All right, all right. Welcome to this 5 p.m. of the Sacramento City Council. I now call

this meeting to order at 5 o.m. Madam City Clerk will you please call the roll.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilmember Kaplan will be absent. Councilmember Tao.

Mayor Prattem Telemantes. Councilmember Valance-Wayla. Here. Councilmember Geras expected

momentarily. Councilmember Jennings. Councilmember Vang. Here. And we may the Mayor may join us

later to Vice Mayor Maple. I am here. Thank you so much. And Mayor Prattem Telemantes will you please

lead us in the landing knowledge and the pledge of allegiance. Please rise for the opening

acknowledgments is honor of San Francisco and indigenous people and tribal lands. To the regional

people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valiant planes, Meewak, Patwin,

Wintu 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 history contributions and lives. Thank you.

Salute. Pleh? 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.

Thank you Mayor Prattem Telemantes. All right. So we're going to start off this evening with two very special

presentations, which is always a great way to start a meeting with the first being from Council

of Rebellion's Web. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Today we are gathering to belatedly honor and amplify the

significance of digital inclusion week, which was observed on October 7th to 11, so just a little

while ago. And this year's theme was stronger together mobilizing towards sustainability.

This theme underscores the crucial role of collaboration and ensuring the longevity of the

digital equity movement, where stakeholders are working to interconnect digital inclusion

initiatives across our communities, sustaining the movement towards long-term solutions.

Digital Inclusion Week is an annual awareness recognition and celebration week organized by the

National Digital Inclusion Alliance and its 8,800-plus affiliates nationwide. And today we

are joined by the Capital Region Coalition for Digital Inclusion, representing over 40 organizations

who are dedicated to delivering digital inclusion services to bridge the digital divide and increase

digital equity throughout the city of Sacramento. Digital is in that sentence a lot.

I'm very proud of making through that. The Coalition works to support members of our communities

across all of our districts, frankly, colleagues, by enabling them to participate in the digital age

through access to affordable devices, the internet, and digital literacy training. This work is

critical for all individuals today because as we know, particularly since COVID, many education,

employment, healthcare, and other governmental services are now primarily accessed online.

And too many households continue to lack adequate access to these resources across our various

districts. So with that, I would love to bring up the members who are here from the Capital

Region Coalition for Inclusion. And to particularly welcome Mr. Kevin Flash and Dante Erleads from

the United Way Capital Region to speak to us for a few moments about the importance of this week

and your incredible work in our communities. So thank you, everybody come on up. If you would like.

You have a whole quote crew here with you.

Yeah, we do. We do. And it's wonderful. Thank you, Katie, and thank you, other council members,

for recognizing the importance of the work that we're doing here and reading partners with us in

this work. Digital inclusion is so critical because it does provide computers, it provides

affordable internet, and it provides that technical support for digital literacy that so many of our

community members need. I would just like to point out like one example of that. Sacramento City

College offers some online classes. And I just asked you, do you know what percentage of

their classes that they offer online? It's 50%. Half of the classes that Sacramento City College is

offering this year are online classes. And so if you can imagine a young person who wants to go to

college from Oak Park, from Del Paso Heights, up from Natomas, if they don't have a computer,

if they don't have affordable internet, if they don't have some tech support and digital literacy

to help them get there, they're left out of half of the classes that they could potentially take.

So here today, we really do have the coalition so well represented. We have members from

Valley Vision, United Way, Sacramento State, Sacramento Public Library, SETA, S agent. So so many

organizations here really represent that this is a collective. This is working together,

working together to help you serve the constituents that you're in. So I really wanted to say thank

you for the recognition, a heartfelt thank you because it means so much.

Thank you. And just really quickly, I want to acknowledge our colleague from across the

Dr. Dante, early City Council member for West Sacramento. Thank you for being here.

Thank you. I'm going to say just a couple of words. So on behalf of the coalition, and of course,

United Way, I want to take a moment to actually commend you all for this official recognition of

Digital Inclusion Week here in Sacramento. At United Way, California, Capital Region, we're

committed to mobilizing our community just as this coalition is to action so that all can thrive.

And to thrive in this modern day, we truly believe in the power of technology. I appreciate your

leadership and your vision and again, your acknowledgement of the importance of digital equity

and inclusion for all of our communities. In today's world, and as we heard Kevin just say,

access to technology isn't just about convenience. It's a necessity. From education and job

opportunities to even healthcare. And of course, here civic engagement, right? In order to

truly participate in society, you need access to technology. Yet too many of our neighbors still

face barriers to that access, whether it's because of economic disparities, a lack of devices,

or gaps in digital literacy, and those barriers prevent them from reaching their full potential.

Through highlighting Digital Inclusion Week, you're taking a critical step toward bridging that

divide. And this week isn't just about raising awareness. It's about shining a light on the real

challenges faced by so many in our community and showcasing the solutions that can make a difference.

That's about driving meaningful change, about creating a more connected, equitable, and informed

Sacramento. And that's powerful. And so again, on behalf of the entire coalition, thank you guys so

much for doing this. Thank you all so much. I know we were hoping to bring them up for a photo,

and some of you colleagues have little signs next to you. Not everybody, but we were hoping that

you could hold those up during the photo. That was a little idea here that the coalition proposed.

So yeah, we'll quickly. The great idea. Come on in. We'll open this up for you and we'll take a photo.

She's got permission. As we all say, ask for forgiveness.

You got sign up a little bit? Okay. So first one, right here.

One, two, three.

One more. One, two.

Thank you.

All right. We'll give them just a moment to file out here.

All right. Thank you so much, folks. We really appreciate it.

An important resolution. We appreciate Councilor Valenzuela for bringing that forward.

Our next and final presentation, special presentation. Mayor Steinberg regrets can't be here right

now. He may join us a little bit later, but we'll be doing this on his behalf. But as always,

these presentations are on behalf of the mayor and the entire City Council, and they reflect,

you know, the ways that we want to contribute to the community and give recognition.

And so for this very special presentation, we are going to be talking about Sacramento Poetry Week.

So we will be presenting a read the City resolution to our City poet,

Laurel, who I saw on the crowd here, Andrew DeFi. Over the past years, he's jumped, he's

jumped started Sacramento Poetry Day, and we're excited that he has chosen to expand it this year.

He has both Andrew and the local poetry community are bringing poetry to us through a partnership

with SACRT and the Crocker to ride free rides on transit, where you can share a poem with your

driver or fair inspector, and you get free admission to the Crocker on Saturday, October 26,

as well as poetry pop-ups at SACRT stations, sorry, and poetry slands, I'm sure you'll get more

into this. We're also partnering with the SAC Native American Health Planics,

Environmental Health Supports for Poets and Artists, K-12 Quirklem to bring poetry into schools,

and so much more. And so I want to give you an opportunity to say a few words, and then maybe

I'll read from this resolution. Please, please go ahead.

Absolutely, yeah, first off, thank you to all the poets that are in the spot for showing up,

this for y'all. And thank y'all, this is a huge honor. Some of y'all have known for a very long

time, you've seen the progression from yelling on street corners, right? And in poetry, the words

matter. This may be my last time to address this day as this poet laureate, so I want to take this

time to do what I'm supposed to and advocate for poets and poetry. In my five years as laureate,

our city's poetry community has become a model for cities around the country,

be it the codes of conduct, the innovative mental health initiatives, or the Sacramento-based

poetry curriculum we created and made available for free. We have lived up to the title of poetry

capital of California, which is a title that you all declared us in one of these resolutions two

years ago. Because in poetry, the words matter. We've done our part. We put art in the city schools,

we made it representative and accessible, we paid artists, I've paid poets over $50,000 in my time

as poet laureate. We are the creative economy. Right now, we've got the eyes of the nation on us,

and I just show you the DMs to prove it. Meanwhile, I know poets that have opened schools and

organized feeding hungry people in the city weekly. I know poets that are helping untangle the

gang wars that have our city in knots and those same poets are trying to figure out where they're

going to lay their heads every night. I make $3,000 as poet laureate a year in the capital of the

fifth largest economy in the world. I just organized a citywide activation that would reach over

a million people with the free tool for self-empowerment, mental health and deeper community connection. If

you all support it, like this resolution says that you're gonna. But too often, there isn't money

in the budget for poetry. Like there is for military equipment for the police or homeless sweeps,

you should hear those poems. And the poems of the youth declaring their purpose and place in

our city. And the poems of the parents finding their way with no road map. And poems from the elders

finding joy and hope to hold on. The whole city is a verse if you learn to listen to it like one.

You can see the poetry in motion when hopes and dreams become real as we speak ourselves into

existence, Sacramento. Thank y'all for a commitment to valuing and supporting our poets in Sacramento

and paving the way for generations to come. I appreciate y'all from the bottom of the bottom.

Thank you from all the poets in Sacramento. We appreciate you. Thank you so much.

I thought you had more to say. I know, I think always, but you can come out, go to SacramentoPoetryWeek.com

and come to one of our many events all throughout the week. Awesome. And I just want to give a shout out

because you do such a great job of connecting to I have you on Facebook. And one of the things

that you did was do a call out about how do we get this into schools. And I was really amazed.

I wasn't shocked because I know Sacramento, everybody knows everybody and everybody wants to be a

connector and is a connector. And remember people that were on there that were saying, hey,

here's a contact at this school and this school and this school. And yeah, I wonder how many schools

you think you'll be in. A ton. We have not got a full count. But if you want to shed some happy

tears and you need it today, I can show you a video from the Zoom we did with kids earlier today

that I spent like a good half an hour just tear enough about. So yeah, come and check us out. Come

see what we're doing in your district. I'm always in for a good cry. So I'm just, I'm not going to

read this whole thing, but I am going to give this to you, but I will read this last part. Now,

now therefore, be it resolved by the mayor and the council of the city of Sacramento. The city

of Sacramento recognizes October 22nd, 2024, as Sacramento poetry week, the beginning of

shows. It shall be officially observed every year to honor and celebrate the powerful work of

Sacramento poets and the transformative role poetry plays in our community. The city is committed

to support poets in this vital work. Ensuring poetry continues to inspire creativity, healing

and empowerment throughout Sacramento and we couldn't do it without you. Thank you.

First of all, here's some comments and then we'll do a photo. I was excited. Council for

Jennings. Thank you very much. I just want to say appreciate your work that you're doing and the

impact that you're making. I heard you say for generations to come, but the generations that

have already come and left us some of them like my uncle Tommy had 3,000 poems in his head and he

would go around sharing it with all the generations that come and all the seniors and the seniors

citizen homes and he made an impact because of the poems that he had in his head that he shared

with everybody. So I know your work. I know the impact that it has and want to do anything we

can to support you. So on a personal basis, I'd love to get together with you and see what we can

do in order to make sure the kids understand the power of poetry and the power of the spoken word.

So I want to get together with you. Beautiful job. Let's do it. Right. May I pretend to

want to. So when I was in middle school, I wanted to be a poet and I would write poems in my notebook.

I have no creative inch in my body. So I was very unsuccessful. Nonetheless, I love poetry and the

people with a creative talent. So just cute as to you and everyone being here for like just highlighting

poetry in Sacramento. I'm really shining a light on this beautiful art of yours.

And I just kind of reminded me of when I used to work at Grant High School. It was Burbank High School.

I had a teenager that her name is Angel Silva and she really liked poetry and at that time,

I was really plugged into Soul Collective and Soul Collective did all those poetry nights and so

I took her to Soul Collective and she won like the youth poet of the year that year and I was so

proud of her in like knowing like God, I was like eight years ago or so and where we're at today

with like council resolution and everything that you have going on like you Soul Collective and

everyone that made this happen have come such a long way. So just want to commend you on your work

and your perseverance. Congratulations. Thank you. Great words. All right. Any other colleagues

wishing to speak with that? I'd love to present you with this down here and with.

Yeah, if we got any poets in this spot right now, you can come up here and be in this spot.

Aren't all of us poets in our hearts? Not me, definitely not me.

And apparently not the Pro Tem either.

All right. Now with all the good feels, we get to start the city's business.

Colleagues, is there anything from the consent calendar that members wish to have voted on separately

or discussed separately? Comments, questions? I have a motion. I have a second. All those in

favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed to abstain? That passes unanimously. For the record,

Vice Mayor, we do have no speakers on the consent calendar. Thank you so much for that. Moving on

to item 17, our Sockenbill of our plan environmental impact report. Welcome.

Good evening, Vice Mayor and Council members. I'm very excited to be here today. My name is Elizabeth

Boyd and I'm a senior planner in our community development department. Tonight, I'll provide an

overview of this Doctomble Ford plan. It's major components, the environmental impact report or

EIR that goes with it and the next steps for implementation. Following this presentation and

discussion staff recommends that Council pass resolutions to certify the EIR, approve the water supply

assessment and adopt the Doctomble of our plan. The Doctomble of our plan led by the neighborhood

development action team or end at is a community centered approach to revitalizing Doctomble of

our in a way that benefits the people and businesses that currently live and occupy the corridor and

surrounding neighborhoods. It consists of two main components. A specific plan which was streamlined

housing development along the four and a half mile commercial corridor of Doctomble of our

stretching from Alhambra in the north to 65th Street in the south and a neighborhood action plan

which captures community priorities and priority actions for Doctomble of our and the 23 surrounding

neighborhoods. Doctomble of our was selected as the city's first planning effort by end at because

of investments like Aggie Square and street street scape improvements coming to an area that has

been historically disinvested. End at uses a community centered approach to revitalization with a

focus on racial equity. The Doctomble of our plan is a partnership with community to capture

priorities and address concerns that investment would lead to gentrification and displacement.

In our community engagement we really reflected three different goals. One was to capture the community's

voice, strengthen neighborhood capacity and foster local ownership. We worked to meet these goals

holistically by hiring locally, recognizing the expertise of residents and local leaders,

going where people were gathered, providing engagement in multiple languages and context,

and providing stipends to local resident experts who worked alongside staff and consultants.

Community members were key to shaping the process and the resulting document.

City staff created the now award-winning community ambassador program to connect with people

of many cultural and language backgrounds who reside and work along the corridor.

Knowing that relationship building should not be just during the planning process but extend far

into the future. The resident planning team, composed of well-known and diverse local leaders,

worked with the city from the very beginning to guide the planning process. The antidisplacement

values came from them to guide every other part of the plan. The engagement team collected ideas

and feedback from local residents and businesses. After hearing concern and confusion about what the

plan would include, we introduced an interim community working version of the Doctomble of our plan,

which allowed for more extensive outreach before a public review draft was published.

Our engagement team reached careholders through multilingual pop-up events at grocery stores and

the library, meetings with multicultural leaders, community celebrations, office hours,

translated materials, virtual community conversations, online document review and interactive workshops.

The efforts of the engagement team resulted in extensive public comments on the working version.

Staff took these and revised the plan so that the public review draft addressed the community's

concerns. The public review draft was released from September 29, 2023 to May 15, 2024. Overall,

the comments we received were minimal, which shows the importance of the community working version

and the associated engagement. Now I'd like to provide you with a few key elements. We distilled the

community's priorities into specific themes across the various plan topics. From there, we relied on

the priorities to craft the plan's policies and action strategy to ensure that the plan reflected

with a community it said was most important to them. Each topical chapter was summarized to

describe the goals, relevant anti-displacement values, community priorities, city policies,

plans and programs that helped to address the topic and the priority actions.

We were actually working on the Doctomble of our plan at the same time as the 2040 General

Plan was being drafted. Therefore, we had the unusual opportunity to influence general plan,

land use and policy to ensure that both plans were consistent on day one. In 2021, our colleagues

and public works came to council with a bold plan to reshape this corridor into one more

friendly to the people who traverse and live along the corridor. We have incorporated this

transportation plan by reference into the Doctomble of our plan. One of the major policy shifts

between the 2021 corridor plan and now was captured in policy m-1.2 of the 2040 General Plan,

where the city changed from the 2035 General Plan policy to balance the diverse needs of pedestrians

bicyclists, transit riders and motorists to prioritizing mobility, comfort, health, safety and

convenience for those walking, followed by those biking and riding transit ahead of design and

operations for those driving. Because of this shift, our colleagues and public works are able to

be more ambitious in their work. Recently, our colleagues went over $5 million to refine the

transportation plan and study bringing bus rapid transit to the corridor in partnership with SAC County

and Sacramento Regional Transit. Jesse Gothen, the project manager in public works, is available here

to answer any specific questions about that separate effort. The implementation chapter explains

how both a specific plan and neighborhood action plan can be implemented, including a short

summary of the findings of the infrastructure study and potential funding mechanisms such as an

enhanced infrastructure financing district or EIFD. Accompanying the plan is its EIR, which describes

a potential environmental impact associated with the plan's implementation, as well as ways to

address or minimize significant impacts. This summer, the draft EIR was circulated for public

review from June 21st to August 7th, and during that period, written comments from six public

agencies were submitted, which represented only minor clarifications. Similar to what we have done

for the Forward Together Action Plan, after this plan is adopted and at in partnership with our

Office of Arts and Culture, we'll be offering 700,000 in seed funding to support community-led

implementation of the plan. We currently have a survey out to build awareness of the upcoming

pilot grant, funding opportunity, and to seek feedback on how the program should be adjusted to

serve this area. We are encouraging people to take the survey and pass it on to others. Michele

DeVila in our Office of Innovation and Economic Development is available to answer questions about

the pilot grant. Tonight, staff recommends that City Council adopt the Stockton Boulevard plan,

certify its EIR, and accompanying water supply assessment. Following its adoption, we will implement

the plan, including releasing the Stockton Boulevard, end at pilot grant and tracking progress

on the identified actions, with a goal of fostering equitable growth and enhancing quality of life

for residents and businesses along and around the Stockton Boulevard. That concludes to ask

presentation and I'm available for any questions. Thank you so much. We will do public comment at this time.

So thank you Mayor Prattem, I have four speakers on this item. Dan Weitzman, Frank Lui,

Susan Sarich, and Lynette Hall. Welcome Mr. Weitzman. Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you to the plan,

thank you to the City. This is a great start of momentum on the Boulevard. Those of you who have been

on the Boulevard know how exciting things are happening there and this is just the beginning of a

growth and we see the renaissance of Stockton Boulevard coming. I'm a representative and a

treasure of the Stockton Boulevard partnership and we're just excited that things are happening and

big, big more exciting things to come. Thank you.

Frank Lui, and is Elaine speaking with you?

I'd like to also call up my board chairman, Elgin Bradley because again this is a team effort.

Vice Mayor Maiple, Mayor Steinberg who's not in attendance, council members. Again, my name is

Frank Lui. I'm the executive director for the Stockton Boulevard partnership. We support the

Stockton Boulevard plan. The comprehensive plan really addresses the housing shortage,

the mixed use development, prioritizing funding and resources to enhance the quality of life

for the current and future residents and stakeholders investment in the public transportation,

the future BRT along the Route 51 which is as you know is the most heavily traveled

highest ridership in our region. The Stockton Boulevard plan addresses the close

to 100 vacant lots that we have on the Boulevard that have been identified for some. A lot of them

have been identified with a mixed use housing component. AguSquare obviously is going to be our

economic driver for our enhanced growth in our region. The Stockton Boulevard are ageing quarter.

We're going to get new and investment from both the public and the private sector. I just really

it means a lot to us because myself as a business owner and a long time stakeholder, my board chairman,

we both together we did the math the other day. I think we have like a total of 74 years on the

Boulevard and this is just a major transformation of the Boulevard that we've seen in our in our time

and I just want to thank Mayor Steinberg for his vision and leadership these past eight years

beginning with an initial meeting with Chancellor Mayne as a dream. Your time is complete.

But, the Elgin also want to speak. Your time is completed. Elgin want to speak.

Okay, how y'all? My name is Elgin Bradley. I'm the chairperson of the Stockton Boulevard

Partnership. I'm moved to the book to the Stockton Boulevard in 1979. 45 of those years that

Frank mentioned in 1974, I can account for and I've seen the worst of Stockton Boulevard and

now I'm very, very encouraged with what it is that's taken place. The attention the Stockton Boulevard

is getting and I actually and honestly believe that the best of Stockton Boulevard is in our future.

I want to thank you guys for your interest. I really appreciate the fact that the council member

who represents the district, the vice mayor who represents the northern part of Stockton Boulevard

and the rest of the council members, we really thanks for your interest in the Boulevard.

The commitment that you will in the make and we're really looking forward to the revitalization of Stockton

Boulevard. Thank you very much. Thank you so much and really want to also just quickly acknowledge

the work that the Stockton Boulevard Partnership has done to bring the community together and talk

with everyone. So thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Next speaker is Susan with Mutual Housing and then the note hall will be our final speaker.

Hi everyone. My name is Susan Boskel-Starsovich and I'm here on behalf of Mutual Housing

California. We're proudly Sacramento's most active nonprofit affordable housing developer

on track to add 1,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. Our organization's mission is to develop,

operate and advocate for sustainable housing that builds strong communities through resident

participation and leadership development. As the director of community engagement, each day

I see firsthand how the inclusion of residents in the development and revitalization of their

home communities makes the outcomes better for all residents, both those residing in their

neighborhood now and future generations to come. Just last Friday we celebrated the opening

of our newest senior housing community in the rail yards and the mayor and council member

Venezuela were there when our resident speaker spoke about the impact of housing near transit centers

and with thoughtful design to support community building and access to local businesses.

And she's not alone in expressing such a real world impact. The city and specifically the office

of District 6 Council Member Eric Guerra has done a phenomenal job working with Mutual Housing

through all the phases of developing the Stockton Boulevard Plan with active participation

by residents at our Mutual Housing at Lemmon Hill community and other communities adjacent to the

Boulevard. This summer we opened Mutual Housing on the Boulevard another 127 unit community just

south of Stockton Boulevard Plan area and we broke ground on San Juan apartments adding to the

affordable housing stock on the Boulevard. In alignment with our mission and in support of our

residents we would like to express our deep support of the Stockton Boulevard Plan and request that

you fully adopt it this evening so that together we can continue to partner on inclusive economic

development in the city of Sacramento. Thank you. And Lynette Hall is our final speaker on this item?

Welcome. Lynette Hall resident of District 5 in O Park in support of this project.

Just super excited to be able to work on this project as staff but more importantly to benefit

as a resident. To see how community came up with anti-displacement strategies to really support

the folks that are living there now so that their not displaced has been really amazing.

Specifically around incentivizing infill housing not only do I own a home there I also own

property so the chance of being able to build something to leave to my daughter to build generational

wealth is something that I'm very very excited about. Excited about what we're going to do with

some of the vacant spaces. This is the second time that we have adopted a plan and more importantly

to have implementation grants to support that plan. And so I am just excited as a resident of D5

to see what is in store. So again urgent you all to support and adopt this plan and just want to

thank staff for all of their hard work. They've worked on this plan for a long time so super happy.

Thank you. Thank you Miss Hall. And thank you for all your work as well on this. It's not

it's not remiss. We definitely see the work that you're doing on Stockton Boulevard and we appreciate

it. I think the most important or the most appropriate person the pass over to would be council

McGuara for all your years of work on this and finally seeing it come to fruition. Pretty exciting.

Well thank you very much Vice Mayor again it's what an exciting day this today and I just want to

you know thank everyone who's been involved from our community partners or city staff

our leaders on the council as well. I go back to when I first decided to run for office

we had a number of stores closing I mean the issues on human trafficking were significant

at that time I had met Terry Galvanos over there and she and one of our own police officers at

the time were saying we need to find a better way to address you know the human trafficking that's

happening on the Boulevard and to address the safety issues and think about it in a productive way

and all of this you know came and I got to say that one of the best actions we could have done

as a council was to fund the economic development department that created the end debt and it was

a different way of thinking because it was it was the time when I remember sitting down with

their city staff and after talking to all our property owners and and and like I don't see it

over here and others that say you know we we need people in our own city to be linking and talking

together and not serial communication and to be able to do that and the economic development

department was the best suited for that to be able to link community with our different agencies

we're trying to create public safety and you see that you see that on Mary'sville Boulevard you know

as well now with their plan but the fact that stuck to Boulevard happened and I want to you know I

do think want to thank you know the the folks at UC Davis and Aggie Square for their commitment

moving forward but this didn't start because of that this started because the neighborhood itself

wanted something different you know we wanted to see how we grow our own how we move forward

the shot in the arm definitely was the university but even before then we were recognized that

that the fatalities on the roadways were significant the fatalities were affecting low income seniors

people of color kids who had to cross Stockton Boulevard to go to the neighboring school the lack of

housing opportunities in the area and long time committed folks who lived in the area like Dan

Weitzman who I think but his first house after Sac State you know over in Tahoe Park we're all

committed to do there to improving it you know they're you know the the the fact that it's been

that level of commitment and recognizing all of the different diversity of the Boulevard it was

also important from the little Saigon area to you know Elgin Bradley's touch of class all the way

to North area with Frank Lewis restaurant which you know Frank was great he was always hosting us at

at the neighborhood association to bring community members together that level of work is what

it was created the end debt and the the this idea of creating specific plans and to create the

transportation plan that was letter led led to the Stockton Boulevard specific plan but

what's exciting about this plan is that it's going to create it's going to set the stage for

4,000 new housing units a support for small businesses and we already see that happening now

while other areas of the city might have some challenges this area is moving on itself

you know the the fact that I think mutual housing brought up Lemon Hill Lemon Hill's community got

so engaged on on traffic fatalities after they had one of their grandmother's run over right there

on Lemon Hill Stockton Boulevard that they also got engaged instead we need to figure out how to how

to make this better and I really want to thank mutual housing because from the from you know San Juan

Lemon Hill down to South Stockton cornerstone they've committed to that area to say we can revive it we

can make it a better place and to see also the the uniqueness of local small businesses popping up

has been great one challenge though with that is the infrastructure you know the in order to

achieve the the the 4,000 units we have a huge gap in the infrastructure to be able to do that

and and right now if we were to try to accomplish the plan we could only get to half of that

to half of those needs so these are the things that we never talk about the sewer water the

electrical the the ability to be able to fund the roadways those are also challenges this plan

sets us up to create an EIFD that can help us keep that revenue and that money local I am very

happy that the county thanks to supervisor Sourna has started and said hey we're going to do we're

going to match the EIFD although I do have concerns and I'll chat with them about them taking

half of that EIFD and putting it back into the county general fund but at least it's a step forward

and moving together on how we improve an area of the city that's have city have county

the issue of of roadway transit and safety you know this plan is great it's that step but until

we pass that next transportation measure to fund it and make sure that we get those those

intersections then we then this it still holds us back and I'm very proud that even we're

though we're we're not waiting for that transportation measure that we see people investing in

making that happen I want to finally say you know close by saying that this is you know that it

took a lot of support at first there was a lot of objection to it there there was concern about

changing the dynamics about housing on the boulevard about looking at reducing lanes and miles

but we did have a continuous level of support from our previous district six council member

mayor Steinberg there to our previous district five council member jationere to our current council

member Katie Maple to say hey we we can think differently and move differently with that there is

one aspect here that I'd like staff to come up because and and and it goes back to transportation

safety and traffic safety and and I and I want to make sure that that the plan goes a little further

on making sure that we we include a directive to the city to begin to do that and so

my understanding is that there's some suggested language for a policy area E3 to be able to you

know hone in on the point on reducing the speeds to making sure that we have you know bus rapid

transit and addressing those problematic areas areas thank you so I'm getting the

presentation to come back up again we work with your office to you know talk through a policy that

would be helpful to point to the work that our colleagues in public works are doing and so I'll

read it out and if you make the motion then we will include that into the specific plan after it is

when it's adopted okay well I can read it out it was up there it was up there then it went away

well read it from here oh there it is so we'll add it to chapter eight environmental

environment public health and safety policy E3 transportation planning continue to evaluate

physical improvements to the corridor to facilitate pedestrian bicycle and transit use physical

improvements could include lane reductions lane reallocations bus rapid transit additional crossings

and other methods to increase transportation safety mobility and accessibility and I have checked

with our public works colleagues and they feel like this would be you know consistent with what

they're doing and you know it's consistent with the general plan and this specific plan well thank

you Elizabeth appreciate that and thank you for all your you know your commitment and your work

with the community there you know mayor I will open and close the public hearing on this item and

move the item with the the amended language for policy area E3 that focuses this this critical

transportation planning and safety piece on the boulevard with that thank you very much I

appreciate everyone I think the community here deserves a big round of applause for their long work

thank you comes from we get up for a championing Stockton boulevard along with vice mayor Maple

your predecessor council member senior vice mayor thank you mayor I really appreciate it and I had

some comments repaired but now I just get to say diddo great job you hit all the points on things

that I wanted to mention so I'm just going to speak up the cuff for a little bit that you know I

live on the other side of Stockton boulevard in the Oak Park area along with my my colleague Don Hillon

at Hall and I love that community the neighbors love that community and they're really excited about

what the projects that are coming down on Stockton boulevard I want to shout out our mayor who has

talked about inclusive economic development for years in fact shout it from the rooftop

to anyone who will listen in the grocery store and and those that energy and that attention leads to

the real life projects and things that we're seeing now at least the things like Aggie Square at

least the things like the thousand planned housing units on Stockton boulevard at least the things like

new businesses at least the things like bus rap but transit and protected bike lanes and all the

things that we want to see along Stockton boulevard and what it all comes out to is a new vision

it's a new vision and it's really exciting because for now that there's anything wrong with this

I think you know our downtown core is our is our economic drivers of city and I'm always going

to be a proponent of increasing economic development there but not at the expense of the

where we're all still but we have we can not do that and and Mayor Simburg is one of the first

people to come out and say we got to do all of it we got to do Stockton boulevard we got to do Broadway

we'll do Franklin and so now we're seeing the real life action that goes behind that and I'm

glad to take the torch along with my colleagues here and continue that action so that we can see

what it can come in the future and I remember when we were on a bus tour with Congresswoman Matt Sui

and others one of the things I talked about is how do we make a city for young people how do we

make a city where people not only want to go to school here but stay here and have jobs here

and raise families here and this is what you do you create you create opportunities for people to

walk and bike and go to entertainment districts and more restaurants and more everything you know

and and the housing especially and so that's all coming to fruition in this plan and so I

couldn't be more grateful for all the years of work that went into this long before I was here

and I recognize that my colleagues and and our incredible city staff thank you so much I'm

really excited to to second this and to move it forward today and just know that I'm a partner

as we move this board on soccer board thank you thank I just want to add a little bit because

you know this is where I chose to make my last state of the city address and it was intentional

and I'm not going to repeat the speech it was 50 minutes way too long but I do want to make a point

about measure you for a moment okay which uh some ways has been aligned over the years right did it

actually live up to its purpose well talked about this this morning it was a general tax

and so it has understandably supported a whole range of city services

and arguably that second half sense saving is saving us from real fiscal Armageddon and this project

is an example the neighborhood development action teams as part of the Department of Economic

Development is part of fulfilling the measure you promise because this is where the money is coming

from that additional increment of money whether it's on the so-called general fund side or the

measure you sign and I you know everything I say now is for the posterity and for future president

future colleagues but I will say said this my first day and I'm going to say it my last day

investing city dollars whether it's through measure you through EIFD through any of these

financing mechanism in inclusive economic development where there isn't necessarily a direct

short term financial return is every bit as important as investing in the all important core city

services and in fact there's a relationship between the two because if we do not build up these

commercial corridors and these neighborhoods and enhance the economic base we're going to be chasing

our tail when it comes to budgets and paying for those core services it's so basic and and we're

making strides in progress it's still a struggle because of the cost of government frankly which

is also understandable because we want to make sure that we pay our hardworking public servants

for example what it is they deserve but these are vital investments and we were able to do even

more obviously through the American Rescue Plan one-time basis and the great challenge and

opportunity for the next mayor and council is to find a way to continue these kinds of investments

and enhance them because that will be good and great for long forgotten corridors and neighborhoods

and will also bring more money into the general fund for the core services that the people expect

us fund and I'm sorry if I repeat myself but it's at the core of what I think our city

is rapidly becoming it's about equity it's about economic opportunity it's about young people it's

about workforce it's it and it's about public safety and it's about affordable housing and so

this is wonderful and Eric and Katie are right if I may the one thing though that we need to really

focus on is enhancing the opportunity for more infrastructure and it's not easy for a city with

all these demands right that's why we've got countywide sales tax measures to consider that's

why we have to be aggressive working with any partner we can find to go after more state and

federal grant opportunities don't feel like we have to do it all alone because because we can't

it maybe shouldn't this is it's stocked in boulevard's the template here not that these other

corridors are they're beautiful and just as deserving but the fact that UC Davis here is here and

comes across and we have this signature project now let's show what this corridor and the neighborhoods

can and and must be I just love this and I cannot wait to see what happens over the course of the

next you know three to five to ten years and to look back and to say the work that you're all

doing the staff and the community you paved the way for this so thank you so so much appreciate it

it's great we've got emotion we've got emotion in a second love it all in favor please say hi

hi opposed abstain genanimus thank you thank you very much everybody

let us move to the final item of the early evening and that is the saccharina county

transportation mitigation fee program

good evening mayor Steinberg members of the council I'm Lucinda Wilcox here's just a director

of public works this item is an update of the countywide transportation mitigation fee

this fee is a component of measure a the current countywide transportation sales tax program

and it requires all agencies to collect this fee on new development to support the

measure a program the item tonight is an update of the next study that legally supports the

fee program so the Sacramento Transportation Authority which administers measure a prepared the

update to this next study it's the first update since measure a took effect in 2009

it results in some restructuring of the fees so some go up slightly some go down slightly

and this new fee structure will take effect on January 1st so the STAs unanimously approved

the next study in July and it has received no opposition I also want to acknowledge STA staff

for being very collaborative during the preparation of the next study they agreed to include

provisions to reduce fees for transit or end development and other development that's reliant on

cars and the fees always exempted low income housing so with that I'd be happy to answer any questions

thank you comes when get are you on this one oh yes I was just going to go ahead and open and

close the public hearing and appreciate our public work staff on this issue and I hope that we

are dive a little more in also on future STA issues thank you listen to for your good work next

I smell very good do we have public testimony I have no speakers on this item all right all in

favor please say aye I have host of say thank you listen to very very much that does conclude the

formal agenda for this late afternoon I'm sorry that I missed some of the celebration earlier

appreciate vice mayor you leading that council ideas and questions mayor pro tem I have an AB

one two three report I went to the League of Cities from Wednesday to Friday did some public

financing law workshops housing jeopardy and got up really early realize I'm not an 8 15

a.m workshop morning person listen look for the next time but it was really nice meeting other

elected officials from other regions and learning about their challenges as larger cities and small

towns especially small towns that rely heavily on jet on tourism but yeah it was it was a great time

networking with others and spending time city staff and I also just want to give a huge shout out

to Mike test and visit Sacramento and Danny Hayes for bringing golden sky and after shock to our

community I mean it's a huge economic engine it's a great place and it's putting Sacramento on the map

when I arrived from Long Beach on Friday I saw the airport that was packed shuttles that were packed

and people that didn't know how to get off the trolley one way or the other and I'm like you enter

this way you exit that way but that's what like showed me that people were visiting from out of town

in my airplane was full of visitors for golden sky so I just want to give a shout out to them

and I have a Dia de los Muertos event at Northgate Park this Saturday so if you arrange that comes up

so it's wonderful uh comes me get her you up go go yes thank you I just want to invite everyone out

to the annual spooktacular at Tahoe Park on this Friday at four o'clock we'll have costume

contest the Sacramento Lowrider Commission will also have low riders there to do a trunk or

treat with our local lowriders also will have a lot of our local vendors and artists we're going to

be selling some of their crafts as well and obviously our local food trucks so come out the spooktacular

this Friday four o'clock at Tahoe Park and join in on the contest we expect all the adults to also

show up in costume all the kids are in costume and so are the adults thanks again

thank you vice mayor thank you mayor I also have AB 1234 reports same as my colleague attended the

California League of Cities conference and Long Beach was able to do my ethics training and my

sexual harassment training which is it's a lot easier to do when you're sitting in a room and

and you're able to interact with other people than than staring at the screen so I really

appreciated the opportunity to do that and also learned quite a bit it was able to you know

meet colleagues from all over the state learn about their challenges learn about some of the

policies that they're working on and how those can be relevant here also attended I think it was

like the first meeting of I think it's the the young the young elected caucus that's what it was

and I think that's really exciting so I got to connect with some others from around the state so

did that also similarly want to give a shout out for golden sky and for after shock it was

really amazing to not only attend golden sky I've never really been a country fan but I

definitely became a fan during this during the events and got to learn a lot about how the

festivals put on some of the challenges that they have to they these really are huge economic drivers

for our city and for our region I think you know folks should come out if they haven't before and

we should always find ways to support them because it was just an amazing time with like food and

friends and people from traveling traveling from all over I was really shocked to see as Mayor

Pro Temtolamonte said how many people really come in and get to see Sacramento and I what that

does for our city too when people come here they probably want to come back again because it's

the best place on earth so with that thank you. Thank you. Councillor Verbeigne. Thanks Mayor I too

also wanted to do an AB1234 report I also attended the League of Cities Conference in Long Beach

and had the opportunity to complete two of my trainings that's the ethics training and the

sexual harassment training I just want to echo Mayor Pro Temt and Vice Mayor as well how did

opportunity really connect with local elected officials in a region but also throughout the

state of California that was really great and then also I was appointed as a second vice president

of the League of Cities Women Caucus so really looking forward to serving in that capacity

and representing satown in that women caucus and then just a few announcement at this Thursday at

Mediboo at the Penel community center we're doing our annual Mediboo event that's going to be a

Halloween event filled with lots of candy activity for all ages every year my team I always have

a theme for costume last year we did Super Mario Brothers a year before that we did power Rangers

this year we're going to do insight out so each of my team member on Team Heart and Hustle has

is going to be you know whether that's anxiety or depression or sadness or joy so it's going to

be really fun so come out to Mediboo and come check out Team Heart and Hustle our coach co-jreading is

looking at me like what's inside out oh what's the name of the event the Mediboo

Mediboo boo yes yeah so come out to that and come check out Heart and Hustle we got a team

cost down really excited for our costumes and then the 26th that's this Thursday is Mediboo

and then two days later on Friday we have an annual floating pumpkin patch at the Penel pull

as well it's from once to four o'clock so come through to that and then the next event on that

Saturday team we got a lot of events happening in Mediboo so we also have a movie night happening

at the Penel community center next to the Penel community center so there's going to be free popcorn

dinner and that is on Saturday October 26th from five to 8 p.m and my team says turn over the page

because there's more yes there is more events and then we have one more last advocacy session

regarding the 102 acres we've done two intensive advocacy session with our residents in the South

Sack area yesterday actually we had a roundtable discussion with local developers in South

Sacramento and then we're ending it with our 102 youth let advocacy session led by both of our youth

commissioners and a Savario on our 102 acres of advisory committee so encouraging folks to come

out to that it's about amplifying young voices and development projects that's not until November

but just want to put a plug in for that November 13th from 6730 at John still K to 8 thank you mayor

thank you um comes remember town thank you mayor wanted to share some amazing events that we're

closing out the month this month uh mongiou from parents united six annual trunk or treat event will

happen for this Friday the 25th from six to nine p.m mutual assistance will also be hosting their

harvest festival this Saturday on the 26th from 11 to 2 p.m. have a lot of events in my district so

I I want to thank this you know a city park street park man and our clean and safe neighborhood group

they're out there every two weeks cleaning out the bike trail they will be out there this weekend again

bike trail cleanup pick up number eight uh they're meeting on between Eleanor and autos on the bike trail

October 269 a.m. to noon we have another non-profit group hike and hit they are also hosting another

cleanup this Saturday at Hagerwood Park from 10 a.m. to 1130 a.m. um capital career in capital

college and career academy will be hosting their second annual trunk or treat also on October 26

this Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. so very busy welcome weekend um and then we will go into our

centennial week celebration for a staff I would like to thank city staff uh McElderila and the

end-at-team as well as economic development and my staff can with council district two for working

hard to put this together we net Sacramento is north Sacramento is celebrating its hundred years

if it's was still its own city and there's a lot of history on the El Paso Boulevard and so a lot

of businesses and north sack chamber with the p-bed step up to host multiple events and we have

eight events next week to celebrate the centennial uh first off is um there will be a centennial

resource fair on November 2nd as well as uh the taco fest will be on October 3rd no November 3rd

family the centennial but we're going to kick it off on Sunday October 27th with Sammie's

restaurant hosting a trunk of treat for the youth on the El Paso Boulevard there will be

multiple events on the Boulevard uh hosted by you know the community uh King Kongbury will laugh

will host a laugh your way through history and partner with some with some local groups so

they'll feature a local comedian as well there'll be a centennial celebration and happy hour on

November 1st at Stoney End and um then at Tat Wine Lounge on November 1st as well there's a

Vinoverse and evening of Wine and World and so in the end more taste we will be celebrating the

other more tastes on November 2nd uh on the possible where I came Kong as well as a pop-up event

at Tat Wine Lounge so uh a player at the events on the pop-up show a shan can you pick it up a little

bit yeah oh well there's nothing going on out there let's go on everybody's invited to attend

I was looking at it I was like many more I was like wow another piece but but this is this is to

activate the possible of our don't you are a star man you are a star really I just want to say

I know we're gonna have tributes and all that whatever when it's fewest leaving whatever but I

just cannot I just want to say how great it has been to have shan Tao

I'm saying it right now you have been exemplary um okay I just want to add my congratulations and

thanks to uh my test uh Howard and the city team the members uh and Danny Wimmer uh and his team

for another incredible year of music festivals and again this is one of these look through the

forest through the trees these are great events in and of themselves they are also huge signals

that this city is quickly becoming a city of festivals a destination city a city that's whose

creative economy is just rising and we just need to keep building on this and building on it and

building on it and it will pay dividends in terms of joy in our city and it'll also pay

economic dividends because this is exactly the part of the economy that is worth a lot more

attention so thank you to great weekends and the triathlon this weekend the Iron Man excuse me

the Iron Man triathlon yes yes mayor are you going to compete uh I may walk through the starting

line yes exactly if you're free entry yes all right let's do public testimony and items not on

the agenda thank you mayor I have three speakers David Edwards Ely O'Marino and then Robert Copeland

it's David here thank you

sorry one second here hello my name is David Edwards longtime resident of Sacramento I love the

city I love this country I'm happy to be here I'm here to speak about an out of control human

neural surveillance system which is being used to harm Sacramento residents this system is using

the established and very real technology known as the microwave auditory effect frequency is

are being used to torture and physically impair victims to the point they're committing suicide

and are murdered or see themselves confined I want to be crystal clear right now a covert

established technology called voice to skull is being used on citizens who are known as targeted

individuals these targeted individuals have criminals gang stalking them using this technology

this technology mimics the effects of schizophrenia victims are being labeled schizophrenic instead of

getting respect and dignity by criminal investigations when they contact law enforcement organizations

like targeted justice and cis tech for example are exposing this very technology too much for two

minutes but doctors and scientists are coming forward daily I and others can demonstrate this

human targeting technology using a satellite defined radio kit I'm saying I can demonstrate proof

of this crime and no one will investigate it would you consider seeing a crime like this investigated

when there's multiple ways to prove it thank you for your comments our next speaker is Elio

Marino and Robert Copeland

today I want to bring to light alarming technology same as my colleague

remote normal monitoring and voice to skull technology often associated with what's known as

of anacendrom these issues were highlighted in the recent homeland security committee meeting

on May 8th but they deserve far more attention a remote normal monitoring contract brain activity

raising serious concerns about unauthorized surveillance and the manipulation of our thoughts

voice to skull technology can transmit sound directly into a person's mind causing distress

and confusion as a victim of these psychological tactics I can attest to the profound impact

they can have on one's mental health and well-being the reports related to a vanicendrom underscore

the under the urgent need for awareness action and action victims like myself have experienced

the both dating symptoms that reveal the ethical challenges we face in an era where technology outpaces

our ability to regulate it it's crucial it's crucial that we start widespread conversation about

these technologies we need comprehensive guidelines to protect individuals from harm and ensure that

these technologies are used ethically by promoting awareness transparency and accountability so that we

can safeguard our future thank you thank you for your comments Robert Copeland is our final speaker

mayor Stabrics a Sacramento City Council and the City Manager do you ever check what's going on

your homeless shelters because I have a friend of mine has cancer and one of your shelters and I

wouldn't want to put my words enemy in that shelter do some investigate on what's going on in your

shelters two I'm supporting this Governor Newf's keep us promised one million new affordable housing

units by 2030 I don't know if City Council is aware of it also three prop five and prop 33 I'm

supporting them both prop 33 would repeal cost of hockey so we can get real rent control in Sacramento

instead of this 10th protection program which is a lot weaker than we'll be trying back in 2020

the cities have a LA San Marque San Francisco and the county board supervisor is LA support prop 33

I don't know why you have not taken a position I think you thank you thank you for your comments

mayor I have no more speakers all right thank you all very much if there's nothing else to come

before the council we are adjourned