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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

give our public transportation engineers a big round of applause as well. And let me ask to say

a few words about Clean Air because you can't have clean air without good trees and the City of

Trees. Let's bring up a council member, former City Council member Ray Trethaway. Come on, Ray.

Thank you, council members. Thank you, Eric. And Mayor and fellow council members

passed as well as present. He was a strong commitment to Clean Air as Eric just shared.

Year after year, decade after decade, making this a healthier city day by day policy by policy.

We are the City of Trees. Trees are sometimes called the lungs of the Earth,

producing the oxygen we breathe, Clean Air and Clean Lungs are one's health

and one's health go hand in hand as Eric just shared with us. That is why I run to share

tonight how important our city street trees are. Street trees are the signature trees of the city.

They're the most visible and seen trees in the city. They're oftentimes the largest and most

hardest working trees in the city. Hardest working as a clean and cool, the worst air pollution

of the city. And you know where that is? It's that small envelope of air right next to our roadways

on our sidewalks. That air is a culmination of tailpipe exhaust, brake lining debris,

in particular it does, that threatens the lungs of those most frequently who use our sidewalks

and bikeways. The vulnerable lungs of our youth and our elderly, you don't see many car drivers

out there on a sidewalks. Up to 1994, the city offered free street trees to all residents.

The city publisher preferred street tree list and all residents could choose a street tree of

their choice and have it delivered for free. That's how we become the city of trees. Today street

trees planted and cared for by the city tree services are limited to about half of the city neighborhoods.

Those neighborhoods are mainly as we all know middle class and wealthy. In the coming months you will

be adopting a new urban forest plan. At this time I would urge you to adopt a plan that offers

once again free city street trees to all neighborhoods. This policy direction will contribute

greatly to the city's equity, environmental, health and climate goals. Let's be the city of trees

for everyone. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

And yes it is an equity issue about where our trees are and also where you can ride a bike safely

or walk safely and to talk about that as our active transportation commissioner and executive director

of the Sacramento area bicycle advocates, Deborah Banks. Thank you, Eric. Thanks everybody.

Thank you so much for doing this at the beginning of the meeting. Just saying I'm Deb Banks,

executive director of Sabah Sacramento area bicycle advocates and we believe that bikes can change

the world. I know I've said that before but we really do believe it. They're fun. They're a

pleasurable way to get around the city and they can aid in anyone's physical health and they just

frankly bring joy. Right Howard, you know. I know you know. And one of the things that makes

bicycles so awesome is the fact that they don't add to pollution that we experience from vehicles.

We love clean air day. Frankly, we believe that every day should be clean air day and we put

these values into practice by getting more people to get on their bikes and choose their bike

for daily trips around town. It's as simple as that. The more people that are that are getting

onto e-bikes like Councilman Guerra, then we know that more people are going to have a great

experience on our roads and we're going to lower our VMT goals and we're going to get to better

air quality. So Viva La Bicecleta and Long Live Clean Air Day. Thanks. Thanks Deborah. And finally,

let's bring up who works on this every day looking at our entire air quality for all of our region.

One of our cleaner champions here from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air District, the director

of monitoring planning and rule division, Mark Lutzenheiser. Hello, Mark.

Thank you, Eric. Thank you, council members. I really appreciate being here today.

You know, just a few quick words. I want to touch back upon what Eric mentioned at the very

beginning. Do you want to thank very much this council for the grant funding for the additional

monitoring that we were able to do here in Sacramento and also to your staff at the here at the

city of Sacramento because it has been a very significant partnership over the last couple of years.

To that extent, over 200 of what we call portable sensors measuring PM 2.5 here in the community,

specifically in those areas most impacted. So it was actually targeted toward those areas that

are historically underserved and left behind. And that is where those were targeted along with

street level monitoring as part of that project where it was a special project we partnered with

Sonoma Technologies to bring out vans going around on these same streets in the most disadvantaged

areas and bring information about what air quality is looking like at that street level.

As Ray mentioned, you know, where that's going on and the sidewalks and those impacts going forward.

And that partners really well with a lot of the efforts that we at the second air district have

been doing and also some of our other partner agencies because it has allowed us to get additional

federal grants for doing toxic monitoring. It's allowed partner groups such as Valley Vision,

United Latinos to get both state and federal grants bringing just a very dense opportunity and

network here to Sacramento. And so on that note though as we're wrapping up that particular project,

one of the things we're also doing about is getting this information out there to the public.

So over here at the main desk and also just bringing to your attention those to highlight that we're

at as in honor of Clean Air Day, although it would be for the weekend, is we're partnering both

with the city and with the MetaView farmers market and a lot of other partner organizations out there

this Sunday with Saba out there as well doing some bike tuneups as well for people.

But he's going ahead now sharing this information, sharing the opportunities,

getting information on biking, air quality and these great programs going on.

So again, thank you very much and encourage all of you to join us on Sunday.

So Clean Air Day coming up this Wednesday this weekend gives you an opportunity to try out

free bike repairs to look at free riding light rail on Clean Air Day. You can ride RT for free

or encouraging people to test out these e-scooters at all of the different Clean Air Day events that

are having this Saturday so that on a Clean Air Day you can take an opportunity to try to reduce

our emissions so that everyone can have Clean Air. And lastly, I get the pleasure of being our

California Air Resources Board Member represented for the region. But it can't happen without all

of the local efforts here and I want to recognize how much of our board here sits on regional transit.

They sit on the air district and they are also advocating on policies at the local every day

to make sure this happens. So if I could have my air district board members join me downstairs

and recognize and ask everyone to join us on Wednesday, you can do your part by planning a tree,

riding a bike, commuting, carpooling, they are not commuting by yourself, but carpooling

and telecommuting to reduce the, and improve our air. So with that, let's give a big round of

pause to American and display associations and treat them, please support them.

Excellent.

Okay.

Anyone have phones if they want pictures I can take.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

Come on.

Thank you.

Come on.

Okay.

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And I got one more.

Thank you.

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One of the answers.

Thank you.

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Okay.

And by the way, Ray Bikes here today from the Thomas.

Yeah.

Vice Mayor Maple has a comment while we're taking the pictures.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

You're not going to be able to get out of the public at large to join me in a week without driving.

The goal here is to use public transportation by walking everything you can.

Very good.

I guess my only comment is 2026 ballot measure.

Clean air safe streets.

Public transportation.

Every time.

I'm going to remind that.

That.

That.

Got to go to the people with a smart ballot measure.

Okay.

Next we go.

An item one.

I'm going to pull the item.

We are very happy and proud to make the announcement that's embodied.

But see you audit or in this item.

But a few more details to work out.

So we're just going to pull it for now.

If that's okay.

Thank you.

All right.

We get then to the last item.

The main item for the evening.

That is the second of children's fund strategic investment plan.

We did hear this matter two weeks ago.

And my suggestion and also the suggestion of some of my colleagues.

We did not take a vote two weeks ago because we wanted to hear all the council input.

I know that staff has a specific recommendation.

I would like them to present.

I will then make a couple of comments opening comments.

We'll turn it over then for public testimony.

Then we'll bring it back to the council.

Where I will provide even some more detailed comments before turning it over to my colleagues.

So that's the way that we intend to go tonight.

And I'd like to turn it over to Jackie Beecham, who runs our Yipsey department for the presentation.

Thank you, Mayor and council.

Good evening.

Jackie Beecham, director of youth parks and community enrichment department.

I'm here this evening following the September 10th meeting where council heard the Sacramento Children's Fund planning and oversight commission's proposal for the five-year strategic investment plan.

So we're back tonight to respond first to respond to some items from the September 10th meeting related to measure L and the strategic investment plan.

More detailed information can also be found under touchment six that was published as a supplement to this item on the council agenda.

So first in response to some policy and process related questions regarding eligible programs and projects.

Measure L requires that funding be used to provide youth services as defined by the measure.

The charter provision excludes expenditures that only incidentally benefit youth.

So funding can be spent on facility maintenance and projects provided the expenditures meet the definition of a youth service and that the facility is primarily and directly utilized by youth.

The city auditor's baseline funding calculation report can also be referenced for examples of qualified expenditures.

In addition to full and partial expenditures for Yipsey and other city youth programs.

Qualifying capital project expenditures for construction and maintenance were also included and or were identified as primary youth programs.

Pool repairs being examples of one of them.

For questions related to grantee performance review the strategic investment plan recommends multi year grant cycles where funding will be dispersed annually and contention upon grantee performance contract compliance and fund availability.

The measure does require annual service performance reports and youth impact evaluation reports to evaluate and assess the product the progress towards youth outcome metrics established by the strategic investment.

Performance reviews will also be including programmatic and financial reviews that will occur annually or more frequently.

And then for questions related to the panel review consistent with current city practices the grant review panelists will have knowledge skills and expertise related to youth programming and the five fun goals that are outlined in measure L diversity and inclusion principles will also be considered

in the selection panelists. Our panelists will also be assessed for conflicts of interest and staff will work with the city attorney's office to determine whether potential panelists have any prohibited conflicts of interest.

Requested of Yipsey at the September 10 council meeting was also a priority list of unfunded park and facility projects.

The list is not inclusive of Yipsey's $130 plus million deferred maintenance burden as identified by city wide park facility and pool assessments.

Staff have identified the top 31 projects prioritized based on youth impact those with the greatest safety code compliance and operational impacts and the feasibility of delivering these projects once funded.

In addition to being identified on Yipsey city wide assessments many of these projects are also on the park planning programming guide as requested by residents care holders and users of our parks facilities and programs.

The first 10 priority unfunded projects range from lighting parks and sports fields at Johnston and Tanzanite parks repairing and converting the Robertson park waiting pool to an accessible splash pad refurbishing sports courts and replacing all weather terrific granite regional park that is in poor condition and site plans for the Robla park community center.

Next set of projects includes more park lighting for safe access playground replacements and installation of shade canopies over play areas in the addition of fencing to improve playground safety.

And the final set of projects includes again more playground and shade structure replacements skate park renovations and repairs and the renovation of the Mangan Park Community Club House.

Again this list totally in approximately $25 million is not inclusive of Yipsey's overall $130 million deferred maintenance for park facilities and pools.

So as mentioned in addition to safety impacts and the ability to deliver projects the unfunded list was prioritized based on youth impact again a more comprehensive overview of the youth impacts by project can be found in the supplement to the staff report but I'll cover a few for you quickly here.

Parks community centers and pools are visited by thousands of youth and families each year and having access to quality parks and facilities is critical to youth safety community center support over 15,000 visits from youth and teens in out of school time programs preschool programs and provide hot meals to thousands of youth and under resourced communities every year.

City facilities are also used by our CBO nonprofit partners to deliver essential youth and family services.

Our pools provide a safe space for youth citywide with over 80,000 youth visits in recreational swim each summer and employment opportunities for young people across 17 aquatic facilities and our 238 parks home to our workforce development programs like landscape and learning are visited by countless youth and families participated in sports activities using our playgrounds skate parks and more.

Light of athletic fields and sports courts for safe youth after dark repaired pools to remain open for safe swimming renovation of park amenities like our playgrounds skate parks and restrooms and safe and accessible community centers for youth and families to receive services these are all investments that have a significant overall impact on Sacramento youth.

Lastly, we are asked to provide a more more information on current community based organization partnerships. Here we have an overview of Yipsey and CBO collaboration and support funded by Measure You in General Fund.

Yipsey implements a community center in sports field permit fee waiver and fee reduction program to ensure access to facilities and sports fields for organizations that provide programs and services that benefit youth and family citywide.

Examples provided of services provided by nonprofits and community partners includes health and wellness resources and programs social service referrals zero to five child development and child care programs and recreation youth sports league practices since fiscal year 2324 Yipsey has weighed over $300,000 in community center and sports field permit fees.

Additionally, Yipsey partners with enrichment providers and community organizations offering youth and family program program supplementation including health and wellness activities social emotional learning coping skills and social service referrals such as health care housing and access to healthy food.

In addition to contracting with providers for over $65,000 annually in services Yipsey staff partners with many organizations through in kind event and program collaborations to best support our community.

And lastly, our youth development team administers over $5 million for in grants for community based organizations to provide services that support mental wellness workforce development academic support capacity building zero to five child development and care and violence intervention.

Some of these grants include Sacktown Youth Knights and the Organizational Resiliency Fund programs that support CBOs in addressing the priorities of youth safety, violence prevention and economic development in our underrepresented communities.

There are several other city and CBO partnerships across city departments that are not captured here. This overview is exclusive to Yipsey managed projects and demonstrates over $6 million in measure you in general fund investment in these collaborative partnerships with our community based organizations across the city.

So in response to council discussions on September 10 and to ensure that we as a city are addressing the fun goals identified in measure L including mental health and wellness youth homelessness youth substance abuse and violence prevention and a healthy development of children zero to five staff is recommending updates to these sections of the strategic investment plan.

Staff are supportive of the strategic investments plan recommendation around guaranteed basic income programs after the administrative cost as outlined in the measure and to ensure we are reaching the most vulnerable youth staff recommends that at least 20% of each grant cycle be dedicated to support one or more grantees to provide guaranteed cash transfer programming for current or former foster youth ages 18 to 24.

This recommendation would support approximately $7.5 million in guaranteed basic income programming and over $30 million in open grants over a five year period and here's a breakout of what that would look like based on approximate amount of calculations.

Next staff recommends the remaining grant cycle funding after the 20% to guarantee basic income programming be awarded to a mix of proposals providing programs strategies that address the five fun goals grant proposals must be addressed through the city's competitive RFP and proposal selection process per the requirements of the measure.

And a competitive grant award process is based on a competitive application process for all applications are scored on a published set of evaluation criteria staff recommends that the city rely on the established citywide grant distribution policy that's currently used for the award of grant funding.

For allocation by grantee type staff are recommending that rather than contemplate who will receive funding to deliver services we shipped our focus back to the purpose of the children's fund that is ultimately to support positive youth development and youth violence prevention prioritizing children and youth most impacted by poverty trauma and violence.

With that staff recommends that remaining funding be allocated through the open transparent and competitive process as previously outlined to organizations that can best serve the city's youth consistent with the fun goals that are outlined in the measure.

Again supporting mental health preventing homelessness among youth reducing substance abuse and violence and supporting healthy development for children ages 0 to 5.

And finally after feedback from council on September 10 staff are proposing the following updates regarding tools to identify priority populations staff recommends identifying youth as demonstrated by but not limited to the following tools the child opportunity index the seed tool communities receiving a welfare tax exemption for affordable housing and any other measure of low income.

This update recommendation does not limit populations to those identified specifically in the tool but provides examples of data to identify the lowest levels of opportunity for youth.

In closing I would like to thank the Sacramento Children's Fund Planning and Oversight Commission many of them are here this evening for their hardworking collaboration and a Sacramento Youth Commission for the development of the strategic investment plan.

We do recognize that this work cannot be done alone and we are committed to continuing to work collaboratively with our commissions city council and the community to move this plan forward.

I'm happy to take any questions and also have our Sacramento Children's Fund staff available as well.

I think it would be appropriate now to take questions of from his beach on the specifics of the staff's proposal.

Let me just before we do say a couple of things one I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the proposal.

I also appreciate the excellent work that your department does and all of us people dedicated to community dedicated to young people so many important and good programs that are underfunded.

Just like a lot of programs out in the community that are run by our community based organizations.

So you put forward again a thoughtful proposal what I would intend to do after we hear the public testimony is put forward some of my own ideas after hearing the testimony several weeks ago hearing that the comments of all of my colleagues two weeks ago.

So maybe it will frame up a good healthy discussion among the city council about what initial direction that we want to go here.

I'm not going to reveal the details but I want to put something forward that I think is consistent maybe more consistent with the commissions approach but with some modifications.

So then we will have will be framed to have I think a very good discussion councilmember Valenzuela.

Yeah just a quick question Jackie were you able to consult either the commission's the youth commissioner the fund commission on the staff proposal.

I was not.

Thank you.

Okay so that's that's the way we intend to proceed here and let's I'm sorry I go ahead I'm sorry.

Yeah one one question here and there's a question about eligibility all all of those lists or items that you mentioned in the staff report are all the would all those be qualified expenses are qualified expenditures under measure L and maybe that's question for both you or the city journey.

Sure and I think ultimately it would be determined by the city auditor's office as we're identifying eligible criteria but I can say that based on the baseline calculations I gave examples of projects that were included.

And if we can demonstrate for any project or any program demonstrate that has a primary youth benefit then it would qualify.

So we did have capital projects that were factored into the measure L baseline calculation such as poor pairs they would be they would be included.

So capital projects would not be excluded as long as they meet the primary youth services correct.

But it's a key and tonight we're not being asked I think under any proposal to actually make expenditures for any specific project or program tonight is a is a framework.

So but the question is came up two weeks ago it's absolutely the right question and I guess the answer is it's pop anything's possible but it's a case by case basis if it meets the definition under under measure L that has to be primarily for for youth correct.

And my understanding is that it has all funds whether it's for park it has to go through a competitive process right that is correct that's correct.

Yeah okay thank you anybody else all right let's let's hear from the public so I wasn't in public testimony this is everybody's entitled to two minutes and I am here as your mayor I'm not going to cut anybody off before two minutes however those of you who spoke last time.

If you want to take less than two minutes like one minute you it might be even better because then we get to the discussion in the debate from our colleagues quicker when everyone's still fresh and and and I would encourage you to be as succinct as possible and we'll get the point okay we really well thank you.

May I have 40 speakers on this agenda item I'll read off a few names Darrell Roberts Betty Williams Heidi Kaiser Mary Tappel Ardell Harrison and please feel free to line up in the aisle.

Good evening Mr Mayor members of the council Darrell Roberts co-founder Robert syndrome and center young people in the blue and Mr. Turner which reminds standing up please thank you very much.

Here are part of the grant PASERS after school program for us as well as what's the city initiative called thousand strong.

So we believe that the city has the ability to to invest in our students I'm here as a veteran who in two thousand eight stood before you councilman Jennings and the count at that point the mayor you were a similar member and I think retreat way was on the council and we talked about a gang jazz force that failed because when the council members felt like that wasn't something they wanted to do and twenty twenty twelve measure you will.

So I think it was was old voter on body voters and we were promised funds that will go to youth program very few of those dead although some did over the years when we got to twenty eighteen measure G was was killed twenty twenty two measure L was victorious sixty seven forty three sixty three to forty seven thirty seven and you know the thing that that disappoints me is that the city is going to be a little bit more.

stimulate the city is that tonight I'm coming to you and once again rather than eight million dollars.

Spid into six areas that we focus on we're now being told that that eight million dollars will probably split out into other areas the disappointment for me is that we once again are under investing with our youths those young people weren't born when I came here in two thousand eight.

We're in the promise we have in the city including the promises past weekend continue because of lack of investment and our young people.

Thank you for your comment Betty Williams.

Good evening my name is Betty Williams I'm president of the National African American Civil Rights Organization and I stand in solidarity with the youth commission and their recommendations.

What this past weekend was a bloody weekend the fact that we have youth that died as young as twelve years old is absolutely a tragedy and so what we voted on in twenty twenty two on measure L we said focus on the youth so the fact that they are recommending that twenty percent goes to the foster care and then sixty five percent goes to the CBO's the people who have been doing the work.

To focus on mental health the focus on the violence the focus on family zero to five years old with children to focus on the drug and the abuse of drugs and so to sit here and look at a recommendation saying we should take care of parks and bathrooms when we had five deaths in the past last weekend.

It's insulting to me it's insulting to our community the fact that you won't listen to the recommendations of the youth that's bringing it before you and why should applaud the youth that made it here tonight just to witness what you're about to do.

You need to understand that when we vote for something like a measure L when we vote for something that we are speaking to you of what we want so when we have a child and as I explain and thank you council member Maiveg and council member Maplen and the mayor for coming to the call of action to our community yesterday thank you for listening to us because at the end of the day we want to make sure

council member Kaplan that you hear us that you're not looking at your comments your time is coming up appreciate thank you for your comments our next speaker Heidi Kaiser.

Thank you Betty Heidi Kaiser is the next speaker.

Thanks for not cutting me off.

Thank you well we're just trying to keep everyone on time if we can thank you.

Okay.

Good evening mayor and council members Heidi Kaiser speaking on behalf of child action please approve the strategic investment plan recommended by the commission.

Through this city investment plan you have the opportunity to invest in the future of our zero to five population through child care our children and families need this investment in the city of Sacramento 10% of families are living below the federal poverty line and we know that this is not really

a show in the full extent of poverty in the city many are living paycheck to paycheck children living in poverty at risk of falling behind before they can even walk.

Investing in child care as a part of the strategic investment plan is an investment in prevention.

The city of Sacramento has an opportunity to invest in our littleest learners please approve the investment plan thank you all for your time.

Thank you very much for our northern Sacramento bike trail cleanup and I want to emphasize that although you cannot get an accounting for the number of people's lives that we say including kids but we were desperately in the community trying to get the bike trail cleaned up because we were very nearly getting the

kids moved down by vehicles that should not have been driving on the bike trail my husband was almost hit and if that that vehicle come just an hour or two later there were a Robla community school students Robla Elementary school students walking down that bike trail three across when I was desperately pruning for more visibility there a few days after my little while after my husband was almost hit and killed by a head on person coming on in a big

big vehicle on the bike trail. I noticed that the kids were walking on the trail and there's no way if that same vehicle would come at the same speed that somebody would not a little kid would not have been killed.

So we can't measure the lives that have been saved by the bike trail cleanup and all the safety that the city and the citizens and community groups did together but this work needs to continue.

We have some irresponsible drivers coming back right on the trail. We have people setting up tents again where they can hide aggressive dogs that have also gone after school kids just trying to get to school on the bike trail and we have a lot of underfunded city parks and these kids need to use those parks.

We need to have the city staff still working with our community and with a law enforcement to keep that bike trail safe for everybody's sake and there is in the north area along this bike trail many underserved communities loaded with kids mainly kids of color mainly low income.

Everybody knows it we need that bike trail still kept up. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments Ardell.

Good afternoon Mayor Steinberg city council I come to you today with a heavy heart.

We met yesterday at Dr. Rose's office and thank you my name is showing up Kathy maples mayor and you can fill the tension and the presence of the sorrow that the parents would be filling.

These measures need to be looked at and they need to be approved but the thing that always asks someone when I'm making a hard decision what if I put myself in your position can you imagine any of you all getting that phone call or somebody knocking on your door and telling you that your child has been killed.

No parents should have to bury their child and this is when it comes down to under funding and we don't have the funding the kids are out there the youth are out there and they don't have a place to go so to get into trouble and the trouble is becoming more and more extensive so as we go down for the children's fun and measure L really give it some consideration and put yourself in a parent's position.

I'm sure that your child got shot and this right here takes at home more than anything else and I just ask you guys off of got I'm Ardell here I'm president of the hand double ACP but that's not important this is what's important and please please please let's approve these measures thank you.

Thank you.

Hello council members and mayor my name is Neumor weathers and I'm a citizen of district four I'm a proud member of the Sacramento kids first coalition in the Sacramento racial equity alliance all gratitude to the commission members and all of our grassroots supporters who are in the house this evening.

I've had the pleasure of organizing implementing and advocating around youth policy here in the city for the past seven years through those ups and downs I have learned that nothing gets done without compromise and compromise demands understanding and the fortitude to build towards a common goal our common goal at Sacramento kids first coalition has always been our use stability and success but more than anything their physical and mental well being we are grateful to share in this goal however we can all agree that the

events of this past week and makes our shared goal that much more clear and that much more urgent though I would like to remind everyone that a vote yes tonight isn't just a vote yes for youth safety and youth life a vote yes tonight is a vote yes for creating and standing on much needed and overlooked values.

The Sacramento Children's Fund is the first of its kind not because it proposes permanent funding for youth services but because it is informed by the seed tool which allows us to easily and plainly identify which youth need the most help those youth being indigenous LGBT Q black and brown southeast Asian and systems impacted as it bears repeating.

Funding our youth with an equity lens isn't a suggestion we bring forward to be hopeful or to be cute it will be a key factor and determining qualitative change for our youth our success hinges on it lastly a vote yes tonight is a vote for a promise fulfilled a reminder compromise rest yes on understanding and on the want for a common goal but it also rests on sacrifice our youth have sacrificed enough and for long enough they've been waiting since 2018 for this money.

Vote yes tonight and keep your promise adopt the Sacramento Children's Fund as is.

Thank you for your comments your time is complete thank you for your comments our next speaker is Eve Bannis.

Our next speaker is Eve Bannis Tyler Zeno Mercedes Parker Rashid Sidiq of Raquel Rodriguez.

Hello good evening my name is Eve Bannis and I'm the advocacy and training lead at the Sacramento LGBT community center.

The member of the SAC kids first coalition. The center works to create a region where all LGBT Q plus people thrive we support health and wellness advocate for equity and justice and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBT Q plus community.

I'll start by saying that the center is grateful to the city of Sacramento for their partnership on SAC town youth nights and our transitional living program which are vital to the most vulnerable in the LGBT Q plus community.

As a community based organization the center is able to serve hundreds of youth each year through our youth drop in center Q spot and our two housing programs where we provide shelter for unhoused transitional aged youth.

The center provides mental health support life skills workshops education resources health services community building activities paid internships and housing for LGBTQ plus youth and allies.

Research shows that cultivating meaningful community relationships is critical to long term emotional resilience from marginalized youth.

At the center we see firsthand the positive impact that a supportive and affirming community space can have an LGBT Q plus youth.

We also see the harms that occur when youth can't access affirming support and services including housing and mental health services.

The planning and oversight commission strategic investment plan offers a way forward that can reduce youth homelessness prevent the development of unhealthy coping strategies and support leadership and employment opportunities for our youth.

The plans focus on equity community involvement and transparency are critical to ensuring that our youth have their voice in policies that impact them.

The commission's plan will positively impact LGBTQ plus youth in Sacramento through targeted data informed strategies together we can create a community that uplifts and strengthens our youth and gives them the tools they need to live healthy and vibrant lives.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Tyler the Mercedes.

Hello my name is Tyler Zeno and I'm a former foster you live in a THP program.

I really believe that we need to keep this fun or at least start this funding because not only as myself as a student it's really tough to really make $250 a month for rent.

And not going to lie.

Even when you had to like get stuff for not only just for myself but for kids or if you have anything or anything that I rely on you for support it just sucks.

So this grant I feel like what help people who are on the edge people who might lose their homes jobs kids or even their emotion support animals like myself and I know for a fact that this could really help.

All of us out for those who are struggling financially, probably physically if anyone's on such use that probably need to pay for the programs.

Please say yes for this petition not just for me but other kids like me or have been like me.

It may be even for your own family members that might be going through this now or probably in the future.

Thank you Avi.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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Thank you 상ra Sheed.

Good evening.

My name is Mercedes Parker.

I'm here on behalf of California Youth Connection.

I have the honor and privilege of representing young people all across the state of California who have experienced foster care that are between the ages of 14 and 24 years old.

Since I've worked at CYC also for Accumention.

I live in District 4.

I grew up in Sacramento.

I'm also a former foster youth.

But since I've been at CYC I've talked to hundreds of not thousands of youth not only in Sacramento but across the state and across the country.

And one thing that we are hearing consistently is the challenges that youth are facing the choices that they are being forced to make because they do not have adequate resources or support.

Our child welfare system is failing our youth.

And we are looking at the consequences every day when we look at what's happening to our city and the chronic homelessness that is impacting our state.

We have an opportunity to disrupt that cycle and disrupt that pipeline that is funneling youth from their childhoods into a situation where they're constantly fighting generational poverty.

Where they are fighting against generational involvement with the child welfare system.

Where they're having to make choices that I don't think anybody sitting on the dice here has had to make for themselves when it comes to their survival.

So I'm here to urge you all to support the strategic plan as presented.

And I just want to say as a resident of Sacramento being involved in the Sacramento Kids First Coalition and working fighting for Sacramento Children's Fund as somebody that has all been involved in the Sacramento Kids First Coalition.

And working fighting for Sacramento Children's Fund as somebody that has always worked in youth programming.

This has been the one thing that has really made me proud to live in Sacramento.

And so I really hope that we can execute measure all the way that it was intended as everybody behind me is going to tell you.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Rashid then, Rashel.

Rashid Tadeek would lift up love but I would like to at least do a moment of silence for all of the lives that was lost this weekend.

If we could just give up 30 seconds of my time.

Thank you.

And I would like to give my speaking time to Danny Williams who actually worked close with the young 12 year old.

You missed him when he came to the meeting but I'd rather give him an opportunity to speak.

Why don't you take your full two minutes sir.

Go ahead.

Thank you Rashid.

Go ahead.

Take two minutes.

I'm Mayor Steinberg, the Distinguished City Council.

So my name is Danny Williams, Champs for Life.

I've resigned as a principal two years ago from Salva Charter School in El Grove because I wanted to make a difference that I've been doing for over 25 years, working in the families in Phoenix Park.

And so when I resigned from my principal job I said, you know what?

I've got to do what other people aren't doing.

Cut to the red tape.

So when I'm walking the streets of Coral Gables Saturday night, you know, making sure people are okay, making sure they're fed, making sure they're taken care of.

I get the news about that's the young man who is shot and killed.

12 years old.

We fed the entire community all summer long with community partnerships since COVID in fact, you know, I'm texting friends, texting Chinyu, I'm texting Jackie Rills and hey, you know, those are my resources for Coral Gables, Metal Glen.

That's side of a mediview that it's not been ignored.

It's just severely underserved and under resourced.

I tried to bring in people for the first mass shooting in July and then it just, things just felt it, the cracks and I said, okay, and there's not last shooting.

I'm at the visual.

I'm texting people and hey, what's going on?

We can do better in Sacramento.

I grew up in Mediview all of my life.

You know, I went to college and came back here to make sure the teacher and the principal for over about 25 years,

and combined service to make sure that the community is getting my best.

We can do better.

We need to better with resources, a lot better to listen to people who are feet boots on the ground.

You know, I know obviously Councilman Revan very well.

I know Mr. Ginny's, I think, well enough, you know, over the years.

I'm not going anywhere, but we have to do a better job because Champs is reaching, but we're severely under resourced.

When you, when I have six children and my son's 11 years old, my oldest is 29.

I have kids who took the bar exam, but a lot of people in our communities aren't getting those opportunities and they're not getting the answers.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for coming.

Rachel Rodriguez from Jeremy Flanagan.

I'm going to take glasses on to see and glasses off to see.

Hi, I'm Rachel Rodriguez. I'm here representing the Justice Reform Coalition.

I work as a civil rights advocate out in the community.

It's short and sweet.

You know, we are in support of this.

And basically all the problems that we have.

And the things that are going on in the bloodbath we've seen this last week, what we have to say about it is these problems are results of decades, not years, decades of underinvestment in our youth and underserved communities.

I mean, you're not going away any time soon.

Are youth already, are youth of underserved communities and color already lack access to positive resources and like education, minimum education and career opportunities.

And what does this do for us as a community?

It hurts our whole community in the long run because the youth are exposed to what we just seen this last weekend.

Drug addiction, homelessness, trauma, even going to bed on empty stomachs.

You know, and I mean the basic necessities that we should be providing as a community and we're not.

So we are in support of this.

We are hoping that this gets funded so that the people, you know, my cohorts who we are out here, the community, the youth.

They can continue doing what we're already doing with boots to the ground on little or no money.

Now you can show your support to us so that we continue to do the work and hopefully reach more children and we don't have a repeat of what we just seen this last weekend.

Jeremy Flanagan, then Hazel Watson.

Hi, my name is Jeffrey Flanagan. I'm just here today to talk about the measure L. I live in district two and you know, we have parks that need maintenance mainly mom marks park.

Obviously Johnson Park and we also have a lot of deferred maintenance and I feel like some of this money should go towards the deferred maintenance.

I feel like it's important to support our CBOs and and give them the opportunity to serve our youth but I also feel like our parks.

You know, they serve thousands of children. I was in white rock in in retrocord, and they had recently renovated a park that looks like most of our parks in district two.

They had this huge, you know, barrel being filled with water and all these kids underneath the anticipating it to turn over and splash on the kids and they were having a really good time.

You know, green grass, kids playing on a modern sports field. So I think I would like to see that happen in district two.

I would also like to point out that the state of California is currently doing pilot program before the UBI and I think it's important that we check that out before we allocate $10 million towards the UBI.

I think we should see the data first before we start allocating that money. You know, $10 million could, you know, could do a lot of things in district two.

So thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Haseyl Watson and Cassidy Vang.

Haseyl Watson and Cassidy Vang.

Hello.

My name is Haseyl Watson and I work for Sacramento Area congregations together, which is part of Pico, California.

And it is amazing to be a community organizer in the city of Sacramento where you can go to the swing building in the morning and come to city hall in the evening.

But it's all the same conversation.

It's all the same conversation. It's all the conversation about money and where the money should go and who can do what with the money.

We believe as a faith-based organization not in scarcity but in abundance.

We believe that the money is in California. It's the fifth largest economy in the world.

Mayor Steinberg, you came up with a creative way to get more money into mental health funding.

So we know the money is there.

But we have to look at our priorities and we have to look at where we're going with it.

We have another value that says the people who are closest to the pain have the best solutions to the problem.

The pain is in the community.

And you wanted good solutions to those problems.

So you picked people who are close to those problems who work with those youth.

And you put them on a strategic planning commission and they worked hard for you.

Please honor the work that they have done.

Pass that strategic implementation plan the way it was written.

I thought it was really interesting two weeks ago when you started bringing up bathrooms because I have another group of organizing people who want bathrooms open in parks who are desperate to have bathrooms in parks.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Cassidy Vang, then George Vang, then Sunshine House.

Good evening, Mayor Steinberg and City Council members. My name is Cassidy Vang.

I'm a young adult with Hmong innovating politics. I grew up in District 5 of South Sacramento.

I'm here to vocalize my support for the strategic investment plan brought forward and unanimously approved by the commissioners who represent your respective council districts.

In my youth, I lived next to a park where I experienced bullying and racism.

I spent many sleepless nights hearing gunshots or followed by sirens and helicopters outside my window.

At the age of 11, a homicide took place at the park and I was forcefully awakened from my sleep to multiple semi-automatic guns pointed at me.

Under full suspicion, my family and I experienced law enforcement searching and destroying my home and interrogating us.

The caveat to having access to public parks and recreational facilities for communities like mine is that it has notoriously been the location where intersectional disparities involving discrimination and violence occur and thrive.

In high school, I joined a program for a community-based organization called Asian Resources Incorporated, where they provided me with employment preparation, career guidance, and career placement assistance.

During the program, I gained basic life skills such as tenacity, public speaking, and financial literacy.

Thanks to the support of CBOs, I discovered the importance of self-sufficiency.

This invaluable knowledge gave me the confidence to pursue higher education at my dream college, UCLA.

And now, as a UCLA alumnus, who defied many odds, I hope the words I shared with you today amplifies the importance of CBOs and their impact on the lives of our youth.

I urge you all again to unanimously vote yes and approve the commissioners' recommendations for the SIP presented in order to honor the intent of the measure, which is to support the vulnerable youth who are impacted by violence, substance abuse, and homelessness in sacrament.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

George Vang, then Sen Shine Tao.

George Vang, Sun Shine Tao, then Athena Tao.

Good evening, Ms. Steinberg and City Council members.

My name is George Vang.

I'm here on behalf of Maul and Evangie politics.

I urge you to allocate to Sacramento Children's Fund to our most average youth.

I know firsthand how vital community-based programs are.

I've been through the juvenile system, the foster care system, jail prison, and without these youth programs and clearing mentors, I will not be standing here today.

And the love and belief from my case workers, teachers, foster parents, literally changed the trajectory of my life.

Thanks for those opportunities.

I've graduated from Sac State with ambassadors.

I became a national debater and entered in DC this past spring.

Now, all I want to do is get back to my community.

Without funding like the Sacramento Children's Fund into the right services, I would not have the second chance in life.

So as Mayor Steinberg noted two weeks ago, the fund is enlarged.

So it's even more critical that we use it with intention and purpose.

The measure that established this fund was created with the intention of providing real support to those who really need it most.

Let's not deviate from that purpose.

The data is clear.

Our most vulnerable children are in areas of facing poverty, mental health crisis, and instability.

Let's focus this fund where it will make the greatest impact in communities hit hardest by youth suicide homelessness and the lack of education access.

This fund was designed to support those who need it most.

Let's follow the data and ensure every dollar is used wisely just as it was for me.

Invest in our at-use, at-risk youth now training ripple effect across Sacramento to change our future.

I urge you to listen to the organizations that have come before you to allocate for the Sacramento Children's Fund to be used for improving the lives of our youths and not public infrastructure.

These organizations are on the front lines working directly with at-risk children and families.

And they understand the critical needs of our community.

Allocating these funds towards programs that support mental health education opportunities for vulnerable youths will have a far greater long-term impact than using them for infrastructure projects.

This fund is created to uplift our children and is vital that we stay true to that.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Sunshine.

Then Athena.

Your time is complete.

Sunshine, Tao. Then Athena, Tao. Then Dao, Wang.

Can you be amazed I'm Reagan City Council members.

My name is Sunshine, Tao.

And I reside in District 8 of South Sacramento with my ring.

Hi, my name is Sunshine.

As a Transisting Youth, I urge you to use the Sacramento Children's Fund as it adheres to the measure charter to fully support the future of our young people and not divert the fund elsewhere.

Many of the community-based organizations are here today to serve as a lifeline for our most vulnerable young people.

I've heard countless stories from my peers to say that these CBOs have pulled them off the streets, given them a place that feels like home and made them feel heard.

I understand the face of significant challenges.

I understand that because our city encompasses many diverse areas, some of these stories may not resonate with you.

However, I believe these stories carry weight because I grew up in South Sacramento.

A community that's often forgotten and left behind.

We cannot keep making the same broken promises for our youth and expect different results.

It is time for us to invest in our future.

The Sacramento Children's Fund is not just a line item in the budget.

It is a lifeline for countless youth who are searching for hope, direction, and opportunity.

When we allocate these funds, as intended, we empower organizations that provide critical resources, mentorship, and safe spaces for young people to thrive.

I urge you to listen to the voices of our youth and organizations that serve them.

We need programs to focus on education, mental health support, and career readiness.

These are the pillars that will uplift our community and create pathways for success.

By ensuring that the Sacramento Children's Fund is utilized to its fullest potential, we can cultivate an environment where young people are valued and supported.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you for your comments.

Athena Tau, then Dowling, then DiAngelo Mack, then Rios Rios.

Good evening, my name is Theta Tau, and I'm a youth with more than a million politics.

Recently through HIPP, I had the opportunity to participate in a program called Yoke Ali, while I heard many of my prayers share the struggles.

Some were in and out of juvenile facilities due to the lack of available programs to guide them.

What resonated with me most was how many relied on groups, grassroots organizations, as vital outlets, and support systems.

These organizations provided them with the guidance and community that they desperately needed, highlighting the importance of having accessible resources.

To me, this proved testament that these resources are a lifeline for our most vulnerable population.

What interesting neighborhood facilities like Parks and Poohs is important, providing mental health services, mental health programs, and educational resources is crucial for children's success.

Only then we can truly create a ecosystem where our young people are diving.

I urge the City Council to consider the future of our youth and vote yes to adopt a strategic investment for and propose by the commissioners you selected to represent you.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Dao Wang, the Angelo Mack, and then Raya Srios.

Good evening, Mayor. It's in Council. My name is Dao, and I'm the field manager for Moong-Individing Politics.

I currently resided district day.

I just wanted to take some time to remind the City Council that this ballot initiative represented a truly grassroots effort driven by our community.

It reflects the voices and the concerns of the residents, and it's also really important to recognize the hard work and dedication that made this really possible.

Having worked on to measure myself, we really framed this campaign as buy and for the people, especially our young people.

The results from two weeks ago and today clearly shows that the people have spoken.

And I also wanted to address some points for our last meetings conversation.

Firstly, that yes, the C2 is not the definite answer for our community's need.

While it can be a valuable resource, it should be considered as one of the several tools to guide decision making.

More importantly, the fund is designated to target specific populations rather than geographical locations as well, too.

And based on last conversation, it was also very disheartening to hear that the City Council wants to divert the funding into more bathroom parts when the chief and sole purpose and intent of the fund is to support positive youth development and youth violence prevention.

We also did not attend the city to fund the parks bathroom, nor address all of the Yipsy's deferred maintenance as well, too.

Something to also know is that it's also very disheartened that YAH as the C2 percent, especially when they did not consult the commissioners at all, especially when we gave YAH 2 weeks, not full, too.

And last but not least, Mayor Steinberg, I know you often get labeled as a bad guy, but I think during your state address, especially when you spoke about staring away from business as usual and embrace your new approach.

I will hardly believe in an ad vision. And with this, we do really have the unique opportunity to be transformative and not maintain the status quo as you have mentioned.

Therefore, as you all to adopt the plan presented for it by your own city commissioners, thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is DeAngelo Mack.

Next speaker is DeAngelo Mack, then Rhea Srio's, Ignacio Taylor.

Please proceed.

Good evening.

Are you okay?

Did you hear that?

No? That's because there's a difference between hearing and listening.

You can no longer hear because you did not listen. You didn't listen to the countless young people who cried out to you in the past, who have since lost their lives, who have since become shooters that you so love to villainize and fear.

And if you had listened closely just now, you would have heard them say, why have you held on to resources that could have saved my life? Why do you continue to prioritize everything else when you say I'm the future?

You would have heard them say the time is now, give us what's ours. That minute was offered to the voiceless.

Your time is complete. Please take your seat.

Our next speaker is Rhea Srio's, then Ignacio Taylor, then Sherry Martinez.

Thank you.

I just like to say, two weeks ago today, we were here to give our unanimous support for the Strategic Investment Plan.

Today, I have the honor of saying that the time is now, now for the city of Sacramento to inflict lasting change on the youth of this city.

This plan is more than allocating money. It is a vision for the future of youth in Sacramento. A future where youth homelessness and violence doesn't exist, especially after what we've seen this past weekend.

And a future where youth don't have to deal with substance abuse, mental health crises, and the scary event of aging out of foster care alone.

By investing in youth, the leaders of today and tomorrow, we set a strong foundation for the future of our city that we care about so much.

With this, I call on the youth of Sacramento to get active, to use their voices and actions to make a difference as we have seen today.

There isn't a problem out there too big for the youth to solve. And I'll end with reminding all of us to seize this moment and make this decision that will turn this well planned vision into a reality. Thank you.

Thank you, Pierre Cummins. Ignacio Taylor, then Sherry Martinez.

Hello, City Council members. Once again, my name is Ignacio Taylor. I last meeting I spoke to you regarding my time in the foster care system and the impacts that's had on myself and family as well.

Till you all two weeks to come back together was not much time, but the tribal foster youth these two weeks were life changing.

My brother was incarcerated last week due to being homeless and no resources as he is transitioning from foster care.

At this moment, I feel no one cares about us tribal foster youth. So I'm here again to ask that you all support us and pass this as the commission proposed it.

The guarantee basic income piece will be the start for life altering change we need in the system today. Thank you.

Next speaker is Sherry Martinez. Following Sherry is Jason Tabet, then Haley Washington.

Good evening. When I was 18 years old, I bought my house in District 2 and I've lived there since.

When you were an assembly, I was fighting for patients rights with other fellow activists and coming to town home at friends I knew Sean towel when he was working for Alan Warren.

And I think it's great that the youth are coming out here and using their voices and I think you should always stick up for what's right.

I think that no matter where this money goes, they're for sure needs to be checks and balances.

For example, I'm on the planning committee for the D2 bike fest. We reached out to Sabah and Sabah wanted to charge us to do a bike valet, but sack bike kitchen and it up donating the equipment so we can do it ourselves since it will be twice a year event.

So someone double dipping or they talk a good talk, but anyways that's the point.

We've done several seven bike trail cleanups and been active and cleaning up parks and painting, painting parks and curbs.

And we've had the children from the community come out eager and ask us what we're doing and join.

There's a whole Afghan community of children that need our help, just community help.

So just as a community, I don't know where Sacramento is going anymore.

So I feel like here I am back at City Hall fighting for what's right, I guess.

So yeah, I guess I'm in support, but I would like to see checks and balances and make sure that the money is going to where it needs to go.

For good purposes, thank you for your time.

Come in, Jason Talbot, then Haley Washington.

So hi everyone, my name is Haley Washington, a part of District 2.

I'm a leader, youth and advocate with impact sack.

So when young people are supported with the funding that the city provides, they all have the potential to challenge themselves

and to push for institutional legislative reforms, as well as transform themselves, as well as their communities.

And we also want you all to know that young people are so important, not only because they are young, but because they possess the ability to have the amount of access and effort to make a change.

They also have essential skills as motivation and innovation.

You are more change oriented and risk adverse.

We all, we elected you all to help us and work with us to make change, but it doesn't look like that's actually happening.

We will not stop our work and we will continue to have our voices heard.

Let our voices be heard and help us make a change.

We will be heard and we will not be silenced. Thank you.

Come in.

Speaker is Jay-Jen Talbot, then Zavea Marshall.

Hello everybody, my name is Jayden Talbot.

I was here about two weeks ago speaking about this issue.

I'm here with more confidence than I had last time.

This is not something that I believe, but this is something that I know that will help and serve our youth of today.

We are losing so many of our youth every single day.

We are losing so many of our friends, your kids, your kids, friends, my peers, my classmates, solely because they don't have the resources that they need to survive.

They don't have the proper places to go or the proper programs to be in to help them stay out of trouble.

Our voices are powerful and they need to be heard.

We have waited long enough for this decision and we have given you the time and we require an answer today to better the tomorrow today.

I support Project Positive and this is my dream, my hope, and my vision for the future of our youth.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thanks.

Hello again. I'm Zavea Marshall, the project manager for the consultant and violence prevention programs at Impact SAC.

Last year, we came up here to show you the importance of building community for the youth.

We came in hopes that you guys would vote to pass measure L then.

We brought out our youth who were open and vulnerable enough to share their stories and needs with you.

While you claim to listen, even though it didn't seem like it still doesn't seem like it, honestly.

Since then, let me reiterate that there are youth that are lost afraid and dying right now.

Whether it may be because of drugs and alcohol or guns or whatever else, they need all the youth orgs that are here in front of you today and more.

We, the youth orgs, give the youth the guidance and the safe spaces that they need to thrive.

And we cannot do this without the proper funding. So what's up?

Like seriously, what's up? I'm trying to figure it out.

We're sitting here, we're catering to the youth, we're helping these kids, we're giving them the courage and providing them the platform to come up here and demonstrate their power to you.

Demonstrate their voices to you. So it seems like we've done what we're supposed to do.

And the youth done what they're supposed to do. So it's your turn. So what's up?

Thank you.

Past pleasure. Amen.

Our next speaker is Paris Dyer and Christina Rogers.

Paris and then Christina.

We talk to our youth a lot. Our mission is to connect people to power.

The first thing we do is connect them to the power of their voice because we know that when you use your voice, things get done.

Things get done. Things happen.

Councilmember Jennings, you started the violence prevention and intervention task force is still going.

There's remnants of your work that live on today.

You stand ten toes down, violence prevention, your hearts and the work.

We bring our youth. They come to speak to you. We can't. We're gone. Chairs are turned.

But politicians, when you're running for office, you speak about how important it is to bring youth to you.

How much you want to hear them. But then when we bring them, you talk to each other.

We research Kaplan. We researched you. We know that you wanted parts.

But today, there's young people here. But you're talking. Your chairs are turned around.

Pay attention. You have an obligation. You are an elected officials.

People put their votes to you. People supported you. And you never once said, oh, when I get to City Council, I'm going to leave the chambers when kids are talking.

We're talking about kids just died. Can you look their mother in the face and tell them that you're going to take some funding to keep the next kid alive to fix a bathroom?

They misappropriated the funds that got the parts to where they are now. Don't make our children pay for that.

Hold the people accountable and honor the work of the commission that put this recommendation forward.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Christina Rogers.

Good evening, City Council. We have over 140 million dollars in deferred maintenance.

There are parks and bike trails and Sacramento that people do not use because they are unsafe or downright dangerous to children and families.

There are many advocating on this measure, and I think there is enough to go around.

The city should be prepared to make a new commitment to core services first. That means resolving park deferred maintenance costs.

What's a better youth program than our parks? Children use city pools and splash pads. They play in baseball and soccer fields.

They thrive at community centers. Families, especially those who are living on a very tight income, rely on Sacramento's parks for weekend breaks and outdoor time.

They want to have birthday parties, baby showers and other celebrations in our parks. Sacramento is the state capital.

We should be an example of what all of California's parks should be for every culture, color, and income level.

Many of our parks, especially those in lower income neighborhoods, are unused because residents find them to be dangerous and unhealthy.

What use is a youth program if there isn't a safe and clean park to have it at?

I ask that you first focus on your duty as elected leaders. There is a debt owed to our parks.

It's predicted measure L will produce around over $50 million in the next five years.

I say around 10 million should go to closing the deferred maintenance gap and to continue the maintenance and management of our parks and bike trails.

Even one unsafe and unused park in our city should be an embarrassment to our city leaders.

You promised measure L would make our parks better. It's time to follow through with that promise.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments. I have 16 more speakers. Amone Durham and Jalena. He knows you.

Mayor.

Mayor.

Yes.

Can I ask that the audience please respect the opinions of people coming up to the dios and not shout out them when they.

Yeah, it's part of the great challenge that I'm going to speak about when it's my turn.

I think that people have strongly held opinions about really important and good causes across the board here.

And I think it's really important that we all respect the points of view of everybody in this room.

Because this is about trying to meet a lot of needs in our community and in the end the council will deliberate about this.

Let's try to stay together and listen to one another and respect one another's opinions.

Thank you. Mayor.

I'm Lonnie and then Angelina.

Good evening. My name is Imani Durham. I'm 17 years old. I'm a member of the secundation of the back foot confederacy.

And I'm currently a student at Sac State. I'm here representing district five today.

And once again here to discuss the Sacramento Children's Friends Strategic Investment Plan.

The more time we wait, discussions of the air won't matter if our youth keep taking their last breath on the streets.

The more time we wait, the quality of life won't matter if our kids keep dying.

Things like this need to be considered when we're talking about this strategic investment plan.

How many youth have to die for you to all realize that the clock is ticking and we lack resources to do our jobs and protect our youth.

My uncle Barry Axie is the founder of Voice of the Youth has dedicated his license 2008 to serving our community and has consistently watched the city time and time again fail our youth and watch them get killed.

My auntie Latissia Aguilar sitting behind me today has done the same thing for our native girls and watch the cycle continue herself.

So we have all this going on and nothing's changing. We've given you the opportunity and nothing's changing.

We keep getting up here and nothing is changing. Once again, I watched my own brother die a week after his 18th birthday because of the lack of resources due to situations like this.

You keep pushing you keep pushing the funding back. More kids are going to die. Five cases died this weekend.

A 12 year boy couldn't even make it to high school. Couldn't even make it to his eighth grade promotion. But he died.

He saw a tombstone before he saw a diploma. How does that work? And it's things like this that I need all of you to consider today.

We need you to pass measure out the way that it was intended. We need you to go ahead and give us our money. Period.

Our next speaker is Angelina, then Nancy, Acevedo.

Synthemana, Wano Anon, Kenema. Hello, friends and all. My name is Angelina, Hinoosa.

I'm part of Natives, the circle, my tribe is perlimo, a combination. Me and my cousin were at the candlelight visual of the 12 year old boy that passed.

He passed in broad daylight. The mother was a great mother and he had a big supportive family. His name was Santino Contreras.

Just imagine if he had the resources we've been asking and asking and advocating for. How much does it take? He was only 12 years old.

And I guarantee you a bathroom in the park is not going to save us. This showed us the deep disparities faced by our youth and their families.

We need strong partnership between the city and community organizations. Organizations have long standing connections to the land and people.

Employ staff who reflect the experiences of the tribal communities we serve and provide culturally grounded services that resonate with our youth. Are you listening?

This is why we urge the council to propose and allocate approximately 65% of Sacramento children's funds resources to community based organizations.

These organizations are the lifeline to ensuring that our tribal youth and all youth have the culturally relevant support they need to thrive and still be here today.

Not taking our last breaths. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments Nancy as a veto and then the Lager Taylor and Felicia Chan.

Good evening.

Wow. I'm all for allocating measure all funds to our youth. But I also think that it's very important that we go to goes to some of our parks also for our deferred maintenance.

Like my associate said we we need more parks for our kids to be able to go to safely.

We've done many cleanups on our bike trail because that is one of our parkways that we want to make should make it safe and clean for our kids to ride their bikes and for others.

One more last bike bike cleanups we met up with a bunch of kids and a leader from the Afghanistan community.

We're talking with these kids they let us know that they're concerned about the safety of the bike trail.

And these are people who come from a war war zone they're refugees from Afghanistan and to let us know that they were worried about the safety on the bike trail just kind of blew my mind.

It's like you come from this background and yet you're worried about the safety of your children on our bike trail our bike trail within our city.

We had a meeting with the Afghanistan community we reached out to them to try and help them acclimate it and our community.

And again this was one of their concerns during our meeting.

This was also attended by Sean Tao and his guide Nia Vu.

This really resonated with me so I'm just trying to let everybody know that this is an issue that it's not just something that we go out and clean we want to make sure that it's safe for our kids.

And one of their also concerns was the parks that are nearby which is Triangle Park and Jack Raya Park they're not safe they don't feel comfortable there with letting their women take their mongers take their time.

This time is complete our next speaker is a legrit Taylor police a chance and then Shannon Williams.

Leaving mayor city council members. So let me start with the telemantez you want to correct people about the quorum of how to act inside the city council members when you 90% of the time have been dismissive of everybody that's been addressed the entire.

You said that you weren't going to interrupt me this time. Last time I was the only one you interrupted and now you interrupt me again.

I like the time back. I like my time back.

Go ahead give it two minutes go ahead I'm just but no more.

Okay I'm I say what I need to say. Listen it is this ingenuous for you all to spend money hire somebody to survey and discover how it is that they're going to allocate these funds.

You you got people from each of your districts to represent your districts those people spent the time a lot of time putting the plan together.

Then you come in the city comes in and they want to dip into the funds so if they dip into the fund you've already getting the percentage that you're getting to run the money that's 20% the first year 15% the second year if you turn around and give 25% to the parks that's 45% the first year.

Now it has been said it has been analyzed they brought you what you asked for and then you disregard it.

Listen I realize the parks might need to get fixed and there's some things that need to be done and we as the people utilize those parks but the funding needs to come from somewhere else.

You all always figure out a way to dip in and take away from the youth it's been two years I said that last time I'm saying it again you see I am because we are all of us and we are because I am and today I stand here in proxy of the village advocate youth who were boots on the ground for measure L and was present two weeks ago when you guys decided not to take the vote.

Take the vote yes according to what has been recommended your other plans you need to come up with another plan mayor and I find it really challenging for you to always find it a way to interrupt me when I'm speaking mayor I don't like it and I just want to let you know that.

Here comments Felicia Chan and Shannon Williams our next speaker is Felicia Chan and Shannon Williams Nicole Cravitz words Monica Ruelis mayors I don't see Felicia Shannon Williams and then Nicole Cravitz words then Monica Ruelis mayors.

Good evening I'm Shannon Williams I have the honor of being the district for commissioner for the Sacramento Children's Fund I thank you for your robust conversation regarding the strategic investment plan that we presented two weeks ago I have a couple of comments as a private citizen.

First I'd like to emphasize that this plan was developed to be aligned with the language and intention of measure L I urge you to keep the integrity of the ship especially the prioritization of funding those were most impacted by poverty drama trauma and violence the citizens of Sacramento past measures L specifically to fund this population.

Second while I realize that you are all here representing the specific interests of your individual districts I urge you to recognize that providing supports for those most impacted by poverty trauma and violence is imperative to the health and well being of the entire city.

Last week our city lost five excuse me last weekend our city lost five people including a 12 year old boy firearm violence is the leading cause of death among our youth and leads to cascading harm across Sacramento.

The Sacramento Children's Fund was specifically created to curb this sort of violence that is occurring across the city and finally there are many needs within our city that the Sacramento fund could potentially try and address.

However in my view it seems misguided to consider deferred park maintenance or other citywide capital expenses as an appropriate way to spend this fun.

The sources of this fund the cannabis business opportunity tax is estimated to generate an additional $60 million for the general fund during the same time period covered by our strategic plan.

I strongly encourage you to prioritize the funding of Yipsey and other infrastructure improvements using these general funds rather than using the Sacramento Children's Funds that to correct previous budget priorities.

Thank you again for your work and your commitment to Sacramento Children's Immute.

Thank you for your comments.

You know Cole and then Monica.

Thank you mayor city council members.

I am the district seven commissioner on the Children's Fund Planning oversight commission but I'm here speaking in my personal capacity only.

And I just want to start by expressing my gratitude for my fellow community members especially our youth who have shown up tonight who showed up two weeks ago in support of young people and in support of truth telling and who have held us rightly accountable to the fundamental spirit and

intention of the youth the communities and ultimately the voters who overwhelmingly championed and passed measure L.

So at the center of the Children's Fund is ensuring first and foremost the provision of significant sustained support to the young people who are hurting most are cities young people who are most impacted by trauma poverty and violence.

These young people are young people who are the most impacted who are hurting the most aren't connected to the cities existing programs and services.

We aren't going to reach them simply by servicing or replacing lighting or an out of order bathroom or doing additional deferred maintenance in our parks.

Data shows that one in every 10 Sacramento youth and nearly twice as many black youth ages 16 to 24 are disconnected from mainstream systems of support.

They're not working. They're not enrolled in school and unbalanced because racial and economic segregation are baked into our residential policy making they more often lived in areas of concentrated disinvestment and exclusion and they lack opportunity structures to begin with.

So I appreciate this body's desire to deliberate on this plan but respectfully I was disappointed that we couldn't get this done two weeks ago.

I heard the refrain that two weeks doesn't matter. We all know from this weekend two weeks can make all the difference and our CBOs are the ones that can meet and are most proximal to our youth that are most disconnected.

I urge you to support the plan in its current form continue to allocate 65% of the resources to our CBOs so that we can indeed reach those young people who are most impacted who are most hurting most.

Thank you.

All right. Good evening, City Council members. Contrary to what you might believe I actually would have preferred not to be here today.

I do feel like we're two weeks too late. It's unfortunate that this past weekend there was a tragic death of a 12 year old in the MetaView community.

I'm a community that I grew up in and that I'm helping raise two kids, four year old and an eight year old who I also do take to the parks here in Sacramento.

I also understand that there is a need for park maintenance and park bathrooms and I heard that clearly from some of the advocates that chose to join us here today.

And I actually want to do a call out to them because yes, we do need these repairs.

Measure L did not intend to go towards parks and that was written in the ballot measure itself. I'm going to quote the ballot measure.

The measure says that the children's fund is intended for positive youth development and youth violence prevention programs and it calls out homeless youth and foster children specifically.

And although I do agree with you mayor pro temp element this as well as council member gara that we do need parks and park bathrooms.

I've heard from many of you as well that this money is a drop in the bucket.

So let's start to prioritize what the actual need is and what the intent of the measure is.

And the spirit of collaboration moving forward I do want to suggest that we see this funding as an opportunity to build on the strengths of both city and CBO programs that we don't look at it as an S versus them.

This is an opportunity for us to truly collaborate and let's sit at the table together. I know in the past two weeks you guys have been having conversations internally about what this funding can go towards.

And it really dawns on me that as we're moving forward. Are you are still struggling. They're still getting killed and we can't wait two more weeks. We can't wait any longer. I'd appreciate it. Yes, well on this.

Laura Lockhart. Then Marie Kano. Then Marbella Salah. Then Keon Bliss. And then Jackie Santos.

Please proceed.

Hello, my name is Lauren Lockhart. And I'm a first generation college grad that graduates in the fall of 2025.

Growing up in Sacramento, especially O Park, there was never opportunities for us to use. Growing up in the hood and organizations that's at impact stack and more we never had that.

We are having these nowadays joining gang growing up in broken homes and turning to the streets for love or for support. And many of my friends at classmate has a diet has died as a result of violence.

And for Sacramento, change needs to happen as a community. We should all come together as one and hope the youth, especially in under privileged communities and our neighborhoods to make it safer.

We shall have the youth develop life skills they need and life such as help them on financial literacy. Are you will be the next city council members when you guys retire and ask an organization that helps you. We need to lead them.

We have that in what is the point of the measure L resource. This is for youth only in not parts and bathrooms. I respect all the council members for the time to listen to why we should pass measure L. We need to answer today and not wait another few years again.

The youth needs us and it's time to get back to the communities to the council that is leaning slash and support. I thank you. And you will help us make a change in the world. They are counting on us for.

For us to make this a better future for them with a lot of opportunities to also go and learn more about our communities, especially for our youth and young adults. We should be able to have more shelters, more resources, more jobs in the job market and create a safe space.

Support project positive. Thank you.

Thank you. Your comments. Our next speaker is Marie.

Marie cano. Marbayasala.

Good evening. My name is Marie Kano. I'm a proud member of Mont Innovating Politics who are wearing a lavender in a back-white corner.

As a young mother, my greatest concern is ensuring my children grow up in a safe and supportive environment where they can thrive emotionally, mentally and physically.

Community-based organizations play a vital role in providing essential support to families like mine. They are often the first line of defense against substance abuse, especially among you.

With strong community ties, these organizations identify early signs of substance misuse and intervene with educational programs for both parents and children.

With increased funding, CBOs could expand these programs and reach even more at risk youth and families, offering culturally relevant support that city organizations may not provide.

Organizations like HIP have made a significant difference in my life by allowing me to bring my children to work, creating an inclusive environment where we felt welcomed.

Even at a young age, my kids have had opportunities to communicate and participate in activities, which has helped them grow socially and emotionally.

This flexibility allows me to work while staying close to my children. Something larger city programs may not accommodate.

As parents, we all want the best resources for our children. Therefore, I urge you to adapt the plan brought forward by the commissioners.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Marbella Salan and Keon Bliss.

Good evening, Mayor and Councilmember. I'm Marbella and I'm here as a Measure You Commissioner and Vice Chair of the Measure You for District 3.

Again, I want to commend you on the appointment of an outstanding commission. Each one of your commissioners put hours of work, dedication and strategy in developing the plan.

I don't think you could have come up with the better plan. It was in collaboration with your city staff, outside consultants and the community.

I urge you to support their plan. I also want to make a recommendation as Measure You Commissioner. Measure You gets over 100 million a year.

That measure was dedicated and we voted for it and other things for parks, libraries, programs and underserved communities.

So my commitment to all of you is for the 25-26 budget. Our recommendation will be that you use Measure You monies to prioritize park, bathrooms and infrastructure.

That money for Measure You can go towards that and that could be your priority and it can address the issues that people are saying with parks. I agree. We need attention to parks.

I think we should be more than we as a community should have. We should revisit getting attacks to fund our parks and transportation.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Keon Bliss and Jackie Santos. I have five more speakers. So Keon and Jackie.

Are you really listening to the people that are in this audience right now? Do you actually care or honor the work that your appointed commissioners on the Youth Commission and the Measure L Commission have actually been doing in this?

If you are, then you would be passing this as is rather than trying to carve out exceptions to cover for your city manager who allowed maintenance to be deferred for so many years.

And that's really the reality that we're at it. This is about money, right? And as you just heard from one of your other commissioners, there is plenty of money in this city.

I do not believe for a minute that there is such a level of scarcity that you need to take from a voter approved measure that was especially to go to benefit youth directly impacted youth just to cover for your developers, friends.

That deferred maintenance is his mess, your mess that you allowed to happen. And there's plenty of money to go around. A hundred million dollars a year and measure you that's dedicated to parks, youth programs, which could be used for that deferred maintenance.

How about you revisit the 175 or more vacancies that are in the Sacramento Police Department, which by my analysis, now it's about ten million to thirty million dollars that this council left on the table last June.

You could actually cut back on additional military equipment, which just last month you are authorized Sacramento Police Department to pursue close to a hundred thousand dollars.

There's a lot you could do, but I really don't think you're actually listening because really you're not in control here. He is. And you're more interested in serving his interest than our own, your constituents.

Our next speaker is Jackie Santos and then Genesis Johnson.

Good evening, city council members. My name is Jackie Santos and I am here on behalf of Star. Thank you for this opportunity to share the importance of investments for youth programs for our communities.

Star has been a big part of my life over the two years that I've been involved with the program. They have helped me see the opportunities in front of me that will get me to places I want to be in the right way.

Youth programs help the youth community grow and be the best version, help the youth community grow and be the best version of themselves free of violence.

Our mentors, I saw her help us stay on the right path and help us move ahead in life. These programs can help youth stay out of gang related issues including gang violence, drug abuse or gun violence by giving them opportunities to thrive and use your energy in positive ways.

Please invest in the youth of Sacramento and we as we need this to magnify the census violence that is occurring way too often like in the past weekend.

Thank you for listening on behalf of me and so. Thank you for your coming. Our next speaker is Genesis Johnson, then AORO and then Jay Franco.

Good morning council members and mayor. My name is Genesis Johnson. I'm here speaking on behalf of the youth program as I'm a graduate from SAR and my goal is to become a firefighter to pursue my like to help our environment because there's a lot of kids that's going through

the same thing as the youth program. I just want to say that I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I'm a

firefighter and I'm a firefighter and I my name is I'm a firefighter and we do have a good day but still we have a good day but still we have a good day but still we've got to start making this happened for God, Hoffist.

Kids of brothers and sisters all over the country.

Thank you.

investments in GI, we have seen that the city's program works to help get basic needs met and provide margins so that rent can be paid and a crisis mitigated without using expensive interventions like payday loans and overdraft fees in the city's existing program over 70% of folks avoided those types of fees.

Second, appointing a commission that produces strategic plan that is data informed and prioritizes populations that are specifically named in the ballot measure like foster youth.

The people closest to the problem are closest to the solution as mentioned by my colleagues and our CBOs are on the ground partnering with our community to address historic and systemic barriers to opportunities.

There were almost 18,000 applicants for 210 slots for the city's guaranteed income program and the county's guaranteed income program.

We urge the council to adopt the strategic plan as recommended by the Children's Fund Commission to make sure that there's enough opportunity for all. Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comments. Jay Franco is our final speaker.

Hello, council. My name is Jay Franco. I'm with the Sac Kids First District 6. I stand with the commission's recommendations as is.

I've seen this process play out since the beginning of measure G. We help build the coalition. Canvas.

I'll be damned if you're going to change that shit. Sorry, excuse me.

In addition to the mayor mentioning possibly cutting down two to three projects, I also heard that some council members felt like the C tool doesn't do justice to their district as it pertains to the city's Sacramento's equity based prioritization as previously recommended and approved in the 2040 parks plan.

I've built on the prioritization system outlined in the 2018 parks project programming guide.

Even in the city parks maintenance report in August 1st, there's three specific initiatives aiming to use time and resources more efficiently before supplanting or replacing not adding funds as previously done with measure you.

This includes aligning schedules to better match park use patterns, test time analysis and equalizing capacity and coverage for service areas.

It's important to note that the 2040 parks plan gave direction on how to address deferred maintenance budget concerns.

The recommendations include identifying a long term dedicated funding source for ongoing maintenance operations and asset management before developing new parks.

I recommend applying any annual surplus of measure you funds to deferred maintenance projects while there may not be a surplus right now.

The Sacramento Children's Fund shall not be the next bucket to grab from.

So if parks are the concern, I can support a park lawn or something.

Sidewalks near schools get it.

But it's time for the city to align with the 2040 parks plan and the Sacramento kids for children's funds commission recommendations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay. Mr. City Manager had a brief comment that I'm going to speak and lay out a proposal.

Then I'm going to go through and turn it over to my colleagues. Mr. City Manager.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I just want to, you know, this council is going to consider the recommendation brought forward tonight following comments from two weeks ago.

And that's going to run its course, how it's going to run its course.

It's really this body gets to decide what I want to do is set the record straight though.

There's a couple of speakers early on.

I was respectful and listening to their comments and it from their perspective.

It is, you know, it is active and they feel pretty strongly about it.

What I take exception about is that somehow there was a ensignuation that our team and this council and specifically Yipsey has misappropriate funds.

And that is just beyond the pale here.

In fact, Yipsey, if you've watched the budget presentation, there are so many things they do for the community.

You know, it's ranging from polls and community center, community center hours, senior programs that on and on and on, fourth are started.

So to attack the team like that is completely uncalled for.

Further, when they were talking about how city funds were misappropriated, some of the commenters benefited to the tune of over a half a million dollars currently.

So either were misappropriate the funds or were not.

It can't go both ways.

And I just wanted to make sure that this council understood this and, you know, Mr. Bliss, who made his comments.

He talks about how, you know, the budget is, you know, the way that we adopted does not address, you know, these outstanding deferred maintenance funds.

This council approves the budget every single year.

We have a list of over a hundred million dollars in deferred maintenance that we recommend and this council prioritizes every year.

So I just wanted to make sure I put that on the record and just set the record straight for some of the nonsense that's being said.

Thank you, Mr. City Manager.

I appreciate it.

Okay.

I want to see if I can try to bring this together just a little bit.

First of all, I do want to talk about, because I think it's important to address why it is I recommend it strongly that we not vote two weeks ago.

Because I know some people said, well, it's two weeks too late because of the terrible, terrible tragedies that occurred over the last weekend.

But there was a very good and rational reason for the benefit of the commission and the community.

Why I recommended that in my view, if we had voted last Tuesday on the commission's recommendations as is, it probably would have been my judgment of five to four vote in favor.

Okay. Big victory.

I'm leaving the city council.

Councilmember Valenzuela is leaving the city council and councilmember Ta, who I believe would have been part of that five are leaving the city council.

And the replacements might think differently or vote the other way.

So again, emotion is raw and real and it's actually understandable given what's occurred in our community over this past week.

But rhetoric got to be careful with the rhetoric as well and be careful what you wish for.

Because yes, we could have voted two weeks ago and it would not have been as good a result as what I hope will be the result here this evening.

That's one thing. That's all okay.

I want to agree with much of what the city manager just said with a slightly different conclusion.

The work of this city team is outstanding.

And it's true the city council does support and basically determine the budget priorities.

And what this is really all about is scarcity of resources.

That's what this is really about.

And that in large part is why.

It's first put measure on the ballot because of a scarcity of resources.

And so I think that we all need to do a better job of trying to step in one another shoes and to understand that there are outstanding city programs here on the program side.

I mean, I'm thinking about Friday night lights.

And is that what it's called summer night lights.

Excuse me. That's the TV show summer night lights.

And some of the outstanding work that the city does.

Not just during the summer throughout the entire year.

So having said that.

I think it is really important that we honor the work of our city team.

But given the history of measure L.

And the history is really important.

I think tonight it is even more important to honor the recommendations and the work of the measure L youth commission.

Not in it's not not not word for word.

Because I want to make some suggestions that I think will help bring us together.

But I think that's really, really important.

Because the truth of the matter is that measure L only occurred because a passionate group of advocates, youth advocates decided to organize and to work for actually a decade.

Almost a decade to try to qualify.

And ultimately pass a measure.

And it was a bit of a torturous route as it often is when you're trying to do something good and great.

And I believe given that history.

That not absolute difference because the measure is written to allow the city council to make the final decision.

But deference ought to be given to the recommendations of this commission because of how this measure came to be and how it passed.

As I said earlier, I hope, and Monica said this, I thought your testimony was really important and good.

There is not great trust between the sides now.

And I think that's kind of obvious. And part given the history and who supported measure L and who didn't and how it came to be.

Okay.

But the truth of the matter is that this rift over time, if it is a rift or at least tension, needs to heal.

Because this is about scarcity.

And what we know is that both the vital city programs that work for so many young people in our community and the incredible work that the CBOs do on shoestring budgets.

That both sides are underfunded.

And the pain is so palpable, especially given what happened over the weekend.

We forget the fact that this is a small amount of resources relative to the problems here.

And so I look at Ms. Beachham's list, $25 million worth of deferred maintenance in the parks.

Well, not only was this measure not intended, frankly, to address that problem.

It's not nearly enough to actually make the impact that we want to make.

But it's also true the other way.

It's not enough money to fund all the gaps that exist in our community, that our community-based organizations are trying to fill as well.

And so where we have this trust issue, and so what the commission has suggested is some sort of a percentage divide, at least initially, maybe as a way up front to not continue this argument, at least in the short term, to have some certainty and definition that both the city programs and the CBOs are going to have resources.

And that we set aside real money for guaranteed-based income, which may be the best investment of all, given its potential to impact foster youth, and as we expand it, families and families with children.

For me, what's unfortunate, and this will all be, again, determined over the course of the years, is not how the money is divided between CBOs in the city, the real challenge is whether or not we are going to invest this small amount of money strategically so that we make the biggest impact.

We've lives by virtue of opening up community centers and other vital programs on the Friday and Saturday nights.

I say we take the commission framework, and Monica, I would like you to please respond to this, please, as Chair of the Commission, and my van, I know will as well.

50 for CBOs, and 54 for the city programs, and the question about whether or not the city have can be used for various kinds of maintenance is a case by case determination based on the language of the statute and the measure, whether or not it primarily serves youth.

But that's the way I think we should start. And by the way, so I'd be open to emotion. There's one other thing, and it seems like a minor thing it is, but I think it would help here.

One of the concerns I've heard about the CBO world, there's this quote accountability issue that includes, that includes making sure that the working people in the community based organizations have protection.

So I am not suggesting anything close to card check neutrality or any kind of labor protection, but based upon vice mayor Maple suggestion two weeks ago, I think it would be helpful if we included the language from Prop 64, which was the cannabis initiative, that simply said if the CBOs get city money, they have to just sign a declaration that says if anyone ever came organizing, that they would be neutral and that they would not interfere.

In preventing the workers from doing what they want, it really is symbolic is all that it is, but I think that it would help. I've heard it a little bit from the labor community and respected leadership team here, vice mayor Maple and mayor pro temp Telemontes.

So that would be my suggestion here, and again, not perfect, but it maintains everybody's, everybody's argument, right, on the 50% on the city side, you can argue for anything, including some of the things council member getta you would have talked about.

And it's, and it makes sure that at a minimum there's 50% that goes out into the community for the CBOs.

And as you have a response at all to what I've just, what I've just put forward, be helpful I think.

So I just want to acknowledge that there are other commissioners here in the room.

I understand, you're mine.

And I am your pointy, yes, it's true. But you know, when you, when you called me to appoint me, I always told you that we may not agree on everything.

And we put forward a plan, all of the commissioners, although, and I'll say this because I know that some of you have mentioned that, you know, maybe you don't think that your commissioners agreed with the plan, we unanimously passed it.

This is not Monica's plan. This is not seconds versus plan. This is a plan that was up.

And she made a set of approximately 65%. So you did not specify 65%.

Yeah, so we said approximately 65%. And I just want to remind folks that any, to me, any proposal put forward by the city for different maintenance or whatever, right, is subject to the open and competitive process.

And that's something that I've also heard folks are some of our commissioners are interested in being on those grant reviews, not myself, but some are.

And I've also, and I want to also understand what it rolls as a city play because we're hearing about complex of interest on our on the community's behalf, but also if you're going to be reviewing its own, its own projects and proposals, you know, it needs to be fair.

I just want to call that out in terms of your comment of 50 50, I, we would need that to bring that back to the commission because that's not where we were at.

We proposed to you all 65 35 split. And so if you're willing to, you know, whatever you feel like mayor at this point, that's going to be my proposal. So thank you appreciate your comments.

I appreciate comments. Good.

So here it's I wanted to hear a response now let's hear from my colleagues.

So if I may, thank you. I was next in the queue, I believe.

Thank you mayor. I just want to start by thanking everybody who commented and came tonight.

I want to thank you for speaking.

You know, I think you're making very clear through your actions and through your attendance and through your time, how important this is.

And so I just want to thank you for that. And I do want to apologize for folks who get offended when we stand up.

We don't have the bladders we used to have when we were young people.

We can still hear you back there. We can still see the stream.

And I just want to make sure that you know that at least I can say that you were heard loud and clear tonight.

So thank you again for making that time.

I want to start by saying that I have parks in my district that don't have public bathrooms.

I don't think I have any splash pads in my entire district.

And my only pool is closed for repairs. I mean, I don't actually even have I have one public high school in my district that doesn't even serve all the kids in my district's it's magnet school to great school.

But the kids in my district all have to go elsewhere.

And yet there are less kids dying from my district than there are dying in districts two and districts eight and districts five.

And so it's not just about if we're going to make a case for parks maintenance for this money that needs to be a case based on data.

And that case data doesn't reflect what we're seeing in our communities.

The difference between my district and districts five and districts eight and districts two is that I have investment in my district.

I have the LGBT center. I have when you services.

I have Sacramento Native American Health Center. I have service writer after service writer after service writer that exists in my district.

And while there are many needs that still have to be met.

I am lucky that my young people in my district who are LGBT who are homeless who are native who are by have those resources available to them.

And I believe more than anything that that is the data that shows me what works.

Having access to those services in your community is what works.

And while there are many projects on this list that I think are very important.

I simply cannot make the argument that these are our most urgent needs right now.

I also I just cannot.

Not just because of the lack of data that I cited in terms of causality.

There is no through line that I can draw between those deferred maintenance projects and a kid being less likely to pick up a gun to solve a conflict.

I can however point to the two years that the city had no use homicides.

I can point to that data.

And I can show that there is evidence. There is real evidence.

There is real research across this country that tells us how to solve the problems that we're solving today.

And that research is what this commission leaned on for this report.

And I want to thank them for that.

There was a moment here that I was in a flurry trying to look at how many foster youth are in Sacramento and what is this and how many of them should be 17.

And I actually kind of stopped myself and shook my own shoulders a little bit not literally because I was like, wait a minute.

Why am I doing that?

The commission just did that. They did that for months.

They looked up that data.

Like I don't need to get into the fine tunes. It should be this or should it be that because that's what's been done here today.

I have to have to hear this conversation about deferred maintenance.

I have to reiterate what some of the public commenters said briefly.

That we dug ourselves that hole and it's up to us and not our young people to dig ourselves out.

My first three budgets on this dius, my first three budgets, I'll give significant ongoing resources to law enforcement at the request of our city manager.

I'm talking $30 million one year alone. That's ongoing.

We didn't cut that money back when the deficit happened. They still have that money.

We did that again and again and again. We have chosen on this dius.

Somebody asked me, why do you always vote against the budget?

I've not voted for a single budget since I've been on this dius and you want to know what?

It's because of this.

It's because every single year our community comes to us and says as they did this year, Yipsy was the last department.

The second to last department on the community service, please don't cut Yipsy.

Please don't cut Yipsy and you want to know once again.

We found reductions and we found revenue generation solutions for increased fees and increased services.

Yes, we found money for scholarships but we also know the deficit of that strategy when it comes to reaching the kids who are most needed.

That is why measure L occurred. This is not just a quest of young people to get dedicated funding.

This is a response to decisions that this council made for years and years and years.

Every time there was a budget crunch, the first cut on the table was used services.

Every time there's more money on the table, the first people to get it are public safety.

That's nothing against the job that public safety does.

It's just we are continuing to dig ourselves into this hole where we're investing in response after someone gets shot

and not in the prevention measures that would keep them from getting shot in the first place.

If I sound frustrated it's because I am.

This happens every year. Every year I say hey, how about we put a couple of million dollars for public works so we can invest in our streets.

People don't get hit by cars every year.

I say what about this money we are putting into these reactionary approaches to our problems.

Every year I read research report after research report from every other city that's like us across the country saying that strategy does not work.

Yet we have the shootings that we had this last weekend and the young people's lives that we will never get back.

Those families that will never be made whole and we continue to talk about bathrooms.

I can't.

I can't.

I am actually so I was prepared to just make a motion saying commissions records done but mayor I want to appreciate what I believe is a very surgical solution you've proposed.

I'm going to try to craft a motion and I'm going to add something of my own because I believe the point about oversight of this money is incredibly well taken.

This is no discredit at all to the EFC staff.

I know there will be firewalls. I know it will be different people doing different things.

I also appreciate how the public is going to say how can you oversee yourself.

What I would like to propose with this motion is that we adopt the mayor's suggestion to keep the commission's recommendations in full except what the one change being how we split up the remaining money after UBI being a goal of 50% 50%.

I think that's an elegant solution.

I would like to insist and make a part of this motion that the city attorney's office oversee the RFP process.

I think that they should be able to see the community judging and rubric development.

I believe they should be able to look and tell us if the best applicant was awarded the money and that they should have if the city is awarded money from this fund some oversight into meeting the required deliverables and reporting that the city is required to do.

I don't again I'm not saying this because I think there's corruption and yet see or anything wrong the EFC team is one of the most dedicated teams I've worked with the city of Sacramento but I think it's important that we tell the public.

That there was somebody else's eyes on this and that if the city gets a grant it's because we've this rubric show that the city was the most qualified versus somebody else.

I do think however is really important in that rubric that their high labor costs are not counted against an applicant and I think that gets to another concern that I've heard expressed and we pay our city workers probably not as much as they would like I know I actually know that.

I'm looking at our university representatives in the back but we pay them well and I don't want their benefits and their salaries to be considered a deficit against maybe a nonprofit doesn't offer that benefit in salaries and so I think that should be not a factor in this rubric I know obviously we want to look at cost effectiveness for service delivery but the labor cost should not be part of that rubric if you're paying more because it's a city program or if it's a program who's opted to pay their workers a living wage I don't want them to be punished for that by saying oh you're more expensive you're less likely to get the money.

Similarly I want to echo I was going to say word it differently but again mayor I mean not being in your brown egg bubble we had a mind moment here tonight I think the pop 64 language would be great I was going to propose a labor piece language but I think that language makes a lot of sense to make sure that you know if for some reason I don't believe any of the nonprofits in our town when necessarily do that but if your workers do decide hey I want to unionize you know not to retaliate not to interfere you know to follow the best practices and so that will be my motion here tonight is to forward the to approve I'm going to repeat the

request I'm going to repeat it just to make sure that I get it all down to approve the commission's report as written except with the 50 50 split goal for the remaining 65% after the UBI to ask the city attorney's office to oversee the RFP process and compliance if the city is awarded a grant and to ensure that high labor cost or not counted against an applicant and that applicants are adhering to the Prop 64 language around labor organizing I think I got all of that so you all again for being here tonight let me respond to that.

I want to respond briefly just because I think the spirit of everything that you suggested is fine in other words I do believe I trust first of all the staff recommendation and I know included putting together composite panels that would include city staff as well as outside as well as community members so I think that one needs to play out I think by definition the city attorney will be involved in this right because everything we do CBO

otherwise city wise should be such should we we must ensure I got good nods here from from Renee it we need to make sure it's compliant with measure L because everyone's been watching this carefully so I would take your amendments in that spirit okay in terms of the wage I'm not sure tonight that might I suggest that that piece be part of further implementation

you and I aren't going to be there but I think tonight it could be direction it's to do more direction is it sure that someone is a penalized for paying the workers at their way okay fair enough we'll make that as part of the direction but it really be part of the I'm willing to accept that I think that's all consistent with what I that is my

motion with what I described well you're you're asking me oh that you're making the motion made the motion good is there a second of the motion

I'm asking one question are we going to use living wage as the baseline to determine what that that looks like no I think it's and this is why it's direction is because I just want to ensure in whatever rubric because I know often we look at low cost as one of the judges in our traditional RFPs but if low cost is coming from lower wages I want us to figure out how we look at a budget a proposed budget to ascertain that we're not punishing somebody for paying people a higher wage and I said living wage

but like that's my I just yeah I hope that's clear as mud all right okay thank you okay there is a motion in a second I will go to councilmember van

thanks mayor so first I just really just want to take this moment to say thank you so all the youth who came out two weeks ago

and those who came today and those who have already become parents who's been fighting this fight for so long I'm so inspired by each and every one of you for showing up not just today but in the past and I know in the future you're going to continue to show up right because we can pass this tonight but if implementation doesn't happen in the way that it was meant to be in terms of the intent of the measure the fight continues and so I just really want to say thank you to everyone who showed up I think we heard today from our

speakers in our communities right regarding the the shooting that happened across our city the multiple shootings and in particular the victim

Santino who was 12 years old in Mediview who attended our neighborhood schools we have to do better as a city and we can't become we can't feel like this is normal and we can't normalize shootings in our city

I think I've heard from so many young people who spoke tonight that have shared with me you know how many more of us have to die until we actually change the course of what we're doing in the city

because I know what we've been doing in the city has not worked I said this two weeks ago that at the end of the day this is really about supporting an ecosystem to support our most vulnerable youth

Yes, that includes our city programs.

That includes our county partners.

And yes, that absolutely includes our community-based organization who we know are closest to those

that are suffering.

Our oversight commission appointed by all of us, expertise in their own field, in addition

to our youth commission, put this recommendation forward.

I'll speak to you two weeks ago to vote on that recommendation.

And I'll share a little bit why I'm going to be supporting the motion on the table.

I still do believe in my heart that the best recommendation on the table is the commissions,

both commissions recommendation, but I'm also cognizant of the votes on this council.

And I'm also cognizant that mayor, while I know some of you all may not be big fan, I'm

going to let you all know today he has been one of our biggest advocate fighting for young

people in this city.

And he's going to be gone.

And we're going to need other allies on the city council.

It can't just be me, mayor, and Katie.

Cannot.

It's got to be more than that, right?

And so I just wanted to name that.

I share this last time, and I'm going to share this again because I need the community

to really, the community and our city staff to understand this, is that, and I don't,

it's not about our city staff does incredible work.

Incredible work.

But there is a reason why our CBO is so important to the ecosystem.

I said this last time that during the pandemic, there's a reason why we went out

for RFP to reach our most vulnerable seniors, our youth, our babies, our families.

We gave those dollars to the CBOs.

Why?

Because we as a city could not do it alone.

We couldn't do it alone, and we needed our CBO.

At the end of the day for me, we're all actually fighting for crumbs.

Our parks aren't offended.

Our youth services are underfunded.

But the young people who have fought this fight for a really long time knew that.

And that's why they fought so hard for so many years to ensure that they're with

and dedicated fund just for young people.

I know the city does their very best.

They try, but simply we know that they can't reach our most vulnerable youth.

So I just want to say, yes, now that we have this dollar set aside, it's not a lot,

but it's going to begin the work.

We also need to support our parks.

We need steady revenue for our parks.

Yes, I've heard from, you know, members from our community.

We have over 146 million deferred maintenance.

And I also just want to lift up what the city manager said.

He is right about one thing that at the end of the day, the decision does fall on this

council.

And if deferred maintenance was a priority, this council would have done so before measure

L was passed.

But I want to say to all of you as well that this is actually how white supremacy operates.

It actually, it wants us to fight each other.

But I hope that we can recognize this and say no, we're not going to do that.

And yes, we're going to support our young people.

And yes, we're also going to be creative to ensure we support our parks.

So my ask is also, I hope you'll join me and our diverse coalition of neighborhoods from

ESAC, SouthSAC, NorthSAC, local organization who's actually having conversations right now

about potential park bond that could support the deferred maintenance.

So if you care about parks, join the movement.

Join us.

Message my office, let me know how you want to get involved, right?

Because it's going to take all of us.

But today's vote is about keeping our promise to our young people and the voters.

The voters had a forces upon the city and this government because we weren't doing our

job and reaching our most vulnerable youth.

That is the intent of the measure.

We're not going to solve all the issues facing our young people in the city just with these

dollars.

But what we can do with these dollars is make the greatest impact on the youth that's

impacted by violence, poverty and trauma.

I think our young people have waited way too long so I hope we can take the vote tonight.

And I appreciate the mayor trying to find middle ground on the 50-50.

And I am prepared to vote on the table with the amendments that Councilwoman Valenzuela put

forth.

I am counting all the votes and I'm really hoping that this vote is unanimous.

That it's not a four to five or even a six to three.

I hope it's a nine to zero.

What is my hope and that is my wish and that's my ask to this council?

That's all mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, my for really being the champion behind measure L. You win Councilmember Cheneur

and I was happy to carry your bags.

You know?

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor.

I think you perfectly framed it when you said this is about a scarcity of resources.

Yeah.

It's not new that we know we need to do more in all areas.

It's what do we do with the money we have.

And there's never, unfortunately, ways that we fully agree.

But one thing I do know is if we look at the commission's report on page five where

it says strategies to achieve fun goals, I don't think one of us disagrees with anything

on that page.

I truly know in my heart.

We look at that.

We see, yeah, this is what we know we need to do.

I have just a couple of clarifying questions because there were statements made that I just

want to make sure the record is clear.

Did this two week delay getting any money out from measure out?

No.

So what is now assuming the council passes this tonight?

What is the time frame for getting the funds out after this passes?

So we're still in line with the tentative implementation timeline that we presented

on two weeks ago.

Read October for the request for proposals to go out for 30 days.

Application review and award process between November and December.

Funding awards should be announced by the end of December of 2024.

And we would begin contract negotiation and execution of funds between December and January

with the hopes that the first set of funds would be in people's hands by January or February.

So no matter if we had passed this last week or now, the funds are still not going to be

able to go out until January.

And then one of the things Measure L talks about, as I was reading through the language of

Measure L, it talks about qualified organizations are the ones that can submit and be part

of the qualification process.

Can you just clarify what exactly does a qualified organization mean?

Yes, so per the measure, a qualified organization means a public entity, including the city through

its offices and departments or any organization except from taxation under United States Internal

Revenue Code Section 501C3.

Okay, does anything in the recommendation from Measure L prevent or change the definition

of a qualified organization?

No.

And it may not make you feel a little better Council Member Valenzuela.

I do like your thought of grant oversight on page 26 of the report.

It does because the commission did do a very good job.

It specifically says grant proposal should be assessed through the city's competitive RFP

and proposal selection process.

So I'm interested in I think as the mayor pointed out the proposal selection process

would include not only the city but outside partners to ensure that they are consistent

with Section 120 of the Sacramento City Charter and meet the following criteria of which

then it lays out.

So I am comfortable with how the commission actually set forth that there is a balance

so that there is oversight and it's not just the city.

I think the commission thought about that and already baked it in and it's spelled out

in page 26 and 27.

So I do support it as that.

And I do support mayor, as I said, guaranteed basic income is really important and we have

to fund that.

So I think it's clear with the commission report as set out on page 32 where it talks

about the funding I think where at the very end that is where we split 50-50 of the

leftover after guaranteed basic income comes out.

So I am supportive of that.

I want to add and see if the motion or in the second would be willing to add two slight

tweaks.

One, as part of determining where to invest, I think we also need to add into it as well

with the seed is the welfare tax exemption for affordable housing.

If we are building affordable housing, which means those are what qualify as well for

exempt, those are services and areas that are needed and should be considered holistically

because we talk about we need more affordable housing and there are pockets throughout

the city that may fall out of being seeded and part of the seed tool that we need to make

sure that that is also considered as an area where we need to have investment.

Because those are kids when you look at affordable housing, those are also the kids I know

that experience, you know, poverty, trauma and violence specifically, poverty and they

are trying to come out of it.

So I would like to see that added in and then I don't want to spill your thunder, council

member Jennings, but I was very supportive of your one year review of anybody that we

bring on for oversight and data.

So I'm hoping those two things of the one year oversight and accountability as well as

adding the welfare tax exemption for affordable housing as an indicator would be added.

And lastly, I just urge those of us who have been school board members to reach out because

here's the thing, I see a lot of where we're talking about supporting mental health and

emotional wellness of youths and preventing and reducing youth substance abuse.

We heard that from our youth at summer at City Hall, but a lot of these programs could

be done in partnerships with school districts and we need to actually double check our school

districts doing this and how can the city potentially partner and strengthen this because

it really goes to when you talk about historic disinvestment, that also is an elected body

who is historically disinvesting and not investing in schools where schools can make a life

difference in a child.

And so we need to ask and make sure that our school board members are stepping up and

investing in districts and in schools that are the least among them and hold their feet

to the fire because it is not the job of the council to fill the gap where school districts

should be educating our children and giving them things to do before and after school.

But we should be partnering because the siloing I think is leaving many things off the table.

So I hope that we can add in the oversight and the welfare tax exemption indicator into

the motion.

Can I ask you when you talk about the welfare tax indicator, you're saying as one criteria.

There was the seed and I think what Councillor Mouric Kaplan saying is that we're just not

limited to the C tool and the COI but that we're also using other tools to evaluate which

I think parks is open to commission is open to even in the commission's recommendation.

It didn't say those were the only tools that we had to use.

It was two tools that we could use but we could keep it open.

I could just clarify though.

The report already targets low income young people and so I'm not entirely.

I feel like that's actually a broader definition than just looking for the welfare tax exemption

households.

I think that's covered and also the report as written provides for not just annual reviews

but quarterly reports which I would prefer to keep as proposed.

So I don't I mean I think we're in alignment that I don't think there's additional change

or motion needed there.

And to clarify my motion on oversight I am asking for more than current process and I just

want to make that crystal clear.

I just want to make sure I'm not asking for CIO to be in the room every step of the way

but I want them to have a little bit more daylight than they might traditionally have in the

RFP process just to ensure that everything from the rubric to the grading to the criteria

for the committees is as fair and impartial as it could be indefensible to the public

as it possibly could be.

And again this is not an accusation to anybody that there will be mistrust.

This is just in response to very realistic concerns about how does somebody oversee themselves

and everybody at the Yipsey reports to the city manager and so I just want to respect that

a separate charter offices sunlight on that would be important.

But to the other two amendments I guess I just see them as duplicative to the plan unless

you see that sits in this.

So what I'm hearing is you are objecting to adding in language that says community is

receiving a welfare tax exemption for affordable housing can be considered as part of the

other measures.

Let me clarify something from the staff here.

Is are those communities considered in either of the two tools that are mentioned in the

report?

I can't say for sure as I don't have that affordable housing tool pulled up in front of me but

I will say that currently in the SIP under the following criteria preferred it says either

of the following tools the C2 and the COI I cannot say for sure that the other ones are

all in touch.

Is there a way we might get that answer over the next 15 minutes just because we've got

a lot of people up maybe we can maybe we can get that answer.

Or can we broaden it because it does say either one which then means you're kind of limited

and so if it is to considered all then we should broader the language that's like this

or others which may include communities receiving the welfare tax.

I mean I think both tools respectfully look at income and look at access to services

and so I mean if that's the intention of including that I mean that's just why I'm trying

to understand what this does beyond what the measure currently does because as we mentioned

at the last meeting I mean the maps are not exclusionary they're just tools to target

so if I'm targeting a geographic area I might target that area versus people in an area

that I would target because they fit any of the other qualifications which includes income

so I guess I'm just so is it additive or is it or is it interpretive that's the question.

It's additive because using you know I agree with you councilmember valance wala access

to services is what works and in some of our areas where our communities are receiving

welfare tax exemption for affordable housing there are not services as you would talk about

kids the LGBTQ kids downtown have those services in our downtown there are some areas out

or in the city that do not have CBOs do not have services but there is affordable housing

so I'm looking so that it can be included.

Can I weigh in here just I think my recommendation to make or the motion will make or decision

is that I think it's okay to accept what the councilmember is saying because this is

all guidance right and it's it's consistent with the idea for example that with GBI

granty basic income that there are foster youth living in areas of the city that might

not be considered low income and we just want to make sure that nobody's left out it doesn't

mean that the money is going to be prioritized for the people who live in the welfare tax

exempt in properties it's just something else that the staff and the ultimate panel can

consider so I don't think there's harm in it that's my and it is consistent with that

idea that even in communities like the Thomas they're going to be eligible people and our

programs that that should at least be considered they may not win out based on other criteria

I would love to go in my area we got none I think it's great and I think the money you

get for your youth programming through parks is more than any of us get in the Thomas and

so I guess I'm just trying to be clear about what the problem is we're trying to solve

if this is important then that's fine I guess most every affordable housing organization

has case management and services on site as well and so I mean I guess if the goals

to expand this to North Natomas I just need to say that like that is something that I

feel a little pretty strongly against given there's higher need in other parts of the city

but if having that language in as a consideration will make my colleagues happy even though

I feel it's very redundant of the measure in front of us and that's fine okay that's

the answer thank you so much I want to answer this is when you look at communities receiving

but she called me out as this being just for North Natomas it's not because there are

communities receiving welfare tax exemption affordable housing throughout the city and that's

when I'm advocating okay my you we accept the yes I will accept I think at the end of

day what really matters is that this is the equity language has got to be fire so that's

what matters to me most we'll have these tools at our disposal but you could use tool to

do whatever you want an allocation right so the equity language is going to have to be key

and and that's a priority I did mayor really I'm not on the queue so let me just wait okay

okay so the addition has been accepted yes and now we're we're all still together I have

one clarification so on the oversight piece happy to have the city attorney's office involved

with this they are great partners with us I want to make sure I understand you want the city

attorney's office to be on the panel no or do you want them to run the procurement no I'm not

saying either of those things I want them to have more eyes on the panel process and the rubric

process so that if there's they can if a question by the community be able to say for certain

they would anyway yeah they would anyway yes absolutely no problem perfect very good let's

keep going through the queue here councilmember Getta thank thank you mr mayor first you know one of

the key things that that I appreciate about where we are here which is one of the reasons I was

a support not only for measure L for measure G and for measure M was that this helps with not

just year-to-year funding but looking at long-term long when we make a decision on what programs

longer term programming and I think it's appropriate to do reviews but I think more so what we know

doesn't work is when you're budgeting for six months or a year and then we have a change in

in the economy and the next thing you know it's four years later and that's that's a long that's

a big chunk in a youth's life that we've lost if we don't have good consistent programming and I

think that's a huge win that is being overshadowed about the providing a level of consistency

in security and whatever this panel decides is the most appropriate piece and then second I will

say that you know this is this is a big step it is making a commitment of you know that that

young people were looking at to say that we want to make sure that we're thinking strategically

about how to make the best bang for our buck it is a very significant step here I will also echo

and support councilmember Kaplan's request here most of you look at that seed tool a big chunk

of that is in district six but it's all along the Stockton Boulevard corridor but there are

affordable housing projects that are more on the eastern end of the district that and those

affordable housing projects would not fall into this and so yes it is also a need of community

and and I think what she's intending to do is to say hey you already qualify for that I think

councilmember Montsewell has a point here that more than likely they may fall under the free and

reduced lunch already but there is programming happening and it's important that those that

consolidation of folks that are there know that they're eligible for it just because they don't

fall within even though that's not what we're trying to do so I'm supportive of that because it

does at least signal to those communities that okay you meet the income requirement income threshold

you should be eligible so I think it's important that that that we do include it as a tool

you know I'm I'm thinking mayor I think you are always very eloquent in trying to get us

to a decision so I'm ready prepared to move forward on this I did I do want to have one question

of clarification here for the city staff and that is in its 50% allocation if they felt that what

they were trying to accomplish wasn't within their capacity could the city staff also go out for

RFP with a nonprofit well I'll let the staff answer but the the broader answer to that and more

general answer is that anytime we're asked to provide a service that we don't provide inside

within the organization we always contract out as evidenced by the list that jacking the team put

up there so if we're not able to provide that we will absolutely go out to bid with that so

and so I wanted to make sure that that was clear because you know I appreciate my conversation

that I had with our our um Yipsey staff here um their point was we're trying to deliver the most

in maximum impact and frankly I hope folks know that the people who work for our city also live in

our city and I've watched our city employees with their kids and they're not living in Mcmatchins

they're living in the same communities that that that our nonprofit partners are in so I don't

like this um this conflict that we're having here and so I truly take it at their word where they

say we're going to look at what's the best and maximum weight and it may be partnering um I'm

going to bring up the Coloma Center for example they uh it's an old building the school district

couldn't manage it anymore the city took it on and now they've been able to open up um the

Spanish and Merchant Program to help bilingual families and families who want to maintain you know

language and it's all for zero to five you know that is a nonprofit and a city partnership in order

to provide zero to five which is the purpose of measure L provide program for zero five but that

is a joint project so I want to make sure that that in this motion that that's the case so

and that's what I'm hearing in in this scenario and and I'm assuming uh councilmember Valenzuela

that that is also the case so it wouldn't be just 50% it'd be could be even above 50% you know in

depending on what we were going after is that correct that is correct thank you um and the

this is more a commentary and a concern that I have very supportive of the guaranteed

basic income for foster youth and there's been a lot advocacy for it um to the point where

you know great article on capital public radio about what the county's doing and how much they're

doing and we're being very focused and targeted on how can we maximize our resources but I'll tell

you what hasn't gotten any attention and with the exception of one of our speakers from child

action here um is zero to five um and so I worry that in a year from now or other years no one's

ever advocating for the little guys no one's advocating for our little kiddos you know and more

importantly because many of the the the zero to five that we're trying to target and help are

working families that are usually working you know either long hours or two jobs or in those areas

they're not here either advocating either you know and so I I will say that I want I'm going to see

this project this this process play out but I worry that um that that section of zero to five

and it was mentioned you know by the time if we don't address those zero to five age when they're

entering first grade in kindergarten if they haven't had the support not just babysitting no I'm

talking about real early childhood education which is uh which is good pedagogy which is good

train helping training those young kids to with a social emotional learning to do well in school

then we're we're messing up already if we're not focusing on on that aspect so uh I'm going to

keep an eye on this to make sure that that doesn't get overshadowed think to me that's a major

priority and it's one that they're just not the loudest ones in the you know in the room here so

with that glad to support and I think the those were my uh two uh points there yeah I was just going

to say that's one of the buckets so like like it's guaranteed that money will go to the zero to five

like that's in the measures oh I know it's in the measure it was one of the reasons I supported it

yeah but let the testimony here is a good example yes absolutely who gets who gets the

last one regatta good good okay let's keep keep going your vice mayor maple thank you

my mic on all right thank you very much thank you mayor um and thank you to all the speakers uh thank

you to the district five commissioner on the you've commit are on the children's fund commission

davon I see you um thanks for showing up both times it's I really appreciate you seeing through

and listening um to our comments here tonight and listening to all the speakers and this has

been really helpful for me um I'm not going to go through all my comments again because I spoke at

length last meeting and I really just want to uplift a lot of what my colleagues have already said

to me it sounds like we're agreeing on the vast majority of things that are presented in this

strategic plan um and I think no matter what this is a really joyous day because what I think is

about to come is that this council is about to vote on a historic plan to fund youth programs in

the city of Sacramento and I think that that is something that should be uplifted I know there's a lot

of uh intense conversation throughout this and I really appreciate it because it's real um but I

also want to call that out this has been a lot of work from all of you in this room from those

on this dius many of us supported measure all um and many of us and we have some who have really

pushed forward as well and I just want to acknowledge the work that went into it but um that we're

that we're here in this moment um and it may not be exactly what everybody may want and that

might differ from person to person but no matter what um that we're here and that this moment is

coming now and um that this funding is going to go out to important programs in the city and to

our the kids that need it most and I really wanted to call that out um I also wanted to thank those

in the room who helped organize a meeting that I attended last night along with the mayor and

council member veng um related to to gun violence youth gun violence that happened over the weekend

and I it really got me thinking I heard from many of the speakers I heard from a lot of our

cbos that are doing work in this space and so I just on specifically on the question of um on

youth violence but really the supplies to the entire plan um I've been thinking a lot about how

do we maximize what we're doing here how do we maximize the effects of the dollars that we're

putting in because as the mayor and others have mentioned this while it is a lot of money um it

is also going to be a drop in the bucket if we're spreading it among a lot of different organizations

and people in the city and I hear those challenges and the way that I think about this is there's

a lot of um agencies and organizations that are doing this work including cbos but also we have

the county of Sacramento we have the city of course we have our school districts um we have various

agencies like SETA that came in um spoke to our two p.m. meeting today that that is also doing

youth programming and workforce development and I think what I would like to see moving forward and

this is you know future years conversations not something that I need to be in part of as a part

of a motion right now but I really want us to be thinking strategically um with this plan um

but also how does this work how does this money work with all of the other pots of money that are

that are around in this county and the city right now that are doing similar programs because

there are a lot um and and I really want to see you know a mapping of where these programs

where the area is served what are the populations that are served um do we have areas of the city that

are being served uh over served perhaps or that are not getting the service and I heard that there's

you know some areas of the city that don't have any cbos operating in them um and making sure that

we're bringing these partners together um you know I'd love to see a more joint effort with us with

the county with the school districts um to see what we can do to maximize these fines because that

to me that's the best way that we're going to get you know the the most for our money that to make

the most impact on youth and so um I want to see this money go out as soon as possible um but in

future years I want to make sure that we're all collaborating with other jurisdictions on a real

real strategic plan um and I'd love to see that happen especially as it relates to youth violence

and so I wanted to call that out um and really appreciate the inclusion of a belabor peace

agreement language um council member banswela and looking forward to passing this thank you

thank you council member tau thank you mayor you know I uh two weeks ago I was ready to support

the proposal as is and today uh you know I was ready to support the proposal as is as well because

you know you realize that many of the disinvestment is in my district all of the parks improvement is

in my district all of the disinvestments in youth is in my district you know this discussion is key

and you know I I um I'm willing to support the proposal that the mayor put forward today

um as a you know I see it as an assurance of accountability you know between cbo's and

and trusting the city and I hope that you know there will be more private public partnerships

and applying for this grant to activate uh public spaces to activate parks to activate parks

safety uh our johnston's community center you know uh it would be great to have a public private

partnership and help our yipsies that activate that center um and you know one thing is we we should not

address funding for youth and youth violence as an aftermath I saw that when we did uh when there

was a shooting in north sacrameno in the passing of mccayla brant at mama marks park the city allocated

two million dollars to help improve parks and safety and you know we that that was just another

drop in the bucket but we didn't see that significant investment and we should be addressing this issue

not as an aftermath to the death of somebody but as something that you know it's an investment to

improve the neighborhoods and improve our community and you know I I don't want to nice vote to be

something as an aftermath to what happened this weekend as well too and unfortunately we are here

today and you know I think calcamer vans well it said right we should work on prevention we should

work on investing in cbo's that can help make these preventions can get reach our most vulnerable

youth can talk to our youth that are well be potential kids who have access to guns and might be

the bad actors you know trauma adverse childhood experiences plays a huge part in our communities of

color low income communities and I you know this is a step forward that I believe the city is moving

to really create this funding to really have us address these issues in our most vulnerable

communities not just our communities that usually come out to uh programming or be there in the

community but those that are hard to reach those that we need to go up and talk to our homeless

youth are youth that don't have a role model you know and so definitely I am ready to support

the pros are not the mayor put forward and uh with the 50 50 thank you calcamer tab mayor pro tem telematis

thank you mayor um sounds like you're gonna nine oh vote mayor

I'm not yet okay so two weeks ago I was the one that mentioned restroom doors for my park

in northgate um and for lights in our parks so that kids can play late into the night um I use these

examples because I had so many community members coming to my office come into council coming to

the children's uh commission to advocate for that um so you know and it's in both south

of tomas and north tomas and northgate I mean it's a community that definitely needs to see it

index um and I saw it as a violence prevention and you know it's we all have different ideas and we

bring our ideas to the table and then people give us feedback on what we like them or not so I did

ask staff uh to come up with these ideas on deferred maintenance and that was at my request uh today

I felt like there was a lot of attacks on our staff for bringing this report up and I just want to make it

very clear that I requested this and um it wasn't asked for me on this dius as a council member so just

I just had to put on the record because I just did not appreciate the attacks on our staff um I just

didn't see as an either or conversation I thought that both programs and spaces like parks were

important places for our youth to to go safely and for a place for it to be free so you know we have

a limited amount of dollars limited amount of resources and a lot of need in our city and I guess my

next question to my council colleagues into the commission is you know if we have five dollars how do

we want to use those five dollars do we want to spread out across the city and give a dollar to the

south side neighborhood north side um five dollars it's it's it's very limited so um as we move

forward in the planning process and even engage our commission like I think it'd be a neat idea to

and I don't need it as part of the motion but I think it'd be a neat idea to focus on different

priority neighborhoods every single year so maybe one year we invest all the money into Del Paso the

following year all into the med of you then maybe south oak park or south city farms like the

neighborhoods that have the most need where you if you drive into that neighborhood you're like wow

this neighborhood needs a lot of love these a lot of resources and these a lot of attention from

the city and from our CBO partners if we can use that money and kind of create a plan I know we have

a five year strategic plan and you know we have the pots of where the money is going to be allocated

but like how are we going to do this and if the commission has a meeting I'd love for them to discuss

that and see if they can take me up on my idea just because it'd be nice to see like the full five

dollars invested into neighborhood I think you can see a big difference um so just want to throw out

the idea on the table and um that's about it I'm prepared to support the motion very good I think

it's a it's a really interesting idea about focus and making an impact and then moving on making

an impact elsewhere but that'll be for the next next debate and discussion and I will be watching

on channel 14 um council member Jennings thank you thank you mayor I too want to

kind of start with the acknowledging the great job that the commission did and getting us to this

point uh the work is incredible and as much as possible I'm trying to stay with the integrity of the

plan that was put out um so a couple of my questions will speak to that um as far as the commission

rolls moving forward will they continue to meet and monitor the strategic action plan

going forward okay will they also be looking at the progress that's being made in the five

target areas yes will they have a report that comes out to the city council so that we can follow

that with them as they go through that yes and how often will that happen at minimally uh every year

um but they will be meeting you know more often and we'll probably provide updates more often

as we see fit and as we have information to provide and provide robust information to you all

I definitely believe um you start a process like this with more and then you work your way to

minimally a year but you start it with quarterly and then you work to the point that you get to

two times a year and then you work to the point where it's once a year and you maintain that um and

you have an annual review every time but I think we need to with a five year plan we need to look at

it more frequently because we've made some changes to the plan that you guys put out and I just

want to make sure that we maintain the integrity of what you put what you put the work that you did

because I really appreciate the work that you did um so I'll leave that at that as far as um just

direction um and I want to make sure that we maximize the dollars that we have and I'm concerned

about that because we're we're trying to satisfy so many different areas and I don't think I need to

go into all the areas because we all know the different areas that we now have committed money to

and the proposal that was put on the table that I that I want to support

um with parks and also um the open process for CBOs now puts less money into the five priority

areas in some way of looking at it and in some way it looks at it it puts more money less money

and more money but when you start looking at supporting mental health and emotional wellness

preventing and reducing homelessness youth homelessness for preventing and reducing

youth substance abuse preventing and reducing youth violence supporting healthy development for

children zero through five and guaranteeing basic income for false to you and then looking at on

top of that competitive grant process that you have and then looking at the parks that you also

want to fix you can already see that the dollars that we have are going to be very small

and that's why I really want to look at the impact and that's why I want to have more

opportunities to see the progress that we have made or have not made to see if we've made the

progress so that we can then come back and look at potentially redoing the plan that we have

just come up with tonight or at least relooking at it and considering changes to the plan

because I don't see how we're going to be able to do it all and be intentional as far as being

able to get the kind of results that we want so I'm hoping that we'll be able to come back on a

regular basis more regular than once a year and the last last two more questions as far as the

parks are concerned now that we've added that do the parks that have the highest priority

do they get do they maintain that priority over other parks throughout the whole city

I heard district two district uh Chantau district two say his parks are the ones that have the

most need will his parks get priority over every other park that's on the city if that's the case

so because it's a per open- and transparent and competitive process it'll be dependent on how

those projects align with the different fund areas with the priority populations and so on

and so forth for any organization that's putting forth a program any city project or program that's

putting forth an application for funding so it'll be more dependent on the application itself

and what they put forward as to the needs of that park and how it's prioritized per the

sip and per the RFP so I think I understand you to say that if that park is going to be used

for this program then it'll become a priority potentially potentially okay um so where now does

the opening competitive process fit in so every potential project or program has to go through

open competitive process through a request for proposals um and that's what will be reviewed by a

panel um you know that's objective and aligns with the fun goals in those areas um that's what are

open competitive processes we're going to follow our current procurement and grant distribution

policy in that process every program regardless of whether it's a park program or a CBO program

every last one of them will go through that competitive process correct okay um

I think I've gotten all the points that wanted to go out you know I I want to support this I do

want us to move forward um I just want us to at least put something in this in this proposal in

this in this motion that says we will come back and look at this again in a shorter period of time

than a longer period of time I don't want to wait a year to see that this is working or not working

it's it's every quarter it is every quarter correct under isn't that at least quarterly reports

but the reports that are mandated are only annually so I guess this would be for additional

direction to come back to the council more like quarterly for the first year is that what you're

asking council member yeah can I just if I may council member Jennings I think one of the things

that's important to reiterate is that this is not the expenditure plan everything that you

mentioned um I agree with the intensity of the resources for example to make sure we're making a

big impact that is yet to be decided when the next council actually votes on the first expenditure

plan based upon the the competitive process that you described so two things number one quarterly

reports I think is embedded in the motion and secondly the expenditure plan itself which gets

at the heart of what you've just articulated is still to be is still to be considered I want to add

on to that matter if I can yeah I think going through the RFP process the first quarterly

report will really just be an update on the procurement process and then simultaneously we're

going to work through you know how we put these things out yeah how we award the different

categories yes so you're gonna you're gonna be here you're gonna have half dozen more opportunities

in my view to be able to weigh in on the refinement of this tonight is just a 20th as I want to say

30th as we 10,000 foot set of decisions about making sure that we've balanced the resources between

guaranteed basis income the city programs and the CBOs that's fundamentally what we're launching

tonight but there's a lot more to do there there is a lot more to do and what I'm concerned about is

our ability to have the impact that I know we all want to have of course with the limited resources

that we have and we can't change the facts that it's eight million dollars and so the decisions of

this count of the next council to decide to spend this in a way you just articulate it and I think

councilmember Talamont has made pretend said the same thing in a different way is going to be the

the true test of the effectiveness of this measure so I'm hoping I'm wrong that we're trying to do too

much because we should be trying to do a lot in order to get to those five fun areas

yep but we've added more to that now the measure added the measure itself describes these

categories but it doesn't mean that the first expenditure plan will include all five of those

elements it doesn't mean that it may be that the council decides to focus on violence prevention

wouldn't that be something because that is really what we're hearing from our community and I in

fact I've made that recommendation of the next mayor and council focus on violence prevention

I mean and take this money and really make the biggest impact with that along with the

guarantee deep-based income for the foster kids that'll be up to you when it comes time to make

those decisions as to of the five you're saying they will not necessarily be all be implemented

and who makes that decision you and what's the what's the role of the commission commission will make

a set of recommendations the staff will make a set of recommendations and then ultimately it will

be the nine members of this city council that will decide just as we're doing tonight at the

10,000 foot level I see nonverbal language it says one person agrees with you one person doesn't

because I just want to make sure that that's accurate miss Gore oh please okay yes is Gore hi what did

I say wrong I'm sure plenty so I just want to clarify identify yourself please I apologize I am

Jennifer Gore from the city attorney's office so I just want to clarify something so this is as

the mayor said this is not an expenditure plan this is a plan for setting out your goals and

things you want to accomplish this will be followed up by the publication of a request for

applications people will submit their applications everyone will be graded on the same criteria to

make sure that they so it's competitive and then the panel that will review those proposed all

of the proposals that come in will score those will determine who scores scores the highest and

then we'll discern determine that those are who should get grant applicant grant awards so then

if there's awards that are less than $250,000 those are within the city managers authority to approve

and then if they're more than $250,000 they would come to the city council for approval but you won't

receive we can certainly provide a summary of everyone who's going to be awarded based on the scoring

but it but you won't be receiving a plan for approval of an expenditure plan because

who will be awarded funding will be based on the scoring that's done by that hold on

court that's true to a point but let me dig in here a little bit because first of all the council

can ask for all of the successful proposals to come forward at once the council can look at those

proposals and say this is great it really focuses on violence prevention for example and therefore

we want to approve them or it could say you know this money is it's nice intent but the money is

spread far too wide and thin and we reject the proposals and we send it back for further consideration

that's the council's discretion correct that's not our typical grant process I'm not saying it's

typical yeah the council have the ability to do that they do have the ability to do that yes of course

um so but um I just wanted to clarify that that's that that wasn't if that's the direction the

council wants to provide them that we would be I think so I'm gonna I'm gonna propose an amendment

to me yes exactly I know what you're where you're gonna go and I think it's good go ahead thank you

yeah um I appreciate that I think so I hope so um so I think what I'm hearing from council member

Jennings and what I like to propose is an amendment to my motion is that when this RFP is released

and they are scored and people are selected as the top responsive that that comes to the council

altogether before it is executed even if it's under $250,000 because I think when I'm hearing

from you as you want the opportunity look at the big picture and to see where the money is going

how it's being distributed what it's going to to be able to weigh in and also the opportunity on

the back end to see how it's performing and to understand if the pivots are made is that

responsive to your request council member Jennings? It is okay I think we need to make clear on the

procurement process because you know we fall of pretty you know it was laid out in the the staff

report that we make it clear to the people applying for the funds that the council will have the

ultimate say yes not the panel yes I guess I just want to make sure because what I just heard from

the city attorney's office is like not necessarily that it might come to the council as proposals

traditionally do proposal by proposal item by item I'm in that if it's under $250,000 it might

not and so what I'm amending my motion to say is that this council would get the full list of

you know applicants from the RFP that are being recommended for approval before funds are executed

as one item so that they can look at it in totality make any recommendations or changes or

suggestions before those funds are distributed I think that is totally appropriate and actually

consistent with everybody's comments about making sure we're making a big picture impact and

it requires all of us to work closely together the panel the city staff everybody's going to have

to consider the big picture here and making sure that we are spending the money in focused ways

that maximize the opportunity for the biggest impact and it helps the transparency and it's also

transparent and then just quickly to answer council member Jennings question on do we fund all five

I just want to pull in the language that it says for measure L it says that you services may include

but are not limited to are not limited to give us the discretion that if we want to focus in one

area or two we can and that's specifically language from measure L.

Council member Vanguille you accept the addition by council member valance wala

one second just all staff raising their hands okay go ahead first go ahead yes just want to

save this is the direction of council it will impact the overall timeline so that's just a we

understand that but better but better to get it right can I ask what the timeline is currently it's

to have contracts negotiated by January and have funds then dispersed between January and February

so I can't give an exact time enough how much that would push it out but given you know our 10

day period it could push it out about a month or so so good push okay yeah I think it's I

think it's really really necessary because the plan needs to hold together as a plan not as just

individual allocations and again the message to the panel to the staff and to the council

is it everybody needs to focus on seven one or two things as opposed to trying to do all of it

in order to make an impact I think that's a clear message here we do not want this money spread

too wide and too thin because it won't make an impact that's okay so am I you accept that second

yeah I I'll accept that but I just also want to put something on record what I don't want

happening is that we push this to mid-year budget conversation and then this becomes a filler

to address our budget deficit I just want to put that out right now because I think it's a

priority that we make sure that these dollars go to our most vulnerable youth I'm going to support

the vote tonight but any more further delay for me is a delay tactic for our young people and

so I just want to put that on record councilman van I will say that the only way it gets extended is

if this council extends it absolutely but that's the politics of this right like we're going to be

in a different situation in March or in February and then attitudes and positions are going to change

which I get it it's politics but what I don't want happening is that we're balancing the budget

on the backs of young people and I don't want to be in that conversation when it is February so I'm

okay with delaying it because that's what we're doing because this council wants to get into the

details of the 50,000 the 100,000 that the panel is going to decide that's fine that's on that's

on the council but what I just want to say is that I don't want this process to delay when it is

mid-year budget conversation and then council members are like hey we got a budget deficit let's

balance this budget on the back of young people and I will not allow that to happen I just want to put

that on there. It's a fair everybody and and I think everybody it's the it's in the council's hands

here okay it is in the council's hands but I think just to take it down for a moment what council

members Jennings what you suggested I think was a really important part of this discussion

because we do want to not take too much time but take a time the time to make sure that the

that it is a a citywide plan that that has the biggest impact that maybe doesn't touch every five

every one of the five categories but actually does something and I recommend we start with violence

prevention but that's up to the next council I'm going to give my vang the last comment but I just

want to say one or two things here one I know I called up Monica the chair earlier and kind of put

her on the spot and I just want to say for the record that I think you have you are right to defend

the commission's work and to say that you support the commission and I just think you've you stood

by your commissioners and and did a good job so thank you okay um the less the the less of this

so many lessons but we are better together and if we get a unanimous vote tonight we will be going

forward together on building something that over time will be tens of millions of dollars for young

people and by working together and being together we'll have a much greater impact so thank you to

everybody the staff the community the commission the members none of this is easy but let's let's take

to vote here Mai you want to have the last word thanks mayor um I just want to take this moment to say

thank you to all of the young people who worked every weekend day and night knocking on doors

working really hard to get this measure passed right and I know that this isn't the commission's

recommendation but this is a huge win and you should when you're if you're watching tonight all

the young people and if you attend it tonight just know that this happened because of you that um

you're doing that job in terms of holding government accountable to young people and so tonight

is a win and you should celebrate this huge win um and the fight still continues because we got

to make sure those dollars reach our most vulnerable youth but we should be celebrating all of you

tonight and I just want to say congratulations to the commission because one thing is usually when

recommendations from commission comes to council I can only speak on on behalf of myself but most

of those commissions recommendations don't get adopted but the fact that this commission the majority

of your recommendations got adopted except for the the percentage right that's a huge win and you

should be proud of yourself and that's because of your advocacy so congratulations

by one go ahead please thank you council member Kaplan council member Tao mayor pro tem telemonte's

council member valance weila yes vice-mer maple hi council member gatta hi council member gendings

council member vang and mayor steinberg yes nine nothing that unanimous thank you everybody

very good um i know we have seven people to testify and items on the agenda then we have very

important a journey in memory uh tonight um i will lead that off one it's time but why don't we take

the public testimony and i'm sorry we have seven seven people thank you the first one is

alas and nila and i will call a few names alas and nila dianne williams drae more edwards

jaleil baker taunya maranda richer milla and then monica roola's mayors

if you want to wait a moment so that we can quiet the audience for you

please proceed when you're ready um do i have two minutes you do okay well first of all thank you all

for being here so late i don't know how you do it i couldn't do what you do um i'm here tonight to

talk about speed bumps i know this isn't the process for how we do speed bumps i've already tried

the petition thing i've tried a couple of things um so this is the next thing i'm gonna try um the

reason that i'm here tonight didn't pick the best night to come probably should have picked one

a less contentious item on the agenda um on saturday i saw a dog get run over right in front of

these two little kids and it was horrendous um i've been trying to get speed bumps on 21st avenue

for a couple years now for those of you who aren't familiar with 21st avenue it's a park that's not

a park there's a big green way in the middle that people use as a park uh but it doesn't have an

official park designation in short what i'm here to say is that whether or not it's an official park

people are gonna continue to use it as a park there are 200 new affordable housing units that

were built right next to the area and i love that it's so wonderful and i can bet you that the new

residents are gonna come and use the space the same way that we who already live around it use it

as a park uh so we need the traffic calming measures to match the way that people are utilizing the space

um

yeah that's all i have to say thank you thank you thank you for coming thanks

our next speaker is Danny Williams then drain more edwards

hello again and good evenings um i'm so proud of a tonight's vote uh real quick um

the CEO for those those that grant that's not the office coming our way you know as a small cbo

and staff Sacramento please consider also first for CEOs the ex when you do the grant our phase

that that um if you are CEO and you're making over $200,000 maybe you should be exempt from

applying for the grant if your budget is over a million to three million dollars maybe you should

be exempt from applying for the grant because what happens in now you make it an industry for

for for serving young people instead of an ministry so i got to put it out there a lot of cbo

like myself we're doing doing the work but we're competing with people who are just so big

they gobbled the money up you gotta rethink about that making it to wear that caveat you know and then

if you get that you're a big cbo then you have to partner with one one to three partners right

instead of just get all the money for for yourself maybe think about getting five new cbOs so

please think about that my vague you know i'm going to come to my vague for since 2019 you've been

before they built the villa heart harden you've seen us do the work and we're doing it on a mayor

Steinberg set on a shoestring budget so it can happen but i'm hope people accountable council member

i'm Kaplan um my team that was three couple years ago love i'd love to be that first cbo working

with you with food justice um with with i workforce development i'm talking about that fire

station and the Thomas i should be a teacher at a Thomas i school would love to talk to you about

that council member garrer you were there when you came to corugables you know during that

natural night out just met met vice mayor um maple last night you know at the community meeting so

much also we were trying to do a daycare center in metal in metal glen as well then that's from the

camp pandemic hit so i'm there with you i'm gonna leave my business cards with a couple of for

a couple of y'all love to talk with y'all because we do care we do care thank you thank you

your comments drae more edwards than jaleil baker

good afternoon i just have a quick request before the time starts drae moan is the speaker

that's on cue right now but he asked if uh he would if you all would be okay with me going first

and him following me please proceed all right cool thank you all right uh good afternoon good

evening my name is jaleil baker i work with improved you tomorrow um as a civic engagement

coordinator um have one of our youth members here um and um we intended to have our public

common slips on you know the uh strategic investment plan but it may be a blessing in disguise to

be able to address you all after the vote um as you all know iwi tea was here last week or two

weeks ago and our position hasn't changed we supported the plan as presented by the commissioners

and although um you know it could be a celebratory moment and occasion tonight um to

have the mayors compromised and the council supporting it unanimously um to have that in place

i think there's still some reservations that a lot of our community members may have and i'll just

speak on myself and and iwi tea's position that um that we have as nonprofit organizations

as you heard tonight from several community members there there are several different

strategies that could have been employed by this council to backfill um deferred maintenance projects

and in the uh and and parks improvement projects um and it's it's quite disappointing to see that money

coming from a community approved voting voted voted measure that was to intended to support you know

our target demographics and uh that were called out um lacks a little and in my opinion you know

lacks a little creativity and is a slap in the face of the community members who work so hard to

get a a specific portion of funding um for these target areas um so a little disappointed tonight i

do have to be honest with you all on that but uh you know uh thank you for some of the comments your

time is complete uh Drey Moore and then taunia meranda

hello my name is drae um i'm here representing iwi tea um i'm also kind of disappointed

with the vote just because i i supported it as is um and we support the work of non-profits as

they are already and uh serving our most vulnerable communities non-profits should be viewed as

partners with the city and knock-a-pitters for funding um and honestly like i understand the best

in the parks is cool enough but um i feel like which parks are mainly for kids and consider and we

aren't getting the resources we need for them and the way everything happens like recently we just

lost youth uh youth we just lost like a youth and more recently um there will be no youth for

youth in many parks to for them to go to parks you know because we you know i hope you're on it

so i'm saying but yeah thank you thank you for your comments taunia meranda then richer milla

hi hi council i'm air my name is taunia meranda i'm uh born and raised in north sacramental district two

uh del passohites but my family has been in the north area for over six generations um i come

here as a community member uh from the north area to uh you highlight the different violence

situations that we've had this past weekend um i know it's gotten a lot of coverage throughout the

news and it's very sad but i also want to just state that this isn't the first time right since i

was a kid it's been happening in the north area you know when we think of when i think of the

violence i think of cito he was from garland i think of fabian who was from del passohites i

think of hyme who was from garland i think of all these different people and then also the ones

that went through the scotal prison pipeline that are not here with us and they're still incarcerated

since we were sixteen and so when we're thinking of a solution i'd love to be a part of that not

just a part of youth forward but a part of real community members there in the north area that

have not been a part of city programs and the only city program that i was a part of was from our

own mayor joserna who literally took a program there the first one that we ever had at haggenwood

park for all in north area and so to help be a part of the solutions that we can with you know

our wonderful district members you know i know leesa captain's office and our district two you

guys have been very responsive on different things and i'm excited to continue to connect but

for the overall how can we help and how can we be a part of the solution you know i've been a part

of this the community my whole life and i plan on staying here and so we're here there's real

community here there's a whole native community in the north area and we are the most impacted

there so i look forward to working with y'all thank you thank you for your comments

Richard milla and then monica ruella's mayors good evening mayor and city council members thank

you for the opportunity to speak tonight my name is Richard miller and i'm here to address

an issue while seemingly small has significant implications to our community the non-functional

tower clock at city hall the city hall clock tower has long stood as a symbol of our city

it's hands marking the passage of time and ceremonies are reliable fixture in our daily lives however

for some time now the clock has been out of order this is not merely an inconvenience it sends a

message about the state of our local government and our commitment to upkeep the city the clocks

inoperability affects the surrounding areas particular cesar chavez plaza the plaza central

gathering place for residents and visitors alike it is closely tied to the visual and cultural

identity of the city hall the clock presents a functional and contributes to the atmosphere and

aesthetics of the plaza when the clock is not working it detracts from the charm and the

historical significance of the area potentially diminishing the experience for those who spend time

during concerts in the park where the clock tower is center stage more over a non-functional clock

can be seen as a metaphor for neglect or inefficiency it reflects poorly on our local governments

and just in that even basic maintenance issues are not being addressed this can erode public

confidence in our ability to manage longer or more complex issue facing our city it is vital

that we maintain our public spaces and landmarks not only for practical reasons but also for

demonstration our pride and dedication to our community by ensuring the clock is repaired and

maintained we signal that we care about the details and contribute to our city's character and

functionality it shows that we are attentive to the needs of the public spaces and that we value

the similar represent share history and identity thank you for your comments your time is complete

our final speaker is monica rouelle's mayor thank you thank you for your comments

my last one so I didn't really prepare anything so I'm going to be completely off script but

mayor I just want to thank you for appointing me to the commission you know when we had that

conversation I told you that I was always going to be an advocate for the young people of this

community the the person that I was growing up and the young people today that are growing up

in the community still experiencing disparities and you know I just want to acknowledge that

something that you said in your state of the city that I heard pretty loud and clearly is that

we don't have to like each other right to be able to work together and to improve

that the lives of children and youth in the city and I'm not going to assume that all of you

you know like me it for any you know reason or not but I do think that I would like to work with

you all so that we can really make a great impact for our most vulnerable youth and thankfully we were

able or myself I was able to meet with a couple of you ahead of this meeting as well as a couple

of you ahead of the last meeting that we had but I was unable to meet with council member capel and

I was unable to meet with council member thalamantis and you know I had some conversations with

your chief of staff by vice mayor I was sorry mayor pro-tem and so I just want to make that call out

because as we're continuing this effort I really do feel that in the spirit of collaboration and for

our young people that we should work together and so I don't want to take all the time and I know

you guys want to go home I'm I do too but yeah let's work together I think you know we have

representation from all of the districts and all the communities as a part of our coalition and

the youth leaders that have been working with us for the past 10 years and so I'm ready to work

together if you guys are so thank you thank you thank you so much thank you

I have no more speakers thank you so much okay I want to begin tonight and I know other members

are going to want to weigh in but I want to adjourn this meeting tonight in memory of a great

sacrament and in a great statewide leader bill camp bill died much too soon on Monday I believe

yesterday and we all many of us saw him at the Labor Day picnic just less than a month ago and

we knew that he was not well bill camp was a giant in this community and he was he was a warrior

for social justice not just organized labor although that was his main passion but bill

bill stood with and for anybody who was not getting treated fairly by a government by a business

by a community and I'm struck by how in his quote spare time he started this whole movement

about trying to help the Cuban people and and the and the what and the Honduran people and

traveled to Cuba and to Central America so many occasions and he has a beautiful family I know

his wife Catherine who's champion a mental health champion actually for for her whole life and

and his son and so many people who he loved and he loved him and I know the labor community

specifically feels this in very profound ways but we all feel this because bill he led from the

heart and he combined the heart in the head and helped so many people and so many movements and

so many issues and so many ordinances and so many bills and so many campaigns he was a truly

impactful leader and person and I know that there are going to be some really important memorials

for him in the month of October and I know some of you I I had my great journey with bill through

many many years and a real friendship and I know for so many of you that this hits really close

to home and I'm sorry and we're all sorry and our heart goes out to his family and everybody who

loved him and this is one sacramentan who will never be forgotten will never be forgotten bill camp

wife will live friend thank you okay there's nothing else to come before the city council

we're adjourned