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Good evening. Welcome to the Monday, February 24, 2025 at 5.34 p.m. Sacramento Ethics

Commission's meeting. The meeting is now called to order. Will the clerk please call the

roll to establish a forum? Thank you chair. Vice Chair Lafaso. Here. Member Adams is absence.

Member Velasquez. Present. Member Emory. Present. And Chair Eng. Here. Thank you. We have

a call. I would like to remind members of the public that if you would like to speak on an agenda

item, please turn in a speaker's slip when the item begins. You will have two minutes to speak

once you are called on. After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker's slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and

tribal lands. To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, Southern Maidu,

Valley and Plains Mewak, Patwyn Winton peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria,

Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people

who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to

gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgments and appreciation for Sacramento's

Indigenous people's history, contributions and lives. Thank you. Please remain standing for the

Pledge of Allegiance. Salute, pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of

America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and

justice for all. Our first business today is approval of the consent calendar. Clerk, are there

any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar? Thank you chair. I have no

speaker slips on the consent calendar. Thank you. Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

Hearing none. Oh, I recognize vice chairs.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Question for the clerk. This is about the part of the consent calendar that

speaks to the complaint log. I recall we had a fruitful discussion in our latter last meeting on

October around some of the issues that our public commenter raised. I think it was Mr. On

about how the staff responds to some non-jurisdictional complaints and some nutty areas. And I recall

that there was some discussion of some what I call were standard response templates that you

were going to send us. And I'm not sure I received those so I thought I would follow up on that request.

Thank you vice chair. I thought that I sent those to you but I can resend that. Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you.

That is all. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. We will now proceed to the

second. I need to take a vote. So there's a vote going on. Okay. Is there a motion and a second for

the consent calendar? Motion to approve. Motion to approve. Motion second. Okay. I have a motion

by commissioners, the last was and a second by commissioners, Emory. Will the clerk please

call the row for the vote? Thank you chair. Vice Chair Lafaso. Yes.

Commissioner Adams is absence. Commissioner Velasquez.

Proof. Commissioner Emory. And Chair Ing. Yes. Thank you. The motion passes.

We will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Number three. Item number three is it update on current training provided to city officials and

commissioners. Is there a staff presentation? Yes. Thank you chair. My name is Mindy Kupy,

your city clerk and staff to the ethics commission. So the Sacramento Ethics Commission in their 2025

work plan wanted to focus on ethics training. And in that work plan, they had two bullets in

furtherance of the city's ethics program goal and clear guidelines on expectations of city officials

in the conduct of the city's business. The commission will review existing ethics training that

is provided by the city and make recommendations regarding additional training as appropriate.

And two to ensure best practices and commission hearings that commission will review and make

recommendations about additional training provided to ethics commissioners. There are two relevant

code sections titled two of the Sacramento municipal code regarding ethics training 4.02.070 is

mandatory ethics training, which is as required by a California assembly bill 1234. And then

mandatory sexual harassment training is covered in 4.02.080. And that is sexual harassment training

is required by California assembly bills 1825 and 1661. Those are done within 30 days of taking

office and then every two years thereafter both trainings. So that is the mandatory training that

is required of city officials. So I'm available for any questions.

I recognize vice chairs and a fossil.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I used to be really good at the old system but that was 10 years ago.

So I guess I have a couple questions and a couple thoughts. So of course the work plan item