Good afternoon, welcome to the March 19th, 2026 meeting of the Sacramento Air Flood Control Agency Board of Directors.

Would the clerk please call the roll?

Thank you.

Director Desmond.

Here.

Director Hume.

Director Kennedy.

Here.

Director Rodriguez.

Here by alternate.

I'm sorry, catches.

Thank you.

Director Munoz.

Here.

Director Jennings.

Director Kaplan.

Director Pluckybaugh.

Director Holloway.

Director Crush.

Here.

Director Avides.

Director Baines.

And Director Stevens.

Here.

Thank you.

We do have an 11 member quorum.

I'm sorry, 10 members.

Okay.

Will you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

This meeting of Safica is being live streamed at Metro 14 Live.sackCounty.gov and will be recorded and re-aired on Saturday, March 21st at 4 p.m.

And we'll also be available on Safecist website within 48 hours after the meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Takes us to public comments for items not on the agenda.

We do have one card for Mr.

Chris Ruper.

Name is Chris Roofer.

I'm a resident of Sacramento County.

From all intents and purposes and all things I know, the uh flood control project along the levy has been finished for some time in the area of Power Line Road and Garden Highway.

You purchased uh about 92 acres there, used uh roughly 12 acres for the project.

There would appear to be at least 80 acres that are excess uh that is uh some trees on it and has just been used last couple years for general farming.

I would like to purchase the property.

We sent a note uh on November in 2025 with about a dozen follow-ups, emails and letters, and we have zero response.

My quest is that we would get some response, and that if you treated it as your own property, you might find that you know I'm not bargaining for price here, it's another time, but roughly a million dollars in your pocket for worthless land relative to yourselves would be of uh of advantage to you.

So I'd appreciate uh you andor the appropriate people to give us uh a uh responsible answer as to what might be done there.

And so that you're not the county, I guess, but uh some of you are the county, yet I guess the county would like some property taxes also, which would be benefit of a private party party open owning the property.

I have no ambitions to build anything on the property, just to uh acquire it.

It's farmland.

Uh it's close to us, and so I respectfully request that I get a respectful answer in response to our request.

Thank you.

Any questions or comments?

Thank you.

No, uh, this is off the agenda, so we really can't comment.

Um, but uh appreciate it, and Mr.

Campbell will follow up or someone from his staff.

Good afternoon.

Thank you.

All right.

That we will recess into closed session.

All right, come call back to orders, meeting of the safety board of directors.

Would the clerk please call the roll re-established quorum?

Thank you.

Director Desmond Absent Director Hume, Director Kennedy, here, Director Hedges, Director Munoz, here, Director Jennings, Director Kaplan, Director Pluckybaum, Director Holloway, Director Crush, Director Avdes, Director Baines, Director Stevens, we have a nine-member quorum.

Thank you.

Uh counsel, is there anything to report out of closed session?

Uh nothing to report at this time.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Our next item are consent matters and items one through three are in order.

Is there any member of the board have any questions on items one through three?

Move consent.

Second.

Is there any member of the public that would like to address the board on a nightem on consent?

Hearing and seeing none, we have a motion and a second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

Next item, please.

Next item is information, the executive director's report for March 19th.

It's a three-page presentation.

Here we go.

Oh, just again, Jason Campbell, executive director.

Just wanted to give you a quick little update.

I've been trying to feed this to you so that you can see what's going on with the federal budgets as we're moving forward into a new fiscal year.

Uh hopefully uh all the uh bills will get approved in a timely manner for 20 fiscal year 27.

I'm holding my breath.

But right now we are looking at uh use work plan coming out for the 26th budget on the 24th of March.

Um hopefully we will see some Notomas dollars in there.

I'm a little uh suspect whether or not that's gonna actually happen.

So we are continuing to advance the discussion with the uh folks on the Hill as well as headquarters and the Corps of Engineers, appropriations committees and others to make sure that we're advocating for those fiscal year 27 dollars.

We have put uh our requests in for community project funding to our elected officials, and we'll continue to work with them to clarify any questions they may have.

Again, we're trying to advance at this point in time about a 40 million dollar request for the Natoma Space and construction work uh in coming years.

In addition, uh we also have a number of activities going on up at Folsom.

The uh appropriations there again are fully funded.

The uh questions going into the uh fiscal year 27 is that there are a number of things that are being done at Folsom that may need a little bit of additional money in the future that has not been defined yet.

So we'll keep you posted as to what's going on there.

Um we will be in uh DC for the CAP to cap uh function.

Uh so we're also planning on doing a little bit of double duty there.

Again, we have cap to cap, and then there's also a national waterways conference legislative summit that happens every year, usually earlier in the year, but they just happen to land on the same week.

So there will be some double duty from some of the staff uh that are going to cap to cap to maybe catch a couple of meetings with the Corps of Engineers headquarters folks and maybe get a side conversation going.

Um along with that, we also have our five-year funding plan that we've been putting together.

We are advancing our we've advanced our cash flow analysis looking at our projects.

We have started some significant financial analysis and refunding engagement with our uh various uh entities that work with us on our on our bonds.

So you've provided that opportunity for us to go ahead and sign those engagement letters.

We are in the thick of it as far as getting the Notomas basin refunding as well as the CCAD2 2016 refundings going.

Um we are targeting a May board authorization for bond issuance.

Uh that bond issuance may, depending on how things shake out with the markets.

Uh today was not a good day.

But as I think shape up with the markets, we are looking to try and generate as much as 50 million dollars.

The project demands for common features 2016 as well as the Notomas basin efforts and the fulsome efforts for that matter, uh, are gonna require a little bit of cash going forward, and it's primarily gonna be the cash that's requested from the core under our PPA agreements.

So, with that, we also have our wonderful 27 budget coming up.

So, preparations underway.

Uh again, federal and state uh things aren't swimmingly uh well right now.

So, right now we are trying to figure out what those impacts may be, and we're anticipating there might be some slowdown in match funding from the state.

But again, we're gonna prepare for something that's conservative so that we can make sure that we can keep moving on our projects.

And then, of course, staff is uh evaluating some strategic reductions in the spending.

We have a number of consultant contracts that support projects.

We want to make sure that those get right size to make sure that we're getting the support we actually need and make sure that you know we're keeping ready for the next phase of other efforts.

With that, nice new picture of uh Folsom Dam.

You up in the corner there, it's really hard to see.

My apologies.

Uh a little bit of scaffolding up there on the piers at the uh gate eight.

So you can see work is still continuing.

Uh hopefully we can see that thing uh get that get all of those uh gates operable and make sure that that scaffolding and everything gets out of there cleanly without anybody getting hurt.

Really appreciate you.

What do you think the timing is on that?

Well, that gate eight, the proof of concept is anticipated to be done.

Uh I'm guessing in about October timeline.

They've got a lot of work to do to try and get that squared up.

Uh that proof of concept will then lean into what they're gonna do with the remaining gates.

There may be a little bit of uh uh pause to make sure that they get that right because there's been a lot of uh interesting things going on up at that old uh facility.

Anyway, okay.

Any other questions?

Questions all right, seeing none.

Thank you, Mr.

Campbell.

That takes us to separate matters and uh establishment of a finance and policy committee, two committees.

Um at this time the chair and vice chair serve, and we needed a volunteer for each.

Is there a volunteer from the finance committee?

I'll join.

Thank you.

Okay, and how about the policy committee?

I'll join.

Thank you.

That was much easier than I thought.

I thought I was gonna have to put Mr.

Desmond on.

So and that takes us to the end of the meeting.

Thank you very much.

Can we take a vote on that?

Oh, do we have to take a vote?

I can just appoint.

I mean, all in favor say aye.

Okay.

I mean, I'm willing to give it to somebody else.