Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the city council special session.

Today is Wednesday, October 30th, 2024.

City Clerk, please take roll.

Councilmember Padilla is absent.

Councilmember Wright is absent.

Councilmember Blauer.

Present.

Councilmember Lenz is absent.

Councilmember Via Padua.

Present.

Vice Mayor Wormsley.

Present.

And Mayor Lincoln.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Item two, public comment.

City Clerk, do we have any comments from members of the public this morning?

We do have a public comment.

Mark Stebbins, would you please come to the podium?

Mr.

Stebbins, you'll have three minutes this morning.

Here?

Yes.

All right.

Good morning, Mark Stebbins from South Stockton Merchants Association.

Here today because you're going to appropriate funds for the Northeast Stockton Library.

And I wanted to remind you that as you appropriate funds, you may tie those funds to justice to righteousness.

And in this case, righteousness involves your naming the library after the Atai family in Stockton.

A long time family in Stockton of Chinese origin who has contributed greatly, who have authored books, who have contributed to the cultural intensity of Stockton.

It's appropriate to let the public know that as you appropriate these funds that you intend to honor a Chinese family, a Chinese family that was discriminated against segregation in South Stockton, where Chinese could not live north of Main Street.

A family that was a particularly appropriate for this funds, a family that was subject to hatred and discrimination because wrongly attributed the coronavirus to the Chinese.

So I just ask that you signal your intent to honor Chinese in this particular way.

Thank you very much.

That concludes public comment.

Thank you.

Item three, item for discussion 3.1.

Adopt the resolution approving recommended final adjustments to the American Rescue Plan Act program and projects.

Staff you have floor to present.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good morning.

What we're going to attempt to do this morning is uh provide an introduction and overview with a summary of uh where we started with respect to this whole uh endeavor, where we are today.

Uh and then we will provide a uh summary of financial summary of all of the projects in terms of where they are financially and then make several recommendations for your consideration uh and approval.

So I'm gonna go through is someone clicking the uh the presentation, the slide presentation, yeah.

Good.

So this is just gonna be a chronology of everything that we've done uh as a city government as relates to this federal funding that we've received.

Uh so bear with me.

Uh just gonna provide some detail.

So on March the 10th, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act was passed by Congress allocating 78 million and some change to the city of Stockton.

Uh September 2021, City Council approved uh a final spending plan.

December 2021, council approved a re reprogram funding to support a project home key two applications.

February 16th, 2022.

Uh we conducted a council ARPA workshop.

Uh May 22nd of 2022.

I'm sorry, May of 2022.

Uh City Council approved 2.5 million dollars in contingency funds to support uh the uplift downtown initiative, uh the miracle mile improvement projects and mandated COVID sick leave uh expenses offset.

February 22nd of 2023.

Council held another ARPA workshop.

May of 2023, Council approved 450, a 450,000 dollar increase to the arena scoreboard project.

August through October of 2023, Council approved 1.9 million dollars from ARPA contingency to support homeless shelter transition and the navigation center.