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I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing.

Come back to the last side.

I'm a student at UC Davis.

I heard that morning a few times.

I want to be a community servant.

I want to be a community servant.

I want to look into what the community servant is.

I'm doing an internship with UCCS.

I'm excited to learn more about how you guys all work as a team or what you guys do every day and how you guys interact with the community.

That's something that I'm interested in just learning more from.

My majors are a political science public service and community and regional development.

I'm interested in more in how communities work.

That's why I was here.

I wanted to come to work with the city and see how everything works together.

Welcome to City Hall.

It's a wonderful program.

I literally owe my career's directory to it.

We're so glad that you're here.

With that, I now call this meeting of the Sacramento City Council law and legislation committee to order at 11.04 a.m.

Madam City Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, council member Dickinson.

Council member Pleckybaum.

Council member Jennings.

Thank you.

And Chair Maple.

Thank you very much.

And council member Dickinson, would you mind leading us in the land acknowledgement in the pledge of allegiance?

You can find the perfect.

Just a center.

Thank you.

Always.

Thank you.

All right.

Everyone has already risen.

Thank you for this opening acknowledgement and honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, the valley, Plainsmewok, the Patwin-Wintan peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancharia, 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 of Sacramento's Indigenous peoples, history, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

And if you would join me in the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much, council member, and also want to extend a very warm welcome to our two new members of the Law and Legislation Committee, council member Dickinson and council member Pluckybaum welcome.

So with that, the consent calendar, any items that members wish to speak on separately or discuss or vote on separately?

Okay. Do we have any public comment?

Here I have one, Kai on. Welcome. And Mr. Ones speaking on item one.

Good morning, all members. My name is Kai on last meeting. I was here talk about.

My father was killed in downtown Sacramento. This report I was given inside SPD headquarters.

At the commission should have the jurisdiction to look into why. Oppat director Miss, washington.

I'm going to get to investigation report. I emailed the committee to request to add to the agenda item to discussion.

Why? At the commission had no jurisdiction to look into the Oppat directors and city manager,

so I'm going to get to the committee item.

I'll be the next item.

I'll be the next item.

I'll be the next item.

I'll be the next item.

I'll be the next item.

I'll be the next item.

Mr. chair, please say aye.

You pose it.

Passes unanimously.

We move on to item number three on the discussion calendar.

2025 planning and zoning work program.

Good morning chair.

Members of the long legislation committee, Greg Samlin,

with the community development department.

And today I'm sharing with you the 2025 planning

and zoning work program.

This is the fourth year we've taken this board

through commission, the committee and council

to approve a work program that helps to prioritize

our various initiatives, help inform the public

about what we do.

And in terms of the presentation overview,

some more background on this process,

highlight some of the work program accomplishments

in 2024 as well as note some of the key initiatives

that will be working on this year.

So in terms of the process,

I presented the work program

at the Planning and Design Commission in September 2024

to get their comments and questions.

In the staff report, you'll see an attachment

where I respond to those different comments

and recommendations.

And then in November, the commission forward

to the work program to the city council.

Today we're here to get the law and legislation's input

and we're asking you to forward the work program

on to the city council for adoption in late January this month.

As for the 2024 work program evaluation,

some of the key accomplishments, of course,

topping it off with a 2040 general plan,

Climate Action Adaptation Plan, S3IR,

adopted in February.

We had two, what I would call zoning code,

two Nups, our omnivac amendment ordinances,

long overdue, really to help with process improvements

and just helping things just move along smoothly

and our development process.

Two important neighborhood level or community level plans,

the forward together,

Mary'sville, the possible of our action plan

and Stockton Boulevard plan were adopted.

Key implementation measure of our climate action plan

and action adaptation plan,

the existing building electrification strategy was adopted.

And then of course, the interim ordinance

to permit missing little housing,

which took the policy from the general plan

and now we can now permit missing little housing

in our, through our planning and development code.

Other projects are initiated last year.

The Rizone program for consistency,

whether 2040 general plan and housing element

as well as updating the planning and development code.

I'll get into that a little bit more soon.

And also vacant spaces study,

looking at strategies to activate vacant sites

and buildings in our city.

Some work that wasn't anticipated was a research

and analysis on cannabis consumption lounges.

We worked on a very large grant,

two grants for the Department of Energy

to help implement our building electrification strategies.

And then also we initiated a small developer incubator

program that we're working on right now.

So some of the key initiatives.

And our in the work program,

you'll see it is organized by topic and geography.

So citywide policies, housing policies,

neighborhood community planning, climate inequity

and then some ongoing programmatic work that we do

that uses a lot of the time from our plan

is otherwise we work on policy.

So citywide policy, we allocate about 600 hours

to working on just ordinances and updates

to the latest state legislation and this year is no different.

So we have quite a lot of work to do

and adjustments to our codes and our processes

and application forms.

The general plan will be bringing ahead

in annual report now that the general plan is adopted,

reporting out and how we are doing

in our various implementation programs.

And I'll just note most of the work program here is

comprised of initiatives that have been identified

in the general plan, the housing element

or the climate action adaptation plan.

But also of course with council direction as well.

So we are updating our planning and development code.

Pretty comprehensive effort, looking at consolidating

some zones, implementing the policies of the general plan,

rezoning some parcels, certainly quite a few

if we do zoning consolidation.

And then also we are looking at environmental justice

in our zoning, looking at incompatible uses,

other processes and development standards

to make sure that we're not impacting

surrounding sensitive uses.

Canvass code amendments.

We will be taking forward in spring 2024,

the changes that were recommended by council

a couple of years ago after looking at the

count per heads of canvas study,

but also working in a process for permitting

cannabis lounges.

As for housing policy, the mixed income housing ordinance,

we continue to look at that.

We're updating the market feasibility analysis.

This year, the last one was done in 2021

and then we'll be coming back for a discussion

with council on some of the latest recommendations

for you to consider.

AB 1033, this is ordinance that could permit

the sale of ADUs on someone's property.

All ordinance work is one thing,

it's also looking at what happens after

insetting up the Homeowners Association

and maintenance of common property.

So something we're continuing to look at.

Moveable tiny homes, a concept of someone

being able to take some an ADU on wheels

essentially and wheel it into their back yard

and have permanent hookups could be a more

affordable way to bring an ADUs.

So we're looking at best practices.

Financial assistance, always looking at

different ways to help fund this

and we're looking at hopefully to incentivize

rental of ADUs by lower income households

or even utilizing housing choice vouchers.

So another thing we're exploring.

Our pro housing designation,

we're the first pro housing city in California.

We have the highest score.

Now we have the second highest score.

We need to reapply, hopefully we get the highest score again.

So it's a fair amount of work, but it's worth it

in light of just obviously just the designation

but also helping to leverage other types of financing

to build more affordable housing.

Neighborhood and community planning,

the River District specific plan is underway.

We hope to have a public outreach kickoff

made 2025 with a draft plan in the fall.

Central City specific plan, we're working on RFP

for consultants again coming out

with a public kickoff by the end of the year.

Our action plans, I just mentioned earlier,

the forward together plan as well as the Stockton Boulevard plan

both have $500,000 in grants

that we can help leverage additional financing

and investment in these commercial corridors.

So excited about that program this year.

In the city on 100 in Tuaker site,

we'll be coming back to council in February

of this year to confirm guiding principles

on how that site would be developed

and then also looking at likely bringing on a consultant

to help facilitate a public private partnership

and investment in that site.

Climate and equity policy.

So continuing to implement the existing building

electrification strategy looking at building performance

standards for large commercial buildings

as well as potentially reach codes

for when people are at the end of their life span

for their HFAC switching over to an electric appliance

using energy efficiency standards.

Updating our vehicle and bike parking requirements

looking at parking maximum.

So we're not under utilizing land near light rail stations

and high frequency bus corridors

looking at our bike parking requirements,

transferring those up.

And so we hope to bring that strategy forward

this winter to council with codes to update

or code updates in the summer.

Just implementing the climate,

other aspects of implementing the climate action

adaptation plan is we will have an annual report

like the general plan annual report.

Looking at heat reduction in our built environments,

architectural standards, but also standards in the public realm.

Minimum tree requirements will be considering that

for new development.

And also a transportation adaptation plan

where we'll look at our infrastructure

and is it ready and able to take on the increased heat

that will be coming with climate change.

On the equity side of things,

healthy food initiatives partnership.

We recently got a grant from SAICOG

to start at a food literacy urban farm.

Action plan and that would be benefiting the area

around Leotot of Floyd Elementary

and some of the public housing residents there in particular.

So and just partnerships with Sacramento County

and the Food Policy Council.

As for ongoing program I worked,

I'll just note that we have our 23rd Planning Academy

coming up in March and applications close January 24th.

So let your constituents know.

And that really concludes my presentation

and I'm happy to take questions, recommendations.

Just noting that we have more staff capacity

in a respect that we are moving ahead now

with the gender plan adoptive.

We're working on a variety of different initiatives

and programs you'll probably see us more in that regard.

And I also have some staff here

in case you really want to get down to the nitty gritty

on some items.

Wonderful.

We have a great team.

Thank you so much.

With that, do we have any public comment on this item?

We have no public comment on this item.

Seeing none, members.

All right, Councilmember Dickinson.

Thank you.

And thanks for the presentation.

Just to understand procedurally where we are at this point,

this is really a request for ultimately

by the Council the adoption of the work program.

And so as I understand it,

the Council's done work up to this point

to help guide you in the development of this

and you the Council.

And so I have the question of to what extent

if any is their room for addition, subtraction,

modification of the program at this stage.

And I don't know if that's a question for you, Greg,

or a question for the Chair or both of you

or I'm just curious about where this sits procedurally.

As part of the committee's recommendation,

if they would like to add an additional initiative

or address one, if you like, it's unnecessary,

then yeah, that could certainly

can update the work program prior to taking it forward to Council.

And Councilmember Dickinson, just from a process standpoint.

So what we could do here is if you have suggestions

for the work plan, you can provide feedback in general

from the take in, if there's something you'd like to add

or maybe remove what we could do then is vote on that here

and then have that go to the Council for a vote as well.

And then that can update their plan

because I know you're also trying to balance

your staff capacity and time as well, right?

And I appreciate the capacity limitations to be sure.

I don't necessarily have things that I want to add

or subtract, I mean, I think the work program is ambitious

and certainly moves in the direction that I think makes

a lot of sense.

I do have a couple things so that I'd like

to note, first of all, and you and I have talked a little bit

about this, I'm not suggesting it be added to the plan

because it's a big undertaking,

but Robla needs a community plan.

Unless I'm a stake and there has been no update

to the North Sacramento community plan since 1983 or so,

but certainly not in Robla.

And so if I can get that in the queue somewhere

for the staff to start thinking about putting

in the work program, I would appreciate it.

I think as you well appreciate Robla as an evolving part

of the city, historically rural, semi-rural,

with some industrial west of McClellan

because of the noise contours when the Air Force base

was operating, the noise contours of shrunk considerably

since the closure of the and transition of McClellan

the area has become increasingly of interest

in terms of essentially suburban level of development,

but it still has large semi-rural pockets.

And so it's an area that really I think needs

and deserves attention.

So I would simply make the request at this stage

that that become part of the thought process

for the future in terms of, and not the distant future,

but the relatively near future in terms of thinking

about a community plan.

I'm feel free to react any of this.

I would just note that we did update all 10

of our community plans as part of the general plan update,

but of course that level of detail in the community plan

is not certainly this would be a separate effort.

Yeah, and it could be a community plan,

could be a specific plan.

I think a community plan is probably a better fit,

but I would leave that to your professional judgment

to make a recommendation in that regard.

I did want to add some comments on items

that are in the work program and some areas of emphasis

that I think are appropriate in the course of undertaking

the work you all will be doing in this regard.

And starting with the electrification

of the built environment in particular,

I see a terrific need for focusing on increasing our charging

infrastructure and especially in multifamily circumstances.

If we want people to convert to ZEVS,

the zero-mission vehicles, we have to have the charging

back capability to allow people to make that transition.

And our now mayor, former Assembly Member

Kerry legislation last year signed into law

that actually may be able to be a pathway to expanding

charging infrastructure in right of way.

So a couple thoughts in that regard.

I wanted to make a comment about tree planting

in connection with new development,

but brought now to the little bit to think about

existing undercanopy neighborhoods, especially.

And having had some experience with this,

I know what the challenges are in that regard.

So I think we need to be thinking as a city about

how we can go at having more trees planted

in those neighborhoods and maintained.

Because many times the property owners don't live

on the property they aren't interested in maintaining,

let alone having trees planted in the first place.

And so the residents may not be in a position to do that.

So thinking about what are the approaches we can use

to increase the tree canopy and undercanopy neighborhoods.

I think it's critical if we're going to be successful

with our climate mitigation and adaptation efforts,

especially on an equitable basis.

And then I wanted to make just a couple comments

specific to North Sacramento to district two,

connected to the forward plan for Del Paso Boulevard

and Mary's Field Boulevard.

In particular, I would love to see us,

I'll say work cooperatively with the San Joaquin Valley

rail authority, but frankly, I want to see us push them

to extend tracks and service sooner rather than later

as soon as possible to north of the river.

But maybe there's a way in which we can help them.

They want to have a station just off Del Paso Boulevard

on a coma and a garage potentially.

And if there's a way we can give them a boost in that regard,

I think that would be very helpful.

And then we are starting to focus in terms of

Congressman Barra and my office on looking

at the intersection of Mary's Villain Grand

as a real opportunity to develop a hub that could be a catalyst

for additional development.

So what we can do in implementation and advance planning

for that particular area, I think would also

be quite useful.

So thanks, Madam Chair, those are some thoughts

that I had on this item.

Great comments and suggestions really appreciated.

And I know there's a lot of really good work already

happening on these fronts, but it was good to keep them in mind.

And I figured now I'm being a good time to let you know,

if of course you've read all of our council rules and procedures

in your spare time.

But one of the things that we implemented,

I think it was a year ago or a year and a half ago,

was the process for submitting proposals.

And so it sounds like the Robla plan might be a really good

opportunity for a council proposal submission

for to do either a specific or community plan and start that

process.

And then you can identify through that proposal, whether or not

you'd like it to go to this committee or another committee

and the timeline and all of that.

So just a reminder.

And then last comment just came to my mind is I know that

Smud has some programming that they're working on in terms

of EV infrastructure, specifically at multifamily sites.

And they're doing some good work there.

So it might be a good opportunity.

Maybe a chat, maybe you can even have them come to this committee

and talk about some of that work because it certainly

assure those concerns in my communities as well as the trees.

So thank you so much.

Council Member Plucky-Mom.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Chair.

I wanted to support and associate with all the comments.

Council Member Dickinson made in particular on the Robla

specific plan for another time.

If you want to hear the story about the Jesse Avenue project

where I made the motions both to support and to pose the project,

it was a fun time.

But that area is as suburban development

and coaches, I think, in need of that type of larger regional

planning and would support that.

Also, tree planting and public EV charging

are near and near to my heart as well.

I think all of us share those goals.

As many of you know, I am deeply interested in trying to hit

and maybe even exceed our rena goals.

So if there are opportunities for us to do things

to incentivize that kind of development

and meet the regional housing needs assessments,

targets reducing overall housing cost, providing greater housing

accessibility affordability, and then directly tied

into that transportation took costs.

So thinking about how our built environment

affects the average daily expense and annual expense

for folks in terms of transportation costs.

So those two metrics are going to be top of mind

for all of the land use decisions that come before me

for sure.

Two other things to highlight.

By the way, just love this document.

It says, what you did, what you plan to do,

what went wrong, what went well, love the transparency,

and especially the staff estimate at estimated hours

so that we can kind of get a sense of level of effort

and costs to some of these requests.

Thinking about that, as we move towards greater building

and electrification thinking about field redundancy,

if there's opportunities for us to think about other non-electrical

green energy opportunities that may provide, in particular,

for heat and or power opportunities for people

so that they can have something from when the lights go out.

And I think that's my list.

So thank you again for producing this document.

Let's figure out how to build more housing, reduce transportation

costs, provide for better transit opportunities

and putting it at you because you own the issue.

And if you're an agency, we're possible.

And then plan a lot of trees.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Any comments from me?

Councilmember Jennings.

No, I appreciate the briefing.

The opportunity.

I'm sorry.

I appreciate the briefing and the opportunity

to see the work plan that you're presenting today.

It's a big plan.

But you guys do great work.

And I'm confident that it's a plan that we can make happen in 2025.

And so with that, I'd like to move the item to go towards the council

for us to have further discussion at that point in time.

We have a motion.

Sorry.

In a second.

All right.

Thank you.

And I'll make my comments brief because I

know we are a little bit tight on time today.

But I just want to start by saying, you know,

I'm really excited about all of this.

I've made my comments clear in another meetings.

I think we are one of, if not the most,

progressive city in the state and maybe in this nation

as it relates to housing and some of the things

that we're doing to reform our own codes and rules and norms

to make it easier to build all kinds of housing

across the spectrum, all over the city.

So that's really exciting to me.

I want to continue that work through this committee

and beyond in the next year.

And so just really grateful for the work of you

and your entire team.

Thank you.

And just really wanted to highlight, especially,

align myself with my colleagues over here.

But the work on ADUs, this is really exciting.

I represent a park.

There's a lot of big lots in a park.

And just in my neighborhood alone,

I think we had like six or seven ADUs

that have been built in the last few years.

So it's really incredible to see what's happening there

and look for new opportunities.

I love the, of like what can we do if we can like,

lots but and sell, love that.

Moveable, love that idea.

What kinds of materials can we use to make it cheaper

and easier to build?

Because we know that's one of the challenges

that people are experiencing.

If you're just a normal homeowner

and you're not a home builder

or you don't have deep pockets of money,

it can be really difficult to think about

how do you actually build this and finance this

in a way that makes sense.

So removing those barriers is going to be helpful.

One other thing that I want to think about,

and I don't necessarily put this on your plate.

This is actually one of the things I've met with

the Realtors Association and some other organizations

in that kind of cohort about what do we do on the funding piece.

We know this is a challenge.

And we actually thought about,

well, what if we do some kind of workshop

or panel or some kind of forum

where we bring in the community banks

and other funding opportunities to discuss this

and see if there's a way,

I know the challenge with some banks is,

they're still thinking about it

of how do we assess the value of the ADUs?

And so maybe we can do a pilot project

in an area like a park, let's say,

or in Midtown where there have been ADUs

that have built, take a look at what those,

what they can assess those values at

and maybe go from there.

And so I see some partnership opportunities,

so I'll be scheduling some time to meet with you all about this,

but just thankful for your work.

Thank you.

All right, so we have a motion and a second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

All right, any opposed to abstain?

That passes unanimously.

Thank you so much.

All right, and now we move on to our next item

with our review and approval of the city's

state and federal legislative platform.

I do have a platform here.

Absolutely.

Good morning.

I'm Consfolio Hernandez, Director of Governmental Affairs,

and I'm pleased to present the city's draft

2025 legislative platform today.

It is updated every year to reflect

the current political environment and issues

that we anticipate seeing this year.

And is focused on those activities

which fall within the city's scope.

It's been developed over the years.

Again, each year updated with input from staff,

mayor and council, our lobbyists, outside organizations.

I go to the Youth Commission, get their input on it.

We try to reach out far and wide to get people's feedback.

In terms of what the platform does, two things,

one, it does lay out our position,

so this is available on the website.

People can see publicly how we feel about state

and federal policy issues,

budgetary proposals, administrative regulations.

If a policy position is included in the platform

and an issue comes up, someone comes and says,

hey, we want you to support this piece of legislation.

If it's already included, referenced in the platform,

then there's a process where we can just go ahead

and submit a letter with approval of the chair.

So it streamlines that process.

If there are positions that are not incorporated

in the platform, there is still an opportunity

for the city to take a position.

It just needs to come to Longledge and go to council.

So again, there weren't a ton of changes this year.

I think as we continue doing this,

we're getting pretty well versed in issues.

We also have a lot of holdover legislation

from two presidential administrations ago,

which will soon become relevant, I will just say.

So happy to answer any questions

and request your approval to move this to council.

Thank you.

And then Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comment?

I have no speakers on this item, Chair.

I'm soon open up to the committee.

Councillor McKinnon.

Well, I'll start it off again.

Just to add a little layering to the process

that the city uses.

I'm assuming as you said, anything that's included

within the platform of legislation fits

in under one of those items.

Then the staff has authority to take a position

in support or opposition without further council review.

Is that correct?

With approval of the chair, yes.

So each piece of legislation that you think

is worth taking a position on,

you review with the chair, is that how that works?

Oh wow, okay.

And so then, maybe that's the answer to my next question,

which is if the chair thinks that that's something

that ought to have broader discussion,

then that's at the discretion of the chair.

Correct.

Got it.

I'm curious as a city thinking of sponsoring

any legislation this year at the state level.

We are looking, there's one issue relating

to flood protections and development.

We're still in the discussion phase at that point.

There is, so.

Okay.

And that would be a joint effort with some other entities.

And so that's at least for the moment,

all that's in mind, in terms of sponsoring a co-sponsoring.

Correct.

Yes, we did have another issue raised this morning,

so but we haven't fully visited that.

If I may, Madam Chair, with that,

I just wanted to add a comment or two on the platform itself,

which I think is quite good.

I would offer the thought that under housing opportunities

that we add, however it would be appropriate,

and procedurally, prevention of homelessness.

The platform talks about additional housing,

lowering housing barriers, providing innovative,

it's addition to the stock, but we don't,

at least as far as I see,

don't really talk at all about the prevention side of homelessness,

which I think actually is the underpinning

of reducing homelessness ultimately.

So I don't know that there'll be legislation that gets that side,

but there could be funding, could be things in the budget,

could be housing, and we see this proposal the governor's made

for a new housing homelessness agency,

could be an opportunity within that.

So I would just suggest that as a possible addition.

I do appreciate that you included increasing low-income tax credits

and additional funding for vouchers.

Tax credits can be both state and federal,

as I'm sure you know, and so I don't know if we need to make it clear

that that's at both levels or not,

and the voucher funding obviously is federal,

but I appreciate that those are there.

And I think those are very important.

The one thing additionally that crossed my mind looking at this,

I'm just looking to see if there was a category

it really fell into, and I'm not sure it did.

Maybe it's in the equitable inclusive economic development,

and job creation, or bit I suppose, most,

but that's looking at opportunities for workforce development

and education, particularly vocational and educational,

technical training.

And I think there's some great work going on,

but there's a real, I think, additional need

for support and funding.

From the state level, for those kinds of efforts,

and so maybe that's a suggestion for an additional bullet for you.

Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, and all great points.

Councillor Pellicom.

Thank you, Chair.

Two quick thoughts, one on a disaster response.

We already have an item in here about a community disaster response,

but also for Greg kind of thinking about the last item too,

and thinking about community resiliency as a way of measuring

disaster preparedness and response beyond the traditional sandbags for flood

and rebuilding after fire, that kind of response.

And I wanted to highlight in here, I know it's already in the plan,

but just the opportunity to get in the statewide pilot

for automated speed enforcement, traffic enforcement,

if there's an opportunity to get that opportunity,

I'm very excited about that chance.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Okay, that's seen on other comments from my colleagues.

I just want to say thank you for the great plan.

I know it sounds like it took a lot of work to compile us all together,

talk with all the relevant city staff, the community,

make sure that we're reflecting all of those things and reading through this.

It's very comprehensive, so I'm just really impressed,

and I think it shows our city's values,

shows what we care about and what we're willing to fight for

and to work against potentially.

One thing I did want to bring up is, I know last year there was a lot of discussion,

obviously I'm on the 4x2 in the homeless policy council,

and all the things related to homelessness.

And there's a lot of discussion about what is a shared governance model look like

for homelessness in our county and in our city,

and that's something I'm particularly interested in.

I know that our mayor then Assembly Member,

Kim McCarty, had a bill to create a JPA for homelessness

that would include the city and the county and others.

I also know that there are different opinions on whether or not a JPA is the right thing

versus the county commission report on what shared governance models could look like,

which included both the JPA and other options.

And so I'm really, I anticipate something like that coming forward again,

potentially maybe from one of our delegation members.

And so I just want to put that on there.

Maybe more broadly as like exploration of a shared governance model for homelessness,

recognizing it's a very important topic, not just to the elections in our region,

but I think without a doubt homelessness is one of the most important issues

to the residents of Sacramento.

So I just really want to make sure that that can be something that we can be prepared for,

prepared to potentially support.

And then on equitable, inclusive economic development and job creation,

I think at least one another person on this digest maybe others could agree with this.

Finding ways to support development of vacant land and buildings.

I think of my district in particular where I have business districts,

like Freeport and Franklin and Florian and Macro and others,

where we have a lot of vacant buildings, both commercial and residential.

We've got a lot of vacant land, which handling fences around it.

And so maybe less sticks and work-erets,

but just something around that vacant land and buildings.

I know that we were exploring the year before last,

the possibility of doing some kind of vacant land tax or something like that.

I don't know if that's it, but just want to highlight that as a key area of importance.

I think for many members on this body.

And with that, seeing nothing else from my colleagues is that all the information that you need?

Okay, perfect.

All right.

And do we need a motion on this?

I believe so, yes.

Okay.

All right, motion.

All right, motion.

And a second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

All right, any opposed?

You're upstained.

All right, seeing none, that passes unanimously.

Thank you, and that now brings us to our selection of vice chair.

And so I just want to start out by saying that I'm really grateful for this opportunity to be chair of the Law and

Legislation Committee this year.

I really enjoy policy.

It's something that was my career before when I worked as a lobbyist in the state legislature.

I really, really care about how we can find ways to change systems so that we can not only help people with their day-to-day issues

and the things that they see, but how do we help more people by changing the systems and preventing problems from happening in the first place?

So I'm really grateful to do that work here.

And really going to have a heavy focus on housing and on transportation here in the coming year and just really looking forward to working with our incredible team to do that.

And so with that, I would like to, as a through chair, make a nomination that Council for Plucky Mob service vice chair and ask you if you'd be willing to accept that nomination.

I will serve however, the commission desires.

Okay, perfect.

And then do we have any questions, comments from our committee members?

Councillor Dickinson.

I do, not on that, but on something you raised earlier actually, Madam Chair, which is the Council Rules of Procedure, which I see are appended to this.

And I'm assuming that our action is limited to selecting a vice chair, but not proving or otherwise acting on the Council Rules of Procedure.

Is that correct?

Chair, if I may answer that question, Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk.

Yes, the Council Rules of Procedure are just as reference guide.

And so, and so, for potential adjustments or modifications to that, how procedurally would that be raised?

So that's something that I'd be happy to talk with you offline or we can do a Council Member Proposal request.

And I'd be happy to go through that process with you also.

Okay, thank you.

Great question.

And it is-

You have a second?

Definitely not not not complicated at our Council Rules and Procedures.

And so there's always things to be changed.

And I do not, yeah, I'm second.

You do have, you do not.

Okay, so motion and a second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed to abstain?

That passes unanimously and congratulations, vice chair.

Okay.

And so that moves us to-

I'm going to do committee comments, questions, ideas, maybe 1234 reports first, before we go to public comment on the agenda.

Seeing none for my colleagues, I do want to bring up one, I have one question actually, which is to our government affairs director.

I saw that on the consent calendar we have the log.

I know that that used to be the primary way that we track all of our policies that are moving forward.

But I also know that we now have moved to a new system that includes Council Member of Proposal requests.

Is this still useful for you?

I think that the purpose of the log is more the public than for me.

It has been whittled down when I, when I first started for an item to be heard at the law and legislation committee.

It had to be reflected in the log.

We've moved away from that.

And I just went through and updated it and we've got three items left on there, one of which we're not sure if it's still moving forward.

So I think that's a very good question.

It, personally, it doesn't do much for me.

So if that's something, maybe in the next Council rules, a procedure update.

If we want to look at whether continuing to have this log make sense, I think that's a good question.

And then I guess to our quick then is this log required under the Council rules and procedures?

I would have to review the Council rules or procedures, but I don't believe it's required.

Okay, great.

And so I just, I want to make sure we're being as efficient as possible and not utilizing your time on things that are maybe not as important or a good use of your time.

And recognizing that we have a lot of other ways that people can find information related to the policies that we're moving forward, including on all of our agenda, as the staff reports and so on.

So I'd like to give some direction as chair that we eliminate the log unless I have any concerns from members of the this body.

Councilor Jennings.

So I just want to make sure that in eliminating the log that we're not taking the public out of the whole process of being able to see what it is that we value and what it is that we're looking at.

And so I just would like to be assured that that doesn't happen by eliminating the log.

Great comment.

So, okay, yes.

I'm chair of my way, my way, if I may weigh in, I just review the Council rules procedure and it does say that the log will be scheduled for the consent calendar.

Okay.

Of every LNL committee meeting, however, if you want to give direction that we amend the Council rules or procedure, we can do that.

Okay.

So why don't we do this instead?

Why don't I touch base with both of you offline that might be something that we submit rather than just doing it from the dius?

And because I just want to make sure that we're doing this in a way that protects your time and your staff, but still allows the public to know what we're doing here.

So we'll put a pin in that and then might come back for the future date.

Okay.

And with that, do we have any public comments not on the agenda?

We have no public comment from matters not on the agenda.

All right.

So seeing nothing else to come before this body, we are now adjourned at 11.49 AM.

And we have, I believe, 10 minutes until our closed session.

I take 10 minutes to get.