Thank you.

Good afternoon everyone.

The Sacramento City Council please come to order with the clerk call the roll to establish

a quorum.

Thank you, Councilmember Kaplan, Councilmember Tao, Mayor Pro Tem Telemontis, Councilmember

Valenzuela, Vice Mayor Maple, Councilmember Gera, Councilmember Jennings, Councilmember

Feng, and Mayor Steinberg.

Here, Vice Mayor Maple, would you please lead us in the landing dollar event in the

plitch.

Thank you.

And you are evil.

Please rise for the opening knowledgements and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people

and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern

mind you, Gallium planes mewap, put one in two 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.

We're choosing to gather today in the active practice of an acknowledgement and appreciation

for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contributions, and lives.

For me, standing, salute and 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.

Thank you so much, Vice Mayor.

A very good evening to everyone.

My colleagues and city staff and everyone here in the audience and those that are watching

from Elstrow, we have a big night tonight.

And that big night starts with my honor to recognize the thousand strong program students

many were here today.

And let me just give a very brief introduction here.

Digress just a little.

When I was in the legislature way back in the day, I tried to champion the idea that we

need to change our public education system.

That it's too much of you either go to college or there's not much else for you in society

these days.

And while going to the university is a good and great thing and everyone deserves the

opportunity to do so, that beginning in middle school and high school, we ought to begin

establishing career pathways for young people.

And connecting curriculum to the real jobs that are out there, both that require a university

degree and those that do not.

And that every high school student ought to have a year round paid work experience.

And in the legislature, I authored the career pathways trust legislation, $500 million

for career pathways throughout California.

I could name someone's academic and then I got here.

I said, well, what can I do now?

I can't write the law anymore.

So we launched thousands strong and the idea was, and like many of my things, a little audacious

sometimes, high expectations, you know.

I said if we could get 1,000 young people a year in year round paid work experiences,

we could help transform Sacramento education.

So after eight years, I am proud to say that we had 950 Sacre-Mentons participate in

exactly what it is we proposed.

Year round paid work experiences, hundreds of hours of payment and 40 hours of training

and a lot.

And one of the great challenges, of course, with this concept in American culture, especially

around education, is that the employer community is not always connected with public education.

In fact, there's a big distance.

In Europe, it's very different, by the way.

But here, there's this disconnect.

So to get 950 young people connected with business and public agencies and nonprofits to have

this experience, I hope, is a model that is going to continue and that is elevated so

that we can get to that point where every young person has that experience.

And so there are so many people and organizations, the Metro Chamber Foundation, which led the

employer recruitment and payroll management, they did all the back office stuff for eight

years.

And I'm really grateful to the Chamber and the Chamber Foundation for doing that.

The bridge network, who is providing job readiness training and career coaching for our interns.

The Center for Land Based Learning, who connects young people with hands-on agricultural

work experience.

Thank you.

The North State BIA Foundation, one of our employer partners who have been creating

opportunities for young people to work in the growing construction industry.

This is not the end of 1000 strong.

As I seed this seed here, 1000 strong will be shifted to the Office of Economic Development

to be run alongside the current youth service core.

This is part of our economic development strategy.

And so we have, and I want to thank Nicole Quairnelson of my staff here and those who

proceeded are Eric Kishiri and Rukio and others.

And the city's economic development team as well, who have taken this new idea and actually

made something good and great of it.

Even if it wasn't 1000 people a year, we got to 9.50.

Which pretty good for a new idea.

So I would like to present this resolution to all of the good people who helped make this

a reality.

And to come on up and take your bow and have a couple of the students say a few words

about what this experience has meant to them.

Or any of the other adult leaders of the program, come on up.

This is your time.

You will give you 45 seconds.

It's all good.

Just kidding.

You take a little bit of time.

It's good.

Nicole?

Awesome.

Okay.

Thank you, David.

Perfect.

I'm going to have another one.

Is it this one or that one?

I'm not so sure.

No, okay.

Hello, my name is Aidan Bush.

I'm 17 years old and I am a place at the South of Thomas Library.

This program, it's done a lot for me.

Personally, my mom put me in this program so I didn't really know what it was to come

in at first.

But thank you to the, some of the amazing people behind me, Peggy and Deson right there.

And Yoshi on the back.

They've just really helped it make it super easy for people to kind of be welcomed into

it and just, and really just show what a work experience really is because that's very

important because like Mr. Stimer, we're saying not everyone wants to go to college and

sometimes people want to take alternate routes to, you know, just not going to college.

But no, I just want to thank this program.

This program is done a lot for me.

It just made it so easier to gain a work experience and working at library, I probably most

likely want to go and obtain that job in college as well.

Hopefully.

But no, that's all I had to say.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Sophia Pacheco.

I'm a senior at St. Francis High School and this is my second year working at Thousand

Strong.

And I'm looking to pursue a career in the medical field.

So being able to do this internship and be placed at Wellspace Health has really just

convinced me on this is the career that I'm meant to take.

And Thousand Strong has been a wonderful opportunity.

I've learned so many things.

I've met so many new people and I've seen a lot of people grow from where they were at

the beginning and have become more confident in their career path now.

And I just feel like this has been a great progression for what I want to do and help people

in the future.

And I thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to do this.

I love it.

Thank you.

By the way, this has been in partnership with all of the school districts within the city.

So they've been really essential partners with all of this and just adding up to number

of hours.

90,500 hours of work earning over $1.2 million of wages.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Hello, everybody.

Thank you for taking the time today to honor the Thousand Strong internship.

My name is Ashlingi and I'm a senior at St. Francis High School.

I'm a second year in the program for one and a half years.

I currently work in my high schools, Urban Garden, with 11 of my internship co-workers

who also attend my high school.

Being in the Thousand Strong programs helped me mature and grow as a person.

It has been powerful to hear about my co-workers' dreams and the stories of guest speakers we've

had in the internship.

And that has motivated me to pursue my own career dreams.

Some things that I have learned by being in this program are communication skills.

I've learned to better understand others and help to manage conflict.

I have also improved on leadership skills and public speaking.

It has helped me with discipline and maturity.

I've also learned a lot of agriculture skills like sustainable farming, food systems,

using different engineering skills from other tools, plant identification and plant

health.

This internship has not only impacted me but everybody else that I have worked with.

Through my agriculture internship, I'm able to work with 11 other students from my

high school on a weekly basis.

As interns, we all work together to take care of the garden and create a community

together.

It has helped everybody to become more responsible and learn communication skills.

I believe we have all learned each of our own unique skills from this program.

We cannot only use these in future careers but also in all of our everyday lives.

I'm grateful to have found this program and become a part of it.

I hope that in the future when you're still enjoying day two we'll enjoy it as much as

I did.

All right.

Do we have anyone, any other young people want to speak?

I know there were several others signed up.

I just want to make sure nobody is shorted here.

We'll go quick.

We have a long agenda tonight.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Lily Sharf.

I'm currently 17 years old and I was placed at the Front Street Animal Shelter.

I just want to highlight the extremely positive experience I've had at the Front Street Animal

Shelter.

I'm placed with my amazing fellow interns and co-workers, Nalia, Andrea, Husmean, and

Joy.

And being able to work with them has facilitated an extremely positive work environment for me.

I'm very glad that I had the opportunity to join thousands strong and meet these amazing

people with similar backgrounds who grew up in the same Sacramento region as me.

Thank you.

There were two other young people I know.

Did you want to speak?

Who were supposed to speak?

There were two others.

All right.

Hey, let's present the resolution.

I just, with pride, but also with gratitude to everyone who has helped make this experiment

a real success.

And may it continue and may we give every young person those pathways and change curriculum

to make them relevant to the pathways as well.

School can be different.

Go to Switzerland or Germany and see what they do.

It's actually pretty amazing.

Thank you.

Let's go.

Who wants to come on up?

I'm going to present these resolutions.

Yeah, come on.

Come on down.

Come on down.

Come on down.

Okay, everyone, everyone, if you could do short look front tall in the back, we would greatly

appreciate that.

That would help photos.

I mean, I'm sure.

I mean, how are you going back?

I know.

I can still take a few.

That's not good.

We're going to have to make it.

If everyone can squeeze, close, turn, walk a little forward.

So, Marin, vice mayor.

Marin, vice mayor.

Can I have you take a couple steps forward so we can fit everyone behind you?

Yeah, there we go.

Yeah, everyone else.

If you could cut in a little bit, I know it's very hard and you all want to be close

together.

Yeah, pretend that you like to use other things.

Awesome.

Thank you so much.

Make everyone get here.

Everyone's home.

One, two, three.

Okay, now we're going one.

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That was so loud.

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We're here.

Hi guys.

Are you everybody?

We're in the background.

We have to see how many of you are.

Thank you.

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I'll let you know.

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Thank you.

Hey, Mayor.

Can I just say a few words real quick?

Yeah, hold on, you guys.

Don't leave yet.

Don't leave yet.

My bang has some nice things to say.

About you, Mayor.

I just have some nice things to say about you.

No, then please take whatever time you need.

Okay.

Hi, everyone.

Sorry.

I should have hit the button Q up pretty quick, but I didn't.

Really just wanted to take this time.

Mayor, thank you so much for bringing this Rezo, but I feel like we should have bought this

Rezo forward and not you.

Really want to say thank you for your leadership for launching this program.

A thousand strong.

950.

I mean, you round that out.

That's a thousand, but that is amazing.

And we shall all give you a round of applause for your initiative.

And then I know that you also named out several organizations that are critical partners

in ensuring that this initiative remains strong.

No pun intended strong.

But I want to give a shout out in particular to our students at Luther Burbank and Mary Kimball

and Todd from Burbank as well.

Our ag teacher there.

You know, this program is so important because as you heard from one of the students, obviously I went to a four-year

college, right?

Nothing against folks who are going to college.

I think if that's a thing for you, that's great.

But it's so important to make sure that we have different pathways for our students and really thinking about

making sure that we're prepping our young people for all the jobs in this region.

And I think about the wealth and the assets in the capital that we have in this region, the Sacramento region, especially ag.

And thinking about the many positions that won't be available, but the youth that won't be,

won't have the skill set for that, that gap.

And so just really want to thank all of the partners from Center for Land Based Learning to BIA.

So so many partners who are really working closely with us to make sure that we're training our youth

and getting them prepared for jobs.

So I just really want to say thank you, Mayor, for your leadership and also want to say it's really great to hear that this initiative is going to go under the

economic development.

I think it's really important that we continue this.

And congratulations to you, Mayor.

I get the gavel.

So there was one young woman that didn't get to speak who wanted to speak.

Where is she in the front row? UCSB?

Come on.

Come on.

We're worth a minute or two or whatever.

Go ahead.

Good afternoon.

My name is Nilea Frazier.

I'm 17 and I'm a senior at John F. Kennedy Middle High School.

I have the honor of being placed at the Front Street Animal Shelter.

Now this is not my first job, but it feels like it is.

Working at the shelter has opened my mind to a whole new world and a new perspective of animals.

Here I have learned what goes on behind the scenes of how shelter operates and how many people it really takes to keep the place running.

I have learned to expand my communication skills in improving in database systems.

I also had the opportunity to meet some amazing co-workers in the process.

We have grown closer over the months and I truly appreciate them.

I've decided to choose this site to keep to see if this was the right career path for me since I love animals.

While I won't be pursuing this career in my future, I would love to volunteer after my internship is over.

Thank you.

Glad you came up. Thank you all of you.

All of you young adults.

We expect to see you up here someday in leading our community in so many different ways.

I hope this was a good foundation to help you think about your dreams and go after them.

Thank you all.

Stay for the meeting because we've got some exciting stuff here.

For those of you who are here on all the tourism issues, which I know we're all excited about, I think it's going to be about 15 minutes.

If I'm 15 to 20 minutes because I think we'll get through some of the other items relatively quickly.

You never know, but that's what I think.

So let's start with the consent calendar.

Yes.

Oh, God. I'm sorry.

Councillor Mellon Sueila did have an off-gen item which she talked to me about.

I think it's totally appropriate.

So the discretion of the Chair and the Attorney for the Councilmember Vellon Sueila.

Thank you, Mayor.

And thank you for giving space at the beginning of today's meeting to acknowledge transgender day of remembrance, which is tomorrow, November 20, 2024.

Transgender day of remembrance is a time to honor the lives of transgender people lost of violence, hatred, and despair.

And I don't have a resolution or celebratory speaker or group photo tonight and said I do have some somber facts.

Because while Sacramento has made great strides in becoming a trans affirming city, including passing a resolution just a few months ago declaring Sacramento a sanctuary city for transgender people, federal attacks are looming and we must be prepared to do more.

2024 has seen a sharp global increase in violence against trans people with nearly one third of those murdered being under the age of 25.

And over 200 million was spent in the last election cycle on anti-trans messaging with over 100 candidates running on anti-trans platforms.

The day after the election, the Trevor Project reports that they saw a staggering 700% surge in crisis calls.

And this is not an abstract national issue.

These are our neighbors, our kids in our schools, our co-workers, and our friends.

So I'll encourage everyone to visit transremembrance.org to read the names of those we have lost.

I also encourage all of us to prepare to do more to support our local transgender community by investing in the organizations locally who are protecting and supporting transgender people, much like we've done for immigrant communities through the Fuel Network colleagues.

And by being visibly supportive of the trans community whenever you can.

And this is really our opportunity to show our trans constituents that their lives matter and that we are prepared to stand with them, not just today, but every day and particularly through what will be a very tumultuous four years.

So thank you mayor for allowing me space to do this.

Thank you so much.

Councillor Valenzuela.

On agenda off, really appropriate and really glad you brought this forward. Thank you.

Right. Members, let's get to the consent calendar. Are there items that members would like to discuss separately or vote on separately? Councillor Valenzuela?

Yes, I don't need to pull the item, but I'd like my vote on item 17 to be recorded as a no.

Okay. Very good. Thank you. Vice Mayor Maple.

I have no speakers on consent. Okay. Let's hear from the members. Councillor

Valenzuela. Councillor Cappellan on item 6. Thank you mayor. My comments as it's relating to the motel owners for the City Motel shelter program in conversations with our city auditor.

I think she brought up a really good comment that I would like the council to consider. And an item come back for council direction is what is the clear objective of our City Motel shelter program?

What is the vision and purpose of the program? What data are we using to measure the success of the program? Because how can we audit this program?

If there's no clear direction from council to the service providers and what the goals are for the length and the stay and the outcomes we are looking for.

Very good. Thank you.

Vice Mayor Maple on item 7, Franklin Boulevard. Thank you mayor. I just cannot pass up an opportunity to say good things about the Franklin Boulevard complete street project.

I know we've had some pits and starts, but just really want to thank and appreciate staff for all their work on this. It's a really exciting, transformational project.

And my district I want to congratulate George Reed Inc for being awarding the contract. Thanks.

Thank you. Last but not least item 17. We have council member Kaplan first and then council member Valenzuela.

And then I see council member. You didn't want to speak on that. I'm sorry.

I don't remember buying things. So just.

You go ahead.

Yeah, Mayor. I just wanted to take a note vote on item 17. When I was a school board member, I led the effort to end the SRO contract.

I just wanted to put that on record. I'll be voting no on 7.

We'll make sure that's reflected in the motion. Right. Council member Valenzuela said she didn't need to speak on it. So council member Kaplan, go ahead.

Yes, this is the contract for school resource officers for Nettomus Unified as a school board member.

This was an effort that I led and also changing the nature of our SRO officers where Nettomus Unified specifically works for the Sacramento.

It works with the Sacramento Police Department to find the right fit of the officers that are about building relationships with our kids at our schools, which we've seen an actual decrease in violence and events on our campuses in working in a positive nature with our police department.

And I want to thank the Nettomus Unified School District Board who did pass this on the 13th. And this is just for ratification.

Okay, thank you so much. So let's take a motion on the consent calendar with council members, Vang and Valenzuela being recorded as a no on item 17.

So moved in second. Did all in favor, please say aye. Aye.

Aye. Opposed abstain. Very good. Let's now move to item 18. This is the Stork Register here. landmark.

Is this controversial? No, it is not. And whose whose district is this?

Oh, it's my district. Well, then I would like a lengthy presentation. I've gone as long as you want.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and council. My name is Henry Fuse Preservation Planner with the city of Sacramento. I'll be presenting a landmark nominations for 1146 Street and 1313-0145 Street under file M24009.

The property owners of 1146 Street retain the services of historic environment consultants who prepared the historic evaluation for the property.

The historic evaluation attached to your staff report concludes that the E Sacramento property list at 1146 Street was built in which was built in 1935.

It appears eligible for listing on the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources under Criterion 3, pursuing a Sacramento City Code Section 17604-210 for its embodiment of distinctive to tutor revival character.

These characteristics include a brick veneer, steep hip and gabled roofs, a recess arch entry and entry door, multi-pained casement windows, and a large chimney.

The property owners of 1341 Street also retain the services of historic environment consultants to prepare a historic evaluation for their property.

The historic evaluation attached to your staff report concludes the E Sacramento property at 1341 Street, built in 1925.

It appears eligible for listing on the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources under Criterion 2 for its association with George Pollock, who is significant as the builder of the Tower Bridge, Shasta Dam, and various projects for the US Navy, as well as Ronald Reagan, who is significant as the former governor of California and president of the United States.

Okay? 1341 Street is also appears eligible under Criterion 3 for its embodiment of distinctive to tutor revival characteristics.

All right, I think that's good. If it's not controversial, let's see if there's any public testimony. There is not, let's take a motion on the item.

Thank you.

I'll set it.

I'll third because it's my district. Okay, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Oppose abstain. All right, very good. Thank you. Let's go to the next one.

That is item 19.

Okay.

So now I'll be presenting the R Street Historic District Ordnance Amendment and the R Street Historic District Plan Amendment under File M24007.

So the history of this one is on July 30, 1985, the City Council adopted ordinance 85076, which added the R Street Historic District to the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources.

On December 10, 2019, the City adopted ordinance 2019052, which amended the district to include contributing status to parcels within the district boundaries.

There were no changes made to the district boundaries at that point. In mid 2024, City staff were approached by a representative of Highline Electric Company, which owns several properties on the north side of 1100 R Street.

The representative inquired about redeveloping the block, which is partially located in the historic district.

In response to the inquiries, City staff reviewed the historic status of buildings in the site and noticed an error in the district boundaries that did not align with the evaluation recommendations on file.

The boundaries will be expanded to include 1117 R Street as a contributing resource and will change the status of 173012 Street to a non-contributing resource.

The boundaries will also be expanded to include 1200 R Street as a contributing resource in response to a mid 2024 inquiry by a representative of that property owner regarding historic listing.

Staff determined 1200 R Street was potentially eligible for listing as a contributing resource.

According to the building descriptions in the two historic evaluation reports, the parcels located 1117 and 1119 R Street should be included as contributing resources in the historic district.

Currently, 1117 is not included in the historic district and has no historic status.

1119 R Street is currently contributing resource and it will not be altered and remain as such.

The evaluations on file do not recommend the adjoining 1960s edition at 173012 Street to be a contributing element of the district.

However, 173012 Street is currently listed as a contributing resource and will be identified instead as a non-contributing resource to match the recommendations found in the historic evaluation.

The building at 1200 R Street, known as the Firestone Tyron Rubber Building, was built in 1925 during the period of significance and embodies the character defining features of the formerly industrial historic district with its brick construction and little adormant and prominent loading dock facing art street.

Though the building has undergone some alterations, the character defining features of the building have largely been preserved and the alterations have been compatible.

There are no other changes to the historic district proposed.

One of the last thing is that staff will be amending the historic district plan in response to the updated historic district boundaries as you can see here.

So notice the public hearing describing the proposed amendments was sent to the property owners within the R Street historic district.

Additionally, the preservation Sacramento, the capital area R Street neighborhood association and friends of Fremont Park, Richmond Grove neighborhood association, the R Street partnership and the Southside neighborhood association have been notified as the length of the historic district alterations and no objections have been received by staff.

This includes my presentation. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Councillor Vellan's way. This is your district.

Yes, thank you, Henry, I'll open and close the public hearing and move this item.

Good, thank you.

Let me just say we know how much goes into this work.

So please don't take the brevity of the presentation or, you know, is anything less than a great respect for the work that you guys do.

It's important, okay? All in favor, please say. Eric, wait.

Good. Good question here. Was there any response back from the current business owners that are occupying some of those buildings? Some of them were, and were there concerns about those that were being added?

So staff met with the property owners for both of these buildings and actually for 1200 R Street, the property owners were requesting getting it as a landmark because they were interested in the MLSAC program and other preservation incentives.

And so we kind of was at the same time we were doing this effort for the Highline buildings that that came through and it was kind of perfect timing.

And then in response for the Highline buildings, staff met with the property owners for that and this is actually clarifying the historic status because the historic valuations did utterly recommend those buildings is eligible.

Sure, I appreciate that as well. And then obviously the brick, you know, the structure of that is a beautiful building.

And but sometimes I want to make sure that we're not catching people off guard, particularly the tenants of those facilities. So yeah, the property owners, they are the property owners for that building. So they are aware.

All right, all in favor, please say a few.

Opposed, abstain that measure passes. Thank you. Again, let's now move to, you know, from start preservation, the labor agreements is.

So mayor actually item number 20. Yes, yes, so this item was supposed to be listed on our consent calendar. It is non controversial and there is no staff report.

Okay, so is there public testimony? There is not.

And let's take a motion moved in seconded. Thank you all in favor, please say aye. I oppose abstain. That was good. Okay, now.

Item 21 is the side show, but I think I want to do.

Is number 22 not controversial, the Delta shores issue. Do we have any.

Consumbing Jennings or.

It's in her district. Okay, then let's do the side shows. Okay, very good.

Mr. item 21. Thank you mayor. Thank you everyone for this opportunity to present an ordinance amending chapter 10.34 of title 10 of the Sacramento City Code relating to spectators at side shows motor vehicle exhibitions of speed motor vehicle speed contest and reckless driving.

Now colleagues, this has been a long time coming and is a proposal that is affecting all of us in the city of Sacramento.

I really want to thank the extensive work and engagement by our city staff community partners, the city and the district attorney's office to implement additional measures and give Sacramento Police Department additional tools to address the behavior of side shows.

Those parts side shows are addressed in our vehicle code, however, the governor just recently signed several pieces of legislation which make it easier for us as the city to address in this legislation and changes in ordinance.

Give us additional tools to make our community safer.

As we know side shows are not only inherently dangerous, but they are damaging our roadways and put innocent bystanders in jeopardy.

Side shows are no longer what we think about from the 60s and 70s what we see in old movies and how our parents and grandparents grew up, but they are more like criminal street parties organized on social media around vehicle stunt shows that involve dangerous maneuvers, ghost riding, and eventually as we've seen here in Sacramento.

We've seen a rapid increase in side shows in the dangers that they bring.

In 2023, Sacramento PD received a total call of 277 calls related to side shows, but they were only able to cite 51 individuals and tow 31 vehicles because the dangerous nature of side shows and not having as many officers that we need at the time side shows show up.

Just from January 1st to May 14th this year 76 calls for concerns relating to side shows were brought in and only 19 arrests of individuals and seven vehicles will towed, but two firearms were also found.

These stories are not unique to our districts.

My districts have felt side shows over the past two years, something I hear from my community in one instance, took place in 2023 at an intersection close by two schools and two parks.

We parents were across the street when a side show came up from a park and their child was playing at a park.

We were unable to return home and their attempt to reach their child, they were verbally assaulted by spectators and at times had to jump from being run over by cars that were doing donuts.

In the end, yes, they safely made it home, but that's not a story we want to allow to continue.

We talk about filling our potholes instead we're replacing items and damage done by illegal side shows and these costs can go up to potentially $100,000 per side show.

It is time to implement additional measures to protect the health and safety of residents and send a clear message that those participating in side shows are harming our city.

The reason this ordinance is specifically targeting spectators, organizers and others who aid in a bet is that side show street takeovers are all about social media.

Spectators stand close to the cars doing the stunts to get the best videos for the platforms of choice of which they're trying to make money from.

Take away the audiences videoing these events go after the spectators take their cars for 30 days cost several thousand dollars and finds that they have to pay and drivers will be less interested in showing off and showing up for these events.

Heavy finds and impound fees for cars parked at these events also may dull spectator enthusiasm and I say this please know in perspective that I grew up with my father owning cars from the 60s and 70s souping them up.

But he used to go to a legal drag strip in Woodburn, Oregon to race these cars. I come from a race car family.

My uncle Barry Kaplan built the first engine for long nose dragsters that went over 300 miles in the salt flats.

I come from a car racing family but we have to make a way where it is legal and does not damage our community.

So the proposed amendments before you do a couple of things they increase the violation that we already have on the books from promoting spectating or aiding a betting from $500 to $1000.

They declare city code violations related to side shows a public nuisance because they are they wake people up in the middle of the night they destroy the peace in our neighborhoods.

They make violations related to side shows subject to civil actions and administrative penalties because we should be able to recoup the costs of the damage that they cause.

They protect the city's infrastructure and lastly they take laws that were recently passed and adopted by the governor and provide law enforcement with the ability to use all available technologies that are currently already being used but specifically here as related to side shows.

Including video and audio from technology such as drone security cameras license plate readers for the purposes of a forcing the code for illegal activity relating to impound and allow because the law 1987 night.

1978 that was passed allows for these to be used as evidence for which then officers take to a magistrate and show the video evidence and you can impound vehicles for up to 30 days state law allows this so this is just giving another tool for officers to not get in the middle of a side show and safely record and bring that evidence in front of a judge to be able to impound vehicles that were used for this.

These proposed amendments offer a comprehensive approach to addressing the growing and escalating dangers posed by side shows.

It is critical that we act decisively to protect the safety of our residents and preserve the integrity of our public spaces by increasing penalties declaring side shows a public nuisance empowering law enforcement with modern technologies we are making important strides to improve sub public safety and send a clear message that reckless behavior.

I strongly believe that these changes will help curb the impacts of side shows in our neighborhood reduce the harm they cause and I urge my colleagues to support these amendments.

I want to thank you for your consideration.

Thanks for the support from the Sacramento DA who I've had conversations with, who looks

forward to working with the SACPD and the City Attorney on finding ways to further strengthen

implementing these amendments.

And I look forward to hearing public comments and comments from my council members.

Thank you so much, Council Member Kaplan.

We have three members of the public who want to testify.

So let's hear from the members of the public.

Thank you.

Angela Miles.

De red beans and Lisa Pre.

Are you going?

Go ahead.

Hi.

I'm Angela Miles and I am in support of this.

I believe it's essential to implement stricter penalties and increase fines for individuals

participating in and also spectating in.

There's been so many injuries deaths.

It disrupts emergency systems like police ambulance can't get places they need to go to help

people they need to help because these people are black in the street.

It's dangerous.

It's just dangerous.

People out there, obviously they are not law-biting citizens so people get shot out there

and all types of stuff.

So I think that you guys should choose to increase the penalties to keep Sacramento safe if

that should go.

Thank you.

Next speaker is red beans.

Good evening, everyone.

I found out about this law that you proposed and I was so happy.

I live in North Natomas now and I live well, the Arco Arena is in my backyard.

So you know there's a lot of roadway around there.

And these things have become so dangerous.

You could even dare walk down the street.

You didn't know when they were going to show up.

You didn't know what was happening but the noise also wakes you up.

You can't have your windows open at night.

You never know when it's going to start up again.

This is something I think we definitely need.

We have license plate readers in my condo that we have there and that we found out has

been a real deterrent to having crime into our gated little gated community and things

like that.

I think these drones, everything like that I think that's really important to fight this

crime.

And it also frees up our police officers to work on other crimes that are going on in

our neighborhoods.

So I hope that you will pass this.

It's really important to have, there's young kids that are out there that are going to

get hurt some days well as people are getting killed.

So thank you very much for your experience.

Thank you.

And Lisa Prey is our final speaker on the item.

Thank you.

I'm Lisa Prey.

I live in North Natomas.

I live in an age restricted community which is very peaceful and calm except for when

people decide to cut donuts or we have a traffic circle near our property to speed around

that traffic circle as quickly as they can and spin off at some point that you can't

predict.

I walk my dog.

I don't know whether they're going to come and accidentally come toward me or go somewhere

else.

It's very scary.

We also see it probably every larger intersection throughout North Natomas.

You see the results of these people cutting cookies and spinning out and the damage they

do in lifting some of the markers that let the firefighters know where the fire hydrants

are.

It's just really dangerous.

So I say we should allow the police to use every tool that's available to them to identify

the people who are doing this and to make the punishment worth mean something to the

perpetrators.

And I hope that you will adopt this ordinance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The members of the city council councilman get out.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

First I want to thank my colleague councilman for bringing this forward and if she makes

a motion I'll be glad to second it.

And more so to say that we need to send a very strong message about the violence that

we have on our streets from vehicle violence and from driver violence.

And this and I have to say that this unfortunate as you mentioned here for just three testimonies

I hear this every single week when I go to a community event when I go to a park I hear

you consistently about not only just large groups but individuals who are doing this and

it isn't just the long major corridors we had a large side show incident on Stockton Boulevard

right in front of the library and one incident but we also have it in inner streets.

I mean I hear it from Macman and Janssen right next to our elementary school and sadly

sadly individuals who showed up at our youth soccer facility and we're doing that as kids

and our young people were playing soccer and crossing the street from the parking lot

at you know in one of our largest regional parks there.

So one I will second the motion when it's moved.

I'll make a motion of moving the or in the event.

And I'll second that Mr. Mayor.

Very good.

But two to also ask our city staff look at other legal avenues of administrative penalties

and I understand the vehicle code has some case law behind it but I think we should begin

to challenge some of those legal precedences and with new information so that the courts

can see whether we can or not go after administratively and to look at these impoundment opportunities

to make sure if someone is using their car irresponsibly and we should have the ability

to go and impound that vehicle for its dangerous use.

And with that thank you for the work here.

I also hope that our legislative team will look at support at the state level.

Some of that is our biggest restriction right now in many cases an officer has to be present

and we need to be able to use other tools, other technology to be able to address this.

So thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you Councillor McKapplin.

Thank you so much Mayor Pritam Telemontes.

Thank you Mayor.

I also just want to give kudos to my colleague Councillor McKapplin for proposing this moving

forward with this.

And our city attorney's office, Susanne and your team Emilio Camacho and Mike Banner thank

you so much for my briefing this morning.

Councillor McKapplin told me how hard you guys also worked on this ordinance so thank you

so much for bringing this forward.

This is the city of Sacramento saying that your actions will and can have consequences.

Citrus have become increasingly frustrating for our community.

I know for myself as a resident and honestly just in dangerous our families.

We've had several cars on Northgate crashing to people's homes into their fences and

they're responsible for the homeowners are responsible for fixing their own fence even

then they have nothing to do with it.

And so we had 300 person car side show last month in Natomas that just became so dangerous

even for our police officers to go out there and just the capacity issues.

So I'm really excited about this ordinance.

I'll be voting yes and in the must-ecome like Councillor McGara said if that's us doing

lobbying and legislation at the Capitol is something we need to continue moving forward

on and also by figuring out like what other tools we have in our tool bucket so that we

can enforce this and so that we can deteriorate the behavior.

That's great thank you Councillor Verne's wayla.

Thank you.

Um, grateful to hear the presentation today.

This actually did not come to Lawn Ledge in this form and so I guess it's kind of my

first like process point.

I think we can all agree that side shows in Sacramento are an incredibly serious issue and

what we want is a package of solutions that will stop the activity from happening, right?

I don't want, I mean yes, harsher punishment after the activity happens could be one part

but it's not the only part of a comprehensive strategy and I want to lift up I mean early

on I think before you took office Councillor Member Kaplan I know Councillor Mervailles and

Councillor Jennings and Councillor Gara were doing community meetings were trying to figure

out across South Sacramento what a unified response could look like and so I just want to know.

I mean most of this is already illegal.

I appreciate that we're updating definitions to align with state law and adding in some

new provisions but I don't want this to be seen as the end of the work because I think

this notion that simply making punishment more harsh will deter crime has been disproven

again and again and again and so I want us to kind of push ourselves and challenge ourselves

to think a little bit outside the box as well and to what other things we could be doing

to understand the root cause of what's happening why people are doing this and engaging in this

and what we could be doing to try to prevent it from happening in the first place so I'm

going to have seen from this just mostly out of process than anything else because I feel

like this warrants a really deep discussion and I've heard several colleagues call for

that discussion around what we're doing what best practices are and other cities what

we're seeing in terms of data and I think that's the type of discussion that this issue deserves

so thank you.

Thank you Councillor Member Jennings.

Thanks.

Thank you Mayor.

I want to thank Council Member Kaplan and also our district attorney as well for their work

on this.

We've been working on this in the 10 years that I've been on this council and every time

we talk about it I see the fear in the families that are anywhere near a side show.

I see those who get hurt as a result of cars as the speaker said that are going one direction

and all of a sudden a car goes another direction and an innocent person is then injured.

What I'm happy about is the team that we put together our police department, our fire

department, this council, the district attorney and everybody else that wants to be on this

team the team that we're putting together in order to mitigate it.

We have tried different strategies that have been very costly in order to mitigate it

and we can't keep going down that road so we are going the right direction now in trying

to make sure that this is not only something that's against the law it's a public nuisance

it's something that we can now charge people for and potentially take their car for a period

of time something that's very precious to them.

We can hit them where it hurts and so I'm very happy to see this happening.

It's continuing in the progress that we have in order to enforce it in order to keep our

residents and constituents safe.

So thank you for your work on this.

Very good.

Thank you.

Council Member Towne.

Thank you Mayor.

First off, I say thank you Council Member Kaplan for working on this and bringing it

forward.

I know site show has been a big issue in my community district too for a long kind of all

over Sacramento and this is something that gives us a little push to really enforce or deal

with this issues of site shows.

One thing I wanted to also see if the city that already has is that I see that we have

a clear definition of site shows but then can we include street racing in this as well

for spectators because I know street racing and site shows go hand in hand but I don't

know if the site show is inclusive of that.

So site show is actually defined in the vehicle code and so that's a great question Council

Member Towne because that was one of the things I originally wanted to include and by great

persuasion from our city attorneys they try to not restate what is already in state

law of what a definition of a side show is where state law changed it so it now is where

it's a side show slash street takeover kind of same definition as set forth and 23109

I to a.

Got it.

I think remaining consistent with the state you know we don't want to redefine that and

so just wanted to see that because I know street racing was a big day before site shows

and it is still a big thing in the community that we legal street racing and so we definitely

want to see if we could be inclusive with that but then I'm very supportive of this and

that was just my comment to see.

No and that is actually a really great question because I will tell you I'm working with

our attorneys well why can't we include this well why can't we include this they're

like it is already spelled out in the vehicle code in state law but the areas where we're

hitting of tying state law together and as Council Member Jennings clearly stated we're

actually one of the first cities to add this in is to charge it as a public nuisance.

So that's where Sacramento is leading on this and public nuisance is easier to prove which

will then lead it easier to impound a vehicle for 30 days and really try to dissuade behavior.

Thank you.

Thank you Council Member Van.

Thanks Mayor.

First I just wanted to take this opportunity to think Council Member Kaplan for bringing

this ordinance to the council for consideration and also want to thank Council Member Jennings

and Council Member Garri.

I know we've had several town halls with the community on this item.

I am in support of this was just some comments and maybe some direction if Council Member Kaplan

will allow.

I think this is a great start.

You know I know side shows a huge issue in my district in particular and I think about

the family that was stuck on Amherst and MetaView a couple years ago when the incident happened

and Council Member Kaplan also shared about the deaths to happen in district one so we

know that this is an issue impacting our city.

I do also want to acknowledge at the same time that many of these spectators are young

folks of color and so want to be mindful that those are the folks that are showing up

at the side shows because there are not other activities for things for them to do and so

Councilwoman Valenswell has spoke about the comprehensive approach that we need to take

and I do see that this is one part of it.

I don't see this at the end all and so I just want to name that as well but I think a

direction that needs to happen with this ordinance is if these the fees and all of the

when police is doing enforcement I actually want to know the demographics and how are we

doing because I think that's really important because we can pass an ordinance but it can

also have consequences as well and so I think even if it's a once this is approved

even if it's a six months or a year to come back to see is this ordinance does it make

sense is it working and what are we also doing to really prevent it from happening because

I agree with Councilman Valenswell that this is only one tool I think looking at prevention

as well.

The other piece I'm just I maybe Councilman Kaplan because you're the lawyer in the space.

I just want to be cognizant of I was reading some of the language and some of the language

talks about if one or more person gathers on a street with this for a side show and I just

want to make sure because I was trying to Google the vehicle code and to see what that was

because what I'm afraid of is that like one or two folks are on the street and maybe they

have a cool soup of car but they're not going to engage in a side show and then the police

finds them right I think for me that is probably one of my biggest concern and we wouldn't want

to pass something that actually ends up hurting folks of color and so I just want it to

just name that to make sure that and I'm trying to look up the actual definition coca's in

the state of California but to make sure that it's not just two people like two young folks

hang on the street and they're you know it's their car and they're not engaging in side show

but they don't get ticket or they don't get fine for police so I just want to make sure

that that's not part of that.

So it's a vehicle code 23109 and it's not in the ordinance huh.

No because that city attorney man I tried.

I tried they want to remain consistent with our codes and ordinances but I just want to

that's a great question council member van so as kind of quote unquote divine it's two or

more persons who block and plead traffic for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stun speed

contests exhibitions of speed so if somebody has stopped and cited our officers already know

they have to meet the definition as set forth in state law of what a side show or street racing

is so it can't be they assume two kids just sitting there going to do something they actually have

to be doing something to meet the definition as side show as it is set forth in the vehicle code.

Okay that is my that is our hope right I just you just never know how officers can interpret it

so I think for me I think as a council as we move forward on this ordinance I think monitoring it

so my direction is like to come back in six months or a year to see how this ordinance and

stewing maybe the implications of it too and if it's working that's great I think it's important

for us to model it's totally acceptable because I'm generally asking our police department to give

me updated statistics and stats that they have this so I think because this mostly will go into

effect in January first when the other state laws go into effect so that they can all go together

and it could just be part of our discussion that comes back in six months what do we see.

The DA has passed. Yes yes.

Yeah I guess it yeah that's great I just want to share an incident so I have two boys soon to be

my two boys why call my boys anyways come getting married this weekend and they took me

they're probably going to watch this later because they're like what there's an ordinance when

side shows okay but they actually took me to my first car show and it was on foreign road I don't

know if they had a permit or not but I went anyways because they really wanted to show me these

news cars and it was a really peaceful amazing car show but there were folks that you know I think

knew about it drove up and they were speeding on foreign road but it was none of the folks that

was having coffee and showing their cars at this auto shop and I I share that story because

I'm always worried about interpretation by our officers or by folks who are enforcing the laws

right I think about if I'm sitting there if I'm having my cup of coffee with my two boys we're going

to car show and then like we're also spectators because I'm at this car show and there's two car

speeding like do I call am I going to get arrested by having coffee with my two boys at a car show

and there's a side show happening so I just I think I want to share like a lived experience

what happens in that situation right so for us to consider all those factors and so

but I also acknowledge the harm a side shows because I I've seen it firsthand I live right next to

an elementary school I hear it by the time I get out they're already gone I'm trying to record it

on my phone because you know it's it's not just a nuisance but it's dangerous for our students and

so I'm holding space for both I just want us to be thoughtful as we're moving forward with this

ordinance that it actually doesn't cause more harm and so just wanted to name and share that that

lived experience because I'm reading the definition and I might get arrested for having coffee with

my boys watching a car show and then like folks are doing a side show and I happen to be there

I that can happen so I just think it's important to think about the the complexity of you know any

any scenario right and to make sure that as we're enforcing that we do it in a way that's

also thoughtful as well so I wanted to share that good thanks thank you so much good very good

point vice mayor thank you mayor couldn't resist but to add my own comments oh no I wasn't

planning on speaking but I did listen to all my colleagues and just want to say thank you also

to councilman or caplin for your work on this as well as the other members that have been

working on this for years and certainly get a lot of complaints from constituents in my communities

about side shows and the risks and the dangers of them and so I think this is a really good first

step and you know like some of the other members said I think there might be other sets that we

need to take as we assess I agree that we should take a look with anything that we do we should

always take a look after six months a year or two years whatever it looks like and see whether

or not what we're doing is effective and it's working and so just you just want to appreciate

you thank you thank you and and I just wanted to say thank you because I didn't mention this you

know a lot of the hard work prior to me was Jennings Wang and Gera working on this acknowledging

though that it affects every one of our districts and while I am kind of concentrating a little

bit more on spectator behavior realize that this also goes after promoters those on social media

of which we have phenomenal Sac PD IT guys that know how to get on the dark web I don't understand

when any of that means but they are working hard to try and intercept what is going on and how can

we stop it ahead of time but I will agree this is not the answer this is just one more tool to see

if it can help us and I am look forward to if there are any any other ideas or proposals that we

can do to change things to curb this behavior beforehand and I too councilmember Wang I grew up

and I still like car shows because I'm a car girl inherently that we make sure that this is this

is implemented correctly because cars are really cool we just need to stop the illegal behavior but

thank you to my colleagues that thank you councilmember Kappan all the councilmen worked on this the

city attorney as well I know you know interesting follow up question who is actually going to prosecute

when this happens it is going to be the city attorney which raises other policy questions about

I am grateful that you are doing it I just wonder if we have had discussions with the district

attorney as we have about prosecuting misdemeanors that are serious I did have a conversation with

the district attorney and I have connected district attorney prosecutor as well with the city attorney

to have those conversations because our sec pd and city attorney can can do the work but if it

doesn't get prosecuted this doesn't get put in and I can tell you DA did send me an email letter of

support and that his team will be working to implement and enforce this good I think oversight just

as you probably had oversight of this council and body but making sure that that occurs is as important

as the ordinance that we're passing tonight so thank you briefly I just really appreciate my

vanx point to about not stigmatizing the great and legitimate car clubs and low riders and all the

great things we have around car culture here it's beautiful it's great and that's different from

people acting stupid and that's what this is it's common sense it's acting stupid in ways that

really are dangerous and and so if you choose to be a silent or cheering witness to people acting

recklessly there ought to be a consequence for it and that's what this does I think it's appropriate

all right with councilmember valence well as it okay if we register you as an abstention I'm going

to say all in favor please say aye aye oppose abstain okay we have one more brief item before we get to

the other main event for the evening and that is the Delta Shores Community Facilities District I

don't think this is controversial do we need a presentation on this or councilmember van

and Jennings are you what's that let's open and close why don't you do it it's a discussion item

do we have public testimony all right so that we would come on up sorry a very very very very

brief presentation we don't have public testimony so we'll I'm sorry god it is not

tell us tell us in layperson's language what this is this is purely the authorization to

issue bond for Delta Shores on improvement area number one who's paying for the improvements

all the property owners within the improvement area number one not you no city general fund money

nope okay that's okay I'll move the item yeah okay open and close the public clearing

okay no public testimony all in favor please say aye aye oppose abstain thank you so much for again

a lot of hard work goes into sometimes very short presentations and yes all right members now

what we're going to do is we're going to take items 23 24 and 25 together one set of what's that

what what one oh oh this one worth going a long time actually so 23 24 25 we're going to take

together one set of public testimony on all three items we do need separate votes and I'm going

to begin with a brief opening statement so first of all a great thank you to the city team

the city staff all sitting in the frontier really you you've done and continue to

exemplary work on all parts of this Ellen especially thank you I know this has been your

your main project I just want to really say thank you and Leslie of course and everybody so

thank you Howard to you and your team I want to this is why I'm going to start my little thing

tonight I want to talk about the year 1964 it's 1964 now in 1964 the Beatles arrived in New York and

went on the Ed Sullivan show Lyndon Johnson was reelected or elected actually for the first time

as president of the United States in a landslide over Barry Goldwater Pat Seemink was the first woman

of color to be elected to the Congress 1964 of course the Civil Rights Act passed in in the United

States and in 1964 I was not a junior member of the City Council I was five years old most of you

were not born actually now why is 1964 so important and relevant tonight because

maybe astonishingly 1964 was the last time prior to 2022 that the city had in place an ordinance

declaring how the hotel tax proceeds could be spent in this city and of course that 1964

ordinance really limited the ability to spend hotel tax money on convention center and

expansion and community center theater and even though there was a little ambiguity about being

able to stretch that it was at best ambiguity 1964 it was also I don't sure the exact year but it was

the mid 1960s 60 years ago the last time the city of Sacramento put together a plan to develop the

old Sacramento waterfront it's been over 60 years and so tonight we have the opportunity to make

a generational decision many have talked about it tonight we get to begin to modernize our waterfront

for the next 60 years and that is not all we get the opportunity to do tonight because as the

city it grows we recognize that building a modern economy especially around the creative economy

around tourism is not just about one thing which was really the reason why I think the voters

said yes to measure n in 2022 it's about building more hotels and tonight we have a proposal to

take the next big step towards building a convention center hotel that will be physically

linked and attached to the convention center and that will be a major boon for our downtown our

central city we also tonight will have the opportunity to allocate several million dollars to

continue making Sacramento the city of festivals the city of festivals and specifically the city

of music festivals combine that with this historic and generational opportunity to redevelop the

waterfront tonight is a big night for all of us here in the city of Sacramento it's amazing when you

when you get around this city over many years how many people talk about the waterfront

and they ask when are we going to begin doing something and we know our neighbors in west Sacramento

have done a lot on their side and on our side we've had some opportunities but really the biggest

opportunity we had six years ago where we were going to invest 45 million dollars was halted by

COVID but like last week's success with the rail yards we could have folded it up and said well

let's wait for another generation or at least another 10 years but we didn't and the staff and

the community and the business community and visit Mike test and visit Sacramento Michael

all and all the business leaders they said no stay at this and so the plan tonight is a little

bit different but it's still as bold and it maybe is even better because last time we didn't really

think as much about how we were going to induce more private investment that was one of the ideas

and one of those the ends that we saw but it wasn't really central to the plan this is central

to plan 45 plus million dollars including the state and federal money to basically induce the

private sector to tell us and our city what is it going to take to keep the historic nature of

Old Sacramento but make it a much cooler more modern date night kind of a kind of a place that's

for adults but also for children and families and more outdoor spaces and more access to the river

itself visually and even tactically tact touching the water so let's hear from the team

and let's get going on a on an important set of considerations and hopefully some big

decisions tonight Leslie thank you thank you very much mayor I don't feel like I should give a

presentation at all I think you just gave the introductory presentation so I could turn it over

to Ellen and Megan but I will give you some highlights so my name is Leslie for chief your office

of innovation economic development I'm here with Ellen Sullivan and Megan Vendorys resent

to you for consideration a package of investments as you've outlined using the city's transit

occupancy tax the TOT as we know it affectionately is the revenue generated from each hotel stay

adding a 12% tax to each of those days TOT has rebounded well in Sacramento we've actually

done really well and we have exceeded our pre-pandemic revenues generating over 40 million dollars

in the last fiscal year the highest level of TOT that the city has ever received the three projects

staff will present tonight provide unique opportunities to preserve and grow the city's TOT

from investing in the waterfront as you described mayor to Sacramento's which is Sacramento's

premier tourist destination to supporting Sacramento's iconic events to capitalizing in the

city's newly renovated convention center with the addition of a new convention center hotel

these projects exemplify the intended use of TOT as defined by the passage of measure N

which brought the eligible uses of TOT thought it would be important to highlight what actually TOT

included because it actually is a pretty broad range so here we go I know this is a quoting city

code but councilmember Kaplan voted talked about the vehicle code so I think it's okay if I

quote the city code here the code reads that the revenue from the transit occupancy tax account

shall be used solely and exclusively for the following purposes administration

economic development projects to create local jobs acquisition construction completion

operation repair and maintenance of visitor serving facilities that promote tourism

economic development and other activities that bolster the local economy such as convention halls

and centers theaters and art venues public off street parking facilities side improvements lands

easements rights of way in addition it includes expense in connection with proposals or proceedings

for those acquisitions of the facilities outlined above or interest in principal payments on bonds

and lease payments for lease of any of the facilities referred to in that section so that's what the

expanded measure N allowed us to use and all of the projects we're bringing forward today fit

very well into this category really focusing on number three which is focusing on the local economy

and tourism and economic development so each of the three presentations that follow will emphasize

how the projects amplify and grow Sacramento's tourism industry further to first find our local

economy is basically building on our history and creating the place to be the place we want to be

in Sacramento with that I'll turn it over to Ellen Sullivan senior project manager of our office

of innovation and economic development for the presentation of the waterfront reinvestment program

will roll right through into the into the iconic events and then wrap it up with convention center

hotel and along the way open to your questions thank you thank you last leave

good evening mayor and council I'm Ellen Sullivan senior project manager with

in a innovation and economic development department

oh goodness I'm just zipping through this I've got it backwards

while the mayor said he wanted a quick probe can you reset that please

thank you the 2016 27 budget priorities adopted by the city council included an initiative

to invest in the Sacramento Riverfront as an economic driver for the region's economy in 2019 city

council approved a plan destination Sacramento to leverage the city's existing riverfront assets

and redeveloped the old Sacramento waterfront as a premier riverfront destination the old

Sacramento waterfront was selected as the first stage of riverfront redevelopment because it is

already a strategic riverfront destination it is one of seven national historic landmark

districts in the state and attracts over four million visitors a year it serves as a gateway

to the city and the region with museums parades and other events it serves as a civic and cultural

amenity and has existing public spaces like the Embarcadero that are open and available for all of

Sacramento's residents to use however the old Sacramento waterfront is an underutilized economic

asset efforts continued on the destination on destination Sacramento through the schematic design

phase unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic project funding was reallocated to other city

TOT eligible obligations and the project was paused during this pause staff developed a two-prong

waterfront recovery strategy for the old Sacramento waterfront clean and safe activities for old

Sacramento utilizing American Rescue Plan Act funding for improvements to old Sacramento and

the waterfront reinvestment program made up of six larger scale projects that are currently

unfunded but our TOT eligible or have secured grant funding here's some examples of the ARPA

funded clean and safe activities they range from installation of new LED gas lamp fixtures

police pod cameras wayfinding signage and kiosks to improvements installed by the downtown

Sacramento partnership like planters string lights and seasonal decor staff continues to use ARPA

investments for immediate maintenance and business support in the old Sacramento waterfront

which are critical especially with increased crowds anticipated with the Oakland A's moved

to west Sacramento next year the waterfront reinvestment program consists of six tourism projects

necessary for the continued vitality of the district the public market buildings the water

front redevelopment opportunity boardwalk replacement case street barge hole repair river docs and

the Native American theme children's play area the public market buildings waterfront redevelopment

opportunity boardwalk replacement and case street barge hole repair projects have been determined

to be TOT eligible because they are economic development projects that create local jobs

and are repair and maintenance of visitor serving facilities that promote tourism economic

development and other activities that bolster the economy the north and south public markets are

envisioned as high performing regional destination that anchor the historic district attracting

locals and tourists with a unique Sacramento source shopping experience this project will create

a market destination and serve as a small business incubator supporting new businesses and

selling local Sacramento goods phase one of the project is the feasibility phase which includes

some necessary building maintenance and consultant work comprised of a business plan to guide the city

on the buildings optimal uses and how to manage and lease the buildings as well as informing the

next phase of the design work phase two includes full build out of the market buildings and surrounding

open space however we are not requesting phase two funding at this time given the prime waterfront

location of the former Rio City Cafe building and the city's goal for quick activation staff

is engaged a consultant to attract the highest and best user for the site staff anticipates

issuing a consultant guided solicitation for the former Rio City Cafe site by the first quarter

of 2025 based on the results of the solicitation the city could consider capital repairs or improvements

to the property simultaneously staff will issue a request for proposals for the steamers building

shown at the bottom left of the slide for an outdoor dining opportunity along the Embarcadero

together these two sites will offer waterfront dining options to further attract visitors to

old Sacramento there is over one mile of wooden boardwalks there are a vital part of the tourist

experience in old Sacramento the last comprehensive boardwalk replacement project was completed in 2005

and since then the city has only had funding for piecemeal repairs a full boardwalk replacement is

necessary to ensure a safe unique experience for visitors the case read barge provides ADA

access to the public doc system with an elevator housed on the barge the delta king is also attached

to the barge over its lifespan the barge hole is deteriorated significantly and if not repaired it

would severely limit public access to the docs and the delta king connected to the case read barge

is the city's existing doc system it requires maintenance to ensure continued safe public access

to the docs in the waterfront the doc system allows the Sacramento community and visitors to

experience and reconnect with the Sacramento River in a safe and engaging way the city in

collaboration with the shingle springs band of me walk and wilton ranch area have designed this

play area with the riparian corridor theme the play area will feature an entryway

and a central iconic play structure with climbing nets and slide smaller play structures that

represent tuli boats tuli huts and rock mortars with play surfaces mimicking the natural landscape

together these elements will illustrate local indigenous ways of life along the river the play

area will be located at the site of the current old schoolhouse which will be removed as part of

the project the schoolhouse is historically inaccurate for the district and was originally

intended to be a temporary structure in order to move forward with four of the six waterfront

reinvestment program projects t ot fund bond funding is required the total cost of all phase one

t ot funded projects is 25 million and with the addition of phase two the overall project cost

is estimated to reach up to 40 million if phase one is approved by council the t ot bond

issuances anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2025 the future phase two of the waterfront

reinvestment program will involve continued redevelopment including full build out of the public

market buildings and surrounding open space the grant funded project total approximately seven

point four million timing on the projects differs by funding source and complexity the grant

funded projects can begin quickly we anticipate that river docks design work to start in the spring

and the children's play area to start construction next June and be completed by December the

boardwalk repairs and waterfront redevelopment opportunity are also slated to start in spring

but start dates would be dependent on the bond issuance we are here tonight to request council

to direct staff to proceed with implementation of the waterfront redevelopment program authorize

the city treasurer to initiate transient occupancy tax revenue bond financing and to transfer

up to three hundred and twenty four thousand five hundred and sixty dollars to the children's

play area fund and this concludes my presentation and I would like to turn it over to Megan van

Voorhees to present on iconic events

good evening mayor members of council it's nice to see you

I'm Megan VanVorus and the director of convention and cultural services for the city

Sacramento and it's my job to introduce iconic events is a part of this investment strategy

it is clear that over the years Sacramento has established itself as the city of festivals

drawing attention as a tourism destination through events such as the farm to fork festival

aftershock golden sky soul bloom and more these iconic events generate substantial economic

benefits for here I'm going to talk about two festivals in particular mostly because we don't

have a lot of like a wider festival economic impact study but with something that we've talked

with visit Sacramento something being very valuable in this broader discussion in 2024 aftershock

and golden sky together contributed forty four point six million dollars to the economy supported

thirteen thousand three hundred and eighty four jobs and generated one point three million in local

and state sales tax revenues speaking specifically to jobs the kinds of jobs that are supported

through these activities include everything from security and stage handle labor that relies on

these kinds of events and activities to all sorts of food and hospitality and retail retail jobs

as a result of of the investments that the producers are making as far as these events

those same events increased hotel occupancy with eighty seven thousand six hundred and forty six

visitors from outside the region and a hundred and eleven thousand two hundred and eighty six

room nights in twenty twenty four alone and I think it's worth it to note that those events take

place over the course of of two separate weekends so that's a sizable return on investment and again

I just would like to draw that this is data from only two of the iconic music festivals that have

called Sacramento home and the richness of Sacramento's festival scene reflects the city's diverse

cultural landscape and serves as a home for cultural expression and cross cultural understanding

I also need to draw out some of the things that we've seen in the current music festival environment

because we've we've positioned largely investments in that space we see that rising production costs

inflation and shifting consumer habits have led to financial struggles for festivals

costs for security insurance and artist pay combined with hesitant consumer spending

have forced many festivals around the world to reduce operations or cancel entirely

this solution or at least as part of what we're we're bringing forward to you for your consideration

today visit Sacramento is requesting a one-time budgetary increase of two million dollars

for fiscal year 2024 25 to sustain its efforts in iconic event production these funds will allow

visit Sacramento to adapt to the challenges facing the industry ensuring the continued growth

and impact of Sacramento's festival scene in terms of the use of this for transient occupancy tax

this provides a logical funding source for this initiative and I'll

remind you again festivals directly drive TOT revenue and again with the data that we have with

after shock and golden sky generating $2.27 million in TOT in 2024 this would be eligible for

funding through the transient occupancy tax as an economic development project that creates

local jobs and that's the intent of how this has been positioned for you one last thing that I

will draw attention to is conditions on the use of the funds the first investment that we made

a substantial investment for these kinds of iconic events came through the ARPA re-investment

program and as a part of that investment there were a set of conditions in terms of what festivals

would have to achieve in terms of receiving funding invest events that are selected must achieve

significant tourism related impacts as demonstrated by out of town attendance hotel room bookings and TOT

sales tax generation attending attendee spending on parking restaurants in retail engagement of

local support services such as crews rental security and associated spending events must also

reflect Sacramento's unique identity through representation of local artists musicians breweries

wineries and restaurants and then community engagement before during and after the event via

local music venues and activities as well as partnerships with local creative sector businesses

and we know that events must report quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate equitable

outcomes and progress towards equity goals so that is those are the major points I'm happy

to share any any data or information at your request on what we saw from the first investment in

terms of how we really prioritized some of those conditions after this time uh uh yes it's been a

while you guys you're doing great hey um so I'm having to answer any questions about that first

investment if you have them I have some of the data points for that and Mike Testa is also available

to answer any questions that you might have but for now I'm going to turn it back to Leslie Fritchie

to talk about the hotel hotel thank you so much Megan great work really it's

doing your team it's just great okay so there's two more slides and then I think both wrap it up

for your questions so the last item in this trilogy of tourism investments for your

consideration tonight is the development a potential development of a convention center hotel

so when the convention center expansion was first contemplated there was a lot of discussion

about including a convention center hotel at the same time and as a matter of fact the hotel

was studied as part of the EIR for the convention center so the importance of the linkage between

the convention center and an adjacent convention center hotel cannot be understated cannot be overstated

according to visit sacrameno one out of three convention opportunities that we miss is attributed

to not enough hotel rooms that equates to almost a half a million hotel nights along with related

additional visitor spending but it's not conventions alone that we miss we miss the ability to

attract events such as the NBA all-star game or something I'm particular fond of women's double

see double a basketball playoffs and special meetings and seminars we have the opportunity to

change that situation and attract some of those iconic events and activities staff has been

approached by an experienced developer Tony Gianoni to develop a 350 room full service hotel

just immediately adjacent to the convention center at 15th and K it would include meeting rooms

restaurants parking and it would be connected to the convention center through a sky bridge as you

see on the rendering here he's also secured a long-term lease on the land and a commitment from

Hilton hotels it's the flag much like convention center hotels and other markets this hotel is

likely to require city financial assistance in its development the project from a revenue standpoint

would generate approximately two point six million dollars annually in property and sales tax

along with an estimated two point eight million in to t tonight's proposed action is to indicate

the city's support for the hotel's development with a potential pledge of the t ot generated by

the hotel itself the motion does not outline specific terms or limits but indicates the city's

willingness to consider a commitment with the terms to be determined upon full underwriting and

financial feasibility analysis the project at this point is not financially feasible in this

current rate environment but the proposed action by council tonight will signal the city's

support for this important investment and allow the development team to further design cost out

and attract investors this commitment would have a sunset date of three years from council approval

should city financial assistance be required when the pieces come together staff would return to

council with definitive documents outlining the terms of the city's investment i would like to

introduce for just a few words a tony gianoni who is proposing this hotel and has been a long

long-standing member of the convention business and our hospitality efforts here and a true

believer in sacramento and all of its potential would like to say come on down

mayor and members of the city council obviously you've heard my name Tony Genonius is my name

and i am the managing member of Sacramento Convention Center Hotel LLC as i sat here earlier

today and saw all those young students in the wonderful program that the mayor that you

proposed and had running i was hoping that perhaps you might make an age exception and i could

become i could become number 951 i would love to do that i'm in oh that's wonderful

on the business at hand i was fortunate to be one of several visit sacramento board members that

worked on the committee for the expansion of the convention center and the renovation of the

community center theater and it therefore gives me great pleasure in bringing to you the final

piece of the puzzle that will complete the transformation of the east end of case street into a true

convention and theater district it will also support the city's investment in that district now

you have all the specifics on the screen in terms of the size of the hotel the number of rooms and

so forth but i did want to mention one thing in addition to that the hotel is being designed by a

general name gentleman named mark hornberger of hornberger and we're still mark hornberger was also

he's a preeminent west coast hotel designer but he also designed meridian plaza an office building

here in sacramento at the corner of 14th and else street across from capital park so he's very

familiar with sacramento and what we like to have as in terms of design for our projects

as Leslie mentioned it's currently planned to be a hilton hotel and hilton is very excited

about extending their presence in downtown sacramento the property itself is currently owned by

14 18 case street investors that's a group headed by angelo secopolis and angelo has graciously

provided us with a long term option to lease this property in order to be able to construct this

hotel now we've explored that so there's still many hurdles for this project to overcome the main

one being the current financing markets and and so without those financing markets in in shape

that we want them to be in to make this possible you might be wondering why is this project here

tonight well in exploring both the investment in financing markets we've learned that the

certainty of the city's desire for this site and this particular hotel is critical because there

are a lot of other potential developments it could go on to this location so the investors and

the financing people look to see whether or not the city is truly committed to having a convention

center hotel on this site and in particular this convention center hotel also our current

investors are looking at significant additional cost to move this process through the city design

review process and so having the city's commitment to this hotel makes that much easier now

despite what Leslie mentioned we're not sure yet whether the city will whether this project will

require city assistance most likely but as the markets get better that assistance becomes smaller

and smaller and smaller so if city assistance is needed we are committed to making the TOT from

this hotel only as our source of city assistance we're not looking to other sources of TOT at this

juncture just the TOT coming from this hotel so there's no question that this project will have a

major economic impact on our city and on the convention and visitors the convention and theater

district in particular and I believe that we've seen what's happened on the west end of K street

and I think that this hotel will have the same impact on the east end of K street so I appreciate

your consideration of this project and the assistance that your positive vote will give us in

securing the necessary financing to make this hotel a reality thank you thank you Tony thank

you so much all right I'd like to call up our city treasurer John Colville and visit Sacramento CEO

Mike Testa as well John maybe I'm going to start you with a question how much money is in

the city's TOT bond fund in other words how much can we bond without raising the rate on TOT because

we're talking about 40 million dollars of city TOT money for this project what does that leave us

so you get to the point Darryl good I've had a lot of questions from a lot of your colleagues about

worrying about this might be deplete or preclude other projects specifically when we did

measure and it was it was really because of my group we wanted to do something with the 100

two acres so we want to expand the the use of of TOT outside the central city into other areas so

the good news is after you approved this 25 million hopefully because it is a great deal there's

still over a hundred million dollars left in the capacity the second phase is 15 so it's 40 in total

well I'm telling you right now aside from the 25 there's 100 between 100 and 123 million dollars

in additional bonding capacity great okay I mean the TOT's it's amazing because the TOT was growing

about 2.3 percent prior to the COVID we'd lost 50 percent of our we went from 30 35 million

annually to 17 million and then it only took us two years to come back where the industry

said it was going to take four so the resilience of Sacramento the the addition of the the creative

economy and the quit and the culinary and the diversification away from business because business

hasn't come back travel and business acts work and the commencement center's really brought us back so

just a caveat the hundred million dollars though because that's what I do you know I'm very conservative

it always is 12 months looking backwards so depending on what happens when you need the money or

when Eric it potentially you need the money you got to look 12 months back so hopefully we're still

progressing I mean we're up 13.5 percent from pre COVID that's not really sustainable because as

previous bookers speakers indicated we don't have the hotel rooms to really keep that exponential

growth so that I think that that hotel's key to keep keep growing the the TOT but 100 to 123

million based on whether it's taxable or tax exempt good that's based on and you interest rates

if they continue to fall that number could grow that's optimistic because a lot of the you would think

interest rates would fall with the Fed cutting rates but with the new the new four-year term who

knows it looks like interest is going to stay higher. Can I just ask a follow-up question on what you

said because part of your the end of your sentence there was kind of banking on additional TOT

from this hotel but the agreement in front of us tonight is to potentially commit that additional

TOT to the hotel does that change your forecasting at all on the condition of the TOT funds.

Well the interesting way this is this works is the covenants of the 2018 bonds we issued 280

plus million for the C-3 project all TOT has to come into the top of the waterfall

so by rebating back to them doesn't affect that the reality is is there money left over

at the bottom after we paid debt service after we pay own and after we pay everything after we do

the power out science center which is is there money left over rebate them and if if growth keeps

going there shouldn't be a problem but it won't affect the bonding capacity because it has to

come to the top of the waterfall. It's a good question. Okay very good thank you John.

Is it Mike? Mr. Testa? Great job John by the way thank you.

Mayor Steinberg members of the council Mr. City Manager thank you for the opportunity to speak

tonight. Mike Testa president and CEO of Visit Sacramento I think it's important that we

start at the top here that these investments being discussed tonight are not investments in

tourism their investments in Sacramento investments that will generate economic activity and prove

the quality of life for our residents not the tourists tourism isn't about the tourists it's about

the people who live in the community and that's what this is and the great thing about these projects

is that they're being funded by the tourists they're not being funded by the local residents.

You talk about old Sacramento old Sacramento is a significant draw for visitors to come

Sacramento and has been for a long time you think about the Goldress history of 1849 and you think

about the recent Gold Rush Days event that's happened in Old Sacramento in previous years.

We're excited and grateful that you guys are prioritizing Old Sacramento it's a huge draw

form from a leisure travel standpoint there's so much heritage heritage and history in that district

that is we're celebrating when it comes to music festivals while cities across California have seen

their post-COVID hotel dropping hotel bookings dropped by 28% bookings in Sacramento have increased

by more than 80% the reason for that is music festivals you heard the city treasure just talk about

business travel remains down conventions are still convening we're still booking a lot of

conventions but attendance is down nationally music festivals have saved in many ways the the economy

in Sacramento in 2024 the three largest festivals in Sacramento generated more than 45 million

dollars in economic impact for local businesses these festivals generated 14,000 temporary jobs

and they delivered enough visitors to fill Sacramento's 83 hotels more than eight times which drove

more than 2.4 million dollars in TOT revenues for the city and the county these are investments that

return back to the city it's no secret the music festivals everywhere are struggling

Sacramento's R&B festival sold bloom canceled earlier this year and even names like Coachella

which is the most attended annual music festival in North America sought ticket sales dropped by 15%

in 2024 it is essential to Sacramento's economy that we continued to support music festivals

and it's why voters pass measure and last year by almost 70% to ensure that the money generated

by tourism gets reinvested to attract additional tourism generators and their associated revenues

for our businesses and residents and last the hotel when the city of Sacramento invested to

modernize Sacramento's safe credit union convention and performing arts district we knew that the

project would be a catalyst for a convention hotel covid unfortunately had some other ideas people

have said to me we've got a new convention center you must be booking bigger conventions now

the reality is we're not we're booking more conventions but we don't have the guest rooms to put

an increased presence of delegates in Sacramento since 2019 and prior to the opening of the

Marriott AC earlier this year which is 179 rooms Sacramento gained three hotel rooms in our central

business district not three hotels three hotel rooms we had a number of hotels closed because of

the pandemic and and again the Marriott AC is really the only one who opened but a 350 room hotel

one that's connected to the safe credit union convention center will change our ability to go

after bigger conventions we can't go after more conventions without bigger rooms this changes that

equation to be able to tell convention meeting planners that Sacramento has more than 1300 hotel

rooms surrounding the safe credit union convention center changes that conversation for us and I

think it's really important to note in this conversation you know we we get caught up in the appeal

of music festivals and the appeal of sporting events because they're great things but the reality is

conventions remain the largest driver of tourism to Sacramento that's important especially when

you think about the public dollars that were invested in the safe credit union convention center

that return on investment only becomes only comes with new hotel properties so obviously it's

hugely important to the success of our tourism industry again thank you very much for the time happy

to answer any questions thank you Mike thank you for all you're doing in the sectors tremendous

let's now hear from members of the public and then we will turn it over to the city council

thank you mayor I'm sorry I have 12 speakers I'll call a vote the Michael Alts

on 2324 and 25 Delta mellow on 23 Liz Williams on 23 and 25 and then Marbella Salah on 23

our good evening mayor members the council city manager Michael Alts with the downtown partnership

or city attorney hello it's been a great couple of weeks you know when we talk about investment

in this community we look at some of the momentum I think that we've collectively seen mayor you've

done an incredible job of I think leading an agenda that has brought and will continue to bring

identity to Sacramento for years to come you know the opportunity to see the development and the

rail yards of a soccer facility we've got major league soccer coming there we've got a new hotel

being discussed tonight we've got Kaiser hospital being built we've got the Oakland A's coming

across the river this is an opportunity to celebrate it's an opportunity to celebrate in our

community as we talked on the waterfront last weekend cities are defined by their rivers and we

have an opportunity to not only invest but invest in our community old Sacramento we've got about

160 property and business owners and old Sacramento that I think over the years would tell you they've

waited for an opportunity to see this type of investment and I think that they're excited about it

many of them are lifetime sacramentans that have invested in these businesses the work Mike

Testa and his team are doing pulling all three of these together in my two minutes here but the work

Mike Testa and his team are doing and supporting these festivals I can tell you when we have major

festivals and events what it does to the downtown community and our businesses our restaurants and

our hotels and finally the new hotel convention center hotel you've got to love Tony Giononi and

his commitment to Sacramento this is something we believed in and when this new hotel was built we

said that it would not only drive traffic but it would drive new opportunities to continue to make

Sacramento a destination we support all three of these items on behalf of our organization we're

excited about it and we're excited about the momentum in Sacramento so thank you thanks Mike Delta Mello

good evening Mr. Mayor City Manager and City Council members my name is Delta Pick Mello I'm the

executive director and CEO of the Sacramento History Alliance and I'm here with my board chair

Rob Cicado the Sacramento History Alliance is the city's partner that manages the Sacramento

History Museum the old Sacramento Visitor Center and the underground tours and we are here to

to give our unwavering support in the reinvestment into old Sacramento this is long overdue and I'm

delighted to know that we're looking at a reinvestment of the the already wonderful

place that we have we have this National Historic District that is already here and to put in the

resources to improve things like the boardwalks they are the things that people come to that make

them step back into into time and make the district so important I'm also very excited about the

playground that represents and honors our indigenous heritage as well I also want to be here to

remind you that when you speak of old Sacramento to remember that your history museum is in old

Sacramento while we may be located inside the the state park we are part of the city and I hope

you will consider that this 40-year-old institution is a part of old Sacramento needs your support

there is deferred maintenance needed on it as well so I hope it will be considered in the future

when you talk about the redevelopment or the not the redevelopment of the reinvestment into

old Sacramento the Sacramento History Museum is your museum and I hope you'll remember it thank you

this Williams following Liz is Marbella Salad and Bobby Movino

good evening and I would like to write the record to show that we support 23 24 and 25 as a package

good evening mayor city manager city council staff I'm here today on behalf of the Sacramento

Metro Chamber and the member businesses we represent not only in the city of Sacramento but the

entire capital region because these investments are an investment for entire region and we know

that they're going to have a lasting impact there has been a number of things said tonight that

have amplified the reason why we support this but instead of saying our own talking points I'd

actually like to amplify some of the widespread from our regional leaders and elected officials

starting with our mayor last week we heard you at a press conference say we have many responsibilities

and jobs as leaders whether we are public leaders or private sector leaders in this community

but one of them is to build bigger and more dynamic city it is to create more for more is good

more culture more creative more food more opportunity for people to have a good time and create

memories this is why we support this from Michael Alt with the downtown Sacramento partnership

cities are defined by their rivers and we have two incredible rivers and what we are looking to

do here is to make not just an investment in the waterfront but bring people awareness of what a

special place this is to us and although we have been known as the city of trees and the America

formed a Fort Capital it is water that gives us community a sense of identity this is why we support

this from Mike Testett with his Sacramento the reality is is that tourism isn't about the tourist

it's about driving economic impact to benefit the people that live here and that's why we are talking

about it today again this is why we support this and from our senator Ashby we would like to amplify

her words by saying this hotel is really important not just for the convention center we have the

number one arena in basketball why we have not hosted the All Star game is because we don't have

enough hotel rooms every time we build a hotel it gets us closer to that goal and closer to more

experiences for people of Sacramento to enjoy living here for these reasons and many more we would

like you to support this item and thank you for your leadership. Your comments Marbella Sala

you

back

good evening it's been a long day for many of you and I applaud you for for hanging in there

and waiting for this very important um proposition before us and I I completely support it

and applaud all of you and mayor applaud you I feel like you're mayor on steroids

so but I'm here just to say on garden land north gate is one side of the river on the other

side you have midtown that's prospering that's vibrant that's economic development that the people

can walk ride their bikes and have entertainment on the other side of the river we cannot walk we

cannot ride our bikes we don't have entertainment opportunities and the only way that we can enjoy

and have good quality of life is we have to get across to the other side of the river and right

now it's either 160 or i5 so you need to think about how you're going to get our community to

benefit and the last point that I really want to make is that on ones you have a disparity between

two communities depending on which side of the river you live so there's disparity in

garden land north gate and disparity in district two and I I think we need to think about how we're

going to use the economic vibrancy of what's happening with the railroads and with the waterfront

to benefit those communities that have disparity in jobs disparities economically disparities education

and lack of ability to benefit from streets for people so please when you're doing this keep

us in mind and we can prosper and and have a good quality of life as all the rest of you thank you

thank you bobby marino then elberto regaldo

i don't know if you heard me i said regalato but that was close enough

just to open this phone up

all right

so hello mayor and council members thanks for the opportunity to speak tonight

my name is elberto regalato and i'm a soccer dad i'm a coach and i'm the president of

Sacramento United soccer club with about a thousand members out in district six

our home this granite regional park i think i've had the pleasure of meeting many of you and

i'm familiar with some of you from that i've been advocating for our soccer community for over

20 years and i know that our membership loves projects that revitalize our city like the waterfront

project and this item here so we support the project we wanted to come out and show some support

but we asked that the council also consider funding projects for youth facility development

that drive tourism into our region every october we host our booth fest which is our largest annual

event which brings in hundreds of teams thousands of people with their tourism dollars

imagine what we could do if we had national level facilities in a place like granite

regional park a quick fact is a g-sec report ranks greater Sacramento second in the nation for

per capita youth soccer participation with over a hundred thousand active youth players each year

the test Sacramento facilities aren't on par with other facilities in the country we often have

to travel far to go to top college showcases but in california we drive as far as tangiego regularly

and we often have to fly to new jersey tenisee Arizona and florida at the name of you

we ask why not Sacramento we believe the development of a national level youth sports

facility in Sacramento would bring many benefits to the root for our youth of our region but most

notably it would increase college opportunities for many under resourced communities as it relates

to this item it would bring an enormous economic impact to tourism such as hostels tell stays

and visitors who spend their dollars in our region in conclusion we ask to you say thank you for

your comments our next speaker's bobby marino

you know

honorable members of sacraments city council thank you my name is bob marino and today i speak on

behalf of the Sacramento United Soccer Club today i want to echo we are in favor of this project

in this initiative that you know revitalize the Sacramento however today i want to remind you

and emphasize the significance of granite regional park facility upgrades not just for the

sacrameno united club but for the entire sacrameno region this project should be a top priority

for the council in the near future as an agenda due to its potential to generate substantial

economic benefits through increased tourism and hotel occupancy by enhancing granite regional park

we precision sacrameno as a premier destination for regional and national tournaments and events

these activities will not only attract visitors but it will help boost local businesses and generate

significant tlt dollars the economic ripple effect from these events will support our local economy

and create job opportunities investing in this facility is investing in sacrameno's future

it will enhance our city's reputation as a vibrant sports sports recreational hub

drawing people from across the region and beyond i urge the council to prioritize these developments

for the benefit of the community and it's economic viability thank you so much if you're

coming max socia magi and nicole's baker and ryan henry

i'm sure

good evening mayor and city council i am here in support of the

investment in old sacrameno i am a business owner and in old sacrameno i own

the corner of ink and image were specialty printers and i was going to bring each of you

a locally designed happy holiday from old sacrameno of ornament that i put together this afternoon

but rather than do that i decided to invite each of you down to our shop and when you come in

you'll receive your free ornament i haven't seen any of you in old sacrameno

we need the improvement down there old sacrameno is dirty we need the improvement to the

boardwalk it's unsafe i am 100% disabled and i got to tell you the boardwalk is a big impediment

to anybody with a disability shopping in old sacrameno the other thing you need to consider

when you redevelop or reinvesting an old sacrameno is you can't once you do it you can't forget it

it's got to be maintained we need we are probably the largest concentration in sacrameno

of small businesses locally owned businesses our profits don't go to irisona or

or wherever out of state or out of country they stay right here our kids go to school here our grand

kids go to school here we need better support we need also need better parking thank you

thank you for your comments maggie and nicole's baker ryan henry then kyle sorens after kyle is

chaz boswell alix torus

good evening mayor steinberg city council and everyone here tonight we're thrilled to be able to be

here speaking with you all my name is maggie and this is nicole's and we own a clothing buti

in old sacrameno called threadico and we are a sustainable buti we are right across from the

delta king and from you know the the rio city and a lot of the places where the propositions of

the fundings going so we have a real vested interest in this we love having a business in old

sacrameno we hope to continue to grow our business in old sacrameno we do feel however that this

investment is very needed we will hear from visitors and tourists that they love the area but they

are kind of sometimes surprised by maybe some lack of updates and we also feel this will help

bring more families especially at night time make it a safer area and we also cater a lot to

locals so we would love to see more locals kind of come back down as well because they'll see a

revitalization and the old sac has more to offer them so thank you very much yeah and one of the

thing to like talking with the local police officers and also being down there they've all said eight

o'clock you've got to shut down and be gone but in a big time touristy spot eight o'clock doesn't

mean it stops right and you see families down there and part of this money and the renovation and

bringing down more events and more tourists means more people which means more safety which means

more money to be able to have more security and more police officers which means businesses can

say open more which means more money going back into the city all of those things happen happen

concurrently and so that's why this funding is very important that you're not just for old sack but

downtown for Sacramento in general so thank you for the consideration thank you thank you guys

next speaker is Ryan Henry

good evening main council and Mr. City Manager my name is Ryan Henry I'm the Sacramento City

Vice President for Sacramento area firefighters local 522 I've also been a firefighter here in the

city for 22 years I'd like to express our support for not only this waterfront project but also for

the railroads project that was discussed last week investing in economic development projects

throughout the city not only improves the experiences and lives of your residents but also your

workforce we look forward to watching these projects progress and helping in any way we can thank you

very much and next speaker is Kyle Swarons Chaz Boswell and Alex Torx or a fire speaker

good evening everyone my name's Kyle Swarons I've been a long resident here in Sacramento since

I was about six years old originally moved here to what was called back to NG Parkway if you

can remember that area it doesn't exist anymore well it's rebuilt up then I moved to the pocket

where I do have some pretty good memories of actually using my bike to get down to downtown

and enjoying it with friends and losing our keys and the cracks of the walkways and figure

out what we're going to do with our locks not be able to get unlocked and stuff like that so I've

a lot of good memories down there now I'm a father of a three-year-old son who enjoys going down

there and enjoy the rail yards and the trains and everything but I'm here actually tonight because

I'm actually a union carpenter I've been a carpenter for 21 years right out of high school I

didn't go to college it was an opportunity for me to be able to give back to my community and grow

a family of my own and tonight my questions for you will this project some of those projects

talked about city properties and some of it being tax credit of money and stuff like that

is the CWA going to be used on this and if not is there going to be implementations on these

projects that's going to have any type of requirements for the workers because at the end of day

we are part of this community like I said I've been part of this community for 35 years now and

I'm asking you don't forget about us don't forget about the workforce that's building these projects

let's make sure they have health care let's make sure they have livable wages on these projects

again we're part of this community and we have families too thank you thank you chaz boswell

following chaz is Alex Torres who will be our final speaker

good evening distinguished members of city council and mayor Steinberg my name is chaz boswell

I'm here on behalf of solbloom music festival some of you may remember visiting solbloom in 2023

for those of you less familiar solbloom is a local minority owned independent music festival

that was born here in 2018 by local creatives with over 23,000 daily attendees in 2023

we are Sacramento's largest truly independent music festival and the only annual iconic music festival

celebrating bipop culture while we had our fair share of challenges in 2024 ultimately we were

forced forced to postpone due to the flood damage at discovery park today I want to thank you

for your decision to increase funding for visit sacraments iconic event program visit sacraments

not just a partner but a critical vessel for distributing these funds and supporting events

that drive economic growth celebrate diversity and strengthening our city's cultural identity

as the city continues to lead with a race and equity framework in its own policies I know that you

all will ensure the conditions attached with the along with systems of accountability will be in

place to reflect that same lens doing so will ensure that events supported truly reflect Sacramento's

diversity and commitment to inclusion I'd like to thank visit sacraments thank you to the office

of innovation and economic development and thank you all city council members in advance for your

forward thinking and investment into the local iconic event sector we're excited to work alongside

you all to bring soap and black back in 2025 and together we can ensure sacraments remain the vibrant hub

of culture equity and opportunity for all thank you if your comments Alex Torres

good evening mayor members of the council Alex Torres here on behalf of the California

capital venues coalition a coalition representing sacraments independent brick and mortar music venues

as well as some of our independent promoter friends and so I want to be supportive the proposed

investment is really critical I think in investment in the sector is really important I think in

addition to the thousands of visitors these these festivals bring to our city and the economic

activity I also want to draw your attention to exhibit a the conditions for receipt of these funds

that outline what we think are real opportunities for collaboration with our independent venues

here in town in most cases the indie venues that operate year round in our city like torch club

harlow's and more see significant decrease in business during extended festival weekends but the

language I think presents some exciting opportunities for partnership and collaboration between

the large event promoters and the venues here in town so we're talking after parties concerts after

the festival for folks who want to hear a little bit more live music this results in revenue for

our local venues and businesses that have been operating our communities for a long long periods of

time and in addition to that additional revenue gigs for local artists unique opportunities to

showcase our city's unique music culture and identity so supportive of the of the item supportive

of the conditions attached to it and we look forward to working with visit sacrameno all the stakeholders

to ride the tide of this investment and bring some pretty exciting collaboration opportunities to

reality thank you I have no more speakers great well thank you to all the members the public that

came out tonight on one or all three of the items really important to hear from all of you

let us turn it over to the city council for deliberation like I said we're going to

cast three separate votes because there's three separate items but we'll take the discussion

all at once mayor pro tem telemante s hey mayor you want all our comments all at once right

yes so I was not at the press conference did you change our name to city of water

something like that yes we have a conversation to invite about the city of two rivers

confluence okay um we have venet council since 11 a.m so um excuse us we uh eight lunch and five

minutes so our comments today might be a little scatterbrain um I just want to say that I'm fully

supportive of investment in old sacrameno we all love it it's historic it's a special piece of

sacrameno history um even personally my grandpa's brother so my grand uncle um came to america and

worked there in sacrameno at the rail yards it's part of his union um helped him get a house

and it's why my dad came to northern california because he had an address to go to

ones getting here from mexico and so old sacrameno is a piece of my family history um and it's a

jam and and we need to save it um some of my district uh France the American river other pieces of my

district front the sacrameno river um everyone knows the connectivity and the enjoyment the parkway

provides to many um as well as sacrameno river access uh along the marina uh we have there we have

crawdads uh we have virgin sturgeon we have the rooster um we have a lot of different restaurants they're

on the garden highway uh for me it's important to recognize to broaden access to sacrameno river um

and I do have a doc it's called the mcclellan doc um that the city owns it's a vacant lot that we've

had since 2007 um and I think that there's a lot of potential um and so as staff as we move forward

with this t ot dollars uh my ask is to like just include you know consider including that um as a

potential opportunity for us as a city and a public private investment um I just feel like this

asset shouldn't be neglected um so i'd love to explore that you know i went to virgin sturgeon on

friday of aftershock and there were so many people eating and dining there um very dressed up

and i felt at a place but it's something that you know residents when they come into sacrameno they

come and they enjoy the restaurants and the hotels and the tomas and so as we move forward

uh my direction to the city manager to our city treasurer who should be involved every single

conversation that we have about t ot because he's the expert at it um economic development and visit

sacrameno um it's important to to work together to create a plan for our next two years five years

ten years from now of how we're going to spend these t ot dollars um expected dollar of

amount of input expect a dollar amount to be generated um over what period of time while also

incorporating equity into the conversation so i've forgotten commercial corridors don't get left

out uh from this conversation so now um city clerk can you please play a video because i have a

huge thank you to visit sacrameno i want to highlight my district uh visit sacrameno did this

beautiful video to get people to come eat, die and and shop on northgate hey y'all i'm a list

of muganso welcome to visit sacramenos neighborhood guide on this installment we're highlighting north

in boulevard a lot of people have been coming here since childhood everyone knows each other here so

i truly feel part of the community working here at less of video makeup the community loves us and we

love them just tell me that they have a lot of fun memories of them coming with their dad with their

families when they were younger it makes you feel good that they still come back and they'll come back

with their kids let me talk to other going through generations that's kind of cool oh yeah oh yeah

that's kind of cool yeah for sure we wanted to expand our store so we came to this side of our gate

this flavor you can't find anywhere else we love our customers we really do and we're able to give

jobs to families and single mothers and women that don't have experience anywhere else it's

it's a blessing thank you

yay

i just big thank you to visit sacrameno mic testa and your team i know a lot of people went to that

country store to buy their gear for golden sky they have gold they have hats and boots and

everything you could possibly find and it was a way to highlight our small businesses and for

people to get out of the concert at 11 o'clock and come eat their tacos so just thank you so

much for the investment you know this these festivals really generate 44.6 million dollars and

economics impacts and as a just a three council member that board of discovery park is just an

honor to be featured to show our community love and really just continue this partnership

so thank you and your team for all the incredible work that you've done thank you thank you

mayor pro tem council member getta thank you mayor many thanks to all the all the partners here from

all of these three specific different items i think this is exciting obviously the the support for

old sacrameno my i know my kids they love going to underground mini golf they'll go right after

right around the corner and go visit river city shooting gallery and put all the coins in and

and then you know hit the pinball machines over at fanny and saloon and after that i'm hoping

they pass out but no they just they want to go to the next exciting thing exactly no no exactly but

so it's exciting to see that and obviously i mean i think you know many of us have many fond memories

at the you know at the delta king you know enjoying that amazing deck that they have

and talking to folks and so i appreciate you know the fact that that we're looking at maintaining

and it was sad to see what happened to real city cafe and so you know i i i joke with folks that

it's a bummer because i love their ex-benadict on the weekends you know and but the the point here

is is that we do need to maintain it the the the i'm very supportive of the 25 million here but i

also think of it's about you know what the timing is like and how we use the t ot dollars clearly

i think supporting more hotel growth is important because that's going to drive up the amount of

conferences that we have in my conventions that we have so that we're competing with san

Jose based on the size that we've invested already there i think we had a benefit the fact that

we were during the pandemic you know we were actually building as other people were waiting so

it we got a little head start there also very thankful about you know the the entertainment

and section and how many people are coming here for all those different concerts i think

finding an avenue for our local artists also to participate has been huge and and definitely

history you know history itself so i want to thank delta personally because zeos she also did

and they've had a great display for the other was muertos of many of our latino leaders here

mayor joseena also the roach kind of air force folks who passed away and the number of

amount of work that they do in our old Sacramento maintain our history and some people don't know

that the building there is a replica of our original city hall so as well so i i think it's an

exciting piece to while it is on state property it is our city accident is our our place of history

and obviously the the omash and the recognition to our you know our indigenous families here

with the child with the child place under the children centers important but i do want to

hit the fact of what i've heard today both by you know folks from north k folks from south sack

about the need for investment and it's not lost on me that the last few weeks all we've heard is

in fact last month has heard it's about investments in downtown investments in downtown investments

in downtown and so while i strongly believe that our region not just our city depends on a

strong central city we need to make sure that we're making those commitments and talking about

how we create other economic opportunities for our for our city that bring in more thio tea

that bring in tourism and not just in our central city and i think the that energy that was spent

in downtown for the rail yards you know for you know the old sacramano even the all of the activity

improvements that we're doing around case three more small need to happen in the rest of our area

and i think the representation by our youth soccer leaders have brought a good point that youth

that youth sports is a major driver and and to hear regularly from so many parents in my district

that they have to you know go to San Diego to fly to Seattle to fly to Arizona just you know because

there isn't anything here for us to compete to bring those tournaments here that's that's a

that's an issue not only is it cost to our families but we're missing out we're missing out on that

those hotel dollars and tax dollars so while i'm very supportive of this and i want to thank

Tony Gianoni because you know without more hotel rooms we can't also bring in those national level

tournaments as well same thing with conventions we need the amount of hotels here

but but i will say that i think we need to be prioritizing that and and i mentioned

gradually and ran in regional park because you know this is a one of our city assets that has

brought in people flying in to go in and and play soccer but it's it's limited in capacity

and it's a park our own park that doesn't even have bathrooms you know it's a park that's that

had faced issues with these side shows because it doesn't have good security on the on the roadways

here to control the place and it's a park that was an interesting mix of public private partnership

to reclaim an old mining pit that that left the southeast sack with justice vacant assets so

i think for for me i want to make sure that we're doing what we need to do to not only support

our current assets but looking at our investments throughout our region and i'll just say one last

thing about you know why this is also critical because you know we've had so many conversations

in the past few years about the shortage of parks where families are fighting over the access to

them and yet we have an opportunity to replenish our t.o.t. not just use it on maintenance because

clearly this is this money is used on maintenance but and and even asked don't forget about it

because we have to maintain it again we need to be thinking about tools and ways for us to invest

that are going to replenish that t.o.t. so we can't fund the next project and not just have the

the the money spent one time in its in its in its place so all the say is i'm excited about supporting

this but i would like to very clearly see you know projects that throughout the city that are

going to bring in tourism that are going to bring in this activity and that are going to support

our families as well as old Sacramento hats. It's very turn it over to you know let me just say you

know of course measure n was about more than just the central city in the waterfront a campaign

specifically on building a regional use sports facility in south Sacramento now you know this measure

t.o.t. is a matter of planning yes mayor pro-tem but also a matter of opportunity and timing

and so when granite park and or the 102 acres are are ready you better believe and i won't be here but

those ought to be the prime sites for a regional youth tourism facility that is for tourists from

all over the country kids from all over the country and also accessible to our kids in Sacramento so

i just you know want to just say that this is this was never a central city centric idea and of

course you look at all the investment in the commercial corridors and aggy square and stocked in

boulevard and franklin boulevard complete streets and five million for northgate and so much more

we we got to continue paying attention all parts of the city you agree good councilmember valence

wella thank you mayor and thank you for helping working with staff to put together this package of

items it's definitely an exciting time for the central city and i'm just really thankful and john

thanks for your very deep review of our t.o.t. revenue and bond capacity it's just so great to see it

doing so well you know to hear how well we're doing compared to pre-covid and i just want to

knit together that story of the decisions that were made when i came on a council and we had

arpa and cares dollars and we chose to invest and visit exactly chose to invest in downtown

partnership we chose to invest in key services so that we were taking care of our communities

and our neighborhoods but we were also being very thoughtful about how we how do we help jump start

the recovery after covid and so to see the revenue doing this well is just really gratifying because

sometimes it takes a couple years until you can really look back and be like hey look like we we

recovered pretty well people are coming back and and it's just really great to have these resources

to be able to spend on exciting projects i do want to reiterate the call though that my

colleagues the mayor pro tem the council member i'm sure others will talk about when it comes to

diversifying where this funding goes in the future you know as much as i represent the central city

i also recognize that we're strongest when all of our neighborhoods are strong and that does mean

looking to how we create new economic centers outside of just the central city and so i'm excited

about some of the projects that are happening in south sack on north gate and other parts of the

city and i hope that work continues as we really embrace the inclusive part of economic development

um because as much as the central city has been a big driver of our city's economy it doesn't

always need to be just us you know it could also be other parts of the city and it would be great

to see that work continue um to the old sack project um this is a great project i really want to

commend staff and all the stakeholders for doing such a good job knitting together the old and

the new elements of old sacramento um and to delta's point the entire history of old sacramento

um you know it did not start with the cold brush um this is part of what i'm really proud of when

we toward that the pictures of the play structures and like all of the work you're doing with the

wayfinding signs and the different elements to really tell the entire history of old sacramento

and to bring in all these new elements while still honoring the parts of old sack that we all

love because the boardwalks are part of that experience um as cumbersome as they can be if you have

people trying to roll or do other things on them it's it's part of the experience that we

want to treasure and protect um and for visits sacramento just echoing the concudos i mean you've

been evolving and i just appreciate the work that you've done to keep your stable base of what you've

do well and then to grow in terms of bringing in the smaller venues bringing in the other and

heber heads and and i hope again to see that work continue because it would be great um to see

people really i mean so many people come to sacramento and think that it's just the central city

and when they leave that it was just this like area and as much as i'm glad that they're coming to

sacramento at all like man there's so much to see and when you go north south east west and i

think it's just the more we can lean in on that i think the better the experience is going to be

and the more people are going to remember sacramento for the totality of who we are and um finally to

the carpenter's point i did want to ask i saw michael and lessley confer over here and so i just

want to confirm what i think i saw you say lessley i'm reading your words all the way over here um

is that um does this do these projects fall under the cwta for the city

the projects that are outlined in old sac would be would fall under the cwta as public improvement

projects okay very good to know um so hopefully that answers the question because that is very

important i mean we talk a lot about the jobs we create but obviously the quality of those jobs

is really important and so as we move forward with these projects and as we look forward to the

hotel it's an interesting opportunity because obviously like we all know that parking lot it's just

been like there it's kind of an experience of the new walk pass on your way to other things

in downtown but um you know we want to make sure that we're not only creating good economic

opportunities for tourists but also for the workers um that are building these facilities and

working in these facilities and so i hope when that comes back it's just odd to like make a

commitment in advance and without knowing what exactly that commitment is but i also understand

this is kind of like another eifd format where they're getting back what they generate um but

it is just odd i've never heard you say there's no cap before i think like ever um so i just think

that to my colleagues when this comes back obviously weighing out you know those cost benefits and

making sure we're being judicious with this money because these are dollars that can also go to

many other exciting projects across the city um will be important but with that mr. margis

because i don't think anybody's made a motion yet um okay um uh there's three different

there's three different items no no vice uh mayor pretend wanted to make the motion on 24 i think

so it's gonna okay okay is that for her yeah i would love to do the motions for the projects in

my district so i will move item 23 and 25 second by council member caplin comes from tell him on

yeah i'm gonna make uh yes i will move item number 23 20 you're 24 24 and uh second by vice

mayor variable so there are motions on the floor for all three but we still have members that uh

that want to speak so uh vice mayor maple thank you mayor really appreciate it and just want to say

this is a really really exciting uh been really exciting couple weeks yes it has a lot of a lot of

great um great projects um underway and just really want to take this moment to especially thank

um mr. sameberg thank you i know i know it feels like a lot especially you know in the news and the

press conferences but the reality is is that this work has been underway for a really long time

appreciate our staff recognizing team our treasure all the wonderful staff at arts and cultural

services that have been working on these these efforts and but just want to say that you know

you've done a lot in your in your eight years mayor and just appreciate you kind of tying it all

on a bow and and getting and moving it for these are huge projects that are really going to make

make a difference not just for for us and but for generations to come in Sacramento um for

for young people from my children for my children's children and so i'm excited to see it i think

an investment in old Sacramento is the right choice uh it's one of our you know historic resources

and we got to make sure that we take care of it not just for future generations but for our small

businesses i will be by to get the ink and image to get my ornament thank you very much max

but and i also just you know just wrapping this all together also with with music with arts i just

think it's it's the right choice and so i won't belabor this i know we've got it's been a long day

we have a lot of comments ahead of us just want to thank the team and you mayor thank you thank you

vice mayor very very much uh council member kaplan um i kind of want to echo what vice mayor maple

said so taking some of her stuff um and adopting as a me too but one of the things i want to uh look

at our city treasure as i've heard my colleagues around here we're talking about t ot i think some time

in uh as the new council gets sat we have to think about what is our t ot investment plan what is the

criteria for which we look to invest t ot and how do we balance what gets funded in return on

investment because i know each one of us has a request in our district that we believe we'll bring

in tourism and so instead of us all fighting i think we need to look at what is potentially good

as objective criteria of what is the balance because this really is about tourism not just um what

we want in our district and i get to thank uh senator ashby for her uh for thought because it's been

natomas who's been adding all the hotels and we have another one opening and i have three more

proposed um in natomas so when you talk about under invested natomas has been investing and is waiting

for uh and has already have the hotel rooms for the investment for tourism so old sarcomano and our

waterfront investment i first was exposed i moved to sarcomano in 1997 um michael's school of law

likes to do something called the bar review i was naïve about my first three weeks in because i

thought we were getting together to study the bar because that's what you do when you go to law school

little did i know that on the uh black chalkboard uh they were writing down names of different bars

that we were supposed to visit and one of the first bars i visited uh newly arrived here in sarcomano

was fanning ants um and so old sarcomano uh kind of entraped me many years as a young law student and then

delta old sarcomano in the history museum uh hook the uh hook line and sinker because my husband

for our second date took me on the uh old sarcomano underground tour um and i cannot believe if you

have lived in sarcomano you have not gone in the old uh old sarcomano underground tour it is an

amazing story of our history um that i am very much you know tied to and then having kids spending a

lot of time at the train museum and the sarcomano museum uh and wandering around the boardwalk

walking with a toddler on the boardwalk is is is a feat in itself because you know trying to keep your

kids upright and not falling over from the uh numerous hours we have spent in evangelines because

that's every kids candy store um to uh sarcomano sweets which by the way um magia i don't know if you

recognize me i was in your shop last week um you have a very cool shop uh look forward to go back

when i have time and i'm not on the phone while i am trying to shop um and my kids appreciated next door

taking chocolates home from sarcomano sweets um it is a wealth of win you say max it is all of a

majority of our small businesses in a small area it is and um i cannot believe it's been since the

sixties we've really invested in old sarcomano and our waterfront and the time is now

we have the sarcomano a's coming in that's 81 more games over in west sack that we in sarcomano

need to partner with west sack to capitalize on the economic investment and by investing this

money in the waterfront that the time is now and i agree mayor this is just phase one because i

know senator asbi brought in several million dollars uh with the state parks and they're also looking

at a hotel in old sarcomano that we need to get moving on because the time is now to truly invest

because this is a treasure and we do need to um keep it up so thank you for your leadership and

pushing on that as you know it's been of of interest to me for our budget and visit sarcomano for

iconic event support production one of the things that i think is really important many people

talk about golden sky um and aftershock but i'd like to not forget about sole bloom and i'd like to

expand on our independent to make sure that the money goes towards uh not just our two biggest but

how can we help everybody succeed and that we expand on what Alex said of after the event go to

the torch club how do we work with our local music venues which are such a uh a treasure to have

that we've all been to numerous times to help make sure they benefit on that because thank you uh

what you have done with north gate and other areas of where can people eat to also reinvest uh

in our community because i want to make it easy when we're doing this where do you go if somebody

is coming in to watch the ace what can they visit in old sarcomano what can they visit in doco

what can they do to go to north gate or you know um some of our iconic really good you know

chinese food or dumplings um where can they get some of the best restaurants and have those

experiences so i do want to make sure that we are supporting our local vendors artists and small

businesses as we look at this two million dollars for um for investment and um i know that we are

saying uh tooni we believe in the convention hotel it needs to become a reality whether it's the

city helping you invest or the market ends up in a way that you can do it without us um i want to

state that commitment you know and it's important to me that the investors know because i know how

the market works and i know what they're looking for because we've got to get this hotel built sooner

rather than later uh with everything that visit sarcomano um has on the book so thank you for

everything that everyone has done um this is an investment into our families and into tourism

and to making the city a sarcomano the vision we know it can be absolutely thank you council member

town thank you thank you mayor uh i'm not gonna take so long but uh i wanted to echo echo the comments

my member councilor i'm excited it's been a long day today you know

wanted to thank the mayor the city staff uh visit sarcomano and excited to vote on these three

items tonight uh definitely the old uh out of the city of sarcomano that's something that you know

grown up with refugee from refugee family that was something that my parents could only afford to take

us to and to visit sarcomano we didn't go to kings game we didn't go to anything

while we did we just go to the old waterfront and the old waterfront remained the same and i'm so

excited that you know we're able to vote for this investment tonight for that as well and i my

hope is that you know with with the economic investment and uh of their central city and the growth

we will see this uh go and i hope city staff will focus on my district as well the possible of art

as it's an entertainment it's also an entertainment district you know with golden sky and the success

we we saw a enormous amount of people go to stony end that's the number one country bar

in sarcomano and you know i i would love to see how we can promote more night life entertainment

on the possible of art as we develop the central city with the rail yards and uh the waterfront

and as well as you know the the convention center hotel i think these are much needed to thrive

across the city and my my support is that you know i think it's needed and it's time and i'm happy to

support these items thank you Sean thank you so much council member vang

thanks mayor i'm going to start with i'm not going to be long winded as well um i will do my best

to be uh to talk fast because i do talk fast so thank you mayor um you know in the last few weeks

you've you've definitely landed the plane on several projects that you've been working on

for the past several years from the rail yards um and to the waterfront and it sounds like

you're going to get all your votes unanimously um and so congratulations to you for um your great

work your leadership leaving your mark and your legacy uh here in sacramento um for me i you know

very very easy yes on all of these items especially around the waterfront uh which is long overdue

very similar to council member tal uh we couldn't afford some revocations for my family my parents

couldn't do that so uh some revocations for us was always our local parks and old sacramento and so

we are definitely a long overdue for that so definitely support um t ot dollars being used for

that and supporting sacraments to visit sacraments iconic events are various music festival um that

you know it's really shaping sacramento too i think folks come here because they know of the

concerts and i love live music and um so proud to to support that as well um the only thing i want to

share and i think uh we we've heard it from several council members um is not forgetting our under

served communities i know several speakers said earlier that our city is defined by our river

yes this is true um but our city is also defined on how we bring our communities along especially those

that have been underserved and i've always believed that a city can only be great when we leave no

neighborhoods and no families behind um as you heard earlier from the city treasurer you know when

we first began the conversation on changing our city charter um which is measure and the intent

of measure and was really to ensure that we actually have the flexibility for the waterfront and to

ensure that we can invest in economic engines outside of the city core so i want to just reaffirm that

again i think that's really important to say on the record um to support neighborhoods like

south natomas and del Paso and south sacramento um something uh really appreciate a council member

gara bringing the youth sports i think something i want to share is that during the pandemic the

only thing that was really consistent in revenue was youth sports mean parents right sports is

something that's consistent that can bring revenue into the city and so i i support all of these

items um but i also like to just echo on record and and maybe this is a direction to mayor you

know i support uh mayor pro-ten telemantez and even councilwoman caplan on on us figuring out as a

city and maybe this is for the next mayor and council um to have a conversation around a

strategic approach around the t ot dollars i think that's really important yes timing is part of it

is it ready to go um but how we use the t ot dollar um and ensuring that we are investing in economic

engines and underserved community should be a critical part of that and so i'm happy to vote

yesterday but hope that we can add that direction to city staff because i do think that it's a larger

conversation that must be had uh for this mayor and council as well so i think that's great on all

three you know on the waterfront motion you want to make her the waterfront motion add that as uh

as the intent that's absolutely fine with this with the seconder agreeing to all that okay good

Eric go ahead oh very very short i just couldn't take the missed this opportunity to thank a

local granted park soccer mom who's also does the underground tours thank you jessa if you're

watching for how all those amazing tours and making all those kids enjoy that and uh you know

great job thank you Eric hey very brief and closing i want a couple additional thank yous you know

Ellen and economic dough and you've really done a great job thank you i also want to thank Richard

Rich who uh you know proceeded you and really uh helped me and us get started on this vision for

waterfront i want to thank marie-lin valinga to my chief of staff who uh who you know worked so

hard along with scot white here to make sure that uh we were focused in my last year and get land

these planes and finally i want to say a special thank you to my all my colleagues and to Howard

because Howard really committed these last couple of months to helping me and us land these planes

um and and to make sure that we got all this done not just because i'm leaving but well in part because

uh a little bit that we wanted to get this done um and create some really real momentum for

the next bay or the next city council and you know all of the comments about we should be doing more

and more in the communities and airbards absolutely my message to all of you is twofold number one

i would say at the first of the year be up to the new mayor and all of you you ought to make this a

major topic of a workshop and and begin talking about different ideas and priorities for the use of

this fun and and take it to the next level take it to the next level over a hundred million dollars

of money that is out there for economic development in this city around tourism not just for people

living out of the city as Mike's test has said but for the people of Sacramento and just be assertive

in putting forward your ideas but as we found out from these projects over the last couple of weeks

it takes a long time to get get it all together so we can get to these kinds of nights but there's

so much more to do out there this is just the beginning i thank you all for your support

let's call the call the roll on item 23 please all in let's just say all in favor please say i

i opposed abstain that's unanimous item 24

all in favor please say i i oppose abstain oh my item 25 all in favor please say i i oppose abstain

unanimous across the board everybody wow okay um it's a long day is there public testimony

and item is not on the agenda we do have one speaker i have one speaker kyle williams for

matters not on the agenda and then we do have an important adjourn in memory so i would ask everybody

please be patient and council and lengthy council comments

as i supposed to come up or is that just

yeah um i know that uh hold on a sec kyle uh they don't have to stop i know it's okay we can take all the

uh all the all the happiness outside the chambers please

let's go go ahead kyle you're good i just wanted to say goodbye i was going to come down

and speak this month and then i thought this is probably the last time i'll see you

and so i just wanted to say do you remember when i stuck my hands out and asked you to pull a finger

my left finger was the far left lefty and the far right righty was the first meeting i saw you in

do you remember which finger you pulled um well uh vaguely you pull right over here you said you're

just left a center i said that's part right so anyway i just want to say it's been fun and uh

you all of you contribute a lot by you know i i'd like to see more independence in republicans serving

but you folks are serving so i can't bash you for that because i'd like to see a diversity of thought

so maybe you could help us uh figure that out mayor as you as you fade away how to how to get more

diversity in this town all i have is not fading away by the way but okay you what i'm not fading i'm

just well i'll show you okay last month got a minute left what was i going to say was one of the thing

oh your education comment love that and after subbing for three and a half years 20 years ago

i came to your office and and when you were up there in the the third most powerful room there

and your people sent me across the street to talk to the lady in charge of education

it took me seven phone calls of being the bulldog that i am and two whatever else is to get in front of

her and when i got in front of her do you know what she said get out of my office i really don't care

one person can't make a difference i don't say that because i'm not with you i'm with you 100

percent but it doesn't seem like they put much effort into that old thing called education

just food for thought there's nothing to do with you but since you since you brought that up

earlier and thank you for your time thank you come thank you so much good a pleasure watching you

thank you i have no more comments mayor all right um we do have really actually a very

solemn and important adjourn in memory but we do have some council comments here uh

on items not on the agenda i ask everyone to consider being brief but that's of course up to you

council member of house way i was like green it only does this when i have an else chance because i

never do um it's okay it's fine um so we're getting ready to start our final toy drive

for the um kids over at marine vista alder grove this is our largest public housing complex

colleagues in the city there's over 800 kids under the age of 18 at this um complex and we try

to make sure that every single one of them gets something so if you have extra toys or if you hear

of a business doing a toy drive and has some extra things please consider throwing them our way

so we can make that a big success again and then um for the city manager i was looking at the

preliminary agenda for December 3rd and it looks like violence prevention is not planning to be

discussed is it possible to add that since that will be our last full council meeting you know we

have a pretty full agenda i'll work with the the mayor on this because we we look at this every week

along with all the preliminary items and that could be something we're going to bring we could

bring forward but we are planning on bringing forward an update on homelessness and an update from

pd as well so we thought we'd take those together i don't know if it's going to make it to the

December 3rd let's talk about it okay cool yeah i know i've been asking since the shooting in

july and there's been several other shootings in my district since then so we'd love to get that

before we leave thank you thank you council member town thank you mayor i wanted to uh some public

events um our dixie and neighborhood cleanup and not no dixie and neighborhood clean and green

alleys project will be unveiling this Saturday November 23rd um five alleys repaved with arts

in a community and um big shout out to sparky heros with public works department for getting this

five million dollar grant uh we finally finished the project and doing that unveiling uh other

events at my district is uh grant high school malnew year associated by the students at grant

high school which is tomorrow night at five p.m. and since we don't have council next week i am

announcing the uh second on mong new year at cal exposed starts friday the twenty knife and goes

until the thirty first and then mayor you will be joining us within the parade and opening correct

on friday yes and then uh fun yeah we can dress up the mayor definitely um

we're actually gifted a mayor among outfit a long time ago i don't know you say i have it yeah yeah

fun fact is the mong new year has been hosted in the Sacramento since 1982 and that's 42 years that

the mong community has hosted mong new year and at cal expo too and so that's a lot of revenue

generated for the city as well and so that's something just to be excited about because we

attract about 40,000 people all around california that comes to Sacramento

cannot wait thank you very much councilman councilman for gennings all right very quickly the um

Thanksgiving week soccer camp is uh live and getting ready to come on the 25th 26th and 27th is the

third annual Thanksgiving week soccer camp and it's going to take place from nine to eleven each day

so in preparation for all the turkey you're going to eat you want to make sure that your kids

age six to thirteen come to the soccer camp for more information contact the green haven

soccer club webpage or you can contact my office to hear more about it and then i hear that uh

Santa Claus is coming to district seven uh and we encourage you to come meet Santa Claus or bring

your kids to come meet Santa Claus it's going to take place on December the 5th that's Thursday

December 5th at the William Lam Park golf course from five p.m. to seven p.m. and there will be

holiday surprises photo booth glow up putting greens games and uh free hot cocoa etc etc etc but

Santa will be there so opportunity last thing is uh the holiday toy drive this is the

in conjunction with assembly member Stephanie and win the green haven soccer club is hosting

the eighth annual holiday toy drive it's benefiting outside the walls and it'll take place on

Saturday December the 14th from two to four p.m. they're accepting new and unwrapped toys for

children one through thirteen is at the school of engineering and science and so come on out to

make sure you benefit others during this Christmas time that's it very good thank you council member

Jennings councilmember Kaplan thank you thank you mayor uh follow along if you live in north

nontomas and roblas Santa in D1 is coming uh two days uh at the first week of December and two days

the second week of December and the last park we're at is always a big party if you don't want to

join in except for the last park um i also want to say that uh my oldest who is my's birthday

birthday twin very much looks forward to celebrating and being there for maln New Year so uh you

should see us there at the friday parade um because viva will not let like i will lose my status as a

good mother well we should that'll be year three okay that'll be year three so um i want to

want to confirm that but also i want to give a shout out because this sunday our colleague my vang

is officially tying the knot and i think publicly want to wish her well and remind her to breathe

and enjoy her special day absolutely it's a wonderful wonderful thing councilmember gettah

thank you very much mayor also wanted to wish uh our friend and colleague here uh my vang

a very special day uh yes amongst the kin wedding you know looking for the pork you know

but uh in old seriousness uh for mayor friends and folks who can donate our title one school that

has a lot of needy families mark twin elementary is in a very desperate need of clothing supplies

for their slide park winter trip and um and so we need those supplies by December second so if

anyone can help with sleeping bags hiking shoes for for sizes six and nine uh man's with sizes five

and nine and jackets for kids uh size kids extra large um to adult large those are very needed for

those so that they can actually go to the science camp but because of the weather we really need

um to help those and those expenses expenses while transportation gets covered uh could be a

prohibitive uh way for these young kids at mark twin elementary to be able to enjoy a great

opportunity so uh if you can help out drop it off at the uh at the office at mark twin elementary

on 58th street uh and if you uh or if you have questions feel free to call our office and we'd

glad to help in uh and coordinate big here thank you comes from and get it so um

we end tonight on a very very sad note and i wanted to turn it over to our city clerk if she's able

to be able to speak about a major loss in our city family um thank you mayor i'll do my best

we got you okay um so it's with great sadness i asked the city council to

endure in the memory of carolina james so carolina joined the sacrament of city clerk's

office in 2015 and she left us as past Thursday so she was bright bubbly and dedicated to our city

she was a positive influence to everyone she crossed paths with i speak on behalf of the

entire city clerk's office and all that new and love to her she'll be greatly missed so thank you

mayor and council carols family in our office appreciate your adjourned memory of this amazing

soul carolina james and carols memory our deepest condolences to her and her family into you and your

team okay we're all with you okay we are adjourned

yeah