Thank you, Madam City Clerk. I'd like to welcome everyone to this 2pm meeting

at the Sacramento City Council. I now call this meeting to order at 2.02pm.

Madam City Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, Council Member Kaplan. Council Member Tao. Mayor Proto-Telomantes.

Council Member Valenzuela. Council Member Gatta. Council Member Jennings.

Council Member Vang. Mayor Steinberg will be absent. And Vice Mayor Manko.

I am here. Thank you so much. And with that, Council Member Gara, would you lead us in

the land acknowledgement and the pledge of allegiance, please?

Please rise for 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, Valley, and Plainsmeewak, the Puttwin and Winton people, and the people of the Wilton

Rancheria. Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native

people who come before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing

together together today in the act of practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's

indigenous peoples, history, contributions, and lives.

Vice Flag, Salute, 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 strong.

All right, thank you very much, Council Member. And we don't have this on the agenda, but

we did want to take this moment to have a short but special presentation for someone that's

really special to all of us up here and to the city of Sacramento. Today we're going

to be acknowledging our incredible city attorney, Susanna Alcala Wood. So she most recently

was elected as president of the International Municipal Lawyers Association. Some of our

colleagues here were able to congratulate her at the California League of Cities conference

just a few days ago. She also was recently elected president of the city attorney's department

for the League of California cities. And the city attorney's office of the city of Sacramento

was awarded a very prestigious award, which is the DEI leadership gold seal by the State

Bar of California. And the only we are the only other municipality aside from the city

of Los Angeles to receive this honor. And so I think it really speaks to your leadership.

Susanna, and I'd love to invite you up to say a few words.

Congratulations.

I brought my own audience just in case nobody else clapped. Thank you so much. And this

is all Mindy Cuppies' work because she doesn't let us not get acknowledged for the work we

do. She's a fantastic colleague. She's absolutely my rock here too. So thank you Mindy for

everything you do. I don't think we appreciate you enough. So yes, I think thank you for

this acknowledgement. I know we're going to be brief. And then I guess I'll go back and

sit in my hole and keep quiet. If I do everything right, I never have to speak at one of these

council meetings. I think that it's going to be terrific being the president of the

league city attorney's department. They absolutely wanted Sacramento's representation on there.

I think that speaks volumes to the city definitely and the need to have us be more involved

in the league certainly from the city attorney's department. We are already very involved in

a lot of the in a lot of the various organization efforts that we have as part of the department.

And we speak and present the presentations, but it's great to be present. It's going

to be really busy. I am a late international municipal lawyer, so the president elected

this year and I'll be coming in as a president next year. It's really any time you're recognized

by your colleagues obviously and elected to these positions. It means a great deal. Thank

you though for this opportunity to talk about our Gold Seal designation. Yes, were the

only other municipal office in the state that it was awarded this Gold Seal designation.

Last year, if you recall, when I presented to the PPP committee, I said we were going

to go for it and we did. I'm going to see what a gocky's here. So Steve was our champion.

He took it and ran with it and made sure that we met every we met when you get a Gold

Seal designation immediately nine out of the ten requirements. And so I think we met.

We didn't get like a award or anything. We just one day noticed, hey, we're up on the

website. And so the state, our obviously is a licensing organization regulatory body

for all of the attorneys and in our office, but also for the state. And so that's a

designation of the dedication and commitment we have to DEI efforts. I shared with you

a little bit information on the dice about what that means. Obviously, that's an issue

that's significantly important to the city of Sacramento. This council has made that a

pillar of your of everything that you do in this community. And I just wanted you to

know how much that this office takes at seriously and advances at because the more we are inclusive