Okay.

Please call this meeting to order.

The Sacramento City Council.

Please call the roll.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Councilmember Dickinson.

I expect Mayor Pro Tem or Vice Mayor Talamantes shortly and Councilmember Pluckybaum shortly.

Councilmember Maple.

Mayor Pro Tem Getta.

Councilmember Jennings.

I'm here, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Vang.

And thank you.

And Mayor McCarty.

Here.

So welcome to the July 28th City Council meeting.

If you wish to speak or submit comments, please fill out the online form.

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You will have two minutes to address the council, may speak up to on four items and the timers on the screen behind me.

This meeting is being live streamed in English and Spanish on YouTube.

Captions and translations are AI generated and may contain errors, so that everyone has the opportunity to address the council.

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A copy is in the back of the room and is summarized on the back of the speaker slip.

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And if not immediately stop the presiding officer will direct the person to leave the council meeting.

Okay.

So Mayor, do we have a land acknowledgement?

Yes.

Um let's ask Vice Mayor Talamantes to do the land acknowledgement and pledge.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nissan people, the Southern Maidu, Valiant Plains Mewk, Patwin Winton peoples, and the people of 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 a day on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous People's History, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

Salute.

Pledge.

And to the Republic where we sustain one nation undergoing justice.

City Attorney, do you have a report out from closed session?

Nothing report out.

Thank you.

Before we proceed with the uh consent calendar, two things we want one want to recognize a special guest for the day, Jessica Egleston.

Where's uh Jessica?

Jessica is a uh student, a high school student from La Kenyatta.

She was part of the youth and government program, which I know Councilmember Maple is a big uh supporter of and had the opportunity to meet our distinguished and dynamic city manager a few months ago and and wanted to see what her life was in a day of a city manager.

So today is your shadow day, and thank you for joining us at our Sacramento City Council Tuesday.

And uh welcome to your state capitol.

Thank you.

Before we get to the consent calendar, I just want to uh step on what the city uh clerk alluded to, and this is a public meeting, of course.

We value uh public input, and with that comes the responsibility for everybody to uh abide by our uh rules and procedures to make sure everybody's voices are heard so we can have a productive uh democracy in action and have the public uh be heard and participate as well.

Uh so with that um consent calendar.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor, um, consent calendars item one through ten.

Are there council comments, questions on those?

Councilmember Kaplan.

Um just a brief comment on item two and a couple staff questions on the item eight.

Councilmember Maple on item one, please.

Seeing normal punched out, Councilmember Maple on item one.

Yes.

Um, so after after some some delay, a short delay, uh, we are so excited to finally have this approval for the renewal of the Oak Park Business Improvement District on our agenda.

Um, and I see that we do have at least one representative in the audience, so I'll look forward to hearing from you.

I'm assuming that you're signed up to speak.

Um, but really excited about this because uh all of our P bids, our business improvement districts do so much work in our city um and they make our our business corridors function well, they keep them clean, they make them safe, they make them great places to come and patron our businesses and bring your family, and so um, you know, looking forward to 10 more years.

All right, thank you very much.

Councilmember Kaplan, item two and then eight.

Thank you, madam clerk.

I just want to point out on item two, as I'm wont to do, as this is um the renewal of our city's uh insurance broker contracts that we pay that our excess liability increase went up 3.59 million in one year, and there is one area where our insurance costs went down.

Um, but in total, our increase year over year is 15% on the insurance costs, and then it looks at as a total 3.298 million more.

We have to look at for budget cuts, but this is just on paying insurance alone.

That I think it's important that the the public understands that some things are out of our control and the increased costs uh affect us as we do um our budget.

And then so moving to item eight.

I'm actually uh, you know, on policy excited about.

So I just have a couple of questions if if DOU uh wouldn't uh mind coming up because I really want to thank staff on their work on this because this is our proposition 218 procedure for water and wastewater rate adjustments, which the law requires us to go through this prop 218 process.

Um I just want to make sure residents are informed and know the process of why this is actually really important.

Um that uh we do this.

So can you uh just briefly explain what the limitation on rate increases are set by Prop 218?

Sure.

Uh so good afternoon, our honorable mayor, council members.

Um 218, uh the process of 218 requires the city to send out um mailed notices to all property owners and give them an opportunity to learn about the proposed rates and also uh schedule a public hearing where the public will be uh able to come and protest in person.

Uh they can also submit their protests in uh by mail or in writing, uh basically to uh have an opportunity to give an opinion on the proposed rate.

After we hold the public hearing uh for the protest, we have to count how many protests actually got submitted, and if we receive uh less than uh 50 percent of uh all of the property owners, uh then we will can move forward with the rate increase.

If we receive more than 50 percent of all property owners impacted by this rate increase, we will have to be in essence end the process and start over.

Um so 218 actually allows people an opportunity to learn about the rate increase and have an opportunity to protest it in a public hearing.

So specifically, why do we need a rate increase for the city?

Like why is this really important?

We need the read increase for multiple reasons.

Number one, we have uh we our expenditures have grown a lot over the last uh seven to eight years, which we did not have a rate increase.

So we have a lot of catch-up on expenditures just in a sense to keep the lights on.

We have a lot of uh hugely important CIP projects that we need to deliver, and that's just to allow us the resiliency, for example, for uh our services that we provide when it comes to water and wastewater, which are hugely important.

We also need to build up our credit score because we will need the bond for super expensive high profile projects, mainly improvements to both of our treatment plans, which will require us to have a good uh credit rating, and that means we have to build up our reserve and we have to have good standing when it comes to revenue.

So and I just want to thank you and staff.

And this is not something people want to talk a lot about, but you guys have done an extraordinary job that our rates haven't increased for you know seven, eight years, that it's just really important that if this doesn't pass, it puts our water quality and ability to address the changes we need to make as well as the infrastructure needs that are over two billion um in jeopardy.

So I just wanted to point this out so that the public knew that they have a a process uh to ask these questions, but we are starting, and that it is super important that we support uh what's what's coming up for Prop 2 to 18 on on these rate increases so we can handle uh the backlog of infrastructure as well as new growth.

So I appreciate that.

Thank you.

And I'll make a motion to move consent.

Okay, motion a second to move the consent calendar.

And mayor, I have uh no speakers virtually, but I have four in chambers.

May we take those out?

Um Lambert Davis.

Uh yes, first of all, I want to uh to follow up with a comment on what the mayor said.

I think that's true.

You've got to rein in the uh unruly behavior towards the rostrum because people like me who don't interrupt you is punel uh penalized for coming here.

That's a wonderful thing.

They used to do it, they used to remove people who were very rural rude, and plus I'm very familiar with the uh rules and procedure of the chamber because I go to a lot of commissions and I learned it from Minty Cuppy.

Now, the last time I was here, I made a statement that uh some people in the city and myself are concerned, and I see it today.

It's on display.

I'm the one who said, and I'll take the heat.

I'm the one who said that as a native, I think a lot of money should go into District 4.

Uh K Street Mall looks terrible to me, a native.

Not all of downtown looks bad.

It looks great to me, some parts of it.

Today, uh on number five, it says that district four is supposed to get up to four million plus dollars.

Mr.

Plucky Baum is not here today, and we have monitored his absenteeism.

The only one who has permission is city council person, Maple, and she's here.

So I think that District 4, whatever this is here, should be pulled from the agenda until Mr.

Plucky Baum is here to vote on it.

If you pass this without him here, that's a dereliction of duty.

Our next speaker is Sean Rooney.

Following Sean is Annabelle Gonzalez, then Hassan Badron.

Good afternoon.

Mr.

Mayor, City Council members, uh Sean Rooney, so proud to be here on behalf of the Oak Park Business Association.

What a wonderful group.

And we've had such a successful renewal of the Oak Park PBI.

Uh 10 years in the making of the passing of Terry Johnson 10 years ago unexpectedly, and uh the group really rallied to get the district renewed at that time, and and once again did it here this year.

And we cannot and could not do that without the city of Sacramento.

From the 311 app to all of the staff members who are just incredible to work with and support us just tremendously.

Um, and in particular, Councilmember Maple, even before you were elected uh to council, one of our best uh supporters and a and a champion every day.

So thank you.

Um and I have to thank Suzanne Tam, who's our coordinator and uh liaison with the PBIDS.

Uh wonderful resource, invaluable to the PBID, and uh we're so so grateful and appreciative.

And then uh Civitas and Carson Lambeth in the back, uh, a wonderful leader, and I guess in a word, a total superstar.

Um, and we were lucky to have her work on this renewal again.

So very excited about that.

I think it's important.

I'm just gonna read the names of the board members.

We don't have a long list.

Um, they're the ones that do the work, volunteer the time, and they're so good.

And we've got Cassandra in the back, and I think she's one of the best from back in my floor and road and macro days.

Um, she's outstanding, and she's here to support us today.

Um, wouldn't have it any other way.

She's the perfect person for that.

Sam Allen's our president.

Uh, you probably know a few of these names.

Uh uh Dale McKinney, our vice uh president, Patrice Miller, the owner of the galleries, our treasurer, Adrian Hall, a longtime city employee, um, is our secretary, and then we've got uh our our other directors, Micah Beginski, Saboya Davis from WCIC, outstanding leader in the community, uh Courtney Edwards, Dmitry Gotamune, uh, and another city person.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Annabelle Gonzalez, then Hassan Badron.

If I may, just because I know you you won't sing your own praises.

A round of applause for Sean Rooney and his work.

Oh, thank you.

Sorry, I wasn't watching the clock.

Annabelle.

Every time I listened to the interviews from the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers and RD 1000, the people in charge of our levies, the same two words kept coming out.

Hurricane Katrina.

That was a red flag.

So I went digging.

I found out it's worse.

Sacramento is the most at-risk region in America for catastrophic flooding.

Number one in the nation.

Good afternoon.

Mayor and council.

My name is Annabelle Gonzalez, a 12-year North Natoma's homeowner and a 10-year daycare small business owner.

Item 4 renews a warehouse lease.

The city has held since 1997.

29 years of renting space for a flood fighting equipment like sandbags, and the staff report doesn't tell us what's in there or whether it still works.

New Orleans levies fell from underneath.

North Atomas sits at the bottom of a drained lake, Bush Lake, a land company bought it from the state for one dollar an acre, pumped it dry, and sold the lots.

Placing elderly residents into tiny homes at 3511 Arena Boulevard inside a FEMA floodplain isn't just risky, it's a death trap.

Nearly half of Katrina's victims were 75 or older.

They couldn't leave.

Not one council member voted for 3511 Arena Boulevard.

And over 1700 people have signed the petition opposing it.

And here is what waiting cost New Orleans.

For months before Katrina, residents reported the canal leaking into their yards.

A few hundred feet from where the levee broke.

Afterward, a federal judge found the Army Corps responsible.

So the question isn't whether we are like Katrina, it's whether our leaders will be like theirs, the ones who knew and waited.

Thank you.

Hassan Badron is our final speaker on the consent calendar.

Hassan.

Okay, I don't see movement.

So Mayor, that concludes our public comment for the consent calendar.

Okay, thank you.

We had a motion a second earlier on the consent calendar.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any no's or abstentions?

Hearing none, one absence, Mr.

Pluggy Bomb.

Thank you, Mayor.

We now move to the discussion calendar.

Item 11 is Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency update regarding 2024 audit findings and corrective action progress.

Good afternoon, Mayor.

City Council.

My name is Kay Junta.

I am SHRA's assistant director of finance.

On December 3rd, 2025, SHRA submitted the financial reports associated with the 2024 single audit and the housing authorities audited financial statements.

On February 10th of this year, our principal auditor with Clifton Larson Allen formally presented the audited financial statements, the single audit results, and related findings to the board.

The 2024 audit resulted in an unmodified, which is a clean opinion on the agency's financial statements.

The audit also identified one financial report finding and five federal ward findings require requiring corrective action.

The JPA requires SHRA to provide the board with the status update within six months when an audit identifies findings consistent with that requirement and with our commitment to transparency and accountability.

Staff are providing this follow-up on the agency's progress in it to address those findings.

This concludes my presentation, and I am available to answer any questions.

Do we have public comment on this?

Yes, Mayor, I have two speakers.

Um I have no speakers virtually.

I have Lambert Davis and Hassan Badron.

Mr.

Davis.

Lambert.

Is Mr.

Davis here?

I do not see him.

Hassan Badron.

I don't see them either.

It appears you have no public comment on this item.

Okay.

No.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor.

I I just because that was quick, and and just want to back up on the corrective actions that were laid out in the report that talked about the housing choice voucher clusters, eligibility, uh, enforcement issues, housing quality, um, material weaknesses, internal controls over compliance that has all been addressed.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

So I think it's important that you know we hear that, and that's that's clarified, and then other controls I put into place so that it doesn't happen again.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Sure.

So I'll move forward.

Um, this item is a receive and file.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Receive and file.

So no motion needed, correct?

That's correct.

Okay, noted.

Mr.

Dickinson.

Received, filed, noted.

Thank you.

So, Mayor, we now move to council comments, ideas, questions, and AB 123 reports.

I see no members signed up to speak.

We move to public comment for matters not on the agenda.

Oh, wonderful.

We have a city manager's report.

If I don't turn anything up over here.

All right, so on Tuesday, August the 4th, uh, we have National Night Out.

Uh, you can get a complete list of the neighborhoods and events on the Sacramento Police Department's websites.

Uh, we encourage everybody to come out and attend, and I'm certain that there will be uh locations in the council members' districts, and we'll be certain to place those on the website.

Uh Girls Rock Sacramento is one of the Office of Art and Culture's grant recipients, and they're gonna conclude their week-long teen rock camp with a free public showcase this Saturday, August the 1st.

It will be located at Memorial Auditorium, and it's gonna feature original music written and performed by the campers.

So if you have an opportunity, you should swing by.

Uh, I want to send uh thank you to city staff, Yayin, uh Brian Pedro.

Um we received 31.9 million dollars in the state home key award for the Rio Linda Senior uh Housing Project.

I also want to give a shout out to our parks department.

July was park and recreation month.

So I want to thank our parks department for everything I do for everything they do with our 243 parks, 17 17 aquatics facilities and our 15 community centers, and on Saturday, August the 1st from 10 to noon, uh Fire Station 8, which is located at 5990 H Street, will be holding uh their open house.

Uh we're trying to do these in the month uh every month uh until we complete all the firehouses on a Saturday from noon from 10 to noon.

It's actually a good time, get to time to get to know your community and the individuals who serve uh within the fire service.

So again, that is August the 1st from 10 to noon, and it's gonna be fire station eight, which is located at 5990 A Street.

Thank you.

Thank you, City Manager.

We now move to public comments matters not on the agenda.

I have eight speakers.

The first is Abraham Gomez, Francis Liu, Lambert Davis, Ezra Walker.

Is Abraham here?

Francis Liu Lambert Davis, Azura Walker, Marvin Crump.

Let's see if do we have Abraham or no?

No Abraham Francis.

I see no Francis.

Um Azura Walker.

Hi.

Are you Zura?

Yeah.

Please proceed.

And your timer is right behind me.

Go ahead.

Oh good afternoon, everyone.

Hi, my name is Azora Walker.

And oh speaker.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Hi, my name is Azora Walker, and I'm thankful for this leadership, brother to brother group.

And what I learned in this group, um, I learned to be proactive.

I learned to have self-confidence, and I learned to manage my money, and I'm thankful to be in this group.

Thank you.

Can you tell us about the group and what it's what it is?

Is basically the group is basically about helping us in the future and um working our ourselves and putting first things first, important things, and yeah.

What's the what's the name of the group?

The name of the group, brother to brother.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Thank you.

I just wanted you to say it so we could all hear it.

Oh, thank you.

Yes.

We have Marvin, Marvin, then Justice, then Leo, then I start talking.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Mark Crump, and I'm a brother to brother.

Three things I learned during the summer is to be on time, interact with younger and new people, and my communication skills.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do you have justice?

Good afternoon.

My name is Justice Walker.

And thank you for this opportunity to be here today.

Um, in this leadership group, I learned how to show leadership, be proactive, and put first things first.

Thank you.

We have Leo next.

Hello, everyone.

What's on?

My name.

Hello, good afternoon.

My name is Sterling Gilmer.

I just wanted to say thank you to you guys.

Uh, three things I learned this summer was being on time, helping others, and just staying off the streets and helping my community.

Thank you.

Okay, did I miss anybody?

Come on out.

Good afternoon, everyone.

I just want to say thank you to the mayor and the city council for helping us fund brother to brother.

This program really helped me with a lot.

It helped me become the person I am today.

It helped me actually understand and know how to prioritize my life.

And it also helped me become more responsible and know what to put first.

And I just want to say thank you for funding us, and I also want to say thank you to Brother to Brother for allowing me to be in this program because it helped me become a better person.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Madison, and I like to say that I'm thankful for the Brother to Brother Summer Youth Program.

This program has taught me how to be financially stable and how to carry myself as a person and to be proactive in life.

And I wanted to say thank you for the opportunity.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Zaire Brigins.

I'm with the Brother to Brother Summer Job Program.

Three things I'm thankful for is how to manage my money, how to be myself, and how to just be the person I am today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Oh, good afternoon, everybody.

My name is Antonio.

I'm with the Brother to Brother.

They taught me a whole bunch of leadership skills, communication skills, and to be responsible and get up early from our and be better with the work ethic, work ethic, ethic that I got right now.

Good afternoon.

My name is Faith Lane.

First and foremost, I would like to say thank you for allowing Brother to Brother Youth Leadership Program to be here.

In this program, I learned to have self-awareness, self-confidence, and putting first things first.

Thank you for having us.

Thank you.

Thank you, speakers.

I have two more speakers.

Um Lambert Davis and Hassan Badron.

Is Hassan here?

Mr.

Davis will be our final speaker this afternoon.

I actually had left, but I heard about brothers to brothers.

I I wanted to make sure that I give them a shout out, especially Merv.

The Brookins and Davis family, we go back at least 60 years.

I knew his mother and father, and he knew my parents, and some of us went to Del Paso, Junior High, Grant High School, North Avenue.

So anytime I see somebody like that, that's the type of quality that comes out of Del Paso Heights.

And then I'm gonna follow up with that.

Um over the weekend, and I know Mr.

Dickinson will be happy to hear it, and also the mayor, because he he patronized us when his children were younger.

Uh the millennials have taken it to another level now.

Um we got uh something in the email, and I gave it, I sent it to uh Mr.

Dickerson's staff, uh Minti, uh the mayor, and the new city manager.

Whoever wants to look at it, the millennials now.

I have no idea what all that means.

I'll see them tonight, but they're talking about a hundred and fifty thousand people have done something.

I have no idea how they did that.

I'm looking for 150,000 cheesecake and 150,000 carrot cake.

That's my job.

But I did want to say that uh Mr.

Dickinson's staff also needs to shout out, too, because we were invited to an international event in Sacramento.

It was at the Elk's Lodge yesterday, and my brother and I took care of that.

And you're gonna see something, Mr.

Dickerson, and the rest of you who are interested.

Uh, this thing is gonna create jobs and revenue for years to come because AI cannot, a computer cannot create a cheesecake.

There's no way, and that means a crew.

So hopefully the people who get these uh emails will get back to me because that's the person you need to talk to.

So mayor, that concludes our public comments and the business of the city council.

So you may adjourn.