I'm just jealous. I'm ready when you are.

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

meeting, Tuesday, April 22nd, please call the roll.

Thank you, councilmember Kaplan, councilmember Dickinson, vice mayor Talamantes, councilmember

Plochibom, councilmember maple, mayor pro tem gara, councilmember Jennings, councilmember

vang, and mayor McCarty. We have councilmember Dickinson lead us in the land acknowledgement

and the pledge. This is the opening acknowledgement and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people

and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern

Maidu valley and plains Miwok, Patwin, Winton and peoples and people of the 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 together today in the act of practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's

indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives. Thank you. And now if you would

join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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,

and liberty, and justice for all. So we did have a closed session for three items.

City attorney, would you like to report on item number three?

Yes, mayor and councilman, closed session to discuss an item of pending litigation. And

there's nothing to report at this time. And then, Mr. Mayor, would you like to report

out on items one and two? Yes, we'll do. On items one and two, the city council had an

initial discussion of the process for conducting evaluations and took no other reportable action.

Thank you. You want to move on to special presentations?

Yes. Okay. We have a busy night today with four special presentations. We'd like to limit

them, but they're so important and timely that we wanted to do them all here today. So

the first out of the gate, we want to recognize the McClatchy High School girls basketball

team are here in the front row. So I saw them a few weeks ago, they came to City Hall

with a delegation and they were off to China. And I thought, you know, a few weeks ago,

Roger, we had the opportunity to recognize the Grant Boys football team who had an amazing

season. I thought, you know what, our Lady Lions here are the section champs and the

first team ever out of McClatchy to go on to the open state finals and win a round. And

I had a chance to see you in action over there at Golden One Center in the section game and

so impressed by all of you. And we wanted to make sure that we had a chance to celebrate

your success. They had a great run and some scholar athletes as well. I did want to recognize

I don't have everybody who written down here, but I know for we wanted to recognize with

their achievements and scholarships, we want to recognize Nina Kane, who was has a full

ride scholarship to the University of Washington. Congratulations, Nina.

And Brett Lewis has a full ride scholarship to Cal State Northridge. Brianna Kimmins has

a full ride basketball and flag football scholarship to Ferrum College. There may be others, but

those are the ones I had on my list here. So, Council Member Jennings, who represents

McClatchy in District 7, also wanted to make sure that we had a chance to celebrate your

success. Council Member Jennings. Thank you, Mayor, and to the entire City Council and

all of you who are in our audience, we have an exciting resolution that we want to present

to you today. And so I will do the honors of reading the resolution honoring the 2024-25

CK McClatchy High School Lady Lyons basketball team. So whereas the City of Sacramento proudly

recognizes excellence in academics, athletic, and leadership among its youth, and the 2024-25

CK McClatchy High School Ladies Lyons Girls Basketball Team exemplified these values both

on and off the court. Whereas the Lady Lyons achieved historic milestone by winning the

CIF Sac Joaquin Section 1 Division title for the first time since 2007, defeating the top

seated Folsom 64-53 at the Golden One Center. Congratulations. That's incredible achievement.

Whereas the team's remarkable 25 and 7 overall record, including an undefeated 10 and old

league performance, was a testament to their exceptional teamwork, their resilience, and

their dedication to playing as a team. Whereas the Lady Lyons roster featured outstanding

group of athletes, and the Mayor has named most of them. I'll call the rest of them when

we get up to present. Whereas the Lady Lyons were guided by an exceptional coaching staff,

including head coach Jeff Oda, who has mentored multiple generations of athletes, including

current assistant Jessica and Jackie, along with dedicated coaches Carlos and Aaron, Perry,

and Q. I think I'm saying those names right. If I didn't, please correct me later. Whereas

the achievement of the Lady Lyons during the 2024-25 season has brought immense pride

and inspiration to the CK-McClatchy High School community, the Sacramento City Unified School

District, and the entire city and region of Sacramento. Now, therefore, let it be resolved

that the Mayor and City Council of the City of Sacramento, hereby recognize and congratulate

24-25 CK-McClatchy High School Lady Lyons Girls Basketball Team and coaches and parents

and volunteers and student body for their historic season and outstanding contributions

to youth sports and leadership here in Sacramento. Congratulations, ladies.

So we're going to come down, and I want all of the players, coaches, parents, anybody

who wants to be in this team picture. I want you to come up to the front so we can give

you your resolution, and we can also acknowledge you with a great picture to remember this

in the annals of Sacramento history.

All right. Can everyone take two steps in?

One, two, three.

Thank you.

I want to go.

I need three. Three or four.

I'm going to get them up there to speak. Yeah, come on. You want to go first. I got one,

two, three, all right.

I'm just going to talk about how this section championship was so great. It was so great

because I feel like we came together as a team and we really worked together and we worked

really hard all season. We all came together in the summertime and we worked hard since

then, and then we worked really hard in the fall. And then when it came crunched, like,

to the really big games, we would pray before each game, and we really just showed that

we wanted it more than everybody, and it just really worked out for the best. So that's

really why it was a great season.

I think for all of our students, we all came together as a team, talked after practice,

hung out after practice together, seen each other in the hall, talked about the games,

and like Brisa prayed together, studied our opponents together, and really came together

to play. So, yeah.

Just a little bit. I'll squat a little bit.

All right. Got it. It's hard being tall sometimes.

I would like to first thank Mayor McCarty and Council members for inviting us today

and recognizing us for this high achievement. I would also like to thank my fellow teammates,

my coaches, and also our parents and the rest of everyone that came to the support from

our school and student body. This was a very special season, very special team, and I would

just like to congratulate all of us and the amount of work that we input to achieve what

we've achieved this year. And I would like to also thank everybody for the unforgettable

memories that I personally will carry on with me towards my future. So thank all of you.

Thank you all for inviting us here today and go Lions.

Thank you.

Now, if somebody told you that you had to stay for the rest of the meeting, they didn't tell you the truth.

So your prize, if you want to get going early, you can leave anytime you want to.

But congratulations again, ladies and gentlemen, to CK McCarty and the Lions.

What a wonderful team.

Thank you.

Okay, next item, Law Day. City Attorney's Office.

Mayor and Councillor, I'd like to introduce two of our members of our office.

Sorry. Who happened to also be some of the newest members of the bar. In fact, Carson Vanderlitten,

Deputy City Attorney Carson Vanderlitten was sworn in here in December in chambers by former Mayor

Steinberg and then Cara Weatherby also is one of our newer members of the bar as well.

So they're going to present on Law Day today.

Thank you very much. Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

We are here today to accept the Council resolution recognizing Law Day, May 1st, 2025 in the City of Sacramento.

Law Day was originally established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958.

In 1961, Congress designated its official date of May 1st.

The purpose was then, as it is today, to observe a day of national dedication to the principle of government under law.

President Eisenhower sought to highlight and honor for all Americans and for the world the enduring legal culture of the United States.

Law Day is the national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law, underscoring how law and the legal process contribute to the freedoms that Americans share

and providing an opportunity to recognize the role of the courts in a constitutional democracy.

This year, the American Bar Association has established the Law Day theme, The Constitution's Promise, out of many one.

Facing the dysfunction and paralysis created by our first governing document, the Articles of Confederation,

the Articles of the Constitution astutely recognized the need for greater national unification and cooperation.

The resulting Constitution, which has been reworked and improved by successive generations of Americans,

establishes a framework for government designed to unite us as one citizenry, through means such as our representative government,

jury service, a regular census, and more.

Through our commitment to our union and to our community, the people of Sacramento fulfill the promise of e-pluribus unum every day.

We come from all backgrounds, identities, classes, and cultures, and yet we recognize the importance of bridging our differences and working together as a free people in a united nation.

Our civil lives tie us together as one we, whether through legislative efforts that serve the common good, tireless public service,

or taking action every day in ways big and small to improve and uplift our city, state, and country.

The out of many one Law Day theme encourages all Americans to embody the spirit of solidarity and common purpose.

We invite everyone to join us on May 1st, 2025 to celebrate Law Day by recommitting to the values that bind us together.

The Sacramento City Attorney's Office will be celebrating Law Day with a speaker presentation featuring Natalie Fujikawa,

President of the Women Lawyers of Sacramento, Judge Richard C. Maditch, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge,

Professor Vikram D. Ammar, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law, Go Aggies,

Phanisha Gaddis, General Counsel of the San Juan Unified School District, Joe Ayala, Former Legislative Counsel for the California Legislature,

and Professor Larry Levine, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.

The speakers will be discussing current issues relevant to this year's Law Day topic.

The doors open at 11.30 a.m. in historic City Hall chambers with the panel discussion taking place from 12 to 1, refreshments to follow.

The activity is pending approval from the State Bar of California for one hour of MCLE General Credit.

Thank you very much for your time and attention, and we hope to see you on May 1st. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council Members.

My name is Cara Weatherby, and I'm from the City Attorney's Office, City of Sacramento.

I won't take up much of your time. I would just like to take a moment to acknowledge our youth contest winners.

As you may have heard in honor of this year's Law Day theme, the City Attorney's Office invited seventh and eighth grade students to celebrate with us by participating in an essay and illustration contest.

This was a great opportunity to involve local youth in not only learning about Law Day and the significance of the Constitution and our legal processes, but also doing that in a fun and creative way.

We were happy to report that we were overwhelmed by the number of and content of the submissions we received.

The students really expressed their understanding of the topic creatively with clarity.

It was an incredibly challenging effort to decide our winners, but we have them and they're here with us today.

In third place, we have Antonia Fidelli-McLeod, who is in the eighth grade attending Miwok Middle School in City Council District 4.

Antonia wrote a two-page essay and submitted artwork reflecting the diversity of our nation and national symbols, including our flag, the American Bald Eagle, and the Lady Justice Statute,

representing that justice is blind and should be administered without bias, regardless of wealth, power, or social status.

Antonia's essay connected with the theme of Law Day and current events very well and included a great analysis.

I'd like to read an excerpt.

On this Law Day, it is important to appreciate what was established by the founders of the United States in 1787, yet keep up with the Constitution's standards.

It is up to the current citizens of the U.S. to uphold the belief of equal law and justice for all.

Congratulations, Antonia, and I would like to invite you to stand.

In second place, Samaya Conger, who is in the eighth grade at Natoma-specific Pathways Prep Middle School in District 1, taught by Ashley Silas.

Samaya wrote a poem for her submission.

It is creative, inspiring, and compassionate, and gives a visual depiction of the theme in our daily life.

In it, Samaya says, out of many one urges us to take pride in our Constitution that has helped bridge our divide.

In our military are individuals of all race who are risking their lives for us to have a safe place.

In our government, we have people working hard to protect the citizens by doing their part.

At your workplace, you may face adversity, maybe a co-worker will take a stand and you'll appreciate all the diversity.

Working together is essential because we go further together.

Getting along makes it easier, just like running in warm weather.

We are here today as Good Samaritans living in unity, and even though we have our disagreements, we are all still a community.

Congratulations, Samaya. I'd like to invite you to stand.

And in first place, we have Rachel Song.

Rachel is in the eighth grade as well. She attends Meawock Middle School in District 4 and is taught by Brian Mitchell.

Rachel unanimously won first place by the level of detail and creativity in her submission.

Rachel drew a picture with 27 hands relating to the 27 amendments in the Constitution.

Each hand tells a very different story.

If you look closely, you'll see cultural differences, political differences, occupational differences, social economic differences, and so much more.

But all with one thing in common, we the people of our nation.

Thank you and congratulations, Rachel.

And before I leave you today, I would like to say thank you to Kelly Trapani and the Community Development Department.

Amy Williams in the City Manager's Office and Katie Houser and Heather Koff from Youth Parks and Community Enrichment.

I would also like to thank the mayor and the council's office for helping us get the word out about the contest.

Most importantly, I would like to say thank you to all our students and participants.

Thank you for showing us that our future is bright.

Thank you, Susanna, mayor, and council for your time.

And the families and the contest winners would like to take a picture with you guys if you could allow.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ready? One, two, three.

Okay.

Okay, next item, please.

The next special presentation is presented by council member Kaplan and mayor pro tem,

get it sexual assault awareness month and denim day.

Thank you, mayor.

I'll kick it off before I turn it over to the mayor pro tem.

It is my honor this evening to present along with the mayor pro tem recognizing April as sexual assault awareness month.

And then on April 30th is called denim day.

Every 68 seconds someone in the United States is sexually assaulted.

Approximately one in five women and one in 33 men are raped during their lifetime.

And about 75% of harassment victims experience retaliation when they report it.

We know between 40 and 45% of women in relationships experiencing domestic abuse are assaulted during the course of their relationship.

While over half of the women who are raped by an intimate partner are also sexually assaulted multiple times by that same partner.

It is more important today to stand up to fight to believe victims and to acknowledge it.

Where right now women are being treated as less than and where it's being reported we are chattel to bear children and we don't deserve the equal rights.

It's more important that we take the stand and we have supporters.

Because so often women have experienced this and said nothing because of the victim shaming and the abuse.

Also international denim day if you have not heard it has been observed since 1999 as a symbol of protest because believe it or not.

So denim day encourages everyone to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence and speak up when they hear comments that blame victims because of what they're wearing or how they look.

So this evening we are recognizing several organizations that each in their own way commit to standing up and supporting victims of sexual violence and harm.

That includes we've cash my sister's house impact and the Sacramento family regional justice sister center that does not name them all but just a couple who are doing the hard work here in Sacramento.

And I just like to call special attention to we.

We've is the rape crisis center for Sacramento County for the city and the county and is the only agency that holds the confidential privilege for victims of sexual assault by the nature of their licensing and the training that they have employees go through.

So at this time I'd like to turn it over to Mayor pro tem getter to share a few words before we bring up CEO of we've Beth has it to say a couple of words.

Thank you very much Councilmember Kaplan. You know in California over three million over three million two hundred and fifty thousand survivors of sexual assault live here today and it is an issue that that happens regularly every day.

And it's an important thing that today we recognize this work. I want to thank you know many of those in our city itself our city government and our employees.

I then want to thank our chief of police who sits on the family justice center board of directors as well. I have the opportunity to sit there with her with with her as well.

We began that effort to bring justice to bring support at the through the rape rape rape crisis center. And now they offer a plethora of services from therapeutic counseling legal services prevention and housing and addressing all of the different aspects that lead up to the issues that many sexual assault victims face.

I want to just thank everyone for their tireless work and effort that that has gone into this. And you know and even though one in thirty three men do experience sexual assault as Councilmember Kaplan.

It's one in five women that experience that assault. And so today I stand in solidarity on denim day wearing my denims to city council. I rarely wear them to city council but very strong in solidarity to bring awareness to this issue every day.

And I want to thank again Beth Hasen who's here today. Please come to the podium because the work that you have done not only providing life and energy and back and hope to survivors is critical.

So thank you. Big round of applause to our executive director. We've got.

Thank you. Thank you all. We've served as Sacramento County's rape crisis center since 1988 and every county has a rape crisis center that's charged with an array of statutorily dictated services.

In 2024 there were 351 exams conducted so that's about one a day in our county. 40% of those assaults occurred in the city of Sacramento.

The majority of sexual assaults are never reported to law enforcement so we know this is a fraction of the sexual assaults that occurred last year.

In addition to following up after the exam advocates and counselors assist victims throughout the investigation and as they heal from the trauma of their sexual assault.

We've worked in partnership with Sac State and the Los Rios College District by embedding sexual assault advocates on campuses to reduce violence and support victims.

I'd like to specifically thank Tina and John with the city's office of lifetime economy for partnering with Weave this past year to train bar and nightlife staff to be active bystanders in preventing sexual assault through Weave's Safe Night Out program.

We have a training this Thursday and Alyssa is here from Mangoes who regularly call us and say hey we caught somebody who is up to no good.

Please show your support by wearing denim on Wednesday April 30th. You heard the story of Denim Day and this type of victim blaming is unacceptable so we'll rally on the Capitol with our legislature who will also be wearing denim at 10 that morning.

And again I want to thank you for shining a light on sexual assault and Weave's work to ensure survivors have a safe place to get support, navigate the criminal legal system and to heal from the most intimate form of violence.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to call everyone up for a picture all of our organizations that are here if they wouldn't mind coming up.

My sister's house is over here as well.

Come on, impact part of it. Come on, y'all apart.

Come on.

Hi, it's good to see you.

One, two, three.

Come on.

Can we actually have you three, can we, can we have you three actually go towards more the middle, middle or have one of you guys step over to the other side.

Perfect.

Alright, one, two, three. One more. One, two, three.

Not it. Thank you.

Thank you everyone.

Okay.

And next we have another special presentation by Councilor Mervain, Autism Acceptance Month.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

As you all know, if you didn't know, April was recognized as National Autism Acceptance Month.

And I believe this is the first time ever that the City of Sacramento is actually recognizing Autism Acceptance Month because usually what we do is we ask the City Clerk, you know, do you have a draft of this resolution and they say we actually don't have one on record.

Which means this is actually the first time that we've done this, which is for me a little bit disappointing.

But really glad that we're doing this.

And, you know, this month is also really personal for me as well as we celebrate Autism Acceptance Month because I have a nephew and a niece who are autistic.

And they both have unique strengths to contribute to this world.

And I think that's a great thing.

And the reason why this is not an Awareness Month but is an Acceptance Month because Awareness acknowledged the existence but Acceptance actually centers, embraces and really uplifts who they are.

And it also means that as a city, as a state, as a country, as a world that we create spaces where neurodiverse individuals feel seen, valued and empowered.

Everything from youth violence to DV, to gender-based violence, trafficking, so many issues.

But this is also another topic of advocacy that they work closely on.

The second group I would like to ask to come up is the group that leads, because it's one amazing woman, but she has an incredible team behind her.

Valene Byrd-Azrael from Arctism.

Arctism is an annual event that occurs in the city of Sacramento and it is a volunteer run event.

I think many of my colleagues here are sponsors of the annual event as well.

And their event is actually happening this weekend at Luther Burbank, so looking forward to that event.

And then lastly, I would love for the director of the MINE Institute, Dr. Aubin, to come up as well.

The MINE Institute, you all didn't know, is an institute at UC Davis, but they're actually located right here in Sacramento.

The work they do inform policies and practices to ensure that we shape a region that's more inclusive.

And so, you know, the MINE Institute developed more equitable, scientific, validated systems of support and intervention.

So really just want to highlight the research component, but also the practitioner on the ground that's uplifting this work.

I think that's really important to acknowledge.

So with that, I love for the three of you to say a few words before we take a quick photo and really just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this hard work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is awesome.

Thank you so much.

This is incredible.

And that it's the first one.

I did not know that.

So that's really good to know.

And it's just, you know, bringing awareness to things is one thing.

The acceptance piece is another.

And it's really important.

So those of us that live with this every single day, not just this month, we understand the importance of bringing attention to all the contributions that autistic individuals bring to all of our lives.

The truth is, all of us know somebody that's on the spectrum.

We may just not know it, but we all do.

They're all around us and they are a very intricate part of our community and they have contributed so much and they continue to do that.

So it's very important, especially right now, with the time that we're in right now, it's very important that we highlight this.

So I thank you so much for highlighting our efforts and everything that we do to bring attention to these things and inclusivity.

You know what I mean?

Bringing inclusion into it.

That's just wonderful too.

So thank you so much.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I'm just very, very happy to be here to witness this declaration of intent by the city of Sacramento.

It is my hope that this encourages our Sacramento officials and their staff and their businesses to follow up with real actions.

I just want to emphasize the need for promoting and participating in inclusive practices.

Providing these accommodations are important.

Assisting with the access of these resources and not gatekeeping.

And more importantly, educating your communities, the law enforcement, making sure that they understand the autism spectrum and how they can support our individuals.

And that's about it.

I appreciate you guys.

I'm very happy to be here today for this.

Thank you.

I want to thank the city of Sacramento and especially my Vang for this wonderful honor and for partnering with us to do it.

Recognizing autism acceptance month gives us an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of autistic people and their families in the Sacramento community.

And it allows us to recognize Sacramento's commitment to advancing inclusion, equity and acceptance for autistic individuals all the time.

This happens in large part because of collaboration across our city with the multiple agencies that are working with these folks.

And on behalf of the UC Davis Mind Institute, I want to express our deep gratitude for the recognition and importance of science in shaping a better future for autistic individuals, especially now.

By elevating both lived experience and scientific discovery, you help ensure that Sacramento leads the way in evidence based inclusive practices that benefit our entire community.

Thank you for this recognition.

And I look forward to our continuing work together to make Sacramento wonderful for everyone.

Thank you.

If you could come to the front, we're going to take a photo.

I'm coming.

We have three.

And then if y'all will join, hi, Maynus.

We all have copies.

So thank you so much, Councillor Mervang, for bringing forward this resolution.

So important, especially given what's going on in our country right now.

We're moving along to the consent calendar.

So council members, who would like to comment on what?

Council Member Dickinson.

Item number seven, Madam Vice Chair.

Mayor Pro Temgara.

Item number eight.

Council Member Maple.

Seeing none.

Okay.

We'll start with actually clerk, is there any comments on the consent calendar?

Yes, I have six speakers.

Would you like to take those now?

Yeah, actually we'll do council comments first and then we'll do speakers.

Thank you.

Okay.

So we will start with item five, Council Member Garra and then Council Member Maple on item

five.

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor.

First I just wanted to thank staff and also the folks at the California Energy Commission

for this grant here.

This will allow us to increase our EV charging accessibility throughout our city.

Particularly serving the south area, we're going to have at George's, George's, George's

Sim Community Center at Tahoe Park and also the Oak Park Community Center.

And so we're making sure that it's not only accessible downtown but also throughout the

area but for our district five and six here.

Very grateful.

And this is part of the Sacramento Electric Vehicle Blueprint grant.

That's looking at how do we make sure that we have reliable and available charging for

folks throughout the city.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Okay.

Council Member Maple, item five.

Thank you.

I did it.

Wonderful.

Save exact comments but just want to add one small additional thing just that as an EV

owner, myself, living in South Sacramento, it's really challenging to find the infrastructure

that you need and we know that having the infrastructure is what's going to help especially our families,

low income families be able to adopt EVs into their lives.

And so the more that we can do to create that is a good thing.

And so I just love to see this at Oak Park and beyond and looking forward to the expansions

and really want to thank the staff.

Thank you.

And then Council Member Dickinson on item seven.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I wanted to make a couple comments about item seven which I'm very excited to see here

before us for acceptance and resolution accepting federal grant and moving to the next stages

of implementing this.

This began quite some time ago led by Jennifer Dolan Wyatt of our transportation staff.

Jennifer is here this evening and other members of her staff.

I think it started in 2023.

Is that giving a nod?

Yes.

And when the question was whether or not to apply for a federal grant under the Federal

Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment Act under the category of reconnecting communities,

communities that had been historically separated by freeways and other major roadways and

had sacrificed some of their identity and lost some of the assets that they had otherwise

had built community strength and resilience around.

We had several community meetings so that the staff could gauge the community's interest

in pursuing this grant and I think the response was overwhelming to proceed with that.

And fortunately, this was a grant application we were successful with.

And so here we are tonight.

The essence of this and this is perhaps the most fun thing you do many times in life is

reimagine the world.

And we're going to reimagine this little corner of the world that is dominated by State Route

160 as a freeway which was extended from downtown across the American River to what

we now call Business 80.

And it had the effect of separating North Sacramento from one of the principal assets

of our region, the American River Parkway.

It also separated the neighborhoods on the north side of Highway 160 from those that

were developing both business and commercial areas on the south side.

This had a number of effects that I don't imagine anyone in 1955 when Highway 160 was

first built could ever have foreseen what have occurred over time.

So notwithstanding the community input to this point, this grant is a planning grant.

It's a start and so there will be a significant component of additional community input.

It goes as far north as El Camino Avenue with its scope from Northgate Boulevard.

I know the vice mayor is going to have an interest in this as well.

To Business 80, as I mentioned previously.

And I think it has great potential to allow us to see how we can create better connections

to Del Paso Boulevard, how we can provide more routes and safer routes in all times

for people who live in Gardenland and Northgate, how it can help us realize pedestrian and

cyclist access among others to the American River Parkway that I mentioned earlier, which

is very difficult and not very safe.

Today there are a host of potential benefits to this.

I apologize for going on a little long about this, but maybe you can sense that this to

me represents a huge opportunity and part of investment we're making in North Sacramento.

So I'm just delighted.

I know there are some people here who want to add comments.

There's going to be a lot of conversation about it, what it should look like.

That's as it should be.

My only proviso here is to ask Jennifer to go faster.

She's heard this from me before, probably from the others here too.

And she'll keep hearing it because we are energized, excited, and motivated to get on

with the work.

Thank you, vice mayor.

100% agree with your comments.

And Councillor Maype.

I just wanted to add and support my colleague, Councillor Dickinson.

Just a little bit of historical context.

I remember when I first came into office, being briefed on the possibility of the city

applying for this grant.

And of course, being the good council member that I am, I wanted to advocate for my own

communities, no offense, because I thought there were some great examples, including

Highway 99 and how both Curtis Park and Oak Park were separated by that freeway.

But through that briefing, I was educated expertise of our staff on really the background

and history of the 160 and how that really has impacted the community members and the

businesses and just everything in that area.

And I walked away very convinced that that would be the most successful application.

And it was.

Right?

And so I think that really just goes to show the work of our incredible team here.

And so I was convinced from that moment on.

And so really happy to support this and help move it forward and both in the planning stages

and everything that comes beyond it.

So it's a great, great program.

Thank you.

Well said.

And Council Member Garron, item eight.

Great.

Thank you.

You know, very briefly, because this just passed for publication, but I did have some questions

from my neighborhood and one, I'm very excited about this item.

It's recognizing San Francisco Boulevard as a historic landmark for our city.

For anyone who looks at any of all of our photos, there's some great photos of the palm

tree line streets there back when we had the streetcar going there.

And boy, did what a tragic mistake of pulling out the streetcar.

And so, you know, I still have my neighbor across the street, Carol, she would remind

me of when she was a kid how they could take the streetcar from 21st Avenue and then they

would go down Stockton Boulevard.

But the original link went up to San Francisco Boulevard through that palm line street.

And those are the original suburbs of Sacramento was the unincorporated area of Colonial Heights

in that area.

So, very excited about this work here and looking forward to this getting across the finish

line.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

You're full.

And then for myself on item 11, congratulations Juan Novello on Measure U appointment by the

mayor.

Congratulations.

Okay.

So now we would do public comment and then eventually I'll need a motion in a second

because that was made.

Vice Mayor, I have six speakers.

The first is Mac Worthy.

Second is John Fierro.

Then Jeffrey.

Christina Rogers.

Matt King and Rick Stevenson.

We're still wondering who...

Transportation.

Here's a guy who's been here for 10 minutes and talked about safe hall transportation.

Now you put transportation on.

Do you have constituents that you encourage on how they come in and speak?

That's your constituent.

You don't because you're ignorant to the fact that you want to be the person, do it all

your damn self.

You can't deal with some of these people that have been here for years.

Transportation is the worst transportation in America.

Right here in Sacramento.

Safe Hall talk about it.

I just on the day safe hall involved in the rebellion.

I had a friend on the commission when all that money first came here to Old Sacramento.

But what does Old Sacramento do here?

You know, a crime.

What did the case speak to?

I saw it changed triple time.

Crime.

Crime.

And here you try to...

You can't go across time, across this city on a schedule.

You can't.

You went and let the mass switch to education and kids come in and say, well, they couldn't

get to school.

In other words, mass transportation.

When the hell could come to the yellow buses?

You're ignorant with money.

See, that's the thing about it.

You're ignorant with money.

Go to somebody that is expert and diligent with money.

And expert within here to there.

Have you ever spoke to a man, that a woman that do a route, a truck?

What's the one that's closer in the mind?

Right here at the hardware.

I want to get the sunrise where they go.

To a wine and wait.

Traffic.

Like hell everywhere else.

But you don't know one way from home.

And a woman from the late California city right here on the street was killed.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker is John Fierro on item seven.

What did you say?

Hi, I'm John Fierro.

I'm a Woodlake resident.

Been there for 40 years.

I'm about item seven.

I love this idea.

It's been a long time in coming.

We need to join 160 and get the bicycle trail accessible to Woodlake.

We are newest projects.

You just approved in Woodlake.

We're a 70 story, 700 year department building and a quickie mart.

There are less than a half a mile apart.

There's not a single sidewalk in between the two.

So Woodlake needs a lot of attention and we need to get some attention now because of

this building.

I don't know if we can wait.

I hope that traffic can move fast and get us some approvals.

But Woodlake as you know is an old English sort of setting with no sidewalks, real narrow

streets and this building is affecting us really badly now.

There's no sidewalks.

From the building to the quickie mart, not a single sidewalk around our house.

There's no sidewalks and they want to allow this building to go in there and want to handle

the parking after the building.

We don't need 700 more stakeholders voting to keep parking when we're trying to regulate

it now.

They've done regulation of the parking in Woodlake to some extent for the Stony Inn where they

have no overnight parking.

That's our basic thing.

We want no overnight parking.

This building was created under the idea that they had plenty of parking.

There was going to be plenty of facilities for all the tenants of the building.

They won't be parking on our streets and everything's going to be fine.

Well it's manifesting totally different now.

We have, if you're going to go to the police memorial next week, you'll get an idea how

big and impressive this building is.

We're less than 150 feet away from it and we're at their front door.

So it's like, the two of us live on one side, 700 people live across the street.

We want to handle the parking and get this issue done before.

The Safe Street money may help us.

This Highway 160 study may say yes, you do have a problem.

You need sidewalks.

You need to regulate parking on one side of the street or the other.

But we need to know that now before the building's occupied.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Geoffrey on item 7.

Geoff Tardeguia and Abdicate.

This will be the third meeting today.

So what this one was about, and I was going to skip it except for your news reporters

told me that this was happening today.

Some of these activities like this, I hope Barbara you inform her further what's going

on in this regard because I know how much she has been concerned about the old Sacramento.

I remember 40 years ago coming up from Sacramento, coming up from Los Angeles with visiting with

friends and some of the active groups that took place on Del Paso Boulevard and these

songs and everything else that were going on there in active places.

For a long time that has been really a desert.

So Roger, I appreciate you going ahead and getting this area brought up and brought into

life.

As you know, there's really no bus service in that regard.

Everything's dependent upon light rail until you get to the Arden Del Paso light rail

station.

That was a decision made some years ago to remove the 15.

So you do not have that.

So I hope you make sure that the connection of public transportation in regards to 160

is considered.

And since you are on the RT board, I hope that he gets brought up soon.

That's my comment on item 7 through now.

I'll speak later.

Thank you for your comments.

Christina Rogers on item 10.

And then I have two more speakers also on item 10.

Matt King and Rick Stevenson.

Good evening, City Council.

Tonight I represent the Land Park Community Association as their president.

And having listened to my neighbors, it is clear that they do not want you to cut to

core services like city parks.

These cuts have eroded public safety and quality of life in every city park including William

Land Regional Park.

On Easter weekend, this last weekend, families from all over Sacramento celebrated in a land

park.

Several reckless drivers were speeding and doing sideshow type moves near them.

And not only that, but the decibel levels from vehicles were so loud, windows rottled

at homes and nearby, and those enjoying their own gatherings in the park were disturbed.

We need more park ranges to patrol the area and remind people to be respectful and behave

appropriately.

But with only 12 park rangers for over 240 parks and bike trails, that's impossible.

We understand the city of Sacramento is 44 million in debt and needs to generate more

revenue.

We suggest you invest in core services instead of cut.

For example, many of the thousands of weekly visitors to William Land Park don't pay permits.

The city loses revenue every week because of it.

Upgrading and permitting process can generate valuable revenue and it may even pay for some

more park rangers.

Please focus on cuts to nonessential areas.

It may be a challenge.

Some groups may have gotten used to receiving city funds, but you just don't have it right

now.

And our parks serve everyone.

So they are an inclusive investment.

We love Sacramento and many of us have lived here for generations.

Sacramento has a new mayor and city council and we support efforts towards smart governance,

wise spending and thoughtful investing moving forward.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments.

Matt King.

Good evening, council.

Sure we, yeah, those mics.

Let me restart your time, please.

Good evening, council.

Thanks for having me.

I'm Matt King.

And, you know, we had a lot of kids in here that, you know, grew up in sports and a lot

of them have the opportunity to play these sports in our parks, whether it be little

league, whether it be basketball, soccer, football, our parks are valuable pieces of real

estate that we have here.

And I agree with her.

They're, you really shouldn't try to cut the parks budget as little as possible.

It's one of our core services.

And without parks, people that don't have a lot and don't have the money to go other

places like the mall or the movies or whatever, they're not going to have anything to do because

they won't feel safe in their own neighborhoods.

Thanks.

Thank you for your comments.

Rick Stevenson is our final speaker on the consent calendar.

Also item 10.

William Land Park, when the great recession hit in 2008, became so overgrown that we had

to start a neighborhood organization which is still going.

Starting the 15th year, councilman Jennings has been too many of our park work days.

We usually have 100 people or more at them.

But the problem is when you think about budgets, a lot of departments of the city can increase

one year, decrease another, frankly, it's not desirable.

When you have neglect in parks, the damage lasts one year worth of damage can last 10

years or 15 years to recover because of trees and plants.

So the recovery time is something when you think of budgetary things, please keep that

in mind.

And again, William Land Park depends heavily on volunteers because we used to have 17 staff

members full time.

And now we're down to just a few.

And it's the neighbors that had to jump in and pick up a lot of it.

And again, we've been doing it for 15 years and we'll continue.

But remember, one year of neglect can mean 10 years of catch-up.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Vice Mayor, I have no more speakers on the consent calendar.

Council Member Dickinson.

I'll move the consent calendar.

And I just neglected.

I wanted to also mention that the Woodlake Neighborhood Association had expressed their

support on the grant we were talking about earlier.

We saw James, Coralus here this afternoon, but Seacock staff deserves a little recognition

too because they really helped move the grant package through the federal and state agencies

to get it signed in a timely way too.

So I wanted not to overlook them.

Wonderful.

Can we have a motion by Council Member Dickinson and a second by Council Member Maple?

Please call the roll.

Thank you.

Council Member Kaplan.

Council Member Dickinson.

Council Member Plochibom is absent.

Council Member Maple.

Mayor Pro Temkeira.

Council Member Jennings.

Yes.

Council Member Vang.

Yes.

Mayor McCarty is absent.

Vice Mayor Telemante.

Yes.

You have motion passes.

Thank you.

And now we're moving on to the discussion calendar, item number 12.

Want to welcome our City Auditor, Marisha.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Are we just waiting for the presentation?

There you go.

All right.

Good evening, Vice Mayor Telemante and members of the City Council.

I'm Marisha Derawari, your City Auditor.

The recommendation that is before you today is to pass the motion approving the City Auditor's

fiscal year 2526 work plan.

The Office of the City Auditor plays a vital role in ensuring public accountability and

transparency in municipal operations.

As an independent body, the Office of the City Auditor provides objective and reliable

assessments of the City's ability to achieve its goals and maintain an effective system

of internal controls.

My office has three divisions focused on our main areas of work, performance audits, research

analysis and whistleblower hotline.

To develop my work plan this year, I met with City leadership, including the City Manager's

Office and Department Directors and connected a Citywide Risk Assessment that reviewed various

available data to identify the areas of highest risk in this area.

In addition, due to the current financial situation of the City, I wanted to focus my work plan

on projects that could identify efficiencies, cost savings or potential revenue increases.

As I reported last year, our office has dealt with some vacancies during this fiscal year

which has limited our ability to complete all of our anticipated projects.

We have been working on filling our vacancies and we're now down to one vacant position,

the principal fiscal policy analyst position that oversees the performance audits division.

We have been working to complete existing audits and anticipate completing quite a few

before the end of this fiscal year.

However, as you know, freezing the principal position is one of the strategies that are

on the table to balance the fiscal year 26 budget.

If this strategy is selected by the City Council, it would impact this proposed work plan.

In our performance audit division, we currently have six audits in progress, including a couple

that have been on hold as we work to staff up the department.

We anticipate four of these projects will be completed prior to the end of this fiscal

year.

The audit of the animal care services division was just completed and presented to the budget

and audit committee today.

We also anticipate completing the audit of the emergency medical services, part one of

the homeless response audit and audit of the military equipment use policies and inventory

practices.

We will resume the evidence and property division audit once the military equipment audit is

completed.

For our planned audits, we have the second homeless response audit.

I have been in discussions with the mayor on the objectives of the second audit and I

will be bringing forward to the budget and audit committee details on the scope and objective

of this audit next month.

I will then bring it to the full City Council for approval shortly afterwards.

This will ensure that the objective of that second audit will address the new City Council's

highest priority homelessness issues.

For our planned audits, we have the pedestrian safety audit that was rolled over from our

prior year work plan.

We have added three additional projects for the upcoming work plan, the audit of the code

compliance night team, the audit of the city's radio systems and an audit of special permits,

special event permitting process.

I selected these projects as I believe that there are some efficiencies and cost savings

the city can realize in these areas.

I do want to note that this proposed work plan is the one that was approved by the budget

and audit committee last month and so it does not include the recent request from Council

member Vang to add an audit of the police department overtime practices.

I can bring that proposal to the budget and audit committee for deliberation if the City

Council does not take up that request tonight.

As I previously mentioned, we had a couple of audits on hold from last year.

I saw guidance from the budget and audit committee on the prioritization of either resuming the

complaint investigation resolution practices audit or initiating the audit pedestrian safety

after we complete some of our current projects.

The direction from budget and audit was to resume and complete the complaint investigation

and resolution practices audit and I just want to confirm that the City Council agrees

with this direction.

I do anticipate that I'll be bringing forward a more detailed scope and objective for this

audit to the budget and audit committee shortly.

In September of last year, we were able to finally fill the cannabis auditor vacancy

in our office.

As we discussed last year, the cannabis auditor position has been reduced to a half FTE working

on cannabis and the other half assisting with the office's measure L and other projects.

The first few months of the cannabis auditor's work was spent working on the Charter Mandated

Children's Fund baseline funding verification report and we have now started our ongoing

monitoring of a variety of cannabis related activities.

In our discussions with the City Manager and cannabis offices, we identified a project

that could potentially help streamline the permitting and regulating of cannabis businesses.

This project would compare the cannabis laws governing cannabis businesses by the state

and the city to identify any regulatory overlap in code provisions, enforcement mechanisms,

and administrative activities.

This would identify opportunities to streamline the city's cannabis regulation.

We believe this project should be the next project to conduct and have listed it before

the illegal cannabis cultivation audit that has been rolled over from the prior year's

work plan.

We also anticipate contracting out the measure L-required audit of cannabis business operations

tax for the Sacramento Children's Fund with the city's external financial statement auditors.

Our office also has a designated Utilities Auditor that's funded by the three Utilities

Funds.

We're currently working on an audit of the department's energy use that will evaluate

the feasibility of DOU operations moving to 100% electric.

Other Utilities Audits and Special Projects we plan to conduct include a series of audits

regarding physical security and then another storm drainage fund review as requested by

the Department of Utilities.

Next we move to our research and analysis work plan.

We just completed and presented the audit of the ethics commission to the budget and audit

committee today and we plan to bring it to the council shortly.

In addition, due to staffing turnover, we had to put the audit of transient occupancy tax

on hold last year.

We were able to fill that vacancy in this division in January and we have resumed work

on this audit.

In addition, we have started a project to explore entering into a contingency contracts

with a vendor to conduct audits to recover potential past taxes or other revenue owed

to the city that were not properly attributed or paid to the city.

We're currently working on an RFP for this project and we'll determine the feasibility

of that once the RFP are received.

We have also added a project of the business operations tax to evaluate the city's BOT

and benchmark with other cities to identify any areas to consider updating.

On our research and analysis side, we have a number of recurring reports planned.

Measure L also mandated our office to annually verify that the baseline funding amount which

we calculated in December of 2023 for the Sacramento Children's Fund was expended in

each previous fiscal year.

In addition, last year the council approved changing the frequency of the community survey

from being done annually to a biannual survey.

We did not conduct the survey this fiscal year and we're due to conduct it in fiscal

year 26.

However, this is also one of the budget reduction strategies for fiscal year 2026.

If the council selects this strategy to balance the budget, this project would not be conducted

in fiscal year 26.

Then we also have a couple of diversity projects that we rotate each year.

Finally, our office operates the whistleblower hotline.

As of January 1st, 2025, we had 23 tips open and we anticipate receiving about 160 tips

each fiscal year.

This is an increase from prior year's estimate of 140 as we have experienced an increase

in the number of tips this fiscal year.

Increases in the whistleblower hotline activity reduces staff time available to conduct our

other audits and projects as we don't have dedicated staff for the whistleblower hotline

and all office staff take on cases.

This last page discusses our selection process for the work plan and our office's authority.

This concludes my presentation.

I'm available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

We're going to take public comment first and then we'll do councilmember questions and

move over to the conversation.

Thank you, vice mayor.

I have three speakers.

Mac worthy, Keon Bliss, then Jeffrey Tardigia.

Yeah.

We wonder why these audits are at different meetings.

You done today's audit, today's audit you done.

I will not look copy of that if I have a legal right to have it because now what we see here

in this proposal here is a whistleblower but we didn't see a whistleblower on what she

reported at the early meeting.

Wow.

That's what we want to ask.

She got a lot of things in that report earlier that some legality got to be applied to it

because somebody is breaking the brown hat and not telling the people the truth out here.

We want to get some out of that audit.

We want the hard copy of it and we will study that and we will study what she's doing now

and you've done well today on early.

But there's some things there that the public going to have to be in on what you audit and

we got to have some rough drafts of what is put in that audit.

Especially when we got a whistleblower status.

All I'm trying to do is get the corruption out of here because this thing will move forward

if we don't get the corruption.

We can use that information to eliminate the corruption and you might want to face it because

the people continue cooperating with me, we will get you on oath and we will know where

it's the money going and why they go out the way they go out.

Speaker Keon Bliss.

City Council, I can't think of a more important use of the city auditor's time right now going

into a budget cycle where we are facing continuing deficits and years of projected budget shortfalls

going forward that may require us to do layoffs.

Then to look at the efficient and appropriate use of overtime practices here in the city,

particularly within the police department.

As you all should already be aware through the community police review commission's annual

report, there have been a number of discrepancies that have been brought up regarding how the

police department is using overtime.

Namely in which is amounts to about $158 million since just 2011.

There are a number of officers, despite the vacancies, only a few doesn't seem to be making

excessive amounts of overtime that exceed more than 60 and even 70% of their base salaries.

At least a dozen of them have managed to double their salaries using just overtime, including

at least two who have been able to make somehow a crew more in overtime than they have in

their salaries since working here.

I think this really requires an immediate step for this council to actually authorize

the city auditor to take a hard look into this.

This is something that's been coming up in the public eye since as far back as 2020,

when the B first reported on discrepancies and overtime practices in the city.

Given that we're not looking, that we're going to continue with these budget shortfalls

and struggle financially, you have a fiduciary duty to make sure that all of our city staff

are using the limited resources we have.

Thank you for your comments.

Geoffrey Tardiguia is our next speaker.

Geoffrey Tardiguia, again, apticate.

I have now seen the report because even though I've had cataract surgery, couldn't read a

darn thing on that screen.

So I'm hoping that I will get contact information about this.

Unfortunately, both our mayor and Mr. Parabom, my council member, is not here to answer what

other questions with the homeless community and jurisdictions.

Because I know the LOWS project and the number of other things that don't seem to have city

funds but don't seem to have county funds and yet they exist privately.

So question mark, is there other things that are related to homeless that don't exist off

of public funds?

I don't know whether that's something that can be looked at as an audit, but I want to

be sure that indeed we know what's going on.

The mayor swore that we were going to have an audit of all homeless funds and I'm not

sure that this answers what's going on, but hearing from one or two other members that

this has been going on for more than a year of an audit of the homeless funds going on

through there.

This is the preliminary report on one part being completed.

I'm hoping to look further and see what other information is available.

As you were aware, I am very involved with the point in time count and do not want to

see a repeat of what happened last year as far as the month of January where the homeless

disappeared from downtown.

So hopefully we will have something better happen December, January with the police department

of Sacramento.

That's my comment.

Thank you for your comments.

Vice Mayor, I have no more speakers.

Thank you so much.

Mayor Pro Tem-Garra.

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor.

I want to thank Frisch and her team on this.

I would like to move approval of the Budget and Audit Committee recommendation and priorities.

I know we ask a lot of the city auditor and there are even more audits that we wish to

look at and I understand that you wanted direction on priorities.

So again, I think we've tried to narrow it down and narrow down our focus and our wants,

but I would like to make sure that we get some of the stuff that's been backlogged off.

So that will be my motion.

Vice Mayor, is to move forward the Budget and Audit recommendations on prioritization.

Wonderful.

Okay, we have a motion.

Second.

Council Member Vang.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

First, I just really want to thank the city auditor for her leadership and also for your

entire team, for all the work that you do.

And I just also want to acknowledge that it does not go unnoticed the amount of workload,

heavy workload that we are requesting as Mayor and Council.

And so I just want to acknowledge that and I know that there is a motion on the floor,

but would like to just have a conversation.

I know you have brought up the direction that I have provided in the last previous meeting,

but I also want to be mindful of procedures in terms of Mayor and Council because your

work plan did go to Budget and Audit.

It was approved and it came forth to the full City Council now today for a vote.

But I do want just to, you know, bring this back up in particular if it is not included

in this work plan for it to be included in next year's work plan when you bring it to

Budget and Audit.

The Mayor Pro Tem can include that piece.

That would be really great.

And I just, you know, want to speak to this in particular, you know, the city,

our city is grappling with the deficit of $44 million.

And it's so important that we monitor our city's spending.

And in particular, I like to bring attention to our Sacramento Police Department because

they make up the largest portion of our city budget.

And I believe it is incredibly important to make sure that we're monitoring their usage

of overtime and vacancy.

Since I've been in office, we've increased the Sacramento Police Department budget by

close to $100 million.

And they, again, are the largest part of our city budget.

And so I know that last week we voted to approve the Police Commission's work plan.

And in that work plan in particular, there was several recommendations.

And while there are several recommendations, there is only one that I am asking for us

to consider tonight in particular.

And the ask from the Commission was to conduct a complete audit of SACPD's overtime policies,

practices, and expenditures.

And this audit could be done by the city auditor or by an outside agency.

I am also cognizant that the city auditor has a heavy workload.

And with that in mind, I know I have had previous conversation with the city auditor if there

could be another option.

And my understanding is that in previous practice, when there is internal capacity limited, we

can also partner with external agency as well.

And those dollars can come from that department that we're auditing.

And so I just wanted to share that as well.

And I don't want to make a counter-immersion because I don't know if I have the votes,

but I'm looking at Mayor Pro Tem right now to see if he would be OK with adding the

direction that the city auditor adds that direction to her next year's work plan for

budget and audit to consider for next year.

Is that a question?

That is, yeah, I'm asking you if you can add that as a direction.

And then the interim setting manager wants to chime in.

Sure.

Well, first one, I would say no.

And I would ask actually the chair of the budget and audit committee if he wishes to

agendize that then yes, because in this process, we've had to eliminate audits and include and

in fact elevate some to make sure that we get them done.

For example, we're wanting to make sure that we have the even with the police department,

the evidence and priority division, the military equipment and use policy.

So those need to get done.

We have to get through.

How many total active audits do we have?

Is it like a question?

I don't know.

We had six in performance audits and I think a few, probably like a dozen, which is

while we're trying to get them done without starting anything else.

So to that point, so we've got not only six, but also a dozen behind that.

So to add this a year well over a year prior, then I think the committee should have the discussion

about what are they going to cut?

I mean, that's really it's not that we shouldn't do that.

I think any kind of overtime, whether it's in any department figuring out where it's happening,

where should we do it?

But I don't know if adding it now for a year later to discuss is makes our work plan any better.

In fact, what we've been trying to do is make a realistic work plan so that we can actually get

through the items that we have and we've already said no to a number of them.

So that's my thought here.

And so I know the chair is kicked up to speak and I don't know if the chair has an interest

in saying how do we debate that because we've gone through to try to whittle this project down.

So yeah.

I'm going to allow our interim city manager, Lainey Milstein, to chime in.

Thank you.

And Council Member Gary, you said something really important about finding out where it comes from.

And I just want to remind council that for the past three or four years, probably four,

we have published the prior year and how overtime was spent.

An in-depth analysis is part of our supplemental budget information.

Last year, in addition, if you go back to item three, those were our policies.

And then item 35 was last year's analysis.

And we've already asked the police department to do one for now the most recent past year.

And what I think we'll do is compile all of those together along with the policies,

along with the last prior year so that you can see the trends

on how the department is spending overtime.

And you'll see that a lot of them are things like court mandated overtime,

backfill for people who are sick or on vacation, protests.

When we have the big protests, the 5051 that was just there,

and we had hundreds of hours of overtime.

That is providing service on the street as is anticipated by our residents and our council.

So that is all documented, and we will be providing that for you again.

So in the end, we welcome an audit of overtime if that is something that you choose to proceed with.

But we feel like we've been trying to provide you with that information,

both policies and practice, annually on how those dollars are spent.

I don't want to prejudice whether we should or shouldn't do that audit.

I think the question here is I've even said, an audit that I've requested,

I've said pull it back so that we can get through the list.

So if it was anyone's audit here, even if anyone, I would say, let's get through the list

that we have first.

Sorry about that.

Yeah. So maybe a solution here is I know that was one of the recommendations

from the police review commission.

And so maybe those policies and how we did the analysis and the numbers on that.

We can send it to the commission and maybe have ACM Mar-A-Lara present it to the commission

so that they're well aware of how it's going, because I know that's where it originated.

And so we'll start there.

And then in terms of next year's audit, maybe submit a proposal, and then we'll go from,

unless the chair wants to do something, say something right now.

That might be an approach that works.

I was also, I also noted the auditor's suggestion of bringing the issue back

to the budget and audit committee.

I want to say I'm appreciative of the interest council member Vang has in doing an audit

of this committee, but I share the concerns about the workload of the auditor.

And I think we, at least for those of us who sit on the budget and audit committee,

we saw this morning how engrossing that work can be to do quality audits.

So we've got limited resources.

We've got limited capacity.

We've got, I think as Mayor Pratim got to point it out, we have a full plate for the auditor.

So I think adding something at this point into the work plan would complicate things more.

And potentially frustrate people who think that there's an audit that's going to happen

which doesn't happen as soon or as quickly as they may like.

So whether it's go back to the commission as the vice mayor has suggested or it's make a presentation

with the kind of information that the interim city manager has outlined to the budget

and audit committee, I think either of those approaches could work.

I'm open to either of those.

And I don't think that, I don't think that suggests that there's going to be an undue delay

in taking up the issue either way.

In fact, I think it'll probably be in certain respects more timely and more considered with that,

one of those two approaches.

Okay. And then Council Member Maynk, do you have other comments?

Yeah, I'm requesting it just to be considered by budget and audit for next year's work plan.

I'm not saying we're adding it to this year's work plan.

I think what's in front of us is pretty heavy workload but asking for budget and audit to consider

to have that conversation when next year's work plan comes to council.

So that is my request.

I do think it would be good to, you know, circle back with our police commission to...

Okay. Thank you.

Sorry.

Sorry.

You know, I would like for budget and audit to consider it because, again, we are in the middle

of having a conversation about budget and the police department makes up the largest piece

of our budget and they have over 100 plus vacancies.

And it's really important to understand the usage of those vacancies as we're having

to make tough decisions about cuts, doing potential layoffs.

You know, we're going to have some tough decisions in front of us and I want to make sure

that Mayor and Council and the public is equipped with all the information.

So I'm asking my colleagues to consider as a direction for a budget and audit to consider

that as part of the work plan for next year, right?

That conversation can happen in budget and audit.

And maybe it comes forth, maybe it doesn't.

So, okay.

Thank you so much.

And then Council Member Dickinson, you were punched up and then she was not done yet.

So...

Only to say that I have no objection to budget and audit taking up consideration of this

and that seems to me to be a sensible approach.

Okay. Wonderful.

All right.

So now we're good.

Council Member Garra?

Yeah.

I guess I don't disagree with that either.

I just don't think it requires amending the work plan.

That's all.

Okay.

Yeah.

So the motion stands as is and we have a second on the motion.

So Council Member Maple now.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

And thank you.

And thank you to our city auditor and your team for all the hard work.

I appreciate it.

And I especially appreciate you cramming an hour long, breathing into 30 minutes for me

because I had a really tight schedule and it really made me appreciate the

amount of work that's on your plate because you were talking as fast as you

possibly could and at a very high level and still were barely able to get it all in.

So I just want to make hope everybody appreciates the amount of work that's

on your plate and your team's plate.

And especially want to appreciate you and your team for working with my staff on

prioritizing pedestrian safety and those policy audits because I think that's such

an important thing that we obviously talk a lot about here on the council and

and it's obviously a big issue in our city.

So I'm really appreciative of that.

Also, you know, I appreciate Councilor Vang's comments and I think it makes a

lot of sense to me that that be something that go to budget, not it for a conversation.

You know, obviously we're kind of, you know, into this budget process as it stands.

And so it might be difficult to get that looped in this time around, but definitely

I think a worthy conversation for next year.

And as always, it's just to answer the question of what is it?

What does it look like?

Do we have challenges?

Do we not?

And is there anything that we can improve upon?

And that's obviously the that's your role and everything that we do here at the city.

One of the questions I have is around our cannabis audits.

So I noticed that we currently we have four and once the work in progress is a

continuous monitoring, I know that this the one related to measure L is in is in

the charters and so that's one that has to happen no matter what makes sense.

Are the rest of these ones that are the origins of them?

Hey, this happened several a few years ago and so we've asked for this audit and

it's just in the process of being completed or are any of them also required either by

charter or some other place in our code?

Or the cannabis audit?

Yeah.

Well, the one illegal cannabis cultivation that was rolled over was a request from

council member, uh, Gada.

And then the new one that we actually prioritized above that was, you know, in

discussions with the city manager's office and office of cannabis management as,

you know, they've identified a lot of duplication and what we do on the city

level and what the state does in enforcing cannabis businesses and, you know,

doing that review of like what is duplicated and where can we kind of streamline that process?

So I thought it was a really great project that, um, Lainey brought up and so we tried

to see if we can do that first because I really think it could free up some resources in

the office of cannabis management to then focus on other priority things such as like

cannabis lounges and other things you guys want to do in that office.

That's really helpful.

I just, um, I was just curious because I noticed it's a lot of work related to that

policy area.

So I just want to make sure you understood what was required.

What was it?

I actually, I very much support the comparative analysis as I've probably made it

really clear to my colleagues and the public.

I think that there's a lot of opportunities for us to align ourselves with state law and thus

making it easier for our staff and us to do what we need to do.

Um, and so, okay, I really appreciate that and pedestrian safety.

And then of course, um, uh, appreciate the work on homelessness.

Um, I can't remember who made the comment, but it was, hey, uh, you know, that when we add new

things, there's rightfully the public is then saying, Hey, why is it taking so long?

And I first thing comes to mind is homelessness.

Um, and I've received no less than a handful of emails, even in a short period of time about

where are we at on this?

And so I think that one's a really key one that people are interested in.

But of course we're always operating within how much time do we have, how much people

capacity do we have to actually do the work that's in front of us?

And that's just a real constraint.

Um, and so I, I really appreciate the prioritization of those things and hoping that as council member

Garrah said that we can move the things forward and hopefully off your plate and diminish that,

that workload.

And so you can focus your energy on, on the things that are forthcoming and then possibly,

I'm sure as we always do, there will be things that come up that are become priorities to this

council and making sure that you have the space for that too.

So just, um, thank you.

Thank you for all the work and I think it's a great plan.

Wonderful.

And mayor McCarty.

Yes, thank you.

Just a few things to add.

One, I just want to thank for, this is our first chance as mayor to, to see the presentation

on your work plan.

So of course these, these audits to focus on our policy programs, but as I stated earlier,

you know, we, we, every penny we saved in an audit and the performance audit helps us

address issues down the road.

So thank you.

I, I did want to say two specific things.

One, um, thank you for, for working with us to add the homeless part two, homeless part one,

understanding is the hotel, uh, motel program.

And part two is more of a performance evaluation on the shelter programs we have throughout the

city of Sacramento and some of the groups that we, um, fund to help, uh, provide those programs to

help us understand which ones provide us the most dividends.

I know an odds going to take several months, if not a year, we're going to have some discussion

on this next Tuesday night.

But this will certainly help us in the out years.

And I also want to address council member Vang's issue.

And I did, um, this came up a couple weeks ago and I asked the auditor in conjunction

with our audit chair to really take a look at this issue.

Because on every Tuesday night, somebody could have an audit issue or a quick suggestion,

rightfully so.

And so we could have two, um, for each of us.

And that's 18 issues.

And I don't think it makes sense to put it on the audit plan per se.

And then what do you take off?

And so I thought a better process is to bring the suggestion of a new audit to the committee

and evaluate it in conjunction with how does this fit into the work plan?

Because you only have so much work to do.

You only have so many auditors.

So putting something on is just like a plate.

You have to take something off.

And so I think we need to look at those in totality because in and of itself,

all these ideas, if you ask our constituents, you want to not this program, that program,

that program, oh yeah, that sounds good.

But there's no free lunch and making these choices.

So I think that's, um, that that's important.

So I just want to allude to that.

And yeah, I think that is an issue that I'll have deference to the audit committee to look at that.

But compare that to all the other issues we want to address as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, today at budget and audit, we heard about from the ethics report that you did,

animal care well-being, and we just had so many reports and it was all coming.

So I mean, just kudos on finishing that.

And I agree with Mayor McCarty.

I mean, homelessness for me is front-minded center.

I mean, everyone wants to know where the money is going because the problem is there.

And it's if people see it, people feel it.

So homelessness continues to be my priority in terms of your work plan.

And then you did mention you have a vacancy in your office, which audit was that that person

would have to work on?

Or what was it?

Well, yeah, we have the principal fiscal policy analyst.

It's the division manager over the performance audits division.

We don't have an audit assigned to that person at the moment.

We could either pick up one that we have on hold or start a new project, but we'd have to.

And how many people on your team again?

We have nine at the moment.

And we have the one vacant position.

Okay.

And then Councilmember McGarra, is it okay for your motion in terms of direction to have

Farishta, our city auditor, make sure she fills that position.

Otherwise, we're going to be down an auditor.

Well, yes.

I mean, I think that was a directive we had given prior already to fill that vacancy.

Okay. Wonderful.

So you got clear direction to make sure you fill it so we can complete these audits.

These audits are important to the people of Sacramento and the taxpayer dollars

and making sure that we're using them effectively.

And if there's any efficiencies that we can do, we need to implement them and be able to move forward.

And the other piece with that is that when we have to contract out, some of them might be

appropriate, but the contracting out, I think in the long run, is a higher cost for us.

So I agree.

So, okay.

So we have a motion and a second to move forward with the city auditor's work plan right now.

And then the police overtime issue would be sent to budget and audit to discuss

what the plan is for next year.

And then city staff will be going to the police review commission to talk about the policies

and the overtime usage.

And so they're already on it.

Sorry.

And just to clarify, it's going to be coming to budget and audit when we do our process next year

for our work plan.

Okay.

For next year.

And the chair will have a conversation about how we're going to move forward with any

asks that come.

So say that, I mean, the pedestrian audit or say, I want to do a Northgate audit.

How are we going to go about balancing that so we're not throwing you a million things

and you can't accomplish them?

And we focus on what's most important at that time.

So we're going to have a conversation about how we, how we throw that out there.

Yeah.

I think I have some ideas on that for next year.

Okay.

But we welcome all ideas.

Please meet with the chair so that we can move forward on a process that works for everybody.

Vice mayor, can I, because I'm not on budget and audit, just something.

Can I also add to something real quick?

It's not part of the motion, but just given the amount of workload that you have and the

various priorities, obviously, you know, majority counts of being cast of five votes, but like

mayor pro tem have shared that there are perhaps other audits that, you know, are just as important

and you have to choose, you know, which audit takes presidents.

I would love to just have an understanding that if internally we don't have the capacity,

what is it?

What, what does the cost look like to, to do those audits?

If we were to, you know, contract with an agency and to support you, because I know you would

do the oversight of that.

But I think it's important for us to have that option or to, to have, to be able to

share that with budget and audit so that they can see, because I know that you do that for

other audits as well, right?

So if it costs less to actually, for example, do the over the usage of overtime for the

PD department, I think it's important for the public to know what that cost would be.

So just wanted to just share that as well for the budget and audit committee to consider if

they so choose want to, they want to see what that cost is.

I think that's important.

So just wanted to just put that out there.

So yeah.

Well, chair Dickinson will be tasked with figuring out how we put the different audits that are

requested from council members on the plate and see what we have to take out in order to be able

to complete it.

So, all right, please call the roll.

Thank you.

Council Member Kaplan is absent.

Council Member Dickinson.

Aye.

Council Member Plochibom is absent.

Council Member Maple.

Aye.

Mayor Pertem Ghera.

Aye.

Council Member Jennings.

Yes.

Council Member Vang.

Yeah.

Vice Mayor Telemontes.

Yes.

And Mayor McCarty.

Aye.

Major passes.

All right, thank you.

Wonderful.

All right.

And moving along to item number 13.

And we will probably, Council Member Jennings, do you want to kick it off or are you good?

Sure.

So we are going to have a presentation tonight on

the salary range adjustment that we're going to talk about tonight.

And this will allow for the advertising for the position as we move forward in advertising

for our city manager position.

And then we will come back on May the 20th to report out on community engagement,

marketing materials, as well as total compensation.

So, Jennifer?

No?

Okay.

Jennifer Wilkerson.

Good evening.

As again, I'm Jennifer Wilkinson.

I'm in the Human Resources Department.

As you're aware, CPSHR was selected for the city manager recruitment.

And as part of that recruitment process, they completed the salary survey.

And at the March 25th meeting, City Council meeting, they presented the salary survey results

and recommended adjusting the salary range to 273,211 to 420,684 annually.

On April 1st, the personnel and public employee committee was presented with the proposal to

adjust the city manager salary range as recommended by CPSHR and passed a motion

recommending to the city council approval of the salary range and the approval of the

adjusted salary range by city councils required before we can go ahead and advertise for the

city manager recruitment position.

And then lastly, I'll just like to state for the record that this item is listed as a discussion

item because government code 54953 requires that we must orally report a summary of the

recommendation for final action on salaries and salary schedules or compensation paid in

the form of fringe benefits for local agency executives.

That's the end of my presentation.

If you have any questions.

Okay.

We will do public comment first and then council comments.

Thanks, vice mayor.

I just have one speaker on this item, Mack Worthy.

You know, I don't why why we are rushing to make decisions on city managers when the corruption

is here.

That should be the investigation who broke the brown is it a felony or is the city manager

required to apply along with that?

That ain't been said yet.

You know, this is why I said Dixon earlier you and I said to the mayor when a person

have violated the brown act, they cannot make decisions on the state on this podium.

Period.

When you are under investigation or should be on the investigation, not just chance,

you should be on the investigation too.

To black chambers should be on the investigation.

Or how that money went out.

You ain't going to get nothing done here by bypassing this and one person doing this.

Help this woman name the audit where this policy or where this finance you'll get further.

I took a county.

I have a big business law.

You got to able to identify what you're looking for.

It's policy problems and you have a hell of a policy problem here in this administration.

And finance.

And as long as you ain't clear that up, it's going to get worse here.

It's going to get worse.

And you got to kind of that's what I say.

I got to stick with Trump.

Trump's a mastermind in business.

A lot of things that I want to say to his post when I get person to person to them.

But he going to have to bend some things here to force this state.

This state went to sanctuary state.

There's some constitutionality should be talked about.

What is the sanctuary state required to get from the government?

Of what it should be getting from the government.

All this thing about oh he got.

Thank you for your comments.

Vice mayor have no more speakers on this item.

Thank you so much.

Council member.

Thank you.

Vice mayor.

Just a quick question and mostly for clarification for the public.

When we when we pass a range for this position what we're what we're talking about here is

it doesn't necessarily mean that whoever ultimately gets selected for this role

is going to either come in at the lowest or the highest.

What it means is that this is the range that we are required by law to publish in advance.

So those applicants know what to expect within a range.

And then based on their experience and their negotiations and qualifications and everything

else then a salary will be selected within that range by this body.

That is correct.

Okay.

Perfect.

Thank you.

I just want to make sure that that's really clear for folks because like some folks might see this

and see this high let's say the high dollar amount and be like oh my god you know and so I

think it's you know it's important to recognize that it's a range just like anything else.

We have ranges for the positions in our offices and basically every position in the city of Sacramento.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor Prudhem Ghera.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that and I wanted to highlight that issue as well.

Although you know I do think that the range and I appreciate the work that was done in the study

and salary survey and I wonder why the recommendation of the range and unless I'm

understanding it differently didn't even come at least maybe closer to an organization like the

county of Sacramento where it has this the same the an organization that has that's somewhat of a

large entity.

It is in a full service say entity where they run the the law enforcement and fire they have

those separately but the complexities of the county system as well are significant but yet our

numbers are are much higher that are recommended.

So I guess I want to understand the how to make a relevant comparison and I do recognize that

you know some cities are full service cities and some are not full service cities and you know

clearly I think one you know for example Ranch Cordova they're they're they're a contract city

right so and even some of our other cities don't even have parks departments.

They have a special district that manages all of that so and I and so I understand those issues but

can maybe talk through a little bit about the high end because the fact is the public is concerned

about the high end of the range.

Sure well in the study that CPS HR provided the range that they are sorry in the it's one of the

it's attachment two to the council report tonight on the last page of their recommendation they

provided the cost of living adjustment for the for the base salaries and so the recommendation

that they provided is the average or sorry the in that sorry the last page that is the average

of all the studies the cities that were included in the as a comparable and so the recommendation

for the salary they provided is based on just the base salary and the standard process for the

cities to be within five above or below the average so their recommendation to do to increase

the top rate by five percent would put us within that five percent variance within the top range.

Thank you. Any other questions? Good. Seeing no one else to punish up to speak I need a motion and a second.

Second. Okay wonderful we have a motion by council member Jennings and a second by council member

Dickinson please call her. Thank you council member Kaplan is absent. Council member Dickinson

council member plucky bomb is absent. Council member maple. Mayor pro tem gara. Council member

Jennings. Yes. Council member vang. Yes. We'll see vice mayor talamante and mayor McCarty. Thank you.

Motion passes. Okay thank you and this concludes the items for today we are moving along to

council comments questions ideas and then a public comment we have 10 speakers line up to speak.

So council member Dickinson.

Thank you vice mayor I just wanted to mention a few things that that's getting to be a busy time

of year I think everywhere but speaking of the recruitment of the city manager there's a forum

tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. at the Higginwood community center so I think there are four of

them scheduled around the city but we're pleased to host one in North Sacramento and coming up

this weekend the wood like garden club is having its annual plant sale from 10 to noon on Saturday

at the wood like swim club this is for you all you gardeners out there this is a great opportunity

to get get new and exotic and different plants it's a and it's a great time to to catch up

with friends too. Also on Saturday we've got a community cleanup at Higginwood community park

from from 11 to 1 so come on out and join us for that on on Sunday it's of course Earth Day at

at Southside Park so that's that's most of the day for those of you who want to join those

festivities we also have a spring on the boulevard on Del Pass on boulevard from noon noon to four

with all kinds of bands and and food and just fun a storytelling corner all kinds of good things

and then Sunday evening are the SEVA awards at Hiram Johnson High School I don't know how many

of you have had a chance to attend the SEVA awards in the past these are the high school students

that produce videos and then they they enter them for for awards it's really a very fun occasion

and the students are so creative it's it's it's really quite amazing so that's as I mentioned

at Hiram Johnson High School beginning I believe at 5 30 on Sunday on Sunday evening

so there's lots to do lots of good things out there sounds like a lovely time

councilmember bane thanks vice mayor just wanted to announce a few events happening in South

Sacramento district 8 this Saturday at Luther Burbank is the fourth annual artisan event

happening I think several of you are also co-sponsor of this event it's happening this Saturday

from 11 to 4 there's going to be resources for families and just really come and join us and

celebrate our families and also amazing artists on the autism spectrum and then as you all know

we are currently conducting various listening session for the recruitment of our city manager

there's been various listening session happening throughout the city of Sacramento and in particular

this Saturday after you go to the artisan event from 3 to 5 p.m at the Panel Community Center

will be a listening session regarding the qualities that you want to see in our next city

manager so really encouraging folks to come out to that and then annually I also have an annual

heart and hustle scholarship dollars that I fundraise to provide scholarship for our high

school students who live or go to school in district 8 and so letting you know that that is

currently open students can apply at heartandhustle.org backslash scholarship 2025 and we usually have

a prompt and you just answer it and you could use those dollars to pursue higher education or

vocational training and then lastly we are really excited to relaunch our mediview certified

farmers market and this Wednesday in particular we are canvassing the mediview neighborhood

we have 5,000 door hangers because even though I am your elected official and we can send out

newsletter we often still miss people and so back to organizing one-on-one my team and I are going

to be out putting door hangers on 5,000 households if you want to join us let me know as well

you can go to heartandhustle.org backslash mcfm-door hanger and we're going to have

lots of volunteers and want to make sure we get the word out about that those are my updates

love it farmers market sounds nice and getting your steps in go join councilman for bang

it's a nice day okay moving along councilman mabel all right thank you vice mayor um I just want to

say we'll be welcoming our mayor kevin mccarty for the another stop on his tour I'm I always like

to announce them because uh we're so excited that you come into the neighborhood um so this will be

at hollywood park at two rivers cider on wednesday uh april 23rd at 6 p.m so this coming that's tomorrow

this uh this tomorrow uh 6 p.m come join us at two rivers um we'll be really excited to

to see you there to hear from you and also to hear from the neighbors um and uh just want to

really thank you for your work doing this tour this listening tour over the last 100 days are you

getting close to 100 I think this is our final stop of the tour we're gonna have t-shirts printed

like amazing the tour and this is the final event um and it's the only event where you

could have an adult beverage during during the presentation so the event the song that came to

mind was it's the final count anyway so uh please join us there that sounds amazing I'm looking forward

to a t-shirt um and then I will be I wanted to also let folks know about um our city manager

recruitment process um town hall as uh council member vang mentioned these are happening throughout

the city we we are having one at the oak park community center that is at 34 25 martin the

third king jr boulevard and that is going to be on the 29th so on next tuesday at 6 p.m so I hope

that you'll join us there learn more about the process and give your input about what you're

looking for in your next city manager thank you wonderful it's like the eras tour but the mayor

mccarty tour so it's kind of what it is all right uh mayor pro tem gara thank you very much uh

vice mayor uh first uh one I wanted to just uh inform the the council that over over the holiday

you know I um I think about you know the the the the Easter season or Easter time as a new beginning

and um and in a turbulent time and so um over the holiday I sent also a letter to

chair of the board of supervisors cernab about um some of our discussions that we've had here

and the request for us to meet um jointly as a city and a county uh and requested specifically

that that that be uh uh done and agendized um and um you know that the after Easter I always say it's

a new beginning he he responded promptly um and is already uh going to be working with uh

we'll be following up with the mayor but he's already directed uh the uh board clerk uh and

also the board ceo to work with the mayor on how we can do this uh I was in I was inspired by

his response uh because while I was asking for a meeting specifically for our body and the county

he did mention something that my colleagues have brought up which is as looking at the

stronger engagement with other city jurisdictions and so in his response uh you know chair cernab

has said that he will also be reaching out to the other mayors of the other cities

to engage in this joint conversation and to really not only talk about homelessness but also

housing as it affects with our shra agency and making sure that we're looking at this more of a

as a as a county low county piece so um you know um for those that uh that celebrate Easter you

know I always uh I believe that this is a time where we see a optimism in a new beginning and um

with that I'm I know he'll be following up with the mayor specifically on this issue and I look

forward to a positive uh positive new step forward so I love it I know vice mayor if I may chime in

mayor pro tem gata I have already spoken with the clerk of the board of supervisors flow

Evans and we have a meeting on Thursday to start planning on you clerk I like that love the work

um and then I have an event jump in the spring at Ninos park on saturday come jump houses free

hot dogs howl hot dogs um and just a lot of fun so please join us all right and moving along to the

public comment vice mayor of 10 speakers I'll call off a few names john fiero mac worthy um

Larry Brock then mary tapol

hi my name is john fiora i'm district two I guess uh we forgot to mention that we were awarded a

couple million dollars with the grants today or apparently for renovation in north sacramento

rogers was the champion of that I'm surprised we didn't get a mention about it I've been a resident

of uh actually I've been protecting and protecting property and serving the public for

sacramento for 30 years I spent 30 years with the fire department I was given the the city's highest

award the medal of valor I live in the city I paid taxes in the city I bought a house in the city I

spend my money in the city I'm the epitome of a firefighter that you'd want to keep in the city

the rest of them live way out of town I retired and I bought a restaurant on del pasal bouvard

little joe's restaurant it was a losing bid a losing proposition no one would buy it I sacrificed

my time I haven't paid myself rent for the building it's been a huge sacrifice and it's um it's but

it's become a little jewel of north sac it's serving the public and people really like it well we

just had a grant program and little joe's was denied um I don't know why I I'm the only public

bathroom I've asked for money for toilet paper from my discretionary funds from my city council

person I get nothing I have no sinks I have floors in the back that need repairing the plumbing is

shot I'm not asking for re-venovation bringing bringing new people in I'm just asking to keep this

community asset open I um I'm really disappointed you know I've I've tried really hard this is

something that no one would go in and and take on that I know of and business proposition you couldn't

find partners to get together on the money that this made this is um uh really bad I mean they

I they five million dollars worth of ARRP funds and little joe's has gotten nothing at all and we're

the center of north sacramento that was that wasn't good at all thank you give your comments mac worthy

uh people be careful what you're asking the community for did you take a survey on how

many people in your community in your district worked on uh a manager of our organization

just think about how many people that worked on a manager made a decision and sent it down to them

these are the things that you can we got I'm not still left I'll be over there and listen tomorrow

because uh I I just don't understand why are you a disadvantage in the people the way you

are just a advantage for years here and when you as the audit person mentioned a whistleblower

then in one part and the other part don't have somebody been stealing money

audit must be identified by name before it be audited this finance a policy

you put them both together you never find the thief because one or a couple of the other

you got to look at this and maccardi you're gonna suffer with the consequence down the line

because if this woman go to court you're gonna part back on you how can a criminal make decision

here and all they don't know where is the top person that she's working on

working on guilty by participation

right there you know actually I want to see you on your staff I want to see the staff

of each city council on the oath of some policy they will tell you a lot thank you for your comments

Larry C. Braco

hello

hello thank you for letting me come up I'm having an issue with the city right now

over some property I have at 460 garden highway and they took my road away here

uh because safe it was uh safe it was doing uh levy work so I complied with them

and I had to move stuff off the property at 460 and move it on my half acre

and so then after this happens they come up with the empty program for vacant lots you can't

have anything on a vacant lot okay so now I'm paying fines to the city about this and I talked to

them about it so I'm paying one fine to code enforcement and I keep telling my I complied

with safe because they make everything work for them and so now I have a problem with the

the city code enforcement on my issue and I just sort of think it's a little unfair

and I just was wanting to know I'm trying to combine the one lot with the other lot so I

don't have the issue with the vacant lot program so so uh Michael jazzo in the back assistant city

manager can help with the lot issue and in terms of safe I'm your council member and so I have

your contact information now and we'll follow up too okay I appreciate that and also district two

I have a house uh on elmani and dale and they cited me for that because the tenants had um

things in their backyard which they did get rid of and then the last comment was uh

which I couldn't understand everything certain things they said were right and the people had too

many refrigerators in the backyard which they removed but then they said they couldn't have

certain they had uh like a weightlifting gym to work out in the backyard they said they couldn't

have that but your time is complete to put them in uh in the shed or the little garage and then uh

I got five nine hundred and twenty dollars for that which I paid

to come to say but well you came to the right place and so uh we'll follow up with Michael

jazzo on the concern of your lot safe guy that'd be me yeah and then I appreciate that a lot thank

you so much thank you our next speaker is mary tappel okay thank you very tappel then sharon

jackson at mayor and uh and city council members thank you so much for another yet another opportunity

to address you I want to speak again about the continuing need for looking after the

the public safety and public health concerns along the sacrament northern bike trail there was

enormous cleanup last year very successful the city um city managers city staff a whole lot of

people on the council supporting it and everything and we just need to keep it up because uh we have

unfortunately when uh camper uh illegal and trench campers are being removed uh from our lower

arcade creek they're going a bunch of them right back to the bike trail and it's simply that our

park safety rangers are just immediately citing them they're having to keep this up I want you to

stay aware of it so those gains that we had enormous gains that we had last year can't be

maintained with the city going into being in a deficit this year without this continuous nipping

it all in the bud so you need to understand that uh residents who are involved like I was along with

a whole lot of other people in north sacramento involved in the bike trail cleanup we saw that

it was needing to get constantly maintained the uh entrenched encampments were so large for so long

along the bike trail that people still think of it as an area where you can go try to camp again

and unfortunately they come right back when they're moved from adjacent places so any new proposals

for uh homeless sheltering in the d2 area we're just highly worried about all of those

causing more people yet to come back to the areas that we all gave up so much and so much of the

public budget that we don't have this year to get that cleaned up that we just can't afford to be

other than very very protective of the bike trail safety but thank you very much for staying aware of

this issue thank you for your comments sharon jackson then nancy asavido

i don't see sharon

and then nancy asavido and then following nancy is someone about d2 housing and email is cj photography

okay uh good evening um what i'm here tonight to speak about is something that's coming up on the

agenda next week but i just wanted to get a jump on it here to talk about a proposed building of 100

units 100 shelter homeless shelter units um basically on along the bike trail again um as

mary talked about there's been so much uh stuff going on the bike trail has been for several years

and we've worked real hard along with the city to try to keep it clean and uh we are really

concerned about this one there's 100 units that they're proposing and we think that's too many

we think that what they're proposing looks very nice but i think um we all know in district two

that district two usually ends up with short end of the stick and what they're proposing is not

going to be what comes to fruition so that is a big concern for us um a lot of the people

myself uh included have um homeless homelessness uh ptsd along the bike trail i literally lived

with the homeless in my front yard for a couple years and it's not something i want to revisit

by any means and i think that bringing this new facility to our district is going to promote that

again um you guys can call it what you like but we call it uh a bad idea and um we still want to

say we're why don't we use that 102 acres in south sacramento the one that was bought initially for

the homeless situation um that's still um available nothing's been done with it

so we're asking you please uh don't let d2 be a guinea pig for this new uh project that they

want to bring up the housing the housing project they're calling it and uh if it's successful

somewhere else by all means then we'll look at it thank you for your comments

i have four more speakers the first uh cj photography email christine jepher sen i'm sorry

perfect and then sherry martinez so i'm christine jefferson um i i'm in d2 and i too want to talk

about the um the uh it's coming on the agenda next week too it's the hundred units that's coming in

i've been talking to my neighbors and a lot of my neighbors is not really wanting that hundred unit

because the city has a way in d2 of doing kind of a bait and switch they'll tell us one thing

and then when they actually do it is something else um i mean we got camp resolution to look at

that was a disaster the rail yard that was a disaster and we have limited resources you guys

have limited resources when it's easier to fix something that's not there than to fix something

that's there and it's a big junky mess i asked a question to the developer when he came how much

stuff are you going to let these people bring when they come into these tiny houses he couldn't

answer that is this just going to be one big camp resolution where we have stuff everywhere

on real end of boulevard a hundred units that's too many we got we're mixing elders i i'm all for

housing believe me i want us to find some housing for our folks elders vets and then some homeless

the homeless that are there the elders i can see they're kind of helpless you know maybe in

wheelchair sickly the vets probably the same but when you mix the other homeless people in with that

i have this thing of them maybe taking over that whole community um in that little bitty section

i'm that's me imagining it i i i'm not saying it's going to happen but um we're setting our

homeless in our community up to fail we are a food desert where are these people going to get food

where i mean we it's so much we don't have there's too many people in one place and i just i'm not

for it so thank you your comments sherry martinez jeffrey tardiguia then fletcher legardi

hello sherry martinez um i would like to second what my fellow community leaders are saying about

possibly bringing in another camp resolution since camp resolution has been gone i've been seeing a

lot of more activity on the bike trail actually people walking and riding bikes and utilizing

the bike trail as it should be um i feel like that would kind of do damage to what we have already

done like with the d2 bike fest it's nice that we have over the pipe bridge that rubbish and stuff

there got cleared up so now hopefully next d2 bike fest we can venture off into downtown um so

yes i second my community leaders with that another thing was i came in in may and spoke about

being assaulted vehicular assault and hit and run by calib talman i came in again september and spoke

again and ryan from katie maples office spoke to me and he said that your officer the office would

be willing to uh write a letter and um october 22nd he said it was getting ready for submission

and i've since written him a couple emails and i'm not getting any responses um i volunteered the

river city broader way alliance my friend margarita brought up um his name and i thought oh maybe he

doesn't work in the office anymore so he still does so maybe i'd just like to refresh everyone's

minds and i'm still here and i'll send out another email and um isaac gonzalez from slowdown sacramento

wrote a letter for me so i'm just looking again for more support in my fight for justice thank you

i'm just really quick i'm sorry about that i'll follow up with him and figure out what happened

okay thank you thanks speakers jeffrey then fletcher legardi will be our final speaker

well jeff tardiglia and this week is all started at eight o'clock in the morning with

the state and other issues homeless was one um disability was another tomorrow will be housing

and aj three but for our three members of city hall that are part of regional transit

you did not mention any regard that today was earth day roger i thank you for bringing that for

ecos next sunday is an earth day there are other things that guys you should be involved with

and you should be supporting and doing for mr jennies i hope that you explain what is going

on for the homeless with over there at the what is that um underneath the not underneath the freeway

but um the uh what is that damn street through there there that has collected a lot of people

through there but anyway um i haven't heard an explanation of how rt is ad directing or handling

that since supposedly it's been started and how many people are there i appreciated some time ago

when you held the thing explaining what was going on with our refugees and how that is now an issue

and a problem for our community to um mr uh kevin mccarty i thank you that today at two o'clock

first time i've seen where it's mea matters not on the agenda on the two o'clock meeting i'm not

certain the significance and reason for that but i appreciate it i appreciate when you get this item

moved to not be the last item on the agenda because this is a derral steinberg thing and you've seen

how much has already in four months been missed by having it the last item on the agenda i have

other meetings to your time is complete fletcher legardi is our final speaker this evening

i close city council mayor my name is fletcher sherman legardi i've been there for you from

the beginning of me moving to this town so the last city council meeting i came to was uh

february 15th 2020 and at that meeting the chief of police came to this lectern and he said that

he was not ready for anything new to happen in this city so i made sure that what he asked for

that day that i brought to this city for you guys to use if uh anyone in this room knows me

i'm i'm your seeker weapon and i'm proud to stand here and tell you that and uh i'm looking forward

to do something with you even though i brought this case for you to look at it's not against you

us with us have a good day guys thank you for your comments all right next speakers okay and and

i did grow up catholics i like to adjourn them the meeting today and honor pope frances of the

catholic church passed away um and that concludes the meeting at 7 29 p.m thank you

uh