Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

We'll call this City Council meeting to order.

Please call the roll.

Council Member Patlin.

Here.

Council Member Dickinson.

Here.

Vice-mer-telemante.

Here.

Council Member Pluckybom.

Here.

Council Member Maple.

Here.

Mayor Pro Temgada.

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Council Member Jennings.

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Council Member Vang.

Here.

And Mayor McCarty.

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You have a call.

Okay.

Thank you.

Council Member Pluckybom.

Will you lead us with a land acknowledgement and a pledge?

We can't lead the race.

The original people of this land, the Nisanan, the southern Maidu, Valley Plains, Meewak,

Patwyn Wintu, the people of the Wilton Rancherilla 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 in active practice of acknowledgement

and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contribution, and lives.

Thank you.

Salute.

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

United States for the indigenous peoples history.

Madam City Attorney, do you have a report out from closed session?

Yes, the Mayor and Council met in closed session to discuss one item of pending litigation,

but there's nothing reported this time.

Also the second item on the Labor Negotiations was taken off calendar.

So Mayor, you have one special presentation.

It is human trafficking awareness month and will be presented by Mayor Pro Tem Gatta.

Yes.

Thank you, Council Member Gara and Mayor Pro Tem.

Please proceed.

Thank you, Mayor.

You know, every January, it's, we recognize not only the survivors but also the hard working

individuals who are fighting every day for survivors in human trafficking.

And this work is one that I'm very proud of the work that's been occurring in Sacramento.

And one that's been recognized not only here by our state but also nationally.

And today, you know, many of us were blue, you know, in recognition of human trafficking.

And the fact that it's still going on in broad daylight in front of us, many times in

our commercial corridors.

And it's, in fact, referred to as our own modern day slavery, the act of purchasing people

unfortunately.

And the fact that many of them, many of them are miners and who are locked in alive for

that they find no way to get out except for the fact that we have amazing individuals

here today.

And today we're here and I'd like to bring up to recognize the, to receive the resolution

on human trafficking awareness month.

Our very own, uh, uh, Rischel Fenton from a community against sexual harm.

Let's bring, give them a big round of applause.

Also, Beth Haset from Weave, um, Jan Marshall from my sisters house, give them a big round

of applause.

Kristen Gurellier, the director of development and, uh, our new CEO and then director of

development, Daniel Ertani from Family Justice Center.

Let's give them a big round of applause.

Our new, uh, CEO for the St. John's program for real change, Scott Richards and as well,

um, city of Raffew, Rischel did more and please come out to the podium as I'll bring

in you up here.

And come on up everybody, don't be shy.

And also, um, from the city of Sacramento, um, you know, our very own deputy chief, Adam

Green on behalf of, uh, chief of police, Kathy Lester.

Uh, you know, today, uh, we had, uh, not only planned this recognition, uh, but also,

uh, the fact that in Sacramento, our very own lead, uh, our police chief was involved

in a statewide human trafficking task force with our AG, our district attorney.

And one of the important things to highlight, I passed around everyone, not only a contact

of all of the organization, so your district office has that information, but also how

you can support, either to volunteer or contributions, uh, and what, how everyone, uh, contributes.

And the fact is, uh, we in Sacramento have led the way on issues like addressing the

illegal massage partners to the point where the county has followed suit on that.

We've led the way on partnering and figuring out how we provide legal resources so people

can, um, make sure that they can escape their abusers and also not, and, and find a path

for, uh, their family, and also how to end the cycle, uh, you know, uh, by making sure

we go after the root problem and not those who are victimized and survive these terrible

incidents of human trafficking.

So, um, let me first pass this over to my council member, and then I'll ask, uh, Rochelle

from a community in sexual harm, um, that was started, uh, by not only a community volunteer,

but also, um, uh, from the city of Sacramento, then at that time, Sergeant Cindy Stinson,

who, uh, from our own city.

And I know, uh, the mayor, when he was a council member, worked a lot with that sergeant

assigned to stock and boulevard.

But let me pass this over to our council member, um, Katie Mabel.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem, and I appreciate you bringing me in on this, and, um, I know

this is an issue that's near and dear, not just to my heart, but also to district five.

Um, so we're here to recognize the extent, uh, outstanding work that, that you all do

every single day, including we, my sister's house, St. John's program for real change, and

then two district five organizations, city of refuge and community against sexual harm.

I thank you for the work that you do every day in our communities to help support victims.

We know that human trafficking is a pervasive issue that deeply impacts our most vulnerable

communities here in Sacramento.

Organizations like yours play a critical role in providing survivors with resources,

care, and pathways to safety and healing through prevention programs, peer mentorship,

survivor centered services, these organizations work to empower individuals to break free from

cycles of exploitation.

Your work not only uplift survivors, but also strengthen our entire community by fostering

safety and awareness.

Partnerships with local law enforcement, which we'll hear about in just a minute, um, service

providers and community leaders highlight the power of collaboration and addressing human

trafficking effectively.

Your leadership serves as an example of how focused, compassionate efforts can lead

to real change.

And together today, as we do this resolution, we're going to recommit as the city of Sacramento

to not only supporting the work that you're doing every day, but finding new and creative

ways to continue to move that work forward and help support our survivors.

And last day, I just want to take a moment while we're here before you get a chance to

speak.

I know the Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center is going to be doing a screening

of their new documentary hope rising at the Guild Theatre in Oak Park.

That's on the 30th at 6 p.m.

That's this Thursday.

So I hope folks can join us there if you haven't already purchased a ticket, come by and

watch that screening.

And I'm sure you'll learn a little bit about it now.

So thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you very much.

And yes, in District 5, you know, a family just a center, a great, they're going to have

that great screening.

An exciting thing also, I don't know if it's open for publication, but also a family

just a center in my sister's house.

They have a new partnership as well.

So let's give them a big round of applause, joining their resources.

So to bring more, to talk a little more about the great work that's happened, let me bring

up Michelle Fenton, Fenton, and then Atoria Foley to talk a little bit about the great

work that's happening by community and sexual harm.

And also the fact that in Sacramento, we've created now the National Human Trafficking Hotline

because of their leadership here in Sacramento.

So.

Yeah, so before you, you proceed, thank you for the presentation.

I just wanted to say, this is an item that we wish wasn't on the council agenda.

We wish we wouldn't have to be an example of a community that's doing it, that's stepping

up and working in this space well.

But this is a worldwide issue, robbing individuals of their freedom, of course, but great promise

and right here on our own backyard.

And so this is an extremely illicit and very profitable worldwide enterprise.

And unfortunately here at the Crossroads of Two Freeways, we've seen for the better

part of two decades.

We are a hot spot and certainly proud that our local law enforcement and partners have

stepped up to really focus on the victims and the survivors to help identify individuals

and get them back on their feet and help them get productive lives.

And this is certainly something that I've been watching your work council member, Vice

Mayor Pro Tem for the past five years on this issue.

Not just because it's on Stockton Boulevard, we see it with our own two eyes in our district,

but this impacts families and a lot of the individuals are very vulnerable.

Some, as we know, are living in the shadows.

Don't have proper documentation with immigration status.

So now more than ever, we need people to trust our law enforcement and communicate with

our law enforcement partners about things happening.

So that's why your partnership is key.

So thank you for the work that you're doing.

Councilor McGarrett for bringing this to our attention.

Please proceed.

So thank you and good evening everyone.

I just want to state, my name is Ref, I Elephantino, not Rochelle.

Just want to, it's totally fine.

I had to learn how to pronounce my name as well, a long story, different day.

But yes, thank you for being here.

Our partnership with Sacramento Police Department and the Sheriff's Department has been amazing

because I am a survivor and have not had the greatest interaction with the police department

or people in uniform in general.

And so I'm very grateful that we're able to partner and we work with them diligently.

We get phone calls and like, hey, can we speak with you?

We have someone right now and so that's great to know that literally we're one phone call

away and we're able to continue to establish those relationships and the partnerships in

the community because yes, it's happening in our backyard.

So thank you.

Great, thank you.

And then, Aitoria, if I pronounced that correct.

You did.

You got mine right.

I guess, first and foremost, it's such an honor to be here on behalf of Cash and to

be recognized in this space.

So thank you so much for that.

The support that we receive not only from community members but other agencies is really

crucial to being able to perform and execute this work.

And so what that looks like, as you mentioned, that support from donors, things like that.

It really makes a huge difference in what we can provide to women.

We have our drop-in center that is fully funded by those donations and that gives women

a safe space to come in, sit down, have a meal, get warm clothes.

We now have a washer and dryer, wash clothes.

We're going to implement a shower.

We now have a fully functioning medical clinic within our building.

And so all of those things are really huge, crucial services to be able to offer these

women and we wouldn't be able to do that without the support of the community that we do

have.

That's right.

So thank you so much for this honor to be here as an organization.

Well, thank you.

And then again, if you want to find a way to help community get sexual harm, I passed

out this information and the information is in the back.

They're contact information.

But before you leave, I want to bring up Deputy Chief Adam Green to talk about the great

work that's being led by not only our city but also by the fact that we are partnering

and work with our nonprofits at the point to help those survivors of human trafficking.

Deputy Chief.

Good evening.

Thank you very much for having me tonight.

I'm standing in for Chief Lester who unfortunately couldn't be here tonight.

But this is one of those opportunities that really is an honor to represent the Chief

and our police department in her absence.

I think this month and what we're doing tonight really brings light to the reality that human

trafficking is not something that's just occurring somewhere else.

It's happening right here in our community.

It's happening where we live, where we work.

And it's happening in the neighborhood where we raise our families.

And I think I'd just like to say it is a great honor to be here and recognize these individuals

and the organizations they represent.

Our residents, as you know, and we all believe have the right and deserve to be safe in their

homes and in their communities every single day.

And without organizations like these, we would be less successful in accomplishing that

goal.

The Sacramento Police Department, as you well know, has been committed to fighting human

trafficking for quite some time now.

And since the creation of our human trafficking unit in 2020, we've filed nearly 100 cases

with 69 of those being formally charged and resulting in about a 70% conviction rate.

And we wouldn't have that kind of success in what we do for these people standing behind

me.

We, as you well know, there are a lot of things we cannot accomplish by ourselves and be

in successful down this path and combating these crimes is one of those very things.

And so it really is a tribute to the work that they do that we are as successful as we are.

It's also unique that this morning we also, in conjunction with the District Attorney's

Office, participated in a press conference discussing the development of a human trafficking

task force for our region that's being led by the DA of our county.

And this is something that together with our partners, we believe wholly will be bringing

new life and a greater sense of collaboration and probably some greater success in prosecuting

these crimes.

And so tonight, myself, we, the Sacramento Police Department are proud to stand with each

of you and our community partners here behind me to reflect the resilience of the survivors

and reaffirm our commitment to bringing them justice and combating these crimes.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Deputy Chief, because it always wasn't that response from our police department,

it wasn't always that way.

And it was the great work of our officers in the department like Sergeant Stinson at the

time said, we need to be working with our partners.

And that support back then, I think we've made, we've been, and St. John's may have been

the only two organizations at that time.

And now we've is also involved in looking at the construction of housing and making sure

that workforce and housing is that next phase.

And we should give them a big round of pause to making sure that we continue their, their

great work.

We supported City of Refuge last, just last year on the construction of their facility.

My sister's house is providing 24-7 multi-language hotline and many of us have done that run and

probably need to do more of that run.

And St. John's for Senator Program for Real Change, we were the first home key project

to go out and create St. John Square with manufactured housing out there.

And now with both the Regional Family Justice Center and Community Get Sexual Harm, again,

that national hotline that is making sure that we find a way to go after this problem at

the root of the issue.

So with that, thank you all very much.

Let's give them a big round of applause and mayor if you'll join me.

And just a reminder, contributions everyone are always welcome to nonprofits and all the

Mr Chair, I want to thank Council Councillor Knee.

Please say thanks to the National Council and the board members for their letter and

including our group.

And for a whole new commission from Congress, Maryclons, dear Prime Minister, we owe

our Chair and chair rughouse on the agenda.

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immediately stop the presiding officer will direct the person to leave the council meeting.

This meeting is being video streamed and can be viewed live or later on the city's website.

If you need a parking validation that can be picked up from the clerk at the front of

the room also. So thank you, Mayor. Back onto the consent calendar.

Do you have five speakers on consent? Would you like to hear those first?

Please. Thank you. First is Nikki on items six and seven. Susan

Alcap on item ten. Jessica Davia on item ten. Good evening, you know. My name is Nikki.

I'm with the Sacramento regional coalition to end homelessness. And also just tonight

here supporting these folks who are residents of one of your local shelters. That's why

I showed up tonight was to be a supportive person. I did just want to also say cheers on

item six. I think this is what housing first looks like. There are thousands of people

on the street waiting. They're on the wait list for actual housing and that's what they

want and that's what they need. The shelter system, the course of service delivery model

is totally broken. And this direct to housing pipeline is absolutely what's necessary.

So I commend this item. The next item item seven. The shelter crisis just want to give

us some history. I know right now we declare the shelter crisis because the state has

attached millions of dollars to it. But over ten years ago I and others were advocating

for a shelter crisis declaration because of the strong powers it gives y'all to create

new shelter. And so I just want to remind folks that this is not just a money ticket item.

This is something that the community actually really thought foreign one. Of course it never

got passed until there was millions of dollars attached to it. But that was the thing that

was fought for. And it is the folks that I'm here with tonight I want to encourage leadership

to hear open heartedly from them and to move forward in a positive way. I think the thing

that's missing from homelessness policy has always been the direct voice of unhoused

folks. It's just never they've just never been at the table. They're always talked about.

They know they're always talked about. They know they're the biggest political conversation.

And they know that they are not invited to the table generally. It's offensive. It's

condescending. It's paternalistic. And it means y'all make policy decisions that have really

awful outcomes and cause massive harm in the community. So I would advise folks to listen

when these folks spend their time. Thank you for your comments or next speaker Susan

on item 10. Good evening. My name is Susan Allhawk. I was a resident at Cal Resolution. Excuse

me. And now I'm resigning at 3900 Rosa Road for a step housing program. The conditions

there for us is it's a human. It's a human. There's at least 150 to 160 people that live

there. That's unhoused. We have 60 pallets and we have 40 trailers. The 60 pallets have

power. When I had me left from when we got swept from Cal Resolution, we were told to go

to Rosa Road. Why? Because we have the power to really have the resources to housing. I've

been there for almost seven months and I have not had a resource to no housing. Nobody

has the conditions there are it's it's it's not cool. It's not at all. And I know every

last one y'all can understand what I'm coming from. You might not get it physically, but

mentally just put yourself in our shoes and being unhoused people. We need something.

We have out of this out of the 40. I'm saying out of the 40 trailers that we have there.

At least did 25 30 people already been in the hospital. They're already been in the

hospital for like most of us in the trailers. They will not kill the mold for us. My husband

is not like I just rushed my husband to the emergency room center. Last week he has a lung

infection because of the mold and it's not because of the cold because of the mold. And

it's happening or anybody else is there is not doing nothing. The leadership there is

not doing anything. Hopefully you guys can hear what I'm saying. This is serious. I mean

black mode will kill you. Kill you quicker than what a gun will. I mean, if you really

think about it, black mode is nothing to play with. It goes into your respiratory and

you cannot breathe and you will die. I certainly hope I want my husband to die. I don't.

Please get a hold of somebody and take care of this matter for me and the rest of us.

Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Jessica DeVia on item 10, then Ruben Revellus on item 12.

Thank you, Mayor. And all of you guys, I know I've been here before, but we do need help

at Rose Bowl. The sheltered trailer is too cold at night. In my husband and I, my husband

is diabetic and I'm worried about him and I have to see her too. Thank you. Thank you

for your comments. Ruben. Falling Ruben is Richard Falcone and Mac.

Good evening. So I want to say hi to everybody. My first time here, I'm an artist from Sacramento,

a long time residence or actually lifelong residence. And I just want to speak on the fact of

on the fact of consider supporting artist pay because we do a lot of work in this in this city.

I've seen a lot of you and I think that it's very important that we address artists and how we

also create a lot of healing and artwork for people out here. And we're constantly working to do that

all the time. And I think that sometimes we need just to open our hearts a little bit to what

we'll kind of work that all of our artists do in this city of Sacramento because we've done a lot,

sorry, they mean to get emotional on this. And there's a lot of great causes here tonight and I

applaud them too. And this is one I do feel very strong about because it is very hard work to do art

and be out there trying to help society by giving up positive artwork and just life in general.

So I wish you would consider supporting and move forward with this priority that we feel that

should be part of Sacramento. Thank you.

Falcon on item 12, then Mack on item one.

Good evening Mayor, good evening Council, Richard Falcon. I am the Executive Director of the

Aotearo Nahuatl, a Latino-based theater company here in town, also an arts activist. And I want

to urge you to please support on the consent calendar item number 12 for the creative support,

creative growth support fund in there. I can tell you that as a, in my capacity helping to

administer the capital region creative core and I'm sure some of you were aware of that initiative

that just finished up here with the city of Sacramento. It demonstrated the power of artists to be

able to make a difference in community with a lot of the issues that you are addressing weekly,

monthly here at Council. The creative support growth fund will allow for an individual artist

fellowship to support against some of those artists so that they can continue to do their artwork.

And I just hope that you will seriously consider going forward with item 12 on that consent

calendar. Thank you all very, very much and always remember your artists. Thank you.

Thank you and next speaker is Mack on item one, then Charles Foster on item 10.

Good afternoon, Council. What I'm saying here is on the Friedman speech

and what I've seen having here is 3, 4, 6, 5, 10, and 18. You can form a committee just as you form

your human trafficking. Police department going to do their own. Anytime you own the phone,

you better be aware who you're talking to. Not about the standard of the human trafficking cases here,

the person was accused of using public defender. Understand that? We know that. That's really

how I try to get a lowly to what, talk to me and I talk with this attorney. You can be accused

and you ain't got the right person. Represent you. You are guilty. When the public defender worked for the

state, understand that. All these things here, if you would put a committee on them,

these people wouldn't come up here and ask some questions.

You're telling. These things here should be you, your constituents, having the meetings

and telling them what is going on. That's your consent calendar. But now you prefer the lie to them

and come here and say, well, consent calendar and we don't end vote, yes, about no. You don't

know the politi-turbicies. I'm going to show you something tonight.

Charles Foster is our final speaker on the consent calendar on item 10.

Good evening. I just want to say that it's logically inconsistent to vote that the homelessness

is a crisis while also voting yes on band-aid programs. And not using the 102 acres was purchased

for homeless services in shelter for anything other than homeless services in shelter.

It makes no sense. You can't vote yes for all three of those at the same time without being

inconsistent and absurd. Thank you.

There I have no more speakers on the consent calendar.

Thank you. Do we have council members that

in the consent calendar and our speak to them, please queue up. First, council member Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor. I have questions on item 9 and just want to make comments on 10 and 12.

Okay.

Council member Dickinson.

I just like my comment on item 9.

Council member Wang. Thanks. I just wanted to comment on item 3.

Council member Maple.

Comments on 3, 9 and 10. Thank you.

So it looks like Maple and Wang have questions on 3. Do we want to start there?

Yeah, it's not so much questions but perhaps just a comment if Consuelo can come up if possible.

Really just wanted to take this moment and not going to pull the item.

I just wanted to take this moment to just say thank you to Consuelo for all of her incredible work

to help us develop this state and federal legislative platform.

As many of you know, there is so much fair and confusion happening right now

among so many of our families in our city and our country, especially with the recent

federal executive orders that we're seeing and from shutting down federal critical life saving

programs. I know that it's going to pack so many of our families.

I think about Milson wills that operates from our community center, like at the panel community

center, to our Head Start program that we oversee at SETA, right? All of these have implications.

And so I know that many of our state leaders in the AG, they're going to be working hard to reverse

reverse this with several lawsuits. And I just wanted to say, you know, as local as local

elected, you know, we may not be at the state level or the federal level, but we are closest to

the people and we know what the community needs are. And so I just wanted to reaffirm after reading

our legislative platform that I'm just so proud of our city and our staff for standing firm and

doubling down on our commitment to equity and racial justice. One ask I did have was, you know, just

every day there's always new news, you know, coming out. And due to the ever changing nature of

legislation in Sacramento and Washington, I think it'd be really great. I don't know if it's monthly

or quarterly, but some kind of updates to be shared with the city council. Perhaps on how state and

federal laws are executive orders, that's in the queue will somehow impact what ways will the

impact is locally. I think that's really important because as a local elected, we have a responsibility

of also communicating with our constituents because they're reaching out to office, you know, we don't

know much happening at the state and federal level. We're just reading the news as well. And so I know

that your job is really task to review state and federal policy. So even if it's a memo,

a monthly or quarterly update, I think that's going to be really important, especially given the

new administration. And so that's my only ask if we could do that, I think, as mayor and council,

we just need to be prepared because we don't know what's coming. I mean, we kind of have an idea

of what's coming down the federal level. And I'm grateful that we live in the state of California. We

have state leaders, you know, standing ready to fight any of the executive orders, but just want to

make sure that locally we're prepared to do what we need to protect our families too. And so that's

that's the only comment I have on the number three. Consuel, I just want to say thank you. You've

been at this for a long time and really appreciate all your hard work on helping us with this legislative

platform. So I'd be happy to do so to send out those updates. Awesome. I'm assuming you have any

next. You took all of the words. I just really want to thank you so much for your hard work on this.

I know folks get a chance to read through this very extensive document that outlines the values

and the principles of the city of Sacramento and the issues that we view to be the most important

in terms of fighting for progress at the state level. And federally, this is a great document.

It really shows where our values are and what we want to accomplish and what we're keeping a

night out for. So highly recommend it. And thank you so much for your work on this. And I just

wanted to highlight one thing in particular that kind of leads into the other two items that I'm

going to be speaking on, which is I made a request at the Law and Legislation Committee that we

include as a part of that platform on homelessness in particular to explore a shared governance model.

I think that one of the things that holds us back the most as a region is that we can be collaborating

much better as it relates to this issue and working together with our county partners, our other

city partners, our CBOs, those who are doing the work on the ground, many of them are here today.

And so just really grateful that that was included and I think there's a lot of opportunity whether

it be at the state level or something that we do here on the ground to make that a reality. So thank you.

Thank you. Questions answered? Thank you. Item 9, we'll start with Council Kaplan. Then go to Dickinson and Maple.

Thank you, ma'am. Well, thank you. I just wanted to take a moment to thank the staff and all of you

as my colleagues for the work you've done up to this point to get this item before us tonight.

It was a very pleasant to say the least.

Acceptance of the grant funds from the state. This grant is a part of, as you know, the $18.5 million

total grant is about 5.6 million or so of that 18.5 million that came out of the state's

encampment fund and it's always nice to get the grant. It's even nicer to put it to work.

So with the action that I urge the council to take tonight, we'll begin the work of bringing

100 families into housing off the, principally off the Sacramento Northern bike trail. I think as

all of you appreciate the conditions there over the last year had become intolerable for all

concerned and there's been considerable work done to improve the circumstances and the conditions

on the parkway and on the bike trail itself. But this is the next step is actually helping people

make that transition from being unhoused to being housed. This is an approach that I think has

both great merit and great promise and so I'm very pleased to see this get to us tonight.

I look forward to seeing more and more of those who are unhoused have shelter and continue to

improve the quality and character of both the lives of those who received that shelter in those

services as well as the community as a whole. Thanks. Thank you. Council Member Kaplan, you had

questions? Yes, Brian. So just a little clarity because I read this proposal and didn't quite

refresh my memory of what we did and then I went back to the write-up. I think it was October

last year which gave a little bit more but then it mentioned another one and went to that one.

So just on some of these a little bit more detail would be helpful because it did help answer

some of my questions. When I went back that I think it was relevant information that I think when

communities look at this of how we're using the grants and why and I just preface it and hope

that we can do it. When you're coming to council and requesting a waiver of council rules and a

waiver of the 10-day posting of contracts that this is $5 million. RFPs that have gone out that

maybe not just on this item but other items that our background and write-up is really comprehensive.

So it explains to the community what we're doing when we're actually asking for council to wave

some things that appear that we might be waving transparency. But when this was initially brought to

us and councilmember shantow was sitting here it was as presented to us a lot about cleaning up the

bike track and now in here it says the bike trail is cleaned. Can you explain to me in a little bit

more detail? The original intent has kind of changed how is it still in alignment with grants?

Yeah so the original intent hasn't changed. So the giraffes are for specific geographical areas

right and so we selected the bike trail. When the grant was being written what we did is every

individual that we contacted on that bike trail is in the homeless HMI system, the homeless

management information system. And so we're able to track the point of contact when we contacted

them. So we have a list of over 400 people that were on the bike trail at the time we wrote the

ERF and so we're able to now go back and find those individuals and those will be the endogils

that will be housed off of this ERF. So when you talk about geographical area does that mean

only people in D2 or how does that all work? So this was again this was specifically for the

bike trail itself and so it will be specifically for individuals that were on the bike trail

and that are now in that vicinity but we're on the bike trail at the time we wrote the ERF. So

these are very specifically written grants for a very specific geographical area and we are

very diligent in sticking to making sure that it's going to the individuals that we wrote that

grant for. So and then just following up because this was written in the October 29th, 2024 report

that it says the Street to Housing Program is consistent with Sacramento regionally coordinated

homeless action plan which is adopted in March of 2024. Has a presentation specifically on what

that model looks like and how do we know it's going to be a success been brought forward to council

so that we can have input on what that looks like. The the model of the Street to Housing itself

it wasn't brought forward to council there were individual briefings but it wasn't brought to

specifically to council to step out the entire process. Okay it just something as the future as this

is when you talk to our communities besides our budget deficit and public safety the unhoused

and especially if we're looking in my opinion at a kind of a new program that hasn't really been

vetted or direction given by council that that's something that you know on that partnership

because it is about transparency for the community understanding that the council has given input.

I'm a big believer on the Street to Housing Program I just don't know specifically what it looks

like or who created the policies or is it going to be successful. I am supportive of this but really

looking forward to data and feedback on how do we know this program is working and holding those

that we've submitted the RFP's and contracts to accountable to positive outcomes because that's

what D2 and Del Paso deserve I just want that level of accountability because it does make me

uncomfortable when things like this come forward council hasn't given full policy direction

and we're waving our notices on a $5 million contract or grant excuse me. Absolutely and we'll be

glad to let you know every step of the way on this. Thank you. Absolutely. Mayor, did you have comments

on item number nine? I did. I just wanted to note this is this is good news for Sacramento.

This is $18 million as council member Dickinson noted that was awarded on top of our 20-ish we

get every year from the HAP program and you know we know there are way too many homeless people

who are on their streets without anywhere to go and this will get with this and the expansion of

the Roseville roadside which I thought was going to come tonight too is that's a separate

separate night separate night so really these are in conjunction so the big news is we were awarded

$18 million almost doubling our our money for the year for this and it's going to go to two things

this street program to get people in immediate housing from North Sacramento that's just been

probably hardest hit of every of any council district with homeless in their community and

expanding over a hundred tiny homes over there at Roseville Road which will discuss another night

and you know just for me in my prior job you know we two years ago we passed a big budget put some

pieces in there we had a one-time huge surplus and hope somewhere someday some city will benefit

from this and super excited when I read this fall that your application for two of these programs

one and I think that's significant because Sacramento is the fifth biggest city in California and

we got way more money than the city of LA or other big cities and so we you know certainly outpunched

our weight there and delivered for Sacramento so this I think is really positive news again

helping an area that's had a huge impact that's seen at firsthand and some of our our tour around

the city the first few months up there on the northern bike trail I've been in my bike on there

myself but I'm really interested too next week talking about those tiny homes and what we could

even do more at some locations so I really think we look at the economics of that what we can do

even more so full support of this and this is a piece of the puzzle we have certainly a lot a lot

lot more to do as our public comment noted earlier but this is a step thank you thank you

we moved to item 10 council member Kaplan and then council member maple

there was a question brought up of why should we declare another shelter crisis resolution and

I think it's always good that we explain why we're doing this one by declaring and keeping the

crisis consistent that we don't have to bring it every year it allows the city to apply for zoning

changes to allow for building of tiny homes faster as well as it streamlines the city's process

to quickly shelter homelessness and designated public facilities as well as to spend certain

housing health and safety standards which may prevent or hinder or delay getting those into

shelter so I think it's important that when we say we're declaring a crisis we also say what are

the benefits of doing that and these are just a couple of them all right thank you

I just want to take a moment it is no doubt I think any citizen of Sacramento anyone on this

dius anyone in our staff can take a look around and know that we're still in crisis as long as we

still have people who are on our streets who are who are suffering and struggling to find a place

that they can afford to live stay in a place to live and have have the things that they need were

in a crisis and so I'm just really you know grateful that we're going to continue this and make

it easier for ourselves to get things open and to move quickly but also want to acknowledge

it's a very thankless job I know Brian Pedro was up here earlier his team the impact team with

PD and others there are people out there every single day in the city in our partnership with the

city and the county through the heart teams who are literally on the ground working with people

talking with them getting them connected to services there are thousands and thousands of people

who are helped every single year in our city and beyond and that's due to their hard work and

hardly ever do they get any acknowledgement it's usually the other way around it's usually us

calling them and saying okay I know you were just there but also can you help over here and the

answer is always yes yes we can and so I just want to take this moment to thank thank you Brian

and your team think our impact team with PD and everyone in the city of Sacramento who work

stay in and day out to make this happen do we need to do a lot more yeah we do but we're doing

as much as we can as fast as we can with the resources that we have and we've greatly expanded

what is available over the last several years by a wide margin and the last item was just an

example of that so just thank you. Thank you and council member Kaplan you had a comment on item 12.

I just want to say yay hurrah for artists and what our creative economy is doing with

this artist support fund project move faster. I know like Jason and your team you briefed me and

this has so many great possibilities I do know as written we have to have the money spent by I

think it's September 2026 and we want to do this for a year but I can't wait till you get to

the point of when we get to advertise and artists can apply I know all of us here on the

dius want to reach out to our community because this really is a catalyst we know what guaranteed

income can do and our artists sometimes don't always get the benefit of what they should so I

just want to say thank you for being innovative for pushing on this creating this program and I

can't wait to see it to come to fruition. Mary have no more council comments do we have a motion?

Okay we have a motion a second I believe I have a motion by council member Dickinson and a second

by council member Getta is that accurate? Yes I think we had multiple at the same time.

That works. Yes all those in favor please say aye and he knows our abstentions hearing none the

eyes have it thank you that passes unanimously there.

You move to item 15 which is city manager recruitment process and next steps. Yes

I will start with this item I will note that this is the sixth council meeting that I

presided over as mayor and we talked about the city manager position contract every council

meeting six or six so this is the final one for a bit as we're going to take a step tonight to

further the process to move this along so as you know in a recap we had a vacancy in the city

manager is office late in 2024 on January 6th we appointed January 7th we appointed Laney

Millstein as our interim city manager the final week we came back and focused on the terms and

conditions for her appointment last week we gave a brief update on the process and this week

we're finalizing what the next steps are so essentially here we are our city clerks office

reached out to those recruiting firms who we have under contract and asked them to submit bids

to assist the city of Sacramento and hiring a permanent city manager

comprised of robust engagement with the council with our community as well certainly as part

of the equation that we'll be looking at we are going to have the personnel and public employee

committee chaired by mr. Jennings oversee this process which he's going to talk about in a few

moments so with that we're going to have a very open and deliberative process starting February

4th February 4th outlines in a memo if anyone's interested on the front table up here kind of

outlined the next steps and with this we just want to make sure that the council and the community

is aware of the next steps we're going to be interviewing the finalists for these for this search

process and making sure that we are thorough and we you know scour the country if necessary to find

the best and brightest to want to help Sacramento move forward and we're grateful that our interim

city manager Laney millslens going to help us in this process be part of it and we want to make

sure that all voices are included in this and I'm confident that the committee process led by chair

Jennings will do this just as the committee did last year with the city auditor search process so

thank you council member Jennings for leading this efforts and I will turn it over to you so you

can outline our next steps as well thank you mayor because of your introduction I'll cut mine

in half so that we can just talk about the process but I do want to update my colleagues and the

public about the proposed process and schedule for selecting the recruitment firm to fill the

vacant city manager's position the I have prepared a member as mayor said that you can have a copy

of as well so that you can have it and understand it even better each one of my colleagues at the

on the dius has gotten a copy of it already and it is a recommended schedule I will say that again

it is a recommended schedule but this schedule will allow us to complete the process by the mayor's

goal of March the 1st 2025 and so there are three dates that I really want you to focus on

February the 4th February the 18th and February the 25th on February the 4th I will submit this

memo to my colleagues on the pp and e committee and I don't want to take for granted that you

understand the acronym pp and e so when I say pp and e I'm talking about the personnel and public

employees committee just for those who may not know that this will be for their discussion and any

edits or additions and I hope endorsement so that the selection process will be known to all of us

and the public this process began on January the 15th when the currently approved vendors were

asked to submit a proposal by January the 29th on February the 4th also the pp and e committee will

review the submitted written proposals to determine the top two or three firms to invite back

for interviews by the committee on February the 18th the pp and e committee will interview the top

two or three firms to make a recommendation to the full council for the preferred firm with a backup

in case the preferred firm backs out on February the 25th the full council will discuss the pp and e committee

recommendations and vote to approve a search firm this is a very important process as the mayor has

said and we need to make sure that we are open we are transparent and we are public about this process

so I'd like to hear from my colleagues today about what you have in front of you and then

continue the discussion discussion through the month of March so we can finalize this on March

on through the month of February so we can finalize this by March 1st thank you mayor

thank you

you council members what's your lucky bomb

yeah this one thank you councilman are Jennings for putting out a timeline as a project manager

I can't pass up an opportunity to appreciate a good timeline this is an ambitious timeline

I think it'll stretch us a little bit it'll push to get the firm engaged but I appreciate it

I think it's achievable and support the work you're doing here thank you for doing it thank you

thank you council member Dickinson thank you mayor I would also second council member plucky bombs

thanks to council member Jennings for this work and to you mayor for your work on this as well to

this point and I think it's a reasonable I hope not too ambitious schedule there are just a couple

things that I would underscore as significant from from my point of view and they are I think

all part of what you're contemplating and some of which I see in the in the outline but first

and most important from my point of view is to undertake a true national search and not a not one

in appearance or were named only but to look across the country for the very best person that

that we can recruit to take this position this is a significant position not just for us but I

think in the greater greater constellation of local governments across across the country

I firmly believe based on the experience I've had in these kinds of efforts that there

are many things assets and attributes to attract top-notch people to the city the county of

Sacramento the region and so I would just stress that we ought not to think of ourselves as

somehow unattractive to people who want to come here and have the very best place to work

on behalf of local government second secondly I think consultation of various kinds and you've

identified a couple of avenues for this with community members regarding the qualifications that

we want to look for as essential and I've always found it very helpful in the executive searches

that I've been involved in in local government it often raises issues priorities and

and other elements that we don't always necessarily think of or value as much as maybe some

community members might so I've I've as I said always found it to be very helpful and thirdly

again something you have included but sitting down with members of the council individually

by the the firm that's that selected I think is of critical importance so that the firm

can coalesce those sentiments into the kind of solicitation for the type of person that we

really want to have take this job next we do not want a mismatch between what we all have as

hopes and expectations for this this position with the person who is for the people who apply frankly

they want they want to know what we're what we're looking for and we want to make sure that the

person that we select is consistent with our values and our priorities our method of operating

and our approach on on issues so I don't know a better way to get that then having in-depth

discussions with whoever the search firm is by by each one of us so those were the three things

that that called out to me and hopefully those are some help and guidance thanks thank you vice mayor

tolamontes thank you bear so in my prior to being a council member I was chief of staff and prior

to being a chief of staff I work for recruitment firm doing exactly what these firms do so did

this for five years and so I just want to say I'm just really looking forward to this recruitment

process with my council colleagues with our stakeholders with our community and the outreach that

we're going to do I'm just really excited for us this is a new next step for Sacramento and I'm

really just looking forward to it and making sure that everyone's a part of process thank you thank

you council member maple thank you mayor and I'm going to keep my comments brief because council

ridiculous and said it's so much better than I than I would have so you identified exactly the

issues that I think are the most important so I have all the confidence in the world of my colleagues

on the PMP committee I think this is a great timeline I thank you for communicating it effectively

for us and the public I think that that's a great way for us to get off on a good fit to show that

this is we were going to bring the community along with us this is not something that's happening

to you it's happening with you and want to hear from you in that process it sounds like there's

a lot of opportunities for your voices to be heard in that process and yeah I just want to reiterate

I love the idea of doing a true nationwide search I'm seeing what talent is out there especially

people who have experience in cities are size or close and also cities with similar challenges

and opportunities to us and also agree with the idea that we should all be individually talked

with so that that can be incorporated thank you thank you council member capitol I will say

ditto to everything already said the one thing slightly different while I fully agree that there

should be individual conversations that the consulting firm has I also want to ask our council

do we want to at least have a discussion or workshop item that discusses in public what our priorities

are because when a city manager is potentially looking to apply and come to Sacramento they want to

know may want to know public who what's the collective value of the council what are our values

what are we looking for and I think with the recruitment process if we have a discussion publicly

it will give them of somebody who's looking to apply a flavor of of how we look at everything with

the challenges we have ahead so you know I would hope that my colleagues on the mayor will

potentially take this into consideration of something that we discuss because I could think

it can be extremely valuable that we discuss what our priorities are as a council because that

may be somebody sees that goes not my priorities or somebody says this is an exact an alignment of

what I'm looking for and it may help in that process thank you suggestion noted seeing no more

comments and questions looking for a motion from council referring this issue to the PNP committee

for the evaluate the executive search forms and also direct PNP to come back to the council as we

finalize the recommendation for such search for thank you mayor for yeah we have a motion by vice

mayor chalamontes a second by council member maple and they have speakers on the side on can we

take those now yep it's one of the motion on the on the tables thank you Michael Andrew barn

bomb Macworthy Jeffrey tardigua Lambert then Henry Harry thank you mayor and council and

for bringing the item before you on the agenda I did want to comment on it and I echo the

comments of council member Dickinson that it needs to be a full national search and this is not

something to be taken lightly it was also a very big matter when sacrameno football coach Andy

Thompson resigned and became the assistant under Troy Taylor down on the farm a national search went

for a new football coach and at a future council meeting I can discuss the go go mentality of

coach Brennan Marion to everyone at the council but tonight is being the city manager and on a

parallel path I want to mention I made some comments on the Facebook reel put in together by council

member vang felt during my time between the committee meeting this afternoon and the council meeting

that I put a little heart and hustle into that and I one thing I mentioned and I think to chair the

P&P committee coach Jennings one of the things we need to put in the playbook is what sensitive

comments came from the council and the public at the December meeting and that was the sticking

point of the salary and one thing I mentioned in the Facebook reel comments was I think we need to

be fair in the salary and know what people talked about at the last meeting but maybe at the playbook

item could be that the city manager makes three times what they would pay in rent or mortgage

and that's just to be fair to give them a living wage so just some things to think about thank you

for your comments Mac Wurley then Jeffrey Tartigia

people you know what I say here I can only cross the street I want that understood

don't know if we must reach did anybody break the brown act that's a manager did anybody break

the brown act is the brown act over the city managers you did did get all the suckers out of here

now because all of them liars the brown act is a felony and we want to know do the charter

brown act cover your city managers also when you look at for a manager we want a manager that

had worked for the private sector that's how Trump beach and come back in it's beautiful it gives

you more it's not about civil rights it's about investments wake up people now we the vendors that's

a trick you know exactly who those people are because you know who are the people that train

folks in this city you know that I've been here for a while we know that now we'll we have the

opportunity as public to meet those business now we need to meet those now you picked the worst

person on your shot on your pound another liar he can't do he have never hired a person in his

damn mic that's who you need in here to choose a person to come in here and change the city he

lies with them he lies out go back to the Oakland readers and you see where he lies he is on the

bench he got he got a ring on the team get a ring while you bring those people in here that you

can control and lie lie lie change the thing and I'm gonna ask to try to get an attorney to put

an injunction on it thank you for your comments Jeffrey Tartigia then Lambert

Jeffrey Tartigia an advocate I will say it's about time you tell the public what you're doing

I'm sorry but it seems like you know for the last month that you've got these meetings

but it doesn't seem like Kevin you've gotten great disclosure so I appreciate seeing now for what's

going to happen but I also think that you've got 10 plus years of you had and your comments

by the entire panel here was that there's good people inside and now you're going to do the

outside is this excluding those people inside your community that have been working for

diligently for 10 or 20 years I don't have an answer that question but I wonder what you're

including in there the other thing I will also offer is it seems like that on I use the example

of Englewood is that this town is becoming city is becoming much more a sports-minded city

and with all of those impacts in there the question is is that consideration of experience now having

both King you know baseball football and soccer coming within the city limits what is that

impact having because sports impact have seemingly an influence on what you guys are going to

look at and decide and do don't know but measure the impact look at what you're doing and again I

appreciate it being exposed to the public when you're doing what you're doing thank you my public

thank you your comments lambard is our next speaker following lambard is Henry Harry

then Betty Williams I have three more speakers

the city manager's position is very I have said many times that being a native from

Sacramento I decided to study Sacramento City Hope and I said I was studying it like I was trying

to get a degree you don't study too long where I come from because you're studying wrong I have

this year I'm going to give myself a degree because I feel like I've mastered studying this

situation down here and I have got to say that's one of the lowest points I've ever seen when one

of my family members recently showed me that I personally thought Howard Chan was out of the

picture and then I find out from family that he's an advisor to Laney Milstein and I will

stunned to see that because that that is absent it's stunning to me I mean it makes me think that

he's still calling the shots in city hall and personally all of the things I've encountered with

him which I have a tremendous paper trail on him including a memo he sent out on my family thank

God somebody in the inside of city hall told me about it or I wouldn't have known about it I think

Laney Milstein has an opportunity to write some wrongs with my family recently and I just notified

city councilman Dickerson about it there has something there's been a major development for our

business I mean it's it's incredible and you'll see it uh Mr. Dickerson because I sent it to your

staff and I think the city manager's office led by Laney Milstein uh Mr. Dickerson and the mayor and

anyone else on the Ross Room you should take a look at this because you're not going to look good

when we go viral and we didn't get hardly any comments our next speaker's Henry Harry

Ben Betty Williams is our final speaker I want to thank uh councilmember Jennings because I believe

there's some true passion in your voice about being transparent so thank you um

India agenda there were several things listed that you guys put out that

uh in moving forward uh in finding this next city manager and so I want to share my concerns about

the order of those things so I'm hoping you don't uh put out a brochure or a call to apply for

a city manager with any type of salary range mentioned until you actually get the public input you

say you're going to uh receive um it's like you got a good schedule coming out and people will

be able to participate in the meetings but what I would suggest is that the mayor stand right here

in this will and answer and do a Q&A with the public and exchange uh of ideas about what they

want from the city manager you're saying you want to do that you're saying you want to get input

from the citizens I'm simply saying a different and better way to do it is have the mayor have the

courage to stand here give people 30 seconds to voice an idea or an ask the question wrap it all

up its own video and then move forward and uh that won't hurt the mayor won't hurt this council

but it will give the citizens a true sense that they're being heard thank you thank you if you're

comments Betty Williams is our final speaker on this item

good evening thank you my name is Betty Williams I'm the president of the National African American

civil rights organization and congratulations mayor McCarty for your seat as mayor and all the new

incoming um city council individuals and Lenny Maustit I need to ask a question I know you probably

can't answer it but are you creating history by being the first woman whether interim or not

in the city manager seat I think that should be at least acknowledged that you are the first woman

sitting in the city manager seat and so with that being said I'm here to encourage you to

involve the community with the process of finding your next city manager I like what I heard as far as

having the community involvement but please include the the city the community for this

really important seat we are not a strong mayor city um and we've tested that a few times

so because we know that the city manager holds such strong um power over the city

we really need to hear the voices of the community whether you go in each district and have a

town hall of what you are expecting from a city manager so we can hear that and so that you can

hear from us what we're expecting in the city manager so I just encourage you to make sure that

you include the community when making this really powerful choice thank you

thank you for your comments Mary have no more speakers on this agenda item okay thank you for

the public comment and we're not supposed to answer questions for public comment not agendas but

it is a big deal and the media did report it but I'll reiterate that that lady no sign is the

first ever woman to be either the interim or the or the full time city manager yes so with that

ideas questions announcements a b one two three four reports from council members start with

so Mary have a motion by count by telemantez and a second by maple would you like me to read that

action yes please thank you it's his passing um we provided direction to staff on the process

and next steps of the city manager recruitment and the motion was to pass a motion referring to the

personnel and public employees pnpe committee the evaluation of executive recruitment search firms

from the list of firms approved by the city council on October 22nd 2024 and directing the

pnpe committee to return to the city council with a recommendation on the executive recruitment

search form for use in the city manager recruitment no later than march 1st 2025 okay

at the earlier motion a second all those in favor please say aye aye any nos or abstentions

hearing none measure passes 9-0 thank you now we move to council comments ideas and questions

council member maple thank you mayor as I already mentioned but I'll mention it one more time

this Thursday come join us at the guild theater for the screening of hope rising so the Sacramento

Family Regional Justice Center is doing a filming of their documentary that they just put together

I'm really excited I believe my colleague council McGarrel be there as well um please join us if

you can um on saturday february 8th we are doing our first community cleanup of the year and so we do

several of these um throughout the district this time we will be at meadowgate and monson drives um

we're partnering with clean clean california to pick up litter um if you want to join us please do

that's gonna be at 10 a.m. to noon at meadowgate and monson you can rsbp today by going to suck

d5.com slash cleanup and lastly when say february 26th we will be hosting our own it's not our

documentary but a screening that we're hosting on the lesser known civil rights leader

fernicanson who made her home in the hollywood park area and I look forward to learning a lot more

about her this is a partnership with the student at sac state who made the documentary the center

for Sacramento history and then after the the film screening we will have a panel discussion

with historians the filmmaker and members of her family you can join us at six p.m. on february 26th

at sac commutative city college thank you thank you council member jetties thank you mayor um i

just want to announce that uh we are uh days away from uh the month black history month which takes

place in the month of february and it has been uh this council's um practice in the past to put a

resolution together um to present to community leaders throughout the city of sac commutative

and i just want to make sure that we can continue that practice and um present that resolution

sometime in the month of february but also get all of our council members input as to what should be

a part of that resolution from their viewpoint and um it's not something we've done in the past

but something i'd like to entertain going forward uh in order to make sure that we continue with

the practice of honoring the rich history um that african americans have made in the country of

the united states thank you mayor thank you mayor pro tem gara thank you very much mayor um first

out i wanted to uh thank those members who showed up to the uh ari lunar new year celebration and i

know to will be there will be many more lunar new year celebrations um this week as well tomorrow at

9 30 a.m. at uh the sacriament of chinese of indochina friendship association there'll be

celebration for lunar new year uh so i want to wish you know everyone in the community not just in

the district six little psychomut throughout the entire city of sacriamento you know gung a fat

joy sending philok uh and chuk monganamoy and happy lunar new year thank you mr mayor thank you

council member caplan uh want to echo what council member uh mayor pro tem gara said happy lunar

new year to all whom celebrate which a fair amount in my community uh do as well but uh put it

out there if you are looking for uh additional cleanup uh i am also but want to be on the north part of

the city uh i am partnering with the river city waterway alliance on february eight from nine 30 to

twelve thirty as well as with dr rolin brandy and crystal tabias who are friends of steel head

creek as well as the sacriamento area creeks council and reclamation district one thousand we will

be cleaning up the west bank of steel head creek feel free to contact my office if you'd like to

volunteer thank you vice mayor talamantes thank you mayor um please join us at starch community uh

garden uh this saturday at noon uh my staff has worked hard with the parks department and capital

optimists and doing lots for people it'll be able to rent and grow uh fresh produce so just want to

give a big shout out to my district director wardo morano who has been working really hard on this

and it was super stoked about saturday thank you lastly council member vang thanks mayor um

this past weekend we had a really amazing parks event led by our parks commissioner jenine gains

who's actually at the chair of a parks commission uh we were out in south sacriamento uh mulching our trees

and really just want to give a shout out to the thirty plus volunteers that came out um this past weekend

and also want to give a shout out to jenine for her incredible work and also our city staff

also want to let folks know to say the date uh we have information going out but our annual

district eight community conversation is happening on march 15th from ten to one at union house

elementary um please uh stop by we live in the south area but this is our annual event you'll learn

about um the progress on uh housing initiatives uh projects that we have in our district so please

stop by um and then lastly just a reminder to folks that as of um last month the mok library is

currently closed for renovations um but we do have mobile library stops happening Tuesdays

Thursdays tend to two on Tuesdays one to three thirty on Thursdays at the panel community center

um and so letting folks know that there are going to be services mobile services going back and forth

while the mok library is closed for renovation and um those are all my announcements

thank you seeing no more announcements with that we are adjourned we have um so we do have

so um first um this millstein do we have a city managers report

thank you wishful thank you i do have thirteen speakers for matters not on the agenda so i'll call

off a few names michael bevens Susan alcaf frank morgan senior mac worthy

you

there you go hi um hi bevens i'm a member of district two hi roger um also a recent

graduate of your city management academy so thanks for that opportunity and before prior to that

i was a member of the sacr t transit academy so i'm also looking forward to fingers crossed

to being member of your planning community committee that's coming up um i'm also a member of

uh an organization you might have heard of strong towns uh locally it's known as strong sac town

and i'm just a member not speaking on their behalf but i part of the ideas that they teach or

suggest is we humbly observe in our community some struggles and then suggest solutions

for them um i want to talk to you today about the struggle while we all everybody here i'm sure has

the same issue in every district it's the dance as i call it you know imagine if you're

at a come and do a doorway you're walking someone's coming in the same way you're like do you go do

i go i don't know but translate that the dance on the streets you have a narrow road cars

parking on both sides and through traffic both ways and you both can't fit so you try to get a

hall of the person front you way i'm gonna go no you go and you maybe go a little section where

there's a no park car and they can bus and then you know it's a struggle it's in every district

every narrow street how do we fix that um my suggestion is very simply make them residential streets

one way solves the problem you have a through traffic in the middle and you still have your park

cars that are needed and also through education we're talking about safety education is

paint some stripes on the street every single street should have paint where the cars go

where the cars park and where the future bicycles and other mobilities travel to that's education

and yeah thank you for somebody thank you for your comments Susan El Cap i don't see Susan

frank morgan jr. following frank is mac worthy

good evening committee um i've come to the community um i think it was like 2007 i'm in the old park

area uh first avenue and i bought the crack house and uh i put it all back together

our house was a minus i want to say a minus 50 now it's a plus 25 is the best looking house on the

block uh something like i'm being harassed uh bought my backyard and uh there's other

i if we're going to police we have to police everyone so um i'm looking at different yards and

they're telling me i have to do this in my yard i have to do that in my yard i've cleaned it up

now they're telling me have to take everything out of my yard that doesn't make sense it's my

private property and uh i think i've been a strong pillar in the community of uh cleaning it up

and uh i need some help i don't know what's going on i don't know why i'm being singled out my truck

was burned up uh i was on the news uh just a lot of stuff has been happening to me so i just i

need some help and uh i'm coming to you guys to solicit some some help it is sad uh you know i've

been doing a lot and it's like the more i do the the more it breaks me down but uh i'm coming to

you guys as a uh a community activist you know they came and told me this is not right and that's not

right but when i look at the other side i say well what about this fence or nobody reported to him

but if you're going to police the neighborhood please everybody it's not fair and uh i'm just

reaching out i hope somebody can hear my plea or i can speak with the mayor or speak with somebody

i don't know what's district coming and i'm sorry this is my first time coming but uh i need some help

and uh i'm i'm i'm soliciting your help if you can because they're finally meeting doing this

they're doing that i'm like what else do i have to do you know now i have to move everything out

of my yard that doesn't make sense yes my yard nobody can see and it's the alleyway where it's

thank you for your comments your time is complete but i believe we have some comments for you

mayor if it's okay um hi i'm your city council member name my name's Katie maple my chief of staff

is uh we'll be entering the room in just a couple minutes and we'll connect with you okay thank you

thank you mac worthy then michael wilton first of all i want uh my friends uh

cockett burn metty don't let them get you in a squeeze here of desperation now why would you be

the person to sign up on that tournet truck and we can get a police department and nobody

publicly so we we we are keeping our eyes out now when we look at uh trump the grant executive order

then we're having a turn to jump in and say well we gonna move that this is what i'm telling you

everybody has to appear tonight got some parts of grant and they know trump coming it's gonna come

now who uh act better William to come and lie here do you all you know that's a disgrace

it's a disgrace you know not just what i say about the person you choose to look over this thing

all this is people networked in non-profit organizations you cannot run a city on non-profit

organization cannot run a state on non-profit organization until you wake up what you should be

fighting on my good friend trump if it's illegal to vote uh and you have resident is the

legal to use money that not a resident but you don't know how to fight he beat you own

corporation law that's where you beat you and you're going to go down to as soon as we get to uh

bake a left if you need to as soon as they point one mean him going to get together and we will invite

people because you say you're not educating your constituents your uh consists of

Roger is the ones who are doing the thing about politicians why this come back he's

sustained his vote and that's the pop procedure when you don't know what the hell is going on

on decision you sustain your vote and get more information and lie on that it's so man

lying that i want to see him move things here it's pressing their sides so keep your eyes

up miss talk thank you for your comments michael welton following michael is Jeffrey

tardigua then lambart

hello i'm michael milting um i'd like to first of say uh black people shouldn't have to pay taxes

of child support until real reparations is paid to us given no now uh i was elected for section

2021 i have no address sovaz rejected they told me to go to a shelter i went to a shelter i got

selected for the housing and housing has not been open uh i got selected in august and they

told me that they're waiting on my credit check and my background check since august okay i've been

homeless since 2021 now they tell me to go to a shelter now housing is only open Monday through

Thursday in the office inside has been closed for the last eight months january 2024 housing

received millions of dollars to rebuild and get the homeless out of the streets i'm one of them

i was selected for low income housing in august and shra is taking about six months now to assign

me a place since i lost my job in them homeless i i can't receive edd you know they they're not

sending they have no address they sent it to they're gonna take all my child support you know

this city is it's ruthless to the homeless it's like a recycling door of institutes and

those little institutionalization you know you you you have to uh you know a desperate time

calls for desperate measures for a lot of people if you're outside in the coach you might get

an arson charge for burning a fire and now you can't get housing because you didn't burn the

fire okay it's so many catch 22s and now like i've been on probation in parole now for i've

been on parole for over ten to fifteen years i've been on probation for three years and it seems

like they waiting for me to get in trouble or to do something for them to do a credit check and

a background check for a job it takes one day okay so i don't understand why shra has taken five

months now to to do a background check for somebody who's not on probation and i don't parole

who don't have bad credit at all it's just completely unfair how they do the homeless out here

and i'm Michael meh thank you for your comments Jeffrey tardigia then lambards

well board city council i probably this will be the last time that i'll make the comment

about please public comments not on the agenda being the last item i will suggest that it be moved

up to your discussion after your consent i've spoken to many of your new chairpeople in your

various committees and commissions on this subject matter i will also invite for what i look at

and see through here does every democrat here know what February 1st this Saturday is i will tell

you later at the end of that reminds you to what it's about but for point in time count

i have repeatedly asked that for the city to tell us what code enforcement what the city police

department is doing in dealing with the encampments dealing with the homeless so that they will know

i'm talking about Sacramento steps forward coc will understand and know what is happening to

the individuals so that there is a means of when they're getting rusted and changed and put

someplace else that there's a means to know where they are going because otherwise we lose contact

with them and i'm afraid last year that's what happened come this January would like to be sure

that we have an accurate contact now at February 1st has to do is when you have name

candidates that are about to become your new democratic leadership that's what's coming up this

Saturday and with that note on there i will invite you and say that probably i've got other things

going on in February so we'll probably not be visible here we'll just be trying to listen and thank

you for your comments your time is complete oh well our next speakers Lambert then Henry Harry

then rev

i'd like to send a couple of shots out before i get to but i want to i saw a person that's done

tremendous work with grand high school paces and she should be recognizing that's Megan of the

creative arts last year they went somewhere they're always going somewhere they're international

and she was vital in getting them there and i've heard because of all of this excitement of

them winning and the grand drum line was there every step of the way so it was the cheerleaders don't

forget about the cheerleaders and the parents and everybody that made that thing happen

uh grand is going to Ireland grand drum line is going to Ireland

Ireland why talk to the drum line you're in an accident now on this

ending of this i think that you should really consider and i'm talking to everybody on the

rostrum including the city attorney you really need to take the city managers report off of the

agenda because if you're not going to do it and you have four city managers that's a dereliction

of duty on display i think it's a violation of the brown act unless the city manager's office

does not have to adhere to the brown act and there's proof that that might be true

and if that's true then that should be tested because that's that's hidden in the charter

and it makes people uh just say no there's no report well if it's on the agenda it should be

acknowledged people get paid to put an agenda together i read where people get paid top dollar

to put the agenda together so put the agenda together and recognize it and i'm going in with

mr. Dickerson your staff has already been notified and the mayor and everybody we getting ready

to do something just like the grant patients but thank you for your comments Henry Harry then rev

okay we're almost out of here uh reparations reparations reparations um

our city has a lot on our plate we've got rising crime we've got low staffing we've got a lack of

housing and massive homelessness and then there's me here constantly coming to council pushing

reparations and although we're short on money we can still do some meaningful things

to make an impact on reparation in Sacramento

uh

we stand here in the shadow of martin luke the king

and we approach black history month and there's things that we can do that won't cost us money

we can build a website in the city as a single well of information so people can know what's

going on we can compile a list of city-owned lands so we can know what might be possible

toward donating some of that land toward reparations we can appoint a community envoy

to coordinate all of this i believe politics is the art of the possible and it ought to be

possible to do these things and i'm sure i'll be back to repeat this again

give your comments next speaker is rev then eric page then marbaya sala

um

blessing blessing blessing blessings to you all i'm revin paul josebride senior prerring

god of ministry homes they having gods children might matter um just being to a couple

officers on the street today because of some activity going on on Broadway and

i told him i light i can make your job it's a job and there's consider work this young man right

here is the eric one of the homeless people i just grabbed him out of sees a job as park as they

listen when i say something so i'm gonna start with one person and it can be about a thousand in here

because it's unfair treat 20 million 20 billion dollars you want to steal that would have

ended homelessness across the nation and i gave you out my math the other day to where it could

be three years and one point four billion dollars that they waste but the strength that they have in

numbers i just want one truck and some tools i'm gonna put it out there i have homeless for having

a paypal one box truck and some tools and i'll make sure i get them the cleaning painting

keeping the areas clean the whole thing one truck so i brought him in here just so he can get used

to this so when i'm out here they'll just pile up out front when i drive around you i don't know

me out there when i hit they call it a bill 30 foot long limousine they know that's me and i

hung up the time and the hands go up hey rev so i got it from my homeless i got it to the top

i was just dealing with my homeless people i love the people like mac worth the ill you everybody's around

this is a work just about to work i'm a member about to work with him too

so i got enough people around sacramental i've been here for 40 long years i've only been

recognized for the last 15 because god woke me up to do something so i went out in the streets and

thank you for your comments your time is complete our next speaker's Eric page

i'm over the past where i know i'm just okay

i'm gonna speak with him in front

years ago they had to occupy movement so rev your your speaker time is complete

mr. page would you like to speak i don't think our next speaker is marbaya sala

following marbaya is Tyler diddy

good evening um i came i was born in mexico city i came to this country with my family on a

tourist visa and we stayed that's considered undocumented immigrant i'm now a u.s citizen

nonetheless i was an undocumented immigrant and when i'm here to ask all of you i know that you

i know you're working on this i know you have a lot on your plate and i know it's very it's a land

mine of what's going on with at the federal level with all these executive orders but our

community is really scared here in sacramental and they need to hear from all of you

sooner than later there are other cities are already making statements and from the mayor

saying that your body and staff need to hear that you're abiding by sp-54

i i i'm guarantee you staff don't know what that is and that private entities don't know what

that is and that basically says that you're not obligated to allow any i n s to come in

you voluntarily allow them to come into your establishment they don't know that the community

need to know that they're going to be safe i appreciate that chief lester made a statement that

the police are not going to work with i n s um and report them or any of them that's great but

i don't know that that went out there you know in a disseminated in a wide manner they need to hear

from all you that are safe and this is a sanctuary city and what that means so important

because our community is afraid and we're seeing that they're not they're not shopping they're not

going to work and i just urge you to the most possible way that you can do it x in a fast way

is make that thank you for your comments our next speaker's tyler diddy and then jensen ben azra

have two more speakers my name is tyler i'm here on behalf of my clothing brand f-wear clothing

i was here probably last year and it was a different mayor and i'm there asking a question i was

here based around fint all the awareness in narcan and where we can put it in our community

one place i to answer the question was i feel like it could be at bus stops

high schools middle schools and bathrooms it could be anywhere it could be anywhere

just open i feel like being known what an overdose looks like the signs of it and how to

administer it can also be you know definitely pushed another thing i wanted to speak on

was the homelessness in our community today i spoke to some some shares in the hot i think it's

the hot team i don't know exactly i was in north sarcasta and i asked them a couple times i said so

what what can i do if i had people that wanted help right now um housing um you know mental health

help any every time he kind of stuttered a little bit and he said we'll call 211 i said we can

have your card if i if i have your card maybe and i have somebody who wants some help maybe i

can call you he stuttered a little bit i ended up getting the gentleman's card but just

having it more open to where we know what these resources are out here about a year ago i was in

the shelter a year ago i was fighting addiction and i've overcome a lot of these things at this point

but i feel like uh like i said awareness is my main thing and for those people who need help if

they would like to take the help they should know where that where to go get the help um yeah that's

pretty much it for me thank you thank you your comments are in our final speaker is jensen ben Ezra

um

hello city council um i want to start my name is jensen ben Ezra feel plucking bomb knows me um

i'm the owner and my wife and my family we're the owner of the mermaid ice cream boat

that was in south and uh old sacrabino and we've been sustaining our family uh um for the last few

years the city manager and last city manager was uh breaking the law uh and you know they were

against the constitutional rights they took uh city that your city has possession of my home

right now where the back holes are at so i can't access my vehicle my vessel my wife had a

miscarriage because they took the boat from her possession in duress your police officers under

Brian Pedro the director of the DCR directed them to lie to my wife and told her that they were

going to take care of her right now she had a miscarriage it's been a prolonged abnormal miscarriage

due to the negligence of the city they had medical equipment on my boat on my home i have four

children they were at school when they took my home i didn't need any hotel any assistance

right now their city is paying for me a hotel motel six one room so we're six people living in one

room with my dogs complimentary of city of sacramento so i need mr plucking bomb i need mr

mccardney do we need i've been trying to reach your office to put it on agenda because old

sacramento the ordinances were changed against the brown act i was not able to go to any of the city

ordinance city meetings in november 2021 to 2022 and they changed all the doc ordinances that made

it illegal for people to park their boat overnight when we are paying 500 a week and that was the

rules for over 20 years but i need to put this on agenda please for the boating community thank

you comments thank you for your comments your time is complete thank you so mayor you have no more

business to come before the council okay thank you now we're at the time where council members

wishing to adjourn seeing none tonight therefore you adjourn thank you nobody to say anything you are going to

you