All right, thank you, Madam Clerk. I now call this meeting of the Sacramento City Council

to order at 502 p.m. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll.

Thank you, Councilmember Kaplan. Councilmember Tao.

Mayor Pro Temt, Alamante. Councilmember Valenzuela.

Here. Councilmember Gatta.

Here. Councilmember Jennings.

Here. Councilmember Vang.

Here. I expect the mayor momentarily.

And Vice Mayor Maple.

I am here. Thank you. Councilmember Tao, would you please lead us in the land acknowledgement

and pledge of allegiance?

Yes.

Yes.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgement and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu Valley and

playing me walk put when when to peoples and the people of the Wotun Grand Turria, 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 together today.

And the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous

people, history, contributions and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for 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, Councilmember. Appreciate that.

And Madam City Attorney, do we have anything you report out of closed session?

There's nothing to report out at this time.

Thank you.

All right.

So now moving on to the consent calendar.

Do any members have items that they wish to comment on or pull for a separate hearing?

Okay.

I don't know.

Item number two.

Councilmember Gara.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Okay.

And Councilmember Ta.

Okay.

And Councilmember Ta.

Okay.

And anyone else?

All right.

Seeing none.

Okay.

We'll start first with Councilmember Gara and number two.

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor.

First, I just wanted to thank the public work staff here and all the team.

We know we've put a heavy charge to try to find avenues and locations where we can actually

reduce the speed limits and create roadways that are safer.

I'm very happy to see this report and where we've made an effort to have a legal standard

to be able to not only reduce the speed limits over on full-sum boulevard and fruit-rich

road.

These are two areas where we have schools adjacent to Fort Lane roadways and also sadly

two roadways where we've had vehicle to pedestrian fatalities related to our schools.

And so for me, this is a, you know, having crossed fruit-rich recently for the fire station

open, station 10 open house and seeing what the difficulty that parents and kids go through

in those areas, reducing the speed limit goes a long way.

I also want to thank the staff for considering Cucamanga as an area where we can set that speed

limit so we can have some enforcement.

This is where kids just yesterday, SAC United opened up this fall season for soccer and

making sure that we're also enforcing an area where we have kids crossing Cucamanga

to and from the soccer fields.

And this is as age as young as, you know, four and five and making sure that we have

it safe over at Granite Regional Park.

Again, you know, this is one phase we need to work more on the infrastructure side as

well with speed limits.

And also what I'd like to make sure, and I think staff has mentioned that they'll be working

with law enforcement to do also the enforcement side on the speed limits because the slim speed

limits alone aren't in the slow traffic down.

We need to do the engineering and the enforcement side.

I also want to thank, I know we were looking at the road diet there, but appreciate all the

effort going around rural, worn elementary and also if you be heuristic and on full

some boulevard.

I think that Vice Mayor, I'll go ahead and move the consent calendar and I want appropriate

looking for the vote.

Okay, great.

Okay, we have a motion in a second.

Thank you very much.

Next up we have Councilmember Kaplan on items two and six.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'll speak on item two, but I'd like Councilmember Tao to start on item six since it's in

his district and I just want to make a couple of comments.

Absolutely.

And I too want to commend city staff.

This is a process that we have to look at with lowering our speed limits.

There's a couple in district one.

We know when drivers pay attention and slow down, less likely to result in fatal accidents.

But want to, to the extent possible, I know that AB 43 that passed a couple years ago,

the city is hiring a consultant to look at potentially the data on reducing more speeds

throughout our streets.

And it's a process that the state set up with AB 43.

My concern and hope that the city staff and consultant work on it.

They're looking at data that could be five to ten years old, which means district one

gets left out.

There have been recent incidences of individuals on bikes and just last week.

First day of school, we had a teacher hit and injured almost in the same area we've had

somebody killed.

So, it's really important that while I know we look at data, that we look at the most recent

data because it leaves district one out.

So I would just when the time comes, city manager, that, you know, I hear we've got data

last five to ten years, but to the extent that we can use the most recent, just because

we've seen a significant uptick in people being hit and bikes being hit.

So when these recommendations come back on AB 43, because if I had my way, I'd say lower

and more, even further around our schools, but I know the consultant's working on the

parameters state law gave us, but we need recent data when we do this.

So thank you.

All right.

And Councillor Mertel and item six.

Yes.

Thank you, vice mayor.

First I would like to say thank you to our DCR team, Brian Prejo, and everyone for continuing

on this project in my district.

This project was brought together by our CBOs and Faith Base Group and to serve transitional

HU and this project has been ongoing to serve use, experiencing homelessness in my district.

And I think they've done a great job.

And so I just want to commend city staff for working to extend this lease and get this

plan to help serve our most vulnerable populations in my district.

You're now Councillor Cappellan, item six.

Thank you.

I want to piggyback on that.

We know our transitional age youth, especially those in foster care, most vulnerable of ending

up homeless on our streets and in jail.

One of the things I really want to thank staff as going through and looking at this, the

report did not provide any data on the outcomes of the youth that have been served.

So I am thankful staff did get me that information that I'd just like to share since the launch

of the program.

536 youth have been served with 70% exiting into positive destinations and 203 exiting into

permanent housing.

And since the beginning of this year, a total of 163 youth have been served with 74 exiting

to positive destinations and 69 in permanent housing.

You know, I think it's, we have to highlight, we've got a lot of work to do, but I think

for transparency purposes, but also showing the accomplishments that we're doing in the

city and the good work for our youth in the program that you have for these transitional

age youth.

I just hope that we can keep data up to speed and have this so that the public sees where

our dollars are going.

So thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

And Dr. Item 8, Councillor Motel.

Yes.

One to commend staff on getting, you know, rent free filled renovation going, you know,

especially our part of Yipsey staff definitely working on this project.

I know when I was a council staffer, this was one of the items that, you know, council

has been trying to help out funding for the Deposso Regional Park project.

You know, rent free filled has been a staple in the community for the longest time.

Definitely a place that we want the community to utilize again.

And so I see that, you know, staff has got this project going to bid and we're awarding

the bid tonight and definitely getting this project going.

So I'd like to commend staff for finally getting this project across the finish line and

hope to see, you know, new renovated rent free filled that community can use.

Excellent.

Great comments.

I just wanted to make a quick comment on item 10 myself.

I just, for the Franklin Boulevard complete streets project, wanted to give my sincere gratitude

to senior engineer Megan Johnson and your team for all the hard work on this project.

I know I hope nobody in the community is looking at this and seeing the word rejection and

thinking something bad.

And in fact, I really want to commend staff for their hard work on this and making sure

that things are going along in the right timeline that we're getting the right people

to do the job.

And so I know that takes work and sometimes going back to the drawing board just a little

bit, but I'm really excited to see this project move forward.

It's going to be huge for the community along Franklin Boulevard and just really wanted

to appreciate all the work to date.

And along with my predecessor, Jason, who helped us get the project started as well.

So I just wanted to tell the community don't see the word and get scared.

We're still moving along full steam ahead.

And so with that, Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comment?

Yes, I have three speakers on the consent calendar.

They're first is Isaac Gonzales on item two, Mark Harmon on item two and then David Mark

on soon on item five.

Good evening, Mayor, council members.

My name is Isaac Gonzales.

I'm the Vice Chair of the Active Transportation Commission.

And the founder of Slow Down Sacramento and I just came out tonight to give our strong support

to item two on the tonight's agenda.

The proposal to reestablish and reduce speed limits on key streets across our city is

a critical step forward in our collective effort to make Sacramento's streets safer for

all road users.

Speed is a major contributing factor in the severity of crashes, particularly those

involving pedestrians and cyclists.

By lowering our speed limits on 14 streets and maintaining them on others, we're acknowledging

this reality and taking the necessary action to protect our community.

But speed limit changes alone are not enough.

We must also push for changes to the built environment that will reinforce these lower

speeds and make them more intuitive for drivers.

This is where I hope tactical urbanism can come into play through quick build, cost effective

interventions.

We can mimic other cities who have reached their vision zero goals and make immediate and

demonstrative changes to our streets that complement those speed limit reductions.

Whether narrowing lanes with paint, adding curb extensions or installing temporary roundabouts,

these measures can significantly influence driver behavior and encourage them to slow down

and drive more safely.

They are also extremely cost effective and implementable very quickly.

So by adopting tonight's resolution and also considering tactical urbanism as a companion

strategy, I believe we can do that.

We can create a safer, more livable city for everyone.

So I urge the council not only to prove tonight's item, but to also continue to support initiatives

that bring about real positive changes to Sacramento streets.

Thank you for your time considerations.

And congratulations for the top golf up and stuff that's on us.

Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez.

And I see that councilor Valenzuela?

No, I just had a quick question for the city manager based on that comment.

Thank you, Isaac.

I know we talked about getting, having a discussion about hiring a consultant to design

a quick bill program for the city.

Is that, if you have any updates, you could share on that.

I feel Ryan Moore is in the audience here.

Maybe, could talk about this a little bit here.

I don't know what the status is.

I know we had a conversation about it.

So they, I know enough to know what I don't know.

Okay, that's fair.

Oh, no, there's Dave.

Welcome.

Good evening.

David Drossen, Public Works.

As far as an update on the tactical urbanism, we've gone out and received three different

quotes as far as the work that can be done.

We are reviewing each of them because the work that's described varies and the cost varies.

So we are currently reviewing that and we'll make a decision as far as who we're going

to choose and which way we're going to go.

Awesome.

That's a great update.

I appreciate, David.

Also, I've not gotten the full briefing from the staff yet.

And so we're going to work through and figure out what makes sense to bring forward and I'll

bring it back to the council.

Awesome.

Yeah, I think you're, I appreciate updates on the process because you can tell from our

Active Transportation Commission Vice Chair, it's an item of great interest from our constituents.

So thank you, Dave.

Thank you for the update.

Thanks, Dave.

Next speaker is Mark Harmon.

Following Mark is Richard Markison.

Welcome.

Hi.

Hello.

My name is Mark Harmon and I am a resident of District 7 and I am a strong supporter of item

number two on the agenda tonight.

We must give law enforcement the tools necessary to make our streets safer.

As you guys all know, Sacramento has the highest active transportation death rate in the state

of California.

And so I think, to be honest, I'm tired of having near misses on my bicycle every time I

ride.

So almost every time I ride.

So if we could do something about it, I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Richard Markison on item five.

Good evening, Mayor.

I'm here to talk to you tonight about your proposed contract to monitor your project

labor agreement.

Now, I know Mayor Steinberg and council members, Gara and Jennings were the only current members

of the council who were in office when the PLA was first adopted.

But it's a complete waste of money.

For those of you who are not familiar with the project labor agreement, it's a no-bid

sole source contract for construction labor.

And before any member of the council objects to that characterization, this is not sole source

where you pick a single contractor.

But any contractor who is employed on covered projects has only one source for the labor.

And that's from the constituent unions of the Sierra building trades.

Whether there are a union signatory contractor or not.

PLAs cost taxpayers money.

For instance, the city of Fresno had a five-story parking structure where they rejected all of

the bids because the bids came back at 132% of the engineer's estimate.

So already you're paying somewhere between 18 and 30% more or taxpayers are receiving 18

to 30% less for every tax dollar that you expend.

And now on top of that, you're adding a $300,000 contract to monitor your project labor

agreement.

And one of the objectives and one of the reasons that the building trades tout project

labor agreements is because it eliminates cheating.

Arguably, if it eliminated cheating, you wouldn't need a $300,000 contract in order

to monitor it.

They're wasting taxpayer dollars who receive less for every dollar that they spend on infrastructure.

And we would certainly encourage you to adopt new requirements for fair and open competition

for city consent.

Thank you for your comments.

Vice Mayor, I have no more speakers on consent.

All right.

Thank you.

So I have a motion in a second.

All those in favor please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, abstain?

Passes unanimously.

All right.

No.

Now we're moving on to item 11.

Peace, 2025 peace tree as a landmark on the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural

Resources.

Welcome.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

My name is Henry Fuse, preservation planner with the community development department, presenting

the landmark nomination for 2025 peace street under M24003.

The property owner at 2025 peace street procured a historic environment consultants to draft

historic evaluation of their property, which found the property historically significant

under criterion 3 for the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources.

They sent it to preservation staff.

In March of 2024 and we cycle it through the director and preservation commission process,

which went in June of 2024 and they found it unanimously significant under criterion

3 and recommended it eligible for listing on the Sacramento Register.

So we have received no public comments opposing or supporting the listing besides from the

property owner.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Do we have any public testimony on the item?

I have no public comments on the item.

Councilmember Vellan-Zuella.

Thank you very much.

It's a gorgeous building.

I'm really glad it will have this protection and with that I'll open and close the public

hearing and move the item.

Thanks.

Thank you.

It's a second.

There's a second on the item from Councilmember Kaplan.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

abstain.

Thank you.

That passes.

Let's move to the second historic and cultural resource issue in today's agenda.

Yes.

Next up we have 1049-44 Street which is a similar case.

I should introduce myself again.

Henry Fuse Preservation Planner.

So this was a similar case in District 4 but this is in the deferred area represented

by the mayor.

It's an owner initiated nomination.

They procure historic environment consultants who found the building eligible under criterion

3 for the Sacramento Register.

Similarly, we took it through the process and the Preservation Commission recommended

it eligible in June of 2021-2024 unanimously for under criterion 3.

We have received no public comments opposing the listing and that concludes my presentation.

Thank you.

This is again District 4.

What's that?

Oh, it's the deferred area.

It's the deferred area.

Wow.

Come on.

Come on.

I would happily turn it over to Councilmember.

Oh sure.

Another beautiful building, job well done staff.

I'm happy to open close the public hearing and move the item.

Proud it's in my district, okay?

Also.

May I have no public comment on the item?

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

Very good.

Thank you.

Let's move to item 13 and 14.

Can we take both of these together or then vote on them separately?

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor Steinberg and members of the City Council.

I'm Peter Limos.

I'm your code and housing enforcement chief for the Community Development Department.

I'm here to bring you for you the neighborhood code compliance and housing and dangerous buildings,

case fees and penalties for special assessment and personal obligations.

This is for items 13 and 14.

I would like to present them concurrently and have this effort vote.

Item 13, housing and dangerous building case fees, staff report listed amended total of

184 properties with a total of $364,642 of unpaid fees scheduled for leans against the properties.

Nine properties listed in exhibit A of the staff report have been removed.

Those numbers identified as 2311-11315, 129-134, 247-251, 272-274, 296, 314-315, 337 and 339.

For item 14, the Community Development Department Administrative Pelleties and Neighborhood Code

compliance case fees, staff reports lists of 341 properties with a sum of 868,326 dollars

and 75 cents of unpaid fees and penalties scheduled for special assessment and or personal

obligations.

Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the two resolutions separately to allow the

City to collect the unpaid fees by placing special assessments, levies and impersonal obligations.

Eight of the properties listed in exhibit A of the staff report have been removed from item 14.

They are number 107-110, 129-131-253-284-289-315-318-375-415-416-577.

And I conclude some presentation.

Vice-Chimae.

Oh, just happy to open and close the public hearing and move the item.

An item 13.

An item 13.

Very second, we don't, do we have any, buddy?

We do not.

Okay, it's easy, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

It's a tough job up here, let me tell you.

I also make a motion to open and close the public hearing for item 14 and move the item.

Very good.

Moved and seconded, no public testimony, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

Okay, that passes unanimously.

And that concludes the formal agenda.

Are there council ideas and questions before we end with public testimony and items not

on the agenda?

Start with council member van.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just have a few announcements.

Wanted to announce that tomorrow from 6.30 to 8 o'clock is an open house community info

session regarding the 102 acres.

The staff will be present to share a little bit about the opportunity constraint analysis

and discuss kind of for next steps to bring the item to Mayor and council.

So really encouraging our community members to come out to the info session.

This is run by city staff and after that we are hosting four advocacy session on 102 acres.

And so stay tuned for that.

I'm also wanted to announce that this Thursday at August, August 15th from 5.30 to 8.30.

There's a lot happening at the Paneau Community Center this week.

The city community engagement team is actually hosting their monthly city connect mixer at

the Paneau pool.

There's going to be hot dogs and hamburgers, music, so come through.

That's from 5.30 to 8.30.

And then happening at the same time is also our backpack giveaway at the Paneau Community

Center.

And I'm working with our city staff at EFC to do a backpack giveaway as well 5.30 to 7.30.

So both of these events are happening at the same time.

The pool is going to be super activated and the community center is going to be activated

with backpack giveaways.

And then this Saturday wanted to share that our fire station 7 is happening their open

house.

So a swing by that's a 6500 windom drive from 10 to 12 o'clock.

And then also wanted to share as well right after that the next following day on Sunday the

Cabrillo pool.

It's the last day of the pool season for our Cabrillo pool in the Cabrillo and Medavue

area.

So encouraging folks to come out.

The pool will be open from 1 to 5 and free emissions sponsored by my office.

So encouraging folks to bring out their families and will have popsicles as well.

And then also just wanted to share we discussed this at the racial equity committee meeting.

But I believe there is a listening session happening this week in district 2.

There's going to be a south one happening at the panel community center on August 21.

All the council members should have received a flyer from the racial equity alliance and

council.

So really encouraging you all to share that out to the community.

Feedback from those listening session will inform the resolution that the alliance and

council is developing to bring to mayor and council.

So really encouraging my college to share that information.

And then lastly the end of this month, August 24th at Valley High Park.

We are having our fourth annual Southseq festival.

So there's lots happening in South Sacramento and Medavue and wanted to announce those

events.

Thanks mayor.

Terrific.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem Telemontes.

Thank you mayor.

If you are in Sacramento and you are a dancing queen or king, you like dancing, I invite

you to come celebrate Natoomas with us at the South Tomas Community Center.

We are having an ABBA tribute ban.

It was my parents favorite ban growing up.

So it's something that I absolutely love.

It will be the 14th annual.

It's something that started way before my time.

And I wanted to continue the tradition alive.

So I've invited all the organizations that are near and dear to Natoomas community to this

event.

So please join us.

We also have a COVID ARPA funds available for the Northgate corridor.

I have $200,000 available in storefront beautification projects.

So I encourage all businesses to apply.

The grants are $5,000 up to $15,000.

I'm really trying to just make the Northgate corridor brighter.

We're pretty.

I'm happy people will be able to enjoy it and feel safe at our restaurants.

In addition, I was able to announce Topgolf is coming to the city of Sacramento, which is

really exciting and they chose Natoomas.

So it's been a fun 24 hours.

Thank you.

And so the exact location of it has not been disclosed, but that will be next Wednesday.

From 5.30 to 7.30, there will be renderings, location and Q&A with Topgolf staff.

Adventure Oaks, so please join us for this exciting announcement.

Congratulations.

It's fantastic.

Council member Valenzuela.

Sure.

I was going to start off by announcing the third of a three-part movie series at Cropgar

Museum honoring Gratic Erwurg, but the tickets are sold out.

We're watching Lady Bird on Thursday.

So if you want to hook up, call our office colleagues.

We'll just bring you with us.

This is our plus one.

But starting next Friday, the 23rd is the first of a three-part movie series we're doing

with the Ernesto Dragado Hospitality Group focusing on local sports.

So the next Friday's movie will be in partnership with Sac Republic and we'll be showing Will Ferrell's

movie, Kicking and Screaming.

Highly recommend.

Next one will be with the athletics and the one after that will be with the cane.

So more details coming on our social media this week, but save the date for next Friday.

And then finally, Mr. City Manager, I was just hoping for a status update on a grant's

past presentation discussion item at Council.

And we might just expect that to come forward.

Okay.

I'll let you know.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor Meko.

Thank you, Mayor.

I also want to extend a hearty congratulations to my colleague, Mayor Pro Tem, Tom Montez,

for a really exciting announcement in your district.

I think having top golf comes going to be a huge win not only for district three, but

for the entire community in the region.

So looking forward to playing some games with you there.

Just a few updates or a few announcements on my end.

We have our coffee with Katie Event.

That's this Thursday at 2 p.m. at the new Naked Coffee in Curtis Park at 2901 30th Street.

Please do register on our website so that you can get a spot.

We have 50-minute segments where people can come in and book some time to talk with myself

and my staff about any constituent issues, concerns, questions, or just any ideas that

you have.

So Thursday at 2 p.m.

This Saturday we've got two really fun events on the same day.

10 a.m. at McClatchy Park.

We have celebrate Oak Park.

So it is the biggest event of the year in Oak Park.

We have thousands of people at Shoah.

We've got vendors from all over.

We do this in partnership with the Oak Park Neighborhood Association.

Smud and many, many more.

So please do come by.

That's from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

McClatchy Park.

And then at 11 a.m. if you want to go to the other side of my district, you can go to

the golf course, Terrace Estates, Neighborhood Association.

Their annual ice cream social that's taking place at a Chorley Park.

And again, that starts at 11 a.m.

Come eat some ice cream, come listen to music, and have a good time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor.

This Friday you can start your evening in South Natomas.

It's celebrate Natomas with Councilmember Talamontes.

And when that ends, come up.

Movie District 1 Movie Night.

We are playing Raya and the last dragon at North Natomas Regional Park.

Activities start at 7, but the movie doesn't start until dusk time.

So 8.15.

Plenty of time to show up.

Bring your blankets.

It's going to be a beautiful evening.

We'll have popcorn for everyone.

And then Saturday morning, it is our farmer's market.

But this Saturday I will be joining.

Yoga and coffee.

So come have yoga first, and then a cup of coffee with me.

And if you want to talk to me, and you also want to talk to our mayor from 11 to 12 this

Saturday at the North Natomas Community Center.

So I'll just hop over from the park to the community center.

Our fine mayor is coming to District 1.

And so I invite all residents to come out and talk to them about concerns and issues you

have and things you would like to see for District 1.

Thank you.

I will not be doing yoga by the way.

Councilmember Tao.

This is a couple of announcements for my district.

I'll pick you back on what Councilmember of my mission earlier, Sacramento, racial equity

alliances, hosting a series of three listening sessions.

The first one will be in my district tomorrow.

And the second one will be in District 8.

And then the third one will be on Zoom.

They're looking to meet your residents.

I am told that we have 700 Zoom registrants, but we really want to see people in residents

in person.

And so definitely I encourage everyone to attend our racial equity alliance meeting tomorrow

at Hagoot Community Center, 32-71 Mayor Zoh Bolivar at 6 p.m.

And then next is North Sacramento is getting its first bubble shop.

So we do not have a bubble shop in my district.

And we are getting our first bubble shop.

Bill is bubble shop launching its grant opening 5, 6, 3, Eleanor Avenue.

It's the first ever bubble shop in North Sacramento.

It will offer a diverse menu, pre-trained or wide variety selection of delicious boba drinks

and other treats.

Saturday, August 10th, starting at 10 a.m.

5, 6, 3, Eleanor Avenue.

And then lastly, Grant Union High School will be launching its ribby cutting for its baseball

and softball complex.

And so this is a full remodel of the baseball and softball complex complex.

This Friday, August 16th at 8.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.

So it's come out to see the new revamped high school and new fields.

I believe this is you would have to register ahead and so definitely reach out to the school

district.

But I will be out there and excited to see everyone out there to celebrate the new opening.

And that is all.

Thank you so much.

Councillor Mabry Jennings.

Thank you Mayor.

I want to ask everyone to join District 7.

This Friday, August 16th for our monthly trucks and such, which takes place from 5 to 8 p.m.

at Garcivin Park.

We encourage you to bring your chairs, your blankets, family and friends, join us for some

delicious foods from the food trucks and the smooth jazz sounds from Joel Mazzapherro

under the stars.

And so we're going to have a wonderful time from 5 to 8.

We encourage you to come on out for a great evening and we hope it won't be so hot that

we got to cancel this concert.

So whether it looks like it's going to be nice, 91.

So come on out for a great time.

It's a jazz in the park.

You can't miss.

We canceled in August because it was too hot.

But we won't cancel now because I understand the temperature is going to cooperate.

So come on out for a great time for food and jazz and conversation.

Excellent.

And Council Member Gettah.

Thank you very much.

Mayor, one, I'm excited to participate this weekend and also to thank AT&T and human

IT in a partnership with Sac State with St. John's program for real change.

And also the Roberts Family Development Center.

We'll be giving out 500 laptops to students and families as they get ready for their new

year in this school season and also for their first year in semester at Sac State.

And many of these families have experienced homelessness.

They're moving in their step forward and they're really looking at that next opportunity

in education.

We're excited.

Becudos again to AT&T, human IT and our nonprofit partners and educational partners with

that.

So that will be this Saturday at Sac State.

Singers up.

Thank you.

That's great.

God.

So, so much going on in our community.

North to South, East to West, all the districts.

Really great.

Thank you.

Yes, please.

Councilmember Tao just made a really good point.

We have more Aggies on this dius now than Hornets.

Sorry, Sac State.

You see Davis.

We're winning.

It just sounds like a challenge.

It just shows it only takes.

That's right.

Bruins.

I love it.

We now move to public comments for items not on the formal agenda.

And why don't we take that and we'll adjourn the meeting.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have four speakers.

Guy Stevenson, Tyrone Johnson, Michael Coleman, and Kevin Bolts.

Mayor, City Council members, I have an issue that I want to bring up.

I have a lot of Muslim friends that are from the Middle East, people from Afghanistan,

people from Iraq, from Syria.

And I had a meeting a couple of days ago with a bunch of of them.

And a lot of them feel like that we don't welcome them enough.

And people need to educate people about the Quran, about the religion.

They're really, really humble people.

I love them.

I just had dinner last night at one of them.

And they're just awesome people.

But people are not used to the burkas and the face mask and all that.

And they get picked on.

And they're not terrorists.

And I get tired of people saying, oh, these people that are wearing burkas and all

there from the Middle East are terrorists.

They're not.

They're very humble people.

They love the United States, but they also love their country.

The only thing that I'm addressing this for is because I've witnessed it.

I don't like it.

I don't like anything that it has to do with any hate at all.

No matter what your religion is, what your belief is, you have the right to believe in

what you want to believe in and nobody should beat you up for it.

So that's all I'm asking.

If you could possibly somewhere down the line, maybe have a, some type of program where

you can educate the public on people from the Middle East because there's a big group

of them here.

And they're just really super nice people.

So thank you very much.

And you all have a great night.

I really appreciate you coming.

Thank you.

It's a good message.

Hi, Ron Johnson.

I'm Tairone is Michael Coleman, then Kevin Bolts.

Hello, I respect.

I also want to give respect to formal chief Daniel Hahn, chief Lester.

Today I stand before you as a citizen of Sacramento.

I am the citizen that was given this by the Senate for my bravery.

My understanding is I didn't see the body cam.

So I can't tell you everything.

As I know, as I went into action, and the city said that I saved a couple of officers

from being hurt, I was the only person hurt at the matter.

I need to speak to my counsel, woman, miss my van.

I have since had an ablation.

I have had a stroke.

And I believe that it came from me when I was grabbing the suspect.

I was electrocuted probably about four times.

I was the officer who was chasing the suspect.

I have done some wonderful things in the city.

I work with the UCP right now.

I'm helping children.

I feed hundreds of people a month.

And now I'm requesting some help from the city if possible.

I can't work right now because of I had a fit.

And I had the surgery and so far it's holding up great.

So I'm here today to talk to my counsel.

And my respects to everyone here.

And I'll go out and continue to do great in this city.

In addition to Council Member Wang, we do have Assistant City Manager Mario Lara, who's

happy to talk to you, sir, about what you just described if you'd like that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Next speaker is Michael Coleman and Kevin Bolts.

And so Michael Coleman and Kevin Bolts will be our final speaker this evening.

Mayor Steinberg, Council Member Tau.

I've been in touch with members of your staff in your office and I will continue to be in

touch as time goes along.

In conjunction with the homeless I've developed a proposal.

Actually it was their idea.

I just developed it.

And I would like an opportunity to explain it, enumerate it in detail.

So I look forward to explaining that later.

I know what the city plans to do this week moving forward with respect to the homeless.

And I beg of you not to do this thing.

It will only serve to exacerbate the problem and make it worse.

I know the governor is trying to intimidate and strong arm the cities and counties into

doing things his way.

But there is a better solution.

I know there is a better solution.

And if you will only listen to our plan and review the data and test it out, I think you'll

be surprised just how much money will save the city both in time and resources.

And how well the homeless can govern themselves and be responsible and accountable if we give

them that chance.

And if it works here it will work anywhere.

That's all we're asking.

This is for a chance.

Just give us a chance to explain it and test it out.

Look at the data.

If you don't like it, that's okay.

We won't do it.

But if it works, if you think there's a chance that it could work, I think it's worth

trying out.

It's worth testing.

Nevertheless for those of you that think the governor's mandate is a good idea, I have

just one question.

After they've been forcibly evicted and thrown in jail, had their property confiscated and

find out their pets are dead, what do you think they're going to do when they get out

of jail?

What do you think they're going to do?

Thank you for your comments.

Kevin Bolts.

I would love to discuss how Kamala Harris would not have charged Sonia Masi's police execution

or because she doesn't do that, but I can't talk about that because Israel rapes.

I would love to discuss the boy with Down syndrome who was maldeed death by an IDF dog and during

which muttered his first words and last words, Hullus Habibi, enough my love.

But we can't talk about that because Israel rapes.

I'm talking about well known public and reported on news issues.

It is not an item within the purview of this.

You passed a resolution about Israel and you mentioned sexual assault in that language

which made it the purview of the city council.

I would love to stop interrupting me.

I would love to talk about Abu Al-Khumsan who today picked up birth certificates for

You know what I would love to have a conversation with the far right about how Zionism isn't

Judaism and how the former is bastardizing the latter in the name of British colonialism.

But I can't even have that conversation because Israel rapes.

By the way you guys really are a British colon.

You got non-sys and everything.

You decided anti-Semitism equal anti-Zionism.

You decided that Zionism equal semitism and therefore everything Israel is doing it is

doing in the name of Jews.

You decided that.

You decided Israel is raping Palestinians in the name of Jews and wonder why we call it

the most anti-Semitic thing in existence.

Your disgusting language in the resolution will follow you and haunt you all everywhere

you go.

Ismail Hanir, I ask my mind.

Fuck all y'all.

I'm going to more speak.

I look forward to all of the really good community events that you talked about a few moments

ago and try to get to many as I can as possible.

There's nothing else we are adjourned.