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

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

Tao. Mayor Pro Tem Telemontes. Council member Valenzuela.

Here. Vice Mayor Maple. Council member Getta. Council member Jennings. Council member Vang.

Here. And Mayor Steinberg. I am here. I have Council member Valenzuela. If you would please lead us in the land acknowledgement and the pledge allegiance.

Thank you Mayor. Please rise if you are able for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land. The Nisanong people, the southern Maidu, Valiam planes, Miwak, Putwin, Winhtoon peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the act of practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions and lives.

Thank you. Now please salute and pledge.

Thank you. Thank you.

Good afternoon everyone. We do have a consent calendar and then several items including looking at the operating budget for the Sacramento employment.

And why don't we begin now with the consent calendar? Are there items that members would like to be taken up separately or voted on separately?

We've got a tie for second.

And let's hear from the public, please.

I have one speaker, Marjorie Dickinson and I have two.

Good afternoon. Thank you, council members and mayor. I'm Marjorie Dickinson. I am Chair of the Measured Youth Community Advisory Committee.

And I want to thank the members of the PEP and E committee and the city clerk and her staff for their comprehensive thoughtful and responsive efforts to refine boards and commissions policies and the PEP committee memberships for their leadership and moving forward.

Many important changes most notably to allow ad hoc committees and to clarify policies and practices with respect to commissioner vacancies and term extensions.

We have one remaining concern with respect to quarants. The staff and committees, quote, concern that having a quorum be less than a simple majority of authorized seats could cause confusion and is not in keeping with the city's transparency mission.

And close quote does not take into account the challenges in meeting the quorum requirements that commissions with unfilled seats face.

Instead establishing a quorum as a majority of filled seats would allow commissions such as the Measured Youth Community Advisory Committee, which has had persistent vacancies of 25% or more of our authorized membership for most of this year, including a period where we had six vacancies.

It allows to continue to provide support and service to the council and community in order to solve the confusion and transparency issues.

The agenda for each meeting could include language that states this commission has x authorized seats of which why are currently filled.

Therefore the quorum for this meeting is a majority of why and at the beginning of each meeting the clerk could announce the same information.

I appreciate your consideration of this suggestion.

Hopefully questions. Madam clerk, do you have a response to that?

Absolutely. So we did take this item to the PNPE committee and the unanimously voted that a quorum be a majority of the members of the commission of the legislative body.

So just to clarify our commission disagrees with that because it has been difficult at points in this year to achieve a quorum because we've had so many vacancies.

Well, shouldn't it be a differentiation if there has been a full sort of appointment then makes sense to have the quorum be a full commission.

If it's if it's our responsibility slash fault for not having appointed a full commission, why should we hold up the commission's work? Please help me.

If I may just communicate on behalf of my colleagues at PNPE with the adults about the discussion we had.

Definitely was very much in support of the recommendation that Marjorie is making. However, with the reinstating of the ad hoc committees it raised important brown act questions of whether or not we would incidentally end up violating brown act when we had the ad hoc's established if we lowered the quorum.

It just it felt like there's changes being made also in this ordinance to how the appointments are being made to almost every commission.

I think definitely appreciate the chair's concerns, but we're trying to thread a balanced needle here with reinstating the ad hoc.

I guess the ad hoc is the work around here. So yet the the old ad hoc.

And I will concur that was basically the discussion where we looked at it, but there would be conflicts between the two. So you can't have it one way. So we figured it was easier consistent with exactly how council operates and our subcommittees operate.

Since we expanded to ad hoc's we needed to have a clear delineation between the two.

Do you want to respond to that? I don't understand the connection between ad hoc's it sounds like it would mean that if we don't have a quorum we could reconstitute ourselves on the fly as an ad hoc.

I just don't understand the relationship between ad hoc's and and quorum for this.

Maybe we maybe we maybe we should talk about it a little bit more offline, but appreciate it. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. Very good. The consent calendar has moved and seconded. All in favor. Please say aye.

Aye. Opposed abstain. consent calendar passes. Let's get to the main item, which is item 16, which is the set up operating budget for fiscal year 2425.

Council members, my name is Anita Maldonado and I serve as set as executive director. And I'm here to present to you a little bit about the work that Santa does, including the budget today.

I'd like to begin by first thanking the mayor and councilmember get for visiting us at the National League of Cities last week.

It said we really appreciate your support. So I have my set a team here and available to answer any questions after today's presentation.

So I'd like to begin by just an overview of what I'll be speaking about today, including a set us overview and board governance, our strategic planning efforts fiscal overview.

A little bit about our departments, including our Head Start program, workforce development efforts, and then a little bit about our future goals at set up.

So in terms of our agency overview overview and board governance, set up is, well, first of all, let me begin by saying this is our mission.

We build self-sufficiency by addressing a totality of needs from education and training to childcare more.

And we start with our mission because it really identifies who we are and what we do.

We are in the process of strategic planning and so we're in the process of also revamping our mission and vision statements to better clarify the work that we do because we do so much and we're such a uniquely structured agency that we want to make sure that our vision and our mission statements really demonstrate that.

So set us a joint exercise of power agreement or JPA established in 1978 and administered by the set of governing board.

The set of governing board is comprised of locally elected officials to buy Sacramento County Board of supervisors from which supervisors Rich Desmond and Patrick Kennedy serve to buy Sacramento City Council members, which our governing chair is Councilmember Maivang and

Councilmember Eric Guerra and then one public representative by the name of Sophia Sherman.

There are actually three other boards that help guide set us mission.

First, our Sacramento works board, which is a volunteer board acting in advisory capacity to the governing board on matters pertaining to employment, social service programs and finance.

Secondly, the Head Start Policy Council or PC is comprised of Head Start parents and community members and act as decision, a decision and policy making capacity.

The PC acts as a link to parent committees, grantee and delegate agency bodies, public and private organizations for the communities that they serve.

And then thirdly, the Community Action Board representing public private and low income interest in the community.

Set a designated community action agency for Sacramento County and it has the goals of helping low income individuals and families secure the opportunities that they need to become self sufficient.

Next slide please.