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What does Sacramento City Council please come to order?

Would the clerk call the roll please to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Council Member Kaplan. Council Member Tao.

Mayor Prudtem Telemontis will be absent tonight. Council Member Valenzuela.

Vice Mayor Maple. Council Member Getta. Council Member Vang. Council Member Jennings is

expected momentarily and Mayor Steinberg. I am here. Council Member Valenzuela, would

you please lead us in the land acknowledgment and the pledge of allegiance?

I will. 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 Nisanan

people, the southern Maidu, Bally and Plains, Mewak, Putwin, Win-Tun 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 active practice of acknowledgment and

appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous People's history, contributions and lives.

Thank you. We are going to please the loot.

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, Indigenous People with Liberty and Justice are all.

Thank you so much, Council Member Valenzuela. The land acknowledgment is important and appropriate

every meeting we hold, but especially appropriate and important tonight. Welcome Chairman

Terango and the Wilton Rancheria Tribal Council. We look forward to hearing from you tonight.

And good evening, late afternoon to everyone here, those in the audience, those watching

from home, those watching this live on CNN and every major national network. I can always

say that I hope. I do want to say that Mayor Putem Talamontis has a family emergency today.

I think everything is okay, but she will not be able to be here this afternoon in this

evening. So we of course wish our colleague well. I know everyone is here for a particular

reason or most people are for a particular important reason. We do have some business and

important business before we get to that. And we begin with special presentations honoring

someone who has contributed an incredible amount to the creative economy here of Sacramento.

And that is Lyle Jones. And for that, I turn it over to Council Member Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor. It is my honor, a true honor to recognize Lyle Jones who is the Crocker

Art Museums, and Marcy Friedman director and CEO of the Crocker Art Museum on your

retirement. You have given 25 years to the Crocker Museum. You have worked in museums for

50, though. And Sacramento was truly blessed when you decided to make us your home. Because

many people do not know that the Crocker Art Museum is one of the oldest museums in the

West. And you personally took it on when you came on as a mission and gathered your people

and the arts community to raise $125 million to make the Crocker Art Museum what it is today.

Without your leadership and vision, I'm not sure Sakum and I would have gotten there.

And I am so happy there are so many people in the audience to hear your story and to congratulate

you on your retirement and what you've been able to do. I can tell you personally in law

school I live next to Crocker. And I was poor and I can only go on three second Saturdays.

But boy did I love the three second Saturdays and to watch the Crocker expand to now where

you have over 300 programs a year and many it's bringing in the children. And starting the

love of the arts early which I am so honored that my mother and my grandmother did that.

And as a teenager I got to see museums across the world all over Europe and to know that

Crocker is just as much as an important museum as many of those in Europe. And so through

all your initiatives I think it's important to point out that the Crocker remains the only

museum in the region to receive accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, a recognition

given to fewer than 1100 of the nation's 33,000 museums for professionalism collections,

operations and quality of service to the public.

So Lyle thank you. Thank you for the community. Thank you on behalf of our children. Thank

you for recognizing that arts needs to be ingrained in our life and it makes us so richer for

that. So I would like to call you up to say a couple words on your retirement but we in

Sacramento are so honored to have had you for these past 25 years.

Thank you councilwoman.

I'd like to thank you all for that special recognition. It's very much appreciated. I came

to Sacramento 25 years ago because I saw a great potential in this city and in the Crocker

specifically to help make Sacramento a better place to live work and play. I'm happy to say

that I've seen a lot of potential achieved but I'm really excited for the next director