We will call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for Tuesday June 24th 2025 with the clerk please call the roll council members Roaba here

Kozlowski here Leary here Rachel here and Aquino here and if you'd all please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance

Okay, do we have any agenda updates mr. City Attorney no update tonight madam mayor

Okay, then we are going to take things a little bit out of order and we are going to start with the scheduled presentations

If the clerk would please introduce those your first scheduled presentation this evening is item number one

This is a resolution resolution accommodation honoring police chief Rick Hellman for his outstanding service to the city of Folsom

Come on down chief

All right, well, this is a resolution of commendation honoring police chief Rick Hellman for his outstanding service to the city of Folsom

And whereas police chief Rick Hellman is retiring after an esteemed career in law enforcement

Spanning nearly four decades

Including 30 years of dedicated service with the Folsom Police Department

And whereas chief Hellman has honorably served as Folsom's police chief since April of 2018

Leading a team of 125 employees and 50 volunteers

With professionalism integrity and a steadfast commitment to public safety

And whereas throughout his tenure chief hellman advanced proactive policing strategies

Prioritized community engagement and implemented innovative programs to enhance transparency accountability and service delivery

And whereas he championed the creation of the homeless outreach team led the implementation of body worn and in-car cameras

Developed the problem oriented policing team and made significant strides in officer wellness and trauma support

And whereas chief hellman served as an advisor to the Folsom police foundation

Helping foster positive community relations and support youth focused programs

And whereas he has represented the department and the city of Folsom at the highest levels

Serving on the california police chiefs association board of directors and numerous state and national advisory committees

Reflecting his leadership and expertise within the profession

And whereas chief hellman began his career with the Folsom police department in 1995

Serving with distinction in various roles including canine handler swat officer field training officer and in leadership positions across multiple divisions

And whereas chief hellman's career has been marked by a deep commitment to public service strong community partnerships and an unwavering dedication to keeping Folsom a safe place to live work and visit

Now therefore I Sarah Aquino mayor of the city of Folsom on behalf of the Folsom city council and the residents of this community

Hereby extend our sincere appreciation and gratitude to police chief rick hellman for his exemplary service

Leadership and contributions to the Folsom community and wish him all the best in his well-earned retirement

Commended this 24th day of june 2025

I'm going to invite up peter gemolaro from congressman kevin kiley's office and then once we do that

We're going to get a picture with all of these beautiful grandkids and children from the hillman family. Okay, Peter come on up

Thank you mayor and I thank the council for allowing us a few moments tonight

Chief the congressman's in washington, but he asked me to come by tonight and just wish you well

You know he appreciates your dedication and service and keeping the community helping keep the community safe

It means a lot to all of us on behalf of congressman kevin kiley just know that our doors are always open

And he wishes you well

And he asked me to present you with an official united states house representatives congressional record

Congratulations

Thank you

Thank you

I like to say a few words

So i'm a man of few words, but I

Will just thank my wife

Of 39 years she's been with me through all of this so I give her the biggest round of applause

Because she uh stuck with me through not just being a chief but being a cop where you're working at night weekends holidays

So thank you

And and to my children grandchildren

Uh, thank you. They're always there for me, too. And uh, this is the reason I do it. It's all about family

I couldn't have done this job without great support from my staff. A lot of them are in the back

My assistant tracy who's always there for me

Um, but all the commanders lieutenants and uh, and the rest of the staff here at the police department and uh and the city

Our executive management team works hard to keep this community safe

And uh well served

I I have enjoyed working here. It's been a great place. It's an easy place to police

Because it is such a great community to live work and play. I do live here

I've enjoyed working here. I'll continue to live here

Um, I just thank the community for accepting me and having me as your chief for the last seven years. It's been just an honor

Thank you

Thank you

All right, I don't see an official city photographer so commander Bates maybe you could help with that a little bit

Okay

All right

All right

All right

You're welcome to stay for the budget meeting

You want to go out to dinner? We'll understand

I know you won't miss me

Thank you all

Okay, our next item this evening is item number two. This is a proclamation of the mayor proclaiming july 3 to 5

july 3rd to 5th as western rodeo days in the city of Folsom

Where is the city of Folsom

This is our rodeo queen

Okay

All right, this is a proclamation of the mayor of the city of Folsom proclaiming july 3rd through 5th

2025 as western rodeo days in the city of Folsom

Whereas the city of Folsom proudly recognizes Folsom's western heritage

And acknowledges the benefits of preserving the traditions and customs of the city's history

And whereas for over 60 years the Folsom pro rodeo has been of a love tradition

Bringing together rodeo enthusiasts families and the Folsom community for unforgettable experiences

And whereas the rodeo began out of love for Folsom's rich western heritage

And as a way to honor the family-run cattle ranches which created the community

And whereas this year's event at the dan russell arena marks the 64th anniversary of the Folsom pro rodeo

And whereas event highlights include traditional rodeo events such as saddle and bareback bronc riding

steer wrestling team roping barrel racing bull riding

performances by the painted ladies drill team flying cowboys motocross

rodeo clowns nightly fireworks mutton busting and live music in the saloon under the stars

And whereas in honor of the traditional patriotic theme the Folsom pro rodeo will celebrate within arena spectacular fireworks

And whereas the Folsom pro rodeo involves the assistance of hundreds of volunteers and a tremendous amount of community support

Now therefore I sarah akino on behalf of the city of Folsom do hereby proclaim july 3rd through 5th 2025

As western rodeo days in Folsom and call upon all citizens to join in the festivities celebrating the Folsom pro rodeo

Proclaim this 24th day of june 2025

The grand marshal has yielded his time to me to speak on behalf of the Folsom pro rodeo

My name is taryn i'm one of your mcs for the Folsom pro rodeo this year and we are so grateful to the city's partnership

Above everything we have been doing this for 64 years that is the longest running regional event. Can we put our hands together for that?

That's a huge

We are so grateful to not only the city but to all the humans that are here today it is because of you we're able to do this

Mayor Aquino said some great stuff you can look forward to the saddle bronc the bull riders

But we also have bull jumpers this year a man will run towards a bull and jump over him

Yes, you'll have to come see it for yourself. It is fantastic outside of that

I would love to take just a minute to thank the city for your continued partnership and we'd like to invite you all july 3rd or 4th

The third i'm sorry fourth or 5th the fourth or 5th the third is sold out

So city council on behalf of the Folsom pro rodeo

You're formally invited the fourth or the fifth to come out to the Folsom pro rodeo and join in

We're also looking for volunteers. I'm sure haley back there would appreciate that

We still need some volunteers for the fourth and the fifth, but i'm again so grateful to what everyone has come out here to do

And that is to continue to support this and a big shout out to our grand marshal and our Folsom pro rodeo queen

Miss parker cliff

She has gifts for all of our city council members

So you can parker if you want to go ahead and pass those out to our council members right now

And thank you all for coming out. Please join us july 3rd 4th and 5th third sold out fourth and fifth

And we're always looking for volunteers and i'm so grateful this year

But also especially grateful because the grand marshal next to me is my dad charlie gross

And council one last formal invite on monday june 30th

We invite all of you to join us at the partner kickoff at crawdad. So to start

Thanks one one it's who's council member. All right

Please join us and mayor. Thank you so much for continuing to support this tradition

Thank you very much

Okay, that takes us back 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 deliberating or taking action on items not on the agenda

If you'd like to speak now or during any part of the meeting we ask that you fill out a blue speaker card and give it to the officer over here

I think we have one request to speak you do one request to speak this evening under business from the floor from sherry richter

Good evening so hold that microphone right down to your mouth there you go

I pretend like i'm really tall

I strive

um good evening mayor aquino council members and city manager

My name is sherry richter i've lived in fulsome for four years now

I am currently the president of the docent council for the zoo also one of the 1300 members of the friends of the folsom zoo

In addition i'm a caps volunteer through the police department and i volunteer also as an usher at the harris center

So i have embraced folsom and i love the community i love what they offer the community i love living here

But today i am here to let you know that the animals at the zoo have been really really busy

Working on their portfolio for an upcoming art show at the art gallery next door

They especially doing they especially enjoy doing this enrichment because they get to use non-toxic paint and then they get a spa treatment

For with a bath after their work is done

Artwork like this one from henry we've got tossed salad over here

And we have proud to be an american black bear that is

Over here so artwork like this will be displayed and will be available for purchase

As you can see he's probably the picasso of the bear world but just about every animal in the zoo

Has worked really hard with some kind of artwork that it will be

Displayed at this event i would like to invite you as well as the rest of the community to the free reception this friday from six to eight

And you can where you can enjoy

Live music refreshments and an evening of art while enjoying the annual animal created art and who knows possibly bring some home with you as well

All proceeds will go towards the zoo for those who cannot attend the reception the on friday the exhibition will run from june 27th through august 13th

I hope you will all be able to stop by and just to entice you

To come the animals have made small original creations for you to take home tonight

Um yeah, hold on i have one you each get a draco he's the one of our hybrid wolves and

We have one from radagast who is our rosie boa so um

We will pass those out thank you very much. Thank you so much sherry

Okay, that takes us to our consent calendar. I know we're going to pull item five does anybody need to pull anything else?

Then we will entertain a motion to adopt items three four and six i'll move to adopt the consent calendar three four and six second

We have a motion and a second please call the roll council members roerbaugh yes koslowski. Yes leary. Yes rathal. Yes, and aquino

Yes

All right item five yeah item number five is resolution number one one four zero six

This is a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with mesa energy services

um

for three hundred seventy two thousand five hundred sixteen dollars from the general fund for the fulsome community center and rotary clubhouse commercial kitchen equipment replacement

Good evening tom

Good evening madam mayor tom hellman with the parks and recreation department

Of most recent update as of uh earlier this afternoon in

Communicating with mesa energy services

They have brought forth an adjusted proposal for this work

Which would include the work?

As indicated in the scope so the scope hasn't changed of the replacement of all the kitchen equipment at both facilities

uh for three hundred and thirty nine thousand seven hundred and thirty nine dollars

Roughly a little over fifteen thousand dollar uh cost savings. They're bringing it down

Five percent contingency we feel is adequate enough for this project at sixteen thousand nine eighty seven for a new total of

356 thousand seven hundred and twenty six

Okay

Um any questions for tom

Just a quick one that contingency was there contingency built into the

Original number because it's a direct contract right for the install of the equipment

In the original staff report there was a contingency built into that yes of the same five percent the same five percent. Yes. Thank you

So mayor members the council if I could add this is kind of an interesting

Process as it was a rated

25 percent on the the cost and seventy five percent for the technical area

And so when you look at the bids

the original numbers

Uh, we had mesa energy at three hundred fifty four thousand seven hundred and seventy seven dollars

Douglas equipment at three hundred twenty eight thousand four hundred forty six

Dollars and twelve cents

federal supply at three hundred nineteen thousand one hundred twenty five dollars and thirty three cents

And then hci at three hundred and seventeen thousand three hundred eight dollars

And so uh, we bring this to your attention

It's kind of a unique process in that when you look at the ratings

um

Based on the scoring mesa energy

uh

Came in first

Uh, and then douglas equipment

Uh, came in second

And uh, so mesa was actually the highest

Amount and so we appreciate the effort of staff to reach out to them to see if they can adjust

uh, the costs

Uh, and they they came down

One of the things that happened as you transfer over to a new month

Um, they they just got updated pricing

So, uh, although they dropped uh, the price down

Uh, the cost of the equipment went up

So this is actually a pretty significant deal

uh, for us to kind of

uh, uh, look at that standpoint

But the question really is uh, when you look at douglas, it's still

um

At three hundred twenty eight thousand dollars

Uh, one of the things that we haven't been able to figure out yet

Uh, we haven't been able to get in communication as if their prices have gone up

I would assume that their prices have gone up now

Um, but we haven't confirmed that

So that's one of the things that we have to talk about uh, today is

uh, especially related to the community center and the rotary clubhouse is we've identified a week

Where this work has to be done because they're heavily utilized people have events and things planned

So we want to make sure that we can get this done and get it scheduled and so

uh, uh, we've had some discussions with the week

Uh during the week that maybe we would recommend douglas equipment

You know the number two because it's a lower cost with the information we have now

With mesa reducing the cost and then the actual amounts since this is a request for a proposal and not a bid

the price is based on

what the the uh

Materials will be and so if that changes these bids for all of them will change

And so we've tried to get as much information as we can and so that

Makes it not as clear cut as far as going with the lowest one because we don't know if that's the final price

I don't tell me did I explain that right that is absolutely correct

Can you repeat what amount they came down?

I think it was 339,739

Okay, with yes, plus a contingency which is a

15 000 dollar 15 000 38 dollar decrease in their price okay

so brian back to your so

When they give us these bids are these prices not good for a certain amount of time like 30 days or so it's different than than a hard

bid and and

um

You know, it's it's uh, it's my understanding that they held the price for a certain amount of time

And then those adjust so we're assuming that would happen with these others

um

This other company is out of state we've reached out throughout the day to try to get a number

And so we we don't necessarily have the additional information and so we're kind of in a conundrum in that

We don't know if their price will change

Uh, so if we go with them the 328, I mean could be

um

Did you say it's 339 now so 11 000

less?

Um, but if their costs have gone out it

Shrinks it a little bit so I wish I we had more uh finalized numbers for you, but this is something

That has been kind of fluid as the day's gone on

So is there another process for doing this other than going out with an rfp?

Because I think there we recently had a similar situation where some someone for play equipment

submitted a late proposal

And i'm not sure if they all have deadlines and and then when you're trying to plan this around

a time frame that has already been set for not using the community center

Yeah, that's a really good question. I think I want to know how flex if there's something more flexible to be done

Yeah, yeah, so uh all of the these uh

Companies actually submitted on time it was just as we evaluated the

The proposals and looked at the numbers and it and i'll just be honest

This is kind of an awkward scoring system

And it's it's probably a process that we won't follow any longer

um, you know, so um

I mean the attempt was to to get the

highest technical um

Company that we have but when you're putting in the the kitchen

Equipment uh our review of these is there

They look to all be very

Respectable companies with good experience and so our goal was to try to get the lowest cost and that's why we're leaning towards at least the number two

um

But with the cost change

um

And then the cost reduction

uh, we're

We're moving forward, but there everyone submitted information on time

uh, the only change is because we proactively asked

uh mesa to see if they there was any movement in their price

Thank you

May I comment yes, um so

In my regular life, I compete

uh the company that I work for we compete with mesa energy aka mcore services

And it pains me a little bit to say that they actually are extremely qualified to do this work

um

The uh the attempt by the staff to make a best value judgment of who to use for this work, I think was the right one

and

um

As anybody who's been involved in construction knows, um you can control

One of three things or two of three things the time the cost or the quality right

And in this particular instance, we're trying to balance those things, but we don't have a lot of flexibility on the time

um

Mesa is a perfectly capable company the price is

Not dramatically higher than the others and i'm confident that they'll deliver the project effectively, so

I'm okay with it for whatever that's worth

Yes

Would you like to word that in the form of motion you have a question?

Vice mayor rathal all right

So I'd like to make a motion

I'll move that we approve resolution

11406 at the revised pricing that was provided by the by the staff

Second all right, we have a motion and a second please call the roll council members rober

Yes, koslowski. Yes leary. Yes, rathal. Yes, and akino. Yes

All right next item, please

All right, that takes you to your first public hearing item this evening

This is the city of Folsom community facilities district number 20-1

Russell ranch 2

Before you tonight you have four resolutions and an ordinance. They are a resolution number one one four zero eight

one one four zero nine one one four ten

One one four eleven and then ordinance 1352

Thank you

Thank you good evening mayor vice mayor and council members stacy tamani chief financial officer

Tonight is the second presentation in the process to create this new community facilities district 20-1 russell ranch 2

For some background information cfd 20 russell ranch was established by the city council in 2017

To support the construction and acquisition of certain public improvements for properties that are within that district

And the district overall spans approximately 438 acres and has planned development of just over 1 000 residential units

The estimated total public improvement construction cost is 108 million dollars

And the cfd was set up to partially fund back that backbone and subdivision infrastructure and soft costs

Previous bond issuances for cfd 20 as a whole include 13.2 million dollars issued in 2018

To fund improvements acquired from the new home company and 11.2 million issued in 2020 to support improvements acquired from lennar homes

The city received a quest a request from lennar homes to form an overlay district

Which is what it should be for you tonight and the district will be called cfd number 20-1 russell ranch 2

The new cfd will provide funding to help fund a portion of the cfd 20 subdivision infrastructure

cfd 20 overlay includes only a portion of the property within the original cfd number 20 boundaries and we have a map on the next slide

The cfd includes just one parcel and it encompasses phase 2 village 5 of the russell ranch development

cfd development will include about

118 multifamily low density units and as of april 30th no building permits or certificates of occupancy had been issued

On the left side here you have the proposed boundaries of cfd 20-1

Within the cfd 20 and it's just showing this one parcel

And then on the picture on the right shows the location on the corner of white rock road and empire ranch road

Maximum special tax rates for this area are based on building size of the unit and they'll range from about one

1300 to 1500 per unit maximum special tax rates will increase annually by two percent

And there's no special tax components for maintenance services related to this overlay

Special tax can be levied and collected through fiscal year 64 65 and bonded indebtedness limit will be at 3.5 million dollars for this overlay cfd

Excluding this overlay the estimated tax rate for developed residential property within village 5

Is that approximately 1.6 percent currently and with the inclusion of cfd 20-1 the total projected tax rate?

For developed residential property will be at 1.8 percent. That's in compliance with the city's policy

On may 13th the city council approved resolution number one one three seven four and you also approved resolution number one one three seven five

And so tonight for the council's consideration we have resolutions that will form cfd number 20-1

Authorize the levy of special taxes deem it necessary to incur bonded indebtedness call for a special mail ballot election

Declare the results of the special mail ballot election and the city council will also hear the introduction first reading of the ordinance

To levy special taxes for cfd number 20-1 and with that we'll move into the process here

I'm gonna ask a quick question. So stacy. This is currently just one parcel, right?

Well, how many people are voting on this election?

Just one the the current landowner

Any questions for stacy?

Are we are we holding the election tonight right now?

Yes, okay. Thank you

No, but I like to throw the murmur in the crowd

That was pretty funny

Any questions so this was an annual payment of 1280 to 1534 depending on lot size

Go back to that slide for you

Yes, so it'll be 1280 to 1500 per unit and are there other encumbrances on these properties?

There's this there will be this cfd and they're also included in cfd 18

And how much is that?

I don't have the amount per parcel here for cfd 18

But in total they'll be under the maximum tax rate of two percent for sure and 1.8 percent at this time

So 1.8 percent will be their total tax rate

Okay

Yeah, I recognize all of these decisions are made by the one property owner as we move along through these

developments

Correct. Yeah

And i'm guessing that they're similar to the rates that people around them are paying

It's a difference of 0.2 percent

Correct the 1.8 percent which they're

Trying to get to with this overlay is what the other areas around them have in other cfds. Okay. Thank you

Mm-hmm any questions to my right

Okay, then

It is time to hold the public hearing on the formation of the city of Folsom community facilities district number 20-1

Also known as russell ranch 2 and related matters

Oh, that's still me city clerk has notice of this hearing but given in accordance with applicable law

Yes notice of this hearing was published once in the Folsom telegraph on june 13th

And notice was mailed to the landowners within the district on june 4th

Okay, the public hearing is now opened at this time all interested persons may approach the podium and testify for or against the formation of the district

Do we have any requests to speak you have no request to speak on this item?

Okay, and I see no one coming forward. So we will close the public hearing

Um city clerk does a majority protest exist no written protests have been received therefore a majority protest does not exist

Okay at this time because the majority protest does not exist

It is appropriate for the city council to consider resolutions to form the district

To declare the necessity to incur bonded indebtedness within the district and to call a special election within the district

So I will entertain a motion

One two three four five four separate motions, right?

For those different resolutions i'll move resolution one one four zero eight for approval second

We have a motion in a second. Please call the roll council members roerbaugh yes kozlowski leary yes rathel yes and akino

Yes

Would you like to do another one i'll move resolution number one one four zero nine

Second the motion in a second. Please call the roll council members roerbaugh yes kozlowski yes leary

Yes, rathel yes and akino yes

I'll move resolution number one one four one zero

Second we have motion in a second. Please call the roll council members roerba

Yes kozlowski yes leary yes rathel yes and akino

Yes, and pursuant to the resolution calling a special mailed ballot election within the district

The election is now open and the clerk may conduct the election city clerk

Have you received the ballot from the landowner in the district?

Yes, I received the ballots from the landowner in the district

Um

And finding that all ballots in the election have been submitted i declare the election closed

Will the clerk proceed to canvas and announce the ballot results

The canvas of ballots is as follows 13 votes were cast in support of the measure and zero votes were cast in opposition to measure

Therefore the measure was approved with a 100 vote in favor

Okay, then we can entertain council member leary. I think it's your turn. We can entertain a motion

I was getting ready for that

Yeah, i'll move resolution number one one four one one resolution city council

Of the city of folsom declaring election results in the city of folsom community

Phil facilities district number 20-1 russell ranch 2

Second all right. We have a motion a second. Please call the roll council members roerbaugh. Yes koslowski. Yes leary. Yes rathel. Yes, and akino

yes

And I will go ahead and do this one. I will move introduction and first reading of ordinance number one three five two

second

We have motion in a second. Please call the roll council members roerbaugh. Yes koslowski. Yes leary. Yes rathel. Yes, and akino

Yes, all right, thank you very much for that

Next item please all right that moves you to new business this evening item number eight is resolution number one one four zero three

This is a resolution initiating proceedings for the formation of an ll district to be known as the natoma station maintenance assessment district number

20 25 dash two

Good evening jameson

Good evening mayor and members of the council

I'm jameson larson senior management analyst for the parks and recreation department

And I will be presenting information on the natoma station landscaping lighting district

And the prop 218 process

The resolution before you is the first step in the prop prop 218 process

So for some background folsom has 30 lighting landscape districts that maintain assets that provide a benefit to the residents of the district

These assets include

Landscaping streetlights monument signage artwork mini parks as well as other assets

All ll districts are formed pursuant to the landscaping lighting act of 1972 and the california constitution

Folsom has districts that range in size from 10 to 2370 units

Most districts within the city including natoma station were formed prior to the prop 218

Which was in 1996 the map here shows the boundaries of natoma station

As well as their landscaping in many parks. There are many other assets that the district maintains though

Here is a list of the major assets that the district maintains

It includes 9.37 acres of streetscapes nine acres of open space

over 10 000 linear feet of six foot sound wall and

over 350 street lights

The table here

Vary slightly from the cost will be presented in the final engineers report on july 8th

This is due to the timing of the staff report

Submittal and the budget changes requested by the council at the june 10th meeting

The district is projected to have an operational deficit of 104 000 in fiscal year 2526

This includes ten thousand dollars in planned spending to complete the prop 218 process and a hundred and one thousand dollars to maintain

Maintain current landscape service levels as directed by the council

On atoma station has negative account balance of seven hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars as of april 30th 2025

This district recently had the opportunity to complete the prop 218 process in march

And a majority protest existed with the vote at 49.65 percent for and 50.35 percent against

The preliminary engineers report recommended cuts of approximately one hundred thousand dollars

Which included removing all landscape maintenance services

The council has directed staff to continue with landscape maintenance

While the residents vote in the prop 218 process

The district has approximately

1857 single family equivalent units

So that seven hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars equates to approximately

393 dollars per unit

If the deficit were paid back over a 10-year period

The cost per single family equivalent would be approximately 33 dollars annually or two dollars and 75 cents a month

And if the deficit was paid back over a 15-year period

The average costs per single family equivalent would be approximately 26 dollars annually or two dollars and 18 cents per month

The 10 to 15 year periods were used for reference purposes a payback period has not been established yet

The 10 to 15 year period has not been established yet

Here's a brief explanation of the l l l act of 1972

Essentially the act allows

Local governments to form

L l districts fund specified services such as landscape maintenance street lighting and maintenance of other items as identified

Oh, I'm sorry

Ah as identified in the resolution of formation

Uh, the prop 218 vote the prop 218 right to vote on taxes act

I'm into the california constitution to require constitutional voter approval

Requirements for all local government taxes which did not previously exist

uh requires voter approval when government impose extended or increased taxes

and districts can be formed under normal balloting procedures with a simple majority of weighted votes cast to form

or a simple majority of way to gas weighted votes cast opposed for a majority protest

Uh the votes are weighted by assessment amount the assessment amount per parcel is established in accordance with prop 218

Which is not prescriptive in the method of apportionment but requires that each parcel

Be assessed in relation to the special benefit the parcel receives

We have received feedback from the community on the method of apportionment and have asked the

Consultant to look at the method and provide additional justification on the methodology chosen in the next engineers report

Uh the prop 218 process is a three-step process the first step we are completing today

which is the resolution initiating proceedings

and then step two is the resolution approving the preliminary engineers report declaring the intention to form

to levy and collect assessments providing notice of public hearing and directing the mailing of assessment ballots

and setting the public hearing i don't know if i said that one already

um and then step three is the public hearing itself

uh

and that will be accompanied by a resolution declaring the results of the landscape and lighting assessment

district ballot proceedings

approving the final engineers report confirming the diagram of assessments and ordering the levying of assessments for the maintenance and servicing

of improvements within said district

uh there is a 45-day period between steps two and three uh while the votes are out

and then in the next few slides we'll go through the outreach communications and legal processes that have taken place to date and those that will be completed going forward

so in june of 2022 and march of 2024 staff held community meetings to provide information to the residents of natoma station

on the current issues facing the district and the prop team process to create a new district

in december of 2024 staff continued outreach with postcards to all property owners

within the district and placed over 20 yard signs at intersections with relevant information and a qr code to the lno web page

in january the council approved the resolution initiating proceedings and at the following meeting the council approved the resolution approving the preliminary engineers report

and setting the public hearing on february 6 ballots were mailed to the property owners within the district

and in february postcards were sent to all property owners and in march we held the public hearing and tabulated the ballots

the results in april the results were presented and the prop 218 proceedings were abandoned due to a majority protest

throughout may we placed new yard signs and sent out postcards and held two community meetings

and then throughout june there has been increased communications with district residents and updates

to the lno website i want to thank the city communications staff for their support and providing timely information to the residents

the next two boxes with the green borders are what we are completing today with this presentation and the resolution being considered

and then from here the boxes with orange borders represent the work that remains to be completed

following this meeting there will be new information communicated to the residents

the engineers report will be created and presented to the council in august

and this will be followed by additional communications the mailing of the ballots updated postcards yard signs

and a community meeting to review the engineers report with the community and answer any questions

we will hold a second community meeting to discuss the engineers report and answer questions

followed by additional communications to update the faqs that were received

the meeting and through emails and phone calls we plan for the public hearing to be held in october with the

results being announced at that meeting or the following depending on the time it takes to tabulate the

ballots received and then the final step will be postcards and electronic communications to the property owners to let them know the results of the proceedings

and with that staff recommends the city council approve resolution 11403 and that concludes my presentation i'm happy to answer any questions

and so if it does pass this next time the assessment wouldn't happen until a year later right because don't you get your property tax bill in like

october for the for the the next two installments

yeah anybody yes that's correct okay um questions down here um i'd just like to start out with uh thanking jameson

and our city manager uh brian white myer and all of the staff we've had we've spent a lot of time together over the last six months sorting through this process

which has been very um lengthy and complicated and involved a lot of education for the public and

that was something that had been missing prior to this latest effort uh starting in january

i think the community has been much more involved this time we had a great turnout at both of the meetings

here at city hall and a lot of questions have come in and you've all been very prompt

um my i do have a couple of questions associated with all this and and we've talked about this but i think the public

is interested in hearing a little bit more about the um weighting of of the um the ballots you know which

previously there had been an assignment of um a value based on how large the lot was whether you had a

uh street light out front whether you were next to a piece of artwork uh etc and i i know that's something that that you're both still working on

um and i'm not quite clear when we might have an answer to that from the engineer

uh and the other uh piece of that was uh knowing uh how we're going to make sure that everybody looks at their postcards and reads their ballots because that was one of the complaints if there's anything we can do to make that

stand out for each individual homeowner a lot of people said oh they hadn't seen the postcard oh they didn't know about the ballot

and um i i think you know you've made a lot of strides forward in making the information more clear

um for the public but that was one piece that i think we might need to address again

okay uh related to um the apportionment and the costs we actually met with mbs to consultant today

and we've asked them to consider different methodology uh there's not specific specifications of how it's

supposed to be divided up and we expressed that there was some confusion as far as well why is one property

charged a little more just because there was a street light and we kind of had that dialogue that

you know for some people uh it's not a benefit right i mean because some people like man that light's too

bright it's always in my my living room and and that sort of thing and so we've asked them to kind of

create a more systematic approach that everyone benefits from the entire light system uh and and is

there a way we can factor by square footage and and we hope that when we ultimately bring back the

engineers report it will be more straightforward as opposed to uh have all these little different

calculations so that's something that i don't have an answer to for you as far as what that looks like

but that's what we've directed the consultant to to look at uh and then the the to get the word out

i'm going to get a sandwich board sign and just walk down the street you know as often as possible

um but our communication team i think has a good plan

uh i think hopefully the residents of natoma station have already felt a difference in our

website our communications our email and so we're going to continue with that strategy so

i it's never perfect in the sense that everyone will look at it but i think we have a far better

chance of getting more eyes on the the material that need to yeah one resident actually actually brought

up the idea of having one of those mobile reader board signs that you know tells you what the speed limit

is or whatever say ballots are in your mailbox or that's not a bad idea yeah yeah and you know a lot

of people in the neighborhood have engaged in this a lot of people in the neighborhood have engaged in this

and and are trying to just get you know educational materials out to answer everybody's question and

that's really been very heartening to see that there people are willing to to work on this

and make sure that everybody understands what what's needed and votes thank you thank you councilmember

robo just to clarify your question um you said that next year but the two weeks ago didn't we say april

was that when the first installment would be for if this passes that we were we were subsidizing this until

like april or is it like from the moment the vote would you mind talking a little bit about that

we would need to subsidize it for the entire fiscal year but at least we would know that for the next

fiscal year full funding would be there okay thank you for that right and so it uh my recollection is

that if for some reason it didn't pass we would not just wait for the whole year before we would you know

kind of make the reductions we would we would act at that time thanks my rathal any questions

council member kozlowski okay uh we do have some public comments on this item okay our first speaker

on this item will be sandra lunsford sandra will be followed by bill barcelona

good evening good evening council and all of the others that contribute to this huge discussion

i would like to first thank you so very much for this extra time that you've spent on being able to

put this ballot out again and being able to keep the water on the lamp and maintain maintenance on the

landscape thank you thank you thank you for that consideration um i also approve and want to support

that we go ahead and pass this new proceedings for the formation of the landscape and lighting assessment

district i want to make that clear um i do have a question i can't quite understand um if i'm going to

think that we're going to go ahead and pass this and i'm thinking will there be a time that where

your gracious landscape um maintenance is going to stop between when we get our bills again in when

we get our assessment is in october isn't that right didn't you say and when it stops are we going to have

a time where there will be no assessment i mean no maintenance i'm so sorry will there be a time when there will

be no maintenance there if indeed this passes our intention would be to continue with the minimal

standard that we have now until we start to collect it in the next fiscal year and then we'd make

adjustments when that revenue comes in but um you know the the cuts that we were um uh showing before

we're not implementing those the council's direct us to allow that to continue and that would continue

through this whole process yes so thank you for that subsidence subsidence or whatever the the help

that you're doing subsidy i'm sorry not the subsidence thank you very much for that and for that

clarification mr white myer thank you sandra okay next will be bill barcelona

good evening okay just checking in uh to thank you for putting this on the agenda tonight and urge your aye vote um just wanted to let you know that the new communications program is working out very well in the network in the neighborhood

um we've had a lot more information people are absorbing it we're organizing and uh we're looking forward to a positive result so thanks for sticking in with us thank you okay

okay i have no more requests to speak on this item all right then we will entertain a motion

i'll make a motion to move resolution number one one four zero three

second we have motion and a second please call the roll council members roerbaugh yes koslowski yes leary

yes rathel yes and aquino yes okay your next item this evening is number nine this is resolution number

one one four zero seven this is a resolution rescinding resolution number 71 93 removing site supervision of the

cummings family skate and bike park and denying the petition to modify safety requirements

the next one's previous committee principles hello is that potential to realize the

you have the the first dog park there at Fido Field adjacent there to Oak Avenue.

To the back left there you have the bike park elements and then in the near

front you have the skate park that you can see is the concrete bull. You also

have a basketball court there and then the blue building here is where we have

the staff currently there to make sure that they have eyes on both the bike

park and the skate park. So tonight the department along with the Parks and

Recreation Commission requests the council to one deny the petition submitted to

modify safety equipment requirements at the Folsom skate park which I'll talk to

you about the reasons for that as well as to remove the supervision of the Cummings

Family Skate and Bike Park staff and to post signage that is in compliance with

the Health and Safety Code and the Folsom Municipal Code. So a little bit of

background on this. Several months ago the mayor and vice mayor were given a

petition requesting modification to the safety equipment requirements

that's included in your packet tonight. Back in February the department staff met

with the interim city manager along with the mayor and vice mayor to discuss this

petition. We provided an overview of what the operations of the Cummings Family

Bike Park and skate park have and that the mayor and vice mayor requested that staff

work with the Commission to look at the staffing of the skate park and should it

continue. This park has been in operation since 2003. At that time the Parks and Recreation

Department along with the Commission recommended to the City Council that this

bike park and skate park be opened and it be unsupervised. The City Council in 2003

discussed this and took action to eventually supervise the park and so from

that time to this time we have had a supervised park to create a safe and

friendly place for people to enjoy. The discussion came up again in 2018. Should we

continue with the staffing of the skate and bike park? The Commission unanimously

recommended that to the City Council and the City Council agreed at that time to

continue that supervision where we are today. Most recently in May the Parks and

Recreation Commission met, heard from staff in the community, and now that

recommendation to you is to remove that supervision of the Cummings Family Skate and

Bike Park and to make it an unsupervised park and I'll talk about the

requirements that would take here in a moment. So the petition before you request

modification to the safety equipment to the skate park. It requests that all

equipment not be required but only strongly encouraged. The petition before you was

signed by 19 individuals which over the last year represents less than 1% of the

visitors to the park and the petition that was signed only identified three

individuals with the City of Folsom address. The reason we cannot modify that

language is cited here in the Health and Safety Code 1 1 5 8 0 0 that talks about the

operator of a skateboard park should not permit a person to ride unless that person is

wearing a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. At the Commission meeting the

community members that were there acknowledged the fact that this is written

there and that we would not be able to do that. So therefore that is the reason why we would deny their petition to modify any language associated to the health and safety

requirements of the helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads.

Here is our current sign. A little tough to read but item 1 talks specifically about the

requirements of those helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads that are required there along

with some other general safety rules and behavior rules for you to utilize the skate park. We

reference the Folsom Municipal Code Chapter 9.69 as well as our ordinance 1159.

So with the requirements to ride in the skate park are included in the Health and Safety Code therefore we as the City of Folsom and the local operator we cannot change or modify that language only strongly encourage we must stick with required or to utilize this you must have.

So staff recommends that the petition be denied and that we continue with signage that reflects the Health and Safety Code as well as our ordinance in Government Code 831.7.

So moving on to your second related item tonight which is the supervised versus unsupervised. If we were to move forward with unsupervised you will see that in the Health and Safety Code it talks about who a local public agency is and that is us a city.

It also talks that if you decide not to that if a park is not supervised on a regular basis that the requirements must be satisfied by two items. One is the adoption of a local public agency of an ordinance which we have already adopted 1159 in ordinance 1001.

All right. The second is the posting of signs that let the facility affording reasonable notice that a person riding a skate or wheeled device in a facility must wear these things and that a person failing to do so will be subject to citation pursuant to the ordinance.

So if moving forward in an unsupervised fashion these would be the new signs that we would post at the skate park it would reference that it's a hazardous activity as related to the Government Code 831.7.

It would identify in Rule 1 the requirements of wearing those pads it would reference our ordinance.

We would also let them know don't use the skate park when it's wet or raining and 3 that no bikes are allowed in the skate park.

All of the health and safety codes that I've referenced tonight only reflect that in operation of a skate park but because we have a bike park we'll have to amend our signage there as well.

And again it's identified as a recreational hazardous activity.

We've identified hey let's wear a helmet so helmets are required other protective gear is encouraged.

We have some other items there related to the safety of the operation when you're out in the park.

And item 5 that only non-motorized bikes are allowed no electric bikes scooters or motorcycles are allowed in the bike park.

So currently and for the past several decades Parks and Recursion Department provides skate bike park supervision to monitoring the dedicated park hours that we have available for the community use.

They open and close the park.

They turn lights on and off.

They check in visitors.

They identify themselves.

They list an emergency contact.

And additionally they provide on-site assistance to visitors and help against mitigate unwanted actions in the park setting.

Over the last two years our operating hours have adjusted based upon weather.

You know we could close it due to implementation or hot weather or rain weather.

But last year we roughly had part-time staffing out there equating to about $39,000 in salaries and benefits to pay for those part-time staff.

Two years ago we had a little bit more higher hours of operations a little bit higher in salaries and benefits.

But on average it's about $41,000 a year in part-time staffing that it takes to operate the skate park and to staff it when we're out there during those operating hours.

Part-time staffing the amount of $41,300 would be saved from not supervising or continuing to supervise the Cummings Family Skate and Bike Park.

Staff would recommend that we allocate $14,550 from that savings to convert the skate bike park lighting over to a Musco lighting controlling system.

Which would allow us to schedule and make sure the lights can turn on and off appropriately when we get to those different seasons throughout the year.

With that those are your two action items tonight to deny the petition to modify any safety equipment requirements at the skate park.

And for us to consider the removal of supervision of the Cummings Family Skate and Bike Park and to post signage in compliance with our ordinance.

And the $14,550 for the lights that's just a one-time cost?

Yes that's a one-time cost from Musco to convert the existing lighting into a controlling system that then staff has the ability to schedule.

And turn on and off remotely and on a web-based application.

Got it okay.

Questions?

Council Member Koslowski?

Can you plug it into a Google Home and do that for about $100?

I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

Actual question.

Can you go back to the signage for the, I think the bike park was the one where it jumped out at me.

Now these have not been posted yet right?

No.

So the first sentence right there just, it feels a little awkward to me.

And please take a moment.

Yeah.

Where it says shall be deemed a hazardous recreational activity with the meaning of government code 831.7.

Is government code 831.7 exclusively defining what a hazardous recreational activity is?

Yes.

In government code 831.7, it does identify that bike and skating is a recreation hazardous activity.

But is it the exclusive thing that's in that?

Or should this say as provided in the meeting provided by government code 831.7?

I don't know.

It just seems a little awkward to say it.

We can work with the city attorney or Steve and make some modifications.

It's probably fine.

Yeah.

That was my only question.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor Wathel.

How late is the skate park open now?

Is it only open until 9 p.m.?

So currently in the summertime we go until 9.

During the winter times we've been in operation until 8.

Okay.

So it's never been open later than 9 in the history of the park?

No.

Okay.

You mentioned the health and safety code.

So helmets, I just kind of noticed on the bike park versus the skate park, full sets of pads are required in the skate park under health and safety code.

Correct.

But only helmets are required in the bike health and safety code.

So this is specific state of California health safety code differences.

So the health and safety code 115800 is only related to skate park operations.

The government code 8.317 identifies biking as a hazardous recreation activity in which they require helmets for that activity.

Nothing more.

So we have no flexibility.

We can't say only helmets are required in the skate park.

We have to say every single pad.

Yeah.

That's where that code comes into play for the skate park.

Okay.

And then the last question, is there anything in government health and safety code says that we need to find people when they don't follow this code or can we hand out warnings?

There's nothing in the health and safety code about that.

It is listed in our fulsome municipal code.

If I may, Mr. Vice Mayor, it actually does.

And it requires that violators be cited.

Of course, the citation piece falls under our municipal code.

Right.

So we're, and I looked up that municipal code.

It's $50 for the first violation, $100 for the second violation, and $150 or something for the third violation.

I don't recall exactly on the third one.

But was that discussed at the commission level about updating that?

Like, first violation, we're not supervising anything.

We roll out there and we issue a citation.

Probably not what we're going to do in reality.

But I don't love having it in our municipal code if it's not something we're going to do.

Do we give people a warning the first time?

I'm just wondering how that works out in practice.

Are we out riding?

Like, do we have people right now that we're citing for their first violation in the skate park?

Because surely somebody's gone in there and, like, not had their elbow pads and gone skating that day.

And the staff has had to come up to them and been like, oh, actually, we need you to put on pads, right?

We don't walk up and give them a citation, I would guess.

Correct.

Staff is there to comply with enforcement of this.

And so we would ask the person to either put those items on or to leave the park.

But they don't cite them.

Did the commission discuss that at all?

The commission did not take citing or fines under discussion.

Who actually can issue a citation?

According to our municipal code, any delegate by the park and rec director and or the police chief.

Okay.

And do we have a list of people who have been delegated thusly?

Okay.

Police chief with a park and rec director.

Thank you.

So if I could just comment on that question for our city attorney in the sense that typically our goal is not to be punitive, right?

And so, I mean, is there the flexibility of being able to issue warnings instead of citations?

Absolutely.

And you're not wrong.

This is the fulsome way that's been explained to us many times by this council and also previous councils.

We do not try to penalize people.

We try very hard to coach and train for compliance.

Of course, if we have repeat offenders, that's different.

But typically people appreciate the warning and the information and they comply for their benefit.

Yeah, and I'm comfortable with that.

I just kind of want to go out there.

If somebody chooses not to wear, you know, elbow pads or knee pads, for me, it's not a big deal, right?

If that person is assuming their own risk.

We're posting this out of a legal requirement.

But we are really, if they choose not to wear elbow pads and they hurt their elbow out there and we have got it posted, we're not liable, right?

That is one of the very strong way for us to get a liability case out of the lawsuit.

And, you know, it's a strong defense we have.

Okay.

That's all I can say.

I'm happy to go along with it.

I know this is kind of a last minute.

You know, I just kind of thought about it after.

So I don't want to make any changes to this.

I appreciate all the work you guys have done on this.

I don't need to throw a wrench in it.

But, you know, I think if I could just encourage as much as we can to educate folks and help them out and not be out there policing this as a good use of staff time.

So I would say that that would be my preference.

And obviously if we hear back from the community that we're out there writing citations every day, then we can take it back up as a council and see what the appropriate, you know, whether we need to update that ordinance further.

Thank you.

Council Member Warbaugh, any questions?

No questions.

Council Member Leary?

Council Member Leary.

Council Member Leary.

Yeah, I think this is a difficult problem because, you know, we can't.

Education is difficult.

And I think it's something that we can work on through the city newsletter.

It's really hard for me to ignore the potential for a life-changing injury because I've seen a lot of them having worked on the trauma service for many years.

And so I'd really like to see some more educational efforts maybe go out to the community through the means we have of sending messages out there.

I did have a couple of questions on the automatic lights.

So the times will be adjusted according to the time of year when they're going to go on and off?

Correct.

Yeah, we would adjust it based upon the seasons.

Okay.

And then what is the availability of staff or to make a change?

Let's say we've got, you know, a prolonged period of rain to not encourage people to use the facility, like not have the lights go on or to lock it.

It seems like that would potentially help reduce the city's risk.

But again, I think that Mr. Wong has explained that you believe the liability given the signage is lower for the city than we might anticipate.

And I appreciate the question, Council Member Larry.

As you know me, I am a fierce defender of the city and the city's taxpayers' resources.

I would not recommend any deviation from what we have, what the council has in terms of immunity or liability defense.

This is part of the shield that we have in the event that somebody does hurt themselves and decide that they want to sue the city.

I need that tool.

If you want me to defend the city and the city's resources against those kind of lawsuits,

I need those signs as required by state law.

And if I may add, I appreciate, you know, Mr. Wong's comments.

This is standard practice.

You know, when we consult with our risk management authority, you know, it's a pooled insurance program that many cities utilize.

This is pretty typical.

And, you know, our intent isn't to be punitive.

We will not be out there.

It's not a high priority because in many ways it's important for us to allow people the freedom to choose to do the right thing.

And in some of the conversations that we've had at the Parks Recreation Commission is parents and users.

They own this place.

I mean, they're pretty dedicated about making sure things go pretty well.

Will we have some hiccups?

Probably.

I mean, we're not good every day.

But I think this is a prudent approach to, from a budgetary standpoint, but also from a risk management standpoint.

Any other questions?

No, thanks.

I do have one more also.

One of the concerns that was brought up to me by a resident was the existence of a fence, right, because we've set it up as like a closed facility, right, to where we can manage access to it now, right?

And now we're going to leave that door open.

But if there is an issue between multiple users of the facility, are there now going to be multiple exits?

Or are we really requiring everybody to go in and out of one exit?

As of right now, we haven't discussed removal of any of that fencing or the creation of an additional gate or entry or exit.

The idea was to go ahead and open that front that people have coming in and out as current practice right now for both the park sites.

Okay.

Where then the signage is right there so everybody sees that as they're entering, whether the bike park or the skate park, and then they would leave the same way.

Just maybe something, you know, this concern was brought up a while ago.

Maybe something we just got to keep our eyes on, right?

If we do have stuff that's going on between different groups, having one entrance and exit or having maybe lack of sight visibility in, two is a concern.

But that wasn't none of those concerns were brought up at the commission.

No.

The only thing that is in addition that I didn't include here is the commission did ask that we bring this back to them in a year with an evaluation of how the year has gone.

If we move in this direction so that we can have those conversations of any adjustments we need to make.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Senator Roerbach, do you have a question?

Council Member Leary, are you finished?

No, I'm sorry.

I had one more question.

Okay.

And that is, you know, potential damage to the skate park based on, you know, users in there that aren't supposed to be on e-bikes, bikes, or whatever, or using their equipment inappropriately.

And the city, I guess, has the ability to pursue any damage and repairs, the cost of repairs in case that occurs.

Yes, yes, Council Member Leary, and we have.

In the past, when somebody actually did something to damage a city park, that does not happen often.

Thankfully, we have good kids in this city.

But once in a while, we do get those unfortunate events, incident events.

As soon as we know who that person is, we pursue them.

If they're minors, we pursue their parents.

And we have done that successfully in both state and federal courts.

Thank you.

I have one question.

So as far as a helmet in the bike park, does that apply to adults also?

Because state law doesn't require that you wear a bike helmet, right, for an adult?

You know, I'm not sure.

That would be referenced in the government code for 8317.

And I'm not sure if it's related to age-specific.

Okay.

I know Health and Safety Code references it for 12 and under for the liability in place for skate park operations only, but not for bike park.

Okay.

All right.

I have one now.

Okay.

Do we have any cameras, security cameras, at the skate park?

We do not have hardwired security cameras that would be monitored, no.

Okay.

Did you just reference Health and Safety Code only applies to 12 and under?

There's a statute in the Health and Safety Code.

That is correct, Mr. Weissmiller.

It's 115800.

For the skate park?

Yes, sir.

So you only have to wear all of the equipment if you're 12 and under?

No, it's not related to equipment.

It has to do with, we talked about it with the Risk Management Authority as well, and it's related to liability for under 12, and I can't recall specifically, but it still complies that no matter what your age is, so use a skate park, it's all of the equipment.

There's no difference to that.

It was another setting that I cannot recall off the top of my head.

It was just especially mentioned because of that.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Okay.

And I will just add, sorry, that if moving forward with unsupervised vision, that we would look to remove staff and for this to become effective July 1.

It gives us the next couple days plus early part of next week to get signage made, posted, and make those adjustments.

Okay.

We have no request to speak on this item.

All right.

I'll have to remove.

I'll have to remove.

All right.

We will have to remove.

I will approve.

Thank you.

Second.

Second.

Second.

All right.

We have motion and a second.

Please call the roll.

Councilmembers.

Yes.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

Leary.

Yes.

Rachel.

Yes.

And Aquino.

Yes.

Okay.

That takes you to your old business item number 10.

This is a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a contract amendment to the agreement with Western Truck Parts and Equipment Company

For the purchase of two electric refuse collection vehicles to update the specs and modify the delivery schedule

Good evening, Marie

Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council

Marie McKeith, General Services Manager

And this evening I'm going to discuss our contract to purchase two electric refuse trucks

So back in January of 2023

We ordered two refuse trucks as a pilot project to test the feasibility of this technology within our operation

And the purchase was made exclusively with enterprise funds and grant funding

There is no impact at all to the general fund

Having to do with the refuse trucks or any of this that I'll be speaking about tonight

And the delivery was originally planned for September of 2023

That's the date that's actually in our purchase agreement

And the initial delivery was delayed actually by over a year due to some minor issues

Like trouble getting parts or parts that weren't working, even some rodent damage

But then when they finally did attempt to deliver the trucks

They were not accepted after being inspected by our fleet division

And finding multiple mechanical issues

Most were pretty minor and could be corrected

But the primary concern for us has been ongoing transmission failures

Multiple failures in the same vehicles

And so after so much time had gone by

And their failure to be able to deliver a functional vehicle in that amount of time

Staff notified the vendor that we intended to terminate the agreement

At that time, they requested a meeting and met with city staff

They acknowledged the deficiencies in the truck

Actually stated that the specifications the truck were built under had some deficiencies

The manufacturer had built approximately 200 trucks with the same specifications

And consistently all of them were having the same issues

So the manufacturer is doing basically a voluntary recall

They're bringing all the trucks, whether they're already deployed

Out in the field picking up or whether they haven't been accepted like ours

They're bringing all of them back to the original factory

Upgrading the motor and inverter, the transmission

Multiple other parks, adding features like hill start assist

And an upgraded harness and sound generator for safety

And then shipping them back out to the customers

So the proposal that the vendor came to us with actually did address all of staff's concerns

The only underlying concern that we still have is that

The delay has put our federal funding at risk

200,000 of the grant funding

Was federal funding and now there's federal funding freeze

The Air Board has not said that they can't fulfill that

And they've said they will try

But there is some possibility that if we proceed we will lose that funding

So a little bit more about the reason that we purchased these trucks in the first place

The 2035 general plan adopted by the city does call for the reduction in fossil fuels

So that's one of our reasons

And then also the state goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

The refuse operation is the largest user of fossil fuel within our city operations

So if the technology were to be successful in our operation

We could save quite a bit of use of fossil fuel

So to demonstrate that our side loaders use about 27 gallons per day

Those are the residential trucks that drive through the neighborhoods dumping the cans

And then the rear loader, the one that drives through getting the bulky waste

They use about 20 gallons per day

And those were the two trucks that we ordered through this process

And so at the current price we pay of about $4.30 per gallon

Which obviously goes up and down, but that's our recent price

Just these two trucks alone save about $200 per day in fuel

That of course there would be some offset that's unknown at this point

In the electricity that we would need to charge them

One of the other benefits from purchasing electric vehicles is reduced maintenance cost

We have seen this with our light duty fleet

And are hoping for the same results when we move to electric refuse trucks

This is a couple of the main reasons for this is that there's no combustion engine

So there's no exhaust and there's no treatment of that exhaust

And then there's regenerator braking

Which prevents a lot of wear to the brakes

And so there is just generally less maintenance

That's estimated at up to 40% by some of the manufacturers

So we want to see if that would hold true

Unfortunately, the electrical systems cannot be serviced within our shop

Not only are our mechanics not trained

But even if they were trained

Our facilities don't meet OSHA standards for high voltage work

So that would be sent out to another repair facility

However, the vendor that built these trucks is also the same manufacturer

That we purchase our diesel trucks from

So the body and chassis

Anything that's not related to the electrical system

Are all parts that our mechanics are very familiar with

And we have parts readily available for those

And the charging infrastructure that we would need to use for these trucks would be level 2

Level 3 would be ideal

And that was what was originally planned

However, the investment in that much infrastructure down in the corporation yard

Which is basically a temporary location for us at this point

Would be very costly

So instead we're going to go with the level 2 chargers

The level 2 charger obviously is slower

And the anticipated charge time for these trucks would be about 21 hours

So obviously we couldn't use them every day if they were all the way drained

The estimated range of these trucks though is about 200 miles

Our average is less than 100 miles a day

It's 70 and that can range up to 100 miles a day

So we wouldn't be needing to do a full charge

So if they charge as promised

Again, pilot project

So we don't know for sure

We wouldn't be doing a full charge

And they could potentially charge

In the 16 hours from the end of the route

To the beginning of the route the next day

There's potential they could be used every day

And so the staff right now is recommending

That we do proceed with this purchase

And approve the resolution this evening

To modify the contract

Approving the new specifications

And the extended timeline for delivery

And some of the considerations that went into the recommendation

I mean it's at the bottom of my list

But first and foremost is the vendor did respond to all of the issues

And give us assurances that they are building a next generation truck

That would meet our needs

And another consideration is that the cost of electric refuse trucks

Has increased $200,000 over the past couple of years

Since we ordered these

So if we were to start over

We'd be starting at a higher price

Can I ask you a question on that?

Uh-huh

Quick, sorry

The cost of the refuse trucks has increased by $200,000

For electric vehicle refuse trucks

How much has the cost increased over that time

For a regular non-electric one?

I'm not sure because we haven't bought diesel trucks in a few years

They're very difficult to get right now

Because of the advanced clean fleet requirements

Okay

They were trending upwards every year

About 10, as much as 13% one year

In the years previous to this

Okay

So the annual increases were substantial

Thank you

You're welcome

And I should mention this is $200,000 per vehicle

And so if we proceed with this purchase

We're getting 2025 trucks for 2023 pricing

The grant funding contributes up to 40%

That is, of course, if we get the federal funding

If we don't, that's a little bit lower

And that cost would be covered by the Enterprise Fund

Another reason to continue with this particular purchase

Is that these were ordered before ACF regulations went into effect

And so with the combination of the grant funding and ACF

Because they were ordered before the regulations required us to buy electric trucks

It can count toward our mandated 50% of electric or zero emission purchases

If we were to start over

We could not use grant funding

And count it toward our ACF credits

Because at that point it would be required

And I lost my slide here for a second

There we go

And another reason to continue with the pilot

Is because the information that we would obtain

Would either inform a request for an exemption from the ACF requirements

If these trucks did not prove to be viable

Or if they did, then we would know that converting to this

Would reap the benefits that it is promising

And we would move forward in that direction

So either way, it would benefit us to know whether or not

This works for our particular operation

Oh, sorry

It's on my screen

Okay

I'm not getting

I'm not getting

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Okay

Okay

Okay

You ready for some questions, Marie?

Sure

Okay, Vice Mayor Rathel, any questions?

Are they super quiet?

Will Folsom's kids still know they're coming down the street

So they can run out and greet them?

Yes

The kids love to run out and meet the garbage trucks

So you can see on this slide

One of the upgrades is the artificial sound generator

That is actually to notify the pedestrians that there's a vehicle present

Can we have it play music like in Thailand?

That's what I think about the ice cream trip

Only if we have ice cream on board

Don't play the ice cream song

Play something else

I can look into that

Okay

All right

But no, no questions at this time

I understand it's a pilot program

There's been a lot of bumps

I think the justification you gave makes sense to me

So I appreciate all the work you've done on it

Thank you

Any questions over here?

No, I really appreciate all the work you've done

Into putting this together

And pros and cons

And as

Americano mentioned at that time

The Sacramento region

Finally reached an acceptable zone level reduction

And I think we can attribute that

To a lot of the electric vehicle use in the area

So

I'm glad that

It seems that everybody's willing to move forward with this

Thank you

Do you know of any other cities

That have electric vehicle garbage trucks

In our region?

Not operating them

I know the county owns one

One or two

They've been around for a long time

I don't think they are in operation on route

I did ask this particular company

For references

And I don't have them yet

Okay

But they did build a couple hundred of them

So there were some that were deployed

Just not in our area

Okay

All right

We do have a request to speak

Do you have a question?

I have one other question

Yeah

I've been asking for a while

For us to have an art contest

For the wrap

On the refuse collection vehicles

These would be the perfect ones

To have a custom wrap on

Suggestion

Thank you

That's all

All right

We have a request to speak

We have one request to speak tonight

From Rob Allen

That's okay

We don't need it anymore

Thank you

Hi Rob

Hello everyone

I wasn't even coming to the meeting for this

And then when this started

I'm like no

So with where we are with the budget

This reminded me

The presentation

Reminded me of an episode of Three's Company

I think

Where Suzanne Summers looked at a

Coupon for bird feed

Some savings

But she didn't own a bird

So it was like getting the savings on bird feed

That she didn't need

So I just

And I don't know where the path

Where we were in the past

Where we are now

With money that was

Given to help offset the cost

But I'd say

Pause, pause, pause

On any spending

Because if you think about

When Tesla started

They did thousands of cars

To work through the bugs

We're talking about a guy

That's a company

That's made hundreds of trucks

I don't want anything

I'm not buying anything myself

Where there's been hundreds

Of them made

I know they're a refuse truck maker

But these electric motors

This size

This requirement

Just think about that

And if this could be stopped

Or at least paused

I don't think we need to be the pilot

City to do garbage trucks

There's none in the area

Someone can't give in references

You know

The different careers that you have

I'm in medical sales

I could give you

Ten references

By tomorrow

If he hasn't provided references

That should be

Super easy for him to do

For trucks that are working

And operating

Not trucks where hundreds of them

Needs to be

Where hundreds of trucks

Already need to be

Changed and retrofitted

From a recall

So just take that

Into consideration

Also another reason to pause

Is everything that's going on

With electric vehicles

And not that I'm not

For them

But that's all

Coming to an end

I know we talked about this

Weeks ago

So it's going to change everywhere

As soon as Gavin's out

Electric vehicle stuff

Is just going to

All

It's all going to change

It's already happening

It's already being talked about

On the federal level

And

Yeah

I'd really look forward to references

Before moving forward

With just vehicles that are working

So

Just take that into consideration

Thank you

Madam Mayor

Could I add to that

I appreciate Mr. Allen's comments

I think they're on point

In many ways

I think it's important

For us to highlight

We're going to have

Many conversations like this

With the budget

In that

On one side

We will be saying

Hey we don't have funds

For this

Or for that

And then

We will bring forward

Very expensive purchases

And so the reason for that

Is there's lots of bifurcation

Of our budget

In the funding sources

Where it comes from

And that doesn't mean

That we're not going to take

Every dollar we spend

Very seriously

But there are different

Requirements for that

So the general fund

Is

Basically the only fund

That the council has

Significant discretion

On where those funds

Are spent

Whereas

In this case

The solid waste funds

Are coming from the rate payers

And we take that very seriously

And we don't want to overspend

And in some ways

It's a balancing act

Because

This is not necessarily done

For an environmental reason

It's not done

To make a statement

It's to test technology

Because there are examples

Out there in other fields

Where in jurisdictions

I've been

That we've benefited greatly

By utilizing

Electric vehicles

Just from the simple fact

That we're not paying

For the fuel

You know

So

The jury's still out

Whether this will work

We actually

As a staff

Contemplated

Hey should we just

Stop doing this

But because of the cost

And actually

In some cases

The difficulty

Of acquiring

Other vehicles

This felt like

The right thing to do

At this time

With everything

That we've been through

I mean not to discount

The comments that were made

Because those are questions

That we asked ourselves

But I just share that

With you

Of our mindset

That

We take this very seriously

And this is not meant to be

Just a

Hey let's just try it out

Type of response

So if I did the math

Correctly

We would be

Saving

$144,000

A year

In fuel

By using

These trucks

Over the next year

You know

Based on the numbers

That were given to us

Okay

Which seems

You know

A reasonable reduction

In costs

On the other end

And

Marie do you happen to know

The

Battery storage capacity

Of these vehicles

Is that possible

That you know that

I

Don't

I don't know

That off the top of my head

I could find out

And get back to you on it

Okay

Marie can you talk

A little bit more

About

The other municipalities

That are using them

Have you

Have you

You know

Just to kind of

Address that question

A little bit

Because

You know

Back in

We've talked about this

Since it was on the agenda

But back in 2023

Obviously a lot of these trucks

Were going back

To the manufacturer

But I think

My understanding of it now

Was is that

A lot of these trucks

Have gone back

To the manufacturer

They've gotten

The transmission fix

I know I bought

A car

The first year

It was out

And it was a brand new model

And I got a brand new

Transmission

In that car

For free

You know

5,000 miles in

And I felt like

An idiot

For buying the car

The first year

That that model

Was out

But once it got

The new transmission

The car ran great

For the rest of its life

Until I sold it

So I just

Are there a lot

Of those trucks

That have gone back

And gotten the transmission

Fixed

That are back out

On the road again

They're just now

Getting back

To the

Back to the purchasers

So they haven't

Been out long

That's what I'm waiting

For the references on

Okay

To find out

The new rework

Of the transmission issues

Yep

The transmission

The motor

All of it

Okay

And in terms of this deal

Of getting

2025 trucks

For 2023 prices

Is there a deadline

I mean

If we said

Well we want to push this out

A month to wait

For the references

Can we do that

Or is there some sort

Of deadline

We're working with

They're planning to take

The trucks that are

Slated for us

Back to the factory

In September

So we would just need

To have a contract

Executed before

Before that

And give an answer

On whether or not

We're going to

Terminate the contract

Yeah

I mean

Staff would support

If we want to

Take some more time

On this

So we could push it back

Maybe a meeting or two

Until we get some references

Yep

We'd be okay with that

Yeah

So I guess

The question is

Do you happen to know

When we may be able

To get those references

Is there

Are there municipalities

That have already

Gotten these trucks back

Or are getting them back

I believe there are

Some that have

Gotten them back

Yeah

Yeah

And then also

I believe that you said

That if there were still issues

They would take them back

And replace

Anything that was

Continuing

Yeah

They will be under warranty

So

They would be warranted

For anything

Once we accept them

They'd be warranted

But the

The items that they're fixing now

They're going to fix

Everything

From the start

And they're

Are they going to be

Giving them a trial run

Before they

Send them back out

Yes

I mean

They

They bring them out

They drive them

They get delivered

To Sacramento

And so

They get driven

From there to here

So yes

And you know

We can give them

A trial run

Not necessarily

On route

But we do

Drive them around

And inspect them

Before accepting them

Yeah

Thank you

Just a question

This is a resolution

Authorizing

The city manager

Not necessarily

Directing the city manager

To sign the contract

So if we wanted

To authorize him

To move it

Forward

Then he could

Make that

Decision

And report

Back out

In a couple of months

Just so we don't

Have to

Hear it again

I'm comfortable

With the analysis

That's been done

And I do think

We are moving

In this direction

From an economic

Standpoint

And so I'd be

Comfortable

Authorizing the city

Manager

Under his discretion

To execute

The contract amendment

And letting him

Kill it in two months

If we don't

Want to move forward

I don't know

If it necessarily

Needs to come back

To the council

Would you like

To phrase that

In the form of a motion

I have one more question

Yeah

Absolutely

Was it $200

A gas saving a day

For the two trucks

Yes

Okay

So total two trucks

Okay

So I think the math

Is just a little

Bit off

But it's about

$50,000 savings

Just

I think that's accurate

I've been doing

I was doing a little

Research with my

Supercomputer right here

The larger

Of the two battery packs

That's available

For those

Holds just about

400 kilowatt hours

So even if you

Were depleted

Totally

And then recharge

That

At the highest rate

We might be paying

SMUD

That's like

$70

So it's at least

30% savings

Just in fuel

I want to

Make a comment

On just what

Rachel just

Proposed

I'm not comfortable

Authorizing the authority

Up to

This

Hundreds of thousand dollars

Without council direction

So I would prefer

To postpone it

So then

You know

The public sees

How we actually

Will vote

Because in the end

He's probably going to get

A consensus

Behind the scenes

Of if there's a

Great

You know

If he's 50-50

And I don't think

That's very transparent

So I think

I would rather

Have this come back

To the dais

If we're going to

Postpon it

If we're not going

To make a motion

See it done tonight

So we authorize

The purchase

Of these vehicles

Already

This is

Authorizing an amendment

To the contract

To absorb

The schedule change

And

There's no

There's no

Funding change

In this

There's no funding

Change

Yeah

But well

I mean

We did want to make

The council

Aware that there's

A possibility

That the grants

That we had

Anticipated

I mean

We hope it

Comes to pass

But there could be

An additional

$200,000

Expense

If for some reason

And so

Just to be

Transparent

Of everything

We thought it wise

To bring this forward

For deliberation

Let me ask a question

On that then

If we didn't get

The grant

For some reason

Then it would have

To come back

To council

Well I mean

We would

Our expectation

Is we're letting

You know

That this decision

Would be in approval

With or without

The grant

Okay

I mean

I mean

Mainly because

We have to decide

That we're going

Forward or not

Even if we don't

Know

About the

The grant

Okay

So

But I guess

I would highlight

I mean either way

Would be fine with us

Since we're

They're not even

Going to be sent back

Until September

We'd still have time

For them to do the work

You know

So you know

Mr. Allen's comments

I think are on point

I would feel totally

Comfortable getting

The references

And it won't take

A whole lot of work

For us to

I mean

If you're okay

With just seeing

Some of the same

Slides again

You know

At a future item

But I think

I would be totally

Fine with

Just finding out

That city X

Or city Z

And even Y

Would

What their experience

Has been with the product

Can I make

A proposal

That we table

This motion

To a date

In the future

Chosen by the city manager

We have a motion

Do we have a second

Second

Okay

Please call the roll

Council members

Rohrbaugh

Yes

Kozlowski

Yes

Leary

I'm split on this

I guess

Yes

Rathal

Yes

And Aquino

Yes

All right

Next item please

It takes you to

Your last discussion

Item this evening

This is resolution

Number 11401

A resolution

Adopting the fiscal

Year 2526

Operating and capital

Budgets for the city

Of Folsom

The successor agency

The Folsom

Public Financing

Authority

And the Folsom

Ranch

Public Financing

Authority

Great

Thank you

Mayor

And members

Of the council

Appreciate the

Opportunity to talk

About the

Upcoming budget

For fiscal year

2526

First off

Would like to

Once again

Commend our

Finance director

Stacey Tamani

And Adam Devlin

For all their

Efforts to get us

To this point

We

Have

Been talking

About this

Since March

10th

At least for me

I started March

10th

So

From day one

We've been

Talking about

It

It was

Actually

In the

Interview

Oh well

That's

True

Actually

If we

If we

Get technical

That is

True

So on

May 27th

We held

A city council

Workshop

At the

Library

It was

It was

Really

It was

It was

Really well

Attended and

Offered kind of an introduction to

Kind of a modified format and displaying the different funds in the

The general fund budget

We held our first public hearing on June 10th

We received or were able to present that presentation to the council

We heard public comment and we recommended that we continue tonight so that we could have

The opportunity to have the opportunity to have the community and the council additional time to look at the budget and I think that's been helpful

We received some comments and questions from the council and from the community and so you'll hear tonight that we are suggesting some minor modifications to the budget based on some of the comments that we received so we really appreciate the feedback

And so tonight we're going to be presenting that minor modification to you in our hopes is that the council approves the budget as presented but the work is going to continue on with this effort so through July to September

We'll be working with the city departments to develop cost-cutting proposals that will be reviewed at the review of the final budget that the council will hold in either September and October of this year

And at that time

We'll be able to allow additional public input

from the community and we will be able to really work from the actual

Starting numbers for fiscal year 25 26 because we'll close out the 24 25 year

We'll see did the revenues really come like we expected and where did our

Expenses actually end up

And then we have the opportunity to look at the possible reductions

That would take place for fiscal year 26 27 that starts July 1 of 2026

And in February March we would look at the budget again we call that our mid-year budget review

We have

Now a pretty good idea of where what the trends are for our revenues

And we would consider at that point any budget adjustments that we we would need to make

Staff would seek direction from the council as to what cost reductions they would consider including in 25 or 26 27

So when you boil it all down what our options are is

You know to live within our means to develop a budget with expenditures below revenues

Find a new new revenue sources or keep things as they are and

And you know, it's it's important if you can go to the next slide

The the residents had an opportunity to kind of communicate with us

As far as what revenue sources they wanted us to have and at least for the time being

It was pretty clear that a sales tax was not in the cards for us

And so we're taking this with the mindset that we're going to live within our means

You know, so this year we're recommending utilization of general fund reserves

To allow ourselves more time to actually prudently plan for whatever those reductions end up being

And also because some of the reductions that we anticipate taking place

We would not realize the cost savings for this upcoming fiscal year because a lot of the work has already been done for recreation programs and others

That we wouldn't actually realize the savings because we've already hired the staff

Printed the brochures and engaged contracts with other providers

So with that I'll turn the time over to

Stacy to go over the actual

Budget figures, thank you

Thank you, so I just have a condensed version of the budget presentation that I gave last time just so we can get everybody on the same page as we

Continue here tonight, so we'll begin with

With this slide here which shows how we start our budget preparation each year

We start with determining how much revenue we expect to have in the general fund for next year

We're projecting that the increase to total general fund revenues over last year's budgeted figure

Will be an increase of about four point seven million dollars and you see that in the third column

About half of that increase is associated with property tax growth

primarily from development in the Folsom plan area and then all other general fund revenue combined

Accounts for the additional two million dollar increase over the prior year

So when we add the first column and the third column together

We end up with about a hundred and twenty million dollars in revenue about a four percent increase overall in revenues

Then we go down to the second line and start with expenditures

So we start with our hundred and fifteen million dollar original budget from fiscal year 24 25 and we remove one time

One time items that were approved in last year's budget because those aren't continuing and that was about two million dollars

Mostly capital expenses. So we take those out of the operating budget to get us to our starting point

To determine the total expenditure budget we're working towards the one hundred and twenty million dollars that we have in revenues available to spend

So first as we move along to the salary benefit and insurance cost increase line here

We had about five point five million dollars in increased costs for that category

These these are increases in labor costs that were approved in the MOU agreements regular annual salary step increases benefit cost increases and insurance costs

So that added an additional five point five million dollars to the budget and took us to one hundred and twenty point five million dollars of expenditures

So with a hundred and twenty point five million dollars already spoken for just adding in those salary benefit and insurance cost increases and only

A hundred and twenty million dollars in revenues for next year that left the city manager with a half million dollar shortfall before we even addressed any of the

eighteen point five million dollars of department requests this year and

We know that recent budgets have not been covering the true cost of providing all the services the city provides

That's why we see throughout the year that many departments end up going over their approved budgets in several areas and in the past two budgets

We have included significant increases to the operating accounts to try to keep up with these growing costs

But we've still been behind and so this year the city manager is proposing to again increase those department budgets by an additional three million dollars

Which you see in the next column called true ups to operating accounts and that's to fully account for those cost increases

So when we added in the salary benefit increases the true ups that was total expenditures of about one hundred and twenty three point five million

We had one hundred and twenty million dollars in revenue

So that created a total deficit of about three point five million that would have come from your unassigned fund balance

Otherwise known as the emergency reserve and I mentioned last time that this is the first time in at least 20 years

That the budget proposes to use the emergency reserve outside of a recession for ongoing operating expenses

So the city manager did receive some feedback over the last couple of weeks and asked if some cuts could be made sooner to try to limit the use of the general fund reserve

In this fiscal year, so we've added in this next column proposed budget reductions

I'm city staff did take this seriously

Reassess the budget to see if there were any general fund reductions that could be made right now so that the deficit could be reduced

So what we are proposing here is twenty five thousand dollars in savings by removing the skate park attendant and

And that includes being able to install the lights, but then the reduction from not staffing that and then you have four hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars in general fund savings by

Eliminating the annual contribution that the city makes to the city's public entity investment trust and that goes towards our retiree health obligation

So that reduces expenditures in the general fund by five hundred and four hundred and fifty two thousand dollars and then would reduce the use of the fund balance down to about

three million dollars instead of three point five and

That would be a total proposed budget there for the general fund of the one hundred and twenty three million dollars

So this slide here shows each of the increases for those trucks for the different departments

And this is in their operation and maintenance line items and these are to cover services that are already occurring and this is the list of

What was made up of each department totals and you also had this list as part of the packet so for general government?

It was a twenty two thousand dollar increase community development about forty five

facilities one hundred and fifty three thousand the fire department at seven hundred and thirty two thousand the library at

19,000 parks and recreation at one point six million and the police department at four hundred and twenty seven thousand for total troops of about three million dollars

This slide displays the general fund proposed appropriation sorted by department

So that includes the increases to the salary benefits increases to those true ups

So year over year you have a six million dollar total increase for a total of one hundred and twenty three million

And that includes that three million dollar use of the emergency reserve

This does now include the twenty five thousand dollar reduction by eliminating the attendant at the park and also the four hundred and twenty seven thousand dollar reduction

To non-departmental expenses and so you can see that now in the non-departmental line showing a reduction year over year and

Then I just wanted to go over again that transfers out category that we have at the bottom. It's increasing by about one point six million dollars this year

We started this idea of having capital funds transferred out and held in separate funds last year when the council approved fifty thousand dollars

For I T expenditures being moved out to an IT capital fund

So this is continuing with that idea moving funds out to other departments as well

We have a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars going to a new capital fleet fund that's for non safety vehicles

Two hundred thousand dollars going to the IT capital fund

seven hundred and fifty six thousand dollars for fire equipment and capital and

Five hundred twenty one thousand dollars going to the new police equipment and capital fund

So these weren't increases to their budgets these were capital line items that were in each of the budgets

We're just taking them out of each department budget and moving it to this transfers out line item

And then this this slide shows the capital expenses that will be coming out of those new capital funds that have been created

We have a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for the non safety vehicle. So it's just going in and out there

hundred fifty thousand dollars for IT

seven hundred fifty six thousand dollars for monitors for fire and then the five hundred twenty one thousand dollars for new police vehicles

And then in addition to those the city manager is proposing to complete some projects out of the city's capital fund

The proposed projects out of that fund are one point three million dollars for a roof replacement for the library

One point eight million dollars for each back replacement for the library three hundred thousand dollars for the fleet

Um shop the the roof repair there and then two hundred and forty thousand dollars for a portion of the city hall roof

For a total of three point six million dollars

And so the cash balance in this fund is currently at five point nine million dollars with these expenditures

It will leave you with about two point three million dollars remaining in the fund

And just a reminder that this fund does not have a source of ongoing revenue

The current balance is just what the city has been able to set aside over the last 10 years

To save for some major general fund expenditures, so this here uses about 60 percent of that fund this year

Here you have your pie chart dealing detailing out the appropriation by department for fiscal year 25 26

26 looks very much the same as last year the only change that is

Really significant as far as the chart is the fire department and that's because they had a fairly significant

Capital expense line item that was in their budget it was about 1.4 million dollars

That's now being moved into the transfers out category

So it can be moved to that fire capital fund so that it did impact their piece of the pie that also happened in police

But their capital line item is just smaller. So it didn't have quite as big of impact on the percentage

So with this change fire went down from 26 percent to 25 percent and transfers out went from zero percent up to one percent

And then also now this pie chart includes that elimination of the contribution to the city's trust fund for the retiree health care obligations

So that reduced the non-departmental costs down a little bit you see they went from the 8.6 down to 8.2

So that also reduced the pie chart in total and changed the percentages a little bit for some of the departments

But didn't change their numbers

But that was why it changed a little bit from the last time that we showed this slide

Here's your chart of authorized positions this budget does not propose any new general fund positions

But you do see an increase from fiscal year 24 25 to 25 26

Because of the two approved positions that the city council approved during this current fiscal year

One is the addition of a park planner and the other is an arborist and both of those are to be funded by resources that are outside of the general fund

But they are included as positions in general fund departments so you see them there

This budget does propose an additional position to environmental and water resources

And then seven new positions in solid waste this year for a total increase of 10 positions year over year

We'll just do a quick review here of the estimated revenues

This slide has your 24 25 budget and then the 25 26 proposed

We're projecting total revenue, which we've already talked about it about 120 million dollars

Property tax is where we see an increase coming in year over year. Hopefully about 3.3 million dollar increase again mostly from

The Folsom plan area

Sales tax estimated at about 28 million dollars for next year

We have that down from the prior year because we don't expect to hit that 29 million dollar mark for fiscal year 24 25

transient occupancy tax from our hotels is projected to go up just a bit for 25 26

licenses and permits category is proposed to the 4 million so pretty much in line with last year's budget

Intergovernmental revenue, which is primarily our vehicle license fees

We're expecting a slight increase there and then charges for services is where you see

a fairly large increase there up to 17 million this increase is mostly due to projected increases ambulance revenue for the fire department

increases in community development revenue

Increased cost recovery reimbursements for public work

projects those come from funds outside of the general fund and then a right sizing of the budget for the parks and recreation program revenue

And I mentioned this last time that parks and recreation has outperformed their budgeted amounts the past few years

So we've done a true up bringing that up to to an estimate that we feel

Matches where their current activity is

But it's important to note that now that we've right sided their revenue and we've right sized their expenditures

There's going to be a little room for them to go over in expenditures because that the revenue won't be there

And we expect that they'll stay within budget on both of those categories

This chart here reflects the city's unassigned fund balance by year in the dark blue columns

And then the unassigned fund balance is a percentage of expenditures

displayed by the red line and we're really focusing on these last three years here where we've seen the fund balance decreasing

And then of course the far right bar is fiscal year's 25 26 proposed balance

With the proposed use of the unassigned fund balance now at about three million dollars

We're projecting that by the end of the year the unassigned fund balance will be at about 19.1 million

Or down to 15.5 percent of expenditures the falling below the city council's policy of maintaining that range of 17 to 20 percent of expenditures in the emergency reserve

So next up we just have a quick look at your proposed capital improvement budget for fiscal year 25 26

And this budget book that you have before you it doesn't have the format that has all the descriptions in it

but the

Totals for all the projects are included in the funds where the where they'll be funded out of and so you can see that

As you look at each of these categories

Some of the major projects that are either new this year or have a new budget request are listed here

So Empire ranch road interchange an additional request of five hundred thousand dollars

You have several water system rehab projects storm drain prawns

Livermore community park an increase of four hundred thousand dollars to that budget

National police and pollution discharge elimination system and then a new project here the oak avenue list lift station and force main project

seven hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars

This slide here is the proposed appropriations by fund in total for all city funds and this is what the city council actually approves which is the total appropriation by fund

This is for your operating budget and your cop your capital costs

So the general fund we're asking for approval of the hundred and twenty three million enterprise funds at fifty seven point seven

Your special revenue funds at fourteen point eight million debt service funds at sixteen point eight million capital project funds

Eleven point two internal service funds at twenty five million and fiduciary funds at twenty five million for total expenditures of

two hundred and seventy four million dollars

So now we wanted to take some time to address some of the questions that we received over the past couple of weeks related to the budget

So we just put the question in as we received it and we'll go through the responses

So the first question was a statement that they had heard that the city's in this mess because of the bad deal that we got when the county was annexing

Folsom ranch and so the response here is that the the city's property tax calculations are they're actually quite involved

But on average the city's share of the property tax revenue collected north of highway 50

Where the property tax agreements have been in place for decades and the city receives about twenty one percent of the one percent out of alarm tax

That is collected so that's what we were receiving

For many many years in comparison the city's share of the property tax revenue that's collected under the new tax sharing agreement for south of highway 50

Average is about thirty two percent of the one percent of the one percent of alarm tax

So the city's actually receiving more of the property tax in the new agreement than we're receiving from previous agreements

north of 50

And then question two our city manager is going to address

Great. Thank you, Stacy

The statement is the city should fix the sales tax sharing with the county through state lobbying efforts

It's a lot of changes have occurred just how people shop and

You know with evan of distribution centers

The the cities that have distribution centers are actually seeing significant windfalls

You know in the millions of dollars, and so

There's the discussion between the cities of

Origin and destination and so currently under the california bradley burns uniform local sales tax the local sales tax

1% is typically allocated to the origin location meaning the city that houses the distribution fulfillment center where the sale occurs

example sales ship from amazon fulfillment and fresno float directly to fresno cities coffers, so

That's not helpful for us

But to answer the question hey, what are we doing about it?

Well, we're part of cal cities and we actually are lobbying for change

There's a working group that's been involved with this for the last two two two and a half years and

it's a pretty

Challenging discussion because you have city managers from cities that have distribution centers and city managers that don't have those and so

You have folks that have to give up something

To those who are not getting it and so it looks like

I was actually in a meeting just recently where they

Shared the draft proposal and so that's going through

Other iterations and hopefully ultimately we'll be able to have the

legislature take a look at that and

Make a change so bottom line is we don't have that solution yet, but we're actively working on it

Thank you

Question three how much is our calpers unfunded accrue liability costing us and what can we expect that when can we expect that to level off with our current policies?

So this chart here shows our current costs for fiscal year 2526

Unfunded liability costs will be about 18 million dollars overall for our miscellaneous and safety plan you see it growing and peaking at about

2030 31 and then slowly starting to come back down

And I have it here in this chart just in case somebody's more visual this way

Peaking there in the middle for fiscal year 30 31 and then starting to level back out

So that's that's when we can expect it to peak but up until then we are likely to see growing

contributions until then

Stacy we're still paying the unfunded part

In a lump sum every year to get a little of the savings as before we were paying it quarterly or monthly or something

Correct we pay that in july to save on the interest

As and we'll continue to do that as long as we we have the cash available to do it

Question four stacy before we go to question four can we go back to question three real quick just because the other thing is this

Employee retiree health obligation that's there and I know I've seen this chart for for that

But since we're you guys are recommending that we don't contribute to that when does that

Start to level off our payments

That's a little further out

Okay

Um

But that one also has a date when we'll no longer have an obligation at all because it is a closed plan

So that's different than calpers which is ongoing as long as we continue to have new employees receive that benefit

Is it in the 20 20s 20 30s or 20 40s?

Do you you kind of know that off the top of your head?

It's the late 20 30s when it would level off

But it will continue for at least 30 years, but they will still have that liability

Okay

Maybe closer to 50

I mean we have some we we have some fairly young employees that are eligible for that benefit and until they're no longer in the plan

We will have expectancy they may live to be 150 to you know

Okay

Question four what's our funding ratio look like compared to other municipalities and agencies?

So this is how how funded are we in the plan?

So we're at the top here for miscellaneous. We're at about 64 percent for safety 61 ish

We compare most closely to roseville

Which is sort of in the middle of the chart because they're also an older city that has a lot of

Employees that have been in the plan for quite a while

You'll see that some of the newer cities that incorporated more recently are are better funded because they don't have those those bigger obligations that

Our older cities have

So roseville for their miscellaneous is right about where we're at 62 percent

And they're a little better funded for their safety at 67 percent, but you can see

Some of these plans up towards 80 87 percent in the newer cities

And we also do have some cities that are making additional discretionary payments towards their

Accrued liability which the city of Folsom isn't doing right now

Question five how much of our general fund money comes from state and federal government?

So this chart shows what we include in intergovernmental revenue. We have

13 to 14 million dollars the last two years these are the last two audits

So the the main part of it is our vehicle license fee the the property tax swap

That's about nine to ten million dollars and that continues to grow as the assessed values grow up

Go up because that is linked to property tax American rescue plan act revenue

We've had about 2.5 million dollars each year, but once that money is gone

That will no longer be there. So all other intergovernmental revenue 1.7 million or so

That's about 1.5 percent of our general fund in total. So not not a significant amount compared to other

revenue sources

Question six regarding the increase in the police investigations

Division 2 1 1 3 proposed budget on page six of

That summary there there was an increase of about eight hundred thousand dollars over last year's adopted and amended budget

What proposed expenses accounted for this large increase?

So if you were going through the details within the budget document you could see that there was a

$800,000 increase in that division overall

So the increase was partially related to salary benefit and insurance cost increases

But also there were three positions that were moved from one division to another

So no increase to their overall budget just moving it from from one to one division to another within the department to put them in the right spot

Question number seven are the lighting and landscape

Districts still included in the pie chart in the parks and recreation budget

Thereby showing a huge deficit between revenues and expenses for the department

So yes, the municipal landscaping division which is division

3805 includes staff to maintain the lighting and landscape districts

CFD maintenance areas, but it also includes many other general fund functions

And it is shown in the parks and recreation budget in the pie chart

But the division costs are partially offset by revenue that comes in from the districts and from the cifds in order to cover those administrative costs

And we see those as transfers in revenue

Question number eight why is income from the rental space is not shown as income for parks and recreation since those sites are managed by parks and recreation

And so the response to this one is that the revenue is allocated to parks and recreation indirectly

And the parks and recreation department does have a general fund contribution

They don't have full re cost recovery. So they are

Having revenue sources that are paying for some of their operation

And so the rental space revenue or cell tower revenue makes up part of that contribution to fully fund that department

Question nine what is the ratio of hot team to the number of reported homeless in the city and the police department?

And the response was that the city's homeless outreach team is staffed by three and so based on the last point of time count that was conducted

It's estimated that there are 22 individuals per hot member

And this is a daily moving target as that number can fluctuate significantly based on a number of different variables

And our last question here, how does the budget reflect adherence to the current strategic plan?

So this strategic plan includes kind of overarching goals goal a financial stability and sustainability

Goal B public safety and infrastructure goal C economic and community development and goal D organization and effectiveness

And this budget does seek to meet the goal of financial stability and sustainability

We're proposing no additional general fund positions or program enhancements when we're faced with a deficit

And in addition this budget supports goal B public safety and infrastructure by keeping public safety services at their current level and investing in some infrastructure maintenance using one-time funds

And now I'll turn it back over to our city manager. Great. Thank you, Stacy

um, so

Unfortunately with the current budget shortfall, we won't be able to continue to operate in this way

with the proposed cuts

Um, there's still a projected three point zero four million dollar shortfall in the general fund for 2526

um, so ultimately to live within our means we're going to have to find a way to reduce our expenditures

which will ultimately translate into reductions and services

So we're proposing that um the council adopt a budget that uses general fund reserves

for the fiscal year 2526

um budget

uh, however going forward, uh, we will aggressively pursue options

uh, to reduce costs and services in preparation for the fiscal year 2026 2027 budget that starts on july 1st 2026

I would also like to highlight things that uh, we're not going to wait for july 1 of 2026 to look at

uh, we will be coming back

um

uh, to the council looking at our properties, you know, what can we do with those?

You know, some of the things that we can do is

um, uh

Working with non-profits and others that may have an interest in these community assets

are they better uh capable of maintaining them

in a way that still allows for the community to be a part of it

So I would say that it's not necessarily the city's giving up a community asset if it's still maintained

So that the community can benefit from the asset and so those are things that we'll talk about

uh, we've also, you know reached out

um, uh, mayor keno, uh, helped get me and connected with the the wardens

Uh, uh, so that we can look at possibly bringing back, uh, the the prison labor force so that

they provide significant benefits along our trails and parkways and median strips and all those sorts of things so

reengaging that effort

um

uh, another one-time item is having the housing fund reimburse the city for

uh, you know, the the sale of the perserver property

Uh, that would be a one-time thing, but we're we're going to look at everything that we need to look at

Uh, we'll look at is there a way that um are there vacancies?

Uh, currently that are funded positions that we just need to make the decision

that we're not going to be able to fund those and not going to be able to offer the services that are associated with those positions

And then another thing that we'll have to consider is would it be appropriate to form kind of a citizen advisory body to kind of look at this

Uh, I value the community's input. It's been uh, just just last night

I got an email and then dropped off today a handwritten note from members of the community saying hey, what about this?

What about that? I mean, I really appreciate the time

I mean they they had to spend a significant amount of time to hand write

you know salary schedules and in positions and

Identifying in their mind what was a vital service and what was non-vital and so

uh, I'm optimistic from the standpoint that this community cares and a community that cares about itself is going to find a way

to

overcome some of these challenges so with that I mean we may be feeling a little bit of despair

Uh, but but I think as we embrace the challenge as we embrace the the things that we'll have to look look into that

We will find a way

um to make things better and ultimately the community will get to choose

Whether it continues this path of reduction whether it looks at ways to invest in itself

Um, but i'm confident we'll come up with a positive way

All right, is that the last slide?

Okay, so with that, uh, i'd be happy to answer any question our teams

Available as well. Thank you very much. Vice mayor, any questions?

Yeah, I just just have one and I do appreciate

Um, you put in the questions that were asked, uh up there

I think that was great because I don't necessarily see the other questions that come in

So I really did appreciate that

presentation

the

one of the questions I asked last time

was about the large capital

transfers that are going to fire and police

and

We got the answer from fire that

um, you know, they were 10 year old ecgs that are being

um, you know that are basically the maintenance costs have exceeded

their placement costs

uh, and

They were you know the really we couldn't pass them up

We couldn't push them down the road another year

I asked the same question on the police vehicles

But I haven't really gotten a response on that one yet

I did get a list of the fleet of the police fleet

Um, I've kind of looked into that. I don't see a pressing

Need I I understand long term we have to replace police vehicles. I totally get that

um

But in this time where we're going to approve a budget three million dollars in the red

Do we need five more?

New police vehicles on the road or do we have

Some new police vehicles that we already are sitting there which it looks like they do on the sheet that was sent to me

From the fleet like if if we have new vehicles that we can put into service

And we have enough vehicles that we can have out on patrol and doing all the things we we do

um

Why are we buying more cars this year?

I'm not i'm not advocating that we cut off this fund going forward

I'm just saying why in this year where we're going to approve a three million dollars fund

Should we do we really need to make that expense this year?

Great

uh appreciate the question so

um

I mean, I I agree there's uh

I appreciate the efforts to kind of provide the the information and I think uh what's really

uh cool about this process as we get the questions

It allows us to do kind of a self-assessment and as we've reviewed kind of the

spreadsheets and others that maybe there's some room for improvement as far as our data collection and

And in tracking what the vehicles are doing because I think even in that spreadsheet and they acknowledge this

uh when they sent it to us that they didn't have

Necessary all the up-to-date information

So one of the reasons why

I would suggest that we keep this funding moved over into that capital replacement fund

um

is when we have a fleet of over a hundred vehicles and you estimate they have five to seven years of useful life

That you're going to over time have to replace a certain number of vehicles every year

um

What why I uh think it's a good idea to leave it in here also is it doesn't mean we we are going to spend it

Right I mean so in some sense you're you're you're saving that for a reserve

But it's just in the capital fund so we have the ability if we need to

So I look at this as kind of a way for us to uh take the challenge that

We need to improve some of our fleet monitoring and being able to explain more definitively what the costs are

for deferring the purchase

And if we can demonstrate value then we would come back to the council to actually exercise the right to purchase those vehicles

So if you were to adopt this budget as it stands, it's simply you know authorize us to

uh allocate this for expenditure, but we would make the commitment that if we're going forward with some fleet purchases that we would come back to the council to have that conversation

Thank you

Thank you, and i'm comfortable

With that approach, you know it is going to come back here anyway. I just I really hesitate

And I just kind of want to put it out there if it does come back

It's got to be you know we actually really really do need those because I think my focus is on

um, and I think we've heard this from our staff. We we have a lot of vacancies in the police department

oh, and

That's where our focus should be. Oh, and I get it that equipment is important and we want people to have really great equipment

That's running but but i'd rather have another

Officer on the street, oh and fill one of those vacancies and I would rather than to have him in a brand new car

Uh, uh him or her in a brand new car. So just want to want to throw it out there

I feel the same way also about the non-safety vehicles, you know if it's something we can put off for a year

we can put off

uh

I

Struggle a little bit with putting off our retiree health obligation. This is this is a hundred million dollars in debt

uh

That we've been passed down from previous residents

uh, that's the reality here and and so we're continuing to pass that buck on to

future residents of Folsom and our kids if they move back here, we have

large

large

PERS obligations and large employee retirement health obligations

and so you know

Choosing to buy new things while also saying we're not going to pay our past debts

um, I just can't you know, I I understand it's

It's new. I I I can't support that for very long. So I just want to make sure that that's

That's clear. I'd rather us have older things

And be paying off our debts and paying to those liabilities that we've accrued

in in the uh, uh

Vice-mayor ritho brings up a good point if you don't mind if I just kind of interject about

uh, we are actually making the required payments for the retiree health much like the PERS. So

um

The the goal of that retiree health fund is that

Hopefully we would be able to get it to the size where the the interest proceeds each year would actually make the payment

But we're still making the payment. It means a significant contribution and in

Stacy, can you talk a little bit about that?

Yeah, so we're making the current contribution for the current retirees

But what you're talking about and it's true is that for the retiree for employees that are going to receive that benefit in the

future

We're not paying for that now

And so that's where the the savings would come into place to be contributing to that so that

future residents aren't paying that bill

Later for retirees that they're not receiving the service from and so that's the point of the trust fund is to

Be paying for that now while those residents are receiving services from those current employees

Great

Thank you

Council member kososki any questions. I have no questions. Thank you

I have one question and then I have comments for later. Yeah

Um, did you have a chance or or is it in the plan to put a key in there that we talked about?

You know like that you know what i'm talking about

We didn't make that update now, but that would be in a few our document you're talking about for the funds like yeah

That's obviously that's not going to be

It's not going to be a condition of me passing or not passing the budget

But it is a work in progress that ultimately we'll be able to have it our goal is to make it more and more

um

Decipherable for anyone who looks at it. So yeah

Council member leary

um, I wanted to follow up with um one of uh

Vice mayor rafels comments, um, you know regarding selection of

um cars or or other

You know capital items and that is uh

Sort of setting some guidelines for what kind of selections we make to ensure that we have a good pricing on

The items that are being purchased but that they have you know perhaps a longer life less maintenance etc

And you know i'm particularly thinking in terms of the um automobiles for for the police department

um

I think there's been great success with the electric vehicles to date and

We had some discussion about what you had going on in oakdale in terms of

reducing maintenance costs and and costs for fuel

with electric vehicles

Um, and so uh

And and and this goes across the board in terms of you know parks equipment or you know ambulance equipment any department

um that's looking at

Purchasing long something that we will need longer term

Um if we're going to be making some standards for how we make those determinations

You know rather than going with uh, well, we've always had this so we're going forward with the same

kind of materials

And if I may related to uh kind of

Just things that I I think would be worth exploring much like with the conversation with the the electric garbage trucks

Although that's not necessarily proven in the the patrol sector. There are types of vehicles

uh, uh that that i've personally been involved with like the ford machys that have actually performed very well for our officers

uh, that have proven very reliable, uh, we have about a three or four year

test of those and

uh,

uh,

that the the

gasoline or the fuel savings was pretty significant that you could almost pay for a vehicle

uh, if you had a fleet of five over a period of time with the savings

So those are things that I think are are uh, would that work here in Folsom?

I don't know I need to talk to the police department as far as you know

the hours that they run and the distances that they run in in our particular situation

in a 12-hour shift they wouldn't drive more than 100 miles

uh, if our folks are driving far more than that then maybe it won't work but um possibly it can but I think

one of the points that we'd like to make to the council and to the community is we're going to look at

any possible option to try to reduce our costs and to become more efficient

thank you and then the other uh couple of items I had this with those projected incomes did those

take into consideration all of the recent fees that we've raised pretty much across the board for

parks and rec and facility rentals

community development fees

I don't think it incorporated all the fees that were just implemented I mean we try to use uh kind

of prudent projections we don't want to take a too aggressive approach on revenues we'd rather

um uh project lower than expected and then be surprised at the end uh but uh stacy any comments on that

it included most of the community development fees because they were the ones that were adopted earlier

for the new zoo fee it does not include that we're not sure what the use will be you know at a higher

rate so we'll we'll be able to incorporate that in maybe in a mid-year adjustment if it does come in

a lot higher than what was projected in the budget right and facility run full fees yeah and so

in some ways this highlights the benefits of having uh kind of a look at this again in in september october and

then february because we don't want to just um what was the term set it and forget it i mean we want

to go in and and take a look at it and um see if in september october if the trend is uh performing

better than expected or worse because then we may have to come back to the council say we need to make

adjustments because i don't want to go through the whole year and say oh man we we were off and there's

nothing you can do about it i'd rather get through a quarter or so and say hey it's not necessarily

projecting as we need to let's hit the pause button on on whatever it is and uh just have an open

discussion about it and then some of the rental uh or not rental excuse me um the revenue projections

still don't include the numbers for june 30th for the end of the year is that correct or are you put

up the best estimates for that the projections for fiscal year 24 25 are our best estimates they are the

ones that the city council received in our most recent quarterly report and then we'll have final

numbers you know okay once we have those so i appreciate you know this process of of uh taking a look at

this now and then reevaluating this uh in two to three months uh because they you know there's been a lot

of focus on cuts but you know we need to focus on increasing our revenue and i think we have a lot of

opportunities uh it's unfortunate that our tot taxes remain somewhat flat but uh so we i think we have

a lot of opportunities for for making things uh better for future budgets just want to leave that on a

positive note i'm feeling more positive about it thank you thank you we do have a couple requests to speak

okay our first speaker will be jag nagendra who will be followed by bill barcelona

good evening

good evening mayor uh vice mayor council members and city staff my name is jag nagendra i'm a fallson

resident and in my day job i manage a multi-million dollar budget for the california department of water

resources managing the water and hydropower infrastructure the projected general fund deficit of

3.4 novice 3.0 3.038 million is concerning especially alongside the persistent shortfalls in our

landscaping and lighting districts these l and l and l deficits have persisted for years and it's time to

stop they kick the can down the road approach the longer we delay structural solutions the harder and

more expensive it will be to fix residents deserve clarity sustainability and results oriented action

not just temporary fixes and deferred decisions while overall proposed expenses are down 1.68 percent

from last year they are still 6.24 percent higher than 2023-24 actuals under today's budget pressures

we must proactively identify more cost-saving opportunities some proposed expense budgets

categories share major shifts that warrant a closer look for example park development is down 16 percent

from last year but it's up 133 percent compared to 2023 and 24 actuals similarly municipal landscaping

is proposed to be reduced by 30.5 percent a significant drop compared to prior years the question is what

impact will this have on residents are these cuts aligned with cities long-term priorities cost-saving

strategies like a long-term vendor agreements can offer immediate and long-range benefits in my current

leadership role at the state department i recently negotiated a five-year enterprise contract with

a vendor the annual cost of maintenance was 2.1 million dollars by signing a five-year contract

i brought down the cost to 1.5 million dollars which is 500 000 annual saving for a period of five years

2.5 million dollars in my own my own office strategic thinking like this at the enterprise level can and

should be applied to municipal decisions and operations where high value contracts often represent

opportunities for significant savings on the revenue side i'm also concerned about the projected decline

in the sales tax with thousands of new residents moving into Folsom ranch we should expect increased local

spending if we are not seeing that reflected in these projections it deserves further analysis as a

concerned resident with deep experience in infrastructure and fiscal planning i urge the council to take

a closer multi-year view of both revenue and spending the long-term strength of Folsom depends on

discipline and transparent financial management now more than ever thank you for your time and

continue service to our city thank you okay our next speaker is bill barcelona

thank you thank you all right you have no further request to speak okay if there are no other questions

i'll entertain a motion i'll move that we adopt resolution uh one one four zero one second we have a motion and

a second please call the roll so uh can we have it well i just i don't have any questions but i do want to

make some comments okay just to mess with you um just kind of about the process there was a lot of um feedback

um online and um through emails and everything and i do want to thank um the staff for putting those

questions up i agree with vice mayor rathal that that was very helpful for us to see it again even though

we've seen some of the answers and emails and in person but thank you for that um i think there's a lot of

assumption that this city hasn't made it isn't making any changes because we're seeing we're using

the reserves in a different way this year but that would be wrong there's been a lot of changes happening

throughout the the back side of this as our city managers articulate and so is our finance director

several times a different way of accounting for things there's no confusion in the budget brian has

changed the process of accounting for for true expenses and if any of you have watched previous budget

discussions since i've been here at least um this has been a much welcome change um we're holding

going to be holding every department accountable um for the budget that we actually pass basically not

allowing the city to go over budget without council approval and that's been something that has been

that i've been talking about for the last several years i think this will create more accountability

and most importantly more transparency going forward um one of the things that brian has talked about

continually is um having a discussion in september october when we do have that true accounting of where

our revenue is instead of so instead of making um multi-year decisions based on a projected revenue we can

have an actual revenue and i think that will be very helpful and transparent um i've pushed to have

mid-year budget review since i've been on council as well and um now it's becoming a common occurrence and

i um or i propose to be a common occurrence and i think that's very very important um this will again

allow us to get a true accounting of where we are actually at the end of the year not just with revenues

but also with expenses um what i would like to discuss in the next several months um as brian has mentioned

is the plan is a priority discussion involving what we believe is our core competencies and essential

services we briefly started it in the budget workshop um but i think the council really needs to sit down

as a as a group um and really talk about these um and then two is what we um i can't remember what we

value what we believe our community values um as a community and what that priority is and what we are

willing to subsidize and what we might have to let go of these are difficult conversations but we don't

want to pass a budget next year that we're having to pull from reserves um so there are going to be

difficult conversations um but i think there's um other things that we can talk about is revenue

generators um i think it was uh councilmember leary that mentioned the transient occupancy tax

looking at that are we in alignment with um the rest of the region or the rest of the cities around

our region um engage in our economic development plan that we um invested in and was revealed to us on

september 10th last year in 2024 there's so many good ideas in there and low-hanging fruits that we

could activate and i've heard several times tonight i think um lease out and look at our properties and

figure out what we can lease out what we can um use community groups i think brian just mentioned this

um as far as them coming along and taking it over on keeping it a city city uh city amenity benefiting

our public but maybe run through another company that can handle it better so or our organization

um and i feel all of these things is going to create more stability within our city i think as the

accounting goes through this next year and um you're seeing maybe um more appropriations made through the

council decisions um in front of you versus behind the scenes i think is going to create more trust and i think

that we have a bright um year ahead of us but it's going to be difficult as well so those are my comments

thank you any other discussion yeah i wanted to follow up on that um and i noticed that um brian had

put an item on to the budget for doing another community survey and i did want to bring up that there

there were community surveys done in 21 22 and they the last one was reported in june 28th and 2023 that

showed not only a high degree of civic engagement but at those times uh on all three of those surveys

that you know top priorities were public safety and the parks and recreation programs that the city has in

place including you know the parks facilities and all and i do have a lot of concern about um

either leasing out or selling some of these properties i think they're uncovered with particular

agreements with the quimby act where the land was donated to the city for use by the residents and not as a

private enterprise for someone to um you know not only make money on but you know perhaps uh supplant some of

the uh services that are already provided by staff and uh if we're talking about selling lands uh there's also

uh the uh i think i'm forgetting the correct term but the you know excess property challenges where

those have to be put out to um develop as low-income housing so some of these options are constrained uh

uh and uh those are obviously going to take more deep discussions with the community about what's going on

um so uh just wanted to get that out there i think we have a lot of possibilities here uh and i hope that

the community will continue to remain engaged because we have a lot have had a lot of good questions and i

appreciate you answering all of the questions i've sent to you for the last few weeks thanks not yet

okay vice mayor rafael i just want to make a few comments uh and i really appreciate uh the approach

this year i appreciate um the push toward more communication and more transparency um specifically

around the difference different funds um that are there so i think the accounting was already there

um but the presentation uh and the communication about it you know the visibility um has definitely

increased uh this year and it's led to a healthier discussion um about specific ways that we are spending

taxpayer dollars so um the good part about that is is there are a number of counts um in here in this book

though that show we've got cash in the bank oh um looking at capital facilities fund 602 here for

example we've got 3.6 million dollars to invest back into our community um out of this fund that had cash

on the books uh in the bank and we have a number of those funds so just because the general fund uh that

handles all the operational expenses doesn't have those some of those uh one-time funds will be available

i think for strategic investments um or replacements that are there so i'm encouraged by that

i also think that we have a lot of uh very smart very involved and engaged citizens in our community

and so the more we can move to a more open uh financial process the more we can take advantage of those

analytical accounting brains that are out there that do challenge those assumptions at the end of the day this isn't

the city manager's budget this isn't the city council's budget this is the residents of the city of

folsom uh our budget uh and the more input we can give on what we prioritize um down to the line item i

think that we end up with a better product so i'm looking forward to the process uh over the next year

of really being able to have that detail and and having those it's really a discussion of priorities to me

it's not that it's not that oh we shouldn't have spent the money here we shouldn't spend it here

it's looking forward and saying uh do our line item spend expenditures uh match what we feel are our

community priorities and if not we change them and we have that discussion publicly and openly and we make

our best decisions going forward so thank you all for everyone that participated in the process

and thank you especially to staff for all the work that's gone into this it's been a huge lift this year

um you guys have done a great job all right thank you very much for all the comments we have a motion

and a second council members roerbaugh yes kozlowski yes leary yes rathel yes and akino yes thank you

very much that takes us to city manager report great just a few updates um we're pleased to announce that

the folsom parks and recreation department is planning a renovation of the iconic folsom kids play park

known as castle park located at 201 uh pruitt drive the city will be hosting two community workshops

to gather public input and ideas to help guide the redesign of this beloved space both workshops will

be held at the folsom middle school multi-purpose room the first one is on thursday june 26th at 5 30 pm

this uh that'll be a kickoff meeting to introduce the project uh collect memories and ideas and begin

assembling a list of community build volunteers and then on monday july 14th at 5 30 pm it's the design

day where children adults can draw their dream playground and share their ideas to help inspire

the final design we also have um work continues on um the water infrastructure improvements and utility

upgrades uh on east bidwell so that'll start in late june and continue through the summer

uh so what what you can expect is uh work hours monday through friday 7 a.m to 6 p.m

lane restrictions and traffic delays i apologize in advance for that um increased noise during work hours

uh then we also have uh folsom's annual water quality report is now available the city of folsom's

2020 for consumer confidence report confirms that the city's drinking water continues to meet or exceed

all state and federal quality standards you can view that at www.folsom.ca.us forward slash ccr

um let's see uh just a reminder uh to celebrate safely and legally this year uh it's the fireworks season

and the city of folsom uh will be enforcing a social host ordinance with a thousand dollar fine for

using or allowing illegal fireworks on your property calls for service spike on july 4th so please reserve

9-1-1 for emergencies only such as fires injuries or immediate threats to report illegal fireworks you

can email uh send an email to fireworks at folsom.ca.us or call the folsom police non-emergency line at 916-461

uh 6400 and then option one and that concludes my report thank you council member kozlowski i hope

everybody will join me and the other council members that will be there for the hometown parade on

saturday morning it's great fun and then at the rodeo next week i'll be there all three days um you'll be

able to find me because i probably will have a cowboy hat on and some cowboy boots so will everyone else

yeah i'll blend right in like waldo vice mayor rathal no further comments thank you council member warbaugh

yeah i just wanna um the chief has left um as he should have um but his gauntlet is on um friday at 3 30.

um so anyone that wants to um attend that any public people um just i just that's all i want to say is

thank you to chief hillman for all the time um since 1995 he's been in folsom and since 2018 um the chief

and i'm just really grateful that he was here when i started and um i send him off with cheers thank you

councilmember leary uh i just want to thank all of the staff for all of the work um across the board not

just uh stacy and brian who had to lead the charge here on putting this budget together but uh every

uh department heads put a lot of work into this and i'm looking forward to uh some uh some more

information and uh probably putting the material together in a format that the uh not only all of

us up here but that the public can understand a little bit better and we've had that discussion i

appreciate your willingness to to work on that thank you thank you and i just have one thing uh we had a

resident who came i believe it was earlier this year and asked us to amend an ordinance to increase

the number of chickens allowed uh in the city for a resident i would like to bring that back and so

we can have a conversation about either um increasing the the number you can have or repealing the ordinance

all together so i will talk to the city manager about that so it is 9 13 and we are adjourned thank you