Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the January 22nd, 2025, Preservation Commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum.

Thank you, chair.

Commissioners, if you can please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Merker.

Commissioner Ombucker has let us know she will be absent this meeting.

Commissioner Burns.

Here.

Commissioner Rika.

Here.

Vice chair Near is on her way, but she is currently absent.

Commissioner Cross.

Here.

And Chair McSlovgan.

Here.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda beginning with the land acknowledgement.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the southern Maidu Valley and Plains Miwak, Patwin-Wintun peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancharia, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

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

Thank you and please join me for the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Before we get started with our agenda, I'd first like to welcome our new commissioner, Alacross. Welcome. It's great to have you.

And if you'd like to say anything or introduce yourself to the commissioner in the public, say hello.

Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

Great.

Moving on to the consent calendar and the approval of the minutes from our November meeting two months ago since we didn't have a December meeting.

Is there any comment or motion from the commission chair? We actually do have one speaker for the consent calendar.

Yeah, please go ahead.

Yeah, shall we for the consent?

Yes.

Welcome.

So for the preservation commission, I just want to make a comment.

You guys need to work on not just preservation, but getting enough people for that preservation and involving more agencies that support that.

There's some state agencies that work on permits and stuff like commute. What is it? There's housing, urban development.

They have that and they do involve inspections. That will help with the preservation.

But you also need to not just work on that. You guys need to work on a lot of things.

Not just hiring, but you guys need to work on.

You know, funding.

So that they can get those buildings preserved because preservation is very expensive.

And money people right now are homeless.

And I just don't believe there's enough tax dollars.

And you guys make a lot of money. But if I know a lot of you with the weather and stuff, don't spend a lot because a lot of the restaurants I go to.

Or places of business or closing.

And so without people spending money for preservation.

You guys need to work on an agency back in pay for that without Texas.

There are approved grants and federal grants which pay more than the state grants because of the Exodus here.

So my comment. That's what anyone would say.

Well, thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments. Chair, we have no more speakers.

Thank you.

Commissioners to the approval of the minutes from our November meeting. Are there any comments or motions?

You can have a seat. We're going to take a vote for this item.

I'm sorry. I'm working up.

I'll go ahead and move to approve the minutes from the November meeting. Is there a second?

Commissioner Murkert seconds. Will the clerk please call the roll?

Yes. Thank you, Chair. Commissioners, if you can please unmute your microphones. Commissioner Murkert.

Yes. Commissioner Onbacher is absent. Commissioner Burns.

Yes. Commissioner Rika. Yes.

Vice Chair Near is currently absent. Commissioner Cross. Yes.

And Chair McSlovgan. Yes. Thank you. The motion passes.

Thank you very much. We will move on now to the discussion calendar.

An item two on our agenda. Water plus treatment, plants resiliency and improvements project.

It seems you have a presentation. Welcome.

I have a crowd. Thank you very much for having me today.

My name is Megan Thomas. I'm a senior engineer with the Department of Utilities.

CIP Water Engineering.

We wanted to come here before we actually had to when the draft EIR is public.

Because we want to introduce you to the project as we have with other players who have been stakeholders

and interest groups and departments who have interest in the improvements we're trying to do.

Let me say to you.

So to start the presentation, we want to give you a background on the project itself.

Then we're going to go into the historical significance of the Second Winter River Water treatment plant.

After that, we're going to talk about the space limitations we have at that facility for improvements.

And then identify project impacted resources that we identified during our current environmental assessment.

And we're going to open discussion. I would like to say right now we have our draft EIR is not public yet.

It is a special estimated to come out late April.

We're going to approach you now to get input of your thoughts.

Not a recommendation at this time.

So it gives you an idea to think on it until we do the recommendation.

Water plus.

As you guys have probably seen in the media in the past few years, there's a lot of things that we have to worry about when it comes to drinking water.

DOU comes to no exception to that.

We look at what's happening today, what the future is holding, and we have to look at our entire system as a long-term reliable safe water supply and infrastructure that can support that.

So within this assessment, we're looking at things such as drought, wildfires, floods, our new regulations, which I know you're as familiar with, but they change almost every six months.

We get new things to have to play by the algal toxins. I'm sure you've heard of the green water.

Don't let the dogs go to the river and to drink it.

These things we have to worry about too. And then of course the aging infrastructure.

One of the things we also have to think about, which is less upfront, is planning for the future of Sacramento.

So we have to make sure we have enough water for the future needs of Sacramento.

With that, we put it into a program.

We had to look at a long-term, progratic approach.

There's way too many times we have projects that here is an asset we have to worry about, here's a thing we have to worry about, and not look at all the system and having to work together and or to provide this reliability and resiliency.

And thus becomes water plus.

Water plus is considered an all-inclusive look at the entire system, holistically, and how everything's coming together to make sure that from today moving forward, we can definitely provide reliable.

And resilient water supply to the system.

As part of the project that I'm managing, which is called the Treatment Plants and Water Improvements Project, it involves things such as resiliency and expansion.

So to in order for us to provide more water and be able to treat more water, we need another intake.

At Sacramento River, it has the space compared to our other Treatment Plant Fairburn to provide for this expansion.

So there is where our expansion efforts would lie, as well as resiliency at both facilities.

Both facilities need to come up together to provide the same water quality and same resiliency.

We can't let one age out while the other one is getting improved.

We want everything to come up together in a nice resilient mash fashion.

Ozone is a treatment process that a lot of agencies, especially the larger ones, are starting to use, is really robust and really able to take care of a lot of things that our current treatment process can't.

So when we talk about things coming down the river, Ozone can handle a lot more, and is also a lot more available for treatment.

So chlorine conversion. This one is probably a little less known.

We use chlorine gas to treat our system.

The unfortunate part besides the difficulty of maintaining our safety regulations and keeping up with the safety aspects of it, the supplier chain is down.

We only have one supplier in the west coast while setting up a pipeline has a lot more suppliers.

And if we really want to be resilient and have a supply chain not close off on us, we need to have more suppliers that can provide this.

And so we're looking to convert from one form of chlorine to another to make sure that we can maintain water supply at all times.

And finally, it's the distribution system. Once we get the water treated, now we have to get it to the people.

And so we didn't want to forget that, hey, the treatment plants need it, but I know how to get it out there.

So we looked at all of this for the program while the plant and proven project focused initially on making sure the water coming from the plant can do its job.

Fairburn doesn't have any historical resources.

So the conversation we're going to have really is going to focus on Sacramento River.

Sacramento River was listed as a historic landmark on the Sacramento Ridge stir of historic cultural resources back in 2011.

And on the picture, you can see the boundary of what Sacramento River treatment plant consists of today.

And it looks pretty full, as you can see.

And we have five listed resources that are currently on the city's list.

And these are features within the plant that you may or may not be familiar with.

The first listing, and it is color coded, so that will be brought up later to kind of help you identify where we're looking.

The first one is a pumping station, which is in the central west side of the facility.

The second one is the head building and administration building, which is a little further east.

The third one is the concrete filter building, and this is going to come up shortly later.

But again, an idea of this is where it is in the middle of the treatment plant.

The fourth one is the coag building, which is on the southwest corner.

And one that is offsite is the water intake structure, the original one.

So of all these facilities, we have space limitations.

So if you look at the boundaries, and you look at what actually is active today, everything in green and yellow, you'll see,

is things we actively use today to make the drinking water we do today from the facility.

The facility can do up to 160 million gallons of production a day, which sounds like a lot, but when you have a city's big as ours, it's actually not quite enough.

And we should kind of highlight this to park so you can understand the desk base is not available.

It is a park land and is being proposed for improvements now.

So we really have hard boundaries between streets and other improvements that we don't have a whole lot of space to move.

So within the active features, you'll see the historic features.

So here's all of them highlighted together, so you can kind of see where they stand out compared to all of them.

Right there, they're there, sitting happily, and we're working around them the best we can.

The problem comes in when we start having to worry about, now I need to do almost double of the capacity based on the projected demands we're expecting.

And another 150 mgday takes more than double of the space we are using today to meet treatment.

So now let's get into the proposed improvements. This is the fun stuff.

So this is a general look of what the change would be.

Everything in blue here is brand new.

That's how much has to change in order for us to get ozone to fit, for us to expand the capacity for us to meet regulatory requirements.

And you can see there's not much space left for more time.

It is a lot of space that has taken up, and some of the even blank space has other regulatory needs, such as

we have to account for slowing down our water detention, and so we can get to the drainage.

So some of these blank spaces actually have a purpose.

Now let's talk about the impacted resources.

So as you saw in the agenda, or the description of the stuff we gave you, the biggest problem is the filter building.

Right, it's in the dead center, and right in the middle of what we have to work with to make it work.

So when we actually get into the improvement, you can see right there, it's right in line with what we have to make it work.

I'm going to show you how water moves to kind of give you an idea of why there really is no other option for us in based on its arrangement.

Let's start with the filters themselves.

So the new filters, which what you're seeing there is the current active filters we have today, are completely different design than the old filters.

The old filters cannot meet regulatory requirements, the way they're designed, the way they're set up, and we can't run them together anymore.

The system doesn't allow for it.

So we need the filters themselves to be upgraded to meet regulatory standards.

Then we talk about the fun stuff that no one can see, everything below the surface.

So all you can't see it in the middle of that building and below the filters, that whole area on the left picture is the existing filters.

It goes 16 feet below grade.

Now that's important compared to the 20 feet of the old filters because the way treatment plants work is gravity water.

You need more slope in order to get it from one side to the other.

So that four foot difference is huge for us getting water out of the facility.

If we make it, the more I'm stuck, I can't operate the way I need to to get that water to turn over to meet regulatory standards.

So it's not just the filters, it's everything underneath that you can't see.

There's storage basins, there's old pipelines that have completely rotted out.

There's old conduit things that have to come out in order for us to get new filters in place.

And then the treatment's flat flow.

So this is kind of the fun one.

I put out a nationwide set.

Water starts from the river, the pump takes it in and drops it into the grip basin today.

The grip basin takes out the heavy solids.

And from there we add some chemicals so that it can go through the sedimentation process.

The sedimentation process takes out most of the lighter material but is still not good enough.

The filters are our pollishers.

They help us meet regulatory standards.

Without them we wouldn't.

They're that critical to the process.

Once they get past the filters they go straight to storage basins.

And once they get to the storage basins we send it to the pump house and it goes out for distribution.

This is how water has to move to the plant today.

And unfortunately for expansion it has to move similarly tomorrow.

So we look at the improved version of it and we said we need a secondary intake.

Please don't mind the arrows, they're not actually pipelines running out underneath that as it's a general reference of.

We have to get water from the new we take somehow to our plant.

Our interest is not to destroy any park or most like it all.

It is just a reference.

But with that being said it is now the same volume water from the intake versus the existing intake versus the new intake.

Still coming to the plant we need additional grip basins including mixing basins because now we have two different water sources from two different water depths.

From there now we have eight sedimentation basins.

And as you can see we had a squeeze in order to make space for ozone.

That's how we have to actually modify our existing system just to even fit in the ozone and not impact anything else.

And from there it goes to the filters.

Again gravity is our friend for treatment and it has to continue the same fashion to get through the new filters.

And from there it goes to the new contact basins.

There's going to be more storage.

Again more capacity requires more storage.

And then from there goes to another pump station and eventually to the distribution system.

So here is the big part that we want to make sure you guys understand that the concrete filter building compared to the pump house they have a common wall.

Now it's kind of built around not really a wall is more of a doorway in there.

Our interest is to protect the pump house.

We have the head house. We have no desire to affect the head house or any other historical features.

But with the common wall we do have to address that.

Our intent is to repair a consistent with the US Secretary of Interior standards for the treatment of historic properties.

We want to make it look exactly as it does today and keep consistent with that.

That is our interest.

But because of common wall in order for us to destroy the filters to do our new filters we have to make that break and take that separation

to make sure we keep that and protect that asset.

Now one more feature we have in here.

The only reason we're bringing up is not listed.

But recently an adjacent project had sent something to the state historic preservation officer.

And because they sent it in as a potential historic, having historical significance, we want to bring it to you today.

Just so you know what we're talking about in case you guys saw it later.

So the 5 million gallon reservoir is right here at the end.

It's not much.

It is going to come in and become another 5 million gallon reservoir which doesn't sound like a big deal except when you're talking about where we're at.

This facility, all the reservoirs are below grade.

This is again, falling that grade line, making sure we're going next step to next step.

The reservoir is basically underground to where the point you can't even see it.

You can barely tell that there's valves there.

And it's 30 feet below grade.

The problem with it is we're really close at Sacramento River and groundwater plays a big issue for us to maintain protection of the water in that reservoir.

We actually can't drop the water in that reservoir because of the groundwater based on the old design.

We have to bring it to design standards so that we can use the full capacity of that reservoir that we can't today.

And so this one in particular, we just want to make sure you understand that there's nothing visual here.

It's all underground.

But because it was added to the California list, we wanted to make sure you knew that we understand that.

But it is a reservoir.

It is underground.

It has no thick, thickens or feature that of importance to have an issue with.

So I know I'm talking a lot.

I apologize for that.

Right now we'd love to hear of any input thoughts that might be coming from you.

Again, we're not asking for recommendation at this time.

We will be coming back after the draft EIR goes public.

And everyone has a chance to get comments since so that you guys have a true understanding of an opportunity to look at all the documentation we did.

For the environmental assessment to fully understand what we're dealing with.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for the presentation for coming tonight.

Commissioners, are there any questions or comments for our presenter?

Yeah, Commissioner Merkert, go ahead.

Hi, thank you for your presentation.

It's an interesting facility that you know you always drive by on the freeway and never stop and get to see just a snippet of it as you go by.

But there's definitely a kind of city beautiful movement architecture going on in that space.

I definitely understand the need to upgrade our infrastructure and make that move as quickly and efficiently as possible.

So glad you're here today to start the process.

I had a question about the concrete filters.

It sounds like a very interesting technology.

I understand it's obsolete.

But what do they look like specifically?

And is there any way to maybe salvage a piece of them and keep it for some sort of future display or educational purposes?

Well, I'm just going to clarify the term concrete filter building.

I'm not quite sure how they can have that title.

It is the filter building.

The other filters are also made out of concrete forms.

All the filters are really operating very similar in concept where they use some version of media where the water will go through and basically weed out all the small particles.

And there's some version of holes underneath.

We've used either filter nozzles or something else for water to percolate through and get through to the bottom.

Old designs are very similar to current ones, but some of the old design concepts were going to say of a little more less maintenance friendly.

So where I can't go in there and actually maintain it versus the new ones, I can go in there and replace a nozzle if I needed to.

There might be aspects we can look into, you know, preserving in terms of, you know, here's a sample of what it looked like.

The media is actually identical.

It's what we call anthracite, also known as coal.

It's a great, I mean, if you have a bridge of filter, it's the same stuff you guys have in there.

So the media is not any different.

The structure, I think, is really nothing to note.

We kind of saw the picture with all the pipelines, most of the stuff, on top is what really is doing the job, not the stuff on the bottom, which is literally the holes, whatever.

There's protecting the filter media from falling through and just getting through.

So I'm not quite sure what there is to preserve, but we can see if there's something of value, absolutely.

Thank you. And then just one more question.

The footprint of the new intake that you were showing on the diagrams is that it appeared smaller than the existing one, but is supposed to be pumping the same amount.

Was that just diagrammatic?

It was just diagrammatic.

I was basically throwing something in there saying it's kind of like this.

I said that the draft environmental report will explain what we have gone through, the alternatives we look through, and this is what we're proposing for our project.

So you'll get a little more insight, but until the environmental process is done and we start going to design, even then it's going to be very schematic in nature.

The design aspect is where it starts getting fun.

Thank you. Vice Chair Near.

So Commissioner Merkler hit on a good design feature idea.

I know I missed part of the presentation and I apologize.

It sounds like the concrete building is going to be removed. Is that correct?

That's correct. We would have to remove it in order to get new filters in.

And not concrete building is part of this historic district or historic resource.

Correct.

The second amount of treatment plant is a historical resource with elements within it that are listed.

It is a listed element within the city's list.

Okay.

I try to create a lot of elements on site, but not all of our historic.

So I just want to make sure that's right.

Would it be possible?

I understand the filters have to be changed.

Would it be possible to recreate that concrete building similar to what it looks like now?

In the new design?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by looking the same.

There's no artistic feature to it.

I mean, let me see if I can go back.

One second.

I have a few flashbacks I have to get through.

You can kind of see here.

Glass features we can definitely look into as considering some of these things.

The problem right now, again, until we actually get to design.

It's brilliant environmental aspects.

We're not into the details of what things look like yet.

We'll come back to you when we start getting into the fun design stuff and making sure everything looks all pretty.

And that definitely would be much more appropriate time to start talking about that kind of detail.

Right now, it's more of the, I have to take the feature out in order to put filters back.

And so as long as we can get past that, then the next phase is getting into the design where we start getting into the details of what things look like and what we have to fit in here.

And what we can do to make it look, whether it's similar, whether it has different features like it matches the head house, it'd be part of those discussions, less for the environmental phase.

One last question.

Do you have an idea of what the mitigation measures are going to be in the draft EIR?

We're looking into them now.

Again, we're in the middle of the environmental assessment now.

That's kind of what we're hoping to kind of give input of what you guys are thinking and thoughts that are coming to your mind so we can kind of start thinking what those mitigations might be for the impacts.

Once the draft EIR goes public, you'll see what we're proposing based on all the elements we have to work with.

And then from there, we've become back to you for recommendations on anything that we may not have covered that you guys are hoping we would cover as a mitigation.

Well, maybe some ideas for mitigations now would be the design features that Commissioner Merkler mentioned of trying to salvage some type of filter system.

In recreating the concrete building in some form so that it looks similar to what it does now.

Thank you.

Commissioner Cross, go ahead.

Thank you for your presentation.

I've had the opportunity to tour your site extensively and have, you know, I'm familiar with these buildings from the time that we spent there.

The concrete filter building actually goes quite deep.

So I understand what you're saying that in order to replace the filters outside the entire building and at least it's about half a story.

I don't know a story down.

20 feet.

Yeah.

Down will have to be removed.

I get that.

And having toured the site, I understand more about the filters themselves that they are not removable filters.

You know, it's a series of kind of holding tanks, if you will.

So although it is a bummer to lose a beautiful kind of 30s industrial building, I understand what you're saying.

But the literature that you gave us explains that very well.

However, one thing that the literature didn't explain to me well was why the 5 million gallon reservoir has been deemed eligible.

And it hasn't been put on any register as of yet.

But because of the section 106 process that you just went through with OHP, it's been cited as eligible for the national and the state register.

And yet I didn't see any discussion as to why.

So we have not gone through a section 106 that will probably happen once we figure out our funding.

Okay.

So what has going to happen is that a different project adjacent to us.

Did it 106?

Did it 106?

And because of proximity of our facility to them, they added it to their potential list.

We did not.

Who is this day?

Catrans.

Okay.

And why is the 5 million gallon reservoir historic?

Age alone.

It was the only reason.

So they're trying to be conservative in their environmental very similar to what we're trying to do.

And so they wanted to put it in there.

Regardless of anything else it was age alone.

So I understand that better now.

I think just a sentence or two of that in your literature going forward would be helpful.

Thank you so much.

One note I wanted to add that kind of speaks to that but is more just a quirky thing I liked in the literature that I just wanted to share.

Well, we're all here in case anyone missed it.

But that I didn't know as to give me some like real Sacramento pride in reading about our water infrastructure.

This is from this on page 22 of what we got.

The Sacramento River Water Treatment Plant was the most modern facility of its kind in the United States at the time of its construction in 1921.

The dedication ceremony included the starting of the plants pumps by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge through an electrical impulse transported by telegraph from the White House in Washington DC.

According to information it was the first filtration plant constructed west of the Rockies and it goes on.

But the idea that like the White House was involved in our water infrastructure opening I thought was really very cool.

I had one question again that's not really related but on history and water in Sacramento.

There's I think it's an old intake on the river that's between like Broadway and 50 right off the river trail and it has very cool old art deco typography on it but it's kind of like gated off and there's nothing there.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

We can talk after it.

That's actually part of this resource.

Oh that is part of the old intake structure next to Mohsack right?

Like he said Broadway.

No no no I'm talking a good bit further south it's right on the river trail but it's.

Could it be out of our south as it comes from North of Clarksburg like before you get to Freakport?

No no no it's North of Sutterville.

I think I might know what you're talking about it might be our old rainy collector but it's it's physically on the levy itself not in water.

We do have an asset there it was from the 1970s.

Okay the the type seems older and cooler than that.

Yeah so I mean they make it pretty right?

And thinking about mitigation and like public education and how we might tell the story of the building and how it came to be and what was there and all of that.

It just seems like this asset that's right there on especially now with the Del Rio Trail is this up and coming thing.

Great opportunity as a location to tell some of that water history story.

Absolutely yeah to give you an idea that actually is an old groundwater well.

It's this type of groundwater well that actually has the screens that go underneath the river as opposed to straight down.

So no we are very familiar with that as well.

Okay I'd love to see a plaque there I guess is really all I'm trying to say.

Yeah come here sure cross go ahead.

Okay one more question.

When you replace the concrete filter building and its outdated filters you will be putting another building there to contain the actual parts that people need to work on correct correct.

Okay thank you.

And we'll be seeing that as it develops correct exactly exactly.

Okay any other questions or comments.

All right thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Before we close this item we do have one public speaker on this item.

Shelby.

All right how many minutes do we have.

Nice.

Okay so listening to her about the funding and I know there's a budget and sometimes we're in a rush and there's so many grants that needs to be taken but in the meantime while they look at the grants.

I said allow communities including Hindus or other religious institutes to be invited as people who can come and volunteer for budget preservation education and possible donations involving not just religious but small businesses.

And also involving maybe inviting some city workers that might help the needs of her president for preservation project to be able to send audit departments to help and help with state inspection agencies with more pictures and even creating an art gallery after the preservation project.

So that people who volunteer can't make it can see the improvement and see like the examples or project you know it could create another program or it could just create something for you to take with you on your journey.

And also made drones to send in the pipelines for proper cameras and to see repairs for budget improving the the pipeline with products for preservation by possibly diluting pipeline with the proper drainage.

Chemicals because they know chloride and all that it's not going to work you know I need you to specific material products you know like snakes can work but you know you need something more advanced with the camera to go in there and like you know some of you.

Thank you for your comments your time is complete.

Chair we have no more speakers for this item.

Thank you very much.

We'll move on now to item three on our discussion calendar selection of chair and vice chair for calendar year 2025.

Just a note on that I have happily served as two terms as chair and I'm termed out so I can't be chair anymore as far as I know everybody else is eligible and we also don't it's not like a ticket sort of a deal so.

Chair and vice chair two separate things will take each one separately starting with this election of the chair anyone want to nominate themselves or anybody else.

And I just wanted to I'm sorry yes you are correct everybody else is eligible to serve as chair and vice chair and this will take effect your next meeting in February.

Thank you for clarifying that I'll go ahead and nominate vice chair now as chair from what I hear she did great job with the meeting where I was in here that happened to be a spicy one and it's been a pleasure working with her.

Any one else can make a motion or can second the motion I just made.

Okay cool commissioner rica seconds will the clerk please call a roll.

Yes thank you commissioners if you can please unmute commissioner marker yes commissioner on blocker is absent commissioner burns yes commissioner rica yes vice chair they are.

Yes make sure cross yes and chair mix off yes thank you the motion passes congratulations congratulations next up is this election of the vice chair anyone want to nominate themselves or anybody else.

Thank you commissioner's please unmute commissioner marker yes commissioner on blocker is absent commissioner burns yes commissioner

rica yes vice chair they are commissioner cross yes and chair mix off again yes thank you the motion passes congratulations congratulations and we do have one public speaker who seems to have left.

Shelby.

We'll move on and I guess there's public comments at the end if she decides to come back.

All right well congratulations to our chair and vice chair elect.

Directors report next on our agenda from director de course.

Thank you chair. I have a couple items for the director's report this evening the first I wanted to let you know that on December 22nd the city council approve the LGBTQ plus historic experience historic context statement and survey results so we'll be we're currently working on those survey findings the historic district and the 13 individual landmarks on nominating those to the register so that is ongoing as part of that project but.

The report itself was accepted by city council at a very late meeting I might add that went well well into the evening not necessarily the morning but the evening late so.

I did send out an email I wanted to remind you the CLG annual report will be coming to you for review at your next meeting and if you could please send me your updated resume or note letting me know that your resume is not changed and it's already on file.

So there's a training table so if you have completed any relevant training during the reporting period which is not the calendar year just to note it's October to September so if you've completed any relevant training please fill out that table if not just send me note and say I haven't completed any relevant training.

Next we I want to let everyone know that we had our two interns Melissa and Travis with us for the fall and summer semesters and they have moved on to other things and we are currently recruiting two new interns for the spring semester so if you know of any promising students in history historic preservation planning please alert them to that that position because we are recruiting both those.

So that's what I want to do is to get those positions currently.

That concludes my directors report.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much any questions for director to course see.

All right thank you.

Next is Commissioner comments ideas and questions anybody have anything to share ask bring up.

As you all know there has been a significant disaster that has occurred in the Los Angeles area and along with that multiple historic properties have been destroyed.

I have in my profession seen folks reaching out to see who has preservation experience or preservation design experience in order to help rebuild or restore.

I'm just wondering if the city has made any contact or received any outreach from agencies that may have been affected and are requesting some mutual aid or anything like that.

I'm not our office directly and I'm not aware of other city departments or offices.

I will add though that our intern Melissa James is a student at USC our former intern and she actually one of the reasons that she left is because she is working she's interested in working on recovery from the fire so that's the closest we've come but yeah not our office directly.

Anybody else.

All right next is public comments matters not on the agenda do we have any members of the public who is to speak.

Thank you chair we have no speakers.

Thank you well without will adjourn and we'll see you next month thank you everyone.