Good evening or good afternoon everyone the Sacramento City Council please come to order with the clerk please call the roll

to establish a quorum. Thank you Mayor Councilmember Kaplan Councilmember Tao Mayor Pro Tem Telemantes Councilmember Valenzuela

here Vice Mayor Maple here Councilmember Gatta Councilmember Jennings Councilmember Vang and Mayor Steinberg here

All right good evening everyone a good afternoon. Sorry. We are a few minutes late as we were in an important closed session and

Begin as quickly as we could let us begin with the pledge of allegiance and the landing knowledge, but I want to turn over to councilmember Rick Jennings

Thank you mayor

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

To the original people of this land the Nisi on people the southern my do the ballet and planes me walk the Pat win

Whitman peoples and the peoples of the Wilton Rancharia Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and

Still walked beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing together together today an active practice of

acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history their contributions and their lives

Thank you

Join me in the pledge of allegiance a pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands

One nation under God in the visible with liberty and justice for all

All right, everyone again a good afternoon. Let us begin with

a couple of special presentations. I want to turn it over to vice mayor maple for a presentation

honoring the leadership of Mr. Kirk Crumb

Right. Thank you mayor. It's a very special evening indeed

I don't typically read these verbatim, but I really want to do that in this case because we're honoring someone really special

So most of our presentations are recognizing our group a group for a remarkable achievement

But today we get to do something really special and we get to recognize an individual who has made an outsize impact on Oak Park and the Sacramento community at large

Kirk Crumb

Started the city of Sacramento as a part-time park's maintenance staffer in 1987

Assigned to the Seymour Park in Green Haven

He rose quickly through the ranks and though given the opportunity to transfer and move into management

He chose to serve as a park supervisor where he could remain on the ground

Where he made the most impact on people and the community and I'm just going to insert a thing here that you know

I live in that neighborhood and I actually get to see you all the time in the park

Oh, no, almost a daily basis so truly on the ground and every sense of the word

Beyond just his nearly four decades of service to the parks department and his relentless dedication to keeping Oak Park's green spaces clean

Safe and open Mr. Crumb was also a relentless advocate for social change

After winning an essay contest where he submitted a personal story about growing up in Oak Park

highlighting the social challenges faced by the neighborhood

He was awarded grant funding which he chose to invest directly back into the community by establishing the Crump Blackwell fields

Name for his father

Harrison Crump senior who served as the president of the Oak Park little league for over 50 years five zero

Mr

Crump has remained deeply committed to our community and has continued to mentor and coach youth in Oak Park

across Sacramento

And as of this month, he is officially retired from the parks department

It is my honor. Yeah, give her out of applause

It is my honor to recognize Mr. Crump's lifetime of outstanding community service and bring him up to say a few words

We please come up

You guys saying all these nice things about me gonna make me blush up here

Again, I like to thank you guys. Thank the city staff

When I first started in 1987. I was just a little kid. I was probably barely in my 20s

After all these years I got real wise and

And I just grew up tremendously to become a man working for the city of Sacramento

Uh, my first

Probably three months on the job

I decided way back then. I said hey

This is what I want to do for the rest of my life

There's no better pleasure is the work outside enjoy the environment and

Helping the volunteers in the community. This is what I needed to do

Again, I like to thank all you guys and I appreciate you

Thank you um, yes

And I know that you're gonna continue on and do great things

And I look forward to supporting you and all your work and in the apart community and beyond and with our youth

And with that I would like to invite all of my colleagues to come down and take a photo and stand with mr. Kurt Crump