Thank you, Clerk. Good evening and welcome to the January 14, 2026 Sacramento Disability

Advisory Commission. The meeting is now called to order. Clerk, will you please

call the roll to establish a quorum. Thank you, Chair. Commissioners, if you

can please unmute your microphones. Commissioner Greenbaum? Aye. Commissioner

Barnbaum? Here. Commissioner Patel? Here. Commissioner Wilson is absent. Commissioner

Dyson is also absent. Commissioner Napper is currently absent.

Commissioner Iguigbe is currently absent. Vice Chair Ellis? Present.

Commissioner Carr? Present. And Chair Kramer? Present. Thank you. We have a quorum.

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

After the item is called, we will no longer accept speaker slips. You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on. We will now proceed with today's agenda.

If you are able to please rise for the land acknowledgement and Pledge of Allegiance.

The original people of this land, the Nisenan people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains

Miwok, Patwin, Winton peoples, and the people of the Wilkin Rancheria, Sacramento's only

federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before

us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to go together

together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous

peoples history, contribution and lives. Thank you.

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

Thank you.

We will now move on to the approval of the consent calendar.

Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair. We have no speakers for the consent.

Thank you.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

Move to approve the consent calendar as presented by staff.

Second.

We have two approvals from Commissioner Barnbaum and Vice Commissioner Ellis.

Thank you, Chair, and we'll go ahead and take the vote.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Patel?

Aye.

Commissioner Wilson is absent.

Commissioner Dyson absent.

Commissioner Knapper is absent.

Commissioner Igwebe is absent.

Vice Chair Ellis?

Aye.

Commissioner Carr?

Aye.

And Chair Kramer?

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

Thank you so very much.

We will now move on to today's agenda.

We have two items on the agenda.

The first is the selection of the Disability Advisory Commission's Chair and Vice Chair.

Thank you.

And I will take it from here.

So good evening.

My name is Cecilia Ventress from the City Clerk's Office.

All the detailed information is in your staff report.

but I have a few important reminders regarding the election of officers.

We will hear nominations and the vote for the chair first, then followed by vice chair.

The newly elected chair and vice chair will begin their terms at the next regular meeting,

which in your case is February 4th.

Commissioners may nominate another commissioner or themselves,

and please remember that a commissioner may serve no more than two calendar years in either position.

Currently, all commissioners are eligible to run as chair and vice chair,

and we may now begin with the nominations.

If you guys do wish to make your nominations, please put yourself in the speaker queue.

Thank you.

Commissioner Barnbaum, if you would like to speak.

Thank you.

I will nominate incumbent Chair Sylvia Kramer.

for a second term as chair of the Disabilities Advisory Commission of the City of Sacramento.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

As for me, I would like to elect our current vice chair as the chair for 2026,

Vice Chair Commissioner Keith Ellis for chair for 2026.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Chair, I'm very grateful for your service, and I would like to nominate you as well if you will accept that nomination.

Thank you so very much, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Commissioner Carr?

I thank both of you for your service

Commissioner

Chair Kramer and

Vice Chair Ellis

I'd like to

keep you as well

in the VP position

sorry chair position as well

sorry I'm like all flustered right now

thank you so much Commissioner Carr

if there are if there are no no other members of the commission commission who wish to to cast

their votes or or speak we will we will proceed proceed yes so we have our first motion is

commissioner barnbaum nominating current chair um kramer as chair seconded by greenbaum however

you did make a second motion voting for.

My nomination was for Vice Chair Keith Ellis to become chair for 2026.

Yes.

And do we have a second on that?

Or does anyone wish to?

Because if so, we would go with that vote first before we go with the first one.

I'll second it and accept it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, so we will take a vote on the second motion, which is nominating Commissioner Ellis

as chair.

So we're going to go ahead and do that vote now.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

I'm sorry.

Who is my, what was the vote for?

I'm sorry.

So since we had a second motion, which is we had current Chair Kramer, she nominated Commissioner Ellis to be chair.

So he's second.

So we're going to have to go with that vote first.

Okay.

Vice Chair Ellis, I really appreciate your service.

The year went by so fast that, you know, well, nay, because I would like to stick with my earlier second motion.

Commissioner Barnabum?

No.

Commissioner Patel?

Yes.

Commissioner Wilson is absent.

Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Knapper?

I don't think, did she get to, since she wasn't here.

Yeah, she kind of missed.

I don't know if she, not vote,

if she's aware of what she's voting on.

Correct, okay.

Is she aware of what she's

Thank you. And Commissioner

is absent. Vice Chair Ellis.

Abstain.

Commissioner Carr.

The only reason I feel like you both work

together as a team in a wonderful manner and Commissioner

Kramer didn't get a full term last year. So that's

one of the reasons why I would like for Commissioner Kramer

to, sorry, Chair Kramer to continue

and next year. And your vote?

For now, no. Okay.

And Chair Kramer. My vote is

for Vice Chair Ellis.

So is that a yes, no, abstain?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

So this motion does not pass.

So we will now go back to the first motion

where Commissioner Barnbaum has nominated

current Chair Kramer as chair

and Commissioner Greenbaum has seconded that.

Who's the vote on that, the numbers?

3-3-1?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

3 yes, 3 no, 1 abstention.

He is correct, but that is what it was.

So we'll move forward with the second, or the original nomination.

So Commissioner Greenbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Yes.

Commissioner Patel?

No.

I think this is so tricky.

I think Commissioner Cramer has done an amazing job, and I feel compelled to honor.

Yes.

So no.

No on your vote.

Okay.

Thank you.

Commissioner Wilson is absent.

Commissioner Dyson is also absent.

Commissioner Knapper.

I have a point of clarification.

Please forgive me.

Commissioner Kramer did not complete their full year term.

And so what would this look like?

So she has done her full year term.

Originally the vote was Commissioner Barnbaum had nominated current chair Kramer to continue as chair for the next calendar year.

And it was second by Greenbaum.

However, she made a second nomination.

So we took that vote first.

So now we're circling back because the motion failed, we're now circling back to the first motion.

Thank you.

Understood.

Yes.

Commissioner Kramer to continue second term.

And Commissioner Guigbe is absent.

Vice Chair Ellis.

Aye.

Commissioner Carr.

Yes.

And Chair Kramer.

Aye.

Thank you.

That motion passes.

So congratulations.

Now we will move forward with nominating a selection for Vice Chair of 2026.

So please put yourself in the queue.

Apologies I hit the wrong button.

Commissioner Carr.

As I said, I really love both of you working as a team, and you have been filling in the

shoes whenever needed, and you have been such a good leader in this position as well.

So I nominate Commissioner Weiss-Alice.

Weiss-Alice.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

To the point Commissioner Carr made, fully agree with everything mentioned.

You and Vice Chair Ellis have worked very well and extremely well with city staff.

you've taken time out of what you typically do to make sure this commission is successful.

So I will in great honor second the nomination that Commissioner Carr put out to have Vice Chair Ellis continue

as Vice Chair of the Disability Advisory Commission of the City of Sacramento.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

And I will third my vote for Vice Chair Ellis to continue as Vice Chair going into 2026.

Thank you.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

I'd like to nominate myself and for the reason to express my gratitude for the opportunity to serve on this commission

and desire to become more involved.

and I was very grateful and excited to be able to speak on the commission's behalf before the racial equity committee.

And while my time is open, if I am not nominated,

and of course don't worry about it all, saying no.

I know that seemed awkward, but not at all.

I just wanted to express my desire to become more involved

and no matter what, be a resource to support the chair

and vice chair for the next calendar year.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

So since we once again have two separate nominations

with the second one,

Is there anybody that wants to second nominating Commissioner Greenbaum as vice chair?

I'll second.

Okay, well, commissioners, please unmute.

We will start with the vote for Commissioner Greenbaum as vice chair.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

No.

Commissioner Patel?

I am excited that you want to do more. I'll say no at this time.

Commissioner Wilson is absent. Commissioner Dyson is absent. Commissioner Knapper.

I'm compelling Commissioner Greenbaum and I really appreciate the being so new to the commission.

and I'm happy so far with them who's chairing and vice chairing.

But I like the idea that you're interested in it.

What term are you in right now?

I thought I looked at all the terms.

Oh, my first term.

Your first term?

Okay, so with that being said, I'm going to say no to Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

and Commissioner Iguigbe is absent.

Vice Chair Ellis?

Aye.

Commissioner Carr?

Commissioner Greenbaum and I started at the same time

and I really love her opinions,

her outlook on all things considered on our commission

and I love her dedication to our commission

and I really appreciate it

and it shows every time.

You're so passionate about these things

and I really appreciate it

but for me this time

I'm going to go with

so I'm going to have to say

but next

and Chair Kramer

I'll have to say no at this time

but Commissioner Greenbaum

I do look forward to your future contributions

and I hope that

that when

if and when you do get elected

I look forward to seeing

what you can achieve

with our fellow commissioners here on the deck.

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you.

So that motion does not pass.

So we will now move back to nominating current Vice Chair Ellis

as vice chair for 2026,

and that was a motion made by Commissioner Carr

and seconded by Commissioner Greenbaum.

Vice Chair Ellis, do you accept?

I do.

Thank you, and we'll move forward with a vote.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Patel? Aye.

Commissioner Wilson is absent. Commissioner Dyson is absent. Commissioner Knapper?

Aye.

Commissioner Igwebe is absent. Vice Chair Ellis? Aye.

Commissioner Carr?

I really love your team, and I feel like, you know, you guys both need a full term to be able to, you know, do the work that you've started.

So, wholehearted aye.

Thank you. And Chair Kramer?

Aye.

Thank you. The motion passes. Congratulations.

Thank you so very much to my fellow commissioners for this re-election as chair for the DIC for 2026.

I look forward to continuing our work.

and we will now move on to our second item on the list

which is the City of Sacramento Disability

Advisory Commission 2025 Annual Report

and 2026 Work Plan.

Thank you, Chair Kramer.

So presenting this item,

I believe this is the third time

we've brought this before the commission.

You've done a lot of good work.

I've received comments.

We had a good discussion in December.

And so I hope you had the time to review the draft that was included in the staff report.

I'm going to highlight a couple of the changes.

We went over the message, and I think I can project.

Now would be the time to project the document to the screen if that's available.

But we made a couple wordsmith to the message from the chair to the city council in the report.

And I will go through and I will read it, if that sounds good.

It says, we represent an inclusive, friendly, and welcoming public meeting space

to model how our city hosts all public meetings and facilities that meet accessibility requirements

and provide independence and freedom to all who choose to participate.

We bring community-level eyes on the projects that the city is delivering.

We are important to the economic development of the city

in that providing accessibility improves access for all

and increases participation and independence.

We seek to be a unified body and modernizing our voice to the city council.

We encourage commissioner engagement in doing the business of the DAC with a focus on stakeholder contributions to the city with annual recognition of Tim Haley Award nominees.

We oversee project reviews to confirm that actions such as incorporating $4 million worth of accessibility improvements in projects like the Franklin Boulevard Complete Street and the Ninos Parkway.

We continue to advocate for making it easier to comment on city items at all city board and commission meetings.

We will continue to advocate and partner with the city to be an inclusive employer for individuals with disabilities

and a place for individuals with seen and unseen disabilities to apply for positions.

So with that, I guess I would pose if there's any final wordsmithing that the commission or Chair Kramer would like to do.

But I look forward to a motion to forward this to the personnel and policy and employment.

Did I get that right?

Committee?

PP&E?

Okay.

Yeah.

So that would be the next step.

So looking for that motion after we get through the discussion, but let's discuss the message from the chair.

First, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Back to the, I have just one, I like, well, the word equitable, I think speaks volume.

and where I think I'd like to see it placed in here.

I just encourage...

I just lost my train of thought.

I'm sorry. Hold on. One moment with me.

I should have written it down. I apologize.

And that providing equitable accessibility improves access for all.

The reason why that word is important to me is because so that members who identify with

disabilities who are citizens of the city can experience the same experiences and things

that the city has to offer that people that do not identify with disabilities have. And

While accessibility of course is very important, it should be equal to that of anyone else.

No protective class should ever have less than equitable treatment and opportunity.

Maybe right here Commissioner Greenbaum.

Yes.

I get that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Commissioner Knapper.

Thank you, Commissioner, Chair Kramer.

And thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum for that.

May I ask, it's a thought.

Second sentence, we bring community level eyes. Can we consider using community voice

or perspective? I'm assuming eyes may be plain language for perspective.

I have to agree with Commissioner Knapper on that as we know there's people with disabilities

who do not have the who have different ways of interpreting our city and our works. So

we just want to make it more inclusive for them.

I'm sorry.

Excuse me.

I think it's positive.

It's parole perspective.

Excuse me.

Ah.

We were watching you type.

That's all.

And.

Thank you, Commissioner Knapper.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Yes.

In the last paragraph where it says, with seen and unseen disabilities,

I wonder if it should go a little further and say hearing and non-hearing, cognitive, intellectual, physical, and developmental, or if that's too much wording, and maybe we should just say a place for individuals with all categories of disabilities to apply for positions.

So I guess the question then would be, do we lengthen it with all that verbiage originally mentioned or go with the second one to kind of imply that we are recognizing all the verbiage from earlier?

Thank you, Commissioner Brombaum.

And I think I agree because we need some, I guess the term is an umbrella term to identify everyone with a disability.

I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to word it to be fully inclusive for all categories of disabilities.

Yeah, and I could defer to Director Patel would like to put some advice into this conversation.

I think that the categories are getting so vast as we look that a lot of the guidance in literature like this is often to find some of the largest representative buckets like it is.

because if you choose to list every one,

you often take the risk that you've missed something accidentally.

So I think either one is right,

but we would want to do a little bit of research

and make sure there isn't another bucket that we're missing,

which is why a lot of advocacy groups

are now sort of modernizing it in this way

to sort of capture all under an umbrella

instead of trying to get everybody and then you accidentally left someone out unintentionally.

So maybe just all?

Instead of like removing seen and unseen, just say all.

All disabilities are all branches.

Oh, go ahead.

All forms.

Yes.

All forms.

All forms, like commissioner.

All forms of disabilities.

I have a couple of suggestions on that.

On what I said.

Yeah.

Chair Kramer may I speak on that paragraph?

Yes.

Yes, sorry Commissioner Greenbaum, you were up to speak.

Thank you.

I think there is a distinction though by the way that it's worded between an employer and a place.

So my suggestion is to be an inclusive place and employer for individuals with disabilities,

for individuals with all forms of disabilities seen and unseen.

I mean, just because, you know, there shouldn't, well, I don't think there should be a distinction between an employer and in place in terms of the way we identify the community, if that makes sense.

Would that be like public, private, and workspace?

Yes. And the only reason why I suggest this is to avoid repeating the description

two times. But it may be kind of clunky I guess with place and employer. But that way

People who are employed by the city or people that, you know, are active in the community

are the same people. People who identify with disability, any form of disability seen or

unseen. But I didn't mean to make the verbiage a little more complicated. I just think the

adjectives should be the same.

That's fair.

Thank you so very much Commissioner Greenbaum. Commissioner Knapper.

Thank you Chair Kramer. Thank you for the edit. I think I'm right with you Commissioner Greenbaum.

We will continue to advocate and partner with the city to be an inclusive place and employer

for individuals living with disabilities seen or unseen and encouraged to apply for open

position.

That's something a little bit more is it I don't necessarily haven't necessarily seen

or unseen, I've seen visible or invisible. But that's semantics, isn't it? I don't know.

I'm looking to the commission.

I like visible and invisible.

I think that is more complicated.

Those words are used.

They're more readily understood.

And then to encompass, excuse us, Leslie, Commissioner, Napper speaking is varying disabilities.

Right. And so I think some of that I don't know it's getting a little wordy here but

I think it ‑‑ I think ‑‑ I like to think you said and, you know, and encourage

And because we're taking out some words, I don't think it'd be, you know.

Okay, so I have, we will continue to advocate and partner with the city to be an inclusive place and employer for individuals living with disabilities, visible and invisible, oh, to apply for positions.

May I? I've been wordsmithing.

Yes. May I? Yes.

In fact, you can come over here if you want.

I think that's great.

We will continue to partner with the city to foster an inclusive workplace where individuals with disabilities, both visible and non-visible, are encouraged to apply and thrive.

Because right here we're just getting to applying.

We're not moving past it.

Okay.

I can drop that in an email?

Or I'm like, I need the...

Well, let's try one more time.

So we will continue.

Partnering with the city to foster an inclusive workplace

where individuals with disabilities,

both visible and non-visible,

are encouraged to apply and thrive.

Okay.

Maybe you can just send me an email.

I mean, if, yeah.

I'm sorry.

No, no, no, that's good.

I just, I was trying, I was getting stuck on that last part.

I'm like, I want them to do more than apply.

Not a stenographer.

The person in the court.

But yeah, no, I think that sounded really good.

But if everyone can just, yeah, agrees to that.

Thank you, Commissioner Knapper.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

And I don't mean to, you know, continue to.

My only question for the commission is whether this sentence was meant to be only about a workplace

or about a place where you're not necessarily employed by the city,

but a place where you can have equitable access to meetings.

It just depends on the purpose of the sentence

and whether we're only talking about here a workplace rather than.

And that's why I think it was a ‑‑ well, I tend to think the latter, meaning both place

and employer, because that's how it was initially written, but perhaps we're only talking about

a workplace in this sentence. I don't know what it was ‑‑ you know, the initial intent.

To keep initial intent I think it well I think this unfortunately oh workplace and employer

no I mean workplace and community.

Or again if it's just workplace that's fine I don't think we need to say and employer.

I just wasn't sure what the intent was.

I actually shared your thought, and I had a question.

So I just had the same thing.

I felt like the cadence of this was great,

and it sort of flowed from kind of who we are, what we've done,

and then it went into this kind of commitment piece.

which it's a little bit stated above

but it felt like if we're to flow with the commitment

there was one more commitment that might be missing

which is kind of what you're saying

and so I had played with wordsmithing

what that might sound like as well

so if I could share and maybe

Commissioner Greenbaum can tell us

if that kind of serves what's missing there for her

but I just wasn't sure because we did talk about it up above

but it seems like if we're looking at commitments

then something around

continuing to advocate for our community

by representing the needs of all stakeholders

and partnering with the city to improve access for all.

I kind of want that to be a commitment at the end

because the last two feel like now this is what we're going to do next.

But then if so, we need more.

I think that makes it less confusing, you know, just having two separate sentences.

Oh, I actually had a better one that I liked better.

Sorry.

I was like, let me, sorry.

I was moving around to help the commissioner here.

as I refine that a little bit,

we'll remain committed to advocating on behalf of our community,

ensuring that all stakeholders' perspectives are represented

as we collaborate with the city to expand access for all.

So just thinking about our roles as representatives

of this greater body that we live in

and what we're trying to do.

Thank you.

Commissioner Patel?

That was Commissioner Patel.

Sorry. Commissioner Carr.

Oh, one, two, three.

The fourth, we seek to be a unified body in modernizing our voice to the city council.

is it

it feels kind of like it's missing something

like kind of modernizing

our voice to effectively

communicate with the city council

or does that look okay

That's all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

I like that, Commissioner Carr.

And maybe this is just the attorney in me, but I think and is maybe unnecessary.

We seek to be a unified body, modernizing our voice.

to effectively communicate or to yes. Thanks.

Commissioner Knapper. Thank you Chair Kramer. Thank you Chair Carr for that. What does modernizing

our voice mean? Does that make accessibility to the meetings more accessible for stakeholder

involvement? I'm just curious. I read it. What is modernizing me? Is it necessary here

at all? I agree. I don't think now that you point

point that out necessarily makes sense unless someone knows.

Lending our voice. I just don't know what modernizing means.

Speaking. Lending our voice. Lending or speaking. Lending. Okay.

I see lending in the sense that lending seems a little more collaborative like maybe you know.

blending facility.

I think in that case, the sentence can be,

we seek to be a unified body to effectively communicate our voice to the city council.

Just that.

Yeah.

No new words.

And just take lending out everything, just sweet and simple.

Just effectively communicate with the city council.

If we can repeat that, and then hopefully after Chair Kramer,

can we just do a read through really quickly?

I think we need to read it out loud.

So we aim to be a unified body

to effectively communicate our voice to the city council.

Yeah.

I like that too.

To be a unified body.

To effectively communicate with the city council.

Effectively communicate to the, yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

And then, let's see here.

Can I ask a question?

I agree.

I think if we're not sure what it means,

then to me, when I had the same questions,

and I thought,

is the intent of that

to speak to the piece of this evolving world we're in

and that we're always cognizant of the changes

and the new accessibility measures and advocating for that.

And if that was the intent, is that, I don't know, it was just a wondering.

To me, I'm like, okay, if so, then I like modernized.

But it's a question and people should be able to read it clearly

or know what we mean by it.

I think perhaps we do want to express that. I don't know if it's another sentence or

is it now just too many sentences. Because that is important, yes.

I just emailed that second one.

Oh, okay.

If you wanted to do a copy paste.

Oh.

It's easy right now.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's see here.

Oh, you can see everything.

Yeah.

You can see my employee review.

You can see everything.

All right.

Yeah.

But that was for the last one, right, Commissioner Vitale?

Yeah.

Let's see.

Yeah.

And Commissioner Patel, I forwarded your full statement to Jesse in a text, so it would be easier for him to type.

Yeah, I think.

Was that for the, okay.

I think that was the additional one.

So if you just did one new line and paste it again.

Okay.

I didn't it went up too fast for me to.

Yes, okay, that tends it ties it well together. All right, let me let me when I accept all these.

Okay, and maybe is there not a volunteer to read through it?

I can volunteer to read it aloud.

We represent an inclusive, friendly, and welcoming public meeting space

to model how our city hosts all public meetings in facilities that meet accessibility requirements

and provide independence and freedom to all who choose to participate.

We bring community level perspectives on the projects that the city is delivering.

We are important to the economic development of the city and that providing equitable accessibility improves access for all and increases participation and independence.

We aim to be a unified body of effectively communicate to the city council.

We encourage commissioners' engagement in doing the business of the DAC with a focus on stakeholder contributions to the city with annual recognition of Tim Haley Award nominees.

We oversee project reviews to confirm that actions such as incorporating $4 million worth of accessibility improvements in projects like the Franklin Boulevard, Complete Street, and the Ninos Parkway.

We continue to advocate for making it easier to comment on city items at all city board and commission meetings.

We will continue partnering with the city of Sacramento to foster an inclusive workplace where individuals with disabilities both visible and non-visible are encouraged to apply and thrive.

We remain committed to advocating on behalf of our community, ensuring that all stakeholder perspectives are representative as we collaborate with the city to expand access for all.

Maybe taking out will on the second to last statement just so that the cadence is the

same we continue we continue for flow.

Okay.

Yeah.

That it.

All right.

And then for when it says that the accessibility requirements can with shortening that down

to ADA be too confusing or?

Which one?

Right here?

Yeah, at the top.

Did you say ADA?

I would leave it as accessibility requirements

because not everybody knows what the ADA stands for.

Also, it's more encompassing because there's federal and state.

So there's all kinds of.

And also I think ADA is a floor.

We should, you know, we can always aim higher.

Exactly.

Okay.

Sorry, I had one more thought and I'm going to stop.

I kind of didn't love the word requirements for that reason.

I keep thinking on this.

I'm like, we may open, we may work to open doors more than just the floor.

And requirement to me sort of speaks to the floor.

what that is

instead of looking broader.

But it's also fine in semantics.

That's a good point.

This is Commissioner Knacker speaking.

Thank you.

Could we use standards instead of?

Do we have to use that?

Can we say to better meet the needs of the community?

Accessibility needs.

Yeah. I think it's important. I want to have requirements because it holds the accountability piece, right?

So I'm looking towards the commission on this one, but I feel the same way around the word requirement.

Because we do want to, it's a North Star vision we have, right, which is within the document.

But if this is something of a mission statement.

Goals.

I'm curious.

I would like to say we say we want to hold you to this at least this requirement.

Goals.

Does it mean the city cannot exceed that with our encouragement and our goal is to

meet the needs of our community as whole especially those with disabilities.

Right, because we're looking to serve as a model, not a minimum.

Commissioner Carr?

Oh, it's just a little thing.

In this third para, it says, it's just a little grammatical thing, I think.

We are important to the economic development of the city in that providing equitable accessibility,

improving access for all her and increasing participation and

dependence

Thank you.

Did I get the gist right?

That was all.

Thank you.

Commissioner Kramer?

Thank you.

Commissioner Kramer, thank you. Good catch.

Back to the first paragraph, requirements and goals.

I do not want goals.

Because my goals may not be your goals.

And that's the problem.

I think I'd rather go back to requirements.

It's my opinion.

But, yeah, just curious.

Yeah.

I don't know how else to word the accountability piece we're hoping to support this city council

with.

Accessibility requirements and the needs of our disability community.

Yeah.

Possibly accessibility needs and requirements.

Yeah.

Thank you.

That part.

Yeah. That feels better.

Better. Thank you.

To provide then maybe.

That's another and.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Just in terms of to provide independence and freedom because there's a lot of ands.

All right.

That was really well.

Really well done.

So we're ready to move on?

We can come back to that if we need to,

but I thought that was a lot of good wordsmithing. So we have our reasons for serving.

And so thank you to everyone who has provided picture and reason. And I don't think this is,

not everyone needs to do this, but I know it has been something the commissioners have wanted to

do in the past. So if I don't hear from you, I'm just going to assume that maybe you didn't want

to be in the yearbook like this. But if you get it to me by the end of this month, I'll

be happy to include a picture and a statement for the reason why.

Okay.

So I thought it was, it's really neat. So I like including this personally. And then

We have the recommendations, which we've been over in the past.

I don't think I did much wordsmithing there.

We have the key accomplishments that we have reviewed, the Ninos Parkway improvements.

Has anyone been out on the trail?

South Natomas?

Accessible trail.

Auburn Boulevard Bridge.

There's a lot of accessibility improvements were included in that project.

And then of course Franklin Boulevard. Has anyone been down Franklin Boulevard recently?

That is transforming that corridor. So I know the pavement recently went down. And so

the new overlay on that street shows how awesome our streets look when we can get out there and

overlay them. So I really think this that project's and has quite a bit of accessibility improvements

all throughout. We've been over the prospective plan.

And then the Tim Haley Award recipients. So lots of awards. So there were some great photos from those meetings. So I included those.

And then other key accomplishments.

the letter I received a reply from Caltrans on the HSIP letter so good work there that was

the recommendations are being reviewed by their their committee that for their safety committee

so a whole list there I hope you had a chance to read through that and this is the last thing I

want to get to is the work plan for the coming year. So we had a couple items brought up in past meetings.

There's a workshop on project specific reviews that staff will bring forward at some time this year.

That's something my division manager wants to include. We had the request from

Commissioner Barnbaum on a Riverside Boulevard update. There's a lot going on out there. I spoke

with the city traffic engineer.

And we talked over that Leland Haven Way specifically.

Also talked with our mobility and sustainability group

about the plan that was developed out there.

So they agreed to come back and do a report out

on that location.

I know that was a request.

Okay, and I want to thank Pamela Wu.

Yes.

And her son for bringing this to light

to people's attention on the Facebook platform.

Otherwise, this would not have been known.

Thank you.

And then SACRT Go guidance.

This is also Commissioner Barnbaum talked about.

Is there a way we can give guidance to SACRT

and paratransit drivers

and just knowing the proper places to drop people off?

And is there anything those facilities can do

in general for the mapping?

so that paratransit or anyone knows that it's better to like it to be on the H Street side,

though it's an I Street address.

So I thought we could include that and maybe work on that this year too.

Community events, lots of work was done this year by staff and the commission

just looking at resources and guidance for community events.

so we'll continue to work on that in the coming year.

Transition plan update.

The GIS capabilities for noting where APS exists

and the maintenance of that.

So I spoke with staff about bringing that back.

And then Commissioner Dyson had saving our legacy.

So that was included in the work plan and they are set to give a presentation sometime this year.

They're working with Stephanie and I to calendar that.

So those are key items for the work plan that we've discussed in the past.

And that's on top of our project reviews, which will be coming forward.

and I know one specific project review

Commissioner Barbaum you've brought up the Sac Valley Station

so Greg Taylor did agree in fact agree to come back

and do he did a presentation in 2022 and so you can go back and watch that

but he's going to come back and bring an update on all things Sac Valley Station

yeah so that'll be coming later this year

So if there are no other edits, I would ask that you motion to forward this to the P&P committee.

I would like to make an edit, which we were kind of having a sidebar on before the start of the meeting.

Develop a strong collaboration with our peer committees.

the Sacramento County Disability Advisory Commission and the SacRT Mobility Advisory

Council um that group the second one I just mentioned YouTube's their meetings and it's

live but you can watch it if you missed it um it's held in a space on YouTube on their channel

and I think it's tomorrow and they usually time it from 1430 to 1630.

So 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. typically in the new auditorium of theirs at 1102 Q Street.

Is that a good edit or amendment to the work plan feasible and acceptable to this commission?

Yes.

Sorry, I saw a hand to go up.

I'm going to raise my hand.

Yeah.

I'm in the queue and I see Commissioner Patel.

I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

May I please, Commissioner Kramer?

Yes, go ahead.

Chair Kramer, thank you.

Are you okay with that?

Commissioner Patel?

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, Commissioner.

The county DAC, the board's advisors,

and the RT Mobility Access or the MAC.

Thank you so much for mentioning them.

I like your idea, but I love it, as a matter of fact.

My challenge is including it in our plan is interesting

because I don't really know what collaboration would look like

versus us sharing meetings, you know,

meeting announcements or what's happening.

I think we all should do that, right?

They ought to be great, all the groups.

But I don't know what collaboration looks like.

And putting it in the plan, would it mean that we would be committed?

Are we committing ourselves to something to the other groups, or are we committing them?

Let's just have thoughts.

I'm not trying to be a stick in them, but I'm just curious.

I think it would help for us as commissioners, like if we're knowledgeable about when they meet,

whether we attend or not, or attend on our own time on YouTube,

If something comes up, say, oh, I totally overlooked that.

Why didn't I think of that?

And then say, oh, hey, I watched this group on YouTube.

Maybe it was the county.

And you heard something that may involve the city to some degree.

It might be a project that goes within both jurisdictions.

maybe you saw it on YouTube at the Mac and the issue was mainly in the city of Sacramento

in a certain council district but it happened to go there and maybe it should also come here and

we overlooked it to go in the work plan because some groups will capture things and discuss it

and others won't.

And this would be something that,

excuse me, Commissioner Knapper,

if you can make,

would be something that we would want to add

to this work plan or something that

in the normal course of our commission's business

would, you know, during the normal function

of our business right around the discussion

or commission discussion

or things we would like to put on the agenda

for future discussion or announcements.

Yeah, like one topic might be,

I think it went to the MAC,

it was SAC Adapt.

and while that has mainly started over there,

I heard it say collaboration with the city and the county of Sacramento.

So it's like, oh, SacAdapt or whatever they're talking in the subtopics of SacAdapt

might be of impact to people with disabilities too.

we overlook that topic and maybe that should be in the the work plan and reach out to that

group i think it was the mac that brought it up first and say hey thank you for bringing that up

uh we would like to agendize that at the the DAC at the city you know just as an example yeah i'd

like to i'd like to discuss this like how are we going to agendize this versus maybe if i may be

so bold. I think it's a great idea. Thank you for lifting that. I've been thinking too

what does collaboration look like with the county DAC and then particularly the MACRT

because we talk about this infrastructure happening where, you know, where there are

improvements happening that will also impact transit, right. And so I'm just curious if

I would like to table that.

I would agree.

I think to table it because the Disability Advisory Commission is our activities within the city.

I know in the past I've been asked to look into things pertaining to the airport or things pertaining to...

Maybe there's collaboration, but also just blurring the lines too much.

Yeah, like was the Auburn Boulevard project that you highlighted kind of a collaboration thing to make it to where it is today?

So, yeah, that was a collaboration with the county.

Yeah, so, yeah, so, yeah, I just, yeah, I guess I might just agree with Commissioner Knapper and just that kind of staff.

It's like, okay, what is the task or what's the action item from it?

And if it's just, you know, collaboration, maybe it's just at the commission level,

working with those other commissions, attending, being aware of those items,

and there's really not an action item for the staff, then I can understand that.

But I know things that I'm taking action are typically things, well, they should be things that are within the city,

city's jurisdiction and then within public works.

Mainly. Not that we don't go outside public works now and then, but that's kind of like the center.

So anyway, that's just my input.

Okay, so I'll rescind my motion and accept Commissioner Knapper's

motion and Commissioner Gotham's second.

Were we making motions or edits?

Because I thought it was more before we made it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for your input.

Commissioner Patel.

Can I, can we go back to the SACRT just real quick?

I thought I had it open on my screen and I couldn't find it.

Because I have a question on that one, but I might have just missed it.

I guess I'm like, that's just such a small piece of SACRT.

And if we were collaborating with them around drop-off and pick-up,

if it's appropriate or maybe it's at that meeting we talk.

I would love it to encompass schools.

There's some interesting things.

Our students will call SACRT to pick them up.

And I live in the neighborhood, so I walk.

And I, as the administrator, walk across the street and down the road.

And then it's a non-crosswalk, and there's a SACRT sitting there.

This is often.

And I know who they're picking up.

And I say, oh, you're picking up a student at a school.

It's there.

And their response, the driver's response is, we can't drive into that circle drive.

We're not allowed to go on school property.

And I'm like, oh, my student has to leave our property to get their ride and go not on a crosswalk and not on a...

And I'm like, is that a law?

how do we keep our people safe?

And I think that's what we're trying to do.

And so maybe it's at the meeting,

but I would love it to encompass drop-off and pick-up.

But I also just, I'm like, keep our babies safe.

I don't understand that, and I'd love to learn more from them

and adjust that practice and partner with whoever it is.

So that might be a good collaboration

where maybe you or whoever the commission decides,

Commissioner Barnbaum, could go to the mobility advisory

and kind of speak to that there.

Or maybe there's a letter that can come from

the Sacramento Disability Advisory Commission to RT.

I'm like, I'm the assistant principal.

Please go drive in this.

He's like, I'm not allowed.

But I don't know. I actually have spent some time trying to figure out where that is, but I've had multiple drivers tell me that.

Okay.

Well, and specific to this building and this chambers, the address, if I recall, is 915 I Street.

Yeah.

but it would appear to come here and be as accessible as possible we might want to create

an address of 916 h street it reflects the area code the number that people relate to sacramento

it's only one number higher than the current address and it's on the street where you want

to get to this chamber in particular or the staff offices up the elevator.

That was why I brought that up a month or two ago.

Specific, so did this building.

Thank you.

Okay.

Yeah, I would be happy to be a part of that.

I just didn't know if maybe the end of the pickup drop-off,

and I just am like, could we do more than just those two locations?

I see.

maybe you didn't have the full context of how it got on the work plan in the beginning yeah

but bring up your own valve yeah okay

commissioner knapper no that's such a good i'm i need to unmute myself oh i'm sorry mr knapper

Thank you for this wonderful discussion.

I almost looked at Commissioner Brownbaum and said that would be a good place to put

and collaborate with Regional Transit SMAC, right?

Like it would be a goal.

It's directed to a purpose.

I think I like that.

I put my hand up because I thank you so much everyone for the work plan.

I, but what I suppose missing for me was a glossary of terms only because I'm spoiled

that way.

When I look at ADA I may not know or when I you know although we have it in parentheses

what that is if I you know if I'm if I'm reading through I know what that is but maybe for

my first time I may not know. For some of the acronyms we use we have in the in the plan

and not to put more work on staff bless you all it might not be a bad addendum to add.

Oh just.

a glossary of terms like ADA, American Disability Act, whatever acronym, SACRIT is Sacramento

Regional Transit.

I'm just a thought.

Usually we're pretty good about not doing that.

But it's ROW.

Kind of those things, Mike, just a thought.

I can relate in the transit business that I work in, we use a lot of acronyms.

Yeah.

So like for our staff reports, we always spell them out and then we go to the abbreviation.

So I'll go read through and make sure I'm doing that.

But I'm not going to add a glossary.

Thank you, Commissioner Napper.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum, for bringing up the importance of collaboration

and Commissioner Napper's comments as well.

I just I think that's incumbent on all of us as commissioners in terms of where we can take from you know other bodies ideas or mainly ideas.

And so I think that's something that we should, I just wanted to say that we should probably have all, be aware of.

And if we're available to attend that, you know, meeting, whether in person or YouTube, you know, perhaps we should, one of us, or, you know, we should go.

And that's just incumbent in our job as commissioner so that we can then bring what we learn and hear what has worked or doesn't work for others to this space, too.

So I just wanted to point that out as a good reminder for all of us.

Thank you.

Commissioner Patel.

I think I just want to say thank you for all the hard work.

Thank you for live editing because it is my nemesis.

I never want to be the one that's having to type and do that.

So I appreciate that.

I would motion if no one else had comments or suggestions for edits.

I'll second that motion.

If there's any commissioners that wish to speak on this item, please speak now.

If not, we will continue.

looks like no speakers in the queue so we have a motion by commissioner patel and a second by

commissioner barnbaum and for the record we do not have any members of the public who wish to speak

on this item so we will now move forward and take the vote commissioner greenbaum i commissioner

barnbaum i commissioner patel i commissioner wilson is absent commissioner dyson is absent

Commissioner Napper.

Aye.

Commissioner Guigbe is absent.

Vice Chair Ellis is absent.

Commissioner Carr.

Aye.

And Chair Kramer.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

So I'll follow up on the date for when the sitem goes before the P&PE committee.

So thank you all.

Thank you.

There's a couple more on the agenda.

Not discussion items, but just the staff oral report.

Yeah.

Our next item is the staff oral report.

And I'd like to ask Stephanie Seis to come up,

and she's going to provide the staff oral report out.

Hi, everyone.

So for our report out, we don't have too much on the list, but good news, the prospective plan that was shared with you all in December will be going to council for approval in early March.

So that is just around the corner, and that's all.

Thank you.

Just a quick question on that.

Is it going to be a consent item or a regular calendar item, or is it too soon to know?

It'll be a consent item.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

As that date approaches, will you give us an actual definitive date?

Okay, that's what I figured.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I believe it will be the first meeting of March that it will be going to council.

So I don't remember the date from the top of my head.

That's fine.

Yeah.

Thank you.

March 3rd is a Tuesday.

We can, we'll bring it up at our February meeting too.

Yeah.

So right now it's tentatively scheduled for March 3rd.

Thank you for bringing up the date.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay, so if we have no other questions or comments for the Commission staff report, we can now move on to the Commissioner comments, ideas, and questions.

Okay, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Thank you.

A couple of events, and then I'd like to then put an intent motion on another topic for us to consider in February.

but I'll get to that last. First event is that on Thursday of this week, being in the third Thursday,

it is the first of the 10 Sacramento City Connect mixers. These are put on by the community

engagement team led by Lynette Hall. This first one on Thursday from 5 30 p.m. to 8 30 p.m.

We'll be at Flores, a restaurant, bar, and grill that's a local business.

And it's at 5700 Land Park Drive.

So hope everyone can come out to that.

And then on Monday the 19th is the annual Dr. Martin Luther King March for the Dream.

The extra mile portion of that will begin at the Oak Park Community Center at 730 in the morning.

Marchers will take Martin Luther King Boulevard, 12th Avenue, which becomes Sutterville Road to the southern entrance of Sacramento City College.

The main march will begin at Sacramento City College, go through the Land Park neighborhood.

And once again, it's been about a six-year hiatus due to construction and renovation.

The march will terminate finally at the Safe Credit Union Convention Center in downtown Sacramento.

So we hope everybody can come and participate on that, and that's this coming Monday.

Okay, then third thing I said is I wanted to bring an intent motion tonight and bring it back to our commission in our February meeting.

I want to thank staff Jesse Gotham for having a sidebar conversation a couple of times with me at the conclusion of previous commission meetings about this.

and it's regarding our calendar that the city council adopted in September.

I wrote every meeting per month in 2026 in the calendar book and the planner.

And one thing caught my attention, which I discussed with Jesse about.

So I'd like to bring this to the commission, think about it,

and then let's bring it back maybe as a full regular motion at the next meeting.

And that is, since the commission has a meeting calendared on Wednesday, April 22nd,

followed immediately by another meeting calendared for Wednesday, May 6th,

I would like to make an intent motion due to how close each of those are,

to cancel the Wednesday, May 6th,

Disabilities Advisory Commission

and have the commissioners consider that

as a full motion at the meeting in February

to give you time to think about that.

Does staff have any comments about that before we continue?

you point of order uh we can't add we can't just make a like motion right it has to be

an agendized item that's why i say let's bring it back so we have discussed it discussed it and um

it's it's my prerogative whether we have the meetings or not so i'm looking at counseling

the April meeting and keeping the May meeting.

And that is due to the time involved in

calendaring the reports

and getting all the documentation in on time and getting all the reviews done.

So to have two reports

or two meetings kind of within two weeks

is just administratively very burdensome.

so I'm planning on cancelling the April meeting but keeping the May meeting.

Okay, so you want to do it the other way around?

Yeah.

Rather than that suggestion of keeping the April meeting and cancelling the May meeting?

Right.

Okay.

I was going to keep the first Wednesday.

Yeah.

I guess, as I see, we're not meeting in early April because that's when Passover begins at sunset.

Oh, really?

Yes, that's why they try to avoid, according to city clerk Jacob Bregberg,

they also recognize that the city Jewish holidays as well as non-Jewish holidays.

Okay, so the May meeting interferes with Passover?

If it was April 1st, it would have interfered with Passover.

That's why the council adopted a calendar for this group to have it on April 22nd.

Okay.

At their council meeting back in September.

Okay.

Well, we'll keep discussing it, but I don't want to keep both meetings.

I don't want to.

No.

Okay.

So maybe it would be better to do it the other way around.

So, well, the thing is that when Stephanie and I are scheduling the items, we've got to get it right.

But we don't need to bring it as a commission.

It doesn't need to be a discussion item for the commission on what meetings we keep and don't keep.

So that's my prerogative.

So working with the chair.

What I had looked at was how much time was between March and April.

and if we eliminated May, how much time was between April and June?

And it's about equal if we eliminated May.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's tentatively do that then.

Okay.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Commissioner Kahn?

Thank you, Chair Kramer.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year to everyone.

And it's so good to be back again with all the familiar faces.

And I just wanted to bring, acknowledge the January 4th, which was a national Braille Day.

and it is this Braille Day represents the tech you know celebrates the Braille

system that was that's a tactile writing system and so basically this day

raises awareness about the rights of the people who are blind or visually

impaired and especially access to information education and public life so

just wanted to bring awareness to that thank you everyone thank you Commissioner

As for me, I have an announcement for those with dwarfism, either if you're in the Organization

of Little People of America, know someone who is in it, or just are or know someone

who has dwarfism. They are having a medical convention in Las Vegas this February from

the 19th to the 22nd. There will be medical specialists there performing examinations

and consultations as well as a chance to meet fellow LPs.

If you want to learn more, you can go to littlepeopleamerica.org.

Commissioner Knapper.

Thank you so much, everyone.

I think we're going to pull announcements.

And I want to circle back, not an argument,

but I do want to acknowledge we canceling the May meeting.

May is mental health month.

And it would be nice to have a DAC for May's mental health month.

But I do honor the holiday.

I do respect that.

And so I'm looking towards the team.

But I wanted to share the value of May for disability community.

Thank you.

Thank you Commissioner Knapper

If there is no members of the commission who wish to speak

we will move to public comments

Thank you Chair

Yes we have one speaker for public comments matters not on the agenda

Regina

May I request assistance to the

Yes one second

Thank you.

And may I also have a warning of like 15 or let's say 20 seconds before the time is up

since I can't see the.

Yes, sure.

So I'll let you know once we get down to the 20 second mark.

Okay.

And the time should start now.

Once you start, yes.

So I would like to read part of a letter that we've submitted.

We sent it to Jesse as well so that the commissioners can get the full letter.

It was submitted to Mr. Charles Schuden, senior planner, community development department with the city of Sacramento.

The ACB capital chapter of the California Council of the Blind is the largest community-based consumer organization of blind and low vision individuals in the greater Sacramento area.

For decades, we have been the voice of those with vision loss in Sacramento.

The Board of Directors of our organization wishes to comment on the draft initial study with proposed mitigated negative declaration for the Sutter's Landing ADA River Park Trail Project.

We're extremely appreciative of the city's willingness to undertake this project to establish a formalized ADA-compliant access path for recreational users easily reached on the Sutter Landing Beach, as stated in the study.

Nevertheless, the study does not provide the rationale for selecting Sutter's Land Park over other preferable sites along the American River for such a project.

And the things that we would like to be considered are the scenic value of the experience, the quality of the experience, e.g. quietness, peacefulness, no large crowds, the educational experience, e.g. the use of tactile and visual and auditory interpretive signage to augment the experience, the quality of the recreational experience, the impact on the sites.

Oops, sorry.

We are now 20 seconds.

Okay, natural resources the research is available to monitor and maintain the trail and many more

considerations including how people with disabilities will enjoy it and we

Oppose the city's plan and would like to consider a different plan put forth by us and Bruce Foreman and several other

Partners and we'd like the Commission to explore this further

Well, it's in the developmental stage so we can really address this. Thank you for your comments. Your time is now complete. Thank you

Thank you. Chair, we have no more speakers.

Thank you, Clerk, and thank you

to our public speaker.

I definitely want to hopefully look more into that. I think it's

important that places are accessible and that they have

what the disability community needs

to enjoy and have the best experiences when they

do visit. Commissioner Greenbaum.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, Chair. I would like to reiterate your comments and thank you, Regina.

That it's very important. It's I very much appreciate you bringing this to our attention

and I think public comment is so important. So thank you very much. And it's very much

undertaken. Thank you.

If there is no members of the public who wish to speak or commissioners, I believe we can

adjourn the meeting.

With that being said, this meeting of the January 14, 2026 Disability Advisory Commission

is adjourned.

Thank you so very much for your participation.

Thank you.

Take a night.

Thank you.

Thank you.