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.

I'm Ben. I'm the software lead, a chess player, yet another junior, but I go to Vista, so I'm usually rivals with these three.

But in the Silicon Foothills movement, there are no Bulldogs versus Eagles.

It's one team.

Since 2021, our team has been hosting tournaments drawing in hundreds of students, families, volunteers into Folsom, eating, shopping, and staying overnight.

Last month, over 60 robotics teams competed, made possible with our partners Folsom Lake College, and playing at learning.

This is a positive economic impact from direct and indirect spending in Folsom.

all for youth robotics and our team metal maniacs worked hard to make that happen

so tonight we're leaving you guys with a one pager about first robotics and the metal maniacs

and our request is to please amplify our drive for mentors volunteers and sponsors where possible

and if everyone a quick robot demo we'll bring our team's mvp

Labot to you. So thank you so much.

Awesome.

Thank you so much

Metal Maniacs and good luck

in Palo Alto. Bring home the gold to

Folsom and come on back and let us

know how you beat all those other teams, okay?

No pressure.

No pressure.

Alright, next up. Your next speaker under

Business from the Floor is Sherry Richter.

And following Sherry

is going to be Nathine Katil Suresh,

if you want to just be ready off to the side.

Good evening.

Well, that's a hard act to follow.

But we are here.

We are council members for the docents at the Suze Actuary.

And we are here, first of all, to thank those of you

that supported us during the wild nights at Christmastime

because we saw many of you there.

I think, Justin, you even helped with setup.

And so we greatly appreciate all that support.

But tonight we're here to invite you to I Will Be Your Valentine, which is this Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 1.

Kids will be able to make valentines and attach those to the enclosures of their favorite animals.

And there'll be other crafts and fun stuff to do then.

So we're here to invite you.

And Peggy has some other news.

And the Friends of the Folsom Zoo Sanctuary are helping support the Folsom leadership team this year.

and they are doing a fundraiser with Lazy Dog,

and that will run from Monday the 16th to the 20th, Friday,

from 11 a.m. to midnight.

And you just mentioned our project, their project,

that could help them be successful in building new signage for the front of the zoo.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate you guys coming out tonight.

I feel like there's a robot.

in the zoo kind of combo thing here.

Did you guys bring the robot tonight?

Robot and brain don't do well today.

Oh, okay.

Summertime.

Summertime, then.

Next up.

Your next speaker is Natheen Katil Suresh,

and Charanth Kalianpura is up next.

Good evening, esteemed mayor, vice mayor, and council members. Namaste.

My name is Nitin Katil Suresh. I am an active volunteer with the Hindu Swayam Sevaxan.

So the annual Health for Humanity Yogathan, or sun sanitation, or we call it as Surya Namaskar Yajna,

organized by the Hindu Swam Sevaksang, HSS USA, began on January 14th.

The 16-day event aimed to raise awareness about yoga and its benefits

in achieving a healthy body, mind, and spirit.

Surya Namaskara combines simple yoga postures into 10 steps

with essential breathing techniques offering many health benefits for the body and the mind.

Each year on January 14th, Hindus worldwide celebrated Makara Sankranti,

a festival marking the change of seasons.

Makara Sankranti brings longer days symbolizing the annual arrival of sunshine in our lives.

HSS organized the Health for Humanity Yogathon to honor the occasion from Jan 14 to February 1st this year.

HSS launched this Health Awareness Initiative in 2007, and this year it celebrated its 18th anniversary.

Since it's incaption, participants of all faiths and backgrounds from 43 states of the United States have actively joined the yoga tan through yoga centers, community organizations, schools, and colleges.

Together, we performed over more than 7 million Surya Namaskars.

community leaders and elected officials across the nation have expressed their appreciation

for this initiative and encourage their residents to participate and embrace the

embrace the benefits of healthy lifestyle this year hindus vayam sevak sang invited

community groups yoga centers students and individuals to learn and take part in the

Health for Humanity Yogathan. Today, I am proud to share that the event successfully concluded

and bringing people together in the spirit of health, well-being, and unity. The program was

open to people of all ages, genders, and races. We look forward to participating with the city

to connect with even more community members in the future.

Our goal is to ensure that as many people as possible in our city

can take advantage of and benefit from this initiative.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak.

Thank you so much for coming out tonight and sharing.

I appreciate you.

Next up.

next is

Charanth Kalyanpura

and that is

the last speaker under business

from the floor

hello everyone

good evening

honorable mayor respected

council members and distinguished guests

namaste

my name is Charanth

resident of Folsom City

and volunteer for

of Seva Diwali food drive,

which we started in October and ended in December.

I'm here to give information on this year's

Seva Diwali food drive, October and November,

is a special meaningful for Hindus around the world,

as it is also when we celebrate Diwali,

the festival of lights.

Diwali is more than just a celebration.

It is time to reflect on how light triumphs over darkness,

knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair it encourages upholds our values act with honesty

and promote peace within our families and communities seva or selfless service is at

heart of celebrations and daily life during diwali we focused on mainly a national project

called Seva Diwali.

It started in 2018.

Seva Diwali is a collective initiative

by dharmic organizations

include yoga, spiritual, Hindu, Buddhists,

Jain, Sikh organizations,

linguistic and Indian social,

social cultural organizations.

These organizations uphold Seva Dharma.

Service to humanity is service to divinity

and responsibility which we all share

and fruits are all only as nourishing as care we put into.

Our goal is to give back to the society we live in

during the festival of Diwali.

So the Seva Diwali initiative aims to unite

and represent the collective strength and synergy

of the Dharmic communities living in the USA.

We aim to contribute to local communities

and be part of the national movement to combat hunger.

So Seva Diwali invites people to use their homes as collection centers for collecting non-perishable items.

These donations go to the local food banks and homeless shelters.

So the spirit of Diwali and giving reaches those who need the most.

Starting from 2018 in New Jersey, 25 plus organizations collected around 18,000 pounds of food in 2018.

Continuing 2025 and 2026, it reached around 555 Dharmic organizations and many individuals joined hands put together to fight against the hunger.

And around 970,000 pounds were donated last year, 2025, December.

and it was donated to 360 beneficiaries, food banks,

which includes homeless shelters, families in need,

food pantries, food banks.

In Sacramento area itself, it was 12 organizations

collected and donated 8,500 pounds of food

and 12 various homeless shelters,

community pantries and food banks.

These results show what we can achieve

when communities work together.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. Thank you for supporting our local food bank, Twin Lakes.

And that ends our public comment this evening and moves on to the consent calendar.

I know some of you that might be in the front row wearing bright red shirts

may have more important things to do than sit through a council meeting,

but we won't be offended if you leave.

You're welcome to stay, but you won't be offended.

And just so you know, just a little trick, you can watch these on double time at home.

makes them a little easier to digest too.

Do any of my colleagues have items they want to pull

from the consent calendar this evening?

I will move adoption of the consent calendar.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Council members Leary.

Yes.

Rohrbaugh.

Yes.

Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

And Rathal.

Yes.

and that moves us to the old business portion of our agenda please call the next item

next is old business item number 10 resolution number 11543 this is a resolution authorizing

the city manager to approve an additional contingency in the amount of two million

eight hundred and three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars from the water operating fund

for the agreement with euro style management for the construction of the tower tank rehabilitation

project and appropriation of funds.

All right. Good evening, Mayor

Rathal, members of the council, Marcus Yasutake,

Utilities Director. Tonight,

the item before you covers,

or this presentation will cover items 10,

11, and 12. And this

is in regards to the tower tank project.

All right.

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progressing.

Okay.

Let me fix that.

I would make the joke, do we need an engineer to come help?

But it doesn't work this time.

You need a smarter engineer to come help.

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Let's see if this works.

All right, here we go.

Here we go.

Figure it out.

So just to give you a quick background on the locations, you can see where the items

are circled here.

Those are the different tanks and sites that are all part of this project.

Really what we're going to focus on tonight are the Foothills Tanks Number 1 and 2, and

that's kind of the primary focus of the three staff reports.

This just gives you also a date of when the tanks were initially constructed, so from

1980 to 2002.

So the scope of the work for the different tank locations was recoding, structural repairs,

electrical service upgrades, mixers and blowers, piping modifications, SCADA, so supervisory

control and data acquisition, so how we communicate with each of the tank sites to get information

back to our treatment plant.

safety upgrades, so stairs and then a catwalk over from one tank to the top of the other,

and then just other miscellaneous site work. So during the project, there are many deficiencies

encountered in each of the tanks, which is why we were in there doing the project. So there's

advanced corrosion, significant metal loss, pitting and deterioration, inadequate structural bracing,

and insufficient mechanical preparation for the coating application.

And I did bring a couple of goodies in case anybody wanted to see.

But basically, this is the paint that should be adhered to the steel inside of the tank.

So this is fully delaminated.

So that's part of the improper coating application.

And this is the deterioration.

So this should be a metal I-beam.

But as you can see, there's significant metal loss from the inside of the tank.

And that's the structural support holding up the roof of some of our tanks.

So just to give you a quick idea of tank inspection.

So these two pictures basically will show the water surface that we fill the tanks up to.

We send a scuba diver in.

They're certified, obviously, in diving, but also in the inspection.

So they will go into the tank, go from the water surface all the way to the tank bottom.

and then go around the perimeter of the tank.

But the part above the water surface line,

you can't physically get up to unless you dewater the entire tank,

installed scaffolding, and then climbed up the scaffolding to the top.

So most of what we get when we do our reports is we get pictures of these different areas,

but you really don't know until you take all the water out and get in on top,

really to feel and look at all the different structural supports,

It's just the exact condition in which they're in.

So these are just some of the pictures of the deficiencies as the water was removed

and somebody is physically up in the scaffolding.

You can see a picture on the left.

You can see the metal that's deteriorated.

Picture on the right, same stuff is starting to happen.

Just more pictures.

Picture on the left is something similar to what I just showed you.

Picture on the right, I'll have a video of what that kind of looks like

when you're actually up there and physically touching that.

These are a couple closer pictures of what some of the delamination looks like of the paint itself,

but also the metal that's actually corroding.

Some more pictures here.

The picture on the left, you can see the end of that I-beam is deteriorating and corroding,

so that's why it looks jagged on the edge.

It should look smooth.

and then the picture on the right more corrosion and paint delamination from

some of these beams and the girders. Just more pictures of the same and picture

on the right roof this is the roof vents on top of the tank near the center of

the tank itself so you can see just corrosion and deterioration there. This

This is a bigger piece of paint delaminating, so effectively you can just, you are able

to go up there, pull the paint off, which is not good for the metal structure itself.

And then I believe this is the video, just to give you an idea, this is our structural

inspector on top of the scaffolding.

So it's that easy in some locations just to pull the metal apart.

So a lot of what we have this evening is what we are proposing to take care of this issue.

And the echo in here is the bottom of the tank.

All it's falling down to the bottom of the tank and the tank's empty.

So this is the part you can't do when you have water inside the tank.

You just physically can't get up to these structures on the top of the tank.

Marcus, do we paint the inside of these tanks periodically?

I'm sorry, what was it?

Do we paint the tanks periodically on the inside?

So part of what we do, you would hope to get 15-plus years out of it.

And so some of them we've been able to get that.

There's others that we've had to do after seven years.

And so when we do the evaluation, if part of the requirements from the inspection detail, hey, you should do a full recote, we will do so.

There are other times when it's just a spot repair.

And so we'll do spot repairs on the inside, depending on the recommendation from our diving inspection team.

so the recommendations for foothills number two so there's two primary tanks foothills number two

and foothills number one that are part of this request tonight i won't read them all but it's

effectively you can see how many different pieces of structure material up on the roof section that

we are requesting to replace as part of the change order or the contingency and then other

structural repairs at the center of the column of the tank itself.

And we know all of these because we actually took the tank out of service and we're up

counting each one of them.

It's a little bit of a different story for Foothills No. 2, or sorry, Foothills No. 1.

This tank is currently in service.

We can't take it out of service because it's still being used for our customers.

Foothills No. 2, we should be done with that by May 1st.

We can put that in service.

We've got to keep all of our tanks in service throughout the summer to meet the peak demands in the summer.

So our proposal in the staff reports is to come back in October of this year to get into Foothills No. 1,

do the same type of inspection, do the same type of scaffolding work.

We are assuming in the staff report that Foothills No. 1 is going to be in worse condition just because it is two years older.

so we've accounted for that in the contingency amount one of the benefits

we would have is if it's not as bad then obviously the the ultimate change order

that we have will be less than what we're planning for in this contingency

we're just asking that we look at the worst case condition if we need it and

if we don't then we ultimately wouldn't have to spend up to that amount and so

So part of the request as well is for additional construction management and inspection.

So we have a lot more welding inspection we're going to have to take on, a lot more coding inspection,

and then the structural recommendations to be implemented.

And then the other item for item number 12 is additional design work for the center column

and additional design work for the rafters and girders.

So those are the three staff reports that all are part of this project.

And with that, I will take any questions.

Questions for Marcus this evening?

This is just out of curiosity.

Does the interior deterioration there impact the rest of the water delivery system,

you know, the pipes that are dispensing water?

Not typically.

We typically don't, when that, if any of the material fell off, it would float typically on top from the paint and the coating itself.

We do similar types of inspections for our water lines, but most are either PVC or coated ductal iron pipe that has an interior kind of concrete or mortar lined coating.

So we we don't typically see this impacting the rest of the distribution system

We just want to make sure obviously that it doesn't impact the the structural integrity of the tank itself

To prevent having to take that tank offline

In the wrong time of the year might be additional costs because of damage

Downstream no none that we are aware of. Thank you

Any other questions?

I'm assuming we compare this to the cost of building a new tank.

Of building a new tank, it's about probably per million gallons would be about a million dollars.

So these are probably three and a half to four million.

That's to build it.

That's not to deconstruct the existing tank and demo it.

So you'd have probably a significant demo cost that would occur if you had to take it down.

Then you get into timing because you can't take them all down,

so you'd have to do this.

Typically it's the middle of October to about the middle of April.

So demoing, then building a new one,

you may be pushing your timing just a bit.

But we're spending basically the same amount of money as a brand-new tank.

No, no, no.

Because if this was a 4 million, because this is covering two different tanks,

so you're probably a third of the cost of maybe a brand new tank between the the two foothills one

and foothills two i thought we were like a total of nine million in for both of them am i my numbers

off not for these two tanks for the entire project which was five total tanks got it okay that's where

my numbers are off perfect that makes more sense yeah but a majority of the work is as you can see

will be for foothills one and foothills number two got it yep any other questions all right

thank you marcus all right thank you public comment on this item this evening no request

to speak for this item i'll move approval of resolution 11543 do we need three separate

motions for this yeah i'll second please call the roll uh council members leary yes roerbaugh

Yes.

Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

And Rathal.

Yes.

I'll move.

Go ahead.

I'll move approval of resolution number 11544.

Second.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Council members Leary.

Yes.

Rohrbaugh.

Yes.

Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

And Rathal.

Yes.

I'll move.

Is that it?

No.

No, we have one more.

Option of resolution 11545.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Councilmembers Leary.

Yes.

Rohrbaugh.

Yes.

Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

And Rathel.

Yes.

And that brings us to item number 13.

Item 13 is resolution number 11548, a resolution approving the preliminary engineers report declaring the intention to order the formation of the Natoma Station Maintenance Assessment District number 2025-2

to levy and collect assessments to provide notice of public hearing and direct the mailing of

assessment ballots within the proposed district in the city of Folsom. Good evening, Mayor and

members of the council. I'm Derek Perez, Municipal Landscape Services Manager of the Parks and

Recreation Department. I'll be presenting information on the Natoma Station Landscaping

and Lighting District and the current Prop 218 process. The resolution before you is the second

step in the prop 218 process Folsom has 30 LL districts that maintain assets that provide a

benefit to the residents in the district these assets include landscaping street lights monument

signage artwork and mini parks as well as other assets all LL districts are formed persuading to

the landscaping lighting act of 1972 in the california constitution Folsom has districts

that range in size from 10 to 2 370 units most districts within the city including the tomah

station were formed prior to prop 218 in 1996 the map here shows the boundaries of the tomah station

l l as well as their landscaping in many parks there are many other assets maintained by the

district that are not pictured here this list includes a major assets in the tomah station

L&L district. A few of these are the district has 16 irrigation controllers, 36 backflows,

359 streetlights. Now also this district's 36 years old. A lot of these assets have not been

replaced in the last 36 years too as well. Here's a brief explanation of the L&L Act of 1972.

Essentially the act follows or actually act allows local governments to form L&L districts

to fund specified services such as landscape maintenance, street lighting, and maintenance of other items as identified in the resolution of formation.

Prop 218, the Right to Vote on Taxes Act.

This amended the California Constitution to require constitutional voter approval requirements for all local government taxes, which previously did not exist.

requires voter approval when local governments impose extend or increase a tax,

and districts can be formed under normal ballot procedures.

Simple majority of weighted votes cast to form

or simple majority of weighted votes opposed for majority protest.

The votes are weighted by assessment amount.

The assessment amount per parcel is established in accordance with Prop 218,

which is not prescriptive in the method of apportionment,

but requires that each parcel be assessed in relation to the special benefit that parcel receives.

We have received feedback from the community in all of our outreach meetings on the method of apportionment

that they would like to keep the assessment flat like it is now in Natoma Station.

Staff work with our consultant, NBS, to determine the best form of methodology to sustain the assessment.

The consultant is using the TRIS method based on daily trips from the assessed parcels.

the prop 218 process is a three-step process and the first step was initiated

June 24th 2025 with resolution number one one four zero three we are currently

in step two with the resolution before you approving their preliminary

engineers report declaring the intention to order the formation of a landscaping

aligning assessment district to levy and collect assessments to provide notice of

a public hearing and direct the mailing of assessment ballots with the proposed

district in the city of Folsom step three is a public hearing scheduled for April 28th

2026 and there's also a 45-day period required between steps two and three

part of what staff has been hearing from the public at the community outreach meetings is

communication communication communication staff worked with the communications team to develop a

landscaping lighting 101 video for the public outreach we wanted to convey a clear concise

and factual video that can be shared on the city's website and where neighbors can share

with each other i'm sure you've seen this but i'm just going to share it

well so you can take a quick look at it

Did you know many fulsome neighborhoods are well lit and beautifully maintained thanks to special

sorry.

I'm actually not sure how to share the screen on this one so I apologize.

It worked for me earlier.

If you want, you can go to our website,

Landscaping and Lighting District on the website

and take a look at it.

Happy to point you there in your direction.

Communication improvements.

Since last May, staff has been working with the communication team

to develop clear and concise communication messaging.

Communications team developed templates that are easy to read

for postcards and URL signs for continuity.

The staff worked with the communications team

to develop a branding logo

that you'll see in the upper right-hand corner up here.

that says funded by your L&L.

These yard signs will be placed in L&L districts

while large projects are taking place.

These will showcase where the neighborhood's funds

are actually being spent.

So we kind of want to showcase on future projects.

If there's a landscape improvement right now,

I think we just finished one along

Roosie and Blue Ravine

in the Prairie Oaks neighborhood.

So if you're driving by there,

you know residents don't know that that's actually your L&L funds that are actually being engaged and

being activated there so this is a way that we can actually formally show the neighborhoods

of where your L&L funds are being used for maintenance and improvement projects in the

future so this this is just some kind of some branding that we came up with and work with our

communications team and just want to work on that moving forward at the community outreach meetings

last two weeks with the residents staff presented the current district's budget and the proposed

new assessment budget in their preliminary engineers report which you see here as you can

see from the current fiscal year district budget it's running in a projected deficit

the proposed budget increases the proposed budget increases landscape maintenance pays back the debt

service over a period of 15 years and provides installment costs for the short-term and long-term

maintenance and improvement plan two items that have been added to the proposed new district is

sheldon and man park maintenance the general benefit for this district will be recognized

by the city's general fund contribution towards the maintenance of these two parks by adding these

two parks to this district ensures a level of maintenance in case any future budget cuts are

made towards parks maintenance in the future here's a sample of the proposed maintenance and

improvement plan this sheet shows a short-term and long-term installment summary that should

be collected for the district you'll see that right here for the prior years collections in

this column for the short term and then long term is right here so the 77,354,000 which has never

been collected because of the deficit for that district this shows improvement project for the

district that is projected in the future as well as long-term asset replacement plan currently the

district doesn't have any funding set aside for any replacements example that we we have down

there are some irrigation controllers they're 36 years old they don't have the latest computerized

centralized irrigation controllers or flow sensors so if there's an irrigation leak or broken down

there along the median strip along the toma station or turnpike the water just keeps continues to flow

So the current technology would be able to shut that off right at the break of the line once it senses the flow is too much for the pipe.

So that's just an example of the new technology that the district does not have down there.

These slides here show the most current schedule for the Natoma Station reassessment.

We're right here, February 4th, City Council.

And this kind of shows all the noticing that we've been doing.

We have postcards scheduled to go out later this week for the upcoming community outreach meeting on March 5th.

And the yard signs will be installed at the end of this week to notice the neighborhood as well about the community outreach meeting on March 5th.

This is our continued reassessment schedule for Natoma Station.

We have our next community outreach meeting scheduled March 5th.

Our public hearing will be April 28th when the ballots will be collected.

we will be tabulating the ballots the next day april 29th at 9 a.m in the large public works

room and then we will be coming back to city council on may 12th with the results of the

the ballots tabulated with that staff recommends the city council approve resolution 11548 a

resolution approving their preliminary engineers report declaring the intention to order the

formation of the Atoma Station Maintenance Assessment District, number 2025-2, to levy

and collect assessments to provide notice of public hearing and direct the mailing of

assessment ballots within the proposed district in the city of Folsom.

With that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

I also wanted to mention we have been working with our consultant, NBS, to prepare the method

of apportionment, their preliminary engineer's report, balloting, and future ballot tabulation.

Sarah Mayers with NBS is here to answer any questions you may have.

Just a quick bio on Sarah.

Sarah Mayers is chief operating officer and has more than 25 years of experience with NBS.

She forms special financing districts, specializing in assessment district,

and community facilities district formations and related bond issuance.

Sarah has experience working with all aspects of the formation, annexation, and debt issuance process,

including planning project management, budget analysis, rate modeling, financial analysis,

formulation of rate, and methods of apportionment, and public presentations.

She spent many years involved in ongoing special district administration,

including working with distressed districts,

and brings that experience and perspective to every formation project she works on.

She's a registered municipal advisor representative,

and sits on the legislative committee of the California Special Districts Association.

And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thanks Derek. Questions? Questions? I just have one Derek. So I want to make sure I understood this correctly. Did you say that there are two parks in Natoma Station whose maintenance is currently funded by the general fund that if this passes the maintenance will now be the responsibility of the L&L?

no so it'll still be the responsibility of the city because that would be the general benefit

and so the gen the city will still be contributing towards a general fund to maintain those two park

for sheldon man so it's just incorporated into this new district but the city's still paying for

that means of those two parks sheldon man so that's correct yeah if i could just clarify

the reason why this is significant is it'll almost be like a double taxation in the sense

that if it's included in the district or before,

we'd have to pay out of pocket.

But what we're saying is we're already providing in-kind benefit

because the taxpayers are already paying for that.

So we're including it in part of the district,

but it's not part of the assessment on the other properties.

So just that was my question on there.

I saw the original engineer's report had basically a $30,000 contribution

from the general fund.

and for community benefit this most recent entrepreneur's report was 15 but then there

was an additional 30k so i'm assuming that's related to to that maybe if you walk us through

those yeah that's correct that that is um the current cost of what that cost to maintain those

two parks for man and shelter right now and so that's why through the last process one of the

things that we identified is the the uh the amount of money already spent on those parks

is greater than the 30,000 and so in some sense you'd be paying even more than you needed to for

that park right and so it in in essence we're using the money that was already spent for that

to account for the contribution before it was going to be an additional above and beyond amount

a 30,000 additional cost so our thought is these type of changes should not have an additional

burden on the general fund the whole intent of lighting and landscape districts is so that they

They pay for the benefit around there.

And so this public benefit is created

and already being spent.

And what we're saying is we're spending

and have been spending general fund money on these

and we will continue to do so.

But because it's part of the district,

we have to highlight that.

Councilor Rolary, any questions?

I don't have any questions,

but I didn't want to thank Derek, Brian, Jameson,

and Kelly for all of the work that they've done on this.

I think you're probably still receiving calls

and questions by email.

Which has been great because a lot of people

had a lot of questions that were unanswered

with the first round at this.

So I really appreciate that.

And I didn't quite understand the piece

about the votes being counted prior to the May meeting to certified votes

because last time we the count was taking place during the council meeting

and wasn't available by the end and this was that changed in order to be able to

have an answer that night because you'll the city will have an answer about

whether it passed or not before our meeting yeah so my understanding from

last year was that the counting during the council meeting it took a while and stuff so

this is a way for us to kind of be proactive and anticipate that by counting it the next morning

so there's not a big rush in case you know we weren't able to come back to council with the

with the results so that's why we just kind of decided to have a you know count the ballots that

next morning it's open to the public they can come we've worked with our city clerk department

to as well and then we'll know the results that next day and i think the main point is so that we

we go through the requirement of establishing an end date for when the votes are received

and then just trying to be expeditious with our time we would count it the next day and then it

would be kind of streamlined i mean we would know the outcome but then it wouldn't be formalized

until the next meeting i mean we don't necessarily have to do that we just thought learning from our

experienced that it was kind of a stressful situation trying to get it all in this would

be more measured and more precise okay so we'll be open to the public so the public will know the

count on the day after the council meeting well i'm sure if someone called i mean they could but

we we're going to make the public presentation at the following council meeting so you're but

you're not announcing the results until that council meeting like doesn't the council know

the results we'll know the results yeah I guess we hadn't really talked about

like shout it from the rooftops either way I mean it would just be follow our

normal counsel process and we would bring it for that I mean I don't see

looking at our legal counsel I don't think there would be anything from us if

someone were to inquire hey what was the vote for us just to tell the vote it

would be it would be a public record once the votes were tabulated right okay

um so that just leads to one more question and and i'll just make sure that people know the

answer to this because that you know i don't think that was this wasn't talked about at the two

meetings that i attended yeah this is new yeah this is new um so the other um piece of that is

is people will be a little confused because the last time we did this people could bring a vote

in until the end of the hearing and basically it's the same yeah they can still do that this

this is the same we're just we're establishing the end is that second meeting in april right

yeah so that's the end okay and then we collect all those everyone knows the voting period is over

right and then we count it afterwards but we have that additional date the following meeting

well yeah i mean people can come but it's almost you know the super bowl happened we know the score

we're just no it was just i just want to be clear that it was a terrible game so you know on the

28th and that the meeting in may is just an announcement that basically that's what it is

i mean i guess i mean i'm looking at our staff i mean we can try to do the count i think we just

learned from last time it was a pretty helter i mean it was not no it was difficult i just want

to be sure that I know the process.

Because as we were talking here, I realized, wait a second, it's quite different.

Okay.

Well, I appreciate it.

And again, thank you all for your work.

I appreciate not having to stall the council meeting in the hopes that we get it counted

in time.

So I appreciate the new schedule.

Do we have any public comment this evening?

No request to speak for this item.

All right.

Council Member Larry, would you like to make a motion?

Yes, I'll move for approval of resolution number one one five four eight

Resolution approving the preliminary engineers report and declaring the intention to order the formation of an Toma station assessment district number

2025-2

Second please call the roll

Council members Larry. Yes, Roaba. Yes, Aquino. Yes, Kozlowski. Yes, and Rachel. Yes

And that moves us to our new business. Please call the next time

Next is item 14 and update and discussion regarding countywide homelessness shared governance

Good evening Stephanie

While you're getting set up, I do want to say that I really want to see some of these

irrigation controllers from 1990 and just see how we manage to keep making them work.

That's pretty impressive that we have irrigation controllers from 36 years ago.

It might be on the next minute with the mayor.

You never know.

Okay, let's see.

Did I blow it, Christina?

Give it a second.

I got it.

Thank you.

So, good evening, Mayor Rathel, Council Members.

council members Stephanie Henry housing manager community development department

so this next item before you this evening is an update on the proposed

homeless and housing system partnership update with us this evening is Emily

Halkin the homeless services and housing director for Sacramento County as you

recall Emily and the Sacramento County staff were here last September and they

provided City Council members with a overview of a proposed concept to have

shared governance for homelessness to help us strengthen our countywide

collaboration following that there was a multi jurisdictional meeting in October

where many of you were present and some participating that went over this proposed

governance structure, shared governance structure, and based on that feedback from that meeting

and followed up with interviews from electeds, a proposed shared governance structure has

been recommended to the county board of supervisors.

As you see in the staff report staff is recommending to support the county boards

recommend a

recommended

structure

But before we get into that Emily is here to present kind of an overview of

What that structure would look like so I'm going to turn it over to Emily

Thank You Stephanie and hello mayor Rachel members of the council

It's really great to be back with you today.

As Stephanie said, my name is Emily Halkin.

I'm the director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing with Sacramento County.

And with me today are County Executive David Villanueva and Deputy County Executive Siobhan

Katari.

Stephanie did a lot of the legwork for what I was going to talk about, so I'll really

briefly just remind us all of how we got here.

Over the past about two years now, the county as well as the city of Sacramento and the

other cities and the continuum of care have been working around how we can better organize

to deliver services for folks experiencing homelessness and at risk of homelessness.

We recognize this is a critical issue throughout the county, but also that each jurisdiction has

their own approaches and unique natures that need to be thought of. There was a report commissioned

in late 2023 by the county in Sacramento Steps Forward. It did follow some of the grand jury

reports that were suggesting some changes, but really this report was more in recognition of

both the growing complexity of homelessness throughout the county, new opportunities for

homeless and housing funding, and some frustrations that we had heard from elected officials about the

Homeless Policy Council, which I think some of you have participated on in the past, and then the

positive impacts that at least the city of Sacramento and the county were seeing in our

partnership agreement. So in early 2025, the Board of Supervisors following that consultant report

at the end of 2023 gave county staff explicit direction to hold a workshop around homeless

partnerships and governance, which we brought to public session with the board in August.

As Stephanie said, the board then gave us direction to visit our partners throughout the county, and we

did that over the months of September and early October, ahead of that joint meeting that occurred

in October. Following that joint meeting and then the recommendations that came out of that meeting

as well as individual interviews that Mosaic Strategies did with many of you as well as your

colleagues throughout the county, the county staff did modify our recommendation and that new

modified recommendation was approved by the Board of Supervisors in December and again staff were

directed to come back to our city partners as well as the continuum of care to elicit your input on

the current modified model. I'm going to show it to you in a minute and walk you through what has

changed and what we are recommending. But the main difference from what you saw back in September

is that we are proposing instead of creating a whole new body, if you recall the original

recommendation contemplated establishing a whole new body, we called it the Sacramento Homeless

and Housing Board, then instead of doing that, that we lean on the existing administrative

infrastructure that already exists with the continuum of care board.

This did come out, one of the recommendations out of the Mosaic report, and I think reflects

a little bit more of the urgency and a way to not duplicate administrative infrastructures.

It also proposes, we heard a lot of feedback from the community about membership, and the

original recommendation had an option A and an option B, but both were very heavy on elected

representation one was almost exclusively elected representation we hear a lot of feedback from

community members that they felt that there needed to be more community voice and so this

new recommendation retains the majority elected but does create some purposeful seats for community

members as as requested and then while not shown on this slide I do want to note that the continuum

of care board has did take a different model to the coc board in december immediately following

the board of supervisors action their recommendation at the time contemplated keeping the coc board

separate from the body of local elected officials but that was not approved by the coc so at this

point they have not taken up the county's recommendation so visually i'm going to try

to walk you through this. I recognize the last model had a lot more boxes. I've tried to lift

up to the 30,000 foot level to talk a little more conceptually. So what this attempts to show you is

going across on the column sort of three modes of work that are really at question here. The first

in the yellow column is the things the COC, the Continuum of Care, does, which is pretty regulated

in federal statute. They administer funds from the federal government through the COC program.

They manage the homeless management information system, which is our community-wide database that we're mandated to have.

They operate the coordinated access system, which is the entryway to many homeless and housing programs.

They facilitate the point-in-time count, which just happened a couple of weeks ago.

And then they oversee the convening of the Continuum of Care Board.

In the middle column, the green column, I think is the work that is most at question here

that people are most sort of looking to pull together more.

This is really who is responsible in our community for system-wide strategic planning,

setting goals across jurisdictions and across programs about what we want to achieve,

measuring ourselves not just against the measures that the federal government sets for ourselves,

but for what we are interested in measuring as a community.

And on the far right column, the blue column,

this is what is currently the responsibility of jurisdictions,

and we are not recommending changes to any of these.

These are things like land use decisions,

which you all independently hold as do the other cities,

managing your own budget,

and many funding programs that come into your jurisdiction.

So going down the rows then,

the top row shows a very general depiction

of how this currently works.

Currently, we have a continuum of care board,

of which until recently was entirely non-elected.

We've just recently added four elected officials.

It is mostly community members, a lot of providers, a lot of folks who are very passionate about homelessness,

but don't necessarily work within the system of care.

That continuum of care board doesn't have any formal relationship to any of the city councils or to the board of supervisors.

So independent of that, the COC is making direction and making funding decisions for those very specific COC functions, and then each city council and the board of supervisors is separately doing that as well.

And while there are some ad hoc convenings to address those broader policy issues, October 28th is a great example of that, there's no continual place where elected officials throughout the community are convening to talk about that green column, the community-wide strategy setting.

so the recommendation that we are that the board approved in december is to take what is currently

the continuum of care board and reconstitute it and reconstitute it such that the majority of seats

are occupied by elected officials from all the cities and the county of sacramento but that

there's also seats for decision-making community leaders and when i say decision-making this might

be you know leader of the chamber or a head of a hospital system some of those interconnecting

systems that we really want to have input on and who do affect the work we do and vice versa

but right now are maybe independently talking to you as leaders in the community but aren't

convening around this topic together with you this board would be brown act currently the coc

board is not brown act and there would be a staff management underneath here which isn't shown so

it might we have a system leadership group consisting of professional staff at each of

jurisdiction so myself my colleagues in the city of sacramento certainly we would love to have

participation from the other cities recognizing you have some staffing maybe some a little bit

less ability to commit staff but by having elected officials on the coc board and formally appointed

in a brown act body just like many of you i'm sure sit on other boards throughout the community

that creates a a very direct and advisory role back to your city council and back to the board

of supervisors. And so while that new constituted COC board wouldn't bypass decision making that

you might make as a city council, your members who sat on that board would serve as an advisory role

and would bring back things back to the COC board that are important to the city of Folsom.

Some of the things that we imagine this new COC board, at least at initiation taking on,

certainly administering the COC functions, which I know I sort of put it in this yellow column and

that it's pretty administrative, but it is a big deal.

They administer about $40 million annually

from the federal government.

But just as importantly, they manage the data

that comes through our community.

They help us tell the stories

about how we're serving folks experiencing homelessness.

They manage the front door for services.

So for clients who are seeking access

to shelter or housing,

that's where the front door is managed.

So this would bring those items

into the purview of the new COC board

with elected officials sitting on that.

um additionally they are the recipients of a significant amount of state funds through the

HAP program currently the city of Sacramento the county of Sacramento and the continuum of care are

the entities that receive those funds so this would connect those COC HAP funds which I think

the amounts change every year but currently I think their HAP six round which is the round we're in

right now is about eight million dollars that goes to various prevention and rehousing programs

This is also the convening space where we would collectively do that strategy setting.

We have to develop a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan, RCHEP, every year, and this is the body that would do that.

Additionally, this is a place where we might, in the future, have opportunities to look towards collaborative applications for grants if we wanted to do something across the county, if we wanted to set some strategic goals to take back to our communities.

finally the last thing on them on the visual here is the board of supervisors

was unanimously in support of what is the recommended option however we know

and I think we talked about this last time I was here is it the only entity

that can decide to reconstitute the continuum of care is the continuum of

care so if the continuum of care board does not vote to reconstitute themselves

the county cannot force them to do that none of the cities can force them to do

that and we are still hopeful and confident that they want to participate

in this but at this point they haven't so knowing that and that if the CoC

board did not choose to participate in this the board approved what we call

here alternative option which would unfortunately leave the CoC board as it

is right now operating the CoC probably with less elected participation more

community participation but still recommend formation of that elected

body to do the broader strategy priority setting goal setting across each of the elected um each

of the jurisdictions in the county creating that um the advisory role back to your city council and

board of supervisors but keeping sort of the coc functions apart and then finally on here i just

put the jpa option the board of supervisors is not supportive of this but because it's still in

the conversation i just visual purposes put it on here um just really quickly next steps um is of

Of course, we are seeking inputs from the cities, and you are the last stop on our tour today.

So I can really quickly tell you, if you haven't heard, where all the cities landed.

So the city of Sacramento, on January 13th, staff did recommend the county's option.

The city of Sacramento chose, though, to direct staff to pursue a completely different option, which was forming a JPA.

Rancho Cordova City Council took a neutral stance on the county's approach.

The cities of Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, and Galt all recommended approval and participation in the county's model.

And so pending your input today, we'll add your input to our collective report back.

And so our next step would be to request that the COC agendize this, because they are sort of the last entity to consider this formally.

And then depending on their willingness, as well as the willingness of the other cities,

either pursue the reconstitution of the continuum of care board

or the creation of the Homeless and Housing Board

if the COC does not wish to participate.

That concludes my comments, but I'm happy to take questions.

Council Member Aquino.

Emily, could you please go back two slides?

So if the COC board is the only one that can determine

whether or not to reconstitute the COC board,

can you explain the JPA thing at the bottom then

that that rolls that into that how would that work so you would have you would have electeds

and the jpa the coc would have to agree to that is that i believe that yes and this is probably

your next item but i believe that yes that the coc would also have to actively just like any city

would have to agree to to participate in a jpa um were the coc to be a part of i think yes they

would have to agree to that okay thank you

councilmember Leary any questions no okay questions over here I have well I'll

just ask this one first um although there's no immediate general fund

obligation what would be the long-term staffing or burden on a city yeah I mean

at this point based on what were moments yeah yeah at this point we would propose

in the recommended model that we would keep Sacramento Steps Forward as the lead agency.

And they do have their own administrative funds they draw down from HUD.

If there was a change to that and to designate somebody else as a lead agency,

to be honest, the only other lead agency that would make sense would be another nonprofit or the county.

But because we're not proposing to pull in existing funds from any of the cities,

we don't anticipate any kind of general fund ask of any of the cities.

That being said in the future the CoC board could expand it could say well now each city wants to put in a

Portion of their funds to a collective program, but that's not envisioned at this point

So this is an advisory what you're recommending recommending is advisory

So what practical authority would it have that the current structure doesn't already so it's not advisory

It is directive in CoC functions. So currently the CoC has the final authority on CoC funding

HMIS status standards things like that that authority would shift to this board

and then things related to the CoC HAP funding and the regionally coordinated

action plan that the CoC does it would not shift however any authority unless

you chose to give it that from a city to the CoC board okay thank you how

effective can any of these plans be if the City of Sacramento is going a

different direction that is a great question we are still hopeful the door

is not closed the door is open for them to participate I think that once we know

how all the other cities what are the other cities interest that might they

might change our mind so your only question that's my only question all

right I just have one on the alternative option here thank you for coming out

today and thank you guys for coming out and doing the whole tour at the end of

the day this comes down to funding right you talked a little bit about the two big sources

of funds that come through the coc right now um there are options to peel off some of if the sh

hb stands up there are options within state law as i understand it to peel off state funding

from that but are there options for federal funding to like to flow maybe through the coc

but come over to the shhb can you just talk a little bit about how that would work

Yeah, so COC funding in federal statute is pretty explicitly the authority of the COC,

and the COC is a sort of ill-defined term in federal government.

I do not believe that there's a way outside of the COC itself, the membership at large,

or the designated board voting to give that administrative function to another entity.

As you know, the county used to administer the COC programs up until 2011.

On the state funding, I'm actually not confident.

The state funding that the COC receives directly, the HAP funds, are in statute go to COCs.

The COC is very difficult to pull apart.

The COC lead agency, which is what Sacramento steps forward, should theoretically be easier to change locally.

But at this point, there hasn't really been a strong interest, and I still don't think there is.

There have been a few questions around that to change that administrative function.

What we're trying to do is pull that administrative function closer to the work that all of us are doing in government,

because right now they're reporting to a board that isn't as publicly accountable, perhaps.

And is there any moves to make the COC board a brown-neck body?

The COC board has brought that up themselves.

I haven't seen any proposals coming from them and it's not agendized on tomorrow's

Agenda they meet once a month, but I have heard them talk about that as a potential option

Larry yeah, I'm you know when you're talking about the membership of the cities in the county and all is

Would the votes from each entity be weighted differently?

so that this is an ask to me from a couple of the other cities so we have purposely not tried

to dictate like numbers and and seats um i do know that that's a very strong interest um specifically

the city of galt asked that that be reflected in their um in their approval of this so i i did do

that um i think that pending sort of everybody's interest then the next step would be for staff to

sit down and sort of talk about the governance and what looks like in membership and voting.

I think almost every of the cities that is in the city of Sacramento asks some flavor of that question.

So certainly it's top of mind for most of them.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

I have one more.

Councilman.

I'm not sure you know this one.

I don't know if you know this yet, but how will the representation and funding decisions reflect differences in populations

and homelessness levels across the cities and the county?

Right.

That's sort of aligned with Council Member Leary's question.

So I think one of the benefits is that right now the voices of sort of how cities that are not within the central core

experience homelessness aren't really shared in some of our collaborative work or in our communities plan.

So those are the types of things that I think would have to be worked out.

like is it a vote differential based on population?

Is it a subpopulation sort of experience?

I'm not sure quite how to do that, but yeah.

Okay, so it would be in discussion if it continues forward.

Yeah.

Any other questions?

All right, thank you so much.

Thank you.

And we have public comment this evening.

Yeah, there's one request to speak for this item

from Julie Alexander.

Come on down, Judy.

good evening mayor and assistant mayor council members and staff i am just excited that somebody

has finally realized that the current system doesn't work before you can fix a problem you

have to name it. And I think we're finally naming the problem, and that could partly be because we

don't communicate on a broad enough basis and deal with homelessness as just part one of

our other social problems that we have to resolve that are impacted one way or another by

homelessness. I find it very interesting tonight that we have managed to create an entity that

spends millions, if not close to a billion, of taxpayers' money and can't be dissolved,

the continuum of care. I am befuddled by that. And they seem to be still holding

the area hostage to what they want to do. So I applaud Elaine for trying to get this boondoggle

straightened out that we have. At this point, I'm excited that there are new ideas and possibly new

people, and we can really look at this from a different viewpoint. However, there is so much

lacking in this presentation so far, in my mind, that I can't imagine we would be responsible

to actually say, yeah, let's go for it. We have no idea of costs. No money has been discussed yet.

Are we taking money from some areas and putting them towards this new area? Or are we leaving

money where it is and hope we get some additional from the state or whatever, because this will cost

money to do, even if the original COC continues. We're going to add elected officials. They already

are stressed out at their jobs. Now we're going to put more on your plate and their plate, and we're

going to need some additional support administratively or time or facilities, and nobody

is asking that yet. I heard the state may be giving us some new funding to the counties

that is not under the HUD umbrella. That to me is exciting because perhaps now nonprofits in our

areas can be funded who do not check all the boxes for HUD. And we have a lot of those here

in Folsom, who do not qualify, and you all lean on them, rightly so, because they're

willing to do some of the hard work here in Folsom, along with police, fire, and staff

support and services, which we all appreciate.

But I haven't heard any mention of the flexibility that might be a real plus here coming out

of state funding.

Judy, if you could make your closing comments.

Continuum of care is the only way for federal funding to get into the county.

They've been designated by the federal government.

So whatever we do with them affects federal funding, including for Sacramento City.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Any other public comment this evening?

No other requests to speak for this item.

All right.

Stephanie you want to come back and address those comments or I just wanted to make sure before you guys close out the item that you do give the county staff the recommendation just to make sure that that's there and to remind you staff was recommending city council move to support the county's recommended option.

and I will go ahead and make a motion

to support the county's recommended option

which is to pursue a reconstitution of the

COC board to include a majority of

elected officials

second

I'll open it up for discussion real quick if anyone

has any comments for a vote

please call the roll

Council Members Leary

yes

Aquino

Kozlowski

and Rathal

Yes. Thank you all for coming out. Any other further direction required this evening on this item?

All right. Please call the next item.

Next is update and direction on Senate Bill SB 802, Ashby.

Mayor Ethel, members of the commission, Desmond Parrington, planning manager in the community development department.

Bear with me while I pull up the...

Okay.

Okay.

I'm here before you tonight to talk about the situation and received direction with regard to Senate Bill 802.

So as you recall, last year, Senate Bill 802 was introduced in June of 2025.

It was then kind of made into a two-year bill due to the concern regarding the bill, our opposition, as well as concerns raised by other jurisdictions.

But the senator had indicated that if she didn't see the kind of collaboration that she was expecting, that this would be reintroduced, which it has been.

the the original provisions basically transferred the continue of care to the new organization

which is a sacro area sacramento area housing and homelessness agency or saha it redirected all

federal state homelessness funds to saha and would shift cdbg and home funds from jurisdictions to

to it as well and transfer all local affordable housing fees and housing trust fund fees to that

It would also originally propose to revise the RHNA distribution process for Sacramento County.

The concern expressed at the time was insufficient local input, and then the concern about the loss of control over our funding that we receive currently.

And then related to that, the concern that we would not be able to meet and other jurisdictions would not be able to meet their local housing objectives, depending on how housing element objectives, depending on how the money was actually spent.

the the membership of government that's that's proposed uh in this in this bill

includes all cities and the the county that have a population of fifty thousand dollars or

fifty thousand people or greater uh sorry about that um that would include city of sacramento

sacramento county elk grove um they would have three and elk grove would have two representatives

on there with one representative for Citrus Heights, one representative for Folsom, and one

representative for Rancho Cordova. Galt and Islton, which are the other two jurisdictions in the

county, would not be included because they don't meet the population cutoff. There were a number

of key revisions to the bill, which did allow what's called entitlement jurisdictions, or those

jurisdictions that receive their Community Development Block Grant and their Home Investment

Partnership Act funds directly from the federal government and the Housing and Urban Development

Department. It also clarified that affordable housing impact fees collected in a jurisdiction

would be spent in that jurisdiction, and it removed the change in the distribution to the

regional housing needs allocation. It did create a homeless division that would include Sacramento

steps forward and the continuum of care. However, it did not change the fact that it would take the funds from the local governments and place them into the control of the new agency.

So in terms of the local government actions that have happened related to SB 802, so as Emily mentioned in her prior presentation, the city of Sacramento voted 72 in favor of the JPA model, although not necessarily in favor of SB 802.

And then the cities of Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove, and Citrus Heights were basically contacted by Senator Ashby's office, and they were concerned about the bill and wanted to make sure that their concerns and potential changes in the bill would be considered, and as a result, took a neutral position.

They are currently coordinating potential proposed amendments that ensures better local control of their funds.

And then some clarification on some outstanding issues.

Based on city staff's review, there are still quite a few issues of concern related to this bill.

First and foremost, it basically mandates, it has the state mandating that we join a joint powers authority.

This is not typically joint powers authority are under the law entities that can be entered into voluntarily by different agencies to address a particular issue or concern.

This is the state telling jurisdictions that they have to join a joint powers authority.

It also still in the bill, despite the revisions, they still have control over our local housing funds.

And then we need the ability to be able to use those funds to provide gap financing or to buy land in support of affordable housing.

This would essentially remove our ability to control that.

In addition, it mandates ethics rules that requires the members, including Folsom's representative from the city council, to prioritize the agency over Folsom's own priorities, which constitutes an inherent conflict for anyone from the council or from staff that's appointed to that board.

So we need to ensure that the CDBG home and the permanent local housing allocation funds, which we currently receive through either the county or the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, would continue to flow to the city.

That is not clear at all in the bill.

For those entitlement jurisdictions, and we are not yet an entitlement jurisdiction, they have protections in the bill.

They would continue to receive their money directly from HUD.

But we don't have such assurances that are in the bill.

it would it's also not clear whether we would be able to

approve projects and and deal with the land use entitlements associated with those projects

under that bill because it says in the bill that if they receive funding from the agency

they're essentially deemed consistent with our zoning and general plan land use designations

and we also need to see really the ability to independently apply for state and federal housing

funds it's not clear that we would be able to retain that authority because it appears as though

the sacramento area housing and homelessness authority would be the entity that would go

after those funds so we could potentially be shut out of those those dollars so those are kind of

the big issues. I really wanted to come, staff wanted to come before you, kind of lay those all

out for you, and then really get further direction from you on how you'd like us to proceed

in terms of the stance that the city takes on this bill and our interaction not only with

the other jurisdictions that are working with the center and with the legislature on this,

But with the legislature itself

Thank you

Thank you Desmond

questions for Desmond this evening

No questions, but I'd love to make a motion no questions first off. Oh, you have a question that's over there. You have a question

I'm dismayed that these recommendations for changes in there haven't been adopted as yet, but it seems in

And, you know, from the processes that have already been undergone, that this is still being finalized in the assembly at the state level.

And it's not clear whether, you know, the contingencies that we would like to see and that some of the other cities asked for could be implemented.

At this, it seems like a late date to try and make significant changes unless it happens at that level.

So the opportunity in the Senate, that closed on January 31st, but it is in the Assembly and it will be going through several committee hearings.

There may be the opportunity there to amend it through those committee hearings.

and I think that's what

you know what staff and the other jurisdictions

out there you know Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova and

Citrus Heights would like to see because the things that they had

recommended be included in the bill not all of them were

so there is that potential

but we just do not know at this point what will be in the final

version of the bill. Do you know if there's any anticipated time frame when this will get a vote

in the full assembly? I don't. I'd have to check the schedule and see. Obviously, this would need

to get taken care of, I think, in late summer, early fall. It has to be signed by the governor

and early fall.

So this would need to be wrapped up in the summer.

That makes it difficult to assess a stance

without these things having been addressed at this point.

Yeah, I think we would certainly want

to see these items addressed.

Certainly to take any kind of positive position on this

and frankly even to remain neutral

I think staff's perspective is that if we're going to take a neutral stance, we would want to see these things included.

It is highly unusual for the state, like I said earlier, to mandate, to require us to enter into a joint powers agency,

especially when, as you heard from Emily Halcombe and the county, that there is a current process that's going on.

It's just that the city of Sacramento has opted to go a different direction.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor, you have a clarifying question?

Yeah, I just, I mean, I heard this.

I just want to make sure that the public hears it too.

But you mentioned that there are some kind of lukewarm assurances that the money that Folsom raised would be spent in Folsom.

But you also mentioned that, but not how it is spent.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

So there's no information in the bill at this point about how that money would be spent, what it would be spent on.

We just don't know.

The only language that's in the bill is saying that money collected from Folsom would be spent in Folsom.

um so basically the jpa could decide how the money was going to be sent spent in fulsome

regardless of what fulsome wanted um so therefore giving up local control control so the only the

only way i could get on board for something of in this conversation and of that is if in that

situation that that would have to come back whatever the jpa would decide would have to come

back for council approval. Yeah, and that's not currently in the bill. Again, we have one vote

on an 11 member commission. And so, you know, our member could be opposed to that, to whatever

is being proposed, and they could be overruled. Thank you. We're going to do comments. I do have

one question. Sure. So this is for the city attorney. It seems like the state mandating

the formation of a JPA is completely contradictory to the JPA formation law in California?

Am I understanding that right?

So this is a new proposal.

It is unprecedented, and there is nothing that specifically says they can require it.

The overarching premise behind the JPA law is an agreement entered into by the governing

bodies of more than one local agency so by its terms the concept is an agreement so so this bill

does supersede that and go a completely different way thank you mayor if I can make a comment just

to remind the council the board of supervisors you know has you know publicly voted 5-0 against

In basically an opposition to this bill. So just a point of clarification

Thank you, I do have any public comment this evening

There are no requests to speak for this item, thank you I

Have comments, but I can make wait till after the motion. Yeah, I will move to oppose

SB 802 second

All right, I will open it up for further discussion more comments

before you? Sure, I can start. There is no change that could be made to this language that would

cause me to support this bill or even to go neutral, because this is not a bill about

homelessness and housing. First and foremost, this is a bill about state control versus local

control. And one of the first things Council Member Kozlowski and I did when we joined the

council in 2018 was to adopt a legislative platform. And the first tenet of that platform

is preserve local control and oppose legislation that preempts local authority.

And although this particular bill talks about mandating the JPA for homelessness and housing,

this just sets a terrible precedent.

The next bill could be mandating a JPA for transportation or public safety or what have you.

And I don't think this is a route that we want to go down.

I cannot support it.

But I do want to say, unequivocally, I believe in collaboration.

I believe in cooperation.

I believe in being good neighbors and working with our

Partner agencies and I am even willing to consider a JPA

But it has to be a JPA of our choosing

And not one that is forced on us by the state. Thank you. Thank you

That's over Leary any comments this evening?

I'm just going to reiterate my

Earlier comment after I asked my questions that it's really difficult to support this

or even I think taken a neutral position without with not having seen the

significant changes that were recommended by the cities adopted in this version

that's now gone to the Assembly I'm fully supportive of collaborative

efforts I've been talking about that in various settings for quite a while about

dealing with this homelessness issue because it's something that affects all

of us so they support the motion thank you councilmember Kozlowski yeah I echo

my colleagues comments the you know the entire time I've been on the council

we've seen a constant chipping away at local control on every front and this

one is an example of a complete lack of restraint in terms of trying to co-op

Local control in this particular area, so I can't possibly support it the way it's formulated and I agree

JPA of our choosing probably would be a good useful change in our region

But we need to be able to formulate it locally

Thank you, vice mayor. Yeah, I'll be sure I echo everything everyone else has said our resident

I'm gonna guess I'm gonna echo what you're gonna say to our residents elect this council to make these decisions

If we are accountable for housing outcomes, we must retain meaningful authority over policy and funds

SB 802 mandates participation in a regional authority where

Effectively giving both of silencing Folsom's voice. So for those reasons and many others. I definitely oppose this

Or I'm in favor of the motion

Thank you, and I'll definitely echo comments right I'm all in for collaboration the region

We do it in many other areas, and we do it very well with our neighbors.

We've solved a lot of large regional problems together, and I would encourage us to solve this one together.

Also, I can't support being mandated by the state to do so.

It just sets us up for failure really at our very first meeting.

When we're forced to be there, it doesn't set us up for cooperation because we haven't set the terms of our cooperation together.

I'm really disappointed that the latest amendments did not preserve local control.

We've all spent a lot of time and energy, and I think the staff and all the different entities that have been involved,

I think all the council members across the region that have spent a lot of time on the phones and meetings working this issue.

and unfortunately the amendments even the latest set of amendments didn't meet those requirements

that they had been laid out so that was that was disappointing that doesn't even address the core

issue of it which i agree with my my colleagues on but that would have at least moved us in the

right direction and it didn't Folsom has collected significant fees and we've used those fees

effectively to provide affordable housing despite some significant opposition sometimes from our own

residents on projects but we've done it in a way that we've tried to honor those wishes of our

residents in the way the best way we can in a local control way this bill unfortunately if it

goes forward has the potential to shut that down and so i would just encourage the senator to

consider those repercussions if this bill does move forward it likely does I

think end up in litigation and and unfortunately that will have in

negative impacts on constructing affordable housing in this region over

the next few years so I would just ask that that be taken into consideration I

know some of our other agencies have asked for the bill to be shelved also

and with that I will conclude and call for a vote

Council members Leary yes Roaba yes Aquino yes Kozlowski yes and Rachel yes

all right that moves us to city manager report great thank you mayor members of

the council just wanted to highlight you know our city attorney Steve Wong has

decided to retire I don't know why he would want to do that but he decided

retire uh i just wanted to say at the last at the last meeting i asked him if if he'd let me

recognize him and he said no um but he's not here so i so i just wanted to uh congratulate you know

um steve on his uh retirement and thank him for the over 17 years of service that he provided to

the city and um i just wanted to publicly state that that we appreciate him we're fortunate that

we had a deep bench and that we have uh sarah myers dirking to step in as our interim city attorney

so sarah thank you for doing that and uh glad to have you uh here with us uh just by way of

other general updates we'd like to invite the public to our water and sewer rate study public

meeting that will be held at the first public um that will be held on tuesday february 24th as part

of our regular city council meeting.

So you will be able to hear about future capital needs and costs

and everything associated with our water and sewer systems

and the possibility of rate increases there.

Also a reminder, we have applications to sell fireworks.

The application period is currently open,

but it closes at noon on Friday, March 13th.

And this application window is for local nonprofit groups.

So if you're just a random person who just wants to sell fireworks, sorry.

Can't do that.

Already decided.

Please don't.

Yeah.

Also, we need volunteers.

We're looking for volunteers to help us with the Castle Park Community Build.

That will take place the week of April 7th through the 12th.

That's kind of the spring break week.

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.

We also want to announce and invite residents to take part

in shaping the future of Neighborhood Park 1,

a brand-new park plan for 3294 Empire Ranch Road in the Folsom Plan Area.

Community members are encouraged to attend their next upcoming in-person workshop

on Monday, February 23rd at 5.30 p.m.

we hope you can make it. Actually a cool highlight, we'd like to recognize Chad Gunter,

a longtime professional with the City of Folsom Parks and Recreation Department and Aquatic Center.

He has been selected to serve on the board of directors for the California Water Safety Coalition,

a statewide organization dedicated to reducing water-related injuries and fatalities.

We're grateful to have staff like Chad that is so willing to get involved in regional issues that

to allow us to have additional access to information for our community.

Our police department continues to do phenomenal work.

On February 6th, Folsom police responded to a report of mail theft

in the 1900 block of Horseshoe Glen Circle.

Officers found a community mailbox unlocked and emptied,

contacted a suspect matching the description,

and recovered stolen mail, personal identification,

or personal identifying information and suspected forged mailbox keys.

The suspect, Christopher Palma, Sacramento, who was on felony probation,

was arrested and booked on multiple charges, including mail theft,

identity theft, and possession of burglary tools.

Another, on February 3rd, Folsom Police responded to a local dealership,

auto dealership, after staff flagged a fraudulent ID during a vehicle purchase.

officers arrested two suspects i think these two uh incidents highlight the the great work that

our police department does on a regular basis and we're grateful for those proactive efforts

they had another um arrest as it relates to um narcotics they've performed um retail theft

operations and they continue to just do a phenomenal job of helping protect our businesses

and and our residents so thank you very much that concludes my report and that brings us to council

comments council over akino i also would like to thank steve wong for his service to the city and

the country and i wish him a healthy happy retirement um if in case you haven't heard we

are having a party here in Folsom on Wednesday, March 4th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We are celebrating

the 170th anniversary of the completion of the Sacramento Valley Railroad, the 22 miles from

Sacramento to Folsom. And then we are also celebrating the 200th birthday that day, March

4th, of Theodore Judah, who was the chief engineer of the Sacramento Valley Railroad and of course

the person who laid out the original town side of Granite City, which became Folsom.

so we are going to have a demonstration of the turntable and how that turns it does turn we

test drove it today so thank you to parks and rec staff for their help with that we're going to

have the Folsom Public Library out to do a story time we're going to have hands-on activities

educational displays I'm even finding a way to incorporate some animals from the zoo if there's

a way to tie them to the railroad and theater or judo we will do it so hope you all can come to that

And then just as a reminder for my colleagues, there's kind of an earlier portion of the day.

We have invited, talk about regional collaboration.

We have invited our friends from the city of Sacramento, the county of Sacramento, the RT board, the SDA board, the SPTC JPA board, legislators, congresspeople, to kind of recreate that historic ride from 1856.

So we're going to meet at the Sac Valley Station.

9.04 a.m.

We'll hop on that light rail train.

We'll get to historic Folsom station at 10 oh four. There will be a historian games prizes

Special guests along the route. You don't want to miss it. So hope you can all come. Thank you

Thank you for doing that

Councilmember Leary

I have a couple things to cover

I'd like to thank chief so lock for coming out walking around the wetlands and the Thomas station

Where we had a significant amount of ladder fuel growing for several years

along the Natoma Station Drive and I'm not sure if he's aware but the the the

brush was cleared all along that strip and I was I understand that that was

through the ladder fuel abatement program I called staff because I wasn't

expecting that to be done so quickly but it looks amazing and I know the

neighborhood is very happy about it thank you and this contributes to the

entire area over there where FOFP has been removing ladder fuel along the bike

trail between Natoma Station Drive all the way over to Folsom Boulevard. The one

of the fun things that we get to do as council members is attend some of the

ribbon cuttings and in the last two weeks I've been to a ribbon cutting

in my district at the newly opened yard house at the Palladio Haraz coffee which is a Yemeni

coffee shop down by Winco and everybody may have already found this out because I know

there's a lot of crowds going in there and Chick-fil-a has been reopened so that's what

I have to report tonight thank you thank you councilmember Kostoski okay I found the most

pedantic thing to tell you all about um earlier this week we are at the end of last week we had

the land use and natural resources meeting down at um sacog and um sb 79 is being implemented

to try and encourage um transit oriented development okay um its underlying objective

is to reduce vehicle miles traveled.

Vehicle miles traveled are the stand-in or proxy

for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

There's a partner bill that passed called AB 130,

or that is winding its way through,

that is going to try and establish a VMT bank

for VMT mitigation for projects.

That has become the hot, interesting topic around land planning, and SACOG is considering setting up a regional VMT bank here.

There are some smaller ones that already exist, and the state is trying to set up a supersized one.

The idea being that as a developer right now who is going to cause an increase in VMT by their project, or at least their CEQA report indicates that they will,

they're responsible for mitigating that effect and usually the way that you mitigate that is by

helping other vmt reducing projects get funded it's difficult in the moment to get those two

things to sync up at the right time the idea of the vmt bank is that you can pay for that

pay that bank and then the bank is available to use for projects that will reduce vmt

remains to be seen if it will work beautifully but there's there's going to be different banks

at different levels for developers to take advantage of and projects that that create

mitigation to take advantage of i think one of the things that we discussed at some length was

are there underlying improvements to the way that sequit challenges may happen because oftentimes

the mitigation strategy is the subject of a lawsuit by parties who would rather not see the

project go forward. At least with regard to the VMT mitigations, the premise here is that if a

statewide bank is the one taking in and endorsing the mitigation strategy, it may reduce the sort

of ability for that to be challenged in court, or at least give it a better standing. Remains to be

seen. So anyway, that is the most nerdy thing I could tell you all about today. That happened.

It was an interesting discussion. You can look at it online. And then the less nerdy thing is that

the last games of the winter sports seasons are happening right now at both high schools. So the

basketball teams from Folsom High and Vista Del Lago have their last games, girls tonight, boys

on Friday for Vista, and other days this week for Folsom High, and then playoffs start. And I think

at least three of the four teams,

boys and girls, soccer and basketball

will end up in the playoffs.

So inexpensive, fantastic entertainment

if you've got nothing better to do.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor?

I have two S's.

One, I want to thank Sari for,

I'm excited to have you as interim city attorney.

I do appreciate that we had a deep bench.

We had one, but that's okay.

I'm really excited to have you

help move our city forward.

So it's been fun having you a part of our conversations already in the last couple weeks.

The other S is the Seahawks.

I heard your comment, Brian.

Not everybody was bored during the Super Bowl.

It wasn't that great at a game the first half, but it got better.

Lifelong Seahawks fans, so I'm super happy that they won the Super Bowl.

And I wouldn't have said that if we had played the 49ers.

So I do know my place.

Thank you.

uh i do want to talk about and congratulate chick-fil-a they actually set the single day

sales record uh for northern california so there was a lot of pent-up demand for chick-fil-a

after that closure uh and i also want to thank uh the person wearing a community service day

shirt in the audience today because it reminded me uh to thank the steering committee they just

started meeting again this year to pull off another fantastic service day always

the third Saturday in September so remember that mark your calendars now

third Saturday in September but also start walking your neighborhoods and

keeping an eye out for projects because that will be the first step that that

steering committee asks for public input on is identifying projects out in the

community that could use some love in September and tonight we are going to

adjourn in memory of Cassidy Sidhu. She was a lifelong Folsom resident who passed away on

January 29th after a 16-year battle with brain cancer. She grew up in Lexington Hills. She

attended Oak Chan Elementary in Folsom Middle, and she graduated from Vista Del Lago in 2016.

Despite not having to use the right side of her body due to side effects from radiation treatment,

Cassidy founded a small floral business in 2020 called Purple Petals. She absolutely loved making

flower arrangements and helping people with their floral needs, even with the use of just

one hand.

Cassidy packed a lot of love and laughter into her 27 years and lived by her favorite

quote, life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the

rain.

We extend our deepest sympathies to Cassidy's parents, Lisa and Sham Sidhu, and her brother

Kate.

And with that, we are adjourned.