Okay, this meeting is officially in order.

I would like the clerk to call the roll, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Member Talamantes.

Vice Chair Kaplan.

Here.

Member Van.

Here.

And Chair Jennings.

Here.

So let me welcome you to the City of Sacramento, personnel and public employee committee meeting.

I am so pleased that you are all here.

And we have an incredible group this here.

And I'm going to have Council Member Eric Guerra introduce this group and let them do

our land acknowledgement as well as positive allegiance.

Council Member Guerra.

Thank you, Chair.

And before the City Attorney and Monish is us here, I'm going to introduce our group

of folks here who are guests from District 6.

Please welcome our students and scholars from Mark Twain Elementary.

Let's give them a big round of applause, everybody.

I'd like to introduce our teacher who has been working with them and our Sacramento

History Society.

And also to thank Laurie Stevens, who's here from District 6 and Assistant Teacher.

Let me introduce Jason Hartenit to introduce our students who will be doing the pledge of

allegiance and land acknowledgement.

Jason.

Thank you.

These are my students, Tiana Ray Controte.

Raka Droca and Valeria Margas.

All right.

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

and tributes lands.

To the original people of this land, the knees on people, the southern Maidu Valley and

the land, the knee walk, puttwin and windton peoples and the people of the Lilleton, Rituria,

Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

Maybe acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside

us today on these n-structural lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice

of acknowledgement and appreciation for the Sacramento and the indigenous people's history

and contribution and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the Puddle Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

which it stands one notion under God in the visible liberty and justice for all.

Can I have my two presenters come to the front to the podium again, please?

My two presenters, the land acknowledgment and the pledge of allegiance.

Come to the microphone, please.

Okay.

So, I just want to let you know what a great job you did.

And I know that it's tough sometimes getting up in front of people.

I know that because all of us have had to do that before.

And sometimes it's real tough.

But through it all, you stood up and you did what you're supposed to do.

And I just want to acknowledge you and applaud you and in front of all of your peers, let

them know you did an incredible job.

So please join me in giving them a round of applause.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I want you to use this as a practice experience.

And I want you to come back the next time and do it even better than you did it this time.

But you are always invited to come back and do the pledge of allegiance and our landing

knowledge.

You're always invited.

Okay.

All right.

Great.

Well, thank you, Chair.

And to that point, today's experience is about their expression of their story here

at City Hall.

So we encourage you after the commission meeting to join us will be in the lobby.

We want to thank Councilmember Wang for her past work and her school who came here and

did the same thing.

And we appreciate that and we look forward to you joining us after the hearing.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

And we'll see you afterwards.

And Councilmember Guerrero, I just want to thank you for making this happen.

This is an experience that they will remember for the rest of their lives.

I got the chance to meet them in the hallway on the fifth floor and had the opportunity

to talk with them and to make sure that they learn as much as they can about City Hall.

Because what I see in this group, I see people who we will continue to serve.

I see people who will come and be employed by the City of Sacramento.

I see people who are change agents in the City of Sacramento.

I see greatness in this group.

And I'm looking forward to whatever they do that we support them in all of their endeavors.

So thank you for what you've done in bringing them here to us.

Let's give Councilmember Guerrero a round of applause.

Thank you, Chairman.

But the real recommendation goes to our teachers and principal Dominic Compos from Mark Twain Elementary.

I think he deserves a big round of applause.

Great.

I will exit out quietly so you can get conducted business of the day, Mr. Chairman.

But I want to thank everyone for being here and let's, we're going to walk out quietly this way.

So thanks, Chairman.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, committee.

Okay, while they are moving out,

we will move to the consent calendar and the approval of the personnel and public employee committee meeting minutes from February the 4th.

I have a motion and a second.

Is there any additional comments or conversation?

Seeing none, hearing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed?

Any abstentions?

We are unanimous in moving the consent calendar forward.

Thank you.

Okay, we will now move into the heart of our agenda, our discussion item, and I'll have the city clerk read the number two item.

Thank you, Chair.

Our next item is review of applicants for the Animal Wellbeing Commission.

The seat needing recommendation today is seat K.

The requirements for seat K are as follows.

The member must have an expressed interest or demonstrated history of community involvement in animal welfare, operation of an animal welfare center or animal rescue, and must be currently employed in the operation of an animal shelter, humane society or academic shelter medicine program.

We have one applicants for review today, and that applicant is Samantha Christie.

We have a remind applicant that you will have two minutes to seek on the item.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to interview for this position.

I have been a resident of Sacramento for four years, living in District 3.

I initially applied for seat C, but since I had already been filled, I staff determined that I qualify for seat K.

I am deeply committed to understanding and improving animal welfare and Sacramento, particularly when it comes to span new resources and animal care standards.

I have seen the challenges that our community faces in accessing animal care resources, and I'm dedicated to working on solutions that support both animals and the people who care for them.

I have worked in the animal welfare field as a wildlife rehabilitator for over 15 years.

In my current role with the UC Davis oiled wildlife care network, I work with a team that manages a statewide network of animal care professionals and leads disaster training and response efforts for wildlife.

I am also the vice president of the board of directors for the California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators, and in this role, I organize annual symposiums, and I've contributed to the development of wildlife care regulations.

These roles have honed my skills in volunteer management, protocol development, and community outreach.

I've also been fostering dogs and cats for over 20 years since I was a little kid.

Currently, my family and I care for over 20 foster animals in our home each year.

And this experience has given me a clear understanding of the critical need for expanded span newter services and Sacramento.

While I've always approached animal welfare from a boots on the ground perspective, I'm eager now to broaden my impact by addressing these issues at a higher level and contributing to larger scale solutions.

I'm excited to bring my experience knowledge and dedication to the animal wellbeing commission, and I thank you for your consideration.

Thank you. I'm going to have you stay there because it looks like we may have some questions and comments.

Council Vice Mayor, Telemonté.

Okay.

We have public comment.

All right. We do have public comment. We'll take that first.

Thank you, Chair. Yes, I do have one member of the public with a speaker slip in on this item. Lea Morris.

Hello. Thank you so much for the time today. My name is Lea Morris and I am currently the vice chair of the animal wellbeing commission.

I want to thank you all for your efforts to help us fill the seats on the commission.

And I'm here in support of this candidate.

I believe that her skills in the health policy of animal welfare arena will be helpful to our shelter work and our commission work.

And I believe that her experience with caring for animals at her home is also supportive of some of the learning that we as commissioners bring to our seats.

The fact that she's connected to UC Davis also is a positive in our mind.

My mind and my colleagues mind because with our shelter medicine evaluation from UC Davis, we think that this is also a positive relationship we can build.

So thank you for your time. Also thank each of you for your care and interest in our shelter.

We know that you're committed and we appreciate your support. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Are there any other comments?

Thank you, Chair. I have no more speaker slips on this item.

Okay. All right. Vice Mayor Telemonte.

I'd like to make a motion to move Christie and to seat K for the animal wellbeing commission and go Aggies and so glad you're a resident of district three.

I'll second.

Okay. It has moved and seconded any further discussion.

Seeing none hearing none. All in favor say aye.

Opposed say nay.

Upstain. Let the vote be for zero. It is unanimous.

Well, welcome, Miss Christie. We are so happy to have you and looking forward to your work on this commission.

Congratulations.

Okay. Clerk. We'll take the next item.

Thank you, Chair.

Item three is the review for applicants for the compensation commission.

The seat needing the seats needing recommendation today or seats C and E.

The requirements for these seats are identical and as follows.

Members representing the public at large and shall be a resident of the city of Sacramento.

We have three applicants for review today.

Our first applicant is Teresa Rivera.

And I'll remind applicants again that you'll have two minutes to speak.

Thank you. First, let me thank you for the opportunity for interviewing today.

This is in 30, 40 years of the living here in Sacramento.

This is the second time I've ever met at this podium.

So bear with me for my mistakes in the study.

I'm interested in serving as for the following reason.

As an active member of the community has given me the opportunity to attend several meetings and participate on boards and commission.

Currently, I am on the Crocker Museum Board and the Mental Health Board.

Formally, I was on the Measure U Commission and the Sacramento League of Women Voters Board.

Understanding the value of serving on boards and commission requires a lot of time.

Reviewing agendas and attachments.

Researching agenda topics for discussion and collecting data.

Attending the subcommittee and attending subcommittees.

Bottom line, I believe in a fair compensation for those who serve the general public.

As for I also as a public and private management experience in evaluating merit increases.

By supporting documents.

For me attending the City Council and the board meetings has illustrated the workload and commitment by all members to in order to evaluate their compensation.

That's it. Thank you guys.

Thank you very much.

Our next applicant is Daniel Rubenstein.

He does not appear to be in the audience and he also notified our office earlier this morning that he would not be able to appear.

So our final applicant on this item is Stephen Cone.

Well, good morning, Council members.

Pleasure to be here this morning.

The question and compensation for our elected officials is a very delicate one.

One that can be very political as we've seen.

I think it's is it's Sutter County recently or Yuba County had a big controversy and that's why the council years ago put a measure on the ballot that people overwhelmingly approved to create this commission so that a thoughtful balance could be brought to bear.

So that's it. The issue is balance taxpayer interest along with how do we set a fair salary that will allow people to serve in the best interest of the city.

As you know, I served on the council for 20 years.

During most of that time, I worked if not full time.

Certainly 80% time as an attorney at SMUD wasn't easy when when I first started as I recall, we got paid per meeting.

A thousand dollars per month is usually what it ended up.

So 12,000 a year.

That was a little tough even back in 1994.

It's gone up since then, but it's still important that we balance these answers.

So I'm willing to serve if the council wants me to do so and happy to take any questions.

Thank you very much.

We will take questions from the audience and then from my colleagues and we may bring you back up.

All right. Thank you.

All right.

I can confirm we have no speaker slips on the side.

Okay.

Then let me bring up first.

Council member Lisa, Lisa Kaplan.

And then council member Maia Banks.

Thank you, Chair.

You know, I think we have two fine public servants who have shown up today.

So I would like to make a motion that, well, you know, I am a little concerned.

I'm not sure 20 years of experience that Mr. Cohen said is enough to qualify.

We might be able to wave at this time.

But seat C, today's set are Rivera and seat E, Mr. Steve Cohen.

That is your motion.

That is my motion.

Council member Boehme.

Yeah.

I will second councilwoman Kaplan's motion on the table.

I really just want to take this moment to thank Teresa and Steve for stepping up to the

plate and making yourself available to serve on this committee, this commission, this

commission in particular and look forward to working with you all of you very closely.

So thank you so much.

Council member Telemonte.

And also be voting yes.

And I just want to thank you both for understanding like the roles the city council has.

I know I've seen Theresa and the audience at many council meetings right now and just

watching the meetings.

So just I know you have been here watching the meetings and that was going on.

So thank you so much for your service and then happy to support and yeah, 20 years experience.

I think you know what we do.

Well, I'm not called for the role here quickly, but before I do that, I just want to say to

both of you, you've taken on additional responsibility when you didn't have to and you've always

stepped up when there was a need.

And I just can't thank you enough for stepping up to this opportunity and I know you will

serve well because that's what you've always done.

So thank you.

Okay.

All in favor of the two candidates for the two spots, please say aye.

Any opposed?

abstain?

It is unanimous by this committee that Theresa Rivera and Steve Cohn will be our new commissioners

for the compensation committee.

Congratulations.

Next item, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Item number four is the review of applicants for the Utilities Rate Advisory Commission.

The seats needing recommendation for today are seats J and K. The requirements for seats

J and K are identical and as follows.

Members must have demonstrated interest in or demonstrated leadership in one or more

of the following areas.

Planning, auditing, construction management, engineering, finance, law, sewage collection,

and treatment, solid waste collection and disposal, recycling, storm water collection and conveyance,

water quality, or water supply and distribution.

We have four applicants for review today.

Our first applicants is Soren Nelson.

And again, I will remind applicants that you'll have two minutes to speak on the item.

Thank you.

Good morning, Mr. Chair.

Good morning, members.

Nice to be with you here today.

My name is Soren Nelson, a resident of District 5.

For the last six years, I've worked at the Association of California Water Asiancies

where I'm a policy advocate.

In my capacity at Aqua, I've developed expertise around many of the issues that face public

utilities in California and understand how those challenges can impact our rates.

Bank state and federal support for local infrastructure, climate change, inflation, limitations

like proposition to 18 have created significant financial pressure for local utilities, including

Sacramento, and those challenges are often borne by rate pairs.

A big part of my role at Aqua is interacting with the public and decision makers in helping

translate these sort of esoteric technical things that translate into real impacts for

people who are customers of our utilities in California.

My reason for wanting to serve on this commission is not complicated.

I've spent a lot of years developing skills and expertise in this area and would like

to be able to use that knowledge to benefit my community and support the work of this

council.

I think with what's going on in the world now is a time to lean in to government and lean

into your community and not withdraw.

So this is the way that I've found to do that and I have to have your support.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Our next applicant is Tim Olson.

Morning, Mr. Chairman and members.

My name is Tim Olson.

I'm a resident of District 4, have been since 1986 and grew up in attended local schools

here.

My credentials include a range of things including technology 40 years experience at the California

Energy Commission.

I'm retired from the state government at this point.

I was a line manager policy advisor to commissioners involved in the whole range of energy

and air quality and environmental topics.

I deployed as a line manager deployed funding for many several different landfill gas and

wastewater treatment plants including San Mateo, Contra Costa, Napa, several in Southern

California.

And one here in Sacramento was the Clean World Partners project in South Sacramento and

they had a project in Davis too.

People evaluated rate structures for renewable energy sources in my career there and led a policy

task force that evaluated options to comply with the SB 1383 which every local government

is now struggling with to divert organic food waste from landfills and deal with wastewater

treatment types of projects.

Also currently a seven term member of the Sacramento Air Quality Management District

hearing board and familiarity with a lot of air quality issues in a quasi judicial forum

very familiar with parliamentary activity.

And financing background.

I'm a financial officer for a hotel like Cohen and Florence Oregon and I'm member of

the financing committee of the Sacramento Natural Food Co-op.

Thank you for your appearance today.

Your two minutes has completed.

Thank you very much sir.

Our next applicant is Samaha Sammy and they also notified our office that they would not

be able to appear this morning as well as Ivan Sinkovich and they do not appear to

be here as well.

So that concludes our review of applicants for the Utilities Raid Advisory Commission.

I can confirm that we have no speaker slips for this item.

Okay, I'll then move to my colleagues.

Council member Lisa Kaplan.

Thank you chair.

Utility Raid Commission is normally very, very quiet but we have a lot of stuff that is going to be coming

before the commission and relooking at what our needs are with DOU.

So having two experienced individuals who understand this I think is really important

and it appears we have two very qualified I think probably all four who applied qualified

but two before us today.

So I will make a motion for Soren Nelson to be appointed to seat J and Tim Olson to

be appointed to seat K.

Okay the motion has been made.

It has been seconded by Vice Mayor Telemonte.

Are there any other questions from my colleagues?

Motion has been made all in favor please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstain?

Again we are unanimous.

Congratulations to the two of you.

Nice job.

Okay.

Next item please.

Thank you chair.

Next item item five is City of Sacramento Community Police Review Commission 2024 Annual Report

and 2025 Work Plan.

And I believe there will be a presentation by, is there a staff presentation?

Seeing none.

There will be no staff presentation on the item.

I do have a speaker slip for this item.

Okay.

All right our speaker is Keon Bliss.

Greetings City Council.

My name is Keon Bliss and I am the former Commissioner for District 4 and the former chair

for the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission before I was replaced last January.

And I would, you usually have given a presentation over this given that the report today, the staff

report today does not contain our full complete version of our 2024 Annual Report and Work

Plan which included the 2024 recommendations that we approved on December 9th.

I have already forwarded and I have already emailed you the full report which contains appendices

A through G which contains all of our recommendations from 2018 all through 2024.

And I am here to urge you today not just to approve the Annual Report and recommendations

but to take urgent action and pay close attention to our 2024 strategic planning and budget

management recommendations calling for an independent audit of Sacramento Police Department's

overtime policies, procedures and expenditures.

Given the city's projected budget deficit exceeding $60 million, it's crucial for the

Council to take immediate action on this recommendation given the observation of the

commission noted in the full Annual Report which includes that the city has paid staggering

$158 million in overtime to the Sacramento Police Department from 2012 to 2024 with at least

81% of that being paid after 2016 and then in 2023 alone overtime pay reached $23 million

for the whole year which is a tenfold increase from 2011 with the top expenditures being

the complaint back filling the complaint desk, court appearance times and the impact teams.

Also noting that several dozen police officers in the department have exceeded their pay

of 70% and even 100% of their base salaries.

The 13 police officers managed to double their base salary using overtime pay alone.

These figures just are a highlight.

The time is complete.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you for your comments.

Your time is complete.

Chair, I have no more speaker slips on this item.

Thank you for your comments.

Okay.

Are there any other public comments?

No chair, I have no more public comments on this item.

Okay.

Okay.

To my colleagues, Lisa Kaplan and my bang would like to speak.

Thank you, Chair.

We did as a commission receive an email from a couple of the new Sacramento Commission

police review commissioners that they would like to give further input.

There are a majority almost or 50% are new to the Sacramento review police commission.

And I in order for them to really give input, I think it's wise to send it back to them

either even if they just reconfirm it and all agree that they're all on the same page

for how they want to handle their 2025 work plan and considering the concerns of Mr.

Bliss who said that some things were not attached.

I'd like to send it back so that we can get a full report when they adopt it and send it back to us for consideration.

So when the time comes, I will make that motion, but I would like to hear any questions.

Council member Van Kess.

Thanks.

First, I just wanted to take this moment to think all of our commissioners on this commission for your hard work.

I know it's many hours that you've put in to develop this annual report.

Really appreciate the three recommendations, the key three recommendations that you provided to the mayor and council.

And I was just say, I did take a look at the 2025 goals and work plan.

And they're actually pretty broad.

And so I did see the comm, the, the, the letter from Commissioner from District 4 and 7 and really appreciate them reaching out asking to provide additional feedback.

What I will say though, because I took a look at the annual report, is that four of the four of the goals for 2025 for the work plan is pretty broad.

And I feel like it allows room for new commissioners to provide input because this is a work plan for the year.

And so my recommendation would be to move forward with this.

Knowing that this is a work plan and new commissioners can be part of providing input on these four area goals, which I feel like is pretty broad.

For example, I'll read the first one, strengthen the commission and it's working relationship with SacPD and the city council.

I don't think that's controversial.

And I think that we can move forward with that.

And I say that as someone who also just appointed a new commissioner as well,

Janine Gaines, who will be serving on the police commission.

And I feel like the goals that the commission has worked on to put forth today.

The goals are pretty broad that it allows room for the new commissioners to continue to provide input and to work on this work plan.

So my recommendation would be actually to move this item forward.

Knowing that the plan is still flexible and that new commissioners can provide their experience and their insight to make this plan even better.

And so that would be my recommendation on the floor, councilman, and if that's, so I just wanted to give you and share with you my thoughts.

So.

Okay, so I've got one recommendation to send it back and another one is to move it forward.

The other piece is also because commissioners have worked so hard on this annual work plan.

And I did read the four, the five, the four, there's four, yeah.

The four goals and they're pretty broad in terms of direction.

So it was still allowed for new commissioners to provide their input moving forward.

So yeah.

All right.

I'll bring up vice mayor Tilla Montes with some comments.

Yeah, thank you chair.

Well, I am supportive of my Vings motion to move it forward to council.

I, well, my commissioner Z. Wayne Johnson passed away and this is the work that he did.

And I just, I can't not move it forward to council.

That's, I mean, that's his work and his hours of thought and input.

And, you know, we have new commissioners and they'll get an opportunity this year in 2025 to work on the goals.

And to continue the progress of the commission and the oversight, the transparency and then working hand in hand with our city manager's office to make sure that we're getting information and data accordingly to be able to move forward as a city.

So just out of respect for him and I end the work that they've done this year.

I think it's good to just go on to council.

Okay.

Council member Kaplan has another comment.

Thank you chair.

You know, I, my commissioner is okay if it comes back for a review look.

I think they're, you know, we're kind of at a little bit of a standstill so it can kind of go a couple ways.

If I make a motion, not assuming anything, but let's say chair you second ends up a two to we can then request it to go to council for no discussion vote only.

As to whether this moves forward for adoption.

If that motion does not pass, then it does, it can be then the motion is to send it completed back to the Sacramento Police Review Commission for review and update of the work plan before it comes back.

If, if by chance our motion fails, then the work plan comes to council for adoption.

So, you know, it's kind of we may be at a stalemate, but the rules allow us for it to be stalemate, it to go up to council and council.

Just, it's a straight up vote.

There's no debate, no nothing.

Where do we as council?

Because when we redid the rules, this is what a two to does.

It just goes up to council.

Where are the five votes as to what the next direction is?

So, we have that choice or we could potentially move this forward, but direct the Sacramento Police Review Commission to look at this work plan.

And before it comes to council, if they have anything that they want to change, they can come to the meeting and we can pull it from the agenda.

And we can have a debate at council for any changes of what they want to see at the work plan.

So, I wanted to chair, provide you with some options and get your input since you haven't spoken yet, but you're the chair.

No, I haven't spoken yet because I, you know, many times when there are new colleagues that come onto the city council, we don't want to move forward without hearing their voice.

And so, even though a lot of work has been done in the past by those who have served and good work that has been served,

many times we want to make sure out of respect for those who are coming on that we want to hear their voice as well.

And so, I can understand both sides of the disappointment and it sounds like we would be deadlocked in a two to two vote just based on hearing my colleagues here.

The thing that I'm probably most concerned about other than what I just mentioned is moving forward with the military equipment portion of the commissioners work.

And that's something I think needs to be done because it's time-sensitive.

And I think we need to move that portion forward in order for the state requirements and the use of that necessary equipment.

And so, as long as that's not a part of this motion, that's what I want to do is make sure that we move that part of it forward.

And then we can continue to debate about what we do.

Can we get clarity from Council?

Can we hold it because it's a lay that military?

It doesn't delay the military use policy as its own timeline.

I'm not quite sure when it's going to wait, when it's coming back again.

It was relatively recent.

So, is the question can you send a portion of the report forward?

Yeah.

Or a report back.

Either way, can we hold a portion or move it back?

You know, if-

I think it's- I think it's- can we move forward with the M.E.U. policy that is in this report to Council to be able to adopt it so that we meet state guidelines and then hold the report behind here so that I can go back to the commission.

I'm sorry.

No, thank you.

I would say-

I don't know how you would split the report into pieces.

However, you could certainly- certainly that- that- that- the clerk could include that those recommendations in any staff report when the M.E.U. comes back.

And the members of the commission could certainly speak.

But it- for us as far as passing a portion of the report forward?

Yeah.

You do that to be totally honest.

I don't think you can do it.

Or- or does it go back to- it doesn't matter what this report says about M.E.U. because M.E.U. has its own timeline.

Correct.

Correct. It does- it does have its own timeline.

I might be missing the question here but it seems to me like the- the information can certainly go forward.

It just isn't going to go forward in the format of the- of the actual- annual report from the review commission.

Because part of the requirement is on M.E.U. it does go to the police review commission and it has.

Correct.

So it doesn't necessarily have to pass by us because they've already met the requirement at the police review commission.

So then if I understand correctly then our- our officers and- and the police department continues to work on it within the timeline.

Because you're still going to come back to the police review commission again.

Correct.

So there is no portion of- of whatever we do today will affect the military equipment use policy.

Okay.

So I see- I see you with your hand up but it's not appropriate at this point in time to- to bring you up in to do that.

So I'm looking for staff right now to help us with this to the degree that we need staff as input to this.

And if they do I would love for them to come up.

Good morning Captain and Clayton and Cain and Secretary.

This- the M.E.U. timeline is totally separate like- as it's turning my wood or send.

It's totally separate so bringing it back it has nothing to do with it.

Our reporting period for this year ends April 31st and starts May 1st.

So that's when we'll start our- annual report is at April- well the first week of May is when we start- we'll- we'll already start- we'll- start finishing that.

We're still planning on having the community meeting as scheduled sometime in July.

We don't have that date solidified yet but we still are working towards those and I think that's the biggest portion of this.

But they will get the- the same process as last year it's not going to change at this point unless we're directed to change it.

But that's- that's where we're at right now.

So by not moving forward it's not going to matter if the M.E.U.s in there or not.

Because M.E.U. falls- AB 41 falls under to hold different guidelines then.

This we have to follow the- the law that's on that.

All right. Thank you. Any other questions?

Our colleagues and the other questions?

Okay. Thank you.

I have- I have questions for legal- can I- please-

Okay. Just wanted to clarify processes- from what councilwoman Kaplan shared.

So if it- it's a stalemate to to to- it would go to council- and- councilwoman- councilwoman Kaplan shared that.

So if you can't be discussed it has to be a straight vote.

Can a council member pull the item even if it's on consent to have a conversation about it to have a discussion about it?

It goes for without recommendation from this body for approval or for not- or not.

So it would go straight to the council for a straight vote.

Or a straight vote.

It- it- because how we wrote the rules when there's a stalemate at a subcommittee or committee.

It just goes straight up for a vote.

It's not a consent item. It's not- it's just the first vote item.

So whatever the recommendation on the stalemate is, it's- which side gets five votes?

Mm-hmm.

And that decides what the next direction for staff is.

Okay.

So I mean there is a stalemate.

So I will go back to- I will make the motion to send the report back to the Sacramento Police Review.

I will go back to the Sacramento Police Review Commission for input and adoption and changes of any of the 2025 working plan.

And that's my motion.

And I would second that motion.

This is point in time.

And the question now says, is there another motion on the floor?

Yeah, I like to make a counter motion to approve the annual report and recommendations to move forth to the full council for consideration.

And I will second that.

I mean I guess to me, this is a commission recommendation to City Council.

Anything that we do or do not like on this report, we can change that council.

And so like- and like I said, I mean this is more- and this is very personal to me.

It's more personally, anything else.

Like, please, like just- my commissioner worked on this.

Having his work be stalled here at personnel committee is just- like just not right in my heart.

Like just let him move forward to council.

And if we don't want it, then we can have the full council conversation and we can just decline the report.

And that's it.

Like we can make changes.

There's nothing here that is- you know, 2025 commission is going to have an opportunity to create a work plan.

Every year we're going to continue to do this.

So like, I guess for me, to my colleagues just- at our respect for my commissioner who worked on this, please just move forward to council.

Okay, let's call the question.

And I- okay, I got two names up.

I just want to make sure they've already-

Yeah, so-

So the counter motion is on the table.

So we'll take a road call- vote on that.

So we're voting on the counter motion, which is the motion I had in Talamontas seconded.

So-

So the second- the second question of-

That's what we're voting-

Standing it forward.

Yes.

That's the one we'll vote on first.

Yes.

Okay, all in favor.

Let's do- let's just-

Roll call.

Roll call, yeah.

Now that the roll call votes on the alternate motion made by Council Member Van and seconded by Council Member Talamontes.

Vice Mayor Talamontes?

Aye.

Member Kaplan?

No.

Member Van?

Yes.

And Chair Jennings?

Out of respect for my colleagues, I'll say yes.

Thank you, the motion passes.

Thank you, everyone.

Okay.

All right.

We good?

Okay, next item, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Item number six is the City of Sacramento Arts Culture and Creative Economy Commission 2024 Annual Report in 2025 Work Plan.

I believe we have a staff presentation.

Yes.

Thank you, Chair Jennings and Members of the Committee.

Jason Jong.

Cultural and Creative Economy Manager with the Office of Arts and Culture.

I want to thank you for providing us with this opportunity to share highlights of the Arts Culture and Creative Economy Commission.

I'm also very thankful for our young folks who joined us earlier today who are a reminder for why we are here, why we do this work.

They are the future and our goal is to uplift opportunities for arts culture and creativity for folks of all ages, all throughout the City of Sacramento.

It's my privilege and honor to work with our staff and also with me here today who will be giving the bulk of the presentation our recently appointed Chair, we will be a level of District 8

and Commissioner Justina Martino who is now our Vice Chair of District 6.

So for folks who might be listening, the purpose of the Commission is to provide advice and recommendations to the City Council for promoting, encouraging and fostering the arts, innovation and tourism in the City.

As staff to the Commission, I get to work with these fine folks in advancing the goals of the Office of Arts and Culture.

They are our thought leaders and partners in this work. This is an 11-member body and we hopefully, after today's Council meeting, are looking at bringing in two additional members of the Committee, we will hopefully have just one remaining vacancy on our Commission body.

I'm now going to hand it over to our Chair, Luisa Lavolo, who will be sharing highlights of our annual report which you have a copy of and Luisa will be then passing it to Justina Martino who will be giving some highlights of our work plan.

With that, I'm going to hand it over to our Chair, Luisa Lavolo.

Good morning. Like you said, I'm Luisa Lavolo and I wanted to go over a couple of the key accomplishments that we had in our annual report for grants and programs review.

We received an update from staff highlighting the Capital Region Creative Corp's program, a community's or a $4.75 million project funded by the California Arts Council and serving artists and communities throughout a five county region.

It provided creative leadership in the community, which was very important because we need those avenues.

Another grants and programs review that we received an update from was on staff and passed the motion recommending approval of a revised approach for supporting individual artists through the American Rescue Plan Acts Arts and Creative Economy Program, which modified the initial guaranteed basic income approach to that a fellowship model to include regular $850 monthly payments to 200 artists over 12 months.

In our Arts in Public Places review, we received an update from staff and passed a motion recommending approval of the temporary public art policy, which clarifies the purpose, goals, scope and considerations and process for proposing and installing temporary public art projects on city owned and controlled property, which was important we needed the clarity.

For additional presentations, we received a presentation from Christopher Smith, a curator of history with the Center for Sacramento History, who shared information about who we are exhibit at the City Hall and it was a partnership with the American Legion High School and Office of Arts and Culture featuring stories of high school youth and visual interpretations by local artists.

Art is so in that I have the beholder and also at the hands of the artist and it's important that we give that youth the avenue to do that.

And so that was a great one.

And the last additional presentation that I wanted to highlight was the presentation that we received from Commissioner Winlock in rule as executive director, school of education, Sacramento County Office of Education.

Regarding California Proposition 28 and its provision for statewide arts education within public and charter schools from pre K through 12th grade.

Now that one was a really important one because not every school gets their arts education.

My kids school is one of those elementary that does not get it and this offered funding to give that to every school.

So I was glad that our commission was a part of that vote to make sure that it's something that happens and I'll pass it over to Justina.

Thank you, Louisa. Good morning chair and committee members. My name is Justina Martino. I am the vice chair and the district six commissioner for the Arts Culture and Creative Economy Commission.

Before I get into our goals, I just wanted to encourage you all to uplift the value of artists and culture beers in our city, especially during these stressful times.

Artists and culture beers are really the folks who give us hope and bring us together and just help with health and mental health especially.

So I just want to uplift that sentiment.

So we have five goals for 2025. I won't get into all of the objectives under each goal. I'll just highlight a couple under each goal.

So our first goal is to achieve greater clarity around ACCEC's purpose and role within the city of Sacramento government.

So this is pretty important because we'll have at least two new commissioners this year.

A couple of the objectives under this is to clarify our commissioner roles, responsibilities and the desired impact of the commission.

We also hope to build more collaborative relationships with the mayor's office, especially with the new mayor, our council members and other city of Sacramento departments and commissions.

Our second goal is to enhance community awareness and understanding of the ACCEC as a support of accessible resource dedicated to arts and culture.

I've noticed just being around artists in our community that many artists don't even know who their council member is, never mind their arts commissioner.

So one of our objectives for this is to increase community engagement by creating opportunities to learn from community members so that might include things like listening sessions.

We also hope to build public awareness of ACCEC commissioners and establish them as visible supportive advocates within the arts and culture community.

I know we'll be starting this this week by in the arts and culture newsletter office of arts and culture newsletter.

There will start to be profiles of the commissioner. So people subscribe to that newsletter can start to see who we are.

Our third goal is to advocate for city of Sacramento policies and initiatives that value support and build the arts and cultural community and ecosystem.

One of the main objectives under this goal is to foster collaboration and generate new opportunities for creative professionals.

We hope to create and strengthen partnerships between arts organizations, government agencies and community stakeholders.

Our fourth goal is my favorite goal. It's to collaborate with the office of arts and culture to address a variety of infrastructure needs required to sustain a thriving and sustainable arts ecosystem.

I myself as an artist and I also work with lots of arts and cultural nonprofit throughout the city.

And one of our biggest needs is access to affordable safe permanent spaces to work and convene and present our work.

So the objective that I'm most excited about under this goal is to develop a broader understanding of arts and cultural community needs around safe affordable and sustainable spaces.

Including but not limited to brick and mortar arts and cultural facilities, work spaces for artists and creatives.

And digital virtual spaces. Another note I wanted to add to this is that artists are often given temporary spaces to in live in communities like empty storefronts.

But once the goal has been achieved that the neighborhood has been in live in these artists are often displaced. So we just really need permanent spaces.

The goal five is to continue to work with the office of arts and culture and uplifting the goals of the creative edge plan, which was meant to go through 2025, which is this year.

So we'd like to explore with the office of arts and culture the feasibility for a new cultural planning process and or opportunities to revisit reaffirm and or update the creative edge plan goals and priorities. Thank you.

Okay, we have public comment on this item. Thank you chair. I have no speaker slips on this item. Okay, vice mayor.

Thank you chair. On Saturday, I had the opportunity to go to the we are Sacramento woman make the city are exhibit on Del Paso Heights and it was fabulous.

And I was just so fun to see so many artistic people coming together in these spaces. Like you said empty storefronts or empty buildings like how do you activate these spaces and make it a place for people to go on the weekend.

So it was just really nice. Really fun. And so I'm happy to move this item. Continue our creative economy and activating as many spaces as possible doing more murals cleaning up our city and just to you and all the work that you're doing.

I have a motion. Councilmember vane.

Thank you so much. I too had an opportunity to attend another art event in South Sacramento this past weekend with chair Jennings actually at the floor and light rail station and meeting the various artists that worked really hard to create the big art chair pieces if you haven't had a chance to stop by floor road, please make sure you do.

All that to say I really just want to say thank you to our commissioners especially shout out to Louisa who is district eight South Sacramento point you as chair this year.

Want to thank Louisa and justina for all your hard work and all of the commissioners that worked really hard to create these five goals for the work plan.

And lastly also want to thank Megan and Jason right it's great that we have a commission but city staff is also there to support and provide additional you know background information and just to support the commission so really want to say thank you to both Jason and Megan as well with that.

I'll second vice mayor tall amount is motion on the table to move this work plan forward and great job everyone.

I have a few more comments. I too had the opportunity to be at the light rail station and on floor and road it was a wonderful occasion those chairs are incredible.

It really not just at the light rail station but as you drove up and down floor and road you saw the work that has been done over the years and it's just incredible and I know there's a whole lot more going on as well.

So I think we are making a recommendation not to provide any additional direction but to move this work plan and annual report to the full city council and I support that motion so with that all in favor say aye.

Opposed abstain we are unanimous. Good job thank you very much.

Okay. We will now move to comments and committee ideas questions and meeting requests. Any council member Frank.

Thank you chair just wanted to just flag this because we are in March I know last meeting I requested for us to bring for from our city attorney actually because her contract is up and I want to make sure that we do an evaluation have an opportunity for her to come forth and so just wanted to make sure that we find that for PNP so that's all thank you so much.

Thank you council member Kaplan.

Thank you chair I just want to follow up because the when the animal well being commission came forward one of the motions that we had was to forward them a couple of their recommendations on to budget and audit specifically looking at how it fits within our budget with their work plan.

I don't know if that's been scheduled but just want to flag that to follow up to make sure those items do go to budget and audit looking at I know they're looking at new sites and other items for their work plan so just want to make sure that that is is happening.

Right.

Seeing no more ideas questions comments or direction we will move to public comment matters not on the agenda.

Thank you chair I have one speaker slip for public comment matters not on the agenda key on bliss.

I was drawn by the member of the public spoke and said that he is withdrawing his speaker slip.

No more no more sir.

Okay I think our business is done if there's no more comments or thoughts or ideas or any questions.

I think the audience for participating but this meeting is here by a adjourn.

Great job chair.