Good morning attendees.

That would be an appropriate time to find your seats for the twenty twenty-six State of the City Address.

And officially here at ten fifteen AM, I would like to call to order the special middle meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, March thirty first, twenty twenty six to hear the twenty twenty-six State of the City Add.

The Elgriff City Council welcomes, appreciates, and encourages participation in the city council meeting, and the city council requests that you limit any presentations to three minutes per person so that all president will have time to participate.

But it helps us just to catalog and get everybody uh set up and lined up in the speaking order.

With that, I would like to call uh the roll call for the meeting, and I will be doing a visual roll call, but these fine glasses aren't doing quite as well as they will, so I'm going to be looking for a couple of my members of the city council.

And I would like to call out, and if you are present to raise your hand for Councilmember Robles.

Ah, excellent, and thank you.

The audio helps as well.

Councilmember Spees.

I believe Councilmember Spees is absent.

And actually, these eyes do work uh rather well.

I know that Councilmember Brewer, I did see him attending in the audience.

Thank you, Councilmember Brewer, and we have Vice Mayor Darren Sewin also attending in the audience, and of course, our keynote speaker, Mayor Bobby Singh Allen.

So with that, we have a quorum and we will proceed.

We would like to move towards our land acknowledgement.

And at this time, I'd like to call forward Mariah Alari to read the land acknowledgement.

Good morning, everyone.

Thank you for being here and joining us today.

My name is Mariah Aleri.

I am an enrolled member of the Ion Band of Mi Walk Indians, first year at the University of California, Davis, and currently working at the Sacramento District Attorney's Office as an intern.

And I will be opening up with the land acknowledgement today.

At the twilight's whose broad stripes and bright stars through the or the pots we watched was so gallant le streaming and the bombs bursting in gave proof through night that our flag was still there does that way or the land of the free and the home of the breed.

And please, everyone, be seated.

Thank you for also standing at the such a uh attentive group.

I appreciate that.

I would like to uh just extend my thanks to the Elk Grove Police Department honor guard, but also for that performance of the national anthem by Gabrielle Lang.

So thank you for that.

That was beautiful.

Which takes us on to section two, our presentation, the State of the City Address, and it is my honor this morning to welcome up our city manager, Jason Beerman for some opening remarks.

Morning, everybody.

It's great to be with you.

Thanks for joining us.

Wanna be half of the entire city of Elk Road, I want to welcome you coming to the city's um great opportunity to hear from our mayor in the state of our wonderful city.

Um so thank you for for not only being here but being engaged in our community for doing all the things that you do.

We couldn't be the city that we are without an engaged um business community, residential community, nonprofits, friends, family that are all here supporting each other and supporting the good work that we do, and I'm blessed to be able to be able to work with a wonderful mayor and city council and great staff who care about this this wonderful community and work really hard to make sure it is the best place that it can possibly be.

So it's now my honor and privilege to be able to say a few words of introduction about our honorable mayor, Bobby Singh Allen before we invite her up to the stage.

Mayor Sing Allen has brought her strong leadership skills and professional background to help lead the city of Elkrove.

Sing Allen is a champion for good governance, which includes transparency, accountability, fiscal responsibility, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement.

A wife, mother, two children.

She has lived in Elk Row for over 30 years.

Her civic and community engagements have earned several awards and recognition.

She was selected as Woman of the Year for Assembly District Nine by former assembly member and current Sheriff Jim Cooper and recognized for her many achievements in front of the California legislature.

She was named AAPI Changemaker by the Sacramento B.

Sing Island was also recognized in the Power 100 by the Sacramento Business Journal.

She is the nation's first directly elected Sikh woman mayor.

As I said, it's my let's let's give her a I've been in local government for 27, 28 years now, and I've never worked for a mayor and a city council as committed and dedicated and as willing to put the interests of our community first in all of the decisions that they make.

And so I am blessed to be able to work as the Elk Grove City Manager and to work with such dedicated public servants and to work with a staff that also delivers just amazing services and has the best interest of our community and heart.

It really is a great place, and all these things need to come together with our community in order for us to be successful.

So it's my honor to welcome up our Honorable Mayor Bobby Singh Allen.

First year I'm going to be needing glasses for this.

Who said getting old is easy?

It kind of sucks.

All right.

Well, good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us.

Whether you are here in person or listening online, I thank you for taking the time to receive an update on the state of our city.

I stand before you giving my sixth state of the city address as your mayor.

Thank you.

I am grateful for the trust you have placed in me and for the opportunity to serve a community that continues to inspire hope, pride, and possibility.

Local government works best when residents don't just live in a city, but actively help to build it.