The Folsom City Council convened on September 23, 2025, addressing significant budget adjustments, community initiatives, and development approvals. The meeting featured honors for retiring Fire Chief Ken Cassano, a celebration of the sister city anniversary with Pieve Del Grappa, Italy, and extensive discussions on cost-saving measures involving layoffs and service reductions.
The mayor, then we'll adjourn the special meeting and call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? Council members Kozlowski. Here. Larry, here. Rafael? Here. Roarball? Here. And Aquino. Here. And you'd all please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Yes. Under God. Invisible with liberty and justice. All right. Uh, would you raise your hand, please if you have a vacant seat next to you? We have a bunch of people in the back who may look at we got plenty of seating. If you want to scoot in or come down to the front. Uh, Mr. Um City Attorney, any agenda upwards? Good evening, Madame Mayor members of the city council. We do have an additional information transmittal for item five on Tanas' agenda, a copyhouse being previously provided to you, and they are also available on the table in the back. Thank you. All right, this takes us to business from the floor. This is the public's opportunity to address the council on items that are not on the agenda. We're always happy to hear from you, but please understand that state law prohibits us from deliberating or taking action on items that are not on the agenda. If you want to speak now or on a future agenda item, please fill out a blue card on the back table there, hand it to Officer McCullough here at the front, and the clerk will call you up at the appropriate time. So I think we do have a couple requests to speak on business from the floor. Yes, we have two um members from the public requesting to speak under this item tonight. Um I'm gonna go ahead and call you up to the podium to go ahead and speak. The first speaker is Teresa Garcia, followed by Molly Slovak. Good evening. Good evening. I hope you all can hear me. We can't. Hold on just a second. That's my point. Very exactly. I've been coming to city council meetings pretty regularly, and unfortunately, I can't hear much of what's being said because the city council members do not all speak clearly into their microphones when they're making comments or asking questions. And I would just ask that uh you afford the audience an opportunity to hear everything you say and every question you ask by speaking into your microphone clearly. Thank you. Thank you very much for that reminder. For some reason, we're getting a little feedback up here, so I apologize for that. Okay, if I could go ahead and have Molly Slovak approach the podium. Right there, but you can lift that microphone up, so yeah, there you go. Thank you. Uh good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. My name is Molly Slovak. I'm flanked here by a few members of our planning committee.