Personnel and Public Employees Committee Meeting - September 20, 2022
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Personnel and Public Employees Committee Meeting - September 20, 2022
The Personnel and Public Employees Committee met on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 3:05 PM in a hybrid format. Members present: Chair Angelique Ashby, Vice Chair Katie Valenzuela, and Members Jeff Harris and Sean Loloee. The committee approved consent calendar items and conducted interviews for a vacant seat on the Utility Rate Advisory Commission. The appointment decision was continued to the next meeting. One public comment addressed procedural concerns regarding city board recommendations.
Consent Calendar
- Approved the meeting minutes of July 19, 2022 (File ID: 2022-00573) by a unanimous vote (4-0).
Public Comments & Testimony
- Keon Bliss, Vice Chair of the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission, expressed frustration that the committee had not yet addressed the lack of a standard process for handling recommendations submitted by city boards and commissions. He noted that over 110 recommendations for changes to SPD policies and procedures submitted between 2018 and 2021 remain unimplemented, as highlighted in a February 2022 City Auditor's report. He urged the committee to bring the issue forward before the end of 2022 and criticized the missed opportunity when the committee approved an ordinance on August 30, 2022, without addressing this process.
Discussion Items
- Review of Applicants for the Utility Rate Advisory Commission (Seat E) (File ID: 2022-01710)
- The committee interviewed ten applicants for a single appointive seat. Each applicant was given two minutes to describe their qualifications and reasons for serving.
- Applicants interviewed: Ali Assadian, Anthony Burdock, Rick Castro, Cory Copeland, Robert Gillette, Lara Johnson, Ryan Mahoney, Cecile Nunley, Frank Pedroncelli, and Rex Smith. (Additional applicants listed in the agenda – Michael Burks, Karen Patterson, William Pearlie, Michael Picker, Mark Roberson, Ivan Simikvitch – did not appear or were not called; the staff report includes all names.)
- After the interviews, Chair Ashby suggested the committee members review the candidates' applications and the current commission makeup, and continue the appointment to the next meeting. No objection was raised, and the item was continued without a formal vote.
Key Outcomes
- Consent Calendar: Motion passed unanimously.
- Utility Rate Advisory Commission Appointment: Discussion continued to the next regular meeting; no appointment made on September 20, 2022.
- Public Comment: Acknowledged but no immediate action taken; the comment will remain on record.
- Meeting adjourned at 3:36 PM.
Meeting Transcript
Okay, welcome to the personnel and public employees committee meeting for the city of Sacramento for the Tuesday, September 20th. Madam Clerk, would you please call the role to establish a quorum? Member Valenzuela. Yes. Member Lilowy. Here. Member Harris? Yeah. And Chair Ashby. Also, yes, and here. Uh so that's it. Everybody, full full body hair. Go ahead, Madam Clerk. You have some things to read into the I do not have any changes. Okay. So we need to do our land acknowledgement and the pledge of allegiance. Councilmember Harris, you want to do those for us. I'll do the pledge. All right, let's do the pledge. Then maybe let's have Councilmember Valenzuela do the land acknowledgement and then you can do the pledge. Is that good? Two for one. All right. Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Miwok, Putwin Wintoon peoples, and the people of the Wilch and Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples' history, contributions, and lives. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. I've pledge to the flag. One nation under God with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Council Members. All right. Uh we have a, I don't think we have anything on our consent calendar. You have one set of minutes on our consent calendar for the July 19 meeting. Okay, we can take a motion for that if one of my colleagues is so inclined. Move consent. Move by Councilmember Harris. Seconded by Councilmember Leloy. Madam Clerk, you want to call the role? Member Valence Wela? Yes. Member Leloy. Aye. Member Harris. Chair Ashby. Yes. Just one item for our discussion calendar today, but this is going to be several interviews. Madam Clerk, you want to call the item and then we'll get started here. This is a review of applicants for the Utility Rate Advisory Commission. We have multiple applicants for a single seat.
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