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All righty we'll call this Sacramento City Council meeting to order. Please call the roll.

Thank you council member Kaplan. Council member Dickinson. Vice-Morantell Monter's. Council

member Pluckybom. Council member Maipur. Mayor Pro Tem. Gatta. Council member Jennings.

Council member Vang. Mayor McCarty. Here. Okay thank you. Vice-Morantell Monter's. Will you lead us in the pledge and the land

acknowledgement? Please rise for the opening acknowledgments and honor Sacrament of Indigenous people and tribal lands. To the

original people of this land. The Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Vowley and Plains Mewok, Patwin, Windtune peoples and the people of

Turanturia. Sacrament 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 together today and the active practice of

acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacrament of Indigenous people's history contribution and lives. Thank you.

So, lit. Plucky. I'm from the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation, a tribe, and

divisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. So Madam City Attorney, do you have any report out from closed

session? Nothing to report out for March 4th or March 11th. Thank you. Thank you.

Mayor, we now have a special presentation for women's history month and this is going to be presented by Councilmember

Kaplan. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to call up our city manager as well as our charter officials to come stand. It is

important that we see our women leaders if they would come stand by our city manager. But this is not just for me, but for all of us.

And if we've got our department heads, our women department heads, please come join. It is important that you all make your way down so that we can see the

significance of women leaders here in the city. Because tonight we're not just honoring women leaders today in the city, but those who have broken barriers

before us. Just a mere 50 years ago, women were given rights that we sometimes I think take for granted today. It wasn't till the 1970s that women could keep their jobs if they were

pregnant. Women were just allowed into Ivy League schools. In the 70s, women for the first time in America could get a credit card in their own name. And women could legally report

harassment in the workplace. Today, women just occupy one fourth of the senior management positions worldwide. We still earn only 84 cents on the dollar that

women earn. Black women said only 64 cents. Women hold just 27% of the legislative seats worldwide. California is leading the way. I know in the Senate, we are almost at 50% and the list goes on. In the city of Sacramento's history, there have only been three women mayors. It was in 1948 that Bell Coolidge was appointed. And

Rudy was elected in 1983 and our own Heather Fargo was elected mayor in 2000. And 176 years, we've only had 21 council women, council members that are women. And only twice in our history, have we had women majority led by ladies. And we're still working 37% of our workforce in the city are women.

We have a ways to go before women are seen and treated as equal in all aspects. As the mother of two daughters, I'm going to read a poem that I want to dedicate to our leaders before us and to my daughters.

Because it's what I hope. And it's a daughter, it's a poem by Jay Raymond. My daughter will be dangerous.

My daughters will be dangerous. Something raised tall and wild, thorned and beautiful. Like honey, suckle, nourishing to some, and poisonous to others. My daughters will be dangerous, made of wit and raisin.

They will not smile when told or be made into something obeying. They will not be a delicacy for some to covet their worth.

They will not be weighted in admiration, but in the fullness of their hearts. My daughters will be dangerous because they know that love is not built with fear.

And they will know the boundaries of their own permissions. My daughters will be dangerous like brave things are.

They will know that treats often come dressed as desperate men. And they will learn to laugh in the face of those who believe them to be weak.

You will not silence someone raised to roar. They will know the ways I have failed, the times I have fallen, and I will walk beside both of them until we learn to fly.

Each wonders who she is. I will trace their fingertips with my love. I will hold their hands in my own, and I will mine them that they both are everything.

I will honor them from their scraped knees to their broken hearts. I will love them before their first breath and beyond my last.

My girls will be dangerous, not because they are my daughters, because of who she is herself.

I think it is more important than ever that we continue to fight for equality in the law and equity in every facet of our life for our daughters, our mother, our sisters, our friends.

One day I dream that we won't be celebrating women for breaking barriers because each achievement by a woman is a norm and expected in society.

I want that my daughters are not considered dangerous by being opinionated and strong and knowledgeable, smart, and tough.

I want them to be just girls who are able to be who they want to be without being seen as something other because they are women and different.

I will turn it over to my female colleagues if they would like to make a statement on this women's history month before turning it over to our very first female city manager, Lanny Milstein, for comments.

Thank you so much, Councilwoman Kaplan, for bringing this very important resolution to the city council.

I really want to take this moment to say happy history month to all of you. From breaking barriers to shaping history, present, and future, women have made a lasting impact in this world.

I really want to give a special gratitude as I'm looking out to the audience of all of the fierce women leaders in our city that are the backbone of the city that makes it happen.

I really want to say thank you so much every day for your heart and hustle and for making her story every single day.

I also want to take this moment to thank my colleagues, Councilwoman Kaplan, Councilwoman Vice Mayor Talimontis, Councilmember Maple, for making history within your own district, within your own families, and blazing trails.

I also just want to acknowledge all three of you for the great work that you've done as well.

Lastly, I just want to give a shout out to anyone who's watching this that there are so many women often that are not written in history books that we won't know about.

That's our mothers, our aunties, our sisters, our cousins. And I really want to also just uplift them because they are the healers and the caretakers and our families.

And so I really also want to take this moment to thank them as well for creating a better world for our loved ones and our communities. Thank you.

Thank you. City Manager?

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor Councilwoman Kaplan, for this resolution and acknowledging women's history month.

I am who I am and I get to do what I do because of the women who have come before me and paved the way with her tenacity and hard work.

Nevertheless, she persisted is not just a slogan. It's our reality. And it's so important to me that we honor those women who bravely paved the way for us and the women who are here today, with me here on the day is doing the great work on behalf of our larger community every day into all of you. I say thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I would like, and it does bear calling out that our dear treasurer, Mr. Coville is international right now, but the rest of our charter officers and director pointies are women.

And we are led in this city by women. So I'd like all of you to come down here for my female colleagues come join me so we can take a picture together.

We're in jail. Are we in or out? Right?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

Thank you.

So Mary, now move to the consent calendar.

Yes.

Are there any council members that want to make comments?

I do have one read to the record.

Item one is moving to March 18th, so that will not be no action we take on item one today.

Councillor Mayeball.

Questions and comments on item four?

Councillor M. Raquel-Plon.

Just comment on item three.

Okay.

Please proceed.

Thank you.

Councillor M. Raquel-Plon on item three.

I just want to say again thank you to the city and I know I've heard some questions from my community that the information is now going out as we have an exclusive right to negotiate the state does allow when surplus property is going to be used for affordable housing.

That negotiations gets to happen and then we get to approve it publicly and this is the approval and I'm happy to talk about how I know this land was slated potentially for a community center.

We did get the North Natomas community center but it's not the community center some of us are looking for so but with this project in the corner a community center that is going to be used can be used and rented by all will be constructed as part of affordable housing for our seniors and our families most in need.

So very excited to see this move forward.

Thank you for staff and all you've done.

Councillor Member Maible you had comments on item four.

Thank you, Madam Speaker.

And just wondering is Miss Wallace in the crowd answer just a few questions.

Thank you.

All right.

So item four for those.

We've been talking a lot about Megan Park today which I love.

It's a wonderful amenity in District five.

And so this project which is the Tree Nursery project originally was funded by a grant by then Assemblymember Jim Cooper now our share of.

And that was in 2021.

The original completion date was supposed to be December of 2024.

Is that correct?

Yes, that's correct.

Okay. Thank you.

And then so I see now with this amendment we'd be moving it to December 31 of 2025 of this year.

Yes, moving the completion date to December of this year.

Okay, great.

Can you talk a little bit about this is for the public's knowledge.

I know you and I have had a lot of conversations about this but we do get a lot of requests and questions from our constituents.

Just what are some of the challenges that were seen in terms of the permitting process and what are the delays essentially.

Yeah, so we lease that site to a nonprofit organization out of the Bay Area called planting justice.

And they are ultimately the ones delivering the project.

And they faced a number of capacity issues during that were impacted by the COVID COVID-19 pandemic that kind of impacted their capacity during the first few years to be able to carry this out.

And then in addition to that, there was a more consulting that was needed.

And so in order to get through the city's permitting process they had to bring on some additional consultants and it took them a while to find the right partner because this is a pretty unique project.

But I'm happy to say they have a really great partner consultant now who is moving the project forward.

They are in their second round of building permit review for their site improvements.

And we expect a groundbreaking later this summer.

And then some of the constituents might have also seen there have been some other site improvements that we've been doing in preparation for planting justice breaking ground.

And that includes a new pedestrian and vehicular entry way to the site as well as a much more attractive and functional gate.

Okay, great. That's really helpful. And then in terms of obviously this has been a long time coming.

And I understand all the variety of factors that went into that in COVID and the permitting process.

Is there anything that we can do that I can do that the public can do to help move this so long any faster?

Are we still looking at that December 31 timeline?

I think just still looking at that December 31 deadline.

I don't think their construction will be very long once they are able to break ground.

But it will take them a little while to establish the plan.

So they're waiting on basically the permitting process.

They're waiting on the permitting process and then they have to put the project out to bid for construction.

That's really helpful. Thank you. Those are all my questions.

I just wanted to have that out there in the public site.

We do get a lot of questions from the community. This is such an exciting project though.

It's a great partnership between planting justice and three sisters gardens.

And we are hopeful by the end of this year we can be opening the door so to speak on a project that's going to serve the community in terms of fresh fruits and vegetables and hiring of underserved folks.

So thank you again. Appreciate it. Those are all my comments.

Thank you. Thank you.

Mary, I have three members of the public to make public comments.

First is Mac Worthy on item two. Nick Adidas on item two and nor Kawasar on item three.

I was going to have to remember.

It's kind of a Roger this where you're going to have some problems that hang on like you when you finish on this one.

Now all these people here on the chart and you can't get a damn report out here on the finance.

You got to get rid of this woman here because she out here talking about women.

We have women only one woman grace to me and that's my mom and it's other shit is for the birds.

Now you had all these people stand up here but on your chart on your agenda you only got five people.

Where did all the other folks come from?

Somebody could tell them how to read a planning statement and come here and give a report on it.

That many people on here and you can't give a report on the first quarter.

This is reason that the government come in here and I'm so to be wanted to witness and I know who the subpoena.

The government come who the subpoena here.

We got a attorney sitting there on there.

We can't even know when you violated the child.

That's the penalty.

When you violate the Brown Act that's supposed to be a felony.

So what happened?

Why doesn't it cover?

Let your attorney explain why they don't cover these people because that's how you lie and get through.

But you go to the quick lines because I may be the witness on that case that the city got against Trump.

I may be a witness against the city.

I need to know a person that the government is not afraid to take the city to the fell courthouse in my favor.

Thank you for your comments.

I'm assuming Nick Abbess is on item six which is 102 acres.

I'm sure Nick Abbess is on item three.

Good evening mayor and council members.

My name is Newark Croster with the eAH housing and proud resident of district four.

EH is grateful to you all today especially to council member Lisa Kaplan and her amazing team in the city staff across multiple departments.

I'm very envision with me to take this first step

to see if we can turn a lovely vacant parcel

into a vibrant, thriving apartment community

for Sacramento.

EH has been doing this kind of work for nearly 60 years,

and we're pretty picky about our sites.

We wanna make sure our families,

and our seniors get access to the best schools,

the best amenities, and have opportunities for great jobs,

can age in place, and can have access

to quality healthcare.

So we're excited to continue to work in Sacramento

and look forward to seeing what's possible

on the site with your partnership.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Mary, have no more speakers on the consent calendar?

Okay.

We have a motion on the consent calendar.

Second.

Move.

Second.

We have motion as second.

Move one item for a future date.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nos or abstentions?

Here none.

Consent calendar passes.

So Mary, we move to item five on the discussion calendar,

declaration of a critical need to hire an extra help senior advisor

to the mayor position, and authorization to hire

or retired at Newington to that position.

I do have one speaker.

Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers.

I'm a very short presentation.

I came before you on February 11th, 2025,

asking you to waive 180-day waiting period,

pursuant to CalPERS requirements,

to hire a retired at Newington, Maria Alvarez,

as chief of staff to the mayor.

Today I'm asking you to repeal the resolutions passed

on February 11th, and adopt new resolutions

with a corrected title of senior advisor to the mayor

and a corrected rate of pay $66.86,

$860826 per hour.

That is the end of my presentations.

Do you have a presentation?

Do you have any questions?

Oh.

Okay.

Thank you.

We have one public comment.

I have one speaker, Macworthy.

Some people say he speaks everything,

but when you have a trial,

if you don't make up objection, you can't appeal.

Be careful.

I have a being in the business lower,

as Mayor Cruz didn't call it, I'm understand.

But look here, why would you need another person

to assist you?

Now, I would assist you when you was on the bills

on number 36.

How many people was assisting you?

Was any of these people assisting you over there at the government?

How much money did a bigger California city's lobby

for you to do this to become mayor?

Tell the pro truth here.

You hide, print shit on taxpayers dollars.

That's what you're doing.

These things public going to have to speak up.

Public going to speak up because you are being pimped by here.

When he came in the Sacramento, he was black.

Now, he needed a sister.

You just hide somebody.

S was on the agenda a few weeks ago.

What do you want?

If you can be after a legislation,

what else do you need?

Look at your people.

Look at each other.

They can't give you a price and don't charge the jump public.

You can't go to a mayor.

You can't take the city.

No, but upside down hasn't gone just like your previous mayor's have done.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Mayor, I have no more speakers.

Thank you.

This is a clean up item from a month ago February 10th.

Allow Miss Alvarez to continue working for us in an adjusted position

and continue the 10 years prior as the city council laid.

And 10 years working with us at state legislature.

Councillor McGherr.

Thank you, Mayor.

As I mentioned before, Maria Alvarez has served the city well before it.

And I know she'll serve the city well again.

With that, I'll go ahead and move the item that includes the repeal of the previous resolution

and the needed findings and actions to continue her as a retired new.

Thank you.

Motion a second.

No questions or further questions or comments from council members.

All is a pair of please say aye.

Aye.

Any nos or abstentions?

None.

Item passes.

Next item.

Thank you.

Item 6 is 102 Acre City-owned Medoviu site overview and history.

Good evening, council and Mayor.

My name is Elizabeth Boyd and I'm a senior planner in our community development department.

I'm joined by other colleagues tonight from the Department of Utilities Community Development

Office of Economic Development and others.

I'll provide you an overview of the 102 Acre site.

How the city acquired it, what decisions city council has made regarding this site, and other information about the process to help inform tonight's discussion and future decisions.

The site is located in.

Okay.

Did I jump?

Okay.

The site is located in district date between Medoviu Road to the north and Christmas River Boulevard to the south.

North of the site or public in quasi public facilities while east of the site is the Detroit community, including Susan B. Anthony Elementary School and residences.

The land west and south of the site is undevopt and the site does not currently have access to roadways or utilities.

Morrison Creek light rail station is about a half mile southeast of the site and there are state five is about one and a half miles west of the site.

In fall of 2021 council member bang noticed an advertisement for the auction of the 102 Acre site and brought it to the attention of then city manager Howard Chan.

Together with the mayor, they brought the idea of purchasing the property to council via special meeting on September 28th 2021.

Mayor Steinberg stated that the city had an opportunity to purchase land that could assist the city in implementing the comprehensive citing plan for the prevention of homelessness.

The city could use this large amount of land for other purposes as well.

Council approved a resolution to allow the city manager to move forward with attempting to purchase the land.

The bidding process took several weeks and staff provided briefings to council during that time.

After the city purchased the site public work staff was tasked with figuring out if a short term homelessness use could be feasible.

The staff were looking to find an area of the site which could avoid on site wetlands and that would be flat enough to require minimal grading.

One of the first barriers to providing for a safe parking site was the lack of vehicular access to the south as property owners were willing to provide right of entry for maintenance purposes only.

At first the Department of Labor from whom we had purchased the site were reluctant to provide for access.

However, eventually they provided an easement agreement which would allow for temporary access until 2027 if the city met certain conditions.

Because of these conditions staff estimated the cost to build the temporary easement at $4.5 million.

When the easement expired, sorry this seems to be self-going.

When the easement expired the city would be required to turn the easement to a close to original state or abandon the easement with no additional access.

By March 22, the 102 acre site was included in the city's comprehensive siding plan to address homelessness.

At the time staff were using the list on the siding plan to vet locations, presiding both temporary shelters as well as permanent supportive housing.

As shown on the above screen shot from the March 1st meeting city staff estimated that it would cost at least $8 million to build a temporary safe parking use on the 102 acre site.

In addition district 8 was beginning to talk to the community about longer term uses of the site through a series of seven listening sessions.

In June of 2022 city council adopted the local homeless action plan and asked staff to return with a recommendation on how to integrate the city only siding plan with the action plan.

A key element in the local homeless action plan was an increased focus on prevention and permanent housing.

In October 2022 staff returned with another report on the comprehensive siding plan, including recommendations on how to integrate it with the local homeless action plan.

At the time the city was providing over 1100 shelter spaces staff provided an overview of lessons learned with the key being that temporary shelters, especially safe parking and safe camping shelters tend to have a higher cost to operate per space.

City Council passed resolution 2022 0328 was shifted resources towards implementation of homeless prevention and the production of more permanent affordable housing.

This shift led to the discontinuation of the safe parking study at the 102 acre site.

In late 2022 planning staff began working on an analysis to better understand the site.

We began by reviewing the site's initial conditions and community input followed by a market analysis to inform potential land use scenarios.

These scenarios helped us to assess various factors including circulation considerations, environmental conditions, mitigation requirements, development and maintenance costs and potential revenue streams.

The initial conditions assessment revealed two key findings. The site is landlocked meaning it lacks permanent public roadway access and it has approximately 10 acres of wetland habit it presenting both challenges and opportunities for site development.

We reviewed the community input from district eights listening sessions and conducted a planning charat with key community figures and city staff to deliberate on the ideal mix of land uses for the area.

Our consultants provided a baseline of potential feasible land uses based on market demand which were used to create for illustrative concepts to understand potential costs and revenues and other development considerations.

Included in all four concepts was an interim use to address temporary shelter needs after the site was graded and had vehicular and utility access.

Last April in 2024 planning staff came to council to present the key findings of the analysis and discuss next steps.

For each of the four land use scenarios we made assumptions to create estimates that would provide the most information for future decision making.

One of the key findings is that developing the site would be a huge cost for the city to take on without development partners.

We presented the anticipated next steps which would include reaching out to the community to inform them on the findings of the analysis and allowing council to absorb the information before staff came back with a recommendation on how to frame a solicitation process.

Some of the feedback received from the council included an interest in looking at alternatives that would include inclusive economic development housing including affordable and permanent supportive housing and community amenities such as natural or recreational areas.

Over the summer of 2024 city D staff engaged with the community in 10 different ways including tabling at farmers markets sharing with our community ambassadors conducting a site tour with key community members engaged with council member Vangs 102 acre advisory committee engaging with the prime time youth program at the panel center and hosting an online workshop that remains open today.

What we heard from the community over the last summer matched what we heard from council last April and what was in the listening sessions in 2022.

There's a strong desire for affordable and attainable housing and high quality neighborhoods with access to amenities and natural resources.

Residents would love to see equitable economic and educational opportunities.

There were concerns about costs and how we address the needs of the unhoused and finally rest residents wanted to be involved in the decision making as a project moved forward.

In addition to engaging with the community city staff continue to work on resolving issues that emerged through the process a key issue has been on how to access the site.

A fruitful negotiation with Delta shores to the west resulted in a plan minor collector roadway in exchange for relocating a one to two acre water tank facility on the city's site when the city council approved amended Delta shores development agreement in September of 2024.

The developers said that they expect to start building this roadway in 2028.

Our biological consultant first hired as part of the opportunities and constraints analysis has been conducting surveys of the wetlands over the last several years to determine whether the site contains certain special status species.

We anticipate this information will influence the cost to mitigate future development as well as determine buffer areas around the wetlands that would be considered sensitive.

We expect to hear the final results of this work by the end of spring of this year.

This concludes staff presentation. We hope this information will bring everyone up to speed and I and my colleagues are here to answer any questions.

I have some comments from the mayor and the council but we do have some public commentary to proceed with first.

So let's start with that.

We have 31 speakers. The first is Nick Advis, Christina Rogers, Matt King, Junior Goris and please feel free to line up on the aisle as we do have 31 speakers.

Thank you for the time this evening Nick Advis on behalf of Taylor builders, which is the owner of the Stone Beatland project and which is now known as Delta shores village and the recently acquired surrounding Delta shores property around the 102 acre site.

During the entitlement process for the Stone Beatland project, which is the region's only transit priority project of any real scale, our team prioritized community engagement and stirring local input that shaped the plan.

The same commitment stands here. The city has taken undertaken a considerable process to obtain feedback from the community.

We have been an active participant in a number of those meetings. When determining next steps, knowing that the city is not a developer, I urge serious consideration of a public private partnership to align expertise and investment with the community needs identified.

As a partner and when the community is ready, we are invested in the city's direction and would be interested in discussing working with the city to find a plan that can deliver on those community goals.

The 102 acre site should incorporate the goals that the community has identified where financially feasible.

The city has been done by the city, the council member and the community has been significant and that feedback should be appreciated as it was no small undertaking to obtain it.

So we recognize the challenges also with the surplus lands policies and appreciate the city's considerations of solutions that align with regional goals.

The city is ready to move forward. We have a willing and interested partner that would like to work with you in the community to bring that project to fruition.

Thank you for the time this evening.

Thank you for your comments. Kristina Rogers.

Good evening, city council. I support the met of use site being built for the intended use when it was purchased and it appears the money used for the purchase has specific ideas.

If the city is committed to serving the homeless in the south Sacramento area, then it needs to follow through with that commitment.

There are citizens on the street from that community who wander neighborhoods and need help getting away back to safe secure existence.

Keep looking at viable options for helping those in need on the site. That area needs permanent supportive housing.

I'm hearing the word equity being used to explain some sort of flip on this issue and that word should not be solid.

You promised to support the most vulnerable in your community and then decide the land you promised is now taken away for something else.

Sounds a bit like stolen land to me.

So please keep your word and use the land for what it was originally purchased and intended.

Also city parks budget is cut. There's no money for maintenance of another park.

And so it doesn't show any fiscal responsibility or moral fortitude to go for a reasonable push like that.

So thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments. Matt King.

Evening council.

I firmly oppose repurposing this land for anything other than addressing the urgent need to shelter or most vulnerable.

And let's say there's a clear sustainable long term plan.

If the project lacks long term viability, the funds should be returned given our city's existence.

Budget deficit and inability to adequately staff essential services allocating resources to parks or sports stadiums is both physically irresponsible and morally indefensible.

Most of our on how stay within the boundaries of their own neighborhoods because of its familiarity to them.

This isn't about putting homeless and poor areas. The fact is they're already mostly from these areas.

This was purchased with art of money and must be used for homeless or sold.

No bait and switch.

Thank you for your comments.

Junior Goris, then Jonathan Cook.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the city council.

Madam City clerk.

Madam City attorney.

Madam City manager.

And my fellow neighbors.

My name is Junior Goris and I'm the president of the Delta Shores Community Association and proud resident of District 8 from South Sacramento.

I'm here to emphasize the urgency of moving forward with the decision on the 102 acres development.

I completely might meet city staff and a huge thank you to city staff.

I'll share that guiding.

Guiding principle principles have already been developed for this project.

Regardless of whether the city develops the land enters a public private partnership or sells the land.

We must move forward.

South Sacramento can not afford further delays in development.

We need investment in housing, economic opportunities and public spaces now.

Whether whatever decision is made, the communities guiding principles must be honored to ensure the project aligns with the needs of South Sacramento.

We have spent years in discussion.

Now it's time to act.

And also in addition, Mr. Mayor, there is a vacancy on the 102 acres advisory committee.

That's appointed by you.

I really hope you fill it.

So thank you for your time.

I look forward to seeing action taken to advance this project for our community in our cities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Jonathan Cook, then Jesse Reese, then John Frey as Morales.

Good evening.

Jonathan Cook, executive director with the Sacramento Housing Alliance.

And I am here today to urge the city to prioritize equitable growth and development at the city on 102 acres.

Metavue site, which presents an opportunity to invest in affordable housing and to prevent homelessness.

For South Sacramento has long been overlooked, despite being home to hardworking families, small businesses, and a vibrant, diverse community.

Without intentional investment, disparities will deepen, pushing more families, many already won paycheck away from homelessness and to further crisis.

This site represents a once in a generation opportunity to ensure that South Sacramento grows equitably through affordable housing, economic development, youth services,

and community driven engagement that places the priorities that have already been engaged by the city and community groups.

The city is facing an immense challenge with our homelessness crisis and to stop these numbers from rising, we must take action.

This site must be developed with affordable housing as the foundation alongside the investments and permanent supportive housing and job creation to build a stronger future for South Sacramento residents.

The infrastructure project should be distributed equitably to ensure South Sacramento continues to grow and move forward.

Additionally, measure NTOT funds were committed to South Sacramento and now is the time to fulfill that promise.

This metavue site must be developed in a way that reflects the needs and priorities of this community.

We thank CityStyle for their thoughtful work on this and I urge moving forward with the project for development to ensure that this community is able to continue to grow and thrive.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Jesse Reese is our next speaker.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thanks for having afforded the opportunity to speak and be happy and in favor of the 102 acres.

My name is Jesse Reese, president of the Metavue Neighborhood Association. I served as a member on the 102 acres advisory committee.

I am here today to highlight the time, dedication and commitment that our committee has invested in this project.

I have a work alongside fellow community members to educate, encourage and include our neighbors in the decision making of this development.

Our committee has worked to ensure that the vision of the 102 acres reflect the need of South Sacramento.

We are participating in community meetings, conduct outreach and engage our care holders to bring people along in the process.

The opportunity to invest in South Sacramento future due community driven development.

The time and effort put into this process must be honored through intentional and community centered approach.

I ask that the council recognize the work of the city and community of the 102 acre voucher committee.

It also reflects the voices of those who have dedicated their time to this project.

I want to say last but least that I was fortunate enough to be involved with the project in the Delta Shoes area, which took over 40 years to get done.

I know this is going to take some time and I'm hopeful that I can see this transition.

And by saying that, we stand ready to continue work with you to bring this vision to life.

Again, thanks for your time.

Thank you for your comment.

John Friess Morellas, then Rhonda Henderson.

Mayor Steinberg convened an online council meeting on September 28, 2021 at 9 p.m. in the evening because 102 acres at Menowview were not listed in the comprehensive city plan.

The council voted to give the city manager sufficient authority to acquire real estate for purposes of citing homeless services.

These are Steinberg's own words.

Quote, we have an opportunity to purchase land that will assist us and significantly implement our comprehensive homeless citing plan.

The site is not currently on the citing plan.

The purpose and motive behind this meeting is to try to get more property to house or unshildered homeless population.

This is the Treasury document filed by the city saying $12.7 million from the American Rescue Plan Act was used for the comprehensive citing plan.

This document is online at the Treasury website.

This document does not say other purposes.

It only says a comprehensive citing plan.

It does not say other purposes whatsoever.

You can find this on the Treasury website.

Please don't deceive the federal government.

Federal funds for the homeless cannot be used for sports complexes or amphitheaters.

Don't steal homeless resources to subsidize shady deals and private commercial interest.

Stilling homeless resources is wrong.

Only 13% of the funds have been spent on homeless permanent housing.

Use a meadow of you homeless acres for homeless permanent housing.

Thank you.

If you're comments, Ron DeHenderson and Jeffrey Tardigia.

Good evening.

Mayor McCarty and City Council members.

I'm Ron DeHenderson.

I'm a member of the 102 Acres Advisory Committee and the founder of North Dakota Creek Valley High Community Association.

I'm here tonight representing the deep connection between this project and the people of South Sacramento.

Today I want to emphasize the extraordinary time on wavering dedication and profound commitment our committee has invested in the 102 Acres project.

We implore you to acknowledge the immense value of our work.

It cannot and must not be in vain.

We cannot afford to discard this substantial progress we've painstakingly achieved.

It's imperative that you recognize and align with the communities clearly articulated once and needs.

As a deeply involved member of this process, I've worked alongside my neighbors to educate, engage and ensure our voices are heard in every decision.

Our committee has diligently worked to ensure the vision for the 102 Acres project authentically reflects the needs of the people of South Sacramento.

This land represents a powerful opportunity for meaningful community investments that directly combat homelessness.

By developing affordable housing and businesses that create generational wealth and lasting employment, we can make a tangible difference.

We've actively participated in numerous community meetings conducted extensive outreach and engage our careholders to ensure broad community involvement, including seniors and youth throughout this process.

The 102 Acres project represents a transformative once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in South Sacramento's future through intentional community driven development.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Jeffrey Tartiguiia, then a lie of Lewis.

Sorry, but this is why I draw attention to the fact that public comment at the end of the agenda, you miss the things that are important.

This is a single item you have here today that was talking about something for the future.

And who of you that are new on the board recall what things that have been in the past and what things need to be achieved in the future.

Some of you know that I participated with homeless and seeing the resources and what hasn't happened.

I will talk further when we get to comments not on the agenda.

But that's today what I need to see you guys looking and seeing what public comment is made about.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Champs for Life has attended community meetings about this topic and city staff has shared that guiding principles have already been developed for this project at advocacy sessions held in the community.

As a youth leader and my community member, it is my desire that the city develops land for the original purpose.

It is a development that generates revenue such as a multi-use sports complex for our South Sacramento community.

South Sacramento cannot afford any further delays in development.

We need investment in housing, economic opportunities and public spaces, especially for the youth.

As a high school student and a citizen, we are taught to honor our word and the laws of the land.

I hope the city does the same by honoring the community's guiding principles.

I want to believe the council that represents us will move forward with the decision on the 120 acres that prioritizes South Sacramento residents.

Thank you again to the city staff and our community who has personally invested in this project.

I look forward to a transparent and sincere gesture of good faith by seeing action taken to advance the 102 acre project.

Thank you for your comments.

Any Williams?

Good evening, Mayor McCarty and council members.

My name is Daniel Williams. I'm the director of Chancellor and the founder, former software principal.

Thank you for coming to our community out.

I'm especially natural and I doubt for the Canadians to be able to hold you to.

I work in South Sacramento especially in the middle of the area, especially with Coral Gables and mental-based community housing.

We need your help between the mass shootings and everything happening.

We just need more of the city's help.

Everyone is responsible for that because we love Sacramento.

I hope you do. I love Sacramento.

The far too long development in South Sacramento has happened to us with vital and significant decisions remade without our input.

This project is an opportunity to interrupt that cycle and do things with transparency and integrity.

As to ensure that the community voices drive this development from the beginning stages to the final stage.

Last summer, most of you have heard these staff are president of multiple community events and so are we.

We were there at the farmers market.

We were there at the different activities where Councilman Ravane led those 11 plus youth listening sessions.

And our community partners were right there hoping that through the city website and other activities of the city staff.

This project would remain alive in our hearts and at the forefront of our expectations.

We all appreciate Councilman Ravane and her efforts along with the city staff and all the youth and people who are here tonight even supporting this.

I want to know Mayor McCarty and Council that feedback and data collected from community events and online engagement.

How's it going to be used? Is the valuable community input truly being fully utilized?

And then of course, to guide this development and is so how?

We just see more of North transparency. Hopefully we're hearing the questions and people want to know.

If it's true, right, then we want to make sure that we're being true to our word.

And closing, we thank you all for listening. Hope that we really do more because the community is counting on all of you.

Thank you for your comments. And next speaker is Andre Lewis and then so so new Bradley.

Good evening, everyone. Good evening, Mayor McCartney and members of the City Council.

My name is Andre Lewis and I'm a youth activist leader for Champs of Life, a nonprofit organization in District 8.

I'm also a student at Sac State and I'm here today to advocate for intentional investment in South Sacramento's future.

Growing up here, I've seen firsthand how a lack of investment affects real people. Kids have nowhere to go after school, families struggling with rising costs and small businesses that can't get the support they need.

Our community works hard but we need the city to work for us not against us. To create a real change, we need investment in youth programming, education and job creation.

And the great thing is that we have a lot of opportunities for life has already proven that when we invest in people, we see real results.

We also need the city to keep its promise and on measures in dollars for South Sacramento. The commitment was made and now it's time to follow through.

Lastly, we need South Sacramento's growth to be a priority. Strong families and educated youth lead to a stronger economy for all of Sacramento.

We will prioritize met-of-view in South Sacramento by ensuring the 102 development moves forward with the community's input.

Keep this project a priority and don't divert funds elsewhere.

South Sacramento deserves safe thriving neighborhoods just like every other part of our city.

This is about keeping promises we create it for our future where every young person in South Sacramento has a chance to succeed and grow.

We are counting on you to do the right thing. Thank you for your time and commitment in our community.

Thank you for your comments. Sonia Bradley and Betty Williams. Sonia and Betty Williams.

Good evening, Mayor and members of City Council. My name is Sonia Bradley. I'm the Chief DEI and Community Engagement Officer for Visit Sacramento.

And I have been serving on the, as a member of the 102 Acres Advisory Committee since its first meeting in November 2023.

Because of the hard work of City staff and along with multiple community meetings and more than a year of outreach by members of the committee, we listen and learn, we were educated and engaged, and we even walked and surveyed the site to ensure that the South Sacramento community was fully involved in the process.

While Visit Sacramento's interest is in the possible development of an asset or resource that benefits the city by becoming a tourism economic engine, hence the passage of measure in, we want what's best for the South Sacramento community.

Visit Sacramento supports a natural next step and the 102 Acres process to ensure that the ball is moving forward. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you for your comments. Betty Williams, then, Beale Morrill.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. My name is Betty Williams, and I am the President of the National African American Civil Rights Organization. However, more importantly, I am a resident of District 8.

I am here today to urge that the Council ensure that South Sacramento receives its fair share of resources and investment. For too long, South Sacramento has been left out of major public investments, while other parts of the city continue to see growth.

This pattern has deepened disparities in access to education, economic opportunities, and public infrastructure. Investment in South Sacramento should not be an afterthought.

Our neighbors need improvements on infrastructure, connectivity, affordable housing, and public services. Public projects and resources are often concentrated in downtown and north.

Leaving South Sacramento residents without equal access to services and spaces that improve quality of life.

102 Acres project is critical opportunity to reverse decades of neglect and bring lasting economic and social benefits to South Sacramento through intentional community and driven projects.

I urge you, Council, to prioritize South Sacramento in the future. And I thank you for your time, and I hope I see more intentional investments in South Sacramento's future.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Beale Morrill, then Nora Kalsar.

I wasn't sure that's my name.

Oh, B-A-O, is it B-A-O? Yes.

Okay, thank you. It's hard to read, sorry. No, no, no.

Good evening, Mayor McCarty, Council members, and esteemed city leaders. My name is Bo Moa, and I am the principal of Susan DeAnthony Elementary School.

I also serve as a member of the 102 Acres Advisory Committee. I'll working alongside community members to ensure this project is developed with transparency, equity, and purpose.

Before I begin, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to city staff, particularly Elizabeth and Alexi for their dedication and thorough research on the 102 Acres project.

The hard work has provided us with valuable insights and a foundation to move forward.

As both an educator and a community advocate, I see firsthand the impact that thoughtful development or the lack of it has on our families.

For too long, South Sacramento has had development decisions made for us rather than with us. This project is our opportunity to change that.

Over the past year, extensive community engagement has taken place. Residents have shared their priorities, affordable housing, economic opportunities, and public spaces that foster a sense of belonging and stability.

Council member Maiveing has led over 11 advocacy sessions to ensure that South Sacramento's voice is heard. Now we must ask, how will that input be reflected in the final decision?

Will this project be a true model of community-driven development or will it follow a familiar pattern worth?

Citizens, our residents are left out of the process. I urge the city council and staff to ensure that community member, a community input directly shapes this development.

Not as a checkbox, but as a guiding framework for decisions. Transparency remains a priority. Residents deserve clear communication on how their feedback is being implemented.

The project sets a precedent for equitable investment, ensuring that South Sacramento receives a thoughtful sustainable growth that deserves.

The decisions made here will have lasting impacts on generations to come. As a principal, I thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Nora Kessar, then Joanna Mack.

Good evening again, Nora Kessar putting on some extra hats. I'm here with the A.H. but I'm also here as co-president of the Sacramento Housing Alliance. And as a resident of the City of Sacramento, I urge the council to ensure that South Sacramento receives its fair share of resources in investment.

When we equitably distribute major public investments, we all benefit. I'm a housing, so I can give you a few housing examples. Prioritizing public investment in affordable homes to help prevent and end homelessness and keep families stable. House has a variety of community benefits. One is healthcare savings.

Second benefit is job creation. The National Association of Home Builders estimates that building 1,000 rental apartments results in over 1,250 jobs and over $56 million in taxes and revenue for local state and federal governments.

We also know from our pit count that our unhoused population in Sacramento is disproportionately people of color. The 102 acres project is a wonderful opportunity for some intentional community driven development and addressing these systemic barriers and issues.

We have an entire community behind you for this. Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments. Joanna Mack, then Salverio Lama.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Joanna Mack. I serve as a member of the 102 acres advisory committee. I'm here to highlight the time, dedication and commitment of the DA community and their partners.

Outside of the advisory committee, I've spent the past few years working alongside fellow community members to engage and also lift community voices when it comes to development in the DA community.

And one thing I've heard and we've heard tonight, a resounding voice from the community is designed with us and not at us. Design with us and not at us.

This development really has the opportunity to center around advocacy and empowerment to take community priorities and make them transform transformational impact.

And so what I've heard from the community in the last few years has been very consistent. They want to come, they want affordable housing, a variety of mixture of housing because when they succeed, they want to be able to move out of affordable housing.

They want green spaces, they want opportunities for economic empowerment like all of us in our own communities. And I would like to thank city staff, Elizabeth Boyd and Alexi for pursuing deep collaboration with the city and the community and as well as DA residents to really understand community values.

The coaching collaboration has been recognized and gained attention throughout large state organizations as best practices helping us win innovative innovation grant for the funding of the site for community led development.

And so I urge the committee here to walk forward with 102 acre ofvisor community as well as with the community first to continue this work. Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comments. So very long us then say to Ahmed.

Good evening, Mayor McCarty and council members. My name is Silvario Riso Yamas. I'm a resident of district eight and I serve as a member of the 102 acres advisory committee.

I also grew up less than one blog from the 102 acre site. I first learned of the 102 acres project, funny enough when I was sitting with my friends after having gone to El Grove to play basketball.

And we saw the SAP story saying that there might be a sports complex coming to South Sacramento. It has been here, it has been three years since that story was published and I'm here today to highlight the time dedication commitment that our committee has invested to this project and to view boys for the community that raised me.

The 102 acres advisory committee has hosted numerous community meetings and conducted extensive community outreach. The community has expressed to us their desire for open space for green spaces for recreational facilities housing that's affordable to them and their kids and for economic development.

While this one site cannot heal all of South Sacramento systemic disparities, it does represent exciting opportunity to invest in generations to come and to uplift the traditionally forgotten community.

I hope that during this period city leadership can use our committee as a resource to understand the needs and desires of the community at the heart of this project.

I want to thank the city staff for their continued work on this project and for developing guiding principles that put this the community at the center for this decision making process, which hopefully the city can adopt at a future time.

I also want to acknowledge our community who keeps showing up and I hope that the final decision reflects the voices of those who have dedicated their time to this project and who are most affected by it.

Thank you so much for consideration and we look forward to working collaboratively to bring this vision to life. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

I have lived in South Sacramento for almost my entire life. Growing up I have used public resources such as the Mediview Light Real Station, walked on its sidewalks, played in its parks and participated in a community programs that were held here.

Despite living here for 23 years my community is still incredibly underserved and I would like to urge the council to ensure that South Sacramento receives its fair share of resources and investment.

I have attended countless listening sessions in the past two years conducted by my local government office. I have personally witnessed the district-day office, city staff, Alexi Wardell and Elizabeth Boyd and my fellow community members working extremely hard on the ground to make sure that district 8 gets the fair share of resources it needs.

Our community dream is to see that 102 acres become an economic engine for South Sacramento rather than just an afterthought. In fact the residents of district 8 have engaged in countless hours of listening sessions and community discussions to help shape a development plan that would bring long overdue economic growth to our area.

We have actively participated in the planning process because we want to see development happen with us, not to us.

I also want to tell you that any responsible developments such as long-term housing should be centered around infrastructure, services and economic opportunities that serve both housed and unhoused residents alike.

It is important to note that council member Vang in the community have never turned our backs on the unhoused population. In fact district 8 has a homeless shelter, something some other districts do not provide.

For several years our district has done its part and will continue to advocate for real solutions to address homelessness. Prevention must be a priority and this starts by investing in Mediview, South Sacramento.

The 102 acres must be developed with community voices, intention and with a commitment to economic growth because South Sacramento deserves more than a temporary fix. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Mandy Tao, then Sandra Vang, then Sunshine Tao.

Good evening Mayor McCarty and City Council members. My name is Mandy Tao and I'm a youth from District 8 South Sacramento.

I firstly want to acknowledge the work of Elizabeth and my council member Vang for all their hard work.

On making this project a reality and most of all giving us hope. I am here on behalf of Moong Innovating Politics and my youth community to speak on the importance of investing in future generations via the 102 acre project.

As you may know, this investment in South Sacramento has left many young people including myself without the resources, opportunities and safe spaces they need to succeed.

We need real investment in youth development, education and recreation. I've spent my entire life in South Sacramento moving from house to house within the same Mediview neighborhood.

Despite this, I attended and am still attending a school in the Elk Grove Unified School District.

My parents decided to transfer me from a Sacramento City's unified school to one in Elk Grove seeking better opportunities for me due to the underdevelopment and lack of funding in South Sacramento schools.

This decision not only made my daily commute longer but it also kept me from truly connecting with an engaging in my own community.

The better opportunities they saw were improved educational pathways, sports and extracurricular programs that weren't available in my neighborhood.

For instance, being part of Elk Grove Unified allowed me to pursue my interest in health care through the Health Tech Academy and opportunity for which I'm incredibly grateful.

However, I believe that students from all parts of the city including South Sacramento should be able to have access to such opportunities as well.

And hindsight, I should have been able to thrive within my own community. Yeah, I found myself adapting elsewhere, feeling more like an outsider than someone truly at home.

I urge the Council to commit to prioritizing youth investment in South Sacramento ensuring that future generations have the tools they need to succeed and that this conversation doesn't disappear.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments. Sandra Wang.

Good evening.

Oh, sorry.

Good evening.

Council members and Mayor McCarty.

My name is Sandra Wang and I'm a young adult with Mongolian Indian politics.

I stand here tonight with in support of the 102 acre project.

First off, thank you Elizabeth Boyd.

Council member Mai Wang and other committee members for your efforts in advocating for the growth of South Sacramento.

As someone who lives on the border of South Sacramento and Elk Grove, it would be tremendous to have access to recreational space, green space, local businesses and affordable housing.

I used to live in District 1 and saw how impactful that the quality of the center was for children in the area and having walking accessibility to the Natalmas Townsend applause.

Having that fortunate experience, I hope quality investments like these can be brought to district 8 as well.

This is a long career project, but I hope that all of you can act now and take thoughtful considerations in building meaningful resources and opportunities for the Metaview neighborhood.

Thank you, Council members and Mayor McCarty for your support with the development of South Sacramento and listening to the committee members with our vision for this land.

Thank you for your comments.

Sunshine Tau, then Tavi Kiri.

Hi, good evening, Mayor McCartney and the city council members.

My name is Sunshine Tau and I'm a traditional young adult with Mongolian Indian politics in South Sacramento.

First, I'd like to give a shout out to Elizabeth and Council member Wang for making this important conversation possible.

I was born and raised in South Sacramento and I've seen first-hand the many challenges our community have faced challenges that sparked movement for a measure L and galvanized the passionate efforts of organizations supporting our calls for action.

I'm here today to advocate for my community and encourage you to believe in South Sacramento's potential and invest in our future.

For over a decade now, South Sacramento has been overlooked and underfunded despite its hardworking families, small businesses and averse population.

Without equitable investment, this party will deepen and pushing more families already one paycheck away from homelessness into crisis.

Prioritizing economic stability is now essential to the breaking cycle of disinvestment and more importantly the cycle of being unhoused.

These investments will provide greater opportunities for adolescents to travel safely from home to school and sharing their received education they deserve.

Within those 102 acres, there are wonderful schools that open their doors to countless students in need of learning and growth.

Students who require a safe space when home isn't a refuge, students who need guidance when they feel lost and students who become leaders of our future.

I urge the council to prioritize Sacramento or South Sacramento and move forward with the 102 development guided by the needs and the voices of this community.

This is not just about me, but it's also about the youth coming up after me and those who are fighting alongside me.

I witness my community fight with passion and I know that we deserve the funding that will help us thrive.

Please ensure that this project stays on track and secure the necessary funding to create the safe and thriving neighborhoods in South Sacramento.

We should not have to fight for the resources and the opportunities that every resident deserves.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Tavy Kuri, Lendao Wang.

Good evening, council. My name is Tavy Kuri.

I am a young adult here tonight with Meng Innovating Politics in support of moving forward with the plans for developing the 102 acre development.

According to the results of community engagement listening sessions, one common value the community members shared was the need and desire for connectivity.

People want to connect with their neighbors, their peers, their community, their loved ones.

And the plans for developing the 102 acre parcel as they stand will support this desire.

Recreational buildings can support and create a space for youth to spend time after school or families to spend time with their kids after work.

A grocery store, for example, could also help create new jobs, which is crucial in the stay-in age as jobs and employment become harder and harder to find for the working class.

And being able to work where one lives will allow people to connect with their community not only in new ways, but it will still allow them to stay close to their home, near their families and loved ones.

Let's move forward with the South Sacramento community in the forefront of our minds and let's uplift our community one step at a time.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comments.

Dau Vang, then Kali Tao.

Good evening, Mayor McCarty and City Council. My name is Dau and I am the field manager and mongling in the politics.

I currently reside in District 3, but while I may not be from South Sacramento, much of my work focuses on engaging young, monger Americans in this area, and encouraging them to be civically active in their communities.

Hence why you see some of them here today.

I must express my deep disappointment that the city wants to entertain the idea of moving forward with this project without first solidifying key principles based on community input.

The feedback is already there, gathered through community listening sessions and city staff presence at multiple local events.

To overlook these efforts is to disregard the hard work that the team at Council Member of my office, city staff and others here have invested over the past three years.

As part of my work, I have the opportunity to speak with this from franchise voters and I fear that this process continues without genuine community involvement.

It will only reinforce the feelings of disempowerment that many in South Sacramento already experience.

Time and again, the community has been excluded from important conversation and continuing this pattern will only deepen the divide.

So that all that we listen to the voices of those most affected by this decision is sharing that they are truly a part of the process.

I urge the Council to commit to a process where development happens with community and not to community. Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

How you tell?

Good evening. I want to put it on record that we need a stool for the shorties.

My name is Kaui and I am with long innovating politics.

I'm a member of the racial equity alliance who is eager to partner with our city on the implementation of our racial equity resolution past unanimously in December.

That's why I am proud to stand here with our youth leaders, with our long time residents in South Sack, with our advocates to show my strong support for the 102 acres project and process.

I urge you mayor to continue supporting this project and its direction.

Your action to support reflects that you value a community partnership and you value the accountability to community.

It's taken time to get us to this point so I do want to give a shout out and thank you to our city staff who have been diligent in putting in moving this process forward.

Thank you to councilmember myvings office who has chosen to include community in every step of the process.

Today our progress would not be possible without our community, without the labor of our community.

Since 2022 we've participated in listening sessions and meetings you got to hear from our advisory committee members.

This level of community partnership and accountability is something we should applaud.

And it's an example of what the city is doing well.

So let's keep at it. Let's stay the course and honor the voices of our community.

I think doing so would actually violate the trust and the empowerment that we have already been cultivating in our young people and in all of our community members in South Sack.

Therefore mayor and council, I hope that you will continue to support this project and will support the direction led by community.

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Larry Lee, then Ajani Rappier.

And quickly for the record if any folks want to lower down microphone these ones by the screen actually work as well.

Good evening my name is Larry Lee, a lifelong Sacramento resident and I wear many hats in our community tonight.

I'm here representing the Detroit Neighborhood Association which is adjacent to the 102 acre site.

Though I serve as a planning and design commissioner, I speak to nice so Lee as a community member.

And all my years in Sacramento, I've never felt compelled to speak at this point, at this podium until now.

I share this to underscore just how critical and impactful this project is for our city.

While this project may not have the glitz and glamour of major economic developments, I work on such as the Go-in-1 Center and now bringing major league baseball to our region.

I've seen firsthand how strategic investments can rapidly up left and transform neighborhoods.

Now we have another opportunity to build something just as transformative right here in Sacramento.

For too long this 102 acre site has stood as a symbol of what could be today we have the chance to turn it into a beacon of what will be a driving hub of economic activity, new jobs and much needed housing.

We've seen that happen in cities across the country, sports complexes, sparking economic booms, driving businesses to local restaurants, hotels and stores.

We can make that happen here and when we up left South Sacramento, we up left all of Sacramento.

But moments like this don't come off in opportunities like this don't happen without vision, courage and commitment.

The residents of South Sacramento have waited long enough. They spoke in, they've engaged, they've asked for investment in their future.

Now is the time to deliver, let's seize this moment, let's bring this vision to life.

Let's build a Sacramento that rises together. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Johnny Rapier, then Dr. DeCoe Porter.

Good afternoon mayor and city council members. My name is Johnny Rapier. I'm actually a student at Job Corps which is right by the job site.

So it's a lot of empty space going on over there. I just want to thank you guys for giving me your undivided attention while I speak and for being able to listen to the community.

For a while now South Sacramento has been underdeveloped for a little too long so it could use some more care.

And I'm hoping that with this project you guys will see through to it to give it the care deserves that the people want, that they've obviously tried very hard to obtain for themselves.

And they clearly want to work alongside you to make it a reality.

I hope you realize the importance that this project has on the community and that you see to it that it really does get done.

I just want to emphasize that it is very important that it gets done.

These people in the community have put their blood, you know, their sweat and their tears into working together to make it happen.

You know, we don't want to disappoint them. We don't want to see their hard work thrown away. We don't want to see their hope crushed.

But as I see you guys listening to me and paying attention, I really do see the hope of it happening.

And I appreciate that. Everyone else here does appreciate that too.

We weren't working alongside you guys. Let's just make it happen, okay.

I hope I appeal to your compassion, to your morality and your humanity.

And I thank you for your time. Have a great rest of your night, okay. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker is Dr. Tukoi Porter, then Maria Solario.

Well, good evening to you all, Mayor McCarthy and Council members.

And to everyone here, I'm Dr. Tukoi Porter and I'm the senior pastor of the Jensers Church of Sacramento.

We're right in the middle of the area, been there for nearly 35 years.

And I'm here today, not just as a pastor, but a voice for our community.

You've heard terms tonight, such as overlooked, underdeveloped, and afterthought, underserved, underfunded, disenfranchised.

And we can go on and on from a variety of our self-separamental residents.

But we have right this moment, an opportunity to change all that through the development of these 102 acres.

It's not just a real estate project. It's a chance to write the wrongs of decades of disinvestment.

It's an opportunity to really take into account what our people are saying to us.

Tonight, we just stand here to encourage you, to state a course, to listen to the people, to do what you all, I think, happy.

An option to do is ask to serve your community as well.

I want to thank my vang for leading this charge. I want to thank each of you for how you've been leading our city.

And I'll be trust that you will do what's right and it was best for the community of district eight.

I look forward to working with you in all of this. As we've done in the past, I never could do the same in the future.

Thanks again, God bless.

Thank you for your comments, Maria, then Ken Wilson.

Good afternoon, Mayor McCarty, council members. My name is Maria Solorio and I am a proud resident of self-separamental.

I stand in front of you today as the testimony of the part that self-separamental can bring.

I was born and raised in self-separamental, have attended the school since self-separamental, attended Sacramento State as you can see, I am proud to be from Sacramento and love Sacramento.

So with that being said, I really urge for this project to continue moving forward.

People from the community are here telling you what we want. The community is speaking to you.

We have elected you. Some of you were in really close races. Keep that in mind.

Just saying. And I also do want to say that being a part of self-separamental and seeing how underserved the community is has one of the reasons why I decided to have a career in politics.

And not just that, but loving self-separamental so much, I have decided to purchase a health and health self-separamental.

I know I am a proud resident of the middle of US States. And I would love to see my community continue to grow and develop.

And I really do urge you to move this item forward to consent and make it a voting matter because, like I said, the community has spoken.

Youth are involved. Youth don't usually get to have a voice in what they want in their community.

And this is something that's supposed to be for the future. And like I said, the youth are speaking. They tell you what they want.

Please listen to them. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. I have two more speakers. Ken Wilson and Louisa Navolo.

Good evening, councilmembers. My name is Ken Wilson and I'm a resident in district eight.

I'm here to speak on the importance of investing in the future of affordable housing and small businesses in the area.

I specifically want to urge you to keep in mind the unhoused community, youth and young adults and business owners that contribute every effort that they have to the city of Sacramento.

As a student and former student of Sacramento State University, I can assure you that affordable housing is not affordable.

And young emerging adults, as I've seen, my fellow students are displaced at one point or another.

In district eight, there are vocational students, students completing college, and folks eager to contribute to the economic development in South Sacramento.

But disinvestment in South Sacramento has left many young people without resources, opportunities, and safe spaces that we need to succeed.

Please consider the homeless and at risk youth and young adults who are oftentimes forced at a South Sacramento to access opportunities and seek a quality of life due to the lack of youth, recreational programs, employment opportunities, and safe community spaces and affordable housing.

Thank you for your time and I hope to see intentional action taking to support South Sacramento's young people and small businesses.

Again, I urge you to keep in mind the future generations that are in district eight South Sacramento. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Luis says our final speaker on this item.

Good evening Mr. Mayor and City Council. My name is Luis Alavolo and I am a board member of TOFA.

I'm also the chair member for TOFA's Ambassadors Youth. I'm also district eight's arts commissioner.

But above all of that, I'm standing here as a mother of five who raises my kids in district eight.

And over the past few years, we have been going to these listening sessions.

We have been going to these workshops. I've been taking my kids because I've been teaching them that the way that they are considered and the way that they're seen is that they have to show up.

The same way that they did not want to come tonight is the same way that they have to show up. They have to show up. We have to be here. They have to know where to go when it comes time to be considered.

This is where you come to come and talk to your mayor and your city council members to know that this is what we need.

We've been working very hard with city staff over the years and with council member May, they need to just give our voice.

And I would like to uplift the rest of the community. If you're in here and you live in district eight, please stand up.

If you are part of district eight and you've been part of that part of these planning sessions stand up.

Because it's important that we're seeing. We're not just here to fade away. We're here to be seen and just let you guys know that we love our community.

I want to raise my children in a safe space. I heard that it should be considered for a homeless space, which is great. We do have a homeless space that's on metal view.

But how many of you also want to raise your own kids next to a big homeless space? I understand that it has to be equitably distributed amongst every district.

We have one. Now consider our youth because my children, they'll continue live in this district and they'll continue being there. I need them to be safe too. Thank you very much.

Here's comments.

Okay. Thank you. I know that our councilmember. My vang has a presentation and some comments. I just I want to start briefly and put it over to councilmember vang and come back.

So I agenda is this tonight as an informational item in large part because it's a big issue for the city of Sacramento, 102 acres, 12, $12, 13 million dollars of public money.

And the reality is that six of the councilmembers and nine of us here weren't here. So this is a chance for us to understand the big picture, how we got here, what some of the options are, what's happened the past few years, kind of get up to speed.

With with the councilmember and the two that were here along with the councilmember before, 2022 elections. And so I want to allow councilmember vang to just to start us off and give her perspective and I'll come back and give some citywide perspective and some options.

And then I know other councilmembers have some ideas to councilor vang.

Thanks mayor, looking forward to hearing what your options are. Thank you so much for forgiving me the floor. First, I really just want to take this moment to thank city staff Elizabeth and Alexi really for your heartwork over the past several months working with our office, working with the community.

And we also want to give a shout out to economic development as well, Mike Jaso and his team. Planning, Greg, I see you as well. I want to say thank you to you and your staff and all of the residents, youth, young leaders, community advocates who came out today.

That's very important, especially for the new mayor and the two new council members. So when we first identified at the site, I know Elizabeth broke down the timeline of what you saw when council pivoted.

But when we first identified and secured this property in district 8, there was a commitment for me to ensure that this property long term would be an economic catalyst for South Sacramento.

So what does that mean? Because some folks have called me out economic catalysts generational wealth. What is that? That means community center development, affordable housing, civic amenities, and an economic engine that would build generation wealth for families in district 8.

And so that is the reality and that is the fact of the story. I also want to share very similar to the many residents that spoke today that growing up in Sacramento and South Sack in Medavue, I've seen entire neighborhoods endure generational poverty.

And there's still parts of the city in district 2 and district 3 and district 5 and district 6 that are still passed over by the city.

And so when we secure this site, when I identified the site literally online because I saw that it was on sale, I thought to myself, enter the mayor, enter the former city manager, you talk a big game about inclusive economic development.

Here's our opportunity to have it be public land and led by the community. This is supposed to be community led and it's always been. Every decision that I've made up to this point has never been my van's decision. It's always been the community's decision.

I've listened to the community. I've insured that South Sacramento voices has been part of the process. Last year, staff completed an opportunity to constrain analysis, which is what Elizabeth shared.

And six of us actually were on this council when council directed for us to go to the community to share this report and to bring this item back for next step.

Now this item was supposed to be an action item for us to adopt eight guiding principles to make sure we move forward on next phase.

But I also wanted to give grace and also defer and be a good team player to allow the mayor and the new council members to be caught up to speech so they understood kind of the timeline and the purpose of the 102 acres.

I want to share, I did do seven listening session. That was a lot of listening sessions we did because I was intentional about making sure a community was part of the process.

What did those community session, what did they until seven listening session, three key neighborhood meetings, three neighbors has surrounded the 102 acres.

I made sure that those neighbors were part of that process. We had one just dedicated to young people. We had one dedicated to our seniors because we know oftentimes they're not included in the process.

We had one specific listening session just for unhoused residents as well to hear the need and then one for our small minority own businesses.

And from that recreated a guide book, a community guide book with their hopes and dreams. Right. And from that guide book, the community told me you need to create 102 advisory committee that as you move forward with this process, it's so important that you have an advisory committee guiding you through this process.

And what did we do? We absolutely did that. You can go to our website, myvangsacromanel.org, backslash 102 acres, and you will see the timeline, the guide book, the online workshop, everything that we've done up to this point.

I also just want to share that there's also a seat for the mayor appointee as well. Chinoa Rose was the former appointee for the mayor. And I also want to make sure that the mayor is included in this process as well. Right.

Visasacromanel sits on that committee as well. So you heard earlier from Sonya Bradley, but the majority of the folks on 102 advisory are all residents in district eight.

I also just want to share that there's a conversation around, yes, this site was purchased under the comprehensive siding plan. Yes, this city is facing challenges with homelessness.

But the best way to prevent homelessness and the rising number of homeless folks is to invest in south sacraments to move upstream and to address poverty and homelessness.

You've heard from residents that the families in south sacraments need more affordable housing. We need more permanent supportive housing. We need civic amenities for our youth, our senior and an economic engine. And so many of our families right now, they're one paycheck away from being homeless.

So if we really want to make sure that we're efficient with their dollars, we need to invest in our families now.

I also just want to share that, you know, I've heard from not all, but some resident, some residents in east sacraments, why don't we just put 10,000 people on that property.

And I'll share with you why again, you can also look at my April comments as well. But I will share with those residents who wants to put 10,000 people on the property is that I'm opposed to this because this is redlining homelessness and concentrating poverty with that resources.

I'm already underserved burden community in Med of you and Detroit.

And I also just want to share that the legacy of redlining and poverty concentration isn't just an economic issue. It's a structural problem made by previous policy makers.

And it would be a devastating decision if this council so choose to choose that path and to replicate the history of redlining.

And to those who also oppose this community led project, if you truly care about public health and safety of the city, then you also would be fighting for the health and safety of our communities in South Sacramento.

When we uplift our most underserved communities, all of Sacramento can thrive.

I also just want to mention, because I heard a few folks talked about definitely weren't a deficit. How are we going to fund this? This is a long term project.

We know that city cannot do this alone. That's why it's going to be important to make sure we have public private partnership.

I appreciate seeing the Sacramento housing aligns here. I appreciate Nick seeing him. He was the first speaker talking about standing ready to support this community anyway that we can.

And so it will take public private partnership, but that needs to be guided by this community.

I just wanted to mention regarding TOT, the transit occupancy tax. I just want to acknowledge that the mayor has spoken to me that he is set to schedule a workshop on TOT in the near future.

Today's conversation is not about that, but I do want to remind this council and the public that the former mayor, Vista Sacramento and myself, led the effort to pass measure N in 2022, which would allow other access of TOT dollars to be used outside of downtown.

I just want to remind folks, even with investment in downtown during the pandemic, downtown suffered and also we, also all of the city.

And I just want to share that it's so important to diversify our various tourism sectors, various districts to ensure that the city is healthy.

I just want to speak to TOT as well, even though tonight's conversation is not about that, I know the mayor is going to be setting up a workshop.

I'm working with Vice Mayor Talamontis as well to figure out what a framework would look like for TOT because I think it's really important that this council has a framework to talk about how we're going to spend the TOT money.

Lastly, I just also want to share that I really hope that this mayor and council respects the work of city staff in our community.

Again, city staff went out to 10 community events and session. I held seven listening session a couple years ago, then four additional session.

We created the 102 advisory committee. Staff even created an online portal to get community feedback.

They were ready actually last month to come back here as an action item to vote on eight guiding principles, which I actually saw those guiding principles in the PowerPoint as well and to say let's move forward with this step.

Now, my colleagues may propose other options on the table. This is not an action item. We all have to agree on the direction.

But I would say that I would hope that this option comes back in terms of the guiding principles and next step.

And even with the next step, which is to figure out a finance strategy plan, it may include some of your options as well.

But I think it's really important. We got to make sure we center community. They have to be part of the process. Their voice has to be central.

And you've heard from so many community members that development is always happening to them, not with them, and we owe that to the community.

Lastly, folks always complain why community don't participate in surveys, why they don't come to town halls, why they don't come to listening sessions. It's because we pool things like this.

We listen to the community, we get their feedback, and we don't pursue making sure that we include them as part of the process.

And so I hope that my colleagues honor the work of this community. You've heard them tonight. And again, like I shared, this project isn't going to happen overnight.

It's going to take many years. But as I've shared mayors and councils come and go. But the people that sustain this work is the community members.

And I'm going to be proud of the community. I'm going to be proud of the community members who have been here for over 40, 50 years.

Who have seen from the beginning of Delta shores and now we're just beginning to build out that area. I may not be here when the 102 acres break ground.

But at least I'm going to be proud that I fought alongside community to make sure that we lay the foundation to create a catalyst for every child and resident in South Sacramento.

And those are my comments, Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor. First, I just want to appreciate and recognize the passion of representation from councilmember Vang.

I think that's a truly exemplary. And then second, I obviously can't go without also recognizing how much sex, state representation there was here tonight.

So, you know, from the former president of the Alumni Association, it's good to see.

First, you know, one, I remember going to some of the early listening sessions. And I think it was, I think we were at Pastor Porter's congregation over there at Genesis Church, you know.

And it was probably the most diverse, organic, debating amongst neighbors in each other.

It was wonderful to watch. Wonderful to participate as well. And here, you know, the commitment of opportunity and the commitment to finding something different.

What to do with something that the federal government had essentially, I would say abandoned in the South Sac area.

And so I think that, that I think is the fundamental piece here is what is moving forward. It must be with working with the community.

Now, I also recall, I'm glad you brought up the last year's presentation. The challenges with that property are significant, you know.

And partly why it's been vacant for a long time. And I think the three concepts or four, I guess you could say concepts.

You know, the cheapest, I think, was at 33 million. And then the most expensive was a cost of 170, 127 million.

Just depending on what was going to happen. So that, that I think can't be ignored either. Just what can, what can occur?

Can I add to that real quick and share with you? So I just want to share with you that when staff to that analysis, that was the assumption that only city would take it on.

It didn't include the assumption that we would have public private partnership. So just wanted to share that because there was ever no intent to make sure that city would take it on.

Thank you, Councillor. We're going to appreciate it. You must have been reading my thoughts because I was going to say I want to thank you for recognizing the need for a public private partnership.

And I heard at the beginning here today, our first speaker saying that they do see an opportunity for a public private partnership.

And with some expertise in mixed income housing, affordable, middle, missing middle housing, and others. And I heard today, again, so eloquently from some sex to students, was that there needs to be opportunity for growth.

And wherever they want to be at their market level on housing, or if they need to be insubsidized housing.

So I think, you know, I think today brought out some interesting options. I also want to point out that, you know, even though the staff brought out four concepts last year in costs.

I mean, those were four initial concepts. I mean, I'm assuming now that we have more partners involved, there may be an entirely new concept that is outside of this that could provide a different perspective.

Because this was a city and staff driven. But what I did appreciate, I think about what the, that was brought up by Mr. Adavis, as you mentioned, is that he led with achieving the community goals.

And I do think that that should be kind of our next step is exploring what a three p. or public private partnership would look like with the fundamental focus of achieving the community goal.

And recognizing our, one of our number one challenges that we face in California, which is housing affordability.

And if we are ever to really address the challenges of people facing homelessness, people being able to have upward mobility because housing costs are consuming the majority of communities income, then we need to be able to figure out how we tackle that housing affordability.

So I do want to say again, you know, I thank the passion, but and if there's any direction or staff is to look at exploring what a three p. would look like that's fundamentally focused on the community, but that addresses those multiple tiers of housing.

I know that in the projects we've worked on stock and Boulevard, that ones that do have a mixed income housing, it blends communities together. It gives opportunities for a lot of folks in different communities to learn from each other.

So with that, you know, I know this is this is this is not new to me, but I think one thing as we find out is we have new new folks who are interested in participating with those who've been there from the beginning.

And finally, just to thank those like, you know, Jesse Reese and Juanita and others who have been there from the beginning in support of this project. So thank you, Mr. Mayor.

And thank you, Councilmember Bang. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem, Councilmember Jennings.

Thank you, Mayor. I want to thank all of you who came out tonight. I have seven pages of notes, which means if I took seven pages of notes, I may have been looking down when I was writing the notes.

But I want to make sure you know I heard everything you said. And I know sometimes it looks like we may not be listening, but we hear everything that you say and I just wanted to let you know we heard that tonight.

And that we want to honor the work that you've put into this project.

Whether we heard you through the listening sessions, or whether we heard you tonight, we hear your voice and your voice has value.

And then I just want to kind of acknowledge my colleague, my van, who talks about a lot of people's heart and hustle.

It's kind of her thing. But I want to not only acknowledge her heart and hustle, I want to acknowledge her vision and her passion and her strategic thinking.

She is a champion change agent. And she's trying to make a change in her district that we all in this room feel is one that we need to make.

And so I just want to kind of acknowledge her at this point in time because she's put a lot of work into this and you heard that when she talked earlier, I heard her passion and I heard her commitment to doing something great for her district.

I support a project like this in self-sacriminal, especially in Medoview. I worked in Medoview for 15 years and had the opportunity to see firsthand what can happen when you affect change in the area.

I've watched churches go up in Medoview and people start attending those churches and changing their lives around because of the change agent.

I've watched the Bonnie and San Peno go up and all the impact that has had by going up in self-sacriminal.

And other things as well. I mean, I could go on and on and on. But, you know, I believe in this project. I want to see this happen.

And so I have you have my support to do everything we can to work together to make it happen.

So I just want to acknowledge those two, each one of you and also your champion for doing a great job on this project thus far. And she ain't going to quit.

I can guarantee you on that. She's she's on a mission. And she's going to do everything she can to make that happen. And I'm here to support her and I know others of us will do the same.

Vice Mayor Tallah Montez.

Thank you so much, Mayor. And I agree. Council Member Vain has done a lot of work on this. So for me, I think it's important to honor the guiding principles of the community with this project.

While working with the private sector, just because the city of Sacramento can't do it alone. And we are in a budget deficit. And it is a long journey. It's like two to ten years from now.

And like Council Member Vain said, like she's laying the groundwork and the foundation for it. But it is so many years in the making. And that's important to also recognize.

And what that being saying, being many years in the making, I've also heard from people doing public comment that people want to done as soon as possible.

So then also for city staff, what is the best avenue for us as a city to be able to develop these parcels quickly? Because that's what we've heard from both, like from people that came to public comment.

I do have a question for the people, the map of the wetlands and the actual acre.

Are these, um, so are the seasonal wetlands protected? Are that can you can you develop on them or what's what?

So there are certain rules that if you impact the wetlands, then there are certain mitigation requirements. So they can be impacted.

What we've been doing over the last two years is studying if there's certain, the certain special status species in them. And as of now, we don't have the final information.

What you see is if we don't find those special status species, the area that we would be counted as impact would be less than from 250 to 50 feet.

So there's a big difference in what we find in the final report.

So, um, and maybe I missed this, but do you have a report of how much of this land we can use then?

So we can housing.

We can use all of the land. It's just a matter of cost to mitigate. So we can build on all of this, but we would just need to go through the environmental permitting process in order to get the what's called a take permit to, you know, to affect this or, you know, also some water permits.

Depending on, you know, what jurisdiction it's under a federal or state.

We can use it. It's just a matter of what the cost will be. And when we did the opportunities constraints analysis, the cost ranged from about 8 million to 13 million to mitigate for this.

And so we don't know exactly where that will land just yet.

Okay.

And do we know if the value of the land is still 12.2 million dollars?

We would have to have a, a, an appraisal done at this time. I don't know the market.

Okay. Yeah, just because I'm wondering, because I know when we initially bought the land, you know, it was going to be used for homelessness.

And that's what the intent was. And now, you know, talking to the community, you're trying to, we're trying to figure out to do a sports complex, to do affordable housing, to do maybe some market rate housing.

And just an economic engine. And there's just a lot of opportunities on the table. So then it's like, how do we sell chunks of land so that we can get some money back to be able to do some homelessness housing.

Whether it's tiny homes and be able to get back some of the money that we put into it. And so that's why I was wondering in terms of the assessor and how much money.

Yeah. One of the things that we did look at in our concepts is having an interim homelessness use.

And one of the reasons, when it was taken off the table because of the policy change in October of 2022, they even before that in order to make this available, there need to be some leveling of the ground.

And some sort of access by roadways. So what we looked at is, you know, there needs to be a time where everything has been made ready for those temporary homeless uses.

I guess that's not my.

But if we spent $12.2 million on this lot of land and then we want to do homeless housing, but that's many years down the road, but we need the money now to be able to address homelessness.

How do we like section off and like sell chunks of the land to be able to get some of our money back so we can use that to build tiny homes elsewhere.

What we can do it tomorrow. I guess that's kind of.

I can not sure if our assistant city manager Mike Jasso might be able to adjust that.

Good evening, Michael Jasso, assistant city manager as well as the director of the Office of Innovation Economic Development.

I'm going to apologize in advance. I have a cough, which keeps interrupting and unexpectedly.

With respect to your initial question of valuation, and is it still worth $12.3 million?

I want to be clear in that $12.3 million is what we paid because it was an auction.

An auction is an artificial marketplace because people are bidding based on lots of things that may be rational and irrational on it.

We don't have an appraisal of it. We are currently undertaking an evaluation of the property for value both as is, which is important.

IE, if we were to just sell it tomorrow or put it on the marketplace tomorrow, what do we think the appraisal value would be versus a property that's been a certain amount of entitlement work done, particularly making sure it aligns with the general plan, etc.

We expect to have that work presented to us in an oral fashion within the next six to eight weeks. We'll have a better sense of what that is.

As to selling it off in part, that's a little bit of a harder question because the appraisal is evaluating as a whole.

Typically, if you sell it off in part, you're not necessarily receiving the same value you might have even on a proratobasis as you might have the entirety of the parcel.

So we would have to assess it at that point.

Yeah, I guess for me, I'm just trying to think of how we can move quickly on this project while adhering to the guiding principles that the community made, but also being able to address homelessness now with some of the monies that we did use for the project to build them before.

Thank you.

Thank you. Councillor Dickinson.

Thanks, Mayor. I have a question and a comment so Mike don't go too far.

I want to follow on from Vice Mayor Teller Montez's question.

We've heard the representation tonight that the ARPA funds used to purchase the property were intended for application to reducing homelessness.

Can you comment on that for us?

Sure. So the specific line item of the framework that was adopted by council refers to that line item as homelessness and housing.

Now, clearly in the housing, it was referential to permanent housing moving from shelter versus housing for homelessness.

So that was the intent and I think what was observed was initially the city thought there might be opportunities to do interim short term addressing of homelessness.

Also, even potentially long term addressing of homelessness, keep in mind that it's 102 acres site to give you a sense of context.

102 acres site can accommodate many things including potentially addressing homelessness as well as permanent housing.

Give you a sense of context.

Haven for hope in San Antonio is about 22 acres and is considered one of the foremost approaches to addressing homelessness.

So in theory, you could accommodate multiple kinds of uses both short term and long term.

What we found though was that the environmental, just the general conditions of the property, which we just generally did not know prior, at least certainly in complete form prior to the bidding, kind of precluded the short term, kind of immediate addressing of homelessness on the site given the cost to try to remediate to get to that level.

I think one of the nagging concerns that I've heard expressed is that that money was then a lost opportunity to apply to something more immediate in terms of addressing homelessness elsewhere, if not on the acreage.

But I appreciate the context that you give and thanks very much.

But in terms of a comment, first of all, I wanted to applaud the community for the work you've done and for the leadership that Councilmember Van has provided in that effort, her dedication, her commitment, her passion are obvious.

I think that's really respected, I think, by all of us. I have to say that I empathize enormously with those of you who've spoken from the community about honoring a community driven plan and result for this property.

I think we all try to foster and I certainly have over the time I've been fortunate enough to serve in public office at various levels.

At the same time, I want to be candid with all of you as well and say that in the part of the city that I represent which features many of the same deficits, history and challenge as you all have articulated tonight, there was an expectation not created by you, but created by others that with the acquisition of this site, there would be homeless assistance provided on a immediate basis.

That would in some fashion balance the establishment of a rather large homeless assistance, tiny home community in district two.

When that didn't happen, there was a significant amount of, let's you say, displeasure that that had occurred, but we're all one city.

And what strikes me this evening in particular is that too often in one part of the city we don't really think about other parts of the city.

So it is incumbent on us, not just those of us who have the good fortune to serve and elected or appointed office, but it's incumbent on all of us as citizens to remember that larger context in which we find ourselves.

And that means that we have to honor respect and we have to foster equity and the righteous approach in all parts of our city.

But have been favored in some respects. Have to remember that when there are challenges for the issues, they cannot be delegated or assigned to certain parts of the city to absorb.

It's the entire city that has to be part of the solution. And so with respect to this particular property, I hope we will continue.

I do like the idea of pursuing the public private partnership because I think there are substantial challenges for the city on its own to realize the ideas and dreams that many of you have expressed this evening.

But I also hope that in a larger sense we will use the conversation that we're having tonight to remember that with those things that people don't necessarily prefer to have where or near where they live, that if we're all not part of the solution, if we're all not part of the solution, we're part of the problem.

So I appreciate having this before us tonight. I look forward to working constructively on it. But I hope we take a larger lesson away tonight or a larger direction away tonight than just relegated to this or designated to this 102 acres. Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you. Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you. And I want to echo that I agree with my colleague councilmember Dickerson. I get the pleasure of we're on the opposite sides.

Councilmember Wang and many of us know that we also see things policy wise, very different. But you have to know that Rogers, right?

We all have to want what is in the best interest of the city of Sacramento. It's not just about my district. It's about our city. It's about all of us together.

Because investment in our community, I get the honor of being in North Natomas, which was master plan.

It the city got the opportunity to look at where did it fail? What did it do wrong? Where was there not equity? Where did we disinvest the wrong way?

And they plan North Natomas to do away with the mistakes that were made in other areas of Sacramento. And I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that that I live in an area that is writing the wrongs that were done in other areas of Sacramento hundred years ago.

And I think that I don't get a clean slate to redo everything. So this has come before us as a council and six of us have seen it.

And it's important that we keep our word. It's important for me that I keep my word. And it's important that we take thoughtful action with the community.

And I get the pleasure of having a regional park and open space land to be thoughtful about. And I will tell you, girl, you're a little crazy, but I support you crazy because you went above and beyond and going to your community and asking them, dream, come with me.

I don't know how to make this a reality, but you asked your community to dream. And in Sacramento, we don't get the opportunity to make a dream a reality unless we dream in the first place.

And so I think it is smart because we know facing a budget deficit that you have to look at thoughtful planning and implementation.

This is going to be developed in some way, shape, or form. It's going to be a public private partnership. There is no other way to make that happen.

But I also know in thoughtful, slow processes. I'm going to pivot for a second. Assistant City Manager, Jass, so I have a couple questions.

This is now a city of Sacramento publicly owned land. If we were to look at selling a portion of the land, what is the process that the city would have to go through?

So Rich Sanders probably could speak in a little bit greater detail, but generally we would need to first surplus it is my understanding.

And how long does that take?

That I'm not certain. Basically would require a council action on turning me.

Do you want to do on a.

Perfect, Rich.

Hi, Rich.

Good evening, Marin members of the city council. I'm Richard Sanders, your facilities and real property superintendent with the Department of Public Works.

There is a process for the city to surplus city on land. We are subject to the surplus land act. It would take a council resolution to declare the parcel surplus or portions of it surplus.

We would issue a notice availability to affordable housing developers, which is a letter that goes out to approximately 500 plus interested parties.

Letting them know that this portion of the land is available for.

For you to submit a proposal, which would include a minimum of 25% affordable housing.

That 60 day notice goes out. We receive responses and then we can negotiate with those interested parties.

If however, we do not receive any responses, we can sell the property at a lower threshold, which require a minimum of 15% affordable housing at that point.

The process, as I said, takes a city council resolution, a 60 day notice of availability, a minimum of 90 days negotiation with any interested parties, and then proceeding with purchase and sale agreements and finalizing the transaction.

So I'll told you're looking at six to nine months minimum to be able to do that to actually sell a portion of the city property.

Thank you, because I think it's important that we know that because as we're talking about, we do have a budget deficit.

If this council wants to even consider that, this would not be something we can do in time to even have money in hand that would address our budget deficit.

Does the value change if we do entitlements and kind of rezone?

Possibly. The zoning right now is for residential. The general plan, I believe, is for recreational.

Correct. So we would have to align those two, so probably an amendment to the general plan to be able to match it with the residential zoning.

Thank you. I appreciate you answering these questions.

I think I'm good.

Thank you.

I will just make a side comment because questions were brought up about wetlands.

Natomas is a fine example of development on wetlands. That is what the Natomas habitat base and conservancy was set up for and with development coming in.

Landowners, developers who purchase it are also required to set aside land quote unquote to mitigate elsewhere.

So the city has full knowledge and we have extremely capable city staff and planning staff and development staff who know what it takes to develop in wetlands.

So I will tell you that is not something that fully concerns me because I know we would have to mitigate it and I am very supportive of that mitigation which would allow a concentration of wetlands in a certain area which actually is more beneficial to a species.

Instead of a hodgepodge around. So Natomas if you want to see how it's done, look at what we've done with the Natomas habitat base and conservancy.

So that gets me back to thoughtful action with the community in partnership with the community.

I want us to take our time because there won't be a time again that 102 acres are available for a disadvantaged community for building housing that can address our unhoused crisis at the same time.

In development nothing happens quickly. There have been projects that have been 20 years in the pipeline that are just coming to fruition now and a quick development is three to five years of anything happening.

When we talk about our unhoused. I think it's important to also know haven for hope is privately run.

And I think we as a city need to have that extra conversation when we're looking at our unhoused. Is this in the best interest for the city of Sacramento to be running something when we the federal funding state funding is going away.

And that is not part of our charter in our core functions. We have to do our part and it's maybe doing a lease or making land available for one dollar for somebody to come in that can do and provide housing in this area which I know my vang and the community have talked about because it is about housing of how we get people off the streets.

But I don't think it is wise for the city to continue investing in that city run process. I think we have to take a step back and say if we're really talking about what's amazing with haven for hope that is privately run.

That is not run by government. And that's how you make a difference if you have to look at something that is currently successful.

Public private partnership. This land is right next to a school. Has conversations with the city of Sacramento or Sacramento City school district happened about employment and low income housing for their employees for their custodians for their health days for the front desk secretaries.

This is what I believe in investment for the community by the community for the community. And I want to make sure that we come back and we talk about the principles for planning.

That council member vang talked about because we should adopt that as a council because otherwise we can keep having this conversation and depending on who gets elected we constantly change it or the direction changes.

So I think it is up to us to fully commit what is it we believe and what direction do we want to go so I would like to see an action item on this come forward.

And I would like us to be thoughtful because the community showed up and asked for us to listen as elected even though I'm in the northern part of the city.

I'm also responsible for all of us to listen. So I'm listening to you and I'm supporting the direction of council member my day.

Thank you.

I will be very brief just because I about a year ago today we had a very similar discussion and I had detailed comments then.

And so I align myself my position hasn't changed since last year. But I do want to I do have one or two questions mostly around timeline and process.

So we had a discussion about a year ago April 9th of last year where members of this body you know sans the new members who were not here discussed what their priorities were we heard from the community many of which are in the room here thank you for being here again and sharing and spending your time on a Tuesday night.

So obviously this is not an action item what happens after today what continue is there a process that continues on given that assuming that no direction changes from the council whoever's best answer that.

Well I think that's part of the kind of input that we would receive we were heading down a path of bringing the guiding principles that reflected community input as well as ultimately that process would lead to the solicitation of a master developer or multiple developers for a project that would be a public private partnership that would envision kind of and and can't maintain those elements that the planning process kind of brought forward.

So that would be the process you know kind of that we were on the path to go on and staff was preparing for based on the direction that was given last year.

Okay so just so understand in the last year from April 9th of last year until now when you've received you know direction and comments from from this council.

What's been done in that time can anyone tell me yeah sure so we did extensive community information and.

Education that was actually the main part of it just to make sure because it is a complicated process I think you pointed out these things take time and so I think one of the things is just to make sure that there is a very firm understanding of the development process and all the steps that need to happen in order for things to move forward we've also negotiated with Delta shores for having a.

A new roadway connection which was voted in the new development agreement in September and then we've been doing the surveys of the site in terms of wetlands.

Yeah assembling all the information that we received last year at council one of the we presented a next steps and you know to go out to the community and then come back with some sort of framework that would guide us towards the next steps and at the time it was like vision and goals and we didn't know what it would look like but as we were hearing from the community and talking to the advisory committee and you know just hearing from various folks and even just last year just realizing that we needed to put something together that we needed to do.

So I think that was something together that was a framework of here's what we're hearing and here's what we feel like we help guide staff and council in the next step so we assembled those you know drafted them share them with council member Vang and then yeah just looking for you know direction on the next steps but I think the next next logical step would just to come back with those you know are we all in agreement over these guiding principles and then there's additional next step.

So I think that's really helpful and I heard it being said and you said as well so those guiding principles that will come back are also the same ones that have been developed as community they're not separate okay that's really helpful.

I think that first and foremost just knowing the amount of work that's gone on from community members and the advisory committee and council member Vang's office our staff like I think it would be you know a huge miscarriage if we didn't align those entirely what we're talking about and deciding on is what is coming forth from the community.

Because a lot of work that has been done and I think we have an opportunity here to start to rebuild trust in places of the city where the trust has been broken and including part of South Sacramento parts areas of my district and beyond and I think that this is a great opportunity for us to do that to show that we can walk in alignment with the things that we say up here and and forward into the community so I really support that I would love to see an action item come back sooner rather than later I hear that it takes time and I see you know what I'm saying.

I see you know obviously all throughout the city and in my district sometimes things take years and decades and but I think it's also our responsibility to push right and to make sure that things can move faster and that they can happen as I think also being has done many times at the speed of trust but also that they happen anyway that can you know we can see it in our lifetime so you can see something happen that's tangible for the community and so I'd love to have an opportunity to talk about that in an actual item and I just want to highway a couple of things that I heard.

One is we talked a lot about under resource or under invested I really like thinking about things in terms of that because it puts the on us on the on what the real problem is which is the system right it's not that there's anything different or wrong in certain areas of the city or these communities it's that over many many years there hasn't been an investment by those who are in positions of power into these communities and so we see disparities continue to exist and so I think that that's what I'm going to say.

One thing that we can be really thoughtful about how to undo or to start to undo through some of these strategic investments economically the other thing that I heard is something along the lines of housing is homelessness prevention so we don't have to think so statically about you know whether or not it's you know safe camping safe parking this or that we say all the time on this dius that that one of the best ways that we can invest our money to address homelessness is on the

on prevention that means housing that means affordable housing and so one of the many things that we do on this property is housing then we are actually investing in that goal it may not be in the exact same way that it was said in 2022 or whatever or 2021 whatever date that was but that's because we've gotten a lot of other information that has helped us

to formulate our opinions and change our minds based on the reality of the situation on the ground and so I think a lot of that is shown in the very detailed analysis that the staff has put together which I'm really grateful for.

So I just wanted to call out those two things and really just especially want to thank councilmember my bank for her advocacy and her passion and I think that's shown through tonight and just appreciate the community for showing up so thank you.

Thank you. Back to you councilmember bank for my final comments.

I just wanted to wait to hear your direction because I had I've been typing everyone's direction down with so that hopefully there's a consensus on direction so wanted to hear from you first I've been typing everyone's direction down.

Go first. Okay so do you have a direction.

Go ahead.

Okay so this direction might change depending on what you say too but I think it's really important that we honor the work of city staff in our community given just the years and months of collective input.

I like us to honor our communities work by providing direction to city staff to bring back to bring this item back.

Let me just clarify I was I thought you wanted to pine more on some of the I.E.s.

I heard but on on direction yes this is that's this is a receiving file this is not a direction.

It is it is a receiving file but we have we can provide staff direction that is my understanding right legal like it is not an action item so we're not voting on anything but we still need to provide staff direction on next step so

for example councilmember maple just says she would like to see this come back as an action item so that we can vote on the guiding principles I was going to add that to the direction as well and so

so that's that's my understanding is that we can provide direction we're not it's not an action item but we can provide direction for staff so they are clear about next step so they're not like so what did council say I think it's important for us to be clear about next step so that's why I was waiting for your comments because I wasn't sure what your options were and so I'm typing everyone's.

Any council item any night you can provide direction to anybody you wish out here but on this item it's a receiving file and so we could come back we're going to the city assistant city manager said they're doing some analysis and some options as far as land I'm going to share some of that in a second as well but there's there's no direction from the council

tonight this is solely a receiving file. Okay well my understanding is that it's just to be a can I last legal then because I want I want to make sure that we all have the same information because my understanding is that even though it's not an action item council can still provide direction just like you said any time and given the 102 is in front of us I think it's important for us to provide direction that we I want to see this item come back as an action item at least the guiding principles that staff has created informed by community at that that's really important because if we're going to move forward on next steps

we got to make sure we have that framework that's guided by community and a lot of work was put into that so I know legal has a

question on that yeah so with receiving file revealing common items staff is taking copious notes and listening to everything you say you're kind of giving direction the whole time so what I hear from you saying is you're trying to summarize kind of get a consensus because staff doesn't have a vote to go off of so that's fair in your discussion staff is listening.

Yeah so we're saying the same thing councilman Vang the staff has heard direction from eight people so far I'm going to speak in a second they've taken great notes they'll go back and watch the video I'm sure if you'd like you could you could recap what you think you heard from all of us individually but there is no vote or direction tonight there's an action item that's a receive and file that's tonight's action but there is no vote.

So directing staff to do anything else at this point in time.

Yeah I think then maybe we have different interpretation because you just said a moment ago that we can direct staff at any time on council so.

No you as an individual can can give your opinion on any item any given Tuesday.

Well I hope that we can collectively agree on a council direction I think that's really important so staff is clear with direction but I'll just leave it there because I'd love to hear what your options are.

Yeah there we go so this is a this is a big deal and we we don't have much land left in the city of Sacramento you look at a map of vacant land.

This is one of the big swaths that's undeveloped so it's not just a piece of undeveloped land on a map this is a future of a direction of the city of Sacramento there's there's big stakes here so.

We got to get it right and I'm focused on a win-win not just for you councilman vang but for the community and for the next generation this is going to be.

20 30 years down the road as far as what we do here and focusing on the entire city but I think three things must be clear we need to be fair and honest with the taxpayers.

I'll get to that and we also need to address you address the issue number one homelessness I've had 40 30 40 listening tours around the city one in your district.

Everybody talked about homelessness that night only one person talked about 102 acres and that was somebody the part of the team of yours the homelessness issue is a number one issue that the community wants us to address.

And then number three I don't disagree this is as Roger Dickinson alluded to there are certain neighborhoods that have been historically.

Under looked under invested in ignored in the city of Sacramento.

Meadow views one North Sacramento.

Oak Park.

Sure, Crenie would say Northgate garden land there are a few areas that have not got our full attention so I think that we need to keep that lens on these three things so there's I think there's some clarity on what happened this is what I thought it was important there's only three of you there right here when you directed.

The city manager to implement the siding plan.

You had a pot of money for siding land and developing homeless programs crystal clear it wasn't economic development fund for.

Opportunity was focusing on homelessness and in 2021.

And the city purchased for roughly over $12 million this land with our money it's document the federal document document.

Council meetings and notes as we heard from tonight it was crystal clear that we're going to use this to address our homelessness crisis in Sacramento.

The with the notion that one day when the homelessness crisis is over hopefully.

We could use a land to build more housing.

The potentially parks in this area because it is after all 102 acres it's hard to come by.

And I will admit there was a lot of people in the city of Sacramento that put their hopes and dreams that this is going to be this is the panacea.

This is going to be our haven for hope.

And Councilmember Plucky bomb and I flew there over the summer to go spend a day looking at it.

And it's very different.

It's apples and oranges.

It's in the heart of the city.

They have private money as as as councilmember Kaplan said but really it's it's county and city putting all their money in one program.

All the nonprofits programs are in one area.

It's in the heart of the city.

This isn't an area that's analogous to South Sacramento with no access at the edge of the city.

So there was this notion that this is going to be the the savior for all of our 5,000 plus homeless in the city of Sacramento.

I don't think that's fair for a lot of reasons.

One, it wouldn't work in that area.

And number two, it's not fair for the rest of the city as you said, Councilmember Dickinson, because we're all in this together.

We have to make sure that we address these on multiple sites throughout the city.

But that being said, we did use public money to purchase this land to address homelessness.

And so I think three years later, it's come the conclusion that it's not viable as staff said.

It is viable, but we'd have to spend tens and millions of dollars which we don't have to have homeless programs there.

So if you ask most residents who aren't following like all of us here today, like, hey, this is what's going on the city of Sacramento.

We bought this land for homelessness programs.

They'd probably say, well, you should do one or two things.

You should put homelessness programs there like you voted on and told the public or sell it, give us our money back.

And use that money to address homelessness programs elsewhere because we have a big, big problem to address.

It's not going away.

Talk about it every night here at City Council.

So that's one scenario.

And I also 100% respect and acknowledge the work that you, Councilman Ravang in the community has talked about.

It's like, hey, this is an opportunity to focus on us.

We're at the south part of the city.

Rocks step on a throw away from Elk Grove or barely, you don't hear us down here.

Don't forget about us.

So we went around and asked them their opinions and I understand that.

That we have a community principal outline that I would want to fight was your constituent down there.

Like, amen.

I want these things in my community.

So these things, I don't think they're mutually exclusive.

And I know we heard earlier that this is bait and switch.

That you're buying this with public money and you're doing something else then.

And then the flip side is like, no, we want to make sure that we focus on the future down here.

So I don't think these things are mutually exclusive.

I think that's why I heard, if I can summarize and give commentary, I heard that from multiple people, including you, that these things are not mutually exclusive, that it can be a win-win.

We can address the issues that we focused on, tackling homelessness.

I really wanted to follow up with what Councillor McGarrett talked about.

The very first speaker talked about the public-private partnership idea and reiterated, I quote, the city is not a developer.

We're not a developer.

We entitled land, we set principles, but we're in a good position here.

Because usually when developers come to us, they ask us for permission to build something on land.

Here, potential developers are going to ask us permission what's a business land and we actually own the land too.

And even more opportunity to incorporate, we'll use spent two years talking to your residents as far as what we could have there.

So look, this takes a long time.

I'm flashing back 15 years ago and remember Bonnie Paneu had a dream in your seat that met of you would have economic development or regional shopping center,

which they do now have in Delta shores.

They would have no longer just housing being built there, apartments and pockets of poverty, but up zoning and opportunities to move up,

move up housing in the community.

We have that.

There is a scenario where this is a win-win scenario.

And go back to the issue of the day and that's homelessness.

We heard from our DCR director, Mr. Pedro, who's back there in the fifth row.

And he has amazing ideas.

And if you look at the siding plan that's in the staff report, there are multiple sites there.

We know that we're there ready to go today.

We just don't have money to open them up.

And we've opened up two successful programs recently that have success and Stockton Boulevard, Stafesay, Roseville Road, homelessness, tiny homes that are actually very successful.

But what do we need?

We need more money to operate them today.

So I'm trying to put all these pieces together.

Put all these pieces together.

And to honor the community, what to help you, Mr. Pedro, and the city, and all of us get more people off of the streets and into housing, and onto a better tomorrow, build more housing at all income levels, as some of them are, I'm certainly remember.

Give me your promotion there.

Council member, Kaplan, alluded to.

If we sold this land, there are some requirements for some affordability.

So that's move up housing and affordability at all income levels.

So I see Council member Vane, not us or them.

It's a win-win for all of us.

It's a win-win.

So I think we have to have a little bit of patience in the process.

Our city manager talked about some options they're exploring right now, as far as what's the land, worth what options we would have, how that would, how that would materialize.

But I think we can't get ahead of ourselves.

We don't want to box us in.

Because we don't want to, you know, say this is our land, we're going to lease it for a dollar or try to be the master plan developer and be sitting on this for 20 years.

And we're going to have the ultimate disservice.

Because then our residents here from our community are not going to have the vision that was the focused on.

We're not going to have the resources to address the issue number one of the day in our communities homelessness.

So I just think if we take a step back and look at how we can connect all these dots, we can have a win-win for the entire community.

And this is an opportunity for us to hear all the council members out tonight, hear from the community, hear staff options.

And this is a receive and file.

And with that, this is a receive and file item. So this will conclude this item.

I'll remember.

Thanks, Mayor. I appreciate you sharing just your insight on what you've heard from your listening session.

You're absolutely right. That homelessness is one of the number one things we hear in the city.

And as I shared earlier and you've heard from Councillor Mabra and other colleagues, I think one of the best way to address homelessness is making sure that we set the foundation for more affordable housing.

In our city. I also just want to say, you know, so many residents turned out today to really share their thoughts, to share their insights of district eight.

I know that you're doing your listening session right now and I'm hoping that you did take this opportunity to listen from them directly given that you said you attended one session of the 40 sessions in the city.

So I really appreciate staff community coming out. But I still, because again, this is not an action item, but staff still needs direction.

And I guess I will prep a right direction whether staff takes it or not, because as council members were allowed to do this.

And I've heard from Councillor Mabra maple as well that she wants this to come back as an action item.

I think it's important for us to honor the work of the community and I'll keep saying that staff has spent months with an on creating an online portal workshop going to 10 numerous sessions to develop these guiding principles.

I mean, these are not controversial guiding principles. That's premature, right?

If we bring these back and vote on these guiding principles, it's going to guide how we move forward. Yes, and it may include surplusing the property.

It may include coming up with a finance strategy to make it work. But we still need to have the item come back as an action item.

And I will read staff have this item prepared to come for a vote. And the action item, even though this is a receiving file, the action item is pretty broad.

It's passed the motion directing the city manager to ensure that the guiding principle is adopted so that we can continue with 102 acres.

And it may be different options like you mentioned. So I just think that's really important. I want to honor the community's work because I feel like this is the reason why constituents and communities don't take our listening sessions seriously.

They don't take our survey seriously because we aren't doing anything with that data.

And I think it's important for us to adopt those guiding principles as a framework to guide us, right?

We haven't even said exactly we're going to sell or surplus. I think it may be a good idea. I heard from Nick earlier about they stand ready as well to work with us as a city.

But we've got to make sure that whatever we do, whether we sell it, whether we keep some of it, that that's guided by community.

I think voting on those guiding principles is really important. So I'm asking staff and hopefully my colleagues will support me in this.

That's the direction from this receive and file workshop is to bring this item back as an action item, at least the guiding principle so that we can vote on that.

And I just heard from you mayor that staff right now is working on ensuring like working on appraising the site to figure out what how much it costs.

Vice mayor Talamont has just asked for that right now. I think that's important to bring it back so we can know if we were to appraise it and surplus it.

What would those options? What would that look like? I think that's important for us to be transparent to the community.

And so I do believe this should come back as an action item. I'm not trying to rush this because I do know it's going to take 68 years.

But if we're not consistent and we're not just moving the project along, it will never happen. Right. And so I want to make sure that that happens.

So I just wanted to say again, I would love I'm providing the direction for staff to bring this as an action item.

I'm providing principles on the guiding principles and the various options that all of you have laid out.

I'm not opposed to all of those options. I think let's put it on the table. Let's put it on the table and have a discussion about it when the time is right.

Because I know we're in the middle of budget conversations right now this month and next month until May and June.

But maybe this comes back like after summer when staff is ready doing all their analysis. So that's my direction to city staff.

Let me just respond. I don't think what you're saying is out of this scenario for us.

But we have some other pieces that we wanted to connect the dots first. I think what's key is ownership, long term financial viability.

Just adopting guiding principles. What we want to see there is honestly sometimes an empty promise.

I want to be the old guy but I've seen a lot of plans that sit up there and some of our council members who have master plan and streetscapes and visioning for a lot of parcels across Sacramento.

But unless we focus on the finances how it's going to be all connected then I don't think that we're doing a service to the community.

So I would prefer us to wait to figure out how we're going to pencil this all together and connect all the dots appropriately.

Councillor Moor.

Thank you Mayor. I just want to reiterate that I hear different versions of a lot of things in direction from all of our council members.

So that's where I think it is important that we come back so official action can be taken.

Because no one of us can direct the staff. I can't direct the staff. The mayor can't direct the staff.

Council member van can't direct the staff. Because we've now all taken an investment in this.

So if staff is listening to any one of us they should probably stop right now in 102 acres.

Because collectively we are a governance body and it takes five of us to give direction.

And what I hear is potential disagreement on the direction of where we believe as a city we should go with 102 acres.

So the only way to solve that is an actual action item where the public gets to see and hear where we vote.

So I can tell you staff can go back and listen to this and there may be disagreement about where the actual direction was.

Who said what? What did they mean? Does the mayor get to direct and say hey it doesn't come back on the agenda item because I want ABC and D.

So I think because I hear disagreement between council member van and the mayor on where the direction is that we actually need to come back to council and get an actual vote of this item.

Because what I did hear a majority of us say is explore a public private partnership.

That is what I did hear a majority of us say so what does that look like coming back to council and I think we owe it to the community because there is disagreement.

How should this be used? Council member van will say this is absolutely being used to help our homeless.

Some may say it's not everything and housing takes time but the only way that there is clear direction when there is a receive and file with this much opinion and discussion on it.

Is to actually bring back an item so that we can vote and give directions.

As a governing body I just think that's the responsible thing to do and I'd like to see and I hope our mayor and our city manager will put that together so that we can actually have an action item on this.

Okay again we are evaluating options here tonight.

What is that option here?

Yeah.

I just wanted to close this and focusing on how I view this there is 98% commonality here.

We are focusing on the process of coming back and what the options are and I think that we want to have a complete path as far as disposition, public private partnerships, doing an appraisal, seeing what it's worth, exploring the community values which I don't disagree with.

I think that's important for all of those but at this point I think it's probably appropriate for us to just take a time out and I'll commit to sitting down with you.

Council member van you always say that you're neglected in your brown bubble so me and you are in a two person brown bubble.

So we will come back and focus on options where we can look at the long term viability and being successful.

So with that this is a receive and file item and this concludes the side of thank you.

So mayor you move to council comments ideas questions AB123 reports.

Council member Kaplan.

Thank you just want to let everybody know this Saturday we're having the North Natomas kite festival.

It's our third annual from 11 to 2 p.m. at the North Lake community park which is the big park you see as you're headed to the airport but if you stay north on 99 there is plenty of wind out there.

So we're going to come on out and join us and then this Sunday I am supporting the first annual VA fundraiser from 2 to 5 p.m. at Shark Q.

At 101 East Commerce way so come on out and help us support our VA.

Mayor pro tim gara.

Thank you I just wanted to express my thanks to the park staff department all the board members of the college

and the staff members of the college.

I would also like to thank the senior staff members for this week's work and for the great work in opening the new softball field and getting that going.

Also thanks to our mayor who showed up to throw the second first pitch because I didn't make it to the first one on the first pitch.

So with that it was a great opening.

a team of softball and given the amount of participants in T-ball looks like we're

going to have a long trajectory of successful softball at College Glen Glenbrook Park.

So thank you Mayor and Council.

Council member Jennings?

Just very quickly.

Pocket Little League had their opening day of baseball.

They it was an incredible crowd out there.

We had record number of kids that participated in baseball this year in the 29 years that

we've had to lead.

This was the highest number of kids that we've ever had.

So they are rebounding from the pandemic and they are getting outside plan America's

greatest sport.

I just want to also announce that the mayor was out in participation with us and he absolutely

on his throwing the ball to the plate.

He threw a strike because he's a baseball player and he can throw the ball from and he

didn't take the upper part of the mound.

He went all the way back to where the pitches pitch from but he threw a perfect strike.

So thanks for being out there in support of us and we really appreciate you.

Council member Vang.

Thank you.

I just wanted to announce that our annual district gate community conversation is happening

this Saturday from 10 to 1 o'clock at Union House Elementary.

That's at 7850 dare Creek Drive.

It's really important if you're listening, if you live in district 8 come out to learn

about the progress, everything that's happening in our district across the district, completed

ongoing and future projects.

A city staff from various departments will be there as well to address any of the community's

concerns.

And then I also just wanted to let folks know that this weekend is the seventh annual

Staphon Clark Legacy Week.

It kicks off this Friday March 14 with multiple events happening until March 17.

In particular, this Saturday right after our community conversation from 1 to 6, I am

sack foundation is hosting the Staphon Clark Legacy Weekend Block Party at the DeCoi

Porter College Prep at 201s.

We're encouraging the community to come out to that.

And then I just wanted to have folks save the date for the 36th annual Sweet Potato Festival

hosted by the Sacramento Valley section of the National Council of Negro Women taking

place Saturday March 22 from 10 to 4 p.m. at the Paneau Community Center.

As you know, we have the best Sweet Potato pies at the annual event and encouraging everyone

to attend.

It is a free event.

Family friendly, bring the kids, our elders.

There will be resources, entertainment and a Sweet Potato Pie contest that oftentimes

coach over here, he is one of the judge.

He's been judging the Sweet Potato Pie contest for many years now and he will be there as

well.

Thank you.

Councilmember Maipo.

All right.

Thank you, Madam City Clerk.

So Thursday, the 20th at 6 p.m. please join us in the community for the Extreat Navigation

Center.

We do a good neighbor meeting.

This is quarterly.

I just really want to thank our staff, Mario, Brian from DCR, PD and everyone, S.H.

Ray, all of our partners that come out.

It's an opportunity for the community to share their questions, concerns, comments,

or to eat some food and enjoy.

It's going to be at NeighborWorks Sacramento.

That's at 2 4 11.

I'll handbrae Boulevard, Sweet 200.

Join us at 6 p.m. for that.

And our first ever D5 fit and fun.

Join us with our very own Alexa Garcia, District 5 resident and small business owner and she's

going to be making us sweat.

So we're going to be at City of Refuge located at 3 2 1 6 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Boulevard.

We're going to have a bring your own mat, bring some water, but we're going to have a great

workout and a lot of fun and focus on staying healthy and fit.

You can sign up.

We still have spaces.

Let me make sure of the right thing.

Sackd5.com, Sash, fit and fun.

Join us then.

Thank you.

Okay.

It appears I have no more council members queued up to speak.

I have 15 speakers for public comment matters, not on the agenda.

Jeffrey Tartigia, Lambert, and Christina Rogers.

Council members, I appreciate you guys listening to the earlier conversation for Miss Van.

I will say that in 2006, when they did point in time count, Sacramento did not count anybody

in the South area period as being homeless.

That's why I came here tonight because it was important to say this was not what was

done in the past.

What you do in the future is what you have to determine.

Also I now bring up the game the statement about that for the homeless count next year,

we really need the city to direct the city police to tell the COC, which will be meeting

tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in the morning.

With change of power, you know, people are leaving.

They're done so new leadership and new change rooms is taking place.

I see you're getting down to the time, but this council needs to come up with a resolution

or a passing.

I haven't asked anybody to deal with the fact that you need to let the COC board know what

is happening for those ensuing months of December and January.

Last time that was counted, we had a lot of the capital downtown and so the city of

downtown disappeared homeless.

Just flat out, move them away where they went, don't know.

Now this is the last item on the agenda.

So again, you guys, you know, you have half of the board, they may be back there, but they

don't hear what public comment is made about that you need to change.

That's what Daryl Steinberg led you into.

You need to put it up there for discussion so it gets better items to there.

And we're running out of time and say you're mayor comments.

You promise.

Next speaker's Lambert.

Mayor, if I may really quickly.

Just a note for the public, because I hear this get brought up from time to time.

When members do need to go back to use the restroom because we are human, the public comment,

the speakers actually play in the bathrooms and in the backroom.

So we actually, we do hear what's being said.

I just want to make that clear and appreciate your comments.

And next speaker's Lambert, then Christina Rogers, then Mac Worthy, Robert Copeland, Gerald

Landruth, Jared Hill.

Last week I said I wasn't coming back because I have had enough of city hall.

My family told me about something that should be discussed tonight.

I was the one who said that people should not get a raise for working remotely.

What did the Sacramento B.C. say since you can't see it is March 10th?

Listen at this.

Some workers freed by the ability to work remotely in the pandemic early days.

They moved away from Sacramento just as the Bay Area residents flock to relatively affordable

Sacramento and Placer counties knowing they could report to office once or twice a

week.

I'm vindicated because I was the one who said, minty cupbe should be the highest paid

at city hall.

Why?

Because she was here and I guarantee you she could operate this from home.

And there were some people that were on the roster that had difficulty.

And also people are now saying that they shouldn't come back to work because it's a hardship.

How could it be a hardship for the last five years and you were receiving raises while

working at home?

That's an end so.

And I will end by saying there's nothing crazy about you, my bank.

Your mind is fine.

People who are from privileged parts of the city may say things like that.

But as a person who's from Del Paso Heights whose parents got redlined on trying to get

property in wood lake and they told me about it as a teenager, there's nothing wrong with

your mind.

And I think Mr. Pluckybaum should be recalled because he's on the phone more than he

pays attention and I study this roster.

Thank you for your comments.

Christina.

I don't see Christina, Mac Worthy, then Robert Copeland, Jared Landruth, Frank Morgan Jr.

I'm laughing because I can't laugh because I see garbage.

Oh.

What about the city charter?

The Mac injured by God.

He had to apologize for the last man.

My vein, you talk too much.

You listen to the wrong person.

How many times you got a professional person to come in and talk to you neighbors?

Bring a pro in and talk to them because I know a lot of people are family out there because

that's the people who move from Del Paso Heights to Oak Park and the first to develop.

You see these are things that you got to do because even if you talk to your dad, you get

a lot of inside on America.

Just talk to your dad and have a conversation.

But what we look at here is the charter.

I've been raising a charter.

Then we see all of you.

If you're starting to hear about the charter, you know, they put somebody got to be lying.

Somebody got to be lying here.

What is the brown act that's covered the people that's there?

What?

Where is the report of closed session?

You want to see that report.

Those reports are for the public.

You have many people come in and attend those things.

They never have.

We want to know what was the charter of general for the past six months.

Do we have to fill out a pre-reinformation act to do it?

This thing should be automatically given to the public.

Give things to the public that will help them.

The same thing with the development out here.

You know that was garbage.

Since we come out private, people tell them they got equity in their property and get

away from race equity and get a bank.

Bill Berger's son is here.

He will come in and work with you to put paper against your property and you have to

live out there to build whatever you want to be built out there.

You hear?

You ain't going to do it.

I've been there for forty four years.

You own the same subject for forty four years.

Same subject I brought it up.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Robert Copeland.

I don't see Mr. Landruth, so Frank Morgan Jr.

Well my opinion, my thing is the best city council here.

Where's my city councilor?

I hope it comes back.

Also I spent more time recently at the Capitol than in the swing space than I spent here.

This is the first city council member with a Bill Plegbaum, Kevin McCarty, Roger Dickinson

and our city managers that had been to.

Also I'm supporting a JR3, which tells if it passes state-led slater, tells Congress

not to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and that goes to the president of the United

States too.

Why do we have such a high-homage problem is we don't have enough low-income housing

rents too high.

I think we should do something back there nationally, statewide and locally.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Frank Morgan Jr.

Jared Hill, Susan Elkop.

Thank you again for the opportunity to come out and speak to the mayor and the folks

here on the rise threats.

Thank you guys.

Still haven't gotten a lot done, but I'm still here.

I'm going to be faithful because it will happen.

Like I said, I've dealt with a lot of people and I don't know if I can even get a meeting

with the mayor, but maybe I can't.

And just to talk about it, I'm still waiting.

Like I said, it's happening but it's slow.

I don't know how, when, or why, or where, but I'm just being faithful.

I think Councilman Maple, she's trying and Paul kind of brine, I'm sorry.

Like I said, I get calls.

I got a call from the police and I'm getting different numbers.

And I was like, well, why didn't I get the number before?

Then it was, they said they called me on September.

They called me on December.

I go to the police department to get Marie Port.

And I have to wait again.

If you've got my report, why isn't it in the file cabinet?

Why wasn't it filed?

It's kind of crap.

I don't understand.

Maybe I'm not intelligent enough to know what I'm talking about.

But like I said, it hurts when you go down to get some information that should be mine.

I have to keep waiting.

I don't mind waiting, but this is crazy.

But I just thank you guys.

And as people are talking, I think we should just listen.

Because this is a beautiful city here.

I didn't like it at first, but I became a part of it.

I'm here.

And like I say, just everything we do here is very important.

And as we're going forward, we have to support each other.

It's very, very important.

And like I said, I appreciate this time to come and stand before you guys and talk.

But God is good.

And like I say, thank you guys for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

I have Jared and Susan.

Jared is OK for Susan to go first.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I am Susan Alhawk.

I'm a student at school at High School in the HR School.

Great Irish 2.6.

I graduate in June.

I walk in here in my hot school to come.

My elective classes are church, right?

And I'm only 100.

I am in house.

I've been in house for many years.

Fortunately, I met Roosevelt Road.

And incident happened on Friday, March 7.

I was at school.

I got a text from my husband, I murdered T-Tex.

Tell me that quote in the first place I was there to tell my truck.

My means of transportation to get me to school.

My means of my husband going to work to provide food for us.

Because I will not eat with they feed us.

Because they have us like repressioners there.

I have a name.

I was born with the name, not a number.

My name was when I was born with Susan Marie Malini.

I converted.

And I have now all hung.

Yes, I stand to that.

But I was not given a number when I was born.

I might have one when I die.

But I was not when I was born.

I was given a real name.

There I'm given a pilot number, a trailer number.

That's what they know us as.

They feed us like what they would feed at the pigs

out there at the Oak Road, the Reels Corrugum,

a correctional center.

We're not prisoners.

But I want to know, who do I need to speak to to get my truck out

of this end panel?

What do I need to do?

It's $181 just to get a police report released.

Plus, it's going to cost me $500 a cent.

But I also get it out of tow because of some kind

of illegal parking.

From the Sheriff's Project, work project on Roseville Road,

down to Longview, Roseville Road.

There is no signs out there that says no parking.

That's what they did.

They told my car for no parking in front of the shelter

that I am temporary staying at a short term.

I need to speak to somebody here that can give me some

information to who I need to talk to to get this

my truck out.

That's the only way I'm able to eat at night.

You know, Friday, complete.

I have got my visa food.

Madam City Manager, do you have someone to make a bid here?

Go ahead.

Take your comments.

Your time is complete.

Please take your seats.

No, no, no.

We're going to take people.

Should we take you harder?

Why not?

Please take your seat.

Your time is complete.

Stop taking it.

Our next speaker is Jared Hill.

Take it.

Please take your seat.

Our time is complete.

You're wrong.

Stop taking it.

And then we might have a better picture.

Next speaker, please.

Our next speaker is Jared Hill.

Then Zion Tattas.

No, no, no.

No, no.

We'll see.

Stop taking it.

Get on the loan.

We're going to pay for it.

Why take it?

Next speaker.

Good evening, Council.

Good evening.

My name is Jared Hill.

I am one of 10 Sacramento Corps members, awarded the right to dispensary, opening the

dispensary storefront and Sacramento.

And I'm here today to plead with you guys for an additional amount of time to open

our location.

It's really through me off.

So let me get back to my notes here if you don't mind.

So excuse me.

My team and I are here tonight to request additional time to open beyond April 1st, 2025.

We estimate we will open in just 90 to 120 more days at our newly acquired site in

district two.

They're at 1625 Del Paso.

Are we at face numerous challenges to this project, including limited access to fairly

price commercial real estate, planning and zoning changes coming online too late for

us at this point, but still current challenge.

And ultimately a fire that destroyed our first location at 1511.

Del Paso, right behind the Wells Fargo bank there, which created a significant and huge

loss of time, effort and money.

We were on track on time, but due to this tragic fire, we effectively had to start over from

scratch with less time than originally planned.

We overcame these challenges.

We will continue to overcome challenges seen in unseen.

There's no quit in us.

With this next challenge overcoming this drop dead date of April 1st, 2025, we need your

help.

We appreciate the one-year extension granted by the council last year.

And it was an estimate at best of what time would be required for anyone that wasn't on

that three-year try.

And we need to look at that.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Zion.

The Nikki.

Zion, Nikki, Jennifer Holden, Monica Meyers, then Malachi Iman.

Hi, everyone.

Thank you for having me.

I'm here to support, of course, my colleagues Malachi and Jarrett for them to be extended

for there for whatever they need.

And also I'm here to also complain the red line in our community, whether housing or

business access is fund accesses.

Just like me, I'm going through the same thing when it comes to building my shashem and

the micro, but I was rejected for the fund that we fought for the past five years because

of this red lining that they put.

So I know we're having on this, they when it comes to the cannabis, we need to know the

statistics.

How is this distributed?

The policy was changed from the community that have been affected by war on drug.

Now it's every individual that have been affected.

So I need you to really look at our cannabis equity and create a proper, you know, our

fund, how we spend it, 80% of it going to somewhere else.

And instead of bringing it back to us, we only have three points, something million,

but that's not even enough.

But if we're spending it on paying stuff and paying marketers that who does not even

know how to market us, we're just wasting the money and instead of building the businesses

that we fought from the beginning.

So we really need to stop that red lining, whether housing, yeah, we say affordable, but

what about the people in our community who cannot afford?

I mean, there are so many, I see the same homelessness in our community for the past two,

three years, same homelessness.

So how come they not being housed?

So we can keep on saying, you know, under self-community, but I don't see any under self-community receiving

the grants and the necessary help that they can get.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Nikki.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Nikki, Jennifer Holden, Monica Mayers, Malachi Amin, and then Raab.

Thank you.

Hi, all.

My name is Nikki.

I am an advocate here in Sacramento.

I've also been a street outreach worker since 2014 here in Sacramento, which means I've

done both sort of like support work with folks trying to help access the systems of care.

I used to do the VIS but coordinated access, all that stuff, and have found through that

process of trying to help and support people how like utterly broken the system is.

I think if you ask these guys back here, what they'll tell you is the shelter system is

a bottleneck.

The Sacramento steps forward put out their coordinated access systems report for the month of January.

95% of people who attempted to access shelter were not able to.

We're not able to.

That means 95% of people during the month of January that tried to access shelter were

not able to.

So we've got five percent going for us.

And for those five percent, it took 16 days on average for them to get from shelter

assessment.

Do you know how much can change in 16 days?

You know, someone can lose their phone, lose all their property.

In that same time period in January, there were about 240 shelter placements and about

72 rapid placements.

Rapid placements are placements that happen on the street that subvert the shelter waitlist,

that cut off the voluntary waitlist and put people there by force.

Basically generally threatening arrest or forced displacement if they don't take the shelter.

In the same time period, approximately 221 folks were cited or arrested for being unhoused.

241 people experienced their vehicles being towed like you just heard.

The amount of violence that is enacted on the community of people experiencing homelessness

is unimaginable.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Jennifer Holden.

Good evening.

My name is Jennifer Holden.

I am a resident D5 and I am the Mangon Park neighborhood association leader earlier.

Today you heard an agenda item that was related to my neighborhood.

I'm sorry I did not make it here fast enough to comment during that time.

That property is vacant and has been vacant for over eight years.

I'm not certain I agree or disagree with anything any of your conversations about extending.

The ability to develop that property with planting justice.

However, it has been vacant for eight years.

It is a nuisance property and crime rates at that end of the neighborhood are high.

This last week a neighbor had a car stolen off the street that ends at that vacant property.

A trailer was stolen off of the neighbor's driveway a couple of years ago close to that

property.

Home invasion near that property is higher than other parts of the neighborhood.

We see people commit crimes and they run into that vacant property.

It has had a vacant hole in the fence for over a year that is large enough to drive the

small vehicle through.

Our area lieutenant put in a 311 request to have that hole closed up and four months later

it has still not been closed up.

Even if we extended the time to allow that property to be redeveloped it needs to get done.

It needed to get done years ago.

It has been a four year lease.

Three other organizations have approached me as the neighborhood association leader since

last year.

They applied for that property.

They are local nonprofit organizations, reputable ones and their application was denied so we

could have this organization that has left my neighborhood stuck with higher crime rates

so that that property could sit vacant all of these years.

I know council member Maible.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker.

Thank you.

Monica.

Paulie Monica is Malachi Amen and then Rev will be our final speaker.

Good evening, Mayor and council.

I will be quick because my parking is about to expire and I know you all need that money.

So yeah, I will be quick but really my comments were to address my council member my ring.

I'm not going to pretend that I have been attending all of the 102 acre meetings.

I live in Med of you.

I was born and raised in Med of you but last year was a really big year for me.

I was appointed to the Sacramento Children's Fund Planning and Oversight Commission by the

former mayor and that was a huge undertaking representing my community, both the Med of

you but also the at large community.

And being in the space the last couple of weeks talking to community members, there was

a meeting about a month ago that you held at the panel center where I would say maybe

over 50 youth, if not 70, attended.

And every time I'm in a space where young people are attending and talking about what they

feel is important for them, it reenergizes me.

And I want to try not to get emotional but my like it is an honor to be represented by

you.

And I don't think that I don't know if you understand that right?

You may understand it you know many years from now.

But it is an honor to be represented by you because I know where your heart is at.

And mayor I think we all publicly heard you say that you wanted to be in my brown act

and have continued conversations about this.

I heard that at least.

And I don't know you personally.

I have been in I think one meeting with you so far.

I think policy wise like you've had so much experience and I think that's we have to

keep in mind what we're thinking about community investment, you know what makes sense for

the city.

But I don't take those commitments lightly and as somebody who represents district eight

now, I really hope that you follow through on that promise.

So thank you for your comments.

Malachi I'm in and then Rob.

I guess we don't get to display under.

That's correct thing.

No.

Okay.

All right.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the council.

I'm Malachi.

I am the founder of a rise holdings, which is one of the 10 storefront dispensaries that

were awarded by the city as a result of the cannabis opportunity reinvestment and equity

ordinance.

And I'm here today to plead with you to urge you to support a necessary extension on opening

the arise dispensary.

We've lost about three core storefront dispensaries because of the lack of access to capital

and technical assistance and just you know some unfortunate incidents in terms of how the

policy has been rolled out.

But I'm here to tell you today, as you can see on this progress demonstration report

that has been handed out to all of you, I have come to a place where I now have a

assembled over a little bit over $1.2 million.

And so all of this dispensary build out work has been completed to the tune of around

85%.

And that's been done without very much city funding at all.

And as someone who grew up in Medoview down the street who would like an opportunity

to reinvest in my community that I grew up in, I am urging you to provide staff direction

because there's been a tone and kind of a tone deafness in terms of recognizing the

extent to which this progress has been completed.

And it seems to be shutting us down after we've already submitted a business operating permit

application.

Thank you for your comments.

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people. I think about all areas but I know ways of simply ending homelessness. I'm praying to

get some kind of fun soon. I'm praying this from the city because I'm going to be doing things that

work for the city. You know, working through Cowtran and working everything just so I can make sure

that my homeless people get to working. Not a job. The job is an old slain term and the Bible's name

was Job. So my homeless people don't take a whole lot of recovery for them to get to a job,

but I can put them to work tomorrow. I know them. They beg me every time I run them.

Rev, it doesn't work for me yet. Like it's coming, it's coming. See that thin soda is down,

we're going to build that. See all these trees keep blowing over, we're going to cut them down and

sell all that wood. Give them some hope. That's all I keep doing every day. That's why I had a hard

attack on Valentine's Day. You know, because I care about my people out there. Y'all don't care,

care. Y'all keep giving money to his worth. There's organizations out here and I know a lot of them.

They got a nice home and a car and they act like they're doing stuff. My past is not a pair of socks

that they get free from Walmart. Come on now. Y'all got to be smarter than that.

Y'all give them money out to the devil basically. They stole $24 billion from my homelessness.

And I say my homelessness because I'm homeless out here with them. Looking to get that extra

area to go for. God bless you all. Thank you for your comments, Mary. You have no more

business to come before the council. Okay. Thank you. Council member Maple wants to

re-exit. May I just make a very, very, very brief comment. Thank you. I want to just recognize,

I know we had a couple speakers regarding the core cannabis process and I know that this is not

agenda. So we can't discuss this today. But it would be my hope and my request of you mayor or

of our staff that we can't agenda this discussion. Hopefully prior to the April 1st deadline.

So that at least we can have clarity as a council about where we're at. For example,

how many are open, how many are not, how far along are they? And then if we as body want to make

take any action based on that. So that would be my request. Thank you. Okay.

Did you punch up yet? Oh, I was. Thanks mayor. I was just going to say I echo council member

Maple and hope that we can get that on the agenda. That's all. Thank you so much.

No dreams of memory. Okay. Thank you with that. We're adjourned.