We will adjourn the special meeting and call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council on Tuesday January 14th

2025 with the clerk. Please call the roll council members Koslovsky

Larry

Rathal yes, Roorba yes and Akino here

If you'd all please rise and join me for the pledge allegiance

to the

Letters and Justice for all

Okay, Mr City Attorney any agenda updates. Good evening Madam Mayor

There is an additional information transmittal for item 16 to 17

on tenets agenda a copy has been previously provided to you and they are also available on the table in the back

Thank you very much

That takes us to business from the floor

This is the public's opportunity to address the council on items that are not on the agenda

We're happy to have you here and hear what you have to say but please understand that state law prohibits us from taking action or

Deliberating on items that are not on the agenda. So I think we maybe have one or two

Speaker cards

Madam clerk you do you have two requests to speak this evening under business on the floor the first

Request is from Larry Ladd who is provided a handout that I'll pass out and the second speaker will be Brenda and Dan McNeill

So Larry come on down

Perfect right here Mr. Ladd. We do give you three minutes. So

Indeed short and sweet well short. Yes

Larry Leroy Ladd one of the co-founders is the city of Ranch Cardova

Sarah and Barbara no need for introductions there. We both go way way back

From Mike from Chicago. Howdy. I'm from Carbondale

Anna from

Ecosopia so Homish County one of my best friends ran the neighborhood services in Everett

and Justin the Rotarian

Fortunately, there will be no gang conflict between Kiwanis and

But I do have YK behind me to back me up with things don't stay white shirt. Okay

So I'm here because back when Barbara was on the planning commission

She she asked me to come up with examples of when regulation

catastrophically failed and there were casualties and

I am not I'm involved with the Community Advisory

Group for air jet superfund site issues for the last 25 years, but I'm out of touch because I'm spending most of my time in Illinois

Take care of my mom and mom's stable brother, but it's too cold right now

My mom has a caregiver she likes and so I'm here where it's warm

But the example I would offer and that that I can study in Illinois was back in the 1980s when they were meeting cold

And they created a cluster of neuroblastoma and so I gave the gentleman there the die what I do my niche is to keep following the science and what I will be doing

There's a new the folks I haven't taught this is a book by investigator there

personal injury attorney investigator. I

There's a new paper the folks that I talked with the historical society said folks got exposed at a dance hall

100 yards away from where the remediation was that was the disaster this is in 1980 so as

Shelley Brandt said or rancher probe would say it was a lesson light in their art

So that's the kind of outcome you want to avoid

There's a new paper out

Because it's involved exposure before the children were

conceived there's a new paper out with the similar data to what I gave the gentleman there

And I will try and compile them together talk to more people in Taylorville and come back to you guys like in

six months

With a new and improved diagram

And I hope

Like I said we're meeting rancher probe city hall tomorrow. I hope there will be more meetings in Folsom

Because you guys are coming right up on the main stuff like maybe Sarah one of the elementary schools in your part of Folsom

Because you guys are where the action is now things are pretty stable in ranch. All right. Thanks for coming out

Okay, our next speaker is

Looks like brand to Indian McNeil

Hello

Hello, members of the city council. Thank you for allowing us to speak

um

The handouts that you're getting right now the first page is a as a

Insurance homeowners insurance

Non-renewal notice

Because we have a

Wonderful blue oak tree that our eve of our house is actually cut out to accommodate

It's trunk it's trunk is and 65% of the tree itself sits over our house

We have

This is just some of the companies that I have called that has that have denied us USA a lemonade state farm tripelae travelers

progressive

Farmers and even the California Fair plan because we don't have a that

Five foot zone zone zero

We just came up with an article

And it's called the five foot that could

They could have prevented the

Palisades fire the the puffy that could prevent the next Palisades fire came out today

And it's by Emily Ponte Coro that's P-O-N

T-E-C-O-R-V-O and it basically

Is an article about that five foot that now the insurance companies wants from

From everybody and

We're obviously the the oak is protected so we're not able to take it down if we do I understand it's 500

Dollars for every inch or it our trees 43 inches across it would cost me 21,500 dollars if we were to take it down without a permit

This we're only going to be one of the you know

We're one of the first now that is this is going to be happening to it's going to start happening everywhere in California

And I'm sure in Falson and the Baldwin Damne neighborhood there are tons of oaks and pines

And there's so many houses that have that have trees within five feet or overhang their house

I mean

We need to take this tree down if we don't we can't get insurance

And even if we do get insurance it's probably going to go from our

$2,600 a year now to somewhere around eight to 12

Thousand a year

Governor Newsom passed a bill last

Two years ago was supposed to go into effect two years ago. It was called zone zero

It's a five foot clearance from your house of everything from bark your deck

Anything made of wood wood fencing everything must be five feet away from your house

It's any day that he's going to put that into effect when he does anybody in this room

It's anything within five feet of your house. You will have to take it down

All of us and replace it with so if we can't get insurance and right now even the California Fair Palace turned us down

We will have no insurance. We have a mortgage

So we will lose our home and my business which you guys have licensed inside of my home

I have a one-chair hair salon very productive awesome. Thank you for having us in town for 37 years

We've been in a South for 24 we've been members of the community for a long long time

And we love our community and we love our trees and we love our tree

That's why we spent so much money on it. It's cabled

It's a big truck it turns into three other trucks. We have had that cabled even help support itself

We've spent thousands of dollars yearly on this tree to save it. Thank you. We don't want to cut it down

Okay, we have we have one of your cell phone numbers here. Yeah mine here. Okay. I'm gonna ask our interim city manager Dan

Have ready to contact you tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, I know Brandi has already talked to him earlier

Okay, yeah, so hopefully you know any any anytime you guys can help us with this is very appreciate

Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thanks for coming out

Okay, you've no further requests to speak under business from the floor anybody in the audience want to speak to business from the floor

Who did not turn in a blue card every other card we have we believe goes to a specific agenda item?

All right, we see no one running toward the podium

That will take us to the next item, please

Your next item this evening is your consent calendar and you do have one request from the public to pull item number 11

All right, we'll pull item number 11 does anybody else want to pull another item

If not I will entertain emotion for items one through ten

I make a motion to move items one through ten

Second

We have a motion in a second. Please call the roll council members Koslawski. Yes, Leary. Yes, Rathel. Yes, Laura. Yes, Indicino

Yes, that takes us. Go ahead. Yeah item number 11 Lorraine Pajoni if you want to come on down

This is resolution number one one three two one

This is a resolution initiating proceedings for the formation of an L&L assessment district to be known as the Natoma station maintenance

Assessment district 2025-1

Go ahead when you're ready. Thank you. Good evening

Mayor Kino members of the council welcome to Justin Rathel and also Barbara Larry. Hello Dan Havardy great to see you

Um, my name is Lorraine Pajoni. I work for the city for a little over 22 years

I was a landscape and landing district manager for about 19 years and then the parks director for the last four and a half

Now retired. That's why I'm wearing sneakers

um, I just wanted to

um

To explain how supportive I am of this item to continue to go forward

um

As the former landscape and landing district manager we recognize the need um in Natoma station about in 2007

And I brought it forward to our residents at that time

It was not a great time to be talking about any sort of assessment increases

There were several other districts that were also in need of an assessment

Increased and so we moved forward a little bit after the recession and started

um working on those assessment increases so

Just as we kick off and I know this isn't early early yet, but I wanted it to be publicly

Recognize that this district is indeed very much in need of an assessment increase

It's a little over 34 years that we've had the same $91

Assessment we're taking care of 21 art pieces

Papers walls

Fences landscape being street lights just on my way here today

I saw at least two street lights in my neighborhood that were out

um

So it is indeed a very much needed assessment increase from the public meetings that I've attended in the recent years a couple years ago

definitely a good

Ground swell as support for this so I don't see any issues there

But I just wanted the council to be aware that this this is not a new issue. It's something that we we've been aware of for a while

It's just everything has its its time to

To

Brue and and for sure

Natalma station is ready so thank you very much. Thank you for coming out. Good to see you

any questions

Commentary

Councilmember Larry

I'm just gonna make a comment here. I'm gonna recuse myself from voting on this issue

While I await an evaluation from the California Fair Political Practices Committee to ensure that I don't have a conflict of interest

Based on the public generally exception

The master formal review and written reply. Okay. Thank you. Thank you

Any other questions or comments then we will entertain a motion

I make a motion to move item number 11

Second

We have a motion in a second. Please call the roll council members Koslausky. Yes, Rathel. Yes, Roorba. Yes, and a keynote. Yes

Thank you very much next item. Please okay that takes to your one and only public hearing item this evening

This is item number 12

Alder Creek West large lot tentative subdivision map project is in the vicinity of white rock road and oak avenue parkway in the

Fulsome plan area before you tonight be resolution number 11318

Determining that the alder Creek West large lot tentative subdivision map project. It's exempt from sequa and approving said large lot tentative subdivision map

I

Got it. Don't touch it

Don't touch it

Now you can touch it doesn't like me okay

Okay, good evening

Marikino and city council just took a brand with community development and I'll be presenting the alder Creek West large lot tentative subdivision map to you tonight

So

The project is located in the vicinity of white rock road and oak avenue parkway in the Fulsome plan area south of highway 50

It's mostly surrounded by undeveloped area with the toll brothers phase three single family residential development

sharing a portion of the projects south eastern boundary

The project site has multiple specific plan designations including single family single family high density

Multi-family high-dit multi-family low density parks public quasi public and open space

Just a quick aerial view of the site. It is comprised of two existing parcels of

362.8 acres in total

So the proposed map I was shown on the screen here and I kind of tried to blow up the lot numbers for you a little bit

The large lot map consists of nine lots for future sale development and transfer

They range in size from point two of an acre all the way up to 169.1 acres

The applicant is not seeking any development rights with this large lot map and a note will be placed on the final map to that effect

Also dedication of rights of way for the streets shown will be required at final map as well

So here's the proposed map and then a snap a snap of the specific plan land use designation exhibit

For the project area side by side

The proposed large lots are intended to separate areas that will be transferred to the city or school district from those that will be sold for further development

So proposed lots one and two would encompass all of the single family single family high density and multi-family low density land uses

Proposed lot one would also include the future elementary school and neighborhood park sites

Lot three encompasses the future high school site

Lot four through eight would be exclusively open space areas

So some lots are like proposed lot one include large areas that are likely to be further divided as mapping and infrastructure development move forward

In the project area

Others like lot eight are very small and will likely be merged into open space areas adjacent to but not within this particular project area

The applicant anticipates that future small lot maps will further subdivide consistent with the Folsom plan area specific plan

But if not specific plan amendments or minor administrative modifications will be requested um, they'll be required

So

So staff found that the project was consistent with the previously approved Folsom plan area specific plan EIR and does not propose any development

Therefore it did not require any additional sequer review

Uh, procurate to sequel guidelines

Staff has determined that the proposed large lot subdivision map complies with all city regularly or requirements as well as the requirements of the state subdivision map act

It is also consistent with the general plan and with the Folsom plan area specific plan

So as such staff is recommending approval of the project as conditioned

The planning commission considered this project at its December 18th 2024 meeting in did unanimously recommend city council approval as well

And with that my presentation is done. I can answer any questions

And then we also do have applicant representatives here if you would like to hear from them

Thank you. Thank you, Jessica

So it's my understanding that Folsom, Cordova has not made a final decision about a high school yet

They're still pursuing all kinds of options

So if if the location of the high school were to change they would have to come back correct the applicant would have to come back and get this

So whoever has

Control of the properties and question would need to come back for

Some sort of specific plan land use amendment in order to accommodate some other type of land use. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for my colleagues

I

And and I just kind of based this on Folsom, Cordova

I've heard some talk of they may want to combine a middle school and high school site

And with that intention would that be or from what you understand the lower site because it looks like

To me really the only parcels that are being prepped for sale here are parcels two and three

I do not know

Yeah, we've got a meeting setup with the school district and the property owners a week from Friday to learn more about that possibility

So but I do it's been described in the way you've you've listed so

To combine them, you know in the southern portion of the site and that would be the lots to enter you then

That's what I understand. I have not seen any graphic of that. It's just been described. Okay

I'm just wondering if you could

List or use your pointer to show which lots are which you know because they're color coded but the numbers

I'm not quite clear on which

Pieces those apply to

So these here

Yeah, it's not super clear. I wish I had an overlay. So I apologize for that

Effectively six is the open space area that you see up on the north side

one is

Everything from this line here down and around it includes all this

Faint single family residential and then the school site and the park site

There are a couple of like the smaller open space lots here seven and nine and nine is effectively a tiny sliver here

That's just more of a existing mapping issue related to the specific plan designation

Similar with eight here is this little bump out right here and then you have two is this

residential and then

Three is the high school site and then four and five are both open space and I think they're they may be both drainage

Features, but I know at least one of them is does that help?

Um, yeah, I think the most confusing piece was was one yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. Thank you

Any other questions from my colleagues before we open the public hearing

All right, see me here now. We will open the public hearing do we have any requests to speak you have no request to speak on of this public hearing item

Anybody in the public wish to speak on this item come on down

Please state your name for the record

Hello, I'm Patty Solzby. I just have some questions. I know a little bit about sequels in place to protect the public

So can it be explained how it's exempt sequels exempt for all this area right here?

I will allow our community development director answer that thing the entire area had a comprehensive environmental impact report done

And this map is consistent with that plan and so

The sequel was otherwise covered in a more comprehensive document done previously for the project

What what what year was that?

um, yes, it's been it was initially adopted in 2011 and then subsequent amendments to that

So we'd be happy to you can reach out to me or Jessica through the community development website

I'll give you my contact information and we'll be happy to follow up with you

Any other

Members of the public wishing to address the council on this item

seeing now and we will close the public hearing and

I will entertain a motion for adoption of resolution number one one three one eight

I

Anyone I'll move to adopt resolution number one one three one eight

Second we have a motion and a second. Please call the roll council members Koslausky. Yes, Leary yes, Ray Phil yes, Roarba. Yes, and a keynote. Yes. Thank you next item

Okay, your first new business item this evening is item number 13. This is resolution number one one three two zero

A resolution appointing Brian white Meyer as city manager and approving an employment agreement for said appointment

Good evening Madam Mayor and the members of city council Stephen Warn your city attorney

This item tonight is for the council to appoint a new city manager

Following the retirement of former city manager Eileen Anderson

I would like to introduce to the Folsom community the top candidate to be considered by the city council as our next city manager Brian

Whatmire

Mr

Whatmire has over 23 years of experience in municipal government and public administration

He comes to Folsom from the city of Oakdale where he served as city manager for the past 12 years

Prior to Oakdale Mr. Whatmire served as city manager at the city of Houston and assistant city manager at the city of Patterson

Mr

Whatmire holds a bachelor's degree in international studies from BYU and a master's degree in public administration from Cal State Standards laws

He is a member of the International City Management Association in a representative of the Central Valley City manager's division at the league of California cities

In accordance with government code section 5495-3c3 a summary of the city manager's salary and the benefits is reported as follows

The salary for the city manager will be $200 and a $10,000 per year

The city manager will receive the third compensation of 7.5% a monthly auto allowance of $500

Monthly expense allowance of $200 and the monthly tech allowance of $100

Consistent with other executive management employees of the city the city manager is eligible for both

For health benefits which which include vision dental and comprehensive medical insurance

Other benefits include life and in disability insurance as well as workers compensation coverage

paid time off includes holidays

administrative leave

annually

sick leave and the leave accruals on the same basis as other executive management employees

further benefits include purse member retiree benefits and the third compensation plans

Mr

Mary with four children they intended to make foes on their new home

With that I

Am subject to your questions welcome Mr. Watt-Mirey family. Thank you very much, Steve

Any questions for my colleagues?

I don't think so but I will say on behalf of the council

That we are thrilled to welcome Brian and his family to Folsom

We received um 55 applications for the position of city manager

So he beat out 54 other applicants to be the unanimous choice of the council and I would say um we were very impressed with his

Command of municipal finance and for his collaborative leadership style so um

We we look forward to welcoming though. It's gonna be a good fit for Folsom

Um with that I will any public comment on this item you have no request to speak on this item okay

I'll also comment like you asked for questions so um

But I am super excited about having Brian um come and join us um it's two months. I think March 10th

Did you say that was his first day and um and and I think um I think the city is excited

I'm they're asking some questions, but um

I'm sure he's watching tonight um so I just want to say welcome and we are look forward to helping the process

He is going to move here. I think I'm not sure if Steve mentioned that um and so we want to have our arms wide open to him and

I hopefully he's gonna work as hard as um he can in full sum he has a big task

But I think we were all impressed with his um humor and his ability to disarm us and um

And make us feel like he was a part of our team already and I think that we need that and um

I think collectively we're all very excited and so just to add on to what you said. Thank you

Any other comments?

All right, then we'll entertain a motion make this official

I'll move that we um proceed with uh the appointment of Brian Whitmire to the city manager

And approve an employment agreement for a set of appointments

Second

We have a motion and second please call the roll council members Kauslauski. Yes. Leary. Yes. Rathel. Yes. Laura. Yes. And a keynote. Yes. Thank you very much

Next item. Okay. Your next item is new business item number 14

This will be resolution number 11319 a resolution receiving report from the community development department on the approval of a parcel map waiver for the cindero residential condo project

Welcome back Jessica. Thank you. Glad to be back

Um, this will be quick. I so I'm Jessica brand with community development and I am giving just a really brief presentation on this item

So I the planning commission at their just the November 20th meeting uh approved a request for a tentative parcel map waiver for residential condominiums

A design review and inclusionary housing plan for the cindero um Mangini ranch lot 14 project

Uh the project will include develop development of 136 units uh rental condominium

Uh on a 9 1 1 1 2 half acre site at 145 45 southpoint drive in the Folsom plan area

The project's utilizing site improvements that are already in place for the now defunct

Minjini ranch lot 14 bungalow project with some modifications to accommodate the new project design

The reason I'm here tonight is that Folsom municipal code section 16 24

080E

Requires that if the planning commission approves or conditionally approves a parcel map waiver

The community development departments must make a written report to the city council

Further the city council may vote to review the parcel map waiver and conditions

So in its action um the planning commission did make all necessary findings for approving the parcel map waiver

The planning commission further found that the site is physically suitable for the type and density of development proposed

And that the project is not likely to cause substantial environmental damage or serious public health or safety problems

Staff supports the parcel map waiver granted by the planning commission and recommends that the city council approve the resolution

Accepting the report and confirming the waiver. Thank you. Thank you. I need questions for Jessica

Okay, okay, seeing them any request to speak on the item you have no request to speak on this item. Okay

I will say I think it is very nice that we're going to have some four sale condos. I consider this some of that missing middle housing that we all talk about

Um, so I think this is very exciting

For the city so without I'll entertain a motion

I'm moved to

adopt resolution number

11319

So I gotta say perfect yes

I won't say the rest of it, but I'm very pleased to see this happening. I've been talking about it for six or eight or more years

You know after

Serving on the planning commission. You know, there was a dearth of housing that

People in the missing metal you're younger people and older people who want to downsize I can purchase in this town

So I'm really looking forward to seeing this project

Come forward. Thank you. Oh second perfect. We got a motion in a second. Please call the roll council members cause Lowski

Thank you for using the word dirt. Yes

Leary yes, Rafell yes, Roarba yes, and a keynote yes next item. Please

Okay, our next item this evening is item number 15

This is the at-large appointments to the Arts and Cultural Commission historic district commission

L&L district advisory committee library commission parks and recommission planning commission traffic safety committee and utility commission

And before we get started

We do have one request to speak on this item. Okay

Um before you call that person up. I just want to say I see a lot of applicants in the audience today. Thank you for being here

This is always a very

Difficult exercise for council members because we get many more applicants than we have space available. Um, so

We do our best to try to you know

Put the right people on the commissions, but thank you to everyone for applying

We greatly appreciate your interest and wish we had a spot for everybody

So why don't you go ahead and call up that person. Okay, you wind speaker on this item is Mark men's come on down mark

Just

Just wanted to put the face behind the emails and the application you guys have

Mark men's mr. Kraski. I we've met before

Mythravity is this new welcome?

Is it rakell?

Sarah I still have some tea that was supposed to give you

Uh, and then Anna we've met before but it was quite a while ago and Barbara

Um, I am but you currently go. I was the chairman of the utility commission

Got on it for two years, but you have my CV and my application

So I don't want to take a lot of time. Just wanted you to be able to put a face behind the application. Thank you very much

All right, no other request to speak you have no other request to speak on the item

Um, I would like to ask my colleagues

What your preferences typically we do what we call the charter commissions for us

We would start with planning and then go to parks

But if you'd rather take it alphabetically or some other way I think that's great planning

planning them parks

Over here

Okay with that I prefer a just straight lottery on everything

Any order is fine with me. All right. We'll stick with tradition here

So we're gonna start with the planning you have your ballot in front of you

Hold on

So

So Christa we're just voting for two at large and passing it down to you

Yeah, that's right. So each council member has a ballot that looks and basically identical to what you're seeing on the overhead projector there

So they'll mark their ballots pass them down. I'll read them out. They're not intended to be secret

They're just intended to be filled out individually

You can see at the top that council members leery and rathle have already made their direct appointments to the planning commission

Um bill barcelona and dianna lady

And so now we'll just be looking at votes for at large

So never you're ready send them down and you can see how many applicants we have there for two spots. So this is always a tough choice

So

I have a question

If there isn't a majority

So it's not three for one

If it's like 2111 what happened is the two win or what happens in you need three three votes to a point a commissioner

So you will vote again will revote on the five that were so or the four whatever we ask each council member to reconsider their vote

Okay

Modified choice voting and lobby if you'd like yes

So council member leery I'm sorry hang on

All right is voted for um justin herst

And taunia maralus

Council member roerba votes for gym or tega and rathle williams

Yes

Sorry council member a key no votes for justin herst and gym or tega

Council member causalowski votes for taunia maralus and anthony nika li

And vice mayor rathle votes for justin herst and taunia maralus

So

So it looks to me like justin herst and taunia maralus had three required votes and they would be appointed to the planning commission

Okay, congratulations to justin and taunia and thank you to everyone who applied

That will take us to parks and recreation

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

And with the second sheet for that

Thank you

Okay

Okay

Councilmember leery votes for halal el katee and alaina wagner

You

Council member roerba votes for gym or tega and alaina wagner

Vice mayor rathle

votes for aren silva and alaina wagner

Council member causalowski votes for joan brosch and kevin gottered

And

Mayor a quino votes for jeff kernan and alaina wagner

Okay, so we have alaina wagner. Yep. Who's in the audience? Congratulations

And then we need to come up with the second person correct. That's right

Okay

I will advocate for i voted for or tega on planning and then now on arts

uh parks and what are we doing on parks and recreation um i think ortega has done really well on the

planning depart uh planning commission um he got a recommendation from the chair um i think he's

dedicated he shows up he reads his packet um he loves the city i would hate to see him not serve

on a committee um so that's why i would advocate for him

Are we changing our votes orally or are we waiting for passing around?

It's up to you if you want to if you want to change orally and we get to three verbally then we can do that

I'd be happy to switch my vote to jim or tega as what i yeah same

Okay, so with that

um

jim or tega and alaina wagner are are appointed to the parks and recreation

okay

congratulations

again thank you to everybody who applied from there why don't we go alphabetically um so we'll go

back to the arts and culture commission

again marking two

yeah

I'm going to go to the

council members are filling out

their ballots. I'll just point

out that councilmember liry has

named Alexis Goddard as her

director appointment to the arts

and culture commission.

Okay.

We're almost there.

All right.

Thank you.

Okay.

Councilmember liry has votes for

Julian Seraphian and

Lucinda Winward.

Councilmember Koslovsky votes for

Mark Olamin and Lucinda Winward.

Vice Mayor Raithl votes for

Mark Olamin and Robert Sumner.

And so Mark Olamin and Lucinda

Winward are appointed to the arts

and culture commission.

Congratulations and thank you to

everyone who applied.

That takes us to the historic

district commission and I just want

to confirm with the clerk.

Tonight we're doing the

H-DC the architect slot and the

business.

We're going to go to the

council tonight.

Tonight we're doing the H-DC

the architect slot and the

business rep outside the

center street sub area.

We are not doing the planning

commission rep because they

generally nominate their own as a

recommendation to the council but

it's pretty much a formality.

We tend to take their

recommendations.

That is correct.

So the the planning commission

is going to be the

committee.

I think it's just a serve on H-DC.

It appears like we only have the

two candidates that qualify for those two

spots.

You do but the planning commission

might nominate others than those

that applied.

No, she's talking about our

vote.

There's only one candidate for each

spot.

That's right.

We have the committee.

We have the committee.

We have the committee.

We have the committee.

We have the committee.

And John Feltz.

Council member Roarbaugh votes for

Jennifer Cabrera and John Feltz.

I probably do this quicker.

We have unanimous from everybody for

Jennifer Cabrera and John Feltz.

Congratulations and thank you to

everyone who applied.

That takes us to landscape and

landscape.

We have the committee.

The LNL districts here.

That's right.

We just move.

Yes.

Anybody have an applicant?

I move that we accept all applicants.

As they are.

I will second.

All in favor.

Hi.

Is that okay, Mr. Wong?

All right.

I would like to ask you to move on to

the commission of their choice or

A commission.

I think it would be worthwhile to ask

Parks and Rec to run all the addresses

of those who didn't get on a commission

to see if their landscape and lighting district

has a vacancy because I believe we have

seven, eight, nine districts that have

no representative.

And it's an important job and a great

way to get involved that's not a huge

time commitment.

So that takes us to the library commission.

Did I understand earlier that

the committee was directly

appointed by?

To the planning commission.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

We're in library.

I got kind of.

Yes.

You're waiting for me probably.

Yeah.

Okay.

And while the remaining council are filling out their

ballots, I'll mention that council member

Larry named her direct a pointy of

Bonnie London to the library commission.

So congratulations, Bonnie.

So.

We'll go back.

Yep.

Well, now I have to.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm looking for three.

I apologize.

I'm confused.

Okay.

So council member Roerbaugh for library votes

for Robert Deutsch and Sarah Norberg.

Council member Larry votes for Catherine

Olamin and Vijay John LaGuarda.

Council member Kuzlowski votes for Catherine Olamin.

And Benjamin Osepoff.

Vice Mayor Raithl votes for Catherine Olamin and Vijay

John LaGuarda.

So it looks like Catherine and Vijay are appointed.

Congratulations to Catherine and Vijay and thank you to all

who applied.

That takes us to the traffic safety committee.

You're voting for one bicycle slash pedestrian safety

slot and two at large citizen representatives.

Thank you.

Thank you.

One bike and pad and two citizen.

Correct.

Correct.

I have a quick question.

On this, if people only put down bike pad,

I mean, it says traffic safety, bike pad, and the citizens rep.

Some people have.

And other people just put traffic safety dash bike pads.

So a bike pad person can't be considered for the general

position.

We generally wouldn't if they didn't self select that.

No.

Okay. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you for your patience.

Everybody after this.

We only have one to go.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

If you all wonder what's taking so long, we had a lot of

Applauses.

And it was tough to differentiate because we've got a lot of

very talented people in this town.

And we're all trying to be careful.

I hope that more people will get involved in some of the

Committees that aren't actually being selected for this

evening.

Okay.

So councilmember Leary votes for Joanne Brosh.

And Kevin got her.

I'm sorry.

You're missing one.

Barbara, you need to vote for three.

You have Barbara.

You can get your two.

I'm going to buy a bike and head and one for a two for citizen.

Oh, you just put it there.

Oh, she just put it there.

Okay.

And then hand it this.

Okay.

And also Anthony Nicolai.

Surely.

So councilmember Leary votes for Joanne Brosh.

Kevin got her.

And Nicolai.

And Anthony Nicolai.

Councilmember Roerba votes for Joanne Brosh.

Rick Cogel.

And Kevin got her.

Councilmember Koslowski votes for Joanne Brosh.

Marcia and Kevin got her.

Vice Mayor Ray Thil votes for Joanne Brosh.

Rick Cogel and Kevin got her.

And Mayor Aquino votes for Joanne Brosh.

Rick Cogel and Kevin got her.

It looks like we have Brosh.

Cogel and got her to point into traffic safety committee.

Okay.

Congratulations to Joanne, Rick and Kevin.

And thank you to all who applied.

Madam Clerk, I just noticed something.

Oh gosh.

I'm sorry.

There was an application that got caught in our filter originally.

You sent it to us afterwards.

It was for Amy McBride.

That's right.

She shows up on this master spreadsheet.

But I don't believe she's shown up on any of these ballots.

And the reason I just know that is because I'm planning to vote for her for utility commission.

And she is not on the ballot.

So just an FYI to my colleagues.

If you would like to write an Amy McBride for the utility commission, you can do so.

Can you hold on a second so I can look at her?

I don't remember her.

Yeah.

Thank you for that.

And I am sorry.

She got caught in every spam filter we had.

So she did.

She did apply before the deadline that was confirmed.

It just got redirected to this spam filter and we didn't know about it.

Okay.

So.

But she the email was sent to the council in, I think, around December 15th or 16th.

We forwarded that to you.

Would it be possible also to just identify who has already been appointed to something else before we do this one?

I think there's just one maybe two.

So VJ, John, a legata has been appointed.

Kevin Goddard above him.

Mark Menns.

No, not yet.

Oh, that's right.

He's on this one.

I think that's just the two.

Right?

That's it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you.

Well, while everybody is pondering their vote for this one, let me make my usual pitch for the utility commission.

So, I think that's just one of the most important parts of our city budget.

And understanding the city budget means understanding all of those enterprise fund budgets.

So, whether or not the 16 or 17 people that wanted to be on this commission end up on the commission, I would implore all of you to pay closer attention to what's what the goings on our at the utility commission.

So, please make some time to visit those meetings.

It was the most interesting bit of service I had before I was on the city council and super important and instruments.

Thank you for drawing a highlight on it earlier today.

I don't know why that was the hardest thing tonight.

It's so important.

Well, I mean the logistics of it.

Okay. So, council member Leary votes for Mark Mens and Jag Nguendra.

Council member Koslawski votes for Mark Mens and Julian Seraphian.

Vice Mayor Raithel votes for Mark Mens and Aaron Silva.

Council member Rohrbaugh votes for Mark Mens and Jag Nguendra.

And Mayor Echino votes for Mark Mens and Amy McBride.

So, Mark Mens is appointed but we do not have a quorum for the second seat.

Okay. Would you like more ballots, a new ballot or would you like to do this verbally?

Can you, I could not find Amy's application?

Oh, well, she's here in the audience, which I could answer.

Or you can advocate for her. Why are you picking her?

Well, I know she's a former teacher.

I don't know exactly what she does right now but she does live in Folsom Ranch and I do think it's important that that part of the city

where all the growth is happening be represented on these commissions.

So that is my main reason.

Plus, I just know her from, she's an active participant particularly in that part of the city.

I would be happy to make my direct appointment, be Aaron Silva and switch my vote to Amy McBride.

And I'll pass my Sarah, Sarah, Julian's vote over to McBride.

All right. Okay. And I'll be free for Amy.

Yeah, so we do. So Amy McBride is appointed to the Utility Commission.

Sorry, Amy for the drama.

And so Aaron Silva will be identified as Vice Mayor Ray Thil's direct appointee to Utility.

And I'm sorry, I didn't notice it earlier. I had my mind on Utility and alphabetically the last one.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Okay. It's tough.

Okay, that wraps that up. Okay. Thank you.

I can also go ahead and make Robert Sumner, my Arts and Culture direct appointment.

And Solomon Keese as my direct appointment to library.

Very nice. Thanks for letting me play the games and who I could get in their at-large before I made my direct appointment.

Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you to all the applicants and thank you to everybody for your patience.

I'm sure to do all of that. I do want to make a comment. I mean, you did already mayor, but there was so many applicants and I'm so thrilled that so many are willing to participate.

Way too qualified of a community for us to just pick one. So reapply, apply again.

Sometimes our appointees will have to get off for different reasons. So what I would suggest you do in the next two years is introduce yourself to the current council.

I think each of us are willing to have coffee with any just about anybody.

So make sure that we know your face and why you love the city and then hopefully in two years you will be able to get appointed or if there's a vacancy in one of our appointees, then we have your name fresh in our minds.

So basically campaign for yourself because we understand what that's about.

And you know, thank you for all the applicants. It takes a lot.

And I just wanted to add something and I already said earlier that there were a lot of applicants. It was difficult to pick people.

And I was working hard to make sure we had someone that fit in each one of those positions and had the experience.

And I really want to encourage everybody to not just sign up to maybe be on the lighting and landscaping things, although we have lots of openings there.

But to get engaged in the community with a lot of our volunteer organizations that are really struggling to do the work that they needed to do.

And that would be like friends of Folsom Parkways, Folsom Athletic Association, Historical Society, the Lions, the Rotaries.

They're all great organizations and they really are what keep a lot of our residents engaged and help them to learn more about how the city works.

And it kind of gives you a leg up also to being appointed to a commission down the line. So thank you all for applying and hope to see you all out and about working a lot of projects in the future.

All right. Thank you.

Okay. Next item, please.

Okay. Your next item this evening is item number 16. This is consideration of a draft city council travel policy and direction to staff.

Thank you. So I had asked last year for this to come back for a discussion. It just I know we increased the travel budget last year from my thinks 16,000 to 33,000 total, not per council member.

And so just thought it was appropriate that we have some sort of established policy to make sure that the city's interests are represented, but that we are also being very good stewards of the taxpayer's dollars.

So thank you to the city clerk who took the lead in drafting some language.

I just wanted to open it up to my colleagues. First of all, if you have any questions or feedback, this is just a draft. We're intending that we can give instruction to staff that we like this exactly it is, bring it back for formal adoption or we want to make some changes to it.

We don't really have a presentation. We can put it up on the screen if you would like, but other than that, any initial questions feedback.

So and maybe it was it was in here, but I'm just trying to understand the intent.

I get the restrictions of not spending taxpayer dollars writers are going out of office and giving a report out coming back from any travel all comfortable with everything that's in here. But is there any intention to say who gets to decide on the travel budget?

So I'm going to spend my X number of travel budget in this way or are we expecting to come back to council to approve different travel. I'm just trying to trying to make that clear on is it is a council decision on where we send people or is it individual council members that we're going to leave up to them to make that decision.

Well, I think that's what we can talk about tonight. I think that's open for discussion. I guess for me, I envision some kind of hybrid where I mean if you just take the travel budget and divide it.

It comes out to $6600 per year again with the new council members half of that because you're coming in halfway through the fiscal year.

But I think we might also want to talk about, you know, are there certain trips or conferences or something that we think the city should be represented at and should there be some sort of rotation or something so that, you know, there are people have the opportunity to go if they want at some point or just as you say, but we just divide it and say, use it or don't use it, whatever you want. This is this is why we're having this discussion.

I think one of the things that isn't clear right now is how much council member Rafele or I might have available to us like because we don't know how it was divided up.

$3300 to each of your letters.

Okay, so that money is still available. Yes, excuse me. And, you know, I like the idea of kind of identifying conferences where it's best for us to be at to represent the city and then others that are probably critical to aid us in decision making.

You know, some of those are put on by the League of California cities or other organizations that keep us up to date on state law and and legislative changes that we may want to support in the long run.

And I think we can all put our heads together and make a list.

So is that something that we want to develop in the future or is that some seems like it would take a great deal of discussion this evening and maybe it's something that we could do and then bring back for further discussion to kind of let the public know, hey, here's how we're using your money to make us do a better job for the city.

I think also if you look at six item or number six, demonstrable benefits requirement, it says all travel expenditures should have benefit to the city of Folsom, whether through the acquisition of new knowledge, the establishment of valuable connections or the advancement of city projects, every trip should have clear objectives that align with the city's priorities.

I think we could identify different again, conferences events, trips, whatever, or we could just say they have to satisfy one of these categories.

I think your suggestion is good. Council Member Leroy talking through as far as the five of us and what do we want to go to. This is one of the reasons I would have been asking for a council retreat basically or some sort of different word for that every year to set our priorities and our goals going forward.

I think this is a great example of I've been trying to go to National League of Cities which I went to in my previous city and it was extremely valuable.

And then now this year I'm going to cap to cap and obviously I fought hard for this in the budget last year knowing that we're missing out on opportunities to be educated on what we can do as a city and what other cities are doing creatively at the national level and at the state level.

So I'm not interested in spending a lot of time on this. I don't think this moves the needle of what's most important in a full sum and what we're faced with.

But I would be definitely interested in maybe at our workshop next week and talking through what do we each want to go to and what's our passion.

And then kind of formulating what our priorities are from there for the year and I think that would be very valuable for the two new council members especially.

And then as the budget goes forward we can create the budget from there. I think we're close with the $33,000 budget. I think $6600 is a good idea and good outline as far as kind of what we have to move forward with as we move forward.

As we plan what we want to do but I think if a council member wants to go to two things that and it's going to exceed that then work with the city manager on is there a budget to support that because another council member is only using a portion of them.

And I think that all should be encouraged. I think travel and it's not travel like we're going to the Bahamas for the public. It is travel for experience. It's all the things that you mentioned in your draft outlet or.

So I think let's add that to the workshop next week or a future workshop as far as our priorities for the upcoming year and make that part of the policy that we decide every year.

What are we looking for what do we want to do.

We have different strengths and we also have different passions. So I'm always looking to not put a cap on our learning and our education that we can do for every council member.

So I do appreciate that we're looking for outcomes but I also think we're putting a lot of accountability here which is okay.

But I think that we're held accountable for for a voter. So I appreciate council member Ray those question to what is the intent of this.

And to me it seems like the intent is to put our city voters at ease that we're spending your money wisely. But I also think that's at the responsibility of each council member too.

So I'm not sure I added anything to this conversation except I appreciate that you want to kind of work through what we what's available what we want to go to and why.

And then move forward from there so I'm not sure if it's adding anything to this policy.

Otherwise it reads fine to me.

If I may be the principles that are described here I think are completely appropriate.

I am leery.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that.

We're guessing each other or constituents will let us know

if we're not doing the right thing and leave it to them.

I think my two cents.

But the principals described here are absolutely on the mark.

I think my question was more to, you know,

I'd be willing to give up some of my allocations some years

to make sure we have somebody

that goes to ex conference, right?

Or I would hope other council members would do the same.

I'm definitely more supportive of during that budget process.

I'm looking at it as a whole entity and say what are our priorities to make sure we have representation there.

Because I do think some of these things move the needle.

We absolutely need to make connections to apply for some of the large grant funding we need for certain things.

We need to understand how those processes work and we need to advocate for our city when it comes to,

you know, I can't say how many times I heard, you know, unfunded state laws, unfunded state mandates with the, you know,

previous councils and all councils.

I do think we need to make sure that we're out there advocating for our interest because these things absolutely do move the needle.

And it is a wise use of taxpayer dollars to make sure the needle is not moved against us sometimes.

So I think it's a good discussion and having it in the budget under these priorities.

It's great.

I would also like to see, you know, in theory that if we use 30,000 of the 33 that that 3000 carries over as a slush fund.

So let's just say the next year, two people want to go to national league of cities and one, you know, like we have an ability to kind of have some leeway if there's.

We'll just have some like a little bit of a border.

So sometimes maybe the council because it's an election year and or two people are leaving like last year, we had $10,000 left over and that could be applied to the next year because the new council members want to do this that and whatever.

So kind of carry that. I don't know if that's a policy thing in here, but to carry that over, I think would be wise.

And so the only thing I would say in response to that is I'm not sure it works that way for any other department.

And I do think that as the council, you know, we're at the top of the pyramid and we have to lead by example. And so we're at, you know, we're asked to work within a budget.

And rather than saying we want to go on all these trips and let's forget how to fund it.

I personally think it needs to work the opposite way. Here's the budget.

I don't know if you can go to within that. Sometimes you can get other agencies. Maybe you sit on a board and you can get them to help pay for something.

But I wouldn't.

If other departments don't get to carry things over, then I don't think we should get to carry things over. And I don't know exactly.

There's a blanket policy for that. But.

So, you know, we don't have to be in general.

No, we don't carry over operating expenses unless you're in a contract or something like that.

It would have to be just during the next year's budget process if you needed to add more to the line up.

I agree with what you're saying.

And you know, if there's money that I don't spend, I would prefer to go back in the budget and be, I mean, we've got a significant number of needs to cover financially.

So, I think that's why I'm not going to be in my own money if I want to go to something that exceeds, you know, the allocation of money.

I'm a frugal person, but I'd also like to support my own interests and not rely entirely on the city to help me develop my knowledge base.

So, it sounds like everybody is okay with at least this language coming back.

I think that's not in here and I wonder if it should be as we don't have anything about, you know, what exactly could be covered with the travel budget?

Is it just transportation or lodging? Is it a per-dem amount for meals?

You know, it seems like it probably should be consistent with what we do for other city employees.

But there are already a per-dem for travel at this moment. So, I think if accounts members using their own time and effort, we've paid $600 a month to work as hard as we do for the city.

If we're going with good intent to go to National League of Cities or CAP to CAP or ICSC or other study missions, we're taking our personal time and our business time away.

I think definitely it should include a per-dem, which is already common practice.

I'm not looking to get paid on going to educate myself, but I'm definitely, I mean, we're already using our free time and effort and advocating, and I don't think anyone's going to be opposed to what is already common practice.

But would you be okay with just making the language consistent with whatever applies to other city employees?

Because I think they do allow for a per-dem.

Yes, what is already...

So maybe we could just add a line item here.

Yeah, I can add some language along the way.

Okay.

So, Mr. Interim City Attorney, maybe you'll be the Interim City Attorney next.

One of these days.

Not anytime soon, but my point is he can do all kinds of things. He's not just a former fire chief.

Maybe we could bring this back for adoption, just with some language about the per-dem.

And then I guess just the council can work together to identify what trips we want to go on.

Okay.

But I will just... I can pass this out afterwards, but yes.

So the travel budget worked out to $6600 per council member.

Council member Larry, vice mayor, Ray Thal would just have half that for this rest of this fiscal year.

So $3,300.

Council member Kuzlaski has already used his allocation.

I think that was probably the trip to Korea or something.

And then council member Warbana, I have used a very small portion under $170.

Anyway, okay.

You have any information there?

I do. Thank you.

Okay.

All right. Next item, please.

All right.

Okay. Your last discussion item this evening is item number 17.

This is the appointment of City Council representatives to regional boards and commissions.

All right. I will take this one also.

So as you're probably aware, the city charter says that the mayor will represent the council on regional boards and commissions.

But the mayor does have the option to appoint a representative with the concurrence of the council.

So these are the appointments that I'm recommending.

But obviously this requires the majority of the council to approve.

Do you have an exhibit for the audience?

Oh, do we have an exhibit?

We can pull one up.

We've got it ready.

So general, pull it up.

Okay. Thank you.

So I kind of did this with two things in my number one per our governance manual.

We try to keep these assignments consistent from year to year because, you know, we like to build seniority on these regional boards.

But the other thing is there are five regional boards that pay a meeting stipend.

And although none of us got into this for the money, it does seem like it is fair and makes sense that there are five members.

Of the council and each one of us should be primary on one of the boards that pays a stipend and an alternate on one of the boards that pays a stipend.

So that means I would give up Saksur.

I'm going to keep the air district because I'm the chair this year next year.

Council member Kauselowski would have to give up one.

I think he will reluctantly give up our tea.

And then somebody would take over for the Sacramento Cable Commission.

So here you can see what I've recommended.

You can also see in addition to the meeting stipend, many of these boards and commissions require that you fill out form 700, which you already have to do for the council.

There is kind of a cover sheet you can put on when you file just, you know, for the other boards.

I do believe G-Sec, the greater Sacramento Economic Council that that should be the mayor primary with the vice mayor is alternate.

And then the retirement board of authority for the city, that is the board that governs our retirement health trust fund.

When council member Kauselowski and I came on the council, that was the mayor and the vice mayor who represented.

I'm suggesting that we go back to that.

But again, none of this is set in stone.

One change that I think we do want to make.

Vice mayor Raithl has indicated an interest in representing the city on the Sacramento Transportation Authority.

And I'm perfectly happy to give that up so you and I could just swap primary and alternate there.

Works for me.

Any other comments, questions, everybody happy with their assignments, relatively happy with their assignments.

And hopefully, you know, we're all fairly happy.

And this is something that we can keep consistent for the next several years and not be changing every year.

But I think this does give everybody an opportunity to serve on a regional board and build those regional relationships.

Sounds great.

Yeah, I have some other interests so I would be interested in maybe in a year or two and swapping those out.

Okay. Do you want to bring it up right now?

Please bring it up right now.

Please bring it up right now.

Well, I, you know, and I don't want to be, you know, have this be antenna again is to cure anything, but I, you know, I do.

I have done some work in the past with sack RT and I wouldn't mind being the primary, but I don't know how.

Council member Gorbaw feels about that.

No, I appreciate you asking that.

No, I do want to be on RT or say cogs.

So I'm pretty sure that Mike's not going to give up say cogs.

No, I appreciate that. That's good to know, but I'm.

But we put you as alternate.

No, I understand that maybe, you know, when you know, at a time, I.

Oh, absolutely. I think that we should ever represent it at every meeting.

And so I know that.

That we should never have a vacancy from full sum.

So that's why all turn it's are important. I know that you tapped me in this year at one of your.

I don't even remember.

Thank you.

And I, you know, so definitely for sure.

Yeah. Thank you.

We can talk about it in the future.

Have see how things go for all of us making all the meetings.

Anybody else have any other.

I am delighted with this distribution of responsibility and Barbara, please don't ever miss a meeting of the cable commission.

Really excited about that.

That's what I'm saying. I knew you would be so please don't miss any of those meetings.

Okay. Well, then.

Do we need a motion?

If it's the council's general consent by nodding of heads, yeah, can go with it.

So it will be this spreadsheet, but swap me and vice mayor Rafe for the STA.

Yeah. So I'll make these changes and give us give us a day or two.

We'll update the web page with all of these assignments.

And we're going to reach out to all these regional agencies on your behalf.

Share your contact information and confirm the start of terms.

So by next week, you should be all set.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you all.

All right.

All right. That takes us to city manager comments.

Mr. Interim city manager.

Thank you.

Madam Mayor.

So I'm taking a little different tack on this this evening.

And so a lot of it is recognizing our good workers, the members of this city workforce.

And so what I want to recognize is the water department.

We had a pretty significant water leak in the.

The business park off of a full symbol of art.

And they became detectives in finding this leak.

And I just want to send my appreciation to the water department for their great work.

They were out there on a Saturday and a Sunday looking for this and finally found it.

It was a big deal.

And so I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a deal.

I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a deal.

Along with.

Closer. There we go.

Okay.

Along with that. I'd like to recognize that we have the Folsom Water Vision project.

The meeting is Tuesday, January 21st at 630 p.m.

And the environmental water resources department and their consultants will be presenting a recommendation.

And I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a deal.

And I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a deal.

Also, the Folsom Water Rail Service resumed and resumed as a resuming.

They have a 15 minute frequency has begun.

Sacr artist is working through a few issues.

I know that it's been troubling.

Mark a little bit in public works.

And we have a few backups with traffic.

So I just ask our public to be patient with that.

Public works is supporting Sacr artist working through those issues.

So we have the Folsom Police Department and Christine and her staff in our communications unit.

For their E. Scooter E. Bike and a motorcycle public education effort, which is underway.

We're doing that in partnership with Folsom Corodie Unified School District.

community and we're reaching out to the school district, to parents and the teens themselves

to obey the law.

We have meetings this week.

We started last week with the larger businesses and faith-based groups in our community.

This week, last week, we met with Paladio and councilmember Liri, joined me with that visit.

This week, we have visits with key command foods, Gekikon and Mercy Folsom Hospital.

And I know that council members are joining me.

I'm joining you on these visits.

So I appreciate your support with that.

It's really to listen to them and thank them for being here in our city of Folsom.

I'd like to recognize some years of service people, members of our city.

So we have a few to recognize.

Several from PD.

These are, they have achieved 20 years of service recently this year and in 2024 rather.

So we have a Warner Herding, Jr.

Gina Mairdnott.

Did I get that right, Chief?

Maria.

Pretty close.

Okay.

Roman Kim.

Andrew Bates.

Lou Wright.

And the police chief himself tells me that he just recently last week celebrated 30 years

of service.

Thank you, Chief Hillman.

And that's not all.

From environmental water resources, we have Chris Robinson.

And we have also Glenn Caldwell from public works, Greg back in and Sandra Munoz and Tim

Jones.

And then from the fire department, Bill Woody Woodward celebrated 20 years.

So we have some long standing members that have given their life's service to the city

and the people who live here and I'm greatly appreciative of that.

We have our state of the city for 2025 coming up next week, next Thursday, January 23rd.

It's at lakeside.

There's a ticketed luncheon that begins at 1130 tickets available on the Chamber website.

But the mayor's speech will begin at about 1215 and that is free.

It's an open meeting free to the public.

Doors will open at 1215 and allow anyone that would like to come to listen to our mayor

talk about the great things the city is doing and has done.

Please come.

The city is seeking caps and cert volunteers.

So caps, Folsom's citizens assisting public safety and and cert over in the fire department

Folsom Community Emergency Response Team.

So if you have any interest in serving the city and that regard, please look at our website

and sign up.

Join those two great outfits.

I'd like to give a big shout out to the Folsom Police Department Foundation who's donating

$3,000 to our library to fund a new fireplace for the children's reading area.

And then my last announcement is for the kids in the audience or parents who have children.

If you'd like to read a book with me next Wednesday at the library at 1030 we'll be reading

Shaggy Dogs and Waggy Dogs.

So I look forward to seeing you then.

Thank you mayor.

Thank you.

Council member Kauslauski.

No report tonight.

Thank you.

Okay.

Nice to meet you.

I recently had the privilege of attending the State of Public Safety put on by the Sacramento

County District Attorney TN Ho.

During that State of Public Safety the Folsom Police Department was recognized in the

Lieutenant Canapa gave an update on the great work that Folsom PD is doing really is a

model for the region and prosecuting fentanyl dealers and getting fentanyl off the street.

They have changed the trajectory of fentanyl deaths in Sacramento County and just wanted

to give a big shout out just like they gave at the State of Public Safety to Folsom Police

Department for their work and that and their leadership in that area.

Another quote that stuck with me during that was one from Supervisor Pat Hume.

We talked or they talked a lot about law enforcement and social services dealing with the

homeless crisis going on throughout our region and Supervisor Hume said the words that what

you tolerate you can expect.

And that really kind of stuck with me and I thought about it over the next couple days.

And I know our hot team and our police department have been working hard on cleaning up camps

since the Grands Pass decision and just want to commend them on those efforts.

I think we've seen it in the community.

We do have a couple of camps still that are on Fish and Wildlife property and I just want

to recognize those folks.

So we are aware of them.

Thank you for everybody that has reached out to me or other council members of the city

on those doing our best to work through that and encourage Fish and Wildlife to take

care of that property.

And that will be very helpful because it seems like those little kind of the last ones

that are significant size that are within the bounds of the city, at least that I know

of.

I also thank Hart.

The winter shelter is now open.

They are processing folks or taking folks in at the upper rodeo grounds at 5 p.m.

and the faith-based communities are really the ones behind that heart-winter shelter.

And just want to say that it's no easy task and we appreciate, I appreciate their efforts.

Fulsamathletics Association is having an inaugural cab feed fundraiser on January 25th.

Fulsamathleticssociation.org if you want to support them.

To me I've always been amazed at the Fulsamathletics Association ensures that any kid that wants

to play sports in the city of Fulsam regardless of their ability to pay gets that support through

the Fulsamathletics Association.

So if you have the ability to support them and support our kids that need some support

to play sports in this town, please do so.

And I know everybody said we always have more people that apply for commissions but thank

you to everybody willing to serve those that did not get selected tonight.

Please go to those commissions, read the packets, use your public comment period, cause trouble

in those commissions because there are many, many ways to get things done and it makes commissioners happy

when members of the public show up and they point out things that need more attention or

that they may have missed.

Public participation is so vital to our city in so many different forms.

So thank you to everybody willing to serve and thank you to those who just show up and

make public comment at those commissions and do their part that way.

So honor to serve.

Thank you.

Well said, thank you.

Council Member Werba.

First I want to acknowledge that our former Council Member YK, Chalam Jairala, Tura

is in the audience so thank you for showing up even when you're not supposed to but yes

and congratulations on your swearing in last in December for school board.

So nice to see you YK from the audience.

Interesting that we had a quick I heard several of the council members like the idea that

we're building some condos and that discussion I think it was item one of the item agenda items.

Allow me to ask our community development director quite a few questions about how from

a part going from apartments to condos and the pros and benefits of both pros and cons of

both.

It might be a discussion in the future for council as far as a priority.

I know the public perception is that we would like to have more condos versus apartments

and the questions the answers that I got from Pam Johns was really the only way to encourage

that is by incentivizing developers or builders to do that in certain ways.

So I thought it was very fruitful of the conversation we had briefly but it sounds like there's

consensus here that we would like to see more condos and so that could be a discussion

for the future sometime throughout this year on how to do that.

So moving on I have several different things I want to talk about.

First I thank you Dan Havardy.

You have been wonderful.

I've gotten feedback from residents and other staff members and you were able to kind

of step in right at a critical time and even through the holidays you were accessible.

So I really appreciate that.

I really appreciate your heart and you just showed it to by recognizing employees that

I've been here and serving.

So I would like to see that continue with our new city manager as well.

What a great treat.

I've hated to see that our chiefs 30 years of dedication to the city go by without

acknowledgment.

So thank you for that and also all the other city employees that were mentioned.

I think that's just a small little window into Dan Havardy's heart.

He's very solution oriented and I appreciate that.

One other thing I want to several things I want to follow up on is Council Member Raithle

you brought up the homeless encampments on Fish and Game property.

We went from three large encampments to five.

It is they are growing and unfortunately we are not able to enforce our ordinance on

state property and that's an obstacle.

I have received several emails the last few weeks as well.

This is something I've been spearheading since last summer.

Working with Josh Hoover's office, Assemblyman Josh Hoover.

We are looking to set up another meeting.

My understanding is there's an agreement that we can make with the state on the ability

to enforce our property or our ordinances on state property.

I know chief Hillman has turned in that has given that to a Fish and Game and now it's

in the city attorney's office.

So I'm hoping that we see a resolution on that very, very shortly.

This should be a priority of our Council going forward.

So once we get that ability to enforce our ordinances, no trespassing, things like that,

then I do appreciate Dan Haverdy has come up with some creative solutions on how we

can bridge the gap on funding.

So we're on it.

Those residents that are paying attention, I appreciate Justin Raithle bringing this

back around as well.

It sounds like there's consensus here.

This is a priority of ours and hopefully we can get that cleaned out.

And then so economic development, Sarah and I are mayor and I are going to be in another

meeting on Thursday with a couple of stakeholders talking about economic development, revenue

options for the city.

There are different ways besides a sales tax measure.

It's to improve our finances.

It's also increasing our sales tax base amongst other things.

So I'm so happy that we're keeping that conversation going.

And it's just so important in what's critical to moving our city forward to funding all

the fun things that we want to do, not even just fun things but essential services that

we need in this city.

So that's definitely a priority mind going forward.

Sarah, we briefly mentioned just registered for CAP to CAP in May and one of we were able

to pick two areas of interest, one of mine was civic amenities.

So there'll be a little bit of a focus on that meetings I can go to and it's, I can't read my writing.

This is a way to engage our civic assets that we do have in our amenities.

Explore how we can activate that and activate our public spaces, our parks, our arts.

And we just put up the Johnny Cash pick.

How we can engage those, our gardens, our trails, how they can be an integral part of our commerce

to make our city financially stable going forward.

So I think every little thing we can do is going to be positive.

So that was one of my focuses and the other one was transportation and this probably doesn't need a lot of conversation.

But how we can advocate for federal grants, how we can work towards making sure we build an infrastructure

that supports our city and region wide.

And so to help economic growth going forward.

So that's a huge priority for myself.

And I think for our city going forward.

So those are some things that I'm working on.

And I just hope everyone had a great holiday season is very rested.

And here we go.

What a great year we're going to have.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Council Member Leary.

Well, a lot has already been said this evening.

So I'm going to try and keep it short.

But I do have quite a few thank yous here.

And I really appreciate the work that the police department has done, particularly in intervening in the activities of some of the youth on motorcycles throughout our town.

There have been some significant problems.

They become a regular conversation on some of the Facebook pages.

And I think the police has been doing a very good and sensitive job about dealing with these issues.

And as well as the problems with, I guess, their snatch and grab kinds of crimes that are taking place at the outlets.

Pilateo and other areas of town.

I also want to thank all of the departments for the work.

I know a lot of them have been working pretty short staffed.

And I would like to hear from the departments.

And sorry that I mentioned the cert program earlier.

It's another one people could volunteer for.

But I'd like to hear from the departments about what kinds of volunteer they might be able to use to engage more of the people in our community.

It's clear we have a lot of people that want to do some work for the city.

And that's just sort of a project down the line that I'd like to take a look at.

I want to, you know, Commissioner or council member, Rathal mentioned heart.

And they've been doing a great job.

But I also want to give a nod to Jake's journey home for the work that they've done and getting a lot of our people house and into intervention programs.

It's if we didn't have these volunteer organizations, nonprofits, I think would be further behind in addressing the problem of homelessness.

And the issues that go along with it.

I was also at the same conference with council member Rathal with our district attorney.

I learned a lot and it was great to see our police officers there participating in it.

And Sergeant Kenepa did a great job on the fentanyl program.

I do want to bring it to people's attention.

There are other gateway drugs.

And I think that I'd like to encourage people to take a look into that because sometimes, you know, the young people are either using alcohol, which is clearly available to everybody.

But, you know, moving into the pills and that's how they end up with fentanyl in their systems instead of what they think they're getting.

So it's something that I think that we can help kind of people identify and move forward with dealing with before they end up in a tragic situation.

Excuse me.

The, I'd like to thank the staff because I know there are a lot of public inquiries coming in and they particularly like to thank Mayor Aquino for helping me with some issues in my district.

And there are a lot of staff members who are on the front lines who have initiated the process and there's some.

Some things that are more difficult to deal with.

And I think it's important that we engage with the staff and with the community and dealing with those.

And I'd like to thank our assistant city manager for his guidance and intervention.

As needed in helping us learn our jobs as council members and set up some educational sessions to help us become better informed and better leaders.

So I think that is it and I hope you're all having a great new year and I'm looking forward to working with all of you on the commissions.

So with that, I will close.

Great. Thank you.

And I would just like to share that Milton Nashick, known to his friends as Mick, passed away peacefully at home on January 5th at the age of 94.

Although most Folsom residents won't recognize that name.

They undoubtedly know the name Kiko Man.

And Mick is the man who helped bring Kiko Man to Folsom.

Mick grew up in Wisconsin, attended college and law school there and was practicing law in 1973 when Kiko Man opened its first US plant in Wallworth, Wisconsin.

That was the beginning of a long close relationship between Mick and Kiko Man that lasted until his death.

He served as a board member and their general council and in 2018 was awarded the order of the rising sun by the Emperor of Japan for promoting Japanese American business relations.

Kiko Man opened its 95,000 square foot Folsom factory with 29 employees in 1998.

Mick said at the time, we did an extensive search for plant sites in the Western US.

Most were eliminated due to inadequate water.

Soy sauce needs good, clear water like the pure mountain water of Folsom Lake.

On behalf of the city of Folsom, I want to extend our sincerest condolences to Mick's wife Nancy and the entire Nashick family.

Mick was a great friend and fan of Folsom.

His contributions to our city will be felt for years to come and we will adjourn in his memory.

Thank you. Good night.