We will now call to order the special meeting for Wednesday, January 18th.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Councilmember Zakino?

Here.

Chalem Chairla.

Kozlowski?

Here.

Rorah?

Here.

And Rodriguez.

Here.

Councilor Member Post Oscar, will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Certainly.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

For which it stands.

One nation.

Under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Are there any agenda updates?

No updates this morning, Madam Mayor.

Okay.

Will the clerk please call the next item?

Your one item of business today is new business, item number one.

This is resolution number 10981, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Folsom ratifying the existence of a local emergency.

All right, good morning, everyone.

Thank you for your time today for this special meeting.

As you know, um last Friday, January 13th, in my role as the city's director of emergency services, I declared a local state of emergency.

The governor had already done so on behalf of the state on January 4th, and the county's chief of emergency services had done the same on December 31st.

Just by way of background, beginning at the end of December 2022, a series of severe winter storms began pounding California, bringing wind, rain, flooding, and extensive damage to much of the state.

These storms also brought damaging high winds, uh substantial precipitation, and localized flooding in our own city with particularly challenging conditions accelerating from January 4th, 2023 onward.

The storms caused significant damage throughout the city, including to city facilities and required extraordinary responses.

And thank you again to our outstanding city personnel by city employees to protect the public's health and safety.

At the time I declared the state of emergency, it was forecasted that additional and continuing storms related to this series of atmospheric river systems would bring strong winds, heavy rainfall, and localized flooding again to the city for several more days, and we expected more damage, um, more falling debris, down trees, and localized flooding.

Um storm damage is critical to city infrastructure and resources and can present a condition of extreme peril to the public's health and safety.

So I am today asking that you pass and adopt resolution number 10981, a resolution of the city of Folsom ratifying existence of a local emergency.

And once and if you do that, I would further respectfully ask for consensus direction from you to return with an item at your regular city council meeting on Tuesday, January 24th, to rescind that state of emergency.

We are looking at reasonable weather for the next 10 days or so at least, allowing our intrepid city staff to catch up a bit, and I do feel it would be appropriate to rescind on Tuesday if you are in agreement.

Uh, thank you, and I'm happy to answer any questions or provide additional information.

Thank you.

Are there any questions from the council?

Are there any public uh requests to speak?

You have no request to speak on this item.

Okay, bringing it back to the council.

I'll make a motion to approve resolution 10981.

I'll second.

Okay, will the clerk please call the roll?

Council members Aquino?

Yes, Chalem Chairla?

Yes, Koslowski, yes, Rorbah, yes, and Rodriguez, yes.

Thank you.

And do I have your consensus direction to return on Tuesday to rescind the state local emergency?

At least three heads bobbing or something.

Okay, all right.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Okay, we will now adjourn the special meeting for Wednesday, January 18th.