All right. Welcome everybody to this 2 p.m. meeting of the Sacramento City Council. I

know I know I now call this meeting to order at 2 o 4 p.m. Madam City clerk will you

please call the roll. Thank you. Councilmember Kaplan. Councilmember Tao. Mayor

Pro Tem Talamantes. Councilmember Valenzuela. Councilmember Gera. Councilmember Jennings.

Councilmember Vang. For the record, Mayor Steinberg will be absent. Vice Mayor Maple,

I am here. Thank you so much. Mayor Pro Tem Talamantes, please leave us no ending

announcement and the pledge of allegiance. Okay. 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, Vowling planes,

Veewalk, Patwin-Wintoon peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria. Sacramento is only

fairly 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

together today and the active practice of acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's

Indigenous people, contributions and lives. Thank you. So let's 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. We thank you for that. All right. At this time we are going to start with a

very special presentation by Council Member Valenzbo. Wonderful. Thank you, colleagues.

It is, you know, honestly for the past few years I've had the honor of presenting,

of working with care, California and many capacities. I guess I just want to start with

a brief indulgence to say, you know, that the care team has worked tirelessly in Sacramento

Legal Services, advocacy, emergency response, since the support pandemic relief on and on,

really responding to crises as they occur. They've been instrumental in providing supports

to folks who are grieving and fighting for their families in Gaza while still living through

their grief. And so I just wanted to start this by genuinely thanking care and the care

team for all that you do for our community and it's really truly been an honor to work

with you on this resolution and so many other things. August is the American Muslim Appreciation

Month and we are so much to appreciate in our Sacramento community, but we do want to highlight

two particular organizations that go above and beyond to ensure our local community's needs

are served. Movement for Life is the first organization. They serve the greater Sacramento

community by providing educational resources to reduce gun violence in the Sacramento area.

Movement for Life was founded by a mom Julius Tibido Hassan of Miss Chad Sabura. I'm sorry

if I mispronounced that, a Muslim faith leader in Sacramento area and the health education

aid and leadership are Heel Palestine organization in Sacramento serves the greater Sacramento

community by providing educational resources related to the health impact of the crisis

in Gaza. Heel Palestine has worked to provide a young boy from Gaza with treatment for his

injuries in the city of Sacramento. These two organizations movement for life and Heel

Palestine are just doing incredible work. It's worked from the heart, it's worked from

the faith and I just truly am so honored that you're here in Sacramento. I'm honored that

you're here with us today to recognize August as a Muslim American Muslim Awareness and Appreciation

Month. So I'd really like to invite up Omar Al-Tamimi and then a mom Julius Tibido Hassan

to come up and my sincere apology served. I mispronounced your name, but please come up

and share a couple of words about the importance of this month. You're welcome here.

Welcome.

We're all choosing, you know, who's lead to follow. You know, thank you all, Council members,

Vice Mayor Maple for signing on to this and you know, reintroducing this. You know,

I want to thank you, Katie, for sorry, Council member of the Council for introducing this

year after year for us. And you know, for us, it's an opportunity to recognize the efforts

of the community, but also to recognize that, you know, just like any other community,

Muslim Americans are part of the Sacramento community. We work for it and, you know, we

want to see a better Sacramento for all. And so yeah, I'll go ahead and start sharing

about heal Palestine. Unfortunately, none of their representatives could be here, but

heal Palestine envisions a future where the youth of Palestine are empowered within health,

education and leadership opportunities that enable and to break barriers, overcome challenges

and build a thriving a United Palestinian society. Their nonprofit is dedicated to providing

essential aid, health care, and educational resources, resources nurturing a generation

of resilient and compassionate leaders who will shape a brighter tomorrow for their communities.

So on wavering commitment to humanitarian work, they aim to foster a culture of hope

and empowerment where every young Palestinian can realize their full potential and contribute

to a prosperous and peaceful future in Palestine. For heal, their job is incredibly, you

know, they take it on humbly. They do what they can to support Palestinian youth. And

in the case of Ahmed, who's a double amputee from Heza, he is 14 years old, is in the Sacramento

region here for treatment to be able to walk again with the aid of prosthetics. He's

working tirelessly to strengthen his body and to work to improve his life. And, you know,

talking with Ahmed Spending Time with Ahmed, it's something that teaches us that no matter,

you know, our background's happiness is still something that can be achieved. He always

shows up with a smile on his face despite the tragedy that he's faced. And no matter what,

he's looking to brighten other people's lives. And so he's a source of inspiration for

us. And we're grateful to heal Palestine for being able to bring him to the Sacramento

region for treatment. I know they've been doing this with several children who have actually

been able to escape and come to America and look for a better life here and look for treatment

here. And so I'll end there, which I wanted to say thank you. And on a more personal

note, I know that, you know, this might be my last one of my last opportunities to say

this. We've been working with you all for many years and some of you may be leaving

towards November or the end of the year, actually. And so just thank you for your continued

partnership. We appreciate each and every one of you in your continued partnership

with our organization and the work that we do in the region. And so just very deep from

the heart. Thank you all. And yeah, I'll go ahead and pass it to Madam Julius to talk

about the important work that he's doing with his organization.

Thank you, brother. Thank you.

I'm Salam al-Akman. That's peace. Peace and blessings be upon you all. So I've done

work with many of you. I'll see you up here. Some of you I haven't had the opportunity

to meet. And some of you I know from when you're in a different working capacity. Congratulations

to those of you who are newly elected. I want to start by saying that these individuals

are the best. So this is movement for life of portion of it. There's several, I don't

know why the sisters on our team. We've diversified our team. Have several women on the team

now, which we thought that was a gap as we transitioned out of advanced peace into movement

for life, but pretty much using the same model. These are the individuals who are serving

the underprivileged, the underserved, and those who have been deemed unworthy and those

who are driving the gun violence. And we feel that's very important. So a round of applause

for these young gentlemen. And our sisters in the work who aren't here, it would definitely

be an omission, a flagrant omission on my part. If I forgot to mention the work and the

unwavering support that we've gotten from Mr. Chad Hewitt and Coying Hang of Sierra

Health Foundation, our partnerships with Heel and Nuhud, our partnerships with a different

path, well space, urban league, Macro partnership. I'm not forgetting anybody. Definitely North

State Building Associates and also Rayleigh's and Moms Demand Action in every town. And Cal

Vib. I want to say this too. For us, Cal Vib, we were hearing about the problems at Doco

and old Sacramento and we were able to work out a budget modification. So these again,

they can take their weekends and be down there and have a presence in downtown Sacramento

and old Sacramento because we didn't have the funding to be down there or the manpower

to be down there. And they're showing up down there every weekend. What's your Friday,

Saturday and Sunday? Saturday and Sunday nights getting a lot of appreciation from the businesses

down there. And from the youth, talking to the youth and explaining to them what they do.

Just come down here, have a good time. Don't vandalize. Don't make this a purge where you're

coming to meet and fight like we had at Doco a while back. But I just want to say too

that looking forward to rebuild in our relationship with you all and being able to work with you

all and funding efforts that are serving those who are driving the gun. We've honest those

who are high at risk. And those who have to have high contact, daily contacts, services

provided for them, mental health services. We need to get back to where we're working

as an ecosystem. We're not taking credit. I know I've probably missed a lot of people who

are contributing to the work. But we have to get back to where we're working within an

ecosystem where we're not stepping out of our lane of expertise. But we're also respected

for our lane of expertise and what we do in the population that we serve. When we get

into this competition and working in silos, which we are right now, we see the results

of it. When we went on a 28 month run of no juvenile homicides, we had an unofficial

ecosystem. It wasn't an official ecosystem, but an unofficial ecosystem where there was

a line of communication. People were being respected for the work that they brought. And

people knew their lanes and were contributing to the safety of Sacramento as a city as a

whole. And so I just want to say that. And hopefully that can be a goal for us to get

back to in the future. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I have to say as an elected

leader, we often get to that point where there are certain folks in our phone that we call

when we just need something we need help. You know, there are certain folks that we call

when it's like, gosh, something happened. Trying to figure out what happened. What do

I do? Omar is one of those folks from care. And so is Imam Julius. There was a shooting

in my district in July. The young girl affected was not Muslim. And he was still one of the

first people I called to try to figure out what was going on to figure out what I could be doing

to better support that community that was impacted by that incident. And so I just truly want to

thank you. Because to me, this is the story of the American Muslim community across our country.

And here in Sacramento, you know, they take care of each other. They take care of their people.

But they also take care of all of us. And it's a sense of it's part of the faith. It's part

of what they believe. It's part of the love that they share. And it's one of many reasons why

I've always been so honored when CARES approached me to sponsor this resolution every year.

It's just one moment every year that we take to appreciate this incredible community of people.

So thank you colleagues for indulging us. And I'd love to have a couple of resolutions to

present all that everybody sat down. So now I'm going to make you stand back up again and come

over here. I'd like to take a photo with your indulgence vice mayor so that we can present days.

And I don't know. Councilmember Jennings, if you want to come with me here. Yeah.

Okay.

Can you get the whole team up?

Yeah. You're going up here. Say hey to everybody.

Say, do you go there? I do either.

Okay. Do you want to go first if you're on the outside? I'm a little.

Do you want to get into? I don't know. I'm going to be in the end of the photo.

It's going to help take it.

See. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm sure.

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We got one, two three.

One two three.

You got one.

One two three.

Thank you.

Good job.

Oh, that's good.

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Oh.

Yeah, I can also send photos.

And we do have airdrop.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

We appreciate all the work that you do in our community.

Thanks, Bob, to see you later.

You know...

All right, colleagues.

We wait for folks to file out.

If you have any items that you would like to speak on consent,

or vote separately, please do punch up,

and we'll give folks just a moment to finish up.

Oh, thank you.

I don't know.

You can still have magic in your cabin.

All right, colleagues.

You said he's been...

Okay.

Carchane.

Yeah, he said he's becoming...

He takes me as he would, but you know, he knows.

We got to pull this guy.

I got to call for him.

I'm going to call for him.

I'm going to call for him.

I'm going to call for him.

I'm going to call for him.

I'm going to call for him.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I like to make a...

Just a comment on items five and item seven.

Okay.

All right.

Councilor Kaplan.

I would like as part of the motion to continue item 11 for one week,

and then speak on seven and twelve.

Okay.

Councilor Valenzuela.

I would also like to speak on seven.

Thank you.

Okay.

Any other members want to speak separately?

Vote separately?

Okay.

Hearing none.

We'll start first with Councilmember Vang on item five.

Thank you, Chair.

I just wanted to take this moment to thank Jason from our park department,

really for all his great work.

This establishment for the CIP is going to go to renovate

two playgrounds in District eight.

That's the Steve Jones park and the Mark Hopkins park that suffered a fire.

And we want to make sure that we get our parks and our playground

and South Sacramento back to park.

So we really just want to take this moment to say thank you to Jason.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you, Jason.

Okay.

Councilmember Guerra on item seven.

No, thank you very much.

I just wanted to thank our staff on item seven here.

I know we had a lot of conversation earlier in the morning about how important it is

to improve our tree canopy, and particularly in South Sacramento and other parts of the city,

in North Sacramento as well, where we have poor air quality,

and also the heat island effect.

The fact that we're going to be working with Green Latinos as one of the nonprofits

to push this and making sure that we're fulfilling the mission of the city of trees,

which I think should still be the name on the water tower,

but that's a different conversation.

I just wanted to thank staff for all their work and everybody involved in this.

So thank you, Vice Mayor.

All right.

Councilmember Vang on item seven.

Thanks, Mayor.

Mayor, mayor sounds great too.

Vice Mayor Chair.

Yeah, definitely wanted to just echo Councilmember Guerra

and really actually want to take this time to think the staff that made this happen.

Rachel and Lucinda, but specifically Rachel,

I know last year originally the request was to apply for five million dollars

and we received one million.

And these dollars actually, according to the scope of work,

is really for tree planting, irrigation system upgrades,

but really for education around tree care and planting and underserved communities,

under canopy communities.

And so I am proud to support this item,

but do want to provide a direction to this item in particular.

I know in the racial equity committee we had a conversation about the plan in particular

around tree canopy, but we'll love a report back on these dollars in particular

and how we're using it equity lens to ensure that the $1 million while it may sound a lot

is a very minor for the work that we need to do.

And so we'd like to, if Rachel, possible, whether that's a memo,

to kind of break down how the $1 million would be spent around tree canopy,

which districts, which neighborhoods, and in particular,

the water irrigation piece, as well.

So we've been able to provide, receive several calls from communities in my neighborhoods

about planting trees, but public work to say we don't have the water infrastructure.

And so now we have a grant and we can really begin some of that work.

And so I wanted to just provide direction for staff to report back whether that's a memo

to Mayor and Council of how those dollars are being spent.

Thank you.

Excellent. Well taken.

Madam.

Okay, got it.

Moving on to Councilmember, I'm Kaplan on item seven.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to piggyback on what Councilmember Vang said,

because I think this is great while I believe we deserve the $5 million,

because we should still be the city of trees.

And we've had a report that says in order to meet our shade canopy requirements,

we need a plan, 25,000 trees on an annual basis,

which kind of is audacious and a lot, but I know every little grant helps,

but one of the things I want included on the memo as we look at, like no offense,

I really think this is great, but when you look at the breakdown,

I have concerns that it's going to cost $100,000 for a parking lot shading guidebook,

which I think we already kind of have in our general plan and our parks plan

and what we've got with. So just concerned with that it would take $100,000 for that,

and then $100,000 to facilitate private development compliance with the city shading ordinance,

because currently in this project, we're scheduled to plant only 500 trees over two years.

I know the city, we asked, we planted 850 trees last year.

We're supposed to plant 25,000 trees to meet our shade canopy,

and that a million dollar grant we only are putting enough money to plant 500 trees

when we're talking about urban forest and the equity lens.

I'm just concerned about where some of the money, where I think the education is great,

the parking lot, redoing some of the shading, the upgrade in Miller Park,

that funding is great, but why it would cost $100,000 for some guidebooks,

where I think the money could be potentially better used in planting more trees.

I just want to understand that, and if that's the case, and I've misunderstood,

to be educated on that, but having this grant only covered the planning of 500 trees,

it's great, good start, but I was hopeful to see a little bit more than that,

since we do have a pretty audacious goal for accomplishing.

Yes. Yes, I was just going to add, I believe there's an actual tree canopy plan

that's going to come to the mayor and council end of the year,

and so that plan, hopefully, we will have a larger conversation around funding

to support our tree canopy. That was a conversation we had at the last racial equity committee,

which I don't believe you were able to make it, because you're out, yeah, no worries.

So I do believe the item is coming back to racial equity committee to talk about potential dollars,

like most of our dollars that support our tree canopy and water irrigation is actually from our lighting district,

and we're going to actually have a conversation about how we're currently spending those dollars,

and can we make adjustment that's within our legal restrictions to figure out from equity lens,

how can we reallocate those dollars?

So one million, this is one grant, this is a small part of a larger conversation of how we should support our tree canopies,

and so I just wanted to share that. That should be coming to mayor and council end of the year,

and that's what I'm hoping for for full dialogue about how we should be spending those dollars

and underserved neighborhoods. Which I think is-

Urban Forestry Plan. Yeah. Which I think is great. That's why I was confused

for the $100,000 for a guidebook, considering we already have that coming to council,

which may cover what the plan is, but I think it deserves like a larger conversation.

Are we duplicating things and maybe it frees up some of the grant money for something else?

But I just want to thank everybody who worked on this, because it is a grant,

and it is a start, but just making sure that we're maximizing the dollars in a way that really is trying to accomplish.

Planning more trees, because you know, all my district is new,

we have the least amount of shade canopy because of all the lack of age of a lot of our trees.

So thank you. Okay. Well, that's a direction we'll take in.

So we'll look forward to including that direction for our report back on the equity lens around this grant,

and then also looking forward to a larger conversation on our urban tree canopy.

So thank you for that. And then council member Kaplanet, I'm 12.

Thank you again, Vice Mayor. I just want-

I'm so sorry. I miss council member Valenzuela, on my own notes.

That was all right. I don't know. Thank you for letting me know.

I just want to hand writing books before we moved on.

And it's brief just to express some sincere gratitude to our senators,

Senator Ashby for this money, for security enhancements at Alder Grove.

You all heard me mention the shooting that happened last month.

Thankfully, a little girl is going to survive against all odds.

She's a true fighter, but it really is endemic of some environmental issues we have over there.

I mean, it's deeper issues than violence, but having improved lighting,

having some cameras is really just going to help deter some of the activity that's unfortunately taking root in this part of my district.

And so I guess I just wanted to say, you know, thanks to Senator Ashby's team if they're watching for making this happen so quickly.

I mean, she called me that next week and said, hey, I think we can make something happen for the community,

which is just incredible. And really want to also thank the city manager's team for moving this quickly.

I saw it on the agenda and told us that you're a and they said, wow, we thought that would be months away.

So thank you for making this come so quickly.

I'm more really excited to get those improvements in so that we can make the community a little bit safer.

Thank you.

A great point. Thank you.

I was getting that councilor Kaplan.

Item 12. Thank you.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

So item 12, I just want to thank everybody that is entering to the Sacramento Transportation Adaptation Plan.

I think it's crucial in the outreach that we're doing really as we look at our bus stops.

What can we do to protect from heat and rain and making our bus stops as safe as possible?

And part of this contract is to go out and talk to the community about how we address the barriers and make these safe places.

I know this is a multi-year process.

I would just like to invite everybody out to District 1 in our farmers market.

District 1 has kind of the limited transportation with SEC RT.

We don't have a lot, but one of the things we do have in the bus stops we have, they're in 100% hot, high temperature areas that are young children tend to lose and that we don't lose the filter and that the equity is needed in the city.

So it is needed in North Natomas to have safe places for our kids to stand that also address climate change as we move forward.

So I really look forward to talking about how we can address the barriers of equity and having safe stops for all of our children and how this project aligns with climate and transportation plans we're adopting in the city of Sacramento.

So the important issues in Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comment on consent calendar?

Yes, Vice Mayor of OneSpeaker, Ryan Masano and item number two.

So I think, see, number two you're talking about.

Global ends policy.

So the city of Sacramento if you walk out the front doors of your chamber needs a lot of work.

So does California, so does America.

So we don't need to be focusing on global initiatives, we don't need to be focusing on Israel, we need to be focusing on Sacramento, crime and all of that.

And Miss Milstein, I don't know why you're up there.

Excuse me, please do not address our staff.

You can address the full council.

Excuse me, don't tell me what to say.

So we need to understand that you're a puppet and we are.

No, it's true, you're a puppet too.

All of you up there are puppets.

Please keep your comments germane to city business.

It is germane to city business.

You're all puppets, including you.

You're the longest serving puppet.

20 years.

It's a big joke.

It's a big circus every single time.

Your Sacramento, B, your television stations, it's a big joke.

Please keep your comments related to city business.

I don't know why you waste your time, you've already lost.

So anyways, as I was saying before, I was rudely interrupted by a puppet.

We have a problem with this globalist agenda, which is related to the UN, which was begun actually in 1919, when after World War I started,

they tried to pass the League of Nations and failed.

And before World War II, the start ended, they had the United Nations in place.

And we're still marching towards this globalist agenda.

And you're an anti-Semi, if you say who's behind it.

It's ridiculous.

But it is going to come to a stop because more people are waking up.

And I'll be back up here for more.

All right.

So I am ready to entertain a motion on the consent calendar with the addition of a continuing item 11 for one week.

All right.

I have a second.

And a second.

Okay. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, Jibstein?

Passes unanimously.

Moving on to item 20, our parks plan 2040.

Welcome.

All right.

Good afternoon.

Vice Mayor, City Council Members.

My name is Jason Weizmann.

I'm the park planning and development manager for the Department of Youth Parks and Community Enrichment.

I'm here today with our senior planner, Dana Repan, to present the parks plan 2040.

We're excited to finally be at this point.

There's been a lot of community input.

So I'd just like to take a moment to thank the community members and the youth that have provided input on the plan to get us to this point.

I'd also like to stop and thank our director, Jackie Beachham, for her leadership and guidance to this long term vision for the department.

And then a special thank you to Dana and our consultant, MIG, that have spent years collecting the data, analyzing and collaborating with community and other departments to ensure this plan represents the city's diverse community.

So this afternoon, we're seeking your support for the adoption of the plan and looking forward to the next steps.

And that I'll hand it over to Dana for presentation on the parks plan 2040.

And we will be available for any questions after the presentation.

Thanks.

Thank you, Jason.

And thank you, Vice Mayor, Council Members.

We have arrived at this final step in the update to the department's park and recreation parks plan.

I'd like to take a few minutes to provide a recap of the development of the parks plan, highlight key aspects of the document with plan recommendations and discuss the next steps.

So what is the parks plan 2040?

In 2019, the department set out to update the 2005 Parks and Recreation Master Plan, which we now call the parks win 2040.

Since this is a department wide plan, the objective of the update was to reflect the changes in the department, its core values, mission and goals, as adopted with the department's 2018 strategic plan.

The plan was developed to document the existing assets of the park and recreation system, including programs and resources.

As a robust community engagement, the plan was to reflect the community needs and priorities as well.

Then set out an equitable and feasible investment strategy for the next 20 years.

As a subsequent project of the city's adopted 2040 general plan update, the plan development corresponded with the general plan's update process and schedule.

The parks plan is guided by the overarching goals and policies of the general plan, including the climate action and adaptation plan, the age-friendly community action plan and the urban forest plan.

It also builds upon previous plans and initiatives from the department.

The four-phase approach to plan development included extensive public engagement, diverse community outreach and advisory feedback with frequent check-ins at each phase.

Through the different activities, events and surveys, we wanted to engage with care holders, youth to older adults and many communities throughout the city.

We heard from thousands of people who expressed their diverse insights into the needs, preferences and priorities for Sacramento's park and recreation system.

An achievement we are proud of that came out of the community engagement strategy is the parks plan 2040 youth outreach program.

It earned the city the 2021 California Park and Recreation Societies Marketing and Communications Award of Excellence.

I would like to highlight key aspects of the parks plan and recommendations for plan implementation.

The parks plan documents the city's inventory of existing parks and facilities to set a baseline for the analysis.

With over 230 parks covering over 40, 4,300 acres of park land, the parks vary by classification, size, levels of development, distribution in the city and types of facilities and amenities they provide.

The regional parks comes in at over 1,600 acres compared to neighborhood parks at 450 acres serving all of Sacramento.

With the baseline inventory completed, we conducted a spatial analysis of a 10 minute walk from residential areas to the nearest public park.

The 10 minute walk metric is an equitable way to look at access.

We found 84% of Sacramento residents live within a 10 minute walk from a park.

While 45 future parks are already planned to serve new residential developments, as depicted in blue, it still leaves about 16% of residents who do not have a park nearby.

They are called Gap areas. A majority of these gap areas are considered vulnerable due to socioeconomic and environmental factors, as depicted in orange and red.

The plan recommends an estimated 66 new parks are needed in existing neighborhoods throughout the city.

And with that, the plan calls for a change in the investment strategy to address equity-based park needs.

Parkland level of service is a metric used to determine the amount of parkland per resident.

It helps us set our park impact fees in Quimby land acquisition goals.

Using the general plan's 2018 population numbers, with 2024 park acreage counts, the city provides 9.16 acres of parkland per 1,000 residents.

Whereas our previous parks and recreation master plan had a level of service goal of 13 acres per 1,000, we have not been able to meet that goal citywide.

We want to protect the precious land that we have now and grow sustainably as the population reaches the 2040 estimates, while balancing out the increased pressure of our system, environmental changes, rising replacement cost, deferred maintenance, and public priorities.

The plan recommends an equitable right sizing of the level of service by shifting the emphasis on the acquisition of large tracks of parkland like regional parks to an emphasis on acquiring more close to home parks, neighborhood and community parkland.

This reduces the level of service to 8.5 acres per 1,000.

Even with this reduction, we estimate that the city will need over 1,000 acres of parkland on top of the existing 4,300 acres of parkland we currently provide.

The acreage includes the future parks in the pipeline and the 66 new parks needed in gap areas.

We also took an inventory of our existing type and number of facilities.

To estimate the type and number of facilities needed by 2040, we considered the needs and priorities of our diverse communities, factoring our current number of facilities, cost to build and operate these facilities, and industry standards.

The main changes are adding more neighborhood and community serving facilities such as playgrounds, splash pads, sports facilities, while maintaining the larger facilities found in regional parks such as community centers, golf courses and pools.

The plans recommended guidelines allow for flexibility as to the exact number and locations of facilities, factoring in community preferences and the funds available to build and maintain them.

A baseline maintenance level of service has been established for all developed and undeveloped parklands.

The department tries to balance the maintenance needs throughout the system.

However, as the city grows and acquires more parkland, installs new facilities and makes improvements.

It adds pressure to the limited park maintenance resources.

While the baseline provides an equal level of service across all parks, the parks plan recommends a more equitable approach to park maintenance and recommends dedicated funding sources.

The plan also inventories the many programs that the department provides such as camps, activities, events, social services.

These program support youth well-being, lifelong recreation, enrichment and community cohesiveness.

New recreation trends, changing demographics and the desire for more inclusive, culturally responsive and health focus programs will affect our programs and services over the next 20 years.

The park plan recommends dedicated funding sources to provide and diversify the range of programs for all ages and abilities.

Major themes and commonalities emerge from the technical analysis and community engagement.

The needs for increased safety, maintenance, health and wellness, accessibility, sustainability and connections to nature, which were the foundation for the development of new standards, guidelines, policies and implementation actions.

Nine key directions are the focus areas of these themes and call for the strategic use of the department's resources to implement the plan's recommendations.

They each include a priority, multiple priority actions with corresponding policies and guidelines to support these actions.

The policies that were developed helped direct the department in the provision of parks, facilities, programs, maintenance and investment and the development and renovation guidelines provide guidance for park acquisition, size, distribution, design, development and renovation of each park type.

What's important to call out here is that the park plan does not analyze all of the city's park specific plans.

It makes recommendations to guide for the type and levels of development of these facilities with some flexibility.

The implementation process is built upon the general plan's vision for the city and the department's core values.

It includes specific actions to take within the short to long term for a new investment strategy, including a park project programming guide update and review of opportunities.

New and revised tools to help the department implement the strategy have been identified and these tools will help the city make decisions through a standardized process with a sustainability and equity lens.

The draft park plan was released for public comment from March 8 through April 8. During that time, the park's project team met with 10 legislative bodies, connected with community based organizations and neighborhood associations and attended events to share the survey flyer.

We received close to 200 comments and responded by revising the draft park plan with technical edits, adding new actions for the key directions, adjusting the level of service and editing policies, replacement of images and updating the park acreage and maps through an amendment.

The final draft park plan with these integrated revisions is available online with executive summaries in English and Spanish.

Today, we're asking for your approval and adoption of the final parks plan 2040 as a subsequent project under the 2040 general plan and an implementation action of the department's 2018 strategic plan.

Once approved, staff will then take the next steps to implement the parks plan as funding is provided specifically with a PIF Nexus study and Quimbee average land value update to correspond with the revised level of service goal.

Today, I want to thank you all and extend my gratitude for the years of support, especially to the mayor who's not here today, vice mayor, council members, the parks and community enrichment commissioners, Sacramento Youth Commissioners, our director Jackie Beacham and the executive team.

The park planning and development services division and our consultant, MIG, our technical advisory or outreach advisory and our youth advisory committee members, the many organizations and park advocates and care holders who provided their input.

And finally to my park project team, past and present Raymond Costantino, Brianna Molland, Jason Weisman and Mollivan Plong.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. We really appreciate the thorough presentation and the many years of hard work by so many people.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comment on this item?

Yes, I have one speaker on this item. Joe Flores.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, city council council member Jennings. My name is Joe Flores. I'm the parks and community enrichment commissioner for district seven and I'm here in favor of the parks plan 2040.

I also wanted to be here on this important milestone day where you accept this plan.

As a commissioner, I've had the unique opportunity to be a part of this plan since its inception and earlier this year when the plan was released, then to be able to have those conversations and liaison with my district seven neighbors and other city advocates at large.

I'm also here. I just want to highlight Dana and her team. I love that thank you slide that she put up there.

The team being flexible fluid. I know it takes many countless hours and blood sweat and tears and bandwidth to produce a document like this for over many, many multiple years.

As a public servant myself, I know what it takes to produce and said document that then gets released out into the public and then have all the comments out there.

I know that Dana and her team made it easy while liaisoning with the community because I literally took her words and when people ask, hey, what about this document?

If you take it from the perspective of amenities, amenities is not just in any one particular area. It's in multiple chapters.

We can list them all day long, but then we also have to list where the proximities of those amenities are and the design of the amenities and then the gaps as Dana said where more amenities need to be done, right?

It highlighted in some of those red heat maps. So if you look and so it was my job to frame it in that sense and then the chapters read beautifully from there.

So again, City Council, I'm in favor of this parks plan also support you accepting this plan. Thank you.

Thank you. And I think really incredible. I think it also speaks volumes to the work by the team that, you know, normally we'll have quite a few folks that want to have that picks here and there.

I think it just shows the amount of hard work that you put in engaging with community and making sure that everybody's voice is heard. So I just really want to appreciate you for that.

And with that, we'll move on to comments from my colleagues. Councillor McGee.

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. Again, thank you also want to send a special thank you to my also parks commissioner, Victoria Vazquez, who has kept me in the loop on this for a good while as well.

Also to thank our city park staff and Jason, you know, thank you. And you, you know, you live in the neighborhood and so not only are you serving us in the city as every part of the city but but your your consumers well.

And so we're all a lot of our parks and so we really appreciate the fourth thought about how many of our park staff from maintenance to planning live and are involved in this.

And it's one of our largest area of assets. And so first again, this is a monumental task. I want to thank everyone for getting to this point and also getting to also some key directions here.

So I'm going to focus on a couple of those. One key direction number seven, very, very thankful for, you know, promoting urban cooling. And if you don't mind, I'd like to see if we could put that map again where we had the the distance for when it takes longer to 10 minutes or longer to get to a park.

I think that's an important conversation piece that we need to be thinking through about access to parks, access to open space and and uses as a as a conversation piece.

So I mean, clearly you could see here that both the district six to parts of five and eight are areas where it takes you at least if not longer to get to to walk to a park.

So when we look at air pollution, it's no surprise that the state has recognized both the South area around fruit rich finger as a community air protection zone and area where we have some of the worst air quality in the region and also in North sec along business AD.

We have some of the worst air protection zone. So when I think about what the park plan and what what this document and what we need to be doing is focusing on that issue of urban cooling because when temperatures rise and we don't have a large tree canopy, then the ozone in the summertime is much more present and prevalent, which means it's difficult to breathe.

And for kids in that area, you have issues with lung development at a very young age with seniors. You have an issue about being able to breathe as well. And so walkability becomes an issue in that area.

And so my concern here comes to one of the recommendations from MIG, which was one of the partners we thanked on that big list here, said recommended a different level of service.

But this plan is being put together now for our approval so we can look at our budget for next year.

And if our maintenance plan is if we said a lower standard, then when we come to have this difficult conversation that we'll have a deficit next year, then in essence we're in my opinion, I feel we're putting ourselves in a position that we're going to only exacerbate the health impacts that are happening to both the public and the public.

And I think that's why we're going to be able to do both the south end of the district and the north end of the city.

So maybe you could discuss a little bit about the level of service in that area because if we are going to be true to one of the key directions, I think what's missing in direction number seven is a direct requirement for the park's department to replace fallen trees or broken trees.

So that's why we're going to be able to do that right now.

Department of utilities or public works if a if a if a tree under their jurisdiction, you know, goes down, we go out and replace it.

But in the parks plan, if a tree goes down in the park, we don't immediately replace it yet.

That's probably the best place for us to try to increase the tree canopy.

So I think we're going to have to go ahead and do that a little bit about that because I do worry about that since we got a nice little letter from the air district.

Thank you to the air district for highlighting trees and urban cooling.

Yeah, so I mean touching on the trees, I guess I mean we've been working closely with public works on the urban forest plan also which has any many intertwining pieces to it that goes with the park's plan too.

So I think that tree canopy, you know, we didn't want to do you know separate efforts or anything.

So a lot of the focus on trees even within parks also falls under that urban forest plan.

So replacing trees, I mean obviously it's important. It just comes down to a funding mechanism, you know.

Where does that funding come from to replace these trees as they get vandalized or they they, you know, just don't survive the heat here in Sacramento.

So I think that's a very good way to provide dedicated irrigation for those trees to give them their best chance of survival in park.

So yeah, I mean we agree trees are important and we want to continue to keep spreading that tree canopy.

But it's really a funding issue.

Okay, so maybe to my question more specifically, why not recognize a higher level of maintenance?

The owners on this council to make the decision later on and how we how we fund that.

But why not recognize at least a higher level of maintenance as suggested by MIG?

Yeah, in the plan there's a there are there's a standard basic baseline which is currently what we're at.

And then there's two levels of potential, you know, expansion for higher maintenance levels.

Obviously that requires additional funding to be allocated to those.

And then there's two kind of different maintenance things.

There's the general maintenance, which is like the mowing of the turf and the empty the trash and cleaning the restrooms.

And then there's the deferred maintenance which we're looking at, you know, over $100 million of deferred maintenance currently.

That's not being addressed because it hasn't been there's no funding for it.

So well, then let me because I don't want to be labor this point here.

I guess I'll go a matter of vice mayor.

I will move the master plan here, but I'd like to move it with the direction that we come back at least on the deferred maintenance when it comes to trees in the tree canopy.

Because we're talking about a 30 year investment here when we lose a tree, if it takes us five years for us to get back to it.

We're really looking at now 10 to 15 years of loss in canopy in there.

So that in itself, and if I quantify the years of health impacts in that amount, now we're starting to add bigger numbers of particulate matter that isn't captured because even a small tree can capture particulate matter.

Even if it's not going to be a 30 foot or 40 foot oak or, you know, an entry.

So those are easier ways for us to immediately make health impacts before everybody tries to get an electric vehicle.

So I'm going to move the item with that direction that we come back and look at the deferred maintenance schedule particularly on the issue of trees in our open space.

Another piece much more localized to districts six in this plan or in this zone that we've gotten into a conversation about parkways and parks.

Parkways are not within the parks department.

There are in the some many of the times some of our department of utilities.

Parkways like Oki Park and Glenbrook Park there in the parks department.

The parkway that I'm concerned about is the one on 21st Avenue, which is when I look at this design here, it's right in the middle of one of the orange and red zones.

And so to me, it seems to that more of a reason for us to be thinking about 15 acres that are in that parkway that used to be the old streetcar line that we buried and now created in open space.

And the fact that we don't put more energy into the 21st Avenue parkway to make it a place for people to use for if we're going to be a age-friendly city, it is definitely not a place for, you know, with all the routes that are sticking out or the holes that are out there that can be used for it's shade.

And the sidewalks on the side of it are not separated sidewalks so they're in the plain sun.

So the only folks who can use the 21st Avenue parkway as a park are those who are able enough to walk and maybe avoid some of the routes that are sticking out.

So I'd like to one continue to hone on this issue that we have 15 acres in District 6 that was, I think, probably the best use when they unfortunately are in the park.

So I think that we have a way, unfortunately, regrettably covered up the old streetcar lines and made it into a parkway.

We should be moving and striving to make that into an actual park.

So I'm going to stop there. That's more of a commentary because as you all know, I'm continuing to push on that aspect of it.

So I'll stop there. Thank you, Vice Mayor, and look forward to coming back and discussing how we address the open space and tree canopy issues in those areas.

I'm going to move forward. Thank you, Councillor McGuera. Just to clarify, you have a motion with the intention of coming back and having more discussions about deferred maintenance, but the plan would move forward as is.

All right. Moving on, Councillor McCapman.

I'm going to move forward. I'm going to move forward.

First, Mayor, I will second, Councilmember Gera's motion because I guess tonight I'm going to talk about a lot of trees and can't fees.

And I apologize. I might be a little verbose because you know how my staff and I like to go through plans.

I want to thank Jackie, park staff, everybody that had a hand in this.

Because when we create plans, it's not only a plan of what we have, but where we need to go as a future and then looking at the gaps.

And how do we address those gaps in an equitable way?

And I think Councilmember Gera, you bring up a good point because I can tell you I spend a lot of time reading our plans.

And this is the city I want to live in. This is when I read our general plan, our parks plan, our urban forest plan, you know, our missing middle.

I read our plans. That's the city I want to live in. I think one of the things that is a constant is what is our financial gap?

How do we fund it? How do we get there?

So as part of, you know, looking at tree canopy when you come back, I think it's, it behooves us to look at what do we have?

What would this cost so that we can really start looking at what can we do?

Because we can make great plans. But the problem is is how do we appropriately implement those plans?

So first I want to say thank you. And then I know and Councilmember Telemonte's nose being district one district three.

We are kind of a master planned community and we have a CFD that homeowners tax themselves that pays for some of our parks and maintenance.

But I want to make it really clear as we move forward with this and in the city we talk about equity.

The amount of money homeowners pay doesn't fully cover the cost for maintenance of our parks even in district one.

So as we look at that gap that that is something that is mindful so that we don't end on the bottom of the barrel just because taxpayers also tax themselves is how do we look at that because that is part of the equity and how do we maintain with what we have?

So I want to look at several themes. Safety, tree canopy, wildlife, diversity, community centers.

And I also have the pleasure of representing parts of Robla which are red and orange.

And it creates a dichotomy of one part of my district tax tax themselves. And another part has significant gaps. And I've seen that.

So on safety in the survey that was conducted by the city 34% of respondents said that safety in the parks is the most pressing concern.

So for me I know that over a four year period there were over 200 criminal incidences that were reported at North Natomas Regional Park.

And we are constantly weekly getting phone calls about the on house sleeping in our bathrooms, needles, another drug paraphernalia being left there.

And how, you know, when I know the city council has emphasized having park rangers but how does that all work together and priority to address these public safety concerns specifically.

So I'm not interested in how policy 5.15 gets implemented to address knowing that there is a good portion of our respondents even if we have the parks.

If those parks are not safe then the neighbors are not going to go. And that's what I hear in certain parts of my district.

What's the use of a park if the community can't use it. And I do support the emphasis on neighborhood parks.

And it's really important that you have the walkability smaller areas that may be more manageable.

So I am supportive of how you're moving forward with that. I get we all want regional community parks but when you look at things, you know, maybe going towards more of a neighborhood emphasis is where we should go.

I know that you're a very canopy, you already know while NG and I love to plant trees and my goal is to see if we can do a hundred this year.

What is that maintenance and stewardship look like specifically 4.5 in the parks plan and I think that's what council member Gare and I were talking about of how can we dig into that a little bit.

and understanding because we've heard about public works

in their infrastructure needs,

but I think it's also addressing where we know

that we need more trees.

It is a public safety, it is a health,

it is so many reasons why we need more tree canopy,

what that's going to look like.

Note of appreciation.

Thank you for including wildlife section

in our parks when you look at section 2.17

of play sports outdoor recreation

and interpretive facilities.

A good portion of my district is within the Natomas Habitat

base in conservancy, and we have 22 native plants

and species, and I can tell you I have a community members

that are put together a petition that want

to see some interpretive signs at the regional park,

and I think it would be really cool, educational-wise,

to explain why these are protected species

and what you find throughout our region,

especially the Swinks and Hawk and the Gardener snake.

So thank you for that diversity.

I've set up before, council member Talamonte

knows this, you know, Natomas Unified School District

is the number one most diverse district in California.

Second in the United States,

Sac City, you know, is number three,

which encompasses a majority of the city of Sacramento.

So we know we live in a very diverse area,

and the fact I think it's very important

that we look at that diversity,

and we look at how we plan our parks.

Is our parks addressing the different nature

of cultural heritage diversity throughout our communities?

I will just say thank you, Jason.

We talked a lot about this.

The first city, Cricket pitch, was built in North Lake,

and can I tell you how wildly popular it is

in that earlier this month,

they just had their first cricket tournament,

and brought in teams from the Greater Sacramento Region

for an all-day event.

So it is something that is very much appreciated

and used within our community.

And that is just an example of how we take a look

at diversity and the impact our parks can have.

So very much thank you for doing that community center.

I think it's really important that we have our community centers

because we know they just promote our neighborhood

and our community, and I get my districts a little different.

And I really just want to say thank you with a pause.

You know, North and the Thomas Aquatic Center, Community Center.

I really appreciate you seeing trying their hardest

to bring in events, but it really is an event center

because it is so expensive to rent,

and it is vastly prohibited versus renting a room

in community centers throughout the rest of the city,

doesn't cost that much in their several rooms you can rent.

And how we look at that, and potentially remedy that,

that is something I'm hearing a lot.

And in North and the Thomas, there isn't a,

there is a one-off of making it a community center,

but it really is an event space that costs thousands

of dollars to rent.

And then, and I say this because 30% of the population

in the city is youth and seniors,

and those community centers need some,

our teens need those spaces to go to.

And then I want to give a plug of support

because my district abuts up to Robla Community Park.

There has been planned a clubhouse kind of community space

there at Robla for over two decades.

That is in a desert area, that is in a disadvantaged area.

It shouldn't take two decades to get something planned

in an area like that.

And so I just want to thank our Yipsey staff

for all that they've done, but that is, you know,

a priority of something I'm very supportive of working

with my colleague in D2 to make sure that we see that happens

because when you have a regional community park,

it deserves, it deserves to grow what was planned

in two decades of not having a bathroom

and not having a community space

in a disadvantaged neighborhood is something that I hope

to see how we can remedy sooner rather than later.

But again, thank you.

Thank you for all that you've done.

I know I said a lot, but I wanted to add context

to everything that you guys in our parks department

and Yipsey and our commission has done really means a lot

and I just want to see how do we create the plan

to implement such this is the city that the plan makes

it wanted to be.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Great comments, thank you.

Next up I have Council Member Jennings.

Thank you.

I'll pile on with thank yous from our Council Member Kaplan

for all the work that you've done over all this period of time

and especially also to Director Beecham

for the incredible job of making this happen.

My plan was to give the second to this,

but it's already been done.

So I wanted to ask the clerk if this is a public hearing,

should we not open and close it?

And so I will do that part since I don't think that part was done.

So I will, that's okay.

So I will open and close the public hearing

and I'll be the third vote in there.

But I just wanted to let you know that the 2040 parks plan

that I read is consistent with the 2040 general plan

and it's guiding principles and the plan is well thought out

and I think it's a great plan for the day and for the future

and I just want to do it.

You know that, I felt that very strongly.

I really, too want to talk about the tree canopy

and the referred maintenance.

I want to talk about that.

As my colleague has said, he wants to talk about that.

But I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate

that you're applying the Sacramento equity

explored design tool in scoring priority projects.

That's important and I think, you know,

if we keep doing that, it will have many benefits.

And also just something that I've been working on since

I've been on the council is the trail connections

and the fact that we are collaborating with departments

and with the county in order to make sure

that those trail connections come forward

so that we have the ability to not only sit on a porch

and have neighbors that we can talk to

but we can ride through a trail

and connect to a whole another community.

So it's just an extension of a porch

if you can visualize that in your mind.

So just great job on that as well.

So I just wanted to let you know I thought

this was an incredible job well done.

I just wanted to thank you for your efforts.

Thank you.

Excellent thoughts.

All right.

And then moving on to Councilor Mattel.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Just want to echo my colleagues to say,

you know, thank you for staff for a job well done.

I read through the general plan for ParksPath for 2040

and you know, I'm excited to see the direction

that it's going, you know, especially in corporate

what Councilor Anderson said, the seed equity piece

to really look at projects and judging that.

You look at the map that was shown earlier, you know,

my district is mostly in red when it comes to parks.

So there's a, you know, my community is old.

It is not that the city parks departments aren't doing

a great job in the area, but my district is, you know,

master, not master plan, but plan a hundred years ago.

And, you know, I think, you know, moving forward,

the discussion should be looking at how do we activate,

you know, spaces within our district that's vacant,

but include that within parks so that community has access

to neighborhood parks as well because certain neighborhoods,

you know, we lack access to a nearby park as well.

But then I think Councilor McGarris point

of looking at the regional trails as well, you know,

we have Sacramento Northern, Sacramento back trail

that goes through all of my district that can be used

as regional parks in the future as well as more shade

canopies, trees and playgrounds for the area as well.

And then if you look at one of areas is our Robla area, right?

We have four community centers in our district

where it's heavily underutilized.

And then we have certain areas that are newer

and are seeking a clubhouse.

And they've been, Councilor Kaplan mentioned it,

working on it for 20 years.

And, you know, how do we conceptualize,

visualize that within the city so that

we get ACIP or we get a Robla park phase five, you know.

And I think we have a phase four working now for the back rooms.

How do we get to that Robla park phase five

and look at gap funding or something.

But then I do believe this plan will allow us to do that

with the equity piece.

And that is why I say staff has done such a great job

with the 24 general parks plan.

And so I would just like to thank director Beecham

and the whole staff for this plan.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Temt-Lamontes.

Thank you, Ice Maire.

And thank you so much to you and your team

for all your work on this, all the outreach,

the designs, the drawings that kids submitted.

I mean, you guys really went above and beyond

to make sure that the community heard from you

and that we were able to submit comments and feedback.

And I think I had like five briefings on this.

And each single time I was like, hey, did you incorporate

feedback from our community?

So really do appreciate your work on this.

We have a desperate need for more parks,

more community center hours, more staffing.

And as we all know, a very limited budget.

And I know that that's one of the biggest challenges

that you and I mean the city of Sacramento currently face.

So I am very just cognizant of that.

As we move forward, I think it's like,

we have an great ambitious plan,

but we also have no funding that's attached to it.

So it's important for people to recognize

the circumstances that we're dealing with here.

I do believe that our parks and our green spaces

are one of the few places that are free and open to all people

regardless of age, race and come and more.

Many times people with higher incomes get to go to Disneyland,

go to Mozad, go to different places.

And here are community centers and our parks is where people go

for a safe, fun time with their families to do picnics.

And that's somewhere where I grew up.

I spent a lot of time at Jensen Park in Willis, California.

And so I do believe that these programs

are vital to mental health and physical wellbeing.

So, you know, but as we know, we have inequities.

And our city of Sacramento parks dashboard shows that.

And these inequities are in spaces and at people,

you know, can't travel to.

If we have regional amenities, that's wonderful,

but it's important that people don't have access

to transportation, have the ability to access it.

And for what cost?

And so that's something to keep in mind as we move forward.

We got to make sure that it's accessible.

This summer, we bought a lot of passes

so that we can take kids to the North Atomas Aquatic Facility.

And we distributed them to the community in South Atomas

and we said, hey, you can use this path.

You can go there for free and the excitement on the kids' faces

was just wonderful to see.

We do have inequities on Northgate corridor.

We have three schools and one park,

despite being two miles long,

and our Northgate park right now has been missing a door

for the last few years.

And I know that you and your team

aren't really hard at work on it

and it's taken some time because of your workload.

So I do want to acknowledge that.

And you know, that's an issue that's happening across the city.

As we have funds that become available

for the city of Sacramento,

I think it's really important to really use that equity

dashboard and see where those funds need to be allocated.

And as every single contract comes into the city of Sacramento,

we on this dius need to be really mindful of that.

Last week, I did a tour of District 2 with Councilmember Shontal

and I really do believe a District 2 needs

all the love, support, and resources

from the city of Sacramento.

Like we need to invest millions, millions of dollars

into this community to get it up to par

with the rest of the districts.

And I'm committed to you, our city of Sacramento staff,

to use every tool to invest in our parks

and our natural resources.

So if that means looking for funding, opportunity,

seeking literature, recommendation,

trying to find private investments,

like you have my commitment as a councilmember

to help you on that.

And for anyone that's interested,

we do have Measure L funding,

which is our Sacramento Children's Fund.

And there's about $15 million or so

that's currently on hold for our committee

and our commission to make recommendations for.

But this could be an avenue of someone's things

that parks are the best places for kids to be at,

to go to these commission meetings

and advocate for those funds to be dedicated in that area.

But I do want to thank you for your work

on the Nino's Parkway.

We've invested money into the parkway

to connect South Natoa,

so I do want to thank you for that.

And we have a contract out

and we're going to be able to get

safe pedestrian crossing on San Juan.

And I do want to thank you for your work on Bannon Creek.

I know it's a really special parkway for my district

and want to thank you and the contractors

and the committee members that put so much work into it.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I'm here for Tim.

And at the risk of sounding redundant,

I am also going to thank you.

This is an incredible plan.

And it's not often that I want, I don't hear much,

but in a good way from some constituents,

but also our district park's commissioner

was over the moon about this work.

And I think that's a testament to everything

that you've done.

And again, your communications with the community

making sure that that gets inputted into the plan

is really important.

And I also just want to echo, I think,

what every single one of my colleagues

said are on equity.

That it's, I just really appreciate that focus.

And we talk about it a lot.

And people talk about it a lot all over the state in the US.

And I'm just looking at us as a city,

putting that into action and saying,

we're going to have this as part of our plans

and our tools.

We're going to be thinking about this as we're spending money.

We're going to keep it top of mind.

And I think that is just a really important step

that we have taken and really grateful for it.

And of course, you know, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention,

of course, I represent an area that really struggles

in terms of having access to resources

like community centers.

And I have some neighborhoods in my district

that don't have a park.

And those are challenges.

And particularly because they didn't

be in very low income areas.

But I know that we're all committed to that.

And I've heard from many of my colleagues

that that's an area of focus.

And so I look forward to working on that with you

in the years to come.

And so with that seeing nothing else on this item,

do all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

We're obscene.

That passes unanimously.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor May I read a rate?

Council member Jennings opened close to public hearing.

Council member Gara made the motion.

And Council member Kaplan II.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And with that, we are moving on to item 21.

And our Madam City Auditor.

Interim City Auditor.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Hello, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council.

I'm Frishtar Rarri, the Interim City Auditor.

With me today is Jordan Swini,

who is primarily responsible for this project.

And I don't know if you can tell,

but I'm recovering from being under the weather this weekend.

So I'm actually going to hand it over to Jordan

to so I don't have a crazy cough for anything

during my presentation.

It's a better.

Jordan Swini.

I'm Miss Whini.

Good afternoon, mayors and members of the City Council.

Jordan Swini, Principal Physical Policy Analyst

with the Office of the City Auditor.

The recommendation that is before you

is to approve the diversity review

of city employment applications, hires and separations

from February 1st, 2021 through January 31st, 2024.

This is our second time performing

this diversity assessment of applicants, hires and separations.

And we plan to conduct this type of analysis every three years.

The objective of this project was to assess

the diversity of city job applicants, hires,

employees and separated employees

as a compared to the diversity of city

of Sacramento residents.

We reviewed applicants, hires and separation

data for three year period,

picking up where our previous analysis left off.

The period for this report is from February 1st, 2021

through January 31st, 2024.

We worked with the Human Resources Department

to identify hired employees.

Our analysis includes new hires,

rehires, promotions, transfers, appointments from eligible lists

and certain demotions such as voluntary

and management appointments.

This is a bit different than the analysis

we did in our previous report

which only included newly hired employees.

The information on this slide is what is included in our analysis.

As some applications, especially for executive recruitment

and youth aid positions,

may not be in the neog of data,

they were not included in our analysis.

For our reporting period, the city received

more than 85,000 applications in neog of,

including more than 60,000 applications

for regular full-time positions,

nearly 6,000 applications for sworn police and fire positions,

and nearly 2,800 applications for management positions.

These numbers include each time an applicant

applied for a city position.

Therefore, applicants who applied

for multiple positions within the period

were counted for each application they submitted.

Also during the period, the city had more than 6,800 hires.

Please note that our analysis counts individuals

for each instance they were newly hired,

promoted, transferred, et cetera.

Therefore, some individuals are counted

multiple times in this analysis.

We performed analysis on the entire hire pool

as well as separate analysis on new hires and promotions.

For employee separations, there were more than 3,500

total separations, including 1,200 regular full-time

employee separations, nearly 400 sworn police

and fire separations, and approximately 100 regular full-time

management and police separations.

So this report includes the analysis that we thought

would be most interesting for the council, management,

and the public.

However, this data can be sliced and diced

in a million other ways.

We had mentioned during our presentation

to the Budget and Audit Committee

that we were working on creating dashboards similar

to the one that we have for current employee diversity,

but for applicants hires and separations.

I want to inform you that we were able to publish these

dashboards to our website last month.

These dashboards will allow users to conduct more detailed

analysis on the data, including trending the data

between fiscal years 2019 and 2024.

We would like to thank the Human Resources Department,

the City Attorney's Office, for their collaboration

and getting these dashboards developed and published quickly.

This slide analyzes the ethnicity race of applicants

by fiscal year in comparison to the ethnic racial composition

of city residents.

A decreasing percentage of the annual applications

were submitted by individuals identifying as white,

and an increasing percentage were individuals identifying

as Black or African-American.

About 22% of the annual applications

were submitted by individuals identifying

as Hispanic or Latino, and about 12% were submitted

by Asian applicants.

While nearly 30% of the city's residents are Hispanic or Latino

and more than 16% are Asian.

Compared to the previous three-year period

in our first analysis of eligible applicants,

applicants during the 2021 to 2024 period

more closely resemble the demographics of city residents.

This slide analyzes the gender of all applicants

by fiscal year and compares it to the gender composition

of city residents.

The percentage of female applicants has decreased

since fiscal year 2021.

Applicants during the 2021 to 2024 period

similarly resemble the demographics of city residents

as they did in the previous three-year period.

This slide identifies the number of hires during the period

by higher type.

Nearly half of the hired employees were hired

for temporary positions.

Additionally of the 6,816 hires, nearly 3,000 were

for part-time positions.

Temporary positions are filled on a temporary basis.

Generally lasting less than 12 months

and part-time positions are those

where the work schedule calls for less than the normal

eight hours per day.

We focus the majority of our hires analysis

on the 3,441 regular full-time employees

that are hired between February 1, 2021 and January 31, 2024.

Employees hired to fill part-time or temporary positions

have been removed from the bulk of the analysis.

This slide analyzes all hired regular full-time employees

ethnic racial composition by fiscal year

and compares it to the ethnic racial composition

of city employees and city residents.

It appears employees of two or more races are hired

at a greater percentage each fiscal year

than the current ethnic composition

of regular full-time employees.

Because our first analysis of hires in the three years

prior to this period only contain new hires,

we cannot comment on how the ethnic composition

of all hires has changed since 2018.

However, when looking at new hires only,

it appears that the composition of new hires

is trending more towards that of city residents

since 2018.

This slide analyzes the ethnic racial composition

of regular full-time employees

hired during our reporting period by department.

Please note that the Office of Public Safety Accountabilities

included in the mayor council line.

Hires for youth parks and community enrichment,

mayor council, finance and HR appear

to most closely resemble that of city residents.

This slide analyzes the city's hired regular full-time

employees gender composition by fiscal year hired

and compares it to the gender composition

of the city employees and city residents.

Female employees were generally hired at a greater percentage

each fiscal year than the current gender composition

of the city's regular full-time employees.

This slide analyzes the gender composition

of all regular full-time hired employees

during our reporting period by department.

It appears the youth parks and community enrichment

department along with mayor council

most closely resemble city residents,

which is nearly 50.

This slide analyzes the gender and ethnic racial composition

of all police and fire departments sworn employees

hired during the period.

We included part-time and temporary employees

and the analysis of sworn employees as police officer

recruit and fire recruit positions are temporary.

But once these employees graduate the academy,

they may become regular full-time employees.

Our analysis showed that the police department hired females

at a greater percentage than female applicants,

which was less than 20%.

While the fire department hired females at a lower percentage

than female applicants, which was less than 5%.

When looking at new hires only,

percentage is a female hires increased from our previous report

for both the police and fire departments.

Additionally, when looking at new hires only,

the ethnic composition of new hires more closely resembles

that of city residents than the previous three years.

This slide identifies the regular full-time employee

separations by fiscal year and ethnicity race

and compares it to regular full-time city employees

and city residents.

As a reminder, fiscal year's 2021 and 2024

are partial years in this analysis.

Fiscal year 2021 includes February 1st, 2021

through June 30th, 2022, and fiscal year 2024

includes July 1st, 2023 through January 31st, 2024.

Separations during the 2021 to 2024 period

similarly resemble the demographics of city residents

as they did in the previous three or period.

This slide analyzes the ethnic rational composition

of all regular full-time employee separations

by reason for separation with the purple boxes

highlighting potential areas of interest.

On this slide, we want to focus briefly on the 78%

of the employees who were laid off

were Hispanic or Latino.

During our presentation to the budget,

not a committee council member,

Gera requested additional information

on the high percentage of layoffs

that were Hispanic or Latino.

The Human Resources Department reviewed the data

and determined that the data captures

intermittent layoffs, the city had each summer

in the Department of Youth Parks and Community Enrichment

for the start program.

As you know, start is a program the city runs

that serves the Roblo Unified School District.

In the past three years,

that serves the Roblo Unified School District.

In the past, when this school adjourned for the summer,

so did the program.

Therefore, both the hires and separation data

in this report captured these employees each time

they were laid off and then subsequently rehired

six to seven weeks later.

Beginning in 2023, Yipsey received additional grant funding

through the expanded learning opportunities program

to offer summer programs at the Roblo Unified School District.

Start program coordinators now work over the summer,

providing camps in Roblo through these B-Lop funds,

and they also support the expansion

of Yipsey Offered Summer Camp Program, programming.

Yipsey no longer lays off star employees

during the summer period.

This slide analyzes all regular full-time employees

separations by fiscal year and gender

and compares it to the regular full-time city employees

and city residents.

There was a higher percentage of female employees

leaving city employment each fiscal year

than the current gender composition

of the city's employees.

Separations during this period similarly resemble

the demographics of city residents

as they did in the previous three or period.

This slide identifies the gender and reason

for separation of all regular full-time employee separations.

Nearly 69% of employees released from probation

and more than 76% of employees released from city service

were male.

Males also made up nearly 73% of those

that retired from the city.

This slide identifies the gender and ethnic

racial composition of all police and fire departments

sworn employee separations between February 1st, 2021

and January 31st, 2024.

Again, we included part-time and temporary employees

and the analysis of sworn employees

as police officer recruit and fire recruit positions

are temporary, but once these employees graduate

the academy, they may become regular full-time employees.

For the police departments, sworn females separated

at a lower rate than sworn female hires,

which you may recall from a plebrious slide

was 23.3%.

This is similar to the separation rate

for the previous three or period.

For the fire department, sworn females separated

at a higher rate than sworn female hires,

which was 3.9%.

However, this separation rate dropped nearly 10 percentage points

from the previous three or period.

This slide analyzes the ethnic racial composition

of all city employees as a February 1st, 2021

all applications received in NIOGA

between February 1st, 2021 through January 31st, 2024

all employees hired during that timeframe,

all employee separations during that timeframe

and all city employees as a February 1st, 2021, 24

as well as city residents as of the 2022 American Community

Survey.

For some ethnic racial categories,

the ethnic racial composition of the applicants

are not consistent with the ethnic racial composition

of city residents.

Additionally, for some ethnic racial categories,

the ethnic racial composition of the hires

are not consistent with the ethnic racial composition

of the applicants.

However, the current composition of city employees

appears to more closely resemble that of city residents

and the composition of city employees in 2018.

So this slide analyzes the gender composition

of regular full-time city employees

as of February 1st, 2021.

Regular full-time applications received in NIOGA

between February 1st, 2021 through January 31st, 2024

regular full-time employees hired during that timeframe,

regular full-time employee separations during that timeframe,

regular full-time city employees as of February 1st, 2024

and city residents as of the 2022 American Community Survey.

Female applicants made up 48.6% of the applicants

for regular full-time positions,

but they made up only 32.4% of the hired,

regular full-time employees.

The current overall gender composition of city employees

appears to have remained the same

as the gender composition of city employees in 2018.

This slide summarizes our ethnic racial analysis

of city applicants, hires and separations.

It appears that Hispanic or Latino applicants

are the most underrepresented one compared to city residents.

This is a similar result to the previous three year period.

It also appears that white employees are hired at a greater rate

for regular full-time management positions

than other ethnicities in the 2021 to 2024 period.

When comparing only new hires to the previous three year period,

it appears that the city has made improvement

and new hires generally more closely resemble city residents.

And while white employees composed a higher percentage

of separated employees in each category,

they also composed a higher percentage of hired employees

and the city's current employee composition

in the 2021 to 2024 period.

And this is similar to the 2018 to 2021 period.

This slide summarizes our gender analysis

of city applicants, hires and separations.

For applicants, it appears the gender composition

of regular full-time applicants

most closely resembles the composition of city residents.

Where we see the most deviation

from the composition of city residents

as for sworn positions,

which appear to have the lowest rates of female hires.

However, this period saw some increases

in sworn female applicants

and an increase in female new hires

for sworn police department positions

compared to the previous three year period.

Additionally, as previously noted,

the fire department experienced a decrease

of almost 10 percentage points in female separations

over the previous three year period.

This report only analyzes the data

and highlights some interesting information

for the council and management to assess

to determine whether the city's various efforts

to increase diversity are working.

The causes of the highlighted information

was not in the scope of this audit

and would require a deeper dive to assess.

This concludes my presentation

and I am available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate the detailed presentation.

With that, well, Madam City Clerk,

do we have any public comment on this item?

It's two speakers on this item.

Ryan Masano and Julius.

Diversity.

For some reason, it's something that's commonly heard of

here in America, Sacramento and California,

but it's not heard of in Africa or Israel or Japan

or China or South America.

Now, why is that?

Why is diversity talked about in majority white countries only?

If anyone has any questions,

please let me know.

I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

If anyone has half a brain, it leads you to understand

that there's a clear agenda underway.

When California has shrunk from 90% white to 30% white

in 70 years, there's something going on.

It's not accidental.

The vast majority of people, if you look at the most

of our cities, I look to, I grew up in Vallejo.

The churches in Vallejo are very segregated by choice.

People choose to be around people of their own race.

That's what they choose to do.

Nobody's forcing them to do that.

That's with free choice.

So by you forcing diversity on people,

if you ever tried putting 10 red ants in a black ant colony

and see what happens, it's not pretty.

So this is what you're trying to do.

Now, it works for one group because if you have chaos

in the society, they're able to rule effectively.

So it's hypocrisy too, because the nation that America

gives the most money to is Israel.

Israel does not allow you to move there unless you're Jewish.

And you can't marry unless you're a Jew.

And this is the country that we give the most money to.

Lady, if you don't like what I'm saying.

Again, please do not call out or stop my name.

Address your comments to the full council.

Thank you.

Let me get something straight with you.

If you interrupt me one more time,

I'm going to tell you things about yourself

that are going to bring you to tears.

So I would recommend you don't do it.

So as I was saying, please state your point.

Lisa, why don't you get right back out?

Because you obviously can't handle the truth.

Point of order.

And you have not the right comments like council members.

Yeah, that's like no law whatsoever.

You're going to be sued and you're going to pay the price for

the council.

Your time is not complete.

Your time is complete.

Next speaker is Julie's.

I'm going to go on.

Whether you agree or disagree with the way diversity is being

handled, you have to pay attention to what's going on when it

comes to diversity.

Because it does seem like we are putting minorities over

the majority, whether I mean by that.

And whether you think it's ass and nine or not, if you have

eyeballs, you can clearly see what's going on.

We have an agenda where we're looking at white people as

if they're bad.

So we have to exclude them in order to include minorities

because they can't make it on their own without the government.

That's really insulting, especially to somebody like me who

happens to have brown skin, who's told constantly that I'm

oppressed because of the white man.

When the reality, it's not the white man.

It's other people, but you can't say who they are because then

you'll be labeled anti-Semitic.

There isn't a gender that they are pushing it.

Like I said, if you have eyeballs, you can actually see it.

You can laugh at me.

You can smirk.

You can do all these things.

But if you just take a look, look at TV show.

Look at commercials.

When's the last time you saw a white family?

When's the last time you saw a black family?

You see, blended all the time.

It's the push to program people so that no race can actually

continue their legacy with their own race.

That's why you're constantly seeing agents with whites,

blacks with whites, everybody's mixing and matching things

like that.

And now they want to push that in the jobs and say, well,

we got to hire a black person because when you

represent it, you need a black firefighter.

You need a woman police officer.

And we see the execution of female police officers.

They suck.

Not all of them, but some of them suck.

It's just true.

That's why you shouldn't go off a diversity.

You should hire based on merit.

We need a merit talk, we're seeing that diversity.

Unless the diversity of thought.

I'm sorry I have no more speakers.

All right.

With that, we'll move on to council comments,

or council comments on this item.

So that'll be councilor Valenzuela.

Let's start.

Thank you, Farisana.

And thank you, Jordan.

It was right.

For your presentation, you had a great job as usual.

I read this with a lot of interest

as I do every year when it gets released.

And there were a few points that you

covered that I'll briefly repeat,

just because they definitely struck me

as soon as I read them.

The first was that white applicants made up 28.8%

of applicants for regular full-time positions,

but comprised 48% of employees hired for full-time positions.

Similarly, the white applicants composed only 36.1%

of management applications, but composed 61%

of those hired for management positions.

And that there was a startling number

that I personally was just like, oh man, frustrated by

that only 35% of applicants for management positions

were self-identified as female.

It's just incredibly striking.

The persistent work we have to do.

I do want to thank HR.

I know I see Shelley in the back there

and her team provided a really thorough response.

And I want to recognize that there has been some improvement.

And I thank you for getting into the weeds of that,

because if you hadn't have really named,

because I didn't look so closely at the sworn positions

to realize the improvements that PD and Fire

made when it comes to hiring and retaining women, which

is something that I think we should celebrate.

It's still a small overall number, right?

But it's that glimmer of hope that, hey,

more women are staying like that's good.

And we're doing something that's working,

and we can continue to build on.

But it definitely points to a lot more work

that we have to do.

So really appreciate the collaboration

that I saw in this between HR and the auditor's office.

And obviously, always the city attorney's office

in this report.

And on these dashboards, they're just super cool.

I love that we're making data so much more accessible

to the public to be able to really dig into these numbers.

Like you said, it can be cut a million different ways.

I only did a couple, and then got super overwhelmed

with how many things I could do and just left it on my screen.

But I think that it shows that we're moving in a good direction

and that we can look at.

I appreciate it, HR, really analyzing.

We've done more outreach in these areas,

and we think that's why we're seeing these applicant

pulls become more diverse.

And so it gives us some good lessons and some cause and effect.

So I just want to thank you all for this report.

I know it's not easy.

It's a lot.

I mean, you looked at thousands and thousands

of data points to do this, and you've

managed to do it in a way that boiled it down

for the members of the public to see you.

And I appreciate Councillor McGaree asking the questions

about was it separations or layoffs that were happening

because that was a great idea.

You're like, hey, we dug into it, and this is why.

And it's like, okay, that's good to know.

And also a good opportunity to say, okay, Yipsey,

what are we doing with these folks if we're not laying them

off every summer so that they can keep their city employment,

keep their benefits, and perhaps grow into another position.

So I just, and that's all to say, again, many thanks

to the women who helped put this together,

but also everybody else, just cause you're standing here.

And just really want to thank you for the dashboards.

That was above and beyond, and I know that was an option.

You didn't have to do that.

I don't think we required you to do that,

but I'm just really glad to see this data

taking on a new life.

So with that, I'm happy to move.

I think we're moving this for approval, or?

Yes, we are.

Okay, I move approval of this, and thank you again.

I'll second.

All right, we got a motion in a second.

Thank you.

Councillor McGaree.

Thank you very much.

I'll, you know, most of my comments I made during a budget

and I'm not at, I want to thank you again for a very good work.

And for getting back to me when I, when we drove down into the details

and also for the City HR staff on the efforts that we've undertaken

to increase our numbers.

I also, you know, want to thank those in the,

both in the fire department and also local 522 here

with the creation of the door program,

recognizing the challenges that we do have in that department.

And the fact that between that and the single role

and the EMT program, we're going to be able to find better pathways

to make sure that our every city resident

who wants to join our fire department can do so.

And also, I wanted to recognize again, also Chief Lester.

I know she's been involved with this from her time in,

as a, you know, as a captain and now looking at how we hire

and create a pathway cadet program that feeds into

the police department because that's also looking at,

at significant changes.

So we're getting better in the brighter that are coming

to the department and contrary to the ignorant comments made

during public comment, everyone who passes the academy,

whether it's the fire academy, police academy,

meet the standards and probably more rigor standards

that our academies have than any other department.

When, when you look at the graduation of our academy,

you have the Sheriff's Department,

full some vacaville all over the region.

They're recruiting from our police academy.

And so, you know, I wanted to make sure Vice Mayor

that, you know, those comments,

ignorantly made at the public comment area,

were rectified here by talking about how,

we're actually creating more opportunity

because of the efforts we've done here.

Lastly, you know, one of the areas that I think

we still want to pin down, we saw, well, 2.1.

Still seeing the number on both the Asian Pacific

calendar and the Latino population on applicants much lower.

So that to me means that we have an outreach problem

or an outreach challenge.

And so I want to make sure that we look at why that is.

I don't want to presume why that is,

but to me that would be one particular area.

And then the second on the separation side,

and we seeing some of the numbers with female candidates.

And when we break down by age, I would wager,

and I brought this conversation up,

that some of the challenge have to be of the issues

of access and ability to get child care.

And sometimes it's the men in the household

who take separation time to help,

but many times it has been our women employees.

So I want to dig deeper into those numbers.

And if HR could follow up on those pieces

and how we connect better with both the child care providers

and head start, some of our applicants

might qualify for head start.

Some may not, but I want to figure out

how we better partner with CETA and head start

to address those challenges.

If child care is the issue in maintaining

our employment opportunities here.

So I'll leave that and thank you for great presentation.

Excellent comments and point while taken

on our incredible staff all throughout the city of Sacramento

that are qualified for their positions by Mariett.

Move out, hang on to the council and more Jennings.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Great report, incredible work.

I heard you say something in the beginning

about every three years.

And I think I know the reason why you say every three years.

Would this be the baseline for that three year program?

So we're looking at repeating this analysis every three years.

For a couple of reasons, one would be resources within our office.

Two, this specific report because it's over a time period

gives us a larger chunk of data to analyze.

But when we talk about every three years,

we're talking about this static report.

These dashboards that we've created,

we will update that data every year.

So there's always going to be current,

relevant data available for you on our dashboards.

And then we will prepare this analysis,

which does have a little bit deeper in some areas.

For example, separation reason is not in the dashboards,

but it is in here and that's just for some privacy concerns.

So we will do that type of analysis every three years.

So as I learn how to use the dashboard a little bit better,

do I have the ability to go in and look at it

on a more frequent basis?

And compare years against each other?

Okay, I think that's important.

For me, I want to look at it every two years

as opposed to every three years,

especially when I look at council members

who serve on four-year terms.

I want them to have two bites at the apple

as far as being strategic to either add on

to what we're doing right and or change what we're doing wrong.

In the dashboards, it's not in three-year chunks,

it's in one-year chunks,

so you can analyze any year you want.

That helps me tremendously.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And one also pass it up for our Assistant City Manager,

Lee and Els.

Thank you.

I just want to thank the auditor's office.

It was really a partnership and very collegial

and we have come up with some data

that I think can be useful to all of our departments

and I really appreciate the opportunity

to work on this with you.

I want to thank the HR department,

Ebony Heaven especially for her work on the response

that councilmember Valenzuela referred to

if you haven't read it.

I encourage you to do that.

It outlines kind of the breadth and depth

of initiatives that we've taken on in the last five years

and to applaud our department for what they have done

in training and building capacity coming up to speed

to ensure that we are offering the most opportunity

to everybody who applies to the city

and to make sure we're getting more applicants in the door.

And I especially want to thank Jordan

for her work on the dashboards.

She threw it together so unbelievably quickly

and then she said, should we wait until we go to council

to throw them up and we were all like, no, put them up now.

And just this speed and attention to detail was really great.

So many thanks all around.

Excellent.

And also, you know, wanna give thanks to you,

Eleni, for all your work as well on this in general

but on your focus on diversity and equity in the city.

It doesn't go on notice and I know that your leadership

helps drive along all the different departments.

So I just wanna thank you and the team.

Thank you so much for this report

and looking forward to moving along.

So with that, all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed to abstain?

All right, that passes unanimously.

Congratulations and thank you.

Okay.

Now colleagues, let us move on to our council comments,

ideas, questions, and AB1234 reports.

Start with council member Wang.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Just wanna let folks know that tomorrow

is another listening session with the Sacramento

Racial Equity Alliance happening at the Pennell Community

Center from six to eight o'clock.

Chowel Care and Dinner will be provided.

The SACRT rise as well.

And for every resident that participate,

they will also get a $25 gift card.

So I'm really encouraging folks to come out that.

I believe this is one of the very last sessions.

So encourage folks to come into that.

And then we have our fourth annual South Sacramento

festival happening this Saturday at Valley Hyde Park.

We're gonna give, have a backpack giveaway

and we're gonna have different performances

from different cultural groups, food trucks, live music,

and just lots of activities for our babies, youth,

and families, so encouraging folks to come out to that.

Again, that's this Saturday 11 to three at Valley Hyde Park.

It is our fourth annual South Sacramento Festival.

And then I also just wanted to share that next Monday,

I am co-hosting a community meeting with my commissioner

from the Sacramento Children's Fund, Overside Committee.

This Thursday, the commission is set to vote

on their final recommendation on the five-year strategic plan

and their recommendation, which is coming to the mayor

and council in September.

And since the commission is taking a vote this Thursday,

I thought it was important to have a community meeting

in my district to kind of share what the commission's

recommendations are.

And that's happening on Monday at the Penel Community Center.

Dinner will be provided.

And so encouraging folks to come out to that.

And then as you all know, every Sunday,

we have our Metaview Farmers Market.

All year around, it's not just seasonal,

but all year around from eight to 12 o'clock

at the Metaview White Real Station.

So encouraging folks to come to that.

Thank you so much.

All right, thank you.

Moving on to council member Jennings.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I told you last week that I was on my way to Texas,

McKinney, Texas, and Austin, Texas,

to look at the homeless programs that they have there

that had been determined to be best practices.

And I did go on that trip this past weekend,

and I will develop a white paper to pass out to each of you

so that you can see the wonderful things

that they're doing with tiny homes and canister homes

and how they're building a community that includes

a lot of the needs of the homeless.

And so I just want to make sure that information gets

to each and every one of you so that we can look at what

we might be able to take from them to bring to Sacramento.

So that's one announcement.

Second one is a music in the park,

which is taking place at Curtis Park.

It's going to take place on Sunday, August 25th.

For the third and final music in the park,

it's a free concert and it takes place at Curtis Park

from six to 8 p.m.

I'll be sponsoring the free space painting for the kids.

If you think you're a kid,

and if you want to get your face painted,

regardless whether you're a kid or an adult,

I'll take care of that.

It's going to be from an organization called

Behind the Scenes Face Painting.

So bring out the entire family and enjoy the music,

the food, and all the incredible activities

that are going to take place.

Temperature should be cooler,

and there will be a variety of foods and food trucks.

So bring your chairs and picnic blanket

and enjoy a beautiful evening,

along with neighbors and friends,

and enjoy a great night.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Jennings,

and really looking forward to that white paper

interested in reading that

and learning about your experience there,

but also would recommend,

if you haven't thought of it already,

to share it with Lisa Bates,

the Sacramento Stops Ford, as well as our county partners.

Maybe it can be an agenda discussion item

for our next four by two meeting.

Thank you so much for doing that.

Okay, moving on to Council Member Taal.

Just to announcement, thank you Vice Mayor.

This Saturday, join a place to nurture

a local CBO that supports seniors

to 55 and orders in District 2

for their senior soul-trained disco boogie

and bell bottoms at the Robinson Center,

35, 25, Norwood Avenue.

It's a night of disco dancing, live music,

and support seniors 55 and over in District 2.

The second event is another cleanup in the District,

hosted by River City Waterway Alliance.

They've done an awesome job cleaning up our creeks,

especially Arcade Creek, Stowehead Creek, and Roblo Creek.

This week, they will be at Arcade Creek

on the Norwood Bridge.

That is the bridge between Fairbanks and Norwood Avenue.

Join them for it to bring gloves, reusable water,

bring clothes, clothes, shoes, and a can-do attitude

because they go into the creeks and clean up

a lot of junk and debris, heavy junk and debris.

And so we are looking for volunteers.

We will be meeting at 8.30.

They will be meeting at 8.30 to 11.30 AM.

Wonderful.

Thank you so much.

Moving on to Council Member Kaplan.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

We have our West Lake Food Truck Mania.

Tomorrow, we're gonna have Bella,

Familia Wood-Fired Pizza, smoking EU barbecue,

Drew Skies, Bang and Bulls, and Mini Donut Shacks.

So come out for some music, community gathering, and fun.

And then Saturday, it still is our one Natomas Farmers Market.

We'll be 8.30 to 12.30, free yoga, 9 to 10.

This will go on every Saturday through the end of September.

And then Saturday afternoon, from noon to six,

come out to the North Natomas Community Center.

It is the Natomas Tien, annual Tien,

which is a festival celebrated by women throughout India

on the onset of monsoon season with interpretive dance.

I do not speak Punjabi, but I can tell you,

I can get up and dance and enjoy.

It is a wonderful celebration of life, women, and the Punjabi culture.

Fabulous.

Mayor Pro Tem, Telenantes.

Great announcement from Natomas Tien.

It's a lovely event.

Tomorrow, we are having our community meeting

to go over the top golf location, renderings, questions and answers

from 5.30 to 7.30 at Venture Office Nell,

so looking forward to joining the community

and this exciting announcement.

And then on Saturday, we are celebrating the 30th anniversary

of the South Thomas Library, so please join us.

And we're also doing a part clean up at Paragram Parks.

If you are interested, please let me know.

Thank you.

Wonderful.

Okay, any other council comments or questions?

I'll just have a quick direction and then three announcements.

So I'm hoping Madam Assistant City Manager

that we can have staff put together, you know,

finance plan and management for the project on 13th

and Stockton Boulevard.

As some of you may know, this is a brown field location

where there is some contamination

and might not otherwise be developable.

So just really interested to see how we can work with those folks

and maybe make something happen there.

As for announcements, on Friday, August 23rd,

we have our South Sacramento Family Success Fair.

So that'll be from 10.30am to 4pm

at the Fruit Ridge Community Collaborative in Oak Park.

This is in partnership with the Central Labor Council,

the Center for Workers Rights and Ring of Democracy,

as well as our office.

I'm really excited.

So we're having about apprenticeship programs there.

We have people who are hiring, community resources,

are nonprofit partners, food trucks,

free childcare for attendees,

and breakout workshops throughout the day.

So if you get a chance, please do come by and check it out.

On Saturday, September 7th, we're doing our Airport Little League,

Senior League anniversary event.

So this is really exciting.

I invite you all to come and join me as well as the community.

That'll be at 10am at the Airport Little League fields,

which are next to the Sacramento Executive Airport.

More than 50 years ago, the Airport Little League,

Senior League won the Little League World Series.

There's actually a big sign up there,

and it was a really, really big deal it still is.

And so we're actually gonna be honoring

some of those athletes in their adulthood now.

And I'm really excited about it.

So please do come by.

And lastly, on Friday, September 13th,

we are gonna be hosting the Hollywood Park Movie Night

and Ice Cream Social.

So that's gonna take place at Hollywood Park Elementary.

We're gonna have Ice Cream Force, fresh popcorn.

And then we are gonna watch the Disney hit Coco.

So please come and join us.

That will be at sundown, which will be around 7.30 pm.

So join us there.

And I realize that I skipped you, Council Member Garas.

Oh no, I wanted to support in the request

on the 13th Avenue property to make sure that we look

at addressing that brown field location.

I remember that place has been a problem for many years.

And we just spent a good amount of money getting

a nice new crosswalk thanks to the Department

of Transportation or Active Transportation Team.

And so it'd be nice to have that great amenity there.

And also, I wanted to, on top of that,

Assistant City Manager, I'd like to make sure

that we're moving forward on a joint development agreement

for the Stockton Boulevard property further south.

We're gonna be meeting with our congressional partners

on that infill site that also has had contamination.

And we wanna clean that up again.

And finally, just to invite everyone out

to the ribbon cutting and a grand opening of Chai

over on 65th and Broadway.

The new T coffee restaurant, I guess you wanna call Chai,

but come and get some Chai on Saturday.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Excellent, thank you so much.

Really exciting stuff.

And thanks for supporting that as Stockton Boulevard.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comment

on items not on the agenda?

Yes, Vice Mayor, I have 14 speakers.

So I will read a few names off.

Guy Stevenson, Jeffrey Tartiguiah,

Patty Shaw, Robert Copeland, Mr. Stevenson.

I appreciate the City Council and the mayor

to recognize Muslims.

They are the most peaceful, loving people.

This is my daughter.

I adopted her.

She's from Afghanistan.

And the mayor is the mayor.

I'm the mayor of the city of the city.

I'm the mayor of the city of the city.

I'm the mayor of the city.

I'm the mayor of the city.

I'm the mayor of the city.

And these are my great kids back there.

I just want you to know that I'm about peace

after two deployments in the Middle East.

There, everybody should be in peace.

And not only that, we should all get it along.

Whether we're Muslim, whether we're Christian,

whether we're Jews, it doesn't matter.

I hope in my lifetime, and I'm 68 years old,

that we can all get along and love each other

no matter what your background is.

Because in my experience of being in the Middle East,

they are the most humble, peaceful, loving,

and caring people.

People believe that they're not.

These people are wonderful, wonderful people.

This is their husband.

He's a great man.

He's a hard worker.

And I learned a lot from being to the Middle East,

and I asked him to come here to see the city council

because I support the city council.

And I support peace.

And that's all I wanted to say,

and I appreciate Katie that you had the resolution

along with the rest of the city council members.

It's very important that we have that peace here.

We want that peace here.

We also have a very big community of Muslims

from all over the world.

And I appreciate it.

Thank you very much, and have a great day.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Mr. Tartigia.

Would you like the handheld mic?

Welcome, Jeffrey.

Give us a moment.

We'll bring it right over.

Great to see you here, and not just a regional transit.

Hello, Miss Mables.

And Garcia, I guess you're not here through here,

but please look into Sacramento housings.

Should we say you just haven't heard back

as further or there of dealing with maintenance?

Comment for I went to the Banana Festival this last weekend.

It was hard to find access to it.

I was able to finally do that.

Got in there there, but the accessibility of getting out

couldn't do it.

So I ended up having to have people get my wheelchair

over the accessibility point.

I don't know unless the Banana's responsibility

as a vendor, or whether it's the park district's responsibility

to see accessibility, because the biggest issue was

everything in Williamland Park from three-port boulevard

over all had curbs, no accessibility.

So I had to go around to the street to find the one point

where I could get into it.

That's a comment through there.

Again, for Rick and you, there are members of board

of transportation coming up this coming Monday.

Is it satisfactory that you only have for 250 people,

only Monday through Friday till seven o'clock at night

as being a means?

Are all weekend long?

Those people that cannot drive are stuck.

I believe the city can do better

about addressing the transportation needs

in the downtown arena area.

But be helpful if you would do more,

look more, see what more can be done,

and not wait for two years to build

a light rail station out there.

Camp resolve looks like I'm about out of time.

I want to say I appreciate the screen through here

so it can actually read and see something.

And with that, my time has gone.

There's many more, but I will go to reserve those

for your RT board meeting.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker is Patty Shaw and Robert Copeland,

then Pinkie and Michael Coleman.

Hello everyone, welcome.

I mean, thank you for having me here today.

My name is Patty Shaw.

I am a volunteer with Sacramento Act.

I work with the Accountability Subcommittee

of Housing and Homelessness.

I am here regarding camp resolution.

My one last effort to ask that you find some kind of

resolution literally to that situation.

One of the things I do is I study the art chap,

which is the agreement between the county and the city.

And there is a huge gap for the medically vulnerable.

There are many medically vulnerable people

in camp resolution that will go on the streets.

They will have nowhere to go

because there's no small housing.

There's nowhere to go if you're on dialysis.

There's nothing they can do.

And I think that something better

needs to be done for the people of this city.

One of the things that has been running through my mind

as I thought of this is as we drive our air condition

cars home to our air conditioned homes

drink all the water or coffee or wine

or whatever it is our beverage of choice.

As we have all of this privilege,

don't let this privilege take up all the room

for mercy, justice and compassion.

I feel that the people, it's not just camp resolution,

it is all the unhoused in Sacramento.

You are the elected body who is responsible

for doing something about it.

I urge you to please reconsider camp resolution.

And I thank you very much for listening.

Thank you for your comments.

Robert Copeland, following Mr. Copeland

is Pinkie, Michael Coleman, Iris, Bennicki.

Well, I'm confused.

Is the second city council trying to run

second-minute or make it better?

I think that we take one step or two steps back

on your opinion, what you're doing.

As far as camp resolution, I support them.

Don't close it down.

Let them decide whether they want to stay or not.

Not to sit the council, not anybody else.

Also, can you work with Sacramento Housing

redeveloping the SHRA?

Because there's a lot of vacant apartments

that can be rented out if they're properly maintained.

Also work with the organizations that are

help the homeless and the housing

and still be guest dust.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Pinkie,

and Michael Coleman, Bennicki, Iris.

And please feel free to line up in the aisle.

Good afternoon, council.

Some of you know me, some of you don't.

I'm on the board of A, some on the board of SAC CLT.

I'm on Vice President of California Peer Watch.

I am activist in my community

who fights for housing, the unhoused, and tenor rights.

I have a letter here from the president

of one of my organizations, California Peer Watch.

Her name is Amari Caratosis.

And she, both all of us,

are expressing a strong opposition

to the proposed eviction of residents of Camp Resolution.

The community, which includes over 50 some odd residents,

most with disabilities, women, and seniors.

The support that's provided there,

their current location is well needed.

The suggested relocation site,

as Roseville Road that you guys all suggested for,

lacks essential amenities such as electricity,

rainwater, posing nothing but significant risks

to the health and well being of our Camp Resolution community.

Not only that, but there's no transportation

to and from Roseville Road site.

You got them sent next to a jet field pump

across street, Maclohan, real nice.

Residents, Camp Resolution,

have established a supportive environment

that is crucial for their ongoing treatment and recovery.

Many of these individuals depend on stable location

and transportation to medical appointments,

such as our dialysis patient.

Another one that's on oxygen who relies on her gen and radar

to keep her breathing.

Displacing them to the site without basic utilities

is not only inhumane, but is also detrimental

to their physical mental health.

It is imperative that we approach this situation

with compassion, commitment, and upholding the dignity

and the rights of individuals,

especially those with disabilities.

The proposed eviction would disrupt not only their lives,

the vulnerable residents, and exacerbate their challenges.

Instead, we should focus on providing them adequate resources

and support to ensure the well being.

I urge you to consider the eviction and work collaboratively

with social workers, peer support specialists as myself,

and disability rights organizations

to find more suitable solution.

It is essential that we prioritize

the health and safety of Camp Resolution community.

Thank you for your comments, your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Michael Coleman, and then Iris.

I have notes, I'm gonna put them away.

I'm gonna shoot from the hip, because I think that's best.

And I second them, and we should have compassion, absolutely.

We need to have more.

And I was thinking of what that brother said.

I agree, could not agree more.

We, regarding people of other parts of the world,

faiths and religions, we need to be more accepting,

more tolerant.

I wanna be vulnerable really quick.

I go running along the railroad tracks,

and I see the homeless, and I stopped.

I felt inspired.

I know it sounds weird, but I felt inspired one day

to just talk to one of them, and find out if they had any

solutions, I mean, they're homeless, they should have solutions.

I mean, I wanted to know what they thought.

And as it turned out, I talked to a woman named Cherry,

and I just asked her, well, what do you think

the solution to this crisis is?

I mean, you're on the street, you've been in here for,

she said, I've been out here for five years.

What do you think?

And she started to talk, and I liked what I heard,

and then I went home, and I started writing,

what she said, then I added some thoughts on my own.

And I looked at it, and I realized, this could work.

So what I did is I contacted, I've been in touch,

Council Member Tau, I've been in touch

with members of your staff, and also, I wish the mayor

was here, I'll speak to you, vice mayor.

I've been in touch with I contacted yesterday,

I spoke with Kara, Kara, one of your interns,

and I explained it, I started talking,

and she wrote it all down.

She created a draft proposal, and I don't know if you've seen it

yet, but please find that, and read it, all of you,

and for the mayor, make sure the mayor reads that as well,

and review it, and I'd love to get your thoughts

on how we could implement that if you think it's good,

and please accept my request to meet.

I'll be reaching out later, thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Iris.

Calling Iris is Nikki, and Ron Hachbaum.

But after an encounter, members,

I'm speaking as a SOC County resident and neighbor

of Camp Resolution in staunch support of Camp Resolution,

and against the impending threatened eviction

that residents face.

Over the years, the city has seen residents continue

to speak out for Camp Resolution again and again.

The city has heard again and again

how residents of Camp Resolution

have made a positive difference for each other,

and for us neighbors, despite the city's tricks

and broken promises.

Camp Resolution is a site for community building,

for advocacy, for safety.

Even aside from this history, given that Sacramento

does not have affordable housing,

or homelessness services that are at all adequately

respond to people's needs and basic human rights,

the starting eviction is indefensible and shameful.

Not evicting Camp Resolution residents

is less than the bare minimum

when it comes to the city's moral responsibility.

From the heat to health needs,

Sacramento's policies of evictions and sweeps

and criminalization only lead to people getting further hurt,

not to mention the financial drain of this approach.

We County residents in the neighbor stand with Camp Resolution

and demand that the city work with

instead of against Camp Resolution residents too.

Thank you for your comments, Nikki.

Following Nikki is Ron.

Then Kristen Kawikki, then Mary Buck.

Hey folks, residents of Camp Resolution

deserve better than a brutal eviction.

I know the mechanisms of state violence

are already set in place, and Monday

may just be another day on the job

for SACPD code enforcement and the network of private

contractors that carry out these forced displacement policies

daily across the city.

But for the 50 plus people living there

whose lives are quite literally on the line,

this horrifying daily policy implementation

cannot be the answer.

I know it feels like all doors are closed,

but what if I told you, actually,

the possibilities remain endless?

That you can in fact make a different choice,

one that is human-centered and one that does not cause

a measurable harm, both Monday and far into the future.

You can make a choice to work with residents

on long-term solutions instead of shattering their stability,

stability that some hadn't felt in years,

stability that already helped 16 get housed

and one woman who couldn't stay today

because she's now finishing her diploma and had class,

but made sure her campmates had a ride today,

that kind of stability.

Stability that has allowed medically vulnerable people

to get the treatment and medical equipment that they need,

equipment that would not be allowed at any shelter

in Sacramento, but not even possible at Roseville Road,

which is what has been offered.

What are those with disabilities supposed to do?

How about those with pets?

How about those with family units?

What are any of the residents supposed to do?

Camp residents have been set up for failure

with the city being the primary party responsible for that.

Not the only party, but the primary party.

But success for camp resolution

and therefore the city at large and for all of you

is still possible.

It does not have to be a costly harmful eviction.

This is a choice that is being made

and decision-makers can thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Ron Hatchbaum,

then Kristen Kawekki.

Is Ron here?

Don't see movement.

Kristen,

Kristen Kawekki.

And thank you for the phonetic and following Kristen

is Mary.

Hi.

I'm here, isn't it?

Sacramento, it's been exciting to move out of Davis

and that whole grad school bubble

and decide that Sacramento is a really cool city to live in.

It's been exciting to hear the move towards

like improving parks and diversity.

And this has been kind of a fun meeting to attend.

I'm here though to discuss how necessary it is

to support camp resolution kind of in the same vein

of all the stuff that I was hearing about today.

I see the eviction of camp resolution

as like a huge step backwards.

Camp resolution is something that Sacramento should be proud of.

I've attended some poetry events there.

It has been a really excellent space to meet Sacramento

and as far as like three spaces that I also heard discussed today,

it's one of those.

It is an established community.

It is inspiring to be in communication with residents there.

And just the eviction will be inhumane

and I think that it will be like something just incredibly

damaging as well as just like,

it will disastrous as far as like image for the city goes

as well as for the residents.

I just really hope that there is an opportunity

to rethink the action of eviction.

This is again, really inspiring situation.

It's great to hear that there's going to be a move towards

potentially expanding, tiny homes, et cetera.

And I'd like to see just Sacramento improve in this area.

I distribute water sometimes in my free time.

I think it's something our city has a responsibility.

I'd like to see us continue to grow

and not backtrack in this area.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

I have four more speakers, Mary Buck, Sarah, Julius,

and Ryan Masano.

I'm a little bit nervous about talking, but all I want

to say is that I'm a resident from Campus Lucent.

And I know that Campus Lucent is a mess right now

and it's hard to support a mess.

I don't know what I have to say,

but I'll like you say, if you can not sweep the camp

and give us a chance.

Get it together, clean it up, and make it work

for the residents.

That's all I know of with this.

It's just if we could just have another chance?

I'm on what needs to be complied.

I know we haven't complied and we need to comply

or working on it.

I just hope that everything works out.

That's how I make a good decision on not having to sweep.

I'm grateful for all of y'all.

I have a hard time in the neighborhood.

I gave it almost to know about things.

I'm all of you guys.

I'm just asking for y'all not to sit down

the camp and I understand that the camp hasn't complied

the residents working on it and asking to stop the sweep

that's emotion.

And this is like my last chance to be able to ask

to keep it open.

I'm just asking for y'all not to sit down the camp

and ask for y'all not to sit down the camp.

That's all I have for now.

Thank you.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Sarah, then Julius.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Sarah.

I've lived in Sacramento my whole life.

I have also been an outreach worker in the city

and county of Sacramento for the last four years.

And I've seen a lot out there

and I've seen how the norm of our policy in Sacramento

has become destabilization.

It's become considered normal to move people,

to take their things, to force them into worse situations.

We think that that's very normal and something

that we should aspire to even.

And camp resolution presented something really different

and of course it wasn't perfect.

It never has been and never will be.

But the vision offered something different

to this policy of destabilization.

It offered an opportunity for people to have stability

and safety because we all know.

I don't think anyone here would deny

that we don't have housing for everyone.

We all know that.

And we don't have shelter for everyone either.

And the conditions in the shelters are,

I wouldn't wish that on people I cared about either.

And this mean time where we can't offer stability,

camp resolution offered stability for people.

And I've seen over the last five years doing outreach

in the city so many broken promises.

I've seen people that stalked in a fruit ridge promise

that that law was going to turn into housing

and the ground hasn't even been broken yet.

I saw W Street get shut down for a farmer's market.

I saw the why, safe parking lot be promised to people

and then taken away.

And just please don't let this just become another program.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Julius.

And then Ryan Misson will be our final speaker.

I find it interesting to see a city council member go

and assist the handicap but have no problem

with the

council members.

And I think that's the reason why we have the

handicap in our first amendment right.

It's also interesting that we can't address city council

members individually but the city council member can call

my comment ignorant.

And that's a direct attack on me.

So it should be fair that should have my opinion on the city

council member.

I don't see whether there's a law against so we cannot

address the law.

So why can't we address them?

Where is the law?

Show me the law where I can't do that.

What's interesting to me when I'm listening, I just thought

it's just now I'm listening to my guess when it comes to the

camera resolution.

I hate to be doing this but if you think your politicians are

going to save you and help you to find shelter, they don't

care about you.

Look at San Francisco for example.

They couldn't get the people off this tree and what they do.

They gave them drugs instead.

They gave them a harm reduction program.

And all of them was just giving them drugs.

There were journalists that went down to San Francisco and

actually show what was going on.

They were giving syringes and looking at San Francisco, they

all look like zombies because they're taking drugs.

So these politicians are not going to help you.

They said they're going to help you but they're not.

And the reason why I bring this up is because we need to start

changing who our politicians are.

The politicians that we have now do not care about us.

They claim to be about racial equality, all this diversity.

But they don't care.

Look at how the council member just called my comment ignorant.

All because I'm telling the truth about the agenda of diversity

and it's true.

Diversity doesn't do anything but let people know that you're

less than because of your race, your gender, and sexuality.

They don't uplift you for your character and that's the point I'm

trying to prove.

Thank you for your comments.

Ryan Misano.

After the amazing universe was created, God was not done.

He had one final creation to make, the most loving, the one

with the most compassion and grace of all of his creations.

And God created woman.

He blessed her with three roles.

To care for her husband, to care for her children, and to care for her

home in that order.

And he gave her an urgent monthly reminder of what her primary

duty on earth was so that she would never forget the hand that rocks

the cradle, rules the world.

Unfortunately, that beautiful role for women came crashing down.

We were told by the Apostle Paul, who was put to death by the same

people who put me in jail for 30 years.

And he was told that he was going to be a woman who was going to

be killed by her husband.

But that was the point.

Its going to be a great story.

I think people who have been in jail for 33 hours in the last three

months.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

And indeed it was for the love of money that in 1913, international

capitalists, and icomotic Jewish, past the 16th amendment in

Saving America, setting up the Federal Reserve and the Criminal

IRS to steal from all of us with guns, stealing from every man

in America.

Is there anything worse than stealing from a man who is trying to provide for his family?

It is no coincidence that the people who are behind this are also behind communism and the

murder of 100 million people. For if you will steal from a man trying to feed his family,

you will also murder. And that's not all. Just seven years later, in 1920, we had the 19th

Amendment forced on us, pushing women out of the home into the workforce, into careers, colleges,

and politics where their global and naive natures, as was on display tonight, are easily exploited.

It is time to restore the order that the greatest nations in world history always use. And that is,

women are under their fathers until they are married and then they are under the authority of

their husbands. Thank you. Good night.

And with that, we are adjourned at 429 PM.