And we will call to order the regular meeting for March 10th, 2026.

Will you please call the rule?

Yeah, Councilmember Zakino.

Kozlowski.

Here.

Leary.

Here, Rorbach, Kerr, and Rathel.

Here.

And 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 for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much.

Any agenda updates this evening?

No updates, thank you.

And now's the time where we have business from the floor.

This is the time where uh residents or anyone really can address the city council uh on items that are not on the agenda this evening.

So if you have any of those, grab your blue card and get it filled out and head on down this way.

Any cards turn in this evening?

You have no request to speak this evening.

All right, we have no business from the floor, and we will move on to schedule presentations.

If you'll please call item number one.

Okay, item number one is a resolution of commendation honoring the Folsom Telegraph on the occasion of its 170th anniversary and its distinction as Folsom's oldest business.

And I'll invite the uh telegraph to come on up and join us.

All right, and I'll read out your uh read out your resolution.

Oh, is this on?

Just the at the top, hit the little.

All right, tonight we have a City of Folsom resolution of commendation honoring the Folsom Telegraph on the occasion of its 170th anniversary and distinction as Folsom's oldest business.

So, whereas the Folsom Telegraph stands as a pillar of local journalism, holding the prestigious distinction of being the oldest newspaper in Sacramento County and the fourth oldest weekly publication in the state of California.

And whereas for 170 years, the Folsom Telegraph has served as the steadfast chronicler of our community's story, evolving alongside the city it calls home.

And whereas the publication traces its storied roots back to March 1856, when it was founded as the granite journal by surgeon Dr.

L.

Bradley, beginning a legacy of service that has spanned nearly two centuries.

And whereas the Folsom Telegraph has shown remarkable resilience through the decades, transitioning from a handset operation in a basement at Sutter and Wall Streets to a modern multimedia organization.

And whereas, having once been known as the Wandering Press, due to its many early locations and name changes, including the Folsom dispatch, Mooney's Folsom, and the Folsom Semi-Weekly Telegraph, it ultimately found its permanent identity as the definitive voice of Folsom.

And whereas the Folsom Telegraph has masterfully navigated the roles of the rides of technological change, moving from manual typesetting and the Goss Urbanite Offset Press to the digital frontier of the 1990s and the robust online presence it maintains today.

And whereas the Folsom Telegraph continues to uphold the highest standards of community journalism, providing residents with accurate news, features, and insights that bind our city together.

Now therefore, be it resolved that I, Justin Raithel, mayor of the City of Folsom, on behalf of the Folsom City Council and our residents, do hereby commend and congratulate the Folsom Telegraph for its 170 years of dedicated service and its enduring legacy as the oldest business in Folsom.

We thank the staff, past and present, for their commitment to telling Folsom story.

Congratulations.

And we hope to you know be here for another 170 years.

So thank you for the uh uh invitation and and for the uh commendation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That should take us to our consent calendar.

Look into my colleagues.

Any items to pull this evening.

All right.

Any public comment on any of the consent calendar?

All right.

I'll entertain a motion for the consent calendar.

I'll move to approve the consent calendar.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Councilmember Zakino.

Yes.

Koslowski?

Yes.

Leary.

Leary.

Rorabah.

Yes.

And Raithel.

Yes.

All right.

So that moves us to public hearing.

Please call item number eight.

Yeah.

Item number eight is um a public hearing for ordinance 1361.

This is actually on your council uh on your agenda tonight to be continued.

So we just need a motion to continue the public hearing to March 24th.

I'll move to continue the public hearing to March 24th.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Councilmember Zakino.

Yes.

Kozlowski?

Yes.

Leary.

Yes.

Rorabah.

Yes.

And Raithel.

Yes.

And that takes us to old business.

Please call item number nine.

Item number nine is resolution number one one five five nine.

This is a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute amendment number two to the agreement with Brightview Landscape Services.

This is for landscape maintenance within the landscaping and lighting districts and CFD or community facilities districts.

And this would be extending the agreement for two years.

Good evening, Derek.

Good evening.

Just give it one second.

It will upload here.

Here I got you.

I can present.

There you go.

Yep.

I feel like this thing might have gotten slower.

Yeah.

It's aged, just like all the time.

It's getting tired.

Yeah.

There you go.

Uh good evening, Mayor, members of the council.

I'm Derek Prez, Municipal Landscape Services Manager for the Parks and Recreation Department.

I'll be presenting information on the Brightview Agreement, amendment number two tonight.

Instead of having this item as a consent item tonight, we want to be a transparent present.

This is old business since the agreement had a previous amendment brought before council.

Brideview landscape services is a landscape contractor responsible for providing landscape maintenance in all the landscape and lightning districts and community facility districts in the city of Folsom.

Folsom has 30 L districts that maintain assets that provide a benefit to the residents in the districts.

These assets include landscaping, street lights, monument signage, artwork, mini parks, as well as other assets.

Staff realize that some minor maintenance additions need to be adjusted to the maintenance contract for American River Canyon North number two, America River Canyon North number three, and Willow Springs.

You'll see here on the map.

We've highlighted the areas of American River Canyon here, and Willow Springs is down here in the South.

Folsom has 11 community facilities districts that maintain assets which provide a benefit to the residents in the districts.

Specific committees have been added to CFT 18 to be incorporated in the amendment and the entire area of CFD 23 IA1, which you see here in this map.

This is the complete CFD area right here.

It's highlighted.

When the original agreement was awarded at the June 14th, 2022 City Council meeting, and when the amendment number one was approved at City Council September 26, 2023.

I also want to note that this would be the last extension of this current agreement, and staff is planning to go out for an RFP in the winter of 2027.

Here you can see a list of the assets that were added to this amendment number two.

Some of the notable assets shown here are over 15 acres of streetscape in CFD 18 and over six miles of bike trail.

Now these models of bike trail have been added since 2023, so that's why you see this increase.

The spreadsheet here shows a monthly base cost for all landscaping work performed by Brightview.

An escalator of 3% on the monthly base is included with the remaining two-year extension as seen here.

The escalators only multiplied on the monthly base and not amendment number one and amendment number two.

This shows what the monthly increase for amendment number one was as well as the proposed amendment number two.

And this chart also shows a newly new monthly total as well as the annual projected new total of the agreement.

With that, staff's recommendation is to approve resolution 11559 for the use of L and L and CFD funds for amendment number two and extend the agreement for an additional two years.

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

Questions?

Questions.

All right.

No questions this evening.

Any comment on this item?

You have no request to speak on this item.

All right.

Mr.

Mayor, I'll uh move approval of resolution number one one five five nine.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Okay, councilmember Zakino.

Yes.

Kozlowski?

Yes.

Leary?

Yes.

And Raitel.

Yes.

Thanks for taking the time this evening.

And not putting that on the consent calendar so we all understand where it's coming from.

You're welcome.

All right.

That moves us to new business.

Uh please call item number 10.

Yeah, item number 10 is going to be nomination of the city of Folsom representatives to the Citizens Advisory Committee for Folsom Prison.

So I'm gonna hand down ballots right now.

And just as a quick overview, um California Penal Code mandates that there should be a citizens advisory committee in each city where there is a state prison.

And Folsom participates on this committee in a couple of ways.

The police chief serves as the police department's representative, and the council will also nominate two representatives for the warden's consideration, and then the warden actually makes the final appointments.

So we had um vacancy for our two nominate our two seats, and we advertised and we received an impressive 23 applications to serve on this committee.

And Krista, can I ask a question?

Some of the applicants don't live in the city of Folsom.

Is that not a requirement?

Um that's a great question, Councilmember.

And we had the same question when those came in.

And we took a look at California Penal Code, and that section does not mandate residency requirements.

We checked with the committee liaison at the prison, and he confirmed our interpretation, adding his commentary in alignment with our thinking that Folsom residents would probably be best positioned to serve Folsom's interests, but there is no technical requirement for residency.

Got it.

Okay.

Are any of the applicants here and would like to make a case for themselves?

I don't know if there's any applicants in the room.

We let them know they were not, they were welcome to attend, but not required to attend.

So do we have any applicants in the room?

Yeah, if if you'd like to address the commission and you're in the room, please uh feel free to come on up.

This is a semi-unusual bit of service, and I'm interested to just hear why you're interested.

Hello, my name is Becky Williams.

I um live in the city of Folsom and I am one of your applicants, and I just wanted to thank you for considering um my application.

Um that was it.

But if you have questions, I'm also happy to answer those.

Why would you like to serve in this way?

Um I when I went to school, I um was thinking about going into corrections at that time.

Um graduated from Cal State Language with the criminal justice degree, um, but chose to go a different route.

I worked as a deputy coroner for the county for a while.

Um so I've been in the prison multiple times.

I'm kind of familiar with their operations.

Um, I think it would be great.

Um I think it's necessary for the citizens here to have, you know, some say so, or to be at least be able to communicate with the um the citizens what is going on there and um you know the work that they're doing, and to be able to influence that and be able to be that voice for the citizens.

Marvelous, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

All right, next up.

Hi, I'm Sarah Barr, and I like Becky.

Um, am just a privileged to to be considered for this position.

Um I'm nervous, sorry.

Um Folsom resident, just out of curiosity.

Yeah, I've actually lived in Folsom for 15 years, and we've raised our four children here.

Um, and ironically, Folsom Prison is literally in our backyard.

Um, we just live right off of Natoma Street, so we get to um enjoy the sunsets over Folsom Prison every night.

Um, and I I've worked in I work for UC Davis Health in in legal affairs, so I'm familiar with policy and dealing with leadership, and so I just feel like it's kind of a the nice next step now that our children are out of the house and to get more involved in community.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Thank you so much.

Any other questions?

All right, thank you.

Do we have any other applicants in the room this evening?

All right.

So the council members are completing a ballot that's identical to what you're seeing on the overhead projector here, and we'll read them out.

The purpose of the ballot is not anonymity, but just so that they can be completed and then tallied.

Okay.

All right.

So council member Kozlowski nominates Sarah Barrent.

And Becky Williams.

I see a trend here.

So I'm sorry.

Somebody forgot to put their name on it.

Councilmember Warbaugh.

Votes for Gene Schuman and Jim Silva.

Mayor Rethel votes for Sarah Barrett and Jim Silva.

Councilmember Aquino votes for Furman Fiero and Jim Silva.

And Councilmember Leary votes for Brian Moss and Jean Schumann.

Okay, so it looks like Jim Silva is reappointed, but we do not have a con a majority for the second seat.

So you would vote again unless anybody wants to just verbally change their.

Okay.

And then just so we just vote for one.

Yes, please.

I don't know, I gotta look back at these applications.

Sorry.

I'm crossing out the old ones.

Okay.

Okay, so I just want to make sure I'm reading these correctly.

Okay, so it looks like council member Kozlowski maintained his vote for Sarah Barrett.

That correct?

Okay.

Um council member Leary voted for Gene Schumann again.

Okay.

Council or Vice Mayor Rohrbaugh voted for Jean Schuman.

Councilmember Aquino for Sarah Barrett.

And Mayor Rethel.

Or Sarah Barrett.

Okay.

There's some creative lining up here.

So okay.

So it looks like we have a majority for Sarah Barron.

We have four.

There were three actually.

Yeah, because she added two the other vote.

Was there three more this last time?

You voted for that.

I did this.

I did.

Yeah.

Councilmember Aquino.

And Councilmember Koselski.

Three.

Yep.

Great.

Okay, yeah.

Three new votes.

So it's a nail bitter.

All right.

Congratulations, Sarah.

Uh, congratulations, Jim.

Uh, if you're watching online, Jim.

Uh, thank you both for uh stepping up to serve the community.

Uh and for those that uh were interested in serving or were not selected tonight.

Uh please remember we have landscape and lighting commissions that are in desperate need of folks.

Uh, we're always open there.

So if you'd like to get your foot in the door on a commission, uh please uh sign up to spend more time uh in landscape and lighting uh for the city of Folsom.

Could I just add um I've served on the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Prisons for probably 15 years representing the state senate?

Um but those meetings are open to the public, so anybody can come who wants to.

Um if you want to be put on the distribution list, you're welcome to reach out to me.

My contact info is on the city website, and I'll make sure you're invited to future meetings.

Okay.

Thanks so much.

All right, that brings us to item number 11.

Right.

Item 11 is resolution number one one five six six.

This is a resolution approving the 2050 water forum agreement, authorizing the mayor to sign the agreement and authorizing the city manager to execute the interagency agreement.

Thank you, Krista.

Mayor Rathel, members of the council, Marcus Yasuaki, utilities director.

Uh looks like I'm having some technical difficulties again.

Maybe we need a I'm trying to respect it.

Different engineer, a better engineer up here to get this to work.

I got you.

All right.

Well, we're gonna get Krista a designated engineer.

Uh so good evening.

Uh, this item is for a 2050 water form agreement.

Uh, I'm gonna just go through a quick overview.

This is what I plan to cover.

Uh, I hear there's a big game tonight, so I'll try to get everybody out so that they can go attend if they would like to.

Uh so just a little bit of history back in uh 1993, the city of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento established uh the water forum in the mid-90s, the regional partners came together to identify what kind of our agreement was going to be to mitigate potential legal challenges that existed between uh different uh entities within the region, and then in 2000, the water forum agreement was originally signed.

There was 40 signatories, including the city of Folsom, and then therefore four caucuses a water caucus, an environmental caucus, a business caucus, and a public caucus.

So at that time, there were two co-equal objectives.

One was to provide a reliable and safe water supply for the region out to 2030, and then to second preserve the fishery wildlife, recreational and aesthetic values along the Lower American River.

Uh, those remain in the 2050 agreement, by the way.

Uh, so just some impacts of the water form agreement.

Uh, they did advance a lot of critical infrastructure projects, one of the biggest ones being the Freeport Regional Water Authority project between uh East Bay Municipal Utility District and Sacramento County Water Agency.

Uh, they have led a lot of significant work along the Lower American River, which is geographically defined from Nimbus Reservoir down to the confluence of the American River and the Sacramento River in doing a lot of gravel improvements for spawning habitat for native fish species there.

Uh, they provided a foundational uh, you know, working group and kind of a platform for regional groundwater management and enhance conjunctive use amongst the parties that signed the waterform agreement.

Uh obviously fostered rap rapid and unified responses to drought.

So this was really critical back in the 2012, 2013, 2014 timeframe where they brought a lot of these agencies together to decide how water in conjunction with the Bureau of Reclamation would be managed uh along the Lower American River.

Uh, they are one of the leading scientific voices for uh fish and habitat species along the Lower American River.

A lot of what reclamation does is turn to a lot of the work that uh the water forum does with their consultants on uh the fish species and the habitat.

And then, you know, this last one is pretty critical is creating a strong culture of regional trust and collaboration amongst those four caucuses because it wasn't always that way.

There it was a lot of uh, I wouldn't say fighting, but a lot of difference of opinion of how the area should manage water resources.

So these were the seven original elements of the water forum agreement.

I won't read them all out loud, but if you would uh like to look at them, this is the seven and they're in the staff report.

And you know, the update for the water forum 2050 process began in 2020, and some of the main drivers were just the conditions are different today than they were in the mid-90s, whether it's regulatory, water use efficiency, or state law.

So a lot of this was to capture those changes from the mid-90s to you know the early 2020s.

Uh differing patterns of snowfall and precipitation uh have an impact.

Obviously, updated science and monitoring that is along the lower American River, and then challenges at Folsom Reservoir and what we know now versus uh what was known in the mid-90s.

So the new program areas are identified here.

So you have flows and operations, uh, corridor health, regional water supply sustainability, science monitoring and decision support, and then governance funding and administration.

So this is all uh the foundation of the 2050 agreement.

And the arc across the top is uh RCAP and this the American River Climate Adaptation Program.

So it's what are those four caucuses going to do together to figure out a way to best help our agencies plus reclamation adapt to a changing climate and the impacts that it could possibly have on Folsom Reservoir?

So I I briefly mentioned this, but you know, it's trying to voluntarily link the agencies, the infrastructure, and our policies amongst all the different parties or the caucuses that we're a part of, make water available where it's needed, not always um, you know, that's not what I'd always thought of of where do you need to place the water and at what temperatures?

And that's what the last bullet covers is you can have an abundance of water, but if the temperature isn't correct, that does have an impact on the habitat.

So, how do we best manage uh the cold water pool within Folsom Reservoir?

Now we can't do that alone as agencies, which is why we have an MOU with the Bureau of Reclamation to uh work together to try to strike that balance.

So moving forward, what are we trying to do with RCAP?

Uh one is to improve conjunct and use or enhance conjunctive use.

So, how do we bank groundwater within the region?

Uh, although the city doesn't have groundwater supplies of itself, part of our work is how do we take our surface water and physically put it in the ground with connections to our neighboring agencies?

Um, adding more connections between water suppliers.

So, can we get more agencies that have access to surface water and groundwater connected to each other?

Can we change points of diversion?

So the City of Sacramento, Placer County Water Agency, and some other water districts are looking at diverting water off of the Sacramento River near the airport as opposed to the American River, and typically diversions from the Sacramento River for like municipal and industrial uses have a lot less of an impact on the Sacramento River than it does the American River, just because of the size and the capacity of the water system there.

And then, like I said, just you know, how can we improve or increase local water supplies and expanding conjunctive use and conservation efforts, and then engaging in external and with external partners to refine the operations over time.

So this is a list of the 2050 participants.

Uh the ones with the star biome, those are the original signatories from the 2020, you know, the 2000 agreement.

Won't read them all out loud.

Uh and then there is a brief video that was made, and some of the folks in this video are actually original signatories.

Uh, and we're there in the the 2000 agreement.

So I'm gonna play it real quick.

I think it's about three minutes, so I apologize.

It's a great joy to live in a community where a river runs through it.

It's really one of the greatest resources we have in this region.

It's the crown jewel.

It's the biggest and most important recreational asset of the county of Sacramento.

Gets about eight million visitor users per year.

There's over 2.2 million water users just in this local region.

All of them want water reliability, and all of them want a healthy ecosystem.

Preserving habitat for salmon is really important.

We're doing what we can to help keep a cycle going and support something that's been happening for millions of years, and hopefully it continues to happen in perpetuity.

The first water forum agreement came about like under really contentious times between land developers and environmentalists.

The whole thing was covered by a sort of a community consensus of we're in this together.

The original water farm agreement was consequential to the continued health of the American River.

Now, 25 years later, the warming planet is dominating so much in order to make sure that the river stays healthy.

It's important to update the water forum agreement.

I think Water Forum 2050 is going to help the river by building on the past, but looking toward the future.

It's important to update the agreement now because we've had significant changes since the original agreement in 2000.

There's more people in the region, but we're also facing climate change and the effects that that's going to come.

The new agreement is primarily an extension of the old agreement, but we're going to get into some of the more technical things of how do we really make sure that we protect the river in a serious drought?

And how do we protect the fisheries and the other values of the river, given that we're going to have bigger storms and we're going to have longer droughts.

The five program areas of the waterform 2050 agreement are the flows and operations, corridor health, water supply sustainability, science monitoring and decision support, and governance funding and administration.

Another big part of the agreement is the American River Climate Adaptation Program.

RCAP is a combination of water resource management, water efficiency.

It's infrastructure that's being diversified in the right way.

So the timing of water supplyability is as optimum as you can get for the benefit of this ecosystem as well as the water supply needs of this region.

Groundbreaking.

For the business community, this means certainty.

You have to have a strong water system as the foundation for economic development and growth in a region.

This will help to ensure that we have that stable supply of water while not sacrificing any for the environmental quality of the American River.

It speaks highly of the community itself.

That it has enough shared values that we can commit to working together to care for such a beautiful resource.

The importance of water forum 2050 really highlights what you can get done when you have people who care at the table.

And that was all I have.

And I'll defer to Councilmember Leary as she's been a part of the water form process for uh many years as well, if she would like to add anything.

And uh our recommendation is to approve the resolution so that we can have the mayor sign the agreement when the time comes, uh, which is looking like May 11th, and then routing the interagency agreement for the city manager to sign.

Thank you.

Councilmember Larry.

Um actually, this was an amazing um experience for me.

I was on the water form as a part of the environmental caucus for four years, uh, and also here at the water visioning um uh caucus that Marcus put together for city.

And there are so many people that have expertise and interest in maintaining the quality of the river, the ability to have uh growth uh supported in the region.

And um I I think Marcus went over this, but the four caucuses that were present were the water uh purveyors, um, the environmental caucus, the public caucus, and the business caucus, all with some kind of different but um eventually unified vision of how this was all gonna come together.

And uh a lot of the meetings went long.

There were a lot of subcommittee meetings, there was a lot of different uh disagreements, um some changes in leadership along the way.

Um, but the the group um worked together, and I'm really happy to see all my friends up there from each and every caucus in this uh movie.

Um I'm really happy that Fulsom's data is able to participate.

Marcus did a great job of uh representing the city.

And uh I'm just um I don't know if it's time to make a motion, but I would move we would move forward in signing this uh document.

We'll see if there's any questions uh first for Marcus.

Thanks.

I had a deep dive into this whole topic at SACOG last week.

So uh SACOG is also planning to sign on as a as a as an agency.

Perfect.

No questions.

All right, any public comment?

Yep.

All right.

Uh we have a motion on the table.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All right, please call the roll.

Councilmember Zakino.

Yes.

Koslowski?

Yes.

Leary, yes, or Maythel.

Yes.

Thank you.

And May 11th, uh, in the evening, I believe.

I believe it was 5 p.m.

5 p.m.

Yep, everybody's invited.

Yes, we'll send out uh a formal invite.

We have the save the date, but we'll definitely get that out.

A boat in we're gonna do it in the middle of uh late NOMA.

I think they're doing it at the B Street Theater, somewhere on land.

They missed a big opportunity.

Salmon will be served, though.

Yeah, everybody come on, everybody come on their paddle board and we sign it out in the middle.

We'll do that.

Yeah.

I'll I will ask that salmon be on the minute.

Thanks.

All right, item number 12.

Okay, item number 12 is a resolution directing the finance director to make a transfer of available general fund reserve from the general fund with money going to the IT fund and additional money going to the facility rehab fund and the park and trail maintenance fund.

I'm gonna start ending the previous item with push the button for the next item.

Well, good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

Stacey Tamani, Chief Financial Officer.

This item before you tonight is our annual process to transfer any available reserves from the general fund at the end of the fiscal year into the city's capital renovation and replacement funds.

The reserve policy states that to the extent the general fund reserve accumulates over 20% of general fund expenditures, then the available reserves shall be transferred to the capital renovation and replacement funds.

This transfer is to be made after the completion of the annual audit, and that way we have the most recent uh figures so that we can make this calculation, and we have just finished that audit for fiscal year 2425, and the city's auditor will be out here at your next council meeting to give a report on that audit.

So in this slide here, we have the audited unassigned fund balance on the top line, otherwise known as your reserve, and that for fiscal year 2425 ended the year at 25.3 million dollars.

Per your policy, we need to have 20% of general fund re expenditures in the reserve.

So that calculates out to the 24.6 million dollars you see there.

So the difference between what we have in the unassigned fund balance and your required reserve policy gives us an available reserve of $718,000.

With the approval of this item tonight, you'd be approving staff's recommendation for the $718,000 to be split among three categories.

$50,000 going to the IT equipment fund, $334,000 to the facility rehabilitation fund, and $334,000 to the park and trail maintenance and rehabilitation fund.

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

I'll kick us off.

The difference between six of so technically our facilities fall under parks and rec typically.

So just kind of a little more color on why the two different funds, because they both seems like park and rec funds to me.

The facilities rehabilitation fund might be for city hall, it could be for the police building.

That's kind of the idea is that it'd be more for buildings that are maybe outside of parks and recreation, and then creating the difference here and having the separate parks and trail maintenance fund.

Understood.

Thank you.

Other questions for Stacy this evening.

All right.

Everybody's getting off easy and I had no questions.

Any public comment on this item?

No.

All right.

Thank you so much for your presentation this evening.

I'll entertain a motion.

I'll move resolution number 11567 for approval as presented.

Exacto.

Please call the roll.

Council members Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

Lorba.

Yes.

And Raithel.

Yes.

Please call item number 13.

Item 13 is resolution number 11570.

This is a resolution approving the Parks and Rec Commission's recommendation to name neighborhood park number one, Jack Rabbit Hill Park.

All right, we finally got to the contentious item.

I'm just kidding.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor Rethel and City Council members.

My name is Kate Canonowyn, and I'm a park planner too.

And I'm here to present tonight on the naming of Neighborhood Park One.

So starting off neighborhood park one is located in the Folsom Plan area.

That's the area south of Highway 50.

So looking at this plan, you can see this is East Bidwell, Mangeny Parkway coming across.

This is Prospector Park for respirants.

And then neighborhood park one is at the corner of Empire Ranch Road and Mangeny Parkway.

A little bit of background about this project.

In June of last year, the Parks and Recreation Commission recommended neighborhood park one as a next park to be developed in the plan area.

And then in October, City Council approved funding to initiate the design process and to include this project in the 2025-26 Capital Improvement Plan.

In January and February of this year, we hosted two community meetings to start the community engagement and design process for this park site.

Moving forward, we are refining the master plan.

We'll be bringing that master plan first to the parks and recreation commission and then to city council for approval.

Since we're working on the design of the project right now, this would be a really great time to if a name were to be adopted to incorporate any theming of that name into the overall design of the park.

Some background on our current naming policy.

This is outlined in resolution 10696.

And this resolution goes over appropriate name categories for different types of parks and also the process for selecting a park or facility name.

And so here you can see for neighborhood parks.

If a individual or family donates to that specific parker facility, uh that name is eligible.

That is not the case for neighborhood park one.

This is being fully funded through impact fees.

So the whoops, the name options are gathered from these site-specific names, which include geographical location, outstanding feature design or theme of the park, whether natural geographical or man-made native plants and wildlife, historical significance, such as an event, group, culture, or place.

In August and September of last year, we held a public call for names, and this was the opportunity for the community to interact with the process and provide uh name ideas along with their rationale why they selected those name choices.

Uh so this was advertised on the city's website and on social media.

And over that call for names, we received $131 suggestions from the community.

After the call for names was closed, staff reviewed all of the names and divided them up into different categories.

Uh, first we went through and took out these 16 names that were ineligible.

Most of those were because they didn't fit into the requirements as outlined in the resolution.

The remaining names we separated into these categories, which are based on the site-specific names as outlined in the resolution.

Following our review, we met with the Parks and Recreation Commission Planning and Development Subcommittee twice.

In October, we reviewed the total list of names and also a short list that was created by staff to start considering different names.

After that meeting, there's some adjustments made to that short list.

And we were also asked to do some uh additional research on some of the names.

So in November, we followed up and answered some of the commissioners' questions about the names.

And we gathered information by speaking with community members who had recommended names and other uh community members who live in the area.

So at that subcommittee meeting in November, the they agreed to forward the names Golden Vista Park, Jackrabbit, Hill Park, Hawk Ridge Park, and San Giovini Park to the commission for a public vote to determine the park name.

And this recommendation was consistent with a council members' request for public voting on the name.

This was brought to the Parks and Recreation Commission in December of last year.

And during that commission meeting, it was voted to on a motion to adopt the name Jackrabbit Hill Park to forward to the city council in line with the existing park and facility naming policy.

They also included a note saying that if city council would like the naming policy to be uh revisited to allow for public input or public voting, that that could be considered.

And they also noted alternate choices for names as Golden Vista, Hawkridge, and San Shavini.

So again, the preferred name from the commission is Jackrabbit Hill Park.

A little bit about this name.

Uh this ties in to the local native wildlife and a connection to nature.

The hill relates to the topography of the site, neighborhood park one is quite a hilly site, um, which gives it some great character.

Uh Jackrabbits are native to the Folsom area and they play an important part of their ecosystem.

And then we have this nice quote from a staff member who recommended a jackrabbit name.

I won't read through it, uh, it's also in the staff report.

And I wanted to point out that in our initial review of the 131 name suggestions, we received 10 of those that were either uh containing the word jackrabbit or were other jack or other rabbit uh related names.

So, right from the top it uh came across as a common theme that people were connecting with this park site.

Uh, and through our community engagement, we've received continued interest uh from the community in this name.

A little bit about the alternates.

We have Golden Vista again, uh the Vista tying into the lovely views that you can see from the park site and the golden relating to the color of the landscape and the grasses that you can see uh in the view.

Hawk Ridge is another native wildlife uh name, and then San Javini is a Sanskrit word uh meaning life giving or reviving.

And this name, uh the theme of it will connect to health, wellness, a connection of nature.

Uh, since it is a Sanskrit word, it also has a connection to the local community that lives in and around uh the neighborhood park one site.

So the recommendation for tonight is resolution number 11570, a resolution approving the parks and recreation commission's recommendation to name neighborhood park one Jackrabbit Hill Park.

And thanks for listening.

I can answer any questions you might have.

So one of the ineligible names on the list was a keyno family park.

We did not submit that, I promise you.

Is the door still?

Is the door still open if she makes a large financial contribution?

Because I saw that was number one.

I uh I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

It's it's ineligible, it's on the ineligible list.

I just enjoyed that part of the staff report.

Uh Council Baber Kino, any questions to see if you don't have questions for Kate, I have a question for my colleagues.

Proceed.

Um so I I would like to know if you all would consider um taking the top four names that the commission um has narrowed it down to and putting that out to a public vote.

I personally think it's just a really nice, easy way to involve the public and give them a little bit more say in this process.

Um, I don't believe it violates our policy.

We are the ultimate um decision makers when it comes to the name of the park, and I think if we want to add one more step, um, that's our prerogative.

And so that I just want to put that out there for consideration.

Um, so I have a couple things.

I mean, 130 names, one name submitted are is a really good um input.

I feel like kind of from what the staff report said, and you just articulated that you want to get moving forward with the name.

So I believe that that would just take more staff time.

I think if you want to change the policy, let's do it on the next part.

Um, and then we can give more public notice.

Um, and I'm not sure how you want to do when you say put it out to the public if you're speaking social media.

Yeah, I would just think a poll on social media.

And you know, we don't may not want to do this for every park.

There may be a park that we want to name after a family or something.

But so I again I don't I don't personally think a uh revision to the policy is required.

I'd like to stick with the policy, and if we want to change the policy, then I think that's there's another park that's we're gonna be naming here soon, shortly as well on South of 50.

And I think if we're gonna make a change to a policy, let's do it then, or an adapt adaptation to it.

Um to me, it seems like there's a lot of public input on this.

Um, and um, I feel like that will just lay the process, and it also could be a little bit divisive.

That's where I stand on that one.

Councilmember Leary.

Um, yeah, I agree with um Vicemair Rohrbah.

Um, I there's a lot of work goes into just doing this park planning, and there were a you know, number of public meetings just in park design that were held within the community.

There were um hearings on the design and the development part of the park at the parks commission.

And um uh I like I liked your pointing out that there were 10 rabbit names in there, which shows some consistency in what the neighborhood notices and uh appreciates about the park.

Um the um I'm I take it that the workshops were also open to the public when the um commissioners were looking at the list and narrowing it down.

So there were at least there were several opportunities for the public to have input, and I do like to let the public have input on these things, but I do worry about you know making this process a little more complex and adding more staff time and potentially putting some delay into the final decision making.

Um I've had previous experience on the parks commission, which I've told a number of people about several times, and um when I was on the commission, we made a long list of names, and um, you know, that went to the public had input, the commissioners had input, and then that sort of became the established name list until um all of those names had been used up.

And I understood I um uh talked to the um uh to Kelly Gonzalez this afternoon if some and asked if can't some of these or at least these three names be added to a list and considered for future consideration.

Um it might maybe would be easier early on in the process when you're going through these meetings to have people submit names at at that time and then have an open, you know, when you have the commission meeting, you know, ask people to come and support their uh particular preferred names if if they have an interest in that.

But I I agree that there's been a lot of input already into this project and um it's and actually the um the uh guidelines for for naming were just re-evaluated, I don't know, within the last four or five years, I believe.

So um I'd like to move on with uh with seeing the park name decided upon this evening.

Councilmember Kozowski, any comments or questions for staff?

Uh nothing to add, thank you.

All right.

Uh do we have any public comments?

You have no request to speak on this item.

I had one more thought if you don't mind.

Sure.

Um there's a very real chance we could put these four or narrow it down to two forward, and it's gonna be evenly split online as well.

So I'm not sure if we're gonna get that much further forward.

Yeah, I'll I'll weigh in my thoughts as is um we have a lot of irons in the fire.

We're working on a lot of things, and and I do think we have had significant public input on this.

I I love getting more public input, but I think I honestly think uh any four of those names uh is gonna be exciting uh to move forward.

I don't I don't see necessarily that somebody's gonna look at those names and any one of them and go, oh, it's it doesn't fit, right?

I think all four of those could fit.

Uh and so I'd rather spend our time deciding uh what the next and what the amenities are and and what those other things are.

Um but I'm open to definitely reviewing the process again in the future.

So I will entertain a motion.

Do it.

I'll make a motion to approve resolution one one five seven.

Nope.

That's not the right one.

Oh, five seven zero one one five seven zero.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Council members Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski.

Yes.

Leary.

Yes.

Laura Ba?

Yes.

And Rachel.

Yes.

All right.

That moves us to item number 14.

Okay.

Your last item this evening is item number 14.

This is the resolution number 11574 adopting the fiscal year 2526 mid-year budget for the city.

Did Kate just start the presentation right there before she walked away?

I was like, wow, we're really on it.

Welcome back, Stacey.

Thank you.

Good evening again, Mayor and Council members.

Stacy Tamani, CFO.

Tonight I'm presenting the proposed mid-year budget for fiscal year 24-25.

Just to briefly review the timeline that we've gone through for this fiscal year.

The preliminary fiscal year 25-26 budget was first presented during a budget workshop on May 27th of 2025.

That was followed by a public hearing on June 10th, and the city council adopted the budget on June 24th.

At that time, the general fund was projected to have a deficit of approximately $3 million, which required staff to begin implementing cost saving strategies.

To address the projected deficit, the city implemented two phases of general fund cost saving measures.

Phase one was adopted in September of 2025 and focused primarily on staffing reductions and generated approximately $3 million in savings for fiscal year 24-25 for 25-26, excuse me.

And then phase two, adopted in October of 2025, included service reorganizations and the use of alternative funding sources and generated approximately 1.2 million dollars in savings for this fiscal year with additional ongoing savings in future years.

So this proposed mid-year budget before you tonight reflects the cumulative effect of all the actions that have been taken since the adoption of the preliminary budget.

You can see in this graphic here that the proposed mid-year takes the 2025-26 adopted budget.

It adds the annual encumbrance carry forward.

It adds your council approved budget adjustments that have been approved so far by resolution.

It incorporates the savings generated through the cost savings measures implemented in both phase one and two.

And then on top of all of that, it includes the increases due to the approved MOU agreements that the council approved.

And all of these adjustments get you to your proposed mid-year budget.

So just a little more information on what each of these adjustments are made up of.

The first is that encumbrance carry forward.

It is a significant component of the mid-year budget.

Encumbrances represent purchase orders that were approved during the prior fiscal year, but they weren't fully spent as of June 30th.

So we carry these budgets forward, and that allows the city to complete purchases and maintain those contractual commitments that were already authorized by the city council.

That's included in this mid-year update, and this is a process that happens every year.

The proposed mid-year budget also incorporates all the revenue adjustments and expenditure changes that have been approved by the city council during the fiscal year so far via resolution.

And then of course has the expenditure reductions associated with phase one and phase two cost saving measures and then the MOU adjustments as well.

This slide summarizes the updated general fund revenues and expenditures based on the mid-year adjustments.

So this comes right out of your budget book.

It's page five and six.

So here's page six.

And if we're looking at at the bottom of this page, this is um where the most important information is.

We had projected a three million dollar deficit when the original budget was adopted.

You see that there at the bottom.

And that is where we came in at the with the result of the audit.

And so with the 2526 adopted budget, we were projecting that that unassigned fund balance would go down from 25.3 to 22.3 million dollars.

So $3 million reduction.

With all of the changes that have been implemented now, the cost saving measures that that were a big reduction.

And although that was offset by the approved MOU increases, we're now projecting an increase to our unassigned fund balance by approximately 282,000.

So it's going up to 25.6 million dollars, uh up from the 25.3 that we ended the year with.

As we look ahead to next steps in the budget cycle, the fiscal year 2627 proposed budget will be be presented to the city council on May 26th.

We'll hold a public hearing scheduled for January for June 9th, and then June 23rd will be the opportunity to adopt the fiscal year 2627 operating and capital budget.

So with that, staff does recommend that the city council approve resolution number 11574 adopting this mid-year budget update.

And that concludes my presentation.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Stacey.

Great.

Thank you, Stacy.

Mayor and members of the council, I just wanted to highlight a couple of things.

Appreciate the support that the council provided, you know, during the budget sessions that we had early in the year.

And this is a big step.

I want to uh commend uh our team for all the work that they did to help develop the or uh reorganization plan uh to look at the cost saving measures and to uh help us get it to this point.

I mean, this is something that is really significant, you know.

As we went forward, uh we did our best to try to project the numbers.

Uh, we did our best to uh project the expenditures related to the MOU uh changes and increases in in salary and benefits for our different bargaining groups.

And so for us to come here, we feel pretty confident, uh very confident that we will uh end the fiscal year uh on a positive note.

I would like to highlight that although this is good news, you know, for the budget, I would compare us, you know, it it's been highlighted our budget difficulties over um the last few years.

And and if we were a household, I would say this it's the good news is we can afford the mortgage.

That's great.

The bad news is is we don't have enough funds to maintain the house, right?

So if we we're gonna continue to work and do all the things that we need to do to uh keep the services up and to pay the mortgage, and we're gonna do our very best to uh uh utilize the funds that we do have to make improvements to the house as best we can.

But we'll keep up the council updated and the community updated on how we're doing, and so that's something that we'll have to look look at going forward.

But uh any anyway, I'm really um impressed and pleased with our team for the work that they've done to get to this point, and uh that concludes my remarks.

Thank you, Brian, and and thank you, Stacey uh for your leadership on this.

Uh I know there was a lot of moving pieces here and a lot of hard work uh that went into this and and getting uh these numbers uh for us and working with the different departments.

So I really appreciate the work that went into it.

Uh questions for staff this evening.

Looking to this side.

Councilmember Larry, yeah.

Any other questions?

Vice Mayor Warba?

No, I just have a comment.

Thank you.

I mean, this is very transparent, it's very easy to see and track the information.

I think in our agenda review, you had one adjustment in the 602 or 602.

It doesn't matter.

Um, you explained it.

There was a minor adjustment.

Sure.

If you don't mind, I'll kind of talk about it.

So uh one of the things that I think is helpful with this format as we go through uh it's allowed us to look at the different uh funds and identify are there commingled funds?

So in the what was it, the 602 account?

Uh we have some funds that are allocated that were um transferred in from uh our utility funds.

Correct.

And so the balance uh shows uh an amount uh that is higher than what would be eligible for all the general fund uh uh expenses.

So uh in the upcoming budget cycle, we're gonna create a different account so we can separate all the utility funds and the general fund eligible uh funds.

So that's coming.

Thank you so much.

All right, and we do have a resolution here to adopt uh the fiscal year or mid-year budget.

Any public comment?

No.

All right.

We have no cards this evening.

This might be the first council meeting in years that we've had with no cards.

To move resolution number one one five seven four.

Second.

Second.

Please call the roll.

Council members Aquino.

Yes.

Kozlowski, Leary, yes, Rorva, yes, and Rathel.

Yes.

And thank you for your all your work on this, Stacey.

That was much more clear than the first budget I looked at last year.

And now onto our city manager report.

Uh great.

Thanks.

Uh, just a couple of items.

Uh, first, I want uh just to uh remind the public that the city council had a workshop last Monday.

Appreciate the council attendance.

Uh I found it very beneficial to hear firsthand uh what some of the priorities are from the council members, and uh we will be uh having a follow-up uh meeting at some point in the future.

Staff is in the process of uh compiling all of the priorities that have been established as well as the goals and priorities that the city uh executive management team has put together.

And the goal is to assemble a work plan that we can then later present to the council uh so we can get input on what the overall work plan will be, uh, and we'll get that ratified at a future date.

But thank you for taking the time for that.

Uh I also wanted to share uh it's been uh publicized uh about the the metal shop, the ice hockey rink, uh, you know, choosing to go to Citrus Heights.

And you know, that's that's really disappointing.

I kind of feel like uh in junior high when you like that girl and she doesn't reciprocate, and uh uh that's it hurts.

It hurts.

Um but one of the things I'd like to highlight is and this is a quote in uh one of the publications from uh Joe Wagner, who is um I think the CEO of of the middle shop, and you said uh moving the project to Citrus Heights gives it the advantage of dropping into a developed flat area with his existing infrastructure.

And so I think that's a critical point where we worked really hard to have this uh undeveloped site, you know, prepared for this, and I we can understand why they would want to go there in their ability to get to the marketplace faster.

So although we're extremely disappointed that uh the Meadow Shop is not coming here, uh we wish them the best, and we wish our regional partners, Citrus Heights the best uh with that project going forward.

Uh just reminder uh there's a community survey open for the Benevento Family Park.

Uh there are some uh uh questions about what elements uh the community would like to see in that park.

And so we incur uh encourage folks to uh vote on that.

It will remain open through March 11th, so tomorrow at 5 p.m.

Uh those who want to uh watch the planning or the parks and recreation commission meeting uh where there was a tremendous amount of public involvement in that, uh, they can go to our website at folsom.ca.us forward slash parks commission, and then you can click on the the webcast to see uh what some of the commentary was there.

We also have um we also have some uh library events uh coming up.

We have learn about caring for chickens in Folsom.

Uh that pretty neat.

Uh they're gonna have a presentation that will cover local regulations, basic care tips, and resources for residents interested in raising backyard chickens.

The event will be held in the library meeting room at 2 p.m.

on Saturday, March 28th.

Uh and oh, sorry.

Uh Friends of Folsom Library Book Sale uh will return on March 13th through 15th, uh, featuring thousands of books and media at deeply discounted prices.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you so much.

Councilman, Councilmember Kozleski.

Um, just two quick things.

Um we at SACOG on uh uh Thursday last week, we had the land use and natural resources committee meeting, and that is the um sort of first place where we end up having a deep dive into RENA when the new RENA numbers come out later this year.

So I'm just giving you a long head start on some really exciting presentations we're gonna have as the next two years unfold.

Um the the state um full full uh regional determination is supposed to be delivered to um SACOG for that to then be distributed to all of our individual communities um on or before September 15th.

So mark your calendars.

Um they're gonna ask us to build like you know, I don't know, a hundred thousand affordable um units, and some portion of that will be given to us here in Folsom.

Yeah, as has been always the case.

Um so not to fear though, Folsom has been extremely successful in um putting things in place to uh um meet the spirit of the arena objectives.

Um and we've been more successful than most other communities in actually building affordable housing.

So credit to the staff and all of our predecessors on the council um for setting up uh good uh internal controls, regulations, and objectives.

Um, and then as a um just a general thing, I was hoping to um ask my colleagues and the mayor specifically for sometime later this year, um, if we could consider having a workshop or a discussion about um the sphere of influence and annexation process um for our fair city.

Um we are not right up against being complete with South of 50, but it will be here before you know.

Um, and there is a general imbalance in Folsom between the space that we have available for residential development and the space we have available for, I'm gonna call it light industrial but commercial type development, where it's the shop for your local plumber, or it's potentially larger types of um commercial, light industrial um space.

And I think there is some excellent opportunities on our perimeter to expand the boundaries of the city and um rebalance that.

So that's just a request to my colleagues, and we can talk about that at a later date.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor Roba.

Yeah, I don't have too many updates, except I'll just briefly talk about our meeting that we had with SAC RT and Folsom Cordova School District on Monday morning.

And as many people aware that are watching this, probably or will watch this later.

Um the bus service is going to be cut in South of 50 and a little bit in American River, affecting 190 students.

Um we facilitated a meeting with SAC RT, which I am the um representative on.

And they're willing to make some route adjustments.

However, doing a they would need a whole new route for South of 50, and that would that would be over, I think Henry kind of quoted loosely over 150,000, which is more than the school district is saving by cutting their bus route.

So I think ultimately, I think if the residents are upset about what's happening, they need to go to the Folsom Portover School Board.

Um, and to me, this feels like a priorities priority issue.

Um, this happened a couple years ago with cutting some butt sprouts as well in 2024.

Um so while we're listening here up on the council, um, the authority lies with the school district and their board on how they prioritize their budget.

So um keep reaching out to us.

I know a lot of people because it's a lot it affects your district, Sarah, quite a bit, have reached out to Sarah as well.

But um we're paying attention.

I'm in conversations with our school board members, and um, you know, we'll stay on it.

But again, make sure you make your voice heard to the decision makers that can make a difference on this.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, Councilmember Leary.

Oh, thank you.

Um, I wanted to thank um Councilmember Aquino for putting together a great event last week.

Um, it was a lot of fun.

We had a great turnout, people from Sacramento.

I didn't get to ride the train down and back from uh Sacramento, but um there was uh great turnout.

There were a lot of educational sessions and people that um managed to dress up in period costumes, including myself, got reselled reuse out of one I'd made years ago.

Um so thank you for doing that.

It was uh turned out to be a great event.

Um I did uh attend a League of California Cities uh conference up in Chico on Friday to learn more about the um homeless shelter that they've developed up in Chico, and it's one of those tiny home settings, which um they were actually forced to develop after having uh lawsuit filed against the city for moving people out of campgrounds and not having anywhere to put them.

And it's actually a very well-run unit.

It's a very um expensive to run.

They have about a hundred tiny homes that accommodate two people in each home, but they mostly have only one person.

Uh, they have services presented to them weekly.

They've got uh AA and NA meetings, they've also got shower and laundry units, and um they have had a lot of support from the community for this, and it's very expensive for them to run.

So I wanted to find out what's going on elsewhere since the county is looking at developing these kinds of things, and um it's it's uh certainly not something that any city wants to uh take on by itself.

And if it's some kind of collaborative effort uh that comes up in this region of the county, I think it would be helpful for us to be able to participate in that.

Um at the at the time that they were law, they were sued, they had 885 homeless people in Chico.

Uh and that number has dropped significantly.

Um, and the other thing I wanted to mention, it's sort of along the homeless lines.

I want to thank Officer Senna with the Folsom Police Department for coming out to uh Sheldon Park in Natoma Station on Sunday.

I spent some time with him after getting a number of calls from residents as well as uh uh as the police department uh had a number of calls from residents because it's a very disruptive and threatening uh couple that has been roaming around to various areas.

Um made it uh clear to the community that they would be moving on to another site.

I also was able to speak with Jean Schumann with Jake's Journey Home, who has been trying to work with them in their as of the last report uh I had from her on Sunday.

There was a plan in place for a more permanent move for them uh early this week, and I hope that that all comes through.

But I appreciate that the help of um Officer Senna on site.

Thank you.

Councilmember Aquino.

I just wanted to take an opportunity to thank everybody who helped with the railroad history event last Wednesday.

Um I think overall most of the comments were very positive.

I have a long list of people to thank.

I'm gonna read very quickly and I hope I don't um miss anybody.

But um from the city are um communications department, Parks and Rec, Public Works, Chief Solak, the City Attorney's Office.

Thank you to Lindsay at the Folsom Public Library for doing the story time.

Um, Jocelyn and the docents from the zoo for bringing our two um miniature donkeys.

Um, thank you to Folsom History, Setter Street Theater, the Folsom Telegraph, FHDA, FedRA, PSVRR, RT, Siemens, the Air District, Sierra Northern Railway, Tom Lewis, Kathy Cole, and Jerry Brunneau.

Thank you to the California State Library and Don Gordon for loaning us uh materials to have on display.

Thank you to Brian Greenwald, uh Sonny Mitchell and the Wildwood Roses, Snooks Candies, Willamette Wineworks, Uncle Charlie's Firehouse and Brew, all of the volunteers who took a shift, and most importantly, my husband John, who did anything and everything that I asked him to.

So thank you all.

I'll start with that.

Thank you for organizing such a fun way for us to celebrate our history.

I really did enjoy the train ride down to Sacramento and while doing some decorations with uh Chief Solak there in the back.

I started to help him put decorations, but I quickly we quickly learned that he was much better at putting the decorations together than I was.

So I quickly just got to be a politician and chat with people on the train on the way down while he finished up the decorations.

Uh I did want to report out that we started our Charter Review Commission last week, thanks to Bill Romanelli, who's serving as our chair and Tom A Satuna who's serving as our vice chair.

Uh the next meetings of the Charter Review Commission are going to be on March 19th and April 1st.

Those are open to the public, and we welcome public input at those uh at those times.

Uh and I also want to give a big shout out to the organizers behind Folsom Tech Week.

I got to spend a couple of the days uh last week at Folsom Tech Week, and it was great to see uh an amazing startup community there with med tech, AI tech, you know, startup tech, uh and uh and gov tech there days happening.

Uh great community of people that are creating wonderful things and just a very well organized event.

So already looking forward to to Folsom Tech Week next year.

And uh with that, I'm excited.

This is the first I've heard of the uh chicken presentation, so I got to put that on my calendar.

And I also wanted to give a little congratulations to Officer McCullof uh down there with some exciting news, uh, Detective McCullof.

Congratulations.

And we are adjourned earlier than we have in a long time, 7 44.

Thank you all for being here tonight.