three years ago. Dr. Femi

for being such a supportive advisor and also the rest of the Youth Commission as

nothing would be possible without each and every one of them. It's been an honor

getting this award and being involved in this with the city and although I'll

miss this place when I go to college this fall I want to continue making a

difference even in college. Thank you.

Sharon wants to stand for you.

Thank you.

In conclusion I would like to thank Katherine Kim Mendoza, Brittany Davis, the arts

commissioners, Nan Mahon, Cheryl Greis, Sally Gatridge, Liz Irons, and Leslie

Sandifer, Dennis Buscher, Harminder Kangura, Sacramento Splash, and Pratham

Rangwala for the significant impact on the quality of life that you've provided

for our city. If you know someone you'd like to nominate next year please visit

the city's website for more information at www.lcurvecity.org forward slash

stars of service. With that we will move on to our next item which is public

comment and we will start let's see we'll start I'll go ahead and open up the

public comment opportunity we have two people signed up David Irons followed by

Lynn Wheat.

Hello council and mayor I've been a part of the Elk Grove anti-trash group for

about five years now cleaning up Elk Grove and I appreciate the cooperation

and partnership we've had with the city over that time the city's gotten cleaner

and I'm very proud of that fact and so I'd like to bring to the question of

cigarette butts and the fact that they make up about a third of the litter we

find in Elk Grove. We tend to get washed down the storm drains into the creeks so

the question is what are the chances that we could get ballot bins in Elk Grove

in high traffic places there are places where you put cigarette butts to vote on

the poll like who would win the Super Bowl do you prefer pies or cake other

stuff and give people a reason to deposit them there because they're not

making it to the trash cans as it is and that's pretty much all I have to say

thank you. Thank you. Next up is Lynn Wheat and that is our final for public comment thank you.

Good evening so I want to begin by thanking the city manager for responding to my email earlier this week so I was

really interested in on what's going on with slow and low and I had many concerns

when this was going to be a big economic boost and something that we were

promised we couldn't lose at especially as it was taxpayer money and

unfortunately we are losing the the city our taxpayer dollars put up a half a

million collateral with the bank the bank's keeping 425,000 of it the slow

and low business also put up a property is collateral half of it was under water

and I'm just consider wondering if the city ever did an appraisal on that how

much are we going to lose taxpayers going through the process of foreclosure

because I'm sure we're not the only ones in line and I'm thinking 425,000

could have filled that pothole that I came across on big horn along Laguna we

have some road projects that need to be taken care of and I recognize we won an

award recently however we are a newer city and that includes the new roads

also so we were told that this economic was going economic plan was going to be

a big boom bring jobs bring lots of activity to Old Town we the taxpayers

are losing it's always easy to spend somebody else's money till it's gone

which leads me to this was not a lot of money but the zoo is going to be a lot

of money so I always appreciate the city's newsletter but I'd like some

honesty involved with this it said that the Sacramento Zoo logical society has

raised 17.5 million dollars well my understanding and I might not have the

exact number but they've only deposited a little under two million dollars with

the city which means 15.5 million is promises well that doesn't mean we have

the cash you're going to look for bonds you're going to do some other things the

people in the newer areas are paying for this illogical park so when we discuss

the zoo I'd like it to be fully transparent so in 15 years from now when

there's a problem the people understand where the problem began and who created

it thank you thank you and that is our final speaker for public comment we

will move on to our next item which is our city managers report good evening

madam mayor vice-mayor members of the city council Jason Berman city manager

several items report on this evening as Ms. Wheat noted I'll provide just a

brief update on the slow and low on January 8th of this year I reported the

slow and low barbecue restaurant located in historic main street on railroad

street closed its doors effective January 1 city had provided a loan

guarantee to River City Bank for the benefit of slow and low guaranteeing a

loan of up to $500,000 by pledging city funds that were on deposit with the

bank slow and low defaulted on the bank loan the city the bank retained

approximately $425,000 of the city's collateral the city intends to pursue

foreclosure against property pledged is collateral by the owner of slow and low

in order to recover the city's losses and just add a few other things one is the

last time I mentioned that a new barbecue restaurant was intending to open

there or in barbecue they did a hiring event today and they expect to open in

the next several weeks we're looking forward to adding them also say that one

of the big things we attempted to do with the railroad street was service

catalyst for other activities that's happening and in our historic main street

and we're really proud to see the energy and the vibrancy the activity that's

occurred as a result of the work that the city has done and other private

enterprises that have occurred if you look at the number of new businesses and

successful businesses down there really proud of the progress that we've seen

down in that the historic main street portion of our of our community

next item is just an update that everybody seems to really like which is our

7000 sheeps and goats that we have around the city hard at work helping keep

the weeds down and avoid fire dangerous they're they're out in various parts of

the city there's actually a tracking app on the city's website you can find it

where they are if you want to go out and take a look at them it's really a

photo op opportunity they'll be there for the next couple months around the

city and they should complete their work in July

so reminder our cycling waste team is hosting a compost giveaway at the Elk Grove

Park this weekend April 12th and 13th residents can stop by anytime between

8 and 5 loading up their own containers whatever you have buckets bags or even a

pickup truck I'm with free nutrient rich compost at no cost great time of the year

to do that with gardening season upon us Art Grove will host the day of la Concha

celebration of Mexican traditional sweetbread Spendulce this Sunday April 13th

from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at district 56 this free family event returns for a

second year and is sponsored by the city I'll also note the the consolidated

plan which is from 25 to 30 which is part of the US Department of Housing

Development is a to guide federal community block grant funds and home

funds that's available for public review people can find it online or public

libraries or various facilities around the city I mean you find more

information on our on our website or by contacting our housing division and then

finally the youth commission invites the community to family fun day on Saturday

April 19th from noon to four o'clock at Old Town Plaza this free annual event

features carnival games music activities and more food will be available for

purchase and that concludes my report I'm happy answering questions that

council I have thank you for your report any questions sounds good we will move

on to our next item which is our consent calendar at this time I will go ahead

and open up the public comment opportunity nobody has signed up to speak on a

consent calendar item I will go ahead and close public comment any questions or

comments otherwise I look for a motion to approve consent so moved second all

those in favor please say aye thank you next item item 8.1 8.1's a public

hearing to consider resolution approving a determination of public convenience

or necessity for the sale of beer for on-site consumption for the

Cosumnes Legacy Foundation

good evening Mayor Sting Allen vice mayor Robles members of the Elk Grove

City Council Antonio a blog planning manager here to present to you tonight

the Cosumnes Legacy Foundation determination of public convenience or

necessity project this project consists of a determination of public convenience

or necessity also referred to as a PCN to allow the issuance of a type 40

alcohol license from the California alcoholic beverage control this license

would allow the sale of beer from the pro shop at the Emerald Lakes Golf

Course as many of you know the Emerald Lakes Golf Course is at the south end

of the city just a date adjacent to state route 99 it's a nine-hole golf course

that's operated by the Cosumnes Community Services District the request for

beer sales will occur from the pro shop they have set aside an area behind the

operations counter where they will have a refrigerator to where they will store

those alcoholic beverages namely beer and the sales will be by the attendance

at the pro shop related to public convenience or necessity there are

certain times when a request to sell alcohol does require the city council to

to make a determination of public convenience or necessity in order to

grant the license one is in instances of high crime and the other is in

instances when a census tract is deemed to be over concentrated with alcohol

license sales for this project we have coordinated with the police department

it's determined that this sub sector for crime reporting had 83 crimes reported

in 2024 that does is not considered a high crime reporting district as far as

the census tract itself alcoholic beverage control has determined that more

than four on sale licenses within the census tract is considered over

concentrated the census tract has nine current on sale license therefore it's

considered over concentrated that's why the PCN action is before council this

evening in reviewing those PCN determinations we look at several factors

including the proximity and number of other retail outlets selling alcohol the

prop proximity of the retail outlet to schools playgrounds or other facilities

that serve young people the proximity of that outlet to residential

neighborhoods and whether that retail outlet would provide a wide range of

desirable goods or unique type of goods or service this census tract that the

golf courses located is unique that census tract covers almost the full

boundary of ground line road for the city on the east side so it stretches all

the way from highway 99 almost up to Calvine Road as you could see on the map

while there are a number of licenses in the district most of those are

concentrated in Sheldon Old Town and the only licenses that are in proximity to

the Elm Rd great Lakes Golf Course are Flatland Brewing and Arco AMPM at Grant

Line Road and then the Elks Lodge which is a private club furthermore as far as

uses surrounding the Elm Rd Lakes Golf Course the nearest public school is

Elk Grove High School more than two miles away the nearest general

recreation public park is Elk Grove Park over a mile away from Elm Rd Lakes

Golf Course of course there is no residential development development

near the subject site and while the Elm Rd Oaks Golf Course provides

opportunities for all community members of all ages to enjoy golf activities the

golf course tends to serve an older demographic this license location would

provide a unique type of service in that it's a golf course and the license

would allow golfers and guests to enjoy alcoholic beverages while engaging in

the sport promoting relaxation and socialization making the course more

attractive a more attractive destination for golfers and guests as

previously mentioned those alcoholic beverages will be stored in a

refrigerator behind the counter and only employees will have access sales will

be limited to the hours between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. and ID scanners will be used

to verify ages before sales occur and the police department has reviewed the

project and determined that there is no public safety reason to oppose the

finding of public convenience or necessity for this request as far as

environmental review this project is exempt in that sequel only applies to

projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the

environment this project will not bring about any physical change on the golf

course staffs recommendation tonight is that the City Council find that the

this project is exempt from sequel and approve the determination of public

convenience or necessity for a type 40 alcohol license for the sale of beer at

the emerald lakes golf course I'd be happy to answer any questions you have

any all right thank you for your presentation at this time I will

declare the public hearing is now open and we need to invite the applicant is

there an applicant we have we do have the applicant if you wish you don't have

to if you wanted to provide comments this would be your opportunity but it's

optional mr. Akon no okay all right then I will go ahead and open up the public

comment opportunity nobody signed up to speak on this I'll close public comment

and you don't want to provide any comments we'll go ahead and close the

public hearing and open up to any questions or I'll look for a motion so

moved second all right motion and second all those in favor please say hi hi

thank you all right we will move on to our next item 9.1 and as to consider

resolution approving a dish conditional loan a commitment in support of the

proposed Sheldon Farms North Phase 1 affordable housing project

all right good evening Mayor and Council members I'm Sarah Bontrager your

Housing and Public Services Manager I'm here tonight to share with you some

information on the Sheldon Farms North project specifically phase one of that

project but by way of background always a quick reminder that we are planning on

talking about our affordable housing fund as the funding source tonight that

is our fund generated by fees on new development that is set aside for use on

low-income housing opportunities the Sheldon Farms North site which you

see here on the slide was acquired by the city in 2013 it was dedicated by the

developer of the single-family homes to the east it is at Bruceville or near

Bruceville at Sheldon and along what we hope will someday be the light rail

corridor in 2023 we did a request for proposals we got 12 proposals for the

Sheldon Farms North site and the affordable housing committee selected

abode to work with on this property we did a letter of intent with abode in

February of 2024 and then extended it in February 25 to give them some

additional time to finalize their strategy for funding their project the

LOI will eventually be replaced with a disposition and development agreement or

a DDA but that will come later once the project's entitlements packages a bit

further along the overall this is a project that is 240 units it's a family

apartment complex it's being proposed in two phases to make it competitive for

funding the first phase is a hundred and twenty two units 25% of those units

will be set aside for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities

you may remember we had a similar project proposed the cornerstone village

project that ultimately didn't move forward so we're really excited to see

this population being served with this project the second phase is about the

same 118 units it's likely it will include the units for persons with

disabilities but not for sure yet the developer held three community meetings

and took into account the community's perspective when they were refining

their design and we expect the planning entitlement to be approved later this

year for this project so range of affordabilities from extremely low income

up to your higher low income level range of sizes one two and three bedrooms

for the property along with the non-site property manager unit lots of

amenities a community room outdoor courtyards the children's play area

they're actually planning to do a splash pad in the complex for for kids to play

at and a good services plan 15 hours a week of social services up to 10 of

those can be after school programming so as you see here this the this is the

Sheldon Farms North Phase one site that will be subdivided into two separate

parcels you can see here that it's near single family homes there's another

market rate apartment complex across the street and near good retail

opportunities for folks to shop at here's a quick overall site plan I will

turn it over to the developer for a couple minutes after this who has some

additional slides with some updated materials on the design overall our cost

the total cost of this project for phase one is 81 million dollars ends up being

cost per unit of about 662 thousand dollars however the city subsidy is just

4% of that at about 28 thousand dollars per unit that's lower than what we've

seen on some past projects but in line with what we've seen on the project we

have a lot of funding resources that we've funded most recently this project

will use a variety of funding sources they're hoping to secure funding from the

State Department of Housing and Community Development as well as to get 4%

tax credits and then they have a few other smaller funding sources for the

project they gave the city a loan application which our affordable housing

committee members reviewed some of the project strengths I'll highlight really

in this case the city's most experienced developer this would be their first

project in Elk Grove but they have quite a few properties throughout

California as I mentioned we really like the inclusion of the units for adults

with intellectual or developmental disabilities which are supported in part

by a capitalized operating subsidy reserve to make sure that those units can

stay really affordable for that population over many years like a lot of

people in the community. So I think that this property does have a partnership to

help the city address homelessness which has been really helpful to staff in

connecting people experiencing homelessness with housing units. All

projects have some weaknesses and I'll take a second to highlight a couple on

this one the project phasing in this could create a challenge where one of the

phases could get built but the later phase might not get built each phase

we plan to mitigate this weakness through the use of a DDA and option

agreement so that they couldn't build the second phase unless the first phase

was already under construction. Likewise ideally we would do a loan

commitment and the DDA concurrently however because we don't have the

entitlement approvals yet on this project we want to wait to have an accurate

project description to include in the DDA. If we waited until the entitlements

were approved they would miss the funding opportunity for 2025 and we were

hoping to get this project going. So we do have a condition in our loan term

sheet that requires successful negotiation of a DDA on this. We are

proposing the city owns the land currently as I said we got it through

dedication so the city didn't actually pay anything for the land but we did give

the developer a credit on their single-family homes that they built for

the affordable housing fee. It provides a competitive advantage to this project

to have the city agree to sell it at a 20% discount from fair market value and

so that is a part of the loan terms. We are not likely to receive a ton of

repayment from this loan so making that choice to give the discount on it

doesn't really impact to the city's near-term financial situation. The

weaknesses on this project many of them are not uncommon for these sorts of

transactions. We did negotiate a payment structure that prioritizes the city loan

payments after the developer fee is paid. We think that this is a really strong

project and there will be a lot of demand for it. The project design has a lot of

outdoor space and just a little bit of a different look than some of our other

projects in Elk Grove. We've had a ton of interest in affordable housing the

lottery that just concluded for the Pardus project received really

substantial interest and our other lotteries have as well. So what you

have before you tonight for approval is a loan term sheet. It clarifies the

expectations for the developer and the senior lender and the staff, the

Affordable Housing Committee and the developer all came to agreement on the

loan terms of that for this transaction. Loan amount of $3.3 million which

includes about $1.3 million of land value and $2 million in cash from the

Affordable Housing Fund. I won't take the time to highlight all of these. The

units would be deed restricted for 55 years consistent with the loan term and

the developer would need to enter into a DDA with the city by December of 2025

and get all of their funding by April of 27. The Affordable Housing Committee met

on March 31st to review the project and recommend that the council approve a

conditional loan commitment consistent with the draft term sheet for the phase

one project. So tonight the council has the option of approving that conditional

loan commitment requesting that staff continue negotiations on the loan to be

brought forward at a later date or deny the loan. And that's the end of my

presentation. Paige Dow from the ABODE team is here and she has a brief

presentation but I'm happy to answer any questions that you have for me while I

bring up her presentation.

Good evening Mayor and Council. I'm Paige Dow, a senior project manager with the

ABODE communities. I just have a brief presentation prepared focused on design

for brevity but I'm happy to answer any questions about financing or other

aspects of the project. So before talking about the design I wanted to give a

summary of the community outreach that we held because that really informed the

design that we incorporated and you'll see that in the slides moving forward. So

we held three community outreach events. We had about 150 attendees across these

three events and these were both in-person and virtual with an open house

format for community members to interactively provide feedback on the

design. So on these slides we'll talk about some of the ideas that we heard and

how they've been incorporated into our design. So we heard a strong desire for

safe outdoor space and we really oriented the site plan to protect that by

having parking and vehicular access focused on the rear of the property and

ensuring that there was this large central courtyard and Paseo protected

from vehicles for safe outdoor space and play. We also tried to facilitate

residents feeling close to their neighbors by having all the community

spaces oriented off a central courtyard to facilitate interaction. Again the

safe walking and bike routes both through this extension of the bike path

and walk path and also through the way we designed the site plan with keeping the

vehicles separate from the outdoor space. We also heard the heat was a concern

and you'll see how we've tried to incorporate that throughout the design

and then prioritizing parking through 240 parking spaces. So one for one

parking. Okay some other ideas we heard were to keep the design clean and

modern. You'll see some inspiration images here on this slide and then some

other ways being incorporated other feedback like to mitigate the heat. We're

proposing a pleated facade along Bruceville. You can see that example

image up here at the top and this is orienting the windows away from the

westward facing sun and hopefully mitigating the heat impacts and

also providing that modern look and breaking up the facade and adding

interest. Having contrasting light and dark colors to also help with that

modern look and then having these varied building heights that you can see here

and materials to really break up the the massing of the facade and provide more

of a community village feel. This is a slide just showing some of the textures

and colors we're planning for and materials with some axe materials such as

siding and tile brick accent as well as sunshades and perforated screens and

some stucco. I also wanted to highlight the landscaping since there is so much

outdoor space on this site so we have this large central courtyard in Paseo

that incorporates many amenities as I mentioned a splash pad for children,

several plight areas, seating areas, incorporating native landscaping throughout

and barbecues. I'll just flip through some views of the projects and rendering. So

this is what we view as the key view to the project. This is a long Bruceville

road facing north. We think this is the kind of the key moment in corner that

people really experience the project and so we've tried to add some key design

elements and accents here with this brick tile. This is a view of the

pedestrian Paseo in courtyard. If you're if you're standing along Mash Puea

looking into the project you can see how we've envisioned this to be a safe and

active place space for residents. I want to showcase this view to visualize how

we've tried to mimic the smaller scale single family homes neighborhood to the

east of the site. So we've stepped down the building height to be three

stories along Barnstable and added these stoops to give it more of a smaller

scale residential feel. And that is it. If there are any questions I'm happy to

answer them. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. At this time I'll open

up public comment first. Let's see. Nobody has signed up to speak. I'll close

public comment and open it up open it up for questions or comments from

colleagues. I'll start to the left. Thank you Mayor Councilor Vice Mayor Robles

and I served on the Fort Wilds and committee so we got the opportunity to

see this March 31st. I have to admit I struggled with my my old adage about the

patios and so but I I did hear the concerns of the applicant and I

appreciated their their their attempt to to break up the massing the different

materials and you saw the the different architectural features that really

makes it not look like a lack of better term cheap project. So I do appreciate

that and then the accommodations of the public comments to to have that interior

space maximizing the utility of that interior space so and the different

colors as well. So all of that said I you know that for me that that addressed

my concerns. I still like the fact that it's 662,000 a unit. That's just

something a broader a broader issue about affordable housing when we talk

about building these these projects but nonetheless it's going to provide a

great use for our for our residents and in address the housing crisis. So with

that I'm happy to support the project. Thank you Vice Mayor. Thank you Madam

Mayor. I to echo the same comments that Councilman Nitzu and has been saying I

know that usually we talk a lot about balconies and I want to just address

that on this one for this project going down Bruceville when this would be one

that kind of we want to make sure that the sites as the years driving like the

scenery that people aren't actually putting stuff on the balconies that you

can see that on Bruceville. So the aesthetics are a lot different but it's

something different that hasn't been seen in Elk Grove especially with the

with the brick Lane aesthetics on there. I truly appreciate the fact that it's

three stories on the other side when it comes to the houses for the residents

that's something and then you can kind of see it get bigger as it goes in there.

I appreciate the fact that and I don't want to miss but I think the fountains

the water fountains going is that they splash pad yes splash pad and we're going

to have that correct we're not going to get rid of this splash pad. Yes. Okay.

I just want to make sure we get that one because we've seen before how people

will change it but I know that that's going to be something cool and exciting

to see and then not only that but also that shade trees there's a lot of shade

trees there so that folks can go outside and walk and walk along the trail

there so as Councilman Nitzu said too you know it is super expensive but again

we're trying to work towards affordability for folks and it's going to be

helping several folks who need it and that's something that we as Elk Grove

can be super proud of make sure that we're providing housing for folks. Thank

you Councilmember Brewer. So I want to thank you for for being here tonight to

answer some of these questions regarding a boat and the whole disposition and

development agreement and how that all is going to come about I know last year

you held several workshops to walk people through the concept itself along

with getting people interested in signing up so they could be in line for the

lottery for one of these sites when it gets built. As far as timelines go

will the LOI be enough to help get phase one put in in anticipation of phase two

as the first question and what does the timeline look like to allow for the

other consideration for developmental disabilities individuals to be put into

the process for consideration for units as they become built especially as we

look at phase two those are my two questions. Sure for the first question

the LOI allows us to demonstrate site control to move forward with our

application to the state for the multi-family housing program and so that

will allow us to apply for and hopefully secure financing while we continue to

work on the DDA as the entitlements continue to move through that process and

then in terms of phase two and well I guess in terms of timing we're hoping

that if we're successful in securing financing in this round we'd be starting

construction on phase one in mid-2026 with phase two following about a year

behind. In terms of the population for phase two you know the affordable housing

finance landscape is continuously changing and there's always different

incentives and scoring components to keep in mind and considerations as well as

operating subsidy for certain populations like special needs populations and

so currently with phase one moving forward we know that this financing plan

works it's competitive with this population in phase one we imagine the

same thing true for phase two but just because those regulations are always

changing you know we're I think we're just saying we'll confirm that once

we're ready to apply for phase two. Does that answer your question? No that does

answer my question I want to thank you for that because things obviously

there is a commitment to make sure that this is that this project does take

place and there is a commitment on our part to make sure that we do have

affordable housing available and that we are building affordable housing especially

where the state is concerned and just don't want to lose sight of that because

of the current volatility in today's market and in today's economy that

that any sort of things that happen in between now and 2026 that is not lost

in our and both of our joint efforts of trying to create affordable housing

here in Elk Grove through the Sheldon Farms project so I want to thank you for

for being here and walking us through where things are currently definitely

appreciated. Yeah thank you. Councilmember Speese? Yes okay so for Sarah so I just

want to be sure I feel like there's two issues that we kind of have muddled

together in here what we're discussing tonight is only the resolution

approving a conditional loan commitment that this is not a final design review

tonight? That's correct yeah the design. And that will come in with a DDA? The

entitlements are approved by the Planning Commission for this size of project.

The DDA will tie the developer to the entitlements package that's approved

that's why we're holding off on doing the DDA right now is that the product there

are still some changes that need to be made to accommodate some comments that

the city has had and so right now the developer the loan term sheet that we

are asking the council to approve tonight is conditioned on the developer

successfully entering a DDA with the city. Okay which includes when I'm trying to

figure out the timing of the DDA relative to final design that's at the same time with the DDA.

The DDA will be done after the entitlements are approved. Okay all right so

thank you councilmember Suin for bringing up the the issue of the patios and such.

I still would like to have them but I think that in general this notion or idea of breaking up that

facade generally seems to work. I just we've seen some very monolithic buildings and I understand

we have to be economical right with our design right I get all of that but at the same point

in time you know it's not just the people who live there who have the benefit of the homes it's

the people who are also you know driving by you know paying their taxes as well as everybody else

so I appreciate it I appreciate that attempt to break up that facade a bit. So I particularly given

oh good. I just wanted to echo what you were just saying because the that was exactly my statement

is yeah we're making this project affordable but all our residents who drive by right they have to

look at it too and organically the patio thing the conversation was me bringing up the patio thing

and then going back with the applicant and staff about concerns about you know maintaining it so

from a cost perspective I said well why don't we make these facade type of patios on the outside

then I realize I'm going down the path that they're trying to accommodate which is the architecture

and the massing and so anyway that's it anyway that's that's how it seems to me a bit odd that

creating an angle like that is less of a cost than putting on a patio but I'm not even I'm not even

going to get into it I'm not even going to get into it because I think what it does is it makes

it makes a visually a better product so I can appreciate that so I'll park it right there so I

won't get my mouth in any trouble um so with that I mean I'm happy to uh I'm happy to support the

the project or these give me to support the conditional loan commitment okay thank you

I too am in support great comments from my colleagues we need more affordable housing period

and what I like about this if we can go back to the slide that shows what this looks like

one more time yeah I mean this looks market-rate and that's and that's you know wonderful I've

seen something comparable in the east coast where you have the different sizes and the colors

it just it looks good so um with that I think you know you've done a great job here both

in bringing this forward and I do support providing that conditional loan commitment

to get this going so with that can I get a motion second all those in favor please say I

I thank you thank you so much all right next item

I'll take us to item 9.2 to receive information consider a resolution adopting a revised code

of ethics for the city of Elk Grove

Good evening mayor and council members I'm Kristen Lawrence your public affairs and

communications manager I'm presenting this item in my role as the staff liaison for the

diversity and inclusion commission with me tonight is the city's diversity and inclusion

commission chair Tina leave oh okay and uh Brent Burfield our commissioner who led the

subcommittee working on this project in 2005 members of the community worked with the city

council and staff to adopt a code of ethics to establish a culture of ethics and set standards

for the behavior of all city employees of officers commissions and elected or appointed

officials at mayor mayor sing allen's request the city's diversity and inclusion commission

reviewed the current code of ethics and have proposed proposed changes to better reflect

the city's values and of inclusiveness and belonging some language was revised to include

modern terminology that acknowledges and affirms the diverse identities within the community

and other language was added to encourage cooperation in a spirit of tolerance and

understanding to share a little bit more about their process and approach uh Tina and Brent will

provide their remarks good evening i'm Tina leave oh chair of your diversity inclusion commission

when we accepted this assignment one of the things that we noted was the tone of the code of ethics

seemed to be more somewhat negative and focused more on poor behavior versus really trying to

affirm positive actions that the council as well as commission members and staff could take

so we undertook this role very seriously and wanted to have a code of ethics that really

reflected the positive nature of the council as it is today so we really looked at trying to have

an approach that affirmed the actions that people could take to uphold their oath and their duty

versus trying to be more negative in the approach and saying don't do this or just kind of making

sure that people understand their role is important but making sure that they did it in a positive way

and i before i turn it over to Brent i want to acknowledge Brent Brent was new to our commission

when we were working on this we had been struggling with bringing it forward and Brent really helped

us get it completed so i wanted to acknowledge the really hard work that Brent did in stepping up

and taking the lead to get this completed thank you Brent Burfield um i'll keep it short basically

i wanted to exemplify positive aspects right let's be proud of the work that we're doing

let's instead of being you know against personal you know like like Tina was saying like let's be

let's exemplify what's positive and not be focused on the negative aspects and so that was kind of

the guiding light through all the revisions so thank you so the revisions before you tonight

were unanimously approved by the commission late last year the council's being asked to repeal the

resolution that established the original code of ethics and adopt a revised code of ethics for the

city under a new resolution we don't have a formal presentation clearly but um we have provided the

red line version so you could see the differences between the two versions and we're available to

answer any questions you might have at this time i'll go ahead and open up public comment

nobody's signed up to speak on this i will close the public comment and since i brought this forward

for consideration i'll go ahead and provide some introductory remarks i'm having something like this

that's really in the you know the beginning of our all of our binders the beginning of our meetings

and all of that the stuff that we collect in our in our material you always see that code of ethics

you see it in other parts of the city as well so it was important to have that diversity and

inclusion lens to update and revise this this was done how many years ago did you say christine

yeah 2005 and clearly our city has grown we're much more diverse and having the lens of everybody

in the and the commission weigh in on this is important because having that input is important

i wasn't part of the original council when this was adopted but i do think having community in a

community is plural of having that input on what they want and in their in their code of ethics

as part of the community is important so i appreciate all the work that you all have done

bringing this forward i don't see any changes that that i would like to make so i do hope that you

consider this for adoption this is a revised updated version of our code of ethics and i do

appreciate tina what you had mentioned and you brunt as well when you go to classrooms you want to

have positive words not negative words it's what you can do and what you should do not the don't

so it's a different way of looking at things and it creates that positive the that aspect that you

want to see in your community in your government and so forth so i really appreciate that you

really looked at language that was much more inclusive and a lot more positive so thank you

for your work on that so that's sort of you know the history of bringing this forward any questions

on that oh looks good all right well i respectfully ask for a motion then so moved yeah second all right

i want to say something yes i wanted to say something so i know in the beginning i was i

wasted trees i carried a binder and during the first year i'm just not only just reading the code

of ethics but really absorbing it because it's supposed to be an aspirational statement of who

we are and how we're supposed to represent the city and i like i like the the update approach

because it's it's aspirational

and not it doesn't just have the onus on just the council it's on everyone who serves the

city in some way shape or form and i really appreciate the work that was put into it by the

diversity and inclusion commission i also want to give a special acknowledgement to connie connolly

because um she worked on the initial code of ethics and she took a look at this final cut

and she was very helpful in making this what it is today it stays true to the values of

of who we are in terms of responsibility fairness respect and honesty but the bullet points that

go in here go a little deeper have a more meaning and it's very it's it's it's exactly what we need

for it for these for these days and times so i want to thank mayor mayor bobby for bringing this forward

and for putting it out there for the diversity and inclusion commission to work on but i definitely

want to commend you for the work that you did um tina and brint because and bringing everyone together

because um this is truly a really good piece of work so thank you and i'd also like to make

sure that i acknowledge your city clerk who gave us really good guidance as we started working on it

so i wanted to make sure that we thank him for everything in the support because we did that and

also uh members uh jinkee doler bovin perique and jessica carter also worked with us on formulating

this and they couldn't be here tonight but i want to make sure that their work is acknowledged as

well so thank you for the support and your faith in us to take this important document

and update it for the city thank you thank you for your for your great work so we have a motion

in a second all those in favor please say aye thank you all right we will move on to our next item

it's item 9.3 to consider resolution adopting the mission vision goals of priority projects for 2025

and 20 through 2027 and amending the governance principles contained in the growth city norms and

procedures manual okay thank you good evening uh madam mayor members of the city council jackie

who's my assistant city manager and i'm here to summarize um the council retreat um that happened

on february 20th 2025 and bring back some follow-up action items um so the council meets every two years

to come together in a retreat and focus on governing principles community visioning

to review strategic goals and priority projects

and um we did meet on february 20th um and i want to just go through a few outcomes from that meeting

the council did affirm its mission vision and goals with no changes um you did propose

amendments to your norms and procedures and we also proposed changes the 2025 2027 priority

project so i'll go through those um just again affirming the mission to provide exceptional

service services that enhance the quality of life for a residents and promote a thriving economy

in an efficient and cost effective manner and affirming your vision outgrowth prioritizes a

superior quality of life for all that builds upon the community's diversity and heritage

through self safe welcoming and connected neighborhoods with a variety of residential

educational and employment choices and amenities that create a sense of place

you also affirmed your city goals you have four city goals a vibrant community and sustainable

economy with diverse businesses and amenities a safe and resilient community a high performing

a financially stable city government and a city with infrastructure that meets its current and future

needs we did review the city's council norms and procedures and you had two um things that you

focused on uh for changes um you proposed two new governing principles the um seventh principle

will now be we listen to and demonstrate respect for each other staff and the community and the

eighth principle will be we continually build trust and relationships with each other staff and the

community um we also had a discussion around um proclamations and certificates of recognition

or appreciation and you desired to change or really clarify some language there to document a

really a past practice and a practice that you want to memorialize which is that these

certificates of recognition and appreciation should be a matter of local concern within the

subject matter jurisdiction of the city or the recipient of a recognition should have direct

ties to the city of elk grove and i'll just note that for those we've included redline changes

in the packet so that you can clearly see where those changes were to your norms and procedures

in terms of priority projects these continuously change every two years because there are projects

that are completed um or or new projects or refinements and so this year we did remove completed

projects projects that are now in the ongoing maintenance phase um or projects that are being

put on hold indefinitely um we did do we refine some project scopes mostly because we're in a

different phase of that project um and then we added new projects to um our priority projects the

five new projects that were added a fish fish hatchery nature area establishment of a permanent

homeless shelter arts and arts and creative economy strategy annexation projects and a

corp yard master plan and again the the full list of priority projects is attached to the agenda item

so our recommendation tonight around these action items is that the city council approve a resolution

adopting the the city's mission and city council vision statement goals and priority projects

for 2025-27 and that the city council approve proposed amendments to the outgrowth city council

norms and procedures manual in alignment with your direction to staff i do also want to mention

that there was other direction to staff that was given at the council retreat these are not actions

that are being taken tonight but these are additional follow-up items that will come back to council

um you did desire to propose a process for instituting terms not term limits for members of city

commissions and committees um that should come back to you um in the next council meeting on

April 23rd um and then we are also evaluating subsidies for low-income residents and seniors

on fixed income you should see that in the spring um we're also exploring enhancing youth engagement

and programming and we've started um analyzing that and exploring those options and we'll come back

with you to you for that and with that um concludes my presentation happy to take any questions

all right excellent presentation and recap so let's see i will go ahead and open up public

comment i don't see anyone sign up to speak i'll go ahead and close the public comment opportunity

and open it up for any questions or comments but i think you did a great job summarizing what took

place including those wonderful graphics any questions or comments

we've to adopt the resolution second all those in favor please say aye thank you next item please

next item is item 9.4 which to consider appointment of one voting member to the historic

reservation committee which could include a possible appointment of an alternate member

and appointment of one voting member to the diversity and inclusion commission

good evening mayor vice mayor and council members i'm jason lindgren your city clerk

as of the printing of our staff report the world keeps moving and there are a lot of pieces that

we're moving around so what you will find tonight is that for the historic preservation committee

you had six total applications one was pulled back out from consideration but in the for the

historic preservation commission what we have is a vacancy for a voting member position if you do

elect of the current existing members there are two alternates and one of those alternates could be

moved up to be a voting member then you could use our applicant pool in order to find an alternate

alternate and then with our diversity and inclusion commission you will have 24 applications as far as

folks that have qualified applications i think we have several members in the audience tonight

wishing to speak so i will give the floor over to them to present their case

all right excellent at this time i'll go ahead and open up the public comment opportunity we

have several people signed up we'll start with tereza plumb plumb moutil you'll have to correct me

followed by dr bj snodin

good evening madam mayor members of council my name is tereza plumb moutil

and i'm honored to stand here as an applicant for the diversity and inclusion commission

i have been attending the diversity inclusion commission meetings for the past few months and

it's been wonderful to see and hear the work that goes behind the scenes of our welcoming city

at the january meeting during public comment portion i spoke on importance of making sure

our residents know they have resources especially during a time when federal immigration policies

are shifting rapidly people need to know they can continue to feel safe to feel seen and they

are welcome in algrove i want to take a moment to thank the city for its public statement on

february 11th on remaining committed to upholding california laws regarding immigration status this

message was more than just information it was reassurance for many in our community it was

a sigh of relief to hear that their city stands with them the kind of transparent timely communication

is essential to building trust in our institutions and reassuring community members that their city

is listening and responsive to their concerns over the years i've been fortunate to work in roles

that center equity accessibility and inclusion alongside community advocacy community advocacy

is what i believe is the backbone of meaningful progress in my time as a disability analyst for

the state of california and through diversity equity and inclusion efforts in both public and

private sectors i've supported outreach efforts helped implement inclusive practices and worked

alongside communities that are often left out of decision making like section eight tenants

foster youth individuals with disabilities and elderly community my academic background in

ethnic studies with the focus on gender and sex and communities of color has continued to shape

the way that i show up in my work in my professional life and personal whether supporting shelters

assisting with compliance are helping connect people to resources my goal has been to make

systems a little more responsive and accessible for those who need them most if appointed i hope to

bring both professional perspective and lived experience to the table like many i am a woman

of color and i am a first generation american i've been in elk growth since 2003 middle school

and high school was all here and i know that i know what it's like to navigate systems that

weren't built with everyone in mind and i'm committed to elk growth's work on leading

with compassion transparency and meaningful community connection whether or not i am

considered for appointment i will continue to show up for our city in the best ways i can

i appreciate your time and for considering my voice in this work thank you next up is dr bj

snodin followed by john mua okay maybe in the hallway mr snodin if you're here in the hallway

we'll come back to you all right we'll go to john mua followed by nabila kahn

good evening honorable manger and city council members my name is john mua thank you for the

opportunity to speak in regards to the diversity and inclusion vacancy being born to immigrant

parents i've these i've experienced firsthand the social injustice and racial disparity because

of my background from being told we can't service you to go back to your country i've often thought

that if these people would just take the time they don't understand that everyone deserves decency

my family and i moved to northern california in the mid two thousands we settled in elk growth

because of its distinguished school district beautiful parks and richness in diversity

over the last two decades i spent my time volunteering for nonprofit organizations

meeting with community members talking to business owners from diverse backgrounds

i've searched i've served on the board of my church both locally and nationally but equally

meaningful i spent time educating and reminding my own children the importance of diversity and

inclusion because everyone deserves decency professionally i've worked for recovered california

where we provide access to affordable health plans i've worked for the department of health care

services managing the eligibility of the medical eligibility systems which provides medical benefits

to 15 million californians currently i am a manager at the air resources board which recognizes

the importance of diversity equity and inclusion and we are working on addressing the needs to

become an organization that serves all of california throughout my career i've served under

privilege and under supported demographics i've worked with and have managed highly diverse

cross-functioning teams ensuring that all individuals have a voice at the table regardless

of background standing here before you i have strong support for my candidacy from local

residences leaders in the community leaders in state service and government officials like the

mayor of clovis who all have written letters of recommendation and submitted it on my behalf

my experience background and dedication has deepened my passion and understanding and

designing policies and initiatives to promote opportunity for all lastly i have always been

proud that al grove was defined by this compassion and assurance for all as proclaimed in 2016 this

is no place for hate i am committed to serving with integrity and making a positive impact on

the issues that matter to our city i would be honored to work for the committee in furthering

the assurance that everyone deserves decency thank you for your consideration

thank you next up is nabila khan followed by kevin ment mentila

good evening everyone thank you for this time and being able to offer my my advocacy for this

appointment to your to your commission my name is nabila khan and i would like to tell you a

little bit about myself today and why i think i could be a valuable resource in this role

my fiance and i recently moved to al grove two years actually next week and we're looking

forward to making this place our home i work full-time as a senior corporate accounting manager

and i'm also a certified public accountant with the state of california in my line of work i not

only crunch numbers but i also write recommend and implement financial policies the specific task

is one that involves communicating with various stakeholders at my company and across various

departments managing a variety of problems unique to each of their groups and my job is to ensure

that they all have a responsible and functional way to move forward in business when i graduated

high school and i won't tell you when i was the recipient of the presidential national

national volunteer service award i was nominated by a registered volunteer group leader in my

hometown for completing over 250 hours of community service at that time when i attended

college at uc berkeley i volunteered for three years with the east bay area youth center to

provide after-school tutoring services at public elementary schools in oakland working directly

with public school teachers students and parents one of those years i was also a program coordinator

at my core i've always been passionate about community service diversity and inclusion

at all levels and i'm well acquainted with the human touch that it requires

i'll end my statement here by saying that my fiance and i hope to start our family here one day

i have a vested personal interest in protecting and advancing diversity and inclusion

in our neighborhoods and our community thank you thank you next up is uh kevin mantila followed

by carlie's laurant

hi good evening my name is kevin mantila i've applied to the open seat on the diversity and

inclusion commission uh in my professional experience i'm an engineer in the tech industry

with a bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering it's an industry that i

developed my project management management skills which i believe would serve well on this commission

despite the technology focus of my education i have always strived to be an advocate for diversity

and inclusion um i was a member of the employee resource group whose purpose was to help create

a safe and welcoming environment for lgbt plus employees enabling them to do their best work

i've also marched with that company at sacramento and san francisco pride rallies

being a visible ally and promoting a message of unity more locally i've involved myself with

support groups at the sacramento lgbt center and i've also facilitated public social soccer

meets with the goal of creating a safe space for people of all identities to freely participate

in sports additionally i'm a passionate educator at university i was a tutor as well as a workshop

chairman for my university's chapter of iEEE facilitating educational events on electronics

and career development i want to serve on this commission to be an ambassador and educator

here in elk grove and help make it the best city it can be and continue its goal of being a city

welcome to all uh thank you very much city council members for your consideration i give my

address my time thank you next up is carlie's laron followed by jade rogers

good evening vice mayor mayor city council um carlie saran i have some written down but um

there's a lot of educated people here in elk grove and i'm sure they know how to write

a list of things and a list of education that we all have but what i can say is i am happy that

i live in a community that has the amount of people that's interested in contributing to

our city um when you look up diversity and inclusion when you look up diversity and dictionary

it defines me i am and i come from a background of not having anything

hud homes uh using state systems i have worked my way up into middle class i am a black man i

am gay i am married to a caucasian man and so i'm aware of how everything pretty much works

um i applied for this position last year because it was something near and dear to my heart

but then i don't think i was all the way ready this isn't a position that i want to put on my

resume because of a job that i'm looking for um this isn't something that i want to move up

uh i want to get to move up with politically this is something that i want to do because it's

near and dear to my heart the reason why is because we sit and we complain about how things

are not going and you know i have people come to my house and they say well el grove is not this

and el grove is not that and i'm around a lot of great el groveians and i see the change that they

are trying to make so rewind 13 years ago my in-laws moved here we used to come here a lot

i can say el grove was not where it needed to be for my liking to feel comfortable three years

ago we made the move here i love the city we came from fresno i love the city i'm not looking back

this is where i want to be so i thought to myself where can i plant my seeds here in el grove

this is a place i want to grow with i want to continue to help and push because this is a

this is a progressive city i see the progression happening and this is something i want to be a

part of um i volunteer in my time i'm part of the chamber i was an ambassador for the chamber

i'm part of the lgbt um real estate um alliance however i don't just volunteer just to volunteer

because i like being at home and i like my time if i do volunteer it's because i can make a difference

and it's something that basically is special to me like i said i had a whole speech i could have

written but ultimately i'm out here i actually do the work i actually show up actually volunteering

people actually know me so i can write this whole speech about anything but i'm actually in the field

i'm in the low-income um housing i'm out here at the at the bars i'm out here volunteering my time so

at the end of the day i hope i am considered because i will show up and i always do show up

thank you for your time thank you next is jade rogers followed by dereca more

good evening mayor sing allen vice mayor and council members my name is jade rogers she her

hers and i'm a proud lifelong elk grow resident a mother and a passionate advocate for social

justice i believe deeply in creating spaces where everyone regardless of ability background or

circumstance is seen heard and valued my husband gino and i met at laguna creek high school go

cardinals he worked for he works for each usd and is currently the head jv high school coach there

he's also a wheelchair user together we're raising our daughter indigo who is autistic and has adhd

in the same schools we once attended we love the city but there are moments when elk grove

doesn't fully see families like ours for example when gino can't access playgrounds with indigo

because of gravel paths or lack of ramps or when we struggle to find enclosed parks that keep our

daughter safe from elopement these are more than inconveniences they're barriers to equity i envision

an elk grove where families with neurodivergence physical disabilities and varied cultural identities

feel supported in every space this vision requires education thoughtful outreach and ongoing advocacy

all of which i bring to the table professionally i serve as the americorps manager for 916 inc

and the fund development manager with celebration arts theater two organizations rooted in storytelling

youth empowerment and community voice i've raised vital funds for programs uplifting black and brown

youth lgbt plus creatives and individuals impacted by disability and poverty but i don't just fundraise

i advocate and i continue just to build on that i hold a degree in reconciliation studies which is

another word for conflict resolution and i am a certified circle trainer in social justice in 2021

i co-facilitated racial healing justice circles at sac state with over 120 participants these spaces

prioritize listening empathy and accountability principles i would bring to this commission

i also know this work is is not always easy conversations about equity can be emotional

and they should be that passion shows care but meaningful progress requires collaboration trust

and calling people in not calling them out that's the space i hold one of grace growth and shared

responsibilities elk rev is a beautifully diverse city by but diversity alone isn't the finish line

inclusion asks are our sidewalks and events accessible are we co-creating policies with

our communities not just for them to the current commission thank you for the foundation you've

built thus far i would be honored to continue that work with you not just as a voice at the table

but as someone who's built built who's helping build a table where everyone belongs thank you

for your consideration thank you next up is jerica more followed by nathaniel copis

hello council how you doing i just want to come up here to induce myself and let you

put a face to a name also i began by being a part of the elk row 101 class i was one of the

i was in the first class they had and that got me more interested about doing something in elk

row because i do a lot in sacramental which is where i grew up and where i go to church where i work

and so i'm very involved in sacramental but i was like i need to be more involved in where i live

and pay taxes and where i'm at i want to spend more time in elk row so i thought the this seems

like a very good the committee to be a part of because clearly i'm black but i also have been

involved in many things diversity and inclusion in sacramental be it with my church not particularly

with my job because i'm a federal worker and but with a previous job i used to be a the control

over at lozen fishes and so that in you had to be very involved in lozen fishes that no matter what

your position was and i so i wanted to i just wanted to be involved in this committee and i

thought oh but i didn't know so many people want to be involved in this committee i was like my

goodness but that's good that that means it's a good committee that's what it's telling me so if

i'm one of the ones you select that'd be great if not i'll still be more i'll still come out and be

involved and yeah because we also have a elk row 101 look like a subcommittee that when we get

together every tuesday and figure out other things we can do within the city so that's what i have

thank you next up is nathaniel copas followed by schvita dollar

i'll geek this short just like me so

so uh just a little bit about myself um so far i'm the only one here for the historical

preservation committee so it's kind of cool i guess um so um uh academically i went to uc davis

i graduated in 2016 i had my bachelor's in history and i minor in anthropology where i uh

specialized in archaeology especially in uh california in the great basin and uh

oregon so i do know a little bit about the me walk in the northern nissan on people um

so i do know a little bit about elk row then that will help with my expertise around uh

you know with the uh the indian and the native american peoples that were here beforehand

also with the history as well uh one thing that was said earlier that you know elk row was

becoming established in 1850 and that's true um 1850 uh elk row was you know a bit of a crossroads

and you know it is kind of how it is today um it is a bit of a crossroads where you have a big infusion

from a lot of people uh uh coming in from the bay area as well as other parts of the country

coming in and moving in uh bring in new culture and infusing it and during that infusion you also uh

lose a lot of what was you know elk row as well and so you know what i would like to do is try to

help contain and uh maintain that culture rather and you know bring out that culture and help

show that you know uh elk row is more than just a crossroads it's more than just a stopway

you know uh more than just a monorail trail we were you know a big meeting ground for the

miwok people the northern nisanon and a bunch of you know indigenous peoples as well as you know

gold mining communities as well as you know um the many other ethnic people like uh the large

chinese communities that we also had before as well as um you know other peoples um so

and more about me as well um you know the history portion um you know i i studied history i did a

lot of research my a lot of my research was based on um more on uh european history but uh with that

i did put a lot of emphasis with the sciences behind it a lot of it was more client uh sorry

climate based so i did a lot of climate uh so uh specifically i did a lot of stuff that was very

novel at uc davis which was uh i studied how the ocean and the climatology affected the greek

treating culture so that's something i would use and utilize sciences when it would come

to that anyways pretty quickly thank you sorry about that anyways thank you thank you all right

next up is schwetha dala followed by katie houston

good evening everyone respected mayor weissmer and council members my name is schwetha and i'm

currently a member of hbc and i joined last september i believe successful cities are a good

blend of mixed land use diverse communities effective governance and varied economy and i'm

proud to say elgrove has it all the old town or historic area of any city is as important as the

downtown or financial district it should boast about a city's culture and its birth all efforts

should be made to keep the essence of the history alive and committees like hbc can help the city

in keeping the historic fabric intact in the last six months i have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of

the committee be it giving my opinion or learning from my peers i believe my background in planning

will help me contribute effectively in hbc i understand getting a footfall in historic town

is important so we need to carefully navigate with good mix of entertainment public spaces

restaurants and offices my newest favorite is the two lake cafe and the artist did a great

job with the murals it is an excellent example of community involvement i recently joined the

algrove 101 program recommended to me by my chair to understand my city and its governance better

and i love it so far and i along with the committee strive to make hbc more involved

with the city and to keep our historic area thriving thank you thank you next up is katie

houston followed by dr tristan buzini hi good evening um mayor singallan and council members

my name is katie houston i'm a mental health provider in the sacramento yellow and el dorado

counties um i'm here to express my strong support for dr tristan buzini's appointment to the diversity

equity and inclusion commission in my work serving youth and underserved communities i've had i've seen

firsthand the impact of dr buzini's leadership and expertise he's not only advocates for marginalized

populations but actively equips providers like myself to better serve our communities with compassion

cultural humility and commitment to equity and dr buzini has the knowledge integrity and dedication

that will strengthen this committee especially in the face of complex social and political

challenges that we're navigating today thank you for your time and consideration thank you next up

is dr tristan buzini good evening mayor singallan and uh honorable council members um it's a truly a

pleasure to be here with you this evening and to make your acquaintance um my name is dr tristan

buzini i'm a licensed clinical psychologist with 15 years of progressive and multifaceted leadership

experience in city county and state government positions i bring to you both experience of value

and enthusiasm to contribute to our community as an appointed member of the city of elk groves

diversity equity and inclusion commission my experience and expertise converge at the nexus

of providing mental health services to diverse vulnerable and underserved populations in our

community training supervising and statewide subject matter expertise in full spectrum dei

policy development program implementation staff instance in training community needs assessment

stakeholder engagement and compliance and feedback reporting with particular specializations in the

area of lgbtq plus and gender diverse patient care i more recently reserved a state distinguished

service medal for my work and leadership implementing sp 132 statewide in accordance with the transgender

rights and dignity act at present my community leadership engagement includes service to the

sacramento valley psychological association as the diversity chair and incoming president of their

board of directors i am actively involved in advancing dei within the city of elk grove and our

greater sacramento area through community outreach legislative advocacy and program and event development

i offer trainings mentorship and teaching in our communities to further protect and promote dei for

future generations as a graduate of equality california's lgbtq plus political leadership academy

and member of the 2025 victory foundation candidate and campaign class i am passionate about

continuing to offer my knowledge skills and expertise to support and protect dei initiatives

legislation education and awareness at all levels of our city state and federal government

thank you for your consideration i hope to be chosen to serve the city of elk grove alongside

you and look forward to the possibility of working with you soon thank you all right next up is

dr andrew smith and followed by if dr bj snodin is here would be the last speaker

hello mayor allen and and board thank you for having me uh i'm dr andrew smith i am a licensed

clinical psychologist i am an elk grove resident um i also have practiced in elk grove as well as

sacramento and i know tristan dr busini i'm here to support him in his candidacy uh he i serve on

the board with him of sacramento valley psychological association i'm the current president um and so

i can attest to dr busini's enthusiasm for equity diversion inclusivity um he is uh probably our

most passionate member and we're all pretty like-minded on this but um on the board he's the one who

who brings so much to us with regard to uh what can we do in the community and for me my platform

for this year is to bring psychologists more into the community um we have a systems level

perspective that we don't often get to use because we're stuck in our offices but tristan's never been

just stuck in his office he's been out in the community providing valuable teaching uh mentorship

he's supervised uh upcoming psychologists to provide sensitive care to those vulnerable populations

and i think that what one of the things that he can bring to the board in addition to this

systems level understanding and government understanding that he's he's been in is um the

mental health perspective he really understands the toll that it can take on someone to be

misunderstood uh misgendered um miss abled all sorts of things i think he has a real uh

heartfelt perspective on that that he can bring to uh both you know he lives this what he does

you can just see it and then how he talks about things so i think he'd be next i can't

for you thank you and our final speaker if he's here is dr bj snoden okay so we will go

ahead and close the public comment opportunity on item 9.4 um i'm going to start with the easy one

the historic preservation committee so i would like to move forward uh shweta dala from the alternate

to the voting member and then i would like to recommend nathaniel copis for the alternate position

that sounded okay all right the next one is going to be the hard one um as always i want to thank

all of the applicants and particularly those that came out this evening um to speak on your

behalf of yourself or somebody else really really appreciate and what i saw in this application

pool is a number of new applicants which is really exciting to see highly highly qualified

background here of new applicants that it's just phenomenal so i wish i had spots for everybody

but this is always the hard part is to recommend somebody um in looking at the makeup of the current

d and i commission it we we have a majority women on the board and i think we only have three men

if i'm not mistaken is that correct i have um rent vovin and michael so what i if i and i checked

earlier but just in case i miss somebody i want to know but um so i do i do intend to nominate

someone to fill some of the void here with um you know what what your unique perspective is what

is it that you bring to the table what is your lived experience and you've made this very hard for me

because all of you have great histories and uh background there's three that i have flagged

for consideration and we can discuss those um one is tristan bozini second is carlie's laura

and the third when i will say the one that i got the most support from lots of lots of letters of

support is john mowa so those are the three that i would like to discuss for consideration i'm torn

i don't have one over another i'd be curious if you have any relationships with i of course

know carlie's i think all of you know carlie's but um it's hard for me to overlook the vast

number of just those letters of support and testimonials for john mowa they were quite

compelling i don't know if you all got copies but i certainly did and just remarkable at tristan

what you shared here and then of course the two speakers that supported uh that came up in support

of you quite compelling as well as um what you bring to the table and carlie's you know just the

tenacity of coming back and wanting to be a part of this so thank you for that those are the three

that i'm looking at right now um i can start are you are you uh did you say carlie said applied

i i you he mentioned yeah i think he applied last year he applied last year carlie's yes

okay and that is something we look at just that tenacity yeah so yeah you know yeah i mean i i've

met carlie's before many times uh in fact i have tie envy carlie's you always got the

you know he's got the flashy time my friend um but you know i've had the opportunity to talk to

carlie's many times over the last couple of years uh he has been an active uh supporter of

of the chamber of commerce um he's i mean he's there like tirelessly and um very committed so i

i can i can bear witness to his commitment um and so uh not only that i mean i he's a he's a great

guy fun to hang out with um but i i i can you know while all three that you've recommended in fact

all i hate every time we say oh you know we got a great selection of people we do we do we absolutely

do we have a fantastic uh you know group but um you know if i was gonna try to help you solve the

the quagmire it would it would definitely be carlie's good to know anybody else may i like

a chime in on that too because i'll go after you is that okay thank you council member um yeah i

these are all great applicants uh i i just wanted to highlight to you i mean i heard you say madame

about the majority of women but i couldn't i could not get a shout out to uh deniva shelton of course

asha misra and others on here that you know also active in the community very but bringing it back

to what you said and in much respect to uh mr muah uh as well and mr dr basini um carlie's really

spoke to me during his testimony is that he does show up i mean in terms of i know everybody here

would show up but he's been there we we all know him because he's been involved volunteering

in in several different capacities already and so that that's what stood out for me and

um actually you reminded me that that he had already applied before so that anyway that kind of

yeah put me over the top on that one and i and i didn't want to overlook also michael hill

oh yeah and he was a former he's coming back yeah it's it would be short-lived so i guess

part of my pause was he wouldn't be here for you know for a definite period of time it would

perhaps be just less than a year yeah um so but and and he didn't come here i think he's traveling back

so i do always appreciate when you come up here and you show up the evening of the appointment

you make that case for yourself makes it a little easier because the applicant pool is just so great

yeah and michael hill like did a great job for me it's just he'd done it before so i'll give someone

else a chance it's all thank you yeah anyone else yeah yeah go ahead so this committee this yeah this

this commission always gives us a spoil of riches of very qualified and in a lot of cases overqualified

applicants but that shows you the passion that people have for elk grove but really want to put

their best foot forward when it comes to dealing with the issues of the day and how this city grows

um yeah we like we have a lot of great applicants like dr mua um dr basini

um jade rogers i mean he had a really good strong group of people um mark quite so hard tonight

and that's why it's always that's why it's a hard that's why it's a hard selection but even for the

people who are not here um knowing those individuals and what they bring to the table brings out a

good strong breath of applicants um but i think like everyone else i mean because i've i've talked

to carly's i've known carly's for a long time and one and just there's folks when you have

conversations you you just listen you listen about of who they are and and and why they are here in

elk grove what attracted them to elk grove but what they are doing on a day-to-day basis to make

elk grove better um and carly's applying for this was very very telling for me in this respect

but this is no slight towards the other applicants i really believe that um folks stay involved stay

engaged we have a lot of we have a lot of commissions to be involved with in addition to

still being involved with the diversity and inclusion inclusion commission um as a non-member

because your voice will still be heard and your voice will still be a part of what we do um here

in here in the community um i just thank everyone for coming tonight and sharing your your testimonials

why you should be here i mean that is it's a it's a really good really good field of of applicants

tonight um but from my perspective i do like having carly's on the commission to um for in this

round and who knows in a couple of weeks all of you will probably be up for consideration again

as we may have another member um vacancy open so i hope you don't take this tonight as a as a

rejection please stay involved please stay engaged um because we could definitely use your voice

so thank you well that certainly makes things easier it's uh you've picked one of my three

you have something else i just wanted to add um i just want to thank everyone for speaking we have

11 we're one elk growth but we have 11 people who have applied from district four don't even go

there don't even go there 11 people that applied from district court and i and i just want to say

thank you right um because just saying we're putting ourselves out there and a lot of folks

from district four but no um okay so since you brought up district four i do want to mention the

disproportionate representation on the board already i know but i kind of want to i'll continue

a little bit we can talk about the i mean you guys got to get your districts to come out um but

but i wanted to say on the commission no yes but i just wanted to say thank you one because um

and i don't want to butcher the last name but teresa thank you because the first thing you said

is you talked about you wanted to make an impact in this especially when it comes to immigration

that's something that right now that's under dei is under attack everything's under attack right now

and to see residents are coming out and wanting to be a part of this and part of be a wanting to be

a part of the solution thank you and whether tonight doesn't go this i want to continue having

this conversation because it really matters not only here in elk growth but here in our region

i hear you see you thank you jade thank you for what you've done as well helping in loaves and

fishes we need more people to come out and and help out over here as well i believe it was or

sorry i got because i have names here so i apologize i apologize um but we also need people

that come from um it was it uh lagoon not lagoon and creek right lagoon and creek high school we

also need folks to come out um there is the heart association or elk of heart right that deals with

homeless um that we can also become a part so i just want to say thank you to everyone and also

carlise i've been part of been part of part of our community coming in and out of of events but not

only that i met you three years ago when you when you moved here when you first move here um when i

knocked on your door uh when i was running for city council you were open and you just started

asking questions and thank you for just being super friendly and being welcoming and not only

that but wanting the best for this city um i just want to say appreciate everybody i think we kind

of know the consensus not necessarily i'm still discussing okay all right um there's so just as

a reminder we only have one commissioner from district one i don't you know and so that isn't

representation does matter um can we put do you have the breakup mr lingren but i as i

recall there's only one from district one it's it's four from two two from three two from four

one from one so that that that matters in the sense that we do like to have geographic representation

now does it over you know is does it overweigh sort of your lived experience and what you bring

to the table not necessarily but i just want to put that there under consideration that uh tristan

and mr mua are the two that have district one one um so that you know that but then carlyse is a

return applicant which we do for those of you that have applied we do give a lot of consideration

for your willingness to come back if you didn't get the appointment that you reapply because you

believe in the work um we've given a lot of consideration to those appointments as well

but does that it does that change any of your thoughts on mr laron

yes i do um as i'm it's i'm torn now actually just knowing that we only have one from one

yeah i mean

it it is tough i guess uh gosh i go i go back though to

if you're putting in the work i mean that's that's the only thing that's the most important thing and

that's where your lived experience and what you're bringing the table is probably the most important

i think geographic representation for the planning commission absolutely important

um for this it's it's important but is it the driving factor probably not as compelling

um i mean i you know i wish i had more seats to offer but i don't so i would like to put forward

carlyse's name for not only your lived experience and what you bring to the table but the work

i know that this will be a continuation for your dedication to the city

from the moment you've arrived you've rolled up your sleeves and you've gone to work

and we've seen that as a result throughout the throughout the community and we've all benefited

to those of you that we did not um appoint those those of you that came this evening please come back

as you see and even in our last round of applications we ended up appointing somebody

that reapplied it does matter and and so all of you still have a seat at the table you can go to

every single one of these meetings and help shape the direction of the commission just like here

so please participate be a part of that and who knows you might see yourself um as a commissioner

sooner rather than later so thank you again for your love of our great city but uh we'll move

forward to uh carlyse's l'arrant for um the the commission appointment congratulations

yeah

and with that we are going to move on to our next item we're not quite done yet

council comments reports and future agenda items does anybody have something to report

i'll start to the right mr spese oh of course i'm just a water bottle away i know i've got

i've got nothing okay mr brewer sacramental public library met on uh thursday march 27th

um we had it was connected with that is with uh denise busher where he had a historian that

wrote a book about the towns of sac that made up sacramental before sacramental became a town and a

city um it was fun it was good those good stuff very educational um and just learning about activities

sacramental public library is doing but um other than that next wednesday as part of my role on the

sac on the sac metro uh board i'm an alternate to the capital corridor jpa board joint powers

agreement board i'll be participating on behalf of sacramental public uh or sac regional transit

for that meeting next wednesday but other than that nothing else to report thank you vice mayor

we have my report how's my person uh nothing to report committee wise but i do want to highlight

coach v is having his empowerment to success conference tomorrow at digit 56 i think a lot

of us are there saying hello but it's uh it's great for the whole community if you want some very

very inspiring person yeah that's right lifting and inspiring our community all right thank you

with that um i will waive my report we will adjourn the meeting at nine thirteen

you