Good afternoon everyone. The Sacramento City Council will please come to order with the clerk

call the roll please to establish a quorum. Thank you council member Kaplan.

Council member Tao, Mayor Prattem Talamontes, Council member Vones Weila, Vice Mayor Maple,

Council member Getta, Council member Jennings, Council member Vang and Mayor Steinberg.

I am here good afternoon again. Council member Tao, would you please lead us in the land

acknowledgement in the Pledge of Allegiance?

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

and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern

Maidu Valley and Plains Mewak put one win two peoples and the peoples of Wilton, Rancheria,

Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native

people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing

to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's

indigenous people's history, contributions and lives. Please remain standing for the Pledge

of Allegiance.

Thank you Council member Tao. Again a very good afternoon. Sorry we're a few minutes late.

We went a little late in the afternoon and then had an important closed session. We appreciate

your patience. We want to begin tonight with a special presentation led by my colleagues,

Council members Getta and Mayor Pro Temtolomontis and I'm happy to be a part of it as well,

recognizing Hispanic heritage month. Please.

Thank you very much Mayor. It's my pleasure to be here today in recognizing Hispanic Heritage

Month here at the City of Sacramento, a national holiday. A little bit of history here about

how it was created at first started in 1968 by between Lyndon Johnson at the time also

the area of Richard Nixon. When many Latinos, primarily many Mexican Americans who fought

in the war were coming back and were not being recognized for the work that they had done

and the fight that they had done for their country. Later was enacted by Congress and Ronald

Reagan as president into an actual week and then following month to expand it to what we

have now today, which is a month celebration and focused around the independence days of many

of the Latin American and Central American states. Obviously we just celebrated yesterday

Mexican Independence Day and also in this first coming weeks we have the independence day

of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. But I wanted to focus a little bit

about the independence of Mexico, which Sacramento first started off and it is the only place

in the country where a local government raises the state government, entity raises the Mexican

flag at Setters Fort. And what's important about that was that the independence of Mexico

was one of the first acts of abolishing slavery. And the reason why they pushed so hard to move

away from the crown at the time of Father Ida el Go, Maria Morelos, and then later president Guerrero,

all recognized both an indigenous, someone who had African descent, and someone with crew who

was a crew all recognized that the independence of and the humanity of individuals and also

interestingly for Maria Morelos from Michoacán, the fight for economic prosperity for every

individual. So we celebrate this today and recognize all the contributions that we have,

you know, even before, you know, the 14th Amendment in the United States, this actually started

the act of recognizing the individual humanity in Mexico. And today to accept the resolution

on behalf of all the contributions of our Latino, Medicanos here in the city of Sacramento,

we have Kathy Rodriguez, president of the Hispanic Chamber. Let's give her a big round of applause.

As well as our new guest, Consul General of Mexico,

Cristiano Natoi Gonzales, give him a big round of applause.

So Carlos Canadea. So with that, let me pass it over to my fellow paisana and Michoacán,

and for those from Michoacán, Purupurepacha, you know, our proud indigenous history in Michoacán,

maybe pass it over here to Karina, Council Member Karina Talemantes.

Thank you, Eric. I am Mexican-American, I'm first generation, and my parents came here from

San Catecas, Mexico. And so they came here for opportunity, for the American dream. And every

single day that I serve as Council Member, I'm reminded of what was possible for my parents,

for my community, and what I represent as a Latina serving with English as a second language,

coming from a foreign worker family, and just the struggles that my parents had to go through

to get us here. And my story is like thousands and thousands and thousands of other stories

across California and across our country. So Hispanic Heritage Month, like Eric said,

is not just celebrating the Mexico's independence, but a lot of Central America. And it's still

celebrating our culture, our language, our history, our food, which is amazing. Our music, our

art, and just all the individuals that have talent in Sacramento, that Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

highlights our small businesses, Candia with our music, and just everybody that, Christian,

that makes that highlights our culture, and does it greet throughout the capital where they wave