Good morning everyone.

I'd like to call our council priority setting workshop to order.

You can go ahead and do roll call, Councilmember Lauer.

Councilmember Isacas is absent.

Councilmember Ponse?

Present.

Councilmember Tadia is absent.

Vice Mayor Lee?

Present.

Mayor Fagazzi.

I'm sorry, Councilmember Via Padua.

Present.

Mayor.

Present.

Thank you.

So we have our quorum.

I'm sure Council Padilla will come in here run in any second now.

The welcome from me.

Everybody's here.

I feel like I gotta stand up though.

If you don't mind.

So this is my what 10th priority setting.

I don't know if we did it my very first year.

But I know that we did it every year after that.

And I appreciate staff being here as council just to discuss what they feel are the priorities are for the city of Stockton.

And I know that then you guys are off and running as to trying to put together a budget and a playbook for how we're going to achieve that.

And I would say over the years we've pretty much stayed consistent in those in those priorities.

But I'm hoping this year we can be a little bit more creative in how we might be able to address those issues because I think we've made substantial gains.

Jan is uh uh professional and she's been doing this for a while for us, and I'm just excited that you both could be here with us today.

And yeah, let's go.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Um did you want to go to public comment?

Um is there any public comment?

We've received a word.

Seeing none, let's go.

Okay.

Um I'd like to introduce uh my colleague Nancy Hettrick, who's here with me today, and then I'll say a little bit more about myself.

Yeah, good morning, everybody.

So Nancy Hetrick with Rap Tellus.

Uh I have also worked with Jan for many, many, many years.

Uh it's amazing how time flies, uh, but we've worked together since about 2005.

And I lead our strategic planning facilitation practice at Rap Tellis.

Uh and really delighted to be able to partner with Jan and to be here with all of you today.

And as Amir mentioned, um, I have actually been here in Stockton a number of years over over the last probably 10 years doing strategic planning, uh priority setting, uh working with city council, working with staff, and I'm delighted to be back.

So thank you for the invitation to be back here.

This facility is phenomenal.

Um I came here yesterday to meet the staff to look at the setup and look at the room and and uh kudos to Stockton for building this fantastic uh facility and I love the room I love the setup.

And as the council can probably tell, um you're sleeping a little differently than you would be normally in a council meeting.

That's very intentional.

Um when we do workshops, we like to have people uh seated a little bit um differently.

It's a workshop.

Uh we like to have a little more informality, and so you're gonna see that you know throughout the session today.

Um definitely I mean this is really a no-time zone.

Oh we're gonna call it racy in here now.

There you go.

There you go.

There you go.

Yeah, and um, and also you're you're going to hear Nancy and I use first names because again, it's a workshop, it's more informal, and we really want that collaborative spirit as we work through today.

Uh we know that there are some kind of time constraints on the council, and so we are going to move through efficiently as well as effectively to get to the outcomes that we need uh so that we can um end uh no later than one today.