This special meeting of the Folsom City Council was a continued public hearing (No. 4) under the California Voting Rights Act to transition the city from at-large to by-district elections. The council discussed modifications to a draft preferred map, heard public testimony, and ultimately voted to continue the hearing to February 22, 2022, with two maps for final consideration.
Okay, we will call to order the special meeting of the Folsom City Council for Tuesday, February 15th, 2022. If the clerk will call the roll, please. Council members Aquino here. Chalem Chairla. Here. Rodriguez here. Koslowski. Here. And how. Here. And now if you guys will all join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag. And then I'll say that. One nation on the visible disposal with liberty and just as far. Okay. And that moves us on to agenda update. Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is Stephen One City attorney. There are updates to the only item on this afternoon's agenda. A copy of the update has been distributed and uploaded onto the city's website through the city clerk's office. And that's the only item on tonight's agenda. What is actually agenda? So it's not actually an agenda update, it's additional information, commentary provided by the public that has been loaded. So that if there's folks that want to read that, and unfortunately, some of that information came as late as um a minute ago. Yes, ma'am. So that makes it a little bit difficult for us and anybody else who's watching this meeting to absorb that information when it comes in at the time we're actually meeting. Having said that, I understand that the before we get to our first item that the city manager has some comments she'd like to make. Yes, um, if I could, Mayor, before uh we get started. I wanted to respond to some public comments that were received by the council that is your city manager at different times as you were working on the draft map during your February city council meeting. I read aloud and or summarized a loud comments that were received as texts on my phone during the meeting, and that there were not names attached to those comments at the time. Uh, first of all, thank you to um those who inquired for asking questions. Thank you for expressing your concerns and opinions and point of views, and including this particular one, it's all part of the process. And as a resident and your city manager, I appreciate that very much. So, in response, and for the record, I I read andor summarized comments and questions the city council that evening that were texted to me as you were engaged in the mapping process in an effort to simply pass along those public comments. I didn't intentionally not share names. I was just focused on getting the information across. All that said, because I always strive to be as transparent as possible and as a courtesy to the individuals expressing this concern or for anyone else who might share that concern. I will share the source of those texts at this time for the record. The comments I read and were summarized, asking if the consultant could show population numbers, demographics, and how Republicans and Democrats were split in all the districts were made by city resident Bruce Klein, who was also participating in the public meeting via the Zoom platform. The comment I read andor summarized as to whether all of the Knowles area had been captured by the consultant was from City Resident Robert Goss, who was also participating in the public meeting via the Zoom platform. The comments I read andor summarized about Coventry and MacAdoo slash Milow Springs as possible areas to include if one were seeking to keep Natoma Station and Prairie Oaks neighborhoods whole were from City Resident Lorraine Pajoni, who was also participating in the public meeting via the Zoom platform. Ms. Pajoni is also the city's parks and recreation director and is very familiar with the boundaries of those neighborhoods and was also trying to be as helpful as possible to the council. Finally, again, in the interest of full disclosure and being as transparent as possible, I would now like to ask the city attorney to confirm whether any of my actions that evening violated the Brown Act and or any other law. Thank you, madam city manager. This item on last Tuesday night's council meeting was duty noticed as a public hearing item, and all members of the public were able to participate in the meeting, and therefore there are no violations to the thank you. That's all I have, Mayor. I appreciate your time. Okay, so then we will um move to our um public hearing, item one. If the clerk would um read into the record what that item is.