I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

for Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll and establish

a quorum? Good morning, Supervisors Kennedy.

Here. Desmond.

Here. Rodriguez.

Here. Hume.

Here. And Chair Serna.

Here. We do have a quorum.

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Kennedy in 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. Okay, again welcome to today's Board of Supervisors

meeting. Again, as a friendly reminder, those who wish to address the board on any item

on our published agenda are certainly welcome to do so. You are also welcome to address

the board on any matter that is not on our agenda. We ask that you keep your comments

to no more than two minutes. That way everyone who wishes to address the board has the ability

to do that. So with that, Madam Clerk, if you could please call the first item. Our

first speaker this morning for public comments relating to matters not on the posted agenda

is Ryan Harris. Alright, you guys had some time to think about my question last time

here. So I was wondering if you guys had an answer for it yet and to the people at home,

they're probably going to say they can't talk back per your guys' instruction that you

guys can't address the public while they're standing here. But we all know that's kind

of BS because you guys pick and choose when you want to reply as it's all recorded and

there's multiple videos of it. So I'm wondering if you guys have an answer for me or is this

the time you're going to pick and choose to follow the rules? Sounds like you're picking

and choosing to follow the rules right now, which leads me to why didn't you pick and

choose to follow the rules when it came to giving you guys your raises that you voted

in? I read the report and I hope the grand jury looks into it too and there's another

reason now probably bring it up once these seats get filled more as to why people need

to pay attention to these things because in your guys' reply as to why you gave yourself

so much money, you said we opened it up to the public and they didn't say anything. So

to the people at home, this is how they take advantage of you. They open it up to the public

at these meetings and you guys don't attend and then they hold it against you. Yeah, with

these last ones I'll ask another one of you. Why did you allow the man to demote me or

fire me and write a letter saying that I wanted to kill people at work? That's a damn lie.

You guys have an answer for that because you guys promoted him again. No? No? Okay. I

could wait. You guys just like rumors being spread like that. You got to support that.

Those rumors maybe followed you guys or rumors were spread about your loved ones. How would

you feel? Think about it. It might happen.

That concludes our public comments this morning. Great. Thank you. All right. Next item please.

The next item is presentations which are timed at 10.15 a.m. Can we do nominations?

Okay. We'll take item number 33 which is nominations to boards and commissions. We are continuing

to April 22nd, 2025, Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory Council, Elk Grove

Gassumness Cemetery District, Sacramento County Youth Commission. Continuing to May the 13th,

2025, Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee, Garth Arnold Cemetery District,

Sheriff Community Review Commission, Southeast Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

Continuing to May 20th, 2025, Sacramento County Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board, the Sacramento

County Treasury Oversight Committee, and the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Commission.

That brings us to nominations for today. Our first item is for the Enelope Community Planning

Advisory Council. Supervisor Ridgwick, you have six seats for District 4 nominations.

Please nominate Chris Janssen and do not waive the process.

Second. Do not waive the process.

Do not waive the process. Okay. Sorry.

And then for the remaining seats. For the next meeting.

Thank you so much. We next have the Arden Arcade Community Planning Advisory Council.

Supervisor Desmond, there are three District 3 nominations.

Please nominate Michael Beller and reappoint Bo Beller and Alex Carl.

Thank you. The County Service Area 4B Sleuth House,

Wilton Gassumness, Supervisor Hume, there is one District 5 seat.

I don't have my vote sheet with me. Whatever you have down will be fine.

I have continuing to May the 13th. Let's do that. Okay, sounds great.

And then also the Human Services Coordinating Council.

Chair Serna, there's four community member seats.

Chiefs are recommending continuing this item to May 20th.

Thank you. For the North Highlands Foothill Farms Community Planning Advisory Council.

Supervisor Kennedy, there is one seat for a District 1 nomination.

No. No. Okay.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Supervisor Serna.

Please continue the item to May 20th. Thank you.

And Supervisor Desmond for District 3. There's two seats.

Please nominate Amy Finley for Crystal Harding Seat and continue the remainder to May 20th.

Thank you. For Realinda Elverda Community Planning Advisory Council.

Supervisor Rodriguez, there are two District 4 nominations.

Please continue the seats to April 22nd. Thank you.

For the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Youth Advisory Board.

Supervisor Rodriguez, there's one District 4 seat.

Please continue to the 22nd of April. And Supervisor Hume, there's two District 5 seats.

My record show May the 20th. Does that sound good to you?

It does. It sounds good. Thank you.

And Sacramento County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.

Supervisor Kennedy, there is one District 2 seat.

Please nominate Tameza Wash and wave the process. Second.

And that item does pass unanimously.

And there's the South Sacramento Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

Chirst Serna, there's one, or Chirst Serna, there's one District 1 seat.

Please continue to May 20th. Thank you. And Supervisor Kennedy, there are four District 2 seats.

Please continue to May 20th. Thank you.

And the Veterans Advisory Commission.

Supervisor Desmond, there's one District 3 seat.

Please nominate Matthew Chicado and wave the process. Second.

And that item does pass unanimously.

And Supervisor Hume, there's one District 5 nominations. My record show May the 20th.

To continue to. Thank you.

And lastly, for the Vineyard Area Community Planning Advisory Council,

Supervisor Kennedy, there are two District 2 seats.

Please nominate Fong Hodgson.

Okay. And...

And continue the rest of May 20th.

To May 20th. Yes. Thank you.

And Supervisor Hume, there are four District 5 nominations.

Would you like to continue those to May 20th as well? Yes. Thank you.

That concludes our nominations and appointments for boards and commissions.

All right, we're good. We do have a presentation at 10.15.

And so we will stand and resist until then.

Okay.

Call back to order. This meeting is

Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday, April 8th, 2025.

Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll and establish the quorum? Supervisors Kennedy.

Here. Desmond. Rodriguez. Here. Hume. Here. And Chair Cerna. Here.

We do have a quorum. Great. Thank you. Next item, Madam Clerk.

Item number 2 is Literacy Foundation Special Presentation.

Hi there. Thank you so much for having us here. Supervisors, it's really nice.

I'm April Javist and I'm here with my staff,

Rigo Tovar and Messiah Malaris. Messiah Malaris

won the Sacramento...

Next slide, please. He won the... He was the winner of SBPs.

I think you're going to have to operate yourself. Oh, okay. How do I do it?

Sorry. I didn't know. No worries. My mistake. Oh.

Okay. Let me press that one. Okay. Here we go. Alright. Messiah Malaris. He was the winner

of SBPs Fast Pitch in 2024. And so we're going to

start there. Messiah Malaris. Thank you so much, April. Hello, everyone.

Hello, supervisors.

My name is Messiah and I'm with the Sacramento Literacy Foundation.

62% of third graders in Sacramento are not reading at grade level.

That's 62%. As adults,

we struggling readers will have a hard time in finding a job,

securing a home, and casting a vote. If you cannot read,

you cannot participate. The Sacramento Literacy Foundation,

that's all three of us, our mission is to help every child read.

We do this by delivering diverse, culturally relevant books to our most under-resourced

kids and advocate for the science of reading. A proven teaching

method that can help most children learn to read. Now, we've had the privilege

of being able to serve 16,000 of Sacramento's most under-resourced kids,

and each student receives five books that reflect their gender

and their ethnicity. Because research shows that when kids are able to see

themselves in their books, they're able to pull from their own lived experiences to become

faster and more confident readers. Here's one of my favorite stories I like

to tell folks. I helped in one of our book giveaways for the kindergarteners,

and I asked the kids, who here likes to read? Only a few

hands went up. After everyone got their bags of books, Kareem,

a refugee from Afghanistan, he comes up to me and whispers,

I don't know how to read. Kareem is like most of our kids who can't

read. They feel ashamed. As everyone's opening up their bags of

books, I hear Ramadan, Ramadan, Ramadan. All of the kids

are excited about one book in particular, Moon's Ramadan.

And then I hear Kareem sounding out the book title,

Ramadan. It's a

familiar word, and in that moment a word that he reads for the first time.

Kareem's reading journey has just begun.

Now our book giveaway also helps us build relationships with schools,

teachers, and parents to share tools and information about the science of reading.

So here's a few science of reading concepts. One,

ask your child about the story you just read. Two,

read a word once a week, learn it, and sound it out.

Three, have your kid read to you and listen.

Our intentionality in what we do is what makes us unique.

We give books to our most under-resourced kids who may not have them in their homes.

We make sure they see themselves in their books, and that gives us an opportunity

to help parents help their kids learn to read. Now if Kareem and his classmates were

equipped with the science of reading, we would see all hands rise when asked

who here likes to read. The literacy crisis is

solvable. So today I'm asking all of you to please include

literacy in your future initiatives. Thank you so much.

Great, thank you. Thank you, Messiah.

Yep, he was competing with 20 other nonprofits and he won with reading, which was really awesome

for us. So I want to give you a report on literacy in Sacramento County,

and hopefully this is the beginning of a kind of long relationship where we get our kids reading.

So reading is the number one equity skill

if you think about it. And please do spend some time thinking about it, because

if you can't read, you basically can't participate fully in our society,

whether that's voting, getting a job. Once you become an adult,

things get very, very complicated. Number one reason people are headed to jail

is because they have difficult time on the street, end up getting arrested,

and they get turned in and out of jail. Not prison, jail. So that's an interesting

study just to think about, because I know we have issues there. The majority of

kids in Sacramento County and the country and the state

are not at grade level reading. That's the crisis that we're trying to bring

to your attention. So in California 42%

of our kids are at grade level reading. Third graders now. This is just the third grade.

We're measuring the third grade because in the fourth grade,

you have to read to learn. Up to the third grade, you're learning to

read. But in the fourth grade, you have to read to learn. And if you're behind,

then everything that you're doing next is a struggle in that classroom.

And those kids are struggling, a lot of them. 38% of Sacramento County

kids are at grade level reading, and 35% are at grade level

reading in unincorporated Sacramento. So I put some data

together from our California Literacy Map so that you could see it. These are

choices that you can make on the map. This is Sacramento County,

and we're doing it in 18 schools. We went down by 1%

last year in grade level reading. But more importantly and hopeful is that

we went down in truancy by 5% and that's good news.

COVID really increased truancy. We were at about 17, 18%

across the table. And then it increased truancy in some places to 50

and 60%. So schools are working hard at truancy issues.

How to get kids back in the seats? How to get parents there? Can I interrupt here?

I'll check the slide. Let's see if I can do it. Oh boy.

I'm a map nut. So, map

nut here. So, nope, nope. Okay. There you go.

I don't see a legend here. So what are we looking at?

Those are schools. These are all the schools in Sacramento County.

That's a good question. And I'll make that better. So each of these

dots represents a school where third graders took the CAS score.

The redder that school, the less kids

passed. And I'll give you, I'll show you a little more data so you

can look at it. But these, all those dots represent an elementary school.

So, if I read that correctly, it looks, and the dots are coalescing

in some places overlapping there. So it looks like places like

Del Paso Heights, Hagenwood, North Sacramento,

Meadowview, South Sacramento, maybe North

Sacramento, New Orleans, even, even some parts of

towards Citrus Heights. It looks like there's some intensity

there. There's, yeah, there's intensity across the system. I mean,

let's look at it. Well, but this is a map of relativity. So, yeah.

All kids are struggling right now. And those yellow dots at best represent

60% at grade level reading. The yellow dots don't represent like a

90%. But let me just keep showing you how I broken it down. It might help you.

We have right now, so this is a little bit of a side, but we have

13 school districts in Sacramento. That's a lot of school districts.

We have about 288,000 kids, 20,000 of them

are third graders. So, this is how they rank

in terms of grade level reading. And I did it by big

schools and small schools. I've also given you a presentation that has all this

information in it so that you don't have to digest it all right now.

This is Incorporated Sacramento versus Unincorporated

Sacramento. So, I've taken the cities so we can

see that Incorporated Sacramento has about 40%. Unincorporated

Sacramento has about 35%. So, maybe, you know,

support coming from city municipalities is helping to some

degree. This is your districts here. And I'm

sure you're all interested in that. Each of you have a school district. And what we do

is we take the year before and measure it up or down. So, Phil, your district went up

by .08%. But in general,

speaking, we're not doing a good, you know, we're not in a good place in any of the school

districts relative to reading. Yeah, I would say, okay, it may have gone up, but

from what? Right, exactly. You know, we're in a literacy crisis.

There's no question about that. So, what are we doing about it?

We have some programs. We have a book giveaway program you heard a little bit about. We have

summer reading initiatives and we have our California Literacy Map. We are

also a literacy convener and we bring together the Sacramento

Literacy Coalition on a monthly basis. And we also

advocate for the science of reading. And I'll get a little more into that.

We have given out 100,000 culturally relevant diverse books in the last

four years to the poorest kids in Sacramento County.

We go to elementary schools that are Title I, 80% are greater, but

mostly 90% are greater. Because if you recall before the pandemic,

there was a lot of talk about kids didn't have books in their hands. So that's

what we've focused on, books in their hands. We've estimated there are

about 28,000 TK through second graders living in poverty

and we've reached 10,000 of them discreetly. We feel pretty good

about that and we're going to go after all those kiddos. Each bag of

five, we have five culturally relevant high quality books and there's a lot of research

underneath that even though we just hand the kid the books to take home.

Five books is what it takes to hold on to skills that you've gained before.

Books in the home is as significant to a child's college

trajectory as their parents' job and college or education

at tenement level. Hugely important and it's simple stuff like this is the front of a

book, this is the back of the book, this is the spine of a book. So that when they get into

TK they're down that curve, right? And then seeing oneself

in a book which is not very easy for kids who are brown and black

and Asian, mostly most protagonists are either animals or white

and so seeing yourself in a book allows you to grab information

that you already have and read faster which is probably

what Messiah's fast pitch really showed us. We have some new

initiatives coming up. We're looking to put a book

in every kid's hands that goes to well space because that's a 92%

low income clientele. So we want to put a book in every one of those

hands and we're also looking to put a library

in every one of the Twin Rivers Unified School District's

first, second and third grade classrooms. Those kids already get books from

us and so this is to compliment that. Twin Rivers is working really hard

on the science of reading and getting their kiddos reading and I think we'll see some really good increases

in the next few years relative to that. Can I ask,

what does a classroom library look like? It's a 52,

it'll be like a 52 book classroom library. It'll be demographically aligned

to the kids grade level reading and to their demographic race

wise. So it'll just, teachers will use it in different ways. Some of them will

let kids check out. Some of them will make it a book club because we'll give those kids

also the book. I mean actually we're interested to see what we do with it

and what kind of programming comes out of it. So it's pretty

exciting to be working with that district in particular. They're the poorest.

And I'll say something more about that. Oh, there is that little side

piece over there. That's a piece that we give to parents. It's English Spanish.

Helps parents help their kids learn to read. Has tips on what they can

do to support their kiddos reading. So we also

fund summer reading initiatives. We have a small endowment. We've stuck

to summer reading and we've given out about $200,000 over

four years. We're looking to build our endowments so that we can give out

$250,000 a year. Last year in the Big Day of Giving, early literacy

received about $250,000. It's not enough.

But we're going to match that and then start from there. New funds are going to be directed

to tutoring mostly because that's what's needed. More than anything

tutoring, I would say. These are some things we do as a convener.

We do a literacy report card which you can find inside of our newsletter.

It details the last several years of what's going on in Sat County.

We do a monthly check-in last month

last week. Dave Gordon came and talked to us about what

the U.S. Department of Education, what the impacts of

that situation could be on California. And we

we have a literacy festival in September, September 27th.

We are the people who brought together the

All-America City Award to Sacramento in 2022 with our work

in affordable housing and literacy. We are the campaign

for grade level readings local convener and we're part of a national

coalition for diverse books for all. So we're

busy. Policy, this is the last piece.

Policy has to align with what's going on.

So SCOE has introduced a science of reading resolution and we've been running around

to all the districts talking to the districts about getting them to also

adopt the science of reading resolution. Also there's an initiative

this is a second year running to get an assembly bill passed to get

the science of reading included. And it really should pass.

1121. I don't know if it will. It will cost money.

If we don't spend some money on kids reading, we're never going to get out of the homelessness,

out of the poverty, out of the crime that we're in right now.

So reading is totally associated with every one of those budgets.

So here's a big picture of the science of reading.

95% of brains can learn to read with this approach.

And these are the six pillars of reading. Just for your

own edification, kids need to learn them all, all at once.

The things that are really getting missing is oral language, babies. If you have

babies in your life, get them talking to you. Don't talk to them so much. Get them talking to you.

They need to hear themselves make the sounds.

Phonemic awareness is about sounds. Our alphabet has

44 sounds, 26 letters, 44 sounds. Imagine a kid in a

bilingual home, well they're dealing with 44 sounds plus 30 to

40 more sounds in another alphabet, right? So that's a lot of sounds that

our bilingual learners need to practice. So those two things get missed a bunch

before we get to phonics. A lot of people understand phonics, fluency,

vocabulary, and comprehension. But these first two pieces, without them,

kids aren't learning. And that's where it starts to fall. Mississippi did it

and so can we. Mississippi

passed a policy in 2013, implemented it in 2016,

and by 2019, 85% of their third graders were

at grade level reading. 85% you guys. It's a huge number.

They're still leading the country, all said and done. But they're one of the poorest states.

They're very diverse, so there's no reason we couldn't do the same thing we have

about half the population they have. So what do we want from you?

Well, to consider, you know, right now we're really unclear what the department

education cuts are going to mean, particularly to Title 1 dollars.

Title 1 dollars go directly to the poorest kids. They go directly to the

kids who struggle to read, literally. So at Cap2Cap

we're bringing health together with literacy. And we're looking to

advocate for the $260 million that's potentially Sacramento

could lose with this whole US piece.

Municipal budgeting will have to think about adding education line items.

And what I'd say is please try to invest in literacy interventions

that are effective, that are working, and that are based in evidence.

And that's it. That's what I got. I left you with a book for your kiddos.

I love this book and I love to say this about it. You could try to rip this book up.

You could chew this book. If you ever had a baby that chews a book, you know that

that's a drag because the paper gets in their mouth, not this book. So

we're going to give these to the babies. Anyway, there you go.

Thank you, April. We do have some members of the board that are in the queue that would like to

maybe ask you some questions or have their own

comments. I'm going to take it over here and start us off, though.

First of all, I just want to thank you for all of

you and congratulations for what you're doing as it relates to

the mission of expanding literacy in our communities.

And as I sit here and listen to you and see the data

and listen to kind of what the objectives are,

I can't help but reflect on my own late father

and certainly I think Supervisor Kennedy will remember that

our late mayor

had a kind of a motto that he stood by for several years. Everyone

reads, everyone works, and everyone votes. So especially at the beginning

of the presentation, that was resonating with me in the back

of my mind and couldn't agree with you more that reading is so

fundamental to the ability to succeed. In fact, very early in life.

One thing I didn't hear

and I think it may be just because

it is what it is, which is I think a great continued

partnership is kind of what is this

initiative on literacy doing to work hand and glove with

First Five and its mission because I think as you

stress in a few of your slides, reading

at early ages, I think I heard zero to five or zero to three

is so critical because of how our brains develop

at that young age, but certainly would love to understand

kind of how that is progressing

working with our county's First Five commission.

Well, if you could help us with that, that would be great. I did reach out to the

First Five and what they said was that literacy kind of had fallen off of their strategic plan

because of organizations like us existing. I feel like actually it would

be great if First Five would, our First Five would adopt literacy. Meaning that you're doing

such a great job. I'm not sure.

I would love to help you out as chair of the First Five.

Let's get there because you know Santa Cruz First Five, they are the campaign for grade level reading

convener in Santa Cruz. So I would love a better relationship

and a deeper relationship, particularly as we enter this wealth space partnership

which we're working on with the measure L and the tote grants

for trying to fund every kid getting a book in that zero to five space

that goes to a wealth space visit. And so it would be great to get help with that

100%. Let's talk. Okay, great. Thank you. Supervisor

Kennedy. Thank you, Chair. Thank you for your comments.

I'm going to also throw out another organization to ask if you're coordinating

with me and that's CEDA and the Head Start

programs, which is exactly your target audience.

Yes, it is. Now we, I think I'm going to, I'm doing

the cap for the first time. So I admit this is a little new to me, but both CEDA and

I believe that group will be there and I, so I'm looking forward to

connecting more. We're much more connected to school districts and to

nonprofits that are delivering literacy resources and

to parents who have kids who have dyslexia who are mad. So those are

the three major groups of people that come to the Literacy Coalition meetings,

but these larger government groups, we haven't interfaced as much with

them except for SCOE. We've really partnered up well with SCOE and

really we're going to cap to cap because Dave Gordon said last week

go to cap to cap. So I was like, all right, let's go to cap to cap.

And SCOE, clearly a valuable resource for you. I would reach out

either to myself or Supervisor Desmond

as the current Chair of the CEDA Board and I serve on it.

Fantastic. But you know, because then you're dealing with all of the

districts as well, but you're dealing with a different subset

in the Head Start program, not necessarily the K-12 classroom.

But again, it's really your target audience of

what you're talking about. Yeah, great. That's great. I will do that.

I will follow up with all of you on this stuff. I'd start with Supervisor Desmond.

Start with Rich Desmond, leave you alone. Okay.

I'm going to email you both at the same time.

Okay. Supervisor Rodriguez.

Well, first I want to say congrats to Messiah. That is quite an accomplishment, but it is

very daunting to know that we're at the

62% of third grade levels that are reading below.

It takes me back to my own personal experience growing up.

I came from a bilingual family. We spoke Spanish

at home and then only because I had a sister that was three years older, did I start

speaking English somewhere around two, three, the age of two, three.

But I do remember that, you know, how

my parents were working, they were working parents.

And reading wasn't very important to them, but in retrospect, I think

that would have been a very good thing for us to

start reading and increase our English usage.

It just has a very profitable long-term

benefit to a young person. I also was very

interested or intrigued most recently when I learned about the library and

all of the possibilities that it has in online books

and what you can do that, you know, when you said

if we don't spend money on literacy, you know, things will continue

to stay the way they are or worsen. What about like

giving kids who struggle at a very low reading level

those Kindle books where they could read and

you mentioned something that really caught my attention. When I started reading

about people that had similar experiences

like me, immigrant parents, and certain

things, those books truly became more interesting. And I think

as I got into middle school or high school, I remember reading the Grapes of

Wrath and it talked about certain struggles of

Latinos in America. But it was relevant and it was

interesting and it made me want to learn more about the author and what are the books he had written.

But anyways, going back to the library and the usage

and getting Kindle books to these young kids

because once they start reading several different types of books, it hopefully

will increase their reading level. The library does a great

job. I would say that its biggest literacy intervention is summer reading

because kids get rewarded for reading five books

and that's how you hold on to your skills. That's like the gym. Five

books is like going to the gym. It's how you hold on to the muscle that you gained before.

And so I think the library does a really good job at that program

in particular. I don't know about getting kids Kindles. We've

pushed a program called Always Dream into Twin Rivers as well

and the kids get an electronic book that parents do and they're going to use it as a

way to get parents interested in the resources to get their kids back in the seats.

But it's 40,000 diverse books on a Kindle that's available to them

and so that's also a good program. Sometimes you know the hard part

about libraries to be honest is that a lot of poor families aren't

anywhere near a library. The kids are a freeway away,

a big street away and so we need more mobile libraries

to kind of, you know, spoke out from the branch libraries

and get more bookmobiles. My vision for the library would be a

bookmobile for every library that has music and that runs around to the communities

where kids can't get them and kids recognize it and run to it in the

summer. That would be my dream. If I had lots of money, that's what I would

give the library money to do. That would be awesome. Yeah, it would.

Sure, Vice President Hume. Thank you, Chair.

Great presentation, April Messiah and I can tell by the enthusiasm from my

colleagues here on the dais that your mission resonates and you know I've been

helping for many years, helped them raise funds that their annual fund raise

are to do what they're doing so I just want to put it kind of a finer point on some of the issues that were raised.

The first being that you know a lot of the adjectives

culturally relevant underserved, I mean these are being

banted about as bad words right now but it's so important because

as Supervisor Rodriguez said, you know, when you're in a household

you can't see yourself represented. Right?

Like we're looking for that hook that gets the kids interested in the story

so that then they want to read the story but in many cases you have a household where

struggling to survive and flying beneath the radar

so that you can just kind of get by and maybe reading is seen as a waste

of time. Why are you sitting over there reading? Why aren't you doing something more productive?

Like there's all these barriers already that are up there and then

with the summer reading program which prior to the recognition of

what a severe literacy issue there is, in summer

reading if kids don't continue that reading through the summer they fall back what was it half

a grade level, a full grade level, like all the work that had been done

gets washed away because they don't have the muscle memory. Right?

And so the last thing that I'll say just to close here and this is more for the folks who may be

watching this presentation not so much I think up here on the dais we get it but

the whole purpose of this foundation

is to make able minded citizenry

and so much of that is foundational in being able to read

and it starts there and the numbers speak for themselves

as far as how far behind there. Thank you, Chair. I want to put a pin on what you just said

at first I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk today

secondly I want to say something about parents. I know they're busy but here's what we found

when we meet a parent who gets that bag of books we say I ask them well what did you

do? Well we have read the book I said did they have a favorite? Oh yeah it was the one about that

so here's what I've learned about poor parents. They make decisions very

fast about what is going to make sense for their kid and what's not and so

I don't think they pick up some books because they don't make sense for their kid. I think

they do pick up our books because A they're seeing themselves for the first time

and B it makes sense for their kids. We have one little girl

who was in a hajjib. She went to her teacher crying because on the cover of

the book was a little girl with a hajjib. She's a big reader very very strong.

She was crying because she said I've never seen myself in a

book right and so that's that culturally relevant part.

She was just like overwhelmed. Kids are so excited

to get the books and parents are too. I don't think parents

I don't think poor parents I think they're making decisions is what I really think

they're doing and I think they're just making the best decision they can for their kids.

But I think most parents know their kids need to learn to read. When we talk to parents

those kids those parents who have kindergarteners coming online they're all worried

what do I do? What's this information? How do I use it? This is up on my refrigerator.

So I just want to say something positive about parents too.

They make decisions and they're making good ones but if you hand a black

family the boxcar kids they're not going to be as interested. Just the same

as if you handed a white family all diverse books right.

So culturally relevant means culturally relevant to every demographic.

So that's just important to say. It's not one demographic

or another that's culturally relevant.

Supervisor Desmond. Thank you and

thank you April and Messiah. I just want to underscore everything my colleagues have said here

and also when you're at cap to cap I'm sure you'll be highlighting

some of your advocacy efforts. Some of the unique characteristics of Sacramento County

and one that really strikes me is not only do we have a large under-resourced community

but we have a very large refugee population in particular, Afghan refugees

and so if you need I'll be at cap to cap as well.

If you want another voice from the county to join you in any of your

advocacy efforts I'd be happy to do that. And also I want to underscore

what Supervisor Kennedy said about SETA. We also have a refugee services coordinator

at SETA as well. So I think coordinating

them on Head Start and with that services coordinator

there's a lot of I think resources there you could tap into and I'm happy to

connect you with the right people. That's awesome. Thank you. Such a nice reception. Thank you guys.

Thank you April.

Okay. Next item on the

agenda is our Consent Matters, items 3-3-24.

Okay. Anyone from the public sign speak

first of all?

There is not. Okay. Thank you.

Any members of the board have questions or wish to pull an item for separate vote consideration?

If not, entertain a motion. I'll go ahead and move. I can send items 3-24.

Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Please vote.

And that item goes

passed unanimously. Thank you.

Okay. All right. Next item please.

Item 25 is the reclassification of North Watt Avenue

from a one-way, coupled, smart growth street to a thoroughfares

smart growth street within the general plan. Board concurrence with hybrid urban

boulevard alternative from the reimagine North Watt complete street plan.

Good morning. Good morning. Cameron Chu, principal civil engineer with department of

transportation and I'll be presenting the reimagine North Watt plan.

I have about 15 slides or something to go through relatively quickly in six or seven minutes

and we can go back if there's a desire to fill in some more details. I'm also joined

by Josh Belchesky who is our consultant on the project.

So for some background information, the original North Watt corridor plan

was first passed in 2012 with the intent of guiding growth over a 20 year planning

horizon. This resulted in the current couplet roadway plan

which I'm going to talk about in some additional detail on a future slide.

But since 2012, the corridor plan has not really taken off some criticisms that

staff have heard are unrealistic development standards, utility constraints

and lack of clear direction on the roadway plan. So planning environmental review

currently has an effort underway to address many of these issues on the land use and zoning side

and DOT was able to secure a Caltrans planning grant to look at the roadway challenges.

Since 2012, we also recognize that the landscape has changed.

There's an increasing focus on equitable investment into disadvantaged communities, a county

focus on prioritizing housing as well as responding to the climate crisis.

And a few of the CAP implementation measures that I want to highlight

that are going to be addressed by this plan are GHG 11, increasing transit ridership,

GHG 12, implementing the active transportation plan, and

GHG 13, advancing infill development. So we're really excited about this

corridor plan as it addresses three of the county's top priorities of housing, climate

and roads. This just shows the extent of our study

area which is a three mile stretch of North Watt Avenue between Anilope Road

and Peacekeeper Way in the North Highlands community which is split between

District 1 and District 4. So the purpose

needed of this project was really driven by the existing deficiencies observed out

in the field as well as we heard from residents which include inconsistent bike lanes

and sidewalks, lack of transit amenities, and deferred maintenance.

The alternatives in this project were really going to be evaluated based on how well they met

the project goals, providing a comfortable and safe experience for

all road users, meeting ADA and design standards, and

accommodating the growth envisioned in the original corridor plan.

We started by reviewing existing conditions, screening and reviewing potential

alternatives, and finally conducting a more detailed evaluation of the final alternatives.

At each step along the way there was input from a corridor advisory team of

stakeholders, an in-person community workshop, and online feedback

tools. This is a little more information about our public

outreach strategy, but I'm going to save most of those details until the project

alternatives. In addition to review and input from

the corridor advisory team in three public workshops, we also attended about 10 community

meetings, roundtables, and school events.

Before getting into the final alternatives, it's important to first cover the currently adopted circulation plan

of the area, which is the couplet system. As it stands in the general plan today,

North Watt Avenue would be converted to three lanes of northbound traffic, 34th street,

three lanes of southbound traffic. The biggest concerns we've heard about this

current plan are the significant expansion of 34th street, which is currently a

rural residential road today, as well as the fact that existing

long Watt Avenue would see about half the traffic, pass by traffic, diverted over

to 34th street. We really ended up focusing our final alternatives

into keeping growth and improvements along Watt Avenue instead of 34th street.

So the first alternative that we looked at is what we're

calling the minimal footprint or minimal right of way impact option. This would

complete the missing pieces of the bike lane and sidewalk along Watt Avenue,

but not change the number of travel lanes at all. It would provide for modest improvements

for bus stops and landscaping that keep the corridor looking largely like it does

today. And this alternative is really driven by concerns that we heard from the community

about right-of-way acquisitions affecting properties.

The green areas shown in this figure are really potential landscaping

and place-making opportunities, but for the most part the curb line would not change

from what's out there today. And there's just a rendering of what this alternative

might look like. The other final

alternative is being called a hybrid urban boulevard, which is really a combination of two

prior alternatives from the screening process. This alternative would provide for

Class 4 bike lanes, which protect cyclists from high-speed traffic with concrete medians

as well as wider 8-foot sidewalks. This would widen Watt Avenue

to a consistent 6-lane roadway by adding one travel lane in each direction between

Elkhorn Boulevard and Anilow Road. This extra lane was really driven by

transit as Saycog has assumed future bus rapid transit, or BRT,

along Watt Avenue. And while Regional Transit is not yet ready

to implement BRT service at this time, they requested that we not preclude it with our

alternative selection. So ultimately with the protected bike lanes

and future BRT compatibility, we do end up with a bigger roadway footprint,

but this does add some additional opportunities for landscaping and

place-making. This is a rendering of the hybrid urban alternative.

So getting into the community and stakeholder

feedback, we've included a summary of that in the board materials.

To broadly summarize, there were two camps of thought that we

heard. So there were some individuals that were concerned about eminent domain and expanding

the roadway footprint, particularly impacts to parking lots and storefronts,

and those folks lean towards the first alternative.

We also heard from some that expressed concerns over the high-speed, high-volume traffic,

emphasizing the need for safer facilities with the second alternative.

The Disability Advisory Committee Physical Access Subcommittee and Sacramento

Bicycle Advisory Committee, SACPAC, both recommended the hybrid

urban alternative. At the North Highland CPAC, there was not a quorum,

so an official recommendation could not be made, but the one Council Member present

indicated his concern about right-of-way and preference for the minimal impact

option. So in making our recommendation, county staff were

sensitive to concerns that had been raised about right-of-way, while we're only in the planning

stages at this time. Both alternatives will require additional

right-of-way, and there will be a process in place to fairly compensate affected property

owners with either option. What we have to balance is whether the additional cost

in right-of-way is justified by the benefits of the project. In this case,

staff believe that the additional protected bike lane, wider sidewalks,

increased landscaping, and compatibility with SACOG and RIT's long-term

transit plans justify the additional right-of-way and costs for the hybrid

urban alternative. Both will undoubtedly represent an improvement over the

existing conditions. We believe this best meets the purpose and need of the project

and best position the corridor for transformative investment.

That is our recommendation today. Lastly, on this slide, this summarizes the

staff recommendation, which would be to recognize the exempt status of this request under CEQA,

receive and file the final report, approve the recommended alternative,

and direct planning environmental review to reclassify various roadways

to transition from the couplet plan to this new alternative.

That concludes my presentation. Very good. Thank you. Any questions for Cameron?

Don't see any. Madam Clerk, do we have any members of the public sign up to address this matter?

We do. We have one member of the Public Exact Freels.

Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. Thank you for recognizing me and

opportunity to speak here. My name is Zach. I'm a homeowner within the project vicinity.

I also serve on the parks board there. I'm also co-founder of the North

Highlands Roundtable, as well as Sacramento Investment Without Displacement.

I stand here today to ask for a few things. One of which

is don't take any decision on this specific update today.

The reason being is there has been some deeply flawed community engagement here

that I want to point out. One of which is there are at least six churches on this

corridor that we're not reached out to. Second, I live in the

vicinity. I didn't get any communication actually. I became aware of this project because

of the North Highlands Roundtable. Excuse me. The North

Highlands Roundtable, I listened to the presentation. I followed up with the email

on the FAQ, and I got a bounce back saying they weren't accepting emails,

nor did their listserv work. So the community engagement here is flawed.

The SACOG has a grant that's coming to this area for multimodal

transportation. I think we should let that play out before we make any additional decisions.

Further, I think the biggest disappointment I have here

is I'm a big advocate for safe transportation. I used to write

centuries from Central City all the way up to Auburn and back.

I represented the Central City with Council Office when they converted their thoroughfares

with those road diets. What's really disappointing is

in DKS's report, they identified they pre-screened out

a road diet because of concerns of traffic being offloaded on a 34th street

somewhere down in the distant future. I think that's

not a good move here. I don't know of a single other project where they're

proposing that we'll make it things safer by adding additional lanes of traffic

at nearly freeway speeds. This is actually going the face of the way

in which the region is going, in which we should be engaging a road diet which

would meet those needs without the impacts on the property, the

homeowners, or the businesses. Lastly, the money that that

could save, the nearly $35 million, could be spent on

potentially the CapCorder stop at Roseville and Watt, which the community has been asking for

or redeveloping the reel into Creek Waterway into

a bike trail that could connect us to the North Sac and try Creek and

bikeways themselves, which give us access to downtown Sacramento.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Freels.

Okay, Cameron, if you want to come back.

First of all, the speaker began by

referencing, in his opinion, a lack of

outreach or maybe at least his experience was that

he wasn't extended an invitation

at times to participate in some of that.

I have concerns only because one of your slides seemed to

show an extraordinary amount of effort that

had been applied to acquire community input

including focus groups and various other types of

convenings. So what is your general sense

of what DOT

set out to do in terms of having a robust outreach process

did or how it was

accomplished? Is it a process

that compared to others we learned by and so that

we tried to cover every base that we could?

Is there admittedly some gaps in

things that we could have done better? So I'd like to hear you address that first concern that he expressed.

Sure, and we knew early on that outreach would probably be a challenge with this project.

Some of the feedback we've heard from planning

others, but there could be some outreach fatigue in the series because there's been so many planning efforts that have happened over the years.

So we did try to cast as wide of that as we could.

We did mail postcards out to everybody within a quarter mile of the corridor.

If anybody didn't receive one, we can start looking

to that and see if their address was missed for some reason.

We did post physical flyers along the corridor prior to our workshops.

In terms of social media, we worked through the county's

next door account and Facebook page. We coordinated with the

SACB to run a couple of stories highlighting the workshops and corridor plans out there

as well as had a project website and email was signed up.

I know a number of folks did get those emails, but if there's any individuals

that were not able to gun that list for some reason, we can certainly look into that.

So we tried to cast as wide of that as we could,

but certainly at some of those public workshops there weren't as many people turning out as we hoped to see.

But we get a few folks who are busy

as well, so we also had an online option too. So in terms of the focus groups,

when I hear focus groups, I think they're formal focus groups

and by that I mean you have a firm that specializes

in conducting focus groups and you have the two-way mirror

and you're kind of anonymously acquiring

people's feelings, inputs, sentiments about

whatever it is that we're trying to glean from

the community. Is that the kind of focus group that was used here?

We did. We had some targeted outreach with

the Cullinan Business Parks and business groups, Sacramento Regional

Transit, and then there was the community meetings where we came out

to the North Island Business Watch, Cullinan Business Watch,

North Highlands Roundtable. We did a presentation at the North Highlands Recreation

Park District. So we did do a combination of different

events. And then in terms of any growing

concerns that DOT has taken

inventory of or that organized opposition,

can you give us a flavor for what if any

exists or how that has changed over time

as, you know, according to the project schedule

in terms of rollout of community meetings and now here being before the board?

We did receive a petition early on that was circulated to us

through the North Highlands Recreation Park District. As we understand that it wasn't

a particular park concern but that was rather generalized community concern about

right-of-way impacts. The project did conduct a robust

displacement analysis to look at what kind of policies we might implement to those affected

by right-of-way takes. You know, right now it's still

on the planning stages. We can't get to the exact level of detail of how each individual

property is going to be affected. But also as a general rule, when we go to do any kind

of right-of-way acquisition, we look at how the project can be designed or tailored around those.

So for example, there might be a business where we go from an

8-foot detached sidewalk to a 5-foot attached sidewalk in an interim condition to avoid

property impacts. But if the business were to redevelop in the future,

we might look to meet the standard of the 8-foot separated sidewalk at that time.

So there's a variety of ways we can handle that concern.

Switching to RT for a moment.

I think I expressed this concern when I had a briefing on

this about a week and a half ago.

I think the future in terms of

BRT, that regional transit would

be a good idea to build and then operate

is very important to consider in all of our planning efforts

in various corridors. I just want to make

certain that if we are to approve the hybrid

recommendation today, that again, that that

means that there will be appropriate right-of-way

that is preserved

in the future. All that might go into that. Is that my understanding?

That is accurate, yes. The gentleman earlier referenced the potential road

diet. And the road diet would be a potential component of a BRT project.

So it would have to be evaluated in the future.

Does that mean that we the board might have to face

again the prospect of maybe widening the ultimate

right-of-way? No. We would be building the ultimate roadway

project with the hybrid urban option. What a road diet could potentially do in the future is convert

the outside to travel lanes to a bus-only lane. And that time

we would have to look at where that traffic goes.

Lastly, and I know Survisor Kennedy shares some of this concern,

and in fact I was just talking to another colleague about it,

what the City of Sacramento has done in the midtown downtown

areas, especially with, you know, I think the rightful

attention to making it safer for, especially cyclists

to move in their turning movements

throughout the grid of downtown midtown is great.

How it was fulfilled, implemented,

for me, leave something to be desired in terms of some of

the implements they use, such as kind of the

thousands of plastic ballards

and the green paint, which I understand why there's

a green

painted section of the roadway

designated for cyclists, but what I think it totally

ignored was what that ultimately does to

the streetscape. And to me, it is just

so, quite frankly, ugly and busy.

And there's got to be a happy medium that exists between making

it safer for cyclists to, in their movements alongside

vehicles with theirs, that we can improve upon

without destroying the streetscapes

in the process. So I would hope that we can

actually learn from what the City's implemented and maybe

steer clear of those, my editorials.

Thank you.

So one of the questions I had is on the community outreach part.

So I know some of these are targeted groups where

they're already like watch groups, business groups that get together.

How many community meetings did you do where invitations went out to the quarter mile

residents? And that would include, I assume, the businesses

and the churches? Yeah, we did three public meetings.

And how many were you attended? Fairly sparsely.

The first meeting, if I recall, we had maybe a dozen folks show up.

The second meeting, we had a couple. And the last meeting, I believe,

we only had one or two people turn out. Which is really low.

Is that normal in

community meetings where information is gone now? I'm not very familiar

with the number, but do you know how many

schools and businesses got, were sent to postcard?

Don't stop in my head.

That is low compared to a turnout we would typically get.

But also at the North Highland CPAC meeting as well, we only had

one person turn out too. That was for a separate item.

That's a little concerning when you have somebody

here who's stating that they don't feel that

this was communicated well to the communities and we have a low

turnout of individuals. Thank you. If I may also add, Dave Defante

deputy county executive, in my years in planning, doing related

work, I've hosted lots of workshops and there have been

a number of times we've spent inordinate amounts of effort, time, money

to message something out and seeing the same types of turnouts.

Not surprisingly, if it's highly controversial, you know, typically

we'll see higher levels of turnout, but especially for these sort of

longer range master planning type of efforts, anecdotally, my experience

has been that we don't typically see a lot of turnout.

It depends which community you're in, what you're proposing,

et cetera, but I would say this is not incredibly atypical, even

given the amount of work to push the message out. And I think also even

it sounds like the CPAC at the time, there was only one member of the CPAC there.

So, you know, we do what we can to engage the community, but

you know, just depending on the subject matter depends on whether or not

we see a good turnout.

Mr. Defante, on the subject of how we, and

how and what we do to try and maximize

the invitation to participate in these types of

projects in terms of getting public input. And I say this

halfway tongue in cheek, but I mean, I assume

that we are required by law to offer something like this to put

in newspaper of general daily circulation

notice of, or not notice, but invitations or not.

That's a good question. This one was not actually subject to standard noticing

requirements. But we did it anyways, correct?

Yeah, you mentioned Sacwano B. We were in some news stories about the project.

Oh, news stories. Okay.

The tongue in cheek part of it is, I don't know that we can actually rely

on the Sacwano B to get the word out

as well as in years past just because I think their

leadership is what it is. And so

I think we do need to take that into account generally

that we can't just kind of check the box and say

it's now on the Newspapers

website and assume that someone's going to see it or read it, especially

with their paywalls as they have been

implemented. I think it's a different

day in terms of relying on newspapers for that. So just again a little

note on that. May I also add that I've had

community meetings in predominating this area

that had a really large turnout somewhere between 45 to

60 individuals. And so I think utilizing our community meetings

would be a great way to be able to disseminate

this information out to individuals just to maybe

give it also that sort of connection to the county supervisor who oversees

that district just because I was really

impressed with the turnout that came out from just wanting to know what's

going on in the county.

I know that we have someone that is signed up late to address

the board. We're going to do that before we hear from that individual

though I'm going to put a motion on

here at the desk to accept the staff

recommendation and ask for a second.

It's been moved and seconded so the speaker is welcome to come to the podium

and know that we have a motion and second on the floor to

support staff's recommendation. Hi good morning

supervisors. For those of you who don't know me I'm Katie Robb with

Mutual Assistance Network and I know some of you on the dais are familiar with

our work. Mr. Friels mentioned that there's additional

money coming from the county through SACOG for the

Engage, Empower and Ignite project. I wanted to go

on record to let you all know that Mutual Assistance Network is the community

engagement lead for that project where we have set aside

several dollars actually to really get into the heart of

community and work hand in hand with some of the community based organizations

and community leaders as well as if you're familiar

with our work you know that our staff are reflective of the

cultural, ethnic and demographics of the community

so I just wanted to say all that

as you're looking to make your vote to say that this project is coming

and there is intersectionality between what's being

proposed here today and the future project and I do have some

concerns about us going out in community and folks feeling

disengaged from the process of the decision that's being made here today

and then having us to go out there and do additional

engagement work. I'd like to work in partnership with SAC DOT

and DKS as we move forward in this process.

Thank you. Alright, no more

public speakers that are signed up to address the board. We have a motion in a second

please vote.

That item passes four to one.

Next item please. Item number

six. You are acting as the board of supervisors and the Sacramento County

Water Agency and the Sacramento County Groundwater Sustainability

Agency to expand Groundwater Sustainability Agency management

area in the Solano Groundwater Subbasin.

Good morning. Good morning. Chair and members of the

board. I'm Chris Sonny the Groundwater Sustainability Manager with the County Department

of Water Resources. Today we're holding joint public hearing

regarding the proposed expansion of the area covered by the Sacramento County

GSA. This item involves two groundwater

subbasins, the Solano and the South American. This action is

necessary because as of February 1st, four of the five reclamation

districts that currently serve as exclusive GSAs have

withdrawn their exclusive GSA status. Those

areas are now considered unmanaged under SIGMA.

We're recommending that the board adopt resolutions to amend the existing

2021 SIGMA memorandum of agreement between the county

and the Sacramento County Water Agency regarding the proposed GSA

expansion. That's in attachment one of your packet.

The amendments will do three key things. First,

they'll add approximately 23,000 acres of newly unmanaged area

in the Solano Subbasin to the Sac County GSA.

Second, they'll formally include a 3,000 acre portion of the

South American Subbasin under shared GSA responsibility between

the county and the Sacramento County Water Agency. This area had

previously been left out because of the MOA, because it was small

and the county had no plans to levy fees there. But for

consistency and clarity, we want to bring them in now. Third, the amendments

will authorize staff to execute the updated MOA and

notify the State Department of Water Resources. If the county

does not step in to assume GSA responsibility, the State Water

Board may take over management and begin charging fees to local groundwater users.

The state imposed costs can be very significant.

It's $300 per well. It can be up to $25 per

acre foot of water extracted, which means water meters have to be

installed at each private well. By expanding the

GSA now, we can prevent unnecessary state intervention and preserve local

control over our groundwater resources. And this is consistent with the county's

long-standing groundwater management strategy.

And then finally, the proposed amendments will allow

future adjustments to the GSA boundary to occur administratively, where we

won't have to modify the MOA.

Staff recommend that the Board open the public hearing, receive any public

testimony, and then close the hearing. Following that, we recommend

approval of the resolutions as outlined. Thank you, and I'm happy

to answer any questions. Very good. Thank you. Any questions for staff?

Thank you very much. Thanks.

All right. This is a public hearing matter, so I will formally open the public hearing.

Member Clerk, do we have any members of the public? Is it time to speak? We do not. Okay, then I will close the public hearing, bring it back to the Board for

deliberation. Any questions or motions?

Chair, I would move staff's recommendation to adopt the resolutions.

Second. Been moved and seconded. Please vote.

And that item does pass unanimously. Very good. Thank you.

Item number 27, you are acting as the Board of Supervisors

and the Housing Authority of the County of Sacramento. This is for the Op-em Falls project to conduct a tax equity

and fiscal responsibility act hearing. Authorize a conditional loan commitment of

2.5 million in Housing Authority funds.

With Sacramento Housing Authority repositioning program

and approval of final bond documents for the project.

Very good. Good morning. Good morning Chair and members of the Board. Whitney Hinton

with Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. Staff is requesting

a tax equity and fiscal responsibility act or TEFRA hearing

approval to loan 2.5 million dollars in housing authority

funds and their approval of final loan and bond documents for Auburn Falls

the fourth rental assistance

demonstration or RAD project. This project was before the Board in April

of 2024 for the approval to apply for bonds. The project was awarded

and is now scheduled to close on funds next month. Since

you all last heard about the project there has been the removal of one of the sites

due to recent structural inspection that discovered serious issues

which make the rehabilitation of the building impossible. The site will

be demolished outside the scope of this project at a later date.

The project will now rehabilitate 76 former public housing

units across four scattered sites located in the county of Sacramento

in the city of Citrus Heights that consists of 1's, 2's and 3 bedroom

units to households earning between 40 and 60%

of area median income. The rehabilitation will address

interior and exterior improvements including the repair or replacement

of mechanical systems, roofing, carpentry, plumbing

and flooring. Also new kitchens, new bathroom fixtures

and new community spaces. Sacramento Housing Authority repositioning

program or SHARP is the developer of the project. SHARP has completed

two RAD conversions in the final stages of the third.

Property management will continue under the housing authority

resident services provided by Health Education Council

A minimum of 15 hours of resident services will be provided each week including

11 hours of after school programming. In closing

staff is requesting approval of a Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility

Act public hearing approval to loan $2.5 million

in housing authority funds and approval of final loan and bond documents for the

Auburn Falls project and staff is available to answer any questions you may have.

Great, thank you for the report. Any questions of staff?

Okay, thank you very much. This is a public hearing

matter. So I will open the public hearing. Ask the clerk

do we have any members of the public that have signed up to address the board?

We do not. Okay, I will close the public hearing, bring it back to the board for deliberation

and look for a motion. Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you Mr. Chair and thank you for the presentation. I also want to thank

Lachelle and SHRA for the briefing on the project

and I'm very supportive and we'll move approval.

Second. Very good. It's been moved and second please vote.

That item does

pass unanimously. Very good, thank you. Thank you.

Next item please. Item number 28 is the approval of conditional loan

commitment in the amount of $6.9 million in home investment

partnerships program and permanent local housing allocation funds disposition and

development agreement for a 5716, Sackton Boulevard with San Juan Mutual

Housing Associates II LP for the San Juan Apartments II

and Mutual Housing Community Affordable Housing Project.

Good morning again. Hello. Whitney Hennwin

SHRA again. Staff is requesting approval to enter into a

disposition and development agreement with Mutual Housing California and approval

of a $6.9 million conditional loan commitment comprised of

$2.4 million in home funds, $2.7 million in permanent local

housing allocation or PLHA funds for the San Juan Phase II project.

Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency purchased eight parcels

on Stockton Boulevard and Young Street totaling 5.5 acres

just south of Fruit Ridge Road. The parcels were purchased

with former redevelopment and neighborhood stabilization program funds

to eliminate the blighting influence caused by the former San Juan Motel

and Mobile Home Park on Stockton Boulevard and to assemble a larger

site for high quality development project. Upon the dissolution

of the redevelopment, the parcels were conveyed to the housing authority of the city

and the county. In November 2016, SHRA received

approval from the County Housing Authority Board for a vacant lot disposition strategy

which included the San Juan site. In August 2020

a request for proposals was released for the San Juan site

the selection panel was the selection panel awarded Mutual Housing California

in December of 2020. Their proposal for the site included family

workforce and permanent supportive housing development.

In March 2022, Mutual Housing submitted a funding application to SHRA

for the acquisition, construction and permanent financing of the project.

Given the limitations, the project was recommended to be phased

to address feasibility issues.

The San Juan phase one which makes up seven of the eight parcels is

113 unit multi-family workforce family housing development

and construction is underway with anticipation to be completed

summer of 2026. San Juan phase two is the remaining

county parcel owned by the Housing Authority of the county.

It is the new construction permanent supportive housing for seniors. It will be a single

four-story building with a total of 70 units consisting of studios

and one-bed rooms for households earning between 30% and 50%

of area median income. The many that's on site will include

community room and outdoor seating area. This project was also awarded

39 project-based vouchers in 2023. Mutual Housing

California is the developer of the project. Mutual Housing management will

be the property management company and Mutual Housing California will provide a

minimum of 15 hours of on-site resident services per week. Additionally

on-site coordinators will be on-site including case management

to provide additional services to the 39 voucher households.

In closing staff is requesting approval to enter into a disposition and development

agreement with Mutual Housing California and approval of a $6.9

million conditional loan commitment for the San Juan phase two project

and staff is available to answer any questions you may have.

Great, thank you. Any questions for staff? Okay, is

there any public hearing item? It is not. Okay.

All right. At this point then I look for a motion.

Is there public, any public comment? There's no public comment. No, I ask for public hearing.

I will move staff recommendation. Second. All right. It's been

moved in second. Please vote. Okay.

And that item does pass unanimously.

Thank you. Item number 29

is the fiscal year 2025-26, five year

technology improvement plan for review and approval.

Good morning, Supervisor. It's Rami Zakari, Chief Information Officer.

I'm pleased to present the 2025-26

technology improvement plan.

The five year estimated TIP cost

is $64 million and prior year allocated cost

were totaled more than $37 million, totaling

$102 million, more than $102 million. The projects

that we have on the technology improvement plan, the first one is the Accela

Software as a Service Upgrade project. This is for a system that

existed in the county since 2002. Can I stop you there?

So in terms

of the improvement in that, with that particular

platform, I am remembering back, I'm looking at you, Dave,

that I believe when you first came on

and you gave this board and public assessment of kind of how we're doing in terms of

the use of what we have in front of us when it comes to

plan-jacked billing inspection, planning in general,

I think your concern or comments then were

we have this tool that we're not using

near its full capability. So

maybe I'm beating you to the punch here on your slide presentation, but

in addition to just kind of having the

platform, what can you tell us about how well

our personnel are actually using it?

Yeah, so I think it's a function, Dave Defante, deputy county executive,

of how it was set up long ago, and I was part of that set up a couple

decades ago, and essentially we bought a Mercedes and we're driving

I'll use my Mazda example since that's what I own.

And we're doing two things, and what Rami mentioned here

is that we're migrating it to the cloud, so I think when I came to you early on

a couple years ago, I had mentioned that when we hired a consultant

to look at all the things we're doing well and things that we need to improve,

a cello was littered all over that consultant's report as

something that we're not using to its full extent, much to

our detriment and our customer's detriment, so it became a high priority

very early on. It took us a while to launch, but we've done just

that. This is absolutely my highest priority this year, and we have

two things going on in parallel. We have the migration from the on-premises

system to the cloud, which is something that I think brings

a lot of value in terms of just safety, security, etc. And frankly

a cello is sunsetting its on-premises version, so in some ways

we really didn't have much of a choice, but then in parallel to that we're

actually changing the way that a cello works for us. And frankly doing

in my opinion what should have been done probably 20 years ago and using it the way it's

supposed to be used. In fact, we just launched our building permits

and inspection, the new module for that a couple of weeks ago. You may recall

we had to shut down our system for a couple of days to do that. That was first

of many modules that we'll be rolling out over the next year, year and a half, two years, etc.

to get it to where it needs to be right now. So both of those

things are happening right now. The transition to the cloud occurs this summer

and that's been a work in progress for a number of months, and then in parallel we're actually

changing the way that we use that software. So this is a huge priority

for us, and it's absolutely fundamental to everything that we do.

Great, thank you Dave. Absolutely. The second project is the firewall refresh.

The firewall are security appliances that regulate traffic, network traffic

in and outside the county. It's a project that we're working on, it will go live

this year. Human Resources, case management system.

This is the second year of this project. It's intent to automate

many of the personnel services tasks and so on.

The property tax system replacement continues to make great

progress, and I'm going to invite here in a minute Brian McLean. He's our project

manager for project to give you a more status update on it.

Social health information exchange. I'll be speaking to that a little bit

more. And then the last project is a voting system selection.

Our voting system support will end before the

2026 gubernatorial election, and working with our

registrar of voters who's here today, we intend to kind of go out to market and look

what other systems are out there. Those systems have to be approved by the Secretary

of State and the Federal Election Assistant

Commission as well. We have two projects that successfully

completed, and for projects to be completed doesn't mean the work autumn is over, it's the

implementation period is over. The first one is the Board of Supervisors

constituent management system, and the second one in the Department of Health Services

behavioral health, semi-state wide electronic health record

system.

For the social health information exchange, it's a very ambitious project

and it aims really to kind of create a countywide

data infrastructure that links data from health, social services

and criminal justice and housing. The project team selected

N-O-V-A-S-R as the vendor for this project, and we envision this project really

kind of to be completed in three phases. The first phase will build

the core infrastructure integrate data from health, social services, criminal justice

and housing. The second phase will launch the community health

portal that really kind of takes all that data and makes sense of it and

start the rollout. The third phase is really expanding the analytics

and expanding the rollout to countywide

partners and so on. Next I would like to invite

Ryan to come in and give us a status update

on the tax system.

Alright, thank you Rami.

My name is Ryan McLean and as the

project manager it is my pleasure to share with you the

status of the property tax system replacement project.

I'd like to start with some background, move

into where we are exactly and then of course what's next.

So property taxes are an important source of revenue

for the county, school district, cities and special districts.

Managing over $2.8 billion of property taxes is a vital and important

part of our county's responsibilities. So naturally of course the goal of the

project is to create, is to ensure and continue to manage

the complexity of our property taxes with the same accuracy and

efficiency we have been doing and of course making some improvements along the way.

Our existing system was designed

in 1980, consists of 9,800 separate programs and more than 25

ancillary systems. So it is definitely time to replace it and

upgrade it. The new system will be an overall improvement, improving

security, efficiency, reporting, accuracy, constituent interaction

just to name a few. The project did start

I would say in 2021, that's when the RFP analysis began

and then the implementation began in April of 2023.

I'm very, very happy to say

that we currently do not have any major issues. We are on

time and we are within budget. We are slated to go on, to go live

in the next six months, this September of this year.

Our final phase of this project

actually begins this month. So a little bit of

how we know we're doing, we're on track. To help organize and track

the project of the size, it was broken up into 16 major project milestones. Each milestone

representing a major step forward in the project or a major accomplishment within the project.

As you can see we have completed 12 out of 16 of those

project milestones. Some of those bigger ones are full gap analysis, development

on all related business processes around property taxes of course, and

integration with our internal systems. The other half of this project

significant one has to do with data. So we have to convert all

the historical and current property tax data from the last

10 to 12 years. As you can imagine with all the different sources of data and where that's coming from

it's quite the complex accomplishment I guess you would say in order to get

that into the system. And we have been, so far it's going very

smooth. Some of the ways that we're making sure that that takes place is we have

not only digital verifications of the data as it's going

into the system and being extracted, but also our

human tax experts within the county are analyzing that data

as well through data verifications. And we've completed five out of six of those. Our last

one is a remote verification, should be coming up pretty soon. And also

each month we do a full data extract. So every month we convert all of that data

into the new system and make sure and check for errors and that it's going to be

that it's accurate and ready to go for when we do go live in September.

And because I do like statistics I think it's kind of

fun just to kind of show a little bit of how much is involved

in this project. We've had over 977 meetings thus far.

We've had over 25 trips from the vendor.

6,879 tickets which is our digital system for tracking

questions, discussion items, action items, that sort of a thing. Quite a few.

So yeah, a lot of notes too. Over 2,800 pages.

That's just on the vendor side. That does not include the county side.

Okay.

So what's coming up?

As we enter into the final phase of the project we'll see more than

10 visits from the vendor. And that will help us execute

full system testing. That's going to be covering all the processes as well as

the integration with our internal systems. After that we'll go into

well actually it has already started, constituent communication. Our plan there

of course is to reduce as much surprise as possible and communicate what a win

this is for the county and the constituents long term.

Moving to training where we'll cover not just those that were part of the project but everyone

that will be touching the system. And I just kind of wanted to highlight this

because I think it's good to know a little bit of reassurance is that after we go

live in September the vendor as well as the entire implementation

team on both sides will be present for several months after go

live to ensure that any issues that may come up however minor

will be covered and we'll have a little extra help so to speak as we go through that

transition.

Okay. So if you look to the left there that

83%. I'm looking at the project timeline on a calendar

so starting from April 2023 to September where we are

slightly to go live we are 83% of the way through the project. Through implementation.

The percent budget spent so far is 44.3%

totaling around $21 million. This is

absolutely aligned with our current spending plan as we expect to increase spend

as we get closer to go live.

Okay. And then before we go into questions

I just wanted to take this opportunity to take a moment and

recognize all the people involved in this project. We have 40 plus with the county

not including additional teams that are not necessarily

directly related to the project but of course are touching the project and Grand Street Group

which is the vendor behind taxis software which we are implementing.

They have over 50 people involved as well. Everyone on this project is doing

a fantastic job from all different groups.

We have finance, we have tax collector, auditor, treasury, the assessor, department

of technology just to name a few. It's been

a pleasure working with everyone. So with that I will open it up

to questions. I know we also have Rami Karina Zollers, the

IT division chief, department of technology and Chad Rindy director of

finance available to help answer any questions as well. Very good. Thank you.

As your advisor Rod Regas. Well Rami and Ryan I just want to thank you for your

presentation today. I think anytime we can make an investment in technology that

increases efficiency I think it's a good investment from the county so I just

want to say that. Thank you. Yeah I'll join my colleague in

thanking you as well. I did have one question. I apologize

again trying to multitask up here if you mentioned during your slide

presentation but is there any estimation of

what we can expect in terms when it comes to property tax, technology

improvements. What we can expect in terms of

just chalk it up as kind of minimal leakage

and so in other words will we actually see maybe a slight difference in

captured revenue. Go ahead.

No I don't anticipate even

I mean slight I mean you define slight I would say we're talking point

zero zero one of pennies. You know we did analyze the rounding

of the pennies so we're looking at I mean we're talking

you know maybe a dollar fifty worth of difference in 28

billion in billions so no I would say for you. Great thank you.

Thank you very much for your support. We really

appreciate the trust and faith that you guys put in the department of technology

in executing all these projects. Thank you. Thank you very much Romy.

Well done. This was just a report correct?

No we are looking to approve the technology. Oh we are. Okay. I'll go ahead and move item

number 29. Chair will second please vote.

Thank you. I assume

we didn't have any public speakers. We did not. Okay.

Alright next item please. Item number 30 is the referral

of fiscal year 2025 26 new and newly funded projects

in the five year capital improvement plan to the county planning commission for the review

of project consistency with the general plan.

Morning Chair, Senator and Board of Supervisors, Colin Betis the county debt

officer. County ordinance requires that the board review

the new and newly funded projects and send them to the planning commission for review

to determine consistency with the general plan. This is not the

full capital improvement plan but just the new and newly funded projects

as there are many projects being constructed throughout the county

and full capital improvement plan will be provided during the budget hearings in June.

This year for the department of airports there are two new projects

located at executive airport 14 new projects at the

international airport a notable new project is the West Apron pavement

expansion project and six new projects at Mayther

Airport totaling 35.2 million dollars over the

five year period. For county buildings and capital construction

there are three new projects totaling approximately 1.9 million

over the five year period. For regional parks there are two newly funded projects

and five new unfunded projects totaling

235,000 over the five year period. For transportation

there are six new projects and the significant projects in the transportation

category are the new AC overlay projects. The total amount associated

with the new projects is approximately 36.6 million

excluding prior year expenditures over that five year period.

For water resources drainage there is one new project for

the water resources drainage project. The total amount

is approximately 25,000 over the five year period excluding prior year expenditures

and for water resources supply there are two new projects

two projects to note within the water

water resources are the PFAS well treatment projects and the poppy ridge

water treatment plant phase three tank project. The total

for the water supply projects is approximately 28.4 million

per year. The rest is for this item to be forwarded

to the Planning Commission for review with consistency with the general plan

Thank you. Thank you.

Any questions for staff?

Do we have anyone to speak on this matter? We do not.

Okay. We do need to take action.

I will move the recommended action for this item.

Is it just direction?

There yes, it is action to forward it to the planning Commission, so all right. We have a motion and the second okay, please vote

And that item does pass unanimously

Excited please

Item number 31 is to introduce an ordinance adding Sacramento County Code Title 4 chapter 4.08 regarding short-term rental regulation and licensing

Raving the full reading and continuing to April 22nd 2025 for adoption

Good morning chair sir. No members of the board. My name is Laura Jacobson assistant tax collector with the

Department of Finance and we're here today to introduce a new ordinance to regulate short-term rental in Sacramento County

So there's been as you all know a huge increase in short-term rentals over the last decade

Currently we have 250 to 500 listed on on a wide variety of platforms

Such as Airbnb and BRBO

We have currently a hundred and seven licensed

Those numbers fluctuate over time as people start and stop doing that and we are currently working on outreach

There are some current regulations in the Sacramento zoning code such as the type of property that can be used

Which is a primary residence or ADU legalized for?

Residential use prior to January 1st 2020. They must be an accessory used to their primary residence

You can only have two persons per room

There's a limit on the length of stay which is 29 days or less and

Small personal gatherings are allowed but large types of weddings or parties or not. Is that

the common sense part of

Yeah, the regulations. There's no number threshold. Yeah, and we're going to add some more common sense

This is adopted. Yes, so the zoning code was adopted in June of 2019 and then amended again in July of 2024

Our Department of Finance request is to approve the ordinance to enhance regulations and ensure the health welfare and safety of the public

If approved or the application would require additional information from the operator excuse me, I'm going to interrupt here

Supervisor Rodriguez. I just want to get clarification on the prior page. So if it was built before 2020 it can have

Short-term use if it was legalized for residential use like the building permit was for residential use and meet certain requirements

And then after 2020. Yeah, there

No long term beyond 29 days

If it was you you cannot use an ad you built after January 1st 2020

You cannot use it for an ad for a short term run. Okay. Yes. Thank you. That's what I thought. Yeah

Um

Oh one the wrong way. I'm sorry

So the application

Uh requires additional information and this applies to hosts uh violating short-term rentals

They must be current with their property tax and transient occupancy tax

To be renewed

The ordinance would also give authority for us to deny or revoke a license for short-term rental if they were um

Acting outside the conditions of the license or had an open code enforcement or building

Uh building inspections violation cases

We would require the operators to resolve those cases timely

Failure to correct would lead in denial of a renewal or denial of a new application or

revocation of the license

We also would require additional operational standards

record keeping

requirements

An informational flyer to be hung in a in a location that's easily

Visible to the renters which would include local contact information

The location of all fire extinguishers

And it would have a requirement for smoking carbon monoxide alarms, which are not currently required

meant and then they would have to um show on the flyer how they're going to

mitigate public nuisances like parking and noise

So the fiscal impact to the county is there are no expected costs to the county since we are already licensing short-term rentals

Uh the potential revenue from administrative penalties is not expected to be significant

The goal of the ordinance is always to bring

People into compliance. It's not to issue fines or penalties

Those are kind of a last resort

We'll have tools to get compliance through suspension revocation penalties our last resort again

The penalty amounts can range from 250 to 25 000

We have no expectation to ever issue a penalty as high as 25 000

We expect it would be in the lower range of 250

Because again our goal is compliance not to issue

I'm just curious. What would constitute a 25 000 dollar?

Well, it would have to be something very egregious. We haven't even seen anything like that in sacramental county

It that's a state maximum

But that is that typically something that has accrued because of

Consistent infrequent non-compliance or yeah, is that a one-time like, you know free-for-all party and you know

People are parking 25 cars on people's lawns. I mean, yeah

Yeah, we would more than likely revoke the license if somebody did that rather than issue a 25 000 dollar penalty

And we did collaborate with planning

The planning division of community development to make sure we didn't conflict with the zoning code and that

The proposed regulation aligned with the current zoning code

And we did do outreach efforts last month. We emailed

Uh, the the proposed ordinance to all 107 licensed short-term rental hosts

And we got no response

Regarding the proposal so we don't feel that this is going to be

controversial

We also inform visit sacramento of the proposed regulations

So our next steps today, we're here for the first reading

We'll come back on april 22nd

For adoption and then the ordinance would become effective on may 23rd 2025

And then we're gonna have questions. Thank you supervisor desmond. Thank you laura and

Thank you for the question supervisor shurnow animal house and old school is what pops into my head probably like

I think supervisor he was thinking the same thing. Where's otter?

Um, I appreciate this. Can you tell me a little bit about um, and these all seem very reasonable

I I appreciate your work here

Um, how did you did you look you looked at other ordinances from other jurisdictions and just kind of can you tell me about the process a little bit?

Yeah, we looked at other ordinances from other jurisdictions. We also worked with the

Code enforcement county council to to make sure that we're not

Out of line with anything in that code enforcement or planning house in their ordinances

Okay, there's nothing really out. There's no big outlier right you're proposing

No, the other question the question I had we had a little discussion yesterday during my briefing if uh

Sometimes issues do come up with neighbors right you have one of these short-term rentals next to them

What is the process for a neighbor to?

Complain if there's an issue related to a short-term rental right?

We always ask people to file a report with 311 and then it can be parsed out to the correct agency

So if they're operating a short-term rental without a license it would come to business licensing

If they were violating the conditions on the license it might go to code enforcement or to business licensing

So there 311 is always the best method to file a complaint. Okay. I mean, I think I'm

Support of this today. I just think it seems to me instead of someone having to go through 311

Maybe if there's a mechanism and I don't know if any of the other ordinances have this

For a neighbor to have a contact for the property owner just contact them directly if there's an issue to be able to resolve it

At a lower level. Yeah, so I know I don't want to speak for planning, but when they approve the so

Uh to operate a short-term rental you have to have a permit from planning

And a business license from the department of finance

Planning sends out neighborhood notifications when it's a when a permit is approved

So that they can notify the neighbors of who is responsible and and the contact information

So there is notification to neighbors for contact information. Okay. That's all. Thank you. You're welcome

Supervisor Kennedy. Thank you, sir

You alluded to the fact that the outreach was done in consultation with visit sacramento

What what was their ultimate where they land?

They didn't we notified them by email and didn't really have a response. They said thank you for letting us know

All right. Thank you. You're welcome

Supervisor rodriguez. Thank you, laura. Um, quick question. So the 100 and was it seven 17?

Uh resident the ones that were sent out messages

What was it 107? Yes, 100 and seven those are all of those that are already registered

Yes, they're already licensed and permitted right so but I imagine this ordinance is really targeting those bill after 2020

that are

being used as ad use that are not

Registered as ad use well, it's really targeting everyone whether licensed or not with regulations. It helps us bring people into compliance

Um and to make sure they're operating within the bounds of their permit and license

So we do have we did um

Contract with a short-term rental host compliance company about four years ago

And they do outreach to the unlicensed short-term rentals on our behalf

To help bring them into compliance because that's really the target

I mean I imagine those that are already licensed and utilizing the ad you and paying their tot taxes

They're good. It's the ones after 2020 that were built that are utilizing it as an ad you

Sorry as a as a short-term rental that are not registered as short-term rentals, right?

And what happens if they apply planning looks at the application first to make sure they meet the requirements under the zoning code

And they will see if it's an ad you if if they have a proper permits building permits

And that has been legalized for this type of use. Is there a way to identify those that are being

Utilized for a short term but are not registered

For ad use or a short term short term. Yeah, that's one of the things our host compliance company does

They go out on 125 different platforms

And scrape the information to gather who is operating very good

And as far as parking

If a if the ad you is near transit within a half a mile. Do they get a pass on providing the parking?

No, okay

Because I thought of you know for new construction that is close to a transit like a light rail

They are no longer required to provide parking for the new construction

Maybe that's commercial in commercial. So I would imagine it would apply to this, but okay. Thank you. You're welcome

All right. Thank you. Thank you

Madam clerk. Do we have any members of the public sign to address the board? We do not okay. Very good. Thank you

Uh, then I will look to my clogs as for a motion

Second, okay, it's been moved in second. Please vote

That item does pass unanimously

All right, very good

Next item on the agenda is number 32. It's the board of supervisors 2025 appointments from own ranks to sacramento area

Flood control agency in sacramento metropolitan cable television

We are looking this morning for an appointment for

District one. So you chair serna to the sacrament area flood control agency and also metro cable television

Uh, I believe both are alternates, right? Both are alternates. Yes. So I'm happy then to

Uh appoint my brand new chief of staff alma munoz to both

And I even I haven't even had a chance to explain this to her. So she's watching so congratulations

Congrats Alma

And can we get a second all second? Thank you. Please vote

And that item does pass unanimously. All right. Thank you

I

Have a number 34 is county executive comments. Thank you supervisors. Just one comment for me

Of metro cable can show the picture that we've provided

Um, supervisor serna early. You mentioned us

Not necessarily relying on certain types of media

Like certain papers

Um, and I just wanted to let you know we do reach out to a whole host of different social media

Whether it's next door

Facebook x youtube flicker the whole the whole gamut of social media

But one of the things that we launched last year

Um, based on response from the board, which was to get our positive voice out was we lost we launched a

county conversation sacramento county podcast. So so far we've had

eight

individual podcast

interviews with

Certain folks you can see a probation there. You can see homeless there animal care sustainability parks behavioral health

Finance and dr. Cossier with public health. We've had a great turnout with this

I've actually listened to it and learned some things myself. So

I think it does a great job. It's hosted by our own kim navva

our director of public information and

Suggest that you subscribe if you have some time in a car to listen to it

And it's a great way to learn a little bit more. We released one about once a month

And so i'm not sure who's next on the list

But the last person that was on the list with our newly hired shelby boston who's not pictured up there

She's the new director of dc fas and they talked about social work

social worker

Appreciation month along with all the good work that dcf is doing

And I just I enjoyed it and I thought I would share it with the board and put together this great graphic for you to look at

Thank you, david and i'm glad you made mention of this. I think this is a terrific way to

Let listeners understand

directly from those who

Have made their careers serving the public in various capacities with sacramento county

to get that you know to get that experience communicated and

um

Gives the public something quite frankly other than

You know other media outlets to to really hear

directly from the people that

Are implementing policy that are dealing with challenges

It I think is a great way to demystify

What county government and service delivery is and isn't there still

You know it's a it's kind of the nature of the beast, but there's still a lot of

People out there that don't really have a grasp and understand

Not only what their county does and who the people are behind what we

Um are about in terms of fulfilling our missions

But they they just

Don't see it especially in the capital city region because the legislature the capital is so prevalent

um, so this is this is a great way to I think make great inroads to

Really educating and and

Communicating again what we proudly do around here. I would ask that

Since kim is rightfully the the manager of this whole initiative that maybe she gives some thought to

extending invitations to the five of us

Uh to come in at some point

during the year

and maybe consider

giving

My colleagues myself an opportunity to express in a question-and-answer format. I assume that's kind of what this is

That's exactly the format

You know what's you know, what's important to us as you know individuals that have been duly elected to represent

nearly 400,000 people in our districts and

Uh, a fairly large urban county in the state of california. I think that some might find that pretty interesting

So, uh, hopefully kim's listening and we'll see what happens, but uh, do appreciate you mentioning that

I I do believe that that's on the list. We were trying to get a base of listeners first before we

Yeah, you don't want to you don't want to scare people away

That'd be bad

But I think one of the other opportunities is you mentioned a little bit about working for the county and two things

I would say is I'm incredibly proud of the folks that you see on this

On this slide

And also the department heads do a fantastic job of what they do, especially these though

But the other pieces I we're working on

interviewing our new director of personal services

Who joe angelo who started yesterday and he's probably hearing this now for the first time like alma did

We plan on talking a little bit about how to get jobs with sacramento county and work for a great organization

That's a great point to make in terms of not just kind of explaining the county

But how explaining how you can come join the possibly join the team. Thank you terrific

Supervisor rada regus. Well first I want to say I look forward to hearing the podcast

I think there's so much truth to when people get an insight into what goes on in government. They it sort of humanizes the

The county in a way that people know how it impacts them and their everyday lives

I want to give a big congratulations to district 4 resident julian. Hemen hemen is who continues on his battle with the food network

On the spring baking championship. He represents a sacramento region very well

and

some of the artwork in this

And this show is just amazing, but it goes it's on monday's five o'clock and eight o'clock pm

I also want to give a big congratulations to benny embers who was named small

School player of the year by the sac b. Benny led the robeless high school rams with an impressive 17 points per game

And was instrumental in bringing home the team's first ever section championship

The rams had an incredible season and also it is a autism awareness month april is designated as autism awareness month and I

Take a moment to reflect on the unique strengths of these individuals with autism

This is a good month to raise awareness and courage understanding and work together

To a more supportive environment for everyone. I was invited to a fun family fund day

Community autism festival on saturday april 19th from 12 to 3 at rich point elementary

At 4 6 8 0 monument drive in sacramento and that's it. Thank you

Great. Thank you supervisor rod regus

supervisor desmond

Thank you, mr. Chair and with your indulgence. I'd like to adjourn in memory

Certainly before we do that. I just want to make sure that there are not others

Here that have comments seen none. Please. Thank you

So today I request that we adjourn in memory of a dear dear family friend

Of mine and my family's donna deadarding parks donna

Teresa deadarding parks known as dons to friends and family

Passed away peacefully surrounded by her family. She was 70 years old

Donna spent her life in the greater sacramento area where she built a legacy of love friendship and deep family pride

And a distinguished professional career

She attended loretto in san dominico high schools and later graduated from st. mary's college

In 2004 she was named the honorary mayor of car michael a recognition given by the car michael chamber of commerce for her fundraising efforts and dedication to the community

She was an icon in her various professional industries assisting and mentoring anyone who crossed her path

In her final years she worked as a senior and elder healthcare consultant and advocate

In sharing those who needed help received it with compassion and care

Donna's great Donna's greatest joy was spending time with her family sharing laughter and making memories

Family was the center of donna's world and she was the heart of it a devoted wife to richard parks

A loving mother to jenny katie andrew

And dan and a proud proud grandmother to russe molly liby alley lincoln keaton and jensen

She's also survived by her six siblings and some of you here may know them

Jody john peat pegy richard and paula deadering along with countless nieces nephews cousins and dear friends

Donna loved to travel and embrace new adventures, but she was happiest when surrounded by those she loved

Her unshakable faith guided her throughout her life and gave her incredible strength

Donna's love warmth and light will live on in the hearts of all who had the joy of knowing her

She will be deeply missed and on a very personal level the deadering family and the desmond family

We all really grew up together and donna was a very very close friend of my sister's

But a close friend to me and all my siblings and my parents

And she truly will be deeply missed and had a wonderful positive impact on the community

And mr. Chair I ask that we adjourn in memory of donna deadering very good. Thank you supervisor desmond

Before we do adjourn i just want to thank staff again for um

Getting very prepared for yet another meeting. I think

These meetings are

beginning to show

The product of an intentional effort to

Be more efficient. We're going to continue to try and do that

But i'm really pleased thus far with just kind of the pace the cadence of things and

The fact that I think we're respecting people's time

A little more so but again, I think there's still even more room for improvement. So look for that to come

And with that if there's no further business before this board

We will adjourn in loving memory of donna deadering parks. We are adjourned