Okay, good morning everyone.

I want to welcome you to the personnel and public employees committee meeting of April the first at 11 a.m.

Hopefully, well, 11.06 now.

So hopefully you're not too crowded out there in the audience, but we're glad to have all of you here.

We have a robust agenda and we will get right into it.

Would a clerk please call roll.

Thank you chair.

Member Kaplan is absent.

Vice Mayor Talamontes.

Yes.

Hi.

Here.

Member Van.

Here.

And chair Jennings.

Yes, here.

Okay, Vice Mayor, would you please lead us into the land acknowledgments and the pledged allegiance?

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments on our Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal

lands.

To the regional people of this land, the Nesanon people, southern Maidu, Balean planes mewak,

Patwamwintu peoples, and the people of Oetongaria, Sacramento's only federally recognized

people.

May we acknowledge and honor native people who came before us and so look beside us today

on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the act of practice of

acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contributions,

and lives.

Thank you.

Salute.

Pleasure.

Pleasure allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

which it stands.

One nation under God.

Indivisible.

We live in liberty and justice for all.

Ah, overachiever.

Got here in good time.

Good time.

Welcome.

Welcome.

Okay.

I'll give you a minute to get settled in.

We've done the roll call to land acknowledgment and the pledged allegiance.

We are now on our consent calendar and we have one item in the consent calendar.

Is there a motion or is there a comment from the public?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips on the consent calendar.

Chair, I'll move the item.

I can't sit.

It has been moved and seconded.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

On your pose, O abstain.

The direct at show we are unanimous.

Okay.

Let's move to our discussion items.

Item number two, review of applicants for the city of Sacramento Housing Code Advisory

and Appeals Board.

Thank you, Chair.

The seat's needing recommendation today for the Housing Code Advisory and Appeals Board

is seat A. The requirements for seat A are as follows.

The member must have an expressed interest or demonstrated history of involvement in

the provisions of the city's housing code.

We had one qualified applicants for review today, Mr. Brandon Fisher, who is the incumbent.

However they did notify us this morning that they would not be able to appear due to

a work conflict.

So there will be no applicant review coming to the podium this morning.

And with that, I am available for any questions.

Okay, to my colleagues, we have one applicant who is the incumbent and

nor their valid applications for this position.

Is there a motion on the floor?

So move, Chair.

He indicated desire to continue in since his apologies.

I was going to second that.

All right, you just did.

Right.

And my understanding, I just wanted to clarify that he couldn't come to today's meeting,

but he's looking forward to participating on the committee again.

So, would that any other discussion?

Is there any other public comment on this?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips for item two.

Any other comment for my colleagues?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

abstain?

We are unanimous.

Mr. Fisher, congratulations if you are watching this or listening to this.

All right, we will move to item number three, the City of Sacramento Parks and

Community and Richwick Commission, the 2024 annual report and 2025 work plan.

Welcome, Shannon.

Thank you.

I am going to ask for a favor because we are waiting for our Chair to show up.

She is just a few minutes late.

I was wondering if we could go to the next item and if she's not here after that item.

We will proceed.

I think we can do that.

Yeah, I think so.

It's a great idea.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

All right, no problem.

Okay.

So, we will move to item number four, the update on the City Manager recruitment and action

on recommended salary range for the City Manager for the purpose of recruitment.

Shelly Banks-Robbison.

Good morning.

Thank you.

As you all know, the CPS HR was the consultant higher to do the recruitment and they also did

a salary survey.

They came to last week to council last week recommending a salary range change, changing

the minimum to 273 to 11 and the maximum for the range of 42684.

And we're here to get the committee to vote on that salary range change to push it to

council.

And then council would be required to approve it under California law, including the

Labor Code, the government code, 54953, and then the California Code of Regulations to

adopt a public salary schedule.

So just the, do you wish to vote on that item to push that forward to council?

I have a question.

Shelly Banks-Robbison.

Can you state that range one more time?

You said it very quickly and I have a cold, so things are a little plugged up.

Yes.

The minimum of the range would be 273 to 11 and the maximum would be 42684.

So if you look at page 10 of what CPSHR consulting put together of summary of, of COLA adjusted

annual minimum range to maximum range, it shows that the average, the min should be 328

in the max, 432.

Why did we come up with a different number just, and before you answer that, can you remind

me what our assistant city managers make?

I believe the range, actually if I could have Evidence or Jennifer pull that up.

I believe it's around 343 annually for base salary, but I'm going to have them verify

that.

So CPS did not recommend the average what they recommended was a 5%.

There's certainly no right or wrong answer.

True.

And I just bring it up because if our assistant city managers base salary is 34320, somewhere

in the three range, why would we start the city manager position at 273 as the base?

Just when we're looking at, I understand the report that was given to us, but now I'm

asking just for common sense amongst my colleagues that when you go and you look for a job and

your subordinates can earn more than you, and you don't know where this council is going

to say salary is going to be, why would we want the city manager's minimum salary to be

less than what an assistant city manager is?

OK, we have an answer.

Well if I may speak just from an HR perspective, salary ranges do typically overlap.

You will generally have the lower end of the range, lower than the next lowest position

of the maximum of that next lower position.

So it is common, but again there is no right or wrong answer.

You're free to set that minimum at anything that you would like.

And again they were recommending increasing the maximum of the range by 5%.

I mean, and I see the max for on page 10 like the average was 432 ours would be 420.

I just have a hard time saying our minimum should be 273 when we know the average for assistant

city managers is so high and that's where I was saying that we should, the minimum should

be the 328 that you see, which is the average when you look at Anaheim Bakersfield Fresno

Long Beach Oakland Roseville, Saicog San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Smud, Stockton.

Just for a matter of we are the sixth largest city in California, you want quality applicants.

You know, I would, it just doesn't feel comfortable to say this range should be 273, but I'm open

to what my colleagues feel about.

And I do have the current maximum range of the assistant city managers 340, 812.

That's the max.

340, 812.

The base.

First assistant city.

The minimum starting is 156, 803.

And so that's a really good question because for department heads, I think we top out at

241.

So you'll see the assistant city manager starts way below the 241.

Again, no right or wrong.

All of our assistant city managers tend to, they make over 300,000.

I believe they do.

Last time I looked, I think.

Yes.

But they're, they're range for assistant city managers 273?

Is that right?

No.

156, 156, 803 to 340, 811, 812.

Correct.

Right.

So I know that not being in HR, I know that it takes time for a person to get from the

minimum to the mid to the maximum.

And that happens over time over years.

So I understand your point and I don't necessarily disagree with that point.

But I don't think we would be looking at a city manager to come in at a 273 to 340 range

in that I just don't think we would be looking at someone that would be coming in at that

range.

They would probably come in at a higher level and then try to work their way up to the

highest level, which is 426.

And in the next conversation we would have would be to extend it beyond the 426, 426,000.

So that's just my thoughts.

Well, and Chair, I respect that because I actually don't have a problem with the max of the

420, it's the perception of things when you look at it holistically.

So in ACM, no ACM is going to start at 150 because most ACMs are going to be a department

head.

So they're going to be in the low to mid-toes.

So it's also something to look at that our minimums actually aren't relevant because

sure you have the minimum.

I would never say that a city manager is going to come into the city of Sacramento and realistically

speaking, earn less than an assistant city manager.

Like it just doesn't happen.

Nobody is going to take that.

So like now that we're having this discussion, I just bring it up for the purposes of why

don't we just bring it up to the average minimum that the region has just for the sake

of perception and seeing things because the time is now if we want to do this because

we're not doing this on behalf of anybody.

It's just the position.

So my recommendation might be to take this item to the full council as it is.

And then let's have that discussion with our colleagues and give HR more time to understand

if it's feasible, if it's something that's desirable because it may not just be this position.

It may be other positions as well to raise the minimum and to go with that kind of a philosophy.

So I would say approve this today as is.

And then let's have that discussion at the full council when we vote on this again.

Yeah.

Chair Jennings, I'm happy to second your motion to just bring the item to the full council

and we can have a full debate about that.

I don't think your motion is controversial.

I think it makes sense.

I just actually had some questions for Shelley.

And I know that the recommendation from CP is the 273,000 to 420.

That's only base hours.

So that means that that doesn't include healthcare or benefits.

It's not the entire compensation package.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

Okay.

Okay.

The entire compensation includes a 401A match.

It includes obviously healthcare.

It includes a monthly allowance.

And I know there's one more that I'm forgetting.

That's great.

A vehicle.

A vehicle allowance too.

Oh, yeah.

So a vehicle technology.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Assistant City Attorney.

I think that would be really helpful for the conversation when this item moves forward

to the full council.

It's a breakdown of like this is what we're thinking in terms of base salary.

This is what we're thinking in terms of vehicle.

I like to see that breakdown.

I think for us to be open and transparent about that of like what that range would be.

And what the entire compensation package may look like, right?

Because that's something that we can negotiate.

But I'm just, I think it's important to put that publicly to be able to share with the

public.

But we'd love that information when we discuss and devote on the final salary, the final

salary base salary.

I just, I want to see the whole entire package if possible.

Okay.

Is that possible?

It is certainly possible.

Yes.

I will say the items that I'm talking about are in the unrepresented resolution, which

outline what they receive.

It's not necessarily a negotiation item.

Okay.

Unless you want to change it, which we would need to be prepared to do that.

Okay.

It would not have to be done next week.

The only thing that is legally required to post the job is to get the salary schedule.

It's just a salary schedule.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

I think as we move forward.

So in addition to the salary, I also, I want to have a better understanding of the

different, the health, the health compensation, I think if there are other, for example, like

a vehicle allowance, I want to know kind of like what, what usually has a city given to

a city manager.

We don't have to do it, but I think that's important for us to, for me, to be able to share

that with the public.

The other piece I just also just wanted to echo as well was, what was our original salary

base for our city manager position?

Do you know, like, what was the, the right?

It's changed over the years.

So before CPS recommended the 273 to 420, before CPS, what was the recommendation or what

was that, the, the, the range before?

The current maximum range is 400.

Let's see, 452, that is the max, the current min is 248, 465.

Sorry, can you say the number time?

Say again?

Can you say that one more time?

Yes.

The current minimum is 248, 465.

Uh-huh.

And the max is 462.

Okay.

So even the, even the, the starting base salary is in the 200s that we had for our city manager.

So correct.

So I, I was just curious about that because Councilman Kaplan didn't bring up that if we're

going to do like a base salary perhaps it makes sense to start where our assistant city

manager base or a little higher.

Okay.

Yeah.

Because I was just curious what the previous salary range was and sounds like it was still

pretty low.

I mean, it wasn't at 150.

It wasn't at a, 156.

But for the city manager, 248 to 273, it's not much of a difference.

So if anything, our current salary range is actually lower.

So, so I just wanted to, just wanted to point that out.

Okay.

That's great.

Yeah.

I'll second the motion on the table.

And I think moving this item forward, I don't think we're actually voting on this.

We're just saying bring this as is.

But maybe with additional information for the full Council to actually debate the salary

range.

So I'm, does that sound good, Chair?

Is that what you're, okay.

That would be good.

And that would be good.

And I want to bring in Vice Mayor Telemontis first.

Thanks.

Okay.

I'm also happy to just move the staff report to Council.

I understand where you're coming from, Council Mayor Kaplan, but I mean, it's just a range.

And so we can do as we need to.

And I mean, you think as a Council, we've had conversations about, you know, if someone

makes, even, so our direct hire is only the city manager.

But if someone makes above a certain percentage, if it's over 250,000 or 300,000 dollars, having

those, even those salaries come back to Council.

And I think that's a conversation that's separate from this.

That the Council is bound to happen.

There's a bit of a cab in the future in terms of management salaries.

And so that kind of ties in and having a flexible range can help with that conversation.

But I agree with Council Member Vain about having a supplemental that says, hey, these

are the expenses are, you know, I mean, we get travel, we get cell phone allowance, we

get different things.

And those are not part of the salary negotiations, but for full transparency with the public,

do they get, you know, stipends for food or for, you know, travel or whatever it may

be.

I think it's important that it's included like as a whole package.

So as supplemental, but not as part negotiations, I think at the end of the day, salary is what's

going to.

Yes, I'm going to ask staff if they could add a little chart to any report that we're

bringing forward.

And I mean, I'll get you the information.

So, you know, we would like to bring this forward on April 8th.

April?

Yes, April 8th, which is next Tuesday if that's okay with everyone.

And we'll include this additional information just for record sake, like just for transparency,

the vehicle allowance is 500 a month.

Don't ask me to do all the math in my head right now for an annual amount, but vehicle

allowance is 500 a month.

Technology allowance is 100 a month.

They get a expense allowance.

I guess that's, I don't know if that's the right term.

I think it's $400 a month.

And then the 401 match is the city provides 4% of their salary.

So but we'll have the calculation for next week.

Yeah, and hopefully it's enough time for next week.

It will be.

I already have it on a spreadsheet.

That's great.

I'll get it in.

Thank you.

Okay.

Great.

Yeah.

Thanks, Chair.

But you're a cap.

Maybe, Shelley, I mean, Cal HR, sorry, CPSHR might already have this.

So just because they did all of these charts, it may be when this comes to full council,

just to have the charts so that we're all looking at it.

And then I just want to make sure that'll be included, the chair that we bring up on page

10 of the conclusion.

All other items were brought up by CPSHR, which says consider eliminating or minimizing

the supplemental lead package to be more aligned with the market, consider changing severance

to a traditional duration of six months salary.

And if the city desires a plus 5% market rate for future city manager, considering adding

more to the deferred compensation in order to bring it into a more competitive market

range, as well as consider modifying the minimum and maximum.

So I think when it comes to council, we should have discussion on all of those.

I can guarantee you we will.

I just want to put it on the record.

No, I'm glad you did.

Glad you did.

So I'm okay moving this forward.

Knowing we'll have a council conversation on that.

Okay.

It's been moved and it's been seconded.

And I don't see any further discussion, any discussion, any public comment?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no public comments on item four.

Okay.

I think we are, it's been moved and seconded.

Old and favorite, say aye.

All opposed?

abstain?

We are again, unanimous.

Good job.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay.

We'll go back to item number three.

If I are ready for that.

The city of Sacramento, Parks and Rets, Community Enrichment Commission, 24 annual report,

and the 25 work plan.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair, members of the commission.

I am Shannon Brown.

I serve as the assistant director for the Department of Youth, Parks and Community Enrichment.

I also staff the Park and Community Enrichment Commission, along with support from the City

Clerk's Office and City Attorney's Office.

I would like to take this time to thank Chair Gaines and Vice Chair Boone and other members

of the commission who are somewhere with us today and recognize them for supporting

our department's mission.

Together we empower our youth, strengthen neighborhoods, and provide live enriching programs for

a beautiful, livable community.

This is our 2024 annual report.

I will introduce what the commission is, go over duties, and then Chair Gaines will review

the 2024 accomplishments, and Vice Chair Boone will present the 2025 goals.

In 2024, the commission held nine meetings, heard 55 agenda items on a variety of topics,

including new park developments, budget workshop, and the park plan 2040, and also hosted

a very popular volunteer recognition awards.

The purpose of the commission is to provide recommendations and advice to City Council and

PFC on policy, projects, programs pertaining to parks, and community enrichment in the

city.

The commission is guided by five powers and duties listed here.

I would now like to introduce Chair Gaines to go over the 2024 accomplishments.

Thank you.

Hi, good morning.

Thank you so much for having us.

My name is Gneen Gaines.

I am the Chair of the Parks and Community Enrichment Commission.

I represent District 8, and so I am appointed by Council Member Mai Bing.

So super excited to be here.

Just to go over some of our accomplishments.

So I've been a part of the commission.

This is the start of my second term.

So my fifth year here, so it has been such an honor to be a part of this commission.

We have an opportunity to do what I say is all of the fun stuff.

We get to be a part of the parks.

And as you know, I believe it is, I always get the number wrong because there are so many.

It's 237 parks.

I believe it is in the report.

237 parks, green spaces that we represent.

We have the youth programs.

We have all of the 15, let me get the numbers because I always get this wrong.

So the 17 aquatic centers, 15 community centers, it's 237 parks.

So in the report, we go over extensively all of the work that we did as a commission

last year.

But the four pieces that we wanted to pull out for 2024 is first, the 916-day volunteer

program.

So 916-day, it is a chance to urge all of the Sacramento to celebrate our city parks

as a cornerstone of our 916 community.

So we host a series of beautification events in each of our districts.

So this past year, we were able to recruit 313 volunteers, providing a total of 763 hours

of service.

So planting trees, spreading mulch, painting, and really just being able to support the

parks staff and really encouraging people because we recognize that when our community

is able to get into the parks, we see that ownership.

We see that when they drive past those parks, they're like, hey, I painted that, I planted

that tree, and they have that sense of community ownership.

So that was really exciting to have 313 volunteers out this year.

Second, we had our volunteer recognition awards.

This past year, we had over 18,000 hours volunteered throughout the year for volunteers.

And so we did the math and the valued rate provided by the independent sector of $38.61

per hour, that totaled $694,980 an economic impact from those volunteers.

So the volunteer recognition awards, it gives us a chance to recognize those groups that

come out and those individuals who serve.

And so that might be individuals who work in the youth sports sector.

We see individual groups.

So in the report, we do have a appendices listing the groups that we're recognized.

And I do want to add, there is one of our groups called United and Guided from D6.

They were left off the list.

So we do need to add them on there.

So there was another group from D6 that we want to make sure is recognized.

You can see on page 13 of the report, those were the groups and individuals from each

district that were recognized.

Next we had the adoption of Park Plan in 2040.

So that was the culmination of five years of plan development.

So the commission had input during the phase, planning activities, like I said, going back

five years since most of us were even on the commission.

So we provided guidance on the release of the Park Plan during the public comment period,

recommendations on the final plan.

And then moving forward to the city council in August 2024.

The final parks plan describes why the parks plan is needed for the department, how it supports

concurrent plans and initiatives within the city.

So that includes the 2040 general plan and how the parks plan aligns with the other essential

plans like the climate action and adaptation plan.

With age friendly community action plan and the proposed urban forest plan, streets for

and streets for people transportation plan.

I will just say this was a very long and extensive process that included a lot of not just

meetings but town halls with people.

And what was really exciting is when you look at something that's going to be 20 years

down the road and how this affects things.

When we're sitting here and we're looking especially at parks and we're looking at trees

and how Sacramento looks the way it does, we oftentimes think back of the decisions that

were made in the 80s and the 90s.

And that's why Sacramento looks the way it does.

And so it was really important for us to get that community feedback and ensure because

when my kids are older, they're going to say, hey mom, didn't you guys make this decision?

Why is it like this?

Why don't we have trees here or why is this happening?

So ensuring that we had community feedback was of the most important and ensuring that

our neighborhoods had that voice.

And so we were super excited to be able to get that over the finish line.

And last but not least, we had a process that we worked really collaboratively with the

city to review the reservation and registration practices for Camp Sacramento.

This was very near and dear to me personally.

So Camp Sacramento is very important to us being in urban city, not oftentimes where our

youth get to have a camp experience.

So Camp Sacramento is very important.

But when we were hearing from the city, we learned that the reservation process, it was

one that people who had gone to camp before had kind of first dibs to get campings that

year.

And what happened was when people had finished going to camp, they could re-reserve

campings that year.

And we felt like that wasn't really an equitable process because if you had gone to camp

and let's say historically your family had had camp money since the 80s, you could constantly

get cabins and no one else would be able to.

And we talked to the city staff and the reason that had happened was because there was a period

where people actually weren't booking Camp Sacramento cabins.

And so they weren't able to get people.

So we recognized, okay, there was a reason that you were doing that.

You were trying to make sure that people were going to camp Sacramento.

But now we felt like that wasn't really needed and people knew people wanted to go and had

been shut out of the system.

So we talked to the staff and we worked together to say, hey, how could we ensure that we

weren't, we were opening up for new families to be able to come, but also not having families

who had always gone and exing them out to you.

How could we make sure that people were able to still go, but new families could also

go?

So we worked through a process where people could still book after camp, but they could

book only one cabin.

They couldn't kind of swoop up all of the cabins at once.

We also talked about the reservation system.

It was at the end of camp.

People, that's when the cabins were booked.

And so if you were a parent who's never gone to Camp Sacramento, technically you would have

to look every week and see what cabins were available.

And that just didn't actually match up with the way Yipsy does things normally, which is

like one, there's one day and we all know, I think it's April 9th this year, that's

when summer's opening up.

So we know it's one day.

So we worked with the team and with the Yipsy marketing team to have a new process where

hey, camp Sacramento Day, I think it was August 10th this year, that's when everything is

going to go on sale.

And so it worked great.

And 80% of reservations went to new families who are going to get to experience camp for

the first time this year.

So we were very excited that we're going to have new families get to experience it.

And the families who gone before still get the opportunity.

So those were our four big accomplishments for this year.

And I am excited to turn it over to our vice chair, a vice chair Boone to share about

what we're going to have happening this year.

Thank you, Chair Gaines.

Greetings, City Council members, and to all gathered in the chambers today.

My name is Sierra Boone and two years ago, last month I was selected by this body to serve

as an at-large commissioner for Parks and Community Enrichment.

So I never formally got to say thank you for the opportunity, but thank you.

And I also want to say thank you to my fellow commissioners for selecting me this year

as their vice chair.

So on your, yes, thank you.

On your monitors now, thank you Shannon.

You'll see three goals that we are dedicated to fulfilling this year, but also hopefully,

I can say, beyond the year.

Some may seem simple and form, but as we all know, best practices are critical to document

and deploy, especially in moments like the ones we find ourselves in currently with restrictive

dollars in staff capacity.

So with that, I'd like to elaborate briefly on each.

The first goal you see is support, equity, and transparency in park improvements.

This goal has three metrics of effectiveness.

One that we, as commissioners, will show up to monthly meetings where you all as council

members and city staff are present to talk about the work we're doing and the work we're

committed to fulfilling.

So in essence, ensuring that a space exists so that we're all on the same page in terms

of what has to be a priority because it's been deferred.

What has to be a priority because it's the most equitable decision to make.

How are we being transparent with our communities and our neighborhoods and user groups and saying,

this is why this project goes first this year because this project has been neglected

for 10 years.

So that is essentially the essence of this goal and something that we hope to standardize

and make a practice that way our city staff can be committed to fulfilling the work in

a way that has integrity.

The second goal is formalizing the 916 day planning process.

And so for us, this is huge.

Our former former chair, I believe, made this resolution, I guess, is what it would be

called.

And so for us, we're sort of figuring out, what does it look like to come together and

make this happen?

We've had great success, but we want to expand that.

We want to make sure that the private sector is aware, small businesses are aware, the

community is aware so that everyone can make an equal contribution and that the project

essentially only grows.

And so we're excited that this year we have task force dedicated to various parts of the

logistics that way next year there's a process for people to plug into and hopefully we grow

and we reach more in terms of the projects that we're able to fulfill in our communities

and from our deferred maintenance list.

So that's been critical.

And then the last goal or work plan is around expanding fundraising and private philanthropy.

So as the chair shared, we have volunteers going out and committing hours that equate to

actual dollars.

It's almost $700,000 just last year.

And so a goal of ours and a responsibility of ours actually is to bring in private

monies to ensure that if there's an interest, there's a way to put that into the fund

and I'm blanking on the name but we have a dedicated fund for monies that we might want

to spend on deferred maintenance, on getting our volunteers snacks, water.

And so this year especially there's a group tasked with reaching out to businesses, both

small and large to say, would you like to be this tier of a sponsor?

Do you want to provide food, water, snacks, or do you want to give an in-kind donation?

That's what it is.

To our pot that way next year, if there's a bench we want to replace or turf or something

that we need to do, we can draw from those funds directly.

And that'll be again, especially critical as we enter a space where there's less monies

available.

And as our beloved director of the park says, our job is really to keep parks safe, clean,

and green.

And so if that's something we're going to continue to achieve and not to cheer from, this third

goal will be especially critical.

So thank you for your time.

I'll turn it back to Shannon.

Thank you very much.

And at this time we're happy to answer any questions.

Super.

Well I just want to say to the chair and the vice chair, did a great job representing

and really impressed with your work plan and your annual report I am personally.

And so I think the goals that you have, as far as volunteer, bringing in dollars and

the recognition programs, I was impressed with everything I saw because it allows you

to expand yourself and to also be able to have additional dollars to be able to do more

of the things that you want to do.

So I just want to say a great job of presenting it.

I'll bring up council member Peng.

Thanks chair.

I just have some comments, mainly in just Kudo's and congratulations.

First really want to take this moment to thank chair gains who is my appointee from District

Eight.

So I just really want to say thank you to you and vice chair Boone.

Thank you so much.

To both of you and all of our commissioners, I see some additional commissioners sitting

in the audience as well and I really just want to take this time on behalf of the council

to thank you for your service.

It's really labor of love.

So thank you so much and chair gains in particular.

Thank you for just kind of going over all of the accomplishments that you've all been

able to do this year.

It's a lot.

And so I just really want to say thank you so much, especially the thousands of hours from

volunteers.

And in particular camp sacramento as well.

I know when I came in as a councilwoman, there were a lot of critiques about how the camp

in particular didn't really reach a lot of our low income minority communities and really

appreciate the commission's centering.

That program particular and making sure that now at least 80% of new registrants are families

that have never registered before and that I think that's really, really a testament to

your hard work.

And then for vice chair Boone, thank you so much for sharing with us your 2025 work plan.

I think a big part of what you all do and thank you to councilman Kaplan for setting up

this protocol so that they can work on their work plan.

We approve it.

It's really great.

It gives us a preview about the work that you're going to be doing this year.

In particular, I just wanted to talk a little bit about one of your goal, which I think

is awesome about the goal to support equity and transparency in our park improvements.

As you mentioned, vice chair Boone, we have a long list of deferred maintenance for our

parks in the city of sacramento.

I believe last time I was in a meeting with park staff, they had to share with me we had

about 137 to 140 million in deferred maintenance in parks.

And I think it's great.

I think it's awesome that y'all are hustling to get private donations as the council should

be doing that.

Come and share and should be doing that.

But I know it is not going to be nearly close to what we need in order to address our

deferred maintenance.

And I'm only bringing this up because I've been in conversation with councilmember Phil

Lucky Bomb with staff regarding a potential park bond in 2026.

If it makes sense, I know that we've raised over 20,000 right now to go out and do a pool

because we want to make sure that it makes sense for 2026 because there's maybe other things

on the ballot.

But just sharing that with you all as commissioners, I know that you all have been in some of those

meetings as well.

And then while it is not in the work plan, because campaign, we do things outside of the city

sacrament of time, but I think that will be where we should be spending our energy outside

as well.

If we choose that path to create a new source of revenue.

And I share this because it's not just the deferred maintenance, but as you all know,

last year Prop 4 passed and that's state dollars for our parks.

And we're going to be competing for those dollars.

And when we don't have dollars set aside to leverage funds, we're not competitive, right?

And so I really just wanted to uplift that.

But everything else, amazing and just really, really proud, really proud of the commission.

I often share a story during the summers when I were young, when I was young.

My parents couldn't afford taking us to Disneyland or summer trips.

And what mom and dad did was pack rice and boil chicken and boil some eggs.

And we went to Willingland Park for our summer vacations.

It's set out there on our mongle, our blanket and just enjoy the sun and the parks.

And so many of our families utilize our parks because that's the only place they can go.

They can't travel outside of Sacramento.

And so our parks are gems in the city and I really just want to say thank you to the

commission for your heart and hustle and everything that y'all do.

So thank you so much.

And really looking forward to the work this year.

So congrats.

Great.

Good job.

So before we vote on this item, we have public comment.

And okay, and then I'd be looking for any additional comments so we can vote on the

direction to give them it's the next step.

Thank you, Chair.

I have two speaker slips for this item.

Our first speaker is Joe Flores, followed by Victoria Vasquez.

Good morning committee and Chair Jennings.

First off, I'm here.

I'm proud to be represented by Chair Gaines and Vice Chair Boone.

I know the Chair doesn't say it often and I try to give her her Flores but I want to

also recognize that she is the first black woman and native Chair in our commissions.

Current history and that's about over 20 years old.

So I know representation matters, especially in our commissions, especially on a high level visible commission.

I do want to highlight an uplift on the presentation.

What is unique to the Parks Commission that I'm so proud to serve on is the 916 day and

volunteer recognition.

It is our way and our mechanism to directly engage with our neighbors and to say thank you to our neighbors.

We heard the numbers and the in kind and the value add in just putting one tree in or

just paint brushing a park, right?

So and we get to sit, I recognize that we get to sit on this Venn diagram of council representation

and working in partnership with Yipsey and being that additional voice, that additional,

like how you said council member, my just to council member Venge, excuse me, to just

that love and that gem to the parks.

Our parks are hidden gems in this city and it's usually the first where the public interacts

with city staff, right?

So but it's not it's the time capacity bandwidth required to foster and forms these relationships

in these volunteer and enhancement events that we get to do.

In addition to the time we do spend up here on the dice, it's the many hours and hours

of community engagement that we do out in community in partnership with our council representation

and in with Yipsey.

So I just want to highlight that.

That's what makes us unique as a commission and and I know I have like five seconds left

but then I know as a public servant to establish a baseline document like this and then as

a living document to enhance for the next time we come here next year.

So love them.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our last speaker is Victoria Vesquez.

Hello committee council, staff, clerk.

What a wonderful presentation.

I'm very happy to be the past chair, Victoria Vesquez of the parks commission and the person

who asked can we please make this report happen for us this year.

This is the inaugural Yipsey annual report and work plan so I'm very proud of it.

I did submit an e-commerce asking for your help in even strengthening this work plan

with some policy recommendations.

Over this is my fifth year I'm starting as a commissioner and many years before that

I have worked in the same area as a community organizer.

And I would say the most common conversation that I have with constituents, neighborhood

associations and just folks in general is them expressing to me changes they would like

to see in their parks and me sending them through the process through three and one one through

a park improvement form through conversations with their council members and then them coming

back to me saying they don't understand why they're not getting their changes and why

they see their neighboring community getting the changes.

So I feel that by codifying the process and making a very public and transparent list

of who has requested what, then not only can the neighborhood associations see that they're

in line and understand the process but also learn from those communities who are organized

enough to go out and find their match funding and learn from them how they can do that in

their own neighborhood.

And as we embark on nine one six day and start to codify that process of bringing in sponsors

and funders they'd be able to look at a list and see who's been on that list.

Council member Vang brings up the number of our deferred maintenance, you know, up to

140 million, 150 million when I started.

That number is static.

Those numbers haven't been added to over seven years.

So the additional requests and needs that we have are much greater than that.

So in your help by creating a policy that could be a public facing document for communities

we can make sure that they feel heard that we are serving them in an equitable way and make

sure that our plan doesn't sit on the shelf.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And thank you for your service.

Okay.

I have two council members that would like to give us direction on which one of the three

items that we want to move forward.

Council member Kaeple.

Thank you, Chair.

I want to move the work plan forward as is Miss Brown.

Can you just answer a quick question for me?

Because I did see Miss Vazquez's comment online and can you just, this was brought up at

commission, correct?

Her concerns and desire and directions were brought up.

How did the rest of her colleagues vote on that?

That the commission, they moved the item forward as presented.

So with her additional comments, yes.

But her comments were brought up but they were not added in at this.

Correct.

Okay.

I just wanted to make sure because I think it's really important that there's differences

on commission too.

We should hear about them and know where they are but also the commission as a whole made

a decision to move this forward as is which I respect that because they're the ones doing

the day to day not that we can't make changes or Miss Vazquez continue to work with her fellow

commissioners on maybe what more transparency and data looks like.

But I just want to echo council member Beng.

Like this is what I envisioned when I said we need annual work plans of what did you

do.

Now there's something tangible that you as commissioners have a voice to say this is what

I worked on and camps out, Camino, and that's not a little thing.

That's a big thing that you guys worked on and changed.

That's the nitty gritty that you got to.

And then I just love what you want to do this next year and your thought process and commissioners

getting more involved in the community.

I mean I always encourage that out of mind.

So I know I'm repeating what council member Beng said but I just want to echo that that

hurrah good job.

I think this is fantastic and what we what I was envisioning that you guys have come forward

with.

So I would make the motion to move the report as is to full council.

Okay.

Council member Beng.

Thanks chair.

I'll second that with some comments because I often see a work plan as a little bit

of a living document so it's not static.

And I do want to uplift commissioner that Vazquez comments around even around having a

list of deferments.

Although I think city staff already had that long list per district because I get the

one from district 8 but it'd be great if that was public right because if we already have

it I think it's important to make a public because maybe there could be potential private

partners that might live close to a park and be like they need some dollars I can donate

right.

And so under goal under the work plan under support equity and transparency for park

improvements there's a section around metrics effectiveness which was agreed by the commission

I'm reading the commission's report and I do think that you know as we move this item

forward that that becomes part of the conversation among the commission to think about ways in

which we can share the divert maintenance and because I also think it could be a tool

for private partners if they want to you know fundraise right and so just wanted to lift

that piece up because I don't think what commissioner Vazquez is requesting a separate from the

work plan I see it actually to as part of the work plan and that I just wanted to uplift

that in particular but I think that's it really because there's already a lot on the work

plan so I don't want to add more to it I think again it is a living document it changes

here but especially around the metrics of effectiveness which is on the work plan I think

diving in a little bit deeper on a data dashboard or to be able to make those divert maintenance

public would be would be really great but shen I actually did have a question do we have

that available right the lizard divert maintenance we do have it available I will confirm and

make sure that it is on our updated city webpage and accessible so I will come yes that would

be great and then lastly the last person who I want to think is our city staff Shannon right

who's standing right in front of us right thank you so much for being a rock for commission and

just being there to support them and everything that you do in YPC and so I just also want to take

this time to center you and say thank you for your heart and hustle and all the great work that

you do so with that I will second the motion on the table great so it has been moved in second I

support as well directing this report to the city council for review I'm confident that there

will be additional conversation that will be had there that where we can add value to the work

that you're representing to us and so with that being said all in favor say aye I oppose

abstain congratulations you are going to city council okay okay any other public comments

thank you chair I have no speaker slips for public comments matters not on the agenda

to my colleagues any comment or ideas or meeting reports questions

vice mayor telemantez I didn't put this on the agenda for personnel but thought it was very

fitting I partnered with front street animal shelter today to create the Paul council and so

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don't remember captain I just want to echo what council member vang asked for last week I think

as Susanna's contract has come and gone that the item honestly should just go directly to

close session for the entire council I don't want to delay any longer that this it would the

only thing missing is her having an annual report here which we tried to do every July

but that member that blew up last year in her contract we it has has an annual renewal clause

that we just let go without evaluating her so her contract on a just continues to roll over where

we as a council have not evaluated her and so I am asking one I would love the mayor to put it

on for close session but chair you've heard that from council member vang and I that maybe if the

mayor has not put it on by the night the next time we have a meeting that there is a vote at ppne

because three of us on the committee can ask for that got it great council member vang thank you

just some clarity because council member capitol and you were chair and you probably you understand

pnp process better than I do as a newbie on the pnp so your request is to bring the city attorneys

evaluation directly to close session which is fine I'm okay with that but the question on the

annual review because my understanding is that our charter officer still needs to come to pnp to

present kind of the work that they've done so can I ask you just in terms of your thoughts

on when does when should that come to council even though we're asking for a close session

hopefully the mayor would put it on close session but I would still like to see an annual

review come to pnp to see the great work that has been done in the city attorneys office so

do you have any recommendations on that as we set it up what we found somewhat confusing was whose

contract was win and you know and when they should be up so the goal was that after the budget is done

and we have July break then that next meeting all charter officers come to ppne present their annual

we do that as because then the budget's done we know where the budget is they can tell us what

they've done in the past year and the what they plan to do the year forward and then we take

that and come into close session and use the annual review is when they come to ppne is just to tell us

transparency tell the public just like parks did what annual work plan what what is our city attorney

do what is our clerk do but the evaluation of the person then goes as set forth close session

where we talk about did they accomplish their goals what are their goals are they meeting their

own metrics that they've talked to us about and that's you know the close session conversation

which is loosely based off of the annual work plan because they're in charge okay but not they're

they're cut it two separate things but we were trying to make it where it was July then August

September we have close session evaluation okay so is it a fact that at this moment we have not

done an annual review of all of our charter officers not all of them because we did have

opsa and the treasure come okay so aside from opsa and this treasure the remaining city

charter officers have yacht have yet not done a review correct well the auditor just got hired so

right okay so are you saying so we want to make sure that we align them so it would be when we

come back from council recess after July we would have the annual review of all of our city charter

officers and I'm looking at the chair is that something that we can do this year I just want to

make sure because last year that didn't happen so let's make sure that charter officers put the

reviews their annual work plans on consent without my knowledge okay well let's make sure that it's

on PNP I'm looking at our chair our fierce leader on PNP because I want to make sure that you

know that this happens because it didn't happen last year and so let's make sure that happens this

year and that our charter officers that have not yet presented maybe all of them can go again since

the new year it's the new year so I think I think the new year all of them in July all of them

and we get back from council recess all the charter officers can present that's great so yeah so

um share of you we can make sure that that happens after council recess it'd be really great

to see the annual review of all our charter officers so with that yeah I support the item to bring

to do the evaluation of our city attorney and hopefully the mayor you can follow up the

mayor and make that request on behalf of PNP so thank you any comments on this okay great okay you

still have your name up you're good I am good okay so any other comments related to so I'll close

out this meeting and just saying that I saw there were 18,000 volunteer hours I think

is that the right number and 700,000 knowledge plus economic impact is that correct

what you didn't have on your sheet and I just want you to have it for the next opportunity

is all the countless lives that you made a difference in all the kids that helped to plant trees

now I've got six grandchildren who have three trees that they planted that they've given names to

and when they come back in town the first thing that they do is go check on their trees

right to make sure that their tree is healthy and still standing and all those kinds of things and so

those six grandchildren are they know how to plant a tree as well as any volunteer because they've

been taught by volunteers who know what they're doing and so they will carry that with them for

the rest of the lives so I just want to let you know that that impact with the six that I know

well has gone to the 18,000 who bought hours who volunteered hours just all the people that you've

made a difference in so I say keep doing what you're doing because you're doing a great job and

that's why I voted on number one let's send this to the council let's get it approved so

congratulations thanks for being here this meeting is adjourned