Good evening everyone we're going to go ahead and call to order the city council for Tuesday January 27th

We please call the roll

Councilmembers Roaba here a Kino here Kozlowski here Larry here and Rachel here

And if you'll all please stand with me for the Pledge of Allegiance

All right, and do we have any agenda updates this evening?

Good evening, Mayor.

Yes, we have an additional information transmittal on agenda item number six.

The information has been previously provided to the council, and there are copies on the

back table for the public.

Thank you so much.

This takes us to business from the floor.

At this time anybody is willing is able to address the council for up to three minutes on unagendized items

So if you're here to address the council, we go ahead and fill out one of those blue cards and bring it up front

Do we have anyone?

That's speaking from business from the floor this evening. You have no request to speak under business from the floor

Going once going twice

All right. That brings us to our scheduled presentations

Okay, your first item this evening is item number one. This is recognition of the 2025

Folsom holiday lights contest winners.

Good evening.

Tonight we will recognize the winners of the annual Folsom holiday

lights contest, which we held in December.

This year we saw a record turnout with more than 62 entries and

five different categories.

Each category was judged by a Folsom City Council member.

The promotion allowed the community to tour the merriest and

brightest homes and businesses in Folsom, as all participants were listed on the city's

website.

The five winners received a commemorative lawn sign and also very important bragging

rights from the city of Folsom.

We teamed up again with the Folsom Times to publicize the contest, and the Times went

above and beyond to provide prizes to the award winners.

Bill Sullivan is joining us tonight to say a few words about our partnership.

I'll turn it over to you, Bill.

Okay, thank you.

I'm not used to standing on this side of things.

But just before we get to this, a big thank you to the city of Folsom for partnering with us on this.

I mean, it's a great partnership, and I think this was the third year we did it, and it seemed to be a growing thing.

And I know all of you are out there judging it in the cold air, and there's more and more every year.

So it's just a great, fun community thing.

So I know that people are here today and eager, and so we're pleased to present the awards each winter.

and we do ask anybody that's here to collect their word

if they can hang out up here

so they can get a group photo of all of them together

when they start.

So the first winner was the Holly Jolly Residence

which went to, it's the best overall residence

and it went to Haley Steiner and family

488 Rockport Circle

if they're here tonight.

and the next winner was the Clark Griswold Award best use of holiday lights in a residential

building and that goes to it went to 275 Thorndike Way and Olivia Neighbor and I believe it was their

son that did most of the legwork on this so Olivia Neighbor of you guys are here

next one the Hollywood Christmas best use of a theme or fictional characters went to 316

Turnpike Drive and Wendell Hubble was the winner Wendell's here

The Merry and Bright Christmas,

excuse me, Merry and Bright Business.

And if anybody went to Sutter Street during Christmas,

this is pretty much hands down.

A festive commercial business display

goes to Sutter Street in the Folsom Historic District.

And the big one, Illuminate the Block.

And these people have won this before.

And this year, I went out there too.

and that's spectacular.

And Ledgemont Court

and Gene Perrier,

I know you were here tonight, I believe.

And Dale Gonzalez, Jill Gonzalez,

Bentley Gonzalez and Ann Perrier.

Maybe some others that came from,

I know there was 12 houses altogether.

So anybody from Illuminate the Block, come on up.

And we've got plaques for everybody here.

And I think that's everybody.

So I've got the plaques and prizes up here

if you guys want to come up and I'll give those to you

and they can get a, Andrew here will get a photo.

And thank you all for participating.

I want to thank all the businesses that jumped in on this.

There's too many of them to list them here,

but everybody seems to like to do this.

So thank you guys.

Thank you.

I really appreciate it.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Yeah, come on over, grab your plaque, and we'll grab a big group photo.

Thank you.

Thank you.

more things.

Oh, no.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next year, I want to get a collective amount of hours

that it took to hang up all of those lights

between just those five displays.

It's amazing what you do every year,

every season Folsom. So thank you for everyone that participated and congratulations to the winners.

You know, the award should be given out by SMUD. It should. Best customers in Folsom.

And that will move us on to item number two. Yeah, your second item this evening is a presentation

from the Folsom Auburn Trail Riders Action Coalition, also known as VATRAC, on the public

private partnership supporting the rebuild of the Folsom Bike Park. All right, good evening,

Mayor and members of the council. I'm Jamison Larson, senior management analyst with Parks and

Recreation Department. We are excited to introduce you to our partners at the Folsom Auburn Trail

Riders Action Coalition, better known as FATRAC. They will present information on our partnership

and the progress made to rebuild the Folsom bike park at Cummings Family Park. For background,

the bike park has been partially closed for over four years, and prior to its closing,

it had deteriorated significantly. Staff got proposals for rebuilding the bike park with a

total cost of nearly $600,000. After receiving these cost estimates, staff reached out to other

local municipalities to see how they have managed to rebuild and maintain their bike parks. In August

of 2025, staff met with the Auburn Recreation District and Fat Track representatives at the

Auburn Bike Park. They had a good conversation and the city and Fat Track agreed to pursue an

MOU to create this public-private partnership to benefit the Folsom Bike Park. The MOU was signed

in November of 2025 and we hit the ground running. We hired Randy and Greg who are well-known

and respected bike park builders with experienced building parks all over the U.S.

as well as some internationally. We hired them as part-time city employees to complete the rebuild

of this park. They've made great progress as you will see in the following presentation.

The bike park rebuild is going to be completed through this partnership for less than 20% of

the initial cost estimates from the other contractors. This is due in large part to

the public-private partnership and the hard work of Fat Track, the builders, and Chris O'Keefe,

our project manager, in getting us to this point. Fat Track is leading the fundraising and community

engagement efforts for this project and are working closely with the city to support outreach,

education, and long-term stewardship of this project.

I end with that.

I would like to introduce Deborah Young, the executive director of Fat Track.

Welcome, Deborah.

Thanks for being here tonight.

Thank you guys for having us.

I wanted to thank you guys tonight.

We wanted to share the progress on the Folsom Bike Park revamp.

The project, in partnership with the City of Folsom, we're really focused on community-driven efforts to make sure that the park is safe and modern and a space for riders of all ages and abilities.

Jameson gave a great job with who we are but we have been around since 1998 complete nonprofit

organization built trails Auburn Folsom Park oh thank you okay and where am I at we also work

with other private land managers as well our mission is to create sustainable

accessible places to ride and power volunteers and strengthen partnerships

that benefit the entire community why the revamp matters right now we have the

need because the curtain bike park is outdated and underused demand for safe

progressive writing spaces is growing and you you can see that out on the

standard trails different bike parks as well we are Randy our builder is

introducing progressive jump lines around the perimeter perimeter is an XC

loop pump tracks and feature design for every skill level he will get into all of that a little

bit later but this transforms the park into a vibrant community asset one that supports youth

engagement healthy outdoor activity boost tourism and elevates fulsome as a regional biking destination

economic boost this any type of bike riding is a major draw kids are coming out at younger and

younger ages and they want to try practicing on different stuff besides trails a lot of the

things that they watch nowadays are different competitions like red bull rampage

um other downhill racing has become very popular so giving them a safe space like this is a really

big deal um especially in Folsom we're in a really localized area um for places to come

all around from Sacramento up from Placerville up 80.

So the bike park is already delivering meaningful value to Folsom and it just

amplifies more impact. People go by there and they're just so excited to see what's going on.

And you'll see some transitional pictures shortly. And it strengthens local businesses.

So it just creates a natural partnership with bike shops, outdoor brands, local sponsors,

and brings steady foot traffic to nearby commercial areas. So a lot of these people,

this will make it to be a destination so they'll come here they'll spend time hotels like i said

the bike shops a lot of times things need to be fixed they forgot a jersey socks all of those

things happen um and they love to eat so there's lots of benefits for the whole community here

and it provides community value with a safe active space for youth and families and it builds pride

in Folsom through events stewardship and local involvement it's more than a recreation project

for us it's a community and economic asset to the city of Folsom and for us as our organization

and with that i am going to turn it over to lucas a board member he's behind me can't miss him

um and so he's gonna talk about why the revamp matters how the bike park benefits the city of

folsom so there you go hey guys doing i'm my name is lucas raley i'm a fat track board member

and have been a board member for almost a year, but I'm also a Folsom resident, have been a

Folsom resident for almost 20 years, and I have two young boys. Well, they're not so young anymore.

They're 14 and 16, but their passion for riding bikes started at the Folsom Bike Park, you know,

a number of years ago. So this project is super special to me, and I'm really excited for it.

So what does it take to keep a bike park running?

You know, the main thing is the maintenance that it takes to keep a bike park safe, right?

Safety has got to be number one when it comes to these types of parks.

But along with that, with the maintenance, you know, it takes dirt, rock, lumber, equipment,

potential, you know, contractor support with either some heavy equipment.

It takes volunteer coordination.

You know, this bike park being kind of a community park, we want to get everybody involved and take some ownership in it, right?

So work days and then programming events, activating the park, drawing visitors, and building community engagement.

So Fat Track and the Folsom Bike Park.

So Fat Track proudly supports the city of Folsom's leadership in revamping the park.

And it's been a really great relationship.

so far. Kelly Gonzalez, the director of parks, Chris O'Keefe, the manager of parks, Mayor Raytheil,

everybody's been so awesome to work with. This has been such a positive partnership,

and we're really excited about it. So advocacy and stewardship, as Fat Track, we promote sustainable

design connectivity and long-term community benefits. We really want this bike park to be

tip top and one of the great bike parks in our area for years to come.

So rallying riders, families, and local businesses to invest in recreation and well-being, bringing

people in into Folsom, taking ownership of the park is really one of our goals.

So, so far, Fat Track, with the generous help of Claudia Cummings, has raised $20,000.

and I'll have a slide here coming up,

but our fundraiser is ongoing

and we're continuing to still try to raise funds

for this bike park

and not just for the initial build either,

but for the ongoing maintenance

that it's gonna take to keep it running

in great condition.

And Fat Track will lead our ongoing community maintenance

so our workdays, Fat Track organizes those events.

So some high-level MOU highlights.

So the purpose of the MOU, as you guys know, is a partnership between the city of Folsom and Fat Track to sustain and improve the Folsom Bike Park.

Fat Track, high level, handles maintenance, volunteer coordination, fundraising, and acts as a fiscal agent for donations.

And the city provides staff support, signage, and co-sponsors events.

So the bottom line of this public and private partnership is community donations have come through Fat Track, and that's essential to complete and sustain the bike park revamp and continued use.

so

we're looking for

any support

and

within our

fundraiser construction

has begun

Randy is going to speak about

where we're at and where we're going

but we're looking for

a grand opening at the beginning of April

so

Randy and his team have done an

outstanding job

We got some pictures.

It's really coming together.

It's coming close.

We've been really lucky with weather, right?

Any kind of construction project like this, rain can slow some things down.

And as everybody knows, we haven't gotten too much of that lately.

But it has benefited the bike park.

So we have local businesses engaged, and our fundraiser is underway, like I talked about earlier.

And really, if there's anybody, you know, the Fat Track website and our fundraisers on there, if there's any ideas on anybody who would like to support.

So a little bit about Randy Spangler and Greg Watts.

They're our builders and they're our designers.

You know, Randy is really a legendary trail builder within this business.

He's built bike parks like Auburn Bike Park, Elk Grove Bike Park.

I don't know if you guys have heard of Truckee Bike Park, but Truckee Bike Park is probably one of the most premier free bike parks in the country.

It's amazing.

And Randy's the lead builder on that.

So having Randy and Greg as locals to Folsom has just been tremendous for this project.

And another note, too, one of Randy's first projects was the Folsom Bike Park years ago.

So it's kind of a full circle project for him as well.

so within that you know designing a safe fun and inclusive feature that inspire all riders of all

ages and you hear progressive bike park design and what that means is there's there's there's

features for everybody right you can bring your three-year-old out on a strider and eventually

he can work his way up within that design all the way up to you know expert level lines right so

it's great for everybody. This isn't a bike park that's just designed for one kind of demographic

of riders. So with that, I'd like to introduce Randy, the designer and builder of this bike park

revamp. Hello, my name is Randy Spangler. My co-worker wasn't able to mix tonight. He's Greg

Watts. The two of us have been spending the time revamping the park. It's been coming along really

good progress wise again with weather's been helping us out quite a bit some of

these photos are showing some of the revamp we're at we are moving along

pretty well I projected a couple months on the build and we're sticking pretty

close to that so we're at about close to two months so more weeks we should have

the park pretty wrapped up hopefully we'll see a grand opening around April

if everything plays out in time and stuff that drawing there is just kind of

initial concept of what we started with and it's very similar to that again some

what you're looking at a bit of amoeba shapes but it's taken that overall form

of what you're looking at in the picture. Park was designed again to introduce

someone to a park so there's something for every level you've got a trail

around the edge that you could take your kids on yourself just to kind of be in

the park and be a part of it then you can start progressing your ways up

through some of the pump tracks maybe into the jumps if you're feeling you're

ready to catch some air but there's kind of something for a little bit of

Everybody too tangible to kind of work their way up

With that that's our presentation

There's any questions

Thank You Lucas Thank You Randy I am expecting some expert level jumps from the council

First off

That's over here. Well first of all, thank you so much. This is

Very exciting and very timely because the presentation following you is the police chief talking about

e-bicycles everyone's least favorite topic these days is this type of thing

only meant for traditional bicycles non electric bicycles yes okay we're

hoping to see this traditional no electric bikes okay that was just my

only question thank you any other questions it's kind of follow-up to the

electric bike question is there monitoring on site or are you know you

expecting participants to kind of keep an eye out for each other

take love and you know part of the park and kind of monitor that we've seen that

at other parks take place and we're hoping that that will carry over here

great and how much more money are you trying to raise do you have a goal yeah

so Claudia Cummings they have a $10,000 grant and if we raise another 10,000

she was gonna supply another 10,000 so we're hoping to get another $10,000 to

total $40,000 for the initial build but as maintenance like I was talking

about earlier maintenance does it cost money right so we're going to continue fundraising and

we have a goal right now forty thousand dollars but the sky's the limit so we can keep the the

park in tip-top shape okay great thank you any questions from over here just one thing i'm going

to call on you guys for to get some opinions because we're working at just at the very beginning

of working on a new cross-country track for race for foot races but it will do double duty

potentially for good fun mountain biking more flat less jumps yeah I'm a trail runner so excellent I

share my time so I love perfect and and really you know that's that's fat tracks background is

building those types of trails perfect um the bike park you know it's it's in our community and this

is this is an awesome opportunity but that is kind of fat track I'm going to drag you in on that one

too. Yeah, sounds good. Vice Mayor? Yeah, I have a couple. One of the things is, is there going to be

signage somewhere at the park that is designating you guys as a fundraiser so you can ongoingly

get funds and that would be a question for... Yeah, there are currently signs that show our

partnership and our fundraiser and it's also highlighting some of our corporate sponsors

that we have already and that'll continue is hopefully we can gain some some corporate sponsors

but yeah there is signage out there now okay great and then my other question is you said you could

bring your three-year-old on a strider yeah what is a strider so a strider bike is a bike without

pedals and they just they run with their feet right and it's a balanced bike and you know it's

kind of flipped our old way of thinking of putting training wheels on bikes right and it kind of

doesn't translate this strider bikes been been a huge thing these days so yeah

they can thank you run out there and play around thank you for everything that

you're doing and thank you to the mayor for initiating this and getting this

going it's in my district which I know that this was a big thing for a lot of

people when I campaigned three years ago so I'm very happy to see this going and

thank you we're excited to get the park back open we really appreciate you guys

And look forward to seeing you out there. Thank you

Anything else from parts wreck guys good

All right, we'll move on item number three

Item number three is going to be a presentation from the Folsom Police Department regarding e-bikes in our city

Looking at the current status and future direction

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

This is a very good segue.

Mayor B.

Yeah, it is not coming up.

well let's try closing it and see close some of this stuff

we do this to first-time presenters to new department I appreciate that

It only happens when the news is here also.

No, it's not coming up here.

No, that's not it.

That's not it.

Adam, you want me to come look?

Sometimes raising the anticipation is part of the deal.

Chief, do you want me to come up?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's right there.

I closed everything out there that hasn't gone in hopes of maybe that would help.

Worst case scenario.

I brought it back up.

I didn't know it was closed.

Yeah.

We've got a thumb drive too.

We can try and bring it up with a thumb drive.

I know what you did.

I just did one.

I didn't want to step in your toes.

No.

Step away top one there.

But it's not opening from there.

That's the problem.

Oh.

Look at you.

Can I buy you dinner?

Of course.

We tested it today.

Engineers always saving the day.

All right.

We are in business.

Well, there we go.

All right.

Well, thank you very much for having me here tonight.

So I'm going to give a brief update on electric bicycle use in the city of Folsom.

I'm going to turn this so you can hear me a little better.

As you know, these challenges associated with these bikes are not unique to our city or jurisdiction.

Across the state, we're seeing jurisdictions confront this very same topic.

Tonight is an opportunity for me to speak to you and to our community on this topic

and provide some basic education on these vehicles and some relevant updates.

So first e-bike classification.

On the screen, you will see an updated flyer identifying the different types of electric bicycles,

scooters, and motorcycles.

This flyer is going to be shared through our social media with our community.

We'll also be sharing it with the school district to be distributed among parents.

Before I discuss each type of bike that you see here, it's important to note a helmet is required for all three of these classes of e-bikes for riders under the age of 18 years old.

And additionally, a recent change to California law now requires a rear-facing red light or reflector for all e-bikes during all hours, day and night.

The California Vehicle Code defines an electric bicycle as a bike equipped with fully operable pedals

and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power.

First, the Class 1 e-bike.

This bike has a motor that provides assistance while pedaling only up to 20 miles an hour.

These bikes have no age restrictions.

Class 2 e-bikes, these have pedals and a throttle.

These bikes provide assistance when pedaling, but additionally, the throttle can be used without pedaling for speeds up to 20 miles an hour.

And then next, Class III e-bikes.

These bikes have a motor that provide assistance only while pedaling and will assist up to speeds of 28 miles an hour.

California law requires that riders of Class III e-bikes must be 16 years old.

The next three types of e-vehicles that I'm going to discuss are also very common,

and the laws to these vehicles are even more restrictive.

I admit that I myself just recently became aware of all the laws surrounding the use of these particular vehicles.

So e-scooters, you see these, they're very common.

You see these in communities for short-term rental.

You see adults using them to commute to work, and also children using these.

By law, you must be 16 years old or older with a driving permit or a license to ride these types of bikes or scooters, excuse me.

And passengers are not permitted, and they're not permitted on the sidewalk.

Mopeds, these are not new either.

You probably remember, I remember them from my childhood.

Mopeds have been around for a very long time and have a small gas-powered engine.

These require a valid driver's license, must be registered and licensed with the state, and the rider must wear a DOT helmet.

Lastly, e-motorcycles.

So these are electric motorcycles.

These are becoming more and more common among children, and many of them are marketed towards kids.

These vehicles do not have pedals and are exclusively powered by a throttle and electric motor.

Many people do not realize that these vehicles, like the one you see pictured here, are considered off-highway motorcycles,

which means they're not permitted on the roadway, on sidewalks, on bike trails, bike lanes, or bike paths.

And in order for such vehicles to be operated in the roadway, the rider must have a driver's license,

the vehicle must be registered with a DMV, and they must have all the required lighting and equipment,

and a DOT helmet is required for the rider.

next i'd like to speak briefly about uh california law first restriction on bike

bike paths class 3 e-bikes specifically motorized bicycles mopeds and electric motorcycles are

prohibited on bike paths trails bikeways equestrian trails hiking and recreational trail

unless it's adjacent to a roadway or permitted by ordinance and meaning adjacent to a roadway

would look like a bike path or a specific bike lane next to the roadway. Local ordinance may be

used to prevent the use of all electric vehicles on such trails and bike paths. Assembly Bill 544,

this is the one I mentioned earlier, now mandates that a red reflector or solid flashing light with

built-in reflector be displayed in the rear during all hours of day and night. This bill would also

allow for a CHP online bicycle course to fulfill the safety, bless you, safety course requirement

for minors who receive a ticket for a helmet violation on an e-bicycle. There's also pending

law in the early stages of legislation that would redefine what an e-bike is and clarify that a

750 watt limit applies to peak motor power, and those that exceed this limit would be reclassified

to motor-driven cycles.

Next, I want to highlight two projects within the state of California.

Currently, two municipalities received – currently, local municipalities are prevented from creating

local ordinances to further restrict the age of e-bike riders.

Two assembly bills created projects to allow two separate jurisdictions to create municipal

code ordinances with greater age restrictions for the use of e-bikes. Currently under Assembly Bill

1778, Marin County prohibits people under the age of 16 from riding a Class 2 e-bike until January

1st of 2029. And under Assembly Bill 2234, San Diego County prohibits people under the age of 12

from riding a Class A, or I'm sorry, Class 1 or Class 2 e-bike until January 1 of 2029.

Additionally, members of the California Police Chiefs Association are working to find legislative fixes that increase restrictions on certain type of e-bikes and to improve education at the point of purchase.

Moving on, this slide here is one that you saw last year, but it's been updated to reflect our total numbers for 2025.

Additionally, when our crime analyst was updating this slide, she discovered some additional collisions from prior years that were missed in the last presentation as a result of how they were classified in our record system.

And as you can see, in 2025, we had twice as many collisions involving e-bikes as the year prior, and the majority of those involved juveniles.

So why is this important?

There's an entire body of research in the medical field right now surrounding e-bikes and their associated injuries.

And a couple important takeaways.

There's a lot of information out there and a lot of people kind of working on this.

But here are a couple important takeaways.

Children are disproportionately impacted by the injuries associated with e-bikes.

The National Emergency Department data shows electric bike injuries doubled between 2017 and 2022.

Two, hospitalization is more than twice as likely for e-bike injuries compared to traditional

bicycles, and helmet usage is very low, and helmet compliance for e-bike riders is even

less than that of traditional bicycles.

As you know, in October, our traffic team visited both middle schools during the morning

and arrival drop-off hours for our middle schools.

At the beginning of January, when students were returning from winter break, we again

visited both middle schools to conduct some education and enforcement.

Of note, in January, our officers saw significantly fewer students using e-bikes on campus.

This may be the result of recent education campaigns, or it could be due to weather or other factors.

That's a question at this point we just can't answer.

With regard to education enforcement by the Folsom Police Department, we'll continue to do both.

Ultimately, our goal is to make sure that young adults and adults who use these vehicles do so safely.

because the California vehicle code views e-bikes as bicycles and because there are also now

additional sections specific to e-bikes we can use the vehicle code to enforce the law and ensure

safe use of bicycle of these bicycles our hope is that through ongoing education particularly

with youth and parents as well as enforcement we can change dangerous behaviors and ensure that

these vehicles are being used in a safe and lawful manner thank you very much for your time and if

If you have any questions, we're happy to answer them.

Thank you, Chief.

I'll start on this side this time.

Any questions?

Vice Mayor?

I have a couple.

In the beginning when you had that flyer that showed the different kinds of bikes, scooters,

et cetera, you said that you were going to be communicating that amongst parents.

Yes.

How is that?

So we're going to share this flyer with the school district and have the school district

share this with parents and families.

Okay, great.

And then you talked about the collisions 22 in relative terms. I don't know if that's a lot or not compared to other cities

I mean the increase of 100% is sounds like a lot

But what results are these collisions are they minor like, you know scratches or are they major?

injuries

I'm gonna ask Lieutenant Burhan to come up and answer that

Good evening

Some of them are somewhat less significant, but in some instances they're pretty bad.

One of the most recent ones that comes to mind, I believe it was in December, involved a juvenile on an e-bike that struck a gentleman who was in his 70s who was riding a bicycle.

And he ended up suffering significant injuries as a result of being knocked off of his bicycle by the juvenile on the e-bike.

or e-bike. And you may or may not know this, but are most collisions happening on the trails? Are

they happening off of sidewalks, through intersections, on the street? Without looking

at that specific data, just going off of some of the different reports that I've seen that kind of

come to mind, I would say a lot of them are happening on surface streets and in neighborhoods

and stuff like that, on paved ways. Okay. I feel like most of the complaints we get are off the

trails and you know disrupting people's walks and um so what ordinances or ability do we have to

enforce um all of these rules do we have now right so we currently do not have ordinances on the book

specific to like e-bike enforcement on the roadway um but we have a whole host of vehicle codes that

apply to those sections so as we move forward one of the things we're going to do is provide some

kind of guides for officers because admittedly this is it's just very confusing and the laws

really haven't caught up with how quickly these bikes are developing so we're creating some cheat

sheets about for our cops so they can our officers so they can understand what sections apply to

certain behaviors on certain classes of bikes so the vehicle codes would apply to the e-scooter

and above or class three nope they would apply to everything up there even class one yeah there

vehicle codes that would apply to every bike you see up there. All right. Thank you. You're welcome.

While you have the flyer up here, I just noticed the e-scooter says no riding on sidewalks,

but the class one, class two, class three e-bikes, I'll say bike lanes and trails okay,

but that leaves me with a question. Can I ride these on a sidewalk? So, uh,

I think the bike lane rule applies for bicycles. So, uh, bicycles would not be allowed on the

sidewalk, generally bicycles are with regards to riding in the roadway are kind of seen like

vehicles or cars. So if there's not a bike lane, they're supposed to ride in the roadway consistent

with like vehicular traffic. So far right side of the road, same direction of traffic.

Might be something we add on there because I do see bicycles regularly on the sidewalks. And I

know that's where we have some kind of, you know, interactions, especially in our shopping centers,

which I know the shopping centers near me tend to have some e-bikes around in the parking lot.

Yeah, we could make that addition as well.

Thank you so much.

Mr. Mayor, that's a delicate one because there are some bike lanes that are less safe than the sidewalk on pathways to school,

particularly getting to Folsom Middle School along Blue Ravine.

I always would feel more comfortable with my bicycle riding child on the sidewalk in that stretch where the road is narrow.

just something that a parent might take into consideration in terms of sidewalk versus it's

an enforcement question but and i think that there's probably some reasonableness to that and

i think that um to a degree that's why our you know police officers have some level of discretion

too because i think you're absolutely there are probably areas of the city where you would want

your you know your five-year-old all the way up to your 15 year old well my sixth my sixth grader

going to Folsom Middle School, you want them to be as, you know, protected from traffic as possible.

Yeah, I definitely, you know, I have two stepkids that are riding their bikes to Folsom Middle

most days. I definitely tell them to go the back route into school, right? But

that's the ideal path is don't get out on Blue Ravine. But I take your point for sure. I just

think that since we do have those, I've seen those interactions, right? And part of those

interaction so and so people honestly go i don't know whether i'm allowed to ride my bike on the

sidewalk or not so if you know making it real clear i think is good yeah councilmember leary

thank you um thanks for your answers there i think this the the sidewalk really is um a difficult

call because there have been a number of bike versus pedestrian incidents that happens on the

sidewalks not even with electric bikes happens with right pedal the bikes so

I'm wondering if they can incorporate something into the education such as

mayor rafel suggested about you know taking the back routes instead of maybe

the the main trails because I'm sure there's a lot of kids walking to school

as well maybe with parents it's been a constant source of conflict on the trails

around Lake Natoma, bikes and pedestrians on the same trails.

And one of the other questions I had was, have you noticed it?

And I know you've only been here for a little while,

but has there been a decrease in the number of calls coming in with complaints about people on e-bikes?

Or is that been continuing to rise?

I don't necessarily hear a lot of those in my neighborhood,

but some of the other neighborhoods in my district have.

Yeah, so we started to see a decrease in October of last year.

We're seeing as of January this year that number,

and maybe a little bit in December,

but in January that number to creep back up a little bit.

I think it's, I'm not sure I can correlate that decrease

between October and January to a particular thing.

So I don't know that we have enough data

to know exactly what that means, but we did see a decrease. That could simply be because it's

colder out because, you know, we had some storms and it was rainy. It could also be combined with

the fact that we did some education at the middle schools, which is a lot of time kind of the age

group where we get particular calls about and their writing patterns. And so we did see a

decrease. We see it coming back up a little bit, but I can't tell you exactly what that means yet.

Great. Thank you. And just one last question. What is the best mechanism for reporting incidents that aren't looking like they're immediately creating a danger to the rider or others, which I think would probably result in a call to the police?

right is there you know would you want people to send in notes on c click fix saying hey you know

this is a regular occurrence in my neighborhood such and such times and dates yeah that's a good

place to do it things occurring kind of share that information um it's probably better than calling

the police department if it's not kind of an active thing um and then we can look at that

data and kind of it will give us an idea of where things are occurring we have a general idea from

excuse me from our calls for service from the mapping all those calls we kind of know where

our hot spots are within the community but that stuff always helps us great thank you

councilmember Aquino so you said all these devices are subject to the California vehicle

code but what's the specific mechanism for enforcement if you're in violation of one of

these rules is it a citation I think commander Bates maybe told us last year from his presentation

I think it was the e-motorcycle that could be impounded on the spot if you were in violation of something.

Can any of these be impounded on the spot?

There is a new section that allows for some impounding of the vehicle.

It is a bit complicated and unclear.

Imagine that.

That happens at times.

We currently in the city don't have a very good mechanism to impound those and then release them within the confines of what the law describes.

Really, I think our goal, our hope is that we can achieve safe ridership and safer kids through education, both through our kids and our parents.

the the mechanism for enforcement is in fact a citation and our preference would be not to be

giving citations to little kids but there may come a time or circumstance where that is in fact

necessary and appropriate and so there's some discretion on the part of our officers about

using our judgment about what is the best route to go one of the reasons we went to schools during

drop-off times is because it is an opportunity for us to educate the kids but it's also an

opportunity for to educate the parents. I can say admittedly, like I said in my presentation,

these laws are very confusing and I did not know or understand them, you know, until recently having

to dive into this a little more because it's a, you know, it's an issue in our community. And so

my concern is that parents also don't know. And a lot of parents are purchasing these bicycles,

not really knowing what they're buying or what the rules are surrounding them. And I think that

is we improve our education, particularly at point of sale. Hopefully we get to a place where

there is law or rules or regulations about education to buyers so that when a parent is

purchasing this, you know, one of these items for their child, they understand the rules and

laws surrounding them. And so education, I think, is our primary objective. But to a degree, yes,

there are times when it is very appropriate to write a citation. Right. I mean, I agree that,

education is always the goal, at least before enforcement. But I also think we have to decide

as a community, which of these offenses is the most egregious. So for example,

if you can't have an e-motor cycle on the street, I say impound those on the spot if we're legally

allowed to do that, right? And to send a message that we're just not going to tolerate this.

The second thing is, regardless of the confusing rules around these things,

it's pretty clear cut. You have to wear a helmet of these things, right? And so to me, it's like

we see somebody not wearing a helmet, we cite you. But now you and I talked about this the other day.

I don't exactly know how that happens when you see a 15 year old and you say, hey, what's your

name? And he says, my name's John Doe, right? He doesn't carry identification with him. He doesn't

have a license plate or something like that that you can actually tie it to. So I don't know how

many of those actually stick, but I don't know, maybe some of them will. But it just seems like,

again, we should pick the most egregious offenses and just full enforcement on those things.

Thank you. Vice Mayor, you had a few more questions? Yeah. I know that I had a resident

reach out to me in, I think it was December, about writing, hearing e-bikes and all the

destruction that was happening in some of our wetlands. I also heard from some neighbors,

actually, that were hearing that consistently, and I could hear it in the evening. What is being

done about that? And I know you have limited resources, but that's my first additional

question. Yeah. So that is very difficult, right? We do have limited resources. We have to kind of

pick and choose where we go. We've had conversations with code enforcement as well, about

how we work together with Parks and Rec to identify places where this is occurring,

maybe identifying specific times when we can go conduct some enforcement. But it is,

it's very difficult to kind of balance all of our resources and address, you know, all of these

concerns. Okay. So one of those things would be those people that hear this, maybe see, click,

fix would be a good place. I know that I think, I believe a lot of this came about because we had

particular, and a nice way to say this is packs of kids. That's better than a gang, isn't it?

Packs of kids running around, I think before you came on, disrupting like public places at

Palladio, I know up on mini trails by my home, on intersections, anywhere that they could

and be disruptive, even south of 50, even being discriminatory and slurring words and

all these kind of harassing things.

And unfortunately, that can be a part of being a young kid.

I believe that is kind of subsided a little bit.

And I don't know if that, hopefully it's the education, but I also think it's probably

the time of year and they're back in school.

So what are we going to be doing proactively if we need to, if this kind of pops up again,

as the weather gets nice, summer comes along, spring break, that kind of things,

what are things that we can do to enforce, to break that up?

Yeah, those are kind of behaviors we'd want reported on our non-emergency line.

So if we had lots of groups of kids involved in really disruptive behavior in really public or private spaces,

those are calls we would want to receive to the communication center

because we would want to dispatch officers to those,

particularly if they're using a lot of derogatory lane.

Like, there's a lot of things there that are potentially really bad

and also potentially really dangerous.

So I think in those situations, we would encourage people to call.

You know, we could do some messaging at the end of the school year again,

like push some of this stuff back out

so parents are fresh on their mind as the summer months come.

And then those are the types of calls that we would respond to.

Now, that being said, one of the, you know,

the direction we've given is as an executive team of the police department, we're not going to chase

and getting to pursuits with kids on bicycles because of really the great risk to everybody

involved. And so it's a delicate balance. And, you know, we'll do enforcement and do what we can

and respond when we can. But we're also not going to chase kids on these bicycles just for kind of

disruptive behavior, if that makes sense. Yeah. And I think that's fair and just. But I also want

to message to the parents and the kids, the kids are not watching. Let's be realistic. But, um,

but they, but I do know that some of your officers and public do know who some of these kids are,

and then there could be follow-up after. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. So my last question,

hopefully, um, we were going to entertain a ordinance, um, a couple of weeks ago. Can you

explain, I know I've got some questions from residents, um, inquiring as to why we didn't do

that. So can you explain your thought process of this? Absolutely. So one of the reasons is I think

we have a lot of tools in the vehicle code and so we don't need to recreate something. The other

thing is when I looked at, and this is not, I mean no offense to all the work that went into

producing that because a lot of hands went into kind of starting to design what a municipal code

would look like. It's very confusing. It got to the point where I looked at it as if I were a parent

with a child riding the bike, or if it were me and trying to commute to work,

there was so much language in there trying to kind of duplicate some of the law that exists within

the vehicle code. It became very hard to know where you could and could not ride some of these bikes.

And so in an effort to try not to confuse our community, I think it's safer to rely on a vehicle

code. And a lot of people know already what the rules are around bicycle riding generally. And

because those rules apply to these same vehicles, it made sense to me that we just stick with the

vehicle code for enforcement. I think if at a later point that the vehicle code does allow

for some greater restriction or lesser restriction with regards to public trails.

And so as a city, if we wanted to change the regulation or change the rules about how we

enforce or what we enforce on public trails, we could go that way. And I think it would be very

clear. But in my mind, as I looked at it, kind of from outside the law enforcement side, it made

sense to me that we just use and stick to the vehicle code. Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

I think it's really difficult to keep adding laws and ordinances that we aren't able to enforce

or that are already there. So I appreciate that thoughtfulness that went into that. So thank you.

Council Member Kozlowski.

The bill that was introduced that sort of delineates the 750 watt limit, which Science Minute, that's one horsepower, just by the way.

Is that something that you think we should maybe send a letter of support for that, or is it a tangled mess?

So I think I'd need to read it a little more thoroughly to make sure that it's like if we think that that's a good space, but we could absolutely talk about that.

Good opportunity for us to help our legislature make good decisions.

Yep.

Yeah.

And I think if we see movement towards, as a state, allowing more regulation at the municipality,

particularly around age, and also we should really, I think, be advocating for education

at point of sale, because I think that is really important.

So I think as we see that start to move forward, that is absolutely something as a council

you could get behind in support as well.

Thank you.

Councilmember Larry.

This is very short.

Will the PowerPoint, and I'm not sure if it has enough information that people may be looking for,

but would it be available on the PD website?

We probably won't put the whole PowerPoint up, but we will absolutely put this flyer up.

Okay.

So a link on your website would be easy to find.

Because parents may just want to look it up, save you some phone calls.

Yeah.

I'd love to be there.

Thank you.

It's always the whole PowerPoint will be posted. Yeah on the city website

Are you talking about the PD website or the city website?

whichever one's probably the easiest but you know just putting

Otherwise people don't tend to watch these whole meetings to go looking for something. Yeah, but you know if there's a link where they can get there directly

Krista you want to tell people where to find that if we post every single

Presentation on the city's webpage after the meeting. It's usually up the next day

Maybe it takes two days, but it's on the same page where you find the agendas

There's a heading recent City Council presentations the entire presentation will be posted

Yeah, I guess I'm sorry, but

It's been helpful. I've been working on another issue in the Thomas station and to have a link that goes directly

to the

You know like from the police department or online versus having to go to the agenda because that isn't where people right

tend to want to go to look for something.

Yeah, if I could add, first off, Chief, thank you for the presentation.

We're working with our communications department to highlight this.

I believe it's going out in our newsletter.

We'll have other information to send out.

So those are things that we'll take into account on how we can get this important information out to the public more easily.

Chief, thank you for the presentation tonight.

Thanks for balancing, you know, these interests with the legal use of e-bikes,

which get folks out of cars and out onto our lovely trail system.

So I know it's a tough balance to strike.

So we appreciate you and your officers out there educating folks

and making sure we're all safe.

Yeah, thank you.

That moves us on to the consent calendar.

Does anybody want to pull any items off the consent calendar this evening?

I'll move approval of the consent calendar as presented.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

Please call the roll. Council members Roaba, Aquino, Kozlowski, Leary, and Rathel.

Yes. All right. That moves us to our public hearing. Please call item number six.

Item number six is resolution number 11539. This is a resolution declaring the results of the majority protest proceedings and modifying the assessment rate of the Folsom Tourism Business Improvement District.

Mayor, members of the council, just a matter of information. This was announced at the beginning of the meeting.

As there is additional information associated with this item, we have correspondence with Choose Folsom,

and they are requesting for postponement of the public hearing on the adoption of a resolution declaring results

of a majority protest proceedings in modifying the Folsom Tourism Business Improvement District.

So I just want to make you aware that that request from Choose Folsom is out there to continue this item,

I believe, to the second meeting in February.

Second meeting in February?

Okay.

I'd like to make a motion that we continue this to that meeting.

Yeah, of course.

Council Member Aquino, your question?

I just want to ask a question of the city attorney.

So it looks like there's a law from 1989 that kind of has very prescribed steps of what we have to do in terms of notification.

Ms. Dierakine.

And I'm just wondering, if you continue it, do you then have to re-notice?

And is that 45 minute 45 day does all of that have to start over it does not thank you councilmember Aquino the

89 law

refers back to the government code

Sections that refer specifically to public hearings across the board

And so we are allowed to continue it pursuant to those code sections as long as we list the dates are 24 and we do not have to

Re-notice got it. Okay. I second the motion then all right. I have a motion a second on the floor

I do have one request to speak tonight. I was just going to check in if you're okay with having that at the second meeting in February

All right

We have a motion in a second to continue the item any other comments before we call through

I would like to make a comment from

I'm just not comfortable with continuing this item. I mean this is an election

As I said the the steps are very prescribed. They're very clear

And I think to continue this

I think it undermines the process and I think it undermines our credibility, so I will not support it

That's over Larry I agree with

councilmember Aquino I

This was kind of a confusing process from the beginning as you all recall

I had lots of questions about what this meant and what the you know city's oversight and involvement with and

Yes, my anticipation was that there would be a vote completed by this time and that we would

move forward with whether this vote passed or didn't pass.

And it's been really difficult for me to explain this to people who've had some questions

because I didn't fully understand the process and it wasn't as transparent as I think it

could have been if there had been initial presentation outlining that for some of us

who've never been involved with this and respond to a lot of questions from the public.

Thank you. Any comments from over here before we have a vote?

All right. I'd just like to say I've sat in many, many public hearings throughout my life

and various different commissions and have received many applications to continue items

from applicants over the years. Often these are because more things are needing to be worked out

from the applicant, and so that's why I'll be supporting the continuance this evening.

please call the roll just to be clear all right council mayor Kozlowski your

motion was to continue it to February 24th yes okay thank you council members

Roebuck yes Aquino no Kozlowski yes Larry no and Rachel yes the motion passes

all right that brings us to new business item number seven yeah item number seven

this evening is the appointment of a at-large member to the Folsom Historic

district Commission as you may recall we did recruitment at the end of the year

and the resident seat was not filled so we reopen the application and you have

two applicants perfect so we have two applicants this evening I did not have

them print out tally sheets since we only have two applicants so I will

entertain a motion for either of those applicants I will move to appoint John

Lane to the Historic District Commission to fill the historic preservation slot there, but I would say

I think the other applicant has some really great

Qualifications also and I would like to reach out to her and see if we can get her involved in another way second second

I have a question is Lisa here the second applicant. I don't know her

Yeah, I do want to say the same thing her resume was very impressive not that John's wasn't

But I'm sure John read it to her resume. It was very impressive

So I hope she continues to get involved and reaches out to actually any one of us as well

So that's my message to Lisa here here. Absolutely. All right. We have a motion in a second to appoint John Lane

Please call the roll. Okay. Council members Roebuck. Yes, a keynote. Yes, Kostowski. Yes, Leary. Yes and Rachel

Yes, that brings us to item number eight. Okay. New business item number eight. This is resolution number one one five forty

authorizing city manager to execute a design and engineering consultant

agreement with Wood Rogers related to the East Bidwell pedestrian overcrossing project.

Don't make it look so easy.

Chief Crane's watching.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council.

Ryan Neves, I'm your Capital Project Manager for the Parks and Recreation Department,

and happy to give you a presentation on the East Bidwell Pedestrian Overcrossing Project.

So a little bit of background.

The project was initiated as a result of a traffic impact study,

part of the Broadstone Crossing 2 project that identified several operational deficiencies along

the East Bidwell Street corridor and including pedestrian impacts that could result from the

project and following Planning Commission approval in September 2025 Council adopted

Ordinance 135 for approving the development agreement for the Broadstone Crossing 2 project

And in that agreement included a developer obligation to fund up to $2.5 million for design, environmental clearance, and dedication of land for the pedestrian overcrossing landing.

So basically the right-of-way for the pedestrian overcrossing.

And the development agreement also identified that project delivery would be the responsibility of the city.

so where we're talking about obviously this is the East Bidwell corridor and we have Iron Point

on the right with the broad broadstone crossing to project there and the northwest corner or I'm

sorry northeast corner of Iron Point and East Bidwell and the development agreement identifies

that the pedestrian over crossing would fall across East Bidwell somewhere between Iron Point

and via Sol, and so we have basically two preliminary crossing alternative locations

identified, one between via Sol and via Felice, the other between via Felice and Iron Point

Road, and as part of the project development, we will be doing alternative analysis to figure

out where that landing ultimately would occur.

And so getting into the scope of work, it would include planning and concept development.

As I mentioned, it would include alternative alignment analysis, as well as public outreach.

We would reach out to the community and get input on where the pedestrian overcrossing would land, where it would tie into.

The scope of work also includes environmental clearance, both CEQA and NEPA.

although we have developer funding for the design environmental clearance and this piece of the

project what we you know what the development agreement doesn't identify as the construction

funding and we do anticipate seeking grants for construction potentially with federal money so

that is the reason why we've included NEPA in the in the design and the environmental

process in the scope of work.

Preliminary engineering, final design, and right-of-way clearance.

And I just wanted to be clear, the scope of work also includes grant assistance from our

selected consultant.

They identified a number of potential grant programs that this project could fit in with.

And so we will be monitoring those programs and working with our other departments and

identifying which projects fit which categories.

but we have our a scope item for our consultant to help us with those grant applications

regarding the consultants selection so we advertised the request for proposals in october

2025 we received two proposals and then our city review panel reviewed the proposals we elected to

interview both firms and we after following interviews and and deliberations we selected

wood rogers as the consultant as part of that we then you know opened the cost and did a scope and

fee negotiation with them i wanted to make sure again to reiterate that because we anticipate

potentially having federal funding for the construction piece of this we wanted to be sure

that we're following most grant requirements require a qualification-based selection process

for professional services such as engineering.

And so we did not review both cost proposals before we made our selection.

Following selecting Wood Rogers, we negotiated scope and fee.

As you can see there, our recommendation tonight is to award a contract to them for $1,652,000.

We also want to include staff time for managing the project throughout the design phase.

So the total for the design would be $1,852,000, which is less than the maximum developer commitment of $2.5 million.

And then we just put estimated construction costs.

obviously largely what the construction cost will be depends on what the alignment will

be, where it's connecting, and what the alignment looks like, what the ramps look like.

So the range of construction costs as noted in the table is between $9 to $14 million.

For project schedule, where we're at following tonight, if the item's approved, then we'll

execute a contract with Wood Rogers and immediately begin preliminary engineering and the environmental

clearance phases of the project. We'll conduct public outreach meetings and again identify

alignment alternatives and select a preferred alignment and basically geometrics for the

pedestrian overcrossing. And then we would work in 2027 on utility coordination right-of-way

with final design wrapping up by October of 2027

where we would have a shovel-ready project

and again, just make us more competitive

for grant applications

if we haven't already identified

and received grant funding for construction.

So with that, the staff recommendation

is approval of Resolution 11540

to allow the city manager to execute a design

and engineering consulting a services agreement with wood rogers inc in the amount of 1 million

652 000 for the east bidwell pedestrian overcrossing project project number pw 2605 from

the developer funding obligation outlined in the development agreement adopted by city council per

ordinance number 1354 in the transportation improvement fund fund 446 and approving the

projects inclusion in the CIP with project funding budgeted at 1 million

eight hundred and fifty two thousand dollars in appropriation of funds happy

to answer any questions thank you so much councilmember Kino any questions

this evening that's over Larry I think this is a great project I you know over

the years I've heard a lot of comments from people that walk and ride bikes in

particular about having better ways to cross over some of our major thorough

affairs like east bidwell um is it too early to move to approve this yes

is that a second uh we'll take we'll take questions for anyway so yeah i don't have

any questions other than is it usual that the people that were that are doing this uh

these design services um actually uh provide grant assistance because i don't recall hearing

that before i think that's a um yeah i mean i think often when we haven't identified full funding

for construction of a project that we will include a scope item for grant assistance um you know we've

received grant assistance from consultants for like the fulsome boulevard pedestrian overcrossing

project the riley street safety improvement project so um yeah i would say it's maybe not

every project but certainly something that we do regularly so the full cost of providing that

assistance is included correct yeah not to exceed what's already yeah the contract would be for a

not to exceed amount okay thank you vice mayor rova any questions um yes deciding what location

it's going to the northern or the southern part that you identify is that part of the design

process yeah so that that would be early on obviously and again i think something that we

want to include in our public outreach. So, you know, we have talked with the design team and,

you know, both proposers and as part of the interview process about, you know, how do we,

how do we define, because there could be, you know, dozens of different alignment alternatives

and touchdown points. And, you know, we don't want to leave it too open-ended when we do go

to the public, you know. So as part of that initial preliminary engineering, the design team

will be looking, you know, after they do the topographic survey right away mapping, they'll

be looking at, you know, where from an engineering perspective makes sense to, to, you know,

have some options, you know, both, you know, to the west and or to the north and south of like,

you know, Wellspring Drive there. And again, just thinking of who, who we anticipate the users

of this crossing, you know, being and where they would most, you know, benefit from being able

to get onto the pedestrian overcrossing.

But we do anticipate having, you know,

more than one alignment alternative to present

to get some feedback from the public.

Yeah, with Sutter coming into play,

it does kind of, there's pros and cons to both locations,

it seems like, so thank you for your answer.

Yeah.

Councilor Overkoslowski.

The only reason I said it was premature to make a motion

is that I have absolutely no trouble at all

with any of this or the selection of Wood Rogers,

and I'm delighted to hear that we're going to entertain a lot of different alignment possibilities.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have this thing act as an architectural statement and a gateway.

So I will be very interested to see design considerations like that fully explored.

and and I can't help but think of all the towns in California that have the gateway arches over

their main streets one that comes to mind particularly has a little tagline on it that

says water wealth contentment health and it's not necessarily a city that we want to emulate but

those are charming I wouldn't say that that's the solution here necessarily but the two proposal

covers it looked like you took the more boring company based on the cover of their proposals

The exotic blue French fry ribbon that was on the other is much more appealing if we're going to try and make an architectural statement.

So I would just encourage that we take seriously the decision about what this looks like in addition to its function.

Yeah, I think absolutely as part of our deliberation, that was certainly a strong consideration.

And so what we did as part of that scope and fee negotiation was that we reiterated to Wood Rogers that the need to incorporate, you know, the structure aesthetics early on to have, you know, that we, like you said, this is a gateway to Folsom, you know.

And so we do want that to be a, you know, part of that public outreach process.

Again, I mean, the alignment and the location of it is certainly very important, but also, you know.

How will you choose the look and feel of it based on, you know, kind of how you've outlined the process right now?

Because it sounds like there'll be an enormous amount of time put into the technical aspects of how to get people from one side to the other

and the best landing position, ramp lengths, all that kind of stuff,

which is absolutely necessary.

But I fear that we will spend all of our time on that

and we will get a singular design that is trotted out for public,

you know, as a concept drawing,

and then that will lock it in right there

rather than a fulsome, F-U-L-S-O-M-E,

consideration of design options.

yeah i mean so what i would say is we as part of the scope negotiation i requested that we add

additional hours for specifically for the the design concept the structure aesthetics and

that we bring that forward early on in the process not as one option but you know multiple options

as part of that public outreach process so at the same meetings where we're talking about the

alignments in my mind we will also have you know again maybe not five or ten options but multiple

options for the the feel the bridge aesthetics and so yeah I mean I'm available to look at anything

that comes up as an idea crazy as it may be yeah if I could add I mean I definitely appreciate

those remarks and that's something that as we talk to the consultants that we will emphasize

that this is a once-in-a-lifetime type of situation,

and we'll put in language like anti-blah.

We don't want, please don't give us a blah-type design.

So appreciate those comments.

Fully support the motion when it gets made, though.

You want to make a motion, Council Member Larry?

Sure, I'll move to approve.

I agree with your statements, but I have seen some bridges

that have gone a little over the top,

and you might want to look at the I Street Bridge in a second.

Yeah, I was I was actually gonna say that I'm very excited by your comments

I'm glad that that staff was already thinking of it and please text your loved bridge pictures

To Ryan or email them to him

I'm sure he would appreciate those of like hey

I want to see something like this because then we're feeding it in right is that okay?

Absolutely all right

Tiny anecdote

Related in the bike okay that you said it a bike and Ryan tiny anecdote related to bridge

design if you were to try and build a very very large four and a half mile

long bridge today anywhere across any gorge and the choice was to paint it

road cone orange people would lose their minds but none of us can imagine the

Golden Gate Bridge being any other color than road cone orange like it is

today so just keep an open mind as designs come up even if they seem a

a little off the wall. Thank you.

So there's a motion and a second. Is that correct?

I have a motion and a second. Please call the roll.

Council members Rohrabah, Aquino,

Koslowski, Leary,

and Rathel. Yes.

Please call the next item. Okay.

Your last discussion item this evening is

new by business item number nine.

This is resolution number 11542,

authorizing the city manager to

execute a design and engineering consultant

services agreement with Wood Rogers,

again for the East Bidwell Street operational

improvements project.

This is gonna feel like deja vu and I promise you some of this most of this presentation is new material

We all thought it was a duplicate of the same item when we read the packet. We're like wait

Are you looking for a filibuster on this one also? No, no, okay. Let's get this awarded

Zach Bosch public works senior civil engineer here to present our recommendation to award the East Bidwell Street operational improvement project to Wood Rogers

this slide you saw before so I will quickly go over it but the timeline and

the background is similar and actually identical to the pedestrian overcrossing

project where these mitigation projects were identified in the traffic impact

study which was approved by the Planning Commission as well as City

Council in September part of those conditions were the developer had to

provide three point six million dollars of capital improvement money but the

project had to be delivered by city staff and so I will provide you with the

scope and the services of what Wood Rogers is considering for the

improvements on East Midwell in relation to the traffic impact study

before you is the scope of this project it's broken up into four parts the first

portion of that is to convert a through lane on Broadway or I'm sorry Broadstone

Parkway at East Bidwell to a digital left turn lane so another triple left

coming down Broadstone over by Bel Air on East Bidwell the second portion of the

work is to extend multiple turn lanes along East Bidwell heading towards US 50

so lengthening those left turn pockets to allow more capacity and storage for

left turns at Scholar, at Power Center, at Broadstone, at Via Fleece, Via Sol, as well

as Iron Point.

The third portion of the work is the intersection improvements at East Bidwell and Iron Point.

And I'm going to dive into that one a little bit more on the next slide, so I'm going to

just highlight that one.

And then finally, we saw this as a great opportunity to consider pavement rehabilitation and pavement

improvement project or scope in this project to kind of get a we call a

economy of scale for this this project we're going to be doing a lot of payment

work for the the left turn extensions and so we saw this is a perfect

opportunity to collaborate and coordinate with that project and do some

much-needed payment rehab and pavement maintenance on on East Bidwell to

highlight the intersection improvements of East Bidwell and Iron Point this one

has three major components to it the first one is the inbound triple left so

heading northbound from US 50 adding an additional left-hand turn lane heading

towards Whole Foods and and Bank of America there this will greatly reduce

the delay of inbound vehicles as well as reduce the capacity issues we have at

that intersection. As I'm sure we're all aware, that regulation stacks up into the through lane

and is considered a safety issue there. So adding an additional left turn lane will

provide additional capacity storage for there, as well as provide improvements to the operations

of the intersection. The second improvement is the additional right turn lane in front of the

Fats restaurant there. So that second right turn lane, the inside most turn lane, will be a freeway

on-ramp only lane. It'll be a dedicated lane, free flowing around the corner, at which point

it'll merge with the existing on-ramp lanes on US 50. So this will be a continuous flow,

merging to pedestrians at the crosswalk, providing that quick access to westbound US 50

from Iron Point the number one right turn lane will continue to operate as is

today in an overlap phase providing people an opportunity who want to travel

eastbound or continue south over the freeway overpass to the plan area

that'll be their their dedicated lane for that and finally these improvements

will provide additional improvements to connectivity to the trail project that

the city is constructing as well as providing an additional pedestrian refuge island on the

southwest corner and then enhancing the the bike ability of the intersection by providing some

enhanced pavement markings as depicted in the the green high visibility paint on the image before you

as for the project schedule we are starting as soon as possible the consultant has provided

a preliminary schedule, as you see before you.

Starting in February, they will begin with their surveying and mapping, move right into

their geotechnical phase, which is doing some borings on East Bidwell to get the pavement

sections so we can provide a good pavement design.

At that point, it'll split into the design phase and the right-of-way phase.

There are some right-of-way acquisitions that we are anticipating, again, on that southwest

west corner over by the restaurant.

Those will be done concurrently into early

2027 with construction anticipated

in June of 2027.

The cost of the

proposal. The original proposal was around $1.63

million after consideration of the scope provided in the RFP

and negotiations with the selected consultant.

Refinement of scope brought that down to a $1.12 million contract amount, not to exceed.

The developer's obligation of that portion is what you see on the screen, $986,000.

The payment rehab portion of the work is not under the obligation of the developer,

and therefore we have to utilize local measures.

It's got local gas tax funds to provide that funding for that portion of work.

And that is identified at $134,533.

So it is the staff's recommendation to approve the Resolution 11542, allowing the city manager

to execute a design and engineering consultant services agreement with Wood Rogers.

And that concludes my presentation.

Thank you, Zach.

Yep.

Councilman Burkina questions yes thank you I think this is a great project Zach as well as

the pedestrian over crossing on the prior item but none of these do anything about the most

problematic part of that area in my opinion which is the light that allows people to go in and out

of in and out is there anything that can be done with with that I don't to be honest I don't know

if we have a solution for that right now none that we have identified I know that

is a complicated intersection and the distance between those two intersections

is very problem problematic yeah unfortunately we don't have a project

identified to mitigate that right now okay thank you

yes Larry oh yeah I have a couple of questions and you know reevaluating the

your picture of that intersection I was trying to see how you know you have the

three lanes going coming off of the freeway on East Bidwell turning left

on to Iron Point and I'm I think that there may be some difficulty in people

that are in the wrong lanes trying to cross over is there any accommodation

that can be made you know where people decide oh wait there's Whole Foods over

there and I'm in the you know lane to the south it seems like that could be a

potential conflict and I don't know if there's any way to to solve that because

you have three lanes coming in and going south into three lanes and I don't really

see where there's a these movements here yeah yeah so you're saying someone wants

to get into the Whole Foods area, but they're in the middle lane.

Yeah.

I think from personal experience, it's kind of like, oh, crap, I need to remember for

next time is what happens.

Yeah.

Well, I know.

And that'll take people a while to get used to that.

That's my only observation here.

And I couldn't see if there was an additional, you know, lane over there on the side that

people could sneak over into.

So we are going to propose that we enhance the intersection striping, similar to the triple left coming down from Costco, to keep people in the lane until they're established on Iron Point, in which they would have to find a gap to merge over.

Yeah, it's just not very far.

It's just not very far, yeah.

And then on the pedestrian landing, and that would be in front of FATS on that corner?

Yeah.

where you had your yeah and is that something that you've already discussed with the landowners there

or is that an eminent domain issue yeah it was a little premature to engage with conversations

with the landowner certainly that is one of the first portions of the project that we were going

to engage in we know that's a critical path item moving forward and certainly with with the

approval of this contract.

We have a consultant on board who specializes in right-of-way acquisition and negotiation.

So once we have issued a notice to proceed, they can kind of be let loose and start engaged

with the landowner.

And our goal is always to avoid eminent domain through contract negotiation or just working

through the negotiation process.

I found in doing this, especially for the benefit of the businesses, getting people in and out,

I would be surprised if they would, they want to get a fair price, of course, you know, for their property.

But that's not a path that we really are wanting to go down.

We want to come to a mutually agreeable deal.

Yeah, makes sense.

Thank you.

Yeah, completely agree.

Vice Mayor Roma, any questions?

No.

Councilman Koslowski?

Perhaps Whole Foods would be a construction sponsor if there was a lane marked Whole Foods

Instead of the 50 logo on the ground you put the whole

I think what Mike's saying is can we get a fourth left?

This this is not as much of a statement piece as Mike would like to see on the way into the city

Yeah, we have enough pavement markings. I'll move resolution number one one five four two second

motion a second please call the roll council members Roaba yes Aquino yes

Kostowski yes Leary yes and right though yes and that brings us to city managers

reports great thank you mayor members the council just a couple of reminders

we are looking for volunteers to help out with the Castle Park rebuild

projects so mark your calendars for April 7th through the 12th this is taking

place during the spring break and one of the main reasons for that is to minimize the traffic going

in and out of that location and also allowing us to utilize the parking lot for the school

as we expect literally hundreds of people coming each day to help participate in this project.

Volunteers must be 10 years of age or older and those ages 10 to 13 must participate alongside

a parent or guardian. Visit the Parks and Recreation website for more details and to register.

Also, we want to thank all those who came just the other night to talk about Neighborhood Park 1 in the Folsom Plan area.

And there's an additional meeting planned for February 23rd.

That's Monday, February 23rd at 5.30 p.m.

We want to hear your ideas.

We want to hear your thoughts on that.

I heard the meeting went really well the last time.

Some updates from the police department.

On January 20th at 11 p.m., Folsom officers conducted a traffic stop that led to the rest of a subject with several outstanding warrants.

During the investigation, officers searched the vehicle and located a significant amount of suspected narcotics, including methamphetamine and marijuana.

The driver, Vincent Stegall of Orangevale, was taken into custody and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on outstanding warrants and additional narcotics-related charges.

another item from the police department involves an ongoing male theft investigation

that led to the rest of three suspects in the recovery of a stolen vehicle

officers responded to a report of a possible male theft near empire ranch road and broadstone

parkway and located a suspicious vehicle occupied by two males and one female the traffic stop

revealed the occupants were in possession of stolen mail other stolen property and were driven

driving a stolen vehicle.

All three suspects were arrested.

Just kudos to our police department for all the great work they do to help keep our community

safe.

And just as a reminder, the Folsom Police Department invites residents to attend the quarterly

Neighborhood Watch Block Captain meeting on Tuesday, February 10th at 6 p.m. at the Folsom

Police Department at 46 Natoma Street.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you.

That brings us to Council Comments.

Councilmember Kozlowski.

Looking forward to the State of the City address coming up tomorrow.

That should be very exciting.

I suspect tickets are probably sold out,

but it's a reminder that we do that at the end of January every year for future years.

And if anybody's looking for inexpensive entertainment,

winter sports at the high schools are wrapping up right now,

so basketball and soccer playoffs will be coming along here in about two weeks.

And spring sports are kicking off, so track and field season is right around the corner.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor Rorba?

No, I just have a quick question or bring it back to light that I, when might we be scheduling a workshop for our council priorities?

Is that on the agenda to move forward?

It is.

So I just received one of the tasks that we have been working on is for each department to put together a list of their accomplishments and goals.

And I have those.

So we'll be reaching out to schedule a date for the council.

And the goal of that meeting is, you know, for the departments to kind of present their accomplishments and their priorities and marry those up with the city councils.

And that way we can have kind of a work priority list as we go forward.

I think it's really important because it's really easy to kind of get distracted.

And so by having that priority list, it gives us kind of a guide so that we can stay on track and we can add things to the list.

But it helps us kind of put those in order of what we want to accomplish.

Because what I found in some cases, if we keep starting many different things, we don't get anything done.

As opposed to if we have kind of a systematic approach and priority, we can get those, which will enable us to get those other ones done eventually, too.

So my hope is that we can schedule something in the first couple weeks of February, depending on people's schedule.

But I know everyone's busy, so we'll just see how that plays out.

But that is a priority.

And I think knowing what the staff's priorities are is very important.

But I think more important to me anyways, and I think to this council and to the vision of our city and who the residents elect,

is that the five of us are able and with you are able to get together and really define what our priorities are.

I would like to hear what my other council members' priorities are and where we overlap,

and then making sure that I think that will also help direct us as the year goes on.

Sure.

And, of course, our priorities are simply taking the information that we have and what we think.

You know, we hear from the community and council.

Obviously, you know, we will be able to massage that to whatever the council desires.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's it.

Council Member Larry.

Thank you. I just wanted to put a reminder out there for the residents of Natoma Station. There is a second

Meeting here on Thursday at City Hall

29th at 6 p.m. To go over the new proposal for the lighting and landscaping district there. We had a great turnout at the last one

City manager came along with our lighting and landscaping staff to answer questions

and I think it would be very helpful for anyone who wasn't able to attend the first time

to come to this upcoming meeting to get their questions answered

before this goes out for another decision-making ballot.

I also want to express my condolences to Eleanor Steffi's family,

the young woman whose life was unfortunately lost in a tragic accident at the end of last week.

she was a member of the hawkins performing dance center and I'm very

familiar with that center is very close-knit group of people and and this

you know this was unanticipated but probably a lot of you have read about

this in the paper I just want to reach out maybe have a tiny moment of silence

we can adjourn in our honor tonight thank you yeah just one thing we had an

air district meeting last week and I just wanted to share some of the

investments that the district has made in our community so over the past five

years the district has invested over 1.7 million in Folsom Cordova School

District for low emission vehicles and last year the district paid to install

17 level 2 electric vehicle chargers at the Lake Point apartments which is on

Folsom Auburn Road in Folsom so good to see the district investing in our city

thank you thank you so much I wanted to start out with a thank you to our library

director Tom for the invite for the Lego challenge I got to see Folsom's youth

and their Lego creations I know a number of my colleagues stopped by to give some

special recognition. It was really tough just to choose just one for the special recognition. So I

think each council member next year should have at least five special recognitions because there

were so many great projects out there. So thank you for the invite. I really enjoyed it. It was

great to see that number of entries and the amount of people that showed up to give kudos to the kids

that created those. Second off, I just want to talk briefly about working with Assemblymember

Hoover on SB 79 cleanup that's going on in the assembly right now. This was the bill that has

some possible repercussions to our historic district. Mainly, it could be all of our transit

stops, but mainly our concerns are around the historic district. So we are staying engaged

with our state legislators, and I encourage you guys to share your concerns. Also, and hopefully

we can have some provisions put in place that helps us protect our historic district

with that legislation that went through last year.

We're also seeing some state legislation from Senator Ashby, SB 802.

The Sacramento City Council has moved forward with a plan.

That plan is different than the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.

And we're obviously a smaller piece of that, an outlying jurisdiction.

but just know that we are working with the county, with the city, with our neighboring jurisdictions

and with our state legislatures on everybody's ideas for how we partner on homelessness here in Sacramento County.

And Mike mentioned the State of the City speech tomorrow.

Definitely welcome to join for lunch.

I believe tickets are still on sale.

Don't quote me on that.

I didn't check right before this, but you're also welcome to attend if you don't want lunch.

It is a publicly noticed meeting, so you're welcome to come and just hear the speech.

I hear it's going to be really good.

Start around noon tomorrow.

And if ticket sales are down from previous years, we're not ever going to mention it again.

And with that, we're adjourned.

Have a great night, everybody.