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Good evening and afternoon everyone. The second Minister, council will please come to

order with the call the roll please to establish a quorum.

Council member Kaplan, council member Tao, Mayor Prattam Telemontes, council member Valenzuela,

vice mayor Maple, council member Getta, council member Jennings, council member Vang and

Mayor Steinberg.

I am here. Vice mayor, would you please lead us in the landing knowledge

meant to the pledge of allegiance?

Certainly. Please rise if you are able. Please rise 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, Valiam

Plains, Miwak, Puton, Wintun peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's

only federally recognized tribe. Maybe 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

peoples history, contributions and lives. Remain standing, salute and 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, liberty and justice for all.

Well again, a very good afternoon to everyone. My colleagues, the city staff, city team and

of course all the members of the public that are here and watching, they're on a live stream

or on television, begin with a small point of privilege here and that is to wish our

colleague, District One, the council member, Lisa Kaplan, a very, very happy birthday.

And I would sing happy birthday to you but I want to keep my day job and we just want to wish

you a very, very happy birthday. Officially tomorrow. Yeah and I know all my colleagues join

you and you have a great, great celebration. Getting older is a good thing, I will say.

The 20th anniversary of my 29th birthday. That's excellent. Anyways, a great day and thank you

for serving. Okay, here we go. We go, we begin with a special presentation recognizing

Clean Air Day presented by council member Getta. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's great to be here to

recognize California Clean Air Day. And to do that, I'd like to, to the podium, call up our

Clean Air Advocates. One and only our former council member and former executive director

of the Sacramento Free Foundation, council member Ray Trethaway. Come on, I'll give him a big

round of applause. Also, executive director from the Sacramento Bike Association, Deborah Banks.

Come on, Deborah. And my name is Jeremiah. Also Mark Lutson-Hizer, I think it is. I always

messed it up, but from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. And also,

let's bring up our American Long Association here, represented. Let's give them all a big round

of applause here. So Mayor and council California Clean Air Day actually dates back to 1971

from the coalition from Clean Air. Very proud organization here in California that started the

share a ride day and also something we know called smog check. And I just got my car smog

then it passed. It's always one of those things. You cross your fingers, you know. But one of the

important things that they recognize was how bad air in two forms particularly affect our

lung development, affect our seniors, affect our young kids and those with asthma. And unfortunately,

California has seven of the ten worst cities of air pollution. In Sacramento being number seven,

Sacramento and Roseville, the Sacramento Roseville area. So everyone in metropolitan region is

affected by two very particular things. One is ozone and the other particular thing is

particular matter, the PM 2.5. And unfortunately, a lot of that comes from driving our cars, the

residues, the wood burning of fires. And so what we try to do at Clean Air days is pull our

efforts to do something to improve the air every day and remind everyone how important it is

that if we can't have clean air, then we can't have strong lungs, we can't have strong children,

we can't have provide a future for them in a prosperous life. The City of Sacramento, I want to

thank my colleagues including the mayor who through the budget and audit committee, we allocated

half a million dollars to create the largest air monitoring program linked with the city and the

county in our region and our entire state. It's one of the most best monitoring programs. Let's give

our council and the mayor a big round of applause for taking it in the community.

And because of that, we couldn't have done it without all of our city staff who have been working

on Clean Air. So I do want to thank our public work staff, our Clean Air staff who've been

out there making carters. You know, she just helped put together an amazing crosswalk to

cross stock and boulevard. You can't find another mode of transportation if you can't walk. So let's