The Folsom City Council convened with all members present (Leary, Rohrbaugh, Aquino, Kozlowski, and Mayor Rathel). Staff announced agenda updates with additional information for Item 4 and revised information for Item 15 (available to Council and on the back table). The meeting included community presentations, multiple infrastructure and assessment-district actions, a countywide homelessness governance update, direction to oppose SB 802, and city updates including public safety incidents and upcoming community events.
the roll council members leary here for Bob here Aquino here Kozlowski here and Rachel here if you all please stand with me for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic on which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And do we have any agenda updates this evening? We do, Mayor. We have two. For item number four, we have additional information. For item number 15, we have some revised information. And it's my understanding that both of those have been provided to the council, and they are also on the back table for members of the public. Thank you so much. And this brings us to business from the floor this evening. I think we have a couple requests to speak. If you'll go ahead and call them up. Yes, we have two requests to speak tonight under business from the floor. When your name is called, please stand ready to the side. So first up is going to be a group from the Metal Maniacs. Evelyn is named first. And you guys can all come up, all four of you that are going to speak this evening. Yeah, just go ahead and pull that down. Perfect. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. Tonight we're here with a win-win solution. So I'm Evelyn. I'm a junior at Folsom High School. I'm a proud Girl Scout. I play soccer and I'm one of the founding members for this robotics team, the Metal Maniacs. And we know you're working hard on the Sears City budget, so we're not asking for any money. But we're here to introduce a movement our team coined as the Silicon Foothills. It's a vision to make Folsom the home base for youth and STEM robotics. So think of it kind of like a D1 sports team, kind of like Folsom High's football team, but with wires, motors, and AI sensors. I'm Harsika, also a junior at Folsom High School and this season's team captain. Between being a swimmer and a dancer, I lead these 14 middle and high school students across five schools. If you've never seen a First Tech Challenge robotics match, picture like an NBA playoff game, except the players are robots that we've designed, built, and coded. It's a 2v2. It's really loud, fast, and really intense. This year, for the first time ever, our team Metal Maniacs are advancing to the NorCal Championships in Palo Alto. Thank you. We're proud to represent Folsom against the top 20% teams that are basically the Olympians of youth robotics. Hi, I'm Nick, yet another junior at Folsom High. I run this hardware team and I run track. In track, if my form is off, I lose my time. In robotics, if my build is off, the whole robot stops. Great teams always have great people behind them. Volunteers in sports, that's coaches. In robotics, that's mentors and volunteers. No tech experience needed. Every mentor and volunteer makes a positive impact, like our mentors from Aero Metals. We heard the city's focus on living within our means and building smart partnerships. So to be clear, we are not asking for city funding. We're asking for brain power to help us recruit mentors, volunteers, and sponsors for youth STEM and robotics education programs, supporting teams like Metal Maniacs because youth leaders like us have been making a positive impact in the city of Folsom since 2021.