We're gonna call this July 16, 2026 meeting of the Sacramento Flood Control Agency Board of Register to order.

Would the uh clerk please call the role and not establish a quorum?

Director Desmond, Director Whom?

Here, Director Kennedy, Director Rodriguez.

Here, Director Munoz.

Here, Director Jennings, Director Kaplan, Director Pluckybom, Director Holloway, Director Johns.

Director Chan.

Here.

Dr.

Baines and Director Boone.

We do not have a quorum.

Thank you.

We're going to uh in lacking a quorum, we will not take any action today, but uh we will hear from since the member of the public has taken the time to come out.

We will hear from the member of the public.

And if uh the executive director wants to go forward with his report, we will do that.

But in the meantime, will you please join me 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 statement, please.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

This meeting of Safca is being recorded live on SAC Metro TV.

Excuse me, Metro 14 Live.SatCounty.gov, and we'll be recorded and re-aired on Metro Cable Channel 14 on Saturday, July 18th at 2 p.m.

This meeting will all be also be available on Safica's website within 48 hours after the meeting.

Members of the audience who wish to address the board should fill out a speaker form and please identify yourself to for the record and limit your comments to two minutes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

With that, that takes us to public comments and items not on the agenda.

And I do have a card from Lisa Sanchez.

Thank you for joining us.

If you if you'd be agreeable to it, we could swear you in and we'll have a quorum.

Let's do it.

Um I can't remember how many minutes I have, two or three on this, but I just wanted to stop by and kind of give you a little bit of an update.

My name is Lisa Sanchez and I volunteer with a nonprofit River City Waterway Alliance here in Sacramento.

We our mission is to uh clean, restore, and protect our local waterways in perpetuity.

And so one of the things we've come across is a little bit of a jumble of whose responsibility jurisdiction of these waterways are, especially within the city of Sacramento.

So finding that Safca kind of oversees parts of where we do a lot of our work, which is Steelhead Creek and Arcade Creek, Robla Creek, within the two levees, uh flood control side and RD's side.

Um we do a lot of work there.

Yeah, we've I think removed over two million pounds of trash just in that little stretch right there.

It's about and it's considered uh the city of Sacramento's Weta Parkway.

Um we work with them and we are currently working with them to um kind of get some information and some uh help assistance there from the city, which we have been doing.

The reason why I'm here is just to say thank you to everybody who has been helping us, American River Flight Control District has been a big um great partner with that, same with um RD 1000, um board of supervisors as well within the outside of the parameters of you know the county, but within Safca's uh proximity, thank you, as well as the city of Sacramento and so forth.

Um with that, we are not only migrating from trash removal because that was phase one.

There was so much of it, we just had to start working there to invasive species removal, and we are um doing that all by hand, and I was here a few months back just to try to put a little bug in your ear at Safe Ca as a uh reminder that you did have a um invasive species removal program back in the day, maybe a decade ago or so.

And now that we're out of COVID and hopefully maybe there's some budgetary, you know, streamlining going on that we were hoping to put another bug in your ear to revitalize something with that.

With that, we were there at Roblox Creek Sunday night.

We had an event, and I just wanted to share the water hyacinth that has plagued Robla Creek for a long time.

It gets super bad there.

Um we did a event which turned into a fun party for us.

We're in there with water waiters and schlepping and all that kind of stuff.

Um, but it I just want to kind of show the before and after of what people can do.

And the bad part is that you know the seeds disperse and it goes into the next creek, which is Steelhead Creek, which is a big salmon corridor that we're really trying to focus on restoration.

It hasn't quite migrated there for whatever reason as uh Hyacinth is, but you know, the water primrose has.

So that's another one we're working on.

So, anyways, I would love to encourage a little bit of monetary assistance of some sort, um, whether it is manual labor, which is all we can provide of restoration and removal, but we recognize that even though we are environmental stewards, we understand that um you know, unfortunately, aquatic safe aquatic safe spraying is really the go-to for these very large swatches of invasive species.

And we would love to be able to have some help with that in these waterways.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your time and have a great day, you guys.

Thank you.

And as you know, we can't discuss what's not on the agenda.

However, I encourage you to reach out individually to us if there's events, if there's some way, and also as monetary uh requests and so forth.

Um, you reach out to us through email or other means individually, that would that would be more than welcome.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for your time.

Thank you.

Hold on, supervisor.

Yes.

I have a question from Sanchez.

Just a question.

Um, if some if we know people that would like to engage with your organization, who do we contact?

Who do they contact?

Well, we have a website, uh River City Waterway Alliance dot org.

And so they are more than welcome.

There's a calendar on there with all of our events with the description, so people we just kind of guide them to that.

Check out what date and time works for you, which one event works and come on out.

There's a waiver at the bottom that is easy to do digitally and submit online, and then they show up and we all have fun.

Great.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay.

Next item that takes us to that we can hear today is the executive director's report.

Mr.

Campbell.

Thank you, Chair Kennedy, Jason Campbell, executive director.

It's a really long report, it's four slides long.

So we'll be we should be done here really quick.

Uh as I always like to remind everybody, we have a cost share with our programs, with our federal programs, particularly where the federal government pays 65% of their projects while we in the state pitch in as part project partners, and our local cost share is typically 10 and a half percent.

And the reason why I bring that up is because we do still have the appropriations that have been identified for fiscal year 27 within the president's budget as well as in the House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Bill.

Unfortunately, the board is the board, my my apologies, board.

The the congressional members are still working on those appropriations bills.

We've not seen anything really land into the into the appropriate subcommittee for the Senate.

However, we are tracking and continue to support those actions because we really do need the core to have that 108 million dollars for the Herd Notomas project.

So as we move forward, again, we have a tremendous number of projects still active.

It is that time of year, so construction activity is really why really rolling up and getting going again.

And all those stars identify those headings that we have construction activity with our core projects as well as our own.

So just wanted to keep that up uh in front of everybody.

So, yes, there is a lot of construction going on.

We will bring pictures in the future meetings and make sure that uh we can identify those efforts that are continuing and working towards again that urban level of protection, particularly in the Thomas now, uh, to make sure we can get to that uh 200 year level of protection.

And then also we had a very successful bond refunding for two of our assessment districts, our bond program.

So on the Natomas Basin Local Assessment District and CCAD2.

We sold bonds on July 8th.

Uh we were a little nervous because there was a few activities right before the bond sale, but again, we really did have a very good pricing.

We were very successful in making sure that we got those uh savings on those refundings.

As you can see, 10.8 and 11 percent uh savings on the refunding portion is very good.

So we were pleased with that.

What that did is it generated additional cash for our projects to move forward as we indicated in our budget.

We just received a little bit more than almost five fifty-five million dollars for our programs, so that will be coming in by the end of the month.

And then, of course, this will go right into our project funds and it paying for those cost shares that I just talked about, so that we can keep moving forward on our flood control mission.

So I wanted to just say thanks to the entire team.

Uh particularly in-house, uh, but our uh consultant teams, the the underwriters, the advisors, everybody was just wonderful.

Our our bond uh council did a great job.

Everything keeps moving forward uh in in a very positive way.

And of course, our Safecast staff really did the heavy lifting.

I want to say thank you to the entire team, uh, our finance team, particularly Scott and Neil and Jennifer, did some very heavy lifting to get this thing going.

So again, just wanted to say we had a very good successful bond issuance and we're looking forward to getting the work done.

That's all I have for today.

Thank you very much.

Uh, for those members that are here today, please.

Our next meeting is August 20th.

We plan on having a closed session.

It would be great to have everybody here and encourage those that aren't to be here.

With that, we're adjourned.