Commez.

Councillor Ciappolano, Councillor Diccanson, Councillor Pluckybaum, councilmember Maipol,

Mayor Pro Tem Garro will be here momentarily, councilmember Jennings, councilmember Vang,

we expect Mayor McCarty momentarily and Mayor Pro Tem, excuse me, Vice Mayor Chalamantez.

Here. Thank you. You have a quorum.

Thank you. Councilmember Capil, please lead us on the land acknowledgement and pledge

the wages. This is in honor of Sacramento's indigenous

people and tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nisan

on people, the southern Maidu, the valley and plain Miwok, the Putwin people and the

people of Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge

and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these

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

and appreciation of Sacramento's indigenous people's histories, contributions and lives.

Please remain standing. Pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

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

Thank you so much. All right. So today we do not have any presentation. So we're moving

straight into the consent calendar. Councilmember, what would you like to ask?

Can I ask Madam City Attorney if you have a report out from closed session?

Yes. The mayor and councilman in closed session do confer with their labor negotiator and

there's nothing to report out. Okay. Wonderful.

Councilmember Vang, more items? Thank you Vice Mayor. I like to make a comment

on item one and then for item four I like to provide direction to city staff.

Councilmember Dickinson. Item two and seven. Okay. Anyone else?

Seeing none. Clerk, do we have any public comment?

I do have five speakers on the consent calendar and I'd like to read into the record that

for item five the restricted parking area boundaries have been modified. It was originally

published that the northern boundary of the area will be end street that has been revised

and republished this afternoon and the northern boundary will be P Street. So our speakers

first is Jeffrey Tardiglia, Janine Lewis, Keon Bliss. Mr. Tardiglia, would you like

the microphone? Thank you.

Mr. Tardiglia, advocate. I'm speaking to the item three dealing with the approval of the

American Disability Act public right away perspective plan. There's other things that

are also going on and again it's hard to read the reports. Other agencies have been provided

in the back of the room so you can physically read the report. You used to have a machine

in the back corner of what was actually physically going on on the agenda for the day. That's

my public comment. You don't have and you're still on the website things that need to be

updated and changed. That's my public comment.

Thank you. Janine Lewis. Following Janine is Keon Bliss, Sylvia Navari and Rose Robertson,

Brian Fuller. My name is Janine Lewis and I'm honored to introduce myself as the newly

appointed District 8 community police review board commissioner. I sincerely thank Council

member Vang for this opportunity and for trusting me to serve the community that we both care

so deeply about. I'm addressing item four. I'm excited to support the commission's 2025

public plan with particular focus on establishing a joint workshop with the City Council to

align on priorities and build a stronger collaboration. Reviewing SPD's resource allocation to promote

equitable and efficient use of public safety resources and evaluating public engagement

programs including the drive safe Sacramento and youth centered outreach. These priorities

reflect our shared vision of a city that values transparency, equity and meaningful community

engagement. I look forward to listening, learning and doing the work needed to build trust and

accountability across Sacramento. Thank you again for the opportunity to serve and I'm honored to

be a part of the journey forward. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, Keon Bliss.

Members of City Council, I'm urging you to not only approve the

community police review commission's annual report and 2025 work plan but I'm also urging you to

take action on one particular recommendation out of more than 186 recommendations that have been

approved and submitted to you since 2018. That would be our recommendation to take an immediate

action and order an independent audit of the Sacramento Police Department's overtime policies,

practices and expenditures which is listed under Appendix G in the full report that you all should

have received but unfortunately is not listed in today's staff report. Given the city's projected

budget deficit and current economic uncertainties caused by the current federal regime, it's critical

that we take action to make sure that our taxpayer dollars are actually being used in the

appropriate manner as is intended. And unfortunately based on our research on the commission,

the city has paid over $158 million in overtime just to the Sacramento Police Department since

2012 with at least 81% of that amount occurring just since 2016. And among the top overtime

expenditures that were considered in fiscal year 23 and 24 included things like backfilling the

complaint desk at a staggering $1.1 million court appearance times at over $779,000 and impact

teams at over $738,000. Most troubling too is that several dozen Sac PD employees have reported

overtime exceeding 70% or even 100% of their base salaries even at despite the staffing shortages

most employees are underutilized and then there are some that have been able to double their

base salaries just using overtime pay alone. For these reasons alone this demands an urgent

attention from the city auditor. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next

speaker is Sylvia Navarri. Thank you for your comments. Sylvia. Following Sylvia's rose Robertson

then Brian Fuller. Sylvia speaking on item 5. Thank you. I'm speaking on behalf of my

30 plus residents who opted out of this proposal. I have to say on their behalf most of us were

outraged that this proposal didn't we were not asked our opinion anything so that said. But the

main reason that this proposal does nothing to mitigate any potential problems posed by channel

24. I sent a letter to each of you talking about the reasons. Channel 24 events don't start until

at the earliest 7 p.m. Why you would have a proposal to reduce parking restrictions to one

hour from 8 a.m. all day long is doesn't make any sense and it is it poses an undue burden on

residents. We have guests we have friends dropped by. Yes we can get parking permits go online but

that is a burden. You know I have five friends dropped by. I don't I don't have time to go on

line and get parking permits. So really and I have to say this you're parking

the partnership between the city and channel 24 to secure parking within the half mile radius of

channel 24 I think will really solve this problem. This problem there's no problem. There's no

problem parking in midtown particularly during the day in this area. We can't make customers of

channel 24 by parking spaces. But channel 24 if they don't buy parking spaces and they park on

the street and get tickets you know. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Thank you

for your comments. Our next speaker is rose robertson. Thank you for your comments. Your time is

complete. Rose robertson please. Then Brian Fuller. Hello my name is Rose Robertson and I'm

here to comment on the restricted parking changes. As a resident I'm obviously concerned with the

size of the venue that went into a residential area without them considering a parking garage

and I'm kind of torn between whether I'm in favor of this or not. I agree with Sylvia that one hour

parking before five or six o'clock seems extreme and unnecessary especially for people who

like don't work during certain normal hours and have friends over. At the same time I totally

understand I don't want to have to come home to my house and have no parking and be parking a mile or

two away. So I just want to make sure whichever way it ends up going that things are properly

considered. Right now I think households get one guest pass. If you change it to be one hour I

definitely think the no parking is not necessary at all. But if you change it I think that needs to

be addressed where households can get more than one permanent guest placard not where I have to sign

up the day of to get it. But in addition to that I just I want to make sure there's a process or

that you guys are considering protocols for what will be done when people have events like I have

summer barbecues I have an annual fall party. I think I was told there are times where you can go

in and register licenses. I'm not going to be getting license plate numbers from all my guests or

having them move their car every hour. So I don't know if there's something that you guys are

considering for that where maybe we can register ahead of time and get like event passes that we

can print out that are good for like a 24 hour period that I can give to my my friends. But I'm

just hoping that all aspects are being considered if we do restrict the time which like I said I'm

very conflicted on whether that will benefit or be worse for us living there. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Brian Fuller, Tim Schmetzler and then Kevin Petrick.

Hi there, good evening. My name is Brian Fuller. I'm coming to this a little bit cold in terms of the

consent calendar and agenda but but was pretty surprised that the Community Police Review

Commission annual report is on consent. Hopefully I'm missing something I'll run through kind of

the different data points as I understand them. Right now the city has an estimated deficit of $62

million in 2526 and an operating deficit increasing to $130 million by 2829 numbers that don't account

for potential losses in federal funding. The largest department in the city is the Police

Department with last year's overtime for the department greater than the total budget for

all but four other departments in the city. The top vote getter and last month's budget survey

on expense reduction options among city services was the Police Department and by a stroke of

luck we have an up-to-date 50 page report that has done a data-driven programmatic analysis of the

programs and functions of the department and the council has chosen to not discuss it publicly.

Admittedly I'm not that familiar with the city's budget process but I've been involved with the

state budget process for roughly the last decade. I've testified to the legislature. I've defended

sensitive proposals from the administration and I've reviewed dozens if not hundreds of agendas

from policy committees and budget subcommittees across both houses. I cannot think of a more

egregious, we'll call it, clerical decision to leave an item on consent than this.

As part of this exercise to close the budget deficit I understand departments were tasked with

identifying potential reductions and ordering them from low to high impact. I read that three of the

four low impact proposals that the SACPD proposed as the first ones they would offer up in meeting

their reduction target. Deleting a net of one position for the traffic enforcement division

to save $221,000. Deleting three community service representatives from patrol operations to

discontinue programmatic supportive media agency programs and eliminating funding for the youth

and family investments. Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete. Our next speaker is Tim

Schmetzler on item five. Then Kevin Petrick on item five. Good afternoon. I'm Tim Schmelzer. I live at

150424th street and I'm coming in on item five regarding the channel 24 parking. First thing I

want to say is I'm really supportive of this music venue. I'm excited. In fact I've already bought

tickets to three of them and I think it's a great thing for Sacramento. Number two, I am equally

as discouraged and really take umbrage with the fact that this the parking restriction shrink

today at 156, eliminating protections literally from my block which I'm kind of upset about. I think

the original lines were fine but I do have some issues with with the proposed one-hour parking

thing. I'm pretty much in direct alignment with a with a previous speaker here. I think the hours

eight to midnight are pretty extreme. I think they should be aligned more with uh when you can

expect patrons to actually be at the venue. Something like five or six to midnight seems much more

appropriate to me. And then secondarily, I really would like some sort of exception process for when

residents host events, parties, anything like that. I have a great charitable Christmas party

every year where I probably have like 30, 40 guests come over. I'd hate for them all to get tickets,

you know. So some reasonable process for that. I'd really like you to reconsider this change

that happened at 156 p.m. today a lot, that one in particular, and to consider shrinking those hours.

Thank you very much for your time. Thank you for your comments. Kevin Petrick on item five is the

last speaker on the consent calendar. Speaking on item five, I just want to thank you for taking

up this item. It's usually important to our region, many of us including myself moved to Sacramento

after living in places like Washington, Philadelphia, New York, because it's an up-and-coming city.

We want it to grow and we need some of our parking restrictions to also grow with it,

not to hide our heads in the sand. If you look at the website of the venue, they say

parking available in the neighborhood, still to this day. So I'm looking forward to a

vote and also how we deal with this. Just a no vote basically means we're allowing the venue to

continue operating and basically overwhelm the neighborhood. So I think there's a lot of great

suggestions whether it's after five, one hour, but the difference is we need actually action on it,

not something that's going to wait six months. My wife and I have a toddler. We need to be able

to bring them home after swim lessons and be able to park in the neighborhood. So I encourage you

guys to actually take action and not just let it go. Thank you. Thank you for your comments.

We have no more speakers on the consent calendar. Council Member Vangio had comments on one

and four. If you want to take both. Yes, I can take both. For comments on item one,

I just wanted to say congratulations to Kim Stevens and also Junior Goris who we are appointing to

the Anlan Memorial Funds Commission and Kim Stevens to the Measure U. Kim Stevens, which she's

appointed to the Anlan Memorial Fund and Junior who was originally the appointee in District 7

and after it got redistricted, he will be officially representing District 8 on the Measure U

Committee. So really just wanted to say thank you to our two great community members who step

enough to serve on the commission. And then for item number four, item number four is the City of

Sacramento Community Police Review Commission 2024 annual report and work plan. And I just really

first wanted to take this time to thank all of our commissioners from 2024 past and current members

really just for all your hard work and really get great to see my commissioner who came today

who did not work on the work plan but is eager to you know basically build on the work plan. So

I'm really excited about that. I just wanted to comment that I know that all of our commissioners

don't get paid to do this and they spend their time and expertise really to provide these very

important recommendation and I would have loved to see this item come as a discussion item instead

of a consent item and in particular the reason why because I think it's so important as I'm

reviewing the annual report of the various recommendation that was made in 2024 and I think

it's really important as a council that we discuss if we're going to one either accept or implement

these recommendation to reject their recommendation and explain why and then three or find a solution

that works with the commission and the council right and I think having that loop around is really

important. I often think about our active transportation commission right I think one

direction we provided was to add a budget to that and ask city staff what can we move forward with

what are some of the low hanging fruits and I feel like we should do the same to our police

commission as well and so I want to just to share that I think that's really important

but since this is not a discussion item and it is on consent I like to just provide two

direction to city staff because I believe we could do that on consent item so the first

direction is actually to our city auditor in the 2024 annual report commission report

under strategic planning and budget management recommendation there were three key recommendations

that the commission provided and you'll find them on page 35 in particular I like to just highlight

or uplift one of the recommendations because I know there's lots of recommendation but this one in

particular is of importance to me just given our budget deficit and the conversation we're having

around budget and vacancies one of the recommendation is to conduct a complete audit of SACPD's

overtime policy practices and expenditures and I would like to request that the city auditor add

this to her work plan now I believe the city auditor already went to budget and audit and she's

planning to come to council with her work plan for consideration for the mayor and the council

to vote on it right and so I would like that this piece to be added to her work plan and we can

debate if we want her to continue this part of her work with her team and so that's my first

direction and then the second direction I'm gonna look at to the mayor on this because I might need

help on this direction it goes back to the report I'd like to figure out how staff and I don't know

who's staffing the police commission at this moment but I like for us to find a way to have staff

actually circle back on the status of each recommendation that's really important and so

I guess my direction in addition to the auditor is that we have to figure out some way to do a loop

around if we choose to reject the recommendation we have to explain why and I'm looking at the

mayor because I don't know who staffed to the police commission but I think it's really important

that there is some answer I mean as as a right now I believe there is no one or maybe that's

zero so I think that's that's something that I like to flag right that as we move forward with

this work plan it's so important because so many of our commission do have you know city staff that

supports them and so we need to figure out a pathway in order to make sure that this work plan

actually comes to fruition and that these recommendations are not just sitting virtually

on our shelf and so that's the second recommendation is to direct city staff to find a city staff to

actually be appointed to the commission so that they can come back to us and let us know like

what's the status on these recommendations I think if we value our commissioners and the work that

they do we owe it as a council to either accept implement reject explain why or find a solution

moving forward and so those are my two direction on this item thank you thank you council member

council member dickinson on two and seven and if I may I'm going to sneak the word in on item one

we're going to with our actions tonight appoint Samaya Caraveo who's here tonight to the youth

commission so since she came down I thought we ought to give her a little recognition a little love

I'm very pleased to to offer her up for appointment this evening on item item two I just wanted to

express thanks and appreciation this is this is a change order not something normally we might

comment on but these are the kinds of improvements that will help pedestrians help cyclists and

ultimately help help motorists this is a stretch of very fast moving street along El Camino in

North Sacramento where pedestrian safety is not guaranteed by any stretch and so these are the

kinds we've spent a lot of time talking about pedestrian and cyclist safety and trying to

improve that across the city this is an example of work that's being done in that regard and so I

wanted to make sure that we just gave a little bit of a spotlight tonight and then on on item seven

this is suspending competitive bidding for the North Sacramento Hagan Wood Library I think

every member of this council is probably well well aware of how long this has been in the making

how much it is looked forward to by the residents of the community it can't happen too soon and

we'll try to make it come to fruition even even faster than then might be anticipated this moment

but this is an important step this evening so I want to express my my thanks again to to the library

authority staff and the city staff for moving this expeditiously and even more expeditiously

along thanks thank you so that concludes council comments

thank you council member plucky bomb

thank you can I get stacy or matt thank you about on the the parking restrictions

while you're coming up the questions are you know what can we do to allow for sort of bulk permits

for guests what can we do to modify this after the fact if if these changes aren't achieving

the result that we're trying to accomplish and what's the process for folks to engage if they're

unhappy with the the parking restrictions in the neighborhood yeah absolutely stacy

hobermill parking services division manager good evening mayor council members so we currently

have a 24-hour printable guest pass that's available to anybody that has an existing

residential parking permit so you can go online and print up to 10 passes per month at no cost

and you print them out and they can go on the dash of the visitors cars

as for bulk reservations or bulk parking for events we we do what we call limited enforcement

and so if somebody is having an event for holiday or a large celebration they can contact our office

for 311 and we will work with them to do limited enforcement so that we're not ticketing their

family members and their guests that are parking in the neighborhood and as for residents that are

not happy with the changes or would like to see something different i'm actually going to be

available right after the consent item with my card to answer any questions for anybody but it's a

very simple process if somebody wants to change what is being proposed on their street or if they

would like to propose different restrictions on their street so it's a petition process very simple

does not require us to have to go back to council we're here because we're taking this as a proactive

approach with channel 24 coming so thank you stacey the area that you see on the map that

we're proposing these restrictions for was negotiated it was originally a larger area

there were some uses on the outer edges of that boundary that would have been incompatible with

that one hour restriction which is why we brought back the smaller area if it turns out that you

know we need to come back and adjust to accommodate you know your neighborhood sir any other areas

you know we'll we'll work with you to make sure that you're getting the the parking protections

that you need thanks stacey one more question for you stacey what was the and i defer to the

parking division and the council member who spent a lot of time on this one had a big community

meeting a couple weeks ago and came to a resolution that had the majority of the people pleased by

it but not always of course what's the reason for the for the hours that did not you know just

start at 8 a.m. versus later in the evening and 8 p.m. versus earlier like 5 or 6 p.m. sure so the

current parking restrictions in most of these streets is 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. one hour a two hour

parking that's that's the current parking restriction and what we were proposing is to

change that to a one hour parking restriction and extend it to midnight to support the late

night parkers for the venue that way there's parking available for residents and their guests

so they're currently already restricted from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. we're just changing it from two hours

to one hour so i'm gonna come at 8 they couldn't sneak in there and get you could get a pass that

night correct yeah because of the pre-existing 8 to midnight correct gotcha okay thank you

okay give a motion a second on the consent calendar all those in favor please say aye

aye any noes or abstentions seeing hearing none the consent calendar passes unanimously next item

so may i remove two public hearings number item number eight is an ordinance amending various

provisions of title 17 of the sacramento city code relating to off-site vehicle parking requirements

all right good evening mayor and council members i'm ryan dodge

associate planner with community development department

so removing minimum vehicle parking requirements builds on a series of parking

reforms so that the city has implemented over the past 12 years culminating an assembly bill ab

2097 which was effective january 2023 and that bill encouraged housing production by prohibiting

minimum parking mandates within a half mile of what the state defines as a major transit stop

which covers 44 of the city so in february 2024 city council approved the 2040 general plan

which included a new citywide policy that ended minimum off-street vehicle parking mandates

so currently the city code shows minimum parking requirements this ordinance has been

prepared specifically to clean up the city code to make it consistent with the general plan

removing minimum off-street parking mandates does not mean that developers will not supply

parking on the property developers continue to supply parking in most cases because there is a

demand for parking in most areas of the city so the general plan is implemented through zoning

specific plans and other city plans and programs the city needs to ensure that city codes ordinances

and other policy documents are consistent with the city's general plan and again at this time the

city code still shows minimum parking requirements this ordinance has been prepared specifically

to clean up the city code to make it consistent with the general plan staff recommend that the

council approve the environmental review resolution and the ordinance to remove minimum

off-street vehicle parking requirements from the code to ensure consistency with the 2040 general

plan and i'm happy to answer any questions thank you may i have one speaker on this item mac worthy

okay

whoever wrote this this is all right explain what is off-street parking off-street parking is parking

in my driveway that's off-street parking if somebody got a lot somewhere they want to park on

they have a right to park on that lot off-street park and you say off-street what you mean by

off-street park explain some things instead of just throwing something out there we know what parking

was first due to due to the arena that which problem never happened to build the arena park

but nobody's told them that if you took take your ticket to code house that thing is split you don't

get the full right you don't need to explain this if you protest i'd have a friend protested and he

wanted him to pay nothing for it park ticket it's been problems about that space for years who owns

from the curve to the sidewalk yes so you know do things just for that they can help people

instead of just writing something out there because you know you're going to make a few dollars

but nobody going to protest because people don't have the money here see this is a city that's very

welfare the plans for the city is to be a welfare they can't afford the attorneys we look for a good

civil a constitutional attorney right now thank you for your comments mayor i have no more speakers

on this item thank you very much then i'll move staff recommendations okay do that include opening

closing the public hearing it does if that was part of the staff recommendation thank you yeah

we have a motion and a second i just know that i'm in full support of this and we passed a state law

codifying what sacramento had done 10 years ago and we were a pro housing city because of policies

like this and i'm just looking at the background here in 2013 is my final year on the council and

this was a wild idea and the notion that the you know central city would become absolute chaos if we

adopted this and it it shows that it did not there's a lot of parking garages from the private

sector that were able to utilize property managers and property owners or people just figure out other

options and so if it had become a major problem we would we would know about and and adjust but

this this seems to be working and more importantly allowing us to build more housing and it you

know we're not building nearly enough we're going to hear in the items coming up in a little bit

but this is a piece of the puzzle so motion a second all those in favor please say aye

aye he knows for abstentions hearing none item passes for the record council vice-mertelemonter

we just voted on item eight thank you so that's unanimous mayor

we moved to item number nine city participation in the bond opportunities for land development program

uh good evening mayor mccardian council members eric frederick with the finance department

the item before you is a public hearing regarding the city city's participation in the bond

opportunities for land development or bold program city participation in the bold program

was suggested through the streamline sacramento initiative that you will be receiving an update

on later this evening bold program is offered by the california municipal financing authority or

cmfa as a means to finance the construction of public infrastructure through the issuance of bonds

these bonds are issued by a melarus community facilities district formed by cmfa and represent

an alternative to a city form district and bond issuance the city is already a member of cmfa

and is therefore entitled to participate in this program developers can utilize the bold program to

finance development impact fees and public infrastructure required of their projects

it offers competitive interest rates and low financing costs all district formation and bond

issuance activities are managed by cmfa resulting in minimal city staff costs and those staff costs

can be fully reimbursed through the program lastly the bold program is similar to the statewide

community infrastructure program or skip that the city has participated in since 2017 so procedures

are already in place for the city to manage this type of program staff's recommendation is to conduct

the public hearing and upon conclusion adopt the resolution before you authorizing the bold program

to be utilized within the city's boundaries staff and representatives from bold are available to

answer any questions thank you all right i have two speakers on this item versus mac worthy and chris valencia

18 years ago i told you about bonds you never explained bond to poor folks

how many people in this country buy those bonds and why they buy those bonds they get them tax free

how many countries out of america buy those bonds it's the same way people is you're hawking

the property you can deal with what i tried to get the previous mayor sit down with the people

instead of race equity and let them know property equity we can set up a broker to put a lien on

as many people that have 50 000 to 200 000 equity and it wouldn't cost you nothing to build all the

low-income housing when that project is accepted that lift off and you got deputy all you have done

here it's program program people that don't make sense it's gonna be uh when you're gonna you talk

about a hundred years or something about six hundred dollar dough it's gonna be another hundred years

before any people here have a decent income you are on your way to slavery with people yeah you want

uh talk about deterrence from trump demand is a brain in business that's what i voted for in

choice people could have went to him here we got what he said is sneaking a dog we got republicans

here snakes and dogs because they depend on your bullshit for income thank you for your comments chris

valencia hello mr. mary members of the city council my name is chris valencia and i'm here on

behalf of the north state building industry association representing the home builders

and developers throughout sacramento i'm here to request that the city authorize the implementation

of the bond opportunities for land development program also known as bold this program is designed

to facilitate economic growth and development by offering bond financing to support land development

projects both provides an essential source of capital to developers looking to create residential

commercial or mixed use developments where we need the most it's not just housing communities our

members are building their projects include installation and improvements of roads utility

lines and public spaces while the city currently already participate in another vernon lorouz

bond program bold program is another tool in the toolkit that will help the city build housing where

it is desperately needed without these tools developers and builders would have to use other

financing mechanisms that would result in increased cost to new housing making the market even more

unattainable building new communities takes not just a lot of time but tremendous amount of financial

resources bold allows builders to secure necessary funds with no burden of the city of sacramento

and the ability for the city to be reimbursed for any administrative costs at a time when we need

new housing more than ever the bold program is an important tool to help us achieve this goal together

thank you thank you for your comments may i have no more speakers

councilmember dickinson thanks mayor i just had a couple of of questions oh there you are

i was just curious whether there's any difference in financing costs using this approach versus a

traditional melrose and by traditional melrose mean one formed by the city

all right yes um i don't think there's there's much difference in the cost it is more i would say

efficient in a way time wise for developers used the bold program and there might be some cost savings

through that efficiency but they have to use the same kind of okay so but but the the costs that

um the beneficiaries will pay the ultimate residents will pay

we wouldn't wouldn't vary at all there's no interest rate advantages or um

dave i might have to look to you for that part of interest rates skills as far as the other pool

same interest rate okay same interest rate yeah okay i i was just i was curious and

you know it's always nice to have multiple arrows in the in the quipper right to be sure

i was just trying to figure out after reading the staff report whether there was something

specific that was a real advantage of using this and to that to that end the staff report is

is very laudatory of this approach are there any drawbacks to using it that you identified

on no drawbacks that i can think of like i said it is uh

approach similar to a program that the city already utilizes um and any staff costs that might be

born from it would be fully reimbursed for the program so i do not see any drawbacks myself okay

thank you thanks okay thank you councilmember kaplan thank you mayor i want to thank you

and councilmember plucky bomb for your work on bringing this forward just wanting to follow up quickly

on the um because currently we have the skip program the state community infrastructure program

can you just describe i love having more tools in the toolbox what's the difference between the

skip program and the bold program they are managed by different entities for one and i do know that

the skip program has the ability to also not only do melrose districts but they can also form

assessment districts the bold program itself only forms melrose cfds but in general they are very

similar programs so basically just clarifying giving a lot of options um just because i know

in d1 skip has supported maritage homes with the development like in the panhandle in other areas

so um this i guess as we talked about our housing element we need we need more ability to to get

more housing online so thank you i'm good with that if uh if there's nothing else i'll uh make a motion

to move this and councilmember kaplan includes opening closing the public hearing i was double

checking was the hearing or not yet yes it is thank you

may we have a a motion by councilmember kaplan and a second by councilmember talamante yes we

have a motion to second uh all those in favor please say aye i need noser abstentions hearing none

passes unanimously so we now move to the discussion calendar item number 10 is rail yard special sign

district

good evening mayor and city council members um on november 12 2024 the city council

unanimously approved a preliminary term sheet for the development of a soccer stadium for

sacramento republic fc the historic central shops live entertainment venue and the rail yard

infrastructure this term sheet includes several terms that require city efforts related to signage

including digital billboards within the rail yard specific plan for the historic central shops

um the entertainment venue as well as the freeway digital billboard billboards to support the stadium

construction these elements are essential to the overall financial feasibility of the projects

so today we are here to review and comment on three items the first is the boundaries of the

proposed rail yard special sign district two is the boundaries of the five sub districts within

the proposed rail yard special sign district and then number three the allowance of five or more

proposed offsite general advertising digital billboards within sub district three additionally

staff is requesting a city council pass a motion directing the interim city manager or designee

to prepare an ordinance for city council consideration that establishes the rail yard special

sign district which would allow for digital board billboards in line with procedures established

in sacramento code chapter 15.148 and the council rules of procedure is important to note that the

term for offsite freeway oriented digital billboards program for indomitable noted in the term sheet

is not part of this discussion or motion uh this program is covered under an existing ordinance

which will be amended through a separate future process with that context i present to you the

preliminary boundary for the rail yard special sign district which is identical to the boundaries of

the rail yard specific plan and the rail yard special planning district marked by the dart dash

line surrounding this staff has determined that creating five sub districts within the rail yard

s special sign district will provide the most flexibility for addressing signage needs in

terms of time place and manner as you can see on the screen the five proposed sub districts are as

followed sub district one which is in purple is the sacramento valley station sub district two

which is the historic central shops which is in green sub district three which is drv owned

properties in beige sub district four which will be indomitable owned properties in red

and then finally sub district five kaiser permanente which is in blue each sub district is unique

and to meet the city's responsibility under the term sheet sub district three is proposed to contain

five digital billboards for drv as outlined in the term sheet and shown here the five areas proposed

by drv are located in purple uh and are supported by the city's urban design manager uh burst modigan

who is here with us this evening the final sign locations and sizes will be uh determined once

the sign ordinance is written during the ordinance development staff will also provide guidance on

the locations of digital billboards whether on city or private property at this time staff request

city council make a motion directing the interim city manager or designee to prepare for city council

consideration and ordinance establishing the rail yard's special sign district that among other things

allows for digital billboards consistent with procedures established in sacramento city code

15 148 and the city uh and the council rules procedures in order to fill fulfill the city's

term sheet responsibilities and i am here if you have any questions okay public comment

everyone speaker on this item kevin king

good evening council my name is kevin king i'm the general manager for reclamation district 1000

managing um the natomas basin for flood protection um my district has um been working on a digital

billboard study for about a year and a half now and we are supportive of um the rail yard project

and we believe we have two sites that may be a good opportunity in support of

this sign district and would request that the boundaries or that the district be um

you know the boundaries of the special sign district be extended to include

two adjacent sites that we believe could be a really great partnership between the city and the

district um and support the goals um of the of the city to develop the rail yards thank you also um

submitted a full comment letter um on this item that should be available to all of you

thank you for your comments may i have no more speakers okay thank you council member gara uh

thank you very much mayor first i first i wanted to uh just thank our our city staff on on this work

and uh mr monigan for his long time work on on these issues as well and i wanted to say we've

learned a lot from the different sign districts that we have and how we're moving forward to

making sure that we have uh an inviting place and also not one that just loses its appeal because of

oversaturation but there's appropriate as was mentioned earlier time place and manner uh one

one thing though that i do as we move forward i would encourage again that we think through that

how do we make um how do we make the the the excitement of this area because this will be

an active area we obviously have housing and a hospital as well in that area so i want to make

sure that that we we think that forward is is is as as there will be people coming off amtrak

looking for that type of atmosphere that we encourage that type of of tourism and

an excitement that comes with it so um well i will say i also support uh i think mr king's

recommendation here i don't know if it's appropriate to include it in this motion

because the obviously the the mapping in the sign and and the locations are included in this area

i'm willing to make a motion to move in the to support the staff recommendation

and willing to amend that motion to include that area or to direct staff to come back

with the other parcels that are identified by rd 1000 but let me ask mr monigan about

whether uh whether staff would be prepared to include that at the moment today

this is the first that i'd heard of a request from the rd 1000 to to be included

we'll certainly give a consideration because it was presented here tonight the purpose of

restricting it to the boundaries of the spd is that we have to be really careful about how we allow

digital sign uses to grow in the city there is as you mentioned some economic consideration of

saturation and there's the potential of opening this to everybody wanting something and so we

have to be really careful about boundaries and when we analyze this last december the concept of

allowing this through a well-defined sign district that was specifically related to

the the rail yards and the rail yards activity the investment made by dr v and the investment

made by the city to date it seemed like the most logical way to go forward was to have these very

discrete boundaries that have been established by the the special district that we already have

um that being said when we did esc there was some interest to expand the boundaries a little bit

and we did that um by a block or a half a block and we've learned a lot from esc going forward

um we've got uh digital billboards out on freeways esc is rather unique we have an ordinance for

um large-scale entertainment in other parts of the city so the the opportunity is open what we

would be bringing back to council is enabling ordinances as well as going through the procedures

required um and it might be logical to do an early report back as to the significance of

maintaining discrete boundaries thank you mr monigan okay mayor and council i guess i'll

i'll go ahead and move the staff report with the direction that staff come back

after conferring with rd-1000 about the most appropriate way to move forward on those issues but

not uh not included in this resolution but directing staff to make that communication is that

appropriate mr monigan yes good um mayor can i comment on that yes okay um so the properties

for rd-1000 that were mentioned were in north the tomas um near residential area near shopping

plaza and so i'm currently working on this and reached out to staff to understand the the impact

on our city value of the bar billboards have impacts and how many more we have and then also to

reach out to the hoa that neighbors it to make sure that they're okay with it too so so please

let's just move regular staff recommendation okay noted uh council member plucky bomb

oh disappeared your name your name was disappeared sorry kaplan um no it's it's it's quite all right

um a couple a couple questions um i appreciate all the work that you've done on this to implement

since it's come from a term sheet what is the cost sharing uh plan for these five billboards

good afternoon so the term sheet wasn't specific in terms of the land control mechanism so that's

current negotiation and as we kind of finalize the definitive documents that will bring forward

to council here soon so that hasn't been determined but um it is a work in progress in an active

negotiation um if i can uh give you my two cents i know dr v wants this in perpetuity um and you

know this is city cost time uh as well as us coming in i am open generally i can tell you on

billboards it may be that they get uh a majority of the income in the beginning until the project

is built and then you know come like 10 years out the city increases in the amount um that they get

but in those 10 years i still think the city uh for time place manner and everything else that

comes with it that should be income coming into the city so um i hope that is partly um considered

and then i hope that you also consider um with the terms that um it is the dr v's owner's responsibility

for the most up-to-date technology because there will be residential around there and i'm very cognizant

on the type of lighting and the reflection um that comes in and that it has to be maintained

by owner just because i know that that's normal so i expect to see normal terms that in others

while i i appreciate dr v they don't get special consideration on this one um and then uh with with

already 1000 um i appreciate thank you councilmember telemontes i am a i'm a little concerned about

over saturation with digital and very mindful of um how it affects communities because the

lighting and everything else is is of a big nature it can be taken into consideration but i am i'm

hesitant that we start expanding a lot of of billboards all over the place but with this

because it is implementing the the term sheet i am fine with that um and i don't know if there was

a second it's all second councilmember plucky bomb seconded that item did you want to speak

no i forgot a second that killed him you want to speak yes yes

thanks mayor um thanks for the presentation this is a question of first impression for me

as one who wasn't here when the term sheet was

uh

what you're asking us to do this this evening and uh correct me if i'm mistating it but it

it i infer that what you're asking for is uh approval of locating uh five or more

digital signs in section three whatever you call it section three of the special planning

district and that that the specific location the size the placement all the other elements of

of the approval of any any signage will be debated and decided subsequently is that is that right

that is correct okay i i i can i can support that i i i will say for whatever value it has in your

own in your own calculations that i i have concerns about billboard blight uh and uh so

um it becomes very uh significant as to whether these are elevated or monument whether they

uh at the dimensions um the the lighting and other aspects of the the locations

relative to other uses um those are all to me very very significant um issues assuming you

get past the idea of of more billboards um and that seems to be a

important condition of the term sheet so um i respect i respect uh to that at that extent

i think it would also be helpful as you develop whatever you're going to recommend to us for me

to illustrate what you want to uh have us consider by showing us examples in other locations

if you can if you can find them i mean if you if you look around some of some of the

arenas for example they've got digital signage but some of them are built into the buildings

and and have other characteristics that may make them more suitable uh in those in those instances

i mean those kinds of things i think are important so illustrations of what others have done in other

places would certainly be be helpful from my from my standpoint but um again i am i i am

somewhat leery of of creating a blizzard of billboards and i'm sure you would say that's not

what this will do but when you leave it open ended as the five or more uh that obviously puts no cap

on on what it would be so i'll be looking as one member i'll be looking at at that as well

thanks mayor yeah i just want to note that that i'll concur with the same thing happened a decade

ago with the arena and the in the billboards here and and somewhere on the side of the arena

walking out but others throughout the city and they just diminish the value of our other

city billboards which we get to pay for police and fire and park service so you know you can't have

billboards everywhere i i understand if you're putting some of these in the middle of a new

entertainment district where no one is currently those are eyes that aren't singing anyway but if

you you put them closer to the freeway for example well there's that that hurts other

revenue coming in it just diminishes the value of these city assets so we just need to keep that

part of the game so anyway we have a motion and a second yes question to follow up on that mayor

i saw the proposed locations and i'm sorry i had this when i was driving in

is it i think what i need to see because i am concerned about the proposed freeway locations

how is it where is it in proportion to the other ones that are currently right off of

i5 because i know there's ones north and south and are those city owned or not owned

hi um so they're as as part of including digital billboards on the freeway there are specific

distances they have to be apart and how close they can be together roughly we're looking at about a

thousand feet and supposedly there's another billboard that's actually coming down as part of

this again we're still trying to understand the full the full breadth of what we're looking at here

and that's why what was shown to you were literally just placeholders until we can go through the

process figure this out and move it forward okay that's good to know because i wasn't sure if that

was and then honestly one of your considerations when you come back i i appreciate the mayor because

it reminded me if are any of those city owned and what would be the potential loss in revenue to

us by approving this i will make note of that because i think that has to be part of our

consideration of how we how we weigh things yeah we haven't made a determination yet on the the

status of property relative to the location of signs that's an item to be worked out as we go

back and through the process here because um we have to create a better understanding of what

we're trying to do we have to develop the restriction specifically for this kind of signage in this

district based on the two other ordinances we already have for digital um and then we have to

look at the model for um how we locate the sign specifically as to what kind of property ownership

and how that relates to any um term deal um i i would note based on your comment when we set up

ESC we set it up for a 15 year program and we did that specifically because we didn't really

know how this was going to work we didn't know it was a good idea or a bad idea just seemed like

something we needed to do we've learned a lot from that and we've learned some things subsequently so

for this particular program as we move forward we weren't planning on putting a limitation on it

so your comment as to perpetuity is correct because we don't see us creating a restriction where um

we cannot they can no longer have it part of that is because these create a revenue stream

and if there is a limit on that revenue stream um they are less viable from an income standpoint

so we've taken that into consideration so the next six eight months is going to we're going to work

through all of those individual processes and conditions of the signage from hours of operation

to the level of lighting um being able to diminish the lighting under certain circumstances so all

of that will be part of the consideration for any ordinance that we bring back specific to the

rail yard sign district perfect thank you for that extra detail i would just say i'm interested

the city should be held harmless with any loss of revenues of additional billboards coming correct

thank you that that'll be part of the determination

we have a motion a second yes okay uh motion a second all those in favor please say aye

aye those are abstentions hearing none measure passes unanimously next item

may we now move to item number 11 which is the 2024 housing element annual progress reports

okay

good evening mayor and council my name is gretta suce i'm a senior planner in the community

development department and i'm here tonight to present to you our city's 2024 housing element

annual progress report every april the city is required to submit a housing element annual

progress report to the state the report provides status updates on the city's adopted implementation

programs and a report out on the housing production numbers for the prior calendar year

the 2021 through 2029 housing element planning period housing target is 45 580 housing units

which is broken down by income level from extremely and very low income housing to above

moderate income housing this housing target is assigned to the city by the state and is known

as the city's regional housing needs allocation or rena when we break down that housing target

over the eight-year period we must produce about 5700 units annually across all income levels

represented by the dotted line on the screen although it's shown a little bit higher

for some reason there is a formatting issue in 2024 we produced a total of 2387

housing units this is a 12 percent 12.7 percent decrease in overall housing production

from 2023 to 2024 in 2024 the city produced 544 deed restricted units of extremely very low and

low mo and moderate income units accounting for about 23 percent of total production

this graph also shows how market influence and greater economic forces impact housing production

for instance we saw a large housing boom in 2006 fueled by loose lending restrictions and then was

followed by the 2008 market crash and great recession in 2015 we saw markets pick up with a

shift towards more in-ville production in the central city the COVID-19 pandemic then caused

material and supply and labor disruptions followed by increased interest rates and inflation

we're now seeing a slight decline in rents in the central city due to a boom in infill housing

production over the past several years now looking forward we anticipate that overall

housing production may be impacted by material costs impacts from tariffs and reduced federal

funding for affordable housing may impact affordable housing production this graph shows our 2024

housing production numbers by income level in comparison to our regional housing needs

allocation averaged over the eight-year planning period while we only produced about 42 percent of

our total housing production target we did see production of housing across all income levels

in 2024 this chart shows the number of units produced by income level and includes the breakdown of

deed restricted and non-deed restricted units um deed restricted affordable projects that counted

towards our 2024 calendar year numbers are listed here examples are ascent workforce housing

bridge mix use on 440 Arden Way San Juan Apartments home key roadway in kind south and more

while deed restricted unit production is critical to ensure long-term affordable housing in our

community we know that we cannot meet our lower income arena with deed restricted units alone

given current funding availability to meet our lower income housing need through regulating

affordable housing only we would need to secure at least 7.5 billion dollars over the planning

period with the city's portion being about two billion in order for us to meet this tremendous

need for lower cost housing we must build more regulated affordable housing um but we

must also build more lower cost housing that doesn't require subsidies such as multi-unit

housing or accessory dwelling units this graph shows our adu production since 2013 the 2024

calendar year showed a 16 percent increase in adu building permits over 2023 this shows that we've

surpassed our target established in 2021 of 680 us within the planning period by already producing

over a thousand adu since 2021 thus far 15 adus have been constructed using our city produced

free shelf ready plans 22 separate building permits have also been issued with these

permit ready plans and about 20 additional applications have been submitted as well

when looking at the number of units permitted by jurisdiction from 2019 through 2023

Sacramento is the fourth highest producer of housing and as this graph shows is the highest

producer of housing per capita statewide moving on to implementation program updates this graph

shows the number of implementation programs we committed to by time frame of the 49 adopted

programs from our housing element we committed to completing over a third of our programs in the

short term and about a third um our annual and ongoing programs thus far we've completed 15 programs

12 are in progress seven have not been started yet and 15 are annual and ongoing programs

in 2024 the city completed or made significant progress on the implementation programs listed

here the city eliminated minimum parking requirements through the general plan update and

through the item 8 earlier this evening a broader zoning code into consistency with that as well

in additional modifications to parking requirements will be brought for consideration later this spring

the city adopted modifications to our planning and development code related to permitting

requirements for special needs housing such as residential hotels emergency shelters

and permanent supportive housing and also updated our density bonus ordinance for consistency with

state law the city also launched an affordable housing educational campaign with an associated

educational website and held eight citywide workshops across the city we also have made

significant progress on program h 2020 h24 also referred to now is streamlined Sacramento which

you will hear in the discussion item following this one and the photo here shows one of those

eight citywide workshops that we conducted as part of our Sacramento for all housing education

campaign the city has also completed many programs in prior years including the development of a

housing development toolkit and ad u resource center of which a screenshot is shown here

we've made some additional recent accomplishments that were not part of our adopted housing element

including a recent launch of our housing development toolkit map this map was developed as a resource

for the development community to aid in project siting and pre-development and includes layers

such as our general plan land use and floor area ratio designations zoning our vacant lot layer

the city's housing element sites inventory flood layers and a newly developed stormwater drainage

infrastructure requirement later that was developed with state planning grant funds

we also recently launched a small developer incubator pilot program in partnership with

two nonprofits to provide training networking and informational opportunities for small

developers we've held three very successful events thus far and are looking to host

additional trainings and resources through the end of the year this concludes my presentation and

i'm happy to answer any questions thank you

mayor i have three speakers on this item the first is mac worthy following mr worthy is mike jaskey

then jonathan cook

people with yes uh and mayor this is your problem now this here could have been in the early meeting

now you give this woman a job here and this is a race to things going on here now

she gave doger gave 7.5 billion and she comments uh said it'd be the city would be a

a million or something you can't get that you can't get there you see what you're doing you're a theater

that's what you're all we're doing is you can't you don't have the ability then you come down

a private uh neighborhood to teach people how to be available what the hell are you all trying to do

here you got programs that they didn't even mention earlier today and those who are master people

and you got a woman stuck here said well we got uh costs don't you have management

on ongoing costs ongoing on how those apartments are taking care it's great across the street from

me the lights have burned for three years straight through city on the park the lights have burned

three years straight through all day and the management is your problem you got to bring

people here know how to manage uh this money you i don't know where you're trying to go

you can get up here and uh downtrump all you want to do but that's going to be the difference

that america is how people have income that's business people how many people here have a degree

in business administration how many people here have a degree on your staff in development

who give them the spread to study uh your uh people under you who give them that to study

do car well bankers come in and say anything to them hell no keep your comments mike josky

following mike is jonathan cook good afternoon or evening actually mayor mccarty and council

members my name is mike jaskey representing sacramental area congregations together multi

faith multi-ethnic organization dedicated to social justice and i reside in council member

garras district in the very far east part of sacramento i'm going to briefly summarize some

of the key points that i sent to you yesterday and that are in the e comments for public access

first the city's made some notable changes in its processes of permitting projects

and we understand these changes to be part of the explanation for why the city's relatively

good performance compared to other comparable jurisdictions these changes enabled the city

to claim its standing as the first jurisdiction to achieve a pro housing designation that's good

and it also received the score in the top five out of the 50 plus jurisdictions that have that

designation however there are still thousands of people who are on the streets and many more

who are in shelters and there are insufficient aggregate number of units to house these people

so we need more although the staff report notes that another pro housing application is due to

hcd in july of this coming of this year which miss sus did not mention there's no discussion

in that program description of other additional stream mining measures that might be undertaken

and approved by you this is also an area that is ripe for collaboration with the county

cannot have large differences in permitting processes giving the boundary

outline between city and county we are disappointed that despite a lot of work

that the mixed income housing ordinance is way behind schedule and head thank you for your

comments your time is complete our next speaker is jonathan cook thank you for your comments your

time is complete uh no sir i'm sorry thank please take your seat your time is complete

thank you for your comments your time is complete by continuing

hello again jonathan cook is a kid of director with the sacramento housing alliance

first i just want to appreciate and recognize staff for their work on the housing element and for

their consistent outreach to community organizations we want to just emphasize we need to continue

investing in low very low and extremely low levels of funding to prioritize permanent supportive

housing to meet the needs of our lowest income residents in sacramento and the city has an obligation

to continue to provide affordable housing in a way that the market cannot produce on its own

there are many different housing products and different types of funding for those products

to help meet the range of incomes for the city's rena requirements for example the housing product

shra typically funds in the sacramento housing alliance nonprofit developer members create

our multifamily rentals that usually cover incomes in the 30 to 80 range for ami and cover

families with annual salaries of 35 to 85 thousand dollars per year that affordable deed restricted

housing stays affordable for at least 55 years and operates many layers of funding that keeps

rents low and make sure that the product of quality high affordable housing is able to

last for many generations it's typically higher on cost up front but over 55 years it can serve

thousands of people and is an efficient use of public funding we encourage including it in the

range of housing products that the city prioritizes and please do consider touring all of these products

and communities that's are coming under construction we have a few opportunities coming up in may

with several of our members and we thank you for your dedication to funding these projects

throughout the city and continue partnership with the city council and staff thanks

may i have no more public comments on this item thank you councilmember gara uh thank you very

much mayor i think you know this afternoon we had a two hour robust discussion about um our

housing authority and how our our needs are for on the extremely low income need and

and it just reminds me that without repeating that the lows last two hours the importance of us

being able to look at different income levels of housing and being able to build those different

products at every level is critical and yes there's no question that we need to support our

our extremely low income low income and affordable housing projects which is why we had those that

entire afternoon conversation but i do want to to one um take the time to also thank the work of

the staff on this in our staff report and attachment three it clearly shows how um you know uh

sacramento has done so much more they've exceeded the numbers than san diego they've exceeded the

numbers of san jose fresno san francisco in production um and if i remember a past report

we were neck and neck with uh oakland and davis skewed the numbers just because there's

such a small city that if you build one you develop one unit you get a high percentage

so the and even with la when you adjust for the the per capita we were we we were still doing well

and and not only that but on the different types of income so in on in the staff report as well the

prior attachment i think it was attachment two it also showed the different entry level of income

levels um and i'm glad that we're looking at that because what i see occurring in other parts of

our region is the construction of peer of purely you know 3 000 square foot homes with

four bedrooms two and a half baths and three car garages which is nowhere an entry level product

or nowhere for for families to come in and uh and begin some homeownership so i i appreciate the work

that we've done to be able to allow the entry into the market to begin with and not only that into

mortgages that people can can manage and afford but we can only do that through

the permitting on that so i appreciate the work that the mayor and councilmember plucky

bomber will be discussing after this um the the other piece that i i want to highlight again on

the successes uh is um you know between our work uh and they haven't been singularly

with the community benefits agreement with the wood daggy square uh with uh economic development

team working on our first time home by our program uh the projects like san juan motel that's

under construction right now with our county and that's a joint city county project mercy housing

development prickly pear avenue that's already in construction that's uh you know a mixture of

not only uh multifamily housing but also town home options as well and uh right now the construction

of of both market rate and de-restricted low-income housing in one area i appreciate councilmember

dickenson's comments about you know making sure that we're not just overly concentrating but we're

having mixed income communities because i think that's an important factor on how we also move

forward you know it's important to be able to to do that in a way that the market supports that

and uh and i'm excited about you know uh today the law and lech committee through the leadership

of our chair here moved forward a concept of a revolving loan program we you know even though

small i think it's important for us to think about those issues given the fact that yes the report

shows that we have a a a reduction in construction you know and so we know that um the the tariffs are

are going to hurt you know our ability to build more we know that the that the federal administrations

decisions are going to affect also how uh what the fed does on interest rates which which have

been holding us back so i think it's important for us to be able to figure out what's the best

way to create the best market conditions in our city to be able to build those mixed types of products

i'm excited about the what we've been seeing and still bullishly seeing on stockton boulevard

you know where we need more housing and housing what's connected to transit so uh all to say is i

you know this report here i know gives us at least a little bit of doom and gloom but i also i want to

take the the positive with it which is that our teams have have put together and have been putting

together a lot of successes and also to highlight that i think we've got some good ideas like on

this revolving loan program to meet our need finally i'll just say that you know the housing

market is a is a is a is a regional market um and it's based on our workforce demand so um i want

us to also be thinking about okay you know what is it that we can be working with our regional

partners on this so that they're also thinking about that mixed mixed uh income i'm seeing you

know when i when i drive on the 50 and all i see is these massive you know 3,500 square foot homes

that that's not a real solution okay so i do think we need to be thinking about the different

types of products that allow people to come into the market and start that home ownership so with

that i just want to thank staff take this opportunity because it has been um at least in the last 10

years when since i've been here looking at the changes that we've done you know in fact i remember

having a street block party and uh and seeing greg here discussing about how we how we how we

change that discussion and so i i want to thank staff for that level of work because it has changed

that the way that our city has moved forward on the issue of housing so thank you mr mayor

thank you council member maple thank you mayor um i want to start with saying thank you for

wonderful presentation miss susa there was one point where i was uh writing writing a question

i had to cross it out because you answered it right away so great job um one of the things that i

i've heard and maybe this is you know through the rumor mill and and um is that there are not are

there very many communities in california that are meeting their rena goals if any um not very many

the ones that do have very tiny rena numbers that are maybe like more rural communities or i'm very

far from um city centers things like that but i don't have the number off the top that's that's

completely okay at the point the point that i'm trying to make is um i recognize that this is a

challenging thing and it's it's something that most communities are struggling with because

they're very aspirational goals and what's the term that you always use councilor gennings

big hairy oh audacious goals big hairy audacious goals you know that we should have those of course

you know we shouldn't be in these positions if we don't have big goals for our communities and

things that we want to do but we also recognize that they're challenging to meet for a reason

there's a lot of barriers and not all those barriers are things that we're in control over

right so we recognize that there are market conditions that's one of the things we've heard a

lot um you know over the last several years they're in covet and beyond where it's been really

challenging to um to borrow money as a developer it's challenging to get your construction costs

under control everything else and so we recognize that those are challenges and i know that we're

we've been really forward thinking and that's something i'm excited about um i think looking

at some of the things that we've done as a city are far above and beyond what other cities have

done and so i just appreciate the staff time on that and i just wanted to ask you this is more

of a broad question but you know i i mentioned some of them but are there other key barriers

for us the city to achieving those goals um i think you mentioned the ones that you know really

come to mind interest rates um construction costs um you know labor costs things like that

um we are you know trying to streamline as you'll hear in the next item um the process to make

things as predictable and fast and simple as possible um but those are those are the main

factors i think and i think just the other issue and i think the state is starting to take this on

as um building code regulations looking at making sure you know it's for health and safety and uh

uh our environment benefits our environment but uh what are that the actual costs um and are they

impeding uh construction so i think it's important work at a level okay that's good that's good to

know and i actually had a wonderful meeting with our our new chief building official recently and

that was a key takeaway for me out of that meeting was uh how much the state building codes impact

you know what we have to do here locally and we don't necessarily always have control over that

but we can um as local government leaders make sure that we're advocating to our our um our state

representatives to ensure that we can streamline those because i think that's a really important

part of what we're doing and speaking of streamlining you know maybe this maybe that item should have

been before this one um because i i wanted it was coming top of mind especially as i read the SAC Act

letter um thank you for coming and for speaking uh that that you know the the mayor and councilor

plucky bomb and others have it really taken on that that charge and we'll hear about that in a

minute but i think that's a really important component of this too as we move forward is how

do we make it as easy as possible from the city perspective for someone to build right we know

that however in a housing crisis so just get rid of every um you know artificial barrier that we

can control to make that happen so i think that's that's a great thing and i look forward to talking

about that another question i have is around penalties are there penalties associated with

not meeting our goals no there are um requirements through um sp35 and um ab 423 that require

ministerial approval processes um for jurisdictions that aren't meeting their arena which is basically

the entire state um and but we already have a city ministerial process that is even more

useful to developers so um that's really the only thing that is tied to the arena allocation

and meeting that number there are no other penalties that's good to know i think it's

important for the the community to know too as you know you might watch this hearing and go oh my

gosh we're not you know we're not meeting our goals what does that mean um i think that the

state also recognizes that they're they're very audacious goals um and that uh they just want

to push us to do as best as we can and i know that we're doing that so just just really appreciate

all the work especially i'm really excited about the upcoming work around ad use i think that um

it's all of these are small pieces of the pie but when you put them together they can make a really

big difference um and so looking forward to working on that with you and uh just appreciate your time

thanks thank you councilmember caplan and dickinson thank you mayor uh just to follow up on a couple

items um because councilmember maple uh hit most of my questions so if we look at it for our arena

goals it's an eight year 21 to 29 and we're supposed to produce 45,580 like housing units

and so we're basically halfway through and have produced 23 percent of our goals

i i had asked this before and i appreciate maple saying this

yes i understand there are no penalties but i think we should probably spend the time educating

and letting our assembly member and our senator know where we're at because

sacramana was one of the first pro housing cities and we've done the most to streamline

and make it easy to produce but sometimes i think what gets like lost in this conversation

we could be the easiest place to build but we're not in control of tariffs we're not in control of

interest rates we're not in control of construction costs we're not in control of labor costs so even

if we as a city do everything right you know we may see housing production go down because of a

potential recession in the state of the economy and what conversations are we having with our

state leaders because i know they're pressuring us for more housing but there's truly only so much

we as electeds can do and i want to make sure that we're also telling the story um we've done

things but don't punish us for what are factors outside of our hands and i think

while your report is great part of it is it's missing the there are things that are out of our

hands that are making it such that well we have these goals and we as city have these goals but

i can't go to a developer and make them build and and sometimes it's as simple as that because of

the supply chain also i mean i know um you know h-back units may take a while a year ago uh builders

were building in certain areas um and had to put plywood up because garage doors were like six years

or six months on on back order so um i just want to make sure that we're having honest conversations

with some of our state leaders of what we're facing because um the state is taking a look at this and

it always gives me a little pause that they might punish the cities for not meeting the goals even though

there are a lot of things like outside of our our control but i do want to say thank you and i think

the graph is really great that shows sacramento is ahead of many other jurisdictions and producing and

you know i know i'm growing in north like will be really interesting um to watch as a city uh what

happens because i know there's several different builders within the panhandle

one starting are the other ones going to start are we going to almost have what happened in

natomas when we hit the recession where we had some communities that had half a street built and then

it was it was empty waiting for for everything um to come so you know as much as you can keep in

contact with the developers of what are they seeing what what what is the market showing them um and

communicate that back to us i think would be really helpful but thank you

councilmember dickinson thanks mayor uh i'm going to amplify some of the comments of other

other members and maybe raise a uh item or two um i want to first though um thank councilman

geta and councilmember maple i think touched on this as well and sacramento act that we don't

to use axe phrase we don't live in an island my my recollection is we're about 64 000 housing

units short in the sacramento region we're not going to provide in the city of sacramento 64

000 housing units we we depend on everybody in the in the region uh to make this as much a priority

as as i think the the city has the city of sacramento has and i think the council and the staff

deserve a great deal of credit for being as aggressive as you all have been over the last

over the last several years it gives us a lot to to build on in the city but it also gives us

some i think standing to try to persuade our fellow elected officials uh and others in the

region that that everybody needs to be part of the part of the solution and including the state by

the way uh i um wanted to turn to a couple of specific things i am a a great advocate of adaptive

reuse and uh in uh 1999 the city of los angeles adopted an adaptive reuse for downtown los angeles

um over the the first 20 years of of this century uh if i recall the numbers there were about 36 000

new housing units in downtown los angeles about 13 000 of those housing units came through adaptive

reuse uh it's it's uh something that um i spent a lot of time on the last few years writing legislation

that was not successful the mayor spent time on it trying to encourage it to happen through the

state of california that run into challenges but but we have i think some real opportunities uh in

the city of sacramento uh if we if we make it as as easy as possible as reasonably possible to pursue

those projects because they do have obviously challenges of their own as you will as you will

know um if we haven't looked at a specific ordinance or approach related to adaptive reuse

i think that would be worth our time and and effort so i'll leave that there um

last i think was last year i recall attending an adu workshop that was done at grant high school

and that got a great turnout i think there were easily in excess of of a couple hundred people

there i think it demonstrated the interest i don't know how many of those people actually

became uh folks who developed adu's or will develop adu's but but and we've seen this all

over the state the the the popularity of adu's but and obviously state law has has sent out a lot

has set out a lot of prescriptions for for adu's but i they are one of the most feasible parts of

solving the need to develop more housing units that i think we have in the in the array of of of

what can be done and so um if we can make people through the things like that workshop uh understand

and appreciate how they can have an adu potentially education is a is the start and so i would really

encourage to the extent that you have capacity to think about doing more of those even going back

to places uh where you've gone before because you'll get a new and different audience i think in many

in many instances so i really i encourage that as something that that we can do to to help stimulate

more adu production we also have instances where people are incorporating tiny homes on their property

two or three or four not and they're not full-fledged adus they're the you know a couple hundred

square feet or or so and there may be some opportunities there in some cases some of us

are familiar with one by the name of robin moore who's done a wonderful job of exactly that and

for temporary housing purposes and so they may be more likely temporary but again they're part of

that housing solution it seems to me i'd like to see us as a city to the extent that we're not

doing it already reach out to regional transit and say you know what you've got some big parking lots

that are just parking lots those parking lots have air rights and there are a real there's a real

potential there for joint development regional transit has tried over the years with limited

success to to pursue joint development projects but maybe if we combined and reinforced through the

city of sacramento regional transit's efforts to the extent again that we're we're not already

doing so maybe we can give a little shot in the arm to getting those in the development community

looking looking at at those kinds of projects and by the way those aren't just potential

additions to the housing stock they are they also fit all our other goals and environmental climate

uh and activity vitality um you know if you look at the marconi light rail station or the swanston

light rail station there they are about as underutilized as as they could possibly be

they they are real opportunity sites and for me speaking also of opportunity sites looking at at

city owned vacant land uh it seems to me to be uh the proverbial uh no-brainer and yes we have to

follow the surplus land act of course but but whatever the opportunities that might present

themselves what are the opportunities for either um uh uh being faithful to the surplus land act

nonetheless um execute long-term leases on the on those properties for very minimal amounts of

money or selling them uh at a some level of discount that that reduces the cost burden to

to develop we've talked about the things we don't control quite rightly we don't control

interest rates all the things that have been enumerated here but we do have some opportunities

potentially to remove some cost elements or reduce cost elements uh for production that

could make that could make housing feasible in a very difficult market where other other forces

actually work against housing housing production i think i think it makes sense for us to to

explore those uh and um i think we've got a a number of places in the city enormous opportunity

for for mixed use on our on our commercial corridors that incorporate significant uh

components of housing in them uh what what what are we doing to really underscore that we'd like

to see that kind of development because again that serves not only providing additional housing units

but it serves our other goals creating vital and and revitalized communities vitality in in areas

stimulating customers providing businesses businesses with new customers and vital revitalizing

those efforts as well as helping us meet our our environmental goals and aspirations

so i think i i think notwithstanding the good things we're doing our responsibility is is not to say

you know what look at us we're doing a good job uh is to say what better and what more can we do

because because that housing deficit is crushing and we all know it uh and i and i think finally

just returning to the to the state level obviously there have been literally dozens of pieces of

legislation over the last five years or so at the state level trying trying to trying to uh

introduce um opportunity and certainty into housing development to reduce time and cost

um but the real the real uh addition that the state could make is is to supply more how more money

i mean whether it's inter whether it's tax credits or whether it's direct

uh allocations and so i think coming back to our to our legislative delegation letting them know

that we're we're ready we're we're trying we're doing everything uh we can uh the best way you

can help us is put some more money in the state state budget that's going to support the efforts to

produce housing those those are just some of the the thoughts i've got this evening on this and i

and i appreciate the opportunity to have this this discussion both this afternoon and this evening

thanks thank you councilmember caplan no you went sorry councilmember vang i'm sorry right here

thanks mayor i will keep my comments short um grad i'd really just first want to just echo my

colleagues and say thank you for all your hard work and greg you and the entire team as well

i think we've been really aggressive um and we still have so much more work ahead i just think

about the time when i was on city council in 2020 and how far uh we've come we've created so many

tools in the toolbox from the adu workshop we were the first um house pro housing city we also

launched the small developer pilot program which you talked about i know it was at the panel center

and it was a full house so a lot of interest from uh small entrepreneurs small developers and so

and today we just voted on the cmfa bold program right and so i just want to give kudos to you

city staff and and the council and the mayor uh previous council mayors this council mayor that

we are doing the best that we can uh to really make sure that we try to reach our rena goals

even though we know that um it's still really hard based on all the multiple factors that we have no

control over um but uh just really want to say thank you so much and then i just want to uplift a

few things um that has not yet been mentioned i think um we as we do what we can with all the

tools in our toolbox to build more housing to meet our rena goals um i just want to make sure that

as we're pushing forward with all our heart and hustle that we just don't forget something and that's

making sure that the people who are building the homes in our city also can afford to live here

right i know a lot of that comes down to funding right we've had conversations about that but

really just want to uplift that um and then the other piece um i know that we have not yet brought

the uh mixed income housing ordinance to city council and um looking at the mayor and just

wanting to make that request um that has not yet come to council and i think there is a majority

on this council that would like to have a discussion about a mixed housing ordinance and so

wanted to to uplift that as well um and then lastly we talked about this at the 2 pm meeting

but really exploring a potential housing bond as well because a big part of this is

financed and so um i just want to just again echo what i said during the 2 pm meeting

in this meeting as well since we're talking about um our housing element um progress report is that

this housing bond if we choose to move forward uh should be part of this discussion as well and so

those are all my comments thank you councilmember gara back to you one more time sorry about that

mayor i forgot that i didn't this was review comment and provide some direction and thank you

councilmember dickinson you uh you reminded me on one of my notes and that is that in the past we

in many iterations our efforts to try to figure out how to move forward whether either loans

financing permitting priorities um i wanted to underscore one of those pieces that was commercial

corridor revitalization primarily for because we also have high transit routes in those areas

whether it's the 51 on stockton boulevard or the 83 on broadway um so um i just you know i don't

know where it fits under in this category i know we've put it in our general plan but as uh for

the purposes of this conversation when we're developing our staff is developing priorities

or recommendations i think there needs to be at least a a recognition or a higher priority

for the housing development on commercial corridor revital or commercial corridors

that'll meet both of our goals and then finally um uh maybe this is a it's in our policy platform

but maybe it's it's for the chair of law and ledge but um you know we're going through the

budget process reap 2.0 has not been in the conversation that's the green mingo money and

you know the you know the as as as mr. sunlin says the wet stuff never gets attention the sewer

water uh you know drainage and before you can even build a door those costs eat into the ability to

even build anything up so uh i would just ask that uh if staff could work with our law and

ledge committee to get at least some letters of advocacy out early on on the reap 2.0 piece because

for a city like ours that isn't a greenfield development city um you know that is the major

cost for any construction so thank you mr. mayor okay thank you just a few things i'd like to add

most um we're noted already by the council but just just the big perspective is this obviously is a

top city issue if not the housing and homelessness the combination of two and they're of course

linked together and there's a lot of strategies we'll talk about the next one in a little bit with

the um streamlining what we can do as a city but these are some of the policy tools and so i i i just

wanted to note as councilor vang said the prior city councils um you know took some really tough

votes on on on this may just give you a little perspective so when i was just in the legislature

we had these big bills to change housing laws in california and my colleagues across the state

especially in la we're freaking out like if i vote for this this is going to cause me to lose my

election it's that much heat in their cities and they asked me like why aren't you concerned about

this i said well sacramon already did all this so we did sp9 and 10 the lot splits all these issues

um you know getting rid of the illegality of triplex and duplex and the single family zoning

rules well before a lot of these state laws um so i just want to give hats off to former i think

councilmember hanson helped lead on this along with our mayor and councilor garr and jennings i think

right before you got here councilor vang um so this this was heavy lift at the city lifted in this

and again the city didn't fall apart you know our our numbers they're not like they were in 2006 but

they weren't terrible on those five-year stretch and so this um this this did help us so but also

just a little bit of a big picture perspective as well those sp9 and 10 those those you know

generational bills to focus on lots bits commercial properties over those five years in california

they've only had like 500 homes being built because of them so it's it's not a panacea even our laws

here we've we've probably built 10 times more ad use um than what we've done on these other

policies so based upon our numbers here so we have a lot of work to do and i think you already

have some some direction so i just want to reiterate a few things and three and three issues is that one

on the on the sacramento being a pro housing city we've like i said a minute ago we've done

a lot but keep keep pushing us make it uncomfortable for us make us tell you no

make us say that's a little stretch too far i know you went to the planning commission a few

months ago and um there's one issue that that didn't get across the finish line i forget which one

it was but you were going to come back to us and have a revision of that so whatever policies we

can do to keep pushing the envelope to to you know make developers get off the sidelines and want to

do projects here in our city keep coming to us um and then as far as the funding measure i concur

i i would prefer that we not do a bond but a dedicated year after year revenue stream that's

what some cities have done um san jose some various cities los angeles so that's what

have to go back to the voters as well um a bond just a one-time thing i'd like to have a continuation

of ongoing money which you could bond against of course and so i want to direct staff if you

can look at some of these models that jurisdictions have done there's parcel tax sales tax other types

of options if you could kind of give us a menu ideas that we could consider for an upcoming

ballot and you know we're already talking to some in the housing advocacy and real estate arena

focus on what would be viable build a coalition to do that here in sacramento and then lastly

just want to to note that the inclusionary zoning mixed income which the prior council

you had worked on before i just recently asked our city manager and we're still doing the analysis

on that so that should be coming shortly so that's that's in the horizon as well so um

i think this gives us plenty of opportunity to keep pushing the envelope and thank you very much

and with that this was informational direction was provided thank you next item we moved to item 12

which was streamlined sacramento an update on the city's development process improvements program

all right good evening mayor council members i'm matt herbal assistant director of community

development so spearheaded by mayor mccarty and council member plucky bomb streamlined sacramento

is the city's development process improvements program this evening i'll provide an update

i'll highlight actions underway and discuss next steps

streamline sacramento is a 2025 initiative that is evaluating each step in the development

approval process with the goal of identifying ways to increase efficiencies speed up approval times

and provide more certainty to the process so the two parts in the development process is first planning

and then building well significant streamlining has occurred in recent years the planning and

title of process the city is now seen as a statewide leader streamline sacramento is focused on the

four steps of the building approval process shown in blue first submit a complete building permit

application with plans and construction drawings that are full compliance with the building code

second receive a building permit to initiate construction third complete onsite inspections

of each construction phase to ensure the work is safe adheres to the approved plans and meets

building code and ultimately receive final approvals allowing the building to be occupied

it's been a busy few months we hired a permanent chief building official

conducted six meetings with the development community to solicit ideas

established an internal working group consisting of the five departments that review development projects

and develop the streamline sacramento potential actions table it's a collection of input and suggestions

received to date the table is attached the staff report and is categorized by the step in the

building process so potential actions at different phases of vetting from exploring to implementing

instituted or ongoing and i'll just touch upon a couple examples highlighted in orange from each of

the five categories 92% of the building's business is conducted online but sometimes customers need

to speak face to face with a staff member or drop off a check the public counter appointment system

has been working well but we are working on allowing additional walk-in customers without

appointments and notifying folks of this convenient option development related vacancies impact

service delivery a quarter of the positions are currently vacant in the building process

and engineering services divisions we are working with our hiring managers and human resources to

identify barriers and quickly fill these critical positions we are exploring AI tools to potentially

reduce plan review cycles and help ensure complete application packages are submitted the first time

also exploring implementing a self-certification program which could potentially allow registered

professionals to bypass the plan review process by taking responsibility for

for in certifying a project compliance with building code standards

the city has implemented fee deferral and fee reduction programs that are quite popular

and we've been asked to provide info sheets and all the available programs early in the process

approved by council early this evening the bold program provides another tool to finance impact

fees and public infrastructure we are in the process of entering into a contract for virtual

inspection software for remote inspections which will integrate seamlessly with Xcela the city's

development project management software we've heard from the development community about the

importance of consistent building code interpretation from each inspector we are exploring contracting

out the certificate training programs and exam preparations for various disciplines such as

plumbing and electrical this could expedite training completion and free up more senior staff to be in the field

staff is moving forward with an alternative option to temporary certificate of occupancy

safe to stock would allow installation of equipment and furniture and the opportunity to train staff

prior to final inspection sign off and the space being occupied we are considering

updating the building division's minor permit process and developing a building permit checkbox

form that an applicant can self-certify as it instantly receives a building permit for minor

permits compliance with the building code could then be verified through virtual or an in-person

inspection so over the next couple months we'll continue to gather input via informational

interviews and industry group convening and meetings with the development community we anticipate

returning to city council in the summer with a list of accomplishments concrete next steps

and an overview of an additional resources required to advance this work

that concludes my presentation there are members from the city's internal working group here to

address any questions you may have thank you very much thank you for your uh for your presentation

matt i want to ask if um joe ye could you come up to the um to the uh to the podium

my mr ye's coming up here i'll introduce him he's a former council member by the way

former planning commissioner and you know enjoying his life in the building industry so i i asked

joe and council member elect plucky bomb to to help me work on this issue because one thing that i

i learned um frankly building a hdu by myself but also talking about this issue of housing

at homelessness there are so many things as council member kaplan said they're out of our control

and for the better part of a year i i said this over and over i didn't mention tariffs because

that wasn't something that i had in mind that our president would be ruining the economy of

tariffs but you know cities don't control interest rates labor costs you know wood and concrete and

steel but we do control uh time and certainty so i thought it could be our competitive advantage

to step in and do this and we this is not new you helped do this a decade ago under our our

former city manager oh boy

yeah

yeah there's um there's uh something that we could do to really you know put us at a competitive

advantage um i think first and foremost is is we're listening and we've heard that and i wanted

you to kind of elaborate on that just by engaging the development community whether they're big

developers you know people doing conversions of their backyards or people trying to open you

know a business um you know in different parts of town trying to make it easier for all sorts

and so it's something that i thought a lot about multiple council members said the same thing they

we all hear from people in their communities like why is it so difficult and whether it's

someone who's doing work because they live here in sacramento or they're making a choice

maybe they're going to do a project in vacaville or sacramento or elder out of hills and they're

thinking about places to go and where they could shift capital so uh this is our opportunity to

really start this process there's not one thing that we're going to do it's multiple things we did

the bold item earlier but it's our hope this is a continual um effort to look for ways to keep

listening and keep refining to make sure that we're listening to our development community

not just so they can do well but so we can do well you know more money in our tax coffers so

we don't have to focus on cutting our city budget and more opportunities to build more housing so

we can deal with the number one issues of the community housing and homelessness so uh with

that i wanted to give you the opportunity i know you weren't preparing for this tonight but just to

um give your perspective on on this uh effort your your two point no streamline effort well

excuse me well thank you uh the allergy said you know it's been said that everything grows in

sacramel that's a good and for allergy sufferers that's maybe the counterpoint uh you know the

focus of this effort has been to support housing but equally important is the support of housing

you know the other businesses the restaurants and what have you uh they all benefit from this

process of trying to make the uh building permit process uh of value and of uh efficiency

part of the challenge is that there is a range of experience and knowledge of those who are

seeking building permits you know it is from a person a developer wishing to build a 300 unit

apartment project to the one time uh homeowner building adu to the kitchen or bathroom remodel

there's a range of knowledge and experience that are are present on any one of those types of

projects and to be able to respond to those you know in an efficient manner is part of the challenge

and as matt had mentioned in response to that is the outreach not just to large organizations to

large groups but to get input from the range of people who go and who try to get a building permit

and to respond to their needs you know as matt has said something as simple as

having the cashier at the building department open more hours so that they can access and write a check

you know not everyone is connected technology wise and so uh that could be a meaningful change

that's not necessarily you know an increase in the overhead cost of the department uh

while the building permit process is focused rightly on technical compliance you know these

are life safety issues greatly uh as a retired architect i would be remiss in not saying that

it is also important to assure compliance with the design guidelines uh these are projects when

they are completed that we as a city will live with for 20 30 40 50 years and so to not be prescriptive

not to say this is the way to do it but provide flexibility which the design guidelines do

it's important to have that check off to say this is you know within reason compliance and so

you know those are just a few of my observations and why i support and working towards trying to get

is efficient a process that is successful to all uh why you know prompting my involvement

thank you thank you thank you for your uh volunteerism

vol untold thank you yes mr plucky bomb just don't don't escape just yet uh before we let you go

i want to acknowledge one more thing which is that you were the city's longest serving planning

commissioner for more than a decade how many years all in more than a decade let's just uh i i think

somewhere in order 20 or more yeah and this is for those paying very close attention me telegraphing

an item that's coming to an agenda in the near future where we talk about the size and configuration

of our planning and design commission one of the opportunities that joe and i had was to go to

seattle in portland and and meet with those communities a decade ago about you know what

things we could do to improve the quality and the and the kind of projects that come to us

and one of the learnings was they have a very dedicated established long-term planning commission

that is focused on making sure that you know some of these things take decades you know you think

about um what's happening at fulcrum at 65th right now councilmember cone was working on some of that

stuff 30 years ago you know the innovation district and the and it's coming it's happening now and

and councilmember garra is here you know like reaping the rewards of the the seeds that were planted

decades ago and you know having folks committed to doing this work for for that duration time so

because of term limits we can't allow folks to serve for that long unless of course we make a

change so i just wanted to acknowledge joe's continued service in in all this and and usually

an example of what works well when we have people committed to our land use and an entitlement

process for decades to come thank you joe thank you i appreciate the opportunity thank you as

has been discussed a few times tonight you know there are several elements to go to the the cost

of building land materials labor lending but the regulatory environment is the one thing that we

have sold discretion on this is an opportunity for us to to streamline wherever possible matt or

greg or is the right person to talk about counter hours um could we get one or both of you to talk

about uh when an applicant comes forward with a question how how can they go to 300 richards and

and get those questions answered in a in a efficient and meaningful way matt it is all right thank you

councilmember yes so um we have staff that are available via email phone and of course we have

a lot of information on on the web 24 7 but in terms of in-person hours we have appointments

available Tuesday through Thursday 9 to 3 30 and we offer two slots each half an hour for that or

we're going to be opening it up to drop in so folks that have something they just need to result

right away don't have time or not able to make an appointment they can come in and do that in

addition we have our cashier open on monday and friday as well so a lot of folks need to you know

pay their final fees to get things to get their building permit issued we had that available on

monday and friday as well um and so what we've we've heard that these hours are working for folks

but we're open to ideas but we're we're going to start with the ideas that we've been talking with

the various development communities just allowing more drop in and really and advertising that ability

and whether i'm a rookie first time developer you know home remodeler or a pro you've got everyone

there in one place i've been there it's amazing one stop shopping you can get all your questions

answered so these are the the kinds of things we're looking to wherever possible collapse timelines

create more certainty reduce overall cost and and just you know unbundled these costs from from our

housing and another built environment wherever possible i just want to say thank you all of you

for working on this and the mayor for leading this initiative i look forward to exceeding our rena goals

thank you council member vice mayor tell them i think you and council member plucky bomb asked

my question about the over count our hours um i just want to make sure that people can stop in

and we have more open hours maybe in the late afternoon i mean up to five six p.m for people

to be able to drop in and i have heard from people that they would like to see that extended so

that's just my direction that's it

thank you mayor um first and foremost just really want to thank you and thank councilor plucky bomb

and our incredible staff for for bringing this forward um i can't tell you how many times i heard

either on the campaign trail or since i've been in office some series of complaints or questions

or concerns related to to navigating the process and i don't think that's a fault of anyone person

i don't think it's a fault of us having a bad department i just think it's it's really challenging

and we have a lot of different projects that need to happen but i'm appreciative of you reaching out

to the the stakeholders the people with expertise who've gone through the process and asking them

what do you want to see because i think that's the best way for us to solve the problems um

is by actually asking the people who are going through it um one of the things that i i don't

know if we've considered or if we're already doing um but that i would be really interested in as a

part of this process is um doing some kind of customer service survey like i know that i think

there's something that goes out pretty regularly but um i i think it'd be great for us to also do a

look back that could that could tell us a lot that we might not have already heard in in the meetings

that you have had which is you know over the last i don't know three years five years how many how

many people have submitted an application how many of those applications have actually made it to

completion of the ones who didn't make it to completion can is there a reason for that can we

ask them did you not complete because you ran into some issues with us you know some challenges with

the department whatever it may be did you not complete for some other reason and then other

people who were able to complete and be really interesting to know timelines too how long did

it take you um because i've heard you know i've heard everything you know usually people reach out

to me once they've encountered a problem so i'm not hearing just like yelp you know people don't

usually go on there when they're happy about something right they usually reach out to us when

they when they're frustrated and so um you know i think it'd be really good for us to really take

that customer service approach and look at some of that data and see if there are things that we

can learn from that too like i don't even know what the possibilities are but i can just tell you

from from my experience some of the issues that people have run into is is usually like hey you

know i've submitted all my things and then you know i had an inspector come out and they told me

to fix these five things and so i fixed those five things and then the next time an inspector came

out they told me to fix five different things that i didn't know about and so sometimes there's

front just frustration around that but i also recognize that you know the that things change

and there's inspections at different points in time for different reasons and that can add to

to add to the complication but anyway just my my main point is i'm really i think this is a great

program um i think it's a thank you thank you mayor and and councilor plucky mom for

following through on your commitments too very quickly and and bringing something forward really

quickly and just thank you to the staff for for working on this i know a lot of this is

are things that you probably had in the works for a while too and bringing it all together

is great and so those are my comments thanks

thank you mayor i wasn't gonna say punch up here because everything has been said but i did want

to just i can begin commend commissioner yee here because i do remember being the student body

president sat state lobbying back then i think you were appointed by councilmember jimmy yee

as the commissioner that got going a project that everybody said it will never be done it

could not happen they were these old the old warehouses the jackson property warehouses

on 65th street and may fong um was there a lobbying with us too and you know um thinking about what

what can we actually do and how is was it going to improve that area as well so i wanted to commend

them and then also uh i you know i i would be remiss if i didn't thank the staff like that

we're doing this project now because we need improvement but you know in 2015 and 2016 and

17 we did the permit streamlining initiative and process and given the frustrations we have today

i still hear from the development community and i won't throw stones to other jurisdictions that say

that as as much as that they want to see things better we're doing much better than

some of our other jurisdictions in the region so i do feel very um you know uh you know uh

proud of the work that we've been doing we could always improve so always look looking ourselves

in the mirror but uh let's not forget that we're actually doing a lot better which the prior item

shows how we're producing housing and moving much faster the step down process that we've done on a

lot of these efforts so thank you mr mayor and uh more to come thank you so mayor i have two

speakers on this item alexander hampton and kurt fiera i'll be jump again

um

good evening council mayor vice mayor uh my name is alexander hampton with the north cow carpenters

and the development process improvement program um want to know if this is uh earned benefit

we know that sacramental gives everything to the developer and the building owners

there were six meetings with developers and i want to know when or where did they have these

meetings with the stakeholders and the community streamline in is great but it should be it needs

to be on an earned incentive not just a giveaway labor standards health care apprenticeship local

hire and a private right to access projects should be included in this benefit

this string-line prep process

needs to be favor the workers to conclude would this help the the commuter or just the owners

and developers thank you very much thank you thank you for your comments kurt

thank you mr mayor and city council members my name is kurt for era

i've been a union carpenter for 23 years and i've lived in the city sacramental for 41 years

i'd like to highlight a few points that should be taken into consideration while discussing this

item for starters a livable wage is important to workers who are building our city but not

paying the livable wage we as workers are unable to live in the city we would like to afford a home

but if you are not paid a livable wage then how are we able to afford a home in this beautiful

city of sacramento we don't want the city to be just for the wealthy moving on to my next point

is health care i don't believe anyone in this room could deny the importance of health care coverage

i've spoken to countless construction workers in sacramento who said they don't see a doctor

because they don't have health insurance the ones who do have health insurance

say they're on government subsistence which in turn costs taxpayers millions of dollars

we as a city of sacramental need to make sure that all workers who are building our cities

have access to health care lastly in june of 2002 i joined the carpenter's union apprenticeship

program joining the carpenter's union has made me a better person and a skilled carpenter

the opportunity and training i received was life changing that has brought me to where i am today

by making sure the city and contractors are doing their part by utilizing apprenticeship on their

projects you are investing in the future workforce by providing the necessary training

i'm urging the city council to take what i said into consideration when making your decision

on streamlining projects if we're streamlining developments then the city should make sure

workers who will be building the city are not left behind if developers are getting their

projects streamlined we should consider your time health care apprenticeship local hire livable

wages the workforce thank you for your comments your time is complete here i have no more speakers

okay thank you that concludes this item

so mayor you moved to council comments ideas questions and ab 123 reports okay council member

maple all right mayor i've got a few exciting announcements um first we have the oak park

farmers market so every saturday from now until november come by mclatchy park and oak park

to visit our farmers market made possible by the wonderful food literacy center

so the park farmers market double matches ebt to allowing folks to get access to fresh produce so

please don't miss out come grab uh grab some veggies they have really good food the hummus over

there is unmatched come check it out maybe i'm announcing this uh in advance i know the mayor

is doing this but i am so excited about it that i'm gonna announce it for you the halloween park

meet and greet with your mayor kevin mccarty is going to be at the two rivers cider which is at

4 3 1 1 adawa avenue on april 23rd at 6 p.m i will be there because i never missed an opportunity to

go to um two rivers cider that's in my neighborhood and uh and we'll be there so come talk to the mayor

come tell him about the things that you care about because he has been on his listening tour

and he cares and wants to listen to you and those are my announcements thank you thank you this is

my first listening to me councilmember ring thank you um just first a few shout out uh this past

weekend we had earth they throughout city throughout the entire city and so uh we actually had two

events in district gate and just really want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all

the volunteers that came out to both of the site one was at freeport park uh we did some mulching

some cleanup um in mediview and so just shout out to um our incredible uh city staff sarah from the

office of climate action sustainability and also agnostic from yipsi and then we also had another

delta shores cleanup at the basin detention basin so really just want to thank um on-site city staff

lisa and fernando from do you um and then also want to just let y'all know that uh this saturday

is the mediview egg hunt at the panel poll right so it's happening this saturday from once and

for encouraging all the kiddos to come out um and families to come out it should be a really fun

event um and then i just actually had a request uh to the mayor actually um to see if we could

agendize in closed session an evaluation of our city attorney um if possible because we have not

evaluated our city attorney and i know we requested that during p&p so just looking at chair p&p in

our mayor as well because i believe um our city manager's contract is past due and um our city

city attorneys are our city attorney and so i just want to make sure that that gets on um the

calendar somehow so just looking at the mayor and our chair p&p to make sure that we get

an evaluation in closed session thank you so much that's it thank you okay councilmember captain

thank you mayor um i think i did my ab1234 that i'm on the um cal cities housing and economic

development but if i forgot this is my ab1234 i'm on the committee um we had a meeting i really

appreciate that they partnered with the revan tax um committee as well to look at different

opportunities um so this conversation tonight for housing and what cities can do was very timely

but it is something that uh cal cities is exploring and looking at the state of providing

more benefits when you look at tax and revenue and housing and how can we make it more streamlined

and affordable um mark your calendars on april 19th at the north newtomas community center

there is an underwater egg hunt uh be aware there is because it is coming uh into the aquatic center

there will be a small cost so make sure you register uh it isn't free because you will

be allowed to use the aquatic center facilities but my staff and i will be there handing out goody

bags um and some other items and then uh april 16th is the west lake food truck mania so come on out

enjoy the community and um look forward to seeing everybody there thank you mayor

councilmember jenny's thank you mayor uh just wanted to let my colleagues know that uh this past

saturday we had the easter egg hunt at garshivine park uh we had hundreds and hundreds of kids

uh the mayor was able to join us assembly member member win was out there as well and uh just had

a great time out there with the kids uh they found the out of the 4 000 eggs that were out there

they found the four golden eggs and so those kids that found them got a present for each one of them

but i want to just uh give a shout out to the green haven pocket soccer club volunteers who put

all those eggs out and set everything up and made the kids have a great time before easter so

just want to shout out to them to thank them for making this a wonderful event and if you

go on our website you'll see the aerial uh drone view of the event it's going to be on the there in

the next 24 hours so wait 24 hours before you go but it's something to see and then uh we also

had a farmer's market on this past sunday with lots of vendors out there with incredible

goods i spent more money than i had i had to use my bill my zill in order to uh spend more money

than i had but anyway uh i really appreciate them bringing that to the community because it adds value

to our community when we can get together uh and and shop together and eat together and then talk

together so so many great things happen when we're able to come together to make uh have a good time

so thank you mayor not mayor pro tem gata uh thank you very much uh madam clerk and mayor uh i wanted

to announce two uh events and then a one comment uh number one uh one uh we're gonna have the 18th

annual sports for life soccer tournament uh this is folks that are uh in the in their 50 plus who are

ready to play soccer in and they're gonna do it at granite regional park yeah 50 plus this is you

know people who are here to win it and um it'll be uh sat starting off at 8 a.m on saturday goes the

tournament goes till sunday and then right after that take a run over to uh land park uh because

spca located and proudly in district six uh is going to have their doggy dash and so come out and

support uh our our little furry friends uh now just remember this is not a race you know we're

walk we're we're walking with their dogs no no pulling your dog but come out and support your

your uh little furry friend uh at the doggy dash uh at land park as well um so those are my two big

events oh wait i do want to just remind folks that we do have two neighborhood association

meetings this week on uh wednesday at 6 30 is our elmhurst neighborhood association online and then

our um on thursday we have the colonial heights monthly neighborhood association meeting it starts

at 6 30 uh 6 30 to 7 is the social hour at louis g's pizza so if you want some great pizza in stockton

boulevard come to louis g's pizza and then we'll get down to the order of business at 7 30 um so

those are the events uh for today uh mayor and council uh first i wanted to uh take this time

to really thank our uh sacramento firefighters and uh the firefighters and medics at station 10

10 is in district six off of 66th in fruit ridge i spent the last 48 hours there and learned

immense and even after the last 10 years of being here we see the reports we see our budgets we see

our policies that we're moving through and we interact a lot with the uh with the chief and

the deputy chiefs uh but the spending the time there you know was uh just personally very emotional

seeing what they do for our own neighborhoods and even um people in need in in my own uh block in

where i live um i want to take this time publicly to thank right off the bat i'll start with medic 10

here um you know firefighter ryan hutchinson uh who really you know talked about his journey and

and how have that how he's seen the evolution of getting into the fire department uh want to

thank firefighter uh jonathan anderson who was a coach at the college glenn little league and

really thank you mayor for the new uh uh scoreboard that we have there college glenn little league

but he and i and others worked over the last uh decade when his kid was in t-ball to be able to

improve that field and really make it what it is on top of being a firefighter uh and also firefighter

mckinsey uh uh rocus who came in to relieve him um in another mandatory shift another mandatory

overtime uh they were running the medic team and talked a lot about the issues of wall time uh do

want to you know uh thank um you know firefighters paul murray and joseph captain who are part of

truck 10 uh and let me tell you they have some mustaches to envy and i tried to join in on it but

they i could not rival them uh you know yeah as you could see i let go of my beard and got rid of

the mustache today but i want to shout out for them uh for the midnight runs that we had together

and also want to thank uh you know tyler uh uh firefighter tyler piercent and firefighter

scott pierce uh who were on engine 10 um and uh you know they responded to a cardiac arrest to one

of my neighbors uh as well uh the the person was able to get up and and get into the ambulance

after that support uh and so i really appreciate their immediate responsiveness to shout out to

our two engineers eric wiggins and uh engineer eric wiggins and engineer uh erin williams so

always confusing the pierce and the piercings of the erics with the erins but engineer erin williams

and eric wiggins because when you have to wake up at 30 in the at 3 30 in the morning uh everybody

else gets to sleep a little bit longer on the on the truck as they're moving but they have to drive

that truck after getting up and so uh we really want to appreciate them uh for that we were on a

water rescue on the american river uh at uh 3 30 in the morning uh and so um you know uh

fortunately for us another engine came in to relieve us so we got to go back uh after that and

didn't spend the whole night there uh and then wanted to finally uh you know uh thank the the

leadership of our captains there uh you know captain um uh um marco mejia who i spent a lot

of time with and in fact he took the time to to discuss a couple issues uh on how our vehicles

moved through as we were talking about housing and apartments and permitting how we actually can get

a uh a truck and a medic through and sometimes our design and plans make it so difficult with

only six inches between each side to get those um those trucks sent through the security gates

and then when they're trying to respond to a cardiac arrest because we did what those issues

effect and even on some of the buildings like the new starbucks you know the challenges that

they face when they're walking on the roofs and saying you know the structure when we just see

a structure like this we can fall through and and you know captain uh matt gonzalez talked about

his experience when he fell through the roof and caught himself by the arms you know uh i want to

thank uh you know captain ryan i'm going to mess this up con canado and uh and captain marco mejia

as well for their leadership in in talking about their experience and all of them

after i got the chance to leave at um at 48 hours uh all had a mandatory overtime to fill out 72

and additional 24 after i went home so i want to thank them as well and captain justin silva

who showed me the regulation about beards and um before i got my start the shaved off that that

beard for the room so uh thank you city manager and mayor council and i also want to thank uh

i see ryan henry in the audience for that time there thank you

okay councilmember vice mayor telemontes and council mayor pro tem garab beat the record

he did 48 hours yes um you know the last time i did what i did a year ago i was like how i set

the record 24 hours and 30 minutes and then somebody else set a record and then somebody else

26 so now we got 48 hours so kudos mayor pro tem garab thank you councilmember telemontes ed

but i forgot to congrats to new individuals and this deserves a big round of applause uh and here

medic 609 um kevin mcneill and justin williams who graduated on friday councilmember rick jennings

and my vang were there at the graduation for our first single role there and uh and uh assistant

city manager interim city manager lanie millstein was there um let's give a big round of applause to

our recent graduates and their first weekend on the job kevin mcneill and justin williams

from um who responded to a number of emergency services they didn't even get a weekend off

they went the next morning right to work so thank you mayor council yeah i just want you

to know councilmember that we'll be doing a um a 48 hour this summer and we'll probably get a

mandatory overtime so we're gonna do 72 just letting you know just letting you know mayor you

should you should do it on fourth of july okay okay uh oh 48 hours just a whole week just a whole

week on miss council okay uh with that public comments thank you mayor i have 16 speakers

for public comment that is not on the agenda i'm gonna call off a few names stacy bereditz

mac worthy uh jan goreng david johnson jeffrey tardiglia barry marcus

for the opportunity to speak i'm here to address the rollout at sac of saccartee's new

ai based enforcement program around bus stops as someone who professionally implements ai

features and public safety software i understand the critical importance of careful careful

applications when deploying technology in nuanced human context especially in public service let me

highlight how this fallout has fallen short using my personal experience we live at 3311

frank limble of art with the bus stop just 25 feet from our property saccartee defines the bus

zone is 60 feet in front of our home and that covers our entire property including our driveway

yet there's no no parking signs mark curbs nothing to indicate that this is a restriction

as you can imagine we've been getting tickets there was a trial period but during the trial

period the citation warnings were issued but there was an issue i guess with the post they

were issued i think back in january is what we've seen and they showed up in our mail two weeks ago

so we didn't have a chance to actually address this in a timely manner before the ticket started

coming in as of this morning saccartee has indicated that they'll resolve the specific

manner for our family but this address is just one case amongst potentially others

on frankly in particular the variation of signage at bus stops is huge some have signs

at sano parking some have marked curbs some have bus parking brackets some have all three some have

none how do you expect people to have the clarity to comply even if they're willing i want to emphasize

that when implementing ai generated enforcement resulting in expensive 112 dollar tickets that

arrive three weeks after the violation proper due diligence is essential this should include

working with homeowners reviewing bus stop placements and ensuring adequate comprehensible

signage in cases where the standard 60-foot restriction is impractical saccartee should

have proactively worked with affected residents lastly ai is powerful but not nuanced it's a tool

it is not a replacement for proper due diligence policy and implementation of policy

and citizens shouldn't be part of the collaborative collateral damage due to lack of proper due

due diligence thank you for your time and consideration thank you for your comments mac worthy

madam vice mayor may i quickly my chief of staff is in the room in the back here ma'am

i'd love to we'd love to talk with you about this i'm also on the rg board so i'd love to

work with you on it so ryan right here i'd love to talk with you thank you thank you

people we really don't know where to start uh dixon you got a long road

until the mayor you got a clean house as long as it's mad as long as this here

you ain't gonna get nothing done in this city cleanest corruptions up and then you start a new

government how all the way to the fire department and you're 60 days six months and this man can't

get a report on his truck burn yeah this don't man his boat he can't even get nobody out

oh they tell my friend here two and three hundred dollars to get his truck back the damn thing

burned up he wanted his equipment so go to work what in the hell is going on with the management

this here you gotta get this trick out of here you get all this stuff done you get this trick out

of here she is guilty of participating with the boy that had three thousand now how did who wrote

that check for him with three thousand dollars in the bay who wrote the check for him three thousand

dollars for an attorney somebody lying here where's our attorneys our attorneys came to know when

you have a violation of the roundhouse you got they really don't want attorneys they stiff

this is a training process for attorneys second minute and I still say your previous

mayor said on the boat of licensing of the state of California I know what two people are over here

but can't get to one that's still here because what you gotta go through and tell everybody

what you're going there and talk to him about he has some information he gave us about Elgro

but I'm gonna still try to get the law firm I have somebody to check with Trey Gowdy in South Carolina

can he get somebody here Republican so we can get that thing file thank you your comments Jan Goring

is Jan still here thank you uh Jan then David Johnson then Jeffrey Tardigia

thank you good evening I'm the vice president of the shepherd garden and art center we're

located in mclinley park at the shepherd garden center I'm here to talk to you about a problem

that we're having with our fee structure for our rentals in uh 2018 the board passed a resolution

and actually three of the people who signed that are uh sitting here tonight uh Mr. Guerra

Mr. Jennings and Ms. Coppa thank you so much for signing this resolution you know what you told

the people of Sacramento you told us that we could have a 50 discount on our rental rate

at a community enrichment department however the youth parks and community enrichment this year

took that away from us we have gone from paying $17 an hour to rent the facility for all of our

clubs we have 27 clubs now we are going to be charged $90 an hour we serve really the aged

population the retirees who have something to do something to live for now I know that the youth

and parks and community are really important for youth and soccer and for baseball but think about

your life after you retire what will give you fulfillment will it be learning Japanese gardening

will it be quilting if we have to pay $90 an hour to rent the facility you won't be able to

have a chance to join us please work with the youth parks and commitment get us back our uh 50

percent discount we've emailed you we're looking forward to hearing from you and come out and see

thank you for your comments David Johnson

Mr. Mayor council members I'm David Johnson I'm a member of the Camellia City porcelain

artists club at uh uh shepherd garden art center also a member of the shepherd board

the shepherd center was constructed for local garden and arts clubs in 1958 these days 26 clubs

meet at shepherd with 3 000 members average age 50 but they're threatened most of the 26 clubs

are looking for new homes porcelain artists are considering a room at a railies the row

societies look at it Gibbons Hall in Carmichael Park and the reason is the city is thirsty for

money but to our club members it feels like the city is out for our blood from the center's earliest

days clubs have paid fees for upkeep and and for maintenance on the center now the city's parts

parks department Yipsey wants a 300 percent increase it's been a partnership for 70 years

yes the city owns the building but the kitchen equipment purchased by the clubs

same with the furnishings when the parks department told clubs they would now have to pay a hundred

dollars to use the kitchen for potluck meals our board president reminded the Yipsey representative

that we own the furnishings the response he got remove the furnishings

as one arts club member said to me last saturday it feels like it's not just about money they want

us gone do the right thing keep our prices where they were in 2023 and 2024 with no new increases

save the union thank you for your comments your time is complete our next speaker is Jeffrey

tardiguia then Barry Marcus Jeffrey tardiguia an advocate what i say to you is i appreciate your

attention i hope the mayor will consider the factor is that the three or four times he has

forgotten this is the last item on the agenda three or four times there's been more than a hundred

people out there that cannot get in because you've adjourned the meeting this is directly to the mayor

now the rest of the consideration i will offer is i remember before daryl steinberg became here

this body turned around and made for developers that we weren't going to be providing money

for low income extremely low income in the housing this is part of the interpretation and what's

going on of why you don't have dollars to spend for low income housing i keep coming back to you

because this body can do better i appreciate you listening but the last of the agenda it needs to

be moved earlier up in the agenda because as you can see there's people that don't make it to the

end of the agenda i have an eight o'clock meeting tomorrow i've missed in like i wasn't here last

meeting last week because there were other commitments and other meetings that i needed to be

to i will wait and talk with phil over here about dealing with the transit orientating that went

took place last week i didn't make it and my time is up you need to change the time too because

you miss out what public has to say to you thank you for your comments barry marcus donald rickles

josh anderson kim carter martinis no problem and i'm going to call a few names i'm sure some people

have gotten tired so barry marcus donald rickles josh anderson get left so first the robert's rules

of order matter my agenda says speakers who wish to address the body on matters not on the

agenda will have a maximum total of eight minutes per speaker so before i start you need to get

eight minutes up on there so sir the rules say that you can speak on four agenda items for two

minutes each was an eight minute total so you have one minute and 37 left that's not how i read this

how do you interpret it that way sir we're doing two minutes what one minute and 29 seconds left

all right um surveyors who were out in front of my house the other day and they said what are you

doing out here they said we're making a total graphic map and they said wait a minute this lot is flat

there's no undulations oh it's up with that and when i found out the reason i was not surprised

it's because it's on a checklist from the city the building department says even though this

lot is flat you gotta you gotta make a topo map and it's just so outrageous if you look at

where is there's something on here that on c street i had to make a topo map so that

ridiculous thinking is the same thinking that went into your decision to ban coins from parking

meters that discriminates against black people who don't have bank accounts because they don't

trust banks because they were redlined and they don't have credit cards so they're frozen

from using the parking meter so you need to come up with a much better solution

that is diverse equitable and inclusive so everybody can use that parking meter thank you for

your comments um and so uh donald rickles and sir what was your name

do we have barry marcus

don rickles

i don't see um josh anderson

following josh is frank morgan jr ron elmsley shawn manwell

good evening council members i come today as a crime survivor to recognize national crime victims

awareness week um here in sacramento i wish i could say that i was well informed of my right

as a victim throughout the process unfortunately i was not and there's a devastating effect to that

in losing confidence in the system i survived childhood sexual abuse my father will never

harm another individual in sacramento

i lost everything as a victim in february i was a victim from my house in oak park lost two of my

dogs i've tried resources around tried family justice center tried calvcb

i knew the process would never be easy

and i don't regret it i would do it again to protect the community

but my hope is to share as a survivor a position i didn't expect to be in

it's very easy i believe for systems to normalize the process being around investigations like that

the court process is quite heavy but my wish and my desire would be i remember it's never normal

for an individual currently in an arabian b looking for resources carrying on the best i can

i would love to share more of my story and my journey with others off the record

in hopes of helping other survivors because the voice experience of survivor is worth it

thank you for your time thank you for your comments frank morgan jr ron elmsley

shon maxwell

good evening council i'm back again i still haven't yet to get some help

you gave me a card i call no follow-up talk to brian no follow-up talk to michael no follow-up

talk to brian no follow-up now i just got uh something about my truck and uh they they

lean sold it not telling me that i owe 2300 my truck was burned up i don't know why it was

told nobody told me anything i can't get any kind of records it's crazy you know i'm glad i was here

to hear about the uh the streamline sacramental on the streamline uh that's a good thing because

i want to convert my building into condos maybe to help give more houses to people but it's it's

crazy you know i need some help you know i keep coming i keep coming you keep saying you're gonna

help me but nobody's doing anything maybe we could get a personal meeting you and i we could sit down

and talk so we could get something worked out because this is crazy you know i'm dealing with

code enforcement i'm dealing with the fire department i'm dealing with the police department

they tell me there my truck is still on investigation this happened in may 29th last year and i still

don't have nothing you know it's crazy you know we we hear we we we want to do something for our

city but we need some corporation we need some help i need some help so you know you keep saying

you're gonna do something i need something i'm gonna keep coming back i'm gonna keep coming back

anyway because it's just a good thing to be at the meeting to get to be informed about what's going

on in our city but i need some help Kathy bad okay please yeah we keep saying we're gonna do something

but we're not doing it i've got nothing more bills more hurt more sorrow more pain how much more

do we have to endure and and you're up there you could help but nobody's doing nothing thank you

thank you for your comments i see i believe ron elmsley is left so shon maxwell

man well thank you and then jensen um kudacha

thank you my name is shon man will and uh i thought it was kind of ironic to hear this uh

the first segment about homelessness and uh homes because back in october uh the cities of

sacramental came in and took my daughter my son along my grandchildren's home and their business

they had a houseboat and they lived on it and the city took it and uh destroyed it so they uh

basically put six people on the streets i've watched them struggle to try to support the family

but whatever means they could and really work hard at it and uh i watched it destroy my my daughter's

pregnancy it stressed her out so much you miscarried a baby and uh the whole thing has been

just a nightmare the whole family's tore up over it now uh i'm at the end of my life

and katie and jensen they're my caretakers and uh my grandchildren and uh i just really like to

see something done for them they've had uh just a hell of a time trying to get somebody to take

care of them take care of the loss they should not have destroyed their boat they could have towed

that boat up to washington where i was at and uh they were going to but when the city came in and

took it and destroyed it that just uh that just destroyed everything they had going for them so

i'd really like to see somebody do something and uh and fix this it's not right i took a family six

people and put them out on the street so thank you thank you for your comments jensen is our next

speaker then noah then jensen ben azure jr

hello city council mayor uh thank you for all the work you guys been doing on the city i know it's

a challenging uh with uh i see the numbers and you know i i can see you guys are at work and

trying to get stuff approved and with all of this um but uh we have to if possible slow down a little

bit and stop to um resolve this issue with my family and my children and because they uh the

city attorney has been advising wrongly so uh we have a lawsuit now we're going to be filing against

the city um and they put us out of the hotel that they temporarily had us in today so right now

my kids wanted to come here i'm not forcing them to come here they all want to speak to you guys

because uh it's very important to our life um i wanted to off issue i want to thank miss millstein

the city manager for making uh howard chen return that money uh because that's that's more of what we

want to see if possible the the honesty um right now we're taking care of my wife's father he's very

ill uh that's the reason the hotel saying uh the program amends which brian page run the dcr

they gave me this program but they're telling me to today we had to get out we'd have no place to go

so actually the city of sacramento is uh liable for for anything that happens to my family or my

children or my or anything that happens they are directly liable and the city attorney should be

advising them of that because they are displacing a homeless family that was displaced due to the

city making decisions to take our both so if possible can we get a resolution i haven't been

able to reach district four or to make thank you for your comments no is our next speaker

no would you like the handheld microphone or the ones to your right or lower see the ones over here

okay

okay say um

i want to pass thank you noa our next speaker is jensen ben azra jr

thank you so much for listening to my family speak thank you goodbye thank you our final

speaker this evening is kathryn ben ezra

hello good evening uh i appreciate you guys all for staying out here and listening to us my name

is kathryn ben ezra everyone calls me mermaid cat uh the mermaid ice cream boat was my idea

first and foremost i'm a military army veteran with an honorable discharge

i absolutely love my country and i absolutely love sacramento california this has been my home

sacramento has been my family i put my heart and my soul into this city for the past 12 years living

here raising my kids i was doing very well in construction until i was sexually harassed

by a man that had pedophilia on his record and murder they kept him they kicked me out during

covid they sold the marina we were out there like pirates i didn't know what else to do

we were just trying to keep a roof over our kids head the police uh told us every single day that

they came to harass us for three and a half years that was by the city council that did not want us

that would not make any exceptions for us there was the person that took my boat illegally i have a

video of him pulling up saying that he was there to take an abandoned boat i was there with my

daughter i'd been there every single day my boat was not abandoned they had no right to take my

boat i told them i was pregnant i told that to the police the day before they took my boat

this is harassment and discrimination i lost a baby it was not an easy loss my body would not get

rid of it sacramento uh the dcr and brun pedro are creating the homeless families and it's not

right we already have such a big problem with it as it is while i was living on my boat i was creating

stages of a program that could help the homeless program help uh singles families people with

addiction people with um records that it's hard for them to find housing and i would like to share

my ideas with you guys on a different occasion but thank you for your comments your time is complete

so vice mayor i have no more speakers thank you so much for coming

but i'm this meeting adjourned is adjourned at 805

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