Okay, good evening. We will call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, where the clerk please call the roll.

Councilmembers, Roebach, here, Koslawski, Liri, here, Raidfol, and Dekino.

Here, interviewed all please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance.

I'd like to introduce to you that on the United States of America in the New York Public for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

Mr. City Attorney, do we have any agenda updates?

Not until I'm out of mayor.

Okay, 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.

But please understand that state law prohibits us from taking action or deliberating on items that are not on the agenda.

If anybody wants to speak tonight on any item, we ask that you fill out a blue card in the back and give it to Corporal Rice up here.

Do we have any requests to speak?

You have no more questions to speak this evening under business from the floor.

All right, then call the next item, please.

All right, that takes us to your first scheduled presentation item this evening.

This will be a resolution of accommodation honoring the Folsom Lake College Women Soccer team for their back-to-back 3C2A championships and outstanding achievements in 2023 and 2024.

All right, ladies, come on up, Dr. Pimentel, come on up.

Will Garcia, Donnie Rabado, anybody else who is with this group? Come on up.

All the way up here.

I know.

I know.

I'm not going to get a photo now.

All right, I'm going to hand this to Coach Rabado.

I would just like to see first with a show of hands how many of you ladies went to high school in Folsom?

Any of you raise your hand?

Really? Why not all these people?

Wow, okay.

Well, we are thrilled to have the Folsom Lake College Women Soccer team here.

This is a resolution of accommodation honoring the Folsom Lake College Women Soccer team for back-to-back 3C2A championships and outstanding achievements in 2023 and 2024.

Whereas the Folsom Lake College Women Soccer team has demonstrated excellence, determination, and sportsmanship,

winning back-to-back California Community College Athletic Association State Championships in 2023 and 2024,

marking an historic achievement as they became the first North-Earn California College to accomplish this feat since 1996,

and whereas the 2023 championship marked an historic milestone as the first ever 3C2A State Championship for Folsom Lake College Women Soccer,

and whereas in 2024, the Falcons claim the 3C2A Championship with a remarkable season record of 21 wins, one loss and two draws,

securing the title with a victory at American River College in Sacramento, California,

and whereas in addition to their State Championship, the Falcons dominated the 2024 Big-8 Conference,

winning the Conference Championships and solidifying their place as one of the top collegiate soccer programs in California.

Now therefore, I, Sarah, Echino, Mayor of the City of Folsom, on behalf of the Folsom City Council and the Folsom community,

do hereby extend commendations in the highest regard of the Folsom Lake College Women Soccer team,

coaching staff, and their supporters for their exceptional achievements in 2023 and 2024.

The City looks forward to celebrating their continued success in the years to come,

commended this 25th-day of February 2025.

Thank you.

All right.

Everybody looks straight ahead.

All right.

Dr. Pellmontal or Coach Robano?

Anybody want to say a few words?

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mayor Echino and members of the Folsom City Council.

Thank you so much for this acknowledgement.

My name is Dr. Pellmontal.

I have the honor of serving as president of Folsom Lake College.

And what could I say?

We're absolutely proud of these young ladies for their success, for their tenacity,

and really for serving as role models to many young girls.

I brought my young daughter here who also plays soccer, so she could see what success looks like,

and it's in all of you.

And so we just really appreciate the acknowledgement.

We appreciate them for their hard work, and we couldn't be more proud at Folsom Lake College for all of that they do.

I want to also acknowledge Coach Donnie Robano,

and give him the opportunity to talk a little bit about just all of the work that they do,

acknowledge some of the staff, and also talk a little bit about his culture of success,

the philosophy that really not only do we have these wonderful women who play soccer,

but they also are huge success when it comes to their education,

which is exactly what we want them to do.

So Coach, thank you.

Huge accomplishment for our program.

In 2013, I had the opportunity to move back to the foothills here and start this program from scratch,

and the women's soccer team was the first team sport at Folsom Lake College.

So in 2023, we won the first state title for Folsom Lake College,

and then to do it back-to-back years is a remarkable achievement,

really proud of this group of student athletes.

We did have the culture of success, you're right.

But we recently embraced another slogan, which was the culture of gratitude.

And so we're very grateful to be a part of this community to represent the community and represent the college.

We're really grateful for all the things that we have in terms of support for women's soccer,

but for the whole athletic department.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, thank you so much for representing Folsom Lake College, so well, and the city of Folsom.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Call the next item.

You guys are welcome to stay.

We have a lot of riveting items on the agenda.

But you want to go.

This is your chance to escape.

They're going to miss the thing about the roundabouts.

All right.

Your next item this evening is scheduled presentation item number two.

For your a�ron we're back there listening to our share of school hammers and

school support.

And we're visiting the Old City buildings where the hall of students reach out to

the museums this evening, we mentioned, we're running a school

booth.

Until then we are running in the day and night right.

All right, come on up. I think we have Heather Martinez and Cam Hodson. Oh, dance

All right. Alright. That's okay?

They're coming in here so they come and hear all these weird drowsiness and rejoices and he says, OK.

Got it. OK.

I'm lovin on New York, now I got all the wahrscheinlich drowsiness.

If this is your first time to City Hall welcome we're happy to have you here.

Feel free to take a seat but if you need to come up and take a picture at the

appropriate time you're welcome to do that. As soon as these student athletes

get in here we'll read a bunch of where-azs and then we'll get on to the awards.

All right well they're finally in I'm going to go ahead and read this

resolution of commendation honoring the Folsom Junior Bulldogs for earning the

2024 Excellence in Academics and Athletics Award whereas the Folsom

Junior Bulldogs is an official youth football and cheer association in

Folsom and whereas the Folsom Junior Bulldogs organization is committed to

both academic and athletic excellence and whereas members of the Folsom

Junior Bulldog Football and Cheer teams maintain a grade point average of

3.0 or better during the football and cheer season and whereas this level of

academic achievement merits recognition from the Board of Directors of Folsom

Youth Football and Cheer and the City of Folsom. Now therefore I Sarah

Echino Mayor of the City of Folsom on behalf of the Folsom City Council and

the Folsom community do hereby extend commendations in the highest regard to

the members of the Folsom Junior Bulldogs who earned the excellence in

Academics and Athletics Award 2024 and encourage their continued

scholastic excellence in the future. Commended this 25th February 2025.

Good evening welcome to City Hall all of you football players and cheerleaders

want to that that was all the fancy language I just want to say very simply

first of all congratulations on all your hard work and your success on and off

the field and I also want to say thank you because when you were a shirt or a

sweatshirt or a uniform that says Folsom on it you're not only representing the

Folsom Junior Bulldogs and yourself and your family but you're representing

the City of Folsom and so we appreciate that you do that so well so we're going

to go ahead and somebody's going to reach your name for the certificate you're

going to come out up here just quickly your name maybe what what school you go to

in your grade and then you can file on out your parents can take whatever pictures

they want okay all right all right first step Carson deadly we're just going

to hold the applause and we'll do a thunderous round at the very very end okay

otherwise we're going to be here all night

do all the shake hands want to say your name in your Carson Dudley fourth grade

Hunter Smith

six grade Caleb Caldwell

Caleb Caldwell sixth grade Quinn Stock

six grade Colin Lafredes

Colin LaFra These Great bass

Jacobi Ward

Jacobi Ward six great Isaiah Verdugo

I say I do go fifth grade.

Brent buyers door.

From buyers door eighth grade.

Zach Kasevik.

Zach Kasevik sixth grade.

Postrello.

Tucker Kestrilo seventh grade.

Isaac Kasevik.

Isaac Kasevik fifth grade.

Austin Wingard.

Austin Wingard seventh grade.

Next Stone.

Next Stone, seventh grade.

Everett, clock and brink.

Everett, clock and brink, eighth grade.

Carl, Dempsey, four.

Number four.

My name is Carl, four, and I'm an eighth grade.

Carter Reinhart.

Carter Reinhart, seventh grade.

Gabriel Vargas.

Gabriel Vargas, sixth grade.

Ethan Fudala.

Ethan Fudala, seventh grade.

Tyler Fudala.

Tyler Fudala.

Tyler Fudala.

Tyler Fudala.

Tyler Fudala.

Tyler Fudala, sixth grade.

Lily Fudala.

I'm Lily and I'm in fifth grade.

Bren French.

I'm Bren French and I'm in fifth grade.

Jenessa McCall.

Jenessa McCall.

Annaman fourth grade.

Isabelle Verdugo.

Jenessa McCall.

Jenessa McCall.

Annaman fourth grade.

Isabelle Verdugo.

Isabelle Verdugo.

Isabelle Verdugo.

Isabelle Verdugo.

Fourth grade.

I'm sorry.

I got to make that...

I got Daphne.

Daphne Servin.

Daphne Servin, sixth grade.

Audrey Han.

Yeah, I'm missing a couple.

I'm Audrey Han and I'm in seventh grade.

Isabelle A. King.

I'm Isabelle and I'm on seventh grade.

Okay, Ava.

Ava grew seventh grade.

Ava, we have a river.

We will do that.

I'm sorry about that.

Lada Reginotto, eighth grade.

I'm sorry about that.

All right, one big round of applause.

I think we want to do one big group picture, Christina.

Is that what you're telling me?

Okay, if you guys want to come down here,

while there, you guys come on right down here,

taller ones in the back.

While they're doing that, let me just give a thank you

to the audience here at their time.

These programs don't happen with all of that parental support.

Right here.

Here we go.

All right, here we go.

All right, you can go right there.

All right, come on back here, you're taller.

I'm sorry.

I don't know where it got filtered in.

I'm sorry.

I don't know where it got filtered in.

I'm sorry.

Oh, someone took the time.

All right, we're going to let all the parents take one.

And then once they're done, we're going to have Andrew

from the city take the official photograph.

Okay, this is the parent's turn.

All right, now we look at Andrew in the back center.

All right, thank you very much.

You're welcome to stay for the entire meeting, if you like.

All right, we're finally now.

We'll go ahead and call the next item and let him get his

slide set up.

Please.

Okay, next item.

Your next item this evening will be item number three.

This will be a presentation from Saicog regarding the 2025

blueprint project.

We do not have a certificate of

the year.

I thought they were all here for me.

I do have a team photo at the end of this.

I want you to know.

It's going to come back around.

Good evening, I'm James Corulus.

I'm executive director of the Sacramento area.

Council of governments or Saicog.

We have a council member, because Lasky here who is

faithfully serves on the Saicog board every month.

We have a council member that has a

council member that has a plan called the blueprint stands.

What we've heard and outreach, what we've learned and

kind of next steps.

So here we go.

You may all know this, but as the council governments for the

6th County region, we're unique in many ways.

One of which is that twice a month, every single jurisdiction

has 22 cities, all 6 counties, everyone from

Fulsom, the county of Sacramento, to Iolton and

Colfax and Wheatland and Woodland all sit around that table twice a month.

And the plan that we're developing, which really is a long range plan,

it looks out to the year 2050, so 25 years from now.

It looks at transportation housing, land use jobs.

It's guided by a triple bottom line framework of equity,

and it's a really, really, a plan that is critical for to meet both

state and federal mandates.

It's critical, though, for all of us and your staff here at the city to

really use to go out and advocate for state funding and for federal

funding when we go back to D.C. to things like cap to cap.

We've done more outreach and engagement in this plan than we've ever

done on any of our long range plans.

We've done focus groups, polling, surveys.

We've spent a lot of years and we've learned a lot.

We've worked with a lot of community based organizations all over the region

and had them actually help us implement a lot of the outreach that we've

done. And these are the sort of seven principles that we've learned.

We've put all the sort of findings together and I want to focus on two of these in particular.

One is provide housing options for all incomes and life stages.

And the second is to support safe and convenient transportation options.

It may seem to make a lot of sense.

One of our focus group respondents said I would love a robust, clean,

and safe public transportation system.

When we did a lot of our surveys to people across the six counties,

and typically people think of this plan, the blueprint as a transportation plan.

But when we surveyed on the topic of a transportation plan,

the first thing that came back in the highest response was lack of housing,

lack of affordable housing.

My kids and my grandkids can't afford to stay here and afford to live here and buy a home,

followed by public safety and followed by a lack of transportation choices and options.

We've learned a lot too through our technical analysis.

I said this plan is really a plan that knits together.

We're upwards of $40 billion of future investments in infrastructure for the next 25 years.

And that is infrastructure that probably that's not even enough, frankly,

to actually keep up and you're going to hear from your staff in a second about some of the challenges we have with funding.

But if you look on the far left hand side of this graph, these next five years,

we are going to remain one of the fastest growing regions in California.

So as of the 2020 census, we were the fastest growing metropolitan region in California.

We are way above, as you can see in the pink line, the US growth,

and we're way above even statewide growth.

So as parts of California are losing population, we are gaining it.

I get the sense you might feel that here in Fulsome on a day-to-day basis.

That growth rate, though, will slow down.

It's simple demographics that our rate of growth over time and over the next few decades

will drop. But nevertheless, that housing is the number one issue you saw is probably in part

because we have been since the Great Recession in a housing deficit.

So we have not built enough housing to keep pace.

With population growth, we need to build on average about 10 to 11,000 housing needs a year.

Across the six counties and the depths of the Great Recession, we were down at four, five thousand years.

We've only now just ticked up recently to above 10,000 housing permits in a single year.

We're a region across the six counties that, as I mentioned, is one of the fastest growing.

And as of the 2020 census was about 2.5 million people in its total population.

We've jacked in forecast about another 600,000 residents here in 25 years in the year 2050,

which would put our metro region at about 3.1 million people.

That is about the size of Metropolitan Denver today.

In fact, we took our board to Denver last year to look at the decisions that Denver made 20 years ago to actually accommodate the growth.

So if you think about us being Denver in 20 years, there's a lot to learn from actually what Denver did 20 years ago.

Another of the 260,000 jobs, and that all translates into we need about 278,000 housing units to be built between now in 2050.

In the city of Folsom, and these are projections that can ebb and flow and go up and go down, but we project 30,000 more people, 10,000 more jobs, and 14,000 more housing units just within the city.

This is a map of the sort of urbanized and built footprint versus the light blue new growth areas that are in our plan.

You can see south of 50 in Folsom Ranch there.

About two thirds of our future population growth is actually going to be on the dark blue and the dark blue areas, but a good third of a very healthy 100,000 housing units in those light blue,

near growth areas.

And so one of our challenges that you feel here, I believe, is that balance between existing population and new growth areas, right?

Transportation, traffic, air quality, housing and everything else.

So while this plan can sometimes feel like it's one big regional plan, and we have one menu, one recipe for you in terms of where to go and what to do for transportation and housing, it really is actually a compendium of every local jurisdictions priorities.

And we know there's not a one size fits all approach to future growth or even this plan.

And so one thing we're doing a little bit different this plan is we're going to literally have a section for every city and county that is your priorities around transportation, housing that are going to show up in the regional plan.

And for this, I want to hand it over to Desmond here just to give you a few examples of some of the local projects that fit into our regional plan.

Thanks, James. I'm Desmond Parrings and planning manager with the community development department. As James mentioned, we've been, we've been doing a number of efforts to try and address the projected growth in our region, as well as as help to revitalize existing in fill areas.

As you can see on the map here, we have our, our central business district vision plan, which was recently adopted by, by the city council. And again, the idea was to encourage revitalization, promote housing development in the area, support new and existing businesses, and really to help improve kind of multi multi-modal connectivity.

And again, with you'll hear later tonight with roundabouts as well.

So, in the on the transportation front, we've got the Empire Ranch interchange, which is in preliminary design and staff was working to address cal trans comments on that.

Again, to create better connections between really the north and the south of 50, build well as our only main connection point at this, at this point in time.

In addition, the council approved a number of changes to our general plan to help encourage more housing and mixed use development around our light rail stations and along the Spitwell corridor to support existing commercial development, but also put people closer to transit.

And then the beneficiary of a number of say call grants, including grants through their green means go program, which has allowed us to do many of these, these efforts.

There's also been the work on the full Simplacerville rail, the trail grab, gap closure there to provide our good bicycle connectivity down Placerville road and into the full Simplane area, again trying to bridge that connection between kind of the north and the south.

Of our city. So, those are those are some of the highlights and we continue to do this work throughout the city to help plan and prepare for the implementation of the blue plan and for the needs of our current and future residents.

So, the next is the next.

So, the Desmond gave you a pretty good sense there on transportation. I will say I know Empire Ranch is a real for big priority is in our it is in the plan, just in case you were wondering.

Along with some of the other projects Desmond mentioned. So, again, we've done a lot of outreach for done a lot of analysis. This is a plan that will be the draft plan will be released this May.

We'll be released along with the EIR and open for a public comment period. It'll come back to our say co g board of directors in September for a final review and we hope for adoption and certification this November. So, this calendar year.

This is important as Councilmember Kuzlowski knows all too well because among the requirements that we have to meet this plan as a reduction of carbon emissions greenhouse gas emissions by state standards.

Out to the year 2035 which is sort of a midway point in the plan. If we don't achieve a 19% reduction. We face the risk of losing out on some state transportation funds.

I'm happy to tell you right now so far with where the plan stands. We are we're just about there. We're just about making it but we've got we've got longer to go.

So, just a couple of the things just to round it out. Desmond mentioned a lot of the infill areas and green means go is our program to try to revitalize central business districts like yours. You actually did very well in our regional funding applications for green means go.

I know you're the home of many trails but we actually have a plan to connect the entire six county region with a network of actually paid trails. We have lots and lots of gaps all over the region in our trail network.

You're not necessarily one of them but connecting as Desmond just mentioning earlier to the larger region is key. Down the bottom left corner we actually have the board just approved a new funding round of state transportation funds that is going to be announced with a grant applications launched.

Councilmember Kraslowski is part of this mega region working group with the Bay Area and the northern San Joaquin Valley. So, we actually have a dozen projects. We've been advocating for many of them are shown on that graphic there.

We go to state capital we go back to DC and we go and fight for those with our partners actually in the San Francisco Bay Area and the northern San Joaquin Valley.

There is no more important time for teamwork and pulling together. This is actually a photo from one of our board meetings where we actually had say cog the air district Sacramento regional transit and smud boards all meet at the same time in a joint board meeting never been done before.

I may recognize some people on that slide and I often get as I'm giving these presentations a bit of a question about what is happening in terms of the new federal administration what does that mean for our region.

Where's grant money going to come from how do we remain competitive and here's our answer is we have to be a team see I knew I was going to bring it back to the former no certificate but but y'all look it in purple.

So that's really it. I'm happy to answer any questions. I hope it gave you a bit of a sense of this plan. The next few months of adoption. We're hoping to get it out for public comment in May. It has lots of your growth and land use and transportation projects in that plan and I think it will help all of us make a case both in the state capital and in Washington DC for the right kinds of investment.

Thank you. Questions or comments I'm going to start with council member Kuzlowski since he's our say cog with.

Thank you very much for that presentation. Good cap and encapsulation of everything. I just want to say that I particularly I remain particularly excited about both green means go as a mechanism for us helping meet the greenhouse gas emissions targets that we that we live with.

And the trails program because everybody here knows that all trails lead to Fulsome so we have connections out into all counties basically from where we're at and we'd like to see those extend all the way to both oceans. Thank you.

Yeah.

Are you good?

Waysmarathon or anything anything over here?

Council member Larry.

I really appreciate the work that you've been doing on this for a few years. I've been following in prior to when I was elected to the council.

And I retired nurse practitioner so big interest for me is improving our air quality since we have some seventh worst in the nation.

And I think that you know this plan focuses a lot on the health impacts of what needs to be done. And so I hope to see that this accepted throughout the say cog region and implemented. So thank you for your work.

Yeah. And as as as as American as we work very closely with the air district on this so we've got federal air quality standards state carbon reduction standards to meet in as council member because last he said.

The kind of the cool thing about something like green means go which you know is really a way to implement our plan like we are planners who don't just want a plan we want to do.

We want to do it with your staff which I hope you got a sense of just a second ago.

Green means go is our answer to basically try to meet frankly the states environmental and greenhouse gas goals but we don't talk about it that way we talk about a economic development and more housing opportunity.

We got money from the state to invest in water and sewer infrastructure upgrades all over the region so that we can actually spark some of that.

What you would call economic development right so we can meet environmental goals on local terms and that is completely a homegrown program to be able to meet a state mandate kind of on our terms.

So that sort of intersection for us is really important I think part of the value that we can bring working with your really awesome staff here at the city.

Thank you very much for coming out.

I think we're good.

Okay thank you.

All right next item please.

Okay that takes you to your consent calendar this evening.

Anybody have an item they want to pull?

I'd like to pull item number six I just have a couple of questions.

Okay.

It might be helpful for everyone to hear the answer too.

Then I will entertain a motion to move I'm as four five and seven.

So moved.

Second.

Motion and second please call the roll.

So members were about yes.

Cost Lowski.

Yes.

Larry.

Yes.

Yes.

Ray Thel.

Yes.

In a keynote.

Yes.

Okay and item number six I won't read you the whole title but is resolution number one one three three zero.

This is the resolution directing the preparation of engineers reports for all the landscaping and lighting districts for fiscal year 2526.

Jamison Morrison come on down.

Council member Larry.

Thank you for coming.

I'm saying a little bit late this evening.

I just had a question that came up and it was actually contacted by some of the residents and my neighbor heard about and that was the inclusion of Natoma station in the

swan and landscaping districts all 30 of them to be reinitiated or approved again tonight since we recently had an approval pass to when you were looking at

talking to the neighborhood about changing our lighting landscaping fees.

And so that was confusing for a few people so that was fair to bring this up in public.

And you know there the other piece of that is is a seven out of the 30 districts have had those kinds of assessments done the engineers reports in the last few years because they did raise their fees so

that's a number of the ones that are in the right place.

Are these all all seven included in that list because that's an annual requirement or are there loo

additional sites that you're looking at that will need to undergo some adjustments and fees for the LNL.

So that's one question.

Sorry for a little long.

I had his three but.

And then the other concern that I had that there was some sort of public misinformation about these lighting and landscaping district fees being attacks and I'm hoping that you can clarify that.

And kind of go over what they serve and why that fees and annual fee for people in lighting landscaping districts that don't have a homeowners association.

Okay. Thank you.

Good evening. Madam Mayor and members of the council on Jamison Larson senior management analyst with Parks and Recreation.

So the first question was related to Natalma station.

I believe it was January 28th.

We brought an item for Natalma station to initiate the ballot proceedings for that.

So Natalma station is also included here.

So the March 25th at the public hearing if that passes then Natalma station will be removed from this 30 district report.

They're running on parallel tracks currently.

If it's approved the one and tonight's item will be removed and we will go forward with that one.

If that doesn't pass at the public hearing by a vote, then we would need to keep this room this district remaining.

The second one was the seven districts that have recently gone out for reassessment so we have annual reporting requirements.

It's a three step process every year for lighting and landscape districts.

This is the first step of the process ordering engineers reports to be created.

So they do that every year for every existing lighting and landscape district.

There are additional districts that are in financial hardship that will be doing a similar

process of going into the Prop 2 18 process to offer the residents the opportunity to vote

on a new assessment.

And then the last one is, I believe, those related to it being a tax.

That was in this representative local publication as a tax.

And my understanding has been, I'm sorry,

that this is actually not a general tax.

This is something specific to each district to support a variety of services that are provided

by the lighting and landscaping districts.

So I just didn't know if you could kind of go into a little more detail about that.

So the 30 people that live in the 30 lighting and landscaping districts have a better understanding

of what a lighting and landscaping district is.

Okay. Yeah, that's not a problem.

So landscaping and lighting district is a funding mechanism to pay for maintenance

scene and servicing of different assets within the district that provide a special benefit

to the homeowners of that district.

And so the money is collected from the residents in that district.

It can only be spent on certain assets that are outlined in their engineers report

and their formation documents.

Can't be spent in any of the other 29 districts.

It's very detailed where that money can be spent and on what assets within the district

it can be spent.

So could you do mine just giving kind of an example of what sort of assets these

yeah, that it supports?

Yeah, no problem.

So landscaping, so your tree maintenance, your

medians and streetscapes within your neighborhoods,

if you're within one of those 30 neighborhoods.

American or Bercanian has a waterfall that's included in their landscaping and lighting district.

Each district is unique and what is maintained.

So some areas have fences included and other areas don't have fences, some have sound walls.

So every district is unique and what is maintained and that's all outlined in their formation.

Do any of them have public art?

Public art as well.

So the conversation has public art within their many medians and that's one of the assets.

Very good. Thank you.

So basically this is it's a mechanism for providing ongoing maintenance for all of the public

facilities within each district.

And yeah, so it's not too dissimilar to an HOA on the private side and HOA would maintain

similar assets. We have a couple of different mechanisms, community facilities districts,

lighting landscape districts and public business prevent districts that we utilize to maintain

those assets for that provide a special benefit to the residents.

I don't know if anybody else has any questions.

I really appreciate you explaining all of that to eliminate any confusion that might be out there.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, James.

I would like to know the item.

Council Member Larry.

Oh, I'd like to move item number six on the consent calendar.

All right.

Second.

We have a second.

Go ahead and call the roll please.

Council Members Roarbaugh.

Yes.

Kuzlauski.

Yes.

Larry.

Yes.

Rathal.

Yes.

And a keynote.

Yes.

Next item please.

All right.

That wraps your consent calendar and takes you to your one and only public hearing this item this evening.

This is item number eight.

Resolution number one, one, three, two, nine.

This is a resolution approving the issuance of the California Municipal Finance Authority exempt

facility bonds and an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25 million for the purpose of

financing or refinancing the acquisition, construction, improvement and equipping of herrington

grove apartments and certain other matters relating there to.

Good evening, Stephanie.

Good evening, Marrakeenau.

Vice Mayor Rathal.

Council Members, Stephanie Henry Community Development Department.

Quick slide.

I can pull up.

All right.

Just a slide for some reference.

Okay.

So we are here this evening to conduct a public hearing pursuant to the federal

tax equity and fiscal responsibility act or Tefra.

So Tefra requires that public a public hearing be held by the governing body of the jurisdiction

in which a project to be financed with tax equity financing is located and that that

governing body approves the financing.

The developer Pacific West companies has asked that the California Municipal Finances Authority,

the CMFA, be the issuer of tax exempt financing in an amount not to exceed $25 million

of tax exempt revenue bonds to finance the or refinance the acquisition, construction,

improvement and equipping of a 52 unit multi-family rental development for extremely low,

very low and low income households at the location of 791 Herrington Way in the city of Folsom,

California.

The CMFA is a joint powers authority formed to assist local governments,

nonprofit organizations and businesses with the issuance of both taxable and tax exempt debt.

It is important to note that the debt to be issued by the CMFA will be the sole responsibility

of the borrower and the city will have no financial or legal obligations or responsibilities

regarding the repayment of the debt. All financing documents will carry

disclaimers that the loan is not an obligation of the city. The city will bear no cost in the issuance

of the proposed debt and this is a private loan with the borrower and their bank.

So it is recommended that the City of Council adopt resolution 11329, approving the issuance of

the bonds by the CMFA to the borrower. Such adoption is solely for the purposes of satisfying

the requirements of Tefra, the code and the California Government Code Section 650.

In closing, I would just like to note that Mike Kelly, who's representing the developer

and Jared Suzuki with CMFA, are both here this evening if you have any questions regarding this

action. Okay, any questions for Stephanie or our guests before we open the public hearing?

All right, we will open the public hearing. Do we have any requests to speak?

You have no requests to speak on this item. Then we will close the public hearing and I will

entertain a motion. I will move for resolution number 11329 for approval. I'll second it.

All right, we've got a motion and second, please call the roll.

Councilmember Roorba. Yes.

Kuzlowski. Yes.

Leary. Yes. Raidful. Yes.

Anakino. Yes.

Next item, please.

Okay, your last discussion item this evening is new business item number nine.

This is a presentation of findings from the Roundabout Feasibility Study and Direction to Staff

with the sub-item of resolution number 11331,

adopting new planning and design standards pertaining to the use of Roundabouts as traffic control.

Good evening. Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of council.

Christi, I hope you appreciate and we keep our titles short in public works.

Oh, I do.

We're very pleased to share this presentation with you this evening.

It's a result of a pretty extensive analysis that staff and the consultant have

undertook here. Yeah. We won't transfer it. Let me see.

Yeah. Here we go.

Here we go. Thank you.

So this originated back in January 2023 when the City Council

directed staff to proceed with a Roundabout First Policy,

taking that direction that led to a general plan update last year

where we finally incorporated the Roundabout First Policy language into the general plan.

In between those two actions, staff pursued grant funding through the

SAICOG Community Design Program and was awarded $400,000 to do a feasibility study and develop

design standards. And then STA actually came forward and provided our local match.

So the entire feasibility study was grant funded. So this evening, we will,

you have two items before you. The design standards is in the form of a resolution.

We do not anticipate that there's really any discussion there. We just need to incorporate

those design standards so that engineers and planners do future work in the City of Folsom,

you know, have a guideline for a development of Roundabouts. I would like to take a moment to

acknowledge the city staff that worked with the consultant. This was primarily Ryan Chants and

Zach Bosch in public works, Desmond Parrington and Rebecca Neaves in community development,

provided great input that led to these extensive design standards. With us this evening is the

consultant team from Kimmy Horn. We have Sean Hauk from Kimmy Horn. And here on his last day where

he can claim to be 40 something years old, we have Matt Ware from A Vice President from Kimmy

Horn. And Steven Dellen who will be doing the bulk of the presentation this evening.

The feasibility study which is the topic of the presentation, we identified 13 intersections that

we wanted to analyze. The first group were intersections throughout the City of Folsom that had

been identified in our general plan as failing our level of service policy when the city reaches

build up. In other words, a traffic signal would not be able to accommodate the flow of traffic

without excessive delay. So we wanted to explore the use of Roundabouts as an option to minimize that

delay and keep the traffic flowing. We then also looked at one sample intersection, South of 50,

a future intersection at Alder Creek and Prairie City. Just to demonstrate how a Roundabout would be

more effective at controlling the traffic if that's what the analysis concluded. And generally would

allow for a narrower roadway to mimic the same amount of capacity that a signal would allow.

And then lastly, because of the Central Business District vision plan, we added five intersections

within the Central Business District, some of which are existing traffic signals, others are just

existing uncontrolled intersections to show what Roundabouts could look like if we were to pursue

them as part of that vision plan. So I'm going to turn the presentation over to Steven Dillon.

He's going to walk you through the findings from the feasibility study, the scoring system that was

employed and what our collective recommendation for moving forward would be and then I'll come up and

finish up the presentation. Thank you. Welcome. Good evening. My first time speaking to you all, so

a pleasure. As Mark mentioned, my name is Steven Dillon. I work with Kimley Horn. I'm a licensed

civil engineering in California and I've been with Kimley Horn for just about four years. My

anniversary was March 8th, 2021. So in that time, in that four years, I've been involved, not just on

this project in the City of Folsom, but also on a number of other efforts, the ITS implementation plan,

traffic engineering, on-call services, working with Mark in his group as staff augmentation and

also with the Empire Ranch Energy Change Project. So familiar with the City.

So as Mark mentioned, this is just a general overview, presenting spatially where the 13

intersections are located throughout the City. And the process that we took for analyzing and

assessing the feasibility of the intersections all started with the City's 235 General Plan.

So taking build out volumes from the General Plan and then using CIDRA, which is a traffic

analysis software, to determine the necessary lane configurations at the intersections. So the

number of lanes on approach, the number of turning lanes, and then using those that information to

develop concepts. So preliminary concepts at each intersection. It became apparent through the

process that two of the intersections, intersection three and intersection eleven,

were not going to be feasible for roundabout control. Intersection three has limitations with

its proximity to existing bridge, would have required some excessive or would have required a good

amount of right away take that deemed it led to being deemed infusible. And then the East

Bidwell Iron Point intersection as we went through the process, just an ever increasing number of

lanes that were necessary and also would have led to substantial right away take. So those

those two intersections were removed from the future processes. But the rest of the intersections,

the remaining eleven, those were deemed viable for a future consideration. That's what we'll walk

through here. So in order to assess how the intersection stacked up relative to

one another, we had to develop a composite benefit score for the eleven intersections.

Some of these criteria are somewhat self-evident, but the health and safety criteria

was based on local road safety plan data. I believe you were

presented that a couple weeks ago. So using data from that, if a roundabout could be deemed to

improve the safety of an intersection relative to the data we were providing the LRSP,

scored high traffic operations. Again, this is something that was compared to the 2335

general plan as Mark summarized if the intersection was found to perform better, substantially better

than an intersection that would be failing under its current control that would receive a higher score.

Project setting and readily impacts opportunities for third party funding through grants or

developer impact fees, the potential for aesthetics and place making enhancements,

and then transit and active transportation benefits.

And so this is the outcome of the composite benefit scores.

It was an iterative process to get to this point, developed in coordination with city staff,

some of whom Mark identified earlier. And what stands out from this, from this LRSP

three locations, two locations on Riley Street, that rank particularly highly, but then there's

another on Riley Street as well, that scores well. And then two intersections, one intersection

two, Folsomalvern and Oak Avenue, and Blyra Veein and Oak Avenue that do not score as well

in relation to their counterparts.

So this chart is showing or repackaging the information that was provided by color, but

this is the approximate opinion of probable construction cost for each location. And so again,

you're noticing that there's benefits to be gained right at intersection 79 on Riley,

and at the same time, those are lower on the scale of anticipated construction cost.

So using that information, we had the previous two intersections, intersection three,

intersection 11 that were ruled out early in the process, and then from the composite benefit

score further emitting intersection two and intersection five, but finding that there's

further nine intersections throughout the city that were include in the study that could merit

additional levels of engineering refinement beyond the preliminary concepts that were developed.

So I want to zoom in tonight and focus a bit closer on the Riley Street intersections that

scored so highly. Something that stands out is there just general proximity to each other.

It really provides an opportunity for place making, especially as a corridor-wide improvement,

and a corridor-wide enhancement potential for traffic flow through that area,

and we're going to take a closer look at what kind of those concepts look like here.

So this is the Riley Street bid well intersection, intersection seven.

First thing that stands out, at least in my mind when looking at this, is the relative

relative amount of pavement, you know, that so dark gray being the pavement here, but much,

much less pavement, much less space for a pedestrian to need to cross, and then also important to know

how the footprint of the roundabout fits within the existing intersection. I recognize now having,

you know, looked at the presentation a little bit more that it could be useful to juxtapose back

and forth if there was a blank of what's out there today, but yeah, the roundabout footprint here

fits within the existing intersection. Intersection nine, Riley Street and the Cole's driveway

provides an opportunity for mid-block crossing, again reduces pedestrian exposure,

and fits within the existing right of way. It's something to note, and you can probably pick up a

little bit in eye here, but as part of the corridor wide improvement, there would be a continuous median

that would preclude mid-block turns, but this could be viewed as a safety enhancement,

as it eliminates unsignalized left hand turns, which have a propensity for broadside correlations,

and at the same time, the access to properties on both sides of the street is maintained with the

facilitating of eutern flows through these roundabouts through the corridor. So a vehicle could turn

right, make the eutern and access something. In this scenario? In this scenario is the bike lane

diverted onto the sidewalk to circumnavigate this, or are you putting bicycles into the flow with cars?

That's the traffic signal. Flip first item that you mentioned is correct. Yeah, all right, gotcha.

And then moving on to intersection eight, Riley and Glenn, similar benefits that to what was said

before less pavement, less pedestrian exposure, and good for circulation. But I think as we

flip through each of these slides, and we think back on the criteria that were brought up for the

composite benefits score with the traffic operations, safety, multimodal access enhancements,

place making, it starts to become more apparent, starts to become more apparent why these three

intersections in particular stood out when we look at how the ranking went. And with that, I'll turn

it back over to work. Not bad for his first presentation, huh? So next steps, the images that we

just shared with you as Steven said are highly conceptual. They demonstrate using our design standards

what around about could look like in these locations. The next phase of the analysis is where

the consultant's going to do a more deeper engineering dive into what is actually feasible,

sharpen the pencil on those costs. Our recommendation is, we are going to move forward with the

nine highest scoring intersections. Our recommendation is that we start with the three on Riley Street,

get those analyzed, develop any performance measures that we need to have for future grant programs

so that these three are positioned when the when the funding rounds become available probably

later this year. As Mr. Corla said earlier this evening, we will continue to work on the

remaining six intersections with an eye towards finding grant opportunities for those as well.

But our recommendation is that we focus on the three on Riley Street as one comprehensive project.

We do have the concepts for the remaining intersections they are in the presentation.

If anybody's curious about any of them, we can certainly pull them up. Again, I would caution you,

these are highly conceptual. We don't have any level of information about where signs and lighting would

go or driveway access to private businesses. None of that is addressed at this stage of the process.

One, we've identified which ones pencil out the best and two, we're going to do the deeper dive into

the design and the construction. When we do get to when these become projects there would be robust

community engagement to make sure that we fully vet it with all the stakeholders.

So that I believe concludes our presentation. The team, the city staff and consultant team are

available to answer any questions that you all have. Any questions from Mark or Steve?

I know I'll start here with Council Member Warbo. Yeah, can you go back on slide?

Just so I have that for reference. But you said you're going to continue to, the next step is

to study performance measures. Can you tell me more about what that means? What are you looking for

at this point? So a lot of it will have to do with our quality, you know, where we can quantify

the air quality benefits associated with around about versus the traffic signal that that's an

important criteria. If we need any metrics having to do with active transportation modes like volumes

of pedestrians or cyclists that could be served, we could look into that and make sure that

our designs properly accommodate for those modes. Again, a more robust now that our design

standards assuming they get approved by you all this evening, we would make sure that the concepts

that you've seen here this evening adhere strictly to those design standards and that could change

somewhat the initial cost that I've presented to you this evening. One of the things that I talked

about in the agenda review was my concern on accessibility to our current businesses.

Building, you know, having around about first policy be for new builds or new construction,

new areas make sense to me in some of the areas and particularly of interest as East bid well because

that's where we see a lot of our problems. That's also where a lot of our businesses have and

parking lots have been built a long time ago. They don't have accessibility within each other a lot of

times so around about can really limit that. I would like to see some sort of measure that you're

studying that looks at the reduction of accessibility or will increase it and what kind of things you

can do to to remedy that. I think I'd like to see some sort of a provision or like there was

the measuring of I can't read it but whatever this says, you know, this thing.

You know, the impact for certain things health and safety traffic operations. I would like to see

something about the impact for business businesses and residents. I'd like to see that in this

you know, clear direction going forward on the next performance measures because I think that's

I think we could see it affect a few of these on the scale. I'm absolutely totally in favor of

the first three that you recommended. I think Riley is a great street to start because

well because I think there's more availability there to do around about. But again, my concern on

East Bedwell is going from five lanes to well two lanes on each side and an attorney lane down to

a single roundabout and then the accessibility to the businesses in and out of there. So I know that

you know that this is a concern of some of our public as well. So I'm not sure how you could put that

in the languageing. Do you have any solutions for that? Well, again at this point where we're looking

at concept, if we're going to move forward with the Riley roundabouts as a project,

then we would take that next level of analysis of are there places where in between the roundabouts

that we could consider a turn pocket like a left turn into the business. Not maybe not a left turn

out but a left turn in if it doesn't interfere with the operations of the roundabouts. Now,

Riley case is vastly different than what we might look at at East Bedwell because those roundabouts

on Riley are kind of equally spaced. They're fairly close. So if someone were to only have right turn

access from a driveway, they wouldn't have far to go to find a roundabout to circulate back and

get to that business. If the roundabouts are spaced further apart, we might conclude that yeah,

it's a little onerous for someone to drive past a business and have to go a quarter of a mile or

a half a mile to the next roundabout to come back. In case like that, we might consider providing

interim driveway turn pockets. Again, until we actually develop a plan, a design for East Bedwell

Street, really hard to answer that. If we're only going to look at one roundabout on East Bedwell

Street, it's different than if we looked at the entire corridor. Well, I do appreciate what you're

saying. But if we're going to study it in one, I think we should study it in all. So I would like

to see if we're going to focus on the three on Riley that were mentioned. Then I would like to see

information brought back about the impact it will have on those businesses. So then in turn,

when you move forward and study the other locations, you're doing the same thing and we see the

impact on those businesses to accessibility. And I will push back a little bit that I do think

people are creatures of habit and convenience. And if they have to go down a block to turn around

because they miss an I, you know, Amazon's so easy already. We're already fighting that battle.

One of our things with the central district is revitalization of that area for our businesses.

And this is kind of counterintuitive to that. So I would like to see it were with the three,

if we all agree on the the priority of those three locations that we're looking at the impact

there. First, kind of working those things out as a measurement tool. And then that way we have

it in place, it's not a slippery slope. Got it. Council Member Leary, any questions?

Yeah, I was kind of assuming that these performance measures would be looking at traffic flow

through those areas and accessibility to businesses. So we would look at the big picture.

And we're not prioritizing those, you know, the area where we're going to look first tonight or are

we? That's one question I have. Well, if again, if the direction of this council is to focus on

the Riley corridor, then we will take the design to that next level where we can assess

what the impact each driveway is. Are there locations where we could conceivably allow

supplemental access? And we'll be able to analyze, you know, what the impact on traffic flow would be.

Yeah. Well, Riley is one of the worst streets to try to deal with during commute times before and

after school business times people that are still using the rainbow bridge to get across to the

other side of the river. So I've lived in places that have had a series of roundabouts and

they really kept traffic moving instead of having lights and backups until the next block or

three blocks away. So I'm really interested to see in, you know, what the big picture looks like.

Along Riley, I think, you know, from my point of view, that would be a great place to start.

I don't know if you have any other sites that you've looked at. You know, you have mentioned some

other cities that have a series of roundabouts along some of the major thoroughfares.

And, you know, it's not just a reduction in emission. It's a reduction in the cost of each

driver's fuel to be able to keep moving. I know it's a big educational effort. It needs to take

place with population that's not used to having them. But I'm in favor of proceeding with this

project. I'll show other commissioners may have comments or questions, but those were mine. Thank you.

Thank you. Vice Mayor Ruth, any questions? We do have one comment from the public. So we're just

doing questions right now. Sounds good. What about including wills at Riley?

Okay. Could you just be in the, that's the only other real traffic light that's in proximity to

there. I'll save my commentary on the Riley and Cole slash Walmart intersection for after questions.

But for now, let's just go with, if you're going to look at that corridor, why stop there?

And then you could even go the other way. Like, I think of the traffic is really comes from the bridge.

Back up there, it really backs up to these intersections. It's not really caused at these intersections

typically. At least that's been my anecdotal experience. But you guys have all the data. So what

are your thoughts? As far as including Riley whales, you know, clearly it was not included in the

initial 13. I can go huddle with the team to see how much budget we have left. What we might

be able to do is instead of taking all nine intersections to a more detailed analysis, maybe we only

do eight or seven more detailed and use some of that budget to do the conceptual analysis at Riley

and whales and incorporate it into this study. I don't know the answer to that standing here this

evening, but that's certainly one way we could approach it. The right of way with of Riley is the

same at whales as it is at Glenn. The whales right of way may be a little narrower than Glenn,

but the park entrance is right there also, so we control the whole south side plus the right of way.

So it's actually a spot where you probably don't need to do deep analysis, except for traffic flows

because you can repurpose one of the other designs and just lay it over. So your pedestrian flows

probably much higher there than people walking across from coals to Walmart. If I don't find what I

looking for at Walmart, I don't walk over to coals. I get back in my car and drive over, right?

It is a great way to connect the aquatic center to the central business district, which was

certainly one of our goals in the vision plan. Yeah. Okay, we have one item or one I

will go ahead. Just one question just to follow up. The Riley preliminary designs or conceptual

designs, those all fit within the existing right of way. One, the one exception is the Riley

Glenn intersection, which we took advantage of the unused property in front of the post office

to move the center of the roundabout slightly to the north. That helped us to avoid any impacts to

the gas station or the other two businesses and the other corner. Yeah, but just looking at those,

it didn't look like any of those proposed layouts actually impact driveway entrances to anything

with the exception of obviously radically improving the one to coals.

Okay, that's I agree with that. Okay, very good. Thank you.

All right, call our first speaker please. I'll always speak. Yeah, your speaker this evening is

Dan Dreyer. Come on down.

Good evening, Dan. Welcome. Thank you. Hello, Mayor, Justin, Vice Mayor, and all the council members.

My name is Dan Dreyer. I just wanted to say that I thought I served on the committee

from the advisory committee looked over a lot of these plans with everybody with Pam, Pam did a

great job with the whole layout of everything. And one of the things that is a concern of hours is

of course the business accessibility and going to get to we came up as a committee as a first step

plan to look at Riley Street first only because of the inter inter accessibility between if you pull

them to any part of Wal-Mart or coals, you can get to all the businesses from that. So it was

it created a the roundabouts to not create any disadvantages to the businesses. One of the things

that drove us to come tonight was because a lot of the comments that were made online probably

prematurely had mentioned East Bidwell Street. And the concerns on East Bidwell Street is the

accessibility within its smaller areas, the business accessibility through crossing over becomes

very limited. So we just wanted to just bring that to everybody's attention as we move forward

looking at this that those streets were never designed for that. And there's some concerns of being

able to access business from roundabouts because of the mediums that are going to be created in each

direction after each roundabouts formed. So that was my main concern. Just wanted to bring it to

the attention because I didn't see that originally when this was presented. Okay. It was good to see

that the advisory group and the consultants came to the same conclusion on Riley Street. There's

a lot more room there to play with it and more accessibility. Good. Thank you for coming out. Thank you.

All right. That will bring it back to the council. So we're looking for a couple things. One,

there's this resolution to approve the new planning and design standards. And then it sounds like

everyone's an agreement that we prioritize these Riley intersections. Yes. I got a few comments.

On that Riley intersection in particular. That's right. Yeah. That was a time. I am a little hesitant.

You know, I'm always thinking about, hey, it's great to study things. But eventually,

there's going to be an ask, even if we end up with a grant of some sort, we're probably going to

have to pony up some funds in order to make these projects happen. So I went and kind of drove

around there and thought about it a little more. I was in Golden, 20 plus years ago, Golden

Colorado, which I know Mark and his team visited when Roundabout went in there. And my experience back

then was that four roundabouts were done as a study. Very similar to what we're talking about

doing here. And those roundabouts were very close together. And where two roundabouts,

probably would have been made made sense there. Four roundabouts were put in. And it was a bit hard

at that point for the community to handle that. Obviously, we've got different businesses,

different traffic situations, different climate, a lot of different things going on. But I went

out and I looked at intersection. I thought, okay, even for $5 million later on, looking at that

Coles Walmart intersection, which right now doesn't even have a light. And would we really go about

changing that, putting in a center divider for a relatively low traffic intersection? I think

it had a hard time. And maybe I'd come to a different conclusion after the study. But right now,

I look at it and go, I don't see that as really a viable option. If you guys want to take a look at

as part of the study, it may make sense as a corridor approach. But my preference would be to look at

whales, look at existing lights that are there to try to improve intersections that are already

existing. I don't see a whole lot of traffic that's struggling to get out even with that unprotected

left turn. I'm not aware of any significant accidents that are there, although you guys just did

the study. So when I look at it, I kind of go to health and safety and operations. I appreciate

the matrix that's there, but really my top two are health and safety and traffic flow. And those

are the top two priorities for me and those should carry more weight than the other things in the

matrix. And so when you're looking at things, that's what I would do. So that's just my feed back

there on that Riley intersection. I'd rather look at those and possibly not look at Coles Walmart.

Or look at it in a much smaller way, not spend a whole lot of dollars in time on it.

Mark, question for you. So in terms of providing direction to staff regarding prioritization,

we could just say just start with the Riley corridor and forget the other

six or whatever they were, right? And just just start with this.

Yes, you could. Okay.

And my only other thought on that is I look at some of those intersections like Folsom Lake

Crossing. I think about the lights that I sit at right now and that irritate me. Oh, that's

what I think of when I think of Roundabout. So this is like, oh, I get to keep moving. I don't have

to sit there and wait for three minutes while everybody comes and takes their left turn. And I

would much rather, you know, not have the nanny state telling me I can't take an unprotected left.

I'd rather have those be available. But that's a whole another issue right now. I think of

Folsom Lake Crossing as a great option. For me, Folsom Auburn and Folsom Lake Crossing,

the other one was. Can we put that aside back up that shows the different ones?

Sorry. Blue or green and oak is the other one I sit at. And maybe it's just where I live and where

I go. But I think of those intersections that I get really irritated as I wait for the six other

traffic options to go. So yeah, Folsom Auburn Road, Folsom Lake Crossing makes a lot of sense to me.

The other ones that scored pretty high. Blue or green road at Prairie City.

And eight versus an 8.5. I don't know how much of a difference that is if you were to put more

weight into health safety and operations. A lot of it is the projected cost of that project versus

the benefits. Yeah, and I get that, you know, but if we're if we're prepping something for long term,

if I'm looking to invest tax dollars in it later on, even with competitive grants,

I want to significantly improve my traffic flow or my health and safety for those tax dollars

at a meaningful measurable intersection. Not just do something because it's cheap and fits

in the existing right away and this next to something else that's there. So it's my thoughts.

So Mr. City Attorney, could we do one motion with approving this resolution and prioritizing the

intersections? Now, the mayor, you can approve the resolution and give and provide direction to staff.

Okay. Yes, ma'am. And I had no issue with the design standards. They're wonderful.

Let's start there. Can I just want to add something though because I know there's been this focus

on the Walmart parking lot across from Coles. And that I mean, there's several blind intersections

there when you're going to turn left. If you're coming out of Coles and you want to go left on

Riley, that I've almost been hit because it's blind as people come up around that corner.

So kind of having the series slows things down along that entire corridor. And it shouldn't

interfere with people being able to get into Coles or Walmart once they learn the routine. And

so I didn't want to take it all the way off of the table only because I think it's it could be useful.

It could be dropped off if it doesn't appear to aid in the accessibility of businesses.

And we all have a different experience because we have our living in our districts and we're driving

different patterns because I can think of streets that aren't on this list altogether.

That could be made safer. So but I do like the Blue Revea in that prairie city.

Okay, as well. Thank you. Let's let's start with the motion to approve resolution number one one three three one.

So moved second. We got motions in seconds. Please call the roll.

Council members, Rooba, Koslawski, Leary, Rachel, Indicino.

Yes. Okay, so if we go down this list, what I'm hearing is we want to keep Folsomob and Road at

Folsomite crossing on. Move ahead with the study of that.

I we're not eliminating anything from this list. These are the ones that work the best or they

were chosen first, right? So this is a long term plan potentially for all nine of these intersections.

Right, but if we want to prioritize some for further study and to prepare them for grant funding,

that's that's what we're trying to give direction on correct. That's correct. We have only

limited amount of budget available remaining. If we want to add the Riley Wales intersection,

then we need to we need to give somewhere else in order to provide some funding for that.

I would also point out that the intersection number 13 at the bottom,

per city, alter creek. This one is related directly to the the metal shop project that is

about to be submitted here to the city of Folsom. And so I would encourage you to keep that one

as as a relatively high priority so that we have that intersection studied in position to assist

when that project lands in our laps. Man, a mayor, can I make a suggestion that we keep

we toss overboard item 3 and 11. And we keep the rest of the list with focus on the two principal

intersections on Riley Street. And then after that, take a look at the others in some reasonable

priority that the staff can choose. Because I think each of us is going to have favorite child here.

Because I honestly I'd like to push the issue of figuring out if it's actually possible and

practical to make an improvement at Glen and East Bidwell so that we decide if it's something

we actually can do and practically not impose restrictions on any of those businesses.

But I think there's great promise of a small road diet on East Bidwell in that space between

the middle school and Glen that could help us improve the sidewalks particularly and actually

give some space to the east side of the road so that those parking lots can function more effectively.

So it doesn't necessarily mean I'm suggesting that there should be a median the whole way.

But I do think that we can gain a lane in there by doing it by at least taking a look at it.

That was something I suggested to the gentleman. When I talk to them originally I still think

that that's a reasonable one. So if I was choosing I would say Riley, Riley and Glen East Bidwell

would be the top three. But like I said I think we're all going to have slightly different opinions

here. But I think the Riley's Bidwell, Riley, Glen make perfect sense. They fit within the existing

right of ways. They're unlikely to infringe on anybody's driveway access. They do in fact act as

an economic development driver for that area and can be as you put it a place making start for

the central business district or an enhancement of place making for there.

So I personally think East Bidwell should be off the table at the moment until we do some of

these test cases because there's some concern there from property owners. If it were me I would go,

I would prioritize one, seven, eight, nine, 13 and maybe add the other Riley one that you're talking

about, Riley and Wales. Yeah and really I'm bringing that up because I don't think you

analyze these in isolation. These are nice discrete points but I think this is really a system

analysis. So the work that you do one intersection over a lot of the work is the same.

Correct me if I'm wrong but you know traffic that goes through one of those intersections is

likely going through the other. I'm Mayor I'm in alignment with you and to kind of

de-go a little bit further the two that scored outside of number. They're all different on this.

Outside of the two that we're getting rid of we're all agree to get rid of that they've

suggested don't work 11 and three. The two that there are two more that did not score well.

False the number two up there and five. Five up there. Thank you. I would suggest just

scrapping those as well for further studies. But I'm more in alignment with what you're saying there.

Your choices which I can't. 178913. Thank you. Yeah let's just push two and five to the bottom of

the list for research instead of scrapping them at this point because those are really irritating

intersections to me personally. I'm just I agree with leaving them on the list. We can just

push them to the bottom and if we still have funds available. Yeah. Can do that.

Is that work Mark? Do you have what you need? And we're still adding Riley Wales for analysis

if you think it makes sense. I don't want to override what you guys are doing but to me it's a system

of those intersections and to leave one light off on that place doesn't make sense to me but I'm

not the traffic engineer. So I will concede to you guys this greater experience in this but I

just want to suggest it. Well I'll huddle with the team and see what we can do with the budget we have left.

Well I think that was his concern though if we're not scrapping any now we're adding one and I think

I'm not sure if there is clear-dection. Are you studying five priorities three priorities or

are you studying all of them now? Well if I'm reading the room here we're doing everything on this

list adding Riley Wales ahead of intersections two and five. Is that a good summary?

Is that going to be able to cut anything? I mean cost wise for you? We might not get to two and five

because we're going to focus on Riley Wales which if that's the direction that y'all want to go with

we can make that happen. Okay. Okay. All right everybody good? Yep. All right.

Thank you very much. Take those to city manager reports. Thanks for having me. Thank you very much.

Madam Mayor thank you very much. I just want to remind the council and our executive team that we have

a special council meeting to workshop this Friday morning 830 to noon. I look forward to to that

continuation of our discussion. The items that will be studying more closely are finance. We'll

be looking at land use planning and and also purchasing and then we're going to as a last item

entering to an exercise on the application of the co-alignment theory for the city itself.

I'd like to announce that the Folsom Fired Apartments welcomed its newest ladder truck station to

fire station 35 Walmart and this enhances our city's emergency response capabilities and for

the first time the city will have a reserve ladder truck ensuring seamless service when the primary

truck is undergoing maintenance or out of service. And for the library the friends of Folsom Library

book sale is back March 7th through the night and offers thousands of books and media equity

prices over there. Now we have a number of congratulations congratulations to Folsom's newest

police officer William Lanson he graduated from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Academy yesterday.

We're excited to welcome officer Lanson to the Folsom Police family. We have some other new

hires as well in the community development department. Tourage Hacini is the principal civil engineer

and joining him and the team is Jason Rojo a plan check engineer who's also a licensed architect.

And we have a retirement congratulations for Frank Campoy serve the city for 24 years as lead

senior mechanic in the public works department so we congratulate him. You're smiling did I get

that wrong? I'll got it right. Okay. Thanks. And then in looking back on my long career as a city manager

I approached my last city council meeting this evening and I'm going to show my long careers

three months and two weeks. But I really want to kind of build upon what was said

for the women's soccer team tonight and that is their culture of gratitude. I'm very grateful to you

mayor and to vice mayor and the city council for asking me to come here and help in some small

way with the management administration of the city. I also want to give a great thanks and a

shout out to what I think is the greatest executive management team for local government. I have come

to enjoy their company become friends with them and I will miss their comma lottery in our long

discussions. So thank you so much and we welcome our new city manager Brian white mar as the new

manager he's coming his first day is March 10th. So thank you very much. Well thank you Dan and

that's he says to council comments and I actually wanted to kick it off and you have teed me up very

well because we want to acknowledge you and sincerely thank you. You are the exact person we needed

when we needed you and we thank you for once again accepting the call to serve the city of Folsom.

You are a leader in every sense of the word and you know although it's your first

end to city manager I don't think it will be your last. Somebody else will be calling you

and you you really just dove right in meeting with employee groups going out and meeting with

businesses in the community walking homeless camps last weekend during the three day weekend a

resident texted me that there was some graffiti in prairie oaks and so I texted council member

Larry and and mr. haverdy thinking that it would get taken care of on Tuesday morning. Well no

our interim city manager was out there scrubbing the graffiti off of the utility box and

painting over it himself and so just we can't thank you enough and I really do think that this

this three and a half month transition it has you've helped us prepare to welcome our next city

manager and so this is we're so grateful for you so thank you. So you've got to get a nut

wound a hat tonight. Alright vice mayor rathal.

And now I'll echo the mayor's comments. We are very grateful that you took this job. I know it

wasn't easy with two new elected city council members that felt like we needed to come in and make

the wishes of our constituents heard and and acted upon when you were really hired to

listen and prepare the city for the next manager so thanks for always taking my calls.

Thanks for working on things that I've viewed as a priority and also cooling me off when

when needed. Oh yeah I just appreciate your guidance. I've appreciated your friendship for many

years and just your outlook on on life and on people. Very very grateful for you stepping

into this role and I look forward to being your friend and hopefully working with you again

in the future. Thank you. Council member Kuzlowski. Did oh that's good. I mean yeah great job. I mean

you really did provide a nice calm transition and it was the right person at the right time for

sure your your experience as a minister served you very well. I don't have any other report.

Thank you. Council member Worba. Yeah I have several and I'll first address Dan. I think I

obviously did not obviously but I'm ditto to everything that the mayor said but also I've

also enjoyed our faithful conversations as well and you're a great beacon of light for a lot of us

so I appreciate everything that you did and I will transition. I do have a quick update. I'm going

to update more later but with SAC RT just for the public out there they're going to they are

they already have added a second guard throughout the Folsom stations. Folsom stations and then

they're going to schedule more officers from 3 to 10 pm between the Folsom stations getting on

and off to improve the safety and the homeless situation the transient situation that has

come with the rail so anyways that's really positive we're going to set up try to set up a town hall

here coming up to address the on time and the scheduling conflicts that are happening as well as

the safety issues so I'm really happy with all they're doing to help us out here in Folsom so

I feel really positive about that role being on the regional board and then I do want to make a

special special acknowledgement to one of our sergeants Mike Groenberg.

I did my second ride along with him my first with Mike but my second with the city about a year and

a half ago I think it was and seeing him around interact with residents and people and businesses

and he's a well-loved person in this city and it's I want to acknowledge him because on Thursday night

he accepted from the veterans of foreign wars they're outstanding public safety award yearly award

and I want to highlight a few of the reasons so sergeant Groenberg started Folsom Police Department

in 2007 after serving in the Marine Corps for seven years. Sergeant Groenberg received a department

commendation last year for spearheading a shop with a cop event for 10 special Olympic athletes.

He has played an essential role as the pop team supervisor in attaining the highest upper

apprehension rate for theft at Dick's sporting goods nationwide. Even the store manager of Dick's

praised Sergeant Groenberg's Groenberg and his team for the constant present and support

noting that they never felt forgotten even amid a statewide increase in retail theft I think

that speaks to Mike's character and his professionalism. Sergeant Groenberg has received two

bronze star awards one in 2023 and his first in 2013. A bronze star is the highest

accommodation for bravery kind of showing his longevity and of his dedication and service throughout the

years. It goes on and on but I think what needs to be highlighted is that both during both his first

and second years in the role of sergeants since 22 so in 23 and 24 he was awarded the supervisor

of the year award. This is an honor determined by the votes of his peers and the subordinates

highlighting the respect and trust he commands among his fellow officers. While I had the privilege

of going on the right along with him again seeing him interact and deal with people's problems and

conflicts initially and even watching him deal with staff. He's an example of many other employees

throughout our city and I know that it was an honor for him to receive the award and it's an

honor for us to have him serve our city so well so I want to thank you Sergeant Mike Groenberg

and Fulsom PD. Thank you well said councilmember Larry. Thank you and I want to add my thanks

to our interim city manager and I will really miss our conversations. I have to say that working

with you is one of the greatest opportunities in my most recent career and I've really learned a lot

of skills and you know through your guidance and the information that you've provided us on how

to work with others you know effectively and you're helping me kind of through the process of

working with staff. You've come to some of the meetings with me with staff and come up with some

other suggestions ideas or questions that I hadn't come up with. I also want to thank staff. I've

had several meetings with our staff recently on different issues and they've been great about

bringing me up to date on upcoming things that are that they're working on and talk to me about

some of my ideas and how we might prioritize moving ahead with some of the things I'd like to

get accomplished so that's it for tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much. We will adjourn at 812. Good night