Good evening. The Second Minister, the Council will please come to order with the clerk

call the roll please to establish a quorum. Thank you, Councilmember Kaplan.

Councilmember Tao, Mayor Pro Tem Telemontes. Here. Councilmember Valenzuela.

Here. Mayor Maple. Here. Councilmember Gatta. Here.

Councilmember Jennings. Here. Councilmember Vang.

Here. And Mayor Steinberg. I am here. Councilmember Valenzuela and Tao.

Would you please lead us respectively in the landing knowledgement in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you. Please rise if you are able for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's

Indigenous people and tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people,

southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Mewak, Putman, Win-Tun peoples, and the people of the

Wulturn Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and

honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral

lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and

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

you. Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic

for which it stands one mission under God and the visible when liberty and justice are

strong. Thank you all. Thank you very much.

Having public servants, council members, Valenzuela and Tawe will speak more about you.

Yeah, and me too, maybe in a few moments. Welcome to the members of the public, the city

staff, all those who are watching on CNN and all major networks tonight. Let me study.

Maybe I've been in this job too long. I don't know. But welcome to everybody. We have some

items of business tonight which we will get to maybe in an hour or 90 minutes or so, but

tonight is the final meeting, full meeting for several of us. And so per tradition, there's

going to be an opportunity to express some reflections on how special this city is and how

special this city government and city council is and we appreciate you all being here tonight.

But we begin with two other important presentations. The first one presented by Vice Mayor Maple

and myself regarding the Miwok Middle School cross country team. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.

And as you can see, we're joined by some very special individuals here tonight. So I just want

to thank everyone for coming. This is a really a momentous occasion, but I want to start by saying,

this started with a conversation. So one of my friends, Ms. Henning is in the crowd tonight and

she is a teacher at Miwok Middle. And we were together one evening and she said, you know that our

boys and girls cross country teams have won national championships two years in a row and I just

haven't seen anything in the press and the media. We're looking at you, press. And we think it's a

pretty big deal. And I said, that's crazy. And so I went online and I saw that in fact there wasn't a

lot on there. So what better thing to do than to really acknowledge and honor the work that you

all have put in. So we're just excited that you're here to join us today. So I'm going to say if

you words and then I'll pass it on over to the mayor to say a few words and then we'll invite up

Coach Brian Moreno and some of the team here. But just as just as some background. So our Miwok

Middle School cross country teams have earned back-to-back national championships for the boys and

girls teams in 2023 and 2024. So litifying their places is one of the premier programs in the country.

It's a big deal. And competing against champions from across the nation you show not only determination

and skill and teamwork. And I think that that's a really important part of this. And I think that

it's just really inspiring to see the help, the work that you put in not just to be together with

your teammates and to lift each other up, but to be such a good team that you are making it

nationally. And I think it's important for us as a city to acknowledge that. And so I'm going

to read off some names. I'm going to first read from the girls team just so we can know who we're

celebrating today. I ask that you wait until I'm done with the list and then we'll give a big

round of applause and then I will then switch over to the boys teams because I think it's important

that we know who you are and who we're celebrating today. So from the 2024 Miwok Middle Girls team,

we have Rebecca Dixon, Harper Ferris, Maya Hiroshima Chan, Kaylee Kato, Lucy Mendoza,

Ella Nora Olmsted or Ellie, pardon me, Violet Pantin, Rachel Remblesky, Reese Spring Horn,

Holly Thurall, Lily Warren, Sage Wittskell and Grace Seltra. Congratulations.

And now for our 2024 Miwok Middle School boys team, Maxime Albertin, Calvin Chen, Kate Chase

Coddle, Evan Deuer, Maxwell Evans, Liam Hiroshima Chan, Finley Kojima Black, Sydney Manrix,

and so Martinez Vaughn, Elias Thonson and Erin Wilson. Congratulations.

And please do forgive me if I butchered anyone's name, but just hearty congratulations to

all of your team work and with that I'm going to pass it over to our mayor, say if you work.

Well, I can't add much more except to say how proud we are to have national champions

in the midst of our city and looking at, I mean you compete against teams from Florida, Colorado,

Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and beyond and cross country. Think about it, what it takes,

discipline, endurance, teamwork to support each other. We're so proud of you. A national champion,

two national champions back to back in the city of Sacramento, you should be very proud and keep on

doing whatever it took to allow you to achieve such great things. Can't wait to see what all

you young middle schoolers do in the years had Olympics, 20, 32. Go you watch and you thank you,

guys. Thank you. At this thank you, man, wonderful words. And at this time, I'd love to invite

Coach Morena, say a few words. Yeah. While he's walking out, I think it's no secret that when we do

great things, we don't do them alone. And so, you know, we have obviously a great team and a great

coach. So welcome. Coach, if you wouldn't mind running up, we'd appreciate it.

Well, thank you, city leaders, for this opportunity. These kids have a wonderful story and we've been,

we're delightful to share with you their brilliance. And on the surface, you see great athletes and

wonderful accolades and trophies and things like that. But really deep within the surface, you see

pillars in our community who are proud to represent their teammates, their school, and the city of

Sacramento. And so this is just a wonderful honor to share a moment with you. And I'm going to pass

it on to our two team captains. This is Holly Thorelle, who's a team captain for the girls team

this year. And then Enzo Martinez-Von, who's captain of the boys team last year. So Holly's first.

Hello, everyone. I'm Holly Thorelle, 24 cross-country captain. I just want to say how honored

my fellow captains and I are to be able to lead this team. Thank you Sacramento City Council

for having us and Vice-Marikati Maple for this honor. We are very excited to be here representing

Milwaukee Middle School and the cross-country team. We are not just a fantastic group of runners,

but a group of awesome personalities that bring out the best in each other. For months, we ran

and we bonded training for the big trip. I personally strengthened my friendship with so many of you.

When the big race day came a few weeks ago in Kentucky, I knew that we were ready. I also knew that

I also knew that it wasn't just a running that helped strengthen us. It was each other. And that

was the secret to winning. I'm so very proud of each and every one of you and I'm sure that

our team meant to reach far beyond middle school. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Enzo Martinez-Von. I was a boy's captain last year for the cross-country team.

And I just want to say first off, we are so thankful for being honored today as a team,

both the boys and the girls. The legacy of this team has been carried on through the girls team

ours last year. And I hope that we can continue to lead the city for decades to come.

I think MiWalk represents something more than just cross-country, but our team is the true

definition of a team. And for this, I want to thank our parents, coaches, and especially our teammates.

We are so thankful for all of you guys and helping us get to this point. We love representing our

city nationally. It's probably the greatest honor I've had in my tour at lifetime. And once again,

I just like to thank you all for having us and honoring us today. Thank you.

So I'm going to ask as many of you as possible, I guess, to come up here. We'll take a quick photo.

That's okay. And I will hand you over this beautiful resolution.

Thanks for bringing this forward, Vice Mayor Maid. Well, it's great. Okay, come on.

All right, so I get first dibs on photos here. So one, two, hold on. Someone's got to hold it.

All right, right here in one, two, and three amazing. I think we have like seven more.

Anybody else for me, Ra? Thank you all so much.

Thank you.

You all are welcome back to the straight back out to the volume just for time's sake.

Thanks, everybody.

All right.

Our next presentation is to present the photo.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate you, sir.

Yeah.

All right.

Our next presentation is to present the fire department with a very important award presented by council member Rick Jennings.

Thank you, Mayor.

As they are leaving, I just want to congratulate them on back-to-back championships.

One more time.

I'm confident they will be going for the three-peat. There's no question in my mind.

I'm thrilled to present this presentation.

Did you hear me when I said I'm thrilled?

I'm thrilled to present this presentation.

The 24 mission lifeline EMS recognition award represents great news for the city of Sacramento and for the Sacramento Fire Department.

But the real winner are the residents.

This award shows that Sacramento offers optimal care for cardiac and stroke patients exceeding all industry standards.

And not only has it done at one time or two times, it has won this award eight consecutive years.

Eight.

Incredible. I've seen a lot of Super Bowl teams repeat and some of one three Super Bowls. Some of even one up to six.

But I've never seen a Super Bowl team when eight consecutive years. Congratulations again.

Here with us tonight are Andy Hoyt, the quality improvement manager for the American Heart Association and Fire Chief Chris Kostomont.

Kostomont. Kostomont. Thank you. I always do it. I've got to work on that to accept the award.

I want to thank you both for being here tonight and Chris. I'm going to let you take it from here.

Thank you, Mr. Jennings and Mr. Mayor, members of the council. It's a pleasure to be here in front of you tonight.

And I want to brag on the Fire Department a little bit. Yes, it is eight years running and we're going for ten.

I just want to talk about what it takes a little bit for us to earn this award. And when I say us, it's the men and women in the Sacramento Fire Department, the paramedics and EMTs.

The Mission Lifeline Gold Award, which we've won eight years in a row. Did I mention that?

It relies on the paramedics and it relies on the speed and the accuracy that they determine that something's wrong with the patient.

If they're having a stroke or a cardiac event, it also depends on their accuracy and the decision making on which hospital we take them to for care.

And then also the third piece of this is the speed and accuracy that they relay information to the hospital so the hospital can be prepared to receive a patient.

Now that's just one of the awards. There's actually two awards in here tonight. We didn't tell you that part.

The other part is the heart attack on a roll and it doesn't sound like something you want to be on. But when you're providing service, you want to be on this end of the honor roll.

And again, that's for the citizens and the visitors to the city of Sacramento. And the honor roll helps us.

We share this award in collaboration with the hospitals in the Sacramento area. And those hospitals along with the city of Sacramento Fire Department, Archiser, Common Spirit, formerly known as Dignity, Sutter and UC Davis.

And this collaboration with the hospitals allows us to get a patient stabilized from the time that our paramedics and EMTs are standing in front of them to the hospital, stable, and basically

ready to walk out of the hospital in less than 90 minutes. Now we all know that bad things can happen in five minutes. You hear the Fire Department talk about that a lot.

This is talking about a person that's having a stroke or a cardiac event that has to go get a steamy procedure done in the hospital in less than 90 minutes.

So that's the collaboration with the hospital. So this is us working in concert with the hospitals, the American Heart Association.

And I just want to thank everyone who's part of this. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the work that the men and women do in the Sacramento Fire Department every day.

I'm thankful to have them out there on the streets and we're very proud of them. I want to thank all the paramedics and EMTs that work in this county because we work in collaboration with other departments sometimes.

We're handing off patients to other medical units, but we work in collaboration. I want to thank the hospitals for the help that they give us.

They provide feedback to us too. They allow us to build on the knowledge we have and make our service better. And finally, I want to thank you the members of the council for the support that you give us in our department every day and help us be available out there on the street.

And with that, I'd like to have Andy up real quick.

Yep. Great. Thank you.

Well, a lot was said here and a lot of it is in what I was going to talk about. But I think it's worth noting that, you know, AHA, American Heart Association's worked with hospitals, EMS agencies, and other entities over many years to develop these quality standards.

And these quality standards come from the most up to date science out there. So being able to hit it eight times, hopefully 10, 12, 13, 14 times is really something else is great.

It shows the commitment to quality of care for the patients, the public here.

So, but just get a little bit of information around the mission lifeline and what the focus is. And I think you alluded to a lot of it already. But really it's it's through a team of quality system improvement experts across the US, as I mentioned, mission lifeline is focused on supporting hospitals, EMS agencies, regions and communities like here, while forming and enhancing collaborative efficient and effective systems of care, which is what it's all about.

And I want to talk about the most up to date science, as I mentioned, and protocols of via that American Heart Association. So, as mentioned, also by chief, the combined award is based upon achievements has identified through their agencies online application submission of data representative of care delivered in 2023.

We look at 2024 as the 2023 award is when they receive it.

I won't go into too much of the medical terms, but I think you also mentioned a lot of those PCI, ECG and all the things that come along with the time frame time with stroke as time is brain.

But of course, there's time with a cardiac arrest, and we all know that that's really important as well.

So, you know, I want to say more than you've already said, you've covered it. It's just a terrific job. I've done this more than a few times already in front of you, and hope to continue to do the same going forward.

So on behalf of the American Heart Association, I'd like to all say congratulations on the award winning year that Chief Kastamanya, Assistant Chief Dave Terri and Chief of EMS, Fire Captain Brian Moore, and the entire Sacramento Fire Department for winning this award. Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

To Council Member Jennings and Vice-Smarter Maple. Go ahead, Vice-Smarter Maple.

I'll be exceedingly brief, because I know that we know long.

But I just want to say I heard a lot of chief, you talking about the members of your team, the collaboration, and that's 100% true, but I want to take a moment and thank you for your leadership.

Because you didn't mention yourself, but this happens with great leadership and that's you. So just really, really appreciate it.

Well, I thank you. I appreciate it. And it doesn't get done just with me. It's these folks with me and all of our EMS division and all the paramedics and EMTs out on the street tonight.

So thank you very much.

Saving lives every day.

Right. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're doing a pick.

That's okay. Let's never mind.

We're going to do a picture by the Chief.

You want to do a picture?

I'm going to do a picture.

It's like, hey.

Yeah.

Do it the word.

We don't care.

We'll do it the first time.

We'll do it the first time.

We'll do it the first time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

We got a seal.

All right.

Here we go.

Are you guys going to squeeze in?

All right. One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Got it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Jennings, for bringing that forward.

All right. Members, we come to the third presentation for the evening,

which is the recognition of outgoing council members and mayor.

And we want to begin here, very special occasion.

I think for all of us, we want to begin with District 2 and Councilmember Chantau.

Yes.

Give them a big hand.

I think we're going to show a video.

And then we're going to have the members go around the day us and make some comments about the outgoing councilmember.

Fair enough. Let's roll up the video.

And I'd like to say, Chantau, you know, I've been here since 1964,

and you have really made a difference in our community.

You're effective. You have a vision.

You're knowledgeable. You communicate effectively with all of us.

And you make that effort to help us in any way you can.

And I say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your hard and all our community here

and I'm happy to be here with you.

And I hope that you're with us.

Thank you so much.

I want to take the time and thank Councilmember Chantau for everything you've done for us.

From the grand opening of families and putting a lot to helping

us with this Antonio for North Sacramento.

He is a great asset to this community and thank you for everything you've done for all.

So we appreciate you very much.

I'm excited to see you again.

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I would like to start out by saying thank you, Councilmember Chantau, for your service.

You've been very available to us here in a second as business owners to be able to listen

and the short time you were in all this.

And was she the best on all your next endeavors?

And see on the boulevard.

You are.

You are.

You are.

You are.

You are.

You are.

Who wants to begin the love fest here?

We're going to go in order.

Why don't we go with Councilmember Kaplan, please?

Councilmember Chantau, it's been a pleasure to have you as my seatmate for not a long time.

Wish it was longer.

I'm sure you feel like it was several years instead of just nine short months.

But you're not going away.

You have served your community probably for a very long time because you had no choice based off of

your father's commitment to the community, which I know that you and your family continue to embody.

And I know I get lucky enough to have many of your family members now in my district.

So you're not going away.

You're just moving to the next level in the community.

And we look forward to continuing to have your service because you've not only benefited this city without sitting in this seat,

but having served Councilmember Warren now in this seat and now going back out to the community.

But thank you for your service and your time and it's not over.

So I look forward to seeing you soon.

Very good.

Okay.

Sean, he started reading off 50 district events.

Now down to 1020.

For them, thankful.

I'm just kidding.

Mayor said at best when he said that good things were on the horizon for district two.

And you're reading off of the events and the activities happening in district was a sign of Del Paso Heights in Norwood and Strawberry Manor and all the different neighborhoods.

You know, go heading in the right direction thanks to you and your leadership and you making a difference in Sacramento.

And it was great to have a humble, truthful community voice in the short time you served here on the Council.

Your love for Sacramento is real and it's shine.

And this isn't goodbye because I know you're going to remain super active here in Sacramento.

And I'll be seeing you at the MLK March where you always host the water stop at mile two.

So thank you so much, Sean, for stepping into this role, for putting in the application and for taking on a task after such a tough time for district two.

The community desperately needed a voice like yours and I'm really grateful for your time.

Thank you.

Yes, Sean.

I remember interviewing for this vacancy and wondering if there was something wrong with you.

But then I really was signing up for nine months of incredibly hard work in addition to running a huge nonprofit that has such a big impact in your community and across our city.

And I mean, I recognize that because I think we all have the same thing wrong with us is that you want to serve your community and whatever the cost.

And I think I've really grown to not only get to know you and your skillset better but to really appreciate just how hard working you are.

Just step into a team to take on a lot of work.

District two needed a lot of help and you and your team just did not hesitate and jumped in and started getting things done.

And meeting after meeting after meeting, there's been an item for district two on the consent calendar on the discussion calendar.

You've been announcing events like you really truly did not waste one minute of these nine months.

So I hope you get some rest and I hope to see you very soon out in the community doing what you do best.

Thank you.

Want me to go there?

Maybe the mayor for last year.

Thank you.

I was thinking about what I wanted to say and the first thing that popped into my mind was sitting on the interview panel for to fill the vacancy.

And I remember you coming to interview and all of us on the panel just looking at each other and being like, yeah, he's the one.

You just you just shown through and you shown yourself every single day sense as someone who's really from the community cares about the community gives it 110% every single day.

And that's what it stands, the people that you're serving and the not only the issues but the opportunities that exist there.

And really just spent your entire time here like going as fast as you can.

I remember I took around people all the time that you know it took me a year to figure out where the coffee machine was like it really is difficult to learn the jobs and the intricacies of how the process works.

And you just took it all right away and were able to jump in and you served this seat while this district, sorry, this district well and.

I'm not a server long side you can't wait to continue to working with you in your role with the nonprofit but also who knows what's in the future for you politically but happy to support you.

Thank you.

Well, you know, I think shantau deserves a recognition also for the perfect attendance and his entire tenure.

Didn't miss one meeting and there's a lot of meetings right off the bat, you know, and I want to recognize him for he knew not only that immediately what the challenges were with you know the the issues that his constituents face about mobility about clean air about safe access.

And so to think about like not only what you see here today but on top of that every other other other joint powers authority that he was on also perfect attendance over there so thank you shantau.

Great Sean I too sat on that interview panel and had the opportunity to select you out of all the candidates that wanted to do that and we knew we had made the right decision nine months ago and we know that today that we made the right decision you've always stood in the gap to make sure that district to and the city of Sacramento is something that we can all be proud of so I just want to personally thank you for standing in the gap.

Thank you for all the work that you do most people don't realize that you're working two jobs the nonprofit work and then also the city of Sacramento and you did it with excellence and you you worked tirelessly I mean sometimes 16 hours a day to get everything done but you heard what the people said you reopened sammys you made a difference you did it with vision you were effective and efficient and you will always hear for the community making sure that you listen to the community and met every single.

So I hope to that one day you will put your hat in the ring to be a leader here in Sacramento officially not just one nine months but for eight to 12 years so congratulations I'm glad to have served with you.

Council member tell I I'm just so so proud of you it's been an honor serving alongside you as a colleague but really as your friend as someone who I have worked with you in the community and also have worked with you on the fifth floor as staffers for the former council members Alan Warren and Larry Carr.

And so I knew you were the right the right appointee to the ground running to serve a community that's been overlooked for so long and I something I also want to mention that the mayor mentioned at the Sacramento Monu year which I didn't really think about is that actually together we've made history this year for the first time that 25% of the mayor and council is of mong dissent.

And that is actually something that I don't take for granted and something that I know our ancestors and our parents and our grandparents are so proud of right I see how hard you work day in and out for district two and I just know that you're not done like even without the title it's not about the title at the end of the day it's about the person and the work that you do in the community and so I look forward to working with you in any capacity that you choose but I'm not going to be a member of the council member.

I'm not going to be a member of the council member of the council member of the community that you choose but once the new council member comes in and if he or she no longer wants to run you have an entire community in North Sacramento that's asking you to run for office council member.

And I just want to be the first to put that on record to say that you know because there's so many folks that have seen the work that you've done in nine months and imagine if you had a term there be transformative changes in district two and so thank you for your service and I'm so honored to have you.

I'm so honored to have served alongside you for the past nine months so thank you.

Thank you.

I think your colleagues are sort of predicting your future here council member Tao and I want to join that chorus.

I am so impressed with this young leader so impressed to come on to this day is knowing the community but not really knowing

the city council and to be a presence who not only participated but led on a variety of issues and did so with strength and grace.

I could not be more impressed with what you have done over nine months and I suppose there would have been two ways to play this right to come on and be a caretaker and to sort of survey and not do much to you.

To make it a rattle the cage or whatever for the next elected member or you could focus on one or two things that really mattered that would make a difference in district two and you together with the community of help clean up the northern bikeway and helps a lot of people along the way that is a huge accomplishment and I only regret is that you're only here for nine months.

I can't wait to watch you Sean in the months and years ahead I hope that you choose the path of elective office because I think the city, the community, the country needs people like you who are doing it for the right reasons.

I think I'm 25% of this city council, among Americans.

I mean take great pride in that not only for the two of you but for all of us this is the community that we all in the city that we all get to be a part of.

Congratulations.

Now you get to speak.

Thank you.

First off I would like to that's so hard for I had no clue about the video.

First off I would like to thank the mayor council you know for trusting me to serve in this role you know I took the untraditional route of getting on here you know being appointed and I hope you know we don't have any other appointments on council but you know when you run an election you get elected to serve.

I never imagined this time last year that I would serve as council member for my community in North Sacramento in 2024 you know I might have dreams in the future but not immediately but you know I would like you know to thank council member Karina Tal Monta.

I was not this idea in my head you know it was was at the M. M. K. Marish and we just talk about you know our time working on council together with senator she was working for senator Ashby then I was working for Warren and she's like you know what Sean you'd be really great on council and I was like really.

And it took multiple tax multiple encouragement and and for me to really believe that yeah I could step up and serve this role because I even after I left council as a staff in 2020 I still worked for the community clock and I still work and partner with other community based organizations in North Sacramento.

And you know I think that just let me on the path to be here today and so thank you council member Tal Monta you know.

Also you know I wouldn't be able to serve without you know city staff working with my office my council colleagues my family for you know believe me and me my partner who's here today for your support you know I I did not consult with anybody I just did it and and when they realize that way you're you're applying to be on council they're like why didn't you tell anyone of us.

And so you know thank you for putting up with me and putting up with my work in the community I could not do this without each and every one of you you know in my short time on council I'm proud of the things we're able to accomplish you know when I spoke with Howard on the first time I was like Sean put on your running shoes because it's a sprint and it was a sprint you know nine months is really short.

And I'm so glad that we're able to partner with the community to really address issues on the North Sacramento bike trail working with my colleagues and staff you know we're able to secure 18 million dollars to help clean and expand services for on how unhoused populations on North Sacramento the bike trail.

And my short period we were able to award 48 businesses through our facade improvement grants totally almost a million dollars and reopening sammies a long time staple on the possible of art.

We've also awarded over a million dollars to seven nonprofits which will support and their transformative idea to increase and develop youth workforce development in district two and so I'm proud that we're able to accomplish all that and I'm proud that we're able to accomplish all that and I'm proud that we're able to accomplish all that and I'm proud that we're able to do that.

And my short nine months and I think everyone in every one of you for believing in me.

We believe in you.

Yes.

Very good.

I get the honor presenting to you.

First of all, very heavy by the way.

Very heavy.

Flag here.

And then,

Sean, tell me, somewhere in district two.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How are you doing?

Thank you.

Let's take a look at all of us.

Come on.

Everybody.

It's a heavy one.

We got to move that whole thing.

Sean, hold this part of it.

Okay.

We'll hold that.

One, two, three.

You're like, I'm not the girl.

I see it.

That's all yours.

All right.

Thank you.

You got it.

It's all good.

It was wonderful.

Thank you.

We now move to our colleague in district four, council member Katie Valenzuela.

We'll move to our colleague in district four, council member Vela.

Let's watch the video.

And then we will get to celebrate council member Valenzuela.

Thank you.

Thank you to council member Valenzuela, mayor Steinberg, and the entire city council.

I'm very thankful for her leadership, her dedication to serving district four, and specifically

the heart of the city right here in downtown Sacramento.

I moved to the Alhambra Triangle in 2021, which is in Katie's district, and started working on the sound wall and ran into a figurative wall with cow trans, where we couldn't really get anything done.

And finally, my neighbor Liz put us in touch with Katie's office, and Katie just grabbed it by the horns, and was so confident and got us a meeting with STA, and put everything in action to actually get things done, and we ended up securing funding for the sound wall.

Pretty much due to Katie's efforts.

I went to town hall meeting in my neighborhood before I got involved in my neighborhood, and I went up afterwards to introduce myself.

And in the course of that conversation, she said a few words that led me to kind of pledge to myself that I wanted to get more involved.

And that if I had a problem with what I saw, I needed to be part of the solution.

I have loved working with my council member Katie Valenzuela.

Katie has been on the forefront of fighting for queer and trans and LGBTQ plus issues, and I would venture to say that she is one of the champions that Sacramento has had in our entire city's history.

My introduction to Katie was back in 2021, when we were being challenged as low riders to cruise the boulevards of Broadway, Franklin, Front Street, Old Town, and we came to meet with her, asked her to meet with about 60 other car clubs.

To talk about how we can remove these low riding Ornans fans, and she worked with us for an entire year non-stop.

She became our champion.

Our champion, with a city and repealing the no-cruising Ornans.

She was really impressed with her, because first of all, although she doesn't speak Spanish, she supports Spanish-speaking elders.

So I was really impressed with her. She's very open and very friendly. So yeah, I think she's done a lot for us.

I was going to let that cheer go on for more than two minutes, by the way.

Let us begin with Council Member Venge.

I'll start. Councilwoman Valenzuela, my sister, my partner in crime.

I don't feel lonely up here because I have you, and I'm going to miss you dearly.

I believe Sacramento is better because of you.

You have always demonstrated unwavering dedication to the city, not just for district four, but you think about all neighborhoods that have been left behind.

There are times even up here on the dies that I'm a little jealous of you, because you are the most progressive elected on this dies.

And you always prioritize justice and equity. And I strive to be like you every single day.

You give me courage when I'm scared on this dies.

It's because of you that I have the courage to actually fight harder every single day.

I want you to know that.

I see how hard you've worked the past four years. And I remember when I came on, we both were pandemic candidates.

We were sworn in on Zoom. And it's still our top priority is homelessness.

And I know, I know intricately that when we talk about homelessness, a lot of electives actually shy away from addressing the issue.

But I actually feel like the mayor was able to get stuff done because you were his co-champion on champion issues to address homelessness in the city.

We wouldn't make, we wouldn't have the benchmarks and the milestones and the successes without your fight, your dedication to serving our most vulnerable communities.

And that's our unhealth neighbors on the street.

And folks know that you also will never back down on any fight.

Your policy chops, your passion is unmatched. And I'm going to say it again, Sacramento is better because of you.

And the lives of Sacramento is better because of you. And I hope that you take that with you.

I hope that your work has just begun because like I shared with Shantao, it's not about the title. It's about the person in the work that you do day in and day out.

I love you so much. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to serve alongside you the past four years. And I just can't wait to see what else you're going to do.

Just keep shining, keep doing Katie Valenzuela. I love you and I'm so proud of you.

Thank you.

Top that, Rick Jennings.

I am not going to try.

What I loved about Council Member Vang's comments was the emotion that was involved in it and the truth that was involved in it.

When the crowd started cheering, they started cheering because of your fundamental belief that people deserve a voice in decisions that impact them.

When you read about District 4 and Katie Valenzuela and the time that she was there, she made sure that people had a voice that they could be heard.

And so they applaud because their voice is being heard and they know that you're a different maker. So I put that down. You're a different maker. You have leadership in dedication. You know how to get things done.

You're the best champion that I've ever had the opportunity to team up with, especially as it relates to golf.

And while they may not think that that's important, when you have a female who can hit the ball 240 yards and hit it straight down the middle and leave you 100 yards shot left, you win championships.

And we were able to win championships. And so anytime you need a partner and whenever I need a partner, I want to know I can count on you like you know you can count on me.

Also, I just want to thank you personally for the incredible team that you put together of Yee and Makayla and Erica and yourself as a part of that team.

Just an incredible team. I watch them every single day because you are right next to me. No matter how loud you are, I don't care. We kind of forgot all about all of that noise that they were making.

But we know that the noise was making effective work and they were getting things done. So I just want to applaud you on the team that you put together of helping you to fulfill the vision that you had.

And I joined councilmember van and saying, whatever you decide to do in life, I know you will be successful. You have been successful at everything you've done so far. And that will not stop.

So we are behind you 150% from this point forward. Good luck.

Thank you.

Councilmember van and suela to which you know to clear maybe people may be called her councilmember van and suela. I said no that's the country. It's a valent suela.

You know to my you know my colleague at the state level you know for us working on state white policy and more importantly organizing at the local level.

And I will say thank you for being able to focus on the bigger vision of issues. And I will go back to before you were elected when there were questions about whether we wanted to take away restrictions on the proliferation of liquor stores.

And the one small item that could have been I think that's a mental and the longer end led to what we've done on stockable of art. And because of your organizing work to think about hey no we can re envision commercial corridors.

And one that you don't represent but that you were involved with is benefiting from it. It's flourishing from that activism. So I have to say thank you for your consistent engagement in every level in recognizing that it has changed our city and what was an old way of thinking is now a new way of thinking congratulations and look forward to the best for you in the future.

I was thinking about before I was in this see years before I was knocking on doors for you. I remember how excited I was about your candidacy and about the ideas that you were bringing forth and just how exhilarating it was to think about how Sacramento could be different.

You've only shown that tenfold in your time in office not just bringing forth the ideas that you talked about on the campaign trail but new ones as well.

Ever since coming into this see I've also realized that you're someone who doesn't just talk but you show up.

I remember you know literally being at the outreach engagement center at the need the warming centers which you constantly push for and you're not just the one saying we need to open up warming centers you're the one at the warming center serving coffee and tea to people I think that speaks to exactly who you are and the kind of leader that you are you don't just talk you you you lead by action.

I'll also say that you are one of the smartest people I've ever met my entire life. I literally any policy you name it all be like okay let's do this and you're like I've already produced ten white papers and I've had you just don't sleep and you really know what you're talking about and I think that's also a function sometimes of you know being in our positions also being woman your position woman call in your position always need to be ten times smarter working ten times harder and you do that and you do it with grace and it's just been a real pleasure working with you I'm so excited to see what you do now.

I hope that as you always take care of yourself when you go to the fourth of your journey and try to get some sleep please. Thank you.

Alright Council member Valenzuela so we say Katie everyone on Metro 14 you may not know this but she keeps this like cute little fan here that makes her hair blow back and she's talking.

I was like watching one day I'm like what the okay she said it might be able to keep it so we'll see we might have to have an option over here.

Katie you have always stood your ground you stuck to your values and you fought hard every step of the way these last four years you never stop working you never stop loving never stop thinking about other people and how you can make other people's lives better.

Everyone regardless of whether they agree with you on policy or not can say that they admire you for for being true for who you are and what you believe in because you come as an honest broker.

You help me teach you help teach me that being uncomfortable is okay and doing the right thing will always lead me to a better night sleep on Tuesday council nights.

You're wicked smart you're kind you're such a hard worker and I've truly loved getting to know you better as my seat mate.

I know we have a lot of projects in the works together in the month to come and I'm really excited for that and I'll miss you very much and you have my commitment to never stop fighting for what's right and shining light on that.

Like councilmember bang said Sacramento is better because of you thank you for your service.

I was afraid that I had ten minutes to meet with you because I was late to our first meeting and those was when I applied to be appointed to the seat.

I was like how am I going to convince her to support me in ten minutes but you know you did and I thank you for that.

Thank you for being a champion for the community you know when I came in camp resolution was one of the top issues in North Sacramento and the city of Sacramento and you took lead and introduced me to the residents and then house and taking lead with the city in the mayor to really help us resolve the issues regarding homelessness in our own house population and that's something that I'm really grateful for because being somebody new to council.

This was a very you know in my heart it's really hard when you talk about how we serve on and house and you have been a champion to lead that effort.

Also thank you for inviting me to my first golf tournament on council and you and councilmember Jennings and councilmember revey you know but the fact is that do not invite councilmember reveying me because we did not win that tournament.

And we will so thank you so much.

I enjoy my time with you on council and you know my golf game will get better you know thank you for to read me and you know hopefully we get to play more in the future.

Thank you.

There's councilmember valence way those are very little I can add that my colleagues have not said each in their own way but where people don't pay attention that you really had an impact that has ripple effects is your advocacy with the low writers because it wasn't just the low writers that you advocated for but the ripple effect that comes with that.

And an area where I know you and I have agreed while many people don't understand why but your leadership in cannabis has made an effect on so many lives in so many ways so I wish you the best of luck in whatever future endeavor and fight you get in I know you will give it your all and good luck to you.

Well I got a lot of things to say every governing body every group needs someone who insists on fundamental change because without that without that push that body remains stale and does not go nearly as far as you want.

So nearly as far as it could without that provocation and that's Katie valence way I'm really glad that my vang started out by talking about homelessness because I thought about it but you really crystallized it for me.

However I did help get this city in the arena I could not not not have done it or gotten nearly as far if I did not have somebody who was an even more fierce believer in the need in the imperative of caring for the least among us if it wasn't for Katie valence way because those were crucial years and we were doing a lot of experimentation.

I mean whether it was the outreach engagement sort of the warming center in the library there were so many important fits and starts always insisting that we push farther and harder it's gotten us to what nearly 1500 beds every single night and some really hopeful numbers not a solution too many people are still out there but that doesn't happen without a true believer who

is willing to use the muscle and the community coalition that you built to insist that we do more and better.

I think it's really instructive as well how you chose as an activist to run for political office right because that required a significant sacrifice of your own not only for your own.

Not only for your life but also you have to be among this messy group and process that often leads to those compromises and for all the times that maybe publicly noted where you disagreed because we didn't go far enough I can tell you there are equal or more numbers of times where you participated in actually driving a single person.

You're actually driving a solution that led to a 9 to nothing vote. You're smart and you have a great heart you kind person and I never felt even in our disagreements that it never felt personal I always felt friendship and I feel the same way towards you.

I think I was one of that great quote of the theater Roosevelt talked about it was called the quote man in the arena.

I would say that quote updated to 2024 the woman in the arena applies to you. The credit never belongs to the critic.

It's the person I'm paraphrasing who tries valiantly in the arena who in fact it's so good and it's about you that I want to read it but make it about you.

It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood whose drives valiantly who heirs who comes up short again and again who spends herself in a worthy cause and who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement many times for you and who at the worst if she fails at least fails while daring greatly so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

That was 1924 and that's 2024.

Oh thank you. Actually someone didn't remake that as woman in the arena.

Thank you all. When I decided to run I got a piece of advice to pick a precinct and throughout my district and just canvas and not have a platform or a pitch but just ask people.

You know what they were concerned about what were their priorities and so I picked as my first precinct a precinct right long land park very big very expensive houses you know we walked up in this guy answer the door middle age white guy and I said okay what are your big priorities and he thought for just a second before saying to me step on Clark.

I can't believe that step on Clark was killed in this city and I want to know what you would do if you were elected to ensure that never happens again.

And I say that example because I continue to tell people as much as you may think about me as a person I mean a lot of people don't actually know me but people that's about me as a person that my positions up here were always as a representative of a broader community a community that's growing a number that's growing in conviction is the reason why I'm not going to say that.

It's the reason why we had two progressive top two candidates for mayor right in this election a city that's looking for change and is really frustrated with the status quo.

And I know that that change will continue in the years to come so I told them earlier that I'm sitting here holding multiple truths at the same time if I'm honest sadness obviously for the things that we couldn't get done because we ran out of time that we were trying to get done.

Pride for all we did both as a council and an office which was a lot

I mean we weren't doing safe grounds as a city when I took office

I mean when I think back at all it's changed. It's just incredible

excitement that I will again be free to

Organize and advocate and not have a Twitter account and no you can't have my cell phone anymore and it's gonna be great

and concern

Honestly for the future of our city because the hard-fought progress that we've made these last few years is the mayor referenced is

Tinius and what really depend on the courage and hard choices of this body if we aren't going to lose momentum

So don't forget colleagues just because I'm not here doesn't mean that my perspective is not present throughout our city

And the views I've expressed and my time of office. I mean you represent all of us too

And and so I hope you see the changing tides and because we're all really depending on you to keep doing the work to ensure that Sacramento is a city for all of us

So all that said I am proud to serve with everybody on this diast and I

To witness day in and day out just the hundreds and hundreds of cities employees some of which are in the audience

I mean I came home from a wedding at 11 p.m. The other night and who was sitting on my corner in the middle of the storm

But DOU employees like like draining like pumping a drain so that the water would go down

I mean just the incredible commitment that you all have shown me every single day

I mean there's just no way I could do it justice by trying to name it

But I'm incredibly impressed by the team that keeps the city running and just want you to know that it's been a true honor to work with you

And to see your commitment every day

and to my incredible team

because I truly could not have done this without you and I love the fact that our office was the loudest office on the fifth floor and

I will really miss hearing your laughter and

Seeing your passion and your commitment every single day

I know that no matter what you do next

You're going to keep making a big difference for this community and I'm proud to call you my friends

And I hope that we will continue to work together for many many years to come

so in conclusion

I will just say that my mantra on this role was that the minute I became more concerned with keeping the seat than doing the right thing was the minute

I didn't deserve the seat and I

am proud

I'm really I'm proud that I'm leaving this role really with a completely clear conscious with the no regrets and feeling like you know

We just truly didn't waste one day

So this is not goodbye because we are not done and we will be seeing you later

And I just have to say mayor you texted me earlier about the order of operations today

And you said oh, I know you probably invited people tonight and I don't want to keep them waiting and I felt really weird

Because I'm like oh no, I didn't invite anybody to come tonight because it should I have invited somebody to come tonight

I was like oh no don't tell my aunt. She's only an hour away

But in the end I wasn't worried because I knew the racial equity ordinance was on the agenda tonight

And I knew that my people would be here

So thank you all I truly could not have done this without all of you and I see you out there and so many people who aren't here

You kept me bold you cut me strong you kept me accountable and I can't wait to see what we're gonna do next

So thank you

you

We got one more person left.

All right, so you know we've decided that we're going to turn this portion of the

meeting into a roast. I tell you, good. Why is this Tuesday different from any other Tuesday?

Exactly. I'm going to try my best not to get

checked up here, but I did prepare a few words just because I wanted to make

sure that I said what was from my heart and from my head. So tonight we

marked the end of a chapter, not just for our city, but for someone who's

given so much of himself to this community. Mayor Daryl Steinberg. Tonight we

honor your decades of service and the incredible legacy that you leave behind.

When I think about your time as mayor, what's downed out to me is not just a

big accomplishment, though there are many of those. Sure, some of those you

might have heard on the news recently. It's the way that you've carried yourself in

this role. You always lead with heart and a deep belief in the potential of

Sacramento and the people who live here. And your work has not been easy. You've

guided the city through some of its toughest times, from the budget deficit, to a

global pandemic, from addressing homelessness, to navigating the complexities of

growth and change. I mean, let's be honest. Some would actually retire early

just by attending some of these council meetings, but you always suck with it.

Using your resilience, thoughtfulness, and determination to make things better

for everyone, especially those who need it the most. It's been a privilege to

witness not just your leadership, but your humanity. You care deeply and

authentically. You've reminded us that public service is always about the

people, meeting them where they are, lifting communities up, and ensuring

that voices are heard. Personally, I've learned so much from you. You've been a

mentor and a friend. You've taught me to think big but stay grounded, to push

for change while respecting the process, and to never lose sight of the impact

that we can have on people's lives. What's most remarkable, though, is how you've

been able to bring people together. Whether it was a tough council meeting or a

moment of crisis, you found a way to connect us, and to remind us that our shared

goals are more important than our differences. I think that is a rare gift. As we

say goodbye to you in this role, it's not just the projects of the policies that

will remember. It's the values you've installed in us all. Collaboration,

compassion, and hope. Daryl, I know that you're moving on to new opportunities,

but I also know that your heart will always be here in the city. Thank you for

being the leader that we needed for believing in Sacramento's potential, and for

showing us what it means to serve with integrity and purpose. Congratulations on

your extraordinary journey, and you make Sacramento proud. Thank you.

All right, and we'll start over. Councilmember Kaplan. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Oh, I should have written something for a roast. Here's something I do know. I

think it's fair to say that when it comes to your term as mayor, the honeymoon

might be over. That was on the fly. But mayor, I have known you for over two

decades. Starting as my time as a staff member in the legislature, and you were the

city of Sacramento's new assembly member, and it has, we have almost 99% of the

time been on the right side. It has been a pleasure as a staff member, as a

school board member, and now as your colleague to do battle with you, do battle

against you, but always know that you come from a place of your heart. It was

very poignant last week when you said that you have a fight between your heart and

your head, because I've never heard you say that, and I'm not sure you've ever

experienced that. So that really does lend to a testament that you have led with

your heart of trying to do the right thing by so many people for so often,

which sometimes gets you in trouble, but you have never shied away with

leaning with your heart. And I think that is having been around a long time and

watch how people change. You have never changed in that, and that's something I

hope you take comfort in. You did not let your titles change you. You kept true

to yourself and true to who you served in the public. So thank you for your

over three decades of public service. That is not an easy feat, and that is a

true calling to public service for the greater good that I hope you take time

for yourself. Julie and you should go on more vacations. And truly, truly do

things for you from the heart instead of everybody else from your heart. So

congratulations. I know your time and public service is not over, but I look

forward to whatever future endeavor you are involved in. Congratulations. And I'll

just quickly know that this is why Daryl is the better chair. I of course

forgot to play the video first. So I think we'll play it after the words.

Council over time. Mayor Steinberg, you know, I first thought I would

like to say thank you. You know, I met you when I was a staffer here, young

staffer, you know, for North Sacramento. And I always admired how you navigate

and work and support diversity, culture, youth, arts, and also mental health, and

support to our most marginalized and vulnerable communities. You know, I'm

honored and proud to say that I am able to serve with you on Council, City Council.

I still remember our conversation in 2022. It was at the Hope Center and it was

during the long year and you approached me and you say, Sean Town, you should

run for Council one day. And I said, Mayor, I am too young. I am not married.

And but I'll think about it, you know, and lo and behold, in 2024, I am sitting

on the same Dias as you, you know, I am only able to do so much in my

short-time on Council because of your guidance and your support. You know, I enjoy

our monthly meetings and discussion together about North Sacramento, District 2,

and how best practices of how we can improve the community. You know, and I

want to say North Sacramento loves you, Mayor. When you show up, our community

spaces light up and we all want to take a photo with you. So, so North

Sacramento loves you, Mayor Steinberg, and thank you for your services to the

City, to Sacramento, to Public Service.

Oh, man, Mayor. Yesterday I did an Instagram video where I asked the Mayor 10

questions and it was rapid fire. So, if you haven't had a chance to see it, yeah,

make sure to send it your way. But Mayor, Darryl Steinberg, what do I say about you?

Six years and six months here at City Hall with you. First is the Chief of Staff

and now is a Council member. I still remember meeting you at the 2018 March for

our Lives Rally and one of my friends said, that's the Mayor. Go say hi to him.

You need his endorsement. And I was like, who, what? And so I think I jumped over

a big bus to like get to you because you were walking away or some steps at the

Capitol and you turned around and you said, hi, you shook my hand and I was so

nervous and you were just so kind. You shook my hand and said, hi, nice to meet you.

It says something nice and walked away and you made me feel like a matter. And

just that moment, you were a good person and one thing I've learned in life is

like people will always remember how you made them feel. Not like what policy

you discussed or your first interaction. People will always remember how you made

them feel. And that moment on the Capitol steps, like you just made me feel like I

mattered. And that's my first interaction with you, you and your big heart. And

then you supported me for the school board and I was to the moon, a little on me

like making our way to the school board. And now I'm here as a second year

Council member and one year of leadership under my belt, thanks to you, giving

me this this opportunity and I'm extremely thankful and just grateful. I've

learned so much more on this in this role than I ever could have imagined. And I

can just say like having a former Senate pro-10 leader and mayor on my phone on

speed dial is pretty cool. You really are a wealth of knowledge. You're so funny. His

dad jokes are just perfect. His popcorns, his pop corn, his craves, you're just like a

character. So if you see him doing stand-up comedy in Sacramento, do not be

surprised. And you know, you inspire us to dream big, to think big picture. When

the answer is no, you just get creative. If someone doubts Sacramento, man, you push

back and you get creative and you prove people wrong. When people are

divided, you find your bus to find consensus and you lead with love and

compassion. And I think everybody sees through that. And that's why you truly

are a public servant. In middle school, was it middle school or high school?

Middle school? You were both. Middle school and high school. He was voted most

likely to succeed. And your classmates probably had a good read of you because look

at you now. So my question to you is where are you going to place all these fancy

awards? Are you still going to be watching council meetings eating your popcorn?

Julie. And we're really just going to miss you. Thank you for inspiring us to

dream big. And you've truly just made an impact in my life and in Sacramento and

in the state of California.

Mayor Steinberg. I first met you. I don't remember if you remember the first time we met.

It was 14 years ago. I was a brand new advocate for nonprofit civil rights law

firm. And the first thing I learned I was literally fresh out of grad school. Was

that like most lawmakers don't meet with you when you work for a nonprofit at the

Capitol because it's hard to get their attention. And I remember though the pro

Tim of the Senate said yes to a meeting with us because he cared about the issues

we were working on. And we actually sat and talked to you about issues for a while.

And that continued when I left working in state advocacy. I was organizing, started

doing state local organizing work and I did a food stamp challenge where you have to

eat on the budget of someone who has food stamps for a week. And I was doing this press

conference and we're like oh let's invite the pro Tim. We don't know if he's going to

come and you came. And I use these examples because you showed me then when I was first

starting out in my own professional world that it was possible to be in politics and still

be a person with your passions with heart that I couldn't believe like in my mind. I

just assumed you get to that level of leadership and you lose that. So in a way you're a little

bit responsible for who I am today. So you're welcome for all the headaches I've given you.

You showed me that it was possible to be successful and to represent your community and

to not lose sight of who you were and why you were doing it. And that was a lesson that

I've taken and and it's similar as my colleagues have just said it's still kind of surreal to

me that I sit up here with you because like you were always the guy that I was lobbying

and seeing and the hearings and doing the thing and then when I got sworn in it was like

oh like this is odd. But I just hope you know that I told somebody recently that I'm

like you know whether or not you agree with the mayor always and I haven't always right

you can't deny your ability to bring people together to build real big solutions. Like

you are the one we want on the grandstand cheering Sacramento right like you were the one

like that not many people can do this role well and you had that personality and not effect

on people and I saw I mean you can't go anywhere with you in town it's not just district

two it's like you try to get coffee with the man you try to like see hide him at a golf

tournament and there's people walking up saying hey mayor it's like you are beloved across

the city and you really provided I think important leadership and unity and at time when

the city really needed that and so I'm grateful that you took the time to do this I know there's

a lot of things you probably could have done when you left the senate and you chose this

and I might never understand why but I can say that I'm grateful for it and I'm grateful

for the time that I've gotten to work with you as a colleague and the relationship that

we've built the respect that I have for you and that will continue and your impact in

the city and in my life personally but in the city broadly will will continue so thank you

here well you know mayor first first I have to actually start by looking out to the audience

and and thanking Julie for sharing yes big round of applause thank you for that and and and

sharing you know you know Darrell with us in so many ways and I and I mean that from just

even the neighborhood level and I think back and when I first you know met Darrell

in our mayor it was 23 years ago you know and you didn't have the mustache but it was it was

all you know full set of black hair at the time and it was a college student you know at

sax day with a bunch of angry college students coming to see you about making sure that you were

paying attention to all of us and I think about that that time because through all that time all

of those years of public service there you we can attribute a lot of things to you to your work

you know amazing things that have changed Sacramento the legislation that led to the Golden One

Center you know the all of the career pathways on education I mean people don't know that on

career tech education you put together some of the legislation that have transformed some of our

our higher education through SB 375 that has changed their entire states way of how we look at

planning and land use it and their impacts and when I think about all those actually I'm more

inspired by you know the time I was handed you know this box of documents when I you know decided

to volunteer for the neighborhood association and I think about it because 23 years ago you were

my council member a little more than 23 years ago my council member and but when I got that box

of documents and I started sifting through them to figure out okay well how are we going to put

this meeting agenda I found the articles of incorporation for the Tahoe Park neighborhood

association and it was signed by Darrell Steinberg the first president of the neighborhood association

so and and when I saw that I looked at some of the things that you guys were talking about improving

the park revitalizing the town the colonial theater addressing a vacant building and a lot that

is now you know we're going to be groundbreaking tomorrow at that lot and and it was interesting

to see all of the neighborhood activities that we have been working on today including Aggie

Square Instructor Ballard so and all of those things would be great to see over the last 23 years

not only when you became an assembly member but when you became a senator but in all of those

great things are legacy projects that's fine but the thing that I would say that truly

you were leaving a legacy and was part of what we did last time last week and when we recognize

thousand strong and everyone who's come to work for you you've created a legacy of leaders

former council members mayors policy leaders people who have changed California who are now

all leading also federal and national entities you've left the legacy of people who wanted to change

things and I have to say it comes down to back when you and Julie started that neighborhood association

in Tahoe Park so I wanted to you know thank you for not forgetting the neighborhood the district

and even when I go to Milano's pizza they always say you know mayor Steinberg had his election

party at Milano's pizza on 60th and 14th Avenue you know as much as all of the awards you've

gotten great but I think those years from creating that leadership movement with the people in

the community and leaving a lasting legacy for change has been the most inspiring for me since the

day it was a college student and even today as a mayor congratulations on a great tenure and

looking forward to Julie having you back you know for the next 23 years or more yeah and more

congratulations

so I'll just tag on to the legacy of leaders because I we met first if I got my timeline right

in 1996 when I was running for the school board along with jationere Karen Young and Mani Hernandez

the late mani Hernandez and it was you who kind of helped us to look up to someone who was in a

position of leadership and someone who we could aspire to be more like and for many of us at that

point in time that was the first level of leadership that we had ever gotten into it was a critical

time for our city and you were there to talk to us and help us to make sure that we understood what

we were stepping into and so I know you as a legacy leader I also know you as a man of commitment

a man of action with decades of service if I stop with the service and just take a look

city council state assembly state senate state senate president pro tem 56 mayor of city of Sacramento

decades of service and when I look in the mirror I had to look at you even though you're a

young and an I am I had to look at you and say I want some of that for me and it started with the

city council I mean it started with the school board and then it came to the city council and I was

blessed that you gave me the opportunity to serve as your first vice mayor when you first came on

because then I got close and up with you to be able to learn more about you and how you led

and how I could get some of that for myself right and so you became a mentor I watched you as a

father and as a husband as as a man of faith I've just watched you in every single thing that you've

done and it's helped me to become the leader that I know you are and that I want to be I also know

you as a man who is willing to help others and who has a wealth of knowledge and someone that you

can go to on any subject if I knock on your door you give me the greatest gift that you can give

anybody which is a gift of time and you always make time for me and I know it's not just me now

because when I go into the office the office is always filled with people and I have to wait my turn

right but I know you always make time for all of us no matter what the case may be and so

whenever I need a sounding board I know that you're there whenever I'm looking for advice I know

that you're there for that so you are not only a mentor but you are father figure and I appreciate

that because you're a father figure and a husband to Jordan and I think they're here tonight I

know Julia's here tonight I don't know okay there we go there we go there we go okay but I mean

I know that they are very proud of their father you know and that you spent the time with them

that you give us it may not have been in the midnight hours or the late hours but during the day

we get you and night they get you and so it's just been an incredible run for you I've really enjoyed

your leadership I run I love how you run meetings how you try to keep it together and sometimes

you most times you do I mean I will say most times you do but there are times when not only you all

of us we get off off track right and so I can't point the finger to anybody because when I point

the finger out to anybody else I have point three fingers at myself so we all we're all guilty of it

but for the most part you do an incredible job have done an incredible job and so I just want to

thank you for your leadership over the many years and I wish you the very best on whatever decisions

that you make going forward but I want you to know as for me and my family we're going to always

be there for you and your family we'll always be there support and love so congratulations

okay Mayor I will try to keep it short we have a long agenda tonight I am so grateful to have

had the opportunity to serve alongside you and to let my 16 siblings and my family know that I

got to serve alongside Darrell Steinberg I think all of us that's something when you leave we know

that that's something that we have in our own lived history that we can say that we had the

opportunity to serve alongside someone like you the people of Sacramento so fortunate to have had

you as a public servant in this region I shared in previous City Council meetings that you know

you have the battle scars to to show us right everything that you've gone through to make the city

better and you also embody the type of leadership visionary leadership that a lot of young elected

like myself look up to I've learned so much watching you watching how you move and get things done

during my four years here at City Council and something I just I want to share with you is also like

teach thank you for for teaching me how to harness my fire and not blow up everything all the time

I remember you sharing with me that even if I have my five votes do I want to alienate my colleagues

my current answer is still yes

I'm still learning I'm a young elected um but you're always reminding me about staying in the

fight for the long game if I really want to make structural change and that's something that I've

reflected on a lot during my four years here um on City Council um I think I think all my

colleagues have said it that you've been an incredible mentor to to so many of us um the one-on-one

conversations um I mean I all of us I admire you I mean your legacy the work that you've done

from thousand strong to the mental health work that you've done um to just change in the

arch of the city to creating the first ever racial equity committee standing committee to center

to center that work and be serious about that work we're going to miss you I'm going to miss you

I don't think you get enough credit for the coalitions that you build the type of tough

conversation that needs to happen and when you're in those rooms you're able to bring people together

that takes a certain skill set I don't have that skill set because I just sometimes want to burn

things down but we need people who who could bring people together mayor um and we're going to I'm

going to miss you but lastly I just I just also want to say you know thank you for also just

teaching me that our personal lives is just as important as our public service when I say that as

someone who recently just got married um thank you for loving on me in Omar and reminding us that

we also need to make time for each other and our families um and so thank you for everything you're

going to be miss and congratulations on your legacy yes so I think it might be appropriate maybe

first play the video and then we'll we'll hear from our mayor

here's Stineberg you are two champions for Sacramento if Boston nature

of dementia and a friend your leadership has brought us the downtown arena and the promise of a

new South of Satan in the real yards paving the way for a brighter future your commitment to

inclusivity and celebrating our diversity is your lasting legacy thank you for shaping a city that

stronger and more united for all of us uh Darrell thank you for 30 years of service to our community

uh when I think of Darrell Steinberg I think of service and generosity when you get elected mayor

I've still knew in this job and people are still evaluating whether or not I should be a leader

they respected and you always validated me and I want to thank you for that congratulations

mr. mayor thank you from all of us in Sacramento Republic what you've done for our club uh

will be from remembered forever uh it was eight incredible years that it took to get it done

but we got it over the line we couldn't have done it without you thank you thank you thank you

your a legend for all time on behalf of both the LGBTQ and arts and cultural communities

I would like to thank you for your years of leadership and support on our behalf

thanks to your steadfast support Sacramento's LGBTQ community is thriving and after the

coach shut down you literally saved the arts we'll always remember you as one of Sacramento's greatest

I am mr. Steinberg this is Steve Martin from Twin Rivers I just want to congratulate you on a

wonderful run as mayor of Sacramento and just want to thank you for being such a great friend

partner together we've done some amazing things I wish you the best and again thank you for all your

support hi Darrell well I lived in Brooklyn there was a group that went around Brooklyn and New

York City in what they called mitzvah tanks doing good deeds and when I think of the mitzvah of you

I think it's a completely different scale you're like a mitzvah aircraft carrier or something

because you've just brought goodness in so many places and ways to so many of us you know when I

think of you I think of you as sort of the first glimmer or a raise of hope dawning for so many

programs and services across our state and across our city hello mayor Steinberg we just wanted to

say a big thank you for your dedication and leadership in the city of Sacramento the impact you have

provided has helped many people on behalf of Lafamina Townsland Center we wanted to say thank you

for your belief in our opportunity center and the heart that you put into your role as mayor we wish you

nothing but success yes yes mayor Steinberg has it really been eight years done feel like eight years so

much has happened on your watch I think about the expansion of the safe credit union convention center

I think about how you were so instrumental in bringing the Golden Sky Country music festival to

Sacramento I think about what you're doing an old Sacramento and how committed you've been to bringing

visitors into this economy and helping to benefit the people who live here we're grateful for all you've

done from a tourism standpoint you've been the first mayor that's really championed the visitor

economy and I think you've seen the benefits and the rewards of doing that so we wish you nothing but

the best moving forward thank you mayor Steinberg hi mayor I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude

for the amazing leadership you've given to the city of Sacramento over these last eight years

I'm especially grateful for how you have led policy on housing and homelessness and for

always thinking of every member of our community I'm excited for what's to come and I wish you all the best

mayor Steinberg on behalf of UC Davis and our entire Aggie community thank you for being such a great

friend I appreciate your incredible partnership especially around Aggie Square you've been deeply

committed to bringing it to life from day one together we've shown what cooperation and

partnership are capable of building thank you for your vision your collaboration and your

enduring public service we couldn't be proud to call you at UC Davis along

thank you thank you I usually get choked up but I think it's really hard to hear all this and

watch all that and not just be overwhelmed with gratitude with gratitude you know I spent

an hour so yesterday looking at looking for good quotes I was trying to find a good quote I found

one for later but but you know I obviously found the Teddy Roosevelt but I looked at Lincoln

Churchill FDR Susan B Anthony Caesar Chavez and I finally said you know what I don't want to do that

there's nothing more profound than just wanting to speak from your heart and that's what I would

like to do with my few minutes tonight I wish I could thank everybody by name but I start with

my colleagues by name because we're a family too and you matter all so much to me my van

keep fighting and you know sometimes things need to be blown up before they can be put back together

it's okay great Rick Jennings coach brings such peace and sanity and conscience to our body here thank

you Eric Gettah who champions so many important things I'm thinking now about what our immigrant

and refugee communities are facing in the months and the years ahead and how you were ahead of the

curve around the fuel network and so much more thank you friend Meyer you and Katie Maple you know

I didn't know as well as I wish I had before she got elected and like with Sean Tau but even more

because I've gotten to work with you now for two years I am so overwhelmingly impressed with you

and who you are and the leadership that you bring I just can't wait to continue watching

um passion the smarts and also the heart thank you and I've spoken about a couple of my colleagues

already but let me repeat Katie Valenzoy thank you and Karina Tala Montes I feel the same you know you

come from community you come from the community and you know today we were talking about community

benefits agreements and whether or not the community voices represented and I know there's a lot of

middle ground on that and we'll figure it out in the future but you represent what it means to come

from the community and choose to to lead and you like vice mayor Maple such passion such

smarts and such a love for not only your district but the city can't wait to watch you too as you

go forward thank you and Sean and Lisa Kaplan oh yes I've known for so many years

admire your intellect and your pluck and your fight and and your commitment to public service young

family and you continue to choose to take on these hard roles and to serve and I look

in front of watching you continue to do good and great things as well thank you and our charter

officers here from Howard who said it before has been an indispensable partner and everything that

I've been able to accomplish that we've been able to accomplish and through rough rough rough times

a good man who loves this city and manages with great skill I'm grateful to you man for the good

times and even some of the rough times right because it got us to the good times and our other charter

officers Mindy Kepi thank you for being such a calm presence next to me and and taking me out of

the business of saying your time is up and for leading in such an important way in such an

important role thank you we shared this day us together as is on al-Qaala thank you I love your

heart and the way you lead the city attorney too I love that you fight for the city and I

appreciate so much how much you stood up for me when some from the outside attacked pretty hard

without much of a legal basis and and we'll leave it at that but thank you you're a fighter

and a fighter for the city with a great mind to boot and John Colvo sitting out there and

Frisch Darbury and Latisha Watson thank you all very very much for for leading as well all the

department directors the the city staff the tremendous city staff the community do you want to

talk about in in a few moments my incredible staff I mean people ask me what's your favorite part

of the job and no offense to anybody around the day is because I love everybody but my favorite

part of the job is coming to work every single day and being greeted by a team that by definition

is on your side and they're helping you fight for what you came to get elected to do that's so much

fun to be working in collaboration with the group of people who you know who share your passion

and I can't name all of you but we had a party at the house a few weeks ago and most of your

ability come and I'm forever grateful to everybody who works for me and who has worked for not

for me with me to accomplish great things and I ain't leaving my family until last here because they

are sitting up there in their front row you know it was 1992 until the story often March of 1992

when I was president of that neighborhood association and Julie and I were newly married

and we got a call at 10 30 at night the night before the filing deadline for Kim Mueller's re-election

and she called to say that that day she had gotten a letter in the mail that said she was admitted

to Stanford Law School and not be running for re-election and so she said am I asked me if I

would be interested in running so I turned it Julie we had been married nine months like

to each other she said why not sounds like a interesting adventure and so I literally decided

overnight to run for public office even though I had thought about it a little bit before and we

did it the way all of you did it knocked on those doors and it has been quite the journey I'm

grateful to you Julie and now maybe we're going to get some more time together which is going to

be great although moth to the flame you know as they say I always love you and my kids

Jordana who is not here my daughter who lives in Los Angeles so proud of her and Ari my son

and my new daughter Cassidy they just got married five weeks ago and Cassidy's mom's

Chris Jensen and Diane Beller my family I I'm so glad you are all here today I love you

all very very much I just want to say this about this experience from my heart whatever

I have given to the city it has given much more to me whoever I have been able to help along the way

my great staff which I mentioned all the public servants who make up the city team you my colleagues

friends supporters and even my detractors you have helped me more than I could have ever

helped you there is a season for everything in life and I have been blessed with 28 full seasons

28 years of elected public service in a variety of really important responsibilities and I said

I had one quote and it's a paraphrase from Churchill I love to read all those biographies he said

I know history will treat me kindly because I intend to write it well others others will write the

history of my time and our time here but I know this I know I've done my best and I know what I've

done and we have done together I know that how much different and worse these unending crises

would have been if we hadn't chosen for example to stand up nearly 1500 new homeless beds every single

night in the city and established a department of community response I know what we have done

together to continue growing our city even in these difficult times and the big and small projects

we have landed not just in the downtown but through all parts of our city I know what we have

done both at the day S and in the community to bridge divides that have torn apart many other cities

especially during COVID and what I call the rightful racial reckoning I know what we have done to not

get there but to insist that everything we do and we'll talk about this in a few moments have

has an equity an racial equity lens because a city that grows for just some but doesn't pay

attention to all is not even a good city much less a great city I know that this I know what

it takes to govern a city with rich diversity both in its culture and its backgrounds and diversity

in its points of view it's called governing and it's often messy and it often leaves people

displeased but it leads to really my my parting thought not just for my colleagues but for the

public and especially for young people who are wondering whether or not it's really worth it

is it worth it I mean I know that we have political diversity but the results of this last election

the national election are pretty disparaging to me and to so many so what do we do about this this

is what I know after decades of wins and losses some great highs and some and some real lows some

tough conversations and progress yes progress too slow for the enormity of the challenges that so

many people face I still tell young people that there's nothing more important than to get engaged

and try to move the immovable no matter how you choose to do it as an elected official as an

activist as a community leader try to move the immovable it's worth it it's worth it because breakthroughs

actually happen it's worth it because you get a front row seat to watching people in communities grow

and help one another it's worth it because if you choose to get engaged you get to experience a

much more meaningful and full life I leave with the same three pieces of advice that I've told my

kids and every young person that I get the privilege to meet there are three keys to life that with

a little dose of luck will almost guarantee you that you're going to have a good life work hard

there's no substitute for hard work as a politician as a policymaker as a community leader hard work

wins the day be kind this is the hardest thing about politics people ask me you know all the time

the rap out too nice for politics I would say I'm not that nice really but but but beside that

you do not have to be unpleasant or rude or angry at people all the time in order to maintain

your principles and your values the society is desperately in need of more civility that doesn't

mean more agreement or or or acquiescing to somebody else's point of view that you don't agree with

and by the way I filter out the haters the bigots they have no place in any any of it but for the

people who are not that way who have different points of view about our community about our city

even about our country we can and I hope my career has maybe shown a little bit of the way

we can get great things done that are consistent with our values and at the same time

and at the same time appreciate someone else's point of view even become friendly and friends

with somebody who has a different point of view and find ways to work together to try to get more

done on behalf of the things we care about and the people that we care about and third of course

in life is care about something other than yourself that means the community that means get engaged

that means take on some community service that's consistent with your heart and that connect your

heart and your head because the world needs you my generation I'm 65 years old and I still got a

long ways to go but we've done some things right and we've messed up a lot of things and so who's

going to write the wrongs who's going to pay attention to the things that we either didn't get to

or didn't get right it's got to be you and if you don't do it you're leaving it to somebody else

as a completely different point of view than you to come on in and and and do it their way which may

not be the right way and so this is a great city and as long as we fight for what we believe in

but also build bridges our best days are yet to come because we've built an incredible foundation

these last eight years that take it and grow it grow it in different ways grow it in new ways

grow it in your own way the new mayor and the new city council but grow it grow it inclusively

for everybody that's the sacrament do I love it's been a privilege thank you so much and I want to

also thank my welcome my cousin David who I forgot to introduce him thank you David thank you everybody

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Thank you very much.

The City Council is back in session after a brief recess.

We thank you everyone who's here for official city business for your patience tonight.

May the spirit of the last hour carry over for the next couple of hours.

And I predicted it will.

Let us take first the consent calendar and let me ask,

are there any items that members would like to speak on or vote on separately?

We got Councilman Gettä.

Number eight council mayor.

Got you very good.

Anybody else?

Mayor me, even though I punched up, I'm nameless today.

Okay, yes.

Just item eight and ten.

Eight and ten.

Okay, was anyone else punched up that?

I had a 10.

40.

What?

You can just walk the wall tonight and have two.

Okay.

Yes, my last meeting.

Here it is.

Did anybody else?

Okay.

So let's hear from members of the public on the consent calendar.

Then we'll hear from the members and take a motion.

Thank you.

I have four speakers on consent.

The first is Arthur Scotland and item six.

Sheer Lane on nine.

Lambert on 25 and then Macquarie on three.

I'm meeting your respect.

Members and city council and staff.

I am Arthur Scotland.

I'm speaking in support of consent item number six.

And thank you for the opportunity to thank the department of youth parks and community enrichment as well as the parks and community enrichment commission for both recommending that this

council approve the naming of William Land Park baseball diamond five as Kenneth and Tilly Scotland field, which is consistent with what the council has done in past years when it's approved the naming of four other

fields in that park for individuals.

And I want to thank council member Jennings who when the matter came before the commission, I was told that you supported that proposal and that of course is in your district and I appreciate that very much and I have a special thanks for mayor Steinberg who just wrote from very outside just a lovely thoughtful very kind

of understanding that we are supporting the naming for my parents who had a long standing commitment to trying to enhance our community in many many different ways.

As the as your report shows they lived in Land Park for over 60 years, one block away from Land Park and they spent a lot of time, a lot of energy and a lot of money supporting Land Park, little league and other community enrichment programs really mostly towards children, for example, the second of children's home, the second

grand and the then 2030 club which had a mission to help the lives improve the lives of children. So if this is approved, my wife and I are committed to paying for the cost of the plaque and the sign and also the installment of that and also we are will make a very generous donation to the city for the rehabilitation and the maintenance of the field.

So if you're comments your time is complete. So thank you for your consideration and I am hopeful that you'll approve it. Thank you, Justice Scott.

Sheeral Lane, then Lambert. Hi, my name is Sheeral Lane. I'm with atrium 916. We are creative innovation center for sustainability. We are the intersection of an arts organization and environmental organization and economic development organization.

Thank you, Katie Valenzuela for sharing both our passion for the environment and for all your work that you have done in these last four years.

And I want to thank Mayor Steinberg for the amazing work that you have done for the creative community here in Sacramento.

You have led us through one of the darkest times that have been for the arts that we have had to close and we wouldn't be here without you.

Thank you. Thank you so much and thank you to this whole council. I really appreciate it on the topic of nine, which is what I'm supposed to be talking about.

I just want to say thank you for granting us this grant. We do have an incubator and accelerator program for local Sacramento creatives. They make products like this. This bag is actually made out of in a tube tires.

We help local creatives make products here that are sustainable and that are focused on the circular economy.

The circular economy is all about working how we design out waste. And I really want to thank you for your support and helping more local creatives build businesses that will build the micromanufacturing here in Sacramento.

Thank you so much. Thank you for your comment. Lambert on 25. Lambert on item 25, then Mac, where the item three.

I'm speaking on number 25 and it talks about ethics. I've been to a lot of commissions and the ethics is one of them.

And so I figure I can use ethics to pay my respect to the three people that are leaving starting with Sean, you are an incredible inspiration to someone like me because you took a chance on us during the North Sacramento Centennial Festival.

And I don't and it's very liberating actually to challenge City Hall. So I wish you well, I believe there's things you and I can do that have nothing to do with City Hall.

It's away from City Hall that you and I can work. So I've reached out to you. I'm going to reach out to you again and to end with Mayor Steinberg.

I heard about the MyWook winning since Mayor has been here, Grant High School has won many championships. We just won and won last Friday at Hugh Stadium.

And we had to come back and get that one late. And that's how people from Del Paso Heights are, especially Grant Paces. We know how to operate under pressure and we know how to deliver it when it's really on the line.

And to end at the convention center, the Cheesecakes were featured at the last convention last Friday and it went viral.

Thank you for your comments. Mac Worthy is our next speaker.

Good afternoon.

This thing I say, your problem is your charter. Here's the treacher sitting up there. There's the city manager that never make a report here. Isn't that violation of the Brown Act?

I'm going to eat a three. I'll be here for many, many more times in your face.

Very have no more speakers on the consent calendar.

I need a moment. Okay. All right. All right. Yes. Okay.

I'd like to make we have Councilmember Kaplan and Councilmember Gettah.

Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank our city staff and call out appreciation for going for the Cal Transportation.

And it also calls out while this is only 700,000. We need to invest a lot more in transit in our infrastructure.

This is the beginning, but another call out that we at the city need to prioritize infrastructure and do more.

Thank you, Mayor. Mayor, I'll go ahead and move the consent calendar and also an item number eight provide also some direction here.

One of the key components here on the transit needs part is identify what the city and SacrT can do to reach 11% of transit mode shift.

I do believe that because of the nature of being able to actually produce BRT on Stockton Boulevard where it's city, county and RT multigerstiction.

It's important for the city to stay take an aggressive leadership on finding how we can actually move that from just planning stage to the next implementation stage and you know 700,000 isn't a lot of money, but we're never going to get BRT in the rest of the region or from

the airport or any other place if we can't get our first test pilot off the road.

So want to move that item and provide some direction that let's submit this project. Let's hope this, we'll hope we get selected and also to make sure that we take that leadership role because I worry that a multi agency in a multi agency scenario.

This could kind of fall through the cracks as well. So that's that's my motion and thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I moved in seconded. Let's move though to item 10, right? And as Councillor Member Kaplan and Councillor Member Tau.

I'm honored to share this project with Council Member Tau of it's the revitalization of Norwood both north and south of the 80 and I really just want to thank all the hard work and staff and time that has been put into this.

And the fact that say cog has agreed to earmark funding once the first steps are completed. So I am encouraging staff. Let's get those first steps completed. Let's make sure that say cog is good on their word for funding this and move a little, little quicker so that the funding doesn't get taken away. But thank you for all your hard work on on this project.

Thank you, Mayor. Just want to echo my colleague, Councillor Kaplan on this. I just want to commend staff on this project particularly and on the Norwood corridor with improvements and the funding that's available as well as you know there's a lot of great projects on the Norwood mobility corridor right now. There's also a study with our public works department.

So I wanted to highlight that as well and also the safety of that corridor. There was an accident on Bell and Bell and Norwood two, three weeks ago and senior citizen passed.

And so you know we hope with this ADA improvements with lights we get additional lighting to improve that corridor as well. And so I wanted to echo great job on staff and let's get a move on this project.

21. So I want to commend DCR Hope Cooperative on the OEC center in my district. You know when you talk about good neighbor policy this has been an amazing project in the district where you don't have that many complaints from neighbors.

And this is something that we have this project or this program help us serve our most on house and so definitely wanted to highlight the success of this and you know definitely want to see a replicate throughout the city as well. Thank you.

Thank you to DCR. It's really important department of the city making a difference. All right. We have a motion and a second on the consent calendar. All in favor please say aye.

I opposed abstain that passes unanimously. We now go to the public hearings. We have one tonight. It's item 28. This is the approval of the proposed budget for SHRA and adopting a multi-family loan schedule. Good evening.

Mayor Steinberg members of the city council. I'm Irene De Jong director of finance at the SHRA and I'm pleased to provide a brief overview of our 2025 proposed budget for the agency.

Our next year's budget is balanced at 419 million of total revenues. We're projecting that about 72% or approximately 302 million will come from the federal sources and the remainder of the revenue sources about 28% or 117 million will come from the state and local resources.

In terms of our proposed expenditures we're estimating that 327.1 million will be spent in 2025 primarily majority of the funds will be committed towards the HAP payments which is housing assistance payments at almost 200 million followed by the capital projects at about 61.2 million salaries and benefits at almost 34 million followed by services and supplies at about 23.3.

Public services at 5.8 and then debt service at 2.3 and financial transactions at almost 1 million.

Just a brief comparison of the four years of our budget expenditure trends is you could see we're coming back to the pre-COVID levels of spending when we compare the four years as compared with the current budget 2025 versus 2024.

We're going to see a slight increase in our expenses primarily this is attributed to the housing assistance payments increase and that would translate in the variance of about 1.4 million or 0.4%.

When we take a look closer at our major programs the housing assistance payments in terms of the revenues and expenses for the 10-year trend you could see that there certainly have been increases and those are especially significant since the COVID years.

The amounts are really primarily based on the fact that the housing costs are so significant and they have grown quite a bit since 2020 and also this is related to the high utilization of vouchers that our team really works on tirelessly.

One additional point here just wanted to make that as we transition some of the units from our public housing portfolio into the Rad program the rental assistance demonstration program those units will be eligible for the voucher so we're likely to see this trend continuing in the upcoming years.

And then the next slide provides the public housing side of the portfolio so as those units are coming off the portfolio you will see gradual decrease in this funding stream and again you could see the impact of the COVID funding on the overall funding picture here.

And so with that I will turn over the presentation to executive director Alicia Dosure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Alicia Dosure, executive director at S.H.A.

How are you doing, Mayor?

Give me that look.

So I'd like to provide some highlights about the big picture in terms of housing and what's going on at the federal and state level and the impact that that's going to have in terms of affordable housing here in Sacramento.

I'm going to start with the state because it's just easier. There's a lot going on at the federal government. I'll get on to that.

But at the state level governor Newsom continued his commitment towards affordable housing and funding for a billion dollars was put into resources to address housing affordability and homelessness.

The billion went into the homeless housing assistance and prevention program or H.H.A.P. Money. Those funds are critical for us in terms of maintaining the shelter system and network that we have.

500 million went to our low income housing tax credit program which is critical in terms of developing affordable housing and what we need in terms of the financing to create housing.

418 million went into the competitive supernova that the state puts out and that's another funding source for affordable housing that we use.

And then the $2.2 billion of the home key program. I really want to highlight that because we have been very successful in pulling down home key funding and projects here within the city and the county of Sacramento.

We currently have three home key projects that are under operation. We have three home key projects that are under construction.

And then the NOFA just dropped for next year's home key plus. And so we'll be looking at an additional two home key projects as well.

So a lot of great things continuing to happen at the state.

So now I want to just turn our attention to the federal update on housing. So as many of you know, we are dealing with a continuing resolution for fiscal year 2025.

So that means the appropriations have not been made by Congress. That is due to expire on December 20th.

If they do not reach a budget by December 20th, which I'm pretty sure that that's not going to happen, then we're looking at a CR that's going to take us into next year.

If we're what we're hearing is that maybe in around May of next year, we might get our appropriations.

If not, we may look at a whole year of operating under a CR. And so what does that mean for us here locally?

That means that we're the funding we receive is frozen at the previous level of fiscal year 24.

And so that doesn't help obviously because our costs continue to go up. We continue to have additional expenses.

And so I'll talk a little bit later in terms of how we're addressing that within our budget.

In addition, as you know, there's been a huge impact locally on our voucher system.

We are in a shortfall situation where the costs of the vouchers have continued to go up at such a pace that there wasn't enough money that was appropriated.

So what HUD has done is essentially reappropriated funds from all these other accounts just to make up the difference for all of the hundreds of housing authorities like ourselves who really need additional funding to cover all of our costs for those families who are participating under the program.

So as we move forward, it's trying to figure out exactly how HUD is going to address it because they have reappropriated money from other accounts.

In addition to that, they have actually gone to housing authorities and swept their reserves and used that money.

And as we move into the next year of fiscal year 25, when we were talking with the HUD secretary and the staff, their concern was that they really had, you know, rated all of their accounts.

And there is no cushion for fiscal year 25. So we are really kind of on pins and needles to really determine exactly what that will mean for a billion dollar operation like HUD with not having that normal cushion.

In addition to that, during the pandemic, we received emergency housing vouchers, EHV vouchers.

And that helped us get hundreds of people off of the streets and into housing.

It was a 10-year funding reserve that was set aside. But what we have learned is that they anticipate given the cost of housing going up, that that is only going to take us through 2026.

So that's pretty alarming in the fact that we were counting on that funding for a 10-year cycle and it's going to end much sooner.

So that's one of the things that we really have to continue to educate our congressional representatives at the federal level, how critical it is.

Number one, to have a budget and to make sure that that budget covers things like these EHV vouchers that impact us here back and sacramental.

Then there's other issues that are going on. I'll kind of go skip over those because I know you have a long agenda tonight.

So I will value your time. But there's all kinds of different changes. I guess the long and short of it at HUD is that we're really in a wait and see mode to see exactly how the new administration will approach the policy issues and the funding issues for HUD.

And it's still unknown. So we will be working to monitor that.

So then how we dealt with this as far as our budget. Our budget is extremely conservative in terms of our funding because there are so many uncertainties and so many things that are unknown.

We have taken a very conservative approach. We will feel positions only as absolutely necessary until we have a much better picture as to what our funding looks like.

We will be leaning heavily on technology as a way for us to continue to get the work done and to provide service to our landlords as well as all of the residents that we serve.

I serve on national housing advocacy groups that really are pushing very, very hard to ensure that HUD continues to exist.

Number one, and number two, to fund it at the appropriate level.

The last issue here that I also wanted to highlight is the 10 year road map for public housing. We are constantly working on adding more units, adding more units.

But at the same time, we have to make sure that we preserve our existing housing stock. So this 10 year road map that I am co-chairing is looking at what is the national need for public housing?

What is that number? And for us to be able to use all of the data that we have collected as a part of the rental assistance demonstration program and to then feed that into a model that says this is the number that we really should be operating at versus the funding that we have been given, which has fallen short of what is needed to maintain the housing.

I mean, Mirisol Village is a great example of where we really got to the end of its useful life. And so we had to go ahead and tear it down and start all over and increase the number of units.

So this is another way for us to really come up with a number that is sustainable over a long period of time versus this low level of funding that we have seen.

So with that, that concludes my budget presentation. And I am available for any questions that you may have.

Sounds like some challenging times. It is very.

I have one speaker on this item, Mack Worthy.

I can laugh at this because it's coming. I'll be asking the president to freeze all funds to help because you're not.

I started right here and thought to show you a whole friend of mine deceased Bill Berger, but his son alive, a broker.

He could have put everybody want to have a supplement income. Your deeds would have been polite to what you want to put on and you would have had an income.

And you wouldn't have this problem. But you created this problem. This problem was created by agency.

Your house is no dream people. It's a deed. Utilize your equity instead of race equity. And that's your money. That's what it's about.

Instead of paying off your credit cards, you can file a bank account and get ready credit cards. Understand it going to be held down the road.

And I'm going to be right here in front of you and let you know I told you so.

Because you did not spend the money for housing that you should spend. People on the street that you took millions of dollars and abused that money right here.

We can't even get an outside audit. People don't worry about a nonprofit organization from Washington DC down. They're nonprofit organization.

So Iggly brought you here. Barnes. People. Taste the people what happened to bonds when you don't pay in saying on the principle.

Let them know you can have a house and don't pay only.

The press will and read the service down. Thank you for your comments. Mary. I have no more speakers.

All right. Let's turn it over to the members. Councilmember Valenzuela on this item.

Thank you. Mary.

Mayor for Tim Kalmontos gave me a talk. That's creating this vapor effect with my mask. So if it looks like I'm crying, I'm not.

I just have to keep my eyes.

Okay. You've said some like really important things in this presentation. And this is just about approving your budget.

And so I'm happy to open and close the public hearing and move the item because that's not.

And so we were talking about with this federal uncertainty is something that I just want to like highlight underscore bold, you know, a tall a size do whatever it needs to be done.

So people listen.

Because we already know that like public housing was kind of by a string already we didn't have a lot of money and we were struggling with maintaining our units.

I mean, I have to the largest affordable housing complexes in my district and we've got units without AC and people are trying to get things done.

It's not it's we just have the money to do it, which is why we're converting all these units, but it's not enough. We're not we were already not keeping it.

Two things you said cost of vouchers are going up, which is in part because of cost, right? Like labor costs and other costs, but is a big part because the rents have gone up so much.

And so the voucher doesn't go that far. You pay market rate. And so if market rates $2,000 when it was $1,000, that's money at the bank.

And then you also said something that I didn't hear you say before, which is that a 10 year fund that was started just a couple years ago is going to run out of funding in the next two years because of escalating housing cost.

And so I underline underscore these points because you're already in a very unsustainable situation and we know it's going to get worse because we've seen product 2025, right? And we know it's going to get worse.

So I think for me, and like this is part of like advice for you and the council that gets sworn in next week to really do a workshop in like Q1 2025 because I think what this council needs to be prepared for is for the worst and just to assume.

But this is also a policy question, because I think the point you raised raised about a 10 year plan, what do we need to do? It's never going to be sustainable of housing costs keep going up this quickly. It's just not.

And so that's a policy question, like you can only deal with the outcomes of the policy. I think giving this future council and board of supervisors those numerical, like I was a critic of the five year affordable housing plan that we did after measure O because our commitment was 2000 units a year, right?

Our 2000 units after five years now is like, well, that's the status quo. That's if the money doesn't change. That's not the level of need.

Like can your staff quantify for this council and board the level of need that exists now so that they're solving for the correct delta?

And are looking at the policy platform that's out there to not just try to raise money, but to actually put policies in place to build those units, protect those units, make sure those units stay affordable.

No, I really appreciate you highlighting those things. I know that I was going pretty fast, but these are very serious concerns.

And if you look at what is outlined in project 2025, it's devastating. It's absolutely devastating.

So I think that we have to have all hands on deck in terms of making sure that we protect what we have.

So I'm moving the item after opening closing public hearing, but I just I want to just emphasize, you know, maybe it's like your first meeting with incoming mayor, right?

And the new board of supervisors chair, like we need to do a workshop. You need to give them numbers. You need to arm them with the and the public with the tools also so that the public, which I will soon be a member of again, can start pushing with you to say we need these solutions.

I'm not just from the state legislature and the federal government, but here locally, what can we do to try to get ahead of this wave?

Because this is what I mean when I talk about progress is tenuous, right? Like we were so excited to see those point and time count numbers finally go down for the first time in a decade.

And we are on the precipice of potentially not seeing that in another year because if these numbers don't change and if we can't find these resources, not only will we lose some of that progress, more people are going to start losing their housing and we're going to keep falling further and further behind.

So that's my comment there not an uplifting one, but it's important warning really is councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you mayor. I too want to echo what councilmember valence whayless said. So I have no problem pushing next year that we do have a quarter one workshop because I've had this conversation with you.

I really want to appreciate your conservative attitude and outlook on the core services because of the unknown future and what is that future look like which we may know in a couple of months when it starts and I would like to have a map and a plan for how do we protect our most vulnerable with funding that is potentially going away and things that we've come to know is almost a norm.

That being a norm and what is that innovative process for protecting housing vouchers, you know, keeping people and housing and building more affordable housing knowing that the cost is going up and we don't necessarily have a lot of the gap financing available for that.

I think we have to have a different road map and what that looks like. So colleagues I urge you know you're talking to the new mayor and requesting that because this is part of as we look at lean times not only with our budget but with money coming from the federal government and then leaning on our state officials of how can they help us with some of the items but we need to look at prioritizing if cuts have to be made.

So what is most important and part of what I want to request from you is is we need to really see the data and understand what are our most successful your most successful programs.

Where are you getting where it's helping the most and like what does that look like because if we have to make hard decisions I'd like to make hard decisions based off of how can we protect and provide for the most knowing that hard decisions may need to be made.

Even though we don't want to make them I want to make them based off of education and data that shows how we should best make those.

Absolutely. Thank you.

We've got Councilman Gettah.

Thank you mayor. If I could add some direction also on this if for our city attorney and SHRA staff maybe if there could be at least a review through also county council to see if

with the absence of Congress actually acting on something if there are ways to legally defend ourselves from any kind of potential just administrative attempts or rollbacks or clawbacks that don't have that authority.

So I think it'd be important for us to be ready legally to join any kind of attacks on our the money that is issued to us the funds that are issued to us.

And you know if obviously of Congress acts then that's a different scenario but in that meantime in those early months I think it's important for us to be prepared legally.

So if we could use that as direction for our city attorney to sit down with this and the county council to figure out how we prepare for that.

Thank you mayor.

Thank you mayor. And just want to say thank you.

You know when I got my briefing I was pretty you know sad news but really appreciative of you being at the home during this time because I know that you're very involved at the state level and also at the federal level just making sure that you're in the rooms you know what's going on you're getting the information in advance to be able to so that we have the information we need to make decisions.

I really just want to agree with Councilman Valenzuela on the idea of a workshop happy to push for that with the new leadership both here at the city and at the county and I think it's really incumbent upon us to make sure that we have a plan in place.

We already do but what we can all do as in our positions to make sure that the folks who need the most have access to the housing that they need.

It's a big issue across the city it's really an issue in my district that I hear a lot about is the cost of housing and availability of housing.

And so we're going to keep pushing but just wanted to thank you for keeping us informed and and for for leading during a difficult time.

Thank you well.

I've heard it before about to say one more time imagine this next council and county board and community galvanizing around a 2026 ballot measure that focused on housing transportation public transportation and safe streets.

A winning combination about the quality of life that would actually give this community and your agency and all our other housing efforts.

The ability to actually make up for some of these potential losses and if the losses were able to fight back the losses at the federal level to be able to actually gain.

We should not be held hostage to other political results that are some that are beyond our control.

We have we have the ability in our community to go to the voter is something smart that really is about their quality of life and I hope that that is the at least a lead item in the workshop that I'm sure will occur in 2025.

So I don't know if I really want to end on such a down note.

We do have a short video. I don't know if you would like to see it is about four minutes and it really says some of the positive work and people who have benefited from all of the good things that you have approved.

Please. Okay.

Sure twice.

You the video.

This your staff have that Mindy.

That please play the video.

Driving doing real good if I could do it everyone else could do it no matter where you come for.

I don't have to worry about where I'm going to sleep. I was going to tent out on those little road and that's.

It's pretty bad area. I'm not saving all safety is a big thing for me and here I feel safe and secure.

I'm not very often that people who are out on the street get opportunities like this.

I feel extremely blessed and grateful to be here.

I didn't know anybody in California not one soul and you know I'm a Montana person so it was kind of you know culture shock.

I've been driving doing real good and that's because of this place so they actually actually care about you and your story.

You know like generally so.

I'm like was just different it's changing I woke up today saying today's going to be a different day a better day.

Do I have to figure out where I'm going to eat today or do I have am I going to have some more safe to be with my kid or do I have to stay up all night and you know watch my kid.

You guys have given me a chance to restart our line and to become.

The person that I've always wanted to be I've always wanted to be somebody that my daughter can look up to.

Most of the things such as like being able to feature credit get employment stay with the clinic and my goal to make all was that they provide help you with being able to purchase on Wednesday and many while parents.

And then all the people around me because I want them to know like there's things there's programs that we can use that we don't use because they're scared like you can't do it but I did it so if I could do it everyone else could do it no matter where you come from.

That sums it up doesn't it we've heard the public testimony there's a motion and a second to prove this budget with all of the admonitions and warnings and and and call to action.

All right all in favor please say aye I oppose abstain that measure passes thank you.

We now move to item 29 which is another SHRA item this one about it's hardworking employees.

Thank you. Good evening mayor and council members Jim sheels deputy executive director for SHRA.

The government code five four nine five three requires that prior to taking final action legislative body must early report a summary of the recommendation for final action on salaries.

Salary schedules or compensation paid in a form of fringe benefits of a local agency executive during the open meeting in which the final action is to be taken local action agency executives are defined in government code section 3511.

The agency's deputy executive director and directors meet the local agency executive definition.

That said the agency is requesting approval of changes to the salary schedule providing a automobile allowance for managers and a change in the longevity pay benefit for agency employees.

This concludes my summary oral presentation.

I have one speaker on this item. Oh yeah. Mr. Mcworthy.

Oh brother brother brother. Wow the Sacramento folks are so uneducated.

People may have basic may have you don't have to have a trick and jump street to understand this. This is Pimpy y'all.

Now they want to pay for the car. But how much is the people work and make per hour.

These are the things that you should be talking about approval. I hope this get get trucking and down this garbage because this is for the garbage man.

You have the opportunity to involve the people leo here in the city and county. You did they would include it.

Bill brother was one of the mastermind of finance. He said you wish guy. So she to mine right here.

This is plain socialism at its best. You can't make it people. I brought it to your attention. The overhead is still down.

Our council rules are procedure no longer allow members of the public to use the overhead projector. Well we want to protest that. I show everything you talk about now. I show I put it in the 1981. Why are you here at this ingress at point.

Because you don't want to own nothing you are a welfare minded government. You can't so long better tell them.

Control them when you tell you write the check wake up. I was in the middle of the night. Who helped me nobody garbage.

Thank you for your comments. Mary have no more speakers on the item.

Yes. Go ahead. No questions questions moved in second. All in favor please say aye. I oppose abstain. That passes. Thank you for your good work. Thank you for the good work. The agency and all of its employees appreciate it.

Who made the motion. Yes. Let the record reflect. Eric and get him made the motion and get it on the second. We now move to a very important and anticipated item on tonight's agenda.

That is item 30 the adoption of a racial equity resolution.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm going to call it and councilmember van you know you're.

Yep first on this one. Okay. Okay. We're here from the staff first. Go go.

All right. Good evening mayor councilmember city staff care holders present and care holders online. My name is amizens le barns I serve as the diversity and equity manager.

I'm in the office of diversity and equity located in HR. I am here to provide very quick and brief comments on the efforts and the significance of this moment.

Of a racial equity operationalized citywide resolution. It is years in the making.

So I will touch on a bit of background how we got here. I know this will also be elaborated by our colleagues and consultants with race forward Jesse Villalobos as well as our care holders with the racial equity lions and council.

I will touch a bit on the racial equity committee work and goals for those members of the council who may not be as familiar.

A quick overview of score Sacramento centered on race and equity initiative. The purpose and the opportunity at this moment for the citywide racial equity resolution.

And then I will hand it over to race forward.

I'm so excited. This is fantastic.

All right. So to provide a little bit of historical timeline of important efforts that has taken us to get to this moment.

I apologize that it's tiny but there's been so much good work going on.

I wanted to put the side by side to capture at least some of these critical moments that have happened since 2016 with the city of Sacramento and then also 2019 with our community leaders.

This was important. This is important for a couple of reasons but it does not capture the human energy commitment that it took to get to this sense of where we are, this breath, this depth of effort.

And the capacity building that has brought us to this point. So I definitely want to acknowledge that.

But here you see a timeline that demonstrates this a very much of a beginning of our journey to normalize and organize racial equity.

The complexity, the varying and duration and well as well as the ongoing nature of the activities.

The required collective and citywide alignment that had to happen not only within the departments but within our careholders and the community.

The required commitment and coordinated action to identify resources and develop infrastructure for strategic planning, staffing capacity building and leadership support.

Which brings me to an important point on how this work is legacy work and that it takes time.

We're talking 2016 and 2018 and it is 224 and we're here with this resolution.

While these timelines are not exhaustive of the work.

It is an important time to remember how this work depends on the work that happened both in the community and within the city of Sacramento structure.

The racial equity committee work and goals. The racial equity committee was one of those moments of building and organizing ourselves around racial equity.

As it was mentioned earlier in this meeting, the racial equity committee did not exist six, four years ago.

It started in 2021 and it became a permanent committee in 2022.

The overall work here was three focuses.

Which was to provide direction for development and use of an interim rapid response tool for the American Rescue Plan Act expenditures.

Coordinate racial equity workshops and trainings for the full council.

Consider and provide direction on city efforts.

Processes, plans and policies. That's called systems change.

And serves as the public reporting body for the multi-year Sacramento Center to enraice and equity score initiative and work plan facilitated by race forward and partnership with community care holders such as the racial equity alliance and council.

The Sacramento Center on racial equity initiative is a long-term goal and it's work to serve as the public reporting body here at the racial equity committee but you all are the public reporting body as well.

So while that work happens at the racial equity committee, it takes all of the council to move this work forward with community.

The score initiative.

2021 recognizes both the city's commitments to racial equity on the ongoing work in the community for the midterm 2024 and long term.

The two things I want to highlight here is in the deliverables number two, the final draft of the citywide racial equity resolution, which is the focus of tonight's agenda item.

Number two, the deliverables three and four along with the long term identify the next steps of our racial equity journey after the resolution.

The purpose of the city racial equity resolution.

This resolution is to build upon and amplify current city efforts.

Internally, a racial equity resolution will help fortify and provide clear direction to city departments and staff.

Providing clear, focused direction to make racial equity an approach for systems change, align infrastructure as well as continue our work, the great work that has happened inside the city as well around racial equity and capacity building.

It's also to build upon creating inclusive workplaces as well as programs and services to all residents and careholders.

Externally, a racial equity resolution reinforces the importance of working with and alongside community organization, careholders, local businesses to creatively acknowledge harm as well as redress and disrupt harm.

The resolution can inspire collaborative projects that address disparities and share resources to elevate those most impacted by structural racism and inequities.

This collective action sends a powerful message that our city is committed to racial equity not just in policy but in practice.

The recommendation is to adapt a resolution that describes how the city can operationalize racial equity in the city as well as to continue to build a culture of shared partnership and accountability between community and government.

And now I'll hand it over to Jesse Villalos from Race Forward.

Good evening, council members, staff, Mayor, Coach Irvang. My name is Jesse Villalos and I work for Race Forward, a National Racial Justice Organization and have had the great honor to work in this community now for a number of years since about 2019 and partnership with both your community but also with this body and the city.

The context we face now is really a crisis of democracy and I think it's been spoken too many times in various ways tonight already.

The question now is how do we grow a just multiracial democracy from what we now face and although I think there are challenges ahead certainly.

This very process and the timeline that was just drawn upon and the work that's gone into this body of work, the score initiated but also obviously this resolution gives us some hope and some promise.

But building this true just multiracial democracy will take a few things. It will take us doing things a bit differently.

It will take sharing power in ways that haven't been shared, instructors like government in the past. It will take risk taking and it will take building new practices and ultimately a new culture of government that is rooted in racial equity.

It will take growing community power to achieve what the government needs in order to thrive. It will take leadership and guidance of the residents closest to the problems of racism in the city.

How did we get here is the question and there's quite a story to tell and we will be telling the story for years to come but the story is still evolving.

We are a little bit about race forward. Our mission really is to support communities in public institutions such as government to achieve a just multiracial democratic society through governance that advances racial justice and governance is a small g and I think in this case it really means more direct opportunities to participate in democracy every day.

And how we got here in 2020 coming off the hills of the stuff on Clark murder, the tragedy and the creative tragedy many ways of our response nationally to the to the COVID pandemic and the visibility of racism to public health became visible for many for the first time in terms of the threats to communities of color.

The residents on the front lines fighting racism were both exhausted and at times I think felt defeated and again we were in the midst of those conversations and I think mayor Steinberg you actually called on the series of meetings with community leaders to begin to talk about what we can do together to actually address the root causes of this problem.

And so that took some visioning it took some dream dreaming it took some permission to dream boldly for folks to think of what's been called the impossible as possible now.

And so it's about also demanding humanity and justice for all of us those folks who came before whose children we stand on to do this work and those who are yet to be born into the society.

And so there's a lot of sacrifice and I really want to point out the level of sacrifice that your fellow residents have taken on these past few years to lead this work and to create the path forward.

Sacrifices to their own communities sacrifices to their own caretaking of family members sacrifices to work commitments family commitments their own health their own mental health and the hours of the time.

And so talking about upwards of 60 hours a month collectively across these bodies of leadership with the racial equity lions and the racial equity council.

And if I could I know there's probably not a street sign prepared but if we could just take a moment to acknowledge the work and the commitment and the love for this community of the racial equity council and the racial equity lions.

But why are we here folks responded to this question back in March as we did some planning and this retreat for the racial equity lions and council and the responses are to make democracy work for everyone.

I am here because I know more as possible the status quo continues to undermine us. I want to leave behind a real change for the people for future generations.

It's about love for the people in my community. It's to create hope for the children of Sacramento. It's about change that is not made without sacrifice and great dedication and love.

And so now the question is what are we doing here in terms of this resolution. This resolution is built upon the convergence of residents and local government working together in collaboration.

Building a shared vision to truly transform the city in this community. And this resolution holds real hope and promise for Sacramento to realize adjust and make multi-racial democracy that starts here locally at home.

And to speak more of the wise in the resolution specifically and how it structures and actually creates the architecture for work to come.

I'd like to pass it on to your fellow residents and the leaders from the racial equity lions and the racial equity council.

Thank you, Jesse. My name is Cal Yee. I'm a member of the racial equity alliance. And thank you to Ami and Jesse for providing an overview of what this initiative has been about.

And the work that has gone us to this point where we now have a resolution here for your consideration. And I do want to know that there are two versions.

We still have a lot of work to go. This work is not a race that's a marathon. But this timeline really shows that there is momentum and that we're on the right track.

And I'm sure that this is the first time I've heard of our gratitude today. I did still want to say the thank yous. To really showcase that this initiative and this resolution was not from any one person from anyone organization or interest and it shouldn't be that way.

I want to thank the Alliance and the council who are out here today and we spent countless hours on this work because like all of us, we have a deep love for our people and this community and the city.

Thank you to the office of diversity and equity to the racial equity committee who approved this version.

Thank you to the residents and the community orgs who joined the listening sessions this past summer because your voice was necessary for the creation of this resolution.

Thank you to the community members and the audience who have shown up today. There are folks that aren't here today because of course it is still privileged to be here.

We're talking about racial equity and we have people living those inequities right now and so it's truly a privilege to speak on this.

The resolution comes from us from us.

Our community is everyone's fight, your fight, my fight, our fight. All of our residents no matter our race or ethnicity deserve fair chances to live, work and play with dignity and respect to be protected free from discrimination, hate, and displacement.

look at the legacy of the city and the conditions of the

president. We know this is not the case and these are the direct

results of the way that our city governs and our policies. It

has caused real harm and erosion of trust and that's why as you

saw as you see in this timeline we started with the truth

telling and trust building circles with staff and elected

to find a way to model healthy dialogue if we are working

together long term. The score initiative and the resolution

are passed to build trust in our government institutions and

it is done through centering truth, community partnership

and accountability. And like how folks have talked about

already what the current state of our country repairing

trust in our public institutions and our leaders is more

important than ever. And so we hope that you consider this

resolution so that our people have hope that our city can do

better and serve us. I'm going to pass it out to my colleague

Jasmine.

Thank you so much for having me here today, council and mayor.

My name is Jasmine Flores and I'm a part of the racial equity

council. I want to start by centering us for a moment.

I'm supposed to talk about the resolution but I can't ever stick

to the script. So the truth of the matter is every day we all go

home and there are things that bring us joy. Whether it is our

child smile or whether it is talking to your spouse about your

day and we all want to find that joy in the moment that we

spend, that is often taken away from people because of the

lack of equity. This world is so divided but what we are trying

to do here today is bring us together because we all want to

find joy in those moments in every day that we have and it looks

different for every single one of us. You might need to make sure

that the trash is picked up on your street. I might need to make

sure that I can feed my children. I might need to make sure that

I can get housing so that I can actually get a job and get a

shower. It looks different for every single person and that's

what equity truly is. It's taking all of that into account.

What I want to do is I feel like we heard from our city staff

how much work went into this but I want to acknowledge the

fact that we are working together and we are working on this

resolution together and we are working on this resolution together

and then acknowledge the fact that this wasn't done in a

vacuum. Then we went to community and we spoke to them and we

asked them what matters to you, what would make your life better,

what would make you feel like your city cared about you and they

told us and we collected that data, we gathered that data, we

put it together, we even thought about how all the similarities

came together between the things that community needed.

Then we took that and we added it to the resolution and we

built it in and we thought about the historical harms and how we

needed to talk about those pieces at the front of the resolution and

how that then needed to lead to the changes that we wanted to see.

It wasn't enough to just do that. We had to turn around and go

back to community and say did what we hear actually end up in this

resolution. Did what you say look like it's represented within

this resolution? I want you to think about how much went into

this and how it was embedded in everything that we did that each

constituent and every community member and every person who

matters in this city was thought about in this resolution.

The resolution that we put before you there are two.

One that truly embodies what community wanted and one that is

different. I hope that you'll think about that when you go through

this and think about the fact that in this moment we have the

opportunity to truly pioneer what racial equity looks like.

This country, I don't know for me, isn't going to be a

lot of things. I don't know for me, isn't going exactly in the

direction I want to see. I want to see our city be the pioneer for

what we want and what we believe can happen and what we believe

true equity looks like. I know in the wise words of my

bang, I believe every single one of you want to create a

Sacramento that is better the day you leave or the day you started.

I hope that you will be able to do that by passing this

resolution and believing in the people of Sacramento and

everything that they put into this. With that I'm going to pass

it to my next.

Thank you.

Hello everyone. I will start with a gratitude.

I'll say thank you to the Sacramento City Council, the mayor,

the racial equity committee who worked with us, the Office of

the National Security and Equity as well, race forward, the

racial equity alliance and council. I'd also like to extend

to thank you to my nonprofit organization Youth Forward for

supporting me through this as I have shown up in this

alliance space. Hello everyone. Good evening. My name is

Neon Moore-Weathers. I'm a member of the racial equity

alliance manager at Youth Forward, a local nonprofit here in

Sacramento, focused on advocacy. I'm also a proud member of

the Sacramento Kids First Coalition today. I'm here to speak to

you about the racial equity resolution. I'd like to acknowledge

I'm a little bit nervous right now. I feel my heart beating so

fast on this stand. Typically I don't feel that way when I come

up here. I've done a lot of work here in the city over the past

seven to eight years and I've had the privilege like how you

was speaking on to be in this space and to speak with you all.

But I find myself nervous tonight because I care very, very

deeply about this work. Take your time. You're doing great.

One of the things that I reflect on and I think about when I

think about this resolution are conversations that the alliance

had when we first began meeting in workshops spaces and kind of

doing the dream work and vision work of what this resolution

would eventually come to be that you guys are looking at tonight

right. And we were kind of doing this visioning exercise

and we were kind of doing this on the ground wood racial

equity meant to us. And I remember speaking about this idea

of water and wood. And those of us who are in the alliance

will remember that conversation. And we've kind of used it as

a bit of a slogan for ourselves as we move through and I'll

take the time to explain that to you guys on council right now.

Water meaning the healing energy that we have in our

community. And we're going to be able to change the life

happens to take and water also being the flexibility, the

ability to take on different shapes and to evolve and to change

as we move through our lives. And wood meaning the homes that

we build for ourselves. Wood meaning the structures that we

build our lives in and that they live and contain in. Wood

being the fruit and the bounty of the nature that we live in

that feeds and sustains us. And so when I think about the city

of Sacramento, I think about how we are cornered and bordered

by these two bodies of water, the American River and the

Sacramento River. And I think about the valleys and the forest

that surround us in this place and really bringing that through

as an inspiration for some of the work that we do here in

Sacramento. Sacramento being once upon a time the city of trees.

Speaking about the resolution more specifically, I want to

bring up three specific points reasons why I think that it

should be adopted. One, this resolution is a strong product

and a testament to the struggle, the progress and the success

that the racial equity alliance and council has found in

building a working relationship with the city of Sacramento.

And the scoring initiative was a bold undertaking by the

R.E.C. and the city of Sacramento and it really challenged us

to create a resolution that could guide our city's understanding

of racial equity. And we've worked together to co-create that

definition and that was difficult. I'm not going to sit here

and why to you. I think it required a summer long

truth telling and trust building process in 2023 that consisted

of many vulnerable conversations and at times not seeing all

the way I to I. And years before that the racial equity

alliance was a very important part of the debate and a full

participative process with the city of Sacramento as

relationships have kind of been damaged during the years of

COVID, right? But despite all of these difficulties, we've

pushed through and persevered in creating this resolution.

And so to vote against this resolution to die or to adopt any

other version of this resolution that wasn't community

handled and community created, I think it would be a vote

against the already kind of tenuous relationship that

community has with local government, right?

The second point I want to make about this resolution that my

colleagues have already touched on is that this resolution is

directly and intentionally informed by community voice.

And to ensure that we made sure that community voice was

uplifted and that their experience was present in the

resolution like Kaui described we went and we hosted those

community listening sessions. The third point I would

lastly like to make and the reason really why I think this

resolution has a lot of strength is that it wills and directs

the office of the city manager to continue the development

and application of racial equity impact assessment tools to

evaluate budgets, policies, planning documents,

practices. And this resolution also explores the creation of

an ordinance that would further institutionalize all of this

incredible work that we, and I'm going to really emphasize that

we, right, we've collectively done this, right, to build this,

right? So we can have success in the future. And I'll end on

that note by speaking about the future just because I know

that some of you guys know that I'm a youth advocate, right?

We recently had a really big success here in Sacramento of passing a

Sacramento Children's Fund measure that will go towards supporting

youth programming and youth services here in our city. And with

something like the resolution coming up at this time was

something like the Children's Fund being passed not but a month ago,

right? I really see a unique opportunity to take bold steps

into the future, not just for, you know, adults who are in the

room, but also for our young people and not to be a broken record

or to be cheesy, but the young people are really the people who

are going to be inheriting the city and inheriting the legacy of

what we do. So please adopt this resolution tonight, the community

approved version for our futures. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hey, y'all. Good evening.

Yeah, and he has a little heartbeat thing that happens up to

here. And I believe just that just say, say your name please

sure I will. I believe it's because how important this is,

right? I'm Daniel Mac. I'm part of the racial equity

alliance. And I just want to share the team has given me the

opportunity not to use slides. It sounds like they didn't really

use slides, but I just want to start with some thank yous, do a

little soap boxing and then a charge, right?

I want to first, first of all, acknowledge Katie,

Alan Suela. Thank you for your service.

But I want to thank the mayor for his work on this. It was

hard, mayor. It was hard getting you to come around.

And I knew you could. I knew you would, but it was difficult.

And what I want to thank you the most for is believing in and

supporting and giving your approval to go forward to Kelly

Reves. Thank you, Kelly.

It was a great appointment because where you may have not

been able to do that. I got into it. She did. And she was able to

bring that back to you. And I know she did a lot of that

turning around. I want to also lift up our partners, Ami and

the team over at the Office of Equity and Diversity and their

support. I want to lift up the racial equity committee.

Thank you, Lisa. I know you're on your phone. And who else is on

your phone? Rick, thank you. My, of course.

Howard, I want to also thank you because I know it's been

difficult, right? I know that understanding equity and what

that means to community when you are adhering to the bosses

right is a difficult thing, right? I know that you have your

work to do and then you also have who you are as a person.

And sometimes those things aren't allowed to conflict.

But I thank you. I thank you for seeing a wrong, right?

And removing a wrong, right? We were prepared to come up here and

give you all the business, right? But you checked yourself and

we appreciate that. And so we're asking that the council vote

on the committee approved resolution. And then I just want to

focus on my really quickly. My, ye.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you.

Your leadership and your guidance and your wisdom and your

passion and your fire. We need you. And we know it gets

lonely. But you got a bunch of people behind you to not only

push you forward, but to lift you up. Okay? So thank you.

I just want to say for me, what I'm going to say, it might be

a little hard to get because it's not often God. So just bear

with me. The depth of equity for me is the ultimate mutual

admiration, respect, and care for the next person regardless.

Understanding the tremendous imbalance between those who are

privileged and those who are subjugated. It's the least of

us that require the most. This we fail to believe.

We're sitting here tonight with racial equity and

reparations at the end of the night. We set here through very

deserving celebrations. We set through a bunch of other things.

But equity is flipping things on its head and allowing folks

to stick around to listen to these major issues that they may

not even know. You ask my friends, they know I'm all about

affirmations. I love that part of celebrating y'all. But what

if we started with the resolution and reparations? What if we

had a full house of people that could hear what you all have

been fighting for? I see you, Mayor. I'm like, I'm sorry, I tried to

do it. I tried to do it. So I need to give him a cry for that.

It's a simple thing. Your last night, Mayor. That little

interaction I think was really good and you're right. And maybe

symbolic of the entire experience. But it's all good.

You're right. We probably should have done it for you.

Thank you, Dean. I want to acknowledge that we have mothers

here who are visiting from Birmingham, from New Jersey,

from Philadelphia. They're sitting through our city council

meeting taking notes to bring back to their homes. This is a big

issue. I just want to say to serve doesn't mean to receive.

Right? You have to be, you all have been chosen and have accepted

the responsibility to serve. So when situations like this come

up, don't push us away, right? You're here to serve us.

You're not here to receive anything, anything, but to serve us.

And we've heard so many people, countless folks before me, talk

about the future. This is the last thing I'll say. This really

is the story of our future in Sacramento. This is a very

important moment, a pivotal moment in the future of Sacramento.

A marker in our sand's time, when that history will look back on

and either with either disappointment and the missed opportunity

to be hope for the hopeless or celebrate the bravery to be

different, to be human, in a world increasingly devoid of the

acceptance of diversity. We are moving into a place of

change. I seriously believe that Sacramento can be a beacon of

light and hope for the rest of this country. We've worked

together. We've done, it's been bumpy. It wasn't comfortable,

but it can be done. And so I just want to say we have to move

forward together, right? If we are going to be that city of

refuge, that city of light, light the beam, then we have to

come together. So we're just asking that, you know, you adopt

this resolution, which I think you are, but beyond that, don't

let it sit on a wall or on a desk. Let's let it be action.

Let's not laugh at Mac for his comments, right? Because he

seemed so much, he's just so tired of all the bullshit. We

keep saying all these things and he's like, this ain't working.

That's why 50% of this country voted for something like that.

Let's not laugh. Let's ask why. Thank you all.

That was very compelling. Thank you. Are we ready to hear the

public testimony? I think, or we want to hear from councilmember

Van first. I think we're going to move to councilmember

Van, city manager, and then we'll take the public testimony.

That sounds great. Thanks, Mayor. First, I want to take this

opportunity to thank all of our residents, all of the

careholders, all of our incredible city staff from the office of

equity and diversity on me, Barnes and her team, the alliance,

the racial equity council, just all of the resident for your

hard work to get us to this moment. We've come a really long

way. If you saw the timeline that I'll me put up earlier in the

presentation, I wasn't even here when the work began.

I just really want to hold space and acknowledge all of the

electives before me and the community members that started this

work, but it may no longer be in the space but is rooting us on.

I want to hold space for them. Tonight, I have a strong

belief that this council will pass this resolution, the

community's resolution unanimously, and it is a historical

resolution drafted by the community for the community.

For me in particular, tonight, we have an opportunity actually

to show the world that racial equity is necessary to create a

more just world and a more just city. And I share that because

right now, we're living in a country where diversity, equity,

inclusion of belonging, initiatives, departments, positions

are being eliminated across this country. And instead, what the

city of Sacramento is saying is that we're not going that route.

We're going to double down and we're going to stand up for the

importance of this work.

Yeah.

Passing this resolution is also saying that Sacramento is stronger

when we care and fight for everyone, especially those who are

vulnerable. Again, I just really want to thank the alliance, the

council, and all of the residents citywide from all of the districts

that help to inform the resolution. I also want to take this

opportunity to thank the mayor for his leadership.

Again, our city staff, our committee members, councilwoman

Kaplan, councilmember Jennings, former councilmember Jation

here and councilmember Gareth. We're starting the work.

The score initiative.

But I'm going to quote Mr. Lambert. I think he's actually in the

audience. You know, he said one thing that really stuck with me.

If you're studying too long, you're doing it wrong.

And while we've made several milestones to get to this moment,

after we've had the resolution, the real work actually begins

when we implement and execute.

I will also acknowledge that this resolution, as you heard from

the careholders and the alliance and residents, it didn't come easy.

It definitely came with lots of challenges, right?

Many residents today don't trust government. And rightfully so, because of the

historical harm that's been caused. And there is no blueprint for us to

kind of undo the decades of historical harm.

I also want to acknowledge that, yes, there is an alternative

resolution on the table as well. And I have the opportunity to have a

meeting with city manager, Chan, a very intimate conversation, a very

honest and raw conversation with him last week.

To share my concerns with him directly regarding his alternative

resolution. And especially the harm that was caused in the

mistrust that had occurred because of it.

And as Co-chair of the Racial Equity Committee, I work

hard every day to build the trust of our residents, of careholders,

in the community. And moving forward, I know.

And I believe that our city manager knows that share partnership.

And even though this may be a little uncomfortable, share power is going to be key

to making this resolution a reality.

What occurred a few weeks ago did cause harm. So I want to acknowledge that.

Even as Co-chair of the Racial Equity Committee, I will take full

responsibility, even though it may or may not be my fault.

But as a elected official that represents the city of Sacramento, I want to

apologize what occurred. And in my conversation with the city manager,

he also acknowledged the mistake that was made. And today, he's also

willing to pull his version of the resolution.

I also want to lay out a few things that is very,

feels very promising to me as well. As that the city manager has also agreed to work

with careholders and our racial equity alliance to co-create alongside the

community, the ordinance that the resolution calls for.

So I'm just saying that on record to hold him accountable

that we're going to do this in partnership.

The other piece that the resolution calls for is to discuss the structure

and resources of the office and equity diversity office.

We may have disagreement on where the positionality of that office may be,

and that's okay. But I think having an honest conversation about ensuring that

we have the right resources to continue this work is really critical.

The city manager has committed to work directly with the alliance and me to discuss

those and to explore and discuss that, even if we're in disagreement.

And lastly, I think one of the big things is he is incredibly busy.

And I really appreciate that he is making commitment to meet regularly, quarterly,

or more as needed to actually be in space with the alliance and the council as we begin this work.

Because it can't be done in siloed and it's going to be really important that he is actually involved in the work.

Not just his staff, which they're incredible, but that he as the leader,

whoever the city manager may be, whether it's him, whoever, the city manager has to be

at the forefront with the community doing this work.

I do expect, hopefully, that there will be a unanimous vote tonight on this item.

But like I said, the true work truly begins with the implementation.

I also want to say that to move this work doesn't just require nine votes.

It doesn't even just require five votes.

What it really requires is intentionality, partnership, building trust,

and having a mayor and council, having a city staff, and having a city manager that actually believes in this work,

and is invested to ensure that racial equity is truly core in everything that we do.

Moving forward, our actions in this resolution has to be different if we want to address inequities

and protect Sacramento from the next administration.

And I look forward to hearing from my colleagues tonight, from community members who have led this work,

and I really look forward to making the motion to move the community's resolution approved by the racial equity committee tonight,

and really just want to congratulate all of you for your hard work, but this is really just the beginning.

And I'll hand over to the city manager.

Thank you, member, Councillor Mervang here.

And honestly, the conversation that we had last week surrounding the mishap that occurred on November 12th was critical.

And I think it's very important to understand that what we're trying to do was provide this council like tonight options.

It was inadvertently not hosted that first day, and then the supplemental was pushed subsequent to that.

The council member of Aang and I talked about this, and she felt like it was enough time for the community to absorb that,

because the first resolution came out.

So I said, that's fair.

What should have occurred is what's happening tonight.

And I appreciate all the comments here tonight.

I appreciate where's DeAngela that he leave out there for not giving me the business because, you know, it's plenty of time for that.

But I do want to, all kidding aside, I want to make sure that as we have these conversations going forward,

that they are honest conversations, and that both sides are open to hearing different perspectives.

And for me, I think a big part of that is part of the truth telling circles that the council member of Aang and I were a part of

to help understand how government works, and how this all works, and how implementation works, in the context of all the other things that the city does.

The mayor had a really good idea early on, probably about a year ago, that as this council creates ultimately, and we have different versions of it now,

but a citywide equity lens that we look at, and we evaluate initiatives that come forward to this council with that equity lens.

That's created by this council.

And the idea, really, is if you look at any of the staff reports of your board, and you go through all of our 30 items every week.

In each of the staff reports, it talks about financial considerations, environmental considerations, committee actions.

We're talking about maybe having, you know, what does this look like looking through a council created equity lens, and have that be part of the consideration for this council when they make decisions.

Budget are otherwise, and we go through 20 or 30 items a week, pretty regularly.

So you do have my commitment that we're going to work together on this, and I will, as I committed to Council Member Van Keep, an open mind, and just try and listen better, and I'm hope it will be reciprocated because I think we're going to make a lot of progress in that way.

Thank you. Thank you for that exchange, really important, as both of you said, really, really important.

So, you have public testimony. Let's hear from the members of the public. We've already heard from, I think, the leaders of the Alliance. Let's hear from other members of the public. Thank you.

Thank you. I have 16 speakers. The first is Lambert.

When it comes to race equity, I don't think anybody has attended more meetings than me. And as I look around this audience here, I rarely see this type of turnout.

Cheesecakes is in demand by every race, every culture, both sexes. Do you know what that means in economic terms? That means supply and demand. It's very basic.

There's a mandatory it says to take a course. What's wrong with taking a course? Why would you resist a course because you resist D.I.E.?

Now, inside the city manager's office is a group that you should study. They're called the A.A.E.L.C., African American Employee Leadership Council. You should study those black women. They are under tremendous stress from inside there. You should study them.

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Lee Low. Did you already speak? No.

Following Lee is Tiffany. Then Dawn Baskando, Ayesha Jenkins, Zion Tattis.

Good evening, Council and Mayor. My name is Lee Low. And I'm also a part of the racial equity Alliance as well. Also the executive director of the Asian American Liberation Network.

As many of my colleagues share as well, in 2021, when we began doing this work, we really fought to start the score with doing a lot of trust building and truth telling and trust building between our community and our government.

As the resolution indicates that the city of Sacramento and our government has a history of repeatedly harming, erasing, displacing and exploiting communities of color.

Unfortunately, our concerns were not unwarranted. They were not exaggerated from what we witnessed with the edits of this resolution.

The edits of the city from the city manager's office were made without a discussion of community leaders that have been leading this effort.

This unilateral decision perpetuates the same institutional racism that this resolution aims to dissolve.

The edits by the city manager's office directly attacked the communities request for the cities to increase transparency, accountability, equitable investments and practices reporting, and commitment to co-governance.

And my question to you all is, what is so wrong about wanting a government you can trust?

So while we appreciate the office's efforts since then to really repair and rebuild, we know that this is not the first, but we do really hope this is the last.

And along with that, this resolution is really a step forward in building a stronger and bolder Sacramento.

And Sacramento really has an opportunity now to really be a leader in racial equity, and we hope your support in fulfilling our potential.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Tiffany Wilson, Ben Dawn, Van Aisha.

Good evening, Council Mayor. My name's Tiffany Wilson. I'm a member of the racial equity alliance, and I'm also resident of D6.

And I think that tonight this resolution is a step to do that. There's also been discussion this evening around homelessness and the need for affordable housing and possible upcoming cuts at federal levels that are going to put these programs in jeopardy.

And the root of a lot of these problems that are causing communities of color, disproportionate impacts of things like homelessness and poverty and income inequality is racism.

And I think that we need to continue to be very explicit in our conversations about the impact of racism and how we are going to address that to make sure that we have solutions and paths forward that really help the people that need the help and to make these sustainable policy decisions.

So I really please adopt the resolution tonight that was put forward by community. It's important that we have a process that not only creates assessment tools that are based in equity, but then a plan that lifts up the strategy and the goals from those tools and then hopefully in ordinance.

So a commitment to act and a commitment to move forward and a commitment to adopt this so we can begin to continue and repair and care for our community.

Next speaker is Don Baskano.

Good evening, Councilor Mayor Don Bastian, with the racial equity council.

The resolution has submitted by the REC RIA, what it identifies in the pathway to change those policies deeply rooted in racism is long overdue.

What would have been put in place or should have been put in place decades ago now lands with you to decide how to move.

This is an opportunity for this body of lawmakers to pass the proposed and begin the process of dismantling racial inequities that continue to adversely impact our black and brown communities.

We know racism exists. We know the harms that have been done to our black and brown communities.

In light of political uncertainty as a result of recent elections. Now is not the time for council to shy away from passing a racial equity resolution, a racial equity resolution draft and approved by the REC RIA and your constituents.

Let's be clear that when the racial equity resolution was initially submitted and changed that shows that you guys have power that the community doesn't have, you changed it without consulting those individuals that helped input and draft that language.

This is important to us, what is important to the RIA and the REC and the powers that we spent. That harm that you did is going to take some time for you to repair.

Think about that. The next time that you are in a position to do something like that, step back. Think about the power that you hold and the power that the community necessarily doesn't hold because you've taken it away.

Please vote yes.

Are you sure? Are you sure Zion Tatis?

And then Ryan McClinton?

Mayor and City Council in support of the racial equity resolution, the African American employees leadership council respectfully request one, the creation of a chief equity officer CEO position, ideally situated in the office of auditor or a separate charter office to address systemic racism and ensuring equity lands and is applied to all city decisions.

To the inclusion of racial equity impact statements and staff reports to assess how significant decisions affect communities of color three.

The application of an equity lands to all city contracts and requests for proposals to ensure fairness and partnerships for the inclusion of the CEO and city managers budget decision making to prioritize equity and financial decisions and five recognition of the current diversity and equity manager,

and I'm not me, Barnes, as a qualified expert who can serve as the CEO given her expertise and racial equity. Additionally, the concerns raised about the city managers employee resource group policy directly support the need for racial equity resolution within the city of Sacramento.

And then the public undermines the AALC's ability to function effectively and limits the groups influence on issues affecting African American employees by restricting membership to only active employees and attempting to limit the AALC's ability to address management on critical issues.

The policy prevents a full and authentic representation of the diverse needs and experiences of African Americans in the workforce.

The exclusionary approach contracts the goals contradicts the goals of racial equity which are centered on ensuring racial equal representation, fostering belonging and addressing disparities in the workforce.

The AALC has become an important voice for African American employees who lack other avenues to speak out and the policy constraints reduce the group's ability to advocate for racial equity and city policy programs and practices.

The need for racial equity resolution is clear one that ensures policies like the ERG guidelines support rather than hinder the inclusion and empowerment of marginalized communities. Such a resolution would address the systemic barriers African American employees face promote fair representation and enhance the city's commitment to foster a truly diverse and complete.

Thank you. Zion.

Hi everyone. Thank you for having me. My name is Zion. The owner of Queen Shiva restaurant also the founder of Shiba Foundation.

So I definitely support the resolution because I really believe from my heart the only way we really close the gap, the wealth gap, the education gap, the healthcare gap, the opportunity gap is through equity.

Equity equity equity for our community, especially for black community because we we only 1% of us in business that's why the wealth gap is like huge the education gap.

We need alternative education for our community. The only way we can do is through equity of course the same thing for businesses more businesses like us. We need equity.

So this is I think this is an amazing resolution. Honestly, this is a way of hope that actually our youth, our women, our children can have equal opportunity like everybody else through equity equity.

So all about equity right now I would really want everyone to want to go and see what the black focus came up with when it comes to the state of black people in Sacramento or all over the United States.

So that 30% in poverty poverty breeds community violence in other things. So the only way we can really solve the solution this problem is through equity.

So in the same time when we fighting for equity for our community we always end up without helping each other, we end up helping every other community by our community.

So I really believe this is a good initiation and I really appreciate everybody who really worked on that especially in my vein. I know you go through the same thing what you see, what goes on in our community especially in our youth and our women and children.

So I want to comment your time is complete. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Ryan McClinton and Jason Anderson.

you for your time. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. Thankser, committee, all have have have the same process where we've led countless conversations around what does equity mean and how do we show up. What does equity mean and how do we show up. This is our opportunity to set a new foundation forward. This resolution stands on the answers. stands on the shoulders of our ancestors that allow us to live in this moment today. It stands as reps. It stands as our moment to actively practice being good ancestors to those who come behind us tomorrow. This is where we have an opportunity to really change

our community. And not just business that we do service for our community going forward. How we govern. How we consider every like that's here. Again, I said it last time we had this conversation with that harm occurred on November 12th. And I'll say it again. I have never seen a composition of a city council that has a diversity that I see in front of me today. That diversity is also reflected in the communities that all of your constituents elected you to. Those constituents represent the body that that is pushed this forward. Right. The racial equity is

the diversity of the community in lines and council. All of us have a shared power in this moment that we are collectively deciding to define tonight and how we do things differently going forward.

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Our next speaker is Dacey Anderson and Keon Bliss.

Hello everyone.

Just wanted to congratulate Mayor Steinberg on his retirement or his freedom and also

address the rest of the council this evening.

I am Dacey Anderson.

I am representing National African American Civil Rights Organization by way of Betty Williams.

She says hello and she is definitely in support of this racial equity resolution, the one that is written by the community for the community.

I am so excited as well.

I had a very different conversation before I found out that the other one was retracted.

The reason being is that when I think about the council and I think about City Manager Howard Chan and I think about Mayor Daryl Steinberg and all of you, I think about the fact when I saw the two and I brought it.

I started comparing it.

I began to look at the changes and I saw what was left out and I was thinking to myself, continuing the intentional efforts.

I saw that they left out in part 4B, apply racial equity impact assessments and related tools to identify how different racial and ethnic groups could be affected by a proposed action or decision and so on.

And then I saw, well why just council directed racial equity lands?

Why are there the only ones?

I think that really represents the community that is being assessed right now.

And I was thinking, wow, you must need help if we are all standing in this room this evening.

And what about the language removing barriers?

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Keon Bliss, then Flo Cofur.

Thank you.

Mayor and City Council, you all know me as the commissioner and chair of the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission.

And I wish that I wasn't up here, that this initiative wasn't so personal for me, but unfortunately, the white supremacy culture that I've experienced from several of you have made it personal for me.

I had 10 years I've shown you all the willingness to come to the table to ask questions and to seek solutions despite our personal differences and I've demonstrated what the City Manager's Office and the Sacramento Police Department should be striving to do.

What all of you should be striving to do to listen, to learn and to really lean into tough conversations with the goal of making things better for everyone.

Despite building consensus among fellow commissioners, implementing thoughtful engagement practices with the public, I've been repeatedly met with contempt and circumvisioned by the City's charter officers that demonstrate a pattern of general unwillingness to reciprocate good faith efforts that this initiative seeks to address.

I've also been prohibited from adequately fulfilling my duties as an appointed member of that body.

I know this for a fact that this was based exclusively on several of your perceptions, including the City Manager's, of my personal beliefs about law enforcement and my protected status.

Despite your personal objections to my participation in these City Council meetings, the City Manager and several of you have never engaged me directly as an individual.

Despite my treatment in the clear obstacles, this is an opportunity right now to really get, to really reset.

This is necessary and this may be the legacy for many of you.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Flo Cofur, then Tressla Gilbert.

Good evening. My name is Dr. Flo Cofur. I am resident of District 6 and I am pleased to be before you this evening.

I would like to first thank everyone who has worked on this resolution because it is incredibly important to our city and our city moving forward.

I also want to quote an urban grio, one of my favorite performers, Lauren Hill, who said it could all be so simple that you'd rather make it hard.

Love and you is like a battle, but we both end up with scars.

Too often, that is unfortunately the reality that so many communities have when engaging with us is that we feel like it could be so simple but we'd rather make it hard.

I was inspired by talking with council member Talamonte this evening and her sharing that standing up here on this day and talking about emotions is not something that often happens.

I want to remind each and every one of us that we are here to lead with love, that that is the core of who we are as human beings and that too often that gets lost in the process of us having conversations.

I really want to remind us that the process to how we do things often leads us with more scars and as we are thinking about everything from our national to our international politics and how violence begins violence right down here to our local level.

I want to remind us that for every healing opportunity we have, if we create another scar, there is another healing opportunity needed.

We should not as communities have to fight so hard to have our voices heard, to have the process be transparent and for people to be real partners.

I want to thank the city manager for coming around and saying what happened here was wrong.

I just want to encourage all of us as leaders to be able to be in a space where we can say I apologize that shouldn't have happened and to be in a place where we can really move forward together and not hold things against each other.

I hope that this is the first of many steps for our communities to begin that healing work and continue on in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I am Dr. Cressla Gilbereth.

Following Cressla is Brianna Osborn.

And Rachel?

Good evening.

Thank you all for city council members as well as Mayor Daryl Steinberg.

Congratulations to you and Katie.

I am a member of the youth as I stand here with 25 years of professional education for youth private and public sector.

LA County probation parole retired.

I have been in the trenches here in Sacramento for the last eight years since 2016.

Probably every district district 876 all the way around I am district one.

I have been here and represent always is the youth.

So when we are talking about equity and inclusion we are always talking about our future.

We know what it looks like to live amongst everyone but our youth are the ones that need to see us live boldly and change so that they can lead what we have led for them.

So ultimately when we talk about this resolution it's a no-brainer.

We need to make sure that this is approved so that we can move forward for our future of our young people.

And that is what I have to say.

Thank you.

I have five more speakers.

Brianna, Branna Osborne, Rachel, Lillia Carpenter, Christopher Logston, and then Omar Altamimi.

Hi.

Good evening.

I need to be bright because I am exhausted as I'm sure all of you and many of our community members, some of who have been here since 2 p.m.

So go y'all.

I came with notes and I'm ready.

So I am Brianna Osborne, member of the Rachel Equity Council.

Newbie to this side of the work, resident of district three, former resident of district five, and proud to stand beside the giant.

I think any of which are in this room who have led in this work tirelessly for years silently and loudly, publicly, and behind closed doors, away from family, away from loved ones in the midst of trials.

They have stood to ensure that our community gets what it needs.

And when the people charged with doing it, don't do their jobs.

As community, we stand together.

And I won't echo, but I fully support everything that has been previously said by all of the members of community, by our incredible council member, my bang.

Thank you, Mayor Thineberg, all of the members of the Rachel Equity Committee who have approved the previous resolution, which we hope you will continue to do.

And I just want to remind you and implore you to remember those most marginalized by the decisions that you all make.

The people who sleep right outside of this very building that you see every week.

The kids who go underserved and under-resourced in our schools.

The people who go unhoused adequately.

Remember them when you vote, when you do the work that you do, remember why you sit in the seats and that.

Before you were the them that a lot of us like to talk and bring up this us versus them, you were up in your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker, thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Rachel.

Rachel?

I don't see movement.

Oh, thank you.

And then, Leah Carpenter and then Christopher.

Hello.

I encourage you to vote in favor of this resolution and more importantly to support the work of implementation and change going forward.

I want to address something that I was said earlier.

When staff and elected representatives find themselves listening and thinking, that's not the way the city works.

The city is here for what the community needs.

Hello.

I hope all of you are awake behind those counters.

Mindy Kudos for you to try and say my name.

It is Leah Carpenter.

You guys can consider me many things, but tonight I am the voice of the community.

We try to put these policies in place to ensure that we are creating a better future for our next generation.

And lucky for you guys, you are speaking to the next generation.

And since the next generation is never in this room, I will be the voice for them tonight.

Racial equity by definition is a state where a person's race does not determine their outcomes such as wealth, health, or employment.

And when I read that definition, I can't help but to think that I've been affected.

My outcome has been affected by my race.

It has not stopped me, but I've definitely been affected.

And as a young mother, I will not sit around and wait for my son to be affected as well.

With the racial equity resolution, I want to acknowledge the difficulties of the African-American community

and utilize this policy to make a move in a progressive pace.

Because although there has been a track record of people trying to tell me that I don't matter, I know for a fact that I am great.

And I'm prepared to lose sleep over this.

And so is the whole generation behind me.

So with those words, I hope you guys take everything I said into consideration and adopt this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Two more speakers. Christopher Logston and then Omar Altamimi.

Peace, peace. I'm going to make this quick first introduction, Chris Logston, policy manager at the Antiversitivism Coalition in the Sacramento Office,

lead organiser and advocate with the Coalition for Justice and Equitable California, which is California's first only and still leading foremost grassroots

reparations organization.

I'm actually here for the next item originally, but I just wanted to stand in solidarity with my friends and family behind me in front of me,

too, who are supporting the community based and originated resolution.

Even though reparations is separate from racial equity, it's different, but I wanted to be here in a standard solidarity with my family.

So I'll make it quick.

Please vote in favor of the community based resolution. Thank you.

Our last, our final speakers, Omar.

Omar Altamimi. There we go. Thanks.

Hello, good evening. Omar Altamimi. I'm a member of the racial equity alliance.

And I wanted to start off by saying that, you know, we're in a time and space in this country where our government is actively shutting down DEI efforts on the federal level.

Recorporations have dropped all guys of caring for equity and justice, many of which have essentially liquidated their DEI departments.

And we're nonprofits working to advance these conversations and work on these issues, are facing attacks from the federal government based on the work they do to serve their communities who are often the most marginalized and most impacted by racism.

As D'Angelo mentioned, what we have before us today is an opportunity for the city of Sacramento to take a step in leading the charge against the draconian attacks of our incoming administration.

This resolution reflects the direct feedback received from the community, months of work by the RIA and REC,

where spent gathering feedback from the community in order to ensure that their voices were represented in the resolution.

This resolution is a result of a year's long process with the city that focused on breaking down so many barriers between the city and folks in the community due to the need for folks to build trust with the city in the first place before embarking on any kind of process like this.

So much time was spent in trying to procure a relationship with the city so that people could feel like they're being considered in the process.

I want to thank the Alliance and the Council for all of the hard work they put in over the year and the years the past years.

And tonight is a result of their hard work and it pays the path forward that we must follow.

They've led with love and dignity to overcome every challenge that has come their way.

I look forward to the passing of the resolution and all the future work to come with it.

Considering the challenges we face in the years to come, this is a crucial first step in ensuring that we're aligned on the work that still needs to be done.

One of the slides earlier mentioned that we are a democracy in crisis caused primarily by distrust in governance and our cities.

And so considering the current direction of our country, a democracy in crisis is exactly what we are.

We need to invest in initiatives like the racial equity alliance and the Council to ensure that our communities are empowered in the years to come.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

I have no more speakers.

Right. I just want to say thank you to all the members of the public who stayed and who participated tonight and gave very compelling, compelling testimony.

Councillor Valenzuela.

Yes. Before I turn to my colleague to make the motion so I can second it and make my comments, I need to make a motion to extend the meeting past 930.

This is a big decision.

We're going all the way to the end, Mayor.

All right. Is there public? No. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

I'll just have to say.

Okay.

And now I'd love to defer to my colleague to make the motion so I can second it.

Go ahead.

I'll move to the committee resolution co-created by the racial equity alliance and the racial equity council.

I did want to provide a direction to that motion as well is that my understanding is that there are worse some dollars set aside to do the score initiative work.

I think what's going to be really important is not just passing the resolution but providing a direction perhaps for city manager and the office of equity diversity to come back with a budget proposal for us to consider of what it may take to implement.

I think that's important.

I understand that we're also going to be having tough budget discussions but it's important as you share city manager for us to have the options in front of us.

So I like to move the resolution that was approved by the racial equity committee with direction to provide a budget proposal as well working with the alliance and the council and the community of what we imagine what that would look like.

Councillor Mancun, I clarify that.

So there are some dollars set aside for this work and so I will get the balance of what's left there so that it doesn't get swept anywhere else.

So it's preserved and then the balance of the proposal and the guesstimate of what it would take to implement.

Bring that back in the context of the budget discussions.

Yeah, that sounds great.

Yeah, that sounds good.

And I know that there are some dollars just still set aside but I just feel like it's not sufficient to continue the work but I think in the context of the larger budget makes sense.

I think just making sure that we loop back with even if it's a report back to the racial equity committee.

I think that would be good for us to have a discussion there.

I think that would be a good agenda item for you and I to take team when we meet with the whole team.

That sounds great.

Okay.

So that's no action on the table.

Motion in second.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I was just in second but Eric did.

No, I wasn't just in English.

Yeah, I was in a second.

Eric jumped in.

It's my last meeting. He has to be nice to me.

Okay.

Okay. Thank you. And I just I want to thank everybody for your patience and accept responsibility.

The mayor did want to rearrange the agenda.

I did want the recognition to be first.

I'm sorry for making you wait this long but I did not want him to own that because he did ask and I was like.

I know.

Sorry, I had to say it.

I told it to you.

I told it to you.

But I had to say it on the record.

Okay.

I also just want to address the mishap that kind of led to this delay because I believe a really dangerous precedent.

I want to address it directly because frankly the other version of the resolution should not exist.

The original motion, the original resolution was approved from a motion of a committee of this body.

Staff is always welcome to weigh in during council consideration and deliberation during meetings and briefings with us at any point during the process.

But editing the resolution in any form after it was voted on by a council body is more than a breach of trust.

It's a violation of our charter and our rules for how we govern.

So when I look at and when I look back at other resolutions we passed as a body and I know Mr. Lambert mentioned the mandatory DEI training.

It needs to be implemented for the direction of the council.

And I worry what happens if that doesn't happen.

But I'm not going to be here anymore after tonight.

So I don't have time to a pine on that.

But I will say that I'm really heartened by the coalition that's here tonight and the process you went through.

Because this isn't any other resolution.

I mean we pass dozens of resolutions every week and we saw this past two dozen before we even got to this item that are developed by staff that are technical that are well thought out that do what they need to do.

This is not that.

And I think the fact that you took the time and the energy to go out to the community to get their buy-in to get their feedback.

This is the community's resolution.

And so what I'm heartened by is the fact that when I'm gone and back on the other side of this day is with you all that you will be there to make that accountable for implementation because you did all of that work.

And because I see you here tonight, like that's something that gives me a lot of confidence and hope.

Because this process has been so different than what the council usually does.

That implementation will be more certain because you will be there.

But I also don't want to rest on we're voting on this tonight.

It's done now.

The partnership that has been started has to continue.

And so I appreciate my colleague talking about resources and talking about budget.

And I think that's why we're voting on this.

Because we understand that this commitment, we make a lot of commitments.

We do a lot of resolutions.

We don't back it up always with budget money.

We don't back it up always with staff resources.

We don't back it up always with contracts to consultant teams and other folks so that this work can continue.

And that is what it takes.

Because I think is Omar said very appropriately.

It's going to take that even more so in the next year.

Because like literally every organization in this room is under attack in one way or another.

And I'm going to thank the council for all the work you've done on this.

Your patience tonight.

And just applaud you for being really, this is an inspirational product and outcome.

And I'm really proud that I get a chance to vote on this on my last night.

So thank you.

Councilmember Jennings and the city manager and I've got a brief comment.

I just want to make a comment on the motion that councilmember Vang put on the table in the direction.

I just want to put it on the table and reference to the dollars.

And I want to put a timeline on that.

And I just want to understand how quickly can we move on that so that this is something that moves forward based on the work that's already been done at a faster pace than at a slower pace.

I think that the first step is to identify how much is left of that.

I think it was $500,000 that were set aside.

And then the balance of that is going to be born out of conversations I'll have with councilmember Vang and the alliance about what's needed to complete that ask.

Is that of the score cut the score?

Can you come up and talk about this please?

Sorry Rick, I just, this is important.

I want to make sure I'm coming down.

I think there was $500,000 and some of those dollars have been used.

So I'll make a give us a note.

There is $249,000 contract that we have with race forward that's a scope of work that surrounds four tasks.

The task two is what we're doing now.

The trust building and truth telling circles was the first task.

We should look at it a more concentrated way with the team as the city manager suggested to see those tasks and see how they go into the implementation.

Moving forward with the vision of the community and us and shared shared discussion.

There is another $100,000 contract that's around where care, California, Islamic.

Thank you.

I think that's what I'm hearing is that the key here is that we don't want to slow down the process because of lack of funding.

That's something that we'll kind of time with these tasks.

I think we can go ahead and see what we can do.

I think we can do that.

I think we can go ahead and see what we can do.

It's going to roll right into budget discussions because January is going to be here.

We'll report back to the council on that.

I think a good timeline perhaps could be at the next racial equity committee meeting having that be an item for discussion.

I think there's a lot of potential there.

I think there's a lot of potential to look at beyond these scopes of work and really cast out a vision that's like 5-10 years out.

Really.

I really encourage us to push ourselves to really see that so that we're really being not only moving with the sense of urgency but there's a vision there that doesn't get lost.

All right. I just want to thank councilmember Vang, City Manager, the City staff, and mostly the Alliance and the council for your incredible dedication and your hard work.

And to my team, Kelly Fong-Rivas and Alison Joe, thank you.

So, so my...

I picked up the Angelo's comment about a little your description of my learning journey.

And I think it's important to recognize we're all on a learning journey together.

You know, I have a long history where I've considered myself not only progressive but very attuned to issues involving race and gender.

And gender and all the protected categories.

And I will say that in this job as mayor, I have been forced, and I don't mean that in a negative way, in a positive way to dig even deeper.

To dig even deeper.

And you're right by hiring someone like Kelly and Alison and asking to take this on.

That's intentional because I wanted to deepen my own understanding, my own ability to lead.

And so you've all helped me.

A great deal. And I'm not there yet.

We're all on the journey together. But I'm really heartened by tonight just the coming together here in the way that was reflected in the conversations, in the way the City Manager and my gave and took with the community.

And it's really, really important. Let's continue that.

Okay? Let's do great things in the City because we are not a great City unless we back up racial equity, the real action.

And yes. And it is bottom up. But it's also let's be strategic and practical.

What Howard repeated was something I said a year ago in every single budget item.

When these departments come up and present their budgets, there ought to be 15 to 20 or 30 minutes set aside every one of those meetings to discuss the racial equity impact of whatever decision is being considered.

So it's conscious. This resolution has to be a living document.

If it isn't a living document, then then frustration will continue.

So apply it. And don't over-complicate it. Apply it to every major decision that the next mayor and Councillor are called upon to make in partnership with the community. Thank you.

All right.

We have a resolution, a motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye. Opposed? I abstain. That's unanimous.

We now let's move on to the, we do have the reparations item.

We're going to hate to move through this also quickly.

But let's see if we can move through this sort of quickly.

Okay. All right. On to another exciting.

I want to again, amizzo and salay Barnes, diversity and equity manager.

Here for the reparations engagement plan for action investment redress initiative.

Another citywide resolution that is before you.

I want to acknowledge the collaborative efforts of city staff and careholders who contributed to today's presentation.

Robert Bell, R.E. Green, Robert Bell from Office of Diversity and Equity, R.E. Green from Office of Innovation and Economic Development Community Engagement.

I also want to acknowledge city staff careholders who contributed to the work and will be contributing to the work in the future.

Lynette Hall, Office of Innovation and Economic Development Community Engagement Manager.

I'd also like to thank Audraeel Anderson White from the City Attorney's Office. You have been amazing. Thank you for that.

Thank you for providing continuity as we switch from mayorial to citywide.

Laney Milstein, Michael Jasso, and Howard Chan to keep the conversation going.

Because we've done that in a matter of like the last literally four weeks.

So I'm here to provide some quick and brief comments on the efforts and the significance of also another powerful moment of this resolution.

All right. So city level, reparation engagement, community engagement grant project.

In June 2021, Mayor Steinberg publicly committed to pursuing city level reparations through a mayorial initiative.

At the June 15, 2021 city council meeting, the council unanimously adopted a ceremonial resolution recognizing historic passage of California AB 31-21,

which established a task for to develop reparation proposals for African American descendants.

I really want to acknowledge the efforts of Kelly Fong-Riga, Revis, former senior advisor to Mayor Steinberg.

And also Mayor Steinberg, who leaned in on those conversations very early on.

That's it, leaned in for this work to begin when you became a member of more mayor's organized for reparations and equity.

So thank you for that. That foundational work is what is brought us to this moment.

And from and moving to the work that our community based organizations did as careholders, they reached out to the African American community within the city of Sacramento and a little bit beyond actually.

And was able to hear and receive 510 community surveys, which 80% of the respondents were African American, while 65 were current Sacramento residents.

And the survey showed over 80% of respondents wants the city to pursue a reparations program at the local level moving forward.

And really want to acknowledge that in the report and the supplemental, if you want to learn more about the responses, take a look at sections 2-3 and sections 2-6.3 in the mayorial reparations initiative 2024 Progress Report, which is attached.

The key points and expectations, less level set people, builds off the work of the city level reparations community and the grants projects that we just talked about.

Operationalizes next steps and strategies outlined in the mayorial reparations initiative, which is in sections 2.64.

The resolution also is to establish leadership support to transition from mayorial initiative to city wide initiative.

Also positions the city of Sacramento to have meaningful relationships with careholders and explore what a reparative program could look like in the future.

There's a lot of work to do in this regard. We are not, I really want to say this, we're not cutting checks next year.

Like it's not, I don't want that meta narrative around it is to be very real about we need to deepen our relationships, we need to understand what reparations looks like for the city.

We need to understand our role as a city government in a reparative program and we can also look at what that looks like for the future, whether that's a representative body that makes recommendations.

This is a phase of work that really will build off and connect to the ongoing city racial equity work and efforts.

One, you just approved among other things. So really want to really level set that. This is a phase to work with the greater Sacramento Urban League to do a body of work around legal analysis, landscape analysis, and that is also outlined in the mayoral progress report for 2024 in the same section I believe it's 2.64.

So really wanted to level set that. And I really also want to thank the council members who took on the briefings that really that concern and that question came up and it was helpful for us in terms of the remarks for this presentation.

There are two particular, as I mentioned before, this will help amplify and build off current city work, racial equity work when you just passed, but wanted to kind of highlight two African American experience project.

I think the next agenda item is on the LGBT experience project. And so the African American experience project was an ongoing project that's through our CDD. I'm not going to go into too much detail of it, but wanted to really just kind of highlight that the goals of this project highlight acknowledging racial injustice using history, document black history in an accurate narrative,

challenge misinformation about the black experience. So one of the major themes from the community engagement grant project is that we learn that education and misinformation about reparations is important.

So here we have this already well award winning project where we can utilize the information there and the voices there in order to help shape some of that analysis and the work moving forward.

The other key project I'd like to acknowledge that is currently in the works right now is the city start blueprint, the city start blueprint.

Excuse me, let me just make sure I have my guess. The second project is through the Office of Innovation and Economic Development.

The city of Sacramento was successful in receiving a $75,000 grant to bridge the wealth gap for black Sacramento.

This city of Sacramento is part of the first cohort in the country to specifically address black wealth gap along with seven other cities.

The blueprint has intentionally been designed to identify strategies to reduce Sacramento's black wealth gap with improvement focus on areas of housing, workforce development and banking.

The blueprint utilizes history to address racial injustices by identifying government federal state and local booths and blocks impacting black wealth in Sacramento.

So the blueprint will be released in January 2025. So one is to illustrate those two of how this resolution and this phase of work will be supported and connected and aligned with the work that we are already doing.

In summary, the racial equity committee there was a September 10th unanimously directed approval of a resolution that addresses city efforts and to continue those city efforts on reparations and transitions to citywide reparations initiative.

I also want to mention that this proposal and the scope of work with the greater Sacramento Urban League is supported by dollars that have already been identified.

And so those dollars being identified as part of the February 22 midyear adjustment have already been established.

So we're well supported to enter into this next phase of work. We have collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Equity and OID to move this work along and continue to deepen our relationship with community and our role in repairing harm.

And so action requested to adopt the mayor reparations initiative as a citywide initiative called repair transitioning the mayor reparations initiative to a city one.

Thank you.

Absolutely. Let's hear if thank you.

We do have public testimony here. So let's hear from the public.

I have eight speakers on this item. Lambert, Zion Tatis, Rachel, D'Angelo Mac, Christopher Logston, Dr. Flo Cofur, Keon Bliss, and then Stacy Anderson.

Lambert?

To have left. Zion?

Paul and Zion is Rachel.

Hi, everyone. Thank you for having me again and thank you mayor for initiating this reparation resolution.

And I was part of that when it comes to really doing the survey when it comes to reparation.

So what we really need is really repairing our community.

When people talk about reparation, they all reparation, yeah, we need to repair.

We don't need to be repairing the roads before we're repairing our community.

We're spending so much money on the things that our women, our children, our youth, our businesses.

And so reparation is going to be an amazing initiation again to really help us close the gap, the wealth gap, the education gap that has been by design created in our community.

Like we know, we all, I'm standing here because our ancestors for 400 years paid for it for free.

So all of us sitting here is because, you know, our black people paid for it a long time ago for 400 years.

If they didn't do that, wouldn't be standing here. I wouldn't be standing here doing what I do just like everybody else.

So it's time for us to really repair that the harm that been done for generation and generation.

I can go on their history, what happened to our African American community and our black community through systemic racism, blatant racism and all that stuff.

So this would give us a chance really to close the gap that has been created deliberately.

So black people cannot thrive in the economy that they actually worked hard for free for 400 years.

I mean, that's a long time. So I think it's about time and I'm glad it's happening here in Sacramento.

So I'm for it and I'm just thankful that Mayor, you really initiated this is about time.

And let's vote for it. Thank you.

Next speaker is Rachel. Rachel?

I don't see Rachel. DeAngelo. Following DeAngelo is Christopher Logston. Dr. Focofa.

Dion Bliss and Stacy Anderson. Please feel free to line up in the aisle.

Yeah, hey, the Angela Mac again, Rachel equity alliance alliance.

Yeah, I'm so glad we're here, right? It's a long time coming, right Rick?

So my thing with reparations is an equity for that matter is we continue to ask the people who are marginalized to do all the work.

And thank you, Ami and team for doing the work and Chris and everyone pushing this.

But the thought is like it's not us coming to you with what we need and you saying, okay, yeah, maybe.

Nope, go take it back, figure out something else. You should come to us with what you think we need and let us say nope, not enough.

Until you bring it to us and we say, you know, give us everything.

That's when true reparations happens. The problem is we're afraid.

We're afraid to say yes, we'll give you everything because we think that we're going to do the same thing that you did to us.

But that's not the case. We're not those people. We're not diabolical.

We just want our due, right? And so my sister at 400 years, we worked for free, right?

Which we did. We built this country. We built Sacramento. And so giving us back what's ours is just right, right?

You should actually give it all to us and then we will give back to you. Promise. A promise we will.

But that's how it works. That's real reparations. So thank you. Ask for your loneliness.

Next speaker is Christopher.

I did my personal personal professional intro in the prior item. I did want to just give some thanks.

First to you here, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for committing yourself to the effort.

I know it takes leadership. I know I hear all the time leadership matters. And so I want to thank you personally.

Mr. Jennings over there. Court with God. But I want to thank you also for your presence and for your power and for your leadership also.

To every single one of you, even those who I haven't had the chance to meet with directly yet, you will be getting an email on a call from us to set up some individual briefings to help you understand what's going on.

At the state level. For those of you who don't know our organization, CJA, we helped write the final version of the bill that created the law to create the California reparations task force in 2020.

That was assembly bill 3121. And then we worked and we've been working very closely at the state level with state legislators to get reparations bills passed at the state level for.

Over the past year, we'll continue to do that over the next as long as it takes to be quite honest. Also want to give a big shout out to Kelly.

Robert over there, Army, the whole family, the whole team. Thank you all. Most importantly, I want to thank the people that's behind me and the people that's not here right now.

I'm either not here physically because they can't physically be here, but also those who are no longer with us, specifically my ancestors. I gave you my personal, you know, titles and all that, but I am living the center of someone whose whose ancestors weren't slaves and emancipated in this country.

And we are old reparations. It is a debt that sold. It's not a handouts, not a gift, not a grant. We're owed it. And I look forward to your passing this resolution tonight. Thank you.

Thank you.

Again, hello, Stacy with National African American Civil Rights Organization. Again, salutations from President Betty Williams.

Thank you, Chris Lachson. Let me take this off for a minute.

I would like to thank the President of the National Civil Rights Organization, NACRO VOTE UNANIMIS, to support the reparations resolution. We now represent 12 states and growing.

I would like for you all to envision racial justice for African Americans. It's our civil right. Every other minority nationality.

Hello, song there.

All right. Every other minority nationality has received reparations and we are way overdue. We are no longer running from slavery, but racing forward.

Do the right thing, write a new chapter and use your power to move us forward, which we will deserve. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Your comments.

I have two more speakers. Dr. Flokow for than Key on Bliss.

off so I'm going to keep this brief. Which is I just thank you's a bound to everyone

who helped to put this together and I'm so glad that we are converting this from a

mayoral initiative to a citywide initiative. I am really here today both to affirm this

item in the next one which I'm going to leave before because the time alarm just went

off but I just want to say that you know understanding the history and then also doing

something about it is our shared responsibility. And I am reminded constantly and I'm

saying this because both my mother and my aunt as well as my friend's mother in the

back of the room and I am the first generation in my family to be born with the right to

vote. I was gestated you know in the womb of a woman born in 1950 who did not have that

right until the until the voting rights act was passed in the 60s. And so I am going

to thank you all today for beginning the process of doing what should have been done in

1865 and certainly should have been done in 1965 and we make it more complicated the

longer we wait. So I thank you for seeing the urgency of this moment and for taking

this on. And what I ask is that we also apply the lessons to this as we do things moving

forward. We had a war on drugs and we still have people alive from that war on drugs who

are suffering because of decisions we made and I want our body to also think about that.

I want us to consider that when harm has been done reparations is the key to that and

thinking about what that looks like as we move forward as a body. So I want to thank

you for affirming history and also for moving this forward because it is necessary for

us as part of healing. Thank you.

He on glisses our final speaker on the item.

Really not much more needs to be said within that but I mean there is a lot that needs

to be on so needs to be unpacked with why this is. I'm glad to see that this is moving

forward as a city wide initiative that it should have been done years ago. We all know

this. It's better late than never truly. And I think one of the most important pieces

about reparations and repairing the harm, the legacy of how this nation was founded

under the principle of white supremacy that prioritized property and profit over basic

human rights and well being is one of those ways at which we need to overcome and repair

the harm that continues to be done even to today. I think it's important to remember that

even as one form of slavery has been ended, slavery was not abolished in this country.

We still have major corporations that operate here in this city that we do business with

that continue to profit from mass incarceration which every arm of law enforcement from the

federal level down to the city level continues to facilitate aid in the bed. Taxpayers

in the US spend more than $80 billion every year on people who are locked up and here

in here in Sacramento County we have an overcrowded jail system that on any given day has

over 3,000 people most of whom are pretrial who could be like who could be home and that

contributes and that allows for law enforcement agencies to claim even more money. If we're

going to have a serious conversation this needs like we need more than just words we need

action action speak louder than words but also to money talks and we need to actually

see money behind this well after meant several of you step off. So I hope you continue

advocating for this. Thank you for your comments. Mary have no more speakers.

Thank you again members of the public. Appreciate it let's turn it over to the member Mayor

Pro Tem Telemontis. Thank you Mayor. Happy to support this move the item.

Thank you. Thank you for all your work on this and really just level setting expectations.

This work is really important and I appreciate you finding grant funding to help us advance

this. It's something that we're going to continue to have to do just because we are in a budget

deficit and we're continuing to make cuts and we're going to have you having a lot of

difficult decisions to make and so just setting expectations with the community when we're

out there having these really important conversations is so important to be because I just

want to make sure that we meet people's expectations and don't over promise and under

deliver and so just really want to thank you for your words today. Thank you.

Thank you. Councilmember van. Thanks Mayor. I'll second the motion on the table by Mayor

Pro Tem Telemontis and just wanted to echo her comments to city staff and all the community

members and community partners that was part of the grant as well to get to this moment.

I did have a question for all me and maybe we need to change the motion but I just want

to have a better understanding the transition from the Mayor initiative to the city council

and what that will look I think for me a new mayor is going to come in and new appointments

for different committees but I think having the loop around is going to be really important

because once this resolution passed I'm curious to know because I know there's a contract

with the urban league. I think having that loop around back even if it's to the racial

equity committee and then to bring forth the full council is going to be important. Maybe

that's a direction to add to the motion as well but I want to have a better understanding

of that because I don't want that to get lost. Yeah. It's a great question and I appreciate

bringing it up. Apologies for moving so fast through the presentation. So under the

under Mayor Steinberg and Kelly's leadership it was our office the office of diversity

and equity provided grant support and Robert Bell was really instrumental in helping

those grants get paid and administered through our procurement process and then the three

of us would often meet with the five grantees. A toolkit was created from that as well and

then the progress report. So given that and then the Mayor transition we are the office

of diversity and equity will be the primary lead on that because we have we're the best

position to do that and so with the February 22 mid-year adjustment the $120,000 dollar

grant is the financial commitment that has already been established and is already there

to work with the greater Sacramento Urban League to do that body of work that's on pages 54

and 55 which involves legal analysis, landscape analysis, deep community engagement, education

and all the other subsequent actions. So that's what I was mentioning about the city manager's

office has created it to where there's a seamless kind of with the transition of the Mayor

and Kelly that we could take this on and continue on with the work since the infrastructure

was built within it for financial the 120 and the identified work with the greater Sacramento

Urban League who was already involved in the research in the initiative as well around

reparations. So there was a relationship there so it's really a seamless transition but

the office of diversity and equity will be the primary point for this next phase.

Okay and we'll be working closely with the office of Innovation and Economic Development

particularly Lynnette Hall and her team with community engagement working and I'm sure

we'll be partnering possibly with all of your offices. I would love to talk with the

racial equity alliance and council about how this work could possibly how we can collaborate,

how we can leverage, maximize community relationships and the conversations around what

reparations look like in the city. Sounds great. Thank you all me. Appreciate that.

Okay very good. I'm so glad this work is going to continue citywide. It's appropriate

and go go. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed abstain. That's another unanimous vote.

Thank you. You have one more equity issue on the agenda here and that is item number 32.

Go ahead Sean. How are you? Good. How are you mayor? Good. Good evening mayor and members of the city council.

Sean de Coursi, preservation director with the community development department.

I'm here tonight. There we go if we get the slides up. Thank you. I'm here tonight to present the final deliverables,

the historic context statement and survey findings from the LGBTQ plus historic experience project.

Last month the preservation commission convened and recommended the city council review and accept the results of the LGBTQ plus

historic experience project. This project was launched to address gaps in our city's historic record by

documenting and preserving the contributions of Sacramento's LGBTQ plus community. The goals of the project

include the documenting significant LGBTQ sites events and stories, engaging, educating and involving the public in the project,

enhancing Sacramento's identity as an inclusive and forward thinking city.

This project has received key support from the California Office of Historic Preservation,

the National Trust for Historic Preservation, preservation Sacramento, the Lavender Library, the LGBT community center,

the Rainbow Chamber of Commerce, and many other groups and individuals.

Over the past year, preservation staff and our historic consultants, Paige and Turnbull, have worked alongside volunteers

and these community groups to finalize the project. Public engagement was central to this effort.

Some of the highlights I'd like to note include hosting over 15 public meetings and small group sessions, participating in key community events like the rainbow flag raising,

Sacramento Pride Weekend, Drag Queen Bingo, and the Rainbow Chamber of Commerce annual gala.

Through these efforts, we have strived to engage with underrepresented voices, including trans, by-pock, and minority communities.

These efforts have ensured the project is shaped by and for this community.

Beginning last summer, Paige and Turnbull, alongside community volunteers, completed a comprehensive survey of the Lavender Heights neighborhood,

identifying a potentially eligible historic district shown here, appropriately in purple.

In addition, five individually eligible landmarks were documented and others identified as potentially eligible.

While these resources are not being nominated for historic designation tonight, these results will help ensure that these sites are recognized for their significance to the community.

Before I open the floor to questions, I'd like to welcome one of the project's public participants, George Raya, to share a few words.

George is a longtime member of Sacramento's LGBTQ plus community and has both witnessed and contributed to its rich history.

For moments of resilience to act of resistance, I hope George's perspective will highlight why preserving this history is so vital to our city.

Mayor, members of the council, hello, George Raya, fourth district.

I want to start first by thanking Kitty Valesuela for this is one of your legacy projects.

You know, you're leaving the council, but you've done so much and this is going to be one of, you know, you brought this forward.

And what I want to talk about is the importance of this particular project.

The Office of Preservation previously did the African American Experience Project and I asked them to add historic experience so that it says more about what this project is about.

Sacramento has a long gay history, LGBTQ.

I'm 75 and I grew up when we said gay, which meant everybody, but now we say, I used to have to go LGBTQ to get all the segments of the community in.

We need to know our history.

Okay, there's a quote on the screen right now when I lived in San Francisco, 74 to 90.

I started working on LGBT history there and what happened, you know, just on Sunday we celebrated the world age day.

And what we found was so many families when they claim, you know, they came to when their loved one died in San Francisco, they would burn their letters and their journals, you know, because it was not something that the family wanted to publicize that their loved one died of AIDS or was LGBTQ.

So here in Sacramento, we've been doing gay history stuff.

It was back in 65 that did Clayton and Rick Stoltz, they started what was called the Americans for responsible citizenship, which is an offshoot of a San Francisco based group, the Society for Homosexual Freedom.

But nationally, there were protests happening in at the White House, they're picketing for LGBT rights, they're picketing at Independence Hall.

But in Sacramento, they were picketing the state fair because they had put in to have a booth at the fair so they could publicize what the work that was doing.

And they found out that it was an LGBTQ group, they avoided the contract.

So Rick and David and some other people picketed the state fair and handed out the brochures that they would have handed out when they were had their booth.

And they got more publicity because TV stations came and everybody, you know, they handed it, I think about 5,000 pamphlets.

So, but we were doing things in 65 and then in 1970, when I was a student at Sac State, we sued the college because you wanted to have a campus LGBT student organization.

And at the time, the acting college president was out of butts and he wanted to become the permanent president.

And Ronald Reagan was the governor living in the FAP 40s.

And Otto felt that if he agreed to allow this campus organization, that he would not be appointed to be the president.

So it was a political decision. He denied us a charter.

So the student government had granted one and normally it's just automatic because you only need certain number of students, an advisor and bylaws.

We met all the requirements. So we sued and John Palswell, a great local attorney.

He had been a student body president at Sac State, then he'd gone to Cal and graduated from Bowen Hall.

And so he was a newly-minute attorney and he took our case for us. The student government sued and I coordinated the suit.

But 1970, we had to go to court to come on campus as a campus organization.

And then Willie Brown, for six years, introduced his bill to decrymline sex between consenting adults and it finally passed.

Next year is the 50th anniversary, 1975. It passed.

So we have a long history.

And I want to thank the Labner Library who's been the work site for a lot of the work that's going on.

But see, we're also important economically because the Visit Sacramento on their website has a grade about three pages of Sacramento LGBTQ history.

And the city through Visit Sacramento is promoting Sacramento for LGBTQ tourists.

People come to Sacramento. In 1979.

George, I'm just going to ask if we can wrap it up just a little bit.

I think this is, I don't have the two-minute limit.

No, you don't, but I don't have the two-minute limit.

And the stories are really important. But tell us a little bit about the project and how we can learn more because it's vital.

We'll all written down in the context.

Go, go, go, go. Go, go, wrap it up. You're good.

We love you, George.

Come on, George.

In New York, you know, Stonewall riot happened at 69.

In 1979, here in Sacramento, the police in February of 79 raided a gay disco.

The upstairs downstairs bar.

Well, and in June of that year, we started our first gay pride parade.

And it only had about 500 people the first year, but now it's up to about 25,000.

We get LGBT tourists coming to Sacramento.

So this project in helping to identify locations within Loverde Heights,

which the city officially identified as a recognizable neighborhood in 2015 when we did that rainbow sidewalk across walk.

So please support this.

Thank you, George.

All right. We do have four speakers limited to the two-minute time limit.

It's all good. Let's go.

I force John Marshack, William Berg, Claire Mundo Sullivan, Steven Borossa, then Claire Flynn.

That's five.

I'm sorry. I can't tell.

After 10.

Thank you, Mayor City Council.

Appreciate this opportunity.

I want to move that you adopt the recommendation of staff and accept this historic context statement,

as well as the survey results.

I'm John Marshack. I spent seven years on the preservation commission.

Two years as chair and really got involved in a stark preservation.

And this is really a turnaround.

We're not focusing on architecture. We're focusing on people.

What is it about people and the importance of their work that then necessitates designation as historic?

It's really a shift.

And this is an example as well as the Offer to American Experience Project.

So it's very important that this go forward and be accepted by you.

And thank you very much.

Thank you, John.

William Berg.

Good evening. William Berg, the preservation Sacramento.

We partnered on this and provided matching funds as well as money for dinners.

And we've been following the project.

We're very proud of the results.

Now, this is a different kind of historic preservation.

It's not what people associate with historic preservation and think about.

Architecture. This isn't about architecture.

It is about buildings.

But it's about the events that took place and the people associated with these events.

And what events?

The struggle of a community for acceptance, for rights, for justice, for survival.

But also locations of celebration and joy and community.

And without this project, without the oral history interviews and the research,

a lot of these stories would be lost.

So as a why it's important to take the next steps after this and list the Lavager Heights Historic Districts

and the individual landmarks is because the struggle is not over, but neither is the celebration or the joy.

So I'd like to thank staff and the consultant team, the volunteers for their work.

I'd like to thank Council Member Valenzuela for championing this and being a preservation champion for the past four years.

And Mayor Steinberg, about 30 years ago, I went to my first Sacramento City Council meeting.

And you were the sole dissenting vote against the city's first public camping ordinance.

And I have admired your tenacity and willingness to stand alone on principle, if necessary.

But also your ability to find places where we can all stand together.

And I think Lavager Heights is a wonderful place for this city to stand together.

So I hope you will unanimously approve this project.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I like the piece of the Claremont now.

That's true, guys.

Falling Claremont to us, Steven Barrassa.

See, I'm a little short.

So I'm going to have to pull it down.

Okay.

I'm going to keep this short because I have to use the restroom.

Good evening.

My name is Clark Mundo Sullivan.

I am the executive director of a minority-based organization here in Sacramento called Golden Rules Services.

And I just wanted to say that because of black indigenous and other people of color communities and LGBTQ communities,

are often unrecognized and underappreciated for their historical contributions in Sacramento,

I'm very excited to lend my support of the historical content statement.

As some of our Sacramento, BIPOC, and LGBTQ are aging or passing away,

it is important that their experience are documented for future generations.

Please approve the historical context statement.

As we enter a new consecutive presidential administration,

I am concerned that this administration will propose agendas that will try to eradicate LGBTQ organizations,

funding, and our histories.

Let's approve this historical context to preserve our history.

Thank you.

Hello, Maristine Bergen, City Council.

You know, I moved to Sacramento in 1987, and I feel like I'm a local now after those years.

I'm a senior member of the gay community back in the old days, it was GLBT.

That was the acronym back then.

And you know, the gay community in Sacramento has been truly a blessing in my journey.

You know, in the 90s, I was a disjockey at Faces for a period of time, Faces Night Club.

I was a member of an outdoor adventurers of Sacramento group,

where we went backpacking and got to see a lot of neat camping experiences.

And I was even a member of a gay motorcycle club, the Valley Nights motorcycle club.

That was a great way to tour California and see California.

We got to ride with the Lesbian motorcycle club, The Sisters of Scota.

But that just tells you the rich fabric of the gay community, the GLBT community in Sacramento.

And I attended the first meeting of this project and had great pizza from the preservation society.

And you know, a lot of members of this, I also attended a number of meetings,

but what became clear is there are a lot of concerned members of the community with their experiences as well.

And it was overwhelming.

I thought, man, are these guys going to be able to cover this?

And I was blown away by the level of detail that they put together on this project.

Really, they've really created something really substantial for our community.

And I applaud Katie for spearheading this project as well.

And the buildings I identified, you know, back in those days being gay was a secret.

And so there were gay coffee houses and places we would go where we could be with our peers and feel comfortable.

And so I think they've identified great facilities and I urge you to move this forward. Thank you.

Thank you. Claire Flynn is our final speaker.

All right. This will be really quick.

My name is Claire Flynn. I've been the project manager and lead historian with the consultant team on page and turn ball in the project working with the city.

And but I actually am not really here representing myself.

I wanted to just give a chance to say the names of the other members of the LGBTQ plus community who came to the meeting earlier, but couldn't stay.

So I just wanted to say their names and I'm sorry, I'm probably missed some people who were here.

But Denny Mangers, Sherry Gordon, Rita Mendingo, Carson Anderson.

I believe Ace of Sally was maybe here at one point.

So I just wanted to raise up their names and voices because this really was a community project and it couldn't have been done without all of them sharing their stories.

And so I just wanted to give them a chance to have their voices heard. Thanks.

Thank you.

That was great. Thank you all for the public testimony. Councilor Valenzuela, thank you for championing this project.

Thank you.

Well, it's really, I mean, this was a real partnership with staff.

I mean, this started as a simple question about whether lavender district qualified as a historic district and turned into Sean saying, hey, we have an idea because we had just finished in the African American Stories project.

And, you know, maybe this is a model that we could build on and get funding for.

And so I really do want to thank staff and the team and Claire, the consultant on the project.

I did a phenomenal job. I got to go to one of the listening sessions and it was just awesome to see the community gathered and sharing and how open you all were to their feedback.

It was just incredible.

And to preservation Sacramento and all of the community members who participated, I mean, this really wasn't possible without you all.

I mean, there was information, even that last listening session that I feel like Fred was just pulling out of his, you like, oh, and then this happened and then that happened and you all were just scrambling to write it down.

You know, I think there was just an incredible collaboration here and, you know, from the, I mean, this document, if you haven't looked at it, colleagues, I know it's long.

So maybe like weekend reading, like reading.

But it's when you look at it, it's so detailed.

I mean, what was just said, I mean, from colonization to criminalization to all of these historic groups, like George mentioned, like the Association for Responsible Citizenship and Topper Club and Bojangles,

to institutions that are still here today and how they started and what was happening there, like the Merck and the LGBT Center and Atward Magazine and Faces and Lavender Library.

Imperial Court, if you haven't been to one of their events, really cool.

Sacramento Gay Men's Court is PFLAG.

I mean, just so many institutions that persevered through all of that and still exist in serve our community today.

It's just a true treasure to see that in context.

I learned a lot reading this document.

I really hope everybody does. This is, as the staff mentioned, not just a context statement for history, but a really cool foundational document for future historical designations that'll come before this body.

But I just want to also affirm what some of the speakers have said.

You know, we're entering a very new political context and Sacramento has taken really great strides to affirm, you know, our allyship and our leadership with the LGBTQ plus community.

And I hope this is just another way that we can show the community tonight that we are still here.

We're still with you and we're going to stay with you through what comes.

I'd one morning.

I also thought meant to acknowledge Henry Fuse who was the project manager on the city team, but he's not here today because he had a loss in his family.

So I just thought he needed to get a little things to do.

Thank you.

Okay.

Yes, I was making a motion to approve the document.

Thank you, Ma'am Quirk.

I'd like to say my vice mayor, Maple Councilman Gettah.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Appreciate this.

And first to say, you know, what an amazing collection of work here.

And I was very proud to be to vote.

One of my first, you know, votes on the 2015 recognition and even the toppers and everything that went in that area.

And I'm so glad that this is happening because I remember the story when I got elected as student body president at Sac State because John Pazwell, my first day as student body president, came to me to tell me the story.

And the fact that that is continued to be a history of Sacramento is exciting.

And I didn't even know there was a lavender district or a history or any of that that was happening in the Civil Rights Activism and the fight for Civil Rights at that time.

And it was actually, you know, also at that time who brought me over to that to the area, which we just went to swearing in or celebration was Christopher Cableden.

And to talk about, you know, his experience and finding a community and the person who brought me over there who got me to understand and say, hey, look, there's a deeper history was I want to recognize it, you know, my vice president at type Peter Yucovich.

And all of these groups at Sac State, you know, you know, this is where I get to throw a little bit of pride at Sac State, the fact that they had been continuing this.

And I saw photos of George Rye as a student, you know, back with his Chicano long hair back in the 70s, you know, but it's all to say that this is exciting to see that we're actually memorializing because it's great to hear the stories.

It's great to hear, you know, your stories here also, George today, but it's even more important to document them so that that ask people move on as things change in Sacramento.

We don't forget those those true histories. And it wasn't just about like what happened, but why they happened. And I think that's what moved me so much.

Thank you, Mayor. And I'll be really brief. I'll make similar comments to when we had the African American Experience Project here, but I think it's always really exciting.

Everything we talked about this evening has been focused on the future, which is most of what we do here, right? Talk about changing policies, focusing on how do we repair harm and so on.

But I think a really important part of how we can form decisions that we make here about the future is really understanding the past, which is why I think this work is so, so important.

And, and Sir, Riot, it's always good to hear from you. I remember on the campaign show, you taught me quite a lot during our coffee. And so I think you're in institution, Sacramento. I'm really glad you're part of this project. Thank you to the staff.

Thank you.

I love your comment about history. It's so true. And that's what this is. I mean, I'll say 26 years ago, I remember being on the assembly floor with a Democratic majority and the bare minimum, 41 votes with the number of Democrats voting no barely passed hospital visitation rights for domestic partners.

And that was quote controversial.

I was in the majority, by the way.

Probably. And now 26 years later, the law of the land under the Constitution is that marriage is for everyone marriage equality.

And we will never go back ever in this community or in this country. I don't care what kind of crappy ads they run throughout the throughout the country. Never going back when it comes to people's basic civil and human rights. This is important. Thank you.

All in favor, please say aye.

I oppose abstain. Very good.

I move that we go until 2 a.m. this morning.

Okay, we got two. We got two quick items. Go ahead. Greenbrier. What's next?

Can I slide this? Please. Councillor Cappellan.

Miss Laura was not feeling good. So I told her for Mr. Covall for her to go home. This is as written. It is the community facilities district bond allocation for infrastructure for the next phase of housing and math development, which was agreed upon.

I think it's a good idea to have a couple of weeks ago, colleagues, you approved a development agreement amendment that is also part of infrastructure and a bridge that is going to go over 99.

So this is part 2 to make that happen. And if you have any questions on what you read, Brian is in the audience, but otherwise this is straightforward and it's for more housing.

I love it. Very good. Do you want to make a motion to move it?

Is there public testimony? There's not. Thank you, Councillor Cappellan.

Without controversy, all in favor, please say aye. Opposed?

That's past you, you managed me. Last item here today. Go right ahead.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members. My name is Armando Herrera. I'm an administrative analyst with Human Resources Administration.

I have a brief presentation on item 34. This item is listed as a discussion item because government code 54953 requires that we must orally report a summary of the recommendation for final actions on salaries, salaries, schedules, or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits of a local agency executive.

The city treasure and director of public safety accountability meet the local agency executive definition as defined in government code section 3511.1D.

The city is recommending the approval of a salary increase of 5% for the city treasure and the director of public safety accountability.

Thank you for your time with this matter. This is the end of my presentation.

Thank you very much. There's no public testimony. Councillor Member Cappellan.

Mayor, I just want to state a couple things to kind of make clear where I've said before that I stayed it with our city auditor.

And I want to make it clear here moving forward because we've talked about it that we do not and should not be grouping charter members together when we take up items.

So if we're looking at their contract or their salaries, I think it's only fair because what got us in trouble was a bulk decision that we said we would take these items separately.

So I hope moving forward that becomes a standard with this council that whenever we are discussing an item, charter members should not be grouped together.

We should talk about them and address them separately. I have indicated and I think it's important that I say that when we approve the city auditor, I hope that when we discussed our charter officers, one we look at a comparative salary schedule for what their salary is compared to other California cities and similar sized cities compared of the Sacramento potentially out of state.

So I think that's a good example of how we're going to do that. That in my position has not changed. However, I'm okay and we'll be okay with a little consternation on this one because I was okay that these two individuals of our charter officers followed the process that we set up for them to follow of presenting at PP&E and then coming into close session to discuss their evaluation.

So I'm just going to be telling them this 5% over a year ago. I do not like the process of how it is here today because it should have happened and I hate that politics plays in the what we as a group and as their collective bosses should be doing and it shouldn't have taken a year to correct that.

So I still have to discuss because at the same time we also had our city manager city attorney and city clerk all up for 5%. So why are we cherry picking just one a couple of charter officers versus the others.

I hope that as we move forward into the new year that we actually follow the process do our job as collective bosses to let them present their yearly review to PP&E and then we go into close session and discuss them individually because I do not believe each should get the same raise.

Let them earn their raises on their merits or no raise because we're in a budget deficit. But I think we owe that to our charter members to make sure that one we do a comparative salary we as a city.

And the charter officers get to do their own because normal negotiations is we do our own and they say we like this and then we discuss in the middle and come to that conclusion and be very transparent in this entire process.

So I want to thank them for doing their job and following the process as much as possible.

Thank you.

Okay. We do have five people signed up for items not on the agenda.

I'm going to call off all the names. Please line up if you're still here. Michael Bevens.

Paulville. Sherry dimmerling. Mac worthy. Kyle Williams.

I think miss Mack. Mr. Worthy. Mr. Dimmering. Is Michael Bevens.

No.

It's not your place to counsel. But are you on the board of state of California turning license.

I said to the mayor. Now what we will look at some things that brought up here tonight.

On about reparation.

Things was.

When you file that because I'll probably be the only person here will testify if it comes to fellow court.

You are getting your reparation by the checks and the grants that you own nonprofit organization.

Now I learned something up and clearly to Indian had a college in Davis.

America in years.

Well when they take welfare the state would deduct that from their property.

So the reparation California would even exist in win slavery.

I would prefer to put a find the people that say they was an African America.

I want to see them take a blood test for African blood.

I'm not an African American. I'm American. That's America and you're in poor white boy.

So these are the things that you you're going to run up against.

A nonprofit organization that tax pay us money and then a wealth gap in many beatings of dollars that the athletes have.

You can't use taxpayers dollars to become wealthy because you are a Negro or any other nationality America.

That will be unconstitution and I hope it comes while I'm living so I can testify against wake up people.

Black folks they call themselves black they don't even have the ability to take care of money.

How many how many after they managed their own money?

Who are their father people? People just a sad situation.

They're asking for something that they're going to never get the same thing or post integration.

I was in a comb field in 1950 and my dad told me what do I want.

If your comments your time is complete Michael Paulville or Sherry?

One more.

Okay this Jim go ahead.

Just let us know your name please.

Paul Bell. My name is Paul Bell is a machinikov and I'm here today to discuss a issue that's been going on with the city.

I'm pretty sure emailed every single one of the council members in regarding the city sidewalks that the city was funded through measure you which was actually stated in the one of the budget and audit committee meetings that the mayor actually has addressed specifically towards economic development which also incorporates to city sidewalks.

However our family has been charged for city sidewalks that was repaired by the city and I attempted to dispute the issue and I got as far as going to the city hall multiple occasions and I've been arrested for trespassing for trying to address an issue that is a public concern and an issue that is on the city's responsibility.

I want to be a little bit of what I wanted to discuss based on what I've been hearing in the meetings today.

Initially I wanted to thank the city for how they've been progressing in general compared to other cities and I've done my research of how other cities operate and Sacramento has been doing quite well.

I don't have time to explain all the departments but I wanted to say thank you.

The other thing I wanted to mention is there was a theme based on quotes and there's a quote that I would like to share and that is the tides of goodwill are all but threads but the tides of mutual interests are like chains of steel.

Mayor Daryl Steinberg might know where that quote came from. That is all.

May I have no more speakers?

There are council ideas and questions.

Go right ahead.

Grant High School Pacers a shout out third straight section titles we are playing for the state Senate AF State Championship this Friday in Santa Clara and so against Mountain View St. Francis

and so definitely go Pacers go go Pacers Congressman Congressman Jenning the Congress so the distinguished gentleman under your under your last act can we bring the grant Pacers in and acknowledge them here.

If we went states this we I'm not talking about state championship I'm talking about the championship they want to get to the state championship the third consecutive the state consecutive exactly can we bring them in and acknowledge them will work on that yeah so I just want to make sure you do that.

And then all of my announcements that I have here I'm not going to read them out tonight I'm going to say that we're going to put them on our website and we're going to ask all of our constituents to go to this district seven website in order to see the announcement regarding Santa Claus.

Santa is here.

I am prepared now my van is got something go I just really wanted to do that I don't have any announcement.

Oh my God well let me just say let me just say that is a wrap thank you everybody appreciate you all one more time we are adjourned.