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