Alright, you guys ready?

Lisa?

Roger?

Hi.

Okay.

Okay.

Good afternoon, everyone.

I'd like to call this meeting in order at 201 p.m.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Councilmember Plucky Baum will be absent today.

Councilmember Maple.

Here.

Council Member Vang.

Here.

Mayor McCarty is expected momentarily.

And Vicemar Talamantes.

You have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

Councilmember Dickinson, will you please lead us in the land acknowledgement and Pledge of Allegiance?

For the opening acknowledgments in honor of the Sacramento Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Lands to the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin, Winton Peoples, and the 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 active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples' history contribution and lives.

And if you would join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

One nation under God and invisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much.

And today we have two.

Oh, any reports out from closed session.

Okay, thank you so much.

And today we have two special presentations starting with Councilmember Vang on National Customer Service Week.

Thank you, Vice Mayor Talamantes.

Um as we kick off National Customer Service Week, it's October 6th through the 10th.

I want to take a moment to recognize one of our city's most essential team, the 311 Contact Center.

This year, yes, round of applause.

This year, our district gate team had the opportunity to visit the 311 Center call center in person.

And we saw firsthand the dedication and professionalism of the people who are literally the backbone of city services and customer service here in our city.

And so I really wanted to take this opportunity to thank Ivan, our 311 manager, and the entire 311 team for your heart and hustle.

You know, every day this team of 40 plus uh city staff works incredibly hard to report issues and help our residents navigate city services and get the information that they need.

And so often time uh they are the first and sometimes only human connection that resident has with local government.

And so really just want to take this moment to center them and to say thank you for everything y'all do day in and day out.

Um, some highlights that I just want to share, you know, in the 20 uh 24-2025 data, uh, they've been able to reduce wait time from 12 minutes to three minutes.

They've um have a total requests uh of service received and processed by 311 over half a million cases, and this year uh they've handled more than uh 24,000 additional calls compared to the previous years, and so really just want to take this moment to say thank you for your service and thank you for everything that y'all do to keep the city running and being a resources uh for the thousands and thousands of residents in our city.

Um that relies on us.

Um so just thank you so much uh from the bottom of my heart.

Um, I don't know if Ivan is here, the team is here.

Love you to come up and say a few words.

Welcome, Council.

Um, it's an honor to be recognized on customer service week.

Um I've had the privilege of managing the 311 contact center for seven years tomorrow.

And uh, honestly, all the credit goes to my team and uh every single one of them play a critical role in everything that we do on a day-to-day basis.

Uh and yeah, there's more to come.

We're gonna continue to be dedicated to our customers and committed to continually improving.

So there's more work to do.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, we'll take a photo.

You want pictures taken?

We got you.

Yes.

Of course.

Thank you so much.

Anyone else have pictures taken?

Pictures taken, I can take in with your phones.

I can take it in here.

I'm more of a outside of the squeeze in a little more.

That comes from Johnny.

You don't know.

Thank you, sir.

If you have signs in the back, you put them up in the back too.

Signs?

Oh, never mind.

You're good.

Yeah, perfect.

Oh, good lady.

Yes.

Okay.

Perfect.

I'll take up the already.

One, two, three.

Say three one one on three, one, two, three.

Ivan, great to meet you in person.

Thank you.

This is your thoughts.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thanks, sir.

And next up, we have Councilmember Kaplan for breast cancer awareness month.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

As many of you know, October is the beginning of breast awareness, breast cancer and breast awareness month because we really do.

Every year we can't take for granted while we've been having this campaign that people remember.

And it is so important that we continue to educate, promote early detection, and support those affected by the disease.

As I've mentioned, this uh this happened uh personally to my family, and I lost my aunt Andrea after about a five-year battle with breast cancer while my cousins were just 12 and 17.

So it's something I take uh very seriously.

As we know, one in eight women in the United States, and one in 726 men will actually uh develop invasive breast cancer.

There is truly not enough we can do to promote encourage and raise awareness.

So today with me, they've been introduced before, but I think it's it's a reminder.

We have I'll be aware that was created in the memory of uh Alberta Albi Carson who passed away in 2004 from breast cancer, and really what's more important is um why many of us may have uh health care.

There are many who do not, and many who have a high rate of positive detection in our community that need the support to get um the screening done, and I'll be aware does above and beyond in helping those in in our communities that that need that help.

So at this time, I would like to welcome Doug Carson up to say a couple of words.

Thanks, Doug.

We really appreciate this uh opportunity, and what you said was very, very nice.

And what I thought I might do is just to give you one example of what we do.

I have a list here of stories I'm gonna leave behind of some of the things that uh the services that we provide.

And I'm gonna read this story, and the name I'm going to give is fake, but the story is absolutely true.

We protect our clients' privacy, the lady's name was Tammy.

She was 54 years old.

Tammy was a breast cancer survivor and a small business owner who discovered a large lump in one of her breasts while she was in the process of getting health insurance.

Needed an urgent biopsy, she couldn't afford.

She turned to Albiaware.

We covered the full cost of her biopsy at a discounted rate, saving her $3,000 out of pocket.

Tammy was diagnosed with breast cancer, and now I'll be aware, worked with Tammy's medical team to ensure she was able to enroll in an insurance plan to cover her treatment costs.

Later, we sent her a care package, which she said truly lifted her spirits during a very difficult time.

That's just one of many instances that we provide, and we really appreciate your recognition.

Thank you.

Thank you, Doug.

I'd like for you to come down and counsel if you would like to join me as well in recognizing October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Would you like us to take a um would you like us to take a photo on the phone?

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

One, two, three, two, three.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Yes.

So, mayor, we now move to the consent calendar.

I have one member of the public signed up to speak on this item.

Do you council members have comments, questions, or wish to pull any items?

Councilmember Maple.

Okay, comments on item four and ten, please.

Dickinson.

Item seven.

I have a comment.

Councilmember Kaplan, item 17.

Okay, let's go back to Councilmember Maple on item four.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, and thank you, Mayor.

Um, I just want to say I'm I am I'm thrilled this is about um testing for sexual assault examinations.

Uh this is never an easy topic to talk about, but I I just really want to applaud the staff and the work from the police department to make this a priority and and getting the funding that we need to make this happen and uh the resources because we know it's really important.

Anyone who has um something horrific happened to them uh who needs to have a a kit that's tested, we want to make sure it happens expeditiously and that it's done in the right way.

And so I just want to really appreciate the the staff for their work on this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Dickinson on item seven.

Actually, it's smaller.

Six.

If I'm six, please.

Uh I can make it on seven, but it's gonna be about six, so either way.

Uh I just wanted to note how how uh excited uh we are in uh district 2 and North Sacramento in particular.

I'm personally very excited to see this item reach us finally.

It's been a long time coming to uh get the renovations of the old news and review building done on Del Paso Boulevard to become the newest branch of our public library authority system, replacing the existing long since surpassed branch on Del Paso Boulevard, and offering many more services, meeting space for for community members and many more resources.

So I'm I'm delighted to see this uh before us today, and uh I only have one request.

We've got to get done and open before the end of 2026.

Thank you.

Back to Councilmember Maple on item 10.

All right, thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh so this this item item 10 is uh the city donating a surplus portable to Hollywood Park Elementary.

Uh you might say this is not a big deal, um, but I think it really shows that and the importance of collaboration and cooperation between jurisdictions.

We have something that the school needs, and that we are working in partnership to make it happen.

So I'll maybe small, it means a bit it means a lot to the young people at Hollywood Park Elementary.

So just thank you.

Councilmember Kaplan on item 17.

Thank you.

I just want to call out that uh this uh traffic safety selective traffic enforcement program or called step.

The city has received the grant um for the past 20 years, and it's a little grant but has a big impact because this really helps with our DUI checkpoints, um, the enforcement of side shows, pedestrian safety, uh enforcement in traffic and other areas where um it makes our community just a little bit safer, and so I just wanted to call it out as a thank you.

I'll move the consent item.

Okay, and I do have comments by Mayor Potem Gadon on 17 also.

Great.

Thank you very much, madam clerk.

I just wanted to echo the comments by Councilmember Kaplan uh about this uh grant and the ability to address some of the sideshows and and uh and street takeovers, and particularly on the DUI side, we had another unfortunate incident where an individual under the influence drove into the um the lawn of uh neighboring place right near Talloc Village where uh well we have now a lot of folks biking every day, and so I think we need to be able to make sure that we continue those safety efforts is important.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I have one speaker, Henry Harry on item 15.

Thank you, members of the council.

Uh I want to speak on item 15.

Uh, and I want to be careful that I um that I'm not talking about the um issuance of the money, but rather this uh the technical issue that you guys are talking about, it's important that we know that the money is coming from um uh the general fund versus measure you funds.

That's important to you guys for people to know.

It's important for me, and I think citizens to know that uh in the chart uh regarding this uh adjustment, it says that this money is a one-time payment, I think of uh $500,000 um for the fuel um, which correct me if I'm wrong, uh goes toward the services of legal of illegal immigrants.

And again, I'm not trying to spark a debate there.

I believe that that $500,000 is part of a larger payment to fuel, but that doesn't come across clear in the document because it refers to it as a one-time payment.

And I am simply saying to you guys, as I've been here before saying there should be clarity on the spending of some of this money.

I am simply saying that with regards to that fuel payment, uh it should something should be added to say that that the five hundred thousand dollars is part or one-third of a larger contract that totals XYZ.

And in this case, I think it might be 1.5 million.

But again, if I'm wrong, you guys can correct me.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Mayor, you have a motion by Councilmember Dickinson and a second by Vice Mayor Talamantes.

Okay, motion is second.

All the players say aye.

Aye.

No zero abstentions.

That's eight zero.

Thank you.

We knew now move on to um public hearings.

Item number 20 is Donnerfield Senior Apartments project.

Um tax equity and fiscal responsibility act, TEFRA hearing and approval of the housing authority of the City of Sacramento, issuance of tax exempted bombs bonds, obligations for the Donnerfield senior apartments in the amount of thirty million dollars.

Approval of construction and permanent loan documents with Donnerfield Senior LP in the amount of 13.71 million in home HOPWA MHSA and City General Funds and seller carry back funds, authorize the issuance of multifamily mortgage revenue bonds in the amount not to exceed 30 million for the financing of the project.

Oh that was a long title.

Maybe I don't need to do a presentation.

Good afternoon, Christine Wackard, SHRA.

Today is a TEFRA hearing and approval of the final uh funding documents for Donnerfield Apartments.

You have a previously approved approximately 11 million dollars in home hoppa and city funds, along with the disposition of the Housing Authority owned land for the project.

In addition, the Board of Supervisors approved 2.6 million dollars of Mental Health Services Act funds.

As you may recall, the project is new construction development on 9th Avenue near Stockton Boulevard.

It's comprised of 67 one and two bedroom units for seniors at or below 50 percent of area meeting income.

Uh one unit will be reserved for a on-site manager, and amenities include a community building, computer room, kitchen, barbecue area, and community garden.

There'll be 17 project-based voucher units restricted to formally homeless, and which is a clients and case management for those residents will be provided by the county.

Resident services and property management will be provided by Eden Housing, and the project is scheduled to close on financing later this month, and construction begins shortly thereafter, and closing staffs requesting approval of the final funding documents for Donnerfield senior apartments, and we're available to answer any questions you have.

Uh, Maple.

Um, well, I don't know if there's any public comment on this item.

There's no public comment.

I thought I'm happy to move the item.

This is a great project.

Um I won't belabor it because it but this the amount of work and time and energy that's gone into making this a reality is astronomical.

Um, and it would not have happened if not for the wonderful staff at SHRA and leadership, and just want to thank you for um sticking by it uh for many many many many years.

And so hopefully it'll be a reality soon.

Thank you.

And Councilmember Maple, does that include opening and closing?

That does include opening and closing the public hearing and moving the item.

Thank you.

Okay, Councilmember Aguera.

Uh thank you.

I think the uh Councilmember Dickinson already seconded here, but uh one I'm glad to see that this is moving forward.

Appreciate actually uh moving in this in this direction.

Um we looked at uh this property in Donnerfield.

Um, I think it might have been 2016 now or 2015, it was about identifying all of the uh vacant parcels because H SHRA had a number of vacant parcels, and they frankly had become you know blighted and uh and was difficult to maintain and manage so many.

So uh obviously, gonna support the item.

Um it, you know, it's almost 10 years to get to this point from when we surplus the property, but I'd like to know kind of where we are on all the rest of the surplus property.

So if uh if uh SHRA could come back to see what else is still out there.

I know that for a big chunk of them we we did a big R RF uh RFI, I think it was a while back ago, and we had some takers, but um uh at a at a later hearing when appropriate, I'd like to get an update on where we are on that.

And I do uh I am glad to say that Donnerfield uh at first was supposed to be part of a mixture of the Ninth Avenue and Tenth Avenue projects, which if you drive down Stockton Boulevard and Colonial Theater, those are in construction, so it'll be nice to see all of these three parcels going up, hopefully, you know, uh at the same time, really changing the the feel of that area.

So thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I have to say, thank you, Mayor.

I uh reflexively second to this because this project goes back so far that it spans a lot of us who represented this area, but but uh you know what I'd be happy to withdraw my my second and in uh favor of you making that second if you would like council member Garrett.

Oh no, either way, I'll glad to second it as well.

So, second and a third.

We have a motion is second.

I've just been waiting for this for a long time too.

I know we chose other uh potential projects years ago, and they've it didn't come to fruition, but uh here we are and look forward to um getting a tractor out there, shovel, whatever it takes.

So let's get at it.

Yes, okay.

We have a motion to second.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any noes or abstentions?

Hearing none, passes eight zero.

We now move on to the discussion calendar.

Item 21 is adoption of the fiscal year 26-27 budget development policy, and to provide direction on two-year budget process and council amendments best practices.

All right, uh good afternoon, Mayor, Council members, members of the public.

I'm P Coleto, the city's finance director.

And I know it seems like we just passed the fiscal year 26 budget, but we are already starting to develop the fiscal year 27 budget.

Um, so this chart looks familiar familiar to all of you.

Uh this is the most recent general fund forecast based on the budget that you approved last June.

As you can see, we're still in structural deficit.

We are anticipating uh needing to close a significant fiscal year 26-27 budget gap.

Um, you know, again, but but council has made uh, you know, we've made progress on uh fixing our structural problem just uh kind of as context.

Back in February, that fiscal year 27 budget gap was almost 100 million.

So the ongoing strategies you adopted as part of the budget this year have made an impact, but we still have uh farther to go.

Uh so this is just the charter guidelines around the budget, and really we want to have one centralized uh budget process run out of the city manager's office.

Uh so for fiscal year 26-27, uh, we're really looking to do uh similar process as the past two fiscal years.

Uh, we're going to ask all of the departments to provide reduction options totaling 15% of their net general fund usage.

This is to give us more options than we need to close the budget gap and allow uh council to choose from those options.

You know, again, we'll be publishing everything uh what both what staff chooses to balance and doesn't, so that uh council and the public uh are aware of kind of the universe of choices, and again, you know, budget uh reduction strategies.

We really want to minimize to the extent we can service impacts on the public, and we need everyone to follow our timelines and guidelines.

Uh so during uh this this past year's uh budget adoption, we were requested to go back to budget and audit committee with some options around uh a two-year budget for council.

Um so we do have some system limitations that limit our ability to adopt a true two-year budget like uh some other cities do, Oakland does, for example.

Uh however, there are some policy options that council could adopt that really get you to that same policy place.

Because that that two-year budget is really about hey, we want to cure more of our structural budget deficit.

So we brought three options to budget and audit, and the first is you know, in our five-year forecast, we would entirely balance the year after the budget year.

Uh so that means the fiscal year fiscal year 27-28 forecast when you adopt the budget, could not have a budget deficit.

Uh the second option would be setting a maximum uh percentage size for uh budget deficit in fiscal year 27-28.

And option three would be we just continue our current practice, focus on um on the come current on the coming budget year and not have a target for fiscal year 27-28.

So uh the committee uh gave us some direction.

So they wanted to proceed with the strategy for all departments to um participate in the central budget process following the guidelines from the budget division, to the extent possible uh for council member budget proposals uh to present them in writing and as early in the process as possible, so that you we as staff can give you analysis of the proposals and everyone is is clear on what they are while maintaining the flexibility uh for council members if they have a great idea or hear something from the public to propose something, and then to bring council some options for deficit tolerance in uh the year following the budget year.

So we wanted to put some numbers to this really to give to give council a sense of if you did go with a percentage, if you went with option two and chose a percentage, what would that look like based on our current forecast of spending?

So if you were to say, hey, a 1% uh maximum deficit tolerance in budget year plus one, that means in the forecast, you could have a maximum deficit in fiscal year 28 of 9.2 million dollars.

If you went up to five percent, it would be 45.8 million dollars.

Um, and really this is a policy call for council.

Uh it's it's that trade-off between flexibility and addressing more of the structure structural budget deficit.

There were some other items that we discussed, and we just want to make council aware.

Um, so uh I think council has heard from the measure you commission over many years about uh their challenges and feeling like their voice gets heard in the budget process, and a lot of that is just due to timing.

So we released the budget at the end of April, we're having hearings in May, that's when they're having their meeting.

Um, and so what we've discussed with the commission is for them to give us some of their priorities on the front end, and that will allow uh city staff when we're developing reduction plans to have their input and what their priorities are and to take that into consideration in our uh development of reduction planning.

Um the departmental presentations.

I know in past years it's it's been hey, here's all the things we're doing.

Um this year we wanted to be much more fiscally focused and to focus more on the potential impacts to operations.

Um, and then the budget survey.

So uh we wanted to incorporate, we have some questions in there around council priorities.

We wanted to incorporate uh the information from your priority setting workshop that you had on the 30th.

And so we're updating the survey, we're working on translation, and we're expecting to release that later this month, and we're planning on having that open uh longer than in last year.

We heard from from people uh who thought that the window was too short, so we'll probably be closing it mid to late January.

And with that, that's our presentation, and really what we're looking for is some council direction around it if council wants to set a deficit tolerance for budget year plus one, and if so, uh what would that be?

And we're we're happy to uh answer any questions.

And Mary, have no speakers signed up for this item.

Okay, council member Dickinson.

Thanks, Mayor.

Uh, the that report and Pete's presentation, I think he is nicely summarized what the discussion at the budget and audit committee uh was, was a lively discussion.

I just want to underscore a few points that that uh he made, but I think are important to give emphasis to.

The first is that the committee believes that uh all departments uh including our uh charter and direct reports, uh, charter officers and drug reports are part of the budget process.

This needs to be something a process that that everybody is involved in.

Uh secondly, with respect to council member proposals uh regarding the the budget, well, was proposed as as Pete um outlined uh and the staff report notes to set a uh a marker for that.

Uh the committee members felt that the the budget process is a dynamic one.

We don't want to foreclose the opportunity for members to make suggestions at any point in the in the process, but we certainly want to uh encourage any proposals be made early and in writing so that the staff has a sufficient opportunity to fully uh analyze those uh those proposals.

Um but if someone comes up with the magic answer at the at the 11th hour, then it it's something we felt shouldn't be foreclosed.

Thirdly, with respect to the the the two-year budget, one because of the technical challenges of producing a full two-year budget uh and secondly because of of uh related considerations the the committee felt that that was not practical um uh and I don't know if the council wants to set a a deficit uh percentage or not we didn't really discuss that uh aspect of this at the uh uh at the committee uh level um but um for my own part I only say I think that that margin needs to be enough to have a fair amount of flexibility uh in it if you try to slice this too finely I think it'll be more more problematic actually than that than helpful um we also talked about making sure to the maximum extent possible that our boards and commissions particularly measure you uh commissioned uh have a timely opportunity to uh to raise its uh issues and ask its questions uh regarding the the budget and the calendar has been calibrated to to do that for the com the coming year and I appreciate the staff uh doing that and then finally uh I would only say and I I think uh everyone uh believes the survey should be done um but I will only say for my own part I think the surveys of uh frankly limp very limited value and so um I I feel as though we can't rely too much on the survey for giving us kind of input now obviously we all get input every day we talk to our constituents we talk to to uh organizations uh and groups um but but uh and whether there should be another formal instrument or not I'm not I'm not suggesting that necessarily but I do think we have to look at multiple methods of of getting input uh from the from the public uh with respect to the development of the of the budget so um that's I think uh if I've missed something not one of the other members hopefully will uh uh add that into my comments but that's what we talked about at the committee.

Okay.

Council Mary Kaplan.

Thank you Mayor um and I listened into the budget naughty uh committee discussion and as many of you know I've been asking for a version of the city looking at a two-year budget since uh I've gotten on um city council I think what um I want to do is kind of frame it for our council members of my thought process and then how I think it can align to the city um I'm not actually looking for a two we come once every other year two year budget process um the budget is a living document um and I and of course and it is analogous to um when you look at school districts school districts have it a little bit more stringent because I've got to do three year with a three percent reserve on this third year.

I'm not asking that for the city I'm saying when we just approve a one year budget and we start with a deficit it allows too much um it it doesn't set certainty for our employees for our community so what I'd like to see is that when when I say two year budget process we adopt and we know year one is is balanced in year two I'd like to say we're within maybe two to three percent of being balanced if we are um any any potential deficit because as budgets are living documents you can look at it every three months and we have funding swings up and down and there's always the reconciliation so there is always going to be potentially a 20 to 30 million dollar swing um that's normal there's there's nothing wrong with that but I think what I am trying to do with a two year budget is it allows us to address our long term goals it allows us to really look at our infrastructure needs what we're not funding it allows us to do resource management and then it allows stability.

So when we approve a two year budget that is within two to three percent of balanced we're saying we're funding like the fuel network for two years.

We're funding this project for two years.

So that gives the community and others a sense of stability.

Because right now there isn't that stability, and there's so much volatility in the federal government.

And we know property taxes, there is a certain amount of predictability in the money that comes in with our sales tax.

You know, Pete, you've done an amazing job because they know for the most part what's coming in with a certain amount.

And I always say budget conservatively, and if we get more money, yay.

Um, but if we look at it as a two-year and we balance our budget, trying to balance the second year, it does nothing but give us that certainty because then we can have those conversations with all of our employees of which programs are going to be maintained, which ones aren't.

Um, and then as we just did, um, our planning with the new city manager and the council coming together of what are our priorities, overarching it is, you know, our financial management, but we can focus in a budget, say, okay, every two years we should come back and look at what are our top three priorities.

That's one.

And that helps us focus and build our budget based off of those priorities, and we can kind of hold ourselves accountable so we don't creep into other things, but let's look at it a two-year-old but still giving a sense of of flexibility.

So I'm of mind, you know, definitely like looking at option two.

Um, because budgets are living documents.

It's not saying we can't change anything.

Of course, mid-year, you can come back.

If there's some wild swing, it changes.

But if you pass the framework of a two-year, it sets some stability for our employees for all the organizations we fund, but also is forcing us to make hard decisions so that we don't continue to carry a long-term structural deficit, because that is we are doing cuts by, you know, a thousand deaths of just a little bit here and there and not truly addressing how do we have a stable budget, as we then can it helps us in negotiations because we know what our long-term, you know, uh budget health is.

So I'm hoping we can do this because it goes along with the community planning um workshop that we just had last week and gets us toward those next steps, especially in line of the top three items we were looking at and asking for fiscal um stability.

So thank you.

And then I agree, Councilmember Dickinson.

I think the survey is important, but also alternate modes, whatnot.

I wouldn't want to just get rid of it because a certain amount of people like that.

Yeah, we uh we view the survey, we're not pollsters and it's not we're not getting a scientific sample.

And so we view it more as a uh engagement and outreach and education tool to try to give some folks who may not be, you know, as plugged into the city's budget process uh kind of an easy entry way.

Um so that's that's how we view it.

And um, you know, we hope that it does provide us some useful information, but yeah, it's definitely not um, you know, a scientific poll.

We we're we don't know how to do those.

So what not one more thing to add to your list, Pete?

Um, but that's all I have.

I look forward to hearing the opinions of my colleagues.

Thank you, Councilmember Guerra.

Uh thank you very much.

I, you know, one, I just wanted to thank uh our chair because he really I think summarized uh a big feeling of the committee and uh and and I thought it was a very thoughtful discussion about how we should move forward given the some of the concerns that uh Councilmember Kaplan has brought forward about how do we how do we look at uh some some true projections and I think uh I think it's uh aspirational, but uh one thing that I do make sure we do not get into a situation is where the school district scenarios were their rigidness uh requires uh layoff memos to be sent out during the budget process, even though they think I know, but it's a state law, right?

It's not it's not our law, but it but it is because of the rigidness.

So uh to that point, um, you know, I think it's uh it's aspirational, it helps us plan.

I I do want to recognize though that the budget staff is doing those assumptions already.

I think we we are we are uh uh in all of our iterations, they're taking into account a lot of the long-range planning assumptions, and those are I think important uh at the adoption point of the budget to be um highlighted again.

Like we discussed them as we develop the budget, but um to Councilmember Kaplan's point, you start the next year off in a deficit.

So I think the you know, sometimes passing a budget is celebratory, but I I I don't think it should be.

I think it should be, you know, hey, we got this done, we have to be prospective of what's the work ahead of us.

So um I do want to thank council member our vice mayor talemantes for uh guiding us in the I think the prudent direction, which is I think uh option number two, which is proving a budget and then looking at a at a uh deficit uh percentage.

Um I think it is too early to say whether a two percent, one percent, three percent um, you know, is the right number if you were to say three percent rounding up is about thirty million.

Like that's a that's a big fish uh to or what what's the analogy of I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go through figure out what the right analogy is, but that's a big one to to take on immediately.

Um but I think that's a good start for us because we technol just technology wise, we aren't capable of uh of doing that two year budget.

So and I don't know if if I would support at this moment spending 25 million dollars immediately um to update all of our technology.

We will have to at some point.

You know, I joked earlier whether we were using DOS or Unix or or uh you know uh or Lotus 123, that's where I learned my spread spreadsheets.

But um, but to that point, I you know I think it's finding when we would want to do that.

So um finally I would say uh on the council amendment uh component um completely um if we can help the staff at least get information and uh cost out ideas or concerns, appropriate.

You know, let's let's make some practices.

But um I would be opposed to any kind of policy that restricts a representative of a district to highlight a concern that's been brought up during the hearing process.

That's that's why we have a hearing process.

Even on the final budget adoption, you have the ability for someone to come to the diet and say, I I don't agree with that and I want to do that.

And if a council member thinks that that's the right amendment to make at that point, while I'm not a big fan of last-minute budget night amendments, I think that's that's still the appropriate authority for the council to do so.

So uh to that point, I think we're we we found a uh a nice guidance, you know.

But uh and uh and that's to my colleagues, that's I think the direction I would go.

Thank you.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Thanks.

I just want to follow up on this on this issue of setting the percentage.

If we adopt this as a methodological approach, uh I do also agree that I think it's premature to specify the percentage, and uh it seems to me that once we start to get into the into the process shortly, I s I assume after the start of the year, if if not in December, I can't remember the schedule exactly, but as you start to to look with uh finer level of detail at uh what the departments are telling, we know we we're starting to have a starting place, which is what the departments offered up last year, but I'm sure there will be some modification then maybe that is a more uh opportune time to to decide what the what the percentage would be.

I it's it does seem to me a little bit that we're if we try to do it now, shooting uh to a certain extent in the dark.

And if you're if your projections, if we uh follow those for 27 28, you're talking about 70, 70 million dollar gap.

If you pick even five percent, you're 40.

I'm not looking at, but 45 ish, um, that means you're gonna cut 35 coming in.

Uh I assume is the way that would that would be.

Yeah, so I think you know, one of the kind of uh nuances is the decisions you make to reduce for budget year, uh, if they're ongoing, they're also gonna uh be ongoing reductions in budget year plus one.

Sure.

Um but what I can say what I've I maybe I can say what I'm hearing and um council can tell me if I'm right or wrong.

But what I'm hearing is, you know, aspirationally let's look at seeing what ongoing we can do, and then we can have a conversation, you know, maybe at at mid-year on whether or not council wants to adopt a formal uh target for budget year plus one or not.

Yeah, I mean that would that would make sense sense to me uh because I think we'll have a better idea at that at that point of what we're we're uh really working with from uh uh dollars and cents point of view.

Thanks.

Okay, thank you.

Council Mr.

Vang.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, just wanted to take this time to thank um our budget chair um and the budget and audit committee for their work to bring this forth and thank you chair for your thoughtfulness um you're absolutely right I think a budget process is a dynamic one and we want to encourage as much involvement from all of our colleagues and the public and I also appreciate you um uplifting um ensuring that the budget calibrates uh with our boards in a commission measure you in particular to make sure that we're not going to our commission after we've already decided what we're gonna budget for so really want to say thank you for your intentionality on that and um I also just wanted to add um while a survey may not be valuable to uh council member Dickinson I would say yes it's invaluable if we actually don't use it because I would say that we do actually use I use the survey um I think it is very informative in terms of uh those that are completing the survey what they want to see in terms of budget priorities I know that we're out in the community most of the time so we do hear what those priorities are too so there's uh numerous mediums that we use but um I think the survey is still incredibly important uh if folks are not able to attend our council meetings um the only question more of questions and thoughts um if we go with option two if we went with the two year budget option two because I see we have three options in front of us um I'm I I think I understand the determining the maximum percentage deficit for the second year budget I know we haven't determined that yet but that's gonna come back to budget and audit um I'm curious and maybe this just a thought process and chair you can think about this is that um as we are if we go with option two and when we determine the maximum percentage for the second year budget I think it's important just to ask the question if that deficit cap is based on the totality of our general budget or by department and I share that because uh if we set a deficit cap um just for the general budget which I think that's where it may go but wanted to put this on the table what I'm worried about is that the deficit cap would be met by cutting and eliminating parks in like 311 for example right and so something that we may want to think about because I know the majority of our budget is made of uh PD and fire is to as we're having that conversation to think about that because even if we have a deficit cap I'm really concerned that our parks and our 301 services those are the first thing to go and so I think it's important for us to look at the totality of that and so just wanted to to bring that up because I think that that those are some real unintended consequences that can happen when we set the deficit and we're not particular about how we set the deficit cap.

And so just wanted to share that with my colleagues as well to think through that piece to make sure that you know our parks in three and one aren't kind of eating up the deficit uh cap right um and so yeah but I do I do appreciate um you know us looking at uh you know budgeting differently and looking at two year I think that's important for us to forecast although I would also agree with mayor pro tem guerra that we're kind of doing that every year anyways you Pete you come to us and you let us know what our projections are and so um it seems like city staff is already doing that work um but we always want to budget better so I I would support option two on the table and just being very mindful of the ways in which we create the deficit cap because again I'm worried that um it's gonna be some of our park services that are gonna be cut so I just wanted to mention that um and then the other piece um I wanted to make an ask is if we went with option two I'm assuming that the amendments to budget for example if there's like an urgent need um I think Mayor Pro Tem talked a little bit about how compared to the uh two year school budget right what if there are urgent needs that come about I'm assuming we just go through the budget process and like mid year was we'll say I see Laney nodding her head so we'll make that proposal I just want to make sure that there's still ample opportunity for council members to chime in and that it's not completely fixed because we know that there are urgent needs that may arise, and so I wanted to ask that.

Yeah, I mean it would depend on what if council wanted to adopt the a policy for budget year plus one, it would depend what council wanted to adopt.

But yeah, to the extent that there's an urgent need, council can always amend the budget really any Tuesday.

Um but you know, similarly, like remember this past mid-year we had um some critic critical facilities issues for our uh 911 center, and so at mid year uh that was one of the adjustments that council made was hey, we need to we need to fix this.

We can't have that building flood and uh no one be able to call emergency services.

Okay, thank you.

Those are all my comments.

Again, I think if we're looking at the deficit cap, really want to be thoughtful about how we do that because I can see some unintended consequences that can happen from that.

So thank you so much.

Thank you, city manager.

Uh thank you.

I just wanted to address um one of your questions.

I think what we're looking for is just an overall number, it is not department specific.

Because if you remember when we went through the budget process last year, um uh staff was hesitant as and myself to simply sweep vacancies because we were looking at how we're gonna operationalize whatever programs and services council determined would continue into the next year, and we wanted to make sure that we were able to staff that so it really is program and service dependent based on council's priorities, and that's what we're gonna bring you in a proposed budget, and then we can make adjustments to that as we go.

Um, so I think what I'm hearing is uh a motion that approves uh recommendations on policies, recommendations on best practices around amendments, right, with the goal of but flexibility, and then some version of a two-year budget with an amount and um to be determined as maybe part of the mid-year process in January.

So I I anybody want to move and I think uh I think that uh captures it pretty much, and I would make the such a motion.

I'll second.

Thank you, Councilmember Guerra.

Nope, it was uh put it asked and answered.

Yeah, no, I just want to note that this is not a bad idea.

I'm fine going down with it.

I just will tell tell the council that you're gonna have to make tough decisions.

And so I know last year we wrangled back and forth and and eliminated positions.

There weren't any people who got pink slips, and if you do two years, ripping up ripping off the band-aid proverbally, and so um you know it it it enables us to have a better long-term perspective, but um there will be some tough questions and votes up here.

So get ready.

Okay, thank you.

We have a motion and a second.

Can I can I ask for clarification what the timeline is to come back?

Would it be so in your next we literally kicked off budget this morning um with all of our departments?

So we will be back to you with our mid-year in late January, early February, and so that's when we would talk through this conversation again about tolerance in the second year and what you're looking for, and certainly as we move through the hearing process in the spring.

We'll be back to you in February, March or March-April with department presentations focusing on the impacts of the reduction scenarios that departments are bringing forward.

So each right, we're moving away from that operational focus and into here's this list, and here's what it means, and you can then start to see where you cut the line on the list what the impacts to a particular department would be.

Okay, we have a motion, we have it recorded.

Okay, all is in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nodes or abstentions?

Hearing none.

That should pass this.

Thank you.

May we now move to item 22, which is appointment of the interim city attorney and setting terms and conditions of employment.

And I do have a read to the record.

May I do that?

So the city council um is appointing Gustavo L.

Martinez as interim city attorney for the duration of the appointment.

He will be paid 168 dollars and 4841 cents, pardon me.

Let me read that again.

168 dollars and 41 cents an hour.

He will receive all of the benefits of employment to which the city attorney is entitled as set out in the city's personnel resolution covering unrepresented officers and employees.

And I have no public comments on this item.

Okay, councilmember Talamantes.

Uh just want to make a motion to move this item and welcome Gustavo as interim city attorney.

Um, welcome to every single closed session.

And I think I saw you walk back there, so we gotta make sure we update your badge so you can go this way.

Uh but seriously, you um have a lot of years here at the city of Sacramento.

I see all the city attorneys here in the audience here to support you, and I think it shows a lot about your character and who you are and how you're going to lead the city in these next few months.

Congratulations.

Okay.

Councilman Guerrero.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I'd like to second the motion and also just very proud of this opportunity.

I know many of us had uh had looked at uh at our city attorney here in our new interim city attorney as uh our our leadership and have had the opportunity to work with him for gosh over 23 years now.

I think it has been, and so it's uh both as a community member and as a council member, and so it's very exciting, very proud moment to see you here, and a great example for our community here in Sacramento, or one of our own locals here.

So thank you.

Congratulations.

Okay.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Okay.

Aye.

Any nose or abstentions, hearing none.

Passes eight to zero.

Thank you.

Okay.

So mayor, we now move to item 23, which is approval of the 2026 one-year action plan and amendment to the prior year's action plans for the community development block grant CDBG Home Investment Partnerships Program Home, Emergency Solutions Grant, ESG, and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, um HOPWA, funded projects and programs, amendment to prior years action plans, amendment to the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency SHRA budget, execute documents for the administrative administration of federal programs, authorized establishment of City of Sacramento revenue and expenditure budgets for CDBG and authorized amendments to the SHRA Home Repair Program HRP guidelines.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Stephanie Green.

I'm the federal programs manager at SHRA, and today we'll be asking you to approve the 2026 annual action plan for HUD formula program grants administered by SHRA on behalf of the city.

As a reminder, we had two workshops during the year where we presented the estimated available funding for these grants, discussed eligible activities, and presented a draft project list.

Today we're asking you to approve the final list of activities for funding in 2026.

As a high-level overview, in order to receive these entitlement funds from HUD, we're required to submit a consolidated plan every five years and an action plan annually.

The current consolidated plan was adopted last year, and it identifies the goals which guide the one-year action plan priorities over the next five years.

Then every year, HUD requires the city to approve an action plan which identifies funding resources and specific specific activities that will be undertaken to meet the goals identified in the consolidated plan.

The four HUD formula grants administered by SHRA are community development block grant or CDBG, which can be used for infrastructure and public facilities projects, housing rehab and repair, public services, and grant planning and admin.

The home investment partnership program or home program, which is used for multifamily rehab and construction of affordable housing, emergency solutions grant or ESG, which is used to assist persons at risk of or experiencing homelessness through rapid rehousing and emergency shelters, and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS, which is used to provide rental assistance and services for people with HIV or AIDS and their families.

Now, before I move on to what we recommend for funding in 2026, I want to provide an update on some accomplishments from 2025.

A few infrastructure and public facility improvement projects that were completed this year, include the North Point Park Improvements Project, which included some updates, including a drinking fountain, picnic table, benches, and other site amenities, Mama Mark's Park Splash Pad, the Wood Park community Garden, and the Niños Park improvements, which included a basketball court, soccer field improvements, and other side amenities.

For public services, we provide a variety of programs, and this slide provides an estimate of the number of people and households that we estimate will be served in 2025.

These programs include meals to seniors through the Meals on Wheels program, homeless and housing assistance through our rapid rehousing activities, and our home repair programs through this SHRA home repair program and rebuilding together.

Now looking forward to 2026, the next few slides will go over the estimated entitlements for the various funding sources, the proposed CDBG allocations by funding category, and the proposed infrastructure projects.

This slide shows what we anticipate receiving from HUD for each funding source, and this is an estimate based on the previous year's allocations.

These numbers also they include entitlement funding as well as reprogrammed funds from previous years' capital reserve as well as program income, which is income we receive from past CDBG loans.

Overall, we anticipate having approximately 11.2 million in funding from the city, for the city, I'm sorry.

And this table shows an overview of the proposed CDBG allocations by category.

So those categories include infrastructure and public facilities improvements, housing development and homeownership, which is allocated to multifamily rehab and home repairs for low to moderate income homeowners, public services, grant planning and admin, which is for staffing and fair housing activities, the HUD loan repayment, which is for the Section 108 loan for the infrastructure at Marisol Village, and then we always include a capital reserve line item in case any projects go over budget.

Now for the proposed infrastructure projects for 2026, we are recommending the Robla Community Park Restroom, which is installation of a new restroom at Robo Park, the Earl Warren Park Restroom, which is installation of a new restroom building at that park, and then the Mangan Park project, which is installation of ADA walkways.

And this is reprogramming from a previous project approved last year at Argonaut Park to Mangum Park.

In addition to the public facility projects, or I'm sorry, the infrastructure projects, the other two main categories we fund are housing activities and public services.

For CDBG, we're proposing to fund meals on wheels, the home repair programs, Fair Housing Activities, which is renters helpline and legal services, and public services at Capital Park Hotel.

For ESG, we're proposing to fund rapid rehousing.

Home funds, we're proposing rehab and new construction of multifamily housing.

And for HOPWA, we will be funding housing assistance operations, case management, and supportive services.

And as part of the action plan approval this year, we are also asking you to approve changes to SHRA's home repair program guidelines.

This program is funded by both city and county CDBG and provides emergency home repair assistance to very low-income homeowner occupants of single family homes and mobile homes to address urgent health and safety needs.

Applications are currently accepted in the summer and winter, and to qualify for the program, the homeowner must be income qualified and the property must be owner occupied and in need of a repair that meets these criteria.

On the slide, you'll see the outcomes of the programs over the last two years.

The reasons why some of these applications do not result in grants are because either the applicant does not live in the city or unincorporated county, the repairs are not eligible under the program, the applicant is over income or there are insufficient funds remaining for that resident due to past work.

To improve program accessibility, SHRA is requesting authorization to amend program guidelines to increase the maximum grant amount to 10,000 per property to cover cost increases, expand eligible accessibility improvements, and extend or expand the application window up to and including year-round availability as funding permits.

These changes will enhance the program's responsiveness to community needs and ensure continued support to vulnerable homeowners.

I also want to note that the city has a repair program called Justice for Neighbors Emergency Home Repair Pilot Program, which is a pilot program specifically for code enforcement violations, which received a one-time funding of 504,000 504,000.

I'm sorry.

The funding for this program is almost depleted, and SHRA has ensured city staff that they can refer code enforcement violations to the SHRA home repair program, and SHRA has also agreed to work with the city to explore opportunities to continue funding for their program as well.

So we have staff available from both of those programs if you have any questions.

And this concludes my presentation, and we're asking you to approve the 2026 action plan.

I'm available for questions.

So Mayor, I have no more no speakers signed up to speak on this item.

Okay, Councilmember Gera.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

You know, first, you know, thank you to SHRA staff uh on uh there's a lot here to unpack.

Uh I know we've gone through this before.

Uh, do want to recognize and thank the focus on Earl Warren uh park, and uh it's obvious obviously suffered its uh fire earlier today, so in general, that park I think needs uh some more attention moving forward, but I'm glad that that's moving forward in district six.

But I I'm express uh very thankful to see.

I know that there's been a lot of focus um over the last few years to look at Nino's Parkway and and this particular recognize recognition of funding Nino's Parkway, I think is important that it's in this funding round.

Uh and we've had discussions, and you know, Councilmember Jennings and I for a long time about the the challenges that uh that district two in Norsack face, and so seeing uh Mama Mark's Parks and North Point Park on the list, I think is is the right thing to do.

It's not neither in our council districts, but it's it's the area that has had the least investments um recently.

So uh you know, with that I I am prepared to uh make a motion to move this forward, but I do have uh one particular of a few uh issues here that one, um there in my in the last 10 years on how we develop this uh the uh the requests, and as they come here, I feel like there needs to be a better process for our staffs to work together.

So um I'm gonna go ahead and move the item with one direction, and that's for SHRA to work with the city uh staff to develop to create a what uh what I'm gonna call a um like a federal or HUD entitlement program committee so that we can better get on the front end.

And I know in the past um I've I've felt frustrations when I've come in and the decisions have kind of been made without uh uh without what I think um true input from the council.

Yes, sometimes it comes to the dais, and then that's your only opportunity for presentation.

But we work with our our city staff generally on all of our different needs, and I think being able to get that done at the staff level early, I think is gonna help that collaboration between city staff.

So that's my first point in direction.

The second is I I'd like to have uh SHRA work with our city of Sacramento code enforcement to ensure that the city's home repair program continues ongoing, at least for next year.

And um, here's here's my largest concern I have in this item.

Um, when I looked here in I think it was exhibit A, if I'm looking at this correctly, um, uh in the staff report, uh, about 250 uh thousand dollars goes into home repair funds, um, but about 150,000 of that is spent on administrative costs.

That's on the SHRA county component of it.

Flip side on the city component, we don't spend any administrative costs.

We use Habitat for Humanity, and we have a different program that looks at that.

So when I look at a program where half of the dollars are being spent on uh 60% of it on administrative costs and 40% on actual construction, that sends a lot of alarm bells on whether we will what whether we should review and look at how SHRA executes its program.

Obviously, CDBG dollars for the city stay in the city, CDBG dollars in the county, stay in the county, but it is a the the you know it's always been concerned to me on on those two points.

And SHRA has had a good history now working with um like Habitat for Humanity on a number of other programs, but I think it's healthy for us to I want to highlight that component because uh it almost seems to me that we should try to get as much money out onto home repair and uh and less on administrative than uh than what we see here today.

So um, Mr.

Mayor, the I guess the motion here that I I want to reiterate one is to uh move forward uh here with the action so that we can get this to the federal government move the staff report but one create the entitlement program committee second direct SHRA to work with our code enforcement to make sure that our city home repair program that doesn't cost 60% on administrative uh move forward uh um and then I think that uh we should uh uh return back and look at how how we're looking at home repair programs.

I'm very you know I do want to thank our our city code uh team and how we've been able to modernize our code enforcement so that's my motion Mr.

Mayor all right thank you Mr.

Mayor um and thank you for the presentation I just really want to um thank the staff at SHRA and our city staff um for for working with our office on this too I know we had um some some changes in the community about Argonaut Park and being able to be nimble and make some of the changes and focus on Mangan Park is huge.

I'll just say that that Mangan Park is is very much a working class community and it's a part of our city that hasn't seen a level of investment as some other neighborhoods and so this means a lot to them being able to have an accessible walking path and what it means to our seniors for our young people it's huge.

And so just um really I'm proud to support this I I listen to your motion I and I agree I think on the creation of a committee so I'm happy to second it and just thank you for all your work and I know that it's a a consistent effort to work with the staff and to make sure that we prioritize projects.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor I kind of want to echo what my colleagues had said North Point Park has been an area not seen invested investment in decades and so getting those park upgrades was much needed and appreciated by the community and then I've been asking for the past couple of years and I want to say thank you to my my neighbor council colleague Roger Dickinson I think you know Robla it's on the border of my district and his district and those residents deserve as a community park it's our policy that community parks have restrooms and it's been a community park for over 20 years with no restrooms and community members are paying for portables so I think this is really a an amazing investment in that and then you know something uh Councilmember Dickinson have I have also talked about where you look at Robla and uh North SAC many of the streets don't have uh functioning sidewalks so I want to continue to advocate because uh you know my the one Austin Street safe routes um was not funded this year but I think if we can strategically look at especially certain streets that lead to our schools if we can try and fund and find ways at least having one side or the side where the school is so that kids can safely be on a sidewalk because there are a couple of schools that do not have sidewalks and kids will be walking in the road with narrow streets in the cars to get to school so hopefully hopefully that's something we can look into with fingers crossed that the federal funding continues to come through.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks I would just uh second the comments of council member caplan with with respect to the the restrooms for Robo Community Park and hopefully that that's a step in the direction of getting a uh community center or community clubhouse there one of the one of these days uh and um before we've all left the left the scene uh to see that happen uh and the and also I mean I I certainly have to concur with the comment about um sidewalks uh that they are uh desperately uh missing in uh in so much of North Sacramento and and uh including Roblox certainly um I I I did uh and I'm appreciative of of the the restrooms being on the list uh I I did want to uh also uh express support for uh the points that councilman guera made uh with res respect to working together between the city and the agency staff uh regarding especially the the uh home repair program and seeing uh I mean I understand that the the the agency is working with a lot of federal requirements and restrictions uh and uh despite the uh rhetoric of some who say they're gonna cut and minimize regulation uh at the federal level, they they seem to pile it on.

Uh so um I'm I'm appreciative of that point.

But if if we can if we can get more out of the money we've got, uh I think we ought to take every opportunity uh to to do that.

Um so uh I I if the motion hasn't been seconded, I will second um the motion the that uh councilmember Gatta made and um uh just simply want to uh emphasize that especially with the ESG um program.

I think it's an example of how we need to keep working at uh coordinating what we're doing across all the entities, the city, the agency, the county, uh, Sacramento Steps Forward uh to make sure that the resources we've we've got to apply to homeless assistance uh we're making uh maximum use of and and optimal use use of.

So uh it's uh it's uh easy to to get um caught up in one's own programs.

Uh and I I I saw the reference to working with Sacramento Steps Forward on ESG.

I noted that, I'm happy to see it, but I think it's gonna require us to elevate our our efforts.

And this is not this is not solely for the for for you all at the agency, this is for all of us.

It seems to me it's just got to be a point of emphasis.

Thanks.

Thank you.

You have a motion by Councilmember Getta, a second by Maple, and we have no public comments on this item.

Okay, the motion is second.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

No, abstentions, hearing none.

Measure passes eight zero.

So, mayor, we now move to council comments ideas, questions, and a b 123 reports.

Councilmember Bank.

Oh, yes, can we uh just take a quick timeout?

Mr.

Shields.

Yes, congratulations.

Thank you.

There we go.

No, yes, we supposed to say thank you for um two decades plus of service, and thank you for taking the assignment to help uh this organization move forward.

Thank you.

And whatever you all need, I'll care for you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mayor.

Um, I just have some council um updates on events happening district eight, and then wanted to share an incident that happened in the South area um this this past week.

And so uh just a few uh items.

Um wanted to remind the community that we have a micro communities meeting regarding our um plan homeless services, um, one of them being the micro community for seniors and also safe parking in district eight.

This event is actually happening tomorrow um at the Pennell Community Center 2450 Medavie Road.

It's from 6 to 7 30, and there will be light dinner provided.

Um so make sure that you are as VP can go to our social media, um, and there is also an email that will be sent out uh to all of our residents and trusted messengers.

Um, and then wanted to also share with all of you that we have uh a fourth annual fall craft and fair festival happening Saturday, October 11th from 9 to 3 at Jacento Road, 80 50.

Um there is going to be bounce houses, photo booth, craft activities for kids, and so encouraging folks to come out to that.

Um and then we also wanted to share that uh we have an upcoming movie night.

So save the date for our kung fu panda for the movie night is happening next to the Pennell Community Center at the Pennell Community Park, uh Saturday, October 25th from 5 to 9.

And then wanted to let everyone know that we have three more Sundays left of the Meadowview certified Farmers Market uh this season.

Uh it's at 9 to 1 at the Medaview Light Rail Station.

So encouraging folks to come out to that.

Um and then uh be uh one last just announcement uh really quickly is I also want to take this moment to say happy birthday to our director of policy and constituent affairs.

Susan.

If you're watching this, um have an amazing week and thank you for all your heart and hustle.

Um so those are some of the events that are happening in District 8.

And then I just wanted to share an incident that happened last week in my district.

The mayor is aware of this, and also our interim city manager as well.

I had an opportunity to speak with her about this.

But I wanted to share last Wednesday morning on October 1st, my office received several multiple calls from South Sacramento residents in the Delta Shores neighborhood, alarmed by the sudden presence of 10 unmarked vehicles, black SUVs in their neighborhood.

And out of deep concern, I did direct my staff to report the sighting to NORCAW Resist, the NORCAW Resist Sacramento Hotline.

And then I quickly left my meeting that morning to the location where residents reached out to us about where this incident was happening.

When I arrived at the neighborhood in person, I saw two rolls of unmarked black vehicles with several armed men coming out of one of the homes in tactical gear.

Junior Goris, the president of the Delta Shores Neighborhood Association, was one of the residents that contacted us, and I spoke to him over the phone, and we were gonna meet on site where residents saw the 10 SUVs.

Both of us did approach the individuals, and I introduced myself as the council member, and I did request that they identify themselves just given the fear in our communities.

After I did that, I was surprised to learn that those black SUV, 10 of them actually belong to the Sacramento Police Department.

And I want to share this memo that I sent to the interim city manager along with photos.

After my staff reached out to the Sacramento Police Department, we wanted to confirm that this was actually true.

And it was confirmed that their presence was actually a SWAT training exercise taking place in one of the model homes within the neighborhood.

I'm sharing this because I think it's really important for our city to understand the context of which of how the context of where we're living in in this moment.

You know, with the ice raids happening at Home Depot on Florin, residents being kidnapped by ice throughout our city, there is a real fear among our immigrant and refugee residents and families in Sacramento.

And we've seen horrific instances of violence inflicted by ICE agents across this country.

And for our residents and even me, when I drove up and I saw the 10 unmarked black vehicles that did not have any indication of SAC PD, we thought it was ICE as well.

And that morning, some of our residents chose not to leave their homes for work or to go to school, fearing that it was a possible ICE activity in the area.

And I just want to share, especially because residents have reached out to me that the decision to conduct this activity in one of our community and one of our resident residential community, fundamentally really does hurt public safety and the trust for all of our residents, especially during this climate.

And there is no justification for keeping this operation confidential from the surrounding community.

Our residents deserve transparency, respect, and assurance that their safety won't be compromised.

So I did send a memo to the interim city manager the same day requesting a review of our protocols for police training and residential neighborhoods and most importantly to make sure that we establish communication channels to ensure that mayor and council and our residents are informed in advance.

There were four requests in particular, and I wanted to share this with my colleagues, that I asked the interim city manager, and I'm asking my I'm asking the mayor and council to also join me in directing the interim city manager to ensure that the following happened.

One, um, to have a thorough review of Sacramento's police internal protocols for the location selection for police training in residential neighborhoods.

Two, establish clear communication processes with the mayor and council and resident leaders in advance.

Three, um, I did get a chance to speak to South Command um as well, but I do believe that a formal apology from the Sacramento Police Department to our South Sac residents in particular, the Delta Shores community, who I know is connected to SAC PD and cares deeply about our police department and have a relationship.

I do think that an apology from our police department to the neighborhood association is warranted.

Um and then lastly, either a public report back and open session or a memo to the full council uh to review the actions to make sure that the city has responded to this and that we have process in place.

I share this publicly because one, um, I will just be honest with you.

I think oftentimes when incidents like this happen, we say as a city city staff, I've heard from folks, I'm just sorry it happened, it won't happen again.

But in this moment, we are living in really difficult times in this country.

Um and we are a sanctuary city, and we talk a lot about supporting our our undocumented, our residents, our immigrants, our refugees, and we have to make sure that we're not disconnected with what um our families are facing on the ground.

And for my office not to get notification, or um, or our neighborhood folks, our neighborhood association, um, to get a notification of what was going on, did send fear throughout the community.

And so I wanted to share this uh with my colleagues, um, and in hopes that um we do, you know, reach out to the neighborhood association and apologize, and I do want a response back to make sure that we put processes in place that this doesn't happen again in the community, and so wanted to wanted to share that.

Thank you, Councilmember Vang.

Uh noted, and I know we're uh following up on that as well.

You and the rest of the council on some suggestions and policy and response.

Councilmember Maple.

All right, thank you, Mayor.

Uh, a couple things.

One, uh want to invite the community out for this Sunday, October 12th, from 9 to 11 a.m.

Uh, we're the leadership Sacramento class of 2025 uh is uh doing a community mural day unveiling.

It's very exciting.

Uh community mural and rock painting.

Um so that's located at 3733 Broadway uh in Oak Park.

And it'll be featuring our local muralist and artist Nicole Alvarez.

So please come out, say hi, enjoy some beverages and see this beautiful new mural that we are uh that they are unveiling in Oak Park.

Uh and then the other thing I wanted to say is um a lot of folks in the community may be aware of uh an incident that happened last night on the freeway where um a helicopter uh crashed on our our highway.

And I just wanted to take a moment to give a special thank you to our first responders to the fire department and to the police department for showing up.

Uh it's really I think a miracle what happened there, and I know that there are still um individuals that are in critical condition.

I um pray for their their well-being, but I just I think it's amazing what what happened in particular.

I want to shout out uh the residents, the people on the freeway who got out of their vehicles and assisted first responders and and probably saved lives.

And so I just I want to shout that out.

I think this community really comes together and shows up when it matters, and this is a really great example of that.

I think the mayor will be touching on it, you know, at either at the state of city or a little bit later, but I just was really really proud.

Thank you.

Well said.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Thanks, Mayor.

And just uh a few things coming up uh in the north part of the city, the northeast part, we have the northwest part to Councilmember Gaplin.

Uh this Saturday, uh, October 11th from noon noon to 6 uh in the parking lot at Sammy's restaurant, which is 2021 Del Paso Boulevard.

There will be a Sacramento Vision and Health Fair, which is a free community uh event, there'll be live performances by UNA Maz and Roha.

Uh free haircuts uh provided by the Paul Mitchell uh school, uh free lunch while supplies last, pediatric uh pediatric dental screens, toothbrush, and toothpaste handouts from dental quest, um, plus uh number of booths and resources, including uh Anthem Blue Cross, Smud, Golden One, uh utility rate uh ratepayers network turn uh and and others.

So um I hope anyone who wants to take advantage of of that.

And you know, we're not too far from the time of year when ghosts and goblins take take over the universe.

And uh in recognition of that, there's uh Hmong Youth and Parents United Trunk Retreat on uh October 24th uh from 6 to 9 p.m.

at 6 31 Elinor uh Avenue.

Wanna let everybody know uh about about that, and that is a that is a spooky event, let me tell you.

I've been there myself.

Um and then uh uh in fact our very own uh Yipsey, Eaton Parks is uh sponsoring a trick-or-treat event uh on October 28th from 6 to 8 p.m.

at the Hagenwood Community Center.

So for those uh who are not getting enough candy in their diet, this is an opportunity to uh augment their supply and have a good time while they're at it.

Thanks.

Thank you, Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um Councilmember Maple, I too want to echo um your comments in regards to the Good Samaritans.

Um last night I was uh I joined Sacramento Sheriff uh pilots for one of their shifts in the helicopter to fly around Sacramento, which I'm not sure many of you are aware.

Um this is shared between SAC PD and SAC Sheriff.

Sheriff goes up for an hour and a half, SAC PD goes up for an hour and a half, and the helicopter um and sometimes they slightly overlap and um I happen to have been up there with the pilots when we got the call that the helicopter had landed in high on Highway 50, and um, you know, seeing it from up above, uh you get a different perspective, but I will tell you being able to see Good Samaritans on the freeway, people trying to assist and move over because the freeway, as you know, got quickly blocked both ways to allow fire department ambulances, cops, uh everybody all hands on deck, but knowing that um there were not enough firefighters there right away, Good Samaritans stepped in um and um were able to lift the helicopter off of a victim who was who was trapped uh to get them to the hospital.

So uh I really just want to thank the Good Samaritans, but also I want to thank the pilots because you know that's something they do every day, and every day is not a given, and they both were.

I need to get a hold of my family, we need to talk to them because you know this is something that they're a family and they close and they're close and they do every day.

Um I was lucky enough to to fly with two individuals who love their career retired and then are back as trainers and filling in in open um uh shifts.

So uh it is amazing with the technology.

I will just tell you now the technology is amazing.

And the pilot basically said over his 14-year career, only four people got away from him.

So um what they can see with that camera um and how they can uh truly track down individuals at the safety of everybody on the ground is amazing.

It's another tool of safety um for everybody involved.

So uh thank you for all who were involved in this incident.

It's never anything anybody wants to see or hear about.

Uh a little bit of uh lighter news this Saturday over uh in Robla at the North Point Park.

I want to thank our firefighters for coming out and grilling some hot dogs.

We're having a community potluck and picnic.

So I'm bringing the hot dogs with the firefighters and the community's coming out to potluck and and just enjoy the beginning of fall.

And then on October 16th, the North Notomas Regional Park Master Plan is actually 24 years old, and probably about 20% is been implemented.

So I am bringing the community together to say what was done 24 years ago.

Is it still relevant?

What would we like to see if we are able to find funding?

How do we want to develop the park?

And last night up in the helicopter, being able to see the park from uh the sky was amazing of how much good we can do for the region.

If we're able to develop um the regional park, it's it's kind of exciting.

And then for all of you, this is now a little heads up.

October 18th, if you do not have on your calendar, council members, the high water jamboree is gonna be at the North Natomas Regional Park.

And if you want to get in a dump truck, see the Earth Mover, uh, see what DOU does, see how our drones are used.

Um, it is an amazing resource and ability uh to come out and have kids check out firsthand or even adults firsthand uh what our city employees and our regional employees do to keep us safe from uh the high flood waters that that could be Sacramento uh but for our levies and all the work of everybody uh who come together so that's it Councilmember Jennings.

Thank you very much I want to just thank each of my colleagues and the mayor for welcoming our sister city Matsyama Japan when they were here last week um we have been sister cities since 1981 45 years uh Phil Eisenberg and Mayor uh Nakamura from Matsyama Japan signed the sister city agreement and uh as is their custom they believe in giving gifts to those everyone um that they come in contact with and so on your tables today you have a package that looks like this with a final gift from uh the mayor mayor noushi final gift uh to them thanking us for the hospitality that we provided while they were here so if you would like to send a thank you note contact my office and we'll give you the address on how to do that but we really I want to thank each one of you for making their visit one that they will remember forever.

Matsuyama Japan and Sissa City Sacramento our sister city mayor Pro Temgata thank you Councilmember Jennings and uh I'm very glad to participate that and to our friends in Matsuyama if you're watching uh you know Sakura Yokoso Matsuyama Domaragato Gazamasu we appreciate you being here uh it was a welcome to to say hello to them um seven languages but uh first uh uh so thank you there first uh I want to uh um echo some of the concerns that council member vang had mentioned um I just want to say that uh for at least the last uh ten years here the our Sacramento Police Department has done a lot of work to engage and communicate and build trust in the community uh we had issues in uh 2015 2016 about you know um and those issues of of being able to build trust through communication different languages I think has helped served us well and and I would say that in our most recent community events on Stockton Boulevard and Fruit Ridge there's a lot of respect for law enforcement so uh I think when we uh miss the mark to communicate in this form I think it it uh it uh erodes that trust and so um I I want to echo uh what we can do to continue that effort um and I say that because my my next request here uh is is critical because it does involve law enforcement um and uh I uh this is a request to the city manager um through the police department and also city attorney um you know not only have we had incidents of of uh uh people impersonating ICE agents people impersonating law enforcement police officers in the case of the Minnesota um uh you know shootings and um uh murder of uh elected officials um uh but uh but also the situation of people not knowing uh when a uh when a police official asks to stop them that that's a significant problem um I remember with both not only Chief Lester but even prior chief hahn we've talked a lot about you know if you see the blue badge that that's your police department that's your support and so we've done a lot of work to do that to build that trust and so uh to the the request here uh one I'd like to know how uh our city will be um uh responding to the recent law of SB 627 uh in and uh addressing the issue of how um if an if a um if a a nice agent border patrol homeland security officer or any federal official um is in sacramento one uh ensuring that the city manager is notified uh second uh to uh respond to the concern of how do how do we how do our citizens know that they are a legitimate agent I think that is a a significant concern identifying how uh how we make sure that uh that they're a legitimate agent and not a even bounty hunter so you know I want to make sure that that uh that those issues are uh resolved because I do think that our our city police officers have a clear responsibility to ensure that uh they're protecting our our community here from um and uh um uh from you know the um uh unfortunate uh violations of uh their constitutional rights so I want to figure out make sure that how do we address that big piece there um and uh and so I think that uh the uh the these two incidents while they're separate I think it it goes back to uh if we want people to report crimes if we want to be able to solve crimes we have to make sure that our community has the full trust in being able to work with our department and also that our our department when they go to a uh if they engage with an ICE official that their body cameras are on so that when they identify that they are an actual ICE official we know that I think that's in an important piece.

So let me end with that request there city manager and I would like to follow up in further detail because um it was a a topic of significant conversation over the weekend um let me start uh now by saying thank you again to our uh both police and fire again for the I mean we I I live not too far from that and we heard the sirens we we could hear what was going on and um uh and we're deeper into the we're on the south side of Tahoe Park not adjacent to the 50 but it was a significant issue but if it wasn't for our first responders um you know both police and fire um to address that an issue that on the 50th it's already a gentle challenging situation it could have been so much more so much more worse so thank you to SACPD and SAC Fire on that uh and also um you know um uh madam city manager I want to uh say is also give a sp special thank you to the uh bicycle unit um uh uh the Sacramento police department on Saturday evening who uh helped uh uh shepherd about a hundred and twenty uh members of a uh delegation from both uh Michoacan Mexico and Jalisco Mexico who came to visit Sacramento and uh and their experience with those officers um you know was uh was amazing so I want I wanted to you know one there was uh you know as we do we have a lot of people who are cycling and some without lights and sometimes their cyclists get a little uh more uh what do you call it uh reckless than they should at times and I'm I'm one of those cargo bikers but I do appreciate that um our uh SAC police bike unit was able to make sure that as they were walking through K Street and had a uh a great experience all the way until they got to the Delta King and then from that I want to uh thank uh Delta over the Sacramento History Society because it was a wonderful exhibit we had Spanish translators talking about our Sacramento History Museum uh and also um as the mayor sits on the 50% vote on the Crocker Art Museum I want to thank the crocker folks for also welcome welcome welcoming them uh at the Crocker but they could not get to the crocker if it wasn't for regional transit and I want to thank both our chair uh council member Jennings uh and his staff uh thank you council member maples well for that but they were able to help us with getting uh public transit and showing them how uh they could get from the capital to the crocker uh and have a wonderful experience there all to say they all want to come back and want to tell folks about how Sacramento is a place to visit the only objection that they had uh at the time was that there were no hotels because of Aftershock and the Stevie Nix concert and so they were scattered all over the buses yes they love the buses oh they love the buses and they love the buses and the the air conditioning must have been going super uh hard that day because they're like we can't believe how cool these buses are so uh they love the buses.

Um yeah, and so uh uh it was just a great uh Sacramento stepped up and showed a great a great experience.

Uh and um the mayor of the city Morelia, as we both uh they have already voted the intention uh and uh to uh to become a sister city.

We voted on intention, um, and they look forward to seeing our council there.

But they do have a short video that they put together unprompted uh for us.

And uh if the clerk could show it, that that would be great.

This is the mayor, especially conmotivo del evento raises monarca.

Este encuentro refleja la forza de nuestra identidad, el orgullo de nuestra raízes y la union de nuestra communidad migrante.

Quiero enviar un grand saludo a mi amigo el alcalde de Sacramento, Kevin MacArthur.

Las familias, el poder asetto, in ambos lugares, y las de amistad con Sacramento.

Well, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

But yeah, they are excited for uh for this collaboration, and they were just you know very impressed with our city.

Uh and uh they uh and also the music and the food scene, everything was I think Sacramento stepped up uh on this weekend.

So we look forward to uh being there with you.

Yes, and uh we look forward to taking a delegation down there.

But I just want to note you mentioned earlier it was a big weekend in Sacramento.

We had a hundred and sixty thousand.

I know um uh the vicemor left, she meant so it was a hundred thousand, but a hundred and sixty thousand people went to the music festival over four days and brought in over um thirty million dollars to the to the economy here.

So it went off with without a hitch, and we're excited to have them back for the 13th year and looking to do bigger and better next year.

We're looking for ideas to have the second festival again.

Um but we had you know, as you mentioned, uh the Stevie Nicks concert downtown.

We had a big soccer match out at CalExpo, and it just shows that Sacramento can can uh host and succeed with multiple events at the same time.

So this is a big part of our city and uh it makes it a fun city, but also brings in revenue so we can address the Pete's um PowerPoint from an hour ago about our budget deficit.

So with that, uh thanks for everybody who put those uh events on, especially to the uh Danny Weimer Presents crew who who did an outstanding job again here for the 13th year.

And and and yes, um Councilmember Maple and Gera.

Um we were all riveted last night by that helicopter crash.

Um, our girls heard it from their house where they're at, just after cheer their cheer practice.

And um it was a um something that we're very grateful that nobody was was injured and hurt, and uh thank our first responders, but also the 15 people that stepped up, and we're gonna try to recognize if we can find them in the coming weeks as well.

So thank you, and with that we're adjourned.

Oh, excuse me.

I have two public comments for matters not on the agenda, Junior Goris and Bill Um Alayo.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Mayor, members of the City Council.

Uh, I'm gonna amend my comments because I think uh Councilmember Van kind of captured it.

So just to make it to save time, um, the appearance of the vehicles and you saw the pictures, they speak volumes, and we've all witnessed uh the posture of the federal government today, and our own sacr South Sacramento, as you know, was a target of a recent ice raid at a local home depot with families being separated and necessary fear being injected into our communities.

As a community president, my main concern, just like you all, is the protection of my community.

I immediately activated our neighborhood mechanisms, texting our text chain, contacting North Cal resists and contacting our district office about possible ice operations in the area.

Neighbors were informed to stay home and not to open doors to anyone unknown until we knew what was happening.

Our fantastic city council member arrived on team within minutes and without hesitation approached a group of individuals with weapons and asked them what were you doing in our neighborhood.

The association has a fantastic relationship with the department, and we want to continue our partnership.

Chief Lester and Captain Sorachi have been accessible and wonderful in supporting our community.

I am here today to respectfully request that the police department review its eternal protocols for police training in residential neighborhoods.

While the builder of our neighborhood knew of the training, that doesn't always translate to residents being informed.

I would also like for those protocols to include communication with your offices as you're the first access point of information to residents.

Lastly, please have PD reach out to neighborhood associations effective.

A lot of panic could have been avoided with little communication with some communication.

Again, we love our police department.

This is not an attempt for negative criticism, but an opportunity to strengthen our partnership.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Bill Aleo.

Thank you.

After all this since 1969.

This is about dog parks, and you may have heard this before, and I know there's supposed to be a new dog park, but I was at Lynn Roby Dog Park this morning.

I used Bell Coolidge near my house, that dog park.

The Sierra II Dog Park, which wasn't a real dog park.

I realized that's where I started taking my dog when I got one.

I didn't know it was a non-official.

I understand the need to make it a real soccer field, and there were neighbor complaints, but I understand that Lamb Park may be the next dog park.

Going to Bell Coolidge is a cheap alternative and get it done fast.

And you may have heard this before.

Move the fence out towards Fruit Ridge Road.

There's no use for that property.

It's flat, so people can actually move their dogs instead of hills and elderly people, which are becoming one of these days, so I can move around those hills, like it flat.

So here's move the fence out.

You can use the existing fence if you really want to go for it.

Move towards Southland Park to the west a little bit, and you capture more mounds.

But that's a fast, simple way to get a much bigger, two or three times the size of a dog park you have now without doing anything expensive or riling upset people in uh Curtis Park or Land Park.

So land park I go to all the time too, but not for the dogs.

But there's a lot going on in that park.

So I don't know what the status of that is.

Normally, as a you know, someone has worked with cities and counties my whole life.

I would have investigated with the people who are working on the plan, find out what's the status of the new dog.

I decided to come here one day and start my new career as a gadget.

No, I'm not gonna be a gadfly before the city council.

I'm not a registered lobbyist anymore.

I was, but uh thank you for your attention, and uh I hope we get a dog park soon and maybe a cheap one at Bell Coolidge.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bill.

Mayor, I have no more business to come before the council.

Okay, thank you.

With that, we're joined.