The Folsom City Council held a regular meeting on November 12, 2025, at 2:45 PM (UTC). The meeting covered a presentation on e-bike issues, adoption of the consent calendar, a public hearing on SPIF fee adjustments, approval of the Castle Park play structure replacement project, a resolution of intent to modify the Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) assessment, adoption of objective design standards for multi-unit housing, and a contract amendment for Mangeny Ranch trail design. The council also heard public comments on e-bikes and the TBID proposal.
So vote must be unanimous. Thank you very much. All right. Then we will adjourn the special meeting and call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for uh Wednesday, November 12th, 2025. Would the clerk please call the roll? Council members Robah. Here, Kozlowski. Here. Leary. Here, Graethel. Here. And Aquino. Here, you'd all please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I don't think you have the case of America. And the Republic. One mission. Indivisible with liberty and justice. All right. Mr. City Attorney, any agenda updates to report? Yes, madam mayor. We do have additional information on transmitted for item 14 on tonight's agenda. A copy has been previously provided to you, and it is also available on the table in the back. Okay, thank you. And as you'll notice, our city manager is not here tonight. Unfortunately, he has been under the weather all week, so I think he's watching. So Brian, go to bed. Get better soon, and uh, hope to see you back here. Um 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 take action or deliberate on items that are not on the agenda. Do we have any requests to speak from business from the floor? There are no requests to speak from business from the floor. Anybody in the audience want to speak on business from the floor? See no one, we will move on to the next item, please. Next is schedule presentations. Item number one is a presentation from the Folsom Police Department regarding e-bikes in our city. Current status and future direction. Thank you, Lieutenant Rahela. We promise not to kill the messenger. Well, thank you, madam mayor, members of the council and city staff. Uh Jake Rohelan, Lieutenant with the police department. So this presentation I'm gonna give tonight is really designed to set the stage for a proposal that Commander Andrew Bates will be bringing forth uh at your meeting on the 9th in December regarding uh an adjustment or a change, modification to the Folsom municipal code specific to e-conveyances. So this presentation really gives you more of uh an overall view of some of the issues that we've been dealing with in the police departments specific to those challenges. Um, I would imagine, and I'm aware that most of you have heard from your constituents a variety of complaints going all the way back to when these things really hit the streets in Folsom. So this is gonna be some of the data that gives you some some more specifics kind of drills down into just how broad this problem has become. Uh some of the e-bike laws in California, and a lot of people are having a hard time becoming aware or familiar with them. Fortunately, we have a really robust uh tab on the police department's uh website where parents and anyone who's looking for additional information can go and look this information up even after this evening. So a class one uh e-bike provides uh assistance only while pedaling the bicycle, and it can travel up to 20 miles an hour. A class two has a throttle similar to a motorcycle, also assisted riding without pedaling up to 20 miles an hour. Class three has a motor that provides assistance only while pedaling, and it can travel up to 28 miles per hour.