Good morning everyone, happy New Year. I will now call the personnel and public employee

committee to order at 1102. Jacob, can you call? Thank you chair. Member Telemontes.

Here. Member Maple. Here. And Chair Kaplan. Here. We have a quorum. I just want to take chair

privilege to thank my colleagues because as of tonight you guys are moving on to other priorities.

And so I want to thank you for your service on P P and E and have fun and all the new adventures

you are taking on. I know we've accomplished a lot this year and moving forward. So with that,

I will now move on to and of course those who wish to speak on items not on the agenda.

There's a public comment card up there but if your item is on the agenda we will call you up

as we move forward. I'd now like to vice chair Maple. Can you do the pledge and the land

acknowledgement? Please stand.

Thank you.

All people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern my deum,

Gallyan claims Miwa, Puchman win two peoples and the people of the Wilson Ranch area,

Sacramento is only federally recognized right. Maybe acknowledge and honor the native people

who came before us and still walk the status today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather

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

people's history, contributions and lives. Thank you for being standing.

So Luke and Puch, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

All right now moving on to our agenda. We have the consent. Any questions, concerns,

public comments? Jacob, any public comments? By chance. Thank you chair. I have no public

comments on the consent calendar. Move by Maple, second by Talamonte's,

All in favor. All right now we're going to move on to the all important fun

discussion of hearing about the 2024 annual work plans and all the hard work our committees

have done and what they're going to do for 2024. So it's my pleasure to call up the Youth

Commission for their 24 annual report and 2025 work plan. Sarah Muster, pleasure.

Hi, good morning. Sarah Muster, Recreation General Supervisor with the Youth Parks and

Community Enrichment Division. Good afternoon chair, committee members, clerk's office and

city attorney's office. Happy new year. We're very excited to be here with you to kick off your

long list of annual reports and 2025 work plans. I'll be briefing the Sacramento Youth

Commission's annual report in 2025 work plan with the chair of the Sacramento Youth Commission,

chair, Reyes Rios. I want to first thank the commissioners for their commitment to the youth

and the city of Sacramento. I'd also like to thank the city team that works with the commissioners,

our adult allies, Rhonda Patterson, who couldn't be here with us today, and Dominique Kernden,

who is here with us today. Lastly, the IFC leadership team, the clerk's office,

city attorney's office, and council offices for their support and guidance throughout the year.

The Youth Commission has been around in some capacity since 1993. It became codified in 2019 as

the official voice of youth in Sacramento. There was quite a bit of work done on youth voice

this past year, so I just want to highlight the fact that there was a lot of support for the

Youth Commission this year from the City Council and the Mayor's office, so thank you for all of

that. The Youth Commission provides recommendations and advice to City Council, the Youth Development

Administration, and Yipsey on policies, projects, programs, and other matters pertaining to youth.

I realize that you've used the acronym Yipsey, and I want to clarify Yipsey is the Youth Parks

and Community and Richment Division here at the City of Sacramento. So when I say Yipsey,

that is who I'm referring to. So they provide recommendation advice on policies, projects,

programs, and other matters pertaining to youth. Many City departments present to SIC, which is

the Sacramento Youth Commission, to gain feedback on projects, programs, and outreach efforts.

Now that I've gone through that portion, I'm going to hand it off to our, well, that's the wrong way,

to our chair, Reyes Reyes.

Good morning, my name is Reyes Reyes. I'm the chair of the Sacramento Youth Commission.

I've been with the Sacramento Youth Commission for almost two years now. I started in July of 2023,

and now I'll read a letter written by both me and Vice Chair Stombe Bergen.

Dear Sacramento Youth Commission constituents, our names are Reyes Reyes and Stombe Bergen,

and we proudly serve as Chair and Vice Chair of the Sacramento Youth Commission.

From our humble founding in 1993 to our current state, the Sacramento Youth Commission has

completed an immense amount of work regarding the well-being of youth within the City of Sacramento.

Since its beginnings, the main priority of the commission has been to uplift the voices of

youth in Sacramento, and we have continued to do so. This past year, through our three focus areas,

the Aggie Square Project, Youth Mental Health, and the Sacramento Youth Voice, we have made an

extensive amount of progress. In the Aggie Square Project, the Sacramento Youth Commission has

insured the input of youth was heard and considered regarding the programs offered at a new

groundbreaking community hub. In the Youth Mental Health Focus area, we have created a youth

mental health guide providing resources and hotlines specific to youth struggling with their

mental health. In the Sacramento Youth Voice Focus area, a survey was created to help the

commission accurately pinpoint issues within certain communities and districts in Sacramento.

The Sacramento Youth Commission worked in cooperation with the Sacramento Children's Fund

and oversight commission regarding the allocation of money in the Sacramento Children's Fund

to bend it to futures of youth and to assist in relieving issues holding them back from thriving

in Sacramento. In 2025, we will expand our reach on youth in Sacramento by collecting more valuable

data, engaging in community outreach, and involving them in advocating for youth voice.

We expect to accomplish this by partnering with community-based organizations to collect data

firsthand from youth, engaging with youth in person to bring our work to light, and encouraging

youth to get involved in their communities and local government. We recognize that we are not the

only, we are not only the leaders of tomorrow, but the leaders of today, and our immense passion

for providing justice for youth in all districts of Sacramento continues to drive the Sacramento Youth

Commission forward into the future. Yours sincerely, Reyes, and St. Petersburg.

Thank you, Reyes. Thank you for your leadership.

Thank you, Chair. In 2024, we had eight business meetings. Three of those meetings were joint

meetings with the Sacramento Children's Fund. So anytime you see SCF, that's the Sacramento Children's

Fund Planning and Oversight Committee Commission. Sorry, I'm back here.

All right. We have in addition to our business meetings, it really speaks volume that the City

of Sacramento invests in uplifting the youth here that works with us here at City Hall

by providing us opportunities to create capacity building trainings. In 2024, we had 10 capacity

building trainings. These trainings are really important to make sure that the youth commission

are continuing to build leadership skills, advocacy skills, and several other opportunities here

within the city. I can go over those in a little bit. In 2024, we consistently had 14 seated

commissioners. Currently, we have 10, but I know there's work on moving that forward.

So a little bit about our capacity building trainings. And I want to highlight Dominique

Herden that's here in the audience. She does a lot of work making sure that these trainings are

both enriching, but really capture what it is that the youth are looking to learn. So she does a lot

of surveying and making sure that these align with what it is that their priorities are. These trainings

utilize a wide range of learning experiences by providing activities that activate self-awareness,

critical thinking, and decision making, and problem solving, and communication skills. Topics range

from visiting and advocacy to financial literacy and time management. These trainings aim to help

develop and strengthen skills, instincts, abilities, and processes that will help these young

leaders maintain and build confidence, adapt, and thrive in a fast-changing world.

So I want to highlight some of the advice and recommendations that they provided throughout

the year. Some of the commonalities were centered around peer-to-peer learning and leadership.

I think that's going to be the buzz word of 2025 similar to pivot in COVID. We are really

looking for peer-to-peer leadership. You hear that from youth all over the city. As I mentioned

earlier, the Youth Commission hosted three joint meetings with the SCF Commission. Additionally,

they participated in workshops, focus groups, surveys, and town hall meetings, ultimately cementing

their legacy in a strategic investment plan. The Youth Commissioners provided recommendations

to several departments and programs, ultimately highlighting the need for better outreach and

marketing efforts, more workforce development, youth ambassadorship, and leadership programs,

as well as safe public transportation and education surrounding that.

Some of our key accomplishments in 2024 were focused on three areas, the SAC Youth Voice,

Mental Health, and the Aggie Square Project. They completed four major projects that included

the creation of the Youth Voice Survey and a Youth Mental Health Resource Guide. Additionally,

they hosted two Aggie Square listening sessions that incorporated over 130 youth participants

and held a youth symposium for 37 youth leaders. In the document appendices, you'll see our data

analysis from the Aggie Square listening session number one, the SAC Youth Voice Survey questions,

as well as data collected from our youth symposium.

I'm going to hand it back over to Chair to go over our 2025 priorities and projects.

So the Sacramento Youth Voice helped develop a broader reach and engage larger audience,

really identifying gaps in youth accessing program services and opportunities.

So to break this down, we really wanted to emphasize that peer-to-peer leadership and

getting direct advice and what the youth really needed from the youth of Sacramento. So we created

as survey in the appendices, you could see what the survey looked like. One of the questions is

what are the challenges or barriers you as youth have been facing recently that you wish to share.

And there's a list of choices that youth can choose to emphasize how they feel and what problems

they feel affect them the most, how safe do you fill in your community, what would make youth

feel safer in your community. So questions like these that really emphasize what do youth really

need. We are here to be leaders for youth and part of being a leader is understanding what does

your community really need. And so we really wanted to emphasize that and collect first-hand data

from youth by creating this survey. Additionally, the Youth Mental Health Guide had over 30 plus

resources for students to use to help their mental health. But oftentimes as a youth personally,

mental health is really big in our community understanding to prioritize your mental health.

But oftentimes we understand the prioritization, but we don't understand what there is to help it.

So this guide really touched on that and gave youth direct links and hotlines to help their mental

health. Finally, we have the Aggie Square Project, which we conducted two listening sessions,

one last fall and one last spring and then one last fall. And so in the appendices, you can see

some data from our spring listening session with different areas that youth felt strongly about.

Clearly academics, you know, was a big one, but also youth centers, paid internships and workforce

development also really hit the mark there. We saw a spike in that especially in our fall listening

session where we had much more people. And it was a great listening session, a lot of engaged youth

who really were interested in getting involved in their community. And what we really wanted to

hit was not only taking their opinions, but also enlightening them about the Aggie Square Project

and how much it is going to change Sacramento.

Cool. So we're going to be available to answer any questions, but hashtag Exactly's Voice,

nothing about us without us. Thank you. Thank you. I now like to turn it over to Vice Chair Maple.

Thank you, Chair. And thank you so much for the wonderful presentation. It's wonderful to hear

about all the work that's been done in the youth commission and just really grateful for your

leadership and your time. I know this is a lot of, and you're extracurricular during,

in addition to school and everything else that you're doing, so just really appreciate it. And you're

always so well-spoken to, we appreciate when you come to council as well. One of the questions that I

have is, can you talk about any specific barriers that you've identified when engaging with youth

in the community and how we can maybe work together and help support you?

Right, so I think that can be taken especially from what we saw at Aggie Square when children,

I mean, children youth in Sacramento really emphasize academics, youth centers, paid internships,

in workforce development. Academics was a really big thing. A lot of youth don't have access to

Wi-Fi or places to study. And so creating these third spaces, you know, spaces that are not

school and spaces that are not home, that are safe haven for youth, especially youth that maybe

don't have the best life at home, where they have access to Wi-Fi, access to get an affordable

meal, and then also have tutoring services or even paid internships at this place. So creating,

especially creating third spaces for youth, run by youth, to create this community hub

directed, especially towards youth. Awesome, thank you so much. Yeah, and that really gets me

thinking. I think there's a lot of opportunities for that, even think about my community in Oak Park,

where we're currently trying to work on getting a library in Oak Park, and that might be a really

great place to do something like that. So just really thank you again, appreciate it.

Councilmember Talamonte? Convener last names. I just want to thank you for your incredible work,

and President Reyes, it's on honor to have you as my commissioner on the Youth Commission.

So proud of you and just keep up the really good work, and we're here to support you every step of the way.

And I want to say ditto, but also thank you Sarah, in your team for your leadership.

It is very heartwarming, one to see your work plan, see what you guys do and put it in writing so

that we can read it, but also to listen to you and see that we are helping provide leaders for

whatever turn a century next generation. I think those born this year are now betas.

But

I

know I'm a Gen Z still I've made fairly good.

But I want to say specifically because we heard last year with summer at City Hall,

the themes were peer-to-peer and mental health, and knowing that our Youth Commission is the

official youth voice in hearing that these are your priorities, I want you to know that you were

actually listening to the youth, those that have come through City Hall and that senior work plan

from last year and now this year of what you're focusing on. You have my full support.

Keep moving forward because you are reaching the youth and I think having that, especially that

mental health, you know, kind of like be it an online document, fold out. Please make sure we on the

dias all of my colleagues get access to that because I think that's really important that we can

help share for the next round that that is coming up. But thank you and then I hope you continue

to work with Measure Al that you didn't just have those meetings as Measure Al was developing,

but that at least once a year you guys do that. I hope that is the case. There's some plans.

Yes. All right. Well, thank you so much. We will now move this on to Council.

So I think that is that is the motion. Direct staff to forward the annual report and work plan

to the City Council for review. Motion and second. All in favor? I thank you so much.

And for the record, we had no public comments on this item. Thank you.

All right. Now moving on to the next item, which is the Animal Wellbeing Commission 2024

Annual Report and Work Plan.

Board of Councils. Nice to see you all. I've seen you all recently at the shelter. So I am

happy here to introduce a current share Liam Morris of the new Animal Wellbeing Commission,

previously the Animal Care Citizens Advisory Committee. They have done an incredible job.

One thing that they they're not giving themselves credit for is they've actually inserted

themselves into the shelter. So not only are they working on many things to invest into the

shelter in our community, they're actually in the shelter doing the work working alongside me

and my staff in all areas of the shelter. So I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to

Chair Morris and I'll be here for any questions.

Thank you so much. Appreciate time to be here today and present to you all. We want to thank

the Personnel and Public Employees Committee in particular for being a voice for this commission

and helping us move ideas and items forward and also thank the City Clerk's Office for always

assisting. I have many questions that I'm always asking the City Clerk's Office and they've

been very helpful to me so I appreciate that support. The last thing I'll say is I've watched

your meetings over and over and over as well as City Council meetings to help me understand

how to make sure the meetings are proceeding appropriately and I often take cues from each of you

in terms of being a chair of a committee and so your presence on the dius is helpful for those us

in the audience. So thank you for that. As you see we've got the Animal Care Services Citizen

Advisory Committee which is the old name which is what I chose to lead for the 24th report

but for those in the audience we were renamed the Animal Wellbeing Commission. The list of

current committee members are now commissioners and I wanted to point out that Joe Robistelli

has retired from our committee and he put in several terms as an appointee and we appreciate his

time and effort to support this committee and its development. Let me see going forward.

Okay so the purpose of the commission was a little bit revised under the new ordinance and just

for purposes of this discussion and I thought I would put it up there that we're the purpose of

our commission is to provide advice and recommendations to the City Council on strategies, policies,

and programs designed to ensure and enhance animal care services provided by the City. The reason

I read that out to all of us is that our role we see is working with City Council ensuring that

you all understand things that are going on at the shelter. Data day operations, each of us personally

volunteer and I think that's what Philip was alluding to is so I for example have been working

in the medical clinic and supporting care for space and neuters and eye removals and vaccines

and chips etc so I've learned a lot by being a volunteer there which is a bit separate I'm

wearing my volunteer badge but that's a bit separate than the commission and it's been helpful for me.

So I wanted to point out some relevant history for this committee slash commission

as many of you may recall there was a committee for some years but that committee sort of

was defunct I'll say due to lack of a quorum. In 2022

several of us were appointed to the committee and we've worked very hard to ensure that we have a

quorum and that we can move for move business forward. As you may know under the new ordinance

we've expanded in terms of our membership so that there are now officially 13 seats. We have seven

seated commissioners which is exactly a quorum. We need certainly a few more seated commissioners

and are hopeful that you and your colleagues will help us find some candidates to put on the

commission. I do want to thank you for appointing the youth commissioner. Next week will be

her first meeting we're very excited I was very impressed by the youth commission presentation

very excited and thank you so much for moving that seat forward and also our other recent

commissioner that council member maple put forward Christy Middleton. She's joined us she's

already been active and some offline things and stuff so very happy thank you for that and

we'll be approaching you for some more commissioners please. Key activities in 2024 so our big job our

big work was the needs assessment which I'll get to in another slide but I did want to just

note that this was done under a request for proposal that was funded by the city. It was

the RFP was conducted as competitive process we selected experts who applied those experts came

from across the street in fact a couple from outside the state but we did go with in to go hamand

local architect firm out of Davis who has a long history of working with shelters and and then

team members from the correct shelter medicine program at UC Davis so local experts who could help

guide us. In addition to the needs assessment we did quite a bit of work on the new animal well

being commission ordinance I think we worked with a couple of your offices and we definitely

worked with clerk's office to make sure we were in compliance. We did and we've been working on

a new effort on terms of it doing some analysis on animal adoption trends and one of our fairly

new commissioners Paul Hefner came up with some activities around something called a conversion

factor looking at how many feet come in the door of the shelter and how many leave with an

animal that they've adopted so how many did we convert from a visitor to an adopter so now we're

trying to work with the and very much working with the team at the shelter to see what we can do to

improve some of the identified barriers and improve some of the activities around getting adoption

numbers up as much as we need them to be we've also initiated a way finding project because in the

needs assessment and I'll talk about that one of the challenges is people coming to the shelter

to adopt an animal and not knowing where to go the the signage is not intuitive and so

people are confused often about where they should go to find a cat a dog or any other animal

we did tours and I want to thank those of you who have been there I think all three of you

have been to the shelter and did a tour I think there's nothing like actually seeing this

shelter to understand the challenges which came up in the needs assessment and so I appreciate

you and those of you who brought staff along I will share with you that yesterday we had member

Puckibomb and Dickinson were there with their staff and so that was great we had an opportunity

to really talk with them about some of the challenges at the shelter and then also we did quite a

bit of work on a new brochure it's at your desk there one of my colleagues Kathy Garcia on the

commission did quite a bit of work on that we're looking forward to getting it translated to some other

what I call threshold languages Spanish in particular but possibly Russian possibly via

Names we want to work with your teams to find out where we can move the bear move the barriers

to get that translation going but definitely want to work on that so the needs assessment so

this was our big lift for the year and cutting right to the chase I will remind you that the

actual full needs assessment was included in the annual report I believe it was appendix A

it's about 179 pages of which about 30 pages are the actual content the rest are our attachments so

if you're overwhelmed look through the first 5-10 pages and you get a sense of what we're talking about

in a nutshell this shelter property was implemented as a pound in 1910 they're on front street

so this facility has really that site has really served its purpose and done well but at this point

this city has grown and we have really outpaced the property the experts who came in took a look at

whether we could do like multi-story buildings could we go across the street and do a skybridge

what could we do to try to resolve the the space challenges that we have and ultimately based on

the expert analysis and the costs to try to renovate a space what would you do move operations etc the

long and short of it is the idea would be to pursue new property for a shelter the identified

through the experts they identified that this shelter is on about 1.8 acres and we need about

eight acres for the volume of animals that come through the shelter I know again you toward

the shelter you see that there are multiple dogs and kennels sometimes that leads to consequences

that are very bad and so trying to get enough kennels spaces as I put in the note there we have about

102 kennels actually some of them are not in use because of a variety of reasons and we need about

240 to 270 dog kennels just to manage the volume that comes through so then imagine a wildfire

imagine a flood any any call from the community due to a hoarding case etc so you can understand

that we definitely are not space appropriate the idea of about a seven acre plot would take us

up to about 270 kennels about 188 cat in housing enclosures and the price tag on that is about

$60 million based on the experts analysis they tell us that it's about a three to five year design

process to figure out property to design a building to understand codes etc so our first

ask of you and for you to carry forward to city council is that you endorse our commission to move

forward with looking at property where could we find some property that might be appropriate the

consultants were very highly encouraging us to look at property that the city already owns so we

don't have to have a purchase they also were giving had given have given us and it's in the needs

assessment a set of site selection criteria so for example a site that already has electricity

that already has septic that already has power that already has plumbing not to say the buildings

but the site has that sort of active resources on it so that there's a set of site selection criteria

that the additional question that we ask you to take forward for us is a work on a fund

development fundraising plan one of my commissioner colleagues really reminded me that actually it's

it's not our commission it's the city council that would approve a site selection offer and a

a fund development plan but we can be your work courses we can be your resource team to do that

and thankfully we have some resource committee commission members who can help us put some of

that work together so that's sort of our first ask of you all the second I'll come up this needs

assessment is a list of interim improvements and I provided that list for you on the table I think

Jacob passed that out to you I can make a copy available for the public it's a it's a fairly

extensive list again in the needs assessment process the experts who ran it held to what what are

called charretts which were opportunities for a group of people staff volunteers city council member

staff I believe a couple of your staff folks were there participated in the charret and through the

course of the charrette two different meetings we came up with a list of improvements to the

site that's there now to make it safer to make it more welcoming to make it more appropriate for

services for staff and volunteers you have that list in front of you we think that there are some

critical improvements that need to be done at the shelter to ensure safety I gave you a couple

of examples some shade covering some ventilation some challenges with the fencing

food storage this recently been a problem with food storage and some some forfeited non shelter

animals who have long tails rats we know about it they're working on it there's definitely

been effort to resolve that but better food storage services so again we're asking for you to

take forward to city council or to give us your endorsement to move forward on some of the

shelter improvements in a room improvements I'll share that next week commission members are

going to join the staff at the at the shelter to do a process to prioritize this list the list is

too long I think it's $7 million right there I can't remember but so we want to work with the

staff at the shelter to come up with a prioritization of what improvements they think are most critical

and and then try to put some dollars on that so we can be a little more clear on how how to manage

the dollars that might be made available to do some of this work again our our effort is to make

this shelter healthier safer and more inviting to community members and we'd like to make sure

that we make the shelter in the future a resource in the community a family friendly if you will

resource I'm going to throw in one more point here which is we've had a few discussions about

the zoo the property at the zoo is about 13 acres we need about eight I know there's a parking

challenge at that area we could possibly use one of those 13 acres to build parking it has

infrastructure electricity power septic sewer it's on a corner the architect said a corner site

would be perfect because you could have a front entrance for public and a side entrance for

animal control officers and other staff problem you know just allowing public at the front and

and staff at the side which we can't do in our site now I know that there are probably a lot of

different ideas about the zoo I'm just putting it on the table it came up at the charrette

and it does kind of fit into a lot of the site selection criteria but it was raised to me that

there is an idea that whatever goes into the zoo must be family friendly we would love to make

the shelter family friendly we would love to have a daycare program in the summer to teach kids

about how to take care of animals we would love to have a possibly a daycare for animals on the

site that we could raise revenue I did a reference check on one of our consultants in up in Juneau

Alaska they have a daycare program at their shelter so that they can help the community by

offering daycare and develop revenue for their shelter we'd love to have a better education room

so that we can bring families and have classes for dog training we'd like to have a meet and

greet space where people can bring their puppies in and introduce their own dog to a new dog

and have it be safe and not under the freeway where you can't hear a thing that people are saying

see a lot of heads nodding thank you for that support you can see we've really spent a

lot of thought on on what it is that this shelter could be with the right support and guidance from

city council and the work for this needs assessment I walk around now with this people call this my

bible because I'm walking around with it but there's so much good content in there I could have

thrown photos up of some of the problems but those that whole product is in your in your

grant and your report from us so again we're asking you to to help us take forward to the full city

council council the idea of some interim improvements by next week we should have a prioritized

list that we could share with you and and let you know what the staff at the shelter requests

I just want to reiterate that we are dedicated this commission is dedicated to supporting the

city of Sacramento animal shelter and animal care services it has been a delight and a real learning

curve for me to work with the staff at the shelter and the volunteers and the other commissioners

and Philip Zimmerman as the manager I have learned so much about animal care and I appreciate all

the staff there the challenges that we're facing as you know but I'll just say them again animal

overcrowding and problems that come as a consequence of overcrowding staffing turnover the expenses for

that safety of the animal staff visitors a variety of challenges with veterinary services and

ultimately a shelter should meet the guidelines for standards of care and animal shelters as issued

by the Association of Shelter Veterinarians and is in our ordinance to assist the shelter to

meet those guidelines so we look forward to continuing to work with you to to do this lift

um we want to thank you and we appreciate your support and we look forward to working with you in

2025 awesome thank you uh any comments vice-chair what first last time I sound a keep the floor open but

always has things to say first of all thank you I really appreciate it it was it is very enlightening

visiting the shelter recently and seeing firsthand one all of the incredible work that you all do

and the staff there and the volunteers like just how much work is done literally just by volunteers

is really mind blowing to be honest and and it was also very apparent the the need for space

it is there's not enough space there it is too small there's not enough room to do the things

that need to be done especially in the medical facilities that was that was very eye opening just

seeing how everyone's crammed together and trying to do really important medical procedures with

very little space um so here here you loud and clear on on the need for a new building and

facility I know that we've talked about this over several years and it's really come to appreciate

the the needs assessment because that really helps us like robber minds around it and know this is

a real need this is what it looks like also really appreciate the prioritization not a secret we're

in a budget deficit it's going to be really really really tough here um to we're going to have to

make a lot of very difficult choices um in the budget season and and so um that's that's in the

context of everything including this but um we also need note that this is a need um so that

helps us having that prioritization helps us think through maybe we can't do everything all at once

but we could do you know these four or five things now and and and continue to work on it as time

goes on and then just the last fun note um very interesting I did not think about the zoo that is uh

I didn't think about that as an option at all and so very interesting and I'll say as a typical

millennial um I don't have children but I do have a dog that I treat like a child um that we

spend quite a bit of money taking to dog daycare or dog um you know whenever we go out of town we

we board her and so what an interesting concept is something that we could do to not only you know

have a new facility but then also raise revenue as well so thank you for those ideas and for your work

you okay I also just want to thank you for your engagement with our council office um it was

nice to visit um and you like I mean the front street animal shelter is a sacramino gem

between the commission our city team the friends of the front street animal shelter um we have a

lot of challenges um and a lot of work to do um not just with space but finding qualified staff

and our shortage of bets and the issues that surround um the well-being of our four-legged friends

so I just want to thank you for your time and your commitment um to sacramino and and thank you

thank you uh we'll uh as well echo um and Philip knows uh my children have taken an exceptional

like to front street part of my daughter's bronze uh girl scout award was to create 50 cat toys to

donate to front street so that they could everybody who adopted a cat could go home with a toy so

thank you because my my daughter and her friend who worked on this got to do a behind the scenes

tour and I actually brought out my entire staff uh even my interns to see this um our youth

who had one perception of front street and then going through and seeing it really understood and

I so I would encourage that to the extent um it's feasible because I know time and space is hard

but the more people who's really see and understand what the purpose of front street is what you're

trying to do what your hindrances are um I mean 1910 that's that's a gem in a long time ago but nothing

having changed in the last 114 years um you can understand uh why there are hindrances so I think

uh the next step and I really appreciate that you brought forward of asking us as a council what

our next step is um colleagues I don't know if the next step is potentially have this come forward

or an item come forward to budget so it can be considered holistically um if if and you are on

you're on budget you're both I'm paid attention so I will pass this on to now uh both of you to kind

of that next step so that it is at least talked about um yes we have a 77 million dollar budget

you have to say but but it is appropriate to request that this is part of the conversation

and where is or some funding even if we can only do one thing what is that one thing that could

potentially be looked at um I also want to thank all of your board members um I see two others

sitting here uh into the audience with being at 1145 on a on a Tuesday um shows how important

the work you guys do and how much you care so thank you for your time um updating everything and

really just keep our offices informed um and Philip you've been really good at that and I want

to thank you for being our executive director sometimes you get as much hate as we do and that's not

what you signed up for but for our furry friends and what we're trying to do in our board members

thank you we acknowledge we see your work it's difficult time but um keep pushing us

thank you thank you in terms of the budget committee we know that this is likely a three to five

year effort so with engaging with your offices to talk about ways to possibly fund something

get the conversation going now it's kind of what we're doing so I appreciate that member

Talima and Tessa Maiple maybe resources for us and look forward to following up with you with

with learning a little bit more on how we might move this forward thank you

yeah sorry I just have a quick quick question so I know one piece is the money right and I think

that makes sense for budget and audit um but the other piece right is you're you're asking for

basically permission and or the city council to move something forward where you actually start

the process of looking at what properties are available usually looking do um maybe that

something appropriate to to send to the council do you want to include that in the motion

you mean include that with that with direction seeking direction from council on the next steps

for finding um a potential new site yeah so I'll move to um accept the report move it to council

with direction to go to budget audit and maybe fill up given a report back on the next steps

and what that would look like also be curious to see what the conversations like I know I read

a Sacramento be article about it a few months ago but I'd be curious about the council member

that presents the area to see if there's been conversations about what's going to happen to the

Sacramento zoo and what other viable options there are so for next steps and then so go to budget

audit but also when it comes to council can we have council direction given the okay to search for

site selection yeah I think we could do that at budget audit and make the motion there for that

second piece okay right now let's just move the report move this item to budget audit and then

at budget audit after the presentation and we kind of hear from Philip like director Philip

you know I'm about everything then we can do that next step all second thank you motion and a second

all in favor hi hi and then you can work with council member telemante's Philip can on the budget

and the next steps did want to acknowledge mr. pace who's in charge of the department who's

fully aware of all this work and has been briefed about the process and activities thank you so

much appreciate it now moving on to the next item which is our active transportation commission 2024

and you'll report hi Jennifer I just waiting for the presentation to come up I don't know if I

need to do anything awesome thank you Jacob well get started good morning or almost afternoon I am

Jennifer Donlon why I serve as a city's division manager from ability and sustainability and I

also staff the city's active transportation commission along with Jeff Shelsma and the clerk's

office the city attorney's office a lot of city staff resources to support this important effort

I also want to take time to thank we have a number of commissioners in the room today thank them

for coming in and you'll hear from me and then chair Hodeau who's right behind me great wonderful

and so I'm just going to introduce what the commission is and duties I think the commissioner the

chair will go over the recommendations since our 2024 annual report in 2024 we held 10 commission

meetings because we take recess when you do in july and december we hear 34 items on transportation

planning efforts quarters project plans and design as well as grant applications everything

related to active transportation in the city of Sacramento there are seven powers and duties

of the commission but essentially it's to advise the city to advise council on things related to

walking biking and rolling in the city of Sacramento and as part of those powers and duties to

make an annual report as all other boards and commissions do on the status of and the recommendations

of the commission and so with that I will turn it over to chair Hodeau to talk about the six

recommendations. Good morning I would like to thank the city of Sacramento for establishing the

active transportation commission and allowing our voices to be heard my fellow commissioners for

their thoughtful input over the past few months as we prepared this report those members of the

public who faithfully attend our meetings and provide valuable insights. Jennifer Donlin Wyatt

Jeff Jelsman city staff for their support and preparation of this report. While there are many

recommendations we would like to propose the active transportation commission decided to focus on

those that increase safety for vulnerable road users. Sacramento has one of the highest rates of

traffic fatalities per capita compared to other jurisdictions in California. Vision zero was

adopted in January 2017 which meant the city of Sacramento would work collaboratively in a

dated-driven effort to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2027.

However in the 2023 update to vision zero it was stated between 2017 and 2021 collisions in

which a person was killed are seriously injured in Sacramento increased by over 50 percent.

Obviously more needs to be done. The following recommendations all aim to increase safety for

pedestrians and cyclists to reduce injury and loss of life. Number one increase funding.

Active transportation should be a guaranteed part of the annual budget. We are currently looking at

a state of emergency for vulnerable street users. It's time to prioritize active transportation.

The total budget for the city is approximately $1 billion. The police department also responsible

for public safety receives approximately $226 million. That's about 29 percent of the general

measure you fund. Our less than $10 million request is minuscule compared to the total budget

and that allowed and that allowed it to the police department. In fact it's less than 1 percent

of this total city budget. City Council should show their commitment to saving the lives of pedestrians

and cyclists by allowing active transportation to have a permanent place in the budget. In the meantime

we're asking for the city to double the average match amount for active transportation grants

which will make the city more competitive for grant funding in the future.

Number two expand the speed management program. Speedlumps do help slow drivers down but

currently it is the only available tool in the toolbox. What else can be done? What other tools can

and should be added? Other options should be explored and implemented. Three quick build bikeways

program. Quick build street design projects get bikeable and walkable infrastructure projects

build fast and affordably. There are new techniques that realign and reassign space on streets using

paint and simple physical objects that can be cheaply purchased and quickly installed.

Four reestablish slow and active streets. We need more residential streets that prioritize

walking, biking, rolling and scooting by reducing through traffic from cars. This allows for a

safer and more comfortable environment for pedestrians and cyclists while still allowing local

vehicle access. Thus creating more calm and less congested streets for non motorized movement.

Five safe routes to school is a national movement that aims to make it safer and easier for

children to walk or bike to school. Benefits include improved health and well-being, a reduction

in traffic congestion and air quality improvement. Funded projects all include removing barriers to

walking and biking, creating safe routes and providing education and encouragement programs.

Six finalize the construction detour policy a long time coming and we look forward to having

the transportation needs of pedestrians and cyclists included and respected. One final note.

Thank you vice mayor maple for proposing an emergency declaration to address the high number

of pedestrian and cyclist deaths in the city with a call for increased funding and immediate

action to improve road safety measures. I would suggest skipping the public awareness part of

campaign put all increased funding to improving infrastructure. We know improvements to bicycling

and pedestrian infrastructure will save lives. At the conclusion of the 2023 vision zero update it was

stated the city of Sacramento recognizes that safety of human life is our highest priority and that

traffic deaths in serious injuries are preventable a public issue and must be addressed. I invite you

to support the goals of the active transportation commission to improve the city's infrastructure

to make using our streets safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Thank you.

Thank you vice chair maple. Oh public comment sorry yes.

Thank you chair. I have four speakers for public comment this morning our first speaker is Isaac Gonzalez

followed by Mark Harmon.

Good morning committee my name is Isaac Gonzalez. I'm the vice chair of the active transportation

commission and the founder of slow down Sacramento. I want thank you for hearing the active

transportation commissions reports today. There are 33 comments online on this item far and

away more than any other items tonight this afternoon clearly showing the magnitude of interests

in our population to see these recommendations approved and funded last Thursday slow down

Sacramento held a vigil at Fremont Park and we read the names of all 32 people who died in the

last calendar year in the city of Sacramento for vehicular violence 32 people. We would love to

see those numbers go down annually from here on out until we get to the day where we don't have

to have that vigil anymore to count these these numbers and last I just like to say that the

active transportation commission worked very hard and diligently to get this to you as early as

we could in the year knowing the logistics of the budget cycle so we're hoping that our efforts

were not in vain and that you will approve and fund these recommendations thank you.

Hello my name is Mark Herman and I live in district seven in Sacramento and land park and I urge you

to fully support the 2024 active transportation recommendations to council. They are long term

solutions that are not just band-aids and particularly we need to double the funding amount in the

city budget transportation projects in the city of Sacramento are funded with federal and state grants

which typically require a local match the active transportation commission's request to double the

average match amount for active transportation in order to make the city more competitive

to get those grants in the future we don't want to leave state and federal funding on the

table to try to solve these important issues it's too important once again I just really urge city

council to adopt and approve the active transportation commission recommendations so thank you.

Thank you our next speaker is Deborah Banks followed by Ben Raiderstorfe.

Good afternoon everybody happy new year great to see you this morning afternoon whatever it is

lunchtime I'm Deb Banks the executive director of Sacramento area bicycle advocates and I also

am a member of the active transportation commission I stand here to support the recommendations that

we have put before you and to answer which might come forward council member Kaplan's question if

we were had to prioritize across our six recommendations getting money for matches would be huge

because it would help accelerate funding for more infrastructure changes over the long term and of

course where we were so close last year with our quick build program I would highly recommend that if

nothing else we could find money for those two pieces of the whole report that would be the sweet

spot for being able to accelerate and get things done quickly so that we can get our streets to be

safer. Sabah helped run the May ride of silence we just heard a solid of Sacramento did a fantastic

job with the vigil just earlier this week and a national day of remembrance we would love for

these kinds of activities not to take place anymore and the only way we can do that is if we prioritize

and fund the kinds of actions and recommendations that we put forward in the active transportation

commission report that was a lot to say thank you very much. Thank you for your comments our final

speaker is Ben Raiderstorff. Thank you council members my name is Ben Raiderstorff apologies for

my voice I'm still recovering from last night's double overtime King's win. Light the beam. I'm here

I'm one of the co-presidents of how Sacramento which is an all-volunteer affordable housing advocacy

group but I'm here with my slow down Sacramento shirt on and in support of these recommendations

because I see these issues as fundamentally linked the city council over the last two years

all three members on the dies have been real leaders in the effort to make Sacramento a national

leader in allowing for more dense infill affordable housing many of those things have been really

revolutionary especially removing parking minimums implementing parking maximums and allowing

us to live a car-free more sustainable more livable more walkable future but that only works if

people feel safe walking and biking and many of the strategies that you all have successfully

implemented so far are going to start to fall flat unless we can make people more comfortable

living without a car it's it's something that you know I I understand that there are real concerns

about budgetary limitations and zero sum but the two things I'll say is first I think we need to think

of this not just as a moral obligation but really an investment opportunity right this is an

extraordinarily high leverage way that we can make our city more livable more vibrant my guess is

that these sort of projects we don't get to see how they play out over the long term of who's

moving into midtown into Sacramento because it feels like a more vibrant livable walkable

bikeable place but these do pay themselves back through investment over time and then second you

know this is not I know that you are being asked to devote general fund resources towards things

that have historically been grant funded but this is not a permanent expenditure this is a solvable

problem with these sort of investments over the next five years we can cut these numbers down and

make it so we don't have to be spending this money anymore thank you for your leadership

Vice Chairman thank you chair and so I've been going first on every item but this is an

senior and dear I think to all of our hearts and when I acknowledge that I want to thank everyone

from the public who came out when Isaac and slow down Sacramento thank you for hosting the

vigil and creating a space for family members and loved ones and folks from the community to come

out and to to share their pain it was it was difficult being there but it's important because

we have to understand that there are very real human life consequences to policy decisions that

we make or don't make and that also includes funding decisions and so I want to acknowledge all

the work of the Arctic Transportation Commission our incredible staff thank you you literally do

amazing work with almost nothing all the time and I know I said that a bunch but I'll keep saying it

you know having a program it's almost entirely grant funded is challenging and you are able to go

and get these incredible grants and make magic happen we see a lot of that that's already happened

on our streets just around city hall but we have to do more we know that and that is going to require

funding first and foremost I hear that a lot and clear from from folks in this room and I know that

many of you have been saying this for a long time and so obviously working on separately the

state of emergency so that we say hey we know this is this is an emergency but also the next step

is money is the money and where does that come from and so I'd like to make a motion that we

approve this report and then forward it to budget not it for a discussion about the funding piece

I think we need to have a fuller discussion before that goes to city council I think it's time

and I just really want to appreciate I don't I haven't seen this in almost any of the other reports

but taking the time to make sure that the funding is attached in the report is so helpful and so

thank you for first spending the time doing that because when we think about what we spend money on

I know we're in a deficit but when you think about how to get the most bang for your back $10

million to do some of these these changes in additions can literally mean saving lives and as was

mentioned this is this is a one-time often one-time investment that can pay dividends right one of

the things that I've heard talking to even developers that are building housing they looked at

projects like this as to whether or not they want to build somewhere because they know that when they

have projects let's say in downtown midtown or even the surrounding areas people want walkable

spaces they want to be able to ride their bikes they want to be able to be safe on the streets and

so that's a consideration when people are buying homes and they're renting their units here in midtown

and so if you know if those things exist it's it's an opportunity for more investment in our city

which means more revenues which means more that we can do to actually improve this so this is a

near and dear to my heart so just thank you to everyone and let's move this forward and I'm going

to take just another note that it's you know this is important the money in our general fund

finding a way to make that happen is important and I'm going to fight that for that now being on

budget not it but we also have to do more than that we don't have enough money in our city budget

to do everything that we need to do we don't it's not possible and so you know I I know that there

are several organizations out in the community including some other agencies around our region

that are working on what's next for measure a what is the transportation funding measure look like

I'm going to say that it's time I believe for us to have a 2026 ballot measure that addresses our

street needs but it includes things like this right includes funding for these active transportation

projects with the street improvements as well as public transit I think that's what people

sacrament I want versus increase investment in in our freeways and highway system we know what

the future is and so that's what I'll be fighting for and I'm hopeful that we can see these groups come

together in a quick fashion 2026 is going to be here before we know it collaborate and come up with

something that works for the community that we can move forward thank you thank you council member

telemongers I agree with everything vice mayor rape will just say

said it very well I 100% agree and I mean if we can repeat and shout at the top of our lungs to

slow down Sacramento I think that's what we need to continue doing and really just raising awareness

that you can leave the house earlier to do a kid drop off to go to work stop using your cell phones

like we need to be safe for each other so that we can all get home safely from point A to point B

you know it we need infrastructure dollars our general fund can't support it and that does mean a

ballot initiative but also human behavior and we have to remind ourselves to leave home earlier

right to get to the next location and reminding loved ones when you're in the car so that's a big

part that you know people kind of like yes the roads are dangerous and yes we need money to fix

them but also it's human behavior and something that you know I think the act of transportation

commission along with Isaac Gonzalez of slowing down Sacramento have done an incredible job

in trying to say hey and reminding people um often so thank you and keep up the good work

I second second by council member telemongers to once send the report on to council for review

but to make sure all the budget items get sent to budget and audit for discussion

Jennifer I want to thank you for your constant and never wavering leadership and push for these

item I want to thank my appointee chair Houdelle for constantly pushing on these items which we've

talked about um I mean the recommendations are what we should do in the city of Sacramento no matter

what um I think it's time we need to make the city of Sacramento a place that focuses on walking

and biking and public transportation and not car-centered policies and and that's hard to do but I

think when you look at well we've got budget difficulties one of the things I see with your

recommendations and even the dollar amount you put I think we can accomplish some of these without

the additional dollars because it does take policy changes and partnerships um that I think we

can do I'd also recommend uh that active transportation bring in public works to potentially talk

about because I have met with their director Matt Ironman and others to talk about the quick builds

that the city of Sacramento is already putting in place to talk about uh the traffic uh speed

management programs while we just approve reducing speeds on several city streets um I am already

working with them to reduce it on several other streets especially as we looked at which thank you

for the data I think the data is amazing where you look at the high frequency accidents um the law

does allow the city to have greater latitude in just slowing it down um I am also happy to share with

my fellow council members I worked with my North Natomas Transportation Management Association

jib um with a campaign that we started last year that says we slow down and we we are now going to

go into our schools because we slow down because we care for each other we slow down and it has

pictures of kids and bikes in the elderly that we just need to I think as a community

constantly say the same message that we need to slow down because we need to care more about

people in their lives than getting from point A um to point B and I think a lot of that is we

need to lead as as council members and have that unified message not a not a hodgepodge but how can

we move forward um in doing that and implementing some of the things that are out there that we can

do without the money so that we can thanks Deb you know my you know what my question was going to be

of of what the prioritization with limited funding how can we prioritize um because I don't want

just the green safe bike trails downtown why don't I get them in in Natomas why don't they go

in land park and met of you in South Natomas you know in your areas so um I think that's that's a

lot of what we can do and I'm very supportive as you guys move forward with this so thank you for

all of your work and there has been a first and a second we're all in favor all right all right thank

you next item is measure you community advisory commission and your work plan in 2025 or annual

report and 2025 uh work plan welcome chair Dickinson thank you thank you happy new you to all of you um

I am Marjorie Dickinson current chair of the measure you community advisory committee with me is

Walid Hochege um who took the lead in preparing the annual report and work plan as this is my last

official act as chair and um as the last original member of the measure you commission I want I

want to thank you all for the opportunity to serve it's been an honor to serve with the amazing

community members you and your colleagues have appointed over the last six years they're smart

they're passionate they're diverse they're committed they're engaged and it was an amazing

experience I also appreciate all the city staff who have supported the commission including

angel Salise from the city attorney's office Jacob Redberg from the city clerk's office and

particularly Ash Regani from the city manager's office for his professionalism wisdom and

responsiveness it's been very rewarding to begin to see the commission's values advice and

recommendations reflected in city actions that said I believe there are opportunities that

opportunities remain to find ways for this and for that matter all commissions to be better

integrated with council the staff staff decision making processes and to be viewed as resources

to council and staff I'm happy to discuss those thoughts on these opportunities with you at another

time um and with that I'll ask Commissioner Hojit to present the annual report and work plan.

Hello good afternoon chair and members of the personal and public employees committee my name is

Willie Hajj and I am a former mayor Steinberg's appointee to the measure you community advisory

commission and I'm so honored to be here to present on the 2024 annual report as well as the 2025

work plan. Today really I just want to highlight some of our key accomplishments over the last two

years really and provide a brief overview of our advice on community priorities and share our vision

for our work plan in 2025. So I'd like to first start with our mission and charge to give some

context in 2012 Sacramento voters approved measure you which was at the time a temporary half-cent

sales tax increase intended to restore police fire park maintenance and library services which

were adversely affected by the recession and in 2018 city voters approved a second measure you

ballot measure which is the permanent one-cent sales tax that we here are discussing. So as you know

the measure you community advisory commission was established to ensure the transparent and equitable

allocation of measure you funds these funds are not just numbers in a budget they represent the trust

and hopes of our Sacramento residents for more equitable inclusive and prosperous city. Over the

past two years we have worked tirelessly to ensure that these resources uplift underserved communities

address systematic inequalities and foster sustainable growth tools like the new Sacramento

equity explore design the C tool help us prioritize projects that tackle critical issues like

housing affordability economic development and youth services aligning with the mission and trust

it to us. So going on to our 2023 and 2024 accomplishments there are three real main things that

I want to highlight in 2023 now I was not a commissioner in 2023 so I would like to thank the chair

and my fellow co-mit commissioners for their guidance on the review but to start participatory

budgeting was initiated in 2023 contracts for participation participatory budgeting were launched

which gave our residents a direct voice in the allocation of funds and empowering our communities

we also saw leadership transition and under chairdickens under chairdickensens leadership

we successfully transitioned during a really pivotal period ensuring continuity and focus in

measure use objectives we also saw a subcommittee approval so the establishment of a subcommittee

provided a focused platform for detailed discussions on budgeting and policy recommendations

in 2014 excuse me 2024 the three main accomplishments were the focus group funding was secured

this was a huge accomplishment for our committee and it was something that we spent majority

of 2024 discussing so despite fiscal constraints we secured funding for focus groups which will

serve as critical tools to ensure community feedback and inform our discussions we are very excited

about conducting these focus groups in the very near future participatory budget pilot as well

we monitored the progress of the pilot program ensuring transparency and accountability as we

incorporated community driven priorities as we closed out the 2024 year our commission heard

from recipients of the participatory budgeting and it was really great to see the impact of those

dollars in our communities it I would highly recommend going back and watching the presentations

that we received because it was so empowering and also the restoration of the ad hoc committees so

after advocating for their return the city council proves this recommendation allowing for

greater flexibility and operational efficiency as you know we are so limited on our time and only

meeting once a month for a few short hours really is not enough to really discuss all of the

important things that we need so this has been super helpful additionally the independent audits

confirmed that measure you funds were allocated and expanded in full compliance with the 2018

ballot measure demonstrating the integrity and oversight that we provide advice on community priorities

so over the past two years our commission has emphasized the following priorities starting with

affordable housing and homelessness prevention as you all know Sacramento has seen a increase in

homelessness over the past decade addressing the crisis remains our top priority including

investments in affordable housing construction and homelessness prevention strategies the second

is community investment and inclusive economic development from supporting small businesses to youth

job skills development programs we aim to foster an environment where sacramentans can thrive and

lastly youth services and public safety programs for focused on libraries arts and violence prevention

remain central to our recommendations ensuring that we build a safer and more supportive community

for future future generations all of these priorities align with city auditor communities survey

which represent which residents overwhelmingly identified affordable housing and homelessness

as top concerns now moving on to the future 2025 work plan and vision we're really focused on

expanding our efforts and deepening our impact and we want to do that by focusing on income-based

performance metrics we spent a large portion of 2024 really thinking about these metrics we want

to refine how we measure the impact of measure you funded programs focusing on results rather than

just activities this will help us determine if investments are truly improving lives and where we

need to allocate funding especially when we're talking about a you know a strict budget deficit we

really want to make sure that the money we are using is having the most impact second we want to

focus on transparency and accountability we will continue hosting presentations from city departments

to review how funds are being spent and the measurable outcomes being achieved and lastly community

engagement so expanding participatory budgeting will remain a priority ensuring that residents play a

direct role in shaping how measure you funds are allocated is top of mind for us we also plan on

implementing high-level budget presentations to enhance commissioners understandings of physical

priorities and provide more actionable guidance so in conclusion over the past two years we have made

significant strides in promoting equity transparency and community engagement however there is still

much work to be done we really look forward to the continued collaboration with city leaders

community members and all of you here today to ensure that measure you funds are a catalyst for

transformative and lasting change in Sacramento thank you so much for your time and I'm here to

answer any questions as well as chair Dickinson thank you uh council member telemante is I'm going to

start with you I think uh well we measure you commission you guys are super involved in the

community especially my commissioner Marbella Salah who attends every single council meeting and

I'm just really grateful for your leadership and holding the people's taxpayer dollar accountable

I know Marbella does a really good job in that community explaining hey these are measure you these

are general fund these are enterprise funds and I'm just thankful for her leadership and all the

work that you guys do on the commission thank you and uh vice chair maple thank you chair um thank

you so much for the presentation it's always really informative and for the report and all the

all the work that you put into the work plan um and no times are tight right now uh you've heard

that for all the previous items as well but um these are important this is important work and so we

need to continue to prioritize it I'm especially interested in measuring the outcomes and impacts of

the participatory budgeting projects and how those um we're done in the community what that

looks like so thank you for that work and um hopefully someday in the future we can we can bring that

back I you know have a little I know that there's maybe other members of the committee that fill this

or the commission that fill this way too but um for any program you normally need more than one

year to measure impacts right so it was I think a little bit challenging to only have that one

year participatory budgeting it's kind of hard to assess whether or not those things truly made

an impact um and what that could look like over multi-year so I'm hopeful that we can bring back

at some point in the future perhaps when we have some more funding um to to be able to bring that

back and do it on a multi-year basis so that we can really assess um what that looks like and how

that works um but just wanted to end by saying uh thank you so much to chair Dickinson for your many

many years of service um on this commission and um it wouldn't have done it uh mostly anything that

it's done without without your work and you've done a lot to bring up and mentor and help support

other members of the commission too so I know it's um in really good hands um but just thankful for

your work thank you thank you um vice chair want to echo um I am really thankful for measure use

leadership and understanding especially wanting to what are you funding and what is it doing

and is it accomplishing what it's doing because I think um other agencies and other you know

local government jurisdictions do a really good job and I think the city is trying to catch up

but especially when you look at budget deficits you need as much data as possible of making sure

that programs that are really working and accomplishing what we're trying to do and the goals in the

city are actually doing that and we can relook at do we need to pause something do we need to change

something or is it a program we tried and it's in it's not working so thankful for your committee's

leadership on looking at that because I don't think it's just measure you that we need to do that

but it's a citywide thing so I appreciate the commission taking that on and really pushing

as us as a council that that needs to become a standard in everything we do so chair Dickinson um

thank you you're welcome and I do want to say the city staff is moving on performance measures

and metrics and we're we've been having conversations about integrating our commission expertise which

we have with their considerations from the from the beginning so that so that we don't end up in a

place where it's presented all done and we say but did you think about this we want to be

we want to be part of did you think about this conversation from the beginning so that when when

the performance measures initiatives is presented to council we can be there and say this is a really

good thing that is going to move us forward towards the goals that you have about understanding your

programs and their impacts and thank you for that because that it does matter when we have more

voices and different perspectives I think it ends up in a better place we may not all agree but

I think it's a better product that is presented to us and I am happy that that started under the

leadership of former mayor Steinberg of really pushing that and seeds not perfect but it gets us

more to what we're we're looking for so thank you for that I'm working with city staff with that

I will take a motion to move this on to council for review moved by talent on today second

by vice mayor maple all in favor all right I can't mute myself not enough coffee

we'll move on to our last report and thank you to the to the board members who are in the

audience here the city of Sacramento ethics commission 2324 annual report and 25 work plan hi

Linda come on down well thank you thank you good morning and happy new year chair member of the

committee Linda in chair and Alan Lafonso vice chair of the Sacramento ethics commission thank

you for this opportunity for us to present the 2023 24 and new report highlighting key developments

in the activities of the commission two new commissioners Alan Lafonso and Annette Emory

were appointed replacing Liz Gomez and Susan Underwood along with the Anna Adams Nicole

Velasquez making up the five members of our commission the commission held 11 meetings including

three high profile hearings and received council approval for the modernization of the lobbyist

registration and reporting code estimate meeting and consulting expenses for the reporting period

is 120,000 and we also want to thank the commission staff minicabee jakep repart Gary Lindsay

for the invaluable assistance for in this annual report now noteworthy initiatives including

the creation of a PowerPoint presentation and a three-fold brochure aiming at expanding community

engagement both of these are included in the report and looking ahead to 2025 the commission's plans

enhance as community outreach efforts and foster public trust by creating comprehensive

ethics training guidelines for city officials and commissioners ensuring transparency and adherence

to best practices Alan oh thank you Linda I think Linda want to be to just elaborate a little

bit on our work plan there in addition to the PowerPoint presentation and doing outreach to

communities which is something we've been talking about for our commission has been talking about

for quite a number of years we're finally ready to actually start doing it there are some training

issues which I I propose to you are pretty modest I think you're all aware that there's been a

lot of discussion around our commission about what we might be or what we could be but I think we're

very focused now on what we are and there's some valuable language in our in the preamble of our

enabling ordinance about the importance of training so I think we just wanted to do a little bit of

an oversight and make sure that city training is up to snuff and meeting the city's broad-based

goal in the good government enactments from 2017 to ensure an ethical climate as well as some

training opportunities for ourselves as commissioners I will say in my one year as a commissioner and

as an aside I'll say it was 364 days ago that this committee nominated me for the ethics commission

and I thank you from the bottom my heart for the opportunity but I spent a lot of time trying to

understand sort of where we've been and how we've gotten here and I think there's a very important

gap for us to really understand what our responsibilities as ethics commissioners are

in questions that we should bring to hearings that we haven't necessarily brought to them what's

the role of law versus fact who's the prosecutor who's the judge those kinds of things those things

have been discussed actually in some prior council meetings in response to some of the commission's

earlier reports finally I'll just close some other former council members have noted models that

were used to form our commission in some other cities such as say Long Beach in San Jose and I think

would be good opportunity for us to get some resources for some of those other cities and understand

how commissions that are designed generally along the lines of our own would have worked and some

of the issues they've encountered as it relates to similar commissions so those are the sort of more

details along the lines of our training work plan elements thank you I really want to thank both

of you Linda for being always consistent and pushing issues you know a lot of our boards and

commissions you guys are volunteers and it's really from your beliefs and your hearts that you

push things forward to try and make our city better and everything we do and Alan your

many many many years of experience and knowledge that you are very humble about of what is

brown act and ethics and having worked in and around politics for decades is really valuable

for the ethics commission I am I am very supportive of the direction that you guys are taking I think

an additional community outreach how can you do that how can you engage the community because

the more the community understands I think it just fosters a better a better direction for our city

when people understand what the ethics commission can and can't do I am also very supportive of

additional training I think there is a lot of training that already exists online so I'm

supportive of our clerk's office looking at that what is already online what can be added to what

you guys are doing but also how can we train additional commissioners how can it be kind of like an

online resource that we also say when you join the commission please take this training and it's

free and available I know there's a lot of stuff out there it may be like a one-time fee that we

have to purchase it and use it for boards and commissions but I also look forward I hope that

you guys can do some more research on San Jose and Long Beach you know understanding we do have a

budget deficit and so it's the balance of the limits of what are some things we as a city can do

that maybe policy changes and then what are the costs knowing that you know council has given

direction on on some of that stuff but colleagues any other comments all right well then I will

move this item forward to city council for review is there a second second my council member

Talamontes all in favor hi thank you for your work well thank you so much and check up do we

have any public comments for items not on the agenda thank you chair I have no public comments on

this item awesome well with that being said thank you everyone for moving these items forward

quickly and letting our commissions continue their good work at 1228 I'll call this meeting adjourned