Good afternoon everyone. The Sacramento City Council will please come to order. Would

the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum. Thank you councilmember Tao. Mayor

Pro Tem Telemontes. Councilmember Valenzuela. Here. Vice Mayor Maple. Councilmember Garro

will be absent. Councilmember Jennings. Councilmember Vang. I expect Councilmember

Kaplan momentarily and Mayor Steinberg. I am here at Mayor Pro Tem Telemontes. Would

you please lead us in the landing knowledge and the pledge allegiance. Thank you. Please

rise for the opening acknowledgments and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal

lands. To the regional people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu,

Valley and Plains we walk, Patwain, Win-Toon peoples, and the people of the Wultur, Ranturia,

Sacramento is 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 together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's

indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives. Thank you. Now, salute. 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 are all. Well, a very good afternoon to

you. First let me begin by apologizing to the young people especially. Time is valuable

and we're a little bit late. That's because we had a number of important items in our executive

close session and it took a little longer than maybe we expected. So thank you for your patience.

But we are really excited tonight because this is one of the special meetings of the entire year

where we get to hear from not just the future of the city but the present of the city, young people

who commit themselves, you, to a summer of study, of getting to know one another and of learning

how to solve or make better complicated public policy challenges that we all face.

And I will tell you now this is my eighth summer at City Hall presentation and I know there have

been ideas that have come out of your inspiration, your predecessor's inspiration, and work together

that we have taken up as serious policy matters here at the city. Our fervent hope is that this

experience leads you to a lifetime commitment to public service of some kind where you commit

yourselves to hopefully the Sacramento community but your community and to stand within four people

who need your help on any cause that resonates from your heart and that is part of who you are.

So we can't wait to get started and we're going to listen to the presentations and then there

may be questions and comments after each of the presentations. After all eight presentations

we'll take public comment but we want to hear the public presentation and we want to hear the

presentations from you first and so welcome to your house, Sacramento City Hall.

Who's going first? Do we have an introduction here for yes all of this okay I'm sorry I didn't

sorry I was waiting for consent. Not a consent calendar no. Good evening Mayor, council members,

Mr. City Manager, Madam City Attorney and Madam Clerk. My name is Sarah Muster and I oversee

the civic engagement unit lying within the youth parks and community enrichment department.

I'm delighted to be here this evening to open for the summer at City Hall presentations and introduce

you to the amazing group of high school students which two groups are sitting behind me and the

remaining groups are in room 1119 listening to your comments and your warm welcome Mr. Mayor.

These students attend school at Sac City Unified School Districts, Natomas Unified School District

and Twin Rivers Unified School District. We have 72 participants and 15 peer mentors.

Peer mentors are students returning from last year to help guide this year's participants.

They're in central and mentoring and providing daily encouragement to participants.

Of the 72 participants 14 reside within D1, 16 reside within district two or six excuse me six

reside within district two 10 within district three four within district four seven within

district five six within district six seven within district seven and six within district eight

and finally we have 12 out of class students meeting they reside outside of the city limits and

intend one of the schools that we partner with or they live within the city limits and attend

the school outside of the partnering districts. These students have been with us at City Hall since

June 27th they've run into a few of you and have enjoyed every minute that you've been able to

spend with them and those short five weeks they have spent countless hours learning about local

government civic engagement the city of Sacramento and much more. One of their major program

requirements is to create and present to you a project projects are centered around local

issues that that you feel need more attention. I'll wrap it up in just a minute as I know you're

not here to listen to me but I did want to mention that in addition to the daily classroom

instruction project planning the students were also placed in internships this is the first time

since post pandemic they were placed within community-based organizations throughout the city that

the city grants so our grantees that the office of the youth development administration office

formally OID their grantees as well as various city departments. This program is almost completely

run by youth however the support staff is critical and helping to enrich and experience and