Thank you, Madam City Clerk.

I now call this meeting of the Sacramento City Council to order at 5 20 p.m.

And thank you so much for your patience as we uh we got we had a close session that ran a little bit long, had much to discuss.

I appreciate your patience as we've gotten gotten started a little bit late today.

Um Madam City Clerk, will you please call the role?

Thank you.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Councilmember Tao.

Mayor Potem Talamantes.

Councilmember Valenzuela.

Here.

Councilmember Gedda.

Here.

Councilmember Jennings.

Here.

Council Member Vang.

Here.

And Vice Mayor Maple.

I am here.

Okay, Councilmember Tao.

Would you please lead us in the land acknowledgement and the Pledge of Allegiance?

People and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanan people, the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains Mi Walk, the Putwin Wintu peoples and the people of Wilton Racheria, Sacramento's only federal recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous People's History contributions and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I plan to be able to do that.

Pledge Allegiance to 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, Councilmember Tao.

I appreciate you.

Okay.

Madam City Attorney, do we have anything to report out of close session?

No, there's nothing to report out.

Thank you very much.

All right.

So that leads us to our very our first uh special presentation of the evening.

We have Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Um, as a council missed out on the opportunity to really tell our planning staff uh the excellent job that they did when we finally adopted our 2040 general plan update.

Um it is now in effect and effective as 30 days have gone by and I can think of no better way than we really need to recognize and and congratulate our planning staff because not only for the last several years have you been working on the 2040 general plan update, but as well as the climate action and adaptation plan, as well as the age-friendly community action plan.

And I don't think people quite understand how much time and effort goes into it.

Um, but it really sets the stage for city planners and us as a future as council members.

How do we safely continue to develop our community?

How do we reinvest and reduce the the pollution and the air quality and produce more housing and bike-friendly and safer neighborhoods because they all go into the plan of how we can make Sacramento a livable, walkable community?

That really is the envy of the world.

And I think our 2040 general plan, I'd like to brag, is uh kind of the most progressive of that of where we need to go, maybe not in the world, but in the United States.

Um we still, you know, we gotta strive for a little bit more.

Um I'm I am envious of Paris' bike lanes, just saying.

Um, but uh what you guys did over the last couple years of meeting over 4,000 residents over five uh over the past five years in workshops, listening sessions, and meeting in the community, as well as um addressing many of the pressing issues that you've heard over different iterations of this council.

Um and people I don't think understand like five years, you've actually got six new council members, and to come up with a plan that really embodies where it brought all of us together, brought Sacramento together.

How rare is it that when you adopt a general plan that we didn't have a lot of no?

We had yeses, we had people signing up to say yes.

This is where we should be as Sacramento, and this is what we should do.

So um, people don't always recognize what you do and the amount of work you do and how pivotal it is for setting the stage of Sacramento for the next 10 to 20 years to come.

So for me, this is just an and I know for the rest of my colleagues.

Um a way to say thank you, congratulate you.

I hope you have well deserved and planned vacations coming.

Uh it has been an enormous amount of work, and then thank you because I know you met with each council office to get our ideas to work specifically in our communities to make sure things that we know about our areas are addressed.

Um I'd like to call up Remy Mendoza, who is the project manager for the general plan update, to just say a couple of words before we get to take pictures.