Good evening and welcome to the May 4th, 2026 Sacramento Youth Commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call roll to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Chair.

Member Sista.

Member Chetri.

Present.

Member Caraveo.

Present.

Member Rowland is absent.

Member Bernardo.

Absent.

Member Perez Maganoi.

Present.

Member Corless is absent.

Member Nakika.

Present.

Member Chan.

Present.

Member Turk is absence.

Member Avila is absent.

Member Wong is absent.

Member Longmire.

Present.

Member Ruprai.

Present.

Member Gowder.

Present.

Member Sajota.

Present.

And Chair Rios.

Present.

Thank you.

We have quorum.

I would like to remind members of public chambers that if you'd like to speak on an agenda item, please turn into speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker speaker, we will no longer exp uh accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people in tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu Valley in Plains Miwok, Putwin Wintoon peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Okay.

Um I think before we start today, we're gonna give a warm welcome to our newest commissioner.

Um do you want to take a couple like say a couple words about yourself or um hello everyone?

My name is Siti Venny Owen Ninkiva.

I am a current junior at West Campus High School, and I also serve as the president of the Sacramento County High School Democrats, so I'm very familiar with kind of the inner workings of Sacramento policy, and I am very excited to be bringing that experience with you all today.

Um I would like to give a quick thank you to Mike Benjamin of the Sacramento City Unified School District who worked very hard to put me in this seat as well as Councilmember Katie Maple.

Um I am once again just very happy to be here and very excited to work with you all.

Thank you.

Moving on, our first business today is the approval of the consent calendar that includes last month's meeting minutes as well as a follow-up log.

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

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips.

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

So can we get a motion and a second for the consent calendar?

All motion.

Okay, we have a motion by Commissioner Nikika and a second.

Okay, a second by uh Commissioner Prize Maganoi.

Will the clerk please call roll for the vote?

And I think we'll just do a voice vote.

Yes.

So if everyone can unmute their mics and then I think you can do that.

You can do it in favor saying.

Um chair's role.

Okay, so okay, so all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay, all opposed say nay.

Okay, this motion passes it.

I guess and for the record, um, I heard no abstentions and no no's.

Okay.

Um, we'll we will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Item number three is status report of the youth serving on the Sacramento on City of Sacramento Boards and Commissions.

Have a staff presentation for this.

Good evening, Sacramento Youth Commissioners.

I'm Mindy Keppy, Sacramento City Kirk.

This report is an update on the status of youth serving on City of Sacramento Boards and Commissions.

So the City Council has decided that although the city has a youth commission, policy proposals and decisions that impact youth are not always brought forward to the youth commission's consideration.

So, moreover, it would be challenging for the youth commission to hear every policy proposal that impacts young people and provide input on decision making.

Therefore, the city council recommended that as appropriate, city commissions should designate at least one seat for a youth aged 16 to 22 at the time of appointment.

So in 2021, the city council added youth seats to the following commissions the Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy Commission, the Parks and Community Enrichment Commission, the Community Police Review Commission, the Active Transportation Commission, the Animal Wellbeing Commission, and the Disabilities Advisory Commission.

In 2018, when the commission was initially formed, the major youth community advisory commission included a youth seat.

And then in 2024, the Office of the City Clerk reviewed the enacting ordinance for every city commission, and each municipal code section was updated for consistency.

As appropriate, youth seats were recommended with the exception of the following commissions.

So the to change the model the qualifications of the following commissions, it would take a charter amendment, so that is election.

So it would need to go to the voters to make a change to the charter.

So the administrative administration investment and fiscal management board, the children's fund planning and oversight commission, the civil service board, the compensation commission, and the independent redistricting commissions.

Those commissions are all in the city charter.

So those would not um would need to be go to the voters to make any amendments.

And so the based on the scope of these following commissions, adding a youth seat was not recommended.

The Ann Land and Bertha Henschel Memorial Funds Commission.

This commission was established for the purpose of managing the disbursement of interest accrued in the and land memorial fund and the Bertha Henschel Memorial Fund.

The Ethel McClied Heart Trust Fund Advisory Committee.

This committee was also established by resolution and was responsible for providing advice to city staff and the city council on the appropriate use in of the Ethel McClied Heart Trust Fund for senior citizens, consistent with the terms of the behest, the intent of the donor, and the approved general and operational guidelines.

The ethics commission.

This commission is was established for the purpose of reviewing and considering complaints against elected and appointing city officials.

This commission was established for the purpose of serving as a city's planning commission and provided in the state zoning and planning law.

Um and they make binding decisions.

This commission was established for the purpose of providing advice and recommendations to the city council on policies and programs in support of historic preservation, including goals and policies for the general plan and updates of the preservation program.

And this commission has specific member qualifications.

The utilities rate advisory commission, and this commission was established for the purpose of providing advice and recommend recommendations to the city council on the city's utilities service rates.

Um those those commissions for those reasons were not recommended to add a youth seat.

And that concludes my presentation.

I'm available for any questions.

Perfect.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

Clerk, are there any members of the public who should speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips on this item.

Are there any commissioners?

Okay, we have Commissioner Salado.

Hi, thank you so much for coming out today.

I don't necessarily have a question, but I do want to say thank you for coming out and kind of giving a report of the different people and the different youth that are involved in city procedures and stuff.

I recognize some names in the packet provided.

I actually went to school with some of them, and I'm in contact with the arts youth representative as well.

So we exchange emails and text occasionally, and so it's wonderful that you're not only bringing this to awareness of other people as well, but also the commissioners here present because fostering relationships between youth is sometimes a little bit of a challenge, but with you bringing this forward, it makes us easier for us to contact people and reach out and form relationships throughout all the different departments because the city of Sacramento is a group kind of effort, and the more that we bond with one another, and the more that we communicate with one another, the better things are for everyone.

So thank you so much for coming out.

Very welcome.

Perfect.

Any other questions?

Okay, yeah.

Um I think we don't have any other commissioners, but also thank you so much for your presentation.

I agree that we can definitely take these names and um look on social media and get in contact with some of these other youth who serve on Sacramento Commissions and just to grow an interconnected community of youth leaders.

Uh, but other than that, thank you so much.

Thank you for your time this evening.

This item is receiving files, so no vote is required.

We will move on to the next item.

Item number four is commission's follow-up log process.

Good evening, members of the youth commission.

My name is Hervine Gill, and I am an attorney here at the Sacramento City Attorney's Office.

One of my duties as an attorney here for the City of Sacramento is to serve as a legal advisor for the youth commission.

Um, and today we are going to give a brief presentation on use of our follow-up blog and the follow-up log process.

First, I do want to add that this presentation was created in conjunction with our city clerk's office, specifically, Mindy Cuppy.

So I do want to thank my esteemed colleagues at the city clerk's office for this.

So what is a follow-up log?

This is something that you as a commission vote on as part of your consent calendar at every single meeting.

You'll notice the log is included as part of your packet for your agenda materials to review.

Usually, what this is is um it'll say almost like in an Excel spreadsheet, it'll have your name or a commissioner's name, what was requested, the date it was requested, and kind of what is the pending status of the date or pending status of that request.

And then there we go.

So, in order to place an item on the log, there is a bit of a process for this, and the process entails at the end of the meeting, as part of the agenda when we have something that says commissioner commons questions, items not on the agenda.

At that point, if you have a request to put on the follow-up log, you would do it at that moment in time.

And then the request gets added to the follow-up log, and then staff will review the request in the follow-up log, and then from there make a determination of if this is appropriate to go on an agenda item, when at what point in the year does it make sense to go.

So I can give you an example.

I went to the Sacramento Zoo over the weekend.

I was really excited to see that Benteen Slamson, the Lion and Lioness are there, but I was not happy because there was kind of like markers around their like the viewing area, so I couldn't get close to see the lions.

So I decided at the end of the meeting to talk about this, and I asked to put it on the follow-up log.

Staff will probably look at that and say, you know, I'm so excited that you're interested in animal husbandry harvene, but that is not really within the confines of the youth commission.

Um, but that would be kind of an example of an a far-fetched one of kind of how a follow-up log would work.

I understand that that is kind of a formulaic process.

It is like very confined and not normally how we would naturally think of things.

I think the natural way to go would be you would think about something that might be of interest to the youth commission.

You might talk to some other commissioners and see, oh, is this interesting to you?

Do you think this might be something that we would want to add to the youth commission for discussion?

You might call somebody at Yipsey or send a text message.

That's kind of the natural way to go about things.

But unfortunately, that is not really the process or the confines of how we can work here at the commission.

And the reason for that is the Ralph M.

Brown Act.

The Brown Act, as I know you guys are all aware because you are so smart and competent and utilize so many features of the Brown Act in every one of your meetings.

But this is the cornerstone of everything municipal, local government, municipal law.

And this is an act or a law that was formed in the 1950s.

And the idea is that we here are conducting the people's business.

So therefore, the people's business needs to be taking place in the public and in a way in which the public can understand what business is taking place and a way in which the public can be a part of the process if they so choose.

And so there's some information on the Brown Act, and then also again why we want to make sure that we are conducting business in public.

The Ralph and Brown Act applies to all legislative bodies.

That of course is like our city council, but that also includes us here at the youth commission.

So we want to make sure that anything that we are doing again, since it is the people's business, that it is conducted in public.

There is some information in case you're interested on ad hoc committees or other kinds of committees that can take place.

Um there's some information here as well that was included in your packet and some other administrative policies as well.

The reason why we are so formulaic about this is because there are many opportunities in which we can accidentally create a meeting.

And when we accidentally create a meeting, then that means that the public's business is taking place in private.

One that violates the Ralph M.

Brown Act, but also just from like a public policy perspective.

Again, we want to make sure that we are conducting our business in a public manner.

So here is kind of like a visual guide for you of what like an improper meeting might look like.

These are very much traps that happen all across California.

So this isn't just like a youth commission thing.

The one at the top is what we would call a daisy chain communication, and it's almost like the worst game of telephone.

So going back to my like really lame animal husbandry example.

So I'm really excited about these lions, Binti and Slamson.

I want them to come to the youth commission and have some sort of like presentation.

I tell this to Commissioner Chris here.

I tell her all about it, and she's like, you know what, that is a great idea.

And then Commissioner Chris talks to Commissioner Dominique and is like, hey, Harvey said that we should do this.

I think it's a great idea.

What do you think?

Commissioner Dominique says the same thing.

She talks to Commissioner Jacob, and then so now we have a game of telephone, and before you know it, we've had accidentally created a quorum where enough people on our commission are aware of this desire to have a report on Slamson and Binti.

And now we've accidentally created a serial meeting through this daisy chain communication that not only violates the Ralph M.

Brown Act, but it also again goes against public policy because we've created a consensus amongst ourselves in private, and the public has not had an opportunity to understand how we came to that reasoning.

They don't have an opportunity to have a voice in the process.

Another example of this is a hub and spoke.

Think of like a wheel.

In that scenario, I would be the problem.

So I talk to Commissioner Chris, and then I talk to Commissioner Jacob, and then I talk to Commissioner Dominique.

So again, I've accidentally created this serial meeting where a lot of us kind of are already on the same page prior to going into the meeting.

So these are some common traps, which is why we want to make sure that any business, again, that is conducted is conducted in a public way.

I, as an attorney, would be remiss if I didn't tell you that there were some exceptions.

I feel like sometimes as legal counsel, we like to make things a little difficult.

So there are some exceptions to this idea of meetings, they are listed here.

But I think the important thing to know here is that the default approach, I think, is always to err on the side of being conservative in this approach.

And like as you can see on the slide, it's looking at perception versus intention.

You as youth commissioners are representing not only the youth and your districts and the people who appointed you, but you're representing the city at large, and you are ambassadors of the city, and so making sure that we hold ourselves in that capacity of being representatives of the government and knowing that again, the business that we conduct on behalf of youth commission and on behalf of the city is done in a way in which the public can have an active role in that participation.

Um again, that goes back to like how this works with the follow-up log.

If we have a process where, of course, the natural way to go about things would be of like, hey, I think this is a great idea, let me talk to some other commissioners, see if they think it's a great idea, let me message someone at Yipsey.

That as you can see, we could accidentally create a meeting, but also it isn't happening in a way in which it's open to the public.

Some interesting things to note, um, the Ralph M.

Brown Act, of course, we kind of think of as the floor, not the ceiling.

Sacramento has something called a sunshine ordinance, which I actually think is a really cute name, but a lot of cities also have it too.

And this idea is that even though the Ralph M.

Brown Act gives us an opportunity to have open meetings to the public and open information to the public, we're actually going to create sunshine and provide more light on the business that the city is doing.

So you can see this in one of the bullet points where the Brown Act requires us to do a 70-hour post or 72-hour posting notice.

We like to do 120.

Um, so just again, other opportunities for us to make it easy for the public to be aware of what we are doing and be included and involved.

So, again, going back to the follow-up log, if there is an item that you are interested in, or you think that we, as a commission, should know, or you would request um maybe perhaps a presentation.

The way to go about that is at the end of the meeting when you have that portion on your agenda that says commissioner ideas, comments.

I know usually what we do is talk about how all of you are involved in the community or what you're up to.

You can use that time to discuss something that might be of interest to you and request to put it on the follow-up blog, and then staff will take your request and determine if it's appropriate to add to an agenda, and if it is, at what point would that look like?

So do you have any questions on the follow-up log process for me?

Perfect.

Thank you so much for your presentation, Clerk.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speakers.

Okay, we'll go to Commissioner Caravillo.

Really quickly, thank you for taking the time to talk to us about this today.

I know it's really important to understand this so that we make sure we're working as effectively as we can as a commission.

My question is how does this pertain to our focus areas and when we discuss things in our focus areas that we're interested in pursuing?

Um, if so, of course, when you have an item on the agenda, usually our items on the agenda are like focus areas.

So we're gonna have, for example, we had Mindy uh Cuppy, our city clerk give um a presentation on youth voices on other commissions.

You of course can ask ask questions, be involved and do that type of decision making on those items on the agenda.

The follow-up log process is for items that are not on the agenda or I um discussion post or discussion ideas or presentations that you would like to perhaps include on future agendas or items.

I don't think that answered your question.

It doesn't seem that way.

So um, so in our focus areas, like for example, one of the newer ones this term is community partnerships.

And we talked about maybe ideas on how to get that going, how to branch out more.

Hypothetically, if these ideas that our focus area has, and let's say we want to discuss them in requests, there's no conflict in that if we're discussing it within our group.

No, because that um is considered if I can go back.

Is it considered one of the exceptions?

It's you are part of an ad hoc committee there, and so that is included on that can go back.

Yes.

Perfect.

Okay, thank you.

So it should be um one of the slides that's included in your presentation packet, but that's on ad hoc.

I wasn't sure if our focus areas fall fell under the ad hoc.

Yes.

Thank you for the question.

Commissioner Zotal.

Hi, yeah.

I just wanted to say you have great presentation skills, but then I also do have a question kind of related to ad hoc committees.

So let's, or not related to that, but the daisy chain example that you gave.

So let's say I, as a commissioner, I've never, you know, let's say I want to talk to some of the commissioners that live in my district.

I'm a district one, so the district one commissioners and then Commissioner Ruprai is also district one.

So we discussed something that's happening within our district.

Would it be okay for us to then go to talk like to other commissioners if it's not something we want to bring forward in front of the entire commission?

So let's say there's like an event, and I ask them, I was like, hey, do you guys want to go to this event?

And they're like, maybe, you know, let's check in with other people.

Are we allowed to do that and like reach out to people from other like districts on the board for non-related commission things, but for the sake of like we know each other, we're inviting each other because we're on the commission.

So I give really lame attorney answers, and I would say usually it depends, right?

Um, in certain situations, you could argue, like, listen, I am not I'm doing this as an interested member of the public.

I'm not doing this, we're not representing the commission.

But I think it again goes back to that idea of perception versus intention, and you would have to think about it of how it would look from someone who is a member of the public who now is like, hey, here's three commissioners who are thinking about an event, and then two of those commissioners reached out to two other events.

You could look like you are discussing a matter of public business that is relevant to the youth commission.

So I would say in those situations, if there is something that is is of interest, like a community event, having it at the end of your agenda when it's commissioner ideas comments not on the agenda, that would be a perfect place to include information about upcoming events or where you think you might be attending.

Oh, I see.

So, like if we announce it towards the end of our meeting where we're like giving updates on stuff we're doing, that's fine, so long as the whole commission knows and it's part of the official meeting.

Yeah, and you are in public in front of public business.

So the reason why I gave that it depends answer to could that be a violation of the Brown Act?

It might, it might not, but I think in terms of the Brown Act and when we think about the Brown Act, it's important to know that we are ambassadors of the city of Sacramento, so we want to make sure that there isn't a perception of us doing business in private.

No, no, of course.

That's also why I bring up the question because you know there's a lot of intricacies, and I just want to make sure that we're airing on the side of caution as well.

Thank you so much.

Commissioner Sisto.

Hi, first of all, I want to say thank you so much for coming up here and taking the time to present to all of us and informing us about what the follow-up log is.

Uh my question is more specific to the items we can request to be put on the follow-up log.

I don't think I completely understood the scope of what type of items we can request to put on the log.

I understand that the items they have to be related to uh the youth commission and like the work that we do, right?

So does that mean that um whatever items that we would want to be put on the log, do they only have to relate to um the city departments, or could or could the items be extended to outside non like in like in Sacramento organizations, but non-city, non-city of Sacramento related organizations, if that makes sense?

Yes, I would say if you think it relates to youth commission business, um, then feel free to add it at the end of the agenda to put on the follow-up log.

So, like an example could be if you're like, hey, it's the end of the year, we would love to hear something about setting up a food drive or what that would look like.

Um, that could be something that you could add to the follow-up blog.

But I do want to add a caveat.

Just because an item goes on the follow-up log doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't show up in a future agenda.

Um, of course, that depends on if the item is relevant to the youth commission, if there is space in future agendas, what the agenda planning looks like.

So this is a way for you to make requests.

Okay, and then I have a follow-up question to that.

Do you know specifically, or would you be able to give an estimate of how long it takes staff to review our requests?

Staff certainly reviews your request very quickly.

Um, but I have to give you another lame answer of it depends.

Um, it really just depends on staff time.

All right, but I do know it happens very quickly.

Um, the staff to the commission sits at the commission meetings, so we are aware of your request in real time.

All right, well, thank you so much.

Commissioner Nikki Co.

Hi, thank you so much for your presentation.

Again, I am very new here, so my question pertains to is there a time aside from the Commissioner Commons ideas and questions that we're able to request an item to be put on the follow-up log or receive a presentation at our next meeting?

Because I do understand that the frequency of our meeting is the first of every month, uh the first Monday of every month.

So I just want to know.

That would be your time, um, which would be at the end of the meeting at that point of commissioner comments not on the agenda.

That would be the time to add things to the follow-up log.

The worry is that if we have the entire commission, like for example, sending emails or sending text messages, then there could be a perception of having business conducted privately.

All right, thank you so much.

Commissioner Bros Magno.

Hi, yeah, just a quick question.

Um seeing here in the median exceptions that one of them is community meetings.

Um, I just wanted to ask if there was like a way you could describe what a community meeting is that's not like a commission meeting, like is it going after a official like sorry, is a group of um commissioners attending a community meeting by like an officially recognized like neighborhood association or a business partnership partnership.

Like uh yeah, or town halls, and I was just wondering um the difference, like the the varying differences between like commission meetings and that um kind of meeting.

Of course.

There um so the League of California Cities puts together uh it's called like open and public, and it's a brown act guide, and kind of the seminal example that they give in that guide is a chamber of commerce, like state of the city address.

And so that would be a community meeting in which um a different organization like the Chamber of Commerce is putting together some sort of meeting on how things are going in the city.

So that would be kind of the example of those community type meetings.

Um, but even in those situations, again, we don't want to be having anything where like a majority of people are discussing what took place at the meeting, um, the information that was gleaned or discussing at the meeting too, because that could be prohibitive of the Brown Act.

Thank you.

Commissioner Gujarat.

Hi.

Uh first of all, thank you so much for your presentation and just quick uh quudos to your presentation skill.

Um, you know, the fact that you could summarize like you know, improper or like the daisy chain meeting, with just those pictures is like absolutely amazing.

Because you know, like law is always really heavily on language, you know, there is a lot of language involved.

So when we're sitting up here, sometimes uh when we're reading these, we're just like, oh my gosh, like it's you know, it's it might seem boring, but you know, it's really important.

So um I just want to say thank you so much for adding a little bit of visual, because that really helped uh further explain it.

And um, second question I had was um is there um how many follow-up logs can be requested per commissioner?

Is there like a certain limit per each meeting or not?

Well, first I would like to say that kudos for that go to our city clerk, Mindy Cuppy for the presentation.

Um, and in terms of what how what is the limit to the follow-up log?

Again, very lame.

I think it depends.

Please use your best judgment.

Don't give staff 20 things um to do.

But I know you guys are all smart and competent, and you will not abuse any sort of discretion.

Of course, thank you so much.

And I had also a second question.

And um, yeah, um, is there any type of requirements or some type of rubric that we can see, like you know, beforehand when we're at home?

So, like, let's say that you know, I have an idea in just like the middle of the night, just you know, something that I would like to present to the uh SYC.

Um, is there a certain type of rubric or requirement or somewhere I can go to see like what are the guidelines for a proper follow-up log?

Yes, I'm pulling the presentation right now, but I believe that there was the council rules of procedure included as part of the items.

Um, and that does include information on the follow-up log process.

Perfect, thank you.

I think that's it for Commissioner Collins.

But I guess I would just like to say thank you so much for your presentation.

Um, you really broke down the Brown Act in a very comprehensive way, um, so I understand it a lot more, and then also just the chain of communication and how we can limit that and um keep in mind our perception in the public.

Uh but also remembering our roles as like public servants and serving the community.

But overall, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This item is receiving files, so no vote is required.

We'll move on to item number five, which is aquatics aquatics annual update.

All right, good evening.

My name is Patrick Meridon.

I am one of the two aquatics recreation supervisors here in the city of Sacramento.

Anna Cook is my counterpart.

She's not here tonight.

Uh, she's having a little bit of time off before our busy summertime, so much needed time off for her to spend with her family.

Um before we get started, just a show of hands from the group.

How many have actually been to one of our community pool?

There we go.

Excellent, excellent.

So, all you know the importance and the experience that happens at our pools every summer, and now with our new North Potomas Aquatic Center, well, it's not as new anymore.

Uh we're having those types of aquatics programs year-round.

So tonight I'm gonna be uh presenting on our 25 or 2025 uh review.

So a lot of numbers.

I'll try to keep it moving pretty good.

And I'm looking forward to some questions at the end.

So let's get it rolling here.

All right, so in 2025, we operated 17 uh pools throughout the entire city, and we have one in each and every council district.

Um we have 196 part-time staff, and 98% of those are youth.

So we are a very, very large youth employer in the city.

Those part-time staff worked 86,000, almost 87,000 hours.

Um, again, the majority of our season is summer-based.

However, we do have a few facilities, our clony facility and our meta, or excuse me, our North Atomic facilities that are a little bit extended.

Um, but overall, the the bulk of those hours are during uh the summertime.

So our recreational swim, this is our public open swim.

Um, this is our number of visits uh in last year in 2025, so just shy of a hundred thousand visits of community members.

So this is a huge number of impact again in a fairly, very short time.

Um it's a big load, but it's really, really exciting, and we always love seeing big numbers.

One of the other things that we really promote in um aquatics is water safety.

So our recreation swim is of course a safe place for um community members to come swim, cool off during the summer, protected by our lifeguards.

But the second aspect of water safety is absolutely swim lessons in our learn to swim programs.

Uh, we offer a different variety of learn to swim programs, um, our regular swim lessons, uh, which you can see our trend over the last uh from 2023 to 2025.

Our attendance numbers have to continue to rise.

We have our baseline swim lessons, those are our ones that we provide um at all of our pools.

Um, and those ones are our paid uh swim lessons.

There is scholarship, which we'll talk about some scholarship numbers on that.

We also do basic water safety.

These are our free swim lessons that are offered for youth at all the facilities, and these are opportunities for people to get kind of that snippet um of swim lesson.

And again, we really focus on those basic skills to ensure that we're being as water safe as possible.

We also do our junior lifeguard camps.

This is kind of our teen program.

It's a great feeder program to become one of our lifeguards, generally 12 to 15 years old, hosted at multiple different sites.

And they just get out to the pool, work with our lifeguards and our managers following Red Cross protocols and really kind of getting those first steps in becoming future lifeguards.

And then, of course, we also do lifeguard certification courses.

We're one of the largest lifeguard certifications services in all of Northern California.

We're an American Red Cross licensed training provider.

And every year we're one of those top two or three in the entire state for our area.

Again, we have a large program, 17 pools, a lot of staff, so you can understand why we also do a lot of certifications.

We also have some fitness programs.

These are mainly our adult programs, however, there are some younger adults that can and do partake.

But in general, our AquaSize program, that's our low impact types of programs, a great opportunity to get in the water, get moving, listen to some fun music, and then our lap swim program as well.

That's our basic just get up and down.

Those are hosted at multiple sites.

Our North Atomas site has it basically regularly throughout the year, and our Clooney site does have that during our spring and our fall programming times as well.

So we talked about scholarships.

One of the things that we also pride ourselves in is the fact that we try to really give out swim safe and scholarship opportunities to the community.

Last year in 2025, we have $63,000 in wave fees for adult swim safe, YPSF.

So these are swim lessons, adult programming, all those types of things.

This is free essentially admission or program registrations for these types of programs.

We also do a lifeguard scholarship.

And the idea behind this is that that cost of certification is a little bit high, right?

It can be up to 250 dollars for a class.

And so we want to make sure that we can stop that gap and get people to be able to be involved and get their lifeguard certification.

So again, they take our courses, they work for us, they come in good standing, then they get reimbursements on that certification course class.

Um it's a great win-win for everybody.

Um so it really kind of lowers that cost of entry to becoming a lifeguard in those certification fees.

Um and then we also have our summer reading program, and last year um this covered about $23,000 in admission fees and uh 3,785 admissions.

And the numbers on that one was 2,067 of those were youth.

So a large percentage, about two thirds.

Um, and that's pretty much a trend for us.

Of that 100,000 people that attended all of our rec swim, 63,000 of them are youth.

So we look at about two-thirds youth when it comes to our programming.

In total, we did over a hundred thousand dollars in scholarship reimbursements last year.

All right, we also have a bunch of community events which are exciting across all of our pools.

We have our egg hunt, floating pumpkin patch.

We did a water safety day, um, we have our movie night, um, and also we did our uh reopening of Southside Pool.

Um we also do sponsored days out of our pool, so each council district a lot of times will let us know they want to do a sponsored day.

Sometimes we get ice cream out there.

It's usually a lowered or free admission.

Um, we do a lot of marketing, and those are really, really fun days, and we always look forward to those.

So, again, if you're interested or have someone's ear that wants to do them, we're looking forward to having you all out again.

It's a really great time, and we really enjoyed doing that.

Um, and we do see an uptick in numbers whenever we have those days, so they are absolutely effective with that.

Uh out at North Atomas, we have a lot of large user groups.

These are our rental groups.

Um we have our uh youth rec swim team, which is DART.

We have an adult uh swim team or master's swim team, uh Sacrament, excuse me, Sacramento Artistic Swim.

I always call them SAC Synchro because they're synchronized swimming, but they're Sacramento Artistic Swim along with our Confluence Water Polo, those are some youth programs.

Um, all of those groups rent space from us in a total of over 14,000 lane hours of just rental space.

And within that, they do a lot of large adult, um, excuse me, large events.

Um, so large-scale swim meets, including our TYR Tier Pro Series Classic, which is actually gonna be happening in about two weeks.

And this was the largest swim meet that we've ever hosted in terms of scale.

Um, maybe not attendance because it's a lot tighter, but this was a televised swim meet hosted by USA Swimming and Tier and our Dart.

So the Dart swim team was actually the meet host, and we rented with them, but it's a huge partnership opportunity.

Um, but that was televised.

We had Olympic and former Olympic athletes swimming in it.

Um, and this year they're actually expecting an even better field because of the timing last year, it was right around some of the college swimming championships, so it's hard for people to attend both, but they they haven't released the roster of swimmers yet.

A lot of times it's like last minute, but it sounds like they're gonna have a really great field again this year, so we're very much looking forward to that.

And in the middle of the planning, uh setup's gonna be starting here really, really soon.

Um and then we also host youth swim meets, uh, use uh swim meets, uh synchronized swim meets, all those types of things throughout the year.

So um a lot of events and a lot of different things going out at our pools and facilities.

So we also operate the North Atomus Community Center.

Um Anna Cook, who's the other supervisor, she takes a much larger role in this than me, but I'm happy to talk on her behalf as well.

Um so they do a lot of large-scale facility rentals.

In fact, last year it was 109 facility rentals.

Um, our recreation coordinator Bernal is takes the big lead and the big push of getting all that team set up.

He does so much fantastic work for us.

Um, and with that though, a lot of these large scale, we want to make sure that um there are opportunities for all community organizations to have access to that facility.

So um we had almost 90,000 in discounted or waived facility fees last year as well.

Um of the notes that Anna had on that was kind of the types of events that we had.

And uh let me see where I had it right here.

Just make sure I want to definitely make sure I highlight that one for you all.

Well, well, I know a lot of them.

So we host uh weddings, Kishanieras.

Uh we do um I've seen bridal showers, I've seen a lot of different types of events out there.

Um within that too, um, we have our bike events, we have uh community events.

Uh so it's a really good space.

I wish again, I would love to articulate more into all the different things.

And if you have any questions or specifics, feel free to reach out to that team or myself, I'll make sure I get you those.

Uh, but it really is a fantastic facility and a lot of lift for that side of our team.

Um, and I really really appreciate what they have to do because it's it's again a lot of large-scale community events out there as well.

So, just to finish up here, last but not least, we also do surveys.

So we have um QR code surveys that we hand out.

Um, there's actual physical ones at our pools as well.

And basically, we ask questions about hey, what are your experiences with us?

And uh, we had a lot of respondents last year to this, and this was kind of the general breakdown.

So um 88% of the public felt that pools and uh the facility staff were welcoming, which is fantastic.

Um, 93% said my neighborhood pool is beneficial to my community, and 98% said they would come on back and participate again.

And those are numbers we see a trend.

That is basically what we get every year, which is fantastic.

So I always like to see the same numbers every year when they're really, really high.

Uh, and we really appreciate that feedback every year.

So uh with that, if you guys have any other questions, I'm happy to answer, and I really really appreciate all your time.

Thank you so much for your presentation, Clerk.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips.

We'll start off with Commissioner Brezhnev's Maganoi.

Okay.

Um so first, I I within the Sacramento City pools for a while, I think, since I was um I I don't remember how long, but I've been there for a while.

And when I saw when I was also site, we'll be into reopening that I was really happy because I I went there myself.

And so I wanted to commend you first and foremost on that.

Um kind of personal bit, so I just well done.

Uh I do want to have a few things.

Um you mentioned that the Sacramento is always like highest in lifeguard certifications.

Uh is there like a reason why?

Like, is there just a kind of central focal point on why us we are just so high in the rankings almost every year because I'm just I'm curious about what what we're doing and how we can keep doing it.

Well, I think one of the reasons is is that um a lot of organizations like cities, especially large scale ones.

Well, first we're one of the largest in the entire state in terms of total pools, so that's one big reason.

Um, but because of that, a lot of other organizations don't do a lot of outside lifeguarding classes for the community.

They focus their lifeguarding classes just for their staff, whereas we open our um lifeguard classes to the public for anybody.

So that means you could come in, take one of our lifeguard classes and never work for us.

You go work for Art and Park, go work for all these other places.

Um, and I've also been told in the past by other peers.

Um, I'm a part of a larger group, which is basically all the aquatic supervisors from every city in this area, reaching all the way into Tracy, all the way up in the Tahoe.

Um, and they always tell us we're also one of the cheapest.

Um, and I like to keep it that way.

So um anyway, so I think it's those two factors, but we just host a lot.

I mean, once we start, we literally have one every weekend, sometimes two during spring wake break, we have one in the week and one.

So I think it's a multitude of those factors, um, but mainly just that um we don't just focus on just training our own staff.

We are open to training everybody and anyone in there as well.

Thank you.

That's some something else too.

Uh just these are some really accurate numbers, and I appreciate that.

I appreciate there being that level of precision.

Just curious, how did you measure this?

Besides if if it was just surveys, I remember we mentioned that is curious because this is like scarily accurate numbers.

Uh I definitely want to give that credit first and foremost to Anna, her side of the team and our admin staff on there.

Um, she puts a lot of these reports together for us.

We do a lot of tracking in our ActiveNet and our POS sales.

Um again, we when we switch from our um our surveys over to that QR code that's at every single pool, you can walk up and do that.

We really saw a good uptick of people being able to do a really quick survey, as opposed to in the past, it was either going online or filling out a physical one at the at the pool.

So we really definitely saw a lot there as well.

Um so I I wish I had the number.

I again I might be missing it, but I think, oh, it was right here.

Yeah, so we had over 700 survey respondents this past summer.

Um so again, we try to do our best.

I'd love to have more and more, but I think 700 is still pretty um good sample size.

And yeah, once we get we ask the questions, and then we just pull data and put it all together, and then we look at our trends from there.

So thank you.

Just um everything I've heard from the segment aquatic center has just been really positive, and I just wanted to commend you guys on all the great work you've got.

Great work you guys are doing.

Um that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Commissioner Sisto.

Hi, I'm so happy that you uh took the time to come up and present to us.

This was a wonderful presentation.

And I just want to say that I'm that I love your guys' department.

I know how active you guys are in the city and how much of an impact you have all throughout Sacramento.

Um, and I just wanted to talk on one of uh the scholarship notes that you mentioned in your presentation with the summer reading program.

Um I'm very curious, is that your own department's separate program, or is it the program, the summer reading program with the Sacramento Public Library?

Yeah, so that was a program.

Um I've been here for six years.

I just celebrated my sixth year with the city of Sacramento.

So that was one was here um when I took over.

So I didn't start that program.

Uh Sean can speak on it probably a little bit more, but essentially it is a partnership with the uh public library.

When um somebody reads, I believe 20 books, they have a basically a stamp card that's being um followed throughout the summer.

They turn that back in and then they give them free passes to come to, and that's both youth and adults, but as you saw, about 60 you know, two-thirds of that.

So um that's how that works.

But it is a partnership with the public library.

Okay, okay, all right, cool.

I I did not know that before.

Yeah, and um I also wanted to ask really quick on what are your guys' outreach methods that you've guys have been using to uh kind of like inform the public about all the great services you guys provide.

So, yeah, I mean, there's kind of layers there, right?

So Yipsey itself has our marketing team, so we always usually defer to them with our website.

They have an awesome team, their social media, things like that, but we're one piece of that puzzle.

Um internally, um we don't have our own marketing people, so usually what happened is is kind of word of mouth, or if we're going out to events or opportunities like this, sometimes it just comes up with calls.

We have a great customer service team, and they might someone call, hey, you know, where are my options to get some passes?

And they might say, Hey, did you know about this option?

So, in no ways is it a perfect method, but um our main form is just using Yipsi's marketing team as much as we can.

And if there's areas of focus that you'd like to see us continue on, I'm happy to address those as well.

Yeah, yeah, and that's that's great, by the way.

Um, and I would say, or I'd recommend maybe try to enforce like tabling, like tabling at other community events.

That's like another great way for you know, you guys to uh get the word about about all your guys' services.

Um, but yeah, thank you so much for coming up and presenting to us.

Of course, I I work with you, my entire career has been with you, so I love being here for you as well.

So I appreciate it.

Hi, again, I'm gonna echo what everyone else has been saying.

Thank you so much for coming out, and I'd also like to thank you for highlighting programs, particularly with the library.

The summer reading program is something that I grew up with, and I actually got a pool pass when I was younger as well through that program.

So it's wonderful that you know you highlighted that, and you also let the other commissioners know about it as well.

And I also wanted to say thank you for highlighting the fact that the North Nintomas Aquatic Center hosts a variety of events.

Just I think in the past, um district no council member Kaplan held an event there recently, and it was kind of a great opportunity for the community to come and reach out to people through tabling.

The commission who was there present, and there was a bunch of other people there as well.

And so I appreciate what the department is doing in that aspect as well, as far as providing a third space for the community to be present and to kind of build connections with one another as well.

So thank you.

Yeah, we have a fantastic team.

Um literally, myself and Anna could not do it without our amazing coordinators that we've had, and that trickles down into those part-time staff managers.

But um, our our program core is our aquatics coordinators are absolutely fantastic, and they're really are the people that keep it rolling.

And Anna and I are the problem solvers that try to just create great experiences for people.

So thank you.

I really appreciate that as well.

Commissioner Longmar.

Hi, great presentation.

I really just wanted to hear more about the like lifeguard, like certification in the lifeguard uh junior lifeguard camps.

So I wanted to know like what's the like not statistics, like the ratio of like junior lifeguard camps, like leading into lifeguard certification, if there is any, and also like where I like I can go to um like recommend like people who are interested in like getting that certification, like is it on the website, or is there like a certain time like during the year, like season where they can sign up for that?

So we have a few options within there too, and it's um, and this kind of goes down to the marketing thing too.

We have so many things in so little time.

Uh but uh essentially um I I don't know the number off the top of our head, but we track everything, and again, going back to those coordinators, um, they have all of those lists and they absolutely track that transition from our junior lifeguard program into becoming a lifeguard and working to it.

I just don't want to give you a number that's that's uh incorrect, but I'm happy to share that number with you in any sort of follow-up if that's necessary.

Um on top of that, too, uh what we do is we do have uh lifeguard workshops as well, again, run by those coordinators.

That can be people from the junior lifeguard program, uh, anybody that was interested, and they come and they just do workouts, and those workouts are really to try to help you get to those prerequisites.

So, in order to be a lifeguard, there's a minimum baseline prerequisites of swimming and um, you know, getting the brick off the water uh off the bottom of the pool, uh, treading water, and some people just can't pass those.

So if you don't pass, even if you take one of our classes, we'll kick you into one of those workshops, work with you until you're up to that, and then we'll get you into the next class.

So there's a lot of different layers of that transition from somebody that's interested, um, maybe not old enough taking a junior lifeguard.

So um how we market that is the same way.

Um, junior lifeguard programs is in guides and marketing.

Um, the workshop, I don't believe we do too much.

Really, the big thing when it comes to those programs is actually in our recruitment.

So we get out to every single high school um at least once.

I will say, if I'm in all um like if I'm being 100% honest, we were down another one of our full-time team that was the number one recruiter for us.

That was one of her large job responsibilities.

So last year we were out to all these schools multiple, multiple times.

So we want to make sure that we could still get out to them this year.

But when we're at those schools, those high schools during lunch periods and all that, we'll usually talk about that.

Like, here's all your options.

If you're not old enough yet, take a junior lifeguard class.

If you don't think you're ready, here's a uh lifeguard workshop.

If you are, let's get you signed up and in the class.

Um, and again, that's those full-time coordinators that take the lead on those.

Um, so uh so I suspect that that's probably our largest word of mouth or marketing opportunity to all those students that come by and just have some information from there.

But if you need anything else, again, however, the best way to get in contact with any of us is um, or just go to our aquatics um at City of Sacramento, uh Michaela who runs that, um, she's our um customer service, she's fantastic.

She gets back to you right away.

So happy to do that.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Commissioner Chitari.

Hi, uh, first of all, thank you so much for presenting uh local D1.

I go to intercom.

I literally just use your pool like just the past month.

Um, Dart coach, Coach Nolan, if you're familiar with, yep, he was my uh high school coach.

First time ever learning swim.

Um, you know, I feel like the swim committee is always such an awesome community, always open to just any type of person.

It can be like an intermediate person to like a retired Olympian athlete, to like first rookie.

I feel like that the whole vibes of the swims committee that I got while learning swim and doing competitive swim was like swim is just like overall, like it's so amazing.

Um, so I had a um I had a question.

Um so since I live in D1, I'll just see your guys' recruitment, you know, as it is um honestly amazing, and I feel like everybody here knows that almost all of the aquatic center lifeguards are literally all youth.

So I want to first and foremost, uh, thank you for giving our youth an opportunity because right now youths are are really struggling to um you know get jobs in um you know in their designated fields.

So I feel like that even though um a youth may not want to be a permanent lifeguard, I feel like it definitely helps them hone into their communication skills, uh collaboration skills, as well as just basic career skills that they will need onwards in whatever field they go.

And um, my second question is uh regarding the um the current updated uh budget deficit proposal.

I was just wondering since the aquatic center, especially the North Matoma's Aquatics Center, since um you know you guys apply uh you guys give up employment to so many youths.

Um, what are some changes that have been proposed which would most likely affect youth lifeguards?

Sure.

So first off, when it comes to the recruitment piece and like it, it's it's reciprocal.

Like if it wasn't for you having great experience telling your friends, like, hey, it's a great place to work, like we wouldn't get that amount of people as well.

So thank you for being great advocates to all that.

Um, when it comes to the budget discussions, I'm just being 100% honest.

Um, I'm not really in those as much as like Sean is over here.

So if you have any direct questions, you can go with that.

Um, I know that the council reports just came out, so um a lot of that sort of you know, whatever kinds of adjustments are gonna be uh in there, that's all in process, but I can't tell you as of right now, we're hiring at full force.

We didn't make any, we're not we're hiring every position that we can and things like that.

So uh that's what I have for you right now.

And if there's something more specific, you're you're more welcome to uh direct it towards Sean as well.

Perfect, yeah.

Thank you.

I would definitely like to uh connect with uh Mr.

Shana after your meeting.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, that's great.

Thank you.

Commissioner Berez Magnoy.

Hello again.

Uh just curious, the the aquatic center seems like it's on a great um just traject trajectory.

I was wondering where that is going.

Any goals that the aquatic center might want to hit, anything just in a vision for the future that I just I'm just curious about.

Um so yeah, my my job is I really want to maximize like pool time there, right?

Um, we have a lot of user groups that really kind of all want the same times, and there's a lot of open space.

So finding new user groups that can do middays or or mornings on weekdays, because in general, youth programming, it's gonna be after school times, and it's where it's impacted even on a basketball court.

I coach basketball, it's at the soccer field.

So it's no different in aquatics.

Everybody wants kind of that general.

So for me, when I look, I look at gaps in our programming schedule or in our rental space and go, hey, is there is there a group that would be interested in there?

Um sometimes it's just asking around, sometimes one falls in your lap um by just reaching out, um, things like that.

So I usually look at that first.

Um and then a lot of our off season, we call it the one percents, um, where we look at all of our problems that came up with their one percent problems.

They're really not that big of a deal, but if you fix them, it's gonna make your program quality better, your staff life better.

Uh, they'll be way more exciting, you know, those culture issues, all those things.

So our off-seasons are usually about tackling those 1% problems.

And um, one of the ones that we've done the last few years is our onboarding strategy.

We recognize in the city that the hiring process can be very long and dragged out, and a lot of times that means that staff are coming in and they're absolutely like getting thrown in.

And it's one thing at a community pool that might get 25, 50 people that day, but you go to North Atomas and your first day, um, there's 700 to a thousand people at that facility or brand new lifeguard.

And again, we have a lot of onboard trainings and things like that we do along the way, but sometimes if it's hey, we had to get you through and you miss this or something comes up, how do we bridge that gap?

And so our last two off seasons have really been focused on that.

Um, one of our aquatics coordinators, his name is Matt Fox.

He came from the service industry, um, and he took what he did in uh from BJ's restaurants and looked at their um onboarding processes and how they had milestones and benchmarks for them along the way, and we've been implementing those over the last two years and definitely seeing um, if anything, just a much more confident staff member on their first day, especially when their first day happen might happen to be two weeks into the season and they haven't been.

So that's kind of what we usually focus on in the off seasons, but I'm always looking for opportunities to fill lane space because if it's there, we might as well use it.

Uh, thank you for coming out and responding to my questions.

Commissioner Chad.

Hi, thank you so much for your presentation.

Um, I actually had a question about the chart on the youth program scholarship fund.

Um, the very fourth column, the um like the title actually cuts off, and I was wondering what that title was.

That one I had in there.

Um I don't know if I don't have that slide.

Was it on our slides or was it in your commission's report?

It was on the it is um it is in the staff report.

So let me grab it really quick.

Page seven out of eleven.

No, she's talking about the stock report.

So this is and I'm gonna be again.

You guys can ask about operations.

That's my side of things.

Anna does take the lead on our scholarships and some of these things.

So I again I'll see if I have the best answer.

If I don't, I'll make sure that you get connected as well.

Scholarships and reimbursements in your report.

Let's uh oh I see.

Oh, from this from this, it looks like it's likely just cutting off um the some more of the pools that it would actually be at.

So we have 17 facilities.

If I'm looking at this uh 2025 YPS scholarship, this chart where it starts to go.

My guess is it just cut off the rest of our pools uh that and that just kind of the numbers associated to that.

Uh that and that just kind of the numbers associated to that.

Um no.

Looks like they're the rest of the way on the next page on eight of eleven.

I meant the title on the very fourth college.

Oh, percentage of swim lesson report registrations receiving YPS.

Oh, that just says by pool.

So that's percentage of swim lesson registrations receiving YPSF by pool.

And so what that basically is um looking at the pool itself, taking that number of swim lesson participants and how many people at that pool or what are percentage of that people are receiving um scholarship funds for that swim lesson.

So an example would be Cabrillo pool, 31% or one third of our swim lesson participants are there on scholarship, essentially, in the most basic of terms.

Uh okay, thank you.

I apologize that that that got cut off there.

Thank you.

Commissioner Nikiko.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

I have two questions for you.

So referring back to the slide on 2025 operations.

I noticed that there's yellow lines connecting um aquatic complexes and pools and also waiting pools.

I want to know what is the kind of context behind that because I do notice that um in District 1, the North Atomas Aquatic Complex is connected to the Robertson waiting pool in district two.

Good question.

No, it's uh essentially just which um staff we associate to and allocate to uh that waiting pool.

So what happens at those waiting pools because we can't leave a lot of stuff on site because there's not a pool house to store things in.

Um staff members have like a home base of like a specific pool.

So we use North Atomus.

So those um assistant manager and senior guard, they'll go to North Potomas first, they'll pick up their cooler, they'll pick up their supplies, the things that they need, their crash bag, and then they drive out to that site to host it for the day.

So that's just literally just basically a line showing the pools that that um waiting pool is associated with.

Um, and it's basically just the way we staff it.

There's no other anything more to read into it other other than that.

Okay, thank you so much.

No problem.

But that's a great question.

Yeah, my second question um kind of is piggybacking off of Commissioner Chan.

I'd like to know any more details for equity as a lens when distributing scholarships for our swim classes, especially to our low income and underserved communities.

Um because like uh Commissioner Sahoda said, third spaces are really important to our communities, and it's a really great place for us to gather.

Um and just making them more accessible and even free to our underserved communities is really important, especially in the city of Sacramento.

So I would just like to know any more details for that, how you guys choose to assign scholarships, is it um on a need basis?

In the simplest of terms, um, well, starting with like there's two sides of that.

So, first that we have our free basic water safety classes, those are just open at each pool.

We have a cap, it's kind of a first come, first served for those ones.

When it then comes to the scholarships themselves, typically that person, whoever it is, um, just applies through um, there's a couple different ways, but usually they'll just apply a line or email us or they'll call I mean and say, hey, I'm interested in this program.

How do I get it?

We'll connect with them at that point, provide them with the applications, and then once we they get the applications, then we just you know send the scholarship from there.

I don't want to misspeak here, but there's not a lot of times where it's not like we're here turning them away.

So it's really more about you know where they're coming to us and those means.

So if again, if it's a marketing or outreach thing, totally totally understand.

But for the most part, you know, as they come in, we just take them and continue to try to provide them for our community.

So I can comment a little bit on the scholarships.

Um so all of our programs in Yipsey um that are run by the city, uh, the majority of them youth qualify for what we call the youth program scholarship fund scholarships.

Um that's a need-based scholarship.

Um, so if you meet certain um criteria, um generally it's income-related things.

If you receive different different forms of government assistance and those sorts of things, there's um a whole list of them on our website that you're able to apply for that, get it put onto your uh ActiveNet account with that, and then once you have that, you're able to take programs such as our swim lessons um for free um with it.

So it's need based, it can be applied to any one of the locations.

Um, so wherever you want to take them at, wherever we're offering the swim lessons, you're able to take them there.

Thank you so much.

Then one last from Commissioner Perez, my no, not anymore.

I no, I'll uh just one last thing.

I was looking on the the map right here, and I was just wondering how is it uh decided the yeah, the the pools are all kind of spread out almost randomly.

And I was just wondering how is it decided, like the proximity to schools, just location of all these pools because looking at like the south of District 7 and like Northern District 1.

I'm just there's don't see a lot, and I just I was wondering if there was a reason for the just being on some of those polls have been there since 1950, so I wasn't born when a lot of those decisions were made.

So I think probably my guess would be is trying to have as spread out as it can be.

But Sacramento also has spread out in different directions.

So it's just you know, you do your best to match.

And um, I do what I do like about it is we just get as much coverage as we can out there.

But I love the question, but it's before my time, definitely just gears.

Even though I got gray hair still before my time.

Commissioner Story.

Hi, again.

Um, just quick uh one last question.

Are there any types of plans in progress run the talks about expanding any of our pools?

Yes, uh that's not my shami the one for that one, not that I know of any, but um currently, actually, our focus is on trying to keep our pools uh running as best we can.

As Pat mentioned, many of our pools are like old building built in the 50s on there.

Um, you know, uh, we just were able to make the repairs to Southside and have it reopened last year on those things, and it does take a significant amount of city resources to even be able to keep them running.

So, right now, for the most part, that is that is our biggest focus.

Um, you know, uh Panel Meadow View right now we're doing a big repair on a resurfacing of their pool, trying to keep that one up to you know, so they continue to operate on there.

So that is that is our primary focus at this time.

Thank you.

I think that's it for Commissioner Commons.

I guess um, all I just wanted to say is just like thank you so much for maintaining like affordability and accessibility to all youth in all districts of Sacramento.

Um, like having to focus on youth employment, which is a great opportunity for you to pad up their resumes for the future, but also just learn about life skills.

And then I think what really stood out to me was that the North Natoma's community um equality center has like so many participants, and it was amazing to me because especially in Northern Thomas, there's a lot of housing developments that have pools in them already, and so just the fact that this is being like a third space that's being created is really powerful to um the community that's being fostered um in these equality centers.

Um so other than that, yeah, thank you so much for your presentation.

And thank you very much.

Your questions are fantastic, and I love that I got a bunch of questions tonight.

Made it made it worth being here.

So thank you very much.

This item is yeah, receive and discuss, so no vote was required.

We'll move on to the next item.

Item number six is summer at city hall recap.

I need to use the question.

The closest words.

All right.

Hello.

Good evening, Chair Rios, Vice Chair Caravale, and commissioners.

My name is Dominique Herndon, and I serve as the program coordinator and the civic engagement unit within the youth parks and community enrichment department.

And I'm here to do a brief recap about the summer at City Hall program that took place in 2025.

Before I start my presentation, I do want to give thanks and gratitude to Miss Maria Vedez Madal, who oversaw the Summer City Hall program in 2025, and the 10 summers prior.

Her service and dedication to Summer at City Hall was and is invaluable.

All right, so what is Summer at City Hall for you all that don't know?

It is a six-week summer learning experience that provides high school students the opportunity to learn how to become active members in their community.

So here's a little bit of background.

The Summer at City Hall program was founded in 2011 as a partnership between the city of Sacramento, Sack City Unified School District, way up, and Bina Levetskitz.

The program expanded to include Twin Rivers and the Thomas Unified School District in about 2015.

Something that makes the Summer Ass City Hall pretty unique is that its curriculum is created and led by credential teachers.

And throughout the whole duration of the program, in addition to that, participants who graduate the program not only receive a monetary stipend but also have elective credits that they could use next in that next school year.

So in 2025, the Summer City Hall program was held June 23rd through July 24th.

We had about nine link crews, which are small cohorts of young people that work together throughout the duration of the program to research and create a presentation that is then given to city council.

There were a total of 28 peer mentors and senior peer mentors, and we'll talk about what those are at the next slide.

All participants were also required to complete 20 hours of an internship.

And some of those young people were placed here at City Hall in various departments in council offices with community-based organizations to complete those internship hours.

We also have various guest speakers, which you can see on the slide and within your packet.

Another very valuable component of the Summer at City Hall program that I mentioned previously are peer mentors, which are graduates of the program that return back to serve as a mentor and a guide and a role model for the students that are currently in the program and also those link crews.

So Project City Hall, this is actually a culminating presentation to City Council that's developed by participants about an issue that is most important to them and youth in the city.

Some highlights about Project City Hall is that it supports young people in learning how to express their ideas, their opinions, and their concerns.

It provides you with the opportunity to influence policy and program here directly in the city or sometimes even within their community.

And one highlight that isn't mentioned here is that it helps young people with their public speaking skills by assisting them in building their confidence when speaking in front of others.

So a lot of people leave the program.

If you could do a presentation in front of City Council, you could do a presentation in front of your classes, not as much pressure.

Young people share.

So here's a quick snapshot of data from last year's summer at City Hall class.

We received 236 applications from those 236 applicants.

We invited 85 students to participate.

Of those 85, 81 graduated the program successfully.

We had 20 peer mentors, eight senior peer mentors.

Of those numbers, we had 33 students that participated from SAC City, 30 from Natomas, seven from Twin Rivers, and 11 that were at large.

And at large means that the students, those 11 didn't attend school within those three districts, but they live within the Sacramento City limits.

Some things to highlight from this slide is that last year we had majority female participation participation making up about 65%.

When it came to race, our three largest demographics were Asian at 37.9%, then Latino and Latina at 17.2, and black and African American at 13.7%.

Lastly, in 2025, we had a large amount of ninth and 10th graders, making up close to 85% of total program participants.

All right, so looking ahead in 2026.

So this summer we are pivoting from summer at City Hall to semester at City Hall Summer Edition, which is a more condensed version of summer at City Hall, but still staying true to the summer at City Hall elements.

Some new elements that are not usually in semester at City Hall, which takes place in the fall and in the spring, that actually will be incorporated in this summer will be field trips, workforce development workshops, and the culminating presentation project City Hall will actually go to council.

Okay, this concludes my presentation.

I am open for any questions.

Commissioner, sorry, um, clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

We have none.

Commissioner Soto.

All right, not necessarily a question but a comment.

Thank you so much for taking the time to present this and get the graphics in order and more importantly, show us the numbers.

It's really important to see what youth are interested in being civically engaged and kind of learn more about who we are representing.

So, for example, for me particularly, it's so wonderful to hear that so many youth from Natomas are being involved because that's you know where I grew up, and that's where a lot of my connections are.

Looking through the slideshows, I recognize a lot of the faces from the program, and so it's wonderful.

And then also I'd like to thank you for bringing this up because earlier in one of our earlier meetings, we had students from these programs come present to us about their ideas and voice their concerns.

And so it was wonderful hearing about it as a kind of recap, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the program does in the future.

Thank you.

And we always get a large turnout from D1, Natomas.

You all always come and show up and participate.

So yes.

Thank you.

Commissioner Vice Chair Caravale.

Hi, Dominique.

Thank you for bringing presenting to us today on the summer at City Hall recap.

As an alumni, it's always nice to see the new additions and how the programs change.

My question is kind of about the elephant in the room, right?

So if the current proposed budget cuts to uh eliminate the program go through, when should we anticipate it to go into effect?

Is that something you guys have thought about or more so waiting to start planning until we have confirmation on what cuts are being made?

I'm going to pass that over to Chris.

So as you all are aware, we are currently budget presentations are taking place, and there is the possibility that summer at City Hall, semester at City Hall, along with some of the support to the youth commission, um, because they're staffing positions.

That is some of the reason why we did the pivot to semester at City Hall because there is so much planning going into place that we start when program ends that summer, we're already talking about the following year.

We knew when the proposed options that could be selected were put out there.

We knew we needed to pivot and do another program.

Dominique has done semester at City Hall for two seasons, and so we wanted to make an opportunity because we know being civically engaged and uh having young people being able to engage in an interactive program that they meet other young people that are interested in some of the similar things.

We didn't want to go cold turkey and just say, no, we're not gonna do anything, but we knew with the staffing that we currently have, because you're looking at them.

You've been through summer at City Hall, and it takes many people to plan.

Actually, many of you have been through Summer at City Hall.

It takes more than just two people to make that all happen.

So we decided to do this pivot to semester at City Hall for right now, irregardless of what the decisions are for the upcoming fiscal year 26-27 budget, semester at City Hall Summer Edition will take place.

So that program will be happening this summer.

We are currently um open not recruitment, it's a little bit different.

There is registration that is taking place.

Um we are not doing as in the past.

If you have been part of the program, you applied and you actually became interviewed and were selected.

We needed to do a little bit differently because we need to do a registration process, or it's not an application, it's registration.

So it opened um April 17th through our active net system, and people are currently applying.

We are currently um full in many of the low, we have slots allocated for each uh school district, and then we still have the at-large.

And I want to clarify, and Dominique was sharing that in order to be at large, you do not attend a school that's associated with those three school districts.

So you would be somebody that would attend a you may not even actually attend a school in the Sacramento City limits, but you must live, reside in the Sacramento City limits.

So there are a variety of applicants that um we have Elk Grove Unified School District where we have students that live in the Sacramento City limits but attend a school in the South area because they're very close to each other and there's overlap.

Um, or you have somebody that may go to a charter school, or somebody that may go to a private school, or somebody that may be homeschooled.

So we're trying to make sure this is an equitable way for young people that may not be associated with those three districts to still participate.

So we're still holding true to some of the core values and activities that we have done in summer at City Hall.

Um I do not know the answer for moving forward after this year.

Time will tell.

Um there is a meeting tomorrow, a city council meeting, where they will start the budget discussions.

It's an opportunity for you to share your concerns.

You can talk to your uh elected official, the person that appointed you.

Um it's that opportunity for you to uplift youth voice and be able to utilize your voice to talk about the concerns that you have and the opportunities that potentially if it moves forward would you know potentially be lost.

Summer at City Hall has been around.

I was here when it first started.

You were there when I was doing the program.

Um it is the fact that this is part of being a young person in Sacramento and understanding and being part of the process.

So I leave you with that because remember, if you don't say anything, silence is consensus.

Make your public comments tomorrow.

Commissioner Nakika.

Thank you so much for the presentation.

I would just like to ask in regards to the data at a glance in 2025.

I'm noticing some severe underrepresentation of Native American or Alaska natives and also Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.

Is there any way that we can or is there any way that you guys are actively trying to reach out to these communities?

Um is it just a kind of concept of you know, not really being not really wanting to be involved, or just do they not know about this program?

I'll take that one also.

So with Summer at City Hall, we have three uh school district liaisons that they actually are our connection to those schools to the high schools and also the alternative schools, so we rely upon them to target outreach to the schools so they do it to their student population and share the information about the upcoming program and the application process.

Um there are times when we have more numbers in you know one area, we also have the two or more that is represented in there.

We don't have an exact breakdown of what the two or more is because when we found that we were allowing people to pick all of the different ethnicities that they um identified with, our percentage was 150%.

You can't, I mean that that's not real.

So with the information we're providing here, we're just giving you a snapshot of the number, the percentage that selected two or more, and we do have a breakdown as it relates to what um they're identifying as.

Um, but our school districts are really our biggest, strongest outreach for the program, the summer at City Hall program as it is set up.

Thank you so much.

Because looking at the numbers, I mean that zero percent is kind of alarming.

So I do know that the two or more or other phenomenon can also kind of explain that.

So thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Uh, Commissioner Sisto.

Hi, I just wanted to take the time to highlight both the hard work that both of you have put into summer at City Hall.

Um, I know how much work and effort, dedication, time goes into planning and making sure that every day goes smoothly and making sure that the students and participants get the best out of it.

Um, and I can attest to that being a graduate from student participant and also a peer mentor.

It truly is such a rewarding program.

You learn a lot from it, you make great connections, and I am so grateful to have both of you as uh leading supervisors uh in this program.

Um, and I quickly wanted to ask, or I had a I wanted to clarify something on uh this year's summer pivot semester at City Hall with this uh semester at City Hall with the summer edition.

Um could you clarify specifically uh how um because you you mentioned how there's gonna be how you're adding the components from summer at City Hall to semester at City Hall.

Could you kind of clarify and go over that a little bit in more detail again?

Some of the summer aspects that are gonna be in this in this one.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's gonna be some so in semester at City Hall, we don't have field trips, there aren't any internships, we have very limited guest speakers.

So this, and there aren't any workshops.

So for semester at City Hall Summer Edition, there will be field chips similar to summer.

We'll have a new edition of some workshops that'll take place in this summer edition.

We'll have because we'll have more time, we'll have time for workshops and different interactive things that'll happen.

So that might look like the budget challenge that happens during the summertime.

Um, that'll be incorporated into this.

There'll be a mock vote, which is in the summertime.

So some of those similar elements will be incorporated in the summer edition because we do have a little bit more time.

We'll have a little bit larger of a cohort.

So some of those summer elements we are trying to ensure that we incorporate in this summer edition.

All right, that makes that makes so much more sense.

Um and then I had another question to ask.

I know that last or last year's summer at City Hall, uh, me and uh Commissioner Carvia, we we presented or we give a little presentation about the EAT commission.

I was wondering, would we be able to do that again this semester and come and present?

SYC is definitely on the list of presenters.

Um so yes, there will be an opportunity for you all to present.

And it's so important because like you said, you know, summer at City Hall is kind of leads a pathway for people to become commissioners for people to get job as a rec e.

Like there's so many different avenues and ways that participation in any of our programming within workforce development or in civic engagement can lead to something bigger.

So we do want to make sure that we include, we will include um SYC as a presentation.

That's important to me.

And I will be looking forward to that.

And then my last and final question is when does the online registration close or has it already closed?

Online registration will close May Mid-May.

Mid-May.

We'll have the exact date.

We'll send it in the email, but it'll close mid-May.

All right, thank you so much.

You're welcome.

I also want to clarify.

So on that slide that talks about the pivot, um, we are gonna have two different cohorts.

So if you have participated and primetime team, young leaders of tomorrow, very similar.

So we will have one cohort that's Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

They will have another cohort that is Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.

Each cohort, our goal is to have 32 young people in each cohort, so a total of 64.

On the Monday, Wednesday, and the Tuesday, Thursday, they will be separate.

So they will be coming the 32 each day.

But on Friday, it'll be culminating with all 64 on site.

So when we do those workshops or those field trips, it would be the whole group going to the library.

We've talked about going to the California museum.

Um Metro Cable.

So we're doing very similar.

So it's really emergence of the two programs together.

Um our goal, we will not have internships.

Again, you're looking at the staff.

Um, but we are trying to make sure that we have some youth workforce development opportunities, talking about resume building, talking about financial literacy, talking about um voter registration, what those things mean.

Um, so we want to make sure we're bringing some of those um life skills, some of those professional skills.

We'll still have guest speakers.

So it truly, I don't want you to be if you were a summer at City Hall participant or a semester at City Hall participant disappointed because it's not the same.

It is a civic engagement opportunity for young people to learn more about youth advocacy sprinkled with workforce development.

I'm hoping that all of you, you know, in your future, you're employed, you're an entrepreneur, or you know, whatever your thing may be, and these two things really work together.

So I just wanted to make sure you guys were hearing that it is not disappointing to we are we only have you know a small handful of people.

And currently, right now we have 17 peer mentors that were graduates of last year's program going through training with Dominique.

We don't have senior peer mentors just because Dominique and myself are new to the overall programming, so we kind of wanted to start a fresh slate and being able to just utilize those that graduated this last year instead of the prior years where we would have no real context or content.

Dominique did work with Summer at City Hall lightly last year, so she's familiar, but it just we wouldn't have been able to if there was somebody that had been here three years ago, four years ago, our context of that would have been kind of off Commissioner Perez Magnum.

I uh simply I I think for myself, from what I've learned about the Summer City Hall program, I think it's a great opportunity.

I think however possible, I think it should be more like as accessible as it can be in every um demographic in the city of Sacramento, and I I think that the steps that are being taken to you know ensure that it's like it's outreach and it's um effectiveness, I think are just really um good ways that are they're being taken, you know, in the midst of this uh budget crisis, and just I I look forward to seeing how it how gets resolved.

Um and I'll definitely support you know the the youth commission's um I just wanting to keep its its it's um its support.

Um but I just I just wanted to stress that was these both of these um programs are just really vitally important.

You know, I know some commissioners here are like graduates of the semester city hall, so I just think that you know for future commissioners, you know, we want to keep that gateway open, you know.

That's I just I want to stress the the importance of that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Jatari Hello, um first of all, thank you so much for your guys' presentation.

Um, as a former alumni who just graduated last year, um, when I saw the email, it was deeply saddening.

Um first of all, um, if anybody can look at 2025 SummerS City Hall data at a glance.

The fact that 85 students were invited and 81 students graduated, I would like to exemplify that number.

That is absolute amazing because the amount of work that truly goes into graduating this class to take all all the materials in, make the project, collaborate with your members, you know, your peer mentors, your um, you know, um, your fellow classmates that you literally didn't know like just a month ago, and just the fact that you guys are able to connect all these different types of youth from different city limits and make them come together and work in a safe and collaborative environment to learn about public advocacy and also having such a high graduation rate, I feel like is such an amazing thing, and it truly reflects um the impact of Sumrus City Hall, the semester at City Hall, as well as all other city projects that have been uh for youth.

So thank you so much for that.

And the second um I the second question I have is um are there any um date adjustments being made?

So like um in the previous slides, so pretty much have the start and the end dates changed at all.

So it's summer at City Hall usually always takes place late June and through July, and that's usually how it how it's been, and that's going to be the the format.

This year is gonna happen the date is gonna be June 22nd program, starts July 29th is graduation, and that's that is usually how it's how it's structured throughout the summer.

Okay.

And uh one last question is um are you guys still willing to provide um like the bus passes that you guys gave to um all the pure mentors and the participants because I myself included and many other um participants, we definitely use that, and it was such a great valuable asset into um, you know, actually getting us to say y'all.

So I'm gonna be completely transparent and honest with you.

I do not know if the ride free RT program will be continuing, because that is something I I don't I don't know because that is something that has been a contribution from the city of Sacramento and the various school districts to cover that cost for regional transit.

Um six or seven years ago is when Ride Free RT started, and some of it was um a collaboration of all of these entities putting forward X amount of dollars for all young people that were in high school that were from zero to twelfth grade, would have a bus pass provided to them for free.

Um at a point in time before we had ride free art sec ride free RT, we did provide bus passes.

So I do not know the answer to the fact if ride free RT is still going to be continuing um moving forward.

We can follow up and we can look into seeing if it's still continuing.

But if you do not have a ride-free RT bus pass, it is available to all of you.

If you are in high school and if you are in some of the community colleges or in college, it is part of your tuition from my understanding that you get a bus pass.

So if you don't have it currently, right now, and you are in high school, it is available to you to get.

You get a card.

I can't remember what they can.

Is it a connect card?

The connect card is like free RYT pass.

But it but it there you go, right there.

It is available to you through regional transit.

You have to go through their process.

I'm going to assume you probably show your school ID or some form of something to get the pass.

Um from my understanding, they're still valid through the summer, even if you graduate, we're still verifying that.

So if you have one now and you're a senior, we'll verify, but you should be able to ride through summertime.

Okay.

But I don't, like I said, gotta find out for sure.

All right, perfect.

Thank you so much.

Commissioner Wong.

Um, I really appreciate like uh you hosting these kind of programs for the youth.

Um, it was actually these pro these kind of programs that kind of um convinced me to like enter a youth commission and to take on more of these like um civically engaging roles.

Um a quick question I wanted to ask is kind of like in relation to like the internships that you offer, like is it like exclude or like internships that are like offered exclusively just by this program?

Like, is it off um are these like internships related to like more civic um roles that people can take on in the future?

Because I joined um a similar program where they had these like internships that you got to work with people in like City Hall in Elk Grove, and I was wondering if these internships are taken away.

Will these also or will these opportunities also be taken from the students or people who are willing to participate in these programs?

So let me see if I answer your question.

So during summer at City Hall, one of the aspects of it to be able to participate and successfully complete it is doing those internship hours.

So there's a lot of coordination and planning that takes place from the team so that when the young people come, the participants come, they have placement.

So these internship hours are specifically for the participants who come, making sure that they have placement to complete those 20 hours so that they can successfully complete the whole program.

So it is kind of like when you're in the program, you have the opportunity to participate in the internship.

Once the program you successfully complete the program, the internship is over.

We don't expect the young people to continue those internships, and the placements don't expect them to come.

Some placements do continue their relationships and the and they do stay tied to where they were, but that's not always the case.

Does that answer your question?

Um, yes.

Okay, perfect.

Then Commissioner.

So let me for this summer, we're not doing internships.

Our goal is to be continue summer at City Hall, our hope, and be able to go back to summer at City Hall with the internships and such.

The other challenge is that since COVID, that has been some of our placement challenge because during COVID, we did virtual summer at City Hall, then we did a hybrid in-person and virtual.

Um, but the challenge has been being able to get placements because there are still entities that may not be five days a week in the office or don't have the staffing in which to support um the guidance and the mentoring of a young person.

Um are able to do the interning, and there's not challenges as it relates to your transportation or your knowledge of um communication.

You may struggle with some things, but not everybody has some of those skill sets.

So we're also making sure that it's a meaningful um internship for the individual, but also that uh adult that's being the mentor, and so we want to make sure the mentor and mintee is also a good fit too.

Um, just one quick uh flirtying question.

So, um, as you guys stated that we won't have internships for summer as city semester at City Hall Summer Edition this year.

Um, do you guys have any alternatives or anything works um to maybe provide like not necessarily, but like just connect outside other like NGOs or other organizations, or at least give some type of resource to individuals who are interested in taking internships to allowing them to have their opportunity.

Is there anything in the works for that?

So that would kind of tie into having various guest speakers that would be able to come provide resources or information about what's happening within the community, right?

But we're we are not planning to have anything similar to an internship or an internship because we just don't have the capacity at this moment, but it doesn't mean that there won't be information about what's available for young people in their respective communities.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Well, thank you so much for your presentation.

Um, we truly appreciate it.

I think as commissioners, it's our job also to like be reaching out to these communities, especially if we see like discrepancies in certain like ethnic groups um or gender or um whatever it may be.

Um our job as well to like communicate these um, but also like identifying youth that I have done as well to like identifying other like youth change makers in our community that we can connect with our council members and get them like maybe internships as well.

Um our council members have like lots of connections, so um, I guess helping each other out as youth, but other than that, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Let's see.

This item is receiving discussed, so no vote is required.

We will move on to the next item.

The next item is member comments, ideas, question, and meeting conference report, and then we'll just go through role.

If you don't have anything, um, I guess you could always have a staff update.

Oh, okay.

We do have a staff update.

I think there was a staff update by Chris.

Oh no.

We don't have a staff update.

No, no update for us for this meeting.

We can we have something.

I'm sorry, I'm gonna defer to Chris.

We do have one staff update.

So on this staff update, I mentioned it before, but tomorrow, city council at the five o'clock session, they will begin budget discussions and public comments.

So I just want to remind you all that it's an opportunity um for the public to come hear what's going on.

Um I encourage you to look through the budget and see some of the things that may be very youth focused.

Um, and I agree that it is your opportunity to do your role as a commissioner and advocate for young people.

Um so tomorrow, five o'clock.

If you're unable to attend in person, there is also the opportunity to do e-comments.

That is for all boards and commissions has that opportunity to do an e-comment for items on the agenda or not on the agenda.

So I encourage you to consider that.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Um, that's definitely really important as we go into tomorrow to um really preserve the youth presence that Sacramento has here and what we do to promote uh youth activity and civic engagement.

Um I guess now for the member uh comments ideas, questions, um, we can go through if you don't have anything to say, you can always pass this.

Uh Chair, we could go around.

Um, however, I am getting several in the speaker queue, so perhaps we can, you know, whoever uh signs up in the speaker queue, we can call on them.

Okay, sure.

We'll go up to Commissioner Presband.

Hi everyone.

So first off, uh I didn't want to say this is very likely my last meeting uh here uh as a commissioner for the city of Sacramento.

Uh so I wanted to quickly thank everybody who's kind of helped me with this uh position.

It's been a really nice time to be here and learn from you all and learn how to advocate for my community.

So I just wanted to thank you all uh for that.

Um second, um I'm a senior, I'm graduating this year, and part of my school's curriculum is called a C is a senior thesis project, and my senior thesis project is gonna be the Fiesta de la Rasa, which is a um event hosted at my school on next this Wednesday, uh, which is an it's an event um that showcase that's it's replacing the our our annual Cinco de Mayo event.

I wanted to wanted it to be more inclusive to a Latino um cultures and communities, not just Mehiko.

So uh it's gonna be performances, they're gonna be it's gonna be food uh food that's student um student made and sold.

Um and it's gonna be at the Met Sacramento High School.

It's 810 B Street, and I have a flyer.

I can send out to anybody who's interested and also wants to promote it.

Um but I it's kind of I've been working at it for a few months.

I'm really proud of it, and I would it'd be if I I'd love it if you could uh maybe show up for a few um minutes and just see um whatever.

Um again, thank you.

That's that's it.

Um next, Commissioner Tar.

Uh thank you so much, Chair.

Um I would uh and please uh correct me if I'm wrong, but I would like to request a presentation from SAC RT Hello?

Hi, yes, yes.

Um, so after hearing that, and I'm really glad that I asked that question.

I feel like that bus transportation, and especially public transportation within Sacramento.

Um, it is really great that we have such accessible and public transportations.

It really helps the youth of Sacramento.

I've been taking the bus myself for two years to intercom high school, and I feel like that um if you know budget cuts were to affect um youth free passes, I feel like that it would cause a significant decline in youth activities in many programs, including city activities.

So yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Let me just get a little clarity about what is it that you're requesting, what type of presentation?

Um, just a presentation from SACRT and maybe data regarding just youth um uh youth writers and you know if there's any type of statistics data that they have regarding youth.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, I guess I'll stick in that too.

Like it'd be nice to hear about ways that we can at least just have a conversation with them to like see how we can maybe modify the programs that have been in place um to make it more accessible despite the budget crisis.

And then I'm sorry I skipped over you, but Commissioner Nikika.

Um I would like to know if there's a way that we can request a presentation, maybe from the budget division about specifically what um programs that we have set up under the youth services division that may get um cut potentially, just like maybe a specialized presentation that is to us.

Like I know I understand that we have a budget presentation tomorrow at City Council, but I would also very much appreciate um again a more specialized presentation about what is affected at the levels that we have system set up for youth, and also even just our roles as commissioners because I've been hearing that you know this commission might be impacted, and I would like to know just specifically what can get impacted in a presentation if possible okay, Commissioner Codaville.

Good evening, everyone.

It's nice to see you all.

So I've got a few updates.

So one is actually Councilmember Roger Dickinson is hosting a celebrate North Sacramento event.

So it's gonna be Saturday, June 6th.

I have a flyer.

There's gonna be live music, food, games.

We're in the process of getting participants in order.

So if you guys are interested, this could be something fun to take families out to maybe go out with your friends.

It's actually gonna be located at the Robertson Park on 3525 Norwood Avenue.

If you know any groups, it can be school related if they're you know, maybe a dance group, some kind of entertainment.

They're all welcome to kind of sign up and hopefully get an opening.

There's been some talk of trying to get more performers to get involved.

So please, if you're interested, come and see me.

I have a flyer and it has a QR code so you can sign up or even take a picture of it and share with your respective networks.

In addition to that, I do have an update from our community partnerships focus area.

So a current project that we've been talking about and kind of creating a proposal for is actually a resource fair hosted by the commission itself.

So our goal is to have community participants.

Right now we're working on the logistics of it, taking into account the proposed budget cuts, trying to make sure that this is a project that's actually feasible for the team that's supporting us.

Well, also figuring out how to gain more support from other city departments and community organizations.

Um, so hopefully we'll have a proposal to present soon.

Um, we've been working and meeting together and revising something that we're hoping to show to the rest of you guys.

And that is all I can share for now.

Commissioner Soto.

Hi, every hello.

Hi, everyone.

It's been a while since our last meeting.

I know we had some hiccups, but I'd love to provide a little update of what I've been doing.

So, student government elections for ARC Sacks City Consumer Server and Fulsom Lake recently happened, and I was appointed as the Secretary of Equity and Diversity for Sacramento City, and that's what I'll be doing next year.

I've enjoyed serving as director of public relations for American River.

However, I am switching over because I will be transferring in the fall of 2027 to a four-year.

And so I also went on a trip to India with my family to perform both of my grandparents' last rites, and so I was out of the country for around two weeks in like March and April around that time.

I attended a district one event with the other district one commissioners, and it was wonderful.

Um Councilmember Kaplan hosted it at the North Months Aquatic Center, which I mentioned a little bit earlier during today's meeting.

And then I got my class schedules, you know, all done for the fall.

And summer prep is currently ongoing.

I'm reaching out to youth in Sacramento that I admire, and they've taken initiatives to be either you know civically engaged or just active within their communities.

And then also a lot of small businesses in Sacramento have this kind of like platform where they provide their spaces to youth.

And over the summer, I'd love to like sit down and chat with them.

And I also love any other commissioners are interested in helping me find places because social media and the internet are only so helpful.

Word of mouth is also great.

So if anyone has any like good coffee spots, good crafting areas, good like secondhand shops or anything, just let me know about that.

And then also I will be attending um this festival in Elk Grove this weekend.

It is George Wanida Mela, which means the strength of youth festival.

And so there's gonna be a lot of youth from Sacramento participating in dance performances.

There will be small businesses, food vendors, and stuff.

So if anyone's interested, I can provide the address, and I would love you guys would show up.

And then I'd also like to provide a request for um maybe Jive to come and present here.

Jive is amazing and very active in District One.

It's part, it's a big part of if you go to school there.

They are very active about commuting to school through like um carpool or bicycles or even walking, like forming little groups, and so that would be great, kind of like promoting, I guess um responsible eco, like responsible environmental approach to getting to places, and then also it provides a bit of like a pathway to building community and foundations for you to be better involved.

Yeah, that's all for me.

Thank you.

Commissioner Sister.

Hi everyone.

Uh so just to update you guys on what I've been doing in my community for the past few months.

I finally found um this really really cool and fun volunteering opportunity that I've been doing for the past couple of months.

It's at this after school enrichment program.

Um it's a nonprofit organization called the Green House.

Uh, and it's located in South Natoma, it's kind of like right off of Garden Highway that way.

And it's a really really cool fun volunteering opportunity where I've been able to come in and I work with a bunch of uh middle schoolers, and I'm able to kind of like help them with their after-school homework stuff, and then they also have other projects that they work on outside of school, so I'm also able to assist with that.

And it's just been a really really fun opportunity that um I've been able to stick to for the past couple months.

And I know that they also have uh another, I I can't completely remember it, but they do have a summer volunteering, not a volunteering, um, but they do have a summer position that they're hiring for.

Uh okay, I'll get more details on this, but I wanted to extend this opportunity to the youth commission.

I feel like it would be a very meaningful experience to most of you if you are interested.

And if you guys have any other questions about that, please do come to me.

It truly is, I've been able to, it's it's so nice to bond with little kids and you know, getting to help them and then seeing the impact you uh you've been able to have on them.

It's it's it truly is really rewarding.

Um, and so just wanted to share that uh little opportunity with you guys.

Um yeah.

Um, Commissioner Prez Magnum.

Yeah, I'm just gonna plug my event again.

Uh but no, uh just like a little bit more background on it.

It's just it's a I've I've been working on this for I think almost four months, and I've raised around $4,200 uh regards to um just overall performance fees for the performers and um a few small logistics um fees.

And just a quick thing, and it's this event is completely free to attend.

It's a it's from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

And it's at the Met Sarmo High School, and again, I can have uh such more info about it.

Um quick wanted to add those details.

That's it.

Thank you.

Commissioner Soto.

Hi, yeah, I just wanted to give a quick plug.

Um, listening to Commissioner Sister.

If you guys are interested in helping with like little kids and tutorings, check your local libraries because usually they have like after school programs.

I know the North Men Thomas Library has like a teen help space where elementary schoolers get help from like the local high schoolers that go to Indercom, and there's other programs in your local libraries that have platforms for youth to be involved.

That's actually how I became the website manager of the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library.

I was initially on their teen advisory board, and so I would recommend you guys you know check it out, and then also summer is coming up, so that's another third space you guys can maybe explore.

I was like little uh fun fact.

Um so, yes, uh, as commissioner uh I'm right stated that summer is finally coming, and I am actually finally going back to my home country together with my home family after 15 years of my dad not meeting his mom since he came to the United States.

So I feel like just like you know, sentimentally, that you know it's such an amazing experience.

Uh my family did go back.

Uh, me and my mom and my brother around before COVID, like pre-COVID area, like right before.

And it was such an amazing experience, and I'm definitely looking forward to uh going back and enjoying all the beautiful sceneries with my whole family this time.

And the second thing I have is I would like to uh pass another request for the follow-up blog, and this time it is a presentation from the uh Save Us.

Um if you guys don't know what Save Us is, uh Save Us is a it is an organization that is really focused on helping uh youths uh hone their advocacy skills.

So if somewhere at City Hall is like you know, public advocacy at the government level, I would um I would state Seva as like the public advocacy of social media.

Um, you know, uh Save us, they have a um they have a context yearly round where students all over uh Sacramento districts, Sacramento Limits, they can submit uh documentaries uh regarding multiple topics from you know homelessness, from uh climate change, uh, you know, water pollution to uh so many different topics that kit m kids might want to advocate on, they will have the chance to get documentaries, and there's also lots of prizes, cash money prizes.

Um I'm not sure, but on the top of my head.

Um this year, first place for a documentary.

I believe got somewhere around the 300 to 600 mark, or maybe even more.

But yeah, I just wanted to uh see if they can come out and present to us.

They're a really great community, really uh hold our warming uh really close with them.

I take broadcast media too, and our teacher, Miss May, is in really close ties with them.

She actually won Teacher of the Year, um, recognized by Save Us for uh City of Sacramento.

So yeah, and that was it.

Thank you.

All right, Kev uh Commissioner, if you have a direct contact, then please see me after the meeting so we could I can get the direct contacts.

Does it sound like you have some type of contact?

Okay, seeing me after the meeting, please.

Okay, and then I'll keep my comments quick so we don't have to like send them or anything, but um just recently I presented uh like the law day in Sacramento downtown um with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, and so there were like six other youth speakers there.

Um so we just talked about like the American dream, and I guess my speech was more focused on how we can like redefine the American dream to ensure that we have like a more inclusive environment um and just really make focus on unity instead of being divided by political party or um socioeconomic factors or any of that.

Um and then also I attended an event with my brother.

We both volunteered at my council members jump into spring event.

Um so we helped uh some of the youth there.

We were giving out uh free food, popcorn, cotton candy, um chips.

So it was really nice to see um all the youth there be really happy with everything.

Uh better than that, I think that's it.

Um the last item is public comments matters not on the agenda.

Clerk are there any members of the public who wish to speak on.

Thank you, Chair.

We have none.

Okay.

This concludes today's agenda.

Thank you everyone for your participation.

This meeting is adjourned.