All right. Good evening. Welcome to the March 6th 2025 Parks and Community Enrichment Commission meeting. This meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum. Thank you chair. Commissioner Ford.

Commissioner Robbins.

Commissioner Labour.

Commissioner King.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Commissioner Flores.

Commissioner Kingis.

Commissioner Bouss.

Commissioner Boone.

And Chair Gaines.

Thank you.

Thank you, clerk. I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker 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 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.

The original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Vallean Plains New Walk, Patwin-Winton 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 for Sacramento's Indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives.

Miguech, thank you. Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the people who will stand for one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. He may be seated.

All right, our first order business today is approval of the consent calendar. Clerk, are there any members of the public who was to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips on this item.

All right. Are there any members of the commission who would like to speak on this item?

I do want to speak real quick just to my fellow commissioners, just a reminder that a part of the consent calendar are our commission meeting minutes.

It's also the approval of the commission follow-up log.

So just a reminder that this is the place where we keep track of any questions that we might have that might not be coming up during our regular meetings or anything that we want to follow up on.

So I just want to remind everyone that if we have anything that comes up in between meetings or something that might not be on the agenda for a while, this is a great place to capture that.

So I just want to remind us to be utilizing this tool as a place to kind of capture all of those things so that we don't lose anything in between meetings.

If you guys see my phone, I did not print out my script. So I'm not being rude. I'm just on my phone today. I just have my script.

All right. So is there a motion in a second for the consent calendar?

All right. So we have a motion by Commissioner Ford and a second by Commissioner Vasquez. And then we can just do a regular vote. And I do that. All right. All in favor.

I opposed abstentions.

All right. The motion passes.

All right. We will now proceed with the discussion calendar. So our first item is the Setters Landing Regional Park updated site plan. And I believe we have a staff presentation.

I'm chair Gaines and commissioners. My name is Dana Repan. I'm a senior planner in park planning and development services division. Tonight staff is asking for the commission to pass a motion to recommend the City Council approve the updated site plan for Setters Landing Regional Park.

And with me tonight to present the update is our project team, including Jason Weissman, manager of the park, letting development services division, Mollivon Flong, Associate Planner, and the team from calendar associates or Cala.

Just a brief background on why we're updating the site plan. The park has had several milestone events, including a recent grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board in 2021 to acquire properties west of the park.

And this was on additional donations and releasing of landfill properties, totaling more than 38 acres of new park land. Following the growth of the park, the city received another grant to fund multiple projects on the park site.

One of these projects is the update to the site plan to capture this new acreage. And as the current site plan adopted in 2003 did not anticipate further growth of the park.

The 2040 general plan and the parks plan included the update to the site plan as an anticipated project in the documents analysis.

The site plan update is identified as helping to meet the citywide policies, which advance park access goals, supporting physical and mental health well being, and access to nature and trails.

In 2023, Yipsey contracted with Cala to help us develop the updated site plan. The update started as a way to capture this new acreage of the plan, then as community engagement proceeded, it expanded to an analysis of the park as a whole and establishing goals for different zones of the park.

In addition to Cala's landscape architecture experience with many of Sacramento's parks, Cala has in-depth knowledge of the history of city's landings, including the feasibility study of the landfill operations and the regulatory framework as they have led previous projects on the park site.

I'd like to now hand it over to Melissa Ruth to introduce her team from Cala and begin the presentation.

Thank you, thank you, Dana.

Let's go to the next slide.

Okay, so my name is Melissa Ruth. I am a principal and project manager from Calendar Associates. I have here with me a room wood, who's one of our designers, and Ron is not here today, but he was also involved in the project.

Dana was very nice to not say how long ago it was that we worked on the feasibility study originally for the landfill was over 20 years ago, so I've been involved in this project for over 20 years and it's been really exciting to see it evolve over time.

So as to give you guys a little bit more context, we wanted to make sure you know and the community knows where a southern landing park is.

So as you can see on this map, it's about over a little bit.

Okay, so it keeps retracting.

So here's the park land right along south of the American River and north east of downtown.

You also see that this is another view of the site as it's bordered by the railroad, the main access into the site is 28th Street, business 80 runs along the south and the east.

And like I said, an American river on the north side.

So Dana alluded to a number of meetings as we went through this process from some initial meetings that the city had back in January, 2023.

We then started working on the project involving members of the city team and a couple other agencies within the county and other agencies.

And there are internal partners on the project.

We then went to the public with the open house and had maybe 60 or 80 quite a few people at the open house initially.

Then we had a survey, community survey that went out and there was over 800 respondents to the survey.

Met with the internal partners again and then had a second open house to kind of go over some of the results that we got from the various public input.

As Dana alluded to that there were some newly acquired parcels. So if you're not familiar with Stutters Landing, the initial landfill property is, we're showing the parcel maps here.

And the acquired property includes the area to the west, which is the West Stutters Landing former Blue Diamond and the Canon School and properties.

So the original feasibility study did not include those areas. And like she said, this is why we're kind of looking at it again because now we have more opportunities.

If you haven't been out there, Stutters Landing has a lot of really nice amenities.

It's a skate park that's already been out there for a long time. Dog Park, there's Batchee, there's basketball courts, there's some restrooms.

So all of those amenities are kind of just in the core kind of area of the park. And there's, you know, river access, which is really awesome.

As I alluded to, there is a, this is a landfill, closed landfill. And so what you don't see is what's underground. And that's the various types of landfill debris.

And so we're very aware of that fact and how we build on the landfill and how we plan for building on the landfill is critical as we start looking at what's a good spot for new amenities.

And I'd be happy to go into more detail on this later too. So just so you know, it's not our typical park development.

The community survey, we just took a snapshot of a couple things from the survey. Some great things to mention are the people that use the park right here.

So many people use this park to get access to the bike trails and the American river. So we know that is huge.

We also got really great feedback from the community on what they envision, Stutter's Landing to be in the future. And overwhelmingly, people are wanting this nature centric and multi use regional park.

And we definitely want to have activities and wanting to preserve it for nature as well. And that kind of that chart really is kind of inspiration for what we've pulled together from the community is what the goals are.

And so we have we pulled together with the community and with the city some thoughts on what are the main goals and how we want to develop that further into this site plan.

So one of the key goals is access making sure there's connections into and through the park. And fortunately you guys also have the two rivers bike trail, which is going to be providing that much needed connection through the park and continuing on the trail system.

But we know that it's also important to get people from downtown and midtown into Stutter's Landing. And so that's 28th Street. And so access is huge.

The environment, which energizing and activating are two other huge things that we wanted to identify as goals, I mean, what better way to get people to use the park is to see other people there.

People are excited to go there. We want to have energy and activity because the more, more people that use the park, the more people are keeping their eyes on the park.

for making sure that everyone's doing what they're supposed to be out there.

We also know how critical it is to have a connection to the river, the American River,

is such a huge asset to this park, preserving it and restoring our two key goals that we

have for the project.

And so you'll see in some of the larger letters of kind of zones where we think those goals

are going to fit in the best is really these two pieces, the West Setters Landing Site

and the big mound that you guys see out there.

They also are very difficult to build on because they are still actively settling and so

it doesn't make sense even in a long term to put in something that's got a structure

to it without being high cost.

So we really identified those areas as opportunities.

And the last one is reuse and we of course are saying reuse because it is a landfill

and what great opportunity to talk about and educate the community about landfill,

about recycling, about reuse.

So we kind of take that and translate that into this draft site plan that we want your

input on today.

So there's a lot to go over because it's a little over 200 acres and so there's a lot

of activity that can be programmed for this space.

So let me get you through this.

28th Street is the main entrance into Setters Landing, that's how it is currently and will

remain.

There's also that kind of secondary access off of McKinley Village Way.

So going in through the park, we understand that there is a lot of activity out there.

There's a neighboring property that needs access.

There's maintenance for the landfill that needs access.

There's maintenance for the corporation yard.

So there's more than just park users that are going to be using this road.

And then there's also the access for needing to service the levy system and even the railroad.

So that spine stays and connects to what we're hoping for is a more imaginative park core

closer to the American River.

So we'll go through this kind of enlargement area here.

So that's this space in here.

So what we're looking at is trying to get people from the 28th Street into this existing

parking lot and potentially expanding it so that people could get out of their car,

go into more of an active family space.

So playground, because there's no playground out there at Sutter's Landing right now,

more picnic areas and more access for kind of multi-use activities, nature play, garden

space.

So it's transitioning you from this more industrial core that's existing out there and getting

you over and closer and more connected to the American River.

Keeping the skate park and the bailer building, continuing to have access closer to the American

River that's there right now to support future connections, trail systems and stuff like

that.

And then other kind of fun stuff, you know, expanded larger gathering spaces for the

community and then creating some type of focus of maybe some type of art piece.

Something that kind of tells you this is a really cool park and as you're driving and

you're not just confused that you're going into an industrial park.

So then also as we kind of get out of this enlargement, there's expanded sport court opportunities.

So kind of working my way back, the existing dog park would remain and then this other kind

of what we were talking about, energizing and activating the park that really becomes

this kind of core area in here where there's opportunities for multi-use fields, multi-use

sport courts, sport courts that could be used for special events, concerts, all kinds

of things we haven't even thought of.

But the idea is that it's a flexible space because we can't necessarily start building

new amenities in some of these areas right away.

This may be a 20 year plan by the time the landfill is settled enough that we could actually

build on it without having to mitigate the dam or the settling.

So the idea is that this plan is flexible.

Over time it's going to, people are going to have different interests.

Not everyone's going to love pickleball forever.

We think to have something that there's the ability to continue to evolve that space.

But the idea is that it is more of an active space for folks.

And then like I said, the great opportunity with this site is there are two really large

pieces of land that it just doesn't make sense because of location, because of access,

because of the location to the river that we really see it being more of this preserve

and restore nature space.

And so we worked with the community.

We had a lot of really great input from the community to create and support these areas

of the park to have that.

So you'll see along after you get off on 28th street and you head down what really is

a street, but it's not a road right now.

But this would be where the two of us bike trail would kind of connect over to this West

parcel.

And then you'll see there's a number of squiggly lines and most of those are either a bike

trail or a little offshoot trail where you could have just some nature experiences.

And so that's kind of what that is.

And then some of these other coloring is really just thinking about the different textures

of what detention basin where grassland would be and stuff like that.

And then if I go over into the big mound, if you guys haven't been out there, I don't

know if you guys have taken a field trip out there, but this spot right here at the top

of the mound is like the highest point in Sacramento that's not a building.

And you're standing there, you could see downtown.

And then you could also see the river.

So it's a really cool vantage point and it makes for a great opportunity to have like

this kind of special lookout point, a special space for people to gather and to have kind

of a trail system up in there.

And also if you've been up there, you'll see kind of lightly gray lines that you see

in here.

Those are some of the gas collection system that's on grade out there.

So those aren't necessarily things that we can move and relocate.

So we would want to make sure that the amenities there kind of work around that space.

And also with those trail systems and that dash line, there's also maintenance access

that's needed for land cooperations.

So whether it's people walking on that or during certain times of the day, the maintenance

are able to access that as well.

So let's see.

I'm not sure if I'm missing anything, but I think that's generally the overview of it.

I had some other slides that I can bring up if you guys have specific questions about parts

of this plan.

You can switch to those slides and there's some other imagery, more kind of contextual

information that we need to.

But I'd like to open it up for questions and comments.

Clerk, do we have any members of the public who would like to speak on this topic?

Thank you, Chair.

I have eight speakers, for this item.

Our first speaker is Corey.

Hi, thank you, Madam Chairwoman and members of the commission.

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak on the Sutter's Landing Park site plan.

My name is Corey Brown and as with many of the members in the audience, I've worked to

protect and improve Sutter's Landing Park for over 15 years and greatly appreciate the

opportunity you have to create really a fabulous park and connecting the public with nature,

especially getting kids out to see nature at Sutter's Landing Park is pretty magic.

I generally support the plan.

I want to thank Shannon and Dana, consultant team of the head of my Melissa for a very well

thought out balanced plan.

There's one thing that's missing I urge this commission to support is for the large

mound area and for the West Sutter's Landing Park properties.

I've just called them a wildlife area because that's what they are.

If you look at the handout that I provided you, you can see a Swayneson's hawk sitting

on top of a methane extraction pipe on top of the mound and a fully protected white-tailed

kite.

Swayneson hawks are threatened species that fly all the way to Mexico.

They come back to visit Sutter's Landing Park because that's where lunch and dinner is

up on top of the mound.

And providing sacramenins with that type of access is really important.

When you look at your parks plan 2040 and the two interior pages are from that.

The city asks folks what do you value most in parks?

Well Sutter's Landing Park provides you the opportunity to address all four of those

values that participants like the most.

Natural places to support wildlife habitat.

You can do that by putting on the mound and the West Sutter's Landing Park properties

are wildlife areas.

Trails for walking and biking.

Well you have that on those properties.

Places to gather and picnic.

Places in the plan that the consultant and city team developed and playground for kids

wouldn't be wonderful to have a playground that's river themed where kids can go on a

slide with river rotters where they can play with salmon, some sort of salmon feature like

you can see up at the fish hatchery.

Use your kids, use their imagination to get inspired by science, to get inspired by

the natural and indigenous history.

Thank you for your comment.

Your time is now up.

I have to let everybody do what I'm so sorry.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Diana.

All right.

I'm glad to see my time.

Yep, it's right here.

Oh, thank you.

Oh, seed her time.

Yep.

I can just mention very quickly.

I.

Voters approved proposition for in November.

They approved $10 million for the lower American river conservancy.

Well I'm here on my own behalf.

I chair the advisory committee for the wildlife conservation boards, lower American river

conservancy.

That's money that's already been in the park.

That's how you expanded to the west, the south-slanding park properties.

This one's available for wildlife, for rent uses and trails and things like that.

It's the last point I wanted to make.

Thank you.

I just have about 30 seconds of something to say so it won't take too much more time than

we were allotted.

My name is Diana Williams-Corlis and I moved to Sacramento from DC eight years ago and

I had the good luck of renting a house that was two blocks from the south-slanding park.

In DC, I live near the Anacostia and the Potomac.

I'm from New York City so I've grown up around the Hudson.

I lived in a little town in Maryland that was on the south-slanding river and I can tell

you that in Sacramento it's the first place I've lived in my life that has this kind of

access right now to the river.

It has this magic.

You can go swim in it.

You can have picnics there.

For that reason, I'm incredibly excited about the plan that you made and incredibly excited

about the idea of preserving natural areas for sensitive species, particularly in the

mound area and the west-sutterslanding park.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Mary.

Hello.

Thank you for having this hearing.

I've worked on the south-slanding in some restoration capacity as a volunteer myself but I've been

involved with grant programs.

First the one that was supported by or what I should mention is directly the City Council

Office at the time with Steve Cohn where I lived had been moved to district three from

district two for ten years.

We work with his council office and also with the current park staff at that time.

We were bringing in young people to not only pick up litter there but also to help water

restoring young cottonwood and a lot of wild rose plants which are now very well restored.

They've been established.

They're very tall.

The wild rose, taller than me I'm five four.

They are blooming profusely.

The cottonwood tree of course is a lot taller than that and for the first time there was

a bird nest in it.

It was a landmark event but it's now much, much bigger and taller than that.

They're very well established and we had young people seeing that with their own eyes that

they could help restore nature and learn and also get some you know free meals afterwards

as a reward from the city.

Also we had a city grant support from the Department of Utilities, a citizen action grant

for water pollution prevention education and outreach and this was one of our sites where

we had young people from the community mainly from low income neighborhoods directly accessing

their wildlife in the parkway.

Seeing wildlife, helping restore the native plants and I particularly like that Sutter's

landing park is a de facto environmental justice site and there's no cost for parking.

Please support the restoration, natural restoration for the mound and the west side.

Thank you for your comment.

Your time is now up.

Our next speaker is Betsy.

I think I need to put this down lower.

This is my head above the podium.

Good evening my name is Betsy Wyland and I am a Save the American Rivers Association

Board Member and the Friends of Sutter's Landing Park Board Member.

Although we have sponsored monthly nature programs for 15 years it has only been in the

last four years that Sarah and Fossil volunteers have spent countless I say many many hours

returning the river and parkway at Sutter's Landing to the community.

Today it is safe and clean.

We are bringing nature back with the native plant garden invasive weed management and native

plant restoration.

We are highly supportive of the set aside of the mound which we like to call the kitchen.

It's where as Corey said all the animals go to get their breakfast lunch and dinner.

Set aside the mound and the western end of Sutter's Landing as areas for wildlife with

supportive activities.

Let me just say though I want to take time to say that none of what we have achieved

today would have been and continues to be possible without the generous help and support

of the city parks department.

Our request are always met with a resounding yes.

Thank you Shannon to you and your staff.

We are also here today to say that the master planning process has been a joy under the

direction of Dana and her staff.

We are here today supporting the master plan because of all the sincere efforts they

made to reach out to the public and to listen to what we were saying.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Leivone.

Hi, I have lived on C-Straight for 35 years now and that's very close to the American

river so it has become very very special and close to my heart.

For the last 15 or so years my husband and I have been very active in leading nature,

the parks once a month at Sutter's Landing Park and it has been very successful until

COVID came and it kind of stopped it.

But I just wanted to say I do support the Sutter's Landing Park master plan especially the

conservation of the mound and the western end of Sutter's Landing Park for nature activities.

Thank you for all you are doing to make this happen.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Robert.

What a sweet wife I have.

She allowed me some of her time.

I think.

I'm very glad to be able to be here tonight to be able to speak of the 30 years that we

have had the good fortune to live on the last historical area of Boulevard Park at C-Straight

which allowed me to go out my back door and over the field and be right there at that

tremendous American river we call American River.

The place where the two rivers join the American Sacramento and the Sacramento River, the

largest river in the state of California and the point made about the mound area which

is the tallest spot in the city is where we had the good fortune of not only being able

to lead nature walks every second every Saturday every once each month and we would also

have a mission to be able to go up on that mound and see celestial activities in the sky.

You'd see the area that is used by so much habitat in terms of feeding hawks and ground

nesting birds, coyotes, all kinds of things.

Turn into the night shift when you see owls from all sorts.

I could go on if I could switch to show a video of this four minutes.

I could have given up my time to show you some vision of all of you here.

Thank you for your comment.

Your time is now up.

Our next speaker is Tiffany.

Hi.

We moved here about 25 years ago and my kids have grown up on the river.

River Robert is their de facto grandfather and he really has led us through a journey

by the river.

My kids know what a beaver's tail slapping on the water sounds like.

I think that this is just the most incredible opportunity for Sacramento to have this

nature area accessible to so many people.

I've been volunteering for about 15 years as well and just seeing the amount of people,

not just from our neighborhood, but from all over.

I mean, people drive quite a distance to come because it's just a really a crown jewel

along the river and the access and the the expanse and the number of critters you can

see in a short walk is really so unique and I just really hope that you all appreciate

that and I know this plan looks amazing and I'm so happy that so much of the land was allocated

just to remain wild and thank you everyone.

There's so many people behind me that have put in so much work for this for years and

I've been privy to some of it but we really appreciate the opportunity to come and speak

on behalf of the river and the creatures that live there.

So thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Mark.

Hi, I'm Mark Baker with Friends of Sutter's Landing and River City Waterway Alliance

and the Sacramento Creek's Council.

I've been going to Sutter's Landing and I've lived in Midtown and now in Curtis Park,

my whole entire adult life.

I've enjoyed it most of that time.

In 2017, after the floods, the Sutter's Landing was greatly impacted by camps and flooded

debris.

There's nobody has done more to clean up Sutter's Landing and the entire American River

than I have.

And I love Sutter's Landing.

I love the nature areas, the river and I totally support this plan and to keep at nature's

centric the mound and the east park, the west part of Sutter's Landing.

We're just now River City Waterway Alliance.

It's just now cleaning up the riverfront at West Sutter's Landing.

Up until this week, the only camps left on the American River were in that area.

There were 30 campers right along the river.

They're all out of there now and we'll be working out there until that area is clean.

The entire American River Parkway is almost free of camps and Sutter's Landing is just

such a beautiful access point for people downtown to enjoy the river.

And I just hope you guys all support this.

So thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Our last speaker is Tom.

I'm Tom Gullione.

I'm a resident of Midtown.

I've lived here for now 12 years, 12 or 13.

And I'm one of Betsy's minions for Friends of Sutter's Landing.

I remember the first time I met Mark working out there.

He was a dog.

He was walking his dog and carrying a bucket and picking up trash.

It was the only dog walker I saw doing that.

So we immediately recruited him to Friends of Sutter's Landing.

He went on to greater things.

The American River Parkway and Sacramento City Parks come together only in a few spots

where there's actually two parks adjoining each other and Sutter's Landing is one of those.

And I was so glad to hear your comments, Dana, just respecting the value of the parkway

and the respect that's shown in the long-range plans for the cities park to create those buffer zones

between the activities, the sports activities.

There's one thing that birds can handle a lot like Slicin's Hawks can perch on gaspops,

you know, too much noise drives birds away from nesting.

And there is such a treasure in that thin band of riparian vegetation along the parkway,

along between the river and the city parks that it's so important to protect it so that

we can keep what bird life is in that area.

In wrapping up, I'd also like to say I completely support what Corey was talking about and others

in terms of protecting the top of the mound from active or development that would create noise and sounds

because there's a huge variety of bird life that forages up there.

And then thank you for your comment.

Your time is now up.

Chair, I have no more speaker slips.

Thank you.

I'm so, so sorry.

Your time is up.

I think you can probably give them to take a minute.

All right.

Thank you.

All right.

So before I head to Commissioner comments, I just want to thank all the members of the public for coming out.

I know you guys gave up part of your evening, paid for parking, you know, and did all that.

And I was born and raised here in Sacramento.

I think it's the best city in the entire nation.

And that's because of people like you who really care about your city and are active and do all that.

So no matter how this vote goes, we really appreciate you guys coming out and activating on behalf of where you live.

So thank you guys so much for being here tonight.

And with that note, Commissioner Robbins.

Thank you, Chair.

I just got to say like this is probably one of the most thoughtful design part plans we've been in on all these things.

And I just got to think staff are like hearing all the comments in the part on previous ones.

We have like zero opposition on this.

So it's great.

We don't have a foot sole people coming in here.

We don't have disc offers coming in here complaining about things.

This is very well designed with only developing 13% of the 204 acres right here.

The first question I have is how was the surveys done?

Was it just locally or did you expand on that?

Yeah, so we worked with with the city to have the survey go out to all of Sacramento.

Okay, that's just great because the only opposition that's always about rugby fields.

But it looks like you guys have multiple multi surface, I mean multi use fields.

And I mean, multi surface multi use is the most multi use park I've seen designed ever.

So like I just got to appreciate that.

So I just want to know the sizes of the turf fields.

So it can accommodate rugby.

It could accommodate soccer.

It could accommodate football.

What sports can it not kind of accommodate?

Yeah, I can go to the plan.

Bring it back up.

I don't know.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah, so this this area right here probably has the larger space that could

could accommodate something like that.

These are going to be a little bit smaller.

I don't have the exact sizes op-hand, but we're a little bit more limited on space kind of

stuck in it in between the railroad and the road there.

Yeah, I just got to thank you though still like it's very well thought out is I don't think there's a sport

other than like judo or something like that.

We're missing in this design, but sure that we could fit in there.

But that's the only opposition I have.

It's just very positive on everything in a thoughtful planning of part of everything in the wildlife river access that's

there already.

And I accidentally fell for part of this part a few years ago just jogging those like this is here.

This is amazing.

So thank you again staff and great job.

Commissioner King.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you everyone.

Community members and park staff for the presentation and the comments.

I really do appreciate it.

I do have a couple questions.

However, I will say this setters landing is actually where I had my engagement photos taken so it has a little special piece of my heart.

So that actually fills my home.

So it's really great.

So my first question is this space, the in the booklet, the green and or blue and yellow.

That's what those two colors make.

Is that a turf field?

Is that what is that exactly what material is that?

Yeah.

So in your packet there's some example images of what a multi-use court could be.

And so that's this kind of brighter green color.

When does that color?

Number 10.

And so that would be like an asphalt like court that would be painted.

Okay.

So like a painted asphalt.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So this is in, I think it's an Oregon, no, Washington.

You got them confused.

But it's striped for parking.

But they use it for all kinds of activities.

Okay.

And so we got some inspiration with that because it's also artistic and you can do all kinds of fun.

Yeah.

Oh, it's great.

And so that would go in that 10 slots, right?

Yeah, there's a couple areas.

So that's the one that's in that space.

Okay.

And then is this park prone to flooding?

No.

Okay.

That's good.

And then I heard some comments about the mound and keeping it nature preserved.

Isn't that the intention of the design was to keep it in mind for nature area.

So I heard a lot of comments.

I just want to clarify.

That was the intentionality behind the design originally.

And that was the intentionality.

Well, that's a natural space.

And then I think that's what it's like to be a natural space.

And that's what we're talking about.

Okay.

And then we're talking about the natural space.

And it's a natural space.

Yeah.

It's a natural space.

Yeah.

That's great.

Yeah.

There's.

I'm always dragging you into Tuesday.

Jason Weisman Park, Planning and Development Manager for YipSea.

The mound is currently closed off because it is still an active landfill and off-gassing.

So there's active, as I said, piping on the ground that they're still dealing with.

And we don't know how long that's going to be.

It could be another 10 years, could be another 30 years.

But we can't really have people accessing the mound until we can safely have them up there.

And risk any vandalism to that gas piping that's up there.

There's also fire abatement that we have to do.

So there are some concerns with the mound.

I mean, currently, and what we can do, just because it is an active landfill.

That's really good perspective.

So we won't have pedestrians walking on the mound.

Right now, there's some guided tours that go up there, but it's not open to the public to go on to the mound.

And that's going to have to be for the foreseeable future until we can get clearance to allow that.

Okay.

That's hopeful.

I think that's one of my questions.

Thank you.

Commissioner Veskas.

How much stay right there, Mr. Weissman, because I also have questions about the mound.

And the City of Sacramento, do we have any plans that you know of to capture those GHGs and to sell the methane that's off-gassing from the mound?

Yet, well, we have a landfill specialist here with us, but the gas that was there was being used by blue diamond.

I don't know if it was being sold or how that was working, but it was being used by blue diamond.

But the quality of gas as the landfill gets older and it's kind of settling more.

The quality of the gas is not as good as it was at one point.

So it's hard to kind of turn around and sell that.

So I think they burn a lot of that off right now.

Did we want to?

Okay.

Great job.

Okay, great.

So then I do have a list of other questions, but I'm guessing that this is very conceptual because we, you know, obviously it's not funded.

We don't have, you know, an amount of time that we know will be ready to build on.

But I do have questions regarding all the amenities.

Are there any more details in the amenities or are they just at this high level right now?

It's just at this high level right now.

You know, one of the big challenges out here obviously with being the landfill is shade.

You know, everyone wants more shade.

Well, we can't plant trees on a landfill.

They don't allow us.

We can't break the liner.

So, you know, the easy thing to do is, you know, put, you know, topping or something kind of hard court, you know, first at for activities amenities.

You know, we have put in stuff like the solar panels.

Maybe that would be an option over a sports court or something.

Put solar panels so we're gaining power and getting shade at the same time.

That might be an option.

But everything we do out here is, you know, quadruple the price of what we would do in a normal park just because of the landfill.

Got it.

Okay, great.

Well, I would like to, you know, put in a recommendation at this time that the nature of play area and that the play structure is being natural in nature to match the theme of the park.

Like we've been talking about in the past, maybe wooden seating areas and wooden play equipment and, you know, felt wood as play structures as we see in these storms our children love to climb on and play on.

So that's one recommendation to mirror Mr. Brown's comments regarding, you know, a theme of river and science in our natural areas, which I wholeheartedly agree.

And thank you so much, Mr. Brown, for your many, many years of explaining this site to folks and sharing its beauty with all of us.

Another question I have would be about the bike pump, pump track, the BMX pump track.

I know we're not talking about specific amenities now, but I know what a maintenance nightmare, a dirt track is to upkeep.

So can we consider while we're dreaming big to put a material track, you know, whether it be concrete, I don't know if I know you're paving all around.

So maybe asphalt concrete wood.

Yeah, that's something we definitely can consider.

I mean, we've been looking at a lot of different things for areas.

That's something that we get a lot of requests for as a pump track citywide, not just in this area, but we've been looking at what other cities have done.

They've done asphalt and other kinds of things that, but yeah, we've tried to dirt BMX things here with the city and the maintenance was too much to handle.

So both of those have been closed.

Okay, so then maybe we would all be in a great set. This is a good place for a material type of track.

Okay, great. And having 28th and B skate park right there, you know, obviously a cement track would be the most desirable.

I know that's what my daughters have requested in this plan. So it's out there. I said it out loud.

We want a skate track.

Pump track, please.

Great. So the native grasslands with those remain what they are now and be preserved.

Or are you planning on planting native grasses or is that already existing number 16?

Or is the mound or the...

Yeah, the smaller.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, that would be the plan. I mean, we're kind of limited on it.

I think that is still a wind filter. It's just not accurate. So we're limited on what we can do about irrigation, trying to get irrigation out there.

I mean, we've tried surface level irrigation, trying to get things established.

And, you know, we've had a lot of vandalism in the past. So we'll have to be creative on ways to do it.

But I think yes, that's the plan is ultimately come up with something to revitalize the nature over there.

Great. Yes, I know. Now your trees are in giant pots on concrete, right?

So you've been creative in the past. You know, we can continue to be creative. So great. Glad to hear that.

Great.

My next question would be regarding...

If we don't have plans to in the future collect the methane because it's aging, is there any short term plan to collect it?

If this park is built in 10 years and then it sounds like the quality of the gas goes down over time, is there any short term plan to capture that? Or no?

No. Nobody.

Yeah, it's just a rather low quality gas.

And is there like a cutoff point as to... I mean, will it always just be there off-gassing until it stops?

Yeah, you're right, Chris.

Hello, my name is Chris Tholman. I'm the planning superintendent at recycling and saw a waste division of Department of Public Works.

And the majority of my duties is dealing with this part of the city. And you're asking...

What would you mind repeating the question is what we could do with the gas or what would you...

Yeah, in talking to district six offices, I guess the question we had was can we capture carbon credits? Can we turn this into a revenue source?

And I think the answer I'm hearing is that the quality goes down over time, so no. But then does that mean that there's like an ending point for this landfill to off-gas?

Normally, like if you look up on the state of California website, they say at least 30 years. We're just about to hit the 30 years. But that also means that that's about when they expect it to end.

But it's only when we show that there's no more gas coming out of the landfill that it's not going to spread out to anywhere else. And until we show that, we have to keep the machinery running to pull the gas out and burn it off.

Okay. And are there any plans to take that stance?

Not right now. We're still seeing enough gas that we can't just turn off the system. It's going to be a little while yet. And as Jason had said, we really don't know if it will just be a few years or if it's going to be 10 years or longer.

I'm not a betting man, but I would assume it's going to be a little while yet. That the gas is going to keep coming out of the ground.

I'm just explaining that. Thank you.

So knowing that that exists and, you know, in discussions with the e-commerce and what we've heard tonight about the designations and being a federal and state subgrinter myself, I know how important the designation of the land is in securing grants to fund, you know, this development that we really would love to have.

Everyone here has told their story about how wonderful this place is, so developing it would be a wonderful thing to do.

So what is there any hold up in designating at a wildlife area? Is there any reason it's not currently designated that?

Well, it's an active landfill still. They're still actually off-gassing. So there's still operations have to take on, you know, to do that.

I don't know if identifying as an official protected wildlife area would, you know, prohibit landfill operations, but that right now that that's a state that's what we have to do.

So, but the designation itself as a wildlife area is not possible because of that methane?

It's something we can look into. I don't know exactly, but I don't know obviously who'd have to be with that landfill operations can happen as necessary.

Sure. Yeah. So then my recommendation if someone's going to recommend to approve this plan would be to add on, you know, passing my approval of this recommendation of this park plan with the caveat that we recommend to City Council that it is designated a wildlife area with the ability to capture that methane.

If we ever want to. That's my last question. Thank you very much.

Commissioner and Labor.

Thank you. Melissa and Dana. The plan looks really good. I had a question if I've missed them. I'm not sure, but on page 10, the river access.

It's wanted to hear about that. I remember a survey recently explained a couple options. And is that in the plan or what was going on with the access the concession and then the trail maybe for wheelchairs?

So yeah, we the city has a few projects we've been working on recently. The most recent survey that we just kind of came out with was we're trying to do an ADA accessible trail down to the river front.

And this is, you know, a grant that we received is do this study. We work with the county because once we cross over the levee, that's actual county county property. It's not city property.

But we've been working in collaboration with them to get a non motorized boat launch down there and then trying to get an accessible trail down to that location down to the waterfront.

So the survey had a couple different layouts and locations. So we're trying to get some feedback on what the preference was there before we move forward into environmental documents.

So that's like further delays or longer. That's maybe five years, 10 years out.

Well, we're funded to do the environmental and get all of our permitting through that right now that is scheduled to be done in 2027 because of all the permits by crossing the levee everything we have to do.

We're permitting through 2027. We don't have any funds secured right now to actually implement it. But we are we did apply for a grant trying to do that and we'll continue to look for other grants if we're not successful with this one.

Thank you.

Commissioner Besskas.

I have some things.

All right.

I'm going to say I think these questions are for you.

All right. So first up, I see that there were several community sessions that were held, which is great. And I'm just wondering if there were any surveys or community meetings done with any of the local tribes or tribal people done during this process.

I believe we reached out to them as internal partners.

But we didn't get any feedback from them. But if they're in the city of Sacramento, they would have gotten notice of the survey that went out to residents of the city.

Okay. No problem. And whenever I see like a preservation or anything natural, I think that it's really important that we do everything that we can to reach out to the original caretakers of the land.

I think that's super important. And so anything that I can do to support that. And I'm super excited to see that our friends of Sutter Landing. I've only been to Sutter Landing once and it was with Sage LaPenia.

So I love seeing this. I know I told you guys not to pass this out, but I saw this. I was like, oh, this is great.

So anything that we can do here is a commission to support that. I think it's really important. And I've been doing some work just to look at kind of some of the sites that were originally like tribal light sites and landmarks and anything that we can do to make sure that we're supportive of that.

We're definitely here to help kind of bridge that. I love this plan. I think you guys have done an excellent job of balancing, you know, these natural sites with the amenities that people want.

You know, we are an urban core city, but I think preserving the natural resources that we have is really important as well.

So I love to see this. You had mentioned that this could be up to a 20 year process. So if we did vote to, you know, approve this plan.

Do we picture this coming back? Because I assume in like seven years things are going to look different. Do we picture this like changing and coming back and that we would be continuing to like work on this or.

I don't know if you guys have been through this process before. Can you guys tell us what this might look like? I mean, so I said 20 years because we worked on it 20 years ago about 20 years ago before those other pieces of property were part of setters landing.

And so that's the reason why the process is now it's not necessarily that in 20 years will be redoing the process again.

So was it only coming back because the new pieces came in the play? Yeah, these new pieces have come into play.

Yeah, I'll just say a new to like that was the original tent is we were just going to focus on the new parcels, but then there was so much community outreach that wanted to look it and revisit the whole park again.

That's why we decided to kind of open it up and start looking at the whole park again as a whole. And it made sense at the time, but originally the process was we're just going to incorporate the new parcels and go from there.

So, so yeah, we've looked at the whole thing now, but as far as the site of many is plan go, I mean, anything can these plans sometimes I've seen a couple of them from these these parks if they don't get built right away, you know, some people have a different vision down the road, you know, so sometimes they do come back up a lot of times will fall go back to the original plan sometimes, you know, so you never know until it's really built out, but this is the plan.

And this is how we go get funding like we have to have a plan so we can go see got these grants and find opportunities to start funding this stuff.

So it will it would only be if there were like major changes that we would see it.

Yeah, okay, and I'm just wondering list because I'm no Z, you know.

Yeah.

Oh, all right, and I actually think that is all the questions that I have and actually before we get to that commission report.

Thank you, park staff, consultants and community members for coming out. I so thankful for your commitment over the last 20 years sounds like everyone's been involved in different stages.

You know, I just want to encourage our commissioners today to vote to pass this plan.

Obviously with the contingency to come back and revisit, you know, the wildlife recognition sections that community has recommended.

Just a question to come back to that wildlife preservation designation.

What is that like what could that entail? Is it going to delay the plan moving forward?

Like will it be a big kind of bottleneck to kind of move this plan forward?

I believe it's only related to funding, right?

It's allowing for funding with that designation.

Thank you, Cory Brown resident.

If you design, approve, designate in the areas as wildlife areas.

It just for future efforts, it's just understood it is going to be wildlife areas.

The funding perspective, the West Sutter's Landing Park properties, the Blue Diamond purchase is already conditioned in the grant from the lower American River Conservancy to be used for wildlife education, nature access.

So that part of the property is already designated for that under the grant agreement.

That's in a file somewhere. But nothing in public know this is a wildlife area is important.

The background area as staff has mentioned is going to be fence for a while.

If you designate a wildlife area, it helps you apply to the wildlife conservation board which just received a billion dollars, ten million of which is for the lower American River Conservancy to apply for the wildlife conservation board for any wildlife projects you want to do there.

Whether they're habitat restoration, whether they're access, whether they're wildlife education, things like that.

If you a little bit more of an advantage on funding, it helps the public know that these are wildlife areas, it helps the whole public education campaign.

So when we take kids out there, we can tell them that they're in a wildlife area.

The fence, dinner area around the mound, I think as speakers have mentioned, we did community walks up there talking about the wildlife.

So on the paper I passed out, you saw the Swingsons Hawk sitting on a pipe, methane extraction pipe.

That's a threatened species protected in their endangered species act.

And how cool is it for kids to see that? How cool is it for kids to be up on the mound or up on the levy to see where salmon swim up to, used to swim to the syrup?

Swim all the way down to San Francisco Bay, some turn left and go up to Oregon, some go south turning to Monterey.

So that area, the nature of it connects us to so many other areas in the west coast.

The wildlife designation merely says that yeses are wildlife areas, it recognizes what it is.

You're not approving regulations, you're not approving any changes on the ground so there's no environmental review you're required.

I'm an environmental attorney, I've done sequest of for 40 years.

It's just merely, it lets the planners know that considers it to be a wildlife area and it sends signals to the wildlife funding agencies that have a lot of money right now that this is an area to invest in grants.

Thank you so much. Yeah, absolutely, thank you, thank you so much.

In terms of like adding this to the plan or modification to it, just to we have it on record, I guess, what would that look like?

Well, I mean, it just kind of depends on how we would describe it, I guess, in the council action, right, when council approves it.

I mean, changing a word on a plan is one thing, but what teeth does it have would be written in the council report, you know, what council wants to support.

Thank you, appreciate it.

Thank you, I mean, I think that we can look at adding the addendum to look because I will say that I am not an attorney and I am not an environmentalist and I don't want to put something in there.

I think that if we feel comfortable as a commission saying that we can vote or make a motion for them to take a look at, because you were saying some stuff about methane, I'm not a scientist.

So, we need to take a look at it.

Okay.

Chair Baskas.

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

Chair, thank you, Chair.

Yes, so how that would work is that we would send our recommendation to city council with our recommendation.

So we would pass a motion to approve the park plan with our recommendation that the mound be designated a wildlife area.

So that point, the city council would determine, you know, how do we make that designation or, you know, thank you for determining that.

We'll take it from here.

That's kind of how the process works.

So that's the motion that I would like to make.

I feel like the conversation that we just had was that they cannot necessarily make it a wildlife preserve without more conversation around.

So, hopefully what we were talking about before was Sequa and environmental impact reports is that when you want to develop that land, it would trigger a process in which you would do an environmental impact report, right?

Or trigger a process in which you would study, can you on this designated wildlife area make the development that you want to make?

So simply designating it a natural space or a wildlife area is actually, thank you for the handouts that were provided.

Part of our park's plan is that we're looking for land that we can designate natural areas or wildlife areas.

And this is an excellent example.

Yes, it is an old landfill. Yes, it's off-housing GHGs and it's filled with wildlife.

So it would be okay for us to recommend to make it a wildlife designation.

It doesn't change. It doesn't, they wouldn't say no because there's methanus, I guess what I'm trying to say.

It could be both. And what I said earlier is I would like to make the motion to reserve the possibility with the wildlife designation that we could capture those GHGs if the time was ever right to do so.

Right, Commissioner King?

I'd like to make the under- or clarification that there's a difference between a wildlife area or a wildlife reserve in a natural area, natural space.

So you kind of were speaking about them a little bit as synonymous. And my understanding is that this area is a natural area right now.

It's designated a natural area, even with the use.

Just, I just want to clarify that. Can anyone tell me is it designated a natural area right now?

Why? Okay, so it's designated. It can't be.

Yes. Okay. They can't be.

Yeah, I think we're using it to know. It's an actively in film.

It's an actively in film right now.

Okay, so it's an vision plan.

Got it. Okay. I just want to clarify.

Natural areas. I just want to clarify.

Okay.

If we can be specific on what those areas are too, they'll be helpful in your recommendation.

I'm sorry. The mound area.

The mound in the western parcels?

Yes. Okay. Just want to make sure that yellow area in this picture.

Okay. And the western parcels.

I heard that before. So I just want to make sure.

Okay. Thanks.

And I would ask that we not like that.

It's not hurt. It's not hurt.

It indicates that it's not hurt.

Only designated natural.

Okay.

Thank you.

Commissioner Robbins.

from all the information is when it's not designated landfill we get

thrown in there and say it's at wildlife preserve when that day comes is the

easiest way to solve this correct

I guess I'll just say that if I think there are a number of things that my office would

need to look at in terms of what's possibility how it relates to being an active

landfill I appreciate your input but I think it's something that city attorneys

office would need to look at we haven't been asked this question previously as

far as I know so you know if you want to make a recommendation that staff look

at that that possibility in the future I don't know that staff can make the

recommendation to counsel that they will that they actually designated that way

but you know it's something that would need to be looked at before we can bring

that back

commissioner baskets did you see that's a recommendation that we can't make

the city council to ask for the wildlife designation to be looked at this

commission could make that recommendation but I don't know that staff can

support that recommendation when they go to council

commissioner baskets ready to make a motion if you guys are ready

commissioner florist thank you the city attorney then so if we add the

language to explore the possibility of that doesn't then supers then that

means we can make we can forward the the recommendation in our packet today

and then that this conversation can be explored by the appropriate but to

designate it I would like to if you're going to make the motion or amend your

motion to explore the possibility of so it doesn't sidetrack what has already

happened and all the vetting of the community for this staff report that we've

just received and then just to be like oh by the way let's put something else on

top of it like I don't support that part but I do like the verbiage you did

suggest so that gives one we pass it so it does go on to city council right

because of that process and because this is going to be a living document

let's not forget that other things would come into play to explore the

possibility of not have a pickleball right like that's the same concept I'm I

would be comfortable with that if the if the language that you suggest is that

otherwise then they would be a no thank you so just so I'm clear commissioner

for as you're saying recommending exploring

yeah because worth matter right yes we can't just designate it boom is

designated the Gulf of America right let's explore the possibility to change

it to or to let's explore the possibility of if that language is

including in her in her first motion that still hasn't received a second then

that is okay by me all right commissioner Ford if it doesn't want to be added at

this time we could bring it back to our council members or we can clarify for

our council members directly to as well so I think either way this is gonna

touch the ears of our council members correct I would love to vote tonight

so all right commissioner vazquez wonderful thank you very much thank you to

everyone who made e-commerce thank you to our rugby community for coming out

and saying that a field's being developed and saying we wanted to be a rugby

field I really appreciate that thank you for all of your dedication and your

hard work and your time spent on this but wonderful compliments you to

receive from the community tonight for all of your hard work and for listening

and thank you to all of our folks who are so passionate about our access in

our space so with that being said I would like to make the motion to recommend

that the city council approve the updated site plan for the setters landing

regional park and considered designating the mound and the West parcel

natural areas

I would like to make the motion to recommend that the city council approve the

updated site plan for setters landing regional park and to consider

designating the mound and the West parcels natural oh excuse me hurt it now

wildlife areas not natural areas thank you

all right we have a motion from commissioner vazquez and a second from

commissioner Ford with the adendum to consider

the adendum all right commissioner king I make a motion to recommend this park

plan as is all right and then we have a counter motion to recommend the park

plan as is

so yeah so since we have a motion in a second we should vote and then if that

fails you can make okay motion

all right well the clerk please call roll for the vote thank you chair

commissioners please unmute

commissioner Ford I Commissioner Robbins I Commissioner labor I Commissioner

King no Commissioner Vazquez I Commissioner Flores I

Commissioner King is absent vice chair Boone I and chair gains I thank you the

motion passes

thank you all right we will now move on to our next item which is the parks and

community enrichment commission 2024 annual report we will review and

provide direction on the 2024 annual report and then pass with the

recommendation of passing a motion to approve and forwarding to the personnel

personal and public employees committee to review so she and I'm going to kick

it off to you to start thank you for that introduction good evening chair vice

chair members of the commission Shannon Brown assistant director for the

department as the chair introduced the item I would just like to remind the

commission that council rules a procedure state that each city advisory body

shall provide an annual report for review by the personnel and public employee

committee the report should include the following highlights and accomplishments

from prior years work proposed projects priorities recommendations for upcoming

year including resources required and information or feasibility this item has

been scheduled to provide the commission with the opportunity to review the draft

2024 annual report and to provide input on additions or revisions to the draft

for consideration staff recommends that the draft as revised by the commission be

approved so that it can be provided to be presented to the P and P E in April

thank you very much and I will hand it back to the chair.

Awesome thank you so much so first I just want to thank Commissioner Ford and

Commissioner Kingis and vice chair Boone who were a part of our ad hoc committee to

kind of push the annual report over the finish line and then working obviously with the

Shannon and the rest of the staff so you should have received a copy it was a part of the

Addendum packet on Monday and so as Shannon mentioned there are two parts there's the kind of

celebratory what we did in 2024 and then our plans for this year with the goals so

obviously like the goals and the work plan for this year that is what we as a commission

would like to accomplish and so as we were writing these goals because we looked at you know what

is our charge as a commission to make sure that we were kind of holding tight to that like what

are we supposed to be doing as a commission and then also looking at the fact that it is March

and we all have full-time jobs and so what can we actually accomplish this year and this also

being our first time creating a report and we will have 2026 is right around the corner so we

will be creating another plan shortly so our goal is to hopefully have this you know we want to

have a chance to talk about it tonight see what edits you guys would all like to make if we have

just a couple that we can kind of like write down and get over the finish line for the April

meeting for PPE that's great they do not meet in May so if there are a lot of edits that's fine too

we would be then taking it to them in June for then July approval for City Council so we would

just like to really open it up and here I don't know any members of the public read it but if we

have any members of the public who would like to speak on this item thank you chair I have no

speaker slips on this item thank you well then I would like to turn it over to our commission members

if you have any thoughts comments edits anything that you would like to discuss you know let's have

that and then Shannon if I can ask you to take notes I might know that the clerk will be taking

notes as well but you'll probably be making the first set of edits so absolutely as well thank you

yes commissioner Rascas thank you so much so did we end up doing it

folks meeting separately to get it going a formal ad hoc was formed great so do we have like a

report back or does this serve as the report back from the ad hoc the actual draft commissioner the

chair just gave us report in her intro the discussion will be yes okay part of the ad hoc report back

so then the letter is great do you want to just take them it top to bottom yeah okay let's do it

love your letter thank you so much the I want to make a correction here for the volunteer

recognition awards the volunteer wage in California is actually much higher it's like $38

and change so for 2024 that would be a different rate than 2025 so I believe it's 38 20 38 16

so it's like triple the amount of dollars that was reported for a volunteer

in kind yeah great we do capture volunteer hours per a calculated number in California so

triple your number so there's one um to the just the very first sentence of the very first

item it just confuses me has a lot of everything all together at once it says to advocate for

equitable parts and community enrichment by engaging with neighborhood associations and part

user groups to identify needs and issues to help ensure inclusive and accessible recreational

spaces spaces for all residents so I'm kind of wondering what is the the policy recommendation in

that sentence it's like asking for equity I think the call out is to advocate for equitable

parks which we already do so I feel like this one we kind of already do and I think it speaks to

what I had asked for which was like a transparency and equity in knowing what park improvements were

coming up for community members so I'm just kind of wondering for this sentence from the ad hoc

committee um is that what that was intended to capture yes commissioner uh vazquez so the feedback

that you shared um I took into consideration this is a goal that I personally drafted um but then

I received feedback from staff and the city attorney that the goals need to align with our job

description um and so given the feedback you provided given the restraints of our limitations

this was a combination of the two thank you for answering that so what is the the policy

recommendation in that's for the commission to advocate for equitable parks

there there my understanding is that we're not um giving a policy recommendation my understanding

was that the goal was to be set so that we as a commission can achieve it by the end of the year

um and the feedback that I received was the goal cannot direct staff to do work or

where we are limited to the fact that the goal has to be achieved and attained by us so that was

the feedback I received god okay then maybe my question comes this way then so there's a

difference I would imagine between our 2025 work plan and what we want to achieve and then the

recommendations that we want to make to city council that they consider the parks department accomplish

so are we separating those out here are we not making any policy recommendations and just doing a work

plan I'm sorry you you're saying what you want this city council to ask the parks

department to accomplish so this uh or any report we make recommendations to the city council as

to what we want the parks department to be able to accomplish in the coming year what we want to

work on together yeah so this plan is what we as a um as a commission we plan to accomplish like uh

so when I look at the goals I looked at it as like what can gene accomplish this year as a commissioner

that's what these goals are okay so that's like a work plan for 2025 yes as a commission okay okay

and then are we planning on adding policy recommendations to our annual report policy recommendations for

for city council like to design an equity lens for our park improvements which was my request

I don't think that that is a part of this plan from my understanding sure so I guess then maybe again

um miss Gore do annual reports include policy recommendations as well as work plans is the park

plan going to be different or was it advised to be no so you can make um

um in in the plan you can make recommendations to council but those recommendations aren't in

the form of your goals your goals are for your accomplishments and then you can make separate

recommendations to council that council could then consider and then if they wanted to they could

direct the city manager to direct park staff to do something

I'm sorry so you're saying that we could use this report to make policy recommendations to the city council

you can it's not in the form of your goals your goals are for your work plan but you can

separately from your goals make recommendations to city council which is what we do

in like the meetings that we have as well so I guess we as a commission can decide if that's

what we want to use this report for um I will say I don't think that's what this report should be

for this report is for us as a commission and so I don't think that we should be using that

using this as a way to do that uh a commissioner for it I see right in

yeah I guess I just I'm a little confused about like the feedback here I guess the it's not like

a victory you needed clarity on like some of the input that you gave um and some of the conversations

we have in the direction we were given right regarding this I think again just to clarify the

opportunity here is that we based on conversations feedback we came up with some of these goals for

commission not staff essentially um and so I think the opportunity right now is to add anything

else or feedback on these goals that we've set or make modifications um going forward um I think

the separate the separate asa you're saying like policies and recommendations that the council

should consider and direct staff to doing so we could just clear you know get clarification how

do we go about that is it during meetings is it part of our agendas right that are coming up

and we add those items there um so just wanted to make sure that we use the the time appropriately for

for the feedback that we're collecting today commissioner vases great thank you so

our one opportunity per year as a commission to make policy recommendations of city council is

this annual report um it can include our work plan for the year which are our commissioner goals

and the policy recommendations which is what I had added that was my contribution was a policy

policy recommendation not our work plan uh recommendation so if this first sentence of A

was to capture my request for a policy recommendation um it's not capturing it so I'd like to read

to help to redesign that um but the way that we do uh you're asking should we do it in meetings

when do we do that we do that during the time we have to discuss the annual report altogether

I think most commissions take like two or three meetings to design their policy

recommendations together their work plan together for the year and then they submitted out

so if you've had a chance to read any of the other commissions uh reports you can see them

clearly separated the work plan and then the policy recommendations so I guess my question

then back to the ad hoc committee and to the uh commission as a whole is do we want to make

policy recommendations to city council this year commissioner floris

yeah thank you chair um i'm still a little bit confused a commissioner of ask is what you

indeed are asking for and it's as part of the mechanics of this like if if the goal is to make

policy recommendations like an equity lens then that sentence could probably be included

and then and then something to work on over the next year or so but I know me personally

um there are many different mechanisms to affect policy at the parks department via you know

through the council office via trying to come up with agenda items to address some of these things

it's um but if this report and I know there's other commissions but we have different charges so

are it's not a one-size-fits-all annual report of what us as commissioners do out in the public

because we have charge d and e in the powers and duties right work with neighborhood associations

and encourage individuals that in itself also creates policy opportunities and like when we

did create like a nine one six day event and the recognition that went through ad hoc's that went

through committees that went through you know it took a year to establish all that stuff so it's

like just to automatically do recommend policy yeah there might be gaps to address but then the

mechanism to do it is then work with the chair and vice chair be like okay let's do an ad hoc

committee to look at the equity lens that you're you're you're describing and you know as a former

chair you know that that mechanism to do that so there are there are multiple different ways to

achieve what I think you're trying to say and I think in this annual report to pp and e is

yeah and we did this in 24 and we plan to do this in 25 I think that is to highlight us as

commissioners because we do all across all of us together we do a lot for the community

especially with d and e is our charge yeah we do make policy recommendations that was item number

one tonight right like there was a site plan that we had to approve um because that's that's

part of a bnc and stuff like that so I think I hear you but I don't think this this report is

the vehicle for what you're trying to achieve it could be in addition to I believe right like

we can identify goals to create ad hoc to to look at potential policy recommendations for city

council I think that is a fine goal to to to to include to what we do because yeah it is in our

charge to make recommendations to city council for them um because there's always going to be a

brand new topic right so how do we do that well there there is mechanisms already to address that

right now and now that we have the ability to do ad hoc once again and I know it that took two

years off of our plate when they told us not to that that really suck but now that we have it back

that's a mechanism is like to use that to to to to identify gaps in policy updates and I know

I have worked with the e team via the d7 office to look at some policies on the books that are

over 20 something years that it doesn't fit a 2025 table set right so and I know I have a very

active council member it says okay if we're going to do this for a d7 park what are the ramification

for the rest of y'all so let's let's take a step back and try to create some best practices that

the that the department can say yes that's a good move because then all of us can then maneuver

together in that same vein instead of just me doing something for a d7 park I have a council

members like no this step back let's create the best practices that will then become a policy

to be implemented so that is within our purview that we can do I can I can list what those things

are in those private conversations so there this doesn't preclude that there's this is an

opportunity to add to it because we have other opportunities to do it too via your council member via

the e team via the vice chair and chair so those are my comments so far thank you apologies for

being snippy earlier commissioner baskets thank you chair yeah I agree this is exactly the

recommended policy recommendation that I would like to make to city council which is to add an

equity lens that is codified that is in writing that we don't have the situation where one council

office is asking for something receiving it and and parks part of recess to jump in whichever way

they're asked that we have a year planted advance that we have an organized way that we're deciding

which way the maintenance is going to go based on needs which are equity based whether they be

you know a tree layer whether they be you know a neighborhood income whatever we determine those

needs to be which I think was the original intent of the equity dashboard which has been sitting

on the follow-up blog for a year so this is our opportunity to a year in advance pick those two three

you know eight things however they may be based on what your your goals are for your commission to

put those in writing send them to council and then have those organized in a way or approved

based on their budget needs right they're all going to have a dollar amount attached to them

like it would cost this much and this much staff time to create an equity plan

so that is what goes to city council as a recommendation the the way that we would this metric

of effectiveness the way that it's listed here is already our job it's already our job to meet with

neighborhood associations and to you know we should already be succeeding that shouldn't be a

recommendation or a goal that's already what we do I need some clarification

because I am not clear that us putting in something just because we put it in writing

and the city council says yes that that means that we're telling staff what to do that does not

sound like what this report is I need someone to tell me whether I'm tripping or not

so the report can include your goals for your commission your achievements from the prior year

and then also any policy recommendations you want to make to city council city council can

then look at those recommendations and decide if they want to direct the city manager and staff

to implement those recommendations or not but you do have the opportunity to make those recommendations

in this report or as has been noted in other in other ways so but you can use this report as a

vehicle to do that if you all can agree on a policy recommendation that you want to include because

it has to come from the report has to be approved by the commission their recommendations of the

commission okay so it can be in this report but that doesn't necessarily mean that city council

is going to move forward with it or that it's going to go to the city manager or that anything is

going to come of it correct okay right because as said their budget considerations there are

lots of considerations right it may be a long-term goal it may be something that council says yeah

that sounds great but we don't have the bandwidth staff doesn't have bandwidth there's a budget

issue we don't have enough staff to take this on it doesn't but you can make the recommendation if

you if you can all agree on what the recommendations should be vice chairman and I'll just add this might

go without saying that it was our first time putting this together so personally I reference

the youth commissions report I don't recall that there was necessarily a policy recommendation

within the report and so that's the framework in which I was operating also given the time

constraint of trying to get something readily available for this meeting we were only thinking in

the lens of goals that we could achieve we were not thinking of a second section of policy

recommendations because as an ad hoc we have the limitation of time so we we personally met twice

to once collect data about the previous year and then second to talk about goals so we were trying

to kind of parse out the workload given just the nature of us being volunteers so I wanted to be

clear that there's no intention there's no malintent to strike something it's more that we are

trying to do this in a thoughtful and thorough way without over committing without what I like to

say is my motto of the year over promising and under delivering so that is the intention that I

believe I can convey on behalf of commissioner Ford chair gains and commissioner king is who's

not here when we entered those sessions and meetings and I will say that we will continue to talk

about this my recommendation is to move forward with the goals that are just for the commission I

think that we have plenty of time including a nether report that will have to start probably within

the next six months for 2026 that we can look at policy recommendations but my recommendation will

be to move forward with our goals as a commission commissioner for us thank you chair you know as a

grantee and a grantor I know the importance of metrics and and milestones right so if we did

include language because I totally hear you commissioner vazquez if we wrote the language of

using the method of like ad hoc to explore future policy recommendations to city council like

comma equity lens then one if we do create the ad hoc and have the the the time and discussion to

do that then that is the metric we hit in a report that we identified as a commission right

could because there might be some policies that you know robby made like or or want to explore right

to take the time and and I may have a different topic but at least we created the make created it

so we're hitting our own metric to have that discussion and then use that ad hoc process to then

put that on a future agenda to then talk about it further and then codify that and that goes to

city council right so like so writing it in that particular way does it negate what you're trying

to say it just unfortunately it's bureaucracy but at least we're hitting our own metric of saying if

we're going to create adhots this is why we're creating it for future policy recommendations like

given them the heads up hey things are maybe coming your way it just needs that time to bake in

to to explore that and then if there even is bandwidth capacity to then if it could be implemented

but to say hey this is what we'd like to do this is we've edited it's been recommended add on

an agenda item by us commissioners to city council so I think there's a there's an avenue to do it

we're I think we may be speaking different languages but together we can synthesize our

collective thoughts so we can at least add it on considering the time that we have to finalize

the report as a team and we're not on the ad hoc committee so I so blessings we're taking on that

on on top of your busy schedule so I think there's a there's a pathway there's a north star there

that we can all be satisfied forward this motion today with some of those notes

and then we make our own metrics that we successfully will hit later on in the year.

Commissioner King I agree with you Joe I think that putting a plan together moving forward

something that we collectively can come together and and decide on what policies as a group we're

going like I haven't thought about it so I don't know what what policies I want to recommend and so

in this short period I think moving forward with what Sierra wrote which was great and thank you

to the ad hoc committee who you were on it yeah good job and then yeah you guys did a good job so

I think that would be my recommendation as well just let us like I didn't know it was an option

so let's table it let's think about it for the future now that we know that that's an option we can

move forward with maybe we could do a supplementary document I don't know is that even possible

okay well then next year I would say that we can put our collective thoughts together

because I know we're under a time crunch but good job Sierra thank you for writing it thank you

ad hoc appreciate you guys commissioner vascular is this what you wrote commissioner been in the draft

I drafted goals one two and three just based based on feedback that was provided to me either

verbally or in discussion via the ad hoc yeah so I drafted those pieces and help review the

letter that gene or chair gains drafted thank you and do you mean the ABC or the yes sorry ABC

okay so if the plan is that we will just submit our work plan for the year and not make any

policy recommendations to city council this first goal still this sentence is it's got a lot in it

it doesn't have a what is the goal so if we're if our goal as a commission is to advocate for

equitable parks and community enrichment by engaging with neighborhood association and user

groups to identify needs and issues to help ensure inclusive and accessible recreation spaces

for all Sacramento residents how just by meeting with them and collecting their information and bringing

it back to yeah I think that's already our our powers and duties right so the work plan going

forward would probably be connected to what commissioner floris is talking about is like our agenda

items right like these are agenda items for 2025 this is the plan these are our ABC that we want to

you know work on so which item from our future calendar would we attach a to

like how would this be an agenda item how would we work on that as a team

a little confused about that part I think that the sorry can I I think generally it was an

overarching goal so that it wouldn't identify specifically because we all have different

priorities from different districts right so it's overarching goal and we each drive our own

kind of agenda by our districts district needs different community input etc and so in terms

of how do you tie it back to an agenda I think one of the conversations we have is how do we

ensure that we are meeting that the the the 2040 parks plan right and I think this is an overarching

goal that aligns with generally that whole plan and I think it's up to us to decide what items

we bring up and we prioritize as as a commission to meet that right like I know you're saying like

oh this is already our charge of course it's our charge but if that and I think the the I think

what maybe may have an opportunity miss here is we said supporting equity and transparency

and park improvements right that is the general goal here right and so it could be added to agenda

items as we move forward and also it's going to look different by district I would say you have

your own priorities I have my own priorities it's not going to look the same for everyone so I

think it would be unfair to list like my priorities here right only right but I think it's an

overarching goal and I think that's the way we should look at these

Sure for us thank you and I know we're hitting a hard question stop pretty soon so I'll be really quick

I think we also have to recognize the importance of the baseline first document right like yes this

is our charge but this is the first document we're setting as a commission to in this new endeavor

right so maybe the first document is lays out those goals so to be like letter eight there's no

dock right now right until we submit this and this lays the foundation to then start making the

achievable and outcomes that we're all looking for and again an echoing commissioner for yeah what

I I know I'm working on a D7 item that's already I'm already into year two and we haven't crossed

a milestone to engage staff is like what does then that look like to update the policy that I'm

facing right like it's just going to look different and so to say to use my specific example then say

okay well then where where does that lie in our calendar it's like it can't because there's still

so much of that policy background to to to to to establish work with each team and then then the

pathway from there and then the item will then come to us either via the parks department because

of a D7 example or a D7 commissioner working with the chair vice chair on the issue that we're

working on so there's multiple avenues but this is a yeah I'll just stop there there's there's

multiple ways but it every way is different but it includes the district office it includes

people and includes the e-team working together and then this just this doc is just a piece of

listing the milestones that we did achieve we one year first year we established the baseline

second year is like because we established it the first year here's what we did so I'm we're you're

being very hyper specific when we're trying to let's lay the foundation to hit your specifics

baskets yes commissioner baskets chair and that's exactly right to both of your points all of our

priorities in our districts are different that is why this is called equity and transparency

is to create a process that would make all of our different individual requests and priorities

public so that all of our neighborhood associations know where their requests are in the line

and they know how we're deciding who goes first that's literally the whole point of my request

for a policy recommendation is to codify the process of how do we choose where our dollars go

first how are we basing it on equity which was the number one request of that parks plan that people

requested people voted for yes I would rather the park that's been neglected longer than mine go

first so how are we using a matrix to make those decisions that is my request that it's worked on

by parks department sooner than later my second request was to start with the strategic plan of our

draft plan of our finalized parks plan can't go out draft anymore right that five year first five

years is this plan that is built that says every year what we're going to do and what metrics we're

going to hit and what marks we're going to make like that is the base layer that is the document that

we built from so my request as a policy recommendation is to prevent all of us having needs that are

hidden and our neighborhood associations not understand why their neighborhood park is going first

but a public purview as to understand the process because once they do then our neighborhood

associations who need to go out there and find grants to get matched funding to make their projects

happen will understand the process and they'll be encouraged to go out and get their own funding

so hopefully that explains my letter a request because right now as it stands they don't think this

wording captures that I'm happy to reword or to make suggestions for next meeting and I thank

you ad hoc committee for taking the time and doing extra meetings I know that's a lot of time time

that I didn't have this month so I appreciate you taking the time.

Could I provide some just feedback really quick if I may so the work plan for the upcoming year the

outcomes the community benefit the metric of effectiveness is the work plan for the commission

so chair Vesca what you are asking for wouldn't necessarily look like this it would probably be an

you know an attachment behind everything else and if it if it wanted to be laid out like that that

would be so but how the work plan is laid out is really what the commission is going to do you know

just to support the department and you know the greater vision so I just wanted to clarify that

that how it's laid out right now is the work plan for the commission and so policy considerations

can look different but it would be an attachment to this document because this document really

should be what the commission is going to do it's it's your work plan it's not our work plan so

as um the city attorney's office said it could be added but it it wouldn't be in the work plan it would

be behind it as whatever recommendations are added all right everyone the time is now 7.25

pm and according to the council rules and procedures chapter 8d6 to extend this meeting to go

past two hours a vote is required to extend this meeting do I have a motion and a second motion

all right I have a motion from commissioner robins and a second from commissioner flores clerk can

you please take a roll call vote thank you chair commissioner forward i commissioner robins i

commissioner labor i commissioner king i commissioner vazquez i commissioner flores

vice chair boon i am an i but i am leaving at 7 30 because i have family obligations so

i'm not abandoning y'all i'm but i'm i'm hope that you continue this meeting and chair gains

i thank you the motion passes thank you all right commissioner forward thank you is your turn

yeah i like to make a motion to pass um the work plan as is thank you

all right we have a motion to pass checking it and a second from commissioner labor uh clerk

uh did you bring us all on the list

commissioner vazquez thank you i was going to respond um thank you shannon i know that all of the

reports that i've read have the past history the work plan and the recommendations altogether in

the same document so i don't know why they would have to be separate but thank you for explaining

that this was written as a work plan pick it be in the document it's just how it would be laid out

is what i was clarifying also just a reminder that this when we pass it goes to the pp and e board

and then they read it and they have questions about how we're going to do this um then it gets

kicked back to us and then we make any corrections they want and then would go again to city council

once we have actually i don't know does it go back to pp and e if they kick it back to us

i don't know the answer to that offhand yes does yes okay great thank you

um all right so we had

a good

mission in second right okay uh clerk me have a roll call vote please thank you chair

commissioner forward i commissioner robins i commissioner labor i

commissioner king i commissioner vazquez

nay commissioner floris

commissioner kinkus is absent vice chair boon i and chair gains i thank you the motion passes

thank you um and then before we move on to our next item of business i would just like to ask

because i did hear you about the um equity piece and i just want to make sure i do know that

it is on the um the log but if we can if i can ask Shannon if we can get an update um next month

just kind of where we are with i know that we had kind of talked about it but if we can get an

update um forgot for next month yes absolutely thank you all right also add chair excuse me

also add any additional policy considerations or recommendations can still be added to the log

at any time well at the end of the meeting during questions comments um not on the agenda so

please feel free if you have additional recommendations that you want to be looked at you can put those

on the log all right and now we have our civic engagement unit overview um do we have a

staff presentation for this you do but before you start um we have Sarah messer here from our

civic engagement team thank you Sarah for so patiently waiting um to share your item i'm sorry we

couldn't see this item first but thank you for for sticking around yeah of course thank you

good evening Sarah messer recreation general supervisor with youth parks and community enrichment

overseeing the civic engagement unit specifically um today today i'm excited to talk about the

various civic engagement opportunities we have for citywide youth our team is spearheaded by Maria

Videsma Dow and Dominique Herding who are both program coordinators ronda paterson our program supervisor

myself and Renee coffin who you all know in the back she's our awesome program manager

i'm going to start with the Sacramento youth commission who i may refer to as sysc moving forward

so i like to identify our acronyms we use them a lot um sysc is a 19 member advisory body

appointed by the mayor and city council in 2024 the commission achieved several notable accomplishments

specifically the following they conducted a sacrament of youth voice survey that provides them

with an open channel to receive an honest feedback from youth and sacramento they develop the youth

mental health resource guide that provides information about services for youth and sacramento there

are links websites phone numbers and several different things on that resource guide and it's

currently on the city of sacramentals website they will review that every year as that is a focus

area that they have determined that they want to continue with in 2025 additionally they host two

agi-square listening sessions with over 150 youth participants and organize the youth symposium that

touched on advocacy and activism that was attended by 37 youth citywide additionally sysc engaged in

three joint meetings with the Sacramento children's fund and planning children's fund planning and

oversight commission and participated in various town halls surveys and information sessions related

to the fund they also co-wrote the introduction to the strategic investment plan and help present

the sip to city council looking ahead to 2025 the commission will continue to focus on the three key

areas including agi-square the Sacramento youth voice and youth mental health now let's pivot and

we're going to talk about some of our educational and uh professional development programming starting

with summer city hall i've spoken to you all i believe about summer city hall um this program focuses

on different forms of government advocacy youth development and civic engagement we partner with

sac city unified school district natomas unified school district and twin rivers unified school

district to provide students with a comprehensive experience that includes a project presentation to

the mayor and city council a 20 to 25 hour in-person internship with community organizations that the

yipc currently funds with some of their grant money um as well as city uh different city departments

here they per they work on a community service project last year was with the food literacy project

or the food literacy center and they did a whole day out there it was really awesome they receive a

five hundred dollar stipend along with five high school elective credits in 2024 the program saw

participants from saw 71 students and 13 peer mentors in 2025 applications are currently open

so please promote us through april eighteenth we're in the process of onboarding and training 21

peer mentors we've also introduced a new senior peer mentor position for which six youth are

currently receiving training lastly we have the pilot program semester at city hall um this is

the exciting program we've modeled it off of the summer at city hall program when we saw the

application spike we thought we can do more so we did um semester at city hall is a curriculum

based program that centered around local government advocacy youth development and civic involvement

the program includes an advocacy project presented to the sacramental youth commission rather than

city council and the mayor um we're going to offer them a two hundred fifty dollar stipend and

provide community service hours it's going to be held both in the spring and the fall spanning five

weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the in the evening and today they actually had their second

session so they were over an eleven nineteen working on project stuff this afternoon um so thank

you for your attention these initiatives are essential and fostering civic engagement and

empowering our youth to be active participants in their communities i'm happy to answer any

questions if you have any thank you so much clerk did we have any members of the public who'd

like to speak on this item thank you chair i have no speaker slips on this item thank you commissioner

vascular thank you chair thank you for the presentation big fan of all of this programs i'm looking

forward to hearing more about semester at city hall what does that look like um so they're meeting on

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 30 to 6 30 here at city hall um Tuesdays are focused around the

curriculum and really developing that base knowledge about what happens here at city hall not just

local government but government of all forms um advocacy and basically becoming more civically

involved um Thursdays is when they've worked on their project based learning skills so they're

starting to put together their advocacy advocacy projects and any multimedia

components they would like to add so you'll see it'll be very similar to the summer at city hall

presentations it might be more focused on um activism and bringing awareness projects worse versus

coming up with potential solutions given the time constraint but they're still going to be working

on youth centric uh needs here in the city of Sacramento that they can present to the youth commission

fantastic please let us know how we can help to advertise yes we're looking for a youth

word member yes it would be great to see someone up here so awesome it will spread the word for you

use the word for us of course thanks there

yes you read my mind i was just thinking like we need to get one of these uh

summer at city hall kids and semester at city hall kids up on this uh bias with us

um so i did have a question do you have the breakdown perhaps from this last summer um for each

district uh not in front of me but it was pretty equal across the board okay perfect yeah

yeah no this is awesome thank you so much for sharing and i love that um the the young people

are able to not only get some cash but um elective credits as well yeah

all right awesome well thank you so much for being here thank you appreciate y'all thank you

all right and that was received and discussed so we will move on to our next item which is

916 day i believe we have a staff presentation or staff update

how was your birthday it was great how was yours really good thank you thank you guys good

evening commission um we had a suggestion at last month's meeting as you may recall by commission

or forward to possibly identify some sites that we could collaborate for larger 916 day events

versus everybody doing their own individual so i met with parks maintenance to identify some sites

and those usually came in the form of regional parks or bike trails what we have uh in front of us

are granite regional del Paso regional miller park the del Rio trail and the Sacramento Northern Parkway

has our top uh five picks that doesn't necessarily mean that that's that you have to choose that

but those are the options if you are interested in collaborating um i'm not sure if you guys

remember the goals for march were to finalize date time and location so if you wanted to discuss

amongst yourselves which of those items um of those recommendations you wanted to um in list in

or if you wanted to do your own thing um and then we'll be beginning um outreach for community

partners and sponsorships for march and then for April um our goals for April were to secure the

partner the community partners and sponsors and create the marketing toolkit and assets and um

chair gains i did meet with the obfc marketing they are on board so i will rope you into that meeting

probably in the near future and those are my updates do we have any questions

can you give us those um locations again yep so we have granite regional park

del Paso regional park miller park the del Rio trail which i know joe you're already working on

and the Sacramento Northern Parkway

commissioner robins hi cousin um i'd love that we finally got some uh camaraderie on big parks and

hopefully make it bigger but was there any um recommended parts that really need attention that

we can really use the volunteers for nine one six day other than what we identified today

no these are just the the recommendations that we received from parks maintenance it doesn't mean

that you're necessarily confined to that if you did want to make a different choice you can

you know consult the council office if they have something else in mind okay not just make a

sure there's nothing like uh called arms or anything like that thank you nothing yet

commissioner vasquez thank you chair my question is pretty much the same um and at granite

regional specifically was there um are there items attached to those parks oh yeah here with

granite is please so the items for granite regional are to molt the spaces between the sidewalk

switchbacks that lead from the upper parking lot down to the lower playground in skate park

commissioner lever i had a question how many parks are the ones that you listed that you plan

to work on how many do i plan to work on well how many would we accept here um you have a selection

everybody pick one or two how many to come here work on you you can work on as many as you'd like okay

you can be like commissioner flora as in show but everything

yeah so commissioner labor historically we've each done um a project in our own district and so

there have been you know eight and then sometimes um there might be multiple in some districts or

are at large people they might partner with us or do other ones but we've talked about this year

if we want to instead of doing eight to ten different projects if we want to kind of come together

and do less projects but one big one um you know oftentimes we'll like kind of partner and go to

other people's projects if we're able to um so yeah it's like super flexible so like i definitely

plan to partner on one of the bigger ones but also i know my district and i think they'd be very

disappointed if we didn't have one in the eight so i'll definitely do a smaller one as well so

you know it's definitely flexible whatever you um are able to do you know with your time and

feel um you know well so i'll probably hop into one of the bigger ones but i'll definitely do

something in my um district as well thank you so it's flexible for you whatever you know you

feel comfortable participating in it seems like you have a lot of friends from cedar

that was here a couple hours ago so there could be opportunities there it's uh as much as your

imagination and your council district's vision and things that need some TLC and then that activates

neighbors to then help out in that TLC that's kind of the north star of it. Commissioner Ford

yeah so do you want us to decide now or do you want us to come back?

i feel like if you guys feel comfortable deciding now uh now would be a good time.

i guess my only concern was that i mean i'm listening to um chair gain saying like i would

join a regional one but i'm gonna also do my own and if we all do that then that's additional work

for you all i'm playing and so i just it kind of defeats the purpose i just want to like put it i'm

i'm just saying what everyone's thinking right? you don't have to love me for that but that's fine um

and so i guess that kind of puts me in i'm like well if someone if everyone else is gonna do their

own thing in their own district my council i'm gonna be like why are we doing around right and so

i don't i don't know that we could i don't if you were all ready to make the decision right now

or you want to take it back to your council members um you could take it back to your council members i

know at some of the monthly meetings the uh several council members have been agreeable to

to sharing the workload um as i've mentioned it um but you know if you guys want to take it back as

long as you can decide within the month of march and get back to me i'm perfectly okay with that

yeah that sounds reasonable okay on my end but and i i mean i'll say you know my council member might

be agreeable but just keeping it real like even when i was trying to get people out for a park that

wasn't next like within their neighborhood association they were like call us when you do our

neighborhood association park it was very difficult to like get people out and so um that's why i

felt like i would still want to do like a little baby thing also i don't know the names of parks

i'm assuming none of these are in d8 um i don't think so i don't think any art d8

i wasn't the assignment

okay mr. King okay throwing something out there so if we choose to do a smaller thing

we are all doing events throughout the year um we are all sponsoring those events

so what about the possibility of just calling them nine one six day events throughout the year

so one of us each has an individual project that's our net one six three project and then we come

together as a group and do one of these regional or multiple regional events

okay so because we're all sponsoring things we're all doing things i owe people things so i need

to get things done and i need to get volunteers out there so that's my suggestion

yeah i like that

yeah director bejum thank you um just just to add i appreciate i appreciate your

recognition of that and i think that's a great suggestion because you're already do i mean

commissioner uh floras is supporting a del real trail cleanup day on saturday you know

there's stuff happening all the time you have some really great marketing material i already

developed last year with the nine one six day logo you can put that logo on all of your individual

events rather than trying to create an event just to create an event i love the idea of the

regional concept and while we can go back and have conversations with council members about what

projects they want to move forward they do need to be really vetted with our with our park maintenance

team understanding we're moving into it but another budget deficit year and resources are

significantly limited and so while we love to be able to support these events when they do

require a significant lift from the maintenance team um especially during that week it really

is a challenge it can be a challenge so something just to think about um i think that's a really

great strategy to to kind of get both but you know best but best of both worlds can i add on to that

sorry so no i love that idea and i think if if i would love to land on one maybe one big regional park

on like nine one six official day to close off like the nine-way six season um and then we could

put all the sponsors there right like all the sponsors all the food bring all of hopefully

bring all our volunteers to that kind of closing of it um anyways i'm in support of that i don't

how what do we do to like make it happen i don't know but it should be a party like it should be

a nine one six big party you like we have all these volunteers and maybe we do like a couple big

things at a certain park or at a few parks right like a del Rio trail cleanup that ends at a park

that borders the del Rio trail or something along the lines right only thinking del Rio trail

borders three of our districts so i'm so happy to be like five eight and seven eight yeah i think

you're in there to mean yeah you're in there would it be possible um to email us this list and with

what the items are because that i think that's part of it too is that if we are going to go big

i don't want us to pick something and we go big and it was like oh we painted a backstop and we have

200 people there yeah there's for Miller Park the recommendation was to repaint the parking lot

lines that extend the length of the low-rider lane and the recommendation from parks maintenance is

to break that into a two-day event for allowing for parking closures so i don't know if that's just

like a bigger undertaking Sean okay and then for so for del Paso Regional Park the tasks are

two multiple areas around the playground picnic areas tree and parking lot planters clean and paint

playground benches so i mean if we just did the top three regional parks the idea being that

regional amenities serve a lot of the city multiple districts or we could do trash pickups along

the trail and and i'm sure Joe after you do zburg this weekend you can give us maybe some more ideas

on what else you're able to do along the bike trail but yeah

Mr. Labour? I had a question on the Northern Sacramento Rail Park I don't know if you do but 30

years ago I hope on that project has a volunteer I was wondering I know the cities done like

expansions are of added trees and shrubs and it's been when I worked on it we the neighborhood

stewards took care of it and now the cities I'm sure more involved how safe is that of a park

for to bring out kids to volunteer I know there's a lot of homeless issues on that so I'd like to

support that park maybe it's a nine one six day but I just am concerned about the safety of that

park but I could be wrong but I've written on the bike trail there and it's like it's pretty dangerous

it can be the Sacramento Northern bike trail back in November I was out there with mud and the

governor's office planting about 200 and something trees and we didn't have any incidents to report

but I think the more volunteers and the more activated it is I think that kind of detours

certain activities so that'd be good to bring in the community to help out because I know they're

doing some work where they've added those tires those colorful tires yeah I think people have

taken over a section that's probably a good thing it is but I'd like to maybe propose that park

is it I had a history there to volunteer to help you with me good okay

all right any other comments all right perfect thank you

you next month all right well that was just received and discussed so we will now move on to

youth parks and community enrichment directors report

try not to hold my team hostage they can leave thank you too good evening commissioners so

try to get through these updates quickly for you because they know we're getting late park

ranger highlights for the month of February there were 870 total calls for service responded to

with 130 rapid response team calls our rapid response team also completed a large coordinated

cleanup along the sac northern bike trail commissioner lever participants included SPD

department of community response and do we also want to congratulate officially this week we

announced that car that carl tolantino Stanley one of our park rangers was promoted to park ranger

supervisor so he'll be joining Danielle Luther as a park ranger supervisor our also want to share

we promised a monthly update on the youth program scholarship fund again and may we'll have

a more robust update for you after summer program registrations but excited to share that 284

scholarships have been issued now and over $10,000 has been utilized and that's just for

upcoming programs that we have this summer and the majority of the usage is obviously going to

be seen during our summer program registration that starts on April 9th so looking forward to

bringing more information back to you then community recreation is hosting the 18th annual sports

for live soccer tournament on April 12th and 13th at granite regional park this tournament tournament

is available for adults ages 50 and up and we have registration information on our website

new at the sacriano softball complex I shared this last month we are offering Friday night drop-ins

for sand volleyball and as interest continues to increase we will look at potentially starting a

league to happen in the near future the summer 2025 junior giants program registration opens on

April 1st that's handled or managed by the junior giants organization we do need volunteers

to implement this program it's for youth ages 5 to 18 and you can also find more information on our

website access leisure play dates are back for this season our first play date is coming up on April 19

that's 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at southside park this event is free and we do ask for pure registration

we'll be holding events monthly from April to August both at southside and thank you to our

commissioner labor for helping to bring those events now to north lake park in north sacriano

or netonis for our community centers we partnered with tectify to offer free digital literacy classes

for participants to learn essential computer skills and boost digital confidence

this is an eight hour program where participants will receive a free chromebook it's going to be

available for adults at haganwood sim and pennell met of youth community centers also at haganwood

community center our team is preparing for a variety of spring events that will share more

information on next month we have senior events a spring-flamed community event kids night out

and hot spots again more details coming soon it's southntomas community center we have a hot

spot remix tiday party coming up on friday march 21st we have a majong madness tournament coming

up on friday march 28th and we're also in the beginning stages of working with the agency on

aging to enhance our senior community garden with some raised planter beds and accessible

walkways we have several youth and teens at southntomas community center that are registered for the

running for rent five k they are training currently and in late april will be running the five k

at land park as a team it's southside clubhouse we have a hot spot hot spot remix spring-flamed

event coming up on friday march 7th and at oak park community center we're having a senior day

senior art day on friday march 21st at 10am and another hot spot remix there as well on march 28th

at bell coolage community center we're offering a new yoga basics class with a volunteer

instructor that will run weekly from march 5th to april 12th at 11am all participants need

as a yoga mat so please join us there and our seniors seniors your remix class at bell

coolage on thursdays is currently full with a wait list and we do offer still strength and balance

classes there on Wednesdays and fridays we have over 30 adults active adults coming on a regular

basis to those programs at panel community center we did have our valentines kids night out on

february 20th with 24 kids in attendance and we're also looking forward to our next kids night out

coming up in april as you've been hearing over the last couple of months this coming Saturday we

have our youth resource and employment fair here at city hall 9 30 am we have almost 1000

participants pre-registered for the event pre-registration closes on friday but we will be

accepting day of registrations on saturdays so please join us there registration for young leaders

of tomorrow program opens on march 24th at 10am more information can be found on our website

it's also the time for summer hiring where we are accepting applications for the landscape

and learning summer season that application period closes on march 30th camp sacramento is

recruiting and hiring for seasonal positions some of those positions include camp aids we need a

chef assistant chefs caretakers assistant caretaker host program director and rec leaders so several

positions and opportunities all of these positions live at camp during the summer season and food

and lodging is provided and then of course we have our aquatics to the season for aquatics

recruiting and hiring so that we can expand our summer offerings across our city pools these

positions that we're recruiting for include lifeguards senior lifeguard assistant pool manager

and pool managers as you all know we are offering several lifeguarding classes and we do have

scholarships available and speaking of pools the north nautomas aquatic center will be the site

of multiple large swim meets the spring including a big one we're hosting which is the USA swimming

pro-meet on April 1st through 5th in park planning this team you heard from them this evening

and also have several projects in the works with most recently announcing that west lake park is

officially open this is a five acre neighborhood park located in district one that includes a

covered picnic area ping pong tables swings fitness equipment tennis court with a pickable overlay

half court basketball and seating areas that overlook the lake there are several park maintenance

items that have been completed across districts i am not going to read through them all but i

will be happy to share them with the commission following this meeting and please let me know if

you have any specific questions about items that have been completed i will also share that very soon

the city manager and finance team will be releasing a list of a menu of strategies that have

been developed by every department to support the cities anticipated budget structural budget deficit

this menu of options or strategies will be published and shared with the public very soon

and with some detailed information regarding those strategies this will just be a menu of options

for council to consider the options far exceed what the actual deficit is and so you can expect to

hear deliberations among council in the coming weeks with the proposed budget will be coming

towards the end of April i will continue to keep you updated on the budget situation so please

you know continue to participate in our monthly meetings as more information is shared

and feel free to reach out if you have any questions that concludes my report thank you

thank you director bjim this item is information only so we will move on to the next item

which is commissioner commons ideas suggestions are there any commissioners that would like to speak

on this item commissioner vascular thank you chair um tahu park neighbor dissociation is having

their annual park cleanup on march 29th i believe it starts at 9 a.m. and we'll host and feature

this year also a large tree planting here at the end of our season so thankful to tahu park

neighbor dissociation for putting that together and continuing to work alongside city staff to

get those approved and going so i hope that you all come and join us it's a really good time the

donates are good um also i know you announced earlier uh in the meeting that it was the time to add

to the follow-up log but i thought we did at the end so sorry i wasn't as prepared um but the notes

that i had to add to the follow-up log were uh notes that i had asked for before do we add it which

i don't see which is the conversation about uh how can we update our website and things that we'd

like to see on the website do we want to have our email addresses on there if we do which ones

do we want to use so i would like to see that added to the follow-up log uh our neighbor dissociations

ask me consistently how do i find information on other commissioners on the website so some guidance

on that would be good nice and i asked for clarification you mean on the commissioners but the

commission and webpage is that what you're asking for no i believe they go to the park's department

site is where they're going what what are you asking to be updated though is my question

like a how to reach your parks commissioner so specifically around the commission that's

what you're asking got it um also the beginning of our strategic planning for our parks plan

2040 i would like to see uh here some information about how is that going when are we starting it

what is the plan for the strategic plan for the parks plan um as well as if we're not going to

make any recommendations to city council this year about equity and how that's working um i think

a good place to start is i'd like to know how many neighbor dissociations are turning in park

enhancement forms um and how are those neighborhood associations getting information back um i get

a common question is how do i sign up to do a parks cleanup i send them to the park enhancement

form and then they're telling me that they're not hearing back um so i'd like to know you know

is there a way that we can find out how many are being submitted in our district and

is that working so that we can continue that process with them thank you

thank you and a point of clarification real quick i think the reason that i had said to bring it up

at the beginning of the meeting for the um follow-up vlog is because we approve it and so i just don't

want anything like if it said that it was complete and that was wiped away i don't want it to

approve it if that's not true that's why i said at the beginning so um i think we can just bring

it up anytime i just don't want that to be approved if it's not if it actually isn't not complete

um and we're gonna rush because i think some people might have to go and we cannot continue so

we're gonna go real fast because i think some people got to get out of here uh commissioner labor

you're really quick it's wanted to thank uh Shannon and Jackie Sean and Jason left but today

it was kind of a moving day for me at southside park they've added they started adding a project

i sent a picture to you so it was pretty amazing after three and a half years of the first effort we

did this new feature started the process of being added and um i took pictures of it today i can

send to you guys but appreciative of robbing joe and i know jenine had heard about it and i'm uh

grateful we have three or four more projects ongoing their communication board

was being designed and ready for approval and then uh we're doing some painting projects and i just

want to tell you that i'm very blessed to be in this city and have Shannon support thank you

thank you commissioner robins see off fast i can go i'm just a uh norcape park tree planning

setterry i mean setterry march 15 10 to 21 thanks jody koreson thank you shan thank you denisairs

thank you set tree for the end smile for trees we have 16 trees to play plant come out planum and d3 thank you

thank you this meeting is adjourned

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