Thank you. Then we will adjourn the special meeting and call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for Tuesday, June 10, 2025. Would the clerk please call the roll? Councilmembers Rachel, Rorbaugh, Eric Kozlowski, Larry, and Akino.

Here. If you'd all please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Okay. Mr. City Attorney, any agenda updates?

Yes. Good evening, Madam Mayor and a member of the City Council.

So we have an additional information transmittal for item 10 and a revised staff report for item 11 on 10S agenda.

A copy of both have previously been provided to you and they should be on the table in the back as well.

Thank you. 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 we cannot take action or deliberate on items that are not on the agenda.

If you'd like to speak now during business from the floor or on a future agenda item later today, you could please fill out a blue card, hand it to Lieutenant Verhalen over here, and the clerk will call you up at the appropriate time.

So we do have some requests from business from the floor.

Yeah, you have two requests to speak this evening under business from the floor.

First will be Tracy Stafford, and Tracy will be followed by Ruth Anderson.

So Tracy, come on down, and Ruth, you can be ready.

You'll be next in three minutes.

Just a reminder, we give everyone three minutes to speak, so short and sweet.

Right there at the center.

There you go.

Okay.

Is there a timer?

Oh, there it is.

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Can I take it here?

Oh, we got them all.

Welcome.

Yes, thank you.

Well, I am Tracy Stafford, and I'm the self-appointed executive director for the Juneteenth Festival at Black Miners Bar.

And self-appointed means basically I'm a volunteer.

We're all volunteers.

It's a community-driven event.

And often people are asking, well, what is it?

Why did we change the name?

What is Juneteenth?

What is the big deal?

Right?

So we like to come out and just sort of share what it's truly about.

Now, we know what the 4th of July is, right?

You know, that is where our great country earned its independence.

And we all celebrate it, and we all love it, and we all eat a little too much and go on about our lives.

And then there is Juneteenth, which occurred on June 19th in 1865, and that was when all Americans were freed.

So our country was freed on the 4th of July.

But all Americans were notified of their freedom on June 19th, 1865, when the last of the enslaved in Galveston, Texas,

were notified two years after they had been freed that they actually were.

So we celebrate 4th of July, and we've always celebrated as a black community Juneteenth.

But the reality is that this is a celebration that we should all be a part of.

Juneteenth, again, is when all Americans were freed in this great country that earned its independence on the 4th of July.

So that is why we celebrate.

And with Black Miners Bar, there's a lot of discussion about that.

You know, why did we change the name?

And isn't Negro Bar, Negro Bar?

Isn't that Spanish?

What's the big deal, right?

And many don't really understand the history.

We know that that's where the black miners mined, gold mines.

Many don't understand that that was the first black settlement in California.

And it was in 1849, which was decades before the Emancipation Proclamation.

So we're not even free to travel freely, to own property, any of that.

And they came here and were able to build lives and build community here.

And it's so important.