I'm going to start the meeting.

Please make your way to your seats.

Thank you.

Councillor Member Kaplan.

Councillor Member Maiple.

Mayor Pro Tem Guerra.

Councillor Member Jennings.

Councillor Member Vang.

Mayor McCarty.

Councillor Member Tallah Montes.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments on our Sacraminos Indigenous people and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valiant planes,

Minwak, Patwin, Winhtoon peoples and the people of the built in Rentria.

Sacraminos only federally recognized tribe.

The native people who came before us and still walked beside us today on these ancestral lands.

By choosing to gather together today in the act of practice of acknowledgment and appreciation

for Sacraminos Indigenous people's history, contributions and lives.

Thank you.

Salute, Pledge.

Mayor, we have two special presentations.

The first one is the International Transgender Day of Visibility presented by Council members.

Kaplan and Plucky-Bom.

Thank you, Mayor.

Friends.

Sorry, I'm having technological difficulties.

I'd like to call up our organizations and individuals to stand up here at the Dias Stonewall LGBTQ community center,

our advocates.

As I talk about visibility, I think it's important that we see you.

We are looking forward to seeing you again today.

Today we gather and honor to celebrate transgender day of visibility,

which we know is officially on Caesar's Chavez Day next Monday.

I'm glad we got to raise the flag and are able to keep it up for an entire week.

We are häors and we are going to have a reminder of the courage and resilience of our transgender and gender non-binary individuals who walk among us.

Each one of you here today plays a vital role in creating a world where every person can express their true selves without fear or without shame.

We know that visibility is a crucial part of the journey towards acceptance and equality.

We know that about shining a light on stories of transgender individuals,

it's about listening to your voices and embracing their experiences.

When we acknowledge their existence and celebrate their lives,

we empower them to live authentically, unapologetically and proudly.

But remember, visibility goes beyond being seen.

It requires us to cultivate empathy and understanding.

So let us stand together as leaders and educate ourselves about the challenges faced by the transgender community.

Let us be allies who uplift and amplify their voices.

Let us help fight for you.

When we advocate for your rights, we create an environment where everyone in the city of Sacramento can thrive.

Today, so let's not just celebrate the visibility, but also commit ourselves to action.

In the city of Sacramento, numerous organizations and activists have been at the forefront of supporting our transgender community.

Notable among them is the Sacramento LGBT community center.

The Gender Health Center in nonprofit working tirelessly to advocate for the rights of trans people,

specifically our trans, black, and indigenous individuals, as well as our own personal advocate in the transgender community of a Michael Mitten and many others that stood beside us this morning at the press conference.

Thank you.

But let us challenge as we move forward discrimination and combat prejudice wherever we see it, no matter the form.

Let us foster conversations that promote acceptance and love because every small act of kindness matters.

As we honor this day, let us stand in solidarity with our transgender friends and family.

Let us remind them that you are seen and you are valued and you are loved because together when we work together we can change the world and we change the community and you are a valued part of it.

I would now like to turn it over to my fellow Congress. Council member Phil Plucky-Bombs to say a couple of words in any of my other colleagues.

I only want to say Sacramento is committed to being a sanctuary city now and forever.

We will continue to protect and defend the civil rights of people no matter how or where they were born.

We are not going to negotiate on this.

I thank you all for continuing to stand with us and this effort as we move towards justice.

I know it is a long road and we have a long ways to go yet but we will be here with you supporting you all through the way.

Thank you.

We have a colleague here.

Thank you.

Council members for bringing this resolution once again to the city of Sacramento and certainly proud that we raised the flag out there.

I know that some cities are not doing it this year and so you can count on this city this year and every year we will raise the flag until next Monday but it is not just one day.

It is about every day of the year recognizing our entire community so certainly please that our city is leaning in and standing with our trans community.

Council member Vain.

Thanks.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Councilwoman Kaplan and Council member Puckabon for bringing this resolution to the council to consider and just really want to thank all the advocates for the many years and decades of work that you have done in this community.

And yeah it was a really beautiful and powerful moment earlier today when we had an opportunity to raise the flag.

I just wanted to share with folks that you know a couple years ago the Pew Research Pool came out and said that about 65% of Americans believe that they had never personally met someone who was transgender.

And I just want to remind folks that trans folks are our neighbors you know there are colleagues there are co-workers there are there are your nieces your nephews your cousins your friends right.

And so today it's it's it's definitely visibility for our transgender community but it's really about human dignity right and the ability to live freely and love freely right and so I just want to say just thank you and want to center all of you for the incredible work that you've done.

And in the community and I know that these are really tough times especially with the federal administration and what we're seeing the fear and anxiety from from our diverse communities and just thank you so much you know for all the work that you do the the labor of love that you do each day to protect and to provide for our diverse community.

So I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I too want to thank council members Kathleen and plucky bomb for this resolution.

In some of the darker corners of our nation we know that that there are those who spread misinformation who miss who miss gender who intentionally stir the emotions of hate and rejection who seek to scapegoat those who they believe are other.

And this is an important moment for all of us and I hope that not only do we recognize this occasion tonight with this resolution by the raising of the flag by what we do at each and every day to live accepting all in our community.

We also inspire others to whether in government or outside government to stand up as well and reject the gospel of hate to reject the effort to single out people who reject the efforts to divide us.

And because we are stronger united than those who seek the opposite will ever be and I'm proud to be here with all of you this evening and throughout our community life.

We know that together as human beings as human beings we will prevail. Thank you.

Thank you mayor and I align myself with my colleagues and I'm grateful not only for for council members Kaplan and plucky bomb for bringing this forward and for the organizations for all the work that you do on the ground every day.

I'm also our city employees who are also part of this work and every day one thing that really struck me is a standing out there and thinking about where we're at right now is one that I'm really proud to be on this council proud that we were the first city to do to protect our residents and to say that we're a sanctuary city for trans-gender individuals but also that we're continuing forward and we're not shutting up we're not going to shy away when things get tough.

I think that when you look around the world in history when there's a decline into fascism what happens is people get more comfortable.

The first thing gets taken away and they say oh well you know I don't want to lose my federal funding and I don't want this next thing to happen so I won't say anything or maybe I won't put the flag up or maybe we won't use that terminology when we're submitting our grant applications but then the next thing becomes the next thing becomes the next thing and before you know it people's rights are taken away.

I think that the best way to guard against that is to speak out to be loud to speak out often and to reaffirm the commitments that we've made and where we're at as a council and so I'm really proud that this is here tonight I think it's very appropriate timing and just really grateful thank you.

Thank you vice-member element.

You are loved and supported here in Sacramento and I'm proud to be an ally.

Thank you I mean it would said it's been so eloquently but I just want to remind folks that while we are here to say we see you I see all the work that you do for everyone else and I see everyone here who's gone out there and volunteered for the needs of other people others individuals others kids and I appreciate you.

If you'd like to say a couple words.

Mayor again for this proclamation and recognizing transgender day of visibility at a time when transgender rights are under attack right I think we are cognizant that other cities have pulled back their support and not done flag raising and the city of Sacramento has stood strong in the face of the current environment.

I always like to use transgender day of visibility to highlight some of the issues that the community faces transgender people are more likely to face housing insecurity the city of Sacramento goes above and beyond to create funding streams to fund shelters that are inclusive of all identities such as the ones at the Sacramento LGBT community center transgender people are more likely to face employment discrimination more likely to face harassment more likely to face violence and a litany of other issues but I think the work.

I think the work that we all do as advocates the work that the community does and the work that all of you do in your respective seats helps to hopefully stem some of the some of the flow of that so just again thank you for all of all that you do for your city I think earlier today we were in a press conference and the thing that I said was transgender people make up less than 1% of the population so at a time when transgender rights are under attack we need the 99% right we need everyone else everyone who's in the city.

We need folks like yourselves folks in the audience and the folks behind me that show up for the trans community and help protect us especially in times like this thank you.

Mayor would you like to join us I'd like to call in even our city employees are within the LGBTQ community come on up we'll take a picture mayor like to join us.

Our next presentation is for Cesar Chavez day presented by mayor pro tem gara.

I'm clear you know here a very honored to present and recognize Cesar Chavez day Cesar each of his day of for a person who inspired a movement and a movement who inspired people and to make change.

Our own district six commissioners mine well when rostro Isaac and Zalas Victoria Vazquez and with her daughters well as well our commissioner here from the low writer commission Francine Matta Natalie Luna as well the low writers and back when Bishop Gallego is here the low writers were advocating for the farm workers because many of them were farm workers themselves.

Ed Perez who is with our D 1000 and a member of the city's Filipino American community and Roman crystal ball who also with SCIU they'll give us a little more details about the annual Cesar Chavez March that SCIU is supporting the past but and the efforts that a papa have done to recognize the work of farm workers those specifically with the leadership of filivere crews and Larry at Leong Marbella Salas our measure you commissioner in the Gardaland neighborhood association who are doing their own.

That's right thank you are doing their own gardening themselves out there in Northgate Garden Land as well Anthony Oriba the parks commissioner for in our in our county but also working for congressman Ami bearer there for an intern over there as well from our office.

that that that they ate all of our leaders including Seth à Chavez and who have done the work to recognized their efforts on the the new mural the Southside Park, we heard a little bit about that during the budget hearing today Caroline Kah Конciél has who here will has told him that the work will not only with the Latino Economics Council and helping us with our efforts on hiring and but she

and who have done the work to recognize their efforts on the new mural, the Southside Park.

We heard a little bit about that during the budget hearing today.

Caroline Cavillas, who here was involved in our own work, not only with the Latino Economic

Council and helping us with our efforts on hiring and recruitment, but she's on the

steering committee for the Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference that started by

Sacramento and now it's become the largest Southside Chavez Youth Conference in California,

giving young people a chance in leadership from the fuel network.

Those are attorneys who have been helping out our farm workers who, by the way, if you

go out into the rural area, there's not a lot of housing out there.

So many of them live in Sacramento and they commute to the farmlands.

And those that are helping them out with legal services here is the fuel network, Marcus

Tang and Claudia Rios Manso, as well giving them a big round of applause.

On the far end over there, my sister, my fellow Hornet, my carnal over here, Ruthie

Varra from North Cal Resist, both of us, who we started off in the college's migrant

program, both kids who worked in the fields ourselves and then have committed ourselves to

making sure that people are not food and secure providing food at the George S. Center

and throughout this area for families who need food and assistance.

Roberto Alvarado here, our local photographer documenting and bringing sure that all of these

issues are, when we think about the farm worker movement, the Royal Chicano Air Force,

through art they documented and advocated.

Let's give her a big round of applause.

Yeah, González is well here who have been with the Mexican American Cultural Center and

the Latino Economic Council working with so many of their history and farm working,

but making sure that traditions and cultures aren't lost, as we do work, we sing with joy and

continue that. And that was part of a big thing in this fight here. So, Cesar Chavez came back

after the war and realized after serving as country in the U.S. Navy that he was not being

respected for his work. He was not being respected for the labor that he was providing and wanted

equal recognition and dignity. And he came to Sacramento here and met many Sacramento leaders

are mayor, former mayor Joe Surnah. Cesar Chavez along with the Lotus, Wertha, Phillip Veracruz,

and Larry Itliom came here and Sacramento itself, why we recognize it in Sacramento,

is because here in our city we gave them the opportunity to voice their concerns at the state

capital to make change not only here but for the entire country. And since 1993, the City of

Sacramento has recognized March 31st, SS, Satis Chavez Day, Day of Service as a city holiday,

continuing this movement that continues to say about it's not about an individual, it's about the

fight for individual recognition of human dignity and the honor of their work. And so to

discuss that is Mark Grossman who worked hand in hand with SS, Satis Chavez, our own city of Sacramento

resident from Curtis Park. Mark Grossman, let's give him a big round of applause.

Thank you mayor and members on behalf of the United Farm workers, we want to express our gratitude

to council member Garo for this honor. Cesar had a little known application. He sometimes had

trouble keeping secretaries or office workers. When he spotted young people with talent,

especially if they came from a farm worker or working class family, he would convince them that

they could be something more, you know, accountants, administrators, attorneys, negotiators.

Sure, he wanted results in the office, but he saw the greater good of helping people fulfill

their dreams. Dream some of them didn't even know they had at the time. He literally gave hundreds

of young women and men opportunities. No one would have given Cesar Chavez when he was a young

migrant worker with an eighth grade education. And wasn't that what he wanted for farm workers too,

the chance to be able to sit across the bargaining table from their employers as equals.

So they wouldn't just have to take orders all their lives. His mission was really about empowerment.

And just an observation, I think it's very fitting that the first two items on your agenda

follow each other because Cesar unequivocally supported what was called gay rights back in the

1970s long before it was popular. I met Harvey Mills, a company Cesar to events in San Francisco

in the mid 1970s. So for that, thank you so much, councilmember. We were very grateful.

Thank you very much, Mark.

Thank you.

He has a long, consistent effort and work and for our community here from Sacramento,

from our own Curtis Park district. Five, oh no, now it's seven I may say.

And then also here to make some remarks about the actual, some of the work done today from the

fuel network. I'd like to bring up Marcus Tang as well as Carolyn Cynthia, I think it is,

from the fuel network here because of their commitment and their work that they've been doing

for our city here for the last eight years, making sure that people have access to legal rights.

The laws aren't good if they can't defend themselves with them.

Yeah, thank you councilmember. It's Claudia.

Well, yeah, it's okay. It's fine. But we just want to express our gratitude to the city of Sacramento

for this meaningful recognition and honor of Cesar Chavez, whose legacy continues to inspire the

fight for dignity, equity and justice for farm workers, working families and immigrants, fuel or the

the Sacramento fuel, so the Sacramento family unity and education and legal network for immigrants

carries the spirit forward every day, standing alongside immigrants, farm workers and

underserved communities through legal advocacy, education and organizing.

We work alongside amazing partners, many of whom are here today, who already provide these services

to the community and our experts in the field. Fuel seeks to uplift ongoing community efforts

and identify needs that arise. Thank you to our partners for providing services with dignity

and respect to the community they serve. As we celebrate this resolution, we also remember that

the work to which Cesar Chavez dedicated his life is far from over. Many farm workers and

immigrants continue to face unsafe conditions, barriers to basic rights and the ongoing threat

of family separation. Fuel remains committed to building a future where every worker and every

immigrant is seen, valued and protected. Thank you for standing with us.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that for all the hard worker fuel. Give them a big round of applause.

Would not be, would be something that probably Cesar would say, well, why are we doing this? You

know, you have to have some action and to talk a little bit about you can do. What can people do

is Ed Betis to talk here. SCIU has been a constant supporter of ensuring that the Cesar Chavez

March happens every year. Ed, how can people, Ed, our RD1000 local elected member, how can

the public participate in this effort? Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Gator for the invitation and it's great to see the community behind here to help us celebrate

Cesar Chavez Day. Speaking about action, that's one thing Cesar and the movement really was

really pushing for is the issue is about not just thinking about what we're talking about what to do,

but actually taking action. So we actually do have the Cesar Chavez March coming up on March 29th,

it begins at Southside Park. So if you want to show support for what Cesar and movements to

toward, that would be one opportunity to do that. But I did want to mention because I know we're

going to hear a lot about all the historic work that Cesar did, but I just want to remind folks

that behind every successful community organizer, just a community that helps support it.

And I want to mention three specific things. Number one, you already mentioned

Pilibe de Cruz and La Rietlion and all the Filipino mononks that stood side by side with Cesar

and the United Fine Workers on that struggle. And also, they had a lot of mentors. And one of them

is actually somebody that passed away recently, but there were a lot of people that supported Cesar

along the way. But I also wanted to thank SEIU, particularly SEIU, local 1000s, the State

Employees Union, because 25 years ago, a lot of members of SEIU stood together along with other

proponents of the bill that created the Cesar Chavez holiday. Believe it or not, I was 25 years

ago. And I see a few of them here. We have Rudy Bada, Roman Cristobal, Rudy Amada, I think I saw him

earlier, and a few other folks. And that's it mayor was working in the legislature at that time when

it was introduced. Yes, we still remember the 25,000 postcards and petitions that we had to

deliver to Governor Davis at the time. So, but I did want to mention one final thing regarding

the intersection of issues regarding LGBT rights, transgender rights, workers rights,

farm workers rights, you know, with all the stuff happening in Washington DC,

you know, in Spanish, all that is called La Lucha, the struggle. And here we are 25 years later,

La Lucha is continuing. So, Viva La Lucha, Viva Cesar Chavez.

Thank you very much.

As the before I pass it over here to our mayor, you know, I wanted to just, you know,

many people forget that the city of Sacramento is in Sydney. If you can look up their

rows, their crop rows, you know, and those don't get picked by themselves. So, it is our history,

and it's one that we should continue to support. So, with that, thank you very much Mr. Mayor for

this opportunity. Councilor Mayor Vang, first. Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Garrett did an

amazing job. So, I'll keep my comments short. I really just want to take this moment to think

Mayor Pro Tem, Garrett, for bringing this resolution to honor Cesar Chavez's life and legacy.

You know, one of my favorite quotes from Cesar Chavez is if you really want to make a friend,

go to someone's house and eat with them. The people who give you their food, give you their heart.

And I share that quote, because one of my favorite quotes from him is because all of you right now,

because you're being recognized for the great work that you do is that you give your heart

to community, date in, and date out. And I want to say thank you for that, right? From workers'

rides to immigrant rides, everything that you all do. You're really at the forefront. We're

elected officials up here, but really we follow your lead in terms of the work that you do. So,

thank you for continuing his legacy. And I know he's looking down just really, really proud of

our community in Sacramento. So, thank you. Yes. Thank you, Council Member. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

I know that our former late Mayor Joseph Sernna and Cesar Chavez would be both be proud,

but perplexed by this attention to them all these years later. But as Ed said, you know,

we have a lot of work to do. And so, this is the culmination of not just 25 years of the

holiday of remembering, but 50 plus years of working on, we have people without a voice.

And that's what we do every day. You know, we have fancy titles. And I'm always reflected that

when you look about history of our society, it's not people up here who are on the

diast, who we see in the community. You call us honorable and assembly member and council member

and mayor. It's people without a title who have made the biggest difference. Cesar Chavez,

Mahatma Gandhi, you know, across the globe, people who really stepped up, rose apart. And so,

you know, for those people in the community to remember today, it's not all of us. It's you

that can continue the work to make sure we make a difference here in Sacramento and these

trying times across our nation. So, Sacramento has stepped up and honored Cesar Chavez and the

farm workers, as council member said, for decades. And when the farm workers came up here in March,

it was our community. And even a few years ago, me and you and supervisor Phil Serna raised money

for farm workers to get burritos when they wanted to make sure they had food to stay out there in

March, from stocked into Sacramento to get the governor signed a bill to bring economic justice

to our workers who work in the field. So, the work continues, but Sacramento is a special place

in the heart of this movement. So, certainly proud that we honor Cesar Chavez day. And thank you,

council member for bringing this resolution. I sat near same seat and honored the Chavez family

for a decade here doing the same thing. So, the work continues.

Thank you. And the real way to do a clap for this, everybody knows.

I look at the seat of Mr. Mayor of Utah, my joining us here is down with everyone.

Thanks

ilton

Okay. Thank you so much to everyone that joined us today for these really important

resolutions to embrace inclusivity and make sure that everyone can call Sacramento

home safely. We are moving along to the consent calendar. Are there any members that would

like to pull some items? Councillor Member Kaplan. To speak briefly on item

7. Councillor Member Maible. Three comments on item 2.

Two. Oh, and then I erase whoever punched up. Anyone else?

It goes Roger. Councillor Member Dickinson.

Comments on item 14. Item 14. Sending anyone else?

Okay. Well then let's get started. We'll do item number two.

Thank you Madam Vice Mayor. Just really quickly. I just want to uplift that this is an

addendum to the Floor and Road Vision Zero Safety Project but obviously there's been

a lot of conversation in recent months and years about Vision Zero and pedestrian safety

on our streets. So this is just one of the many projects that our incredible city staff

has not only gone out, done the hard work, gotten grants, pulled all the money together

and is actually doing real world improvements to one of the most dangerous corridors in our

city which is Floor and Road but now this new addendum is going to make sure that there

are improved signal, improved signaling and also will extend it to Franklin Bull of our

which is so necessary and so I'm really excited about this and I just want to take, I know

that we all do this and we should just take every opportunity to uplift the work that

the staff does on this because these things don't happen overnight and they don't happen

by chance they happen because of the hard work and dedication of our team so thank you.

Thank you so much Councillor Member. Moving along Councillor Member Kaplan.

I had a number seven. Thank you Vice Mayor. I just want to highlight and thank our fire

department for the work. They are just one of three agency statewide to receive an additional

amount of funding for the California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship Program with this funding

and additional 60 youth between the ages of 18 and 24 who are looking to enter and pursue

career and fire and emergency medical services will be supported by receiving stipends and

for training, equipment, uniform and whatnot. In light of the shortage we know we're experiencing

with our EMTs and paramedics in the region. It's so important that we invest in this next

generation and support the programs that are creating those career pathways. So again,

thank you for our fire department and city staff for securing this funding. Congratulations.

Great comments and Councillor Member Dickinson on item 14.

Thank you Vice Mayor. In 1965 the Good Neighbors Child Development Center began a remarkable

history teaching 52 children and preschool at the Alan A.M.A. Church in Del Paso Heights.

In 1989 the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency made a loan to what I call the good

have always called the Good Neighbors Club to construct a facility just off of Grand Avenue

in Del Paso Heights where the Good Neighbors Child Development Center has been located ever

since. And over the years the number of children who have enjoyed the benefits of the Good Neighbors

Club services are too numerous to count. But tonight we have with us Dr. Oly Mack and board

members from the Good Neighbors Club I would like to ask them to rise and be recognized this evening

if they would for their wonderful community service and for their wonderful community service and

contributions over many decades. And I'm not sure I think Dr. Mack may have been the board

president since the beginning. I'm not totally not quite, not quite. But in any case we're forgiving

a loan here but this loan has been repaid so many times over to our community that it is

only right and appropriate that we take this action tonight. I want to also especially recognize

Leslie Fritchie. Leslie you take a bow too. Leslie Fritchie of our staff who has been instrumental

again for many many years in helping the Good Neighbors Club helping all of us throughout the city

but especially in Del Paso Heights and district two generally. So it is a real pleasure to be able

to do this and this will lay the foundation for potential expansion of the Child Development Center

as well to do even more good work in the years ahead. So thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much. All right I'm looking for a motion in a second.

And second? Oh, that's right. We'll give a motion in a second and we'll do public comment.

We have eight public speakers. Our first three are Michael Bevin's, Kay Crab and Isaac Gonzalez if

you can please line up in the aisle.

I don't know if I'm speaking on two items two or 21. Am I speaking on just one?

It should you get two minutes? Two minutes for either one of those or block out.

Okay. Well, items one through 16 is the consent calendar. Okay. The number. All right. The number two is up.

Activation Transportation Commission. The Transportation Commission has a work plan and my

goal here today is like I think most of us agree that it's awesome. It's just now that it comes to you

you got the big as always decision of whether or not to fund it. Have a great plan but if it's

on the side it doesn't really help us much. I know there's many many decisions you have to make in

terms of what to spend the money on but for what it's worth my lesson to him that's I just say

road safety, road violence should be kind of up at the top and this is a plan to help

mitigate that. So thank you. Please, please fund it. Thank you.

Our next speaker is Kay Crab.

Hi, my name is Kay Crab. I'm one of the leaders of strong sacked town. I'm speaking on item one.

I just asked the city council to support and agenda is the active transportation commissions annual report and work plan. Thank you very much.

Our next speaker is Isaac Gonzales. Good evening mayor and council members. My name is Isaac Gonzales and I serve as the vice chair of the active transportation commission.

I'm here tonight. Night to voice my strong support for the commission's recommendations and work plan and respectfully request that you prioritize its funding in the coming fiscal year.

And I recognize that we're facing difficult choices due to a challenging budget.

But investments in active transportation are not optional. They are foundational.

The work plan we put together is in a wish list. It's a strategy grounded in equity, safety and long-term fiscal responsibility.

These recommendations represent hundreds of hours of volunteer work, community feedback and expert review.

And they align directly with the city's adopted climate, health and mobility goals.

We cannot afford to delay the work of building safer, more accessible streets.

The cost of inaction, traffic violence, health disparities and neighborhood disconnection are far greatest greater than the modest investments we're asking for.

Funding this work plan means safer routes to schools for our children, more independence for our seniors,

and better options for residents who rely on walking and biking and transit every single day.

So in these tight budget years, it's even more important to invest in solutions that provide the highest return.

Active transportation does exactly that.

So I urge you fund this year's work plan.

Let's build a city where every resident regardless of age, income, class,

creed can move safely and freely. Thank you for your time and for your continued leadership.

Our next three speakers, Garrett Sheen for item one, Alyssa Lee for item one, and then Mac Worthy for item five.

If you could please line up in the aisle.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. My name is Garrett Sheen. I at least believe I'm speaking to you on the pedestrian safety matter. Is that correct?

All right.

I am old enough to have witnessed.

I'm sorry, sir. What item are you speaking on?

Part of me.

Are you speaking on the consent calendar?

We're going through the consent. Are you looking to talk about the act of transportation item?

I thought I had an understanding I was going to be speaking about safety for pedestrians.

Wonderful. So that's item 21. If you like, we can put you in that group for act of transportation.

I can defer to others to get other work done.

We'll put you in the item that you want to speak on. So that'll come up later.

Okay, may I ask how late much later?

Actually, Camille, let's just reset the clock and please give your comments.

You could stay. Please stay. I don't want you. I'm sorry. Just resume your comments.

Your comments apply to one of the items on the consent calendar.

All right. Well, I'm obviously confused, but I'm prepared to go ahead.

Okay, please go ahead and my apologies.

Okay, I'm old enough and it had been driving in California long enough to see

the cultural changes occurring with regard to driving and transportation and automobiles

in metropolitan areas. I think what has happened is that California drivers have developed

and named patients as well as an inattentiveness that affects the safety of all of us who are on the road.

I want to distinguish now between pedestrians and cars and cars and cars. So with regard to

pedestrians and cars, what do the data reveal about injury and death and what can be done to

lower the accident rate? The data and regulations with regard to workers in dangerous traffic lanes

is informative. Visibility is the key to fewer accidents.

Calocia mandates that employees expose to vehicular traffic hazards where,

especially during the hours of darkness, where high visibility, safety, apparel, meeting

ANSI standards and that includes vest jackets or shirts that have retro reflective material

visible to a thousand feet. All right. Dark clothing, especially when it blends with the

background colors or at night is the pedestrian equivalent to the driver's not wearing a seatbelt.

It's a matter of luck. If visibility is a key to pedestrian safety, then we should, I believe,

allow pedestrians, if they wish, to get reflective vest or clothing. So that fire stations in the

metropolitan area. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comment. Your time is complete.

Your time is complete. Your time is at.

I'm sorry. We do two minutes for every single person. But you can sign up again and we can speak on

the last one. Your comments are complete. Your time is at. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you

very much. Thank you so much for coming to the council, Tainberg. Thank you. Your time is complete.

Thank you. Alissa Lee. After Alissa, we have Mac Worthy, Nick Golleng and Keon Bliss.

Hello. My name is Alissa Lee. I live in District 4 and I'm speaking on item 1. I first

repeat everything that Isaac Gonzalez said about the value of this Active Transportation

Commission report. I would also like to see this agendaized. I support all commission reports

being agendasized as a default measure. These commissions meet every month. They are appointed by

council members and mayors. They have staff reports that go that's been multiple meeting times and

hours to create them. They deserve to be discussed, especially when the report includes recommendations

that really relate to funding that is needed in order to make the reports valuable and serve

actual outcomes. So please agendaize the item and make that a practice for future meetings. Thank you.

Mac Worthy?

We heard a lot about Canvas. Nobody brought up the real thing that would help the police

upon. Do you realize that you can't smoke your weed? How about you brought it up? Tell the

people it's true. Now who do you and the designer know that you tell the people you can't smoke

your weed? Nobody said that. I have a friend whose mom was behind City College. She had to go outside

smoke her junk. Now somebody's going to pay the pipe here. The police department up to their neck.

How many times that you get a call for smoking in your joint? That it becomes a penalty.

Nobody said that. All those regulations you put in there but you don't know where you are

in the middle capacity of business and safety for the people of drugs. America used the most drug

in any country in the world. That's being challenged to make sure to come here. If I was in another

country I'd get my drugs in that community. I spoke years ago. A pill to get up and a pill to lay

down. That would be a visible soldier. That would be an invisible soldier number nine.

Coat 19 can't do that. You can't have how to church in the synagogue number.

So your years off target here by educating people. When you get you educate them in a way that they

can't use it. Just speak common old knowledge. Look you can't smoke your shit here. You've got to go

somewhere else. A lot of these people is the second and third generation. I smoke it.

I don't say don't because I drink Coney Egg. I don't get loaded.

Where am I going to dance? I don't be drunk and drive. I don't stop wanting to bring them out of the church.

I want every DNA that I read and I'll bet you the hundred dollar in my pocket you won't find

on the alcohol right here right across the street. Thank you for your time, your comment.

Thank you for your comment. Your time is complete. Nick Golley and then Keon Bliss.

Good evening, Council. Welcome back. Thank you so much. I was just thinking it's been a minute

since I've been at this podium. So good to see everybody again. Nick Golley, Chief Program Officer

with the gathering in. We are the cities previously and hopefully continually. Selected emergency

shelter provider at the North Fifth Emergency Shelter Program. Just wanted to start out with

gratitude for the city. DCR Rolf is back there. He's been a fantastic partner for us,

providing great customer service and a lot of support as we've been there in that program since

November 1st of just last year. Our mission statement at the gathering in is to meet people where

they are, inspire hope and walk alongside them on their journey to sustainable housing.

Over the last few months, what does that look like? We have a mental health clinician that's

working on site, providing group and individual clinical therapy for our guests. We're hosting

employment and budgeting classes for our guests. They've been so well attended. We've had to add

additional days throughout the week because so many people are interested in getting back on their

feet. We have a partnership with local Intech College. They are providing their nursing students

multiple times a week in our program to help tend to medical needs, basic medical needs that

might come up for our guests. Sacramento County heart teams have been on site also twice a week

in rolling people in behavioral health services. As a force multiplier during inclement weather,

when the National Weather Service has determined that there'd be a warning or some other type of

caution in place for weather events, we have surged for an additional 20 people to come in and get

some safety and some stability and some care and some support. We've provided a total of more

than 600 bed nights since November for that additional service. My favorite number to report is

that to date, 65 people have moved into improved housing destinations out of that shelter program.

And nearly half of those went directly to permanent housing. These are people that are no longer

thank you for your comment. Your time is complete. Thank you so much for the partnership.

Thank you. Thank you. Keon Bliss.

I just want to echo the comments that were spoken to item one, but I'm really here to speak to

item 16, specifically for the reason that the confusion that you just experienced with the

previous speaker who wanted to speak on item one and 21. You have an opportunity with

making amendments to the council rules or procedure where any single one as our

doing elected representatives can make make changes to council rules or procedures and

make additional amendments besides the poultry one around standardizing the planning commissions

and time. Because honestly, I've been coming to these meetings more like very often as a community

member since 2016. And I have seen the council rules change significantly. Most prominently

starting after black community members came out in force during the stuff on Clark protests

that were happening in 2018. And I have seen the public off agenda matters be moved to the end

of the meeting. The beginning of the meeting and then back to the end. I have seen comment

council or comment times reduced from three minutes to two minutes. And I have seen the

decorum officer be appointed as the city clerk who really cuts people off after exactly two minutes

regardless of who you are. I can tell you 100%. If you don't like attitudes as speakers like me

or other community members, I have one phrase for you. Attitude is a reflection of leadership.

And frankly, cutting people like there is nothing respectful or polite about cutting somebody

off on their microphone and limiting their comments to two minutes. There are many things you can

do such as extend our time limits or bring matters not on the agenda back to the beginning so

that you can actually let people who like rather than having them wait for two hours until the end

of the meeting to actually participate. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comment.

Your time is complete. You have exceeded your speaking time. Please take your seat.

By continuing to speak, you are disrupting the orderly conduct of the meeting and our

inviolation of chapter five of the city council rules of procedure. Thank you, Keon.

If you do not stop, you will be ordered to leave the meeting. Thank you, Keon.

Okay. We have a motion and we have a second. Can we please do a roll call vote?

I want to confirm that the motion was made by council member Maple and then seconded by council member

Kaplan. Council member Kaplan. Aye. Council member Dickinson. Aye.

By council member Plucky-Pong. Council member Maple. Hi. Mayor Pro-Tam-Garra.

Council member Jennings. Yes. Council member Vang. Yes. Vice Mayor Talmontis. Yes.

Motion carries. And we are moving along to public hearings. Item number 17. Woodspring-Sweet-Hotel-Rezone.

And we have Jose Quintanilla and Garrett to present.

Good evening. Vice Mayor Talmontis. Members of the city council. My name is Jose Quintanilla.

Please, we need quiet in the council chambers. We have staff presenting. Thank you.

My name is Jose Quintanilla. I am associate planner with the Department of Community Development,

the item before you is P204013. Woodspring-Sweet's Hotel-Rezone, which is a request to develop a

four-story 122-room hotel at 2270 Del Paso Road within the Natomas Crossing Plan unit development

in North Natomas. Staff recommends approval of the following entitlements for this project.

A reason of the property. From EC50PUD to C2PUD. A schematic plan amendment to the Natomas

Crossing PUD to allow for hotels. And site plan and design review to construct the hotel and

associate it. Thank you. This concludes my presentation. Staff and the applicant team are here

if you have any questions. Thank you. Thank you so much. Madam Clerk, is there any public comment on this item?

One public speaker, Mr. McWerley. And Mr. McWerley, we're speaking about this item only.

Your comments have to pertain to this.

I have to tell me that. I've been young. You're just born. So keep it as I say. You speak out of

terms as you got. You got no thought of telling me what to say here. I'm going to free to

switch. I said what the hell I want to say. Okay, you have two minutes.

People on with that being a hotel. Are you changing the name of it and putting people in there?

But you're still using the TOT tax status. What's on you doing? See, if that's what you're doing,

that's illegal. Whatever you do. For the hotels to have the TOT tax and you got homeless people in

there. They could not survive as a hotel, but you kept the name of it and put the homeless people

in there. See, these are the things that I want to tell the Trump people when they come.

Thug is them here. That's the kid in the city. Thug is them. No professional at all.

Thug is them here. There. Thug is them. You know you don't supposed to be using that hotel TOT

tax. When you're taking homeless money to house them there, that man is supposed to go back to

house and homeless people. That's the reason that you need a private audit to come in and get you

on the oath of how that money been spent. Those that lie put them in jail.

Any other speakers? Okay. Council member Kaplan.

I just want to clarify things. If fellow council members have questions, we do have the

developers attorney here, but we don't need to hear from attorneys. I just want to thank

city staff because this is a construction of a brand new hotel. It will bring the 11th hotel

coming to North Natomas and additional 122 rooms that will contribute to TOT so that we can bring

increased tourism to not only North Natomas, but the city of Sacramento. What I love about this

is this is on the corner of a really busy intersection that's tucked away behind a commercial

development. It's currently grassland. Nothing has been there as long as I have lived in Sacramento.

And I think this is a great use because it's looked at employment area to change it and zone it

for a hotel because not only with the construction of this hotel, it's the closest hotel to

our North Natomas regional park intercom for baseball and whatever else. So we're very excited

to have them come join our city so I'd like to open and close this public hearing.

And I will second that. And you're moving the item as well.

Okay and I'll second that too. Man, I'm clear. Please call the roll.

I

I

I

Can some remember plucky bomb.

Council member maple.

Council member gara hi council member Jennings. Yes council member vang. Yes.

Vice mayor Talimantes. Yes.

So I have council member. I'm sorry mayor McCarty and council member maple absent.

All right and now we're going to move along to item number 18 our city manager executive recruitment

process and I'm going to hand it off to council member Jennings who is going to kick us off.

Thank you. Thank you very much vice mayor. Good evening everyone.

Tonight our executive recruitment firm and consultant Pam Derby from CPS HR will be

presenting to us three items. Item number one will be updating us on her conversations

with all of us here on the dius on what characteristics skill sets and attributes we want to see

in our next city manager number two Pam will be updating us on what community engagement and

outreach we want to see happen based on her conversations with each one of us and then finally

number three Pam will be updating us on the total compensation survey that her firm completed

for this hiring process. Throughout this process we have focused on making sure that these

conversations are happening in public. Sharing our process includes dates and times

for when we would be meeting to discuss this process. The recommendation from CPS HR continue

this process. They have been presented in a clear cut schedule and outreach program.

As a mayor and council we have asked them to review the market for total compensation related to

a city manager search. I appreciate how they have included our past compensation practices

that included a recommendation for us to consider focused on bringing our compensation package

in alignment with what others are providing. We have not shied away from having all the information

in our past compensation packages reviewed and included in this analysis. I am grateful to

each of my colleagues for taking the interview process with Pam seriously and with that without

further ado I would like to welcome our CPS HR consultant Pam Derby to the podium.

Good evening council and council vice mayor. I do not see my there we go.

So this evening as council member Jennings mentioned since I have the last time I was here I have met

with each one of you some in person some via zoom to talk about the characteristics that you are

looking for in the next city manager the engagement process that you are looking for with the community

and stakeholders and also we did do a very extensive salary survey in conjunction with your HR department.

So the things we will be talking about again the ideal candidate attributes stakeholder engagement

the recruitment timeline as well and the salary study results. So when I spoke with each of you you

talked about the attributes you were looking for in the next city manager and I can summarize them

in these seven categories but I will give you a little bit more you did receive a very extensive

packet in your agenda that talked about that summarized all of it I don't want to it will be a

very long meeting if I go over all of it but the first was fairness transparency and council relations

which is treating all council members equally fostering trust and transparency building strong

relationships adapts the your communication styles and securing consensus. The second is leadership

and organizational culture which you agreed with setting a culture of efficiency collaboration

and customer service and leading by example empowering the staff and valuing innovation.

We also talked a lot about public engagement and community connection and you all actively

support engaging with the residents businesses and diverse communities you'd like to see the next

city manager do all of those things you want the next city manager to listen to public concerns and

prioritize inclusive decision making with all of you you want someone with experience and strategic

vision so an experience leader with California specific expertise knowledgeable in governance

public safety finance and infrastructure you want someone with good decision making skills good

governance skills so they're skilled in policy implementation labor relations and data driven

decisions you want to have them ensure that their effective project follow through and operational

excellence with staff you want a visionary leader who believes in innovation so uniting the

council and staff under a shared vision and tackling key issues like homelessness housing and

modernization and last but not least of course is integrity and professionalism you want someone who

respects the governance structure acts with integrity and avoids political entanglements you want

some committed to leaving Sacramento in a better state so in total you're looking for a strategic

adaptable leader who fosters teamwork drives results and strengthens strengthens public trust

the next thing we talked about was all the community engagement stakeholder engagement

there were very many pardon me there were several different several of you had different ideas

regarding engagement so but you do want most of you do want to expand community engagement as a whole

and certainly had different ideas though about how we would do that in this process so you want

increase outreach to diverse communities especially in north and south Sacramento you'd like to see

partnering with nonprofits to engage underrepresented groups and gathering community and staff

input in this process early to help shape your decision making you want to have a structured but

efficient process community engagement stakeholder engagement for this process so you want to balance

community input with efficiency so some council members do prefer meetings others do not

you want us to use structured interactive stakeholder meetings instead of open mic sessions

meaning that if we do town hall meetings that they have a structure to them they have two to three

different questions that we're asking and that we stick to those questions your preferred methods

were surveys breakout sessions and virtual town halls you also talked about key stakeholder groups

to engage you know these would include community groups business and economic leaders labor

organizations obviously staff charter officers department heads etc so staff and leadership input

we're looking at speaking with the charter officers certainly having a survey that the department

heads and staff an online survey that they can participate in and then so we would get those

internal perspectives to help you identify what their leadership priorities are so you're really

prioritizing a balanced efficient engagement process ensuring diverse input you favor structured

stakeholder discussion surveys and targeted outreach you want early input from staff business

labor and community groups and you believe that's essential for trust and informed decision-making

and obviously it helps with the transparency so the timeline for this and again there was a

much more robust timeline in your agenda but so between the last time we spoke on February 28th

and today it's been a planning and preparation period I've spoken with all of you some of you

have started to send to be community groups that you'd like us to speak with and we have already

started to schedule some of those interactions those are Zoom meetings etc talking to different

groups we believe that with the engagement activities that we are suggesting which is a combination

of online survey a virtual town hall meetings and in-person town hall meetings obviously all of

those conversations with community groups we expect we'd be hearing from working with your chiefs

of staff to identify some of those groups that that would last until April 21st after that period

we'd be putting together all the recruitment materials that would include the marketing brochure

placing the ads etc the active recruitment period we are suggesting that this posts on May 5th

and that we have a final filing date or an open till filled date with the first resume review date

of June 9th so that's a five week period that this would be posted we'd be out there doing

aggressive outreach and looking for candidates selection activities which would include

CPS HR doing comprehensive screening interviews with those candidates that meet the minimum

qualifications the council doing at least two sets of interviews with those candidates and we

would anticipate that wrapping up by the end of July after you've identified a candidate then we

would do reference checks actually we tend to do reference checks on your final candidates on all

of them so if you have two to three finalists you want to speak with we do our comprehensive

reference checks on all of those finalists and then when you have identified a candidate and we

help negotiate the employment agreement with you etc and do the final background check in

California we cannot do a criminal background check until job offers on the table because of

ban the box but certainly that would take place at that point but I would assure you also that

any candidates that we recommend that you speak with we will have already done a significant

media check on those individuals that will have gone through the firm that we use we do it

in-house and a firm that we use to do all of those media checks so any candidate that we recommend to

you all of that will have been done ahead of time

so the salary study was there was a salary study done I believe a year to 18 months ago or so

the P and P E committee did ask us to do a another supplemental study we did expand the

organizations that we looked at that were not included in that previous study but I will say that

our findings were not that dissimilar from what was identified in the report in the salary study

that was done by the HR department and so one of the things that we did we conducted this

comprehensive analysis and we included actual salary and total compensation we also incorporated

cost of living adjustments and compared data with multiple agencies to assess competitiveness

we evaluated total compensation elements including base salary deferred compensation

car phone allowances longevity other paid incentives and value of both leave and employer paid

health benefits now one of the things that you have heard repeatedly in the media etc is that

Mr. Chan was the highest paid city manager in the state of California which we found is not to be true

there are obviously factors that weigh into that obviously some of the places that they

look for that information they don't it's not the same as it is if you look at say the state

controllers office in the way that it's reported one of the things that skewed Mr. Chan's salary

was that there was a supplemental leave incentive that was provided to him of 2,320 hours

there was a payout in with that of $200,000 so that significantly inflated the total compensation

which then distorted your market comparison somewhat I would anticipate that that's not something

that you would be negotiating with the next city manager it's not the norm and so that would

not play into your negotiations but we do want to be transparent about the fact that it was there

and that did help inflate what your total compensation package looks like when we do the assessment

and we look at all of these surrounding cities we looked at other cities in the state with comparable

populations etc the salary only is actually 3% behind the market average when we look at the total

compensation if you included that leave incentive it's 47% above the market but the reality is

that I assume you wouldn't be negotiating that so the total compensation is 5% behind the market

average so we are recommending that you reduce obviously or eliminate that supplemental leave

incentive you are going to be negotiating anything that you do with the city manager obviously we

would suggest that you're doing performance evaluations every year that you're sitting down with

the city manager coming up with those goals and objectives so that you can be looking at that

salary on an annual basis looking at what those incentives are they should be looking at those things

with you we suggest aligning the severance severance with standard practices right now that's about

that six to 12 months of severance for most city managers in the state new city managers if

they're first city manager appointment you know they've been an assistant city manager most of them

are getting a starting of six months so and then we recommend increasing possibly deferred compensation

and then modifying the minimum of a maximum salary range so right now what we are suggesting is the

10% of minimum range would be 273 311 and the top of the range would be 426 84 now obviously I

deferred to the city attorney because I'm sure that that's something that would need to be voted

on to extend that salary range but those are our recommendations at this point

so it questions and comments I am done my apologies mayor thanks thanks Pam just a few things

one thank you so much for taking the time to meet with all of us individually to get our insight and

just feedback on what we want to see so several things one the first piece is around the recruitment

process but let me do that part last since you just talked about the salary so the range that you're

providing you said 273,000 at the low range to 420 does is that the entire compensation packet or

that's just a salary that's just base salary so this is an include so the 420,000 in terms of your

recommendation does not include like health or anything this is just the base salary okay so that's

important to know I think just because I in PMP I was the one who asked for that that analysis

in comparisons I appreciate the chart in the packet as well in comparison to the similar size city

so I really appreciate that so yeah that that that will be up for debate and discussion among my

colleagues so looking forward to that conversation and then I I just had a question regarding the

recruitment process I review the timeline that you presented and saw that community and care

holders can we go back to the timeline if you can go back to the timeline real quick yeah

that community and care holders were part of the early process of the timeline so when I looked

on the timeline it was around late March April yeah April the engagement activities and I'm

assuming if you can reconfirm that the engagement activities really the purpose of that is to get

community feedback in order to shape the qualities and the application correct okay we would be

having that conversation in those town hall meetings in the conversations with the organizations

that you would provide to us you know our it's always what are the attributes that you're looking

for for the city manager to be successful we certainly are curious about what they'd like to see

the city manager working on in the first year to two years what are their priorities and we think

all of this information helps you it helps you come up with the questions that we ask them it helps

us come up with the questions it helps us look for the right types of candidates in the active

recruitment and then also you know we're certainly curious about anything else that they might

like to add but we do want to keep it to two to three standard questions give a half hour or so

for each question to let people provide that feedback we would provide you with a report regarding

that we've done this in many for many organizations and then provided a very comprehensive feedback

and the other person that it's really important for us the new city manager because it provides them

with some early feedback about some of the things that the community and NGOs, CBOs, etc. have been

talking about okay great yeah now I appreciate you know that you heard from my colleagues and

I that community and careholders participation is really critical to the process so really great

to see the engagement activities but I did notice that as we move through the timeline that we

didn't have any community involvement in the semi final stage which you know you know every

elected might have their own perspective of like should we include community as part of that process

so I just want to put on record that I'm one of the council members that would like to see community

be part of that process and I say that because at the end of the day for me I understand that

mayor and council ultimately at the end of the day we get to decide we decide we do the hiring

right but for me seeing community participate in some kind of ways whether that's NDA or like a panel

I would love to see that be part of this in my final round my colleagues may not agree with me

but I just want to put on record that that's really important for me but I just wanted to ask you

because I didn't see that as part of the timeline but wanted to ask you a few questions one

are there best practices that we've seen during during semi final is rounds in other city

if it hasn't been done would love to hear from you given you know the many city manager process

that you've been part of you know what are the pros and cons of that right because I would like

to see it I've heard from my own constituent yes council member you are you and the mayor and the

council is the ultimate you know decision maker in terms of the hiring but we would love to engage

throughout the process not just shaping the applications and the quality right so we'll

love to hear a little bit from you because I didn't see that on the timeline so certainly

so one of the things I will say about California is that that is not a typical process there are

other states that always have some type of a meet and greet possibly some type of community

engagement but here in California for the most part councils or boards of supervisors tend to do

the interviews themselves it certainly can be done and we have done it in the past I do believe

that it has a dampening effect on your active recruitment there are especially for those candidates

who are happy in their current jobs and they're considering this you know I the where I've seen

it happen is you know the candidates are not employed and or they're running away from something

frankly you know they're not happy they're employed but they're not happy in their current position

they're all willing to do this because they want the next job but those passive candidates who

those are the candidates you really want us to engage in and engage with to try and encourage them

to apply doing those public processes if they're if they're with the council that you know they're

happy in their position we don't want to jeopardize their current employment and many of them will see

that as if they have to do something public and their name gets out there before they're ready

to announce it to their to their board they could decide not to apply it because in states like

Colorado they do it all the time and Arizona but we don't typically do it in California not that we

haven't done it if it happened if this council decided that something they wanted to happen I would

suggest that it has to be a very tightly managed process that anyone who is not part of the council

has to sign an NDA that you know it's a small group each council member maybe picks one person

to sit on some type of community panel the other thing about that is then how do you decide who

that person is in a city of you know almost 600,000 people it just can raise a lot of

a lot of concerns but it's possible to be done and we have done it okay and then the other question

I'm asking is that is the reason why that's not on the timelines because when you're interviewing all

of us that that wasn't a consensus correct okay just want to put down a record okay thank you

those are all my questions we shade it thanks mayor I thought I had raised my microphone so

the protocol different protocol Pam I just wanted to to ask whether it is typical to specify

in the solicitation or in the announcement of salary range or instead use salary negotiate based

on experience qualifications that that kind of language so in California it is now illegal not to have

a salary stated so you have to state a range or up to a top number but there has to be some type

of salary number in there okay okay I didn't know that that applied to to this kind of applies to

across the board okay that answers that that question as to the earlier exchange with council

member van I certainly would based on on my experience urge that while we do active outreach

and engagement of community members at the stage that you were describing earlier in the process

as we come down to the to the selection that that be the council so thanks mayor thank you

council member of Jennings thank you mayor just from a standpoint of performance evaluation can

you speak to what works well or what you have used in the past certainly so and we've even helped

do some of these onboarding processes at times but you know a good city manager and you know who

is skilled at city management has come up in the profession they're going to want to sit down with

all of you and set goals and expectations I mean I ask every candidate when I'm doing a screening

interview what do you need from the council to be successful and nine times out of 10 they're

going to say I need clear expectations I need communication and and those are the top two answers

and so it so that the you know you hit there's nine of you so that you can try the city manager can

try and keep the ship moving in the same direction that everyone is looking for if you can sit down

with everyone and at least get a top four or five things you're looking for for the city manager to

accomplish during a year then you have something to evaluate them on and you ensure that number one

the salary stays with market that you know what their performance is it's like any employee

they're your only employee so the nine of you then have to come together and decide what that

performance evaluation is going to look like there are many consulting firms that help with those

evaluations for councils we've been doing it at CPS for 20 plus years.

Great and then my final question is from July 29th to April August 8th you say those are the final

steps and I just want to know what's in those final steps and I think more importantly what I'm

trying to get to is when should the first day on the job be. So I would anticipate if if everything is

done by August 8th and you approve you know if you approve a employment agreement in the first

part of August that someone would be starting you know no later than the first part of October

that's usually you know some city managers have very long resignation timeframes in their

agreements and but that's something you know you don't want someone who would give their current

employer less than 30 days in a job like this so you're looking at at least 30 days probably and

if they have to relocate etc some places will start a soft start as we call it so that someone's

coming in as they're doing their relocation but usually you're looking at 30 to 45 days maybe 60

on the outside. We'd be talking about September October okay. I know there was some talk of even

the end of the year I don't think that's going to be you know we've built in a lot of time in this

timeline. I just want to thank council member Rick Jennings for his leadership on this

Cal H.R. Thank you for interviewing all of us I too as I stated having done this a lot

believe the robust up front public process it just gets a little murky when we go towards the end

of having people sign in D.A.s and keeping things confidential it typically doesn't

doesn't happen not that I don't trust my colleagues I just say let's keep it with us when we make

the final decision because ultimately it's us who hire and fire everybody else but I support

the direction I support the timeline I'm looking to see if council member Jennings needs anything

added to this if he'd like to make the motion of which I'd gladly second please I heard

council member Jennings make the motion to approve direction on Cal H.R. and the process for

the timeline and I'll second that motion motion. Second yeah the motion a second I just

wanted to reiterate this was the only topic we discussed for the first eight council members

council meetings that I was I was mayor and funny thing it all got smoothed out once we gave

you the ball so yeah less football analogy less than to be learned so yes we we asked you to

take the lead on this and here we are and certainly we're confident that the firm that we hired

is is going to you know find us the best fit for the city of Sacramento it's a tough job I know

there's one unicorn out there it's ready to step up and and do this position so thank you

as we just finished water forum executive director a few days ago and the panel said that all the

candidates they interviewed were excellent and asked us how we had done that so okay a plug from

the water yeah well thank you thank you so with that we have a motion a second all those in favor

oh I'm sorry we have we had two we did reverse this time we did two public two public comments yes

our first one is Macworthy and the second one's for Alisa Lee that's on you okay now some

things here last time she mentioned the brown act she didn't mention that about the brown act

now she skipped all the way to Chan I don't think she would hide to depend Chan I think that's out

of her territory that's out of her territory now you had five city managers it's just going to be

the lead city manager world-channel lead city manager that woman that's what she got because she knew

now yeah well lonely she ran she always said I'm attorney just woman here could he identify

who broke the brown act what did you in that meeting see these are the things you're going to have

to do here people community groups see community groups is the people who vote these people in

people like me they're not going by me to talk to nobody because I'm going to ask the real questions

where did you manage a city this size before ask the question you're going to ask

well how many people had regenters interviewed are choose to have a job in number because they've

never been in the bed but you put him in a position to choose a woman here going go back and go

refer to the attorney then the attorney don't say I worry we ain't going to look at your criminal

record after we say we're going to hire you now you're going to job before saying they're going to do

it's going to your criminal record down while there's the privilege here that's not equal justice

that's not equal justice people well how many people that you know that have managed to sit at this

side have been involved in any government management decides to say a minute ain't that your community

groups are the people that you're going to do is devote and go get a couple dollars that was your

nonprofit that's being our rest told me you got three thousand nonprofit so how can we really bring

the truth in and we don't go to court and put them on a Wednesday we never will just to be a

whole house government app dumb didn't go because that woman now is both three out of here

hi my name is Alisa Lee I live in district four it would have been nice if comments were

taken before the questions because I did have a few one was I appreciate the transparency on the

timeline and I noticed engagement activity starts tomorrow I feel like it's possible they may take

longer than given that there's time needed to alert the community and plan those events so just

I hope there's room in that schedule for flexibility though I'm sure we none of us want to drag out

the process any longer I also wanted to point out that council and commissions are on recess for

July 7th or 18th during the selection activities portion and I wonder if that's going to be affected

and I bring up the commissions because I'd like to urge that the commissions are part of both the

selection activities and the engagement activities sections I think that they would be fantastic

groups to have be part of the process to talk about what their experience has been and how they

would like to you know support and finally I think one of the big challenges for the city manager

entering the next year is to really contend with our structural deficit so while I know this is

most about process but I think looking for candidates who you know are not going to be afraid of

really tackling that head on and trying new creative things looking at the ways other cities are

taking on public financial transparency dashboards I know we're not LA but it's been really

impressive to see what LA city controller Kenneth Mahia has been doing to educate the community

on the state of LA's finances so I think really looking at how are they not just going to be great

great supervisors great bosses great team players but also people who really are not afraid to take

on the challenge of our deficit thank you okay those public comments we do have a motion

and a second I have a motion from council member junnings and a second from council member Kaplan

please call the roll oh I'm sorry all those in favor please say aye aye any no's or abstentions

sing none see Roger the whole call the roll the like uh confusing me on those

old I know yes nine zero

next item item 19 the fiscal year 2023 to 2024 risk management annual report

the

a good evening mayor and council members my name is Pat Flairty risk manager for the risk

management division of the hr department tonight we have the fiscal year 23 24 risk management

annual report for your review and discussion I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have

regarding the report additionally we thought this was a good time to provide council with information

regarding the increasing insurance costs the city and public entities in California and nationwide

have been experiencing so we have two guest speakers who are experts in the field we have Rick brush

chief members service officer of prism there's Rick and we have Kevin Bivler senior vice president

and a lion insurance services a lion is the city's insurance broker and also the broker for for prism

as well so with that I'll turn over to Rick see a presentation

let's stand there Pat thank you very much mayor and members of council thank you so much for

the time on the agenda this evening we will be brief we understand you've had a lot on your

agenda and there's more to come but I want to start off with a little bit of an overview of who

is prism so if I could prism is a joint powers authority prism was established back in 1979

and prism exists for one reason and one reason only we are here to provide the best coverage

at the best rate and to help you manage your risk and to help you manage your claims this is

business critical type of stuff what you did earlier in the agenda this evening those were heartfelt

issues those were social grace that was outstanding and I'm glad I witnessed all of your public service

and everything you do this is business critical type of information and that's why we want to

bring this into focus right now so the city of Sacramento joined prism back in 2005 as I said we

started 1979 but some of the information you can see here on your screen is that we've grown over

time we have about 70% of the cities in the state we have 54 of the counties overall we have about

2100 public entities that are members of prism and why do they come to prism so that they can get

coverage when you're not insurance we are a pool so they come to us to have coverage for property

liability workers compensation medical malpractice crime cyber all of these different

areas and tonight what we're going to do is give you a brief overview of what's going on in the

market for general liability and for workers compensation to critical coverages that you are

involved with us for so as I say prism is not traditional insurance the reason that we are here

is we bring together the contributions of all of these members to do a couple of very basic things

we need to bring in enough money from every member at an equitable and inequitable way in order to

pay claims in order to purchase re-insurance that attaches above your own individual self-insured

retention we also use our economies of scale so that not only when we go to the reinsurance

market we are able to get you the best price but when we put together the service offerings for

you we are able to negotiate on behalf of 2100 public agencies so yes we get the best service

at the best price on behalf of all of our members the other things that we do is we have the

administration and that's who prism is we're handling the administration of the joint powers

authority Gavin he's going to be up in a moment is going to talk about what the consultants do for

us in terms of getting re-insurance and in terms of giving a consulting on market updates and

such just like we're going to do tonight one of the ways that we offset all of these expense

is through the investment opportunities that we have I'll talk a little bit more about that but

one of the things that you see here is that contributions are based on an annual budget our members

very much value the fact that at our core we want to do things to create stable pricing we want

contributions to be equitable and we want to make sure that you have all of the information that

you need so that you can budget we were before your budget committee earlier today at 11 and

thank you all for the time then a few of the cost drivers that affect all of the members of

prism are these one of the things that we do is we need to determine the right rates for the

right members so we use what are called exposure basis things such as for workers compensation

you based on payroll so if your payroll grows then your exposure grows and our actuaries are

the ones that are going to be determining what is the proper price for each member to be working

along the way so that we can do the actuarial estimates for the layers within the pool the next

thing is that above those layers in the pool is we go out to the insurance markets I can tell you

in a very quick story three weeks ago we were back in Chicago we went with 11 markets over the

course of two days and the relationships that we have there are huge we've been working with a

lot of these reinsurance providers for up to 25 years so at a time when the markets are really

really hard those relationships matter so I'm going to turn it over to Kevin right now he's

going to talk a little bit about these market updates for work content for general liability

thank you Rick may our members of the council good evening thank you for your time as has been

mentioned this is a very hard insurance market and costs are up we see that in our personal

insurance at home we see that as business owners we see that as public entities and so the

point of today is to give a little bit of background a little bit of reasoning of why that is

I'm going to go ahead and start with the workers compensation program you all self-insure to a very

high level two million dollars per work and some workers compensation claims then you go to

prism for excess coverage above that for the catastrophic claims the workers compensation market

of all of them is relatively stable frequency so the number of claims that are happening has been

pretty flat the severity of claims is going up but not anywhere near as they are in the liability

side so it's been fairly stable across the board and also here at the city however underwriters

are paid to worry and so they are looking at things to keep an eye on trends and one of the trends

is the rapidly rising costs for catastrophic claims we're seeing that survivability is up

medical technology has caused people to survive things that otherwise they wouldn't have in the past

and so there's also an increased life expectancy among our injured and ill workers that's great

from our human standpoint we'd love to see that it's expensive from a fiscal standpoint and so that

is definitely causing the cost of the work and compensation program and system to go up we also

live in a state where it is expensive to provide health care and so just our health care costs

compared to other states are significantly higher we wanted to go ahead and take a look at

the city's performance your loss history against your peer group so if we look at this slide the top

three dials is the city's data and the bottom three are the other members of the prism work

comp program that are in the high safety category so where they have police and fire and if you look

all the way to the right that's the loss frequency and it shows that your loss frequency is about

on par with the with the subject group but if you look all the way to the left your average cost

per claims is half of what the other group is doing so you're doing very well at controlling your

cost so we would applaud you that and we would ask you to keep doing that the loss rate reflects the

amount of dollars paid per thousand dollars a payroll and yours is 3.01 the peer group is 5.5 so

again you're doing a tremendous job of controlling and managing your costs in the work carina and we

applaud that move on to the general liability things are not so rosy there the the GL market is what

we would call terribly hard we're seeing in a just incredible change in loss experience over the last

10 to 12 years something fundamentally happened in around 2013 2014 where claims that used to cost

two to five million dollars now come in 15 20 20 and even higher and there's explanations there's

reason for it but it's causing the cost of insurance the cost of risk to go up dramatically

unfortunately this started here in California we started this this negative trend and it's now

across the country and it's impacting insurance companies sort of across the board so why is this

happening well there's two main catchphrases social inflation social inflation is when the cost

of insurance claims outpaces normal inflation that we're seeing and that has certainly happened over

the last decade the reason for that jury awards that's the main culprit we see these astronomical

jury awards that are beginning out and it shifts and changed the economics of claims we call those

nuclear verdicts technically a nuclear verdict is anything over 10 million dollars these days

sometimes we feel lucky to have a 10 million dollar verdict we're seeing in 2030 60 85 million

dollar verdicts and it definitely is is shaping the market another thing that's coming into play

is called litigation funding this is not as well known as some of the other things we've talked about

litigation funding is when a third party comes in and actually invests in the plaintiff side of a claim

they allow the claims to keep on going where maybe they would have otherwise had to settle

they they pour money into the plaintiff side and the problem is this is a virtually unregulated

field and so these speculators because that's really what they are are able to do this without even

the ability for the jury to know that it's happening so in other states and here in California there

has been legislation that has been proposed to at least make it something that the juries are

told but there's still a long way to go this is a billion dollar industry and it's becoming more

and more prevalent in impacting the cost of these claims another thing that's having a significant

impact is the plaintiff's bar the plaintiff's bar is very good at

increasing the cost of these claims they're very good at finding claimants you can see here over

3.4 billion dollars of spent in 2023 in plaintiff bar advertising so they're out there finding the

claims convincing people to to bring lawsuits and then when they win and they drive up a higher claim

that's good news for the rest of the plaintiff's bar because when their next claim is going to go up

and up and up so that's something that that we're keeping an eye on

in closing the city of Sacramento your benchmark here we compared your results to the other

12 to 13 cities that are in this GL2 program you can see there that your average cost for claim

are a little bit higher 25,000 per claim versus the 23 for the control group your frequency is

much better so you're doing something right in terms of controlling the losses and now we just

need to work together to try and control the dollars of those losses when they happen

so that might actually lead you to believe well what is prism doing to try and control these

losses along with its membership and I'll turn it back over to mr. brush to talk more about that

awesome thank you Kevin mr. brush that was very formal

all right so you're now armed with all this information of what's going on with the market right

so what is prism doing about it that should be the next question and if you look at this

we break this down into many different elements so from an underwriting standpoint what we're doing

is we're working with the membership right I don't know if you saw on some of these slides but we

are very much member driven we're member directed it's 150 employees of our members the staff all

of our committees are bored in our executive committee so our members are working with our

underwriting committee and saying basically do we have the right structures in place are we

charging people the right amount is this an equitable amount for the members and what are we doing

to help members also one of the things is looking at each of the individual members self-insured

retention I know it's something that this is Pat has been working with us and with your

actuaries on as well the other thing that I need to say very quickly is that as I say we are

member directed I need to give thanks to your staff Pat is a member of our claims review committee

as well as our general liability and our churniel back in the back of the room is a member of our

risk control and member services committee so thank you to them because all of this work does not

happen without them the next thing we do is we help all of our members in terms of managing the

claims we have overall about 35 people in our claims department that sit by your side helping

members every day in terms of what are the best things that we can do and what are the strategies

that we can put in place to best manage these claims and I'm saying this in the way of we want

to pay people what they are do we don't want to be paying people nuclear verdicts if that is not

reasonable so those are the things we're doing on that side we have data and analytics that helps

your risk management folks slice and dice these data in so many different ways so that they can

look at trends and they can say these are the risks that are affecting us and now we know what

best to manage we have a team of 14 people that handle our loss control and member services department

one of the biggest things that we do is we have a legislative committee made up of all of our members

that is doing things such as Kevin talked about but we're working with an industry trade association

called Kajapa to look at based on everything that's going on can we be looking and working with

the legislature on items such as tort reform is that appropriate because it's not only cities and

counties that this is affecting school districts are going bankrupt so how is it that we can be

armed with information in find ways to work with a legislature to make sure that these things are

done appropriately and that these nuclear verdicts don't put public entities out of business

those are a lot of the things that we're doing the last thing you'll see here on this slide is we

've done some very creative things in terms of our investments and I mean creative in a good way we've

built a captive insurance company that helps us have much greater investment return and the last

point I want to make on this is it's not only about investments but we have about a billion dollars

within our captive and what that does is when we go to the reinsurance community and they say

we're going to charge you X we can say we have enough money within our wallet to be able to

self-insure this if we think it's you're charging us too much so it gives us a little bit more control

over the market those are some of the things that we're doing so what are the things that our members

can do is stay current again you have people that are involved you have Pat you have sure Neil

that are serving on committees they know what to do in terms of maintenance inspections and

trainings one of the things is is considering to take on more risk does it make sense to increase

your self-insured retention knowing that all at the same time if you do that you're going to have

to put aside additional funds to fund that self-insured retention defend claims that are defensible

we thankfully have been very successful especially in the area of law enforcement when jury

verdicts over the past four or five years were immediately giving monies away now they are

doing a much better job of looking at the particulars of the claim the particulars of the trial

and we're actually winning court cases that we should win so when you've got a good claims pattern

don't be afraid to defend those claims that's what I have Kevin I think you're going to wrap up

just a couple points yeah just real quickly another thing is to make sure your data is good I mean

data is king in terms of when we go out and we're negotiating with underwriters if we can show them

good data statistical evidence it helps a whole lot so investing in data and making sure that it's

up to date and easily transferable is really strong consider purchasing additional coverage over time

yes the insurance salesman is saying you should buy more coverage but but really it's these these

verdicts and settlements are going up at such a rate that you buy 40 million dollars of coverage

right now in the liability side and that's probably enough but at some point it won't be and so it's

just something to keep in mind in tough budget times it's hard to do that that's understandable

but at some point you might consider doing that in the future support legislative change that are

beneficial to the defendants it might not surprise anyone here that the plaintiff's lobby is pretty

strong and so we need to be out there talking to the legislature as well for things like you know

the investments that folks are doing in terms of claim investments and then finally help educate

the public Rick mentioned that we want to pay what's fair and reasonable when we've injured or

damaged something and that's the economic loss a lot of times these nuclear verdicts happen because

of the non-economic loss the pain and suffering and that's where the numbers get really really big

and juries feel sympathetic and they give out tens and tens of millions of dollars we just need

to remind the folks that that dollar is actually taxpayer dollar and we just have to be careful with

it and that's all we have for you today but we would love to answer any questions that you might have

thank you for your presentation there Madam Clerk who members for the public sign up to speak

we have one speaker Keon Bliss Keon Bliss here Mr. Bliss okay

the speakers not here so Madam Clerk we'll move on to members of the council I'll go with council

member Kaplan and then councilmember Dickinson and then I'm punched up to speak after that so councilmember

Kaplan thank you Mayor Pro Tem you know I know that this was given at BNA today of which I quasi

listen to thank you for presenting this it's a lot of information and sometimes overwhelming but I

think it just highlights as we look at our 44 million dollar deficit some of the tangible but

untangible things that are also hampering the city's ability to stay and have a balanced budget

but I will call out a couple of good things because amidst all of the the doom and gloom no offense

that you presented a worker claims are down so I want to thank city staff because a lot of that

I think has to go to training programs and how we educate our employees that puts us at 18% below

the the average which I know goes into effect well it doesn't sound great that we're paying more

we're not paying as much more as as we could be paying and I do want to call out that you know

this is the little things chief lester said to us a couple years ago we have a lot of young

officers who might be getting into a couple more accidents because they hadn't been driving a lot

so she instituted more training for our younger officers who are doing patrol which will have an

effect because then we lower the accident rate because they have more training because I can tell

you having done a couple ride along it's a lot to pay attention to everything and serve at the

same time but I think this also gives us a chance to maybe take a step back and have a little bit

of a deep dive policy conversation of what is the effect if we increase our coverage or increase

what the city pays out first what's the cost benefit of that because I heard the suggestions but

I think the next step for me if we are to take that what does that look like what what how does

that all bear out so I'm open to having staff come back give information to BNA and how they

may want to look at that I think that is important and again I will echo the data is important so thank

you to all city staff who are managing keeping that data because it's important that we have it

because it comes to this of how how we actually pay out what we're paying out and I support the

being vigorous in defending what the city does to make sure that we don't have those nuclear

payouts so thank you great thank you remember thank you council member Kaplan council member Dickinson

thank you I won't ask you all the same question go through the same thing went through this morning

actually but you're you're you're comment about nuclear verdicts triggered a question for me

which is there's been a fair amount of press lately particularly related to school districts and

you mentioned school districts in your in your comments related to now litigation they find

themselves involved in regarding sexual harassment or sexual abuse and a significant increase in claims

or allegations and litigation and it appears a significant increase in in either settlements or

verdicts so I just maybe wonder to the extent to which that's driving at least a portion of this

increase in what we're seeing in terms of verdict results yeah I think that's a very a

student observation and that has had a huge impact on the cost and the increase in claims

and claim values the survivor statutes that were put in place in 2020 ish which opened up the

window for folks to bring lawsuits where maybe they had been timed out previously it also expanded

the age from 27 to 40 years of age when you can bring these and so that in and of itself

created a scenario where we got a lot more volume of claims a lot of those claims are so long ago

now because of that change that there's really no evidence there's really nothing to base anything

upon and so yet and sometimes it's very difficult even to find people who are around when it happened

and so yes that not only here in California but that's happening in 30 states across the union so

yes that is at a very big impact I would only say that there there is evidence there may not be

evidence that's helpful to defend those claims still but they certainly the plaintiff can provide

evidence but that aside is it worth doing an analysis of claims and litigation involving the

city and exclude that type of litigate I'm not aware that we're seeing a significant increase on

that aspect of litigation would it would it adjust potentially your assessment of where things

are going from a liability standpoint general liability standpoint for the city if you

excluded that that aspect of litigation we're seeing yeah it doesn't tend to be the cities and

counties that are hit so much with that particular exposure it's more the schools that's that's

exactly my point yeah and so within prism and within other carriers who are rating the city versus

the there are different rating groups and so your rates are going to be determined upon your

sort of more homogeneous members so other cities other counties and not as impacted by the

loss experience from from the schools okay so that in terms of our actual rates and and the

coverage options but in your presentation you obviously are emphasizing the these the growth in

verdict results for plaintiffs and I just wonder if that picture would be a little bit better if

you excluded what's happening with largely with schools and we'd see something something different

to look at yeah it could be but on the other hand and we remind our schools or excuse me our

cities and counties they've got law enforcement they got road design they've got dangerous

condition claims all very very large verdict potential type claims and drivers of the loss

experience as well and so I think it evens out to some extent but I do hear your point that if we

separated that out and just looked at city exposure which kind of is what we were looking at in those

examples the benchmarking were only against other cities in the program yeah and it's yeah that

that seemed to be somewhat a different picture than the verdict information you were showing

thanks thank you very much council member Dickens and fair point I think we you know

should disaggregate at least the risk I do acknowledge that it's it's juries that are are

looking at this so the the condition of what a jury how a jury sees in a a picture is the point I

think that's that's there I'm not at my desk so I'm going to go try to go off my head off the top

my head here one of the reasons we have this is I asked that we do this workshop now be I will say

I'm a little frustrated was it was done in today's budget and not adhering because it was a very

tight budget hearing but I'd like to make sure that that we set this again particularly maybe in

the early fall when budget and not it has a different workload because the purpose of what I

hope to get out of of bringing this to the the council and the budget and not a committee was oh thank

you very much is is to dive into some of these issues all you know all for one I'll start off with

some of the general some of the claims on on strain and and the what what I what I was pleased to

see both councilmember vangen i sit on the second employment training agency and our insurance

costs came way down 80% of the but of the operations for that agency is child care centers and

when you're dealing with kids as you mentioned earlier those are high risk situations but yet our

our insurance rate came down because of some of the conditions that were changed in the overall

head start programs to say hey we are we're taking active action and so the adjuster noticed that

so my hope for this process here and so I hope that this is the first of future

processes that we dive into where how we can make these adjustments and I'll start off on a

couple ones here one what I've noticed here on was on general claims 78% of them were were actually

non-police and fire at least in the staff report here now when it comes to fire they have an

affirmative presumption for good reason in under the state law and because of what we've seen

firefighters they'd later later on get there see that they have issues in in life that are

that have to do with their work when they were on the force here but if you exclude that then

what are the things that we can be doing at this the other pool that are non-police and fire

were 78% of the general claims are can we be looking at those are they there's and they're they

tend to be all strain claims it looks like so are they in particular departments are they in

with our arborists are they you know in public works utilities so I think you know and I know

our our staff have been doing that in in some sense but I'd like to dive in deeper because

given the fact that you would do have an affirmative presumption on say fire we still see a larger

chunk in this area so the the second piece I'd like to highlight here is on our auto liability even

no matter which way you cut it more than 50% are also non-police and fire now the

biggest chunk of the others is police and obviously that has to do with you know the the

more vehicles in that route but both police and fire have the most vehicles but yep the majority

of our auto claims are coming in non-those departments so one we talked about the benefit that the

city is now doing on evoc where even if you're in the parks department or if you're in solid waste

you're doing evoc training in the roadway train so I'd like to identify okay well if if we see

that there that that the majority of our insurance issues are happening in areas where they should

be normal driving conditions that aren't in emergency situations where their speeding are going

through and have to go through an intersection then are there things that we need to be doing more

in the majority of that section on auto claims to bring our risks down so the so those are a couple

thoughts that I'd like to just throw out say well what are the things we could do so that maybe

we can replicate and again the employment training agency is a is a different joint powers authority

much smaller one than the city to change the conditions or insurance rates maybe don't go down

but at least don't continue to rise so that's a question yeah um so um you

currently the city provides data on a monthly basis to prism so ground up data uncapped we've

got a ton of data so we can certainly help with slicing and dicing that data into department level

results and find out where the losses are happening and then Rick and his team Rick is part of the

14 employee team at prism that handles loss control and risk management and they have all kinds of

services that can be applied and can be available to the city so I think there's definitely something

there in terms of analysis and follow up training okay good that that sets up the uh oh go ahead

get you please yeah I can um some of those things that we we are doing um we have a vehicle review

committee that Ryan Moore chairs me two times a year and we provide lots of data to the departments

on auto accidents whether it's size wipes whether it's trending with we were in accidents um so

that's the auto side we also have risks team meetings with departments every fall um usually in

October and November and those meetings we provide them a lot of information or Chris

compensation claims we provide them nine or ten different charts on different kinds of injuries

what's driving everything um so what I would suggest is uh and we get our next actuary report will be

in um in the September October that time frame we can present those findings along with our

risk team meeting presentations they give you a ton of data on auto accidents liability claims

and workers comp and they'll give you a really good start to dive into it and ask us questions

what you want us to look at and work on perfect uh as interim assistant city manager

interim city manager Lenny Milstein thank you many titles right because I'm that I'm that too

so that former fire chief so there you go um I think Patrick it would be good too is to be able to

share in the fall how it is we advise departments based on that information and what types of trainings

we offer based on the information that we see and how departments are taking advantage of in order

to reduce their experience and exposure because it's something we're engaged in all the time

yeah and it's one thing I will add is about two years ago uh three years ago we know

our auto claims are going up and we've made a very concerned effort the last two or three years

that every meeting um discuss that if I more data to the departments and just made just been

stressing that for two or three years now and I will I'm happy to say a little good news our claims

are down our auto claims are down for the first eight months of this year probably 20 25 percent

from prior years so you know hopefully that's the reason that's a result of all the work we've

been doing on that um so we're doing a lot of we're looking at these things but we'd be happy to have

a good detailed discovery session in the fall with a lot of information that you guys would find

interesting great so that's he's up to point that you know the the issue of general condition

claims um and our next item on the city council here will be about how we are making tactical

changes to reduce impacts and liability one of the first I uh one of the first uh um uh you

know what do you call it uh one of the first litigations that I remember when I first came on

the council was a was a garbage truck that hit a cyclist you know off of J Street and um you

know and that was a very tragic situation but if the city of Sacramento this is where I'm putting

it on you know on the insurance company you guys want us to buy a higher coverage all right

but then at the same time we're making improvements to reduce our risks so where is the tradeoff

here on reducing the insurance costs and the insurance premium if uh now the city's taking action

on things like making intersection safer looking at areas where there can be less uh uh uh uh

vehicle fatalities or or vehicle to pedestrian fatalities or uh particular things with our equipment say

striping or lighting there are different things right obviously in the in the uh uh in the child

care zone we talked about uh trip areas for kids right you know that's big one they're running all

the time they're tripping right so uh what you know and that reduced the some of the claims so

maybe that's a question for prison here like if if the city was to begin doing this hypothetically

and you don't have to answer but if we think through this how is it that all of a sudden now

where 53% of our uh non-police and fire that which go through intersections but this is normal traffic

how do how do we uh how can we use this as an opportunity to readjust and re-evaluate our effort

while we also as uh mentioned uh council member Dickinson didn't repeat what he said in

budget and audit but look at the actuarial of where's the where does it make sense to increase our

premium so let me ask yeah I think that I think there's two main areas where your good work

you know avoiding losses will result in lower costs for the city the first you just mentioned

was the self-insured retention so currently you're responsible for the first two million dollars

of every liability claim so to the extent you don't have them you save that money and I think

the number we arrived at earlier today was about 11.8 million dollars in the current year in the

actuarial study so that's that's some money to to save the second point is that if your loss

experience improves um you will get credit within the prism actuarial or excuse me allocation system

so it's not just a rate versus payroll that's that's the basis of the allocation and then positive

or negative loss experience impacts premiums up or down so there would be an impact uh in improving

the experience. Okay thank you so I'd like to for September we've got some time let's figure out

how we improve the experience let's put it that way and so one obviously we want to save lives

we don't want our employees to get injured we want to make sure that people have a lifelong healthy

living experience but at the same time we want to look at reducing our insurance cost for the city

so I don't see any other council members punch up to speak thank you again for your time this is a

receive and file uh and uh you know we'll see you in September yeah thank you very much madam clerk

so for the record our next item item number 20 budgetary adjustments for old sack

rivet revitalization improvement project has been continued to April 1st 2025 per staff direction

so we'll now be going to item 21 the transportation safety initiative established positions

established quick build capital improvement project and suspend competitive bidding and approve

an alternate procurement process to install signing and striping and quick build improvements

Alrighty welcome Matt thank you last on the agenda yes

exciting most most exciting one it is everybody's been waiting good evening vice mayor telemante's

council members and community advocates uh mad armen director of public works

thank you for the opportunity to speak about an important step forward for our city

and enhancing how public work delivers safer and more efficient streets to all sacraments

sacraments roads have continuously evolved for decades for decades our our streets were designed

primarily to move cars quickly reflecting an error when speed and vehicle throughput were dominant

priorities today we recognize that our transportation network must do more it must serve everyone

whether they're walking biking taking transit or driving with 3100 lane miles 850 signalized

intersections and a dedicated team of over 750 public works employees we have a vast infrastructure

to manage but we also have an opportunity to be more nimble responsive and innovative

and how we move our streets we already make we we are already making significant investments in

safety and mobility to our vision zero initiatives some of our key accomplishments include reducing

speed limits to 15 miles an hour on 225 streets and school zones updating the city's pedestrian crossing

guidelines adopting a comprehensive complete streets policy installing pedestrian safety quick

build improvements at more than 30 intersections delivering targeted quick build projects on

del Paso Boulevard near Hagenwood Elementary at 34th and Broadway near Sacramento high school

and at Broadway and Martin Luther King junior Boulevard near low income senior housing

developing a corridor plan for six of the top 10 vision zero priority areas with strong community

support we are also moving forward with major corridor and mobility projects including Broadway

complete streets and vision Broadway stocked in Boulevard complete street and safety improvements

central city mobility plan franklin Boulevard complete streets these large projects will

transform how people move through our city but they take years to plan fund and construct we cannot

wait that long to make Sacramento streets safer that's why public works is committed to expanding

our in-house resources and services to deliver quick data driven and community informed improvements

that enhance safety accessibility and efficiency across all modes of transportation

by strengthening our internal capabilities we will be able to design implement and maintain

improvements more efficiently reducing our reliance on outside contractors and accelerating project

timelines whether it's protected bike lanes pedestrian safety enhancements

transportation transportation priority treatments or other high impact interventions we are focused

on moving from planning to action what the urgency are our streets demand this work would not

be possible without the dedication of our community advocates your voices and persistent efforts

have helped us shape how we prioritize street improvements and we remain committed to working

alongside you to make Sacramento street safer and more connected I also want to express my

appreciation to councilmember maple for her leadership and commitment to mobility and safety

her support has been instrumental in advancing these initiatives additionally I would like to

thank councilmember capelin following two tragic incidents on club center drive just months apart

at the same intersection she brought city staff and the communities together and public works

responded swiftly in response to the community concerns we implemented quick build safety

improvements and the results have been highly successful this effort demonstrates exactly why we

must continue to improve and expand our ability to deliver rapid targeted street safety enhancements

when and where our community needs to most to provide more details on on how public works is

structuring and scaling these efforts I'd like to introduce Megan Carter our city traffic engineer

Megan has been a driving force in advancing Sacramento street safety and mobility initiatives

and she will walk us through our proposal and the next step in improving our transportation network

thank you

hello everyone good evening mayor and councilmembers my name is Megan Carter and I am the city

traffic engineer and transportation division manager for public works I'm here today to present

a new initiative to do as Matt described adjust our approach to transportation safety treatments

and scale up our efforts to respond to tragic traffic fatalities and serious injuries with quick

response data driven and community informed focused with a community with a quick response data

driven and community informed focused team the public works team heard from community and council

through the discussion around a state of emergency that there are several key goals identify fund

and implement quick build tactical urbanist solutions be more responsive and innovative to

reduce traffic fatalities engage with the community in the development of project locations and

the solutions be transparent communicate the timeline design decisions and progress and expedite

projects and high risk areas the city's current safety response efforts within public works reside in

three divisions mobility and sustainability transportation and engineering services mobility and

sustainability manages the planning programming and policy support while transportation and engineering

services implements infrastructure components within staffing and funding capacities this proposal

would establish the vision zero Sacramento transportation safety team better name to be determined

within the transportation division to lead and implement swift data driven safety improvements

across Sacramento's high engineering network that are integrated with other public works transportation

transportation safety planning programs and initiatives the transportation safety teams mission is to

reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries through quick proactive interventions aligned with the city's

cities vision zero goals in addition resources would be redirected to deliver interim quick build

improvements on critical corridors such as the vision zero top 10 high engineering network

corridors were feasible if approved the fiscal year 2526 budget will include the funding framework

to implement these new initiatives the transportation safety team is Sacramento's commitment to

creating a city where every resident feels safe on our streets together we can ensure that Sacramento's

streets are safer for everyone so the key to delivering on this vision to be more nimble

responsive and innovative is staff resources public works is already delivering quick build low cost

improvements through the traffic investigations team and maintenance crews within the transportation

division but the scale of the work is limited by workload capacity and often pulls maintenance crews

away from their primary responsibility to repair existing infrastructure thus this transportation

safety initiative requires a dedicated transportation safety team made up of a supervising engineer

that will oversee this team and the traffic investigators leading the greater vision and cross

departmental collaboration with the police department and council offices ensure safety and

consistency and by supporting innovation a senior engineer that will lead the community engagement

oversee the younger engineers and guide the design and delivery and project delivery progress

to assist in engineers that will be integral in providing the promised responsiveness to all

communities throughout Sacramento and experience traffic investigators skilled in field measurement

on-site evaluation document research and customer service as I said we already have a traffic

investigations teams but as we scale up this effort as we want to do more we need more staff because

they are tapped out lastly this team will need administrative support to manage the constant flow

of construction contracts to construct the quick build treatments

here is an example that Matt talked about at club center drive and banfield drive and district one

following the two tragic fatalities last year we implemented this which we consider a great

example of some of our quick build treatments so we turned a standard white crosswalk into a high

visibility yellow crosswalk there is a school adjacent to this location and we also implemented

quick build pedestrian islands to add protection to the wider crossing so with new dedicated

staffing and resources the city will implement cost quick cost effective solutions that can be

implemented within months to address high risk areas the specialized team would focus on rapid

response traffic safety improvements at intersections pedestrian crossings and high risk

roadway locations we are calling these tier one projects tier one project locations would be

community informed the transportation safety team will combine real-time crash data with community

input to identify locations throughout our neighborhoods that create barriers to the public

feeling safe to choose walking biking scooting transit or even driving to places they need to be

school work home and all the places in between the team will engage with city council members to

address district specific needs focusing on the most vulnerable populations community organizations

advocacy groups neighborhood associations to align projects with local goals and identify

locations that may not yet show up in crash data but hinder communities feeling of safety

they will also coordinate with the police department to react to current crash trends and recent

fatal and serious injury crash locations and use real-time crash data to direct the interventions

meaning based on what kinds of crashes are happening that's directs the type of treatment that we

would implement. Other ways the transportation safety team will engage in

will engage is through feedback and follow up with the community organizations that helped

identify project locations we will develop a map based project dashboard to show the locations

that are in planning design and construction this will allow the community to follow along with

the safety improvements most important to them. The transportation safety team will also provide

an annual report to document how resources were used the safety outcomes that were achieved

and the communities that were touched. One of the other key goals in the state of emergency

discussion was to expedite projects in high-risk areas and we are calling these tier two projects.

The city will implement one to three projects that are interim or quick build solutions to

situations that may later require more engineering design intensive solution. These tier two projects

are solutions that can be implemented within a year focusing on major high-engineering network

corridors and vision zero priorities. Many of these will be interim solutions while staff

pursues grant funding for full complete streets investments as Matt mentioned those can take us

years to get enough funding for. Design improvements might include lane reductions, pedestrian islands,

medians and enhanced crossings consistent with future capital project improvements that can be

installed near term using temporary treatments such as just striping or temporary barriers.

Those projects these tier two projects will be delivered by the engineering services division

in collaboration with the transportation safety team for review and coordination of city

traffic standards and operations. Some example locations that are already sort of in the works

are Mary'sville Boulevard vision zero that is the greater corridor project but we are looking at

quick build solution to that project. Broadway at Stockton that's the vision zero top five location.

Northgate Boulevard vision zero which is one of the top ten high-engineering network corridors

and for road improvements. Another important key to delivering traffic safety quickly is contracting

readiness to avoid having to procure improvement separately through low bid process and slow

responsiveness. This resolution would suspend competitive bid and allow an alternative request for

proposal or request for qualifications process to select contractors that can be called on

to construct the necessary improvements. The city will request qualifications and proposals

from contractors to provide services such as installation and maintenance of road signs, lane

striping, bike lane treatments, markings such as crosswalk. Essentially all of the quick build

treatments that we would want to install with this program we want to get on call contractors that

can do that work. And again that allows our maintenance crews for traffic signs and markings

to continue to focus on the maintenance responsibility that we have for maintaining the rest of the

city's roadways. So through this process the city will be able to utilize contractors to provide

the needed services within short notice through the on call agreement or master services agreement.

This process will allow the city to select qualified contractors providing various services,

providing more options to complete projects quickly with established scope, schedule and budget.

Consistent with city code requirements approval of master services agreements and any

agreement that exceeds 250,000 per contract will return to city council for approval.

The transportation safety team will execute task orders on these on call contracts to deliver

smaller projects in multiple locations city wide to keep cost low and achieve similar safety

improvements in many neighborhoods and communities. So that just means that we would bundle similar

treatments that are going to be done in multiple council districts and to ideally into the same

contract so that on call contractor can execute those kind of at the same time or pretty quickly

at the same time. So communities throughout the city will experience the same safety improvements.

So we think this approach will allow us to deliver critical projects to truly impact community

safety in a matter of months rather than years. Now how will the team and these projects be funded?

Understanding the city's budget situation staffed analyze the city's ongoing annual revenue

for dedicated transportation funds which is primarily gas tax and measuring county wide

transportation sales tax looked at a five year revenue and spending projections and identified

opportunities to repurpose and take opportunities of cash flow to fund staff positions and contracts

on an ongoing basis without affecting the city budget deficit. The new team will rely on a 2.6

million dollar safety program to be established with the new fiscal year 2526 capital improvement

program with the upcoming budget process as well as existing programs that we already have funding

for such as the railway railway quiet zones for some reason that's a mouthful pedestrian safety

and vision zero. City staff will has been identifying potential to tear two projects as I mentioned

quick build options as interim solutions for major corridor improvements establishing a new

quick build CIP by transferring two million dollars from the road maintenance and rehabilitation

in major street construction funds will allow staff to begin steps for implementing implementation of

these actions there is available funding in the transportation corridor program to support the

transfer. And just to reiterate the transportation safety initiative is in addition to continued efforts

of the mobility and sustainability and engineering services and transportation divisions

delivering the larger capital improvement projects including the top 10 vision zero corridor

projects efforts to obtain grant funding and finalized project approval and design will not pause.

To strengthen its approach the city is updating the vision zero action plan to integrate new

traffic safety data and ensure continued eligibility for competitive grant funding.

The updated plan will designate safety corridors as defined by the state of California

and align with the safe streets for all discretionary federal program and identify high priority areas

for targeted infrastructure and policy interventions. And it's the end of the night so in conclusion

the transportation safety initiative presented today for approval will address the need to change

our approach to transportation safety and scale up our efforts to respond to traffic fatalities

to be more responsive innovative and nimble to focus attention on the issues most most critical

to Sacramento through staff resources and funding within the existing available budgets.

To expedite quick build projects in our highest risk areas on our top 10 high injury network corridors

to respond with efficiency and schedule the ongoing delivery of small low cost projects in three to

six months turnaround using an established on call list with contracting authority.

Most of the program funding will begin with the new fiscal year with council with city council action

today we can begin recruitment for new positions and soliciting contractors so that will be in place

and funded with the new fiscal year. It takes time to hire people.

As we saw with the city manager recruitment. If we're proved tonight our next steps will be

to outreach to coalition partners that helped seek this seed this framework to establish a program

and team name its mission vision and values a brand and a marketing campaign to weave throughout

every effort the transportation safety initiative is involved in. These efforts will advance the

city's commitment to safer streets and help accelerate progress towards eliminating traffic

fatalities through strategic investments data driven solutions and policy updates. This concludes

my presentation. Thank you and gets my first ever standing ovation for a staff presentation.

Well this is a big topic. Hence we have 27 speakers about an hour public comment so come up and share

your perspective and wisdom if you're inspired by the speaker before you you can just come up and

do a couple of finger snap and then get back down and then quite a few council members would like to

weigh on us as well so let's begin with public comment. We're going to start with the first five

speakers if you can line up in the aisle so we can try to get through this. Mark Harmon,

Michael Bevan's, Michael Andrew Barnbaum, Kay Crumb and Alex Bink.

Hello I've been speaking most of these city council meetings about this. My name is Mark

Harmon and I'm in Livinland Park Ken Jennings district. Seven and I fully support the creation

of the active transportation safety team and approve funding to carry out quick bill projects

high risk locations across the city. The places that we all know too well and have seen repeated

instances of preventable traffic violence. As everyone knows this is a public safety issue and

that's basically the highest priority in everyone's priority list. The city of Sacramento is far

too dangerous for pedestrians cyclists and motorists and I just want to say thank you for your time.

Next speaker Michael Bevan's. Hello council, Michael Bevan's I'm in District 2 didn't mention that

earlier. I really don't know what to say I'll come up here. Usually come up here to question something

or to complain about something or hey you guys aren't looking enough at this but in this case I just

want to say thanks. Thank you. Yes, sorry. I just like with any good thing there's something down

the road. I'm sure the activation active team whatever that might be is going to have a backlog

of things to do. I only suggestion is to kind of split the time between the high obvious recent

fatalities. Look at that fix it and then the other half of the time do the easy picking stuff

painting uh, sherrows on the road where they actually need to be not where they are maybe have a

bigger racer and erase some of the sherrows that are out there now that are in dangerous places.

Stuff like that uh, change a stop sign to yield sign if appropriate of course but take the big

important stuff that is happening. Use different penalties and then mix it also with easy stuff.

Also thank you.

Michael Barmbom. Good evening mayor and council commissioner Barmbom from the Disability Advisory

Commission but I'm not here this evening to necessarily speak on anything from our commission

but I'm going to step outside my comfort zone and congratulate the staff on this presentation

but also of fellow commissioners on other boards and commissions specifically those that have

worked harder and smarter to bring this item before you today from the active transportation

commission that are in the council chambers this evening. Thank you to all of you that have

done the yeoman's work to bring what is before the council on tonight's agenda.

And with that I would like to thank council member maple for numerous times mentioning the

emergency that's in place of a vigil that was held on January 2nd which also my own very council

member Dickinson attended as well and spoke and with that I would like to if time and words allow

would like to make an advisory motion to approve the staff recommendation as listed in the agenda

for this evening on item 21 especially emphasizing the focus during a $44 million deficit that

the hiring of six full-time equivalent positions is critical to public safety moving forward

and directing staff in a 90-day window let's say Tuesday June 24th to come back because you need

time to hire and report to council at 5 p.m. June 24th of the six new people that have been hired

for this position so we know what it's like going into the new fiscal year thank you.

Okay, Crum.

Hi my name is Kay Crum I'm a resident of district six and I support the staffing and funding

to establish a quick build safety program and I'm going to try to keep this brief.

So just some statistics according to the city crime statistics from 2013 to 2017 185 people died

from homicide in that same time 238 pedestrians died from traffic violence we adopted vision zero

in 2017 and from 2018 to 2022 170 people died in homicide and in that same time 162 pedestrians

died from traffic violence according to smart growth americas 2024 dangerous by design report

our areas ranked in the top 20 for pedestrian deaths out of 101 U.S. metro areas and in 2024

30-cute pedestrians died on our street so homicide rates are dropping over the last

couple of years which is really inspiring but people are dying just because they dared to walk

our bike on our streets and that's not dropping we don't feel safe on our streets and as a pedestrian

I don't feel safe on our streets so sack out sack PD is allocated $251 million or 17% of our 24

25 annual budget to combat homicides and crimes and that item or this item is the first item

that we're investing in pedestrian safety so I want to say thank you very much for this first step

and I sincerely hope that we will see much more funding in the future to protect our neighbors

who dare to walk or bike in Sacramento thank you for making this a priority.

Our next five speakers after Alex are going to be Ben Raiderstorff Isaac Gonzalez

Alisa Lee Wesley Allen and Morgan Murphy if you can please line up

hi I'm from district four and I just want to say that Sacramento is in the midst of a street safety

crisis there are dozens of traffic fatalities every year often outnumbering murders yet street

safety gets a tiny fraction of the attention funding I urge the council to take the actions needed

to end this crisis and protect the safety of our community. Local road safety has been

systematically undermined by a century of failed street design and it will take a substantial

transformation of our streets to solve this. In spite of the city's 2017 pledge to end traffic

violence the numbers show essentially no progress to date this speaks to the failure of the city

to take substantial action to solve this crisis. Meanwhile other world cities have cut traffic

deaths dramatically the solutions are now well known it simply takes courage and funding please

pass this initiative and grant our city an operating budget to deal with this pressing issue

but further bold actions are needed to adequately solve this problem council will need to work with

the community the active transportation commission and city staff recent city plans are promising

but we'll need much greater funding to be implemented within our lifetimes or if the city cannot

locate the required funds then it should consider allowing the community to fund and make street

improvements ourselves thank you. Ben here okay Isaac not a Kings game good evening mayor and

council members my name is Isaac and Zellis and I'm the founder of slow down Sacramento a community

driven initiative focused on traffic safety and preventing crashes before there happened it's an

item here to express my strong support for the creation of a dedicated transportation safety team

within our city this is not just a bureaucratic adjustment it's a signal that Sacramento takes

the safety of its residents seriously and is ready to line its staffing with its vision zero commitments

I want to recognize the role all of our community members and all of our advocacy here today has been

planes and bringing this conversation forward for just us slow down Sacramento besides the many

other groups we have here since August 2023 we've been trying to educate residents elevating

lived experiences and advocating for more coordinated and accountable approaches to street safety and

quick build and tactile urbanism has been on the top of our list since the very beginning I'm proud

to say it's the number one policy priority on our 2025 policy party list this proposal tonight is

the result of consistent community rooted advocacy and it reflects with the parents families and

neighbors I've been talking to you all across the city have been calling for right now families

in our communities live in daily fear fear that simply crossing the street or biking to school

get in tragedy we see this in the data but more importantly we hear it from our neighbors a

transportation safety team gives us the structure we need to proactively address problem areas

respond faster to community concerns and implement these proven data driven safety solutions

this team can be the connective issue between departments advocates and residents

a centralized group focused solely on saving lives and by housing this work under one roof we

can move faster be more accountable and avoid the siloed approach that too often slows down

progress this is smart timely and a life-saving move it shows that our city is ready to lead not

just in words but in action so I urge you all please support the creation of this team

fund it accordingly and give it the authority and resources it needs to make a real difference thank you

Alisa

hi everyone my name is Alisa I live in district four and I'm so fired up after Megan's

presentation I'm in strong support of this agenda item and ask council to please approve it in full

I just want to also highlight Megan Carter and Matt Ayrimon and council member maple's offices

for bringing community groups together to be aware that this was even happening and you know

respecting and honoring that there has been input there has been engagement on this so really

truly thank you and I want to also point out that this item got 120 e-comments and literally

over 99% were in support I think when there's leadership and real response to community demands

sacramental really shows up and this is proof of that and so we're just really grateful to see

this on the agenda it's a great proposal by the traffic engineering team recognizing that

click bills can and should be our number one priority to address the fatality crisis on our roads

in a cheap quick way and to really listen and act as you said with the urgency the crisis demands

and it's a really creative way to do this in the face of our deficit so I just really want to

thank going outside the box to do something different because we need it in addition to asking

you all to approving this initiative in full and getting those funds redirected immediately to get

this initiative fully funded I also asked that the team works with the active transportation

commission for implementation and make sure they receive those quarterly progress reports

we also think that we can aim bigger and hope that we can go for more than one to three tier two

projects I know it's a new initiative new team but it'd be awesome to see us go bigger than that

and hopefully the website can also include clear definitions and visual examples of what tier one

and tier two projects or quick builds within those projects can look like and lastly please work

with me groups like us to help you thank you for your comment

you

Wesley

sorry hold on one second okay hi I'm Wesley Allen I'm a resident of district two I'm in support of

this measure I just want to kind of speak from a driver's perspective because a similar type

thing has been built on 16th and R some of the I think tier one type quick builds and that's part

of my daily commute and I used to drive through that pretty fast and even though there's a crosswalk

you know it was kind of just assumed that pedestrians wouldn't try to cross but of course they do

sometimes want to cross and that was always a stressful thing and now it's very natural to slow

down and then as you're slowing down want to stop for pedestrians so I just think you know the road

shapes the driver more than the other way around so I support this thing thank you our next

speaker is Morgan our next five speakers after Morgan are going to be Rob Crowell Deb Banks

Keon Bliss Sonia Hendren and Tomahawk

good evening everyone thank you so much for your time and attention hi my name is Morgan Murphy I'm

registered nurse and I have the privilege of working with the Sacramento community I believe that

prioritizing our community's public health and safety is absolutely vital and that there is a

great opportunity to do that today by approving this item and full I also believe that in order for

these projects to best serve the community the community that walks and bikes these streets daily

must be involved in the process I encourage the transportation safety team to collaborate with

community groups to design and review these initiatives I'm excited to see what we're capable of

when we combine our knowledge and resources please approve this item and full thank you

Rob Crowell hi I'm Rob Crowell and I'm in district four and I'm just speaking today in support of

creating the transportation safety team I live in a one-car household which means I walk a lot

and if you did take that walk with me we might see some things on the road we might see

an Amazon van parked in a bike lane we might find ourselves in intersection and as port

visibility maybe a hard to see crosswalk maybe an excessively wide street maybe for some reason

that we can't quite put our finger on we just don't feel safe but I know one thing if you walk

with me even for just 10 minutes you're going to see 15 or 20 of these blue signs in every yard

every parking strip every round about that we go you can barely barely be on a block without seeing

a sign so I think support for this is not just academic or hypothetical or the result of a study

but it's real it's tangible it's in the room I know for a fact that my neighborhood wants this

my neighbors they're all asking for change and we're all ready to try some new things

and I think if the council supports this the city will be behind you and I encourage you to

support it thank you Deb Banks try to walk fast to speed things up good evening everybody I'm

Deb Banks the second director of Sabah and an active transportation commissioner I was riding

my bike to the office today and to come here and I was thinking about how important this traffic

safety initiative is and you know I saw a lot of near misses I saw cars driving down the wrong

way of a one way street I saw a driver make a right hand on red putting a cyclist at risk I saw

another other people working down the street and shuffling families off to the middle of an island

so that they could have some safe spaces they were trying to get across the road just in a five-mile

ride here so you know near misses are really comments so are severe injuries and sadly so our

death so is death as a result of the Hickular Violence and here's my point we are all vulnerable

users we're all vulnerable users everybody in this room as soon as you go outside you get near a

sidewalk and a road you become a vulnerable user so it's really important that we have this

traffic safety initiative major kudos to Katie Maple and her team for bringing this to fruition

kudos to Katie Valensweil for starting some of this momentum over a year ago massive kudos to

these folks for all of the work that they've done and to all the advocates behind us that have kept

bringing this forward to you guys it will make a difference there's upwards to 40% change

for people that and cities that have used quick build it's brought down injury and death up to 40

percent that's a pretty substantial savings in lives and so I highly encourage you all to

pass this tonight thank you. Zonia

as a cycling instructor I'm doing my part to get Sacramento kids on bikes my students are

riding their bikes to school and to extracurriculars because my students are biking my students friends

are starting to bike with them to school activities and to socialize my scouts are starting to use

bikes as transportation to scouting events the more experienced cyclists are even acting as ride

leaders leading their fellow scouts by bike I'm doing my part but I can't do anything about the

people driving cars in the city I appreciate your prioritizing the city doing its part to quickly

make our roads and intersections safer so that my students and their friends can continue to bike

and others can join them I'm doing my part to get kids on bikes but I can't do it alone when we're

all doing our part including the city we work towards our city goals for mode share climate and vision zero

I urge you to approve item 21 in full and thank you for your time. Our next speaker is

Tomahawk after Tomahawk our next five speakers will be Peter Sausserman this one doesn't have a name

on there but the email is E. Shell Wig Julia Jackson oil Chiara and Simon Hyatt.

All right Mayor members of council hello my name is Tomahawk Hendren I'm a cyclist from district

four almost two years ago I stood here in front of you and asked you to adopt the active transportation

commissions recommendations for biking and walking safety two months ago I was hit by a car

luckily I'm fine I blame the collision on lack of day lighting the driver and I couldn't see

each other through parked cars so I am excited to hear about the quick build program and the

transportation safety team they will be able to quickly fix dangerous intersections so the same

thing will happen to others in the future I urge you to approve this item in full and continue with

further active transportation and vision zero initiatives thank you for your time

this Peter here the unnamed speaker I was just too excited my name is Elise Helwig I am a I live in

district four and I've also been hit by a car and it is I am so happy to hear that the city council

is hearing and and potentially approving these quick builds because it is really as both a driver

and a pedestrian and a bicyclist the way that the road feels has such a strong impact on how we

drive and how we drive has such a strong impact on the outcomes of these interactions I was really

lucky the person who I was hit by was stopped at a stop sign and so I only quote unquote had to go

through surgery and two years of physical therapy but for if if there wasn't a stop sign if it wasn't

as open or if it you know if the person you know was maybe a little bit more hasty I could have

been in a lot worse situation additionally I've been in so many near misses that could have been

much worse that I think you know I strongly approve of I strongly encourage you to approve all of this

I think that as you do outreach to communities it's so that part is so important because it let

you know where the near misses are happening so they don't become fatalities which is something you

can't get from a police report thank you thank you for your comments Julia

good evening my name is Julia Jackson oil and I'm a resident of district four and a pedestrian

and cyclists I also work with civic thread a nonprofit working the center health equity in the

built environment we're here today to strongly support the transportation safety initiative as we

have advocated for quick builds to be prioritized as a top solution to prevent further traffic

fatalities and serious injuries I live in midtown a neighborhood that is much more walkable than

other areas of the city and still I am constantly forced to dodge drivers traveling at high speeds

this truth is only exacerbated and disadvantaged Sacramento communities that do not have accessible

infrastructure and are historically under invested in I urge the council to adopt this

resolution because the proposed transportation safety team has potential to make roadway design

changes within months improve street design is an effective way to slow drivers down and make

streets safer for people walking biking and rolling this is one step in the right direction

and public work staff has been nimble in finding funds to redirect towards this program city

funded plans such as the vision zero action plan and the active transportation plan once it's

adopted contain community input on where traffic calming is most needed which should guide the

transportation safety teams implementation of quick build projects again I urge you all to

adopt this resolution as a first step in taking action to make Sacramento streets safer thank you

for your consideration give your comments Chiara then Simon Hyatt

good evening mayor McCarty and council members my name is Chiara Reed I'm a resident of district five

I'm also car free so pedestrian for life never owned a car and I'm also the executive director

of civic thread my organization has led active transportation planning safe house to school programming

and pedestrian advocacy efforts for the past two decades and in around the Sacramento region

first I'd like to applaud the public works department thank y'all it's really important that we

establish a trans transportation safety team for quick build improvement projects and I'd also like

to urge all of you to support that initiative even though we have adopted a vision zero action plan

in 2018 fatalities have continued to be on the rise and as you heard earlier Sacramento is now

top 20 most dangerous places for pedestrians and cyclists and every time I get up here I'm going

to remind us that most of those fatalities are occurring in low income communities of color with

black people sholving that burden in addition to the advocates that are in the room we also need to

make sure those voices are included in this process research also overwhelmed overwhelmingly points

to roadway design as the most effective measure to reduce fatalities and serious injuries resulting

from traffic collision and that's why I'm so grateful to see this proposal come before y'all I was

joking earlier that I don't think I've ever been in the chambers and been this happy usually I'm

pretty upset when I get up here quick builds are fast affordable and they're effective they offer

a real opportunity to address systemic issues and design flaws in a matter of months opposed to

waiting several years to maybe see improvements these are especially needed along high injury

networks and in low income communities of color this is the type of action advocates like myself

and those behind me have been waiting for and it's a huge step in addressing safety on our streets

again we applaud staff and council and we look forward to continuing to advance this work alongside

y'all thank you so much for considering my comments thanks for your comments Simon Hyatt then Ryan

Foster Michael Hutnik Ali Dewey Westbrook greetings council mr mayor good to see you all

Simon Hyatt the newest active transportation commissioner and I thank you all and for because I

have my community behind me which is really wonderful big shout out to strong sacked town who's

doing some amazing organizing on this issue just to give some clarity to the public that may be

watching online or or also media the active transportation annual report came out that was item

one on the consent calendar today here's some statistics and data deaths by vehicle collisions out

number those by 40 but outnumber those by homicide by 45 percent in Sacramento since 2014 fatalities

in auto collisions outnumbered homicides in Sacramento for eight of the last 10 years according to

the California office of public safety Sacramento ranks number one as the most dangerous city for

traffic collisions compared to pure cities in California Sacramento's disadvantaged communities

face a disproportionate amount of traffic violence the city of Sacramento adopted vision zero in

January 2017 to eliminate traffic fatalities and reduce serious injuries by 2027 yet we have not

seen any reduction all road users in Sacramento have not seen a change in serious collisions since

adoption of vision zero which by the way vision zero comes up in two years 2027 and for any members

of the public that might not know what vision zero is it's a vision to have zero fatalities on

Sacramento streets all Sacramento neighborhoods have experienced vehicles colliding with pedestrians

and cyclists however it's concentrated in many historically disadvantaged communities please

adopt this I would like to see this go what nine to nine to zero would be wonderful thank you so

much and let's get this let's get this done thank you for your comments Ryan then Michael

then Ali hey I'm Ryan I'm represented by Karina and I live off of Northgate it's a really big

road I'm sure you will have driven it and you see some pretty erratic driving behavior and so I'm

super excited by this project to maybe do somethings to address that and get people just to

to yeah like a have design help them drive safer and stuff like that I'm super privileged to have

a Nenius Parkway and have you guys investments in stuff like that so I can avoid Northgate most of

the time and I've seen like the the traffic islands that have been installed recently around that

area and it makes it so much safer getting home especially at night when it's like dark out

so I'd be super excited to see a cheap program that can get more things out there and get other

people to see those those good changes that I've been able to experience in my in some areas of

my neighborhood and I also really like this program because it allows things to be done a lot faster

so that communities actually see things get done in there in their community and I feel like seeing

that that happen makes them feel seen and then also if a design oversight happens then since it's

so cheap and quick that can be adjusted or changed and make the community have more of a feedback

in that way and still be be fast and efficient so thank you guys thank you for your comments Michael and

Allie. Good evening mayor and council Michael Hednick district five yeah so I was as I understand we

needed two thirds majority to pass this item which means that I've been kind of trying to count some

votes here and so based on her truck so bridge vote reasoning I would expect that Lisa's a yes on

this one and then based on his president's at numerous events around the city based on cycling

and safety in his own travel habits Eric I I'm assuming that you're a yes as well based on the fact

that she introduced a side of him and the fact that she came to my neighborhood association traffic

safety forum last week I would guess that Katie is a yes and also at that forum was JDW from the

the city staff so thank you very much both for being out there and based on the fact that he was

invited to said forum and either attended nor sent a staff member I can only hope that Commissioner

Jennings is a yes on this one and based on Kevin and Phil purporting to be cycling together cycling

friends I can only hope that they recognize that they are as well vulnerable as the rest of us are

and at the very least vote in their own self interest if not for the greater interest which I

expect so I hope this passes because the alternatives are bad the alternatives are more deaths right or

another option is that based on what I've seen in other places that that when this when the

when the when the formal structures aren't doing what they need to do then then the public will have

to come and take care of itself right and if the news is full of stories of people being arrested

for painting crosswalks or creating roundabouts or tractor tires how do you think that's going to

reflect on you right so a vote is a yes vote is going to eliminate all those bad possibilities so

I hope you guys are on board and assuming a yes vote I really employed that this is implemented in

an equitable manner thank you very much thank you for your comments Ali do our westbrook Jesse Cohn

Marbias Sala good evening that's very hard to follow but I yeah anyways good evening mayor and

council members my name is Ali do Westbrook I'm a resident of district four active transportation

professional and past chair of the active transportation commission I strongly support this item

and we're in urge immediate approval Sacramento continues to rank among the worst cities in the

country for people walking and biking we have a dedicated team of city staff here today that have

listened to community members and I've put together a fantastic proposal which I just I can't

stress that enough I the staff sitting behind us here I'm really listened to the recommendations

of the active transportation commission of the numerous advocacy organizations in our city and

it just feels really great to feel like the city is listening to to our demands and and acting

accordingly so thank you for that I urge you to move on this interim measure and also to fund

the recommendations listed in the active transportation latest report are sorry active transportation

latest report which you approved earlier today thank you for your time two thumbs up thank you

for your comments I have five more speakers Jesse Cohn our Bay of Sala Teresa Elena Ortega and

Jeannie Wald Ward Waller our streets are deadly children are afraid to play outside dogs hide from

the roar of mechanical beasts the smell of death is everywhere these machines run on the dead

bones of dinosaurs fossil fuels power these creatures metal hulking behemoths that mow down all

in their path they demand that all surrender to their horsepower and we do their bidding with glee

we pave paradise for our masters ancient trees felled meandering streams dredged priceless habitat

destroyed no prices too great for pavement even maintaining it bankrupts our city black tar spreads

through every neighborhood we warn children not to play ball in the street but we never consider

asking the machines to play somewhere else the freeways stretch across our landscape like a seamen

talk to octopus grasping for life but there's nothing free about the freeway what happened to the

freedom to enjoy the silence of the night the freedom to cross the street without risk of being

murdered by a machine the freedom to let your child play outside without worry children used to

walk to the american river to enjoy nature's playground but the american dream is dead we built a

wall to separate nature from the neighborhoods the i5 strangles sacrament of from its river

instead of hearing the sound of children at play you only hear the somber sound of traffic congestion

the roar of mechanical beasts the horns of agony the screech of breaks our planet is dying

before our very eyes we suffocate mother nature with our fossil fuels car crashes are the leading

cause of death for american children and sacrameno is especially deadly we adopted a vision zero

plan but it's had zero impact on our city's traffic of utilities so i urge you support the staff's

quick bill of proposal we have the opportunity to save lives will you take it thank you thank you

for your comments marbaya

good evening and kudos to all of you for still being here and allowing us to make comments

first of all i'm i'm marbaya i'm from garland northgate neighborhood association i'm here to thank

vice-maric element is forgetting one point nine million dollars just from sacogue which was a big win

for our north north game mobility plan but that's just a little drop in the bucket we need a hundred

million for that vision to become a reality so this program is transportation safety program

here and the quick build will be an interim as we as your staff look for grants and we can get

the money to build this change northgate as we know it so the quick bill program on northgate

right now just this past Saturday they were racing at one o'clock in the morning down northgate

fortunately there no one crashed into anyone's backyard or no one was hurt but i could hear

them racing down and if we had traffic calming things on northgate that would avoid that

hot at least three four times a year someone crashes into a neighbor's fence because they're

speeding they lose control the other the other thing and thanks to vice mayor telemante's on san

Juan we had fatality where six people died in prior to that we had been asking for these quick

quick build programs to because we knew it was dangerous and it didn't happen until these fatalities

occurred and then vice mayor telemante's injured so having a program like this that's funded

and designated to do this for the communities will eliminate these fatalities and make our

neighborhood safer so thank you very much thank you for comments Theresa

hi

hi i'm Theresa i'm a resident of district six we've heard a lot tonight about the benefits of quick

builds to cyclists and pedestrians which is hugely important since they're so exposed to traffic

danger and i count myself among them i have had some close calls while walking or running and

have witnessed some close calls of cars nearly may mean or killing people who are walking or biking

but i want to speak to you from the perspective of a driver because i have a car and when i don't

have time to take light rail or the bus where i live from where i live in district six to other parts

of the city i have also seen close calls and have had close calls with other cars that are going

way way too fast fortunately i myself have not had a close call or worse with a pedestrian or

cyclist i really try to be safe but a nightmare of mine would be hurting someone while i'm driving

not because i'm not being careful but because our streets prioritize car speed over human life

in fact we have a huge problem with traffic fatalities of pedestrians and cyclists but also

of those who are in cars that is people in cars dying in car crashes so i just want to make it really

really really clear that quick builds do not pit cyclists and pedestrians against driver it really

does not this is something that is good for all of the above so many drivers want safer streets

those inside and outside cars so please address our traffic injury and fatality crisis by fully

approving this item and adopting an operating budget to fully fund this necessary public safety

work going forward and please work with community groups to support outreach and community

education i also want to say that we should aim for greater than one to three tier two projects a

year thank you so much next speaker is genie word waller and then i have a no name again

and we're back a sandable maybe good evening mayor and council genie word waller i'm a resident

of district four i also am a past active transportation commissioner and i'm also the parent

of a high school student who rides her bike often to mcclatchy she has had incident where a car

hit her at an intersection luckily she was fine but as you've heard from many speakers

those of us that walk in bike in the city have all experienced traffic safety and the issues on

our streets i'll be brief because i think all the speakers have gone before me have made really

important points about this but i just want to emphasize that we have a tragedy on our streets

in sacrameno we really are facing a crisis of pedestrian safety and this is a first step tonight

i really urge you to move this forward quickly and charge your staff you have brilliant staff i

want to give really big kudos to the staff because i love them i worked with them in a professional

capacity they're incredible but they need more funding they need more resources we need to move

more than just quick build we need to make permanent changes to our streets particularly on that

high injury network that's prioritized through vision zero so i urge you to focus on that and find

real funding to make permanent changes this one is quick and easy let's get it done let's let's

make quick improvements but let's focus on how do we make permanent changes to make our streets safe

thank you thank you for your comments and my final speaker had no name but i think it's missandival

i'm encouraged that north gate boulevard has been identified as a priority of the transportation

safety initiative i'm in district three lived in north gate on my life north gate boulevard is

sandwiched between 160 arden garden connector in i80 with cars traveling at 70 miles per hour

with two elementary schools on north gate boulevard teachers cars are plowed into by speeding cars

while they're working and children have been killed by speeding cars truncated dome pads are on

the sidewalks to alert blind and side impaired people with other disabilities when they're moving

from a pedestrian only space such as leaving a sidewalk tenor street however the pads are useless

because there are utility poles in the middle of the sidewalk approximately every six feet

in addition there are other poles in utility box utility boxes for the impeding accessibility

along the boulevard small children assisting their elders and wheelchairs move onto the street

with great struggle as they cannot continue on the sidewalk because the poles force them to

the street as cars are speeding it is dangerous to cross north gate boulevard on foot which

impacts foot traffic to our local businesses we used to walk to restaurants now you got to drive

it is extremely dangerous to write a bicycle on north gate there are four traffic lanes and one

suicide lane on north gate with a few inches to maneuver off the sidewalk the community is forced

to travel through the neighborhood as they cannot travel safely on north gate our community is

lost loved ones on north gate when walking i myself lost a brother yesterday there were two

major accidents which occurred on north gate boulevard during the rush hour and a pedestrian died

last night from a hit and run accident on north gate boulevard our community has been waiting for many

years for north gate boulevard to once again be safe to walk and bicycle as we used to used to be a

great place to walk around with your family name thank you for your comments your time is

complete may i have no more speakers on this agenda item okay thank you start off with council member

maple thank you mayor and i just want to say thank you so much to our incredible staff thank you

to Matt the heat of mega and thank you to Jennifer for all your work and your your heart that's

gone into this this is really truly an amazing effort just listening to the community and and

and and plenty not one your expertise but also hearing from from others who are experts and

being willing to listen and implement that so thank you so very much i also want to upload one

of the other speakers said this but i think it's important to call out that council member valence

willa really started this effort and uh so this is built upon her her advocacy efforts so i

guess it takes two kates but we got there so just really want to make sure i call that out and

then also just all the advocacy organizations and individuals in the community the actor transportation

commission and i know some of the members here are in the crowd civic thread of course sabba slowdown

sacrameno strong sat down yeah i saw you and many many others i just think it's really important

to to call that out because this is really built on years and years and years of advocacy from

community members it's did nothing happens in a vacuum it doesn't happen from a council member

even our team it happens from everybody working together and pushing towards one goal so just

really grateful for that and i just i had a whole speech time i'm not gonna write it read it what

i'm what i wanted to bring up was i was on that transportation safety panel for hollywood park

and one of the panelists was he was a young girl who had been hit while on her bike when she

was 12 years old on set or bill her name is alina and listening to her her testimony about

what she had gone through but also her advocacy was really the sabba inspiring i was just like wow

okay here's this young young person who has been through something so traumatic like a whole month

in the hospital in a coma um or not a coma the entire time but in a hospital imagine being

that age and being hospitalized for that long um i can't imagine what that would feel like

but then to come out of that and and to be a very fierce advocate and very well spoken by the ad

on the need for a roundabout and and the safety measures i was very very inspired and so

it got me thinking about you know my role in all of our roles here and um you know i can't say more

than what many of the speakers have already said here um we are one of the most dangerous cities in

the United States of America and to be America to be a pedestrian or cyclist um that's not just

an opinion that's that's what the data shows us and so we have work to do um and i think this is

a really really important first step uh and a really big one um and i just want to call out that

it's one that really builds on using data like i love the public dashboard i love the transparency

working with community i love thinking outside the box you know how using our budget that already

exists within within your department to to create these positions and to do stuff that's that's

forward thinking and maybe something won't work um we don't know but being willing to take risks i'm

sure it will um but being willing to take those risks because it's more important to try to save

lives than it is to only think within the box that we know and do the things that we know and i

think that's that's really important um but i also really appreciate that we are doing this in a way

that's equitable i talked about that earlier in our budget not at meeting and by the way thank you

to everyone who's been here for many hours like we have um me and councilor veng had breakfast

really this morning and we're so at it um uh you know i we're not just talking about across the

board um though we do experience pedestrian safety and traffic safety issues all over the city i'm

sure my colleagues will speak to that but we know that there are more pronounced in areas um like

south Sacramento and north Sacramento we know that there are more pronounced in areas where we have

low-income communities and communities of color and so we have to think about that when we're

implementing our solutions too like we have to be thinking about everybody um and so this is

this is step one uh it's a big step i hope that we're gonna move it forward today but i also

want to say um thinking forward uh i'm sure some of my other colleagues will speak to this too

this is this is one step us also allocating more of our budget towards these types of activities

is also a step but that leads me to transportation um ballot measure it's we need a dedicated funding

source for these projects the city cannot do it on its own there's no way we can do it and so i

just urge i know that the my colleague councilor garrah through his um role on the south

Sacramento Transportation Authority board and others in the community are working on this but

so important that we get something passed in 2026 um we we really only have another one shot at the

apple and i really am gonna be pushing along with community members to make sure that that includes

money for active transportation for these types of projects and for public transit in particular

and less money for new roads less money for highways or or none um and so i i or just to be very very

bold on that because that to me that is the next step that's where i'm putting my energy um and

i hope that you'll join me in that so with that i i'm happy to to move the item and thank you so

much okay motion a second council member kaplan thank you mayor probably uh don't have a lot more to

add um what council member maple added other than um you guys know since 2018 i have been a jive

walk to school volunteer like i am responsible for people's children and for several of those

years we were crossing del paso and it was always having an adult in front and an adult in back

and making sure that we all had eyes on people that were driving cars so i come from this from a

perspective of i love to ride my bike uh when i first moved here i lived downtown i lived on

third and p and then i lived on 28th and d and i loved walking and biking everywhere um i want to

thank city staff because uh mad ironman said it we designed roads for speed we didn't design them

for people and it's now um it's never too late but we look at those pitilly little stripes of bike

lanes um on the roads and cars are 10 times heavier and they don't care what speed limits say and

they race through the lumps when they should slow down and unfortunately now we all know somebody who

has lost a life you know there was somebody my husband lost who he just had lunch with and they

went separate ways and he was hit and killed downtown a good friend of mine was walking his dog

and a car ran through uh and ended up hitting and killing him it affects every single one of us

and we know that cars are heavier so i look at how do we change when we talk about vision zero

it's almost like we have to change our philosophy and how we look at designing the city

it's now we have to say we're designing the roads for people not for cars

and and it's working to advocate at the state level that says we don't design speed for the 85th

percentile because i gotta tell you i want to go truxel north gate del Paso stocked in man then

that speed limit would be 50 65 Natomas park um and that's that could be the 85th percentile so

how do we flip it and and i'll have to say you know uh this is always something that i've taken

is very important um it shouldn't have taken losing two grandfathers one a pedestrian one on a

bike at the same intersection within six weeks to really highlight we got to move quicker but again

i want to say mat and maegan you listen to me and i was like oh my god i know this is not an

intersection but we got to move quicker and this is near our schools and i hear

here's a caution please y'all get a hold of us don't put it on next door um i see a next door

all the time information about dangerous intersections and that that brings up we can do these quick

builds they're one step but we have to change behavior because i did that quick build and

thank you ma and maegan for working quickly of highlighting and making it a highly visible

reflective crosswalk and doing protect pedestrian safety but i still see and get call outs at my

office people are running stop signs there was almost a fight there at the other weekend because

who had the right away and both were in the middle intersection um i can't get in everybody's car

we all can't get in everybody's car and tell them leave five minutes earlier slow down make it

more important that people stay alive then we get somewhere quicker it also is going to take

behavior every morning and i'm in noses because i send him videos parents are dropping off their

kids and parking and red zones they're dropping off their kids and blocking bike lanes we have got to

start holding each other accountable to be better because that matters it's you are here i know

i am speaking to an audience that agrees with me but how do we also talk to our friends and our

neighbors to understand how important this is because we don't want to hear about you know um my

bang was a school board member calamandes rick jennings i always hated that call when a kid was hit

we get calls that kids are hit on their way to and from school how do we stop that i know this is not

the answer but it's one way to say while we don't have that funding let's look at ways we can do it

faster and i'm in 100% alignment with council member maple we've got to be thoughtful and we've

got to provide funding you look at other cities and other areas how are they able to do things

they have dedicated funding because guess why those dedicated bike lanes we shouldn't just have

them downtown why can't my neighborhood have them why can't the suburbs have them why can't we

make it then we're getting parents to let their kids go to school because they're and they know

it's a dedicated bike lane and then i'll have to worry about the safety of their child

so we still have a lot of work to do i hope that my colleagues maybe look at what i've done with

my north and intonus transportation management association i've done an education campaign we're

putting it in our schools so that may is bike month and walk and pedestrian enrol month it's a

three minute video that we use students in our community to educate the safety of wearing a

helmet on a scooter paying attention don't being on your phone and how how to make it safer for

everybody to get to school i think that's something we can all do because the more we get that

ownership i think it'll it'll make a change in our community so again thank you to staff thank

you everybody for doing this this is a great step forward thank you very much mayor appreciate

this first of all a big kudos to councilmember maple and count and all of our advocates who were

involved in in organizing in this and and or in our city engineering staff you know i i i can't

you know i can't stop to recognize our engineers you know you know in municipal services you always

hear a lot from you know fire here a lot from police you always hear from the finance people

because they're the ones that tell you know but you know are the the people who are quietly in the

background doing a lot of this work are engineers and i want to thank maegan and and her team for

for for putting something in ingenious here and and and also you know to to bring it to the focus

about how we need to act quickly and focusing it on lives over speed and for some of us that went

to through engineering school you know you're not even year that long ago it still was you you

were taught level of service was if you got a level of service a grade a meant as fast and unpeated

vehicle movement and that was it that's the the training that's happening so we also need a

cultural shift happening you know in in how we train our future engineers and now moving to

issues of VMT issues of safety are is a is a and making sure that local governments

said policies that say hey that's the priority and we want the schools to be teaching to that

priority i think we're setting the the the leadership to that point um this again this is a

i appreciate this quick build aspect of it um you know i live in a in an area where uh it's

wrapped from uh old highway 50 full some boulevard and old highway 99 stocked in boulevard and the

community grew around it and so it was designed as as a cut through as a thoroughfare and even after

they built the freeways people still continue to use that and so it's necessary that we make those

improvements and if you go down to either Mary'sville or Northgate or Franklin that takes you to

Franklin the town of Franklin uh you know that the because of those designs um it's necessary that

we make those changes so i'm excited about this piece here but one thing that i want to mention that

our current roads it was brought over we have a multi multi million dollar backlog in just potholes

and i'm thinking about our youth commissioner who i remember when she was 12 years old hit a pothole

and and really injured herself uh writing her bike and uh and uh most recently now as a senior

she was doing a walkthrough with our public works team on 21st avenue identifying where the

dangerous points for cyclists to be at and working with our engineers to say hey we need to be able

to make a change and thinking about okay how we do that uh and i remember that that incident has

sparked someone so the two to looking at what is the future of our engineers i hopefully hopefully

she thinks about becoming a traffic engineer you know in in the in the in the future uh but uh but it's

making sure that we address our current deferred maintenance is critical and we do not we even with

this little bit of money it's not going to address the transformative change even just fixing the

safety of potholes for cyclists and as someone who rides with my kids let me tell you my kids remind

me when there's a pothole they're like they always say it's too bumpy and then and they're

complaining to me and i'm like what hey you know call the district line you know you can complain

you know but um but uh but they're in the back complaining about the potholes and i know it and i

know it because i see those numbers under ferdinand's um which brings me to the point this is great

that we get this money out get it quick it designs in save some lives but we need to pass a county why

responsible and viable transportation measure and i live in an area where it goes city county city

county you know and my kid who wants to go and should want to go right as bike you know down 14th

avenue to his buddy that lives on the other side of 14th avenue that quickly turns into the county

we should be able to be working accordingly to have safe streets you know for them to use to be

able to go to Luigi's pizzas and play pinball machine there you know in that area you know

and and not have to risk that or to you know go to the velo ball right next door you know and that's

a plug-ins for those who want to sponsor the velo ball you know but uh but without a viable transportation

measure there's never going to be a way for us to address you know traffic circles to address

you know pedestrian walking intersections to look at the the the the issues of of guiding

drivers and i think the point was made all of us even who are cyclists many of us are also drivers

and we need to be able to have roadways that help guide us when we're maneuvering through

difficult situations finally i mean i have so i think that if we had a countywide

transportation measure that was a viable and responsible one and even if it included funding

for safe routes to schools to address all of the the planning that goes involved it takes planning

and and work but even imagine if we could fund training for a bike bus program where you see where

the you know there are you know it becomes a culture that in the morning the priority is the

bike bus going there and you have 150 kids biking together to school uh and same thing you know

in the afternoon creating that culture too i i do think but we can't do that as a one off and i

this is where i would encourage as much as you advocate with us that you advocate also in our

unincorporated other other areas because that's what we're going to be able to make the amount of

movement in that issue i know i'm committed to that not only because it's the the necessary

for fatalities but if we're really going to address our air quality issues we have to make

it viable for people to have an option other than a car and even if you get an electric car okay i

know you know uh when i ride my bike i've i've uh i've got you know gotten into our mayor backing out

with this with his electric car out of the driveway uh they vehicles still create congestion you know

vehicle still create congestion all right and uh and so to that point um you know we have to

prepare by alternatives even if you rode your bike once a day and did the vehicle the other day

you're still making an impact so but if you don't feel safe you're never going to take that one day

so uh with that i just want to appreciate everyone's work on this thank you

council member Dickinson thanks mayor i i uh i welcome this this initiative which i think

represents the thinking outside the proverbial box and so i i certainly applaud the staff for

that that creativity uh and um that that that initiative uh i share the sentiments that have

been expressed by my colleagues this evening and in light of the hour i'll resist the temptation

to repeat them all uh but i i did want to delve into it just a couple items first of all thinking

about funding it does seem to me that to the uh extent uh we can pursue it uh SB one offers some

some potential sources obviously in the active transportation and the categorical grants

active transportation category and the local partnership category so you know we not only need to

take advantage of the funding you've been able to identify but we need to go hunt for more uh clearly

even in our maintenance allocation under SB one thinking and uh from other gas tech sources

thinking about maintenance projects in the in the context of turning those into complete street

projects i i think is something that uh we ought to ought to be doing so so uh we we uh i certainly

take uh council member garris comments to heart about about a uh uh local initiative and and

councilwoman maple as well um uh been there a few times uh i know we can succeed because we've

we've done it before uh we have to we have to come up with the the right formula and the right

and the right mix um but i think we're also seeing what's considered that right formula evolve

uh over time and uh that gives me uh hope you know um to uh just to pick up slightly on something

that councilmember garris was saying um the uh the touchstone of traffic engineers uh when i was

working on these issues just a few years ago was throughput it was how many cars you could get

through a space and how little time with how little congestion uh i think uh we are evolving

and getting smarter about how we assess uh the purpose of transportation uh and think about it

in terms of mobility of getting um to places of place making in that in that context rather than

driving by and how fast you can go i i could certainly um easily riff on council member kaplans

comments about getting to school uh as as well but i again will resist that temptation i do um

i do have a one uh question i think it's fair to say about the about the waiver of competitive bidding

and using rfp or fq you know a number of years ago uh we adopted an approach in the in the county

which i cannot come up with the name but it was it was a form of contracting that actually

allowed for competitive bidding but essentially pre-qualified bidders up to a certain amount and so

they were qualified to do the work that was necessary then they were on a list and you could pick

and choose now this has got the flavor of that but that was a that was a competitive bidding

approach and so uh can can you elaborate a little bit on uh that versus this uh process that

you're proposing yeah so we we wanted to act quickly so we put this in uh the initial

our next round will be an on-call um type of uh procurement where we will automatically

qualify people and put a set amount and what type of work that they will will do so we will

definitely use that uh methodology uh moving forward and uh we do that uh in in in a lot of our

areas today so but just in order for us to launch this quickly and not go through a six-month process

we wanted to uh take the suspend competitive bid uh program with this so okay thanks math that

makes it a little more clear that you're gonna uh as time goes on use that approach which which

certainly worked well because it gives you immediate access to contractors but it but it doesn't

bypass competitive competitive bidding either so but I I now understand you want to do the

take this action suspending the competitive bidding and as an urgency feature of this okay

okay well thank you for that clarification uh I would just uh say in closing that

this is a meaningful uh first step but it is but it is as everybody has alluded to certainly

just that um and for many of us it's a welcome as I said earlier but long overdue uh first step now

the test will be not whether we take this action tonight the test will be how we adjust what we're

doing in terms of approaching uh transportation uh funding uh and programming uh as well as

construction I think uh in the years years to come whether we are really uh invested in making the

kinds of changes in public behavior and attitude and approach with respect to to mobility and

transportation whether we are truly invested in making sure that people have multiple forms of

transportation as real choices which does not exist for most people today those of those will be

the tests of the future and it will not be it will not be the the sole domain of the of the traffic

engineers and the staff that will be our responsibility that'll be the responsibility of of our colleagues

and other uh elective offices and jurisdictions that'll be the responsibility of state policy makers

it will become a true community responsibility if we are to see real lasting significant change

thanks thank you councilor plucky welcome i want to recognize the leadership of council members

balance waila maple and and capelin the act of transportation commission saw us civic thread

strong town slow down Sacramento and our staff as was reported i will be supporting the uh the

recommendation here uh but i but i also want to second the comments of the rest of the council here

that um after this uh we need to really double down and think about how to support another

measure a uh that has strong active transportation um participation for those of you that are um

active transportation purists recognize that we cannot sell a tax measure without some uh you know

something in there for the car drivers uh but we will lean heavy to put as much as we can in that bill

for uh active transportation and transit um and i also want to ask staff in the future if we can come

back with the vulnerable users ordinance if there's something that we can look at to um uh sort of

change the uh the conversation that we're having with with drivers um uh and and really uh

shift some of the liability away from those of us without real cages i think that would be uh time

most spent thank you that's very vague thanks mayor oh it's exactly nine o'clock okay um yeah i

i just wanted to just make a few comments um and not be a Debbie Downer i think everyone is

celebrating which is really great i'm like super excited that we're moving in this direction um and

i appreciate um also um just mentioning the hard work of councilwoman Katie Valenswella i just

really want to uplift that because in november of 2023 um me and her we actually submitted a council

proposal to look at the ATC's recommendation nine of them and the quick build was actually one of them

and there's a reason why when you look at the annual report now there's actually a a cost breakdown

it's because we requested for that right and i see alley nodding her head and so um i'm really excited

i think i i want to celebrate like this is really great um it's a big first step and i echo my

colleagues on yes we need a transportation measure right but i just also want to take a different

angle um is that um you know we should prioritize our general funding and i say that because um

that's my view on this is yes yes you know we don't have a lot of money to go around we're in a

deficit right um but the largest part of our budget is the police budget and for me active

transportation is public safety right and until we actually have a steady revenue of source of

funding like a transportation measure which i fully support um i echo councilmember Roger Dickinson

when he says that if we're truly about investment in active transportation it actually does fall

on the policy makers because at the end of the day we're the one that allocates the budget and so

if active transportation is a public safety issue that we talk a big game about then we have to make

sure that we actually allocate our general funding for that so so for me so for me yeah i'm like

celebrating this is great you know uh it's been a long time coming to get to this moment it's great

but again like our you know if this is our priority then we got to make sure our

reflects our budget and so i just wanted to take that angle i think that's really important i

just wanted to name that um because yes we don't have a lot of money to go around but we do have

priorities as a council and if this is a priority then we have to make sure that our budget reflects

that and so those are my comments and just congratulations to the advocates because it's a long time

coming um to get to this moment but really um the credit goes to the community so okay everybody spoke

right we are i have about 10 pages of prepared comments no uh look this is a this is something we

all embrace and literally i have never seen a staff presentation get a clapping standing

evasion before we even started the presentation from the public and the council as you know i ran

for mayor last year because you know i remember and i went to quite a few forums and debates and

clearly the issues of the day housing and homelessness and public safety uh but right behind

there was our streets and traffic safety and what can we do to step it up and um you know as

council member gara remembers and then council member Harris plucky bomb twice in my career i've

had to go and hustle and get um five million dollar earmarks to fix a road where somebody died

and uh we shouldn't have to do it after the fact and so you know some of these quick fixes aren't

five million dollars that's the thing here we're looking at five million per year for multiple

projects per year and i guess that's the question is how many it depends on how big the project so

hopefully we can get multiple but you know some of those fixes i've seen the one up in atomas by

the atomas park um clubhouse or the one on mok and broadway and i told council member maple that when

i go down broadwinnell turn right on mok i'm literally thinking like what's going on in his

slowdown and you're looking around so those things get the public to do things differently which

was our goal is to get people by design to slow down and so i'm all in on this in supportive and

and lastly i do support going the voters with a transportation measure to fund our roads fund

public transportation but i think that we should have a big segment on this because one is important

but two i think the public would embrace the measure even more so for focusing on efforts

like this so with that this is something we all embrace the entire council and the community i

believe as well and we have a motion in a second all those in favor please say aye

aye you know those are abstentions hearing none measure passes

yes okay we have now move to council comments ideas questions and ab 123 reports

yes

do we always do that then i think karena has a couple of months yes i have an ab 123 report uh four

report uh it's late we've been here since 11 um but i attended the commonsense summit on kids

and families in san francisco and got to connect with i mean researchors advocates uh to discuss

technology and the impacts of a i um in our community and how we're going to govern and so it

was a really interesting conversation and i learned a lot technology is advancing governments behind

and we have to catch up so that's my report yes i'm a replicabum i have a request for staff to

please investigate what could be done to provide ongoing funding for code enforcement's emergency

home repair program including but not limited to cdg bg funds okay thank you public comment

it's there i have five speakers um sally's to puril mac worthy devon stricker rebeca santa vol and

evan minton so please line up in the aisle i know it's late so some people have chosen to go home

sally i don't see sally mac worthy

people we observe we listen to a choosener may uh city manager nobody said anything about uh

uh uh the brown at i don't trust what you're doing for city management and i'll get a chance to speak

out on it and then all of a sudden we had maybe five people now we get a whole crew how many

email did you send out to people that come here that gets a check from the city that's what we want

um that's how you see you stack shit here that you will never change you will never change no

speed limit on the car you could ask people the little boy that put that out slow down i had to

hospital a digital when i was there for sand sub to me out of line they fired his ass too

you don't tell me what it's said so see bring him in here and give him a few dollars and he

come down here and agree and this city counts over here now she's been attorney everywhere

we don't want to hear what the hell you went on when you was a rider bike you yaya yaya then we get

you yaya yaya and it will run we need to cut that bullshit how when we get to special issues no

you didn't go on that when we said uh hina said it imagine we didn't sell who was the lead manager

out of the five you have who should go out of that you know say why where the corruption are in

this city the community don't know where they're asking the whole number they can't come and

hand sell words because they're tied to a little check from the district of the non-profit

organization is what you're saying well we we what they're gonna do they're not gonna post you

call that checker gets cut off you got cut of course that shit down if you don't close that down

to go rupture gonna always be in this city thank you for your comments Devin

thank you are we able to show photos on here oh okay you can pass it around we can all see

all right well thank you it's been a long night i'm Devin's director executive director of the

river district also a resident of district four so just as a little refresher back in July 21 the

city banned camping near critical infrastructure in august of 2022 the city amin the sidewalk

code related to obstructions and pedestrian interference basically banning encampments from

blocking the sidewalk in october 2022 the city council voted unanimously to ban encampments with

foot within 500 feet of schools and in november 2022 voters approved measure oh banning encampments

on public property under certain conditions and requiring the city to identify an authorize hundreds

of new shelter spaces these are all measures that had a lot of public speakers come out to make

comments a lot of people voted and yet a lot of these do not seem to be enforced in any way at least

not in the river district every day this year so far i've gotten at least one phone call email

or text message from an impassioned property or business owner or resident wanting to know why

the city has forgotten about the area around 16th street specifically north b and nor c street

this is a message i received today from a property owner the homeless situation is getting

worse than i've ever seen it and i've been here a long time it is shocking that the city lets the

area deteriorate so dramatically i know you're concerned and i encourage you to use these pictures

to inspire the city to do something i have a lot of compassion for the people in these pictures

it kills me that our society and sacraments government is so paralyzed it is an embarrassment

also my tenants are very concerned and the people come to the building who drive

there through north b street are shocked i ask you to please help us clean this area up and take

care of our people thank you thank you for your comments rebecca

um rebecca sanval um trustee for twin or risk school district um here to say it's concerning

it often there are those that spin my narrative when i speak publicly on behalf of the district

or my community recently there was an email that was sent and i requested the city do better for

families residing in motel shelter program off of north gate boulevard yes that it's true but

specifically i have expressed my concern that children residing in the motel are playing

the street and parking lot of local businesses some of these children attend garden value elementary

school where they are are provided a safe learning environment because their living space is

provided by the city i believe it is uncommon upon the city to provide a safe place

base for the families to congregate it was erroneously written that twin or risk

unified school district best to meet with shelter service providers to partner with those running

the program our district provides many services for over 1200 homeless students which includes pre

school after school program breakfast lunch sometimes supper sports program art music

counseling behavior intervention services as well as an excellent education twin or versus proud

and committed in doing our part in addressing the needs of our homeless students i am hopeful the city

will address a need for an open or green space for the homeless children residing in the motel program

on another issue my narrative with canvas spin it was has been communicated i've been spreading

information that Joshua house is a geriatric facility i went to a meeting and Joshua house was

described as a facility for seniors needing and of life care i found that statement in

disingenuous as we all know Joshua house is a hospice program for the homeless with no age limit

at no time thank you for your comments your time is complete our final speaker is evan minton

please proceed hi my name is evan minton my pronouns are they and he and i want to just think the

council and the mayor for passing the transgender day of visibility resolution today council member

caplin thank you for the special friendship that we have and thank you for knowing at a cellular

level how important visibility is council member plucky bomb thank you for co authoring the

resolution thank you for the consistent way in which you show up for the trans community that

is really meaningful especially in a time like this i want to thank the mayor for your years of

support to the trans community you've done that even when it hasn't been easy and when the trans

community has needed an ally you've consistently shown up thank you for that um i was thinking

about what i can say in this moment and i had words that were flowery but it just doesn't meet the

moment i wanted to just let you guys know you know i don't stand here as a victim um i came out

maybe around 15 years ago and at that point i asked everyone hey if you don't know a trans person

use me as a reference and i'm so glad that in this day and age there are so many more

reference points than just me um that's progress and visibility wasn't always

is a political act that it is now um i think that folks know trans people have always existed we

have come from thousands and thousands of years we've been on record um and in this day and age

unfortunately it's seen as a political act we can't reduce our community to make people more

comfortable that's nothing that's something that no one should be asked to do and so as long as

it's unsafe to be grateful thank you for your comments your time is complete i'll just finish

this statement appreciate your comments as long as it's unsafe Mary you have no business to come

before the council thank you for our community and thank you for your continued support

and is there a huge person for the trans community here as i might owe you on thank you thank you

yeah Mary you have no additional business to come before the council thank you no adjormits and memory

no without we are adjourned thank you

you

yeah