Anything when you want to I'd like to call us meeting order at 2 09 p.m.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, Vice Mayor Council Member Kaplan.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Councilmember Pleckybaugh.

Council Member Maple.

I'm here.

Mayor Potemgeta is expected momentarily.

Councilmember Jennings.

Councilmember Vang.

Mayor McCarty will be absent this afternoon.

And Vice Mayor Telemontes.

Councilmember Plecky Bomb, while you please lead us in the acknowledgement and pledge of allegiance.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains, Bewok, Pat Wanwintu 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 appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contribution, and lives.

Thank you.

Pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flood of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Okay, thank you so much.

Consent calendar.

Do we have any members of my colleagues that want to pull anything?

Speak on anything, ask questions.

Okay.

Just a comment.

Anyone else going once?

Going twice.

Okay, Councilmember Kara.

Um thank you.

Just again, I wanted to just thank all of the work that's been done here for anti-displacement and housing anti-displacement again.

And to give my uh gratitude for the city and also Habitat for Humanity for the work that they've done.

We just meet most recently uh did uh rock the block uh in Oak Park.

Uh Councilmember Maple was there as well with her whole team uh, you know, doing those great efforts, but this home repair pilot program, you know, it's gonna help uh at least 50 households in these very critical areas on uh in the in stock off of Stockton Boulevard and uh this is the kind of work that we need to continue to make sure that uh we keep people housed, uh particularly folks who you know have uh are on restricted incomes uh and we keep the quality of our housing stock there, but I just wanted to thank the staff again for this good work.

So thank you, Vice Mayor, and appreciate both Habitat and our city team and all those volunteers who have come out and supported this effort.

Will you move consent?

I'll go ahead and move consent.

Okay, thank you.

Councilmore Kaplan.

Thank you.

Just a couple of questions that um I hope staff can just follow back up on.

I don't I don't need them answered now, but when you look at uh consent item eight, nine, and thirteen as they relate to our emergency shelter voucher program, our uh step off on second street, and our city motel program with consent item eight.

Um I'm having a little trouble fully understanding, and it's maybe because I'm confusing, so I would love if I can get what impact will the switch from the motel program to emergency shelter vouchers have on those served in the motel program, and then um understanding what the cost savings will be, and then on consent item nine, the step up on second street case carrying outreach services for street outreach.

Um, how are we tracking the funds that we give and what specific initiatives they're going to and the success rate uh that we're having with uh those services?

And then on consent item 13, our city motel program agreement with the hotel motel, council members.

It's not the first time, but I would love that while we uh created this program for women and children and families.

What is preventing us from potentially expanding it to include seniors, knowing that the city auditors report showed this is one of our more successful programs that is cost effective.

Why wouldn't we open this uh up knowing that we're looking for ways to save money and get more seniors off the streets?

Um I would love for that discussion or to to occur at some point.

Yeah, uh council Woman Kaplan, we can definitely get out of City Council FYI, but also know that I'm working on a larger report regarding data in the homeless department.

So I can do one in the immediacy, and then if you give me a little bit of time to work on a comprehensive report, that'd be great.

Which I I really appreciate because I think that may answer a fair amount of questions that I'm having of what are we doing, why are we doing, why was something set up a certain way, and is it time to maybe re-look at how we do that, knowing we're getting less uh state money for this, but still trying to keep about the uh the amount of people off the streets as possible.

Um so thank you, City Manager.

That's it.

Alright, thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right, we have a motion and a second.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

No's abstentions, one absence.

Okay, good to go.

And now we're gonna move along to SHR.

Oh no, there's no public comments.

Um we will move along to the discussion calendar.

We have SHRA with the authorization of the issuance of 501c3 bonds.

Good afternoon, Vice Mayor Telemantes, council members, and Keisha Bulwer with SHRA.

We're here today requesting approval of final bond documents for the creek at 2645 apartments.

I was here last month before you seeking authorization of uh 501c3 bonds for this project.

As you may recall, the project administrator, Art House Partners, is proposing to acquire and rehabilitate the existing multifamily housing development, consisting of 368, one, two, and three-bedroom apartments.

40% of the units will be strict restricted to 60% of the area median income, and an additional 35% of the units will be restricted to 80% AMI.

The remaining 25% of the units will be continue to be unrestricted and rented at market rates.

Unlike the mortgage revenue bonds, SHRA typically issues, the 501c3 bonds allow the rehabilitation of the development to take place over the first 36 months of ownership.

Here, exterior improvements will include repairs to balconies, stucco, fencing, asphalt, and sidewalks.

In addition, there will be roof replacements and landscaping improvements.

Interior renovation is expected to be completed over time through property operations and reinvestment of cash flow.

For interior unit renovations, they will be renovated as the units turnover, minimizing displacement, and bringing those units up to the standard of previously renovated units.

An established nonprofit housing entity, and AMC management will serve as the property manager.

Project Access will provide 20 hours of resident services.

That will include after school programming.

In closing, staff is requesting approval of the final bond documents associated with Creek at 2645.

Staff and the project sponsor are here to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Keshia.

Um, do we have any public comments on this item?

That's where I have no.

I have no speakers on this agenda item.

Okay, sounds good.

So um you can have a seat, um, have a few comments and then a few questions.

Uh, so this project is in my district, and uh, this is the second time that I go through a welfare tax exemption project in my district, and I know that there's many more to come throughout the city of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento.

So, for people that don't know what a welfare tax exemption is, I'm gonna uh go through a bit because I had a lot of committee members asking me about this project.

They had concerns, they want to know more, so I want to make sure that people can listen to this in the future and understand what it is that we're doing here.

So, projects can apply for welfare tax exemptions, which means in exchange for not paying property taxes, they must do rehabilitation or renovation on their properties, and they must keep rents at a certain area median income.

These do impact city, county, local schools, mosquito abatement, and everyone that collects a piece of property.

So any money that was supposed to come to the city of Sacramento for property taxes or the county or mosquito abatement or RD 1000 goes back into the property and does not go into the government agency.

Like I said, this is the second time I'm dealing with this.

Last year, the Woodlands, which is a hundred and eight, eight hundred and three units, sought a welfare tax exemption.

I asked them to work with SHRA in good faith.

But eventually they got approval from CADA because it was taking too long and uh did not listen to the wish list from my community.

So then I had a lot of constituents experiencing issues, and I didn't have anybody to like call and pick up the phone to because usually when I have problems in my district, I just call SHRA and SHRA deals with it and helps me like find solutions for problems.

Um so you know, they went to a state agency.

Um, and so for me, going through this second time, I asked the developers of this project to work with me with SHRA on this project because one of my concerns is that developers and property owners can go to any state agency and get approval for their bonds, and they don't have to come to the city council.

And for me, keeping that local control is really important because it gives me someone to pick up the phone and call when I am experiencing an issue.

And so I do want to thank the applicants for working with us and working with SHRA to be able to get this done.

According to the county assessor, 182 parcels in the city of Sacramento received a welfare tax exemption with a value of 1,427,402,734 for the 2025 calendar year.

About 150 of those parcels are regulated by SHRA.

The remaining parcels likely have tax credits or other restrictions like the CADA program or other tax agencies or tax um state agencies, which make them eligible for a welfare tax exemption.

So the question for me as we get these projects that come before us on the city council is what are the wins for the community?

What are the area medium incomes, and what are we gonna do to streamline our process here at the city of Sacramento so that we have an actual structure or an actual program of what people can expect for when they come to us for approval of these bonds?

And so that's something direction for SHRA and to our housing uh, you know, I see Greg and Matt in the audience and our city manager is creating a framework of what people can expect for the city of Sacramento for when they ask for these bond exemptions because keeping that local control is so important to me.

I'd rather have someone come to the city of Sacramento and sign off on those bonds than go to a state agency that we don't know, don't have any connections with.

Um, and also at the end of the day, it just helps us with streamlining communication and holding each other accountable.

So I wanted to give that blur because I did have a lot of uh constituents ask questions about this project when it came out in one of the news articles.

So for Kesia, um can you tell me a little bit more about what uh what this means?

Um I had a lot of questions from the neighbors asking if, you know, saying, hey, the city of Sacramento is in a budget deficit.

What does it mean for us with these bonds?

Like how are we giving them money if we have a budget deficit?

So I think uh as we've talked about here at the council, there is a need for new affordable housing, but there's also um as big of a need for preservation of affordable housing.

And to your point, um, other purchasers could you know buy this property, do minimal renovations, and just ratchet up the rents.

So, with this uh bond program authorized by the city and the welfare exemption, we can ensure that that money is reinvested and we preserve affordability going forward.

Okay, thank you so much.

And then I have a question for Art House Partners.

You want to introduce yourself?

My name is Sean Lettingham.

Uh I work with Art House Partners.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

Thanks, Council.

Hey, thank you so much.

Um, first of all, I want to thank you for working with SHRA.

This is the first time that SUTRA does this.

I don't know if you want to expand on that, Keisha, when you come back up in a second.

Uh, but can I know uh how many of the units will require rehabilitation?

So 38 units are in classic condition.

189 have been renovated by bridge, which is the current owner, and 141 were renovated by the previous owner.

We will be doing minor renovations to the units that were already renovated to bring them all up to kind of the same standard.

We'll be doing a more comprehensive renovation on the 38 classic units that were that are original to the construction building in 1986.

Okay, and then who will the new owners be?

The new owners will be Integrity Housing, which is a registered 501c3 nonprofit.

They've done a number of these transactions across California, and we're lucky to have them as partners here.

Okay, that was gonna be my next question.

Do they have experience managing affordable housing projects of this size?

They do, yeah.

They have in fact a RACT uh 501c3 bond experience, which gave us a lot of comfort around their ability to help us out here.

Okay, and then who will the property manager be?

The property will be AMC.

Uh they they've done a number of conversions across Sacramento and specialized in mixed income housing, uh, which is why they they gave us a lot of comfort and they're they've got an institutional platform that that is has a lot of strength in this area.

Okay, and then my last question is what programming will exist for the residents?

We'll have project access on site, which is currently in place.

Uh, under new ownership, the resident services would likely be eliminated.

We're preserving that and are doing after school care as well as some financial literacy courses and other things for the residents and providing at least 20 hours per week.

Okay, thank you so much.

Thanks.

And then Keisha, if you can just come up here and tell us a little bit more about SHRA doing this.

Sure.

So you're correct.

SHRA has not issued 501c3 bonds in the past several decades.

Um, I think you all know Christine Weichert, she's been with the agency uh over 30 years and has not seen issuance of these types of bonds, but there are they're coming more into fashion when there's uh an appropriate um interest rate environment and when it is a soft seller's market.

So we're seeing more and more of these as you mentioned, Vice Mayor.

Um, and one of our critiques is that we've been a little bit more expensive than some of the other state issuers in this uh instance.

We were able to work with the applicant, but that is because we do all of the underwritings.

So you mentioned the property manager.

SHRA underwrote them and made sure that they have the experience and we're up to our standards, as well as integrity housing and project access.

So, you know, you really are getting more bing for your buck, and as you said, you have someone to pick up the phone and ensure that the residents themselves are getting that extra investment and quality care.

Okay, awesome.

Thank you so much.

So I'm happy to move the item, and again, just thank you to SHRE and Art House for working together on this to make sure we daughter eyes and cross our T's and y'all yin.

Thank you so much for your work on this.

Okay, thank you.

No other members, all in favor say aye.

Aye aye no's abstentions, saying then.

Thank you.

All right, moving along to item 16, 2026 climate action and adaptation plan.

Good afternoon, Vice Mayor and Council.

Uh, I'm Laura Tuller, I'm an associate planner with the community development department, and I'm here to present the second annual climate action and adaptation plan annual progress report.

So, just starting with a quick overview of how the report's structured.

We'll walk through major progress across key sectors, including buildings, transportation and water.

We'll close with some opportunities and challenges we're facing and then open it up for questions.

So, this report provides a background on the CAP, including our emission reduction targets and key climate risks.

Uh, do want to note that this is a narrative report, a more detailed quantitative report is planned for 2027 as part of the CAP update.

In 2025, the city completed a range of key planning efforts.

We adopted the urban forest plan, adopted the Streets for People Active Transportation Plan, completed the SAC Adapt Transportation Infrastructure Adaptation Plan, which was funded by a Caltrans grant, and we participated in the Urban Land Institute technical assistance leadership exchange program focused on extreme heat in partnership with Sacramento County.

These efforts help guide and prioritize implementation.

So starting with the built environment, SMUD's 2030 carbon plan is a major driver of progress here.

Since 2021, SMUD has added about 440 megawatts of renewable energy and storage.

Key milestones in 2025 included the slowhouse solar project and the Hatchet Ridge wind project, pictured here in Shasta County.

Over 80% of single family homes and more than 90% of ADUs in 2025 were built all electric.

This reduces construction costs and provides ongoing bill savings for new residents.

Existing buildings are a bit more of a challenge.

Most water heater replacements in 2025 were still gas to gas, although electrification is gaining some traction.

And 39% of permitted HVAC installations were for heat pumps in 2025.

Do you want to note that SMUD continues to provide strong incentives for gas to electric conversions?

The transportation sector is still our largest emission source, but zero emission vehicles are growing.

About 25% of new sales in 2025 were for zero emission vehicles.

Though we did see adoption slow slightly with changes in federal incentives, as you can see in the graph on the slide.

Fueling an EV in Sacramento is generally less expensive than fueling a gas-powered car, which is great news.

We also completed the EV Blueprint project, which expanded charging access and support supported car share and an e-bike pilot program.

We're also investing in active transportation.

Key milestones in 2025 included completion of the Del Rio Trail and the Niños Parkway phase two, which improves connectivity and safety for active modes.

In the water sector, we're advancing conservation and resilience.

Since 2018, 95 projects have implemented low impact development measures, which helps manage stormwater and support groundwater recharge.

The Department of Utilities also continues robust conservation programs from turf conversion to leak repair and efficiency upgrades.

Adaptation to our climate impacts is increasingly critical.

Our city parks are expanding shade and climate adapted landscaping, which you can see on the left.

And regionally, the water bank improves drought resilience by storing water underground.

Last year alone, the region banked about 23 billion gallons of water.

Our city departments work closely together and regionally we're partnering with agencies like Sacramento County, Elk Grove, and SMUD.

While many climate solutions offer long-term cost savings for residents, funding the city's climate work remains a major challenge.

We rely heavily on competitive grants to advance our work, and recent federal changes have resulted in about 11 million dollars in lost or frozen funding.

So ensuring sustained progress and equitable action will require sustained local investment and new funding strategies.

That concludes my presentation.

We appreciate the opportunity to share about progress, and we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Do you have any public comment on this item?

I have no speakers on this agenda item.

And Councilmember Dickinson.

Well, thank you, Vice Mayor.

And uh I have a variety of areas I'd like to inquire into.

I appreciate I appreciate the update and I just want to drill a little bit further down on some of some of the areas.

I I certainly embrace the efforts that that uh we have made, and obviously it's hard.

It's hard to get all the uh results you want when there are certain parties that uh aren't very supportive, shall we say, um, in this in uh environment.

But uh this is one of those issues where I think truly we have the we do have the opportunity to to think globally and act locally.

So what we do is uh is important uh in this vein as far as uh I'm concerned.

Uh first I wanted to ask a little bit about what is happening with respect to the um climate emergency resolution that was as I understand it adopted by the council by the board of supervisors by the SMUD uh directors and then and then um was a template supposedly for for working together in concert with the other agents what can you can you update us on the on the status of that I you know I'm not entirely uh clear on what you're referring to perhaps that's the the city's climate emergency declaration so I would say uh we have a range of efforts that have led to well you know first the mayor's commission on climate change was a key milestone delivered a set of recommendations that informed our climate action adaptation plan uh development and we are actively working to implement those adopted cap uh policies um and then really working in a range of as Laura noted a range of partnerships with with our local partners SMUD being you know first and foremost or a clear partner and uh work around electrification um but working with the county and elk grove as well so really finding our opportunities to where we have the clearest path to successfully implement adopted CAP policy is really where we're focused at the staff level i is there any sort of regular or routine convening of the staffs from the from the from SMUD and the county and the city to to work on on those implementation elements yeah so we have a standing uh memorandum of understanding with uh the city uh smud the county and city of elk grove around building electrification so that's one one partnership we do have some other ad hoc uh convenings uh among staff between the agencies we have a regional um city and clowny climate working group that involves uh the cities in YOLO and Sacramento and both county agencies so sustainability staff from each of those agencies meet monthly that's kind of a little bit more informal convening that's an opportunity to learn from each other's best practices uh you know learn where we're we're all making progress and where some folks might be hitting some roadblocks that we want to be aware of so a really good opportunity to build that the the community of practitioners and sustainability within the region.

So uh is it have those convenings turned more into information sharing as opposed to to uh a uh move adopting a uh a platform or a work program uh across the three I'm just talking about the county and and uh smud for the moment um adopting some work approach across the three and then implementing that or yeah we're actually uh actually actively in motion right now with the building electrification mo you partners to identify priority projects on which to collaborate so that's they're looking to put some more structure around that that collaboration in the past we've worked collaborative collaboratively through that MOU structure uh actually to prepare two uh separate uh uh larger grant proposals to the department of energy one of those was given a conditional award not ultimately funded but that was a partnership project uh we had one that was a reach code uh proposal that was all four partners the other was for the development of a building performance standards program which was a uh city of sacramento and smud partnership uh again that that particular grant we did get a conditional award but we have not received that funding at this time but we are looking for opportunities to structure those kind of partnerships uh to proactively message around the benefits of electrification and other decarbonization measures in Sacramento is there is there some place where where the common work you're doing among the three or on a bilateral basis uh it is is recorded and uh and available uh we do have uh an approved memorandum of understanding that's kind of our our otherwise it's a little bit more uh it's it's uh each agency then has to work through our own approval processes where we do find opportunity to collaborate on more structured uh projects okay so we don't have a there's not a um you know website with information available for the MOU specific efforts.

It's each of our agencies is communicating through our own uh you know website and other means of communication.

Okay, okay.

I I what I'm I I'd appreciate that.

Uh what I'm thinking is when when you meet, do you do you agree on uh and memorialize uh agreement on we're gonna do this together, we're gonna work on that with that.

That kind of just that that kind of uh recordation that if someone a member of the public um uh or an elected official said, gee, I'd really like to know what was what you guys have been talking about in those meetings and what you've agreed to do that that you could say here, here it is.

We have we uh each meeting is agendized, but it is there is some informality to it, so there's not a formal uh meeting minutes from those meetings.

Uh it's an opportunity for us to collaborate a little bit more informally as as staff.

Um, but again, then if there's formal action that we want to take, we would work through our each of our respective uh leadership uh chains to get that approval to move that work forward.

Okay, okay.

I mean I just think that partnership is is crucially important to what we're we're trying to trying to do universally in the in the area, and um that's why I'm I'm asking whether there's there's some place to to be able to track that in a in effect.

Um so maybe that's something if it's not if it's if it's not too difficult you can incorporate in the next update or report you give us when you come back.

Uh I guess next year is when you're gonna we're gonna see you next, okay.

Um this the second thing I wanted to inquire about is um the what the what the city is doing as an institution to reduce its own emissions so separate apart from trying to get people to electrify their buildings or to buy uh zero emission vehicles, I think what what we're doing, and I know um there are elements to that such as such as uh replacing cars in the fleet with EVs and things of that kind.

I mean, so there are those those uh singular elements, but is there any is there any overarching plan that has been uh developed uh for the city as an institution to reduce its own emissions, repla whether it's replacing lights, reducing waste, uh EVs, and and a target uh that we're working toward as an institution.

Yeah, so I would say it is sort of memorialized in the municipal measures of the CAP.

Um I don't want to speak for facilities and public works, but yes, they are working on I think fleet electrification.

We do have an electrification first policy, I think, for city facilities.

Um, so trying to work towards electrifying our buildings.

We're working with extremely constrained resources, and so it is very challenging.

Um and just providing sort of basic maintenance to our city facilities is a challenge in and of itself, I think.

Uh do you want to bring assistant city manager Ryan Moore?

He's in the audience.

Sure.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Thank you very much.

Uh Mayor Council, Ryan Moore, assistant city manager.

So I I think you had it right.

There are a number of things going on department by department.

So there are everything from LED retrofits in our our buildings.

There's the um the department of utilities is working on a lot of you know the the big energy user in the cities, I'm sure you know, is the water treatment plant and the pumps.

So we are upgrading a lot of that equipment to bring energy use down.

That's been a big effort in the Department of Utilities, fleet electrification.

So it's it's not a larger um unified effort.

It's there's each department has initiatives they're working on.

To me, it would probably be a good idea to bring back an FYM memo to articulate everything that we're doing if it's something you're interested in.

Thanks, Ryan.

I uh I mean I I think it uh it's helpful to have a goal as the city.

Uh uh, recognizing each department's gonna have its part to play, but but it's uh I know when I was um on the board of supervisors uh in 2006 we set a goal by 2010 to to reduce our emissions uh as the county by a certain percentage, and so everybody knew that.

Everybody knew we were working toward that.

Everybody knew what what we had to do, and and I think it fostered more um uh appreciation for for what we were doing.

So I mean, it's just something that that I found to be very useful in that context and thought might might be something here that would make sense.

Sure, be happy to bring something back.

Yeah, okay.

Thanks.

And in a different slightly different vein.

These things, some of these things are cross-cutting.

You know, we have a lot of private parking lots that are unshaded.

I mean, we know the challenges of getting people in their neighborhoods to plant trees for a lot of reasons.

But I wonder would it make any sense from your perspective to, in addition to our public parks and lots trying to increase our tree canopy, to look for opportunities with some of the uh folks who have private parking lots and try to work out something where we combine uh tree donations, say from the tree foundation with working with the property owner.

I I know there's one uh large parking lot, for example, in the district I represent where I've talked to the property owner and they've said well, they'd be really interested.

Now, now they may be less interested if it has a significant price tag attached to it.

Um, but uh um there's I can't remember where it was down in in South Sacramento where actually there was a large private lot that got uh uh tree canopy uh trees planted that could grow into a canopy, and I and there's so much heat island effect, especially um in our uh more challenged neighborhoods from these asphalt or or concrete open areas.

So I is that something that it could make sense from your point of view to add to our program.

Jennifer, do you want to speak to the parking lot sheeting pilot?

Councilmember Dickinson, mayor, counsel, vice mayor, uh Jennifer Donlin Wyon, division manager for mobility and sustainability in public works, and one of my teams is the climate action and sustainability team who are working to do actually a parking lot greening program.

We're piloting how can we install trees in parking lots?

What are the things we need to think about?

Because it's one thing for trees to be planted, it's another thing to think about the irrigation they need, and often irrigation is the biggest cost that would be for the developers or the property owners at the time.

So we're looking into that, and we will create information packets.

We're gonna be doing engagement to property owners about the outcomes of this pilot and how do we move it forward.

So we're thinking about it and we're moving, it's figuring out how we can make it work.

Okay, Jennifer, thank you.

I'll be um interested to talk to you about this particular location that I think would be a great pilot.

And I think irrigation is the big issue.

So we can talk we can talk more about that.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Um, you were i and you and you know in the uh document that you were interested in working on a uh building electrification strategy with a reach code and that AB 102 has limited the ability to pursue that.

Uh and so, yeah, uh I don't know if uh if if you can, but I I thought the way AB 102 came out is it largely preserved the ability of local governments to pursue REACH codes.

Can you can you talk a little bit more about the status of that?

Okay.

Yeah, so um the one the one thing that we have found with uh in in the maybe AB 130 is uh just want to make sure we're talking about the same legislation that uh limited the ability of local agencies to adopt reach codes.

Uh there are there are several exception pathways.

Uh one key one that we've tracked is uh an exception for if uh local agency is implementing policy that was adopted in a general plan.

And so our initial take is that leaves us some um some room for adopting reach codes.

There is some uncertainty on how that's going to be uh ultimately be interpreted by the California Building Standards Commission, which currently does have a number of applications from other local agencies around the state.

So we're tracking how that is, you know, how that process plays out, how uh CBSC ultimately uh determines their ultimate determination on those uh reach code proposals.

So you at this point you're in a a wait and watch posture.

And do you have any okay, and do you have any expectation about when the Building Standards Commission is likely to conclude on this?

We don't know.

Um there's a number of cities who have adopted REACH codes, sort of following.

Well, there were a number of cities that actually rushed to adopt prior to the AB 130 deadline, which I think was last October, and then there were several, there's been a range of cities that have passed them sort of using this exemption for general plan policy.

Um since then, none of them have been accepted by the California Building Standards Commission, and we haven't heard any um feedback from the the um California Building Standards Commission on sort of when they will um make that determination.

So they they asked cities for some additional information um regarding sort of how they um felt they fell into this exemption pathway and haven't heard anything since then.

So when you say none of them had been accepted, have they been rejected?

They haven't been rejected either, yeah.

So not acted upon.

I think basically AB 130 was you know adopted um by the legislature, but it some of the language in the legislation is a bit unclear um in sort of how uh applies um to the California Building Standards Code, and so I think it's really the the California Building Standards Commission trying to sort of true up those two things.

Um the uh I I'm interested in that, but I'm uh in the same vein I'm interested.

I see that the Bay Area Air Management Quality District, air management quality, air quality management district uh is on the cusp of adopting a requirement for replacement of gas um water heaters with with water pumps, electric water pumps.

And given the uh litigation involving Berkeley a few years ago that caused the city, this city to suspend its efforts to do the same thing.

I'm I'm wondering if you're tracking what's going on with with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and what authority they think gives them the ability to do what seems to be the equivalent of what Berkeley was was doing.

Yeah, and um might pass this over to Laura in a second here because she's got some details.

Uh so the the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is pursuing a zero Knox rule, so uh it really is looking at regulating nitrogen oxides rather than fuel type, and that really is the the uh core difference between uh the Ninth Circuit's ruling uh against Berkeley's ordinance that that was really resting upon the energy policy uh energy EPCA, please can you help me with it?

Policy conservation energy policy conservation act, thank you.

Um and so really looking really resting in different different elements of the law.

Um there's been a similar effort in Southern California as well, which uh I believe did not pass through the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

So there's a lot of folks around the state tracking what's happening in the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, but I will note that we may not have the same pathway available to us uh based on our uh attainment status regarding nitrogen oxides in uh the Sacramento uh air air management district.

So okay.

So first of all, um your opinion would be that something here would have to go through go through the APCD, the air quality management district and AQMD, I should say, as opposed to control officer, but AQMD and it's tied to reducing uh nitrogen oxides or oxides of nitrogen since we're an attainment status, you think that might not be available.

That's our understanding based on conversations with the air district.

Okay.

Uh uh, okay, it's just it's it's you know it's fascinating to see what they're what they're doing.

Um, and trying to look for an avenue to to get to that point where we can where we can um ensure that the conversion happens to electrification, and at least in that regard uh I wanted to um turn for a moment to uh transportation um and uh you you talked about it in your presentation where you know we've seen the the at least in the the new sales market the numbers go down a little bit the percentages go down a little bit for for EVs uh with the with the demise of the federal um credits uh but uh from my um observation uh I'm not so sure that it's subsidizing the purchase price of EVs and the purchase price that are coming down there's some less expensive options in that in that regard uh I'm more I'm more concerned of about the the charging infrastructure and I think that the that is the that is the the hill a lot of people can't get over having confidence that if they have an EV they'll easily be able to charge it especially especially if they live in a multifamily uh building that doesn't have charging they can't so they can't charge at home there was a study I don't know three four years ago now by the energy commission that that found that 80% of charging happens at home so uh I'm I'm always uh looking for ways we can increase the availability of of uh charging infrastructure in a in a public environment in order to try to compensate um since the efforts to at least at the state level to to require charging infrastructure in private buildings has has been pretty much stuck over the years for for a variety of reasons so uh with with that preamble um I had a couple questions one are you uh working on something to bring us as an ordinance to permit or if it doesn't require an ordinance doing this um uh at a staff level to implement uh the legislation that uh was carried by the mayor as an assembly member to allow curbside charging good afternoon jennifer down and public works and we are working on that so that is our curbside charging policy we've had a framework since before the pandemic and we are my mobility parking and curb management team is working to bring that forward we will have it before the end of the year as required by the legislation.

Okay great thank thank you jennifer thank you for that work I'll look forward to to seeing that uh council member you before Jennifer can I can I dig in on that yeah yeah uh so we had done a digital kiosk ordinance to try to look at on-site charging with that because sometimes the cost symmetrics the cost to actually put that charger in and and pay for it um was uh could be offset by advertisement what what what's the what's the progress on that have we done anything on that mayor pretem gera I remember that that was a number of years ago I'll have to check with my team on that and get back to you I remember we did pass that to cover the costs because you're right costs for installation of public charges is is expensive.

But we can report back to you okay thank you.

Sure.

And are there other are there other initiatives that that uh you're taking to to try and increase uh the availability of of charging infrastructure in the city.

So uh we we have uh limited work in motion right now I'll just preface everything by noting that the 2025 California building code uh more or less doubled requirements for new charging for charging infrastructure and new development so there is a substantial amount of new charging infrastructure coming online as new development happens.

As you note, the existing buildings are really the challenge, especially existing multifamily.

So we don't have a any formal work in progress.

We have some some work around uh tracking EV adoption um and some conversations in motion with community partners.

There is some interest certainly from SMUD in supporting retrofitting multifamily housing and seeing how that can happen.

I don't want to speak to SPUD's uh work that they may uh be moving forward in the near term, but that there may be some opportunities to to see change there.

Certainly in tracking technology, there's a lot of innovation right now happening around how do we get charging infrastructure into existing multifamily affordably.

And you know, there's so many different types of of multifamily developments that there's no one size fits all, but there are some opportunities I think that will become more available going forward.

Um so I would just say that there's we have we have some light work with you know in coordination with with partners, but very limited, we don't have a clear ordinance pathway in front of us at this time.

Okay, thanks.

One one aspect in particular, um I've I have been I've been told by um one of my fellow SMUD directors when I when I was asking him about getting more charging uh uh capacity in say the 10th and L garage or the downtown garage, and he told me that that the real obstacle is um transformer capacity, that that they can't they can't uh locate enough energy because it's hard to put a transfer on a parking garage to get more uh stations or locations sited, and um if that is the case, then about looping back to the work uh under the MOU, uh I'm just I'm wondering if that's something that you're talking to SMUD at all about how either you can uh or SMUD could add transformer capacity or or you can have some other approach that could allow allow more charging units in the uh I mean uh especially the uh I'm there may be other garages, but especially the 10th and L garage where I see that though those units are so oversubscribed all the time that uh except on weekends and nights, I suppose, but during the during uh workday, um normal work day, uh I wonder if there's just anything that's under discussion or planning with in that respect.

Um I would say, you know, first that I think SMUD is actively planning internally, so that we don't necessarily always have transparency about their their system planning.

Yeah, uh I will note that we have some early discussions in motion again.

Uh first I'll talk about the building electrication MOU is really structured around building electrification, so looking at in particular uh with an emphasis on our existing built environment.

So thinking about charging for uh EVs is is outside the scope of that particular partnership.

Um but I would say SMUD is planning for this on the local agency level, we do have requirements that that flow with uh the local electrification planning act AB39.

So we have uh until twenty one, twenty thirty to to uh uh comply with that act, um but that is something that I think is gonna drive uh coordination between SMUD and local agencies, including the city, to really plan at that finer grain scale that we need to to really meet the challenge of that increased demand at in particular, you know, charging nodes are really gonna be a key piece.

Yeah, I mean I think and the um memorial auditorium garage, I think maybe in the same boat, but these garages are real opportunities, it seems it seems to me.

So whatever whatever we can do to push that envelope.

Yes, thank you.

Jennifer's here.

Thank you.

Uh Councilmember Dickinson.

If I just may add, um, part of the challenge we're seeing over capacity in our parking garages is that there's free charging.

Um and so, you know, if you ever read the high cost of free parking, it also applies to the high cost of free charging.

And so there's a great demand.

We are working towards turning on charging for all of our publicly available car charging spots within our garages.

One, of course, to recoup the costs to pay for the maintenance, but also to get that turnover that we need so that people aren't parking there all day and are parking within the four hours.

And then as we we grow and we expand, ideally we'll have additional funding to not only help with um the transformers but also provide more chargers.

Well, I'm speaking of which I I assume there is no enforcement of the of the I mean it says you four hours max and some of the spaces two hours max.

I I I just assume there's no enforcement of that.

I don't do enforcement, and our enforcing team is not here today, so I can't speak to that.

There comes Matt.

Oh, great.

Matt is here.

Great.

Parking enforcement.

Good afternoon, vice Mayor, members of the city council, Matt Ironman, director of public works.

Uh so to answer the um the question, yes, sir is enforcement.

We do uh two-hour enforcement or four-hour enforcement on all of the signage and city-owned parking facilities.

Um so we keep those turned over.

Uh we think a better way of doing it is going to be really a holding fee, right?

Or overage fee where you start to charge uh over the time uh which will get people incentivized to move those cars quickly.

And you're absolutely correct, uh Mr.

Dickinson.

Um, it's it's a transformer issue, but uh partial of what uh Jennifer Dahl and Wine is talking about is it's an imbalance of the system.

If it's free on in the city garages, uh most people will favor those versus paying for somewhere else.

So we're trying to we're trying to work with the state and the and the county to actually get on the same program so that way it's not an influx in our facilities only.

So and we and uh when you say an overage charge, you mean if they're still charging after the time, whatever the time limit is, then that bumps up the rate.

That's correct, or if if they're full and uh and it's over two hours, we would charge uh a fee to stay there.

Okay, oh that uh I think that would be a good.

Yes, that would be um uh technically a much better approach, wouldn't it?

And it's it's it's it feels better than a parking citation, right?

No, it saves a parking enforcement officer having to circulate through the garage as well.

That's correct, yeah.

Okay.

Well, thank you.

We good luck with that.

Um I think that would help.

Turning over the turning over the spaces would really help, um, no question.

Uh and staying with vehicles for a moment, and and um your report uh this I don't know, this may be a Ryan question, I'm not sure.

It says it says the city currently operates a total fleet of 2190 vehicles, including nine eleven hundred and ninety light due light duty duty vehicles, of which 140 are Zevs.

Um so that's a little bit more than 10 percent.

Now I know we've got a policy on replacement of vehicles in the city, and it and I it from what I can recall after I heard about it, it's a good policy, but but it it uh it's that does seem after the period of time that I suspect this policy's been in place to be a relatively small percentage.

Is that just due to the r the turnover of the of the fleet primarily?

Some of it has to do with turnover, but it's also supply and demand as well, right?

Uh the type of vehicles that were we require in our fleet.

Uh we are working on uh our heavy duty equipment uh as well, right?

And you know, there's not there's not a huge um supply of vehicles uh for our emergency situations like the VAC trucks or uh but we are buying up as many lightnings as we can.

We we pretty much bought up all the bolts, right?

And so light duty we're we are very on top of it's just really supply supply issue from the manufacturers and and we source these things um wherever we can really.

We we try to stay local and and supply uh through our local businesses, but uh but we do we do outsource um whenever we can.

So um you don't necessarily buy based on this adding on to the state contract, for example, like some agencies do.

Uh we do use custorgium uh, you know, and uh and get on to those as well.

Uh but we we source them any which way we can get uh the vehicles, and as you can imagine, there's a high demand, especially in the public sector for these vehicles.

So often often we find ourselves uh falling short, but normally the light duty we will um we'll work with the each department to make sure that uh it works for them, and then we'll we'll we'll purchase those for the departments.

Okay, uh, I personally encourage as much as possible um that getting EVs in our fleet for a variety of reasons, but uh I'm a I'm a believer as well.

Uh and they work in in many cases for our operations.

Uh you know, most departments have a hundred percent uh adopted EV.

Um but uh we're working through the heavy heavy-duty vehicles, um, because that's gonna be a big change for us, and whether it's it's gonna be electrification or hydrogen.

But then there's the charging infrastructure, and then there's the uh really what smud can deliver uh at that point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Then there are other other limits, yeah.

Thanks, Matt.

Um and I'm sure to everyone's relief, the last thing I wanted to ask about uh is whether you have whether you have considered the desirability and feasibility of of creating a climate resilience district, either with the city alone or with some of our sister uh jurisdictions, great piece of legislation, by the way, councilmember Dickinson, uh Vice Mayor, Council Jennifer Donlin Ryan.

We are evaluating the feasibility of that.

One of the things that uh we're going to be meeting with our finance director to talk about what are the possibilities, what are the implications, uh, what are things that we should should consider as we consider the possibility of a district.

But we're it's on our plate, it's on our work plan of something to look at.

I think I do think that it you know it could we could create a district actually with not just the other general-purpose jurisdictions, but but um with regional transit with smud with uh you know a host of agencies potentially, and and um as you probably know it's got a variety of ways you can you can generate funding, so it may open some additional options for funding for funding those kinds of things you're finding so challenging if if we if we look into it and we're successful.

Okay, thank thank you.

Thanks for uh all the work.

Thank you for the indulgence.

Um I'll end where I've gone.

This is I that I think this is the preeminent issue.

Uh uh, we we face a lot of current issues that are in fact our priorities, but if we or those who follow us can't breathe, uh the rest of it becomes pretty irrelevant.

So thanks very much.

Thank you.

Uh Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Uh Ditto on everything, Councilmember Dickinson uh asked.

Just want to follow up on a couple things because it's a balance of city of Sacramento, but also our regional transit.

In North Natomas, I have a lot of land that has been set aside and was supposed to be for the green line, which is you know, light rail, but there is a timeline to encumber that land, and you know, I am not on regional transit, some of my colleagues are.

Uh I have talked to regional transit about how do we look at bus rapid transit, but I'm very concerned at the pace because I think those lands revert back to developers if we do not encumber them and have plans on them by 2029, and that is a massive loss for Nethomas.

When we talk about climate change in the future, we know that vehicle emissions are the number one driver of climate change, and getting people out of their cars and into reliable public transit is just the number one thing we can do.

And while we aren't the complete drivers of that, it's how do we work with STA and SAC uh RT, it is so important that we actually as a city drive to make sure that one SAC RT reopens up the green line so that the EIR allows for bus rapid transit and that we actually encumber those lands.

Like we've got a little time, but considering at the rate that government works, uh 2029 is not a long time away.

And so I want to make sure we don't that gap that doesn't get missed, because we know it's gonna be billions of dollars, and light rail isn't coming.

Light rail is already over the river, but bus rapid transit going through Netomas to the airport should be a priority being you know the thirty-third largest city in the United States.

The fact that we don't have true viable public transportation from the airport to downtown.

You know, in my in my in my 20s it used to be the yellow bus.

The fact that yellow bus is taking me to the airport and not anything within Sacramento County we should do better.

And that's you know 20 years ago I was I was taking the yellow bus to the airport.

And then you know my second love as we all know is trees.

And we've talked about like our canopy and Nathomas uh we have less than many other areas because we're a new growth area but what I haven't really heard is how are we partnering because there's only so much land the city has the next biggest landowner are our school districts what are we doing to partner with our school districts because many of the areas that need more trees are also in our low income areas where we could also be helping those schools plant trees which would have the benefit for the kids cleaning the air in the entire environment are is that something we're looking at thank you for being here today I am so glad I'm here today.

Councilmember Kaplan Jennifer Donlin Wyatt Public Works we are partnering with school districts for trees.

Part of our challenge is we actually had a grant in District 8 funded through the federal government to partner with Sac City for trees.

Rosa Parks I believe was the school we lost that grant under the federal administration luckily other partners were able to come together and those trees were were um planted at the school so it is definitely something on our radar is something that we are pursuing and as funding opportunities arise we partner with the school districts all of the school districts in the city to find opportunity for opportunities for the trees.

So I think that's great but I think also what would be helpful because I have relationships with all of the schools in my area what would that cost and what does that partnership look like so if I go to the superintendent and say this is how much it would cost for us to partner to do this because then potentially site councils where the district may not have money but the local site council or the PTA or the parents would want to get involved in that and that's like the next stage I'm actually looking for of how can I partner with individual schools because it shouldn't depend on what the overarching budget is of the district but but uh each individual school site also gets money or if it's like hey I can sponsor 250 and I can get another community member to do 250 and we raise a thousand dollars how many trees do we get because then that come becomes part of the facilities MO of the school district not necessarily the city but what does that partnership look like so if we have like just a document that could see here's what you want to do here's what the cost is I think we could actually work faster and getting those partnerships.

I will talk with my team about that that would be that would be great.

Thank you.

You're welcome I appreciate that and besides we all know we have amazing plans and no funding that's just my comment I don't know if there is a way when we look at these plans prioritizing what we should find funding first that has the greatest impact for the reduction on uh you know emissions and pollution that's probably maybe the next thing I'm looking at is we've looked all of these and we have all of these plans how do we look at instead of just the you know my famous Chuck E cheese whack a mole uh what is the best return on on on investment um that would be just as something we think about moving forward.

Thank you.

Seeing no other members to sign up to speak.

Is this review, comment, and provide directions so we don't need a motion.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

And next up we have the 2040 general plan annual report.

Welcome.

Sorry, just waiting for the slides.

Awesome.

All right, thank you for your time today, Vice Mayor and Council members.

My name is Amy Yang, and I am a senior planner with the long-range planning team in the community development department.

In this presentation this afternoon, I will be providing a high-level overview of the 2040 general plan annual report for 2025.

This presentation covers how the annual report is organized, the thematic framework for the report, a brief overview of each section of the report, as well as how we have reported on implementing actions and sustainability and equity indicators.

The body of the 2040 general plan annual report spotlights major projects and city initiatives that exemplify the 2040 vision and guiding principles.

Appendix A provides a copy of said 2040 vision and guiding principles.

Appendix B includes a table of status updates on the general plan's 79 implementing actions.

Updates are provided in partnership with multiple departments across the city who have key roles in helping to implement these actions.

Appendix C includes a table of status updates on the general plan's nine sustainability and equity indicators where possible, which help track the city's progress toward a more sustainable and equitable community.

The vision and guiding principles are the foundation for the goals, policies, and actions in the 2040 general plan.

Because of this, we have highlighted a number of city projects that align with and support these principles.

The guiding principles for sustainable and responsible growth, focus on issues such as promoting a compact development pattern, ensuring a broad mix of housing types, and creating a city that is a model of sustainable living.

The guiding principles for resiliency and climate action focus on issues such as working toward carbon neutrality, addressing environmental hazards, and promoting environmental health and resilience, as well as improving our city's tree canopy and green infrastructure.

The guiding principles for safe, equitable, inclusive, excuse me, and just city focus on issues such as prioritizing community resources toward historically disadvantaged communities, responsive public services, and care for the homeless.

The guiding principles for regional economic hub focused on issues such as fostering small local businesses, cradle to career pipeline opportunities, and creating a civic and cultural hub.

The guiding principles for livability and sense of place focus on issues such as pride of place, access to nature, and supporting the local arts community.

And finally, the guiding principles for interconnected accessible city focused on issues such as connection between Sacramento neighborhoods, multimodal transportation system, and prioritization of safety and human life on the streets.

As mentioned earlier, the 2040 general plan includes 79 implementing actions.

Some actions have been completed, some are in progress, and some reflect ongoing city programs.

Appendix B provides a status update of each action where available.

The equity and sustainability indicators help track the city's progress toward a more sustainable and equitable community.

They show us where we need improvement and also where we have seen success.

Appendix C provides a status update of each indicator where available.

Thank you for your time today.

That concludes my presentation.

Okay, thank you.

Madam Clerk, is there any members of the public signed up to speak?

I have one speaker on this item, Lambert.

Mr.

Davis.

And this person who just made the uh presentation gave me clarity.

I needed to get clarity.

The millennials keep me busy, and they wanted to know what is the difference between the general plan and general fund, and I have that, so thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Davis.

Um, Councilmember Maple.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Um, and thank you for the presentation.

Uh, I know this is you know, the 2040 general plan has been updates, have been a lot a lot of work over many years, they're very iterative, um, and there's a lot of different components.

So I appreciate that this is just a quick update.

Um, my question is actually pretty specific, and that is to um lot splits.

So I know there's SB9 and then SB 450, which allowed the sale for lot splits, and I last I heard I believe that we were updating our codes to allow for that.

Do we have an update of timeline?

Or has it already been done and I missed it?

I don't know.

I'm looking over here to the housing folks.

Good afternoon, uh Councilmember Remington does a lot of range planning manager.

I am uh not uh aware of the time line off the top of my head, but I'm happy to look into it and follow up.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, just to follow up over email, be great.

Thank you.

Um, just really curious.

I um recently attended an event um hosted by the Realtors, and ended up basically pitching our ADU um website to like 20 or 30 people, and they were amazed at you know the pre uh the pre-approved plans on there, all the things that are being offered, um, and they a lot of people genuinely didn't know it existed, and so I was pretty proud in that moment.

I'm like, yes, look at all these cool things that we have in the tools on the website.

Um, but I did get some questions also from folks um who have larger lots and places like Oak Park, and I'm sure other places in the city where they might want to maybe build multiple different kinds of ADUs and be able to possibly sell those, and so um I would love to get back to them.

So with that, thank you.

All right, seeing no other members to sign up to speak, you're good to go.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

And now we will do public comment on items not on the agenda.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I have eight speakers.

The first is Lambert.

Following Lambert is uh Kalum Lato, Annabelle Gonzalez, Sandra Sharp, Myra Bennett, then Abigail Tweeton.

Okay, uh I wanted to make an announcement to uh Mr.

Dickerson, and really the whole rostrum, uh those who care.

Uh during the uh suite 16.

A lot of people, I don't know, the sweet 16 when it was in Sacramento, the millennials they uh approached me about a move that only they could come up with, and they said, Hey, uh, why don't we get cheesecakes and carrot cake to the players?

You know, this is uh the women's basketball team.

And I said, Well, how are we gonna do it?

And they said, Well, we'll reach out to the coaches through social media.

All the coaches were women of the coaches, and so that that came to Sacramento, and it worked because some of the coaches didn't even know me.

They just reached out, and they're very famous coaches, they're very famous coaches, and some of the players were drafted.

I saw Mr.

Dickerson and his wife at the game.

He didn't see me because we were enjoying the game.

We didn't want to talk politics and all that.

Turns out now that some of these women have signed very lucrative contracts.

If you look at the WNBA, and some of them have reached back to us, they reach to them, they don't reach to me.

I just follow what they say, and these are some very young, very wealthy players, and I wish them well.

They asked me one thing of advice, and I said, Yeah.

Now that you're millionaires, get your parents out of debt and go from there.

And don't forget about us.

Next speaker is Caleb Lotto, Annabelle Gonzalez.

Hi, my name is Calum Lotto.

I'm a voter and little pocket in a lifelong Sacramentan.

I'm also a transfer student from Sacramento City Community College to Sacramento State University.

So in addition to my roots here, I'm also the community organizer for Better Ballot Sacramento, or ranked choice voting or RCV initiative here launched by our county's League of Women Voters.

We're supported by a huge coalition spanning the whole city, including neighborhood associations, political clubs, nonprofits, and we have been endorsed by uh many of those who seek to have upgraded elections here in Sacramento.

Uh I'm here to thank the members of the council who have signed our petition.

Your support is essential.

So I have another ask if you could.

We would love if you would support ranked choice voting by putting it on the ballot uh this November.

This council has the power to give Sacramento the choice to strengthen democracy and upgrade our elections here.

Uh and this is a popular choice.

In places where ranked choice voting has been adopted, voters understand and enjoy it.

So again, please support ranked choice voting by putting this initiative on the ballot.

So Sacramento has the opportunity to adopt a fairer way to vote.

Thank you.

Annabelle Gonzalez, then Sandra Sharp.

No data, no money.

This is how the federal government runs HUD.

If a program cannot show who came in, who came out, and where they went, it does not get funded.

Sacramento does not follow that rule.

Sacramento puts it on the consent calendar.

Two words most people have not heard, but it is where the biggest decisions of the city of the city quietly disappear.

My name is Annabelle Gonzalez, 12-year North Atomas homeowner, CEO of ASO.

Today is my birthday.

And thank you.

And the only thing I'm asking for is transparency.

What better way to spend my birthday than to learn and talk about the city I love?

Today's agenda had 19 items.

14 of them get one vote.

No debate, no discussion.

Three of those 14 are homeless contracts.

Emergency shelter vouchers, the city motel program, step up on 2nd Street.

And I have to also mention, thank you, Lisa, and thank you, Eric, for speaking about items on the consent calendar.

So these three ask for 3.6 million dollars today.

They add to a program that has already cost more than 46 million in five years.

Federal COVID money put paid for most of it.

That money is gone.

State HHAP money is being cut in half.

So who picks up the bill?

The general fund, our tax dollars.

Last year the city's auditor reported, and only 32% of participants reach permanent housing, and over 50,000 in invoices could not be verified.

When was a public consultant on these contracts, on these operators, on the cost per night, on the outcomes?

Sacramento said says it has no money, but somehow there is always more for the same operators, the same motels, the same contracts.

We are not out of money, we are out of accountability.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Sandra Sharp, then Myra Bennett, then Abigail Tweeton, Daniel Mino, and then Paula Lee.

Good afternoon.

I'm um here seeking any kind of help I can get with um I'm gonna try not to get emotional.

My dog about two weeks ago, we needed to have an emergency life saving surgery, and I cannot afford our vet bill.

Um I'm homeless and have been homeless for about two and a half years now.

Um, and it was suggested by a friend that I come and talk to city council and see if maybe you guys could help me to get my dog returned home.

Um, I owned her mom and dad, and I lost her mom to the same illness that my dog had.

Um, and thank thankfully they were able to save her.

But it's been almost two weeks now, and they're gonna put her up for adoption if I'm not able to get if I'm not able to come up with some sort of finances or help.

I've started to go find me, um, without much luck.

Um, um, I don't I don't know what to do.

I'm seeking any help I can get on this matter, even if it's just advice.

Thank you for hearing me.

Next speaker is Myra Bennett and Abigail Tweeton.

Hello, my name is Myra Bennett, and I live in the 95822 area of Sacramento.

And I would just like to thank my council member, Mr.

Jennings for supporting ranked choice voting, and to thank you in advance for voting to place it on the ballot in November.

Next speaker is Abigail.

Following Abigail Daniel and Fala.

Hello, City Councils.

My name is Abigail Tweeton.

I represent a young voter base, and I am vice president of the College Democrats of Sacramento State.

On behalf of the College Democrats of Sacramento State, I'm here to let the council and mayor know that young voters and students are in strong support of ranked choice voting and want to see it on the ballot this upcoming November of 2026.

Young voters will remember and support and thank you for putting ranked choice voting on the ballot.

Thank you for your time.

Good afternoon.

My name is Daniel Mono, and I'm a longtime Sacramento citizen and a SAC state teaching credential program student who believes traveling in ranked choice voting.

As you all know, not only does RCV change the system to allow votes to count, even if someone's first choice is not picked, it mitigates the recent surge in black and white or blue and red, thinking that truly hampers a healthy democratic system.

I'm here to advocate for ranked choice voting as someone who worked on Speaker Robert Reeves's first campaign for assembly in 2018 and has worked with Andrew Cutchfield, a former national political director at United America, which has worked hard on ranked choice voting across the country and whose slogan is county over party.

He also was a former director of Governor for California political philanthropy group that aims to help all Californians regardless of party.

You may know about it, but yeah.

Andrew explained ranked choice voting to me about a decade ago, and I realized very quickly, and I still believe that it's uh that's worth having in place and it's important to have it placed.

It's not mine is saying that a lot of you can agree with that, um, and I appreciate that.

Um, I think it's an important part of um improving our democracy.

I believe strongly in uh it can help Sacramento's help improve Sacramento's democratic process and thus assist in a best serving Sacramentans.

Please put this on the November 26th ballot.

Thank you for all the work you do, and thank you for hearing from your voters.

Paula Lee will be our final speaker.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council.

Paula Lee, on behalf of Better Ballot Sacramento.

Uh, I'm here to thank Councilmember Vang for submitting a request that ranked choice voting be agendized.

Thank you, my bang.

And I want to thank the mayor for sending this to the law and ledge committee.

I note for the public that the members of the law and ledge committee are Katie Maple, Phil Pluckybaum, Eric Gera, and Roger Dickinson.

I know many of you have signed our petition supporting putting ranked choice voting on the next ballot.

Maybe all of you.

And I thank you because having it on the ballot as a question for voters allows us to debate whether or not we want this upgrade to our electoral system, that many other jurisdictions have shown to be so positive for voters and candidates and for taxpayers.

The coalition has provided the approved legal language for the ballot, and the city attorney has written the ballot title and summary for the ranked choice voting for Sacramento Act.

We hope this will save the city the money and time we have already invested.

If there are other ways to help move this process along in preparation for what long ledge committee might need prior to their June 9th meeting, please let us know.

And if any of you would like a review of the benefits of our proposal, let us know.

We'd be happy to meet with you.

Or you can check out our website, BetterBallot Sacramento.org, where we compare ranked choice voting to our current system.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor I have no more speakers.

Or none of the Council Commons AB 1234 reports.

Seeing that, this meeting is adjourned at 3 30.