All right.

Thank you so much. We really appreciate your patience as we had an extended closed session. Thank you so much for waiting for us

But we will call this meeting of the City Council to order at 5.42 p.m.

Madam City clerk, please call the roll

Thank you councilmember Kaplan

Councilmember Tao

Mayor pro 10 Telemontes

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Councilmember balance bill here vice mayor and maple here council member gear

Councilmember Jennings here councilmember vane I am here and Mary Stumber will be joining us shortly excellent

Thank you so much. It would be my honor to invite the chairman Trongo up to do our landing knowledge, mate

Please

Kujikalupa

Well you guys have already

Rose so I won't say that part, but please rise for the opening acknowledges an honor of Sacramento's indigenous people in tribal lands

To the original people of this land the Nisanan people the southern Maidu

Valley and Plains me walk putt win win two peoples and the people of Wolton, 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 active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history

contributions and lives

Thank you chairman and please please remain standing as we do the pledge of allegiance

So salute the 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 with liberty and justice for all

Wonderful

Well, we're gonna start off this evening with a couple really special presentations. I want to first

Do you want to start with one in particular? I want to first hand it over to council member Gare

Thank you very much vice mayor

It's my pleasure to be here today with councilmember

Miveng to present the annual resolution recognizing

Philopino American history month and it's my pleasure to to bring a little bit of just history

But I want to ask both the honorable Edwin Bettez the I think the first

Philopino elected to a reclamation district. Please give a big round of applause to come out the stage

And also Vince Salas to the podium as well

And also all of our Philopino brothers and sisters from Sacramento who have been leading on the way to come up and join

both Edwin and Vince to the podium here and

And as they come up to here, I wanted to again one give a little history

You know Philopino American history month started back in 1992 and is introduced by their founder

Dr. Fred

Kordova and his wife

Dorothy Leone Kordova

But wasn't formally recognized and we can spread out here equally on the so we can get you in on the on the camera shot there

But it wasn't recognized until 2009

I want to put a couple dates here that unfortunately congress didn't recognize our

Our you know Philopino history until 2009 but

And that and at that time

Folks were we were educating folks at the Philopino community first arrived here

um

In October 18 of 15 of 15 87 in

And they came aboard to California here from the spanish-gallian ships

So there's a Philopino community has been here a long long time and they have been fighting for the dignian rights of workers

They have been you know

Advocates in our with our farm workers very itli-ong and philovera crews were advocating there was ss. Adichavez

And unfortunately their history hasn't been recognized as much and it's important that we recognize the toilet and hard labor because they took the first

Grape strikes to make sure that the safety of workers were were being recognized

Also we celebrate many famous other no-wordly philopino

Americans like Modesto Larry

As well or will we just some of that Larry Leone

And but more so it's a it's a proud

Component here that in our