Okay, let's call this 5 p.m. meeting to order Sacramento City Council.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you. I expect Council Member Kaplan momentarily.

And Council Member Dickinson.

Thank you. Council Member Pluckybaum.

Council Member Maple.

Mayor Pro Tem Gera.

Council Member Jennings.

Council Member Vang.

Mayor Pro Tem Telemantes.

Pardon me, Vice Mayor Telemantes.

And I expect Council Member Kaplan any moment.

Mayor McCarty.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Okay.

Council Member Pluckybaum.

You do the pledge and land acknowledgement.

Please rise to the agreement.

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

Miwak, Patwyn Wintu, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally

recognized tribe.

We acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walked beside

us today on these ancestral lands by choosing together today in the active practice of acknowledgement

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

Thank you.

I put the allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

which it stands.

One nation undergone indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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

Mayor Councilman in closed session to discuss two items of litigation, but there's nothing

to report out.

Thank you.

So we move to the consent calendar and Mayor, I do have one read to the record.

On item number two, we're going to remove Steve Cohn, seat E from the compensation commission

and that will be brought back to the council at a later time.

Are there any council members that have questions or want to make comments on the consent calendar?

Member Dickinson?

Thank you.

I will be recuse myself on item 14 due to a campaign contribution and excessive $500 by

Clear Channel.

And within the last year, barely.

Thank you.

That's recusing from item 14.

Council member Kaplan, just brief comment on item 13.

I see no one queued up, so you want to proceed with that?

Thank you.

I just want to say thank you to the city staff and everybody.

This is authorization for Wood Spring Sweets Hotel to begin construction on the corner

of Del Paso and Truxel.

So our 11th hotel coming in North Nautomas, it'll have four stories with 122 rooms and

it's actually just a two block walk to North Nautomas Regional Park.

I'm very excited to have them come in our city.

Thank you.

I show no other council members queued up to speak.

I have one speaker, Mack Worthy on item 7.

Mr. Worthy?

Mack.

Worthy, item 7.

Would you like to make comments?

Item 7 is a grant, Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development.

Many on that type of thing.

It's a, I think it's something about fellow grants.

Fellow grants from economic development.

What you going to put here for economic development?

Where are you going to go?

Who are you going to hire?

You got nothing left.

You got nothing left.

You can't own that little grant.

If you even buy a piece of land, it all ups up.

How long can you hire a person with a decent income?

I would in because the government just frees them.

Don't give them no more until you get to crime off and up there.

Once you eat limited crime, administration, then you get fellow grants.

Because somebody know who broke the ground at you.

And you say you go ask the government?

Now we heard that the Department of Justice coming here.

I got to get a kite guy to watch and do see it because I want to sit in on that meeting.

Definitely because somebody could go and quit the line before I die here in the city.

Because Dickson, you the honours hope that we have.

I want to hope we have.

Go la la la la la.

I said, they only give said, ah, in second.

No comments on anything.

It's just going on and on.

Little girl, that son of a boy, I said I had to sit here and go to sleep in the person.

I got to get a wife tonight.

We don't need that lip service.

Let the people do what they do here on the freedom of speech and try and help them own

the economic.

Not one person saying anything about we got a business of 500 coming in here and go hire

people.

Nobody.

They'll wake up people.

I'm here and I'm going to be tough for a while.

Thank you for your comments.

No more speakers on the consent calendar.

Thank you.

We have a motion.

Motion to second on the consent calendar.

Motion to second.

Motion to second.

All those in favor.

Please say I accept Mr. Dickinson.

We're accusing himself from item 14.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

You know the abstentions.

Done.

Thank you.

We move to our public hearing.

Item 15, 2025.

We and rubbish abatement.

Mayor council.

City manager.

Thank you for your time.

I'm Sean Bartos with the community development department.

I'm here today to recommend that council authorize code compliance, the authority to

abate weeds, rubbish, refuse and debris from undeveloped properties that constitute

public nuisance and a fire hazard.

The fire season runs from April 15th through the end of October.

Staff recommends that council consider any objections and comments related to this matter

and I'm available if you have any questions.

Thank you.

And Mayor for the record, I have no public comments on this item.

Okay.

Councillor McGarr.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just wanted to thank Peter Lemus and his team for working with neighbors.

I know it's not on this item here but appreciate the code's recognition of the issues that

some of the neighbors are facing and we have those who are non-responsive and in this case

we're responding to that issue there.

So with that, this is a public hearing so I'll go ahead and open and close the public hearing

and move the item and again just thank appreciate all our co-offices for their work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Motion to second.

No further comment or questions from council members?

No further comment?

All the very please say aye.

Aye.

Any nos or abstentions?

Hearing none.

Item passes.

Okay.

May I remove to the discussion calendar.

Item number 16 is an ordinance authorizing amendment to the contract between the city of

Sacramento and the California Public Employees Retirement System.

Good evening mayor and members of the council.

My name is Samantha Hardy and I'm the Benefit Services Division Manager and Human Resources.

This item tonight is on the discussion calendar as required by CalPERS and the adoption

of the ordinance is the final step in the administrative process as required by CalPERS

to incorporate the retirement cost sharing language in the unrepreso for unrep CalPERS

classic members into the city's contract with CalPERS.

This action does not change the amount of retirement cost sharing already being paid

by the unrep classic members and it also does not change the amount of the city's employer

contribution to CalPERS.

And Mary have no public comments on this agenda item?

Okay.

Apologize we didn't move fast enough.

Thank you.

I have one speaker Mac Worthy on item 16.

How many people that plan to retire know about what your income will be when you retire?

These are the things you should be concentrating on.

These are the things you should be talking to people about and with the price on houses

going up the tax, are you going to be able to stay here because I gather that some people

here remote work and have moved out of the town and live somewhere else.

So these are the things that you should be trying to find out.

CalTrans, you're going to lose some money in the federal government.

Are they going to be able to pay for your retirement?

Did you have an option to invest your own retirement?

You're coming here, you got to have this type of knowledge that it's a function in nowadays

because this thing won't get over here in another year or so.

You see these things, this race equity garbage, that's the most pretty thing that ever

happened here and you know who designed that.

You had to tell what your nationality did to you at a job.

That's just like when she heard the sheet to come in and cut the world they count them.

Which one's going back and how many cash we got.

That's where they do that race equity thing.

It's just like you look at the Polish apartment here.

How many black politicians was here had harassed this morning?

Why?

How many people in the fire department had a big position that looked like me?

Why?

Is this the thing?

Did you tell my race equity?

You are violating what you say, your theory of happiness folks.

Why can't you get out there and find some?

Because nobody wants to go in here and be lied to.

People don't want to be pushed around and jumped around.

Wake up.

It's coming.

I'll be here to laugh at you.

Thank you for your comments.

Mary, I have no more speakers.

Okay.

Councillor Mourikara.

Thank you.

Usually I wouldn't speak on an item like this.

But I just make a clear point that one, I'm going to move this item but that our employees

are contributing their own money into the retirement system.

So these assertions that this is some kind of giveaway.

This is actually their own earned money that goes into their retirement for their future.

And so it's wanted to make that clear and glad to move the item for those who think that

this is some kind of free retirement system.

Okay.

Is that a second?

I'll just remember.

We have motion a second.

Do you?

No.

Yes.

Motion by Gary.

Second by Jennings.

No further comment or questions from council members.

Motion a second.

Also, here, please say aye.

Aye.

He knows or abstentions.

None.

We'll have your passes.

9-0.

Thank you.

Now turn to council comments, ideas, questions and AB123 reports.

Council Member Vang.

Thanks, Mayor.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to give a shout out to all of the residents that attended

our annual district eight community conversation that happened this Saturday.

It was a really great turnout.

Mayor, I also want to say thank you for attending our annual community conversation meeting as

well and Assemblymember Win and Superintendent Hoffman.

And I wanted to take this moment also just to thank city staff.

You know, they came on a weekend when they didn't have to.

It's a really whole space for the community.

We held several smaller workshops with the Department of Community Response, with code

enforcement, with PD, with public work, with SHRA, and really just wanted to think city

staff for helping us to make our annual event successful.

And then just a few announcements.

One is just to let us know that Macro Valley High Community Center is hosting a March Madness

Youth Basketball event happening this Friday from five to nine.

It is a free community event.

So stop by in the competition in particular.

The basketball tournament is for youth ages seven to 17.

And then this Saturday is one of my favorite annual event happening at the Paneal Community

Center.

It is our 36th annual sweep potato festival hosted by the Sacramento Valley section of the National

Council of Negro Women taking place against this Saturday from 10 to 4 p.m.

I will be there and co-gennings over here is on the panel to try out the various sweep

potato pies for the contest.

So I'm really encouraged by colleagues and folks out in the community to stop by South

Sacramento in Med of you to check out this week potato festival.

And I think those are all my updates for now.

Thanks Mayor.

Okay.

Thank you Councillor Gara.

Thank you very much Mayor.

Just two announcements and one AB1234 report.

Number one, one to congratulate again the opening day for Tahotalic Little League over

at the Tahotalic fields on San Joaquin Street.

You know, unfortunately I've got a family engagement so I won't be there this time to help out

and throw the first pitch but maybe the mayor can make it out there to go out and throw

the first pitch this Saturday for the Tahotalic Little League.

Also in the evening, you know, local educators and folks from North Cal Resist will be at

Rasa Irolas, the art fundraiser over at Front Street and they'll be raising money for

Sacramento who need support, who may be refugees of Siles or immigrants.

So come out and support them.

We have local artists and former Sac State, a classmate of mine and artist Chico Gonzales

who also with the mayor.

With that, thank you Mayor and then my AB1234 report, myself and a couple other colleagues

went to the Civic Well Conference this weekend.

One of the topics of discussion which are critical was that affects us every day when there

is a force fire is the issue of air quality and so force management was an important issue

because we know that when that, when the fires happen up in the Sierra, they come down

to our community here.

We also talked a lot about water issues and one of the key water issues that we discussed

here was the need to make sure that the prop $4 are executed and roll out so that we can

get programs into effect to maintain the health of the Sacramento River, the American River

and it's great to see that the Shinnok Salmon is back in the American River from the efforts

from our city's Department of Utilities Conference as well.

We had the opportunity to advocate to the Governor's Administration, their secretary

for that of natural resources about the importance of this issue and with that, thank you Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Council Member Maple.

All right, thank you Mayor.

A couple announcements and also an AB1234 report.

So tomorrow at 6.30pm so that's tomorrow the 19th at St. Robert School in Hollywood Park,

the Hollywood Park Neighborhood Association is going to be hosting a community transportation

safety panel that I'll include myself as well as members of our city team and folks from

the community.

So for those who are interested in learning about transportation safety, specifically along

free port Boulevard in 24th and fruit ridge, we're going to be talking there so join us

on Thursday the 20th this week.

We are hosting our Xtreet Navigation Center good neighbor meeting so for anyone who's

interested in what's going on at the shelter, concerns questions, please join us at 6pm

at NeighborWorks on a hammer Boulevard and then on Saturday the 22nd at 11am, our office

is hosting our very first district five fit and fun event, our very own district five constituent

and small business owner, Alexa Garcia will be hosting a workout so we encourage you to

come that's located at City of Refuge on Martin Luther King, Junior Boulevard.

So those are the fun events coming up and then I also attended the Civic Well Conference

in Yosemite with my colleagues here.

It was an amazing if you get an opportunity I really encourage the rest of you to maybe

attend a future year.

Not only is the scenery beautiful, the topics of conversation were very deep.

A lot of it's a smaller conference, you have a lot of policymakers from around the state.

We got to hear from Tony Yackens from Buddy E and many others and so I really encourage

you to to protect and not if you can in the future was particularly interested to learn

about Prop 4 and some of the projects that we can do here in the City of Sacramento as well

as housing and transportation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councillor Cappellan.

Thanks Mayor.

Tomorrow and I'm double checking it is not supposed to rain.

We have the beginning of our West Lake Food Truck Mania so we're going to have hefty

heroes, Jojo's Hawaiian, fried chicken, taco girl, food truck, Casapanoy as well as the

mini donut shack and then we also have come and join in our specialty 21 and over area

grindstone winery but in reality really come out and support.

It is Sacramento Navy Week so we are going to have special performances by our Navy brass

quintet band out there so thank you for all of those who are in their service.

I have family members who are lifelong service members so really appreciate all that they

do and then this Saturday it is our district one tree planting at West Lake Community Park

so come out and join us and then I just want to give a shout out.

I see those of our younger generation sitting here in the audience listening to us so if

you have questions I'll hang around if you want to come talk to me afterwards but good

to see you coming here and participating civically.

That's all.

Thank you.

Councillor Member Dickinson.

Thank you Mayor.

A few weeks ago we adjourned our meeting in memory of coach Albert Guini, the legendary

grant high school, both baseball and football coach who led them to Pacers to State Championship

and there is a community memorial service for him and his memory at 1 p.m. this Saturday

at the Grand Football Stadium so those of you who want to come celebrate Al's Coach

Al's life that was a great community opportunity to do that and then I also wanted to add

on to my colleagues with an AB 1234 report I attended the conference a civic well policy

makers conferences as well I won't repeat what they've said but it is an opportunity

that brings together about 100 mayors council members and supervisors as well as others

from around the state to share perspectives and learn what others are doing.

One item additional of note to what my colleague said was for our former commissioner of insurance

Dave Jones was one of those who spoke and was great knowledge and detail about the insurance

crisis that we face in the state and this is something that is on everybody's mind I think

these days no matter where you live or where you have a business and what possible solutions

or resolutions there may be to that crisis and our own Dave Tommayo who is a smudboard member

spoke as part of a panel on affordability in a green economy and outlined a lot of the

advantages that smud offers to its customers that help both be green and be economical at the

same time so it was an excellent weekend in that regard thank you.

On Saturday I just want to give a we planted 16 trees at Northgate parks I just wanted to give a

shout out to Robbie Robbins my commissioner Yipsey and my staff are organizing it it was a fun time

and I got to name my tree my tree's name is karma and park staff told me that when I drive by and

it's a hundred degrees to go put my loose water bottles in my car and go water the tree if I can

give it extra little extra water so I'm going to make sure that I keep my tree alive and that it grows in

Northgate park. What's it? Well with that good karma we will adjourn oh I'm excuse me I'm sorry

we have three three public four public speakers I apologize Jeff and where I have five speakers

seconds because of that giving Jeff Tartagia Macworthy Abel Yameen Christina Lake and then Petra Vega

Mr. Tartagia just one moment okay try now hello

Jeff Tartagia resident of district four what I hear is again want to encourage not how many times

you've forgotten about not on the agenda but please move it up because as you saw at the last

meeting you had somebody that was really disturbed and literally the police were not here they

were out there thinking the meeting is over with so please consider another consideration is we

want discussion items like this to be available earlier so that if there's something more that can

actually be responded to you have the ability to be for the end of the meeting when everybody's

going home and gone to not deal with it also this is a heritage you have from Mr. Daryl Steinberg

of doing this and you there's several of you that are politicians there's several of you that

are city council members so please think about what this means for and to Sacramento there's a new

floor that's going on through here there are another series of hearings and we've got rallies

taking place right now over here related to some subjects now last meeting you cut me off

before I could suggest about what needed to happen with the city clerk about over here that you

don't have notices out anymore and you have to be directed over to the to we say counter that shows

you the picture of what I've worked with now city clerk to let me suggest to make a suggestion

about how you post the location so that people will look and find out those that do not have

electronic devices and components and on that I will go to another rally and another meeting and

we will finish off today so thank you very much but please move Mr. worthy and then able

first of all I'm here every day I want to be here on the freedom of speech in Guirad you

don't have to remind me of the state retirement I was in the business for 49 years here I know more

than you'll ever learn you just tell those people about that organization eights over there we don't

have a sac high letting those kids people kids out of the greens demonstrate that's the excuse to talk

about but people I heard a lot of garbage here this morning that is prop 1336 nobody said a word

about what he going to talk when your brother started flying I probably did already but you're

going to suffer the consequence of the old 80s public defenders make things black boys

fluebug to build a rap sheet same thing or come out of 36 so wake up talk to people are right now we

we heard of housing what about disabled if you're going to take record how many people I

get a disabled check it's a lot of them got to get a disabled check now who are they spending their

check with that's what you should be trying to find out you can't depend no on housing no more

they're going to bring the department of justice in here I'm going to try to be in that meeting with

the police department because if they go with a lawsuit I'm going to testify against the city and I

will advise them who disapping and use the information we hear to try to straighten the city out

because you're going to be up sheets creep and John Strumpley wasn't this or she going to hit the

one people make go up to a civil war and if I'm able I don't need but a handful of boys anybody

guns it's about knowledge of confusion that's what it's about remember I was in the

electricians but I know it's amazing all I need are the handful of care I'm

I give you your comments able Yameen and Christina Loki

hello my name is Abel Yamanne I grew up in Folsom I'm Eric Trin the US citizen my

parents migrated here to this country fleeing war and almost a year ago Sacramento City Council

declared this city a sanctuary city for trans people and as a trans person myself although I

don't really feel the gesture of sanctuary in my day to day the notion and gesture still appreciated

because the city won't use its resources to criminalize trans people seeking gender affirming care

because the city recognizes trans people and sees our humanity and grants some safe space as they should

but I also wanted to extend that sympathy and grace to people not only in the city but everywhere

kind of facing that whether they're here in sack or just in the state of California or just in

the country in the south Haiti DRC Palestine to cry Yaman Sudan and their pressure they have faced

because I also face what they face to to a similar degree so I wanted to just extend that

whether it's at the hands of the government law enforcement military and their allies if things

continue as they are now I don't only see the humanity of oppression and trans people face here

in the city and I do myself but across the world because trans or asher forced assimilation

advance isn't limited to this city it exists everywhere and this should be a safe this should be a

space to rectified or acknowledge it to some way or a degree rather than dismissing it and

belittling those issues that's secondary because these are group of people facing oppression displacement

violence and abuse not only here but everywhere especially black trans gender not conforming

individuals that are from these regions of the world thank you for letting me speak and

ISIS also not welcomed here at Sacramento thank you thank you for your comments Christina then Petra

and Petra's our final speaker hi Christina Locky I'm a board member with the Tahoe Park

Neighborhood Association and TPNA is a pointy on the Aggie Square Community Partnership Committee

I'm here today because I believe you see Davis and Wexford have not been following in the spirit

of the Aggie Square Community Benefits Partnership Agreement that they made with the City of Sacramento

I've also shared this with council member Maiple and Garris offices but we have not seen any

resolution and therefore I think it's important to bring it to the full council and legal council

so you're aware of the issue one item of the agreement included the establishment and of an

ongoing community fund paid through rent surcharges with Wexford to committing to provide $150,000

a year for the first three years it also included the establishment of the Community Partnership Committee

to ensure neighborhood participation and priority setting and the use of the fund in August about

seven months ago the committee held what was supposed to be the first of quarterly meetings

after UC Davis and Wexford insisted on a very expedited process for the neighborhood

associations to make their appointments however this was seven months ago and we have not met since

nor have we heard anything from Wexford or UC Davis about this process or why there's a delay

about four months ago in November I reached out to Wexford and UC Davis asking what the delay was

and what the process was going to be for next steps I've not heard back I emailed them again three

months ago reached out a month ago and included both council members Chiefs of Staff who also

requested information and we still have not heard anything from Wexford or UC Davis about what

their plan is frankly it's insulting to the community to not have any response let alone not

have this money going out it was supposed to go out in partnership with the groundbreaking or the

opening in May and we haven't even met to talk about what the parameters would be for how the money

should go out unfortunately I think my colleague on the committee petra from a Park Neighborhood

Association wasn't able to make it here in time but we're asking that legal council consider

taking action to ensure that the Wexford and UC Davis follow through with the committee benefits

agreement thank you next speaker's petra is petra here mayor this is the last speaker sub I have

last speaker for the evening would that we will adjourn and unfortunately we've already

adjourned the meeting we cannot resume back next week thank you