All right. I'd like to get this meeting started at 2.04.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you. Councillor Member Kaplan.

Councillor Member Dickinson.

Councillor Member Plexibon. Councillor Member Maple.

Councillor Gare-Poteu-Garra.

Councillor Member Jennings.

Councillor Member Vang.

Maybe here momentarily. We expect the mayor momentarily.

Vice-meritellamentes.

Thank you so much. Councillor Maple, we lead us in land.

And the federal agents. Please stand if you are able.

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

tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nissanan people, the southern

Mideo, Valley in Plains, Miwok, put 212 people in the people of the Wulchren Rancharia,

Sacramento is only federally recognized tribe.

Maybe acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us

today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of

acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous people's history,

contributions and lives. For main standing, salute and pledge.

Congratulations to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which

it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much, Councillor Member.

Moving along, we have a special presentation by Mayor Pro Tem Gare-A on National Engineers

Week.

Thank you, Vice-meritell, it's a pleasure here to join everyone on National Engineers Week

where we highlight the important work of engineers who have, who make an impact to all of our

lives, but particularly here in the city of Sacramento. As a very proud alumni of the

Sac State College of Engineering and Computer Science program here in the Electro Electronic

Engineering, I can attest to the hard work and dedication that it takes not only to accomplish

the degree but then to pursue all of the values and the requirements that all of us must

take in our work as engineers. Now National Engineers Week coincides with

presidents today and that's for any history buff is because our America's first engineer

as the Britannica will acknowledge was George Washington and George Washington was a surveyor

and an engineer and so that's why the second week during President's Day Week we recognize

National Engineers Week. Now our city currently employs about 239 engineers throughout all

our departments. The city employs are in civil engineers, software engineer, environmental

engineers and many more. Today I'd like to recognize just three of those who are with us today

representing those specific departments by the city of Sacramento and those are in the departments

of public works, departments of utilities and department of IT and also to recognize them

up here. Many of them who may have been their faculty member or in fact Dean at that time,

I'd like to welcome to the podium here also the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer

Science, Dr. Kavon Shafi Shafi is a day. Shafi is a day. Let me if I got to that Kavon,

is that did I get that right, Dr? Shafi Shafi each. Shafi Shafi Shafi.

Shafi Shafi Shafi. You put your emphasis. Yes, you know, but if before you, I'd love to have you give a few words.

But first I'd like to actually welcome also up if we could bring up Ophelia Avalos here.

Now our first engineer here she is a engineer in the department of public works. Ophelia has a

bachelor's of science degree in civil engineering from Sac State and is also a licensed engineer

for the state of California. She first started as a student trainee here in 1991 and since then has held the

titles throughout the city. Ophelia is now an engineer engineering service division manager for

the public works. She's also the first Latina division manager and first woman division manager to hold this

title. Thank you Ophelia for 35 years to the city. Let's give her a big round of applause.

Next I'd like to also recognize Roxanne Dilly from the city of Sacramento's Department of Utilities.

Roxanne has a bachelor's of science degree in Geological Engineering from Sac State. Roxanne first started as an intern with the city in February of 2003.

She became a junior engineer in September 2005 and is now a supervising engineer with the department of utilities.

Thank you for your 20 years of service so far to the city of Sacramento. Let's give also Roxanne a big round of applause.

I'd like to also recognize Lee Tao from the information technology department.

Lee has an associate's degree in business administration from Sac City College and a bachelor's of science degree in management information technology systems from Sac State.

Lee first started as a youth aid in 2005 and moved over to the IT department in 2013 as an IT trainee. Lee is currently a systems engineer with a specialty in cyber security.

This makes this marks 20 years for the city of Sacramento. For Lee let's give him a big round of applause as well.

So all of us know that when we come into engineering our challenges are always to solve the issues that are affecting the people of Sacramento.

I'm very proud to say that these are just three individuals of many of over 200 that every day when they come to work they are trying to tackle some of the biggest challenges that our city faces.

So with that I'd like to welcome the dean who is helping provide the next phase and the next workforce.

Cavan please welcome let's give him a big round of applause.

Thank you I've prepared a few words for the council mayor McCarty mayor pro temp gira and city council members thank you for this thoughtful resolution recognizing national engineers week.

My name is cave on chauf azada and the dean of the college of engineering computer science at Sacramento State and a city resident.

The partnership between the city of Sacramento and Sacramento State represents a powerful engine for innovation and community development.

Our students and faculty regularly collaborate with city departments on real world projects. These partnerships provide invaluable hands on experience for our students while helping address important engineering challenges facing our city.

Our students came practical experience while bringing fresh perspectives to city projects and many of these students as you see here go on to build their careers right here in the city of Sacramento strengthening our local engineering workforce.

Looking ahead we're excited to expand these collaborative opportunities particularly around sustainable infrastructure smart city technologies and climate resilience.

The continued support of the city council helps make these partnerships possible. Thank you again for recognizing these contributions of engineers and for being partners and preparing the next generation of engineering professionals working together we can continue to innovate solutions that enhance quality of life for all sacramentans.

Stingers up.

Thank you cave on.

I also want to recognize everyone in the audience who are engineers today you guys can all say yes please stand up.

Before I for three recognized individuals could come up to say some brief small last words are chief engineer spring up our assistant city manager who's also moved up the ranks a little

second minute Ryan more so Ryan.

So the way on the public.

Well thank you mayor council appreciate the recognition it's been said so I won't belabor this I want to we want to move on to the photograph but thank you for this as a

little bit of time to do this for a quarter of a century it's a labor of love it's one of the most exciting degrees I think you can get in college and it's a career that is so diverse.

You know it's it's one of the oldest professions we have in humanity and it's as you mentioned a few of them civil engineering mechanical engineering electrical engineering.

It's it's a fantastic field to be involved with and as as cave on pointed out it continues to evolve as as the world continues to present new challenges with things like cyber security climate change new forms of energy to be in the sort of the leading edge of the field that's

dressing those problems as exciting every day it's it's a it's a blast coming to work quite honestly it's it's really a fun career to be involved with so thank you so much for the recognition.

Yeah thank you Ryan and as they say many people see you know city our city governance as you know public safety fire but one of the things that always keeps our city moving is our engineers so congratulations again and if we can have you come up here we'll take a quick photo on the resolution and just and just quickly which I want to thank you councilmember gatta for doing this but I would be remiss if I did not call out my husband who is a UC Davis grad master's grad and a planning engineer with the department of water resources.

So there are many not just not just a sex state but UC Davis in the region that produces a lot of engineers.

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So may we now move to the consent calendar? We have agenda items 1 through 14.

Members that have questions or make comments?

Councillor Mabel.

Quick comments on item 6 please.

Vice Mayor Talamontes. Item 2 and for item number 5 I'll make the

motion and I'll make comment on this but I'd like for it to be continued.

Councillor Mabel Dickinson.

I've got a couple questions on item 11.

Member of the item gather.

Quick comment on item 4.

And Councillor Mabel Kaplan.

Item 6 and 8.

Okay, I will attempt to go in order.

Vice Mayor Talamontes.

Item 2 and 5.

I just want to welcome Ashley Patel to the Disability Advisory Commission for District 3.

And I see Joe Contreras in the audience who's also being appointed to land in Bertha Memorial

Funds Commission.

He's our, I call him the Mayor of Garland and so I just want to make sure I give him a shout out and thank you for being here.

Mayor Prutam Gatta on item 4.

Great, thank you very much.

You know, one, I wanted to thank all of our engineers that are working on the Fritz Ridge road improvements.

This is an area that it's right next to a school or a war in elementary.

It's also one of the areas where we unfortunately had some fatalities when council member, back then council member,

was on the council and this vital project moves us to phase 2 on a road diet, some safety improvements and some crosswalking areas.

Not only from power in on Fritz Ridge Road in 65th, but now being able to start the beginning work on phase 2 of 65th in Stockton Boulevard.

So hopefully we'll be able to provide safety more safety on Fritz Ridge Road along with not only improving the roadway in the surface area, but reducing the speed limit here.

We see these changes are being able to reduce the speed limit, but also reduce the traffic volumes here by engineering design.

So with that, thank you to all the staff again and thank you to all the engineers who are thinking about all those kids there on a rural war in elementary.

Thank you, Councilmember Maple on item 6.

Thank you Madam City Clerk. I just really wanted to give a shout out to our amazing team in the police department and City Manager's Office for this $400,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.

This is an amazing thing for Sacramento. It's going to hopefully help us reduce the number of persons killed and injured and crushes revolving alcohol.

So I'm going to give a shout out to all the staff and staff here on the roadway in the city.

So thank you for the opportunity to be able to provide safety for this city and City Manager's Office for this city.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. I just want to ditto. This is on item 6. This has been a grant we've received since 2018.

And they're now shifting to data driven decisions to look at the last three months so they can really see where high injury networks are occurring in real time and real data.

But also included in this grant, if you dig in, is to support outreach for our schools and providing presentations to our kids on distracted driving.

I can tell you we see a lot of our kids on electric scooters nowadays, not wearing helmets and blowing through stop signs and everywhere else that I think it's really essential.

We reach out to our students to educate them to reduce the fatalities there.

So I really want to thank the police department for one getting this grant for many years on the road but also changing how they look at things as a data focus.

Moving on to item 8, I have no issue with the credit agreement payment for construction on Panhandle Project 105 but one of the things I want to put to the record that I've also talked to staff about.

Because of this project, there have been some issues that have come up with the existing community.

And now the new community being constructed so whether I need to put an official request in, I am making this request on new development.

So the developer complied with DOU rules, complied with public works, complied with planning.

So the first thing that was missed as regarding sewer, which is the county, the community did not understand that there would be a four foot differential between the existing community and the new community.

So you add a four foot retaining wall to your backyard and a six foot fence on top of it and they're right next to each other, which is causing some significant issues with the pre-existing community.

So that was noticed because of course the developer complied with all city rules and requirements.

So one of the things I'd like us to look at now, especially with new development and redevelopment, if there is a height differential more than like a foot that one we need to kind of coordinate with the new sewer requirements that it's required that they needed that four foot differential to comply with the law.

So that we look at including language so that DOU and planning also reach out to sewer and if there is such a height differential that is required an additional setback so you don't have new properties significantly overlooking existing properties that have existed for several decades.

But I just wanted to make that a call out because this is the specific project that my community and some homeowners are having some major heartburn on.

And I know vice mayor, you made the motion. I will second consent.

Yes, the continuation item five with continuation of item five.

Councillor McKinston, item 11.

Thanks. Is there someone here who can answer some questions? Oh great.

Thank you.

Mayor and council, this is Neil Joyce. I'm a supervising engineer for the Department of Utilities, our development review and floodplain management section.

Thanks. We've got to put some engineers on the spot here.

I was not entirely clear to me from the staff report or follow up. I had or the map where the A99 zones are that will be affected by these amendments to the floodplain management ordinance.

My recollection was A99 zone was mostly an atomus. Is there more than that?

No, A99 is limited to south and north in the Thomas.

And then there was also an indication that there were changes that were applied to Magpie Creek.

There's not actually changes to Magpie Creek. We're just clearly more clearly defining that Magpie Creek is a local floodplain and it has special regulations related to that.

So it's been a preexisting condition. It's just that we've had challenges come when developers come through.

So we wanted to more clearly define it in code so we could point to that.

And that was really the next question I had was what are the impacts for anyone who lives or would develop in the areas affected by these amendments to the floodplain management ordinance?

So for the atomus area is doing an elevation certificate. Basically stating that you're above the 100 year flood elevation with your finished floors.

Magpie Creek is subjected to 200 year flood restrictions. So it would be demonstrating that you're above the 200 year floodplain.

And to your knowledge are there any impacts related to the availability or cost of flood insurance for these areas that will be affected by the amendments?

This did not affect flood insurance. The fact is that we participate in the community rating system program. It's a FEMA program where we get flood insurance discounts.

And the reason for these changes is to continue our participation in there and continue the points that we've been credited.

So this will allow us to continue to get discount of flood insurance for the rest.

Okay, good. That's good to hear. Okay. Thanks very much for clarifying that for me. Thank you.

Okay, so Mary, you have a motion by Vice Mayor Telemontes, a second by Councilmember Kaplan.

And that includes withdrawing item number five. In clerk, I want to make comment on that.

So just real quick, so item number five is about surplus land for the city of Sacramento and this behind the Nautomas High School, Discovery High School.

And just want to thank city staff and the developer for all their work on this.

But what's happening right now is that it's a big lot of land that was initially going to be sold altogether at once.

And now only a section of that land is being bought. And so it leaves a triangle piece of land with that has nothing.

Well, there's no exact plans for it yet. And so I'm looking to build a sound wall around the structure so it's completed into long-range park and potentially a park.

But I have a lot of questions for my community, our park bridge community and South of Thomas community.

So I just wanted to make sure that our plans as a city and as a developer behind this project are fully set in stone before we move forward with the full list.

Thank you, noted. And we do not have a public comment today on any consent item, but we do have one public comment if there was a question.

So I'm going to ask the question to our former council member, Steve Cohn.

You can give us a brief, brief history lesson of East Portal Park and the Batchee Ball courts there.

That's your question. Oh, limiting that to two minutes. Yeah, well, the questions whether you can be brief or not.

No, that's an easy one. No, but Mr. Marin council members pleasure. Can I at least introduce my board?

Please, and you have more than two minutes. I'm actually not on the board, but my wife is captain Trappers.

We have Iggy Lopez Alvarez, John Leonard, Jay James, our president.

Some of you may recognize former police officer Joe Payne and Henry.

What's your question, Henry?

That's not the whole board, but anyway, it does go back.

There's a real Italian history. I'm not actually going to go through that because I sent a letter that does describe that history.

But if you do have a question, more specific, I'd be happy to go through it, but it is a great asset for the city of Sacramento for our neighborhood in particular.

But also, I think it's a sport that really needs to grow because it is something that can be played by people at all of all ages, abilities.

I've seen quadriplegic folks out playing. They can get used to trade at the ball going with their chin. It's amazing.

And then, of course, we have some very skilled people too, who have won national championships out there.

It's a great partnership. And sent you ask me up. I will recognize though, Ryan Moore, he's already been recognized, but does a great job as an assistant-c manager.

Jason Weaseman, who really helped us get through this lease. And Jackie Beacham, also, I don't know the name anymore of Parks, but whatever the name of Parks Department is, you're doing a great job.

And congratulations, Laney, on being a C manager. I go way back with Laney. So you listened to her on budgetary matters in particular.

So, ain't right. Thanks. Appreciate it.

Thank you, former council member. Cohn, I just want to say that I was on the council and you aptly represented East Sacramento and East Portal Park.

I remember when this project came to fruition, the Batchee Ball Court just passed forward 10 or 15 years later.

Look, we have a tough time keeping up on all of our city parks with park maintenance. But this is one example where the community members led by the Batchee Ball Association really step up to keep it in tip-top shape.

So that makes it an easy ask for this continued partnership.

I appreciate that, Mr. Mariam. We'd be happy to have any of you out there to try it too. In fact, John Leonard says he'll give free lessons.

Thank you.

You're not done council member Jennings.

Well, I'll be more than happy to take you up on the offer to try some Batchee Ball and see if I can do that sport.

It's not one that I've done in my lifetime, but I'd love to try it. Just for your service to the city of Sacramento, I just want to go on record is to, and I don't want to say the wrong number.

How many years of service did you serve?

20 years on this council. Five terms.

That deserves a round of applause.

Yes, and maybe a round of what the heck were you thinking?

I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. With that, we have a motion and a second on the consent calendar absent item number five, which will be continued.

Members in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any nos or abstentions? Hearing none consent calendar passes.

So, Mayor, that concludes the business of this meeting. We do have council comments ideas and questions. And then I have three speakers for public comments matters not on the agenda.

Okay.

But I apologize, but regarding the own words we took.

I don't have a lot of other questions andечce that Frankie Kim also keinen comments and questions is incorrect angel, that's correct.

I'm not a consultant mayor and council member.

My name is Kyle.

One month ago I was here about the request to the council to discuss the issue that my

father was killed in downtown Sacramento but SPD, Pywami, fake investigation report.

It has been one month I submit all the information to Mr. Jennings internship Mr. Boveo.

But I still don't have any information about who killed my father.

Can the mayor and all the council member that consider to discuss this case in the council

meeting and put it into the agenda item?

Can Mayor Pauwianny come in on my request?

No, we can't comment but we can have our staff take your name and number and we can potentially

follow up.

Thank you.

Next speaker's Lance Hatfield.

I'm going to try my best to get whatever I can in two minutes because if you're assuming

mayor council members, if your assistance has given you the information you all know

what I'm here to talk about because I've let co-pious amounts of messages.

And this is about my experience going through the homeless system in Sacramento and I guess

because I have two minutes I have to sum it up.

I have experienced both currently at Mitch Peters from first property management as well

as Extreat and Navigation Center and most egregiously at Project Room Key with next move about

this bowl or this council and the Sacramento Board of Supervisors misappropriating funds

in order to create, expecting the taxpayer to pay to make their community less safe like

with Mitch Peters which I'm experiencing right now I have a coordinate in two days like

Extreat and Navigation Center where all my complaints when I was a resident there about

the egregious noncompliance of the good neighbor policy went either unanswered or was

met with contempt like when I complained about Extreat and Navigation Center housing

and COVID positive and COVID negative tenants I got evicted for that.

Okay, there was drug dealing going on and they got to stay but I was removed because I was

complaining to all of you.

Well those who were there, mainly people who aren't there anymore.

Thank you for your comments your time is complete.

Thank you.

Our final speakers, Dia Good.

I'll be back to you continue.

Thanks.

Good afternoon.

I wanted to bring to your attention that you have a city employee who has on numerous

times bullied, intimidated and threatened female.

Female subordinates, volunteers and members of the public.

I am afraid the city may have been informed of these problems and failed to act.

I'd like to discuss this matter and file a complaint but I just don't know how to proceed.

So I put my email and phone number on the speaker slip and I'm requesting that someone

contact me regarding this matter.

Thank you very, very much.

Thank you for your comments Mary.

I have no more speakers.

Okay.

I have no one signed up for council comments.

I need to ask the questions.

Your meeting is concluded.

Thank you.

We'll join we back at five o'clock.

Four o'clock.