First of all, thank you all for coming out.

We'll go ahead and call this community meeting to order.

And let me just start there.

This is a publicly noticed community meeting.

It is being recorded for posterity.

And so therefore there are no Brown Act issues for members of the LMAC board to go ahead and share their opinions and uh hear uh one another's thoughts.

We just ask that you then not go and discuss it amongst yourselves without being in an open meeting.

Okay.

Um so thank you all for coming out.

My name is Pat Hume.

I am the fifth district supervisor uh oversee uh this part of Sacramento County, this wonderful uh part down here in the Delta.

And I came to an LMA board meeting, I think back in February, maybe, and proposed doing this, which is essentially getting people together to talk about where lock is, what it was originally set up as, how it's been functioning, how it's not been functioning, and how we can maybe uh go forward in in rowing in the same direction.

And so we uh we're here tonight to to have that conversation, and I'm gonna go over some rules of conduct.

One that make it easier since it is being recorded, so that folks that are watching this meeting at a later date or or uh on their computers uh later uh are able to track the meeting.

But then more importantly, I just want to make sure we have um basically a general sense of decorum and respect for one another, so that we can share our ideas freely, we can talk openly, because I think the one thing that uh I know I certainly uh came to this meeting uh is is that Locke is a pretty darn special place, and I think we can all agree upon that, and we all want to see what's best for it, and we may have different ideas about what that is, um, but we we want to see it move forward and and make sure that it is uh preserved for its rich uh heritage and history, and that future generations will be able to get as much enjoyment out of it as as we all have.

So those are the reasons why why we're here.

Um when I came to that board meeting, I said that there were a couple of different uh governance options that we could explore.

Um, you know, obviously some being uh very uh similar to what's uh happening now, and some being very dissimilar.

And so we're gonna go over those.

We we explored, I think uh six options total, four of which um once they were teased out, really seem infeasible because of either the complexity or the cost or uh what the the size of lock relative to the type of governance that would be put into place.

And so Lindsay will um go over those, and then Krista will come up and she'll kind of talk about the two options that really seem to be most viable going forward.

And there are variations of those two options, but we're here to solicit feedback and to find out just kind of the the temperature of of where folks are and and what you you all would like to see uh going forward in the future, and then we'll come back after the beginning of the year and further refine um what we've studied and what we've explored and what it means.

And so uh once uh once they present the options, then Dave will kind of go over uh and I'll introduce these folks in just a second.

Dave will go over um more of the uh the community discussion and the feedback that we're seeking and why why we need that to inform our decisions, and we will have somebody coming around to you with a microphone so that you can be amplified so that uh the microphones uh pick you up on the recordings.

Okay, and then that way we can have a but then those thoughts will be written down.

If it's a question we can answer on the fly, we will, but for the most part, we will be writing down these uh questions so that we can take them away and come back with a fully banked baked uh answer um at the end of that.

So I'm Pat Hume.

I have my chief of staff Rebecca Sloan, my special assistant Stephanie Kause.

Uh these are the folks, obviously, when you reach out to the office, you're probably gonna get them more often than you get me.

I have with us deputy county executive Dave Defonti.

He is the deputy county executive over all of uh community development, so everything that has to do with building planning um it uh situations such as these.

And then from the Department of Economic Development, we have the director Crystal Bethkey and Lindsay Fukushima, and so they are here because they are really sort of the um governance uh experts uh relative to uh P bids and uh CSDs and and those types of things.

So they're gonna go through all of those options and the intricacies uh therein.

So are there any questions before we get started?

Yes, Martha.

Is there a packet available on the following time?

There is, and it will be passed out shortly once we get to the to the two options scenario.

So first it's just gonna be a presentation from Lindsay that will take questions uh after we're done with presenting all of the options.

But once um Crystal gets up and starts talking about the the two potentialities, then we'll have a packet so that you can see some of the differences between the two.

Okay.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Lindsay.

Well, good evening, everybody.

So we looked at, as uh Supervisor Hume was mentioning.

We looked at a several different options considering you know the size of this area and the types of properties that exist on it.

So one of the things, one of the first ones we looked at was uh a property business improvement district, which is similar in some senses to an HOA, except it's for commercial properties uh only, and it is uh property owner-driven.

So the one of the reasons why we looked at that is because it does create stable funding sources assessments.

Um it's when a group of property owners agree to start this, they create a district and they decide to self-assess, and through those assessments, um, they get collected from your property taxes.

So it creates a much more stable funding source than say a lot of other uh like like an HOA where you pay write a check and you send it in.

Um of the things with it though is you know, as part of the governance, you would have to have a 501c6, which would bring you back to kind of where some of your struggles are right now.

So you would have beholden to Davis Sterling as well as Brown Act if you were to do a PBID because PBID is only for commercial properties and um multifamily residential, so you would still need something to cover residential properties.

So an HOA would of some sort would still need to be in existence.

So that was one of the main reasons we felt like this isn't going to be a very good fit for this area.

Also, uh the number of commercial properties you have in LOC is quite small in comparison to what generally what we have for P bids.

Uh we have Antelope P bid in the county, and they have over a hundred properties that are commercial, so and they are one of our smallest.

So if that gives you kind of an idea, um there's also the fact that it's it's not a it's not a quick process, it's about a year to two years to create a P bid.

It just kind of depends on you know the level of outreach you're able to get done, and it's about $65,000.

So that was one of the reasons we felt like that's probably not gonna be a good fit for this organization in this area.

Um one of the other things we looked at was a community services district.

Um so these are districts that are initiated by residents of an unincorporated area to you know provide a wide variety of different types of services.

It could be water, garbage, collection, wastewater, um just a whole myriad of different ones.