Sacramento Cable Commission Budget Hearing and Public Testimony - September 17, 2025

Good afternoon, everybody.

Um I am calling to order the meeting of the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission on September 17th, uh at 2 35 p.m.

Um Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll?

Absolutely.

Member Munoz?

Here.

Member Riley?

Here.

Member McCarthy Almstead?

Here.

Member Hedges?

Here.

Member Sloan?

Here.

Member Middleton?

Here.

Grunison?

Here.

Sandu?

Here.

Gatewood.

Here.

Gull.

Here.

Chair Brown?

Here.

Hackett Little.

Here.

And with those members present, we do have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

Now we'll proceed to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Director Riley, do you mind leading us?

Everybody can see you.

Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of ways to stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and just for our thank you so much.

Madam Clerk, could you please read the metro replay statement and our meeting announcement?

Yes.gov and will replay Saturday, September 20th at 3 p.m.

on Metro Cable on Channel 14.

This meeting can also be viewed at YouTube.com, Metro Cable 14.

The meeting announcement reads the commission fosters public engagement during the meeting and encourages public participation, civility, and the use of courteous language.

To make a to make a comment in person, please fill out a speaker request form and hand it to the clerk staff.

The chairperson will open the public comments for each agenda off agenda item and direct the clerk to call the name of each speaker.

When the clerk calls your name, please come to the podium and make your comment.

You may send written comments by email to Board Clerk at Zach County.gov.

Your comment will be routed to the board and filed in the record.

And that completes the statement.

Thank you so much.

Before we move into item one, I have a minor change to the agenda and a quick reminder.

For anybody here who is uh here to speak on the budget item, please make sure that you are filled out for item five uh for public comment to make sure that we can uh make sure you are on the list uh and heard for the appropriate item.

Uh and number two, um, we are going to be taking up items five and six uh the general fund and the peg fee budget together, um, as they are by and large uh very highly related, and we'll be considering them as a single item.

Um and moving into item one, public comments relating to matters not on the posted agenda.

Uh Madam Clark, do we have any comments?

Yes, we have seven public comments.

Great.

We're gonna have names pop up on the screen over there.

And as a reminder, this is for items that are not on our posted agenda.

So if you are speaking on the budget item, we'll ask you to uh uh postpone your time uh until item five.

So first we have uh see, Sonny Lee.

Hi, good afternoon, Commissioner, and thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of SECC.

Excuse me.