We convene the special meeting on the Folsom City Council for February 22nd, 2022.

Do you have any final action to report, Mr.

City Attorney?

Good evening, Madam Mayor.

No final action tonight.

Okay.

In which case, we and we are out of gavel tonight.

So I'm just gonna be Emmeral Legassi and we're gonna say BAM.

We will convene the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022.

If the clerk call the role, please.

Council members Rodriguez here.

Aquino here.

Chalem Chairla.

Kozlowski here.

And how here.

And if you'll all join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

Under God T and Justice for all.

It's so nice not to have that feedback because we've been meeting on Zoom for so long, and there's always a delay in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

So that was the best one I've heard in a long time.

And with that, we will move to agenda update.

And we do have a couple of things that we're gonna uh rearrange on the schedule.

Our uh agenda item 16, which is the resolution of commendation for the uh Folsom Junior Bulldogs for the 2021 Excellence and Academics Athletic Award will be heard um after business from the floor, and then we will move our new business items, items 14 and 15 uh prior to the public hearing, which is item 13.

Okay, and with that we'll move to business from the floor.

Now the mayor, uh, you also have additional information for items 13, the public hearing you just mentioned a copy was provided to the council, and they are also available on the table in the back.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, this takes us to business from the floor.

Um, we will have right now we have four requests to speak in a Madam Kirk, I apologize.

It appears that there's also a yesterday information for I believe item 15.

Yes, ma'am.

Yeah, thank you.

Okay, so we will um our first speaker business on the floor will be Michael Harris.

Michael will be followed by James Harville.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council.

It is a blessing to be here in front of y'all, live and of course in color.

So uh, as normally I do from time to time come down, uh Black History Month, as you can imagine, is pretty busy for me.

Um it's really a blessing and a curse at the same time because uh I don't get much sleep.

But the idea that uh Carter G.

Woodson, it was Negro Day, and then it moved to a week, and then it was went to a month, and then as we some of us know that Negro is Spanish for black, and now it's black history month.

And then there's some folks that want to make it African, and I'm like, no, let's do that in Africa.

But um that was supposed to have been a joke, but yeah, I need a drum, a high hat or something.

Um the the the idea that people of African descent have been here, uh 1535, the source documentation with Hernan Cortez, uh, in this area.

Uh Vicente Guerrero fought and then became Mexico in this area wasn't that much uh Spanish or Mexican here in that time because the Native Americans were here, and they were uh in complete control of slinging arrows in the Kenyons, and you weren't gonna stay here, but the Russians, and I'm gonna knock on wood that they don't come back the way they acting right now over there in Europe.

But but the idea that uh there were fur trappers were here, and then uh William Leitisdorf received the land grant, and then uh this little itty bitty thing in the water called gold, you know, the whole world came here, and initially it was Negro Bar, it was Granite City, and you know, we we know the history.

But the idea that um we all have contributed, and unfortunately, there's gonna be some people that have to go and put their life on the line uh to make sure we're all free in Russia all place in the middle of winter.

I don't, you know, I I wouldn't want to be doing that, but we all have to like give a special thanks for that.

And I was talking earlier, uh, tomorrow is anniversary of Iwo Jima, and we were gonna celebrate that, but I I I can't call on my people back in North Carolina when their families are actually getting on planes and going to Russia.

Uh, but uh tomorrow is the celebration of those few that survived with you know.

Let's just say it was a slaughterhouse in Iwo Jima, and and the kids in here that probably take a look at Iwo Jima, you know, everybody got hurt.

You know, if you got off there without a shell upside your head, um let's just say you had a whole bunch of grandmas praying for you.

Most people got injured in Iwo Jima.

So uh again it's Black History Month, and uh we're gonna do Juneteenth.

This year be the 22nd year, and um before I sit out, I'll just say uh where's Doug at?

This guy right here.

I I'm uh I'll be real brief with it.

I'm getting old because he he's retired.

I need to retire with him.

But uh we will we were doing things uh before the turn of the century that are finally making a difference today.

Thank you.