The Folsom City Council held a special meeting on July 14, 2026, at 14:30 UTC. Council members Aquino, Kozlowski, Leary, and Rohrbach were present; Rafel was absent. The meeting featured proclamations, public comments on the zoo sanctuary and a voting rights lawsuit, election-related ballot measures, and a public hearing on historic district amendments. Several items were approved, and item 6 was continued to the next meeting.
City Manager Brian added comments on e-bike enforcement: 19 riders contacted, 8 citations issued, 2 illegal e-motorcycles towed. He also noted the zoo and CVRA case as priorities.
Special meeting, and now we'll move to the uh July 14th City Council meeting of July 14, 2026. Call the order. Council members Aquino here, Kozlowski, Leary, Rohrbach, here, and Rafel is absent. Pledge of allegiance, please stand. Any agenda updates? Yes, we have several uh tonight. So, first, agenda item number six. Staff is is requesting to continue this item to the next meeting of the council, which will be August 11th. Um, and then we have additional material on a number of agenda items. I'll just list them off. And um, I believe all of the material have been provided to the council, but we also have copies on the back table for the public. And those are agenda items number 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 18. Thank you. Um now we go to the section business from the floor, and these are for the public to address anything that's not on the agenda, and you have up to three minutes to speak. And go ahead, Krista. Cool. Okay, we have a few speakers tonight, so I'm gonna call your name and then I'm also gonna let you know who's next to speak. So if you hear your name as next on deck, you can be ready. Our first speaker tonight will be Robert Slater, who will then be followed by Sherry Richter. And I understand this is material to pass out. It is, thank you very much. Thanks. Thank you for the opportunity to address the Folsom City Council. I am Dr. Bob Slater, and I'm here to raise awareness about one of the greatest accomplishments in human history, which has direct ties to the city of Folsom. And I urge the Folsom City Council to issue a proclamation that will create a new day of recognition here in this city to honor the first time humans walked on the moon. Next week it will be the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, July 20th, 1969. And there are meaningful and crucial ties between the historic Apollo 11 mission and Folsom specifically. For example, all of the rocket engines used on all of the stages of the Saturn V rocket that took the astronauts to the moon and brought them safely home again, were designed, built, and tested right here in our area. Many of the people who did that crucial work lived in and around Folsom. That includes people at every level from the shuttle bus drivers, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers, scientists. As just one specific example, consider Larry Basham, who just passed away two years ago. Larry was an engineer whose entire career was at Aerojet starting in 1959. He has a wife Donna lived here on Folsom Lake. He rose through the ranks at Aerojet and became a senior vice president. He met with the NASA astronauts and teams planning the Apollo missions. And fortunately for them, Larry got to them to revise the plan so it would work properly based on the dynamics of the rocket engines built here. Many of the other engineers who also lived in Folsom. And so it's safe to say that without Folsom, there would have been no landing on the moon. It's as simple as that. Lunar landing day is something all of us can celebrate together since it marked the only time in history that we all pulled together as a species to watch such an extraordinary accomplishment. And it can serve to pique the interest of the next generation promoting STEM education in our Folsom schools. The time to do this is now. You're at you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, our next speaker. Okay, our next speaker is Sherry Richter, who will be followed by Michael Bowling. Good evening.