Good afternoon. Welcome to the January 16, 2024 meeting of the

Sacramento Flood Control Agency Board of Directors.

Would the clerk please call the roll.

Thank you, Director Desmond.

Director Hume.

Director Kennedy.

Director Rodriguez.

Director Surnah.

Director Ginny.

Director Kaplan.

Director Dickinson.

Director Holloway.

Director John.

Director Abdes.

Director Lee Reader.

Director Stevens.

We have a 12-member quorum.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

This meeting of Safegah is being livestreamed at Metro 14.

Thank you.

Zach County.gov and will also be re-aired on Saturday, January 18th at 3 p.m.

And will also be available on Safegah's website within 48 hours after the meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Will you please join 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 the routine justice for all.

Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments?

I have not received any.

Is there any member of the public that's here that would like to speak before the board?

Hearing and seeing none, we will go to the next item, please.

And our first item is the Election of Officers for the Safegah Board of Directors for 2025.

Okay, we will take the election of the Board Chair first.

Is there a nomination?

I would like to nominate Patrick Kennedy.

Second.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

With that, is there any other nominations?

All right. All those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstain?

Thank you very much.

Appreciate the support.

Next is Vice Chair.

And is there a nomination for Vice Chair?

I'd like to nominate Brian Holloway to continue serving as Vice Chair.

Second.

Okay. We have a motion or a nomination.

Any others?

Okay.

Hearing and seeing none, all those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstain?

Thank you.

Next item, please.

The next item is closed session.

And you will recess to hearing room two.

For purposes of going into closed session, I'd like to make announcement that I will recuse myself,

and I would also like to make known that I will be recusing myself from discussion on items related to any interest of myself or my family.

Thank you very much, Director Abdist.

Any others?

Mr. Chair, I will also be recusing myself on.

I think it's the two, actually.

I don't know if about the third.

Those having to do with East Levy Road.

Perhaps it's the three.

Probably the three.

Okay.

Okay.

I will ask for any others, but we won't have a quorum, so that's all.

Next, we will recess to closed session.

I'm proud of you.

All right.

Come back to order.

Councilor, first please call the roll.

Thank you.

Director Desmond.

There you go.

Director Hume.

Yes.

Director Kennedy.

Here.

Director Rodriguez.

Here.

Director Serna.

Here.

Director Ginny.

Here.

Director Kaplan.

Here.

Director Dickinson.

Here.

Director Holloway.

Here.

Director John.

Here.

Director Abdist.

Here.

Director Lee Reader.

And Director Steven.

Here.

We do have a 12-member quorum.

Thank you.

Council, is there anything to report out of closed session?

Yes.

I'd like to report that Director Kaplan Dickinson and Abdist were not present in the room for the discussions related to the three items.

On East Levy Road.

And did not receive any materials related to the actions either.

Thank you, Councilor.

Director Abdist, are you have something?

Are you punched in or is that old?

Yes, I did.

Madam Clerk, I think there was a bit of an oversight.

I think we have public comment from someone I think that there you go.

There you go.

All right.

I'm afraid that's as low as the podium goes.

Yes.

I'd like to welcome Asha Kaplan.

Is it Helen?

Hi.

To the podium, please.

Hi.

My name is Asha.

I'm a Glasgow.

It is Glasgow cookie season.

Please support our Glasgow and order a box of cookies.

Each box costs six dollars.

I'm very happy to have it delivered.

I think it will be delivered on February.

Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Cernath.

So, as you know, I'm five doors down from you.

So I will just tell you I will take some thinments right now.

And some shortbread polices.

I'll get my order in and come down to City Hall and pick them up.

Asha, thank you.

That's the most shameless plug we've had all year.

Hey, Asha.

And you did a great job.

Asha, you said one box.

I was wondering if it's okay if I buy two.

Okay.

Are you going to give us order forms?

Okay.

I think this meeting is over.

Next item, please.

Next item, our consent matters and items two through nine are in order.

Okay.

We have a motion to move consent.

And a second, is there any board member that would like to discuss any item, Zunked,

and said?

Seeing none, do we have any public comment?

I have not received any.

Okay.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstain?

Next item, please.

Next item is the Executive Directors Report for January 16, 2025.

I think in my 45 years I've been working, that's the hardest act to come up and follow.

Good job, sir.

So I do want to take one second.

I do want to thank Patrick and Brian for their service.

They've been great and going way out of their way to help us on a number of issues.

I look forward to another year working with you.

And I was disappointed you didn't give an acceptance speech there, Patrick.

What's coming?

Yeah, I'll give you.

I'll give you.

That's just the point.

You have to be adjourned.

So just real quick, the federal fiscal year, and we depend largely on the federal system with the Corps of Engineers,

and it started October 1st of 2024 for the fiscal year 25.

Congress did not get their appropriation bills passed.

They did do one continuous resolution into December and then they did another one.

So right now we're funded through March, so hopefully we'll be able to keep that going so that we can keep the core working and not impact our projects.

So I did put together fairly lengthy written ED report, but I just wanted to touch a few things for those that are new and a good reminder for all of us.

Once we don't really get the benefits of everything we're doing until the project is constructed.

So I did just want to talk just a little bit about our six construction projects that are going on a little over $5 billion in investment here.

Some of them are done and operational and the rest will be done shortly.

So just a little walk through on those.

You can see we have every part of our system except for some parts of the yellow bypass which are in study right now that are being reconstructed by these six projects.

The first one, down at the very bottom in the darker blue is the South Sacramento streams.

That one does two things. One, the streams, it helps protect those when they peak during storms from overflowing their banks.

But the other is we are susceptible to failures south of Sacramento along the Sacramento River, the topography such that it wants to come back upstream.

Those serve as our southern border against the water coming back our direction.

Just a few pictures from that one on the upper left is a detention base and to take some of these peak flows.

And then the other three are levies and flood walls, the two on the right, beach lake levies.

That's the protection from the Sacramento River coming back up.

And this project was completed. It's in close out phase right now.

The next one, the lighter blue along the American River, rebuilding about 25 miles of levies.

This work is primarily seepage wall work. It also has been completed and is in close out now.

The bottom right there is the stability work flattening the slope of the levies there.

And the other three are slurry wall works around the system.

Jumping up to Folsom, the red area there, that was the Folsom Dam modifications.

We call it the Joint Federal Project built 20% by the Bureau of Reclamation and 80% by the core, about 1.1 billion.

That one has been completed. It's been operational except for there were some issues with the coating on the rods which are currently being completed or replaced right now or the next few years.

That one, the other part of that that was the first in the nation for the Corvine Engineers is a forecast informed operation which not only helps us on the flood control but also on the water supply.

So now coming to the one, the three that are actively in construction, the raised project in the yellow up there had three components.

The first was the bridge which was already constructed and completed. At the time the traffic was flowing across the top of the dam we had to get it moved off the dam so we could do both the JPN, the raised project.

And then the dam, the flood risk reduction component then we do have a component for modifying the temperature shutters.

I'll just talk about the flood risk reduction. We're raising all eight dikes and Mormon Island dam and right left wing dam, three and a half feet.

And we are retrofitting the existing gates and sealing that gap at the top so that we can better utilize the existing space at Folsom there.

So just a few pictures from there up on the upper left. Mormon Island auxiliary dam is the only one of the existing earthen embankments and dams that didn't the impervious cord and go all the way to the top so we're having to put a slurry wall to cut that off, tied down to the impervious core and then we'll put a flood wall up on top of that.

Diakate we raised with an embankment raise that's completed up on the top and then we're using raising the right wing dam using a flood wall which you can see down on the two bottom pictures.

Then jumping to Natomas which is in green, dark green over on the far left.

Basin was about 42 miles of levees surrounding it. Safegate went ahead with help from the state funding wise and we completed almost 18 miles of levees while we were waiting for the federal authorization to come through.

And then so we built the blue part and the core is building the pink parts about one and a half billion dollars there.

I actually put pictures in from the parts we constructed. Oops.

Oh.

It didn't like Natomas.

Yeah.

Not the first one.

Ashtag can you fix this for him?

No, that means a little bit.

Oh, there we go.

Okay.

So these are from the part that that saved the bill to the Jason Levy then on the upper left that we needed borrow material that's a borrow area and then we also needed giant garter snake is an endangered species out there.

They live in the bends and canals and so we had mitigation requirements so we left it in a form to create a mitigation and then that was subsequently planted there.

Okay, then jumping to our the last one.

This was our last authorization and it kind of picked up all the areas of the system that hadn't already been authorized in orange there.

So there was a number of components to it.

There was erosion protection on the American and Sacramento rivers along with undersea pitch along the Sacramento River and levee work up in the north areas like in the arcade creek area.

And then also we're widening the Sacramento we're in bypass.

So just a few pictures of the construction.

These are some of the erosion work along the Sacramento American rivers.

Moving along this is a sea pitch and stability work along the Sacramento River East levee.

This is up in the north area.

This is where it actually safe was in the lead on rebuilding the levees up in that area.

And then finally, the Sacramento we're in bypass is under construction right now.

Since we met last November the core put out an updated video so I just wanted to share that with you through short.

The next one.

The next one.

The next one.

The next one.

All right, thank you.

I just wanted to give just a real quick overview of all the construction.

I wanted to write there's 11 major construction contracts going on all around the system right now.

And getting those done is what gives us our protection.

I just wanted to share that and I'll take any questions.

Any questions?

Yes, sir.

Back on the Folsom, the Mormon Island, et cetera, work.

Does that work increase the level of flood protection?

So the rays will increase the level of flood protection.

It gives us two things.

One, we're raising all the dams that we're raising the whole reservoir by three and a half feet.

So it gives us another about 40 to 50,000 acre feet of storage physically from the rays.

But then we're top sealing the gates, which means right now there's that gap that you saw in the gates.

At a certain point, they have to open those gates so they don't over top.

And when they open all the gates, it's larger than the system downstream can handle so it floods us.

So by top sealing those gates, they can hold that longer and utilize there's 14 feet of space above that gate.

So in large flood events, it lets us use another 150,000 acre feet of storage there too.

So it gives us a couple hundred more thousand acre feet of storage to help manage flood.

That's on Folsom Dam itself.

Yes.

And of course the auxiliary spillway was intended to get us that additional increment.

I assume you're getting an additional increment out of sealing the gates in that.

Right.

But I was really thinking of the other work, the Mormon Island, and the related work that you showed some slides up.

Does that increase the level?

Yes. So what happens at Mormon Island for whatever reason when they build it originally?

They only took the impervious core up to the top of the flood space.

So if you get water, for any late the time above that, it wants to seep through that area.

So the reason we're putting the slurry wall in there is to basically do what we're doing at the levees, put a cut off.

So water can't flow through.

That will allow us to take the flood waters up higher without endangering the structure there.

What's the increment of an increased protection you get out of that project?

I'm assuming somebody made a judgment somewhere along on it. It was cost effective.

So once we're done with all of our projects, there will be well over 300 year level protection.

And then we have projects that we're working on now to get back towards the 500 year level.

Once the raise is done with the other work downstream, will be between the 350 year level protection.

Well asked differently if you had not done them, if we weren't doing the Mormon Island and associated work outside of Folsom, the dam structure itself, what difference would that make in the level of protection?

Well it's all part of a system. So we're doing the work at Folsom.

We're doing the erosion work on the American River and we're widening the segment of where those three are all tied together so we can pass more water from 115,000 to 160,000.

So if we don't do any one of those components, we won't be able to do that.

I mean we'd be able to pass a 200 year level event without doing that work but we need those three in combination to get us up to that higher level.

If we drop off the raise, we won't have the capacity to go to 160,000 at Folsom right now.

Yeah well I wasn't really referring to the raise.

I was referring to that, that, that, ancillary.

Well looked at me to be ancillary.

Well Mormon Island is part of the raise project because we have to raise, there's eight dikes and four dams out there.

They're all the same elevation, we have to raise them all three and a half feet.

So the work we're doing at Mormon Island is part of the raise project.

If we don't do Mormon Island then it would, that would be our lowest spot.

So we're going to be able to do a spillway in the future.

I see.

Okay. Thanks.

Director Stevens.

Yes.

Me being a south-sutter resident, will this take pressure off like the feather, everything backs up during a high water event.

Like the feather backs up in the south of the animal.

Does that decrease the pressure, in my area?

Is that decrease the pressure or is, are these items, it's further on down the.

No actually, the biggest help will be when we finish the yellow comprehensive study and are able to widen the free month wear and some other pinch points in the yellow bypass.

That will really help you upstream.

But currently we are widening the Sacramento wear and bypass and we just finished the state, just finished widening part of the yellow bypass from I5 down to the Sacramento bypass.

That provides some relief upstream right now.

So.

Thank you.

Okay. Any other questions?

Thank you Mr. Johnson.

Appreciate it.

All right. That takes us to the end of our agenda.

Unless there's any other board members have anything I did fight this time.

Seeing none, we are adjourned. Our next meeting is February 20th.