Aggie Square and Anz Infrastructure Financing District Public Financing Authority Meeting Summary - June 25, 2024
Aggie Square and Anz Infrastructure Financing District Public Financing Authority Meeting Summary
The meeting convened at 10:05 a.m. and focused on the annual report and fiscal budget for the Aggie Square Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District. Key updates were provided regarding the Aggie Square development and its anticipated community benefits.
Opening and Introductions
- The meeting was opened by Vice Mayor Maple with a land acknowledgement paying tribute to Sacramento's Indigenous peoples.
- Roll call confirmed the attendance of members, with Tithrington and Gira absent.
Consent Calendar
- The consent calendar was approved unanimously after a motion and second with no public comments received.
Public Comments
- No public comments were received on agenda items.
Discussion Items
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Annual Report on Aggie Square EIFD: Presented by Cini Malkicini from the finance department.
- Adoption of the fiscal year 2324 annual report and fiscal year 2425 budget was proposed.
- Public hearing conducted to gather input on these documents.
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Aggie Square Development Update: Presented by Claire Drummond.
- Overview of the 1.1 million square foot development on 8 acres.
- Focus on community engagement through shared spaces for students, entrepreneurs, and the public.
- Plans for enhanced infrastructure including roads, landscapes, and sustainable development practices were detailed.
- Leasing Update:
- 65% of mixed-use residential space pre-leased to university entities;
- Remaining 35% in negotiation with potential industry partners.
- Emphasis on workforce development and community engagement.
Key Outcomes
- The annual report and budget for Aggie Square were approved unanimously by the authority.
- An invitation for council members to tour Aggie Square was extended to better understand the development and its impact.
- Members expressed interest in training local residents for job opportunities related to Aggie Square.
Meeting Transcript
All right, thank you. I now call this meeting of Aggie Square and Anz Infrastructure Financing District Public Financing Authority meeting to order at 10.05 a.m. Clip, will you please call the rule? Thank you, Vice Mayor. Member Tithrington is absent. Member Hernandez. Member Jennings. Member Gira is chair Gira is absent and Vice Mayor Maple. I am here and I will lead us in the land acknowledgement and picture of allegiance. So please stand if you are able. Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Ballyam Plainsbywalk, put to win two peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous people's history, contribution and lives. Remain standing, Salute and Pledge. 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. All right, thank you. And now we will move on to the consent calendar. Do we have any questions, comments, do we have any public comments? I'm consent. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have no speaker slips on this item. All right, any members? I have read through the consent calendar and I move approval. I have a second. All right, I've got a motion in a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Substain? All right, that passes unanimously. Moving on to our public hearings, item number two, the annual report for the Aggie Square Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District. Physical 2425 Budget. Welcome. Thank you. Good morning, Vice Mayor Maple and members of the PFA. Members of the P, Aggie Square PFA Board, it's good to see you guys. It's only once a year, so I'm glad you guys are here today and we're going to move forward. My name is Cini Malkicini with the finance department. The annual before you is the public hearing on the annual report of the City of Sacramento. Aggie Square Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District. Staff is here to conduct a public hearing and upon conclusion, pass the motion adopting the fiscal year 2324 annual report for the Aggie Square EIFD. Also adopting the fiscal year 2425 Revenue and Expense Budget. Both were included in the agenda packet. The annual reporting requirements mandated under the EIFD statute have been addressed and shown on pages one and two of the annual report. Before we open and close the public hearing, we do have Claire Drummond from Works for Development who will give us a real-time update on the Aggie Square Development. Welcome, Claire. I'll turn the time over to Claire. Thank you. Thank you, Cini. Wow, you don't have to get to see yourself on such big screen like that. I'm looking at the door. Let me see that. So I'm going to screen share. Please let me know when it's showing up on your side. You can see it. We're good. Thank you, my smare. All right, some of you know this very well. So I'll go through the high level, but I do want to hit on some really exciting and important notes about why Aggie Square is doing the work that it's doing and the value that we see that it brings not only to the tenant base, but also to the larger community around Sacramento and specifically around Stockton Boulevard. Aggie Square is a 1.1 million square foot development. It sits on about eight acres of development south of the university at California Davis Health System, the hospital on Stockton Boulevard. That 1.1 million is comprised of five buildings ranging from class A lab space to office classroom workshop community space to mix used residential and of course parking. We would be remiss to deliver this much space and not bring a brand new parking deck to the area. The goal of Aggie Square is really to create a confluence and merge multiple different groups of people to allow access into the incredible research that the university at UC Davis is doing as well as private industry and really creating space for entrepreneurs, community members, individual players, students to come connect, amplify and accelerate their work and new discoveries.
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