The Folsom City Council convened on the evening of Tuesday, October 28, 2025, to address a regular agenda including consent items, public hearings, and new business. Notable actions included the introduction of a wildfire prevention ordinance, a discussion on objective design standards for multi-unit housing (continued to November 12), approval of a neighborhood park design contract, acceptance of a traffic safety grant, and authorization of a road closure for water infrastructure work. The meeting also featured a special recognition for the departing Kikkoman plant manager.
Okay, good evening everyone. We are going to reconvene closed session at the conclusion of our regular session meeting. So I am going to call to order the regular city council meeting for Folsom for Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. Would the clerk please call the role? Yeah, Council members Rachel. Here. Leary. Here. And Aquino. Here. And if you'd all please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay, that takes us to uh agenda updates. Mr. City Attorney, anything to report? Good evening, Madam Mayor. We do have an additional information trust middle for item three and a revised staff report for item 11 on tonight's agenda. Both documents have been previously provided to you, and they are also available on the table in the back. Thank you very much. That takes us to business from the floor. This is the public's opportunity to address the council on items that are not on the agenda. But please understand we cannot deliberate or take action on these items. So any requests to speak. You do have one request to speak this evening from Andrew Viscara. Andrew, come on down. Oh Andrew, we like when people bring us big checks. We give you extra time. Thank you so much. I'm just speaking here. Um, yeah, so uh me and Andrew Tweet here. Um, we had several other classmates with us with us as well. We had the awesome opportunity to organize a fundraiser, pickle for a purpose. This was in 2024. And uh with the help of all of our classmates, uh, choose Folsom with the help of all of the sponsors and all the community that came out to support, we were able to uh raise 10,600 and uh giving it towards uh Folsom uh City of Folsom Parks and Rec. And so we're excited to be able to do that. Was this part of the leadership class? Yes, it was part of leadership leadership 2024. Okay, it was awesome. Very good. Thank you so much. I'm gonna ask well, I'm gonna come down and take a picture with that, but Andrew right there will take our photo and then. Thank you so much. Okay, next slide. Okay, that we have no request to speak in our business from the floor. That takes us to our scheduled presentation item this evening. This is special recognition of departing Kikomon plant manager, Kyotaka Nagai. Good evening. Come on down. Come on up. Um, as you all know, uh, last month we celebrated the 25th anniversary of a sister city friendship with Pieva del Grappa Italy, but there is another international friendship that we value very greatly, and that is our friendship with Kiko Men Foods. And we have been so fortunate the past seven years to have um Mr.