Thank you, City Clerk.

Please call this meeting to order a second office.

Councilmember.

Councilmember Dickens.

Vice President Talamante.

Councilmember.

Council Member.

Councilmember Dickens.

Please rise as you are able.

For the opening acknowledgement in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanan people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Miwok, the Patton Winton peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancherio Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

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

Thank you.

And please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

And Mayor, I do want to remind members this meeting is being live streamed in English and Spanish on YouTube, and captions and translations are AI generated and may contain errors.

So the first item on our discussion calendar is 2026 semester at City Hall Summer Edition presentations.

That's agenda item number one.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Chris Wimberley, and I'm excited to be here tonight with you all with the third graduating class of the semester at City Hall program.

But to be more precise, the semester at City Hall Summer Edition program.

You may ask, what is semester at City Hall Summer Edition?

Well, this program offers rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors interested in local government structure and politics, seeking self-discovery of leadership, and connecting with peers that share similar interests citywide.

The semester of City Hall program is highly participatory and engages youth in curriculum topics including civic engagement, activism, voting, policy, youth voice, and so much more.

This summer we invited 80 young people to take the journey with us, and tonight we are here with 49 participants to present their Project City Hall projects.

We want to thank you for providing the semester at City Hall Summer Edition program participants and our staff with the opportunity to present at tonight's city council meeting.

We ask that any questions or comments be made at the conclusion of the last presentation.

City staff will also be available to answer questions at that time.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Dominique Herndon and I serve as a program coordinator in the civic engagement unit.

My name is Maro Silas Rodriguez.

I am a program coordinator with the Youth Workforce Development Division.

This summer we had the privilege of working alongside our peer mentors.

They were alumni from the 2025 Summer at City Hall program who returned to serve as leaders and mentors to for this year's youth.

Today we like to recognize and thank our peer mentors for their dedication from completing the leadership training to investing their time and energy in supporting our participants through the whole summer program.

Now can we have the Sporty Oranges take the stage to begin their presentation?

Start today, work tomorrow, good evening, Mayor and City Council.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

My name is Ragolf Mishra.

I am a rising junior at NP3 High.

I reside in District 1, and I am a peer mentor for the Sporty Oranges.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

My name is Nafisa Mahmoud.

I'm a rising freshman at Sierra College, and I reside in District 1, and I'm a float peer mentor for the Sporty Oranges.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Noor Khan.

I am a rising junior at NP3 and I live in District 1.

My name is Britampal Singh Pati.

I'm a rising junior at NP3 High and I reside in District 1.

My name is Kenzie Rashid.

I'm a rising junior at NP3 High, and I reside in District 3.

My name is Ariana Hakes.

I am a rising sophomore at NP3 High and I reside in District 1.

My name is Jasmine Liang.

I am a rising sophomore at West Campus High School, and I reside in District 7.

My name is Jordan Kwan.

I am a rising junior at Intercom High School and I reside in District 1.

My name is Kamika OT.

I'm a rising junior at MP3 High, and I reside in District 1.

My name is Celeste Miranda Barragan.

I'm a rising sophomore at Intercom High School and I reside in District 3.

My name is Sujita Balmergan.

I'm a rising junior at MP3 High School, and I reside in District 1.

My name is Nyeti Tundel.

I'm a rising senior at Indricum High School and I reside in District One.

The issue we're addressing is a lack of youth employment awareness in Sacramento.

Teens want jobs, but most don't know where to start.

Information about job opportunities and city programs is unclear or hard to find, which makes job searching confusing.

Even though the city offers strong youth programs, many teens don't know they exist.

Some teams didn't even know that the city offered youth employment programs, and others felt said that they felt overwhelmed or discouraged discouraged even before applying.

All this shows that the issue isn't a lack of motivation, it's a lack of accessible and visible information.

When we improve visibility, we make it easier across, we make it easier for teens across Sacramento to participate, and not just the ones who already know where to look.

All prepare and employ young people.

They provide high-quality workforce training and valuable job experience.

This leads us to our main problem.

Many teens are unaware of these amazing programs given to them, and even when they are, these programs often fill up very quickly.

This shows that action should be taken and that career counseling and guidance may be the solution.

In our survey that we conducted, out of 76 respondents, 78 found difficulty finding job opportunities, with 56 saying it's due to the lack of experience.

Additionally, 73% of youth respondents in our survey would pay attention to job opportunities if it was posted by the city on social media.

Finally, 88% of respondents have not attended the youth resource and employment fair within Sacramento, with 80% saying they would attend if it happened more than once a year.

Now I'll pass it on to Jordan, who will be introducing our video.

The next slide that will be shown is a video we made about spreading awareness on youth unemployment.

This video will walk through the pro through the challenges of the process of getting a job.

Hey everyone, we're sporty oranges from Semester at City Hall.

This summer we learned something big.

Teens want jobs, and most of us don't know where to start.

So we made this video to talk about what's really going on.

Finding a job sounds easy until you actually try.

Most of us don't even know where job opportunities are.

A lot of jobs ask for experience, but teams have experienced unless someone hires them.

Transportation, schedules, rules, all of it makes job searching harder.

Talk to teens at our school, and almost everyone's has said that job searching has been confusing.

Some don't even know there are youth programs in the city.

Others try to apply, but they got overwhelmed.

A lot of teens want work, but they just don't know where to start.

Even we don't know how to.

Okay, so clearly teens are struggling, but that means we need to step up.

That's why we'll be making flies and posters.

If teens can't find the info, we will be putting it right in front of them.

And honestly, the youth job fair is great, but one time a year isn't enough.

Some of us have family, school, sports.

Hosting it in the summer would help many more teams.

We are not creating new programs, we're making the existing ones visible.

Youth employment isn't just about getting a job, it's about building skills that shape our future.

When youth see opportunities, they're more likely to take them.

And those skills, responsibility, reliability, and responsibility will stay with us forever.

We're not creating new programs, we're making the existing ones visible.

So what can you do to help?

Support youth employment around Sacramento.

Increase the job fair event each year.

If we want a strong future workforce, we need to start with visibility today.

We have a story or some semester of City Hall celebration.

Thank you for listening.

Now I'll be passing it to Jasmine, who will be talking about our solutions.

To address this issue, we came up with two solutions.

In terms of advertisements, youth employment opportunities can be posted on social media and in places throughout the cities like schools and community centers.

The social media pages should also be reorganized for clarity and easier navigation.

Secondly, we would like for the youth resource and employment fair to be hosted twice a year, specifically in the summer, in addition to the spring.

We believe our proposed solutions will create a difference for the community of youth in the future.

I will now be passing it on to Ariana, who will be sharing about our ask.

Now I'll be passing it to Suji and Jordan who will be showing us our flyers and our logos.

With the goal of raising awareness, here's a flyer we created which shows what youth workforce programs are as well as the different programs that the city of Sacramento offers.

On the left is our logo, which represents our group, the Sporty Oranges.

Now we'll be passing it to Kenzie and Celeste, who will be introducing our website.

As shown, the mission of our website mock-up is to provide our youth with simplified and easy to access information on youth employment and opportunities.

Pages on our website include where to find local youth job opportunities, how to be interview ready, how to build a resume, frequently asked questions, and why youth employment is important.

Our goal is to make our website easy for teens to navigate and work through.

This can become a helpful resource for them.

We will now be passing it off to Pritam, who's gonna introduce our website.

This is a mock-up of what a social media page for youth employment would look like.

Social media is a big hotspot for a seat, so it will be effective in reaching the intended audience.

It will become the main page for gathering, then posting many youth employment opportunities, advertising for youth employment, and overall showing why youth employment really matters.

In all, it will become an accessible platform for youth to access their employment resources.

Not only passing it on to Noor, who will be who will be concluding us all.

To wrap up, our research showed that the problem is an opportunities for teens.

But it's that many young people don't know these opportunities even exist in the first place.

By improving awareness via better advertising, organizing information, and adding another youth job fair, we can help more teens gain work experience and prepare for the future.

Small changes can make a big difference.

So let's turn to council comments.

Mayor Pro Tem Gatta.

Thank you very much.

I just wanted to confirm.

I think they were gonna do the comments after all the presentations.

Is that correct?

How would you like to proceed, Mayor?

You want questions after each presentation?

After each one, yes.

Okay, very good.

Then I'll I'll I'll uh I'll go and and first uh let's give them another big round of applause.

And this is one that I I find uh specifically interested as I'm chair of the cow the Sacramento Employment Training Agency, which is our employment training agency for not only the Sacramento, the city, but our our entire county.

And so I'm excited to take this information to our joint powers authority that helps uh those individuals because that lands, I think of young people making sure that they're connected and how to connect is important.

So my question is did you think of or did you know about the Sacramento Employment Training Agency?

Uh and if uh and if you didn't, then this is a good opportunity for us to link the work you're doing with uh our the effort that they're doing right now to get more information about jobs from resume workshops to everyone there.

We go, here we go.

We've got some here.

So willful volunteers.

So for us, I believe we weren't aware of say it again, I'm sorry.

The Sacramento Employment Training Agency.

I believe we weren't aware of yeah, exactly.

And some of us might not be.

So this is great.

Well, thank you, because this uh is a good opportunity for us to make sure that we're engaging with young people at the SETA employment training agency.

Well, that's all I want that was my big question because I think this is we're right in the middle of a campaign to get more awareness of all of the jobs and opportunities the workforce training and also in different languages.

You know, not only in Spanish, but in uh Hmong and Russian and Farsi and different languages out there as well.

So um, you know, one thank you, and let's give them another big round of applause.

Thank you, Mayor.

Councilmember Kaplan Thank you.

Um kudos to all the work that you guys did.

And I just want to follow up on what uh Councilmember Garrett said in regards to the website.

Is it live?

So it's currently not live, um, but it's ready to be published, if needed.

Well, make sure that all of us get that information when you go live, and then if you do social media, uh, that we see the Instagram, and then um following up on what Councilmember Garris said, would love if you've got the knowledge or capability of also putting some things in in Spanish or other language of where uh students can look because I think that that would be extremely helpful.

I didn't know if that was talked about.

Yeah, it's definitely possible to make the social media page appearing in other languages as well.

So we can definitely work on that too if it becomes live.

Awesome.

So when it's live, let me know and I'll link it to my uh webpage and uh make sure that we all get the PDFs solely of your flyer because I'm happy to post that on my social, but um I haven't seen in my time on council this level of looking at teen employment um done before.

So kudos to you guys and really good job.

Thank you.

Councilmember Vang.

Thank you.

Um I just first wanted to take this moment to say uh great job, congratulations, you're almost there.

Um, and great job on the presentation.

Um, I think this is my sixth year um for summer at City Hall as a councilwoman, and I always look forward during the summer to actually see the youth presentation.

And so just really want to give you all kudos for all the great work.

Um, and in particular, because I've been here for six years, I don't think youth employment has come up before.

Um, and so really appreciate you all uh selecting this issue.

Oftentimes, uh conversation among adults is that there's this myth that young people just lack motivation, right?

But the truth is often that they are facing systemic barriers in terms of accessing resources for that first employment.

And so I think it's really awesome hearing from our young people saying, hey, it's not the lack of motivation among young people.

It's because there are these real, you know, structural barriers.

And I thought I was really revealing in your survey.

76 respondents, which actually is not bad because sometimes when government does survey, we get a really low response, so you should be really proud that you got 76 people responding to your survey.

Um I thought it was really uh interesting that 40% of the respondents noted that it was transportation challenges.

That was one of the main reasons why it was really hard for them to um uh go to work or actually sign up for that job.

Um, and uh given that I just wanted to share this.

You may already know that we have um ride free RT as well.

Um so in addition to uh your amazing website and posting a flyer, I think it would also be good uh to share that we you know, young people also could utilize um stack RT as well as a means of transportation to be able to get to their employment.

And so just really want to say uh great job, really proud of all of you.

Um, and thank you so much uh for selecting this topic.

Uh last question I did have for the group is um who came up with the with the team name the sporty oranges.

Yeah.

As a group, we collectively um did the sporty oranges because our link crew is the orange color, and we all do some type of like sport.

So as a group, we decided the sporty sporty oranges.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Councilman Councilmember Jennings.

I want to I want to thank my colleague on for asking that question because I was trying to make sure I understood where the sporty oranges came in to all the great work that you did on this.

Um I was just so impressed.

Uh, your theme start today, work tomorrow, right?

And that's an incredible theme, and that's one that every teen out there is thinking of.

I want to start the day and I want to work tomorrow.

Or I want to start the day and I want to work today, right?

So that theme is just powerful because it sends a wonderful message.

Um, and then I loved your confidence.

Each one of you got up to the microphone, said what it was that you were to say, and you did it with a lot of great confidence.

And I just I loved your confidence, and so it therefore allowed me to listen to the message and hear what you had to say.

Because when you got up there, that message resonated with your confidence that you gave me.

So good job on that.

Um, I love the fact that you really looked at solutions.

And a couple of your solutions, of course, were have the fair twice a year as opposed to maybe once a year, a website, social media, uh, improve awareness was ultimately the end result of all of your solutions, but you came up with solutions that can solve the problems.

And so I know you worked together as a team in order to come up with those solutions.

I thought you did an incredible job, and um I was just really, really proud of each and every one of you.

So, congratulations.

Um, looking forward to maybe going to your website and finding out how I can get my next job as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So, another round of applause for the Scorpio Oranges.

Thank you.

So, we now move to our second group, empowering youth voices for mental health.

Good evening, mayor and city council.

My name is Mahe Ket Y'all.

I'm a rising senior at Intercom High School.

I currently reside in District One, and I'm a peer mentor for blues prevention.

Good evening, mayor and city council.

My name is Alyssa Calderon.

I'm a rising senior at Leeroy Green Academy, and I reside in District Three, and I'm a peer mentor for blues prevention.

My name's Kyle Lann.

I'm a rising junior at Thomas Charter High School and I reside in District One.

My name is Vera Minhaas.

I'm a rising junior at Intercom High School, and I reside in District One.

My name is Ella Boreen.

I'm a rising junior at Hyram Johnson High School, and I reside in District Six.

My name is Avor Downes.

I'm a rising junior at McClatchy High School, and I reside in District 7.

My name is Amina Mahmoud, and I'm a rising sophomore at NP3 High School, and I reside in District 1.

My name is Alina Comacho.

I'm a rising sophomore at McClatchy High School and I resign in District 6.

My name is Carissa Rule.

I'm a rising sophomore at McClashy High School and I resign in District 7.

My name is Ruth Four Shea, and I'm a rising sophomore at John F.

Kennedy High School, and I reside in District 7.

Hi, my name is Sia Fatella, and I'm a rising junior at MP3 High School.

I reside in District 1.

My name is Miranda Williams, and I'm a rising sophomore at Christian Brothers High School and I reside in District 4.

Our group is Blues Prevention, we're presenting on the topic of empowering youth voices for mental health.

Here is our table of content.

We will first be going over the problem and the current measures in place to combat it.

After that, we're gonna look at the data and see what it reveals.

Finally, we we will talk about the solution and the resources we have to offer.

Mental health can affect the way people think, feel, and make unhealthy choices.

Depression and anxiety are among the most common conditions and mental health problems.

Untreated mental health can increase the risk of depression, anxiety, abuse, sentences, and self-harm.

The current existing programs in Sacramento are Sacramento's Children Fund, Youth Help Network, and Allocave Sacramento, California Voices Youth Connection Circle, and NAMI Sacramento and Sacramento Youth Center.

These resources exist, but not many youth know about these resources, and the blues prevention is trying to make the youth more aware.

We created a survey to help us better understand youth mental health.

It received 117 responses.

With that data we collected, we found out that 41.9% of youth don't feel comfortable speaking to someone they trust about their mental health.

We also found that 33.3% of youth would prefer to receive their information about mental health through social media, and another 29.9% would prefer to receive their information through their friends or peers.

Family problems, which is 46, 43%, and friendships and relationships, which is 46%.

On this slide, we will be sharing the main things we learned with our research.

Our data shows us that the biggest cause of teen mental health comes from either school or academic pressure or from family issues.

We also learned that most teens would rather get their information about mental health from either from social media or a friend rather than a teacher or a counselor.

This shows how it may be how a majority of our youth belong to people they already know to get their information about mental health.

Lastly, we discovered that 41.9% of our youth do not feel comfortable speaking out about their mental health.

This highlights how it may be a struggle, how it may be a struggle for our youth to speak out about how they feel.

Overall, our research shows that our ment that overall our research shows that mental health issues are a big problem than most people realize.

For part of our solution, we plan to distribute flyers around populated areas in Sacramento City, such as parks and community centers.

We also create an Instagram account to help spread awareness and positivity.

We created both a motivational and informational flyer to help support all aspects of mental health.

Our goal is to spread awareness on the issue and help encourage youth to speak up about their mental health.

The flyer on the left contains some meaningful images and a message to inspire people to be more open.

The flyer on the right gives tips to promote a less stressful lifestyle and reduce common sources of anxiety.

It also recommends breathing exercises and provides the contact information for a non-emergency mental health support line.

We chose Instagram because we feel like it'll be a professional platform and it's very familiar among teens.

The mock Instagram would help provide resources for teens to talk about their feelings and also give them opportunities to talk to other teens instead of adults.

In conclusion, youth mental health is a serious issue and motivating the youth to talk about their mental health.

They will suffer in silence by thinking of some negative ways to cope with their mental health.

By this requires or Sacramento in promoting mental health resources for our mock Instagram.

We believe that youth mental inability to talk about their mental health will decrease.

With your assistance, we hope to make a better environment for youth to talk about their mental health comfortably.

Thank you.

Any questions?

So thank you, Blues Prevention.

Councilmember Kaplan.

So my question is I think for the first time, you know, as social media is becoming more prevalent.

Uh, the answer that teens would love uh or prefer to sometimes get their help through social media.

Um, how do you think that that would work or how could we do that the right way?

What conversation happened around that?

Hi.

So we thought that social media, our main goal was to use platforms and share also because I know a lot of you guys have social media accounts and basically share existing resources and programs.

And our main goal is to spread awareness.

Well, because it's um, and one of the things I didn't see was you know, does social media cause mental health issues?

Was that discussed amongst your group?

Yeah, we were discussing it, and our goal is to offer basically a safe space where they do feel comfortable because we do recognize that social media is a contributing factor to teens mental health.

But our goal is to create a safe space that offers resources to combat that.

Well, again, when uh you guys get your Instagram up, let me know.

I would love to pay uh a link to it.

But here's my challenge to each one of you.

Um, you're still in school, and a trusted source is your counselors.

I hope that when school starts, each one of you will bring this idea to your counselors and see how you can implement it in your schools so that you can better address uh concerns with mental health.

Um so I think you guys started something that can spread beyond this room if each one of you goes to a counselor in your school, but great job, really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Um just wanted to uh also just say great job, and I also just want to say thank you for being very organized.

Um when I see a presentation that have caught uh table of contents, that's really great because you're letting the audience know where you're going with your presentation.

So great job to that.

Um and yeah, I think this is a really I mean one of there's so many issues impacting our city.

Um, but we know that so many of our young people experience mental health stressors.

Um I can't even imagine the magnitude when I was when I was a young person, and even now in the in the midst of social media, there's so much responsibility for young people, not just school, but family, society, uh, and a lot of it can feel really, really heavy.

Um, and so really appreciate you all highlighting this as one of the major issues uh impacting our young people because we know mental health challenges lead to poor health outcomes.

Um, and I just want to say great job on you know the flyers and and talking about mental health because I think the first step is normalizing safe spaces to talk about mental health, um, encouraging healthy conversation at home and schools and our communities is how we can destigmatize uh mental health uh among young people.

And so just really wanted to say good job.

I think one question I have, which is very similar to councilwoman Kaplan as well, is um, and maybe you've already thought about this is also um there are so many like content creators out there as well that have a lot of followers and trying to figure out like who are the content creators out there that has lots of youth followers uh that could also utilize their platform um and their influence to spread the information.

So if there's a content creator in Sacramento that reaches out to a lot of young people, it might also be good to um have them share your information as well because we know a lot of young folks, as you all know, uh, because young people tell me that they're all on social media, and so I think utilizing content creators might be um something I think will be really powerful for the group just moving forward for all of the topics because uh that's where a lot of the information is shared as well.

But just great job.

Um, and yeah, you should all be really, really proud.

So great job.

Councilmember Maple.

All right, thank you, Madam Clerk.

Excellent job.

Um, I I think uh I really appreciate the focus on on youth mental health.

Um it's something that in the years that uh I've been here, I've seen an increase in this being a topic for um for summer at City Hall.

So obviously, this is a topic that's important to um to the youth in our community, and it has become an increasing problem.

So I really appreciate that you've focused in on it.

And I think one of the themes that we hear often is this desire to get information, whether it be for mental health or the previous presentation to get information through social media, as Councilmember Kaplan said.

Um, so I'm curious.

You know, I think all of us on here have our social media accounts that we share information about things that are going on in our districts or different programs at the city, but just because we have them doesn't mean that we're using them the most effective way that we can.

From your perspective, as as young people, what are some ways that we can improve the way that we provide information on our social media?

Okay, thank you.

Hi.

Um, we think I know all you guys have social media accounts, and I did check a few while I was doing this project.

So I think one of the most effective ways is like borderizing the way that the media is going out.

So I would say a lot of youth, especially in our group are going on rills, and if we're not using TikTok, just shorter and quicker ways to get the message out.

And I know attention spans can be fast, especially on social media, so just making sure that the information is clear.

And I think another thing is a big language barrier, so making sure it's accessible to everybody.

Okay.

Thank you.

Excellent job.

So I think that concludes the questions.

Blues prevention.

Another round of applause.

Thank you.

Our third group is been there, done that.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

My name is Aaron Rodgill.

I'm a rising senior at Intercom High School, and I resign District 3.

My name is Kat Nguyen.

I am a rising junior at the School of Engineering and Sciences, and I currently reside in District 7.

And we are the peer mentors for Project Noir.

My name is Karunya Lakidi.

I'm a rising junior at NP3 High School, and I live in District 3.

My name is Henry Rip Hagen.

I'm a rising sophomore at Natomas Charter High School, and I reside in District 3.

My name is Rohan Rakar.

I'm a rising junior at NP3 High School, and I currently reside in District 1.

Um my name is Mohammed Buddhist Shitto, and I'm a rising junior at Intercom High School, and I reside in District 1.

My name is Atarmat Korash.

Uh, I'm rising junior in uh Rosemar High School.

I live in District 6.

My name is Shriya Banerjee.

I'm a rising sophomore at Intercom High School, and I reside in District 1.

My name's Maryam Shahid.

I'm a rising sophomore at NP3 High School, and I currently reside in District One.

My name is Teja Shiranga.

I'm a rising sophomore in NP3 High School, currently residing in District 3.

My name is Amy Liang.

I'm a rising junior at the School of Engineering and Sciences, and I reside in District 8.

My name is Olivieru Biano, and I'm a rising sophomore at NP3 High School.

I currently reside in District 1.

Our presentation name has been there do that, and our topic is the littering crisis in Sacramento.

These pictures are taken by us, members of Project Noir across Sacramento from districts one, three, seven, and eight.

Sacramento collects about 250,000 tons of waste every single year.

The city's waste management department serves over 133,000 households, showing how much waste our community prov uh collects.

One piece of litter dropped on a Sacramento street can eventually end up in American or Sacramento River, harming the wildlife and polluting the water our community depends on.

Litter is visible across all eight council districts.

Surprisingly, Sacramento processes over 1.4 million tons of trash every year.

Even with that much capacity, thousands of tons of litter still ends up in our parks and our streets.

It's gotten bad enough that CBS News ranks Sacramento the second dirtiest city in America.

And locally, the city received over 34,000 sanitation complaints in 2023 alone.

This hurts Sacramento's reputation, and then it's our youth who feel it firsthand because we see it in our communities.

A 2026 survey done by the Sacramento Bee found that 52% of residents are dissatisfied with the current city's response.

The issue has escalated and is now even a public health concern.

Many residents litter under the assumption that a single item won't make a difference.

Together, the data reveals a growing problem and a public that feels unheard.

We also gathered responses from all eight districts, with a majority being from districts one and district three.

Essentially, we gathered a wide audience of people from different age groups, financial backgrounds, and districts.

After collecting the demographics of our respondents, we then asked them on a scale of one through ten, how often do you see littering in Sacramento?

One means that they don't see littering at all, and ten means that they see littering very often.

And 77% of the respondents said that they see littering at a six out of ten or above on the scale.

And the three most common items were plastics, cigarettes, and aluminum cans.

Next, we asked them where do you see this litter happening?

And the three most common places were roads, parks, and surprisingly, downtown Sacramento.

Next, we asked participants how often do you litter?

Using the scale one to ten, one being never, and ten being very often.

And almost 50% of the participants claim that they do litter in their daily basis.

So to add on, we asked them what are the biggest reasons for them to litter.

And the two biggest reasons were that they were lazy at the time, or more importantly, they couldn't locate a trash can near them to dispose their waste.

10 is very knowledgeable.

59% of respondents picked a two picked a two or lower, meaning they don't know what Sacramento is doing about littering.

Afterwards, we asked, uh, do you know about the 311 program?

The 81% of respondents said no.

Lastly, our last question was a free response about Sacramento's solution to littering.

We asked, how do you feel about Sacramento's response to littering?

Almost everyone said they don't know what Sacramento is doing about littering.

We need to work harder to to prevent our city from littering.

We came up with a potential solution to mitigate the effects of littering in Sacramento.

We'll first break awareness about littering with uh billboard and the flyer as well as uh uh PSA video.

Um we will uh increase accessibility by providing more trash cans in public spaces, increasing signages uh and the updating 311.

On the next slide, we created a PSA video to address Sacramento's littering problem.

Please enjoy.

I stopped paying attention after the first ten minutes.

Today I'm just hoping tomorrow gets just one rapper.

Yeah, it's gonna go this.

Why is there trash everywhere?

Because people forget to pick up after themselves.

No place is covered in litter overnight.

Every clean community and every polluted one begins with one choice.

Choose to keep Sacramento clean.

To promote awareness about how severe the issue of littering is in Sacramento, we created a flyer that contains a local fact to engage and capture the attention of those passing by.

This flyer also provides information on how one can help and prevent this, as it is as it is extremely significant, as most people are uneducated and unaware about how to manage litter and how they as individuals can support the environment.

To further promote awareness about this issue of litter and waste around Sacramento, another visual we created was a billboard.

With just one quick glance at it, an individual can recognize the conveyed message.

This being to remember the littering crisis and being reminded of the severity in Sacramento.

A way to reduce litter is to implement more trash cans and recycling bins in high traffic areas.

These bins should also be emptied regularly and evenly spread out to prevent overflow and easier usage.

In addition, we also recommend organizing community cleanups as not only will this keep the communities together, but also our neighborhoods cleaner.

Lastly, although the current 311 app already allows users to report illegal dumping, it takes multiple steps to navigate this on seeing the right-hand corner.

Instead, we propose an idea of creating a separate website or app to combat this problem.

This would encourage more users to report leading to faster cleanups and a cleaner community.

Another part of our solution involves reworking current anti-littering signage to incorporate more productive elements.

For example, we chose to replace the line California 374.

Additionally, we chose to incorporate the line dial 311 to report illegal dumping because we want to promote civilian action against illegal dumping.

These changes aim to make Sacramento's current resources more available to the public, increasing both awareness and accessibility.

By discouraging littering in Sacramento, we are creating a positive space for community engagement, enrichment, and recreation.

As the youth of Sacramento, we are concerned about the amount of trash in our streets.

But together we can make a difference by raising awareness and increasing access to public trash cans, we can build a cleaner city.

So congratulations and really good work on a great topic that's important to keeping Sacramento clean and keeping our waterways clean, like you said, it goes somewhere and we can all make a big difference.

So uh first we have Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Um a couple of you are part of my district one youth.

Um and I know a couple more live in district one, but if you live in Netomas, um my pledge is let's get a one youth cleanup and you can invite all of uh your fellow uh Project Noor uh members and let's find a park or two because I do this every year, but I would love a one youth uh led so uh I know who you guys are, so I'll have Geo follow up and let's get something scheduled of a park that we can clean.

How's that sound?

Thank you.

And honestly, I want that video.

Do we get links of these videos?

Because I want I want to post that that video and and I I echo what the vice mayor says that I think uh you know public works does some good videos, but you might rival it.

Thank you.

Councilmember Vang.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Um, great job.

Uh I think you know, one of the most sentimental responsibility of a city government is to keep our neighborhoods clean and safe and welcoming.

Um and this is probably one of the top issues that we hear uh from all of our districts.

Um and so great job on selecting the topic, and something I just want to share with all of you that was in the queue uh is that district two, district five, district six, and district eight.

We actually uh have a council proposal uh to address um and to call out for a gap analysis on what we could be doing to actually address um illegal dumping in the city of Sacramento.

Um and so uh I felt like when I was listening to your presentation, a lot of it actually aligns with the council proposal that um I think went through law and ledge.

So, for example, the call for more signage and visibility absolutely is an alignment with our proposal, and it's something that we are also um gonna be directing our city manager uh to work with um our solid waste department to figure out what we can do uh to make sure that we increase signage.

I know that this year, um every year I do uh a hard heart and hustle scholarship, and every year we have a different different prompt, and this year was actually about illegal dumping.

Um and one um one of the main theme that came from the Heart and Hustle Scholarship around illegal dumping that I heard from young people is that there is a shared responsibility among the entire community.

And so what I loved about the PSA is that it is in utmost alignment with that.

Yes, we have 311, let's report it.

If you see something, say something, but it also starts with if you see something like picking up the garbage, right?

Um, and that it's a shared responsibility.

And so um, I thought a really great job on the presentation.

Also, again, to all of the groups.

Love it that you had over a hundred plus uh response uh on your survey.

Um and I think what was surprising, surprising but not surprising was that in your survey, I think it was 80 percent of people didn't know what the 311 app was, which means that as a city uh entity, we have to do a better job uh at sharing the information about 311 and the app and uh appreciate the feedback on that.

The app is a little complicated.

There's like several steps until you actually report it, which is true.

I probably just haven't memorized because I'm I'm that councilwoman that walks the dog, but when I see a legal dumping, I take a photo of it and I report it.

Um but I really appreciate that feedback because maybe there's got to be a quicker way uh to go through the app and to report the legal dumping so it's not like four or five clicks, because by the time you get there, you don't you're just like okay, why why am I doing this, right?

Um so appreciate that feedback as well.

Um and yeah, just great job.

Uh excellent presentation, excellent PSA, and you all should be really proud of yourself.

So great job.

And and then Councilmember Dickinson.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

Well, all the presentations have have been um terrific, but this one I was uh was uh especially interested in when I saw what you all were focusing on in a little bit because of what Councilmember Vang mentioned that three of us, including uh including uh the uh district two uh have initiated an uh effort to focus more of what we're doing on uh addressing illegal dumping uh in the city.

And as I think as as you have aptly pointed out, uh one piece of litter doesn't stay singular, does it?

It grows, uh, unless it's addressed.

But uh I I think we can take a good bit of the work you've done and incorporate that into the message we're we're trying to communicate to to the residents of the city because actually this this really starts with all of us.

Um it starts it uh like so many things it starts with with prevention, with not taking the first step, with not littering in the first place, with with being with a friend who's gonna drop that plastic water ball bottle or that wrapper from the burger on the street and say, Don't do that.

There's a there's a garbage can right over there, save it for for that.

Uh and and um you know I'm struck by the fact that that in many ways recycling, what we do in recycling today began because of young people saying to their elders, their parents and other adults hey, don't throw that away when you can recycle it.

That was really a movement in many ways driven driven by young educating older people about what they can and should be doing.

I think this is so ripe for the same kind kind of approach.

If if you all and your contemporaries are saying to each other and to older people, don't throw that stuff over there, put it in the can, then we can we can I think make this a much cleaner city and a much better world.

So thank you very much for all you've done and brought to us tonight.

One more round of applause for the group.

Good job, thank you.

Thank you, Project Noir.

And our final presentation is Sacramento Youth for Change.

Good evening.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Jasmeet Garchima, and I am a rising junior at Natoma Specific Pathways Rev High School, and I currently reside in District 1.

And I'm the peer mentor for the Cardinals.

Good evening again, City Council.

My name is Nafisa Mahmoud.

I'm a rising freshman at Sierra College, and I reside in District 1, and I am the float peer mentor for the Cardinals.

My name is Jashrod Singh Banway.

I'm a rising junior at NP3 High School, and I reside in District 3.

My name is Malik Ali.

I'm a rising sophomore at Endercom High School, and I currently reside in District 3.

My name is Aaron Meuther.

I'm a rising senior at West Campus High School, and I currently reside in District 6.

My name is Jermaine Lester.

I am a rising sophomore, and I attend John F.

Kennedy High School and I currently reside in District 8.

My name is Ohara Lee.

I'm a rising junior at MP3 High School and I reside in District 1.

My name is Amari Howarne.

I'm a rising sophomore at NP3 High School and I reside in District 3.

My name is Arn Ganagaria.

I'm a rising sophomore at Miriloma High School and I reside in District 1.

My name is Nunia Mohammed.

I am a rising junior at MP3 High School and I reside in District 3.

My name is Jimena Villes.

I am a rising senior at Andrecum High School, and I currently reside in District One.

My name is Genesis Valencia.

I am a rising sophomore at Grant Ewing High School, and I currently reside in District 2.

My name is Mahi Modi.

I'm a rising sophomore at MP3 High School, and I reside in District 1.

My name is Harney Clare.

I'm currently a senior, rising senior at Granite Bay High School, and I currently reside in District One.

Hello, Mayor and City Council.

Our group, the Cardinals, has spent a month researching and compiling info on the issue of youth violence and its link to poor mental health.

Today it culminates in this presentation where we will share what we found and what we propose to cut the problem at its root.

Throughout this presentation, you'll learn about SAC Youth for Change, our project dedicated to spreading awareness for the programs funded by Measure L, as well as bringing back the Youth Voice Survey.

To start off our presentation, we will describe the problem in further detail and speak on what our suggested solution is.

As we move further in, we will this we will uh discuss awareness on the things that have already been put in place, present statistics obtained from our own survey, and finally show our PSA video and promotional material.

Now I'll pass it on to Jermaine.

This is a citywide issue, and we need to support all neighborhoods affected by poverty, so our youth have the access to the support what they need.

And I'll be passing it on to Mahi.

Adding on to that, the city already funds a handful of youth programs and mental health.

But actually, accessing these programs can be the issue from a youth perspective.

When these programs exist, barriers such as youth violence, I mean barriers such as transportation, limited availability, and complicated instructions can prevent youth from getting the help they deserve.

When youth aren't connected with the available support, the gap between these resources and youth grows and youth grows, which over time increases the risk for youth violence in our community, which is what we are trying to prevent.

Now I'll be passing it on to Himena and Amari to hear about Measure L funding.

Currently, Measure L are only funding three programs are for youth violence and 12 programs for mental health.

But the youth that we survey do not know that these programs are being funded.

Measure L is supposed to fund youth programming, but a youth like myself had a hard time navigating through the website.

When trying to find information on the website, I noticed that it was not accessible and easy as it should be.

Especially when it comes to youth wanting to find these specific programs.

Additionally, Measure L funded a total of 17,924,460, which is a large amount of money.

However, most of the youth that we surveyed weren't aware that the city was funding these programs.

This is why SAC Youth for Change has created two solutions.

And now Genesis will go more in depth about these solutions.

First, we recommend increasing awareness of youth violence prevention programs funded by Measure L and updating the Measure L website with current information about available programs and resources.

Our second solution is to reopen the Sacramento Youth Commission Youth Voice Survey and have staff from the mayor's office review the responses on a quarterly basis.

Now I'll hand it over to Just Raj to explain the benefits of these solutions.

So what do these solutions actually deliver?

Three things.

First, our youth gain awareness of existing programs that can generally help them out, such as the programs funded by Measure L.

Second, they go from being isolated to go to generally feeling uh supported and heard.

And lastly, we bridge the gap between city leaders and the youth, building realastic civic engagement.

Now I'll be passing it on to Nuria and Aryan.

We created this survey in an effort to demonstrate the effects of mental health and to raise awareness about youth violence prevention and to receive feedback on how violence affects the youth.

We received responses from 111 respondents across various age groups.

The largest group of respondents being from the ages 16 to 18 years, making 49.2% of all responses.

The second to largest group was 13 to 15 years, making 36.7% of all responses.

The wide range of ages allowed us to gather different perspectives from youth at different stages of life.

First, we wanted to get an idea an idea of what the youth were going through.

We gathered that over half of our audience said that they presented with symptoms that included feeling stressed, being irritable, withdrawing from friends, and more.

The survey results show that youth violence is a concern in our community, with 54.1% of respondents saying that they have heard of or experienced violence in the last six months.

Additionally, 95.5% rated mental health as the biggest contributor to youth violence.

These results highlight the connection between youth violence and mental health, building the stronger need for prevention efforts.

Through these results and question five, we can see that the youth feel that mental health awareness is important, but unfortunately, almost no one knows about the available resources.

As highlighted in question six, over 96% of the respondents didn't know about the programs funded by Measure L.

Now I'll be passing it on to AHAT to talk about our PSA video.

On the next slide, we have our PSA video that shows how spreading awareness on youth violence prevention programs and connecting with city leaders can help people experiencing violence.

Yeah, I can't believe they don't like each other.

They used to be such good friends.

I know, right?

Actually, it's because AHA's running lies about Germany, seeing that he has no money.

That's why he gives it aggressive with everyone in his parents.

Well, look.

Are you ready?

I didn't even know.

Hey guys, break it up.

Principal office now.

This is the fifth time in a row.

When were you guys ever stop?

He started with me.

Stop talking.

You guys are suspended for a whole week.

Yeah.

You're easy to be guys to sneak.

Again?

I'm telling you guys, this isn't the way.

I agree.

You guys should try what helped us.

We used to um we used to hate each other, but now we became the best at friends.

What help you guys?

But the programs for youth violence that measure outs.

I found out about it from SAC Youth for Change.

You should check that out.

That's not all, they could address any issues that you have to the city council as well.

If you go to the youth voice survey on the City of Sacramento website, then you could voice your concerns to the city council.

Thank you.

Still got suspended.

Maybe I should check out a youth volume prevention program.

Thank you for watching.

Now I'll pass it on to Harney to share some of our material marketing ideas.

To further advertise the PSA video in our initiative, we have created proposed versions of the Flyer Stickers, Buns, and logo.

Marketing materials connect to the main objective of spreading awareness of Measure L and different programs that are not well known and therefore are less accessible.

The Flyer is a main point of advertisement that adds QR code links to the website of Measure L to look specifically at to divide funding in Sacramento County.

This allows youth and parents to access the different programs and resources quickly.

Moving on, the stickers are additional advertising products that are meant to educate youth and bridge the gap between mental health root cause and stemic youth violence.

And now I will hand it off to Aha to talk about our social media.

This is a mock up of our Instagram page which we created a spread awareness about youth violence and mental health.

We chose Instagram because it's one of the apps that we use the most every day.

People can easily interact through our stories, reels, comments, and share them with friends.

By using the app that most of us are already on, we have a better chance of spreading to more of our peers and making a bigger impact.

Now I'll pass it on to Aaron to close this out.

Thank you for listening to our presentation.

We hope we've appropriately demonstrated the importance of spreading awareness for these programs as well as youth mental health in general.

Great job, Cardinals.

Do we have council member comments?

Looks like Councilmember Vang.

Thank you.

I just wanted to thank uh the last group.

Great job on the presentation.

Um, you know, something I often share, and I love your group title, Sacramento Youth for Change is that young people will have to inherit a world that they didn't create, right?

And oftentimes um it is up to young folks to really shape the future.

Um and really appreciate you all uh centering this topic in particular, uh, because we do know that youth violence uh have actually uptick in our city.

Um and I also appreciate you all centering Measure L.

And I've been taking notes as well that um Measure L funding uh is set aside uh for young people impacted by poverty, violence, and trauma, but the program can only be successful if we're making sure that young people who are impacted by poverty, violence, and trauma can actually access those services, right?

And um really appreciate you all sharing that.

And I was just looking on the website, just Google City of Sacramento Youth Programming and saw under Measure L that um the page is really meant for nonprofits to apply for funding for Measure L, but we should also uh be more intentional about um maybe listing nonprofits funded by Measure L for young people to access those resources too.

And so uh really appreciate you highlighting that, and I think that's a direction I'm gonna be providing the city managers to follow up with our Yipsey department on that.

The other piece I haven't seen yet, it's probably because we're in year I won't say year one or year two in implementation of Measure L.

Uh, we did this for Measure U, but we haven't done this for Measure L, and so I'm just gonna look at the city manager.

Um, I know that there are youth programming by the city of Sacramento that's funded by Measure L.

And then there are also nonprofits that uh get Stoller for Measure L and do programming as well.

I think it'd be important to make sure, just like um I remember a few years ago when there were services um at the Pennell Center, it would say funded by Measure Yill.

I think we need to make sure that like dollars that are um funded by Measure L is notated, so I just wanted to flag that.

I think as I was listening to the youth presentation, I think that's really important because those are taxpayer dollars, voters voted for it, and we want to make sure that the public knows um how the dollars are being spent.

So, even something more visible, like I saw the stamp that you all had of like making sure that we label programs in terms of their being funded by Measure L is really important.

Like that just came up right now, and I was like, we should do that in the city of Sacramento when there's a nonprofit funded by Measure L.

They should put that on their flyers when they're advertising to our young people when we're pushing out programming in the city of Sacramento, funded by Measure L.

We should notate that in our flyers.

And so I just want to say thank you uh for sharing that because I'm gonna be looking at the city manager to make sure that that happens.

Um then lastly, I just want to say thank you for you know picking this topic as a topic that's really heavy, and we know that some are still in session, and um, when our young people don't um have access to resources and opportunities, uh they may turn to other alternatives.

And so I think this topic is really important and just really want to say great job.

Really proud of this.

Um really proud of this group, and um I know that this is the last group, but my last comment is I also want to take a moment to thank the peer mentors as well.

Um, because I know that you are all part of Summer at City Hall and you came back to uh work with your peers.

So thank you so much for coming back.

Um, and also to Chris and um the entire staff at Yep C for their uh incredible work.

I know there's a lot of heart and hustle um that happens behind the scene uh to keep this program going.

And so really just want to take this moment to center city staff as well.

Um I know usually also we have educators, teachers as our that's part of Summer City All, so want to thank the educators as well.

But great job overall.

Um, and want to thank city staff um and the team for all the hard work to make this program possible.

So great job.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Thank you.

Um I just want to ditto what Councilmember Vang said, and then also uh city manager.

I think it's something we need to talk about because what I keep hearing consistently from our youth is they can't navigate and they can't find it.

So it could also be something that we as adults look at and go, oh, we're good.

But we also have a Sacramento Youth Commission.

Are they looking in is the website navigable from the youth perspective?

Because if the youth if we have this information and the youth are saying they don't understand it or they can't find it, how can we look at it and make our website more user-friendly?

But I'll also echo the funded my measure you, funded my measure L uh for the nonprofits that we do, and even so much on measure L that we have a link of when it says fet uh funded by so that you guys can click on it and then you actually see the program, which makes it easier um for what we can do.

And I know there are plenty of smart people that can help um don't ever make me do technology, but smarter than I that can figure that out.

But I think that's something I I consistently hear amongst the the all of the groups is that how can we make things more easy to navigate and understand and find the services that you guys are looking for?

So um great job in what you guys are doing, and also don't forget when you go back to school, work with your school counselors on a lot of this because they may have that information as well that then you can help them.

How do we get it out to your peers um as a different way to make sure we can address uh youth violence?

But job well done.

Thank you.

How about a final round of applause for the Cardinals?

And then while City staff comes up, I want to remind members of the audience the City of Sacramento has a YouTube channel.

So I saw a couple of parents trying to take videos.

Um please t check out our YouTube channel and share it wide and far.

So staff, do we have final comments?

I do have one speaker um in the audience, Hassan Badran.

Is Hassan here?

I don't see Hassan, so I didn't have no public comment on this item, Mayor.

I just wanted to make sure that you're okay.

Thank you.

So we see no action, right?

Correct.

Okay.

Thank you.

So thank you to city staff.

Uh I know that's a lot of work and um to the students that did a great job.

So mayor and council, would we be able to take a photo with all of you along with our participants?

Would that be okay?

Yes.

Everybody in the front right here.

Yes, thank you.

Please do thank you.

So, Mayor, we now move on to the second item on our agenda.

I want to remind members of the audience if you wish to speak or submit comments, please fill out the online form.

There's a QR code at the back of the room and handouts in the front.

Members of the city clerk's office are also available in the lobby to assist.

You'll have two minutes to address the council, may speak on up to four items, and the timer is displayed on the screen behind me.

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

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

Members of the public are asked to observe the rules of decorum.

Council rules of procedure outline decorum expected in the chambers and can be found on our website and the copies in the back of the room.

For instance, for use of swear words yelling from the audience, physically threatening conduct and displays of disrespect are discouraged.

So hopefully the presentation uh will be uh enlightening and will also present some uh good ideas for our future.

I'm Leslie Fritschie with the Office of Innovation and Economic Development.

I'm here to present to you an opportunity, an opportunity to fill a hole in the Nathomas community by presenting a resolution of intention to form an enhanced infrastructure financing district for the sleep train arena site.

This is just the first step in the process.

The council approved a plan unit development in 2022 for the 183-acre site that became known as Innovation Park.

The then landowners, SPH Natomas LLC, a subsidiary of the Kings, proposed a vibrant mixed-use project that was divided into three districts.

A life district was primarily residential, a innovation district that can be confined both residential and commercial mixed use, kind of shown in that orange color, and then the blue, which was a health district, which was focused on a head of a hospital and a medical campus.

This health district and all of Innovation Park would be anchored by a catalytic economic development project, a new California North State University Hospital.

Envisioned to be somewhere between 350 and 400 beds.

This patient hospital would be a teaching hospital and part of CNU's portfolio of medical facilities.

This facility was estimated to be about 1.5 billion and present a number of job opportunities throughout the area.

This would be the first hospital in the north area increasing health care for all of Natomas and the region.

The Kings and CNU then approached the city to form an EIFD for Innovation Park to assist with the significant amount of infrastructure needed to build out this vacant site.

Just the backbone roads.

An EIFD allows the use of the tax increment generated within a district to be used for public infrastructure or facilities within the district, or if they're outside the district, the projects have to have a tangible connection to the work or mission of the district.

The action today does not commit the city to providing any funds from the EIFD.

There's a long process ahead.

But the resolution before you tonight states that there would be there would not be any reimbursement for public infrastructure until there is vertical construction of the catalytic economic development project, one like the CNU project that I just described.

A catalytic economic development project is defined for now as having a minimum of 350,000 square feet or an amount determined by you as council.

It develops our targeted industries or tradable sectors, has a significant number of high-paying jobs, and materially increases the revenue for the city.

This definition and this condition is something that the council can elect to amend or change at any time.

The step tonight, the resolution of intention to form the EIFD, is only the first step in a process.

There'll be public meetings and a two public hearings before the EIFD governing board, which is known as a public finance authority, and will return to council with the infrastructure financing plan.

A snapshot of the dates ahead is shown here.

The formation of the Public Finance Authority, potentially by mid-October, a draft infrastructure financing plan by the end of October, council approval of that plan, potentially in January of next year, and the EIFD formation, if it follows this track, would occur early in 2027.

So I'd like to thank the city team because I'm here alone, but I have many colleagues with me that I want to just take a moment to thank.

Eric Frederick and Cini Makassini of the Finance Department and Jeff Massey of our City Attorney's Office for getting us thus far.

So that concludes my very high-level presentation.

Staff's open to your questions and comments.

We can do them now or after public comments.

So thank you very much.

Public comment first.

Public comment.

Perfect.

First speaker is Hassan Badron.

I don't see Hassan.

Jeff Dorso, then Kevin Fiera, then Doyle Radford.

Is Jeff here.

I'll keep reading.

Doyle Radford.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

Jeff Dorso, Kevin Fiera, Doyle Radford, John Rector, John Hershey.

Please proceed.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council members.

Thank you for the time.

This has been a long process as was shared by staff and Leslie Fritchie.

We've been here for 13 years to get to this point to get to today.

And this is one of the key fundamental questions that has been facing Natomas and the city.

It's the largest redevelopment project currently in the city that's ready to go forward.

And two years ago, we passed a term sheet as staff mentioned with a lot of great leadership from people in this room, and I would be remiss not to recognize Councilmember Kaplan and Vice Mayor Talamantes for their leadership and assistance over the years to get us to this point.

This is really something that's transformational for the community.

So the staff report mentioned that the release of funds is limited to vertical construction of an EIFD project.

That will effectively stop development on the project.

It will stop the investment of approximately 150 million dollars of backbone infrastructure in the site and will effectively stop the C and U project and the jobs that we have planned for that, high quality construction jobs.

With that, I'd like to also recognize the building trades.

A lot of the members are here.

These are people who are going to be working on this project and the C and U project if we move forward.

But again, with the language that's been provided, it's gonna kill the project.

So I don't think that's anyone's intent.

And everyone in this room, I think has been working hard to amend the language and come up with something that that achieves the results.

So again, uh with input and hard work from from council members, the mayor, everyone here.

We took that input and thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Kevin, then Doyle.

Kevin Ferrer, Executive Director of the Sacramento Sierra Building and Construction Trades Council.

Uh who we are is we're an organization of 21 unions representing 30 apprenticeship programs.

And what we do is we put people to work.

And for us, anything outside of that, we will be highly opposed to.

As I follow up with uh with what Jeff was just saying about the city's proposal, it will kill the project.

It will kill thousands of jobs for construction workers, and then the permanent jobs in the medical facilities.

Now we have been good partners with the city and putting people to work.

And I would like to continue that and partner with the city, but there is not another project that that's coming around here for the city to replace those lost jobs if this goes the wrong way.

We asked for your support to do the right thing, put people to work.

That's what people are asking for.

And so with that, thank you so much.

Next speaker is Doyle Radford, then John Rector.

Uh oh.

All right.

Uh good evening, uh Mayor McCarty, respected council.

Uh I echo what uh my colleague says.

I'm Doyle Radford, business manager and elected leader of construction labor's local 185.

We're roughly 6,000 members strong, actually a north of that number.

We're growing.

And we're growing because we've been proudly building this community since 1929.

Um that development happened, and we we did this wild thing, we brought the kings to town, that changed that area, and it grew that area, and it was an anchor.

The kings were great, and we all grew and thrived because of it.

Um like my colleague Kevin says, we're proud of this building trades, but we don't see another project that anchors the community like the CNU hospital does.

And we're in agreement with the Kings.

We need to build a catalyst project that just does just that.

It grows the community.

We're gonna proudly build whatever you put there, but there is no other project that will make this community thrive that will generate those type of jobs where I can send my kids off to school and they'll come back there and they'll work good jobs that'll support this community and rise it up.

And and while we're building it, I'll I'll go on extra.

So we're gonna build that with local members.

And there is no project that puts more local members to work that we see in the future than that project, the C and U hospital.

And the EIFD, that that infrastructure financing district is a crucial component.

So we need to do that, and our members will gladly put in that infrastructure, but to support the hospital as is, and uh once we start building it, I'd open up our doors and hopefully we get some of those sporting oranges as they come back, and they want to help us build this community.

So that's all we have to say, and uh, we're gonna build it, but we want to see that plan as presented by our friend Mr.

Dorsey.

Next speaker is John Rector, then John Hershey, then Todd Shavo.

John Rector.

Hey, good evening, Mayor, Council members, John Rector with operating engineers local three, representing about 4,500 members in the region.

We definitely want to see the EIFD as proposed by the Kings moving forward.

We want to see the innovation park actually become something.

It's been sitting vacant and dormant for too long.

We have a lot of local members that are looking for good local work.

If you're not aware, the economy is slowing, interest rates are high, gas is high, it's affecting the cost of construction.

Developers aren't putting a lot of money into our community right now, and this project is crucial.

We need those jobs, we need those opportunities, and I'd like to yield the rest of my time back to Jeff.

Thank you.

Um we can't yield time back to another uh speaker.

Um Mr.

Dor, you've already spoken.

Next speaker is John Hershey, then Todd Shavo.

All right, good evening, uh Council members and mayor.

My name is John Hershey, and I'm here on behalf of UA Local 447 Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, which is affiliated with the Sacramento Sierra's Building and Construction Trades Council.

Um, you know, we have a saying with the plumbers union that we protect the health of the nation.

And to that point, I want to talk, you know, a little bit about you know, we all went through COVID, right?

How there was a shortage of beds, there was um makeshift temporary bed facilities being built all over the place.

And even though we've learned to live with COVID at this point, it's become less of an emergency.

There's nonetheless still remaining lurking, you know, issues that could be coming about.

Like we've had the scare with Hontavirus or with uh cyclosoriasis popping up now, and we're also in a situation where the Federal Government is deregulating, killing these regulatory agencies that prev do the prevention needed, and so it just makes the uh the actual infrastructure necessary to to help take deal with these issues more important.

Sorry for the doom and gloom.

Um, you know, we are in support of the creation of an EIFD that brings a teaching hospital to the North area because it not only fills a gap but also is a massive economic driver.

It only makes sense that this EIFD happens as such because the Health Resources and Services Administration also shows that California alone is short 37,000 health care professionals.

And so with this EIFD with the CNU hospital and our members, we can help to fix this.

And with that, we hope you take that into consideration.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Todd Shavo, then Lynn Lindsay.

Good evening, respected council and mayor.

My name is Todd Schiabo.

I am the business manager of UA 447 Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, and also the president of the building trades.

At this time, I would like to ask all the affiliates of the building trades and the crowd to please stand up.

You've heard the obvious reasons why the C and U hospital is very important to us, obviously, the jobs, but um, like some others have stated, it's gonna be a huge economic driver for the region.

And you know, I personally I can't get a doctor's appointment or or see a specialist for you know three to six months, and I would say that there's a shortage of doctors, nurses, and that the CNU uh teaching hospital is going to produce more of those, which is greatly needed.

Also, there is not a hospital on this side of the river, which C and U is is gonna be a vital asset in in the district.

Um it's going to put a lot of people to work, not just for construction jobs, but there's going to be custodial jobs, clerical jobs, sales jobs, all kinds of jobs, and this is just going to be a huge economic driver.

So I stand here in strong support of an EIFD for the CNU project only.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Lynn Lindsay, then Questin Stallion, then Marian Martin.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council.

My name is Lynn Lindsay, 24-year resident of North Nothomas and current president of the Notomas, the North Nathomas Community Coalition.

I am here to express NNCC's support for the resolution of intention to establish an EIFD for Innovation Park.

Notomas has waited a long time and come a long way toward the establishment of meaningful development of the old arena site.

183 acres that has the potential to be an economic driver for the Notomas and the city.

The City King's deal for a new downtown arena was inked in 2014, included a term sheet stipulating that in an employment center and economic engine will replace the old facilities.

Once the PUD to create innovation park that included economic and employment opportunities was presented, the community rallied and supported every step of the way to help get us to this point.

EIFDs are used and currently in place for large-scale development that include the rail yards and Aggie Square.

The EIFD for Innovation Park is equally important as the city works to grow its economy before beyond state government.

This EIFD includes many safeguards that have been put in place that stipulate that any new project, a catalytic economic development project, must result in high-paying jobs, increase revenue to the city, and provide a stimulus for additional investments before receiving reimbursement from the EIFD.

Protecting the city, taxpayers, and Notomas.

Your vote to establish the EIFD continues the fulfillment of the Notomas promise that began with the adoption of the 1994 North Notomas Community Plan.

It set forth a new direction for development to bring apployment acres connecting residents to quality jobs.

I guess I'm a little confused.

I thought we were just here to talk about the EIFD and getting it passed, that we weren't here to talk about any specific project.

This is the an important step.

Thank you for listening.

Our next speaker is Questin Stallion.

Marian Martin and Red Baines.

Question Marian.

Red.

Did I get Marianne Baines?

Marian Martin, then Red Baines.

Hi, I'm Red Baines.

I'm here speaking for the project.

We really need this in North Natomas.

We had uh promises given to us.

Uh Centine was going to make a world of difference and bringing on all the jobs.

Unfortunately, we had a pandemic which sort of canceled that out.

I live right between Centine and the old um arena.

And this is something that you know we were promised, and we I know promises can't be kept in all cases, but this is something that is so important to our community.

I'm a board member for my condo board there.

And people are are living there and wondering what what is going on here.

This has been successfully started, you know, it with the UC Davis hospital.

It has been used before in the city, and I think this is an a deserving need that we have for our community.

And I thank you for your consideration and your yes vote.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Marian Martin.

But before we go, Marian, can I remind members of the audience I need you to take your seats per fire marshal?

You cannot stand in the aisleway.

Thank you.

Marion and then Anthony.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Mario Martin.

I'm here with uh PWT, people working together in support of the E I F D uh proposal.

We hear that you guys are building new buildings, roads, and just infrastructure in general.

Um we need that in Sacramento.

Um that lot is vacant.

North uh Sacramento needs a hospital uh pretty desperately.

There's not one in that area.

And uh, yeah, we'd like it if you guys would support that.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Anthony Viscuzo, then Robert Cooks.

And um again, anyone standing the aisles, please take your seats.

These reserve seats are also available.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Anthony Viscuso, and I'm a business agent for Local 16 Heat and Frost Insulators.

Um, and I too am gonna just echo the sentiment already been said by the building trades.

Um, but one interesting thing, I noticed we had a bunch of young people here this morning uh earlier look talking about trying to find a job and what a great opportunity.

So um again, I just want to echo what the what the building trades have already said and keep it short.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Robert Cooks, Kevin Brown, Thomas Fayola.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council members and staff.

Uh, appreciate you allowing me to come and speak today.

My name's Robert Cooks with the Sheetmetal Workers Local 104.

I represent over 800 sheet metal workers in the greater Sacramento area.

Um we're here to support the EIFD for the CNU project.

I'm gonna echo all the words that were said before me uh by my fellow Sacramento building trades partners.

Uh it's gonna be a very important project for the area.

It's gonna be an economic driver.

We need these jobs, this work, and this project.

Uh thank you very much for your time.

Respectfully request you vote in favor.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Kevin Brown, Thomas Viola, Cynthia Brown.

Good evening to the mayor and to our council members, Kevin Brown, people working together.

I am a Natomas resident of 26 years, and I have been privy to just watching these anticipated promises and all these things.

But we rose because we strongly support the IFD uh consistent with the building trades and the Kings.

And I will also digress to 2015 when we uh started the Golden One Arena as a person that's uh set on the steering committee uh with Kevin Pierre, and we then started a partnership uh from a community-based organization to help us uh with the CWT of the City of Sacramento and other CWTAs to specifically and intentionally go after young people, impacted groups and things of this magnitude.

What we discovered was that the G1 was such a drawing element to other ancillary employment opportunities that we really recognize that we needed projects to the scale of a CNU type catalyst that not only would stimulate uh economic mobility for that particular region, but there were many other jobs uh besides the construction and building trades that we anticipate uh would greatly enhance our community there in uh Natomas.

And so we strongly support that.

We uh uh look forward with great anticipation to us figuring out how we can aggregate and utilize this catalyst to aggregate the CTE programs in the Thomas School District that we have a CWTA in, and we can bring it all under one umbrella and meet these needs of these emerging people.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Thomas Viola, then Cynthia Brown, Dean Dion Abril, 11 more speakers.

Good evening, Council members members, uh Mayor.

Uh my name is Thomas Viola, and I'm a member of the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 104, uh, an affiliate of the Sacramento Sierras Building Trade Council.

Um I stand here today in support of the EIFD for the construction of the CNU project only.

Uh thank you for your time.

Short and simple.

Thank you.

Cynthia Brown, then Dion.

Hello, good evening.

Um, Mayor, City Council members.

Um, thank you for the opportunity.

Um I'm Cindy Brown.

Um I hold many uh roles.

One is uh 26-year member of Notomas, Notomas area.

We've seen it grow, and I sat there and watched as ground was being broken, and we picked our our lot.

Um and so we've seen uh the area grow.

Uh we were supposed to have this huge regional park that did not happen.

Um I'm glad to see that this is on the table uh for EIFD Innovation Park.

I'm glad to see that there is another chance to get economic development going in Sacramento.

I stand here also as uh a mother, a grandmother.

I now I have to say grandmother, of those who are uh matriculating even out of high school.

Um the students that that uh talked here today.

It was very important to make opportunities for them as they come out of school.

Um many are choosing the trades, many are choosing health care, and they're able to come out, and we need a pathway for them.

I stand here as a PWT uh executive as well, people working together, and we make opportunities for those in communities that are in underserved uh areas, or those just coming out for their first chance or second or tenth chance to be able to come in and we need those jobs.

We need those opportunities to be able to provide those pathways.

I stand in strong support for this EAFD.

Um I'd hate to see this come to a halt because of the order of operations in which uh money is made available.

So um I hope the city council would uh act accordingly.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Dion Abril, then Jaime Torres, then Lionel Um Barrigan.

Good evening, Council members.

Um my name is Deanna Braille Jr.

I am a member of the She Metal Workers Local Union 104, and I am which is also an affiliate of the Sacramento Sierras Building Trades Council.

Uh I'm here in support of the EIFD for the construction of the CNU project and only the CNU project.

Thank you.

Next speaker's Jaime Torres, Lionel Berrigan, then Talia Hutton.

Hello, Mayor and Council.

Um Jaime Torres, member of Local 185, and proud to be an affiliate of the Sacramento Sierra Building Building Trades Council.

Also a resident of um District 3, north of the um American River.

One of the issues that we have is that Northgate actually floods.

That's one of the access to many of the hospitals that are in the city.

So not only myself, my family, my loved ones, but also my neighbors and um over 500 families that are members of my union are actually affected directly by this.

We need a catalyst as a hospital for public safety, for the concerns and the realities that everybody exposed to day in and day out.

This EAFD will secure the public safety of our of the Sacramento residents.

Every one of us that lives in that neighborhood, the county residents that live in um Sacramento County are also um would be assisted by this, and this would be a definite catalyst that will continue to engage and give the possibility for our youth and many other members to actually have a decent living and actually be injected into the working middle class.

So thank you very much for your consideration.

Thank you for your uh patience and the augmentation of time that we've given you.

And I would like to yield the rest of my time.

Lionel Barrigan, then Talia Hutton, then Mark Klubel.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council members.

Uh, my name is Lionel Berrigan.

I'm with uh Labor's Local 185 and with the Sacramento Building Trades and a 25-year resident of uh Not Thomas belonging to District 3.

I'm in support of this uh Sacramento King's proposal to include the EIFD for the SNU project that's gonna create a lot of work and not only for the residents that live around Nothomas, but also for a lot of construction workers for great uh apprentices as well that are looking to get into the construction industry and not only look for it as a job but a career in the construction industry.

I strongly recommend you guys um pass this uh project.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker is Talia Hutton, then Mark Plubal.

Um good evening, city leaders.

Uh my name is Talina Hutton.

Uh my son and I are both graduates of the people working together apprenticeship program.

Um I also have a son who just graduated from Endercombe High School, who was also in the construction program there.

Um, and being able to live in the community where you work.

Um, I think that's very impactful.

I've been a resident of Anotomist for 23 years.

I'm also a teacher in the community.

Um, and I just think that that would mean a lot for not only the families that I serve, but also um the youth that are in the um community.

Um listening to this uh youth speaking tonight.

Um they were talking just uh piggyback on what the gentleman said earlier about having jobs that would create pathways not only for them, but also having that university hospital.

We would have not to go so far to an ER if we have an emergency in our community.

Um, there's a need for skilled trades positions due to a shortage, people um retiring.

Um and also Nathomas residents deserve uh what the opportunities and resources that this would bring.

So I hope that you guys would consider that and thank you for your time.

Thank you, Talina.

I have five more speakers.

Next is Mark Ploubel, then Empress Barner.

Good evening, Mayor, Council members.

My name is Mark Plubel.

I'm a representative of the Heat and Frost Insulators Local 16, Northern California in uh northwestern Nevada.

Uh I come here and I stand uh in solidarity with the my brothers and sisters of the Sacramento Sierra Building Trades.

Um and I'd like you to support an EIFD resolution that includes the CNU Anchor Project and only with the CNU Anchor Project.

This project will bring a multitude of good union construction jobs as well as continuous excellent paying jobs afterwards.

Um it'll also um supply us with much needed health care and uh please support the CNU, the building trades, the community health, and the Sacramento Finances.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Empress Barner, then Diana Maldonado, Empress Diana Maldonado, then Curtis Pollins, then Zybri.

Is Empress here?

No.

Okay, thank you.

And Diana Maldonado.

Good evening.

I'm here with people working together in Atomas Community Organization supporting the region.

Um here support uh Sacramento Building Trades and the Sacramento Kings.

Um I out of people working together.

Um recently joined the Sheet Metal 104.

Um this means the world to me as a single mom of four kids.

Um job opportunities is life-changing for me and pretty sure for a lot of Sacramento families.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Curtis Pollins.

Following Curtis is Zibri Yavrom.

Mayor, City Council members, uh thank you for giving me the opportunity.

I support the EIFD.

I hope you'll uh pass it as is tonight.

And um I'm a 24-year member of uh 24-year uh resident of District One in Notomas, and I'm a former uh vice chair of the active transportation commission, as well as I've sat on the boards of our of our local Westlake HOA.

And so um I've had a lot of community service, and and I think this is gonna be an amazing uh project for for not only Notomas but the entire city and the whole Sacramento region.

So I urge your support.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um Zybri.

I don't see movement from Ziber.

So, Mayor, that concludes the public comment on this agenda item.

Okay.

Do we have any phone calls?

I do not.

Do we have apparently we have a new system that I'm not familiar with yet?

Michael Blair.

Thank you for being patient with me.

And Dr.

Chung.

I have Michael Blair, Tyler Um Cariccher, Michael Bevins.

All right, hello, uh, mayor and council members.

I'm Michael Blair with People Working Together, and uh I'm in support of the EIFD and Sacramento Sierra Building Trades and the Sacramento Kings, and I don't have too much more to add.

You guys heard some great things tonight.

Um what we do at people working together is we get people ready, workforce ready to be able to go into construction.

So we we're great at what we do, but we can work as hard as we want, but without the projects, we're just spinning our wheels.

We graduated hundreds of students, some of them not working right now, and so Sacramento really needs this project.

Uh, this will be a big piece of the support of what we need to do what we need to do.

So I ask that you uh give favor and support the EIFD and give us a yes vote.

Thank you.

Tyler.

Good evening.

I'm Tyler Kircher uh here with the IBEW, local 340, representing over 2500 electricians in the Sacramento area.

Uh, we're here in support of the EIFD on the CNU project only.

That's it.

Thank you.

Good evening, City Council.

Excuse my tardiness.

I actually work in the trades, came directly from work, and I had to use the restroom.

So my name.

So my name Your name?

My name is Zebra Yavram.

Okay.

I want to start with.

I'm here with people working together, an Atomus community organization.

I am here in support of the Sacramento Building Trades, the Sacramento Kings, and the King's EIFD proposal.

People working together gave me the opportunity to springboard into a career in the building trades.

Today I'm a crane apprentice with Operating Engineers Local Three.

Building a brighter future for my children and myself while helping build a community we all call home.

I'm grateful for a hand up and not just a handout.

Programs like this are strengthening our workforce, which you can see behind me by developing skilled workers with heart.

We hope you'll support this proposal so opportunities like mine can continue expanding outreach, creating pathways into the trades, end up lifting both our current workforce and the next generation of skilled apprentices.

Together we can keep building stronger careers, stronger families, and a stronger community.

Thank you for your time.

Michael Bevins, then Carol Chapman, then Matthew Clegg, then Elizabeth Prey.

Good evening, Council.

I'm on Michael Bevins.

I live in District 2, so I'm nearby District 3 or District .

Yes, in my backyard.

Yes.

EIFD.

Yes, build it.

Sure.

Easy.

My only suggestion is that when you build it, how you build it is important also that we have in this space definitely mixed use.

If you have just a flood of houses, you're not going to generate sales revenue.

And if you have mixed use, you get sales revenue and residence.

My suggestion is establish, if you will, the basic housing unit and a basic storefront unit size.

And then if you are able to purchase like a condo situation or a storefront, you pay the same rate for that unit as if somebody buys 10,000 units of this area, like a big giant supermarket in the middle of the something.

That you're not going to give up the house by trying to entice an anchor store, if you will, in and then give them a big discount.

They should pay the same rate as someone else.

So hopefully the EIFD is the benefit that get people in that however the financial things work.

But don't go beyond that.

If some big store wants to come in, they pay the same rate as if somebody buys just a single unit.

So yes, in my backyard.

So have an area for schools plan.

Basically design this area as if it's a small little city.

And then have everything instead of a 15-minute city, it's all walkable.

Maybe you can have your five-minute city right in this neighborhood.

Anyway, keep that in mind, please, as you build in.

Thank you so much.

Carol Chapman, Matthew Clegg, then Elizabeth Pray.

I'm a resident in the Thomas, have been for over 20 years, and I support the project.

I think it's an excellent idea.

One, it'll be great.

It will increase our property values.

By my standards, I have a lot of money invested in a house.

Any country, you know, it's measured by the quality, you know, of its workforce, and this provides for that.

I think that's a great feature.

Um I think deserves, you know, some attention here is actually proceeding on the project and having success with it.

And I think Miss Kaplan over here, she is an attorney.

It is in her district.

Um she is very capable and she has the education and knows what to watch for, you know, as it proceeds.

I'm sure it will have, you know, some little bumps as it goes along.

I think that's to be anticipated.

But I think it's important to have, you know, somebody of that level of competence, you know, watching over what goes on.

So I appreciate that.

I have some time, just some history.

I was in um North Carolina last spring, and um they had a major problem in their community.

They had a brain drain.

And the city leaders got together and put together something like this and developed a research park.

It's called the triangle.

So it can be done.

They did have it and they did have success.

And if you walk around downtown Durham, um, you can see the success.

Um, they have retrofitted um old tobacco brick buildings and um smaller research companies do um occupy the space.

So I hope it does pass.

And I hope there's a lot of attention given to the procedures involved in getting it done, and it does have success.

My only reservation is I drive down the highway and I see this Centine project.

And repeatedly when I go.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Matthew Clegg.

Thank you, your time is complete.

Matthew Clegg, then Elizabeth Pray.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Elizabeth Pray, then Alvin Chung, then Chris Paros.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

Thank you so much for the opportunity.

I'm here.

I'm a this I'm Lisa Pray, or Elizabeth Pray on my driver's license.

I'm a 22-year resident of North Nathomas, and I'm here to give you the timeline that you've already heard from the perspective of somebody who lived in North Natomas throughout the entire time.

After that, the arena was closed for public performances, although it was rented out occasionally.

But those performances and opportunities provided an economic engine for our area, for our restaurant tours, for our hotels, for our shops.

It collapsed.

We had the promise, because everybody knew that would happen once the arena was moved downtown, that we would get an economic revenue driver.

So we waited until June of 2021, when California North State University announced their opportunity to build a hospital in North Natomas.

Excitement reigned.

It was fun to watch.

And then in July of 24, Argent Development purchased the land, Argent Development, which is an infrastructure development corporation.

That was really inspirational to those of us who lived there because we thought, ooh, things are going to happen because we knew we had to have the infrastructure.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Alvin Chung, Chris Paros, Jasmine Advinkola.

Good afternoon and good evening, depending on how long your work day is.

Honorable Mayor McCarty, honorable city members, and honorable city manager.

I'm Dr.

Alvin Chung, the president and CEO of California North State University.

With me today, two members of the Board of Directors, and also counsel to the Board of Director and also Council to the University.

I speak today to update the city that the university has invested over a hundred million into this hospital project year to date.

I speak in support of the EIFD.

And thank you for your consideration.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Chris Paros.

And Jasmine Advinkala.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

I'm Chris Paros.

I'm a 25-year-plus resident of Nathomas in various parts.

And I will try not to repeat a lot, but the bottom line is we it's been 10 years since Golden One Center opened.

It's been 12 years since North Natomas residents were promised economic compensation for the loss of the arena.

And as Lisa Prey wanted to tell you, we've got over 80,000 residents in North Natomas.

We have 1,834 businesses in North Natomas, and we have 33,060 employees all still waiting for this economic event engine for 12 years now.

So we urge you to approve this EIFD and get the ball rolling.

So we need a hospital.

We need this economic engine, and our whole North Natomas community plan was based on this vision of people living near their work.

And we're not designed for being a commute community.

So please approve this project, get this thing going so we can get our economic engine and our hospital, which we badly need.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Jasmine, then Omar Ghietto, and then Chris Greeny will be our final speaker.

Jasmine.

Please don't shout out from the audience.

Jasmine.

Good evening.

We need to get your attention with the Jazz.

Just a moment, Jasmine.

I would like to remember or remind members of the audience that you cannot speak out from the audience.

You're in violation of chapter 5 of the city council rules of procedure.

If you continue to speak out from the audience, you will be asked to leave the meeting.

Thank you.

So, Jasmine, it is your two minutes.

Please be respectful.

Jasmine.

But apparently it is for you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

My name is Jasmine Advancula with the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, and I'm here today to express our support for establishing the EIFD for the redevelopment of the former sleep train arena in North Nathomas.

This project represents an opportunity to transform a long vacant site into a vibrant community with housing, open space, a future school site and infrastructure improvements that benefit not only Natomas residents but the broader region.

For years, the former arena arena site has sat underutilized despite its tremendous potential.

The proposed redevelopment can bring new jobs, housing, economic activity, recreational opportunities, and much needed infrastructure improvements to North Natomas.

This project is about creating a new economic engine for Sacramento as the benefits of this investment will be felt for decades to come.

I appreciate the vision and collaboration that have gone into bringing this proposal forward, and I encourage you to support the EIFD so this important project can move forward.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Omar Guiato.

Following Omar is Chris Greene, who will be the final speaker on this item.

Okay.

Hello.

I will be giving the members of the city council the same level of respect that you give the community members who are brave enough to make their presence known in these city hall chambers.

As such, I will be addressing my community members, not our city council.

Every single community member has the right to be heard and feel safe in the city of Sacramento with infrastructure that ensures the city.

Please direct your comments towards the city council.

Unfortunately, the community the council behind me can't even dignify most of us with their full attention, and the fact that they have been caught red-handed discussing banning individuals from these chambers is quite frankly a disgusting mockery of their offices and the oaths that they swore to us.

I wish our public officials showed that much initiative and drive when it comes to supporting the public safety of our community members, regardless of their legal status, and banning fascist cowards from Sacramento that hide behind their titles of immigration officers, aka modern slave catchers.

Woo!

Having lived in Sacramento for a year and some change, I know that our community members right here will rise up and fight against tyranny that is taking hold of our country as you all have every single day outside of the John Moss Federal building, inside of these city council halls, and in these community members, communities themselves in Sacramento and across the nation.

You all are real life superheroes that will go down on the right side of history, and you all are truly protecting and developing the infrastructure of Sacramento with your advocacy.

The individual be the individuals behind us have the same opportunity to use their power, their positions of power to truly revamp the infrastructure of Sacramento to support all of its coinstituents, including our undocumented neighbors and houses individuals who are targeted by local law enforcement and ice.

These are real life examples.

There are real life examples of new in New York and Philadelphia of local officials who proudly stand with their communities and have stated abolish ice with their whole test and have revamped their city works to protect their community from ice rates.

These officials have openly stated Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Please take your seat.

Omar, I want to remind you the item before you is resolution of intention to establish the innovation park enhanced infrastructure financing district, establishing a public financing authority.

I want to remind members of the audience, please do not disrupt the orderly conduct with this proceedings by continuing to speak from the audience.

Please, I have one more speaker on this agenda item.

Okay, we we have Mayor, would you like to take a recess?

Listen to your constituents.

You want to talk and have conversations.

So, Mayor, we're gonna take a recess to maintain decorum in chambers.

Members of the public have continued to engage in conduct to disturb the orderly conduct of this meeting are in violation of the council rosa procedure.

Chapter 5 and Government Code Section 54947.9.

Therefore, the city council will take a brief recess that decorum and chambers can be established.

Sergeant in arms, please maintain decorum in chambers.

The council will return in 15 minutes.

Sergeant at arms, please maintain decorum in chambers.

Uh meeting.

We are continuing on item number two.

And we have two more uh public comments and then council deliberation.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Chris Greene, then Rick Locke.

Good evening, Council Mayor.

My name is Chris Granny.

I'm business manager of the Heat Frost Insulators and Allied Workers, Northern California.

I'm here to support and stand with the Sacramento building trades in support of the EIFD with the CNU project only.

We need more health services.

We need more jobs, we need more training, we need more training for medical medical folks out there.

And I don't think we need less.

And uh I stand in support of uh the EIFD with the CNU project involved.

Thank you.

Rick.

The amazing Rick is back.

Yay, good to see you all.

Thank you, Mayor and Council members, uh city manager.

Appreciate the opportunity to speak on this matter.

Um somebody whose first career was in the trades, I had the opportunity to do roofing.

And so I'm excited, there's all I get it.

Face you folks.

I'm very excited to see the trades here tonight, and they're speaking up and they're speaking their mind, and they're inviting you to participate.

And sounds like there's a constraint that I don't quite understand, but please move forward with us.

It would be great to see all this great construction work and the jobs and the business opportunities, because that was one of the main initiatives, right?

Is what can city council do to do develop business opportunities for the city of Sacramento, North Newtomas resident, district one, the amazing Rick.

Love you all.

Thank you.

Mayor, that concludes our public comment on item number two.

Thank you.

Okay.

So here we here's the time now for council deliberation.

So I know our our two Anotomas council members are punched up first, and certainly want to allow them to to uh opine and set the stage in history, but I just want to give some perspective from a citywide from the mayor's position.

And so uh just kind of what you said, Rick.

This is a big project for Natomas in Sacramento, and there's some um loose ends that we're trying to tie up.

So there's you know, there's there's multiple things that we're trying to figure out here.

One, how to focus on an area that's essentially now uh fallow and somewhat blighted with an absence of a tenant there for 13 years, um building a hospital there, which we've all embraced, and the council did in 2024 with their um with their term sheet uh um action item, uh focusing on a four billion dollar projects and hundreds, if not thousands of good paying jobs that are gonna, you know, help me working men and women in Sacramento, and also help help the city, Sacramento, um, you know, focus on our budget issues, focus on economic development, growing our economy.

Uh a few weeks ago we were here, unfortunately slashing um positions and and and uh basically programs from our city budget, and we want to do the opposite.

So this is an opportunity to grow.

But with that, we need to make crystal clear that by doing this and using this tool, it's not just some EIFD and money that comes from the Tooth Ferry in Santa Claus, it's your taxpayer dollars.

That's we need to be very, very wise that we make sure we get our bang for our buck.

We get our return on our investment.

So we need to make sure that we carefully adopt this principle before us and get a uh commensurate uh project that's worthy of us giving over 30, 40 years of property taxes for a big swath of land.

So this is why the details matter.

It's not just oh, just approve that and we'll just move on.

No, the details really matter in this.

So this is a big deal.

And and I I love that little video that Councilmember Maple put out yesterday.

If you didn't see it on her social media post about her her her memories of um the old Arco Arena.

So for those of you who aren't from Sacramento, this this was where Sacramento was, you know, first started growing.

Um I remember I was a teenager, I was a junior in high school when Arco Arena 2 first opened at that same site in the fall of 1988.

And I was the same age as my teenagers are tonight.

There at the State Fair, drove themselves to a concert.

I drove myself to my first concert as well at night.

It was Van Halen.

Um two weeks later I went and saw the Kings play in their first year at Arco Arena 2, and of course I remember our Carina won the little box over there off North Market, and a lot of good memories for Sacramento people.

You know, I was there in 2002 when I was a seasoned ticket holder and Mike Bibby hit those great shots in in game five, and I think game uh one and two, and then we got screwed over by the refs and the Lakers that year, but that's another story.

But um plenty of memories from uh from our co arena, and um that's the history, but tonight we're focusing on the future as well.

Um so so with that is an opportunity for us to use this tool as far as um a big project like this.

It's hard to pay for all the infrastructure and the roads and so forth.

So this is an opportunity for us to use as financing tool to help have a fair public-private partnership.

This isn't a giveaway of taxpayer dollars.

This says as this project grows, the money that this project creates will be plowed back to pay for the infrastructure worthy of this project.

And so we're finalizing that um opportunity uh tonight, and I think this uh what we're laying out tonight is a good deal for the taxpayers, um protects us and allows us to use our city tools to move Sacramento forward to focus on that Nathomas promise that then council member uh Ashby wanted to make sure that it wasn't you know a vacant piece of property for 13 years.

I'm I'm sure she's I know she's very frustrated that it's taken 13 years, but um better do it tonight than 13 years from today going forward.

So uh this is an opportunity to engage in a big project for the city of Sacramento, and um, you know, grateful for the two council members who have worked and rolled up their sleeves to make sure we have an opportunity to move forward, um, push the economic development, push the Nathomas vision, and also uh protect the city of Sacramento.

So look forward to um outlining this tonight, and I'll allow council members Kaplan and Talamantes to focus on the next steps.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I really just want to start off.

Um this is about the Notomas promise.

I have lived in Notomas for over 25 years, so I know.

And I think each one of us here on the Dais has a special memory of it'll always be in my terms, Arco Arena.

Um, but we all have that special story of events that we've been with with family and friends and concerts and games that we now get to keep a Notomas promise for the next step.

And so that's what this is about.

But I really want to thank staff, Leslie.

We've been we've been talking about this for a long time, and there was a time where we were meeting monthly with all parties to really work this out.

And I just want to thank you, uh Eric Sini and the rest of your staff on on all your time and effort, especially when maybe some of us changed our minds and said it was good that it was not good, and what does this mean?

Um, you know, it's not it's not always easy.

So uh I know a lot was said, and there were some things that are confusing that I just want to kind of maybe take a step back a little bit so that we can clarify um and truly I need this for my uh Notomas residences and the city to understand what is an EIFD and what are we actually doing?

Because I think it can get confusing because so many things are tied up in what an EIFD will do.

And then I'll apologize.

Sometimes I think say things quickly.

So if I ever say EFID, I mean EIFD, but I might be switching it.

Um who owns the land that we are looking to do the EFID on?

Uh the land.

Can you hear me all right?

Okay, I'll lean in a little bit.

Um is this better?

So currently the EIA EIFD district, which we are proposing, is privately owned by a variety of different private parties.

Okay.

So the city doesn't own any part of this.

No, ma'am.

Okay.

And one of the things I will say as a caveat, in 2022, before I joined city council, I was a Natoma School Board member.

And one of the things that the Natoma School Board does, because the board is has to build its own schools, is we bought land in that area, of which will the EIFD fund the school?

No, ma'am.

The EIFD, as it's currently envisioned, isn't envisioned to include school facilities.

Okay.

I just want to make sure because everybody's like, we're gonna do this, and it's gonna get us a school, and and we need to be very clear.

Notomas Unified has to pass a bond, and they have to build their their own facilities, and the EIFD has nothing to do with this.

So does the EIFD raise taxes for uh North Notomas or Sacramento?

No, the EIFD actually uses the property tax, so it doesn't affect any additional or doesn't require any additional taxes on the part of anyone that uses the existing property tax uh to be placed into an EIFD.

So what does as we set up, and I know we did uh a term sheet, and if you can see anybody wants to know what an EIFD will fund and what this project will fund, is that laid out with Exhibit B?

What what what are some of examples of what what the taxing and the money coming in will fund?

Um I'll turn to Eric who has a little bit of a working list uh to share.

Okay.

Uh sure.

Yes, it is uh outlined in exhibit fee uh uh B, but generally uh EIFDs can fund public facilities that have a useful life of 15 years or more, um, and that have a uh community-wide significance as it's called.

Um the list is generally pretty broad in the EIFD law, but generally we see things like street, sewers, storm drain, water facilities, traffic signals, um can also fund affordable housing and things like that.

So all the stuff we rely on, not necessarily glamorous stuff, but that we need to see in every day.

Does the EIFD build the hospital?

No.

Does the EIFD build housing?

No.

No.

So I that's where I think sometimes it's getting a little like confusing because they all get intertwined together.

But am I correct in understanding by the city approving the EIFD, we're helping pay for a portion through this mechanism of building the public facilities that are needed in an infrastructure project?

Yes, that's a good characterization.

So um what happens?

Because this is question.

So the city, if tonight we approve the EIFD, which I hope we all do, um and and let's say housing doesn't come.

Does that change the EIFD?

No, ma'am.

Uh, but the proper the EIFD revenues are generated by development occurring on the site.

And if there was housing on the site, it would generate some income.

So um, but it doesn't lead to housing directly.

So I don't want anybody to take this wrong.

I'm all in for C and you and the teaching hospital and everything that comes with it.

But if we approve the EIFD and for some reason, um the hospital doesn't come.

What happens to the EIFD?

The EIFD revenues would stay in an EIFD fund um to be determined by um by the public finance authority how those funds are utilized.

Okay, so tonight are we actually creating the EIFD?

No, ma'am.

Today is the first step.

It's the first baby step, it's the resolution of intention.

Following this, there's a public meeting, there's two public hearings, there's a formation of the public finance authority, there is a return to city council.

So there's many steps between now and when an EIFD would be formed.

Leslie, I want to um just clarify something for the public.

Um you just said property tax, but I just want to be clear, it's the increment, it's the growth of the property tax that is established from the base year.

And in uh more relatable terms, it means um we have to form correct the EIFD first, set up a year, and any growth that happens on top of the base year, so it could be this year, the base year could be next year, any new growth in in revenue stays in the boundaries that could be used for the infrastructure funds.

Yes, council member, that's accurate.

And and you actually always every time I describe it, I have to use my hands as well.

So I'm glad in your definition you used your hands.

If you know, I I can't not use my hands, um, so appreciate it.

I so tonight I can't necessarily ask you because this action isn't the next step for the hospital to get built.

That's between two private entities that that are doing that.

The city isn't involved in like the financing or the funding of the hospital.

No, ma'am, that's right.

We are not currently involved in any way in the financing or development of the hospital.

Because that's the number one question I get.

When's the hospital coming?

So uh, Dr.

Chung, uh, you know, when we get this EIFD passed, our Notomas community wants to know when ground is gonna be breaking so that we can celebrate the Notomas promise because it all goes back to the Notomas promise.

And then for anybody, um, correct me if I'm wrong that wants to know uh because this happened prior to uh Vice Mayor Talamantes and I joining, although she was chief of staff to Senator Ashby, who was in this seat.

It's the PUD which sets forth what kind of housing is coming, hotels, restaurants.

That's already been set, and if people want to know what kind of mixed housing has been planned, that's where they would look.

That's right.

The PUD actually established kind of a roadmap of the development that would occur within the district and with within the PUD, yes.

Thank you.

And I and I really appreciate your time of kind of like just taking a step back because my community asked me all these questions, and I wanted to have this dialogue so that we kind of made it clear the action we are taking tonight.

So um, community, I want to talk about a couple of key things.

This is a tonight's action is about keeping the Notomas promise.

It's guaranteeing that by us doing this, we get language in the EIFD for an economic driver on that Notomus land, which keeps the Notomas promise.

We're also putting in language to protect our taxpayers and the city's general fund to make sure that the general fund doesn't cover things that the EIFD doesn't.

We are not raising taxes, we are prioritizing permanent high paying jobs.

The city council has already approved that there will be a project labor agreement, so we are guaranteeing well qualified construction trades, are building the project that if it for the hospital to come to fruition, but we are also safeguarding the land and pushing for project momentum because you know, uh, as you heard, 2016 was the last time something happened at Arco Arena.

Yeah, you can come out to the antique fair once a month on Sundays.

Um, but we need more of an economic driver, and this is the first step in many in moving forward and keeping that netomas promise.

Because a decade ago, the city said, and and those involved, and I've pulled out quotes that came from the kings and came from our mayor Steinberg and came from the senator that the city made a promise to deliver a transformative job producing development on the site of former Arco Arena, and this action tonight is the responsibility of us as a city to be the one step in keeping that promise.

Now I'm gonna work with the Kings and I'm gonna work with Argent, and I'm gonna work with Dr.

Chung, because they have to keep their promise.

They have to keep moving it forward.

But I will be there on the sideline cheering or pushing so that we get that Notomas promise.

And we also have to be clear how financing works.

This is just one step.

We have to set up the public financing authority, and we have to pass the language that says this is not a blank check.

There has to be checks and balances of the public infrastructure that is funding.

But we also have to make sure that this is an economic driver for Netomas.

Netomas deserves a vibrant future.

It really is sad, members, when we updated our general plan.

In the general plan, it said that there is a netomas town center.

You just heard Natomas residents who've been around laughing.

Because we don't have a Netomas town center.

We have a commercial development that has a grocery store called Natomas Town Center.

This is creating the Nathomas Town Center where it creates jobs, it creates housing, it creates uh 20% affordable housing, it creates hotels.

Imagine if Netomas could have our street in North Natomas with restaurants and walkability and businesses where families can stay and you can work, and we've got bike trails, and it's got green belts.

This is the promise, and this is the vision that we need to implement and that we do it with the kings and the building trades and CNU and North Natomas.

And this is going to, we must prioritize high-paying jobs.

That was given with Sun Team.

I am really happy with the council did in making sure that it was tied to actual jobs.

Because the money has to be proven that high-paying jobs went to Senteen.

So we're making sure high-paying jobs are coming to the city of Sacramento for our economic viability, and that our trades, who many live here, they get to live here, work here, and spend their taxpayer dollars here, not in some other city or county.

And so I really want to guard the land in the momentum.

Um I really want to make sure all of us as stakeholders, while we all don't agree sometimes, we're in this together, and I am willing to keep my word and and hold my hand out and make sure that we continue to move forward.

There's been plenty of negotiations and talk, but this is a time to keep the Notomas promise.

I really want to thank the leadership of our city staff.

I want to thank the mayor, I want to thank the vice mayor.

We have been working for quite a while and a lot of time and a lot of conversations.

We weren't always on the same page, but right now we are on the same page, and the city needs to see that.

And Netomas needs to see that, that we are coming together to make this happen.

So the next step is really approving this and setting up the public finance authority.

So I look forward to hearing the vice mayor.

Um, but I would like to set forward the motion and then look forward to hearing my colleagues.

So as the item has been presented, I want to move the item, strike in its entirety, section seven, but direct staff that in this motion, all parties are to come together and negotiate the terms that are consistent with the term sheet presented and adopted by council on April 30th, 2024, so that we are not noodling and legalizing language on the dais, but adopting direction that we we find language we can all agree with that is consistent with the term sheet that was already we spent long time negotiating, that has already been set up, that this council has seen, has negotiated and agreed to, but it also gives time for us staff by setting up the EIFD with direction of of creating terms consistent with the term sheet at the public financing authority, that we can bring in bond council to make sure that the city's resources are protected and the taxpayers are protected, which still allows the EIFD to move forward and all of the other projects that are in motion to continue knowing that that one, we are not trying to legal is on Wordsmith on the dais, and then the term sheet is consistent with what we've already uh set forward.

Um, so I first want to look at Leslie and Eric of do I need to clarify anything?

I was just going to clarify if I may, or ask the there is the language you want us to modify the language that uh is in red that begins with the primary goal of the EIFD is to stimulate that's beginning the sentence after that.

Is that what you would like us to modify?

Um I want in section seven, because we actually agreed to all of the other stuff, it's strike all of the language in red.

Okay.

On section seven.

Okay.

Okay.

But direct that the language that we are going to negotiate to replace that is consistent with the term sheet as adopted on April uh 2024.

Okay, thank you.

That's and then and then strike.

So we're not doing it, just I'm gonna say it any reference to that language in the staff write-off.

So whatever we pass, it the staff write up doesn't exist um in that in that regard.

Okay, thank you for the clarification.

So it's moving the resolution of intent, striking the language in red in section seven, directing staff and all parties to come back and negotiate terms consistent with the term sheet that was adopted by council on April 30th, 2024, and set up the public financing authority so we can actually do the adoption.

So it's thank you, ma'am, for the clarification.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Do we have a second?

Um, I'm happy a second.

Okay, we have a motion, a second.

Thank you, council members.

Uh, council member and vice mayor Talamantes.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, so this question for the city manager.

Uh, I just seconded the motion.

Uh in the term sheet, it also states that the Sacramento City Council will determine whether the project can release any funds, any public funds.

Um, is that still the case?

Uh, yeah, that's still the case.

There are actually several things that the council must approve.

Among those is they must approve the infrastructure financing plan.

Without the infrastructure financing plan, you can't have an EIFD.

You any economic development project that receives EIFD funds have to be approved by council, and any amendments, expansions, or project-related actions tied to the district must also be approved by council as well.

So then just one more question.

So I'm really excited for the hospital, and I can't wait to see it open.

Say that it doesn't come into fruition.

No public funds will be released until there is a project, correct?

That is correct.

Okay, thank you.

So speaking of uh Councilmember Maple doing her video of Arco Arena, I was trying to think about my first concert and my first basketball game, and I realized that it wasn't until 2010 when I was at UC Davis that I went to go see Joan Sebastian at the Arco Arena, and that was my first concert in 2010.

So I don't have very many memories of the Kings.

I gotta watch them at home.

Um I lived in Willis, California, so making having my family drive out to Sacramento, California was just too expensive.

And my parents said no.

Um just really excited about this project and and where it's at today.

I like the mayor said, the two council members representing Natomas and himself, um, stand united in supporting this vision.

We both believe that Netomas deserves the opportunity to continue growing and that we have to continue moving forward.

I'm fully supportive of this EIFD because I do believe it's an important step toward fulfilling the Natomas promise that was made many years ago.

I've had the honor of working on this vision for the hospital with uh as a chief of staff to then council member Ashby and now Senator Ashby, where we created this beautiful binder reminding everyone in Sacramento about the Natomas promise.

This is the documentation, all the articles and everything that came with it, and all the letters of support.

So it's always a reminder to me that this is our goal.

We have to make this a reality.

When our city decided to move the arena downtown, there was a commitment to our community, and it's important for us to continue upholding that.

And that means providing the infrastructure needed to attract a catalytic project.

And it's been a long time since that decision was made, and we just have to continue moving forward.

So I'm excited for the hospital.

It presents one of the biggest potential projects in the region, especially in Natoma since we don't have a hospital north of the river.

And it brings health care access, good paying jobs, educational opportunities, and additional investment to our region.

But this EIFD is also bigger than just one project.

It's a catalyst.

And like Councilmember Kaplan said, people of Natomas are looking for somewhere to go eat, shop, and hang out, where they don't have to come drive downtown.

We want to be able to provide a space where people can come and take their family that are out of town and that they're visiting us.

So we should not wait any longer.

Our residents have been patient, and now is the time to bring the infrastructure promise to our community into fruition.

This is about delivering on the Natomas Promise, creating opportunity, and ensuring that Nathomas has infrastructure needed to be a thriving community for many generations to come.

I look forward to supporting the EIFD and the opportunities that help create for Nathomas and the city of Sacramento.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Mayor Patem Guerra.

Uh thank you very much, Mayor.

First, you know, one uh for the people in Atomas, you know, I as well.

I remember my uh favorite concert there was with Osomatli Mana and Santana all at once.

That was a big one.

And they all played at the same time at the end.

Yes.

Um but you know, and and I'm very excited to to see the future of what that place could be.

I support the Natomas promise.

And over the last uh 11 years now on this council been excited to see the push and what we can do there.

And what we've heard over the last 10 years uh was that tomas needs a hospital.

To have to go over the free over the river through a narrow freeway is unacceptable.

You know, Nethomas uh has asked for a town center.

You know, it's uh you know, having a place, like I think about you know, the village uh the the Natalic Village area where people are coming and and communicating and having fun.

You know, Nathomas deserves that same type of walkable community and place.

Um and we've heard that we need uh from Nathomas uh not only good jobs but high paying jobs, quality jobs.

And so this is an opportunity for us to do that.

And we also heard over the last 10 years that we need to make sure that we take the steps for the best chance of success.

So I support you know the changes to the staff resolution.

I want to thank Councilmember Kaplan and Vice Mayor Talemantes for making those changes.

I was involved with our first EIFD, the Aggie Square project, and that brought over thousands of jobs.

And at my at our own uh Tahoe Park Friday Night Food Truck Event, listening to someone who was working at Starbucks and then went and had an opportunity to do an apprenticeship program at Aggie Square, and then have uh a real job, a path for success, not just a job, but a career after that.

That was life-changing locally, where they walked and they could walk to work, they could get to um a local place of employment.

Uh and to me that is the biggest thing that we have to push here.

So uh I support the motion with the amendment to strike uh the language.

Uh that language was not included in any of the other the the other EIFDs.

Now, and every project is different.

I I acknowledge that.

But we also have to make sure that we're as nimble as possible as possible.

There's multiple hearings.

I served on both the Aggie Square and the Real Yards EIFD.

We have multiple hearing processes to make the changes we need and community processes to engage the community on the best outcome.

Excited about this, very proud to support it to support the Natomas project, but most importantly, to deliver what has been asked of from our local folks, which is good jobs and the future commitment of a town center and vibrancy in the Natomas Basin.

So thank you very much, Mayor, and thank you to our council members for uh their leadership on this and our my previous colleague uh Senator Ashby for their work.

Thank you.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Thanks, Mayor.

Um I can't quite let this occasion go by without a comment because uh when I worked on this legislation.

I didn't uh at that time.

You may have had the same experience.

I didn't really imagine sitting on a body where I would be adopting the product of the legislation.

So it's uh it's somewhat uh gratifying uh in its own way to um be in a position to take an action on on legislation that you had a hand in uh crafting uh uh uh at the at the time.

I'm thankful and and and grateful to uh both uh councilmember Kaplan and the staff because for the next time we talk about an EIFD, we won't have to explain what it is.

We'll just post the video.

We'll we'll all we'll all know what an EIFD is.

And there is another one coming, by the way.

Um we'll we'll keep you all in suspense.

Um that I I want to take note of that is important, in fact, foundational to what we're doing tonight that is a difference between what was required for redevelopment and what is not required to establish an EIFD is a finding of blight in the area that is affected.

And if that requirement, which was uh part of redevelopment law still was with us today, we couldn't be doing this.

So in fact, the part of the very explicit intention we had in 2012 when uh we were working on this legislation was to create an opportunity for it to be applicable across the landscape of of cities and counties where it could be employed effectively and and appropriately.

And so uh I'm uh happy very happy to support the legislation for a host of reasons, uh one of which is bringing uh significant uh medical facility.

We all um we all hope uh to uh north of the river uh where we uh as others have said uh have a real deficit in uh access to to the full uh complement of of medical facilities.

Um and the other is uh to be part of the enactment of something that we actually uh envisioned when this legislation uh made its way through the through the process and was uh and was ultimately signed by the by the governor.

So congratulations to all and um let's make sure it works.

Okay.

Mayor, you have Mayor, you have a motion by council member Kaplan and a second by Vice Mayor Talamantes.

Yeah, we have a motion, a second.

I just want to to close and thank the council members, especially council member district one where it's hosted and the council member across the street and district three, and someone's worked on it in her prior life as the staff for all of District One for working on this for years.

And and just thank the participants.

I know Dr.

Chung.

Dr.

Chung, where are you, Dr.

Chung?

He had to go?

He's outside.

But maybe his team wants to acknowledge um uh you and your hard work and your perseverance.

Uh we know that um health care means a lot to people who are in need to go see a doctor.

We know that there's a great need to train more health care professionals, so the teaching hospital is tremendous.

You have teaching hospitals here already, um, your dentistry school and your medical school training professionals to work in our public hospitals, our private hospitals, and stepping up and having uh full-fledged larger regional teaching hospital with um an actual hospital to serve patients will be a boom not only for Natomas but for the Sacramento economy.

So we are in strong support of your project.

I know it's hard, uh, but if it's hard, nobody would do it.

You know, the hard hard is what makes it great.

And so thank you for reaching in and for funding this project for the past year and a half with this idea that you could go bigger one day.

So we believe in this project, we believe in you, and uh thanks to um the property owners, the Sacramento Kings and Argent for um working in this partnership to bring about one the Notomas promise, but not just a promise of a project, because we could have supported any project out there.

Nothing about housing and commercial malls, rip malls.

We have those all across the city, those are great.

We wanted something big here that really is about the future of Sacramento that makes our um neighborhoods thrive, makes our city thrive from an economic development perspective, uh, brings in high-paying jobs, it keeps workers in our area, draws people to our region, and this is what we would love for this area of Sacramento, and so we are going to work hard to make this a reality.

Uh thanks to the partners with the construction and building trades for signing that the PLA three years ago to make sure this project is built on time and under budget.

Uh, we support you and these uh jobs coming forward.

And with that, um, it's an exciting day for the city of Sacramento to turn the page on this finally.

And uh, we have a motion and a second.

Uh all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any no's or abstentions?

Hearing none passes nine-zero.

Thank you.

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

And then public comments.

Okay.

Councilmember Kaplan.

I will just quickly uh, you know, national night out is coming out, and I have a ton of my neighborhood homeowners association coming to the North Natomas Regional Park.

I uh and if you ever want to dunk an elected official for a small donation to my student scholarship, you can dunk me.

Um so uh last year I had our state treasurer, Fiona Ma come and uh uh take me out uh for a good cause.

So I invite our community to come out and partner with our law enforcement and public safety and our community members who keep us safe.

Thank you.

Uh Mary Don't uh my Councilmember Bang.

Thank you.

I just wanted to announce um that um similar to Council McCaplow, we have four national night out events happening uh next Tuesday.

Uh Rose Family Creative Empowerment Center and other partners at the Pennell Center from four to seven.

Jeff Mesa Grande Neighborhood Association at Willie Castone Park from six to eight.

The Delta Shores Community Association on Floing Way will have there from 5 30 to 9 30.

And North Laguna Creek Valley High Community Association will be at North Laguna Creek Park from 6 to 8, and we look forward to seeing everyone.

Um also just want to let folks know since I don't think there's a council meeting next week, as is National Night Out.

It's next Friday.

Uh, I'm partnering with trustee uh Rhodes uh for an um family day back to school poll party at Carbolo Pool from 3 to 7 on Friday.

Uh that's located at 1648 65th Avenue, and so just encouraging family and folks in the South area to come join us for our back to school poll party in South Sacramento Acabolo Pool.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Jennings.

Thank you.

Um as we close out July, uh, we want you to join us for our fourth and final concert, jazz concert called Jazz in July.

It's the last of the Jazz in July series.

We're gonna have an unforgettable evening of jazz as we close out this month, and the soulful sounds of Virginia Airs Dawson and AirPlay will be performing at the Bill Coolidge Park from 6 to 8 p.m.

You can bring your picnics, your chairs, your blankets, friends, family, and enjoy a relaxing summer evening with us.

And then finally, um we're starting a new program that's gonna call Hope Lives in 95831.

And this is an opportunity to share to come together and make a difference for those kids that are dealing with cancer and helping them to be able to get through that.

So we'll give you more details and information about that.

But uh, we've got too many kids that are growing up with cancer.

We want to be able to help them.

So we have a program that's called Help Hope Lives in 95831.

So that's the name of the program.

I'll give you more information about that next week.

Thank you.

Do we have a city manager's report?

Yeah, just want to remind the community.

Um, the well-being of the community is the highest priority, and we want to remind um the residents that we're gonna have elevated heat risk coming up.

Um, our Office of Emergency Management and the Sacramento Fire Department will continue to monitor and update the situation, but we want to remind people that there will be heat advisory, extreme heat watch, you know, stay hydrated, you know, stay inside, check on the elderly.

Um, children in the parks.

So we want to make certain that um our fire department is monitoring, and you know, this generally tends to be a high risk for fires as well.

So um just make certain that you are watching the weather.

Thanks.

Okay, thank you.

Uh now we have public comments for items not on the agenda.

How many do we have this evening?

Thank you, Mayor.

I have 19 speakers.

I have um none remote, um, but 19 in chambers.

Okay.

The first one is Brian Powers, then AJ Albano, then Angela Andrews.

Titled, Are Millions Spent on Sacramento's Youth Violence Prevention with Little Oversight.

The answer is disturbing.

I'm sure you're familiar with this, so I won't spend my time summarizing the details, but among other things, it exposed financial and tax reporting irregularities on the part of two nonprofits who have contracts with the Office of Violence Prevention and it exposed a lack of oversight by the city.

The article was so thorough and well documented it seems the allegations must be true.

More disappointing than the facts exposed is a lack of responsibility taken by all involved.

An executive of one of the nonprofits was quoted as saying sometimes you don't know what you don't know until someone tells you.

I assume that the nonprofits try to teach their mentees responsibility.

That comment reveals a lack of responsibility.

Another excuse given is that they are doing good work.

If no one is providing any oversight, how can anyone know they're doing good work?

The Sacramento Police Department oversees the nonprofits.

Its representative was quoted as saying tax filings and related documentation are not part of our contractual requirements and fall outside of OVP's oversight.

That should not be correct.

But if it is, whose job is it?

By the way, it's easy using online tools to verify proper registration with the state and filing of tax documents.

I've done it myself.

That brings us to you folks on the council.

It's ultimately your responsibility to see that taxpayer money is used responsibly, effectively, and efficiently.

The last counsel dropped the ball on that.

I hope you won't pass the buck on this one.

There should be an outside audit.

So it's objective with a report back to you, not just OVP or other departments.

The contracts with the nonprofits should be suspended until the audit is completed.

And if the allegations are found true, perhaps their contract should be replaced by other more responsible nonprofit providers.

Violence prevention is too important to let this happen.

Thank you for your comments.

AJ, then Angela.

There's your uh there's your audit.

12%.

Excuse me, can we please disrupt the public comment period?

No, you're disrupting the public comment.

My name is A.J.

Albano.

Um I'm a resident of District 4.

Um, yeah, just seeing whose attention I have today.

Apparently, not the mayor's.

Karina, you're looking at me today, appreciate that.

Um yeah, just want to address the hot mic moment, the moment in which you, Karina Talamantes, and you mayor were talking about banning people from public comment during city council meetings.

Just appreciate the city manager apparently directing you to the fact that you can't do that, that that is unconstitutional.

Uh though it does seem based on your comments to media that you are still pursuing year-long bans for people from making public comment.

And I apparently your response, Karina, is that you don't mean what you say.

Uh that you can say ban, but not actually mean a ban.

And Councilmember Maple sort of backing you up on that one.

But Councilmember Maple, I I didn't hear you say anything about mayor's comments about pursuing probation style bans on public commenters in this very room for the first six months in which he was mayor of our city.

I didn't hear you say anything about the fact that he continues to say that he's pursuing year-long bans for public commenters on the city.

So I think that the issue is maybe don't discuss this in like a hot mic moment.

Bring this to a council member meeting.

Agendize it, have public comments come in here and have them give us, give their their opinions on it.

And I would really like to know each and every one of your opinions on that manner.

Uh it's a it's it's embarrassing that you haven't made a comment on it.

That you haven't weighed in on the fact that that's what our mayor is is attempting to do and is pursuing actively, apparently.

Uh so just I uh the hot mic moment.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Angela Andrews.

Hello, everybody.

Um council, mayor, city manager.

Um, first I want to say um I wish I wasn't here.

Um I am actually uh resident in District 8, and unfortunately, I've had some issues that I've tried to resolve, um, and I've not received any feedback at all from reaching out to the mayor's office, um, my district.

Um I am a court-appointed LPS conservator, and I have experienced um not receiving the equal protection under the law for my conservatee, which is also my child.

Um she's gone missing, she's been denied the ability to be uh listed as an at-risk missing individual.

She went missing for over eight months.

I was laughed at by officers, by um sergeants, and things of that nature.

Um my baby almost died.

Because she was not searched for.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Frances Liu.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Frances Liu.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Following Francis is Hassan Badron, Rhonda Rios Kravitz, then Marbea Sala.

Banning people from City Hall is not new from Ricky.

A year ago, this council passed a sit and lie ban that criminalized our unhoused neighbors who are seeking safety and refuge at this very building.

And for months, he and Talamontas have attempted to silence community advocates who have been pushing for stronger sanctuary policies.

Karina, you are not a victim.

No one at the last week's meeting threatened you and your family.

Stop slanding community members in a failed attempt to salvage your reputation.

That is abuse of power and a refusal to take accountability.

When we enter this room to give public comment, we are risking our safety.

We know that the security guards are here to serve you, the people in power, and we don't trust these security guards, especially when some of them are the exact officers that have insisting ICE agents outside of John Moss.

Many people were disrupting last week's meeting because you chose to sell out the privacy and safety of Sacramento residents, particularly our immigrant community.

McCarty Talamantes, Kaplan, Dickinson and Jennings, shame on you.

And Eric Gera, my and my representative Phil Pluckybaum.

You were too cowardly to even show up for the vote.

And for months, we we respectfully engaged and asked you to stop Zach B's CPD's illegal targeting of anti-ISP protesters.

And Karina's repeated unempathetic response was essentially they need to follow the rules, even though she didn't know what the rules were.

And she even told us we needed to protect her from members of the public that were expressing their that they were upset with her.

Get a grip.

She and Eric Garrett stopped every concrete policy proposal to protect our city's data and end SAC PD's collaborations with ICE from getting to council.

They are the poster children for identity politics.

They vote their parents' backgrounds to get votes, and then their decisions in office actively harm and risk the safety of the immigrant communities they claim to be members of.

And that is why we are disruptive, and we will continue to be here to dissent.

This is the people's building, and you will not scare us.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

And I'm gonna read out a letter that I sent to all of you, but I want publicly to read it.

The harmful treatment directed toward Vice Mayor Talamantes is unacceptable and carries serious implications for the Mexican community she represents and to the many residents who see her as leadership and an important reflection of their voices, experiences, and contributions to our city.

We recognize that public service requires elected officials to navigate disagreement, criticism, and difficult conversations.

However, political disagreement must never be allowed to become personal, demeaning, discriminatory, or threatening.

When conduct crosses this line, it requires a clear and immediate response from city leadership.

Our deepest concern is your inaction as mayor.

Silence in the face of harmful behavior does not a sign of neutrality.

It allows the conduct to continue, signals that it will be tolerated and undermines public trust in the council's commitment to dignity, professionalism, and equitable treatment.

We urge you and the council to publicly address this behavior, affirm clear standards of conduct, and take meaningful steps to ensure it is not repeated.

Every elected official should be able to serve with respect, safety, and civility.

This moment calls for leadership, not avoidance.

We respectfully request a written response outlining the actions the mayor and the council will take to address these concerns and restore our trust signed by myself and Ramona Landeros.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Evan Peterson.

Evan Peterson.

Fern Pascual.

Following Fern is Michael Bevins, then Lambert Davis.

Across our country, ICE federal agents are terrorizing our friends and family members.

Anyone they racially profile as possibly an immigrant.

In just eight days, three men were pursued and murdered by ICE agents alone.

Lorenzo Salgado Arado, Juan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran.

It is important to remember that not one of these men even had a warrant for abduction.

That they were not even on ICE's hit list.

But because of their complexion, when ICE agents came across them, they were attacked.

Then, as usual, ICE, a federal agency, tried to cover their tracks with weak lies.

These aren't outstanding incidents.

This is the modus operandi for our nation's poorly trained, highly racist enforcers.

Enforcers who are weaponized against us and the fundamental values our country stands for.

And now this city council, our city council, chose willingly to share data of those who call Sacramento their home with these homeland terrorists for a few extra dollars.

These agents in city after city illegally access surveillance data to fuel their witch hunts.

Yet you expect us to believe that some milktoe safeguards you draft up will stop that data from being used against us.

I'm sorry, Council Members, but your constituents are not that gullible.

This would not be the first fusion center in California.

We know they are not for fighting terror, but rather using inflated an inflated sense of crime and terror as boogeyman to target the people.

Private audits and U.S.

Senate reports show both show that these fusion centers have not identified a single terror plot in the United States.

Instead, the information gathered is used to target immigrants, activists, really anyone who doesn't fit the federal government's agenda.

This is what you're bringing home.

But you can tell from the crowd outside that we will not stand by while you try to make this happen.

Next speaker is Michael Bevins.

Is Michael Bevins here?

I don't see Michael.

Lambert Davis, I don't see in the room.

There he is.

Mr.

Davis is next to speak.

Um, and then Sebastian Hart.

Hello, my name is Bern Pascual.

I come here as a concerned Sacramento citizen and an organizer with the PSL.

On July 21st, as you know, there was a vote to approve 800,000 in federal funding towards Sacramento PD in participation with Central California Intelligence Center and sharing Sacramento citizens' data with a fusion center that would facilitate federal agencies such as ICE.

My issue with this is that there are already ongoing realities of people continuing to be negatively negatively affected by ICE through their misuse of power, inaccurate use of information, and overall lies to cover up their brutalization of citizens.

When Council Member Maple asked Sacramento PD what type of information would be shared, it was stated by SAC PD that the information shared with the CCIC on violent would be violent crimes, gangs, terrorism, critical infrastructure, public threats, and cybersecurity.

Indeed, broad categories that would no doubt lead to more so-called mistakes that have already been happening under ICE.

There is deep distrust between the people and federal institutions such as you guys and ICE and many others.

If you say you represent the people of Sacramento, then listen to what we actually want, which is no more cooperation with police and ICE.

We are telling you the solutions to the problem, and instead of doing the first step, which is to listen to us on how to combat these issues.

You instead want to fund the fire that continue continues to harm us by paying for the gas that fuels it.

Thank you.

Here's Lambert Davis.

Lambert Davis, then Sebastian Hart, then Liana, then LR Roberts.

Mr.

Davis.

Yes.

First of all, uh I come down here in the memory of our parents.

My parents moved here in 1946.

And in 1946, they tried to buy property in Woodlake.

And when they told me when I was a teenager why they couldn't buy it, I was determined to challenge this city.

That's 80 years ago.

80 years of property tax.

Now, something came out.

Measure you.

Now, as a lot of people know, I have a tremendous following of millennials.

And they told me to come down here today and put this on the record.

Um the Sacramento Bee, which I was stunned, uh nominated us for the best dessert in the best customer service.

That had to be the millennials.

My focus is on anything but what I just said.

Uh now I'm challenging this city.

Uh a lot of people don't know this, but uh Howard Chan sent a memo out on my family, and my family figured it out, and he was trying to stop us from getting funding.

But there's some people inside the city that are pulling for me, and they gave me a copy of it.

I'm challenging this city now.

We now have a manufacturer in Southern California.

We have everything we need except measure you funds.

We have not received one penny of measure you funds, and I go to measure you meetings, but yet there have been white companies that have received no written agreements on uh uh funding.

That's an insult to a business that cannot get funding, and yet others can get no written agreements, and they say it can't be thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is Sebastian Hart.

Sebastian Hart is our next speaker, then Liana, then LR Roberts.

Hello, America Council.

My name is Sebastian Hart.

I'm with Local 46.

I just wanted to come and share some of our core values and what they've done for me.

Um apprenticeship pretty much allowed me to be able to be flexible in the trades, learn several different trades.

So when one aspect of the trades was short in my area, I could go do another.

Um healthcare, I have great health care for me and my children.

Uh livable wage.

You know, I'm able to have my own house.

My kids all have their own bedroom.

I have great retirement.

And uh, I thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Next speaker is Liana.

Wow.

I don't think I've ever had all of your attention.

That's that's actually a first.

And that's a shame because I have been coming here for months.

I have been exercising decorum.

I have asked you over and over to please step in because you do have that power.

You are choosing not to.

You are choosing not to listen to us.

You are choosing to play on your phone.

You are choosing to look down and do other things and have other conversations.

You are not choosing to listen to your constituents.

You had 30 people say, over 30 people say that they did not want their data shared, that they did not want it sold for 800,000 of what sounds like fucking money laundering.

Let's be real.

And you shut it down and then came out here after you shut it down to talk to a couple people, which apparently the SAC B has on video, which I'd really love for them to release.

Um, that you, Kevin, said, What if other people have other opinions?

But 30 plus people stood up and told you do not do this.

And you told my friend that you already had your mind made up because it was paid up.

We know you took kickbacks for keeping police and fire jobs open.

We're very aware of that.

How do you sleep at night?

Karina using the immigrant community as a platform and then stepping on their throats is never gonna be okay.

It will never be okay, and we will not tolerate it.

You can blink all you fucking want, but it's not gonna make anything go away.

It's not gonna make me go away, it's not gonna make the problem go away.

We will stay under your skin until you do the right thing.

We pay your thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Our next speaker is LR Roberts, then Sierra Rose.

Please take your seat.

Your public comment time is complete.

Liana, please take your seat.

Liana, please take your seat.

Liana, please do not disrupt the orderly dumb to this meetings.

Thank you for taking your seat.

Point of order.

You've been given fair warning and have elected to continue to disrupt the meeting.

You're now ordered to leave the meeting.

Our next speaker is LR Roberts, then Sierra Rose, then Josiah.

Joshua.

Um I'm L R.

Roberts.

I'm representing Peace and Freedom Party.

Um, I do think that um politeness should go in both directions.

So this thing that I've seen since the 70s, where people talk to each other or talk to the city manager instead of paying attention is rude.

Um people have lived here for thousands of years.

Uh, then the Spanish um imperialism and then Mexico and then the Republic and then a state.

And when they build, I used to go to meetings when you were over in the old building.

When they built the new building, they found items that belong to the people who originally lived here.

And they built the building anyway, which always has bothered me.

I am uh from the southern border of New Mexico.

People just went back and forth all day across the border, and but then border patrol was formed um uh about a hundred years ago, and they were notorious for rape and murder.

So we protested them all the time, and we also then tried to have them not start DHS and ICE.

Um we are a sanctuary city.

I'm proud of that.

But our cops are cooperating with ice, they escort them off the ice building.

I've mentioned this several times.

There was that time where eight of them should eight cops showed up in eight different carbs in one day.

How much did that cost?

We're not supposed to be spending anything on this, and um, then we had uh a supervisor show up three times, and that's the day the interview uh uh arrested three people, and one person ended up in the hospital.

So ICE are fascist, we should not be sharing data with them.

Uh my father killed fascists, my father-in-law killed fascists.

We should not be giving money to fascists.

People had to make decisions in Nazi Germany, like just as Hitler was taking over.

We're at that point, guys.

Wake up.

Next speaker is Sierra Rose.

I have six more speakers.

Sierra Rose.

I don't see Sierra.

Joshua Masias.

Sierra's there.

Marcelina.

Sierra's walking up right now.

Perfect.

Sierra, please proceed.

Joshua Masias, then Marcelina, then Kevin Boltz.

So I was actually there that day when Sacramento police escorted ice vehicles, not even only ice, G4S, a private security based out of Britain, mind you.

When they escorted ice down the road, we had eight to nine squad cars show up.

And you know what they did the next day?

They did it again.

And then the third day, they did it again.

And then the fourth day, they did it again, and they escorted them down the road the wrong way every single time.

You guys are allowing G4S and ICE to just run rampant through the root streets.

You're a traitor to your race, Karina.

I'm gonna just say it flat out.

You are a traitor to your race.

You say you represent the indigenous community and your own people.

That is a flat out lie because I'm there every single day watching you guys let these people mistreat your own constituents.

We're there every single day.

Every single day we're watching them do this.

Every single fucking day.

I am watching ice attack miners, attack state workers, running over state workers, trying to hit people in the crosswalks when it is their right of way.

You guys are allowing this.

You're allowing this, and then you sit there and tell us that we need to trust this bill.

How can we?

You won't even fucking represent or even respect the laws put in place now.

A private security company based out of Britain is doing this.

G4S.

G4S is fucking doing this.

It is shameful.

A Britain British company.

How are you gonna say here say you're for America or for us?

But this is what you're allowing.

In a case all of you guys fucking forgot, it's still led back.

Don't you ever forget that?

Then Marcelina, Joshua, then Marcelina, then Kevin.

I remember you signing that paper that said Lane Maxville.

So the first time I was up here, what really stood out to me was the land acknowledgement right into the Pledge of Allegiance.

Completely disrespectful.

Totally shameful.

And what did I tell you guys when I was first up here?

You're all a bunch of hypocrites.

Now, some of you actually do your job.

A lot of you like to just stare, and some of you think we're an audience, that you guys are the kings here, that we're here to make audience with you.

It's the other way around.

You were the captive audience for the people.

The fact that you get paid from us, our taxes, the money that we make that we put in the community, the work that we do pays for you to sit up here.

So Nethomas promised 13 years of nothing.

How many mayors have gone through not doing their jobs?

I'm glad you guys are able to get something going now.

That's cool, but that seems like the running theme of this uh city in this council.

Day late, dollar short, nothing done.

And then what, McCarty?

You're just gonna go open up another business after this?

I mean, that's what you guys love to do, right?

Be here for your term, collect all that money, and then fuck right off.

So if you want to prove us wrong, if you want to prove to the community that voted you in, the people that elected you to represent them, maybe you should do that.

Listen to the people, represent the people.

There's an idea.

Uh McCarty, you came out here when the cameras were still closed and wanted to tell me.

Do you ever think people disagree with you?

Well, instead of making up straw man arguments and imaginary people that might disagree, why don't you listen to the people that line up and spend their entire day here and their free time?

We're not here getting paid.

To tell you how we feel.

But instead, you guys want to look at your phone, you want to get caught up on a hot mic moment.

Karina, you said you wish you can go up on the dais and say fuck ice.

You can come up here and say fuck ice.

But if you're gonna lie to me in my face and be there with Senator Ashby for Maria Estrata's press conference, and not walk to the end of the block to see the camp for justice where she was abducted because you parked over there.

Come on.

Thank you for your comments.

So next speaker is Marcelina.

Following Marcelana's Kevin, then Rob.

Wait, did you say Marcelina?

Marcelina.

Okay.

Um hi, my name is Marcelina, and I'm a volunteer organizer with the Sacramento Immigration Committee.

We are a mass immigrants' rights organization that door knocks in South Sack, where um My Bang and Katie Maples districts are.

We pass around know your rights info and are building community defense in response to ice because we know this council will not do anything to keep us safe.

I'm back here today, like I said I would be, and I don't come alone.

Today I carry the voices of 40 to 50 people that were gathered outside of these council chambers, rallying to let you know how upset we are that you sold our data to ICE for 800,000.

We are we're also outraged at how you handled dissent here in these chambers, and Karina Talamantes, not only do you try to ban us, but you also make up lies that we threatened you.

You really are a Karen.

Another claim for a safe for your own safety of a danger that you cannot prove.

You know black folks have this beautiful phrase, this beautiful saying that not all skin folk are ken folk, and you are a shining example of that.

You are not Rasa, so quit claiming the communities you chose to abandon for your political career.

The same communities that have actually been hit by ice several times in South Nathomas in this past week alone.

Sacramento Immigration Committee plans to do an emergency canvas in the affected areas to let Chicanes know, and immigrants know in the area that there's an organization looking out for them here in SAC.

And we are all volunteers doing this.

What have you done given it's your district and your job?

We will also be telling people we door knock in your district that you sold them out, and then hopefully they can come here and speak for themselves.

And so the mayor, you tell us we cry wolf, and that we're just waiting for someone um sorry.

Ah you tell us we cry wolf, but you're just waiting for someone here to die.

And when someone in SAC is killed at the hands of ICE or DHS, there will be blood on your hands.

Next speaker is Kevin Boltz.

Following Kevin is Rob Grow, then AJ.

All Zionist politicians will be considered pedophiles henceforth.

To quote JFK, those who make peaceful protests impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

See, I got an issue.

I don't understand how a 10-year veteran of the California House of Representatives forgets what the fuck the Brown Act is for six months straight.

Continuing a legacy of this council that involves violating the Brown Act on Daryl Stanberg, lying about where Sean Loli lived, and continuing to defend pedophile Kevin Johnson.

I also failed to see how Vice Mayor Hop Mike Mama thought it was pertinent to act like Donald Trump minutes after voting to hand him all of our fucking information.

Those police campaigns donations seem to be paying off.

So I ask you, wise counsel.

What should we as a community do?

Because you know what I think we should do?

What you wanted to do to us.

The exact same thing.

Oh no, no, not throw you out.

Track.

Surveill.

Follow.

Who do you meet?

What do you do?

Where do you go?

When do you go?

And since you wanted to sell our info to a hostile entity, maybe we should do the same fucking thing with your information.

And see how you like it.

Because following people around, documenting what they do, and then selling it certainly isn't a problem.

You pearl clutch over disruption while ignoring police violence.

You demonize dissent while refusing to listen, and you flat out do not care.

I stood here seven years ago and said you're all terrible officials and worse people.

Nothing's changed.

I also used to tell Daryl, if you don't listen here, we can go somewhere you do listen, which is where you live.

None of you are the kind of rich you think you are.

When the shoe drops, you will be stuck here with us.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Rob Grow.

Rob Grow.

Is Rob here?

Rob Grow.

Last call.

And I have one caller on the line.

AJ A.

Please make your comments.

AJ.

AJA, please make your comments.

Bye bye.

It appears they're not connecting, Mayor.

That concludes um this morning's meeting.

Okay, thank you.

That we can't do it.