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Now that all the council members are present I call to order the December 4th special

meeting of the City Council of West Sacramento redevelopment agency and finance authority.

We will begin with the land acknowledgement.

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, learn and commune is

the original homelands of the indigenous people of West Sacramento who have stewarded this

land throughout the generations.

We acknowledge and we thank the original inhabitants who have occupied, maintained and secured

this place and who still exist on this land.

We respect and celebrate the many diverse indigenous people still connected to this

land on which we gather.

We will now begin with the swearing end ceremony.

Madame clerk, can you please begin the process?

Yes, Madam Mayor, we'd like to welcome our newly elected or newly reelected Mayor Martha

Guerrero who will be sworn in by her daughter Elaine Sanchez.

the United States and the Constitution of the State of California that I will take this

obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well

Next, we'll be swearing in our reelected Council Member Norma Alcala.

Council Member Alcala will be sworn in by her daughter-in-law, Arlette Kieros Gutierrez

Alcala.

and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the

State of California that I will take this obligation freely without any mental reservation

I, Corina O'Rosco, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution

of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies

freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully

discharge the duties upon which I will about to enter.

Thank you.

I would like to allow my fellow Council Members that were newly elected to have a few words.

Council Member O'Rosco.

All right.

Well, back in 2016, the very first time I sat on this dice, I remember being so shell-shocked

by the experience of being up here that I didn't really say much.

I just wanted to end the moment and make sure everybody got home and one piece and carry

on with an eye.

In 2020, we were going through a pandemic and we were on Zoom and I did the same thing

where I just surrendered the opportunity to give remarks out of respect for the moment

and all the work that we had to do in front of us.

Tonight, I want to take a moment of your time because this is a really momentous occasion

and tonight I'm seeing so many beautiful faces in the house tonight and I just want to say

a few things to you.

You know, in 2016, we had a very different Council at the time.

It was Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, now State Senator.

Council Members Mark Johanneson, Crystal Desma and Bab Sandin.

And as a freshman Councilwoman, I was eager to serve and give back to this beautiful community

that was helping my husband Jose and I raise our four beautiful children.

Back then, we as a Council were only envisioning these wild ideas, things that seemed incomprehensible

at the time.

We were talking about the West Sacoma Run via a demand ride share which seemed completely

out of the ordinary for what we could do here.

The Bridge District, Drake, the barn.

Remember knocking at doors and people were saying this is going to be the worst thing

ever.

Don't make an investment here and that.

We talked about the Washington District and we were getting ready to cut up ribbon on

burgers and brew which was a novel idea for the area at the time.

Back then, recovery at cafe and the permittance of part of housing and my baby, the downtown

street team.

Those were just ideas but not something that we were going to embark upon.

At the time, we never envisioned that there would be a terrible pandemic that would essentially

change the very fabric of our business community and challenge so many wonderful small business

owners to close down their buildings and say goodbye to their dream, their life investment

that they put on the line in order to make our city even better.

We never imagined at the time either that some years later we would be able to welcome

an amazing Major League Baseball City.

Just steps away from where I live and offer this opportunity for children in our community

to see Major League Baseball in their backyard.

Tonight I sit here and I'm reflecting on the beauty of this incredible journey that we've

just taken together.

Honestly, that's been fraught with many arguments, many moments of being fractured and challenges

but there's also many more that we've overcome for the benefit of this mighty little town.

Over the years, I've become a little bit more accepting of a story that I didn't want to

admit early on but I now embrace and that is that as a young child, my mom and I, we

met our very first, we were first introduced to West Sacramento because we would take temporary

shelter and refuge in the motels along West Capitol Avenue together.

She and I, a very young mother and her then maybe eight or nine year old child and it

wasn't very welcoming at the time.

No, I believe it is even as welcoming 40 years later but it was a trajectory for that young

Karina that, you know, frankly wasn't going to predict that I would be sitting up here

with you all tonight.

And tonight that we're all here, I will say that I got acknowledged that there is a purifically

curated head shot up there on the wall, that there is this beautiful brown leather chair

that I'm sitting on and a gold name plate that, you know, bears my name and I tell you.

Those are, it's because of those, the young experience that I had years ago that I continue

to power through.

It's not because of those things, it's because, you know, there is value in making sure that

other people that I know that my time here is just merely temporary, that there will

be many more name plates, there will be many more curated photos, many more amazing leaders,

more passionate than I, that will arrive at this doorstep of this mighty little city with

hope in their souls and love in their hearts and passion in their spirit and they're ready

to fight for our city.

And that's the reason that I'll stand out on a cold winter night to collect school supply

drive, you know, or collect things for children to inspire them to do better because they

need to occupy these seats down the road and they need to love their city just like we

do.

So I'll just end by saying that for those of you here tonight watching your loved one

take the oath, thank you, thank you for taking the time, I know it's hot in here.

For my folks that came tonight, there are many of you who literally served as my feet for

this campaign.

You promised me you'd do that and you walked with me, you literally sometimes carried me

after a long day when I could walk no further and I want to tell you I see you.

To my campaign manager who's standing up against the wall over there, the best of them, he's

here tonight, thank you Matt Rexford for believing in me, for inspiring me, for saying yes and

thanks to Bert and Ryan.

You guys had a vision and think you could help us see it.

To my friends and my former colleagues and I see a judge holiday in the back there.

I've done trials, 20 years of trials as a prosecutor alongside that woman and you know,

I'm grateful for my former colleagues, my road dogs, my campaign team, some of you moved

mountains so that I could walk through them because I could never walk over them and I

have no words that could adequately express how I feel.

There will never be a day that I don't carry you all with me because you're now part of

my story and it's your light that shines upon all of us here.

To my friend Christopher Kabaldin, our newly elected state senator who put West Sacramento

on the map when people just thought of us as the armpit of the region, you're here for

me and sir I'm humbled and grateful.

There's not a day that I am not beside myself and all of the person and the leader that

you are and the person that I've become simply because you've existed.

To my dear friend and brilliant mind legendary Mike McGowan who's sitting in the audience

tonight thank you for listening and inspiring and believing sir.

You were a trailblazer at a time when our city wasn't incorporated and you took this

seat maybe not the same exact one but you took the helm as our first mayor and you're

still there, regardless of whether or not your body wants to take you far, your spirit

and your heart and your soul, those are the things that are all amongst us and thank you

for being here tonight.

And finally my children, my family.

You know I've had kids that have tucked themselves into bed on Long City Council night because

at one point I was the only council member who had young children that sat above here

and I gotta tell you that was part of the motivation.

We needed to have more voices out there that knew what was going on in our sports camps

and knew what was going on in our city parks and I took that on but I knew that there were

going to be a couple kids out there that would be looking at the empty seat next to dad every

time there was a sports event, every time we'd have a soccer game or a baseball game

there was a great opportunity for me to not be there and see them shine.

So kids, thank you for sharing mommy with everyone else.

I know you've sacrificed and I hope to take that up to you.

And then finally to Jose, the love of my life and the most incredibly supportive husband

and partner in the world, thank you.

Thank you for delivering me to a place where I can stand up for what I believe in.

Thank you for supporting my wild ideas and for strapping up when I need to, oh there's

an event and it's gonna happen in three hours and you just go with it.

Thank you for being my wingman and for holding me up when sometimes I don't believe I have

any more of a centella of might left in me.

I'm here and you're helping me serve a purpose in this community that's larger than anyone

of us.

I know that you're just as much part of this journey as I am.

In close, I'll say each and every one of you are part of a fabric of this community.

We don't agree on everything.

In fact, this campaign has taught us that there's a lot more that we have to repair

and refractor in lots of ways, not just in the city but statewide and federally.

I really do think, even though it might sound corny, I think that we all want the same thing

at the end of the day.

We might listen to the same song and have a different dance but instead of disrespecting

how the other person's doing it, maybe what we can do is find a way to coexist together

and actually work together with respect.

So that way, at the end of the day, even if we do disagree, we're all doing it with the

best intentions and with respect that we're not carrying down our community in the process.

Thank you all for the time that you've taken your attention.

It's beautiful to be here tonight and I congratulate my colleagues for the swearing

and ...

Thank you, Mayor.

I already mentioned my mother, 89 years old, Gloria Villarreal is here and I'm very proud

because, as was mentioned before, when I was sworn in last time, we had Zoom and that's

when my son Carlos, an attorney, swore me in.

I was very proud this time that my daughter-in-law, Arlette, was able to because she was a dreamer.

Next year, she becomes a US citizen.

Dreamers contribute so much to our country intellectually, culturally, financially and

socially.

Arlette's a wonderful daughter-in-law.

She's an A student.

She just took an organic chemistry and a physics class, got an A. That's a really smart person

there.

She's also a great community activist who helps volunteer at every church and community event

whenever she's called upon.

So I just wanted to make that statement into our community.

It's to recognize that so many of our friends, family and acquaintances are not poisoning

the blood of America but providing the transfusion of hope, promise and work ethic so desperately

needed in our country.

I want to begin by giving thanks to my family, friends, supporters, my union family for re-electing

me to my second term with the West Sacramento City Council.

I'm grateful for all your help.

I'm also going to enlist hosting monthly coffees in district

and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to be hosting monthly coffees in district and state.

I'm also going to enlist hosting monthly coffees in district one with other electives

like our West Sacramento Unified District Trustees Virginia Coffee and Vanessa Castro.

To provide updates and also to listen to what our communities needs are.

District one voted overwhelmingly for measure O.

I think the MPD has more on public safety.

In the next four years, I will continue to secure our equitable share of those new resources.

We need those new sidewalks on Sacramento Avenue.

We have to fill those potholes.

There's increased activities that people want for their kids in Bright Park.

Also our small businesses, they've spoken.

They need some help.

We want to make Sacramento Avenue a thriving metropolis.

Well, I shouldn't say metropolis, but part of a thriving metropolis.

Also, as I was walking around canvassing, people told me they wanted more streetlights,

especially in broad and bright.

Those were really important for people.

Safety.

So thank you again for the opportunity to serve you.

You guys did it.

There are three seats that are available.

They were my children, but their children were falling asleep.

So if you wanted to fill the three seats up in the front, Albert, if you wanted to sit down,

just have a seat or James, I don't know.

I love it.

Well, I'll continue on with a good evening, everyone, and welcome to West Sacramento's

Swearing End Ceremony for the city's second all-woman-led city council once again.

Congratulations, fellow council members, on your victory.

And to the candidates who ran in this election, thank you for stepping up on behalf of your community.

It takes a lot of courage and a lot of, you know, from you and your families.

So greatly appreciate your involvement and your interest to serve the community.

Building on that historical achievement, I am deeply honored and humbled by the trust that you have put in me to serve as the city's first four-year term mayor.

This change was intended to allow a city mayor to devote more time to planning and execution of projects in the city's interest and less time taken up by campaigning.

This change is thanks to the members of the community who took action to move the city's governance structure forward.

And tonight, we celebrate a victory that belongs to every single one of you.

The residents who took the time to dialogue with me and the volunteers and community leaders who rolled up their sleeves and who helped fuel this campaign are the true testament to the power of grassroots organizing.

Through sheer determination, carving out the time to listen deeply and carrying a deep passion for community consensus, we were able to overcome the large money donors who funded the opposition.

To the labor unions, yay, you're in the house.

The community organizations and the many faith-based communities who I've reached out to, you're in the house, I see you.

And the countless individuals who supported my campaign by knocking on doors, making phone calls, and delivering and repairing damaged signs, thank you.

Your warmth, dedication, and passion inspired me every day, and that will continue into these next four years.

And to my family who had little children who were falling asleep in the front so they had to leave early, and close friends, and allies including former assembly member Mariko Yamada and Helen Thompson, Supervisor Jim Provenza, who's right there, thank you.

And Angel Barajas and Supervisor Mary Vixie-Sandy and Sheriff Tom Lopez are elected or local and other local electeds. I am forever grateful for your wise counsel, encouragement, and unwavering support.

And also, I want to acknowledge the passage of Measure O, which will allow for the most critical needs of the community, and to our firefighters and police officers and to our local who helped bolster the success.

I wanted to give you a round of applause for Measure O.

The community support for Measure O, as described by Council Member Ocala, which primarily succeeded because of the voters in the north and central part of West Sacramento, really focused on what was the message behind the passage of Measure O, which is the routine repair and maintenance of our roadways, which has deteriorated over the years,

and supporting our wonderful workers who are here, dedicated workers who are out day and night taking care of our city, and our first responders that they have the resources and support they need to protect and serve the community because they are passionate in doing so.

And to maintain our parks and trails for our residents to enjoy.

Measure O reflects our shared priorities and commitment to infrastructure and a safety response that grows with the city, making West Sacramento a city where everyone can thrive.

So looking forward to the path ahead, I want to share a five point plan that builds on the principles of engagement, equity, accountability, and innovation.

Through increasing public engagement and transportation through the establishment of community forums and online platforms, we will continue creating accessible ways to ensure every voice is heard.

We will also introduce a real time city dashboard showing on the progress on goals and an expanded program data policy to keep residents informed.

sheet metal workers, iron workers and so many more unions, we will strengthen worker protections, ensure fair wages and create pathways to create high quality union jobs.

Together we will position West Sacramento as a model for equitable economic development.

As mayor, I am committed to bold environmental action. Our city will be a leader in renewable energy, urban greening and sustainable transportation while continuing to mine for strategy and innovation through our growing climate action partners and through our youth and youth climate action fund program.

Together we will secure a greener, healthier future for generations to come.

And in preparation of our Major League Baseball team, the A's, our city has been presented with a unique opportunity as we usher the athletics into West Sacramento.

This move offers us a chance to prove we too can be formidable competition as hosts for a future Major League Baseball team.

The anticipated increase in tourism spilling over the bridge from neighboring Midtown has the potential to boost local business community, raise the city's profile and create additional job opportunities.

With the Mayor's business roundtable, the California Hispanic Chamber's involvement in all the chambers in the area and through the city's small business grant, together we will work to ensure that the benefits are felt by every community in the city.

In addition, in order to strengthen the trust in our local government, I propose fiscal oversight committee, composed of a community and labor members, financial experts and city officials.

This committee will review budgets, track spending and ensure your tax dollars are used effectively to improve our city.

I look forward to future Town Hall meetings and getting the feedback of the community as we put this plan into action and ensure every resident feels that they have a voice and a stake in our success.

I thank you for your trust, the investment you have made in our community and most of all your partnership moving forward.

Let's get to work. West Sacramento, the best is yet to come.

Thank you so much.

We have some refreshments outside so we're going to go out and celebrate.

I'm sorry, Madam Mayor, can we approve the items on the consent agenda?

We do have a consent agenda, yes.

Thank you.

Are there any requests to pull an item from the consent agenda?

Yes, I'd like to pull item three.

Same.

All right.

So item three.

And who would you have questions or do you have comments?

Comments and also we did a lot of celebrating of measure O so it would be great to make it official.

So but I don't have to go first, particularly because Council Member Verna's piece of hole worked so tirelessly on getting this over the finish line and working with our firefighters.

I see you back there.

I think we did.

We had a couple of comments from you guys too.

We'll be met hope.

Okay, we'll add them under public comments.

Love it.

Okay.

Great.

I'm thinking, Madam Mayor, you know, earlier this year, our strategic planning, our city council had a conversation, a very aspirational conversation about what kind of city we wanted to be.

And we talked about we wanted to be a city that prioritized public safety.

We wanted to be a city with less potholes and better roads.

We wanted to be a city with clean parks and trails that our families can enjoy.

We wanted to be a city that continues to lead the county in addressing homelessness.

And the question was, how are we going to be able to do that?

And our answer was measure O.

And so this summer during the campaign season, we launched on a aggressive strategy to communicate that with the community about what measure O meant about the best and brightest for West Sacramento.

And it was a wonderful campaign.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on it.

And we're going to have a celebration tomorrow at 10 a.m. in front of Station 45.

We're going to be bringing Engine 45 back into service.

And so I'd like to invite you all to join us for that.

But I really want to acknowledge the people who did the work to run it over the finish line.

I'd like to thank the West Sacramento firefighters association who are in the room today.

The Sacramento area firefighters local 522 our police officers association, our police managers association.

We knocked on doors.

We had hosted neighborhood gatherings.

We had conversations with everyone about what measure O meant.

And I'd like to also acknowledge two of my colleagues, Councilmember Karina Arosco and Mayor Pro Tem Dante early, who as they were campaigning, they actively campaign for measure O as well.

So thank you for that additional work to get this over the finish line.

Our city council has another strategic planning coming up where we'll be working with staff and having conversations about how we actually move all of these priorities for where the money is going to go.

And as our mayor said, we'll be recording out.

We'll have regular public accountability sessions and look for measure O signs all over West Sacramento as we immediately get to work on this.

And so thank you to everyone who voted yes.

Thank you to the community for trusting us with measure O.

And I really look forward to showcasing what we can do.

So thank you.

So, um, and as my colleague said in February of this year, we all set together downstairs and really talked about how do we get to the future that we know is possible for West Sac and how do we address all of the many issues that we have heard from our constituents over the years.

And there are quite a few in regards to and council member Spiesel Hall talked about them, whether it be addressing public safety and having enough patrol officers, particularly I hear in my district really being able to to deal not only with traffic, but other nuisances,

And I remember talking to our local West Sac Association fire fire and and and getting a chance to get on weekly calls and really it was weekly calls, moving this campaign forward because it was not part of our duties as City Council.

My colleague here, Council member Roscoe, her beautiful children were also in commercials we, the Pusial Hall as well as myself were in commercials, all about how do we make sure there's enough information out there and we are working.

But I have to say a huge thank you particularly to Miguel and Greg I'm going to call y'all out Tom and while this was happening, you guys dealt with a loss in your department and we all dealt with a loss locally, and you still kept going.

And so I cannot thank you enough.

I had no idea the work that went behind this and it is not only something that we will experience and use now, but literally for the future of our kids.

So thank you.

At this time, we are holding off on applause as we move forward with the rest of the council meeting.

Madame clerk are there any public, are there any requests by any of the council members before I open it up for public comment?

Okay, Madame clerk are there any requests to speak by the public?

There are no requests to speak on these items.

Okay, did the firefighters association would you like to speak?

I know the mayor of Potem indicated that you would like to speak.

I wanted to give you a chance.

Madame clerk, I'm going to start by apologizing.

I wasn't prepared to speak, but it's called me up so I'll do the best that I can on the spot here.

Mezra was extremely important to the West Sacramento firefighters, the department, the association, the community.

It was taken out of service approximately 12 years ago in 2012.

And we've been trying to make up for that for that shortcoming with our department with our with our with our workforce and it's been quite the challenge and the hurdle.

And our call volume has increased significantly over the years.

So I have to start my thinking city council for actually putting measure on the ballot.

I know you've been put on there unanimously unanimously with a five to zero vote.

So I appreciate your guys's commitment to getting that in front of the voters so that essentially the firefighters as well as council members so piece your hole can get this thing across the finish line.

So, so I appreciate you guys doing that and taking that risk in that gamble. I know it's not you go out there and say we want to raise taxes.

But but we appreciate it and it means so much to our department.

Our people and it's be great for the community to finally get this fire engine back.

Another special thank you throughout is city manager Aaron Laurel.

I know many months ago when there's a discussion of putting measure on the ballot that he took the bull by the horns is to speak.

And saying that the second this tax measure is certified that engine 45 will be going into service the next day.

So tomorrow December 5th, which is the day after the election was certified today.

Engine 45 will be going back in service at state at station 45.

So thank you.

Yeah, I can't I can't say enough up here, but thank you guys so much for the opportunity to get this thing back and do as right for the city of the citizens and the department. Thank you.

Again, I'm sorry. Just one more. We could hold the applause. That would be great. Thank you. This is moving forward.

Again, personally, I want to thank Miguel because he he definitely took this by the horns.

We all worked really hard on this and I don't think anyone unless you're involved in something like this realizes how much it takes over your life and it's morning and night and calls at midnight and looking stuff up online and obsessing about for months and months and months worrying about fundraising finance.

I am going to miss those Monday calls.

Something. Thank you, Dr. early and for the health. Sorry.

We're working every Monday. I'm going to miss those calls and I would just like to say that there's a lot of doubters on this measure.

This engine is going into service tomorrow has been out of service longer in my career and had been in service. I've been here for a little about 21 years.

So I watched it go out of service and I'm proud to stand here before the council to see it going back. So I want to thank everyone here in Laurel everyone that worked on this. Thank you guys.

Thank you Greg and Miguel.

And now we will close the public comment and bring it back to council for any further questions, comments, motion to approve early moves. I'll second.

Council member mayor, but I'm early moved council member. So Pizio whole second. And then I'm going to please call the roll council member so Pizio whole enthusiastic. I council member ocala.

I council member Roscoe.

I mayor pro tem early.

I mayor Guerrero.

I this is approved mission accomplished council members. We did it. We did it. And now can we enjoy at this time we will take a break before returning back for the regular city council meeting, which we will return. We will have about how many minutes.

Would you.

20 minutes.

Approximately 20 minutes.

20 minutes and then we'll be returning to closed session and then we'll be returning to closed session.

And then madam mayor for everybody in the room who was a part of measure. Oh, could we take a picture as soon as we just miss.

If you want to take a picture. That's fine. We but there but there.

Council, but the our guests are here.

Yeah, and I would let them to be in the picture before we go. I just wanted to let everybody know who wants to be in the picture for measure out to join us.

We have a celebration tomorrow as well that we have set aside for this and anybody can join us in that celebration and join in that photo which will have the fire truck that is returning.

So thank you.

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Michael Barnbaum as you heard.

I wanted to go back and speak on item number one

of the special agenda from earlier this evening.

Congratulations to the council members and Mayor Guerrero

for your successful election

and your swearing in ceremony.

Some time ago over on Facebook,

Mayor I had endorsed you after looking at some scenarios

and even talking to over with them in Woodland,

among other places, with a lot of the consulting work

I do at Yolo Transportation District

and during an adjournment of one of their board meetings,

Mayor Pro Temmerly and I had a conversation

and we were talking about what if,

what if looking at scenarios and I am thankful.

Now we just passed Thanksgiving

that an honor that both of you are able

to continue your service on the West Sacramento City Council.

You ran a very clean and spirited campaigns and thank you.

And I sincerely now these next four years

wanna work hard with you on the ballpark item.

I think it can become reality

if it's a privately financed economic development project

with the city getting involved in infrastructure,

financing districts or IFDs.

In the meanwhile, you have my commitment to continue

to be the consultant on transportation

matters and Mayor Pro Temmerly,

we're going to work diligently every month.

There is a meeting in Woodland that my schedule allows

and will work hard for service restoration,

a balanced budget and a commitment to provide

transportation services here in West Sacramento

and throughout YTD in a balanced way

and gives people choices and a way to thrive

on what mode they choose.

So there's a lot to discuss.

The executive director has indicated

that's Autumn Bernstein.

This month, the major topic of discussion

will be the Woodland Transit Center.

So there could be impacts on schedule and routing

on the 42 A and B when it serves West Sacramento.

The ballpark topics will be a topic of discussion

at the January board meeting and that is January 13.

Last but not least, I would like to invite everybody

to the swearing in ceremony across the river

on Tuesday at five o'clock.

Four city council members and a mayor will be sworn in

at 915 I street and you're welcome to attend.

Thank you.

Scott Rafferty.

I'm here this evening to congratulate the people

of West Sacramento for their first ever district

and completely districted council.

The people and council members weren't just reelected.

They were elected to entirely new offices

with new responsibilities, new representation

and new accountability to their neighborhoods.

As I read over the judge's order

of all the things we did right with our map

and the city did wrong with its map,

we didn't just protect a well organized Latino neighborhood.

We also created a district of the most marginalized,

the most unorganized residents that you have

the West Capitol Corridor,

which will now have a dedicated voice and member Orozco.

But this took six years and who knows how much money.

It's supposed to take $30,000 and four and a half months

followed by a two year transition.

That's the way the school district did it.

That's the way every place in California did it

after 2016 when this became an option until West Sacramento.

And you need to accept that you inspired

some of the most recalcitrant incumbents in our state

in cities with far greater inequities

than exist here in West Sacramento.

I'm talking about Ontario, Santa Clarita, Folsom

and Lancaster to fight with unlimited amounts

of public monies to delay the implementation

and it's just unconscionable how that happened.

But if you want to understand at every stage

what was going to come next in West Sacramento,

all you had to do was ask what is going to generate

the most buildings for the city attorney's law firm.

It works every time.

A million dollars was spent in 2022 alone

and a quarter of that the district elections

and a third of that just to keeping me from getting paid

for enforcing a settlement agreement.

So this makes no sense.

It needs to end.

You have two appeals, you had an opportunity last month

to get rid of one just by apologizing to Ms. Guihalva

for something ridiculous that you said that wasn't true.

And you had an opportunity to settle the other part

of the case before I had to write a brief.

And I didn't even get an answer until the due date

of the brief and then it was no.

So this isn't the way, think of what all that money

could have done for the firefighters back in 2022.

Close, turn the page and rebel in the fact

that you have a more representative council than ever.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Breff.

Robin Davis.

Hello, I'm Robin and I live in my 160 square foot

semi-off grid, tiny home on Wills

on my undeveloped residential property here

in West Sacramento.

Just wanna say congratulations to all of you

and to all those that campaigned.

This was a really informative and enlightening election year

for me personally.

And I just really appreciated the opportunity

to be involved, advocate and help campaign.

That was something very new and different.

So just a really educational experience.

I got to know most of you a little bit better

and many more of our amazing neighbors.

It's so important to be involved

and informed at the local level.

So I'm grateful for this process

and all I continue to learn about this city

and the needs of this community.

I'm looking forward to the green initiatives

mentioned earlier and I'm hoping that one day

will include off grid options because the future

should be about more options for the people

to be able to legally live more sustainably.

Also looking forward to next year

and bringing the tiny home on Wills ordinance back to you

and finding that path to where we can all coexist together.

Thank you.

Manuel Castro.

Manuel, is this related to the.

I'm sorry.

This was not for item one.

This was for item 11.

I apologize.

We have no additional requests to speak on this item.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

And in my rush to get through the process,

I wanted to go back to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr. Manuel Castro, can you please

leave us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

and to the Republic, the lands, the nation, and the God,

and the regime, and the world.

Thank you so much, Mr. Castro.

Next, we have our consent agenda items 2-12.

Are there any requests to remove an item for questions

or a presentation by our administration?

No?

OK.

We do have public comment.

Madam Clerk.

We have public comment on item 11.

Manuel Castro.

Yes.

Thank you for making those copies.

I know it costs money.

Friend.

I was going to try to remember.

So in and then there also our dugouts are too small.

They put their bags on the outside of the dugout

and so when they switch from offense to defense

to offense to defense, they're running outside,

getting equipment, come back in, running back outside.

It's just kind of a mess.

So we wanted to install new ones.

So the schedule that we're looking at

is to try and raise money during the spring

in order to get this installed by mid-August.

The cost, we tried to lower it by negotiating

with different people in the community.

We've been working with local businesses.

So Clark Pacific and West Sacramento,

there's two parents that are parents of a softball player

who worked there and they negotiated a deal

that Clark Pacific will donate the first set of dugouts.

So there's four fields.

There's two dugouts per field.

So that's four sets.

They'll donate the first one.

The second one, they'll give us a $10,000 discount.

So that's a total of $50,000 in discounts for these fields.

So we did that.

We also worked with another local business.

It's RJ Gordon Construction.

Nick Algrove is a parent of a softball player

who would give us the foundations for free.

He'll donate all the rebar, do all the work with his staff.

So we tried to get the cost down as much as we could.

So instead of paying $137,500,

now it's down to $87,500 for eight dugouts.

To pay for that, we were gonna be doing fundraising.

But we're hoping that you treat the Westside Girls Softball

the way that we treated Westside Little League

and the way that you funded Memorial Park.

We don't need that scale of money,

but if you can kind of give us some money

to help with this one,

I saw that it is on the number 11.

But we might need a little more, we'll see.

But Westside Girls Softball is dedicated

during the fundraise.

So we'll be selling platinum, gold, and silver sponsorships,

putting plaques on the cement dugouts.

They're beautiful.

Check it out in that fire that I sent around.

So we'll be doing that.

And remember that this isn't just for Westside Girls Softball.

This is for anybody that utilizes that field.

So that's all the All-American Softball teams

who are also another local business here.

It's also, was it junior giants?

They also practice and play there.

As well as any of the community members that use that park,

if not for baseball and softball,

but just for a place for them to run their dogs around.

So it's really invested in the community,

not necessarily for Westside Girls Softball.

What else?

So check out the printouts.

Those designs on the cement and dugouts

is gonna be softball girls.

It's gonna be a logo.

It's gonna have the tower bridge.

We're gonna Westsacrify it.

That way people come to our town to play us like,

dude, that's West Sacramento.

Look at the logos everywhere.

So it's really cool.

We look forward to it.

I hope you can help us out by investing in the fields.

Thank you.

Thank you Manuel.

We have no additional requests to speak.

All right, thank you, Madam Clerk.

And we see an errata for agenda item six

that will swap for the consent agenda.

I'll accept a motion.

Okay.

Early second.

Council Member O'Calla moved.

Mayor Pratim, Dante, early seconded.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Sopizio-Hull.

Aye.

Council Member O'Calla.

Aye.

Council Member Roscoe.

Mayor Pro Tem Early.

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero.

Aye.

Right, the decided is approved.

Next we will go to...

Genda item 14.

Under economic development and housing

is consideration of second reading

and adoption of ordinance 24-17,

amending chapters nine and 12 and repealing

and re-adopting title 10 of the West Sacramento

municipal code related to traffic and parking

and public hearing and consideration.

Resolution 24-114, amending the city of West Sacramento.

Book of Frees related to parking.

And I believe it's only,

Larry Lee, our parking manager, presents on this.

Yes, thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the council.

I'm Larry Lee, the city's parking manager.

Tonight I'm presenting recommendations

for three reactions.

These items are continuation

from the previous council meeting.

Staff respectfully recommends

that the city council conduct a public hearing,

waive the second reading and adopt ordinance 24-17,

amending chapters nine, 28 and 12 of the municipal code

and repealing and re-adopting title 10

of the municipal code related to traffic and parking

and adopt resolution 24-114

to update the book of fees for parking.

Thank you and that concludes my presentation.

Mr. Lee, bringing it back to council

before you leave to see if there are any questions.

Hi, Conn.

I'm sorry, can you speak into the microphone?

Sorry.

I was saying I received a lot of calls

from individuals that live in that area,

really concerned with the amount of parking fees

that are going up.

They know we've passed measure O

and they are now concerned that so many increases coming.

This is gonna be a real struggle for many of these families.

I know we're gonna have a public hearing.

That's great.

How are we going to inform individuals

about the public hearing so that we do get

the participation they've been asking?

Yeah, so we did go to TMI,

I wanna say two weeks ago,

so we engaged our folks there.

Just over the years, this has been in the work

with staff and various stakeholders.

And so it's been a couple of years of engagement

with the community and in terms of informing folks

about this rate increase,

we'll make sure that we work with our public

information office to let folks know

of the upcoming rate increases.

Because mainly, a lot of these ones that are proposed tonight,

they're mainly gonna be affecting visitors,

primarily folks who attend to a Kandah's game

or the RiverCat's game,

and maybe folks who visit the barn.

We've already been in conversation with the barn

about these rate increases,

so it'll just be a continuation of the communication there.

So I understand that most of these fees

that are going to be there are going to be

in places, business or areas where parking

for these different events will take place.

Calls I've been getting are from residents

that are concerned.

We had a gentleman at our last meeting

spoke about his fees going from 90

and I guess in two years.

And he's anticipating the June update in fees.

It's gonna be 180.

So for that one, there's a scheduled increase

that was previously adopted by council a few years back.

And so there is a scheduled rate increase

June or July 1st of next year.

And that's for the deep parking permit.

And it'll be 150.

But I just wanna clarify that for tonight's action item,

we're not proposing any changes to that rate structure.

Folks who are grandfathered in at the $5 rate,

they'll continue to receive that rate.

And then for new residents,

which is the rate that we are referring to here.

Yeah, there will be a scheduled increase,

but that was already adopted by council previously

and that's not part of tonight's action.

So for new people to come into the area,

how are they made aware of these fees

that we have for parking?

So for today, if they were to come in,

if there were to move into like, for example,

one of the apartment out there,

they would obviously be working with the lease manager

on what the parking options are.

Typically the department,

they would have on-site parking.

And if not, we've been communicating with,

for example, the kind about what the parking options are

for new residents.

And so we're, since we're not in communication

with new residents that come into Washington district,

it's difficult for us to relay that information.

So we rely a lot on the lease managers.

And then of course, we also post all our fees on our website,

including our parking website.

So for our multiple avenues, I relay the info.

Okay, thank you.

Questions, all right.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak in this item?

Did we open the public hearing?

We're opening up the public hearing at this point.

We have no request to speak on this item.

If you can close the public hearing,

bring it back to council for any questions.

Madam Clerk?

Yes, thank you.

Larry, so the last time you came before us,

I was really trying to understand

how this potentially would impact the residents there.

And in that, understand what are their current parking options?

Right?

Rooted in the fact that before us,

there was a plan for infill urban development

of the bridge and Washington district.

That's just a reality.

And with that, again, before us came a plan

that would be that there would be limited parking, right?

Like that.

And so when you're going as a council member,

Akula mentioned when you're going

and getting one of these apartments,

there's the reality that you're also potentially choosing

to live in an area that really encourages more alternative

modes of transportation other than cars.

But in having a discussion with our city manager,

one of the things I asked him for and Ergo, you,

was, well, what are the parking options?

Give me what that looks like.

And so on average, the residents there

that are living in the apartments,

and you can maybe rattle off a few,

it sounds like do have whether it's paid on-site parking,

that option, as well as free parking.

So can you describe that just a tiny bit for me?

Yeah, absolutely.

So as you said, most of the apartments,

they do provide on-site parking.

For example, I just looked at Westwood apartments today,

and I believe they have somewhere close to 50 units.

But when we looked at the parking, they have about 96

on-site spaces.

And because they're in affordable housing,

like all the affordable housing projects in the city,

they're actually provided at least a minimum of one free

parking space per unit, at minimum.

And so they already have that free on-site parking.

And then of course, you got your other properties

like capital yards, where they provide on-site parking,

as well.

And actually, if you want additional parking,

at least the last time I checked was $175 per month.

So it's quite high.

And then of course, for the Washington district,

the parking regulations are only in effect Monday to Friday,

8 to 5, at the one-hour time limit.

So if you need to park longer than one hour,

then that's when the regulations would go into effect.

But overnight and on weekends and holidays, it is free.

The time limit is only Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, though.

And then of course, we have our Ziggurat garage as well.

That's one other option.

In fact, we're working on getting additional parking

options there as well.

And then we've been exploring additional public parking

facilities in the Washington district.

We also added the seventh and cobalt and parkway lot

about five, six years ago.

And that's been an additional $75 parking space

that we added to the supply.

Hopefully that answers your question.

That helps.

And so I'm going to, only because I've

had an opportunity to be a little bit more educated

from you all and staff on this, I'm

going to translate a tiny bit.

And so for residents that are living in the Washington

and Bridge District area, you have likely, on average,

one, if not two, spaces offered on site to you for, again,

one to two cars.

And then where you potentially are being most impacted

by what is happening here with our fees.

And actually what we talked about in the first hearing,

public hearing, is that if you have, again, a third car,

that's when some of this would kick in.

And I think for, again, our, I will call them our forefathers,

Q, that includes you, in thinking through what

the potential of this would be, again,

for different parts of our city, this

would be, again, more limited parking, right?

More alternative modes of transportation, infill,

and urban living.

And that was, again, in the blueprint

of what we envisioned for this.

And so you do have choices.

When you move to West Sacramento,

that's actually one of the things I love about West Sacramento.

You can go to Southport and have some suburban living.

And you can, again, get the Hustle and Bustle of Bridge

and Washington District.

You could go to Councilman Boralco's District

and see behind the gates, our rivers,

and really have a wonderful experience there.

But you have alternatives.

In this case, part of the reality of, again,

how this area was zoned and also how it was planned.

And what we all really agreed upon before we got here

is that there's going to be limited parking.

And now, enter the businesses that we

are trying to support.

And in doing that, customers need a place to park

as a frequent franquette and barn goer.

I get to experience that all the time in which there's

limited parking.

And so I want to make sure that we're

being clear about the fact that there is parking that

is available to the residents there.

It may not be available to the third car.

And that's, again, where the impact really potentially

could be felt.

Thank you.

Member Ocala.

Real quick question.

Are we looking at alternate ways of parking?

I think I mentioned that before.

Future parking in the city to maximize spaces.

That's correct.

So we're looking at adding additional parking

supply to the Washington district.

Part of that is unlocking the Zagragarage, which has 1,500

spaces.

So we're looking at ways we can do that.

And then also exploring adding additional parking facilities

in the district.

There's an opportunity there with the I Street Bridge coming.

I'm sorry, the C Street Bridge coming.

So there's a lot of opportunities.

And there's a lot of development in the pipeline

that really demands that.

We're offering a lot of different options.

All right.

Thank you.

Yes, I want to give credit to staff

for working on this for, gosh, it seems, six years or so now

or more.

This is an issue that has come up every term

that I've served in this council.

And it's one that folks are very insent about.

I think people feel entitled to having a parking spot.

And when they feel like it's a paper,

it can be a rude and very devastating impact on a budget.

Especially when all of us are filling the country with the economy

and inflation.

So I get that.

I think that this has to go back, though,

to the whole plan for the Washington District

Bridge and don't plan to be high density.

The idea back then was that we would be investing

in mass distribution.

Walkable, walkable pathways and place

like mass transportation, just as via,

to help move people around.

That we would be so close to the government

or down to people to get there and go through ways

and not have to use the top three Uber relays.

Now, we're a few miles away from actually implementing

the light rail.

But I understand that that would ameliorate and alleviate

some of the concerns.

What I will, I just want to remark about what

Colleen Goumen mentioned.

While residents are complaining that they have this.

We also have this.

I can't get tested.

I cannot.

Test people will drive by the treehouse today

because they cannot locate a place of our cars.

They'll go somewhere else across.

They'll do the frankest.

They'll do it 12 minutes midway.

And quite frankly, we're going to have even a worse trouble

once we start hosting games that will bring in national crowds.

And so in all fairness, we need to turn over

to keep those availability to not only local residents,

but we hope that our small businesses can keep them alive

because they're struggling as is with us having.

But I wanted to pivot first because I also

there's another area that we haven't talked about clearly.

And that is our broad.

That has been fought with problems.

You know, as a boat owner, I visited many boat ramps

and they've all had a fee for service.

And what we end up having in we've had problems for months,

not longer with folks that are loitering on our boat, both

the waterways, but also on the.

For all.

And I do I did look at the report

and I saw that there was some sensitivity to the fact

we might have low income seniors.

Some current fees, but I did look.

I think that there are steep like misty.

Thought rather low, but in order for us as a city

to invest in that that amenity, having this boat ramp

that has been traditionally neglected and this.

Of problematic activity over and over that.

Try resources of our police department

have to continually respond.

We need the reason to maintain and upheat

and uplift the compulsion of that amenity

and make it a place where people around the region

will want to use it.

Launch their boat.

So, you know, this book of fees, obviously there, you know,

there's a lot of red line and strike out in here,

but we also recognize that the book of fees

has to be updated.

We have so many other updates that need to happen

and master plans across throughout the department.

And maybe they look a little stark

because they've been overdue for so long,

but we also have to keep.

With West Sacramento is just, you know, we're a younger city

and you know, we have only so many resources

to stay on top of these things.

It's time to do it now.

Again, I'm not somebody who wants to subscribe

to additional resources coming out of the pocket

hard work and keep, but we have increasing demands

from our residents to clean up that boat ramp

or to make sure that there's parking available.

And unfortunately, there's not gonna be one answer

that's gonna be keeping everybody happy,

but I do think that this recommendation

isn't out of the realm of ordering

to make sure that we're addressing it.

Yes, Council Member Ocala.

One question is I was looking through the fees.

There's parking unattached trailer, $256 fine.

Is that on a person's property?

Are you talking about like they're parking out in the street?

You just define what that means.

We have some page H2 of six on the book of fees.

Three, two, two.

Oh, two.

What's the difference?

City of West Carolina Book of Fees,

those page two of six.

I'm sorry, Council Member Ocala,

do you know the municipal code section?

The municipal code is 10.36.020C.

I'm sorry, what's the...

The 10.36.020C parking unattached trailer.

Because I know a lot of folks have trailers

that they have people in, even the renters.

So are you talking about private property?

This is street parking, correct?

That's correct, it's on the street.

And it's actually something that's been in the books

here in West Sacramento for a long time.

And we're actually not proposing any changes to it,

so it stays the same.

I wanted some clarification.

Comments?

Thank you, Larry.

I know this is controversial.

And if we find, I think one of the concerns I recall

was multiple, a family who has multiple cars

and it being a family with lower income,

the Washington District,

it does, you know, is historically known

to be a disadvantaged community.

And we'd like to make sure that among those

that are being impacted the most could be the residents

to protect them at all costs so that, you know,

they are gonna be utilizing their one vehicle

and hopefully they can park

and hopefully we can establish a process

where we can have open lines of communication

to address their concerns and avoid having

to pay the higher parking rates.

So to the extent that we do propose this,

and we are gonna approve it tonight,

that we also provide some kind of mode of communication

so that if there's a resident who is moving in there

and needs to pay the parking fee

that we help them find alternative places,

I think there was this question about

a parking lot available or not available

and nobody really knew.

I just think that people have a hard time understanding

how this process works to avoid paying parking tickets,

to avoid paying these rates.

So to the extent that we can provide some ways

to educate them, to keep their costs low

and to give them what available parking spaces

that I've been hearing about are available,

accessible to them so that they can avoid paying these high

parking tickets.

Council Member Ocala.

This one more.

Is this comparable to what other cities have?

People will less.

Yes, that's correct.

That's what we look at.

All right.

I think we need a motion to approve.

So move early.

Moves.

I'll second.

Mayor Pro Tem early moved

and Council Member Sopizio-Josec.

And Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Sopizio-Josec.

Aye.

Council Member Ocala.

Council Member Roscoe.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tem early.

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero.

Item is approved.

Next is item 15 under Finance.

Is a public hearing and consideration

of Resolution 24-127, authorizing participation

in the California Enterprise Development Authority.

CEDA, bonds assisting new development,

band program and consideration of Resolution 24-128,

approving associate membership in CEDA

and execution of associate membership agreement.

And we have Mark Rataville who will present on this.

Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council Members.

This item is a public hearing regarding the city's

participation in the Bonds Assisting New Development

or BAND program.

BAND is a financing program sponsored

by the California Enterprise Development Authority,

CEDA, that enables developers to finance public improvements

via tax exempt bond proceeds.

Staff request your approval or resolution

that will allow the use of BAND financing

as a tool to help development within the city.

The resolution before you tonight will allow BAND to be used

to form community facility districts

as well as assessment districts.

This will allow for more flexibility

in the types of expenses that can be financed.

Should also be noted that the city also participates

in two other financing JPAs, Bold and Skip,

which currently offers the same programs

that BAND will be presented tonight.

Tonight we have Julio Morales is here from CEDA, the GPA,

that sponsors BAND to give a brief presentation

about the program.

After Julio's done this presentation,

we'll be able to answer any questions that you may have.

Good evening, Mayor, Members of City Council.

My name is Julio Morales.

I work for Cosmon Financial Services.

We are a financial advisor and a financial advisor firm

to the CEDA BAND program.

As Mark mentioned, it's essentially

a conduit financing firm.

You participate in two other arms

and we are one of the new programs.

I'm here to just give you some background to understand

and essentially what your resolution is gonna do

is give you the option to use one of three now

as opposed to one of two other financing options.

So the bond assisting new development,

I'm proud of that name because I came up with it.

So it's a musical theme.

Caled and CEDA, the California Association

for Local Economic Development,

is the California's premier economic development authority.

There's over 900 members.

It has a financing arm known as CEDA.

You belong in the CEDA BAND, the PACE program,

for example, I think that was in the earlier agenda.

We've been, Caled has used the CEDA,

which is a financing arm to do private activity bonds,

501C3, affordable housing bonds for a number of years.

The BAND program is new in that it's working

on development related activities.

So IDBs, PACE, these are things that CEDA BAND has been,

sorry, that CEDA has been doing.

Typically, when the IRS allows for certain types

of what they call private activity

or corporations to actually issue bonds,

those are issued through a conduit issuer.

You've done this for a number of CFPs, for example.

So a Melrose bond actually is in a city obligation.

It's actually an obligation of the property owners underneath.

So the IRS requires you to have a conduit issuer,

either a JPA, like Skip or Bold or CEDA BAND,

or the city can issue it under its name.

So those are kind of the legal requirements

to use a conduit issuer for the private entity

to issue TACASEM bonds.

TACASEM bonds are bonds that investors

do not have to pay income.

So the BAND program addresses development related

types of financings.

In other words, land secured financing known as Melrose bonds

or assessment districts, which you have a number of CFDs

or the new programs that are coming on to CREAs, EIFDs,

CRDs, these are new tools that the legislature is implementing.

I almost call it RDA 2.0.

They're somewhat different, but I know you as a city are,

if you're the first to develop, yeah,

I think you were the first to develop it.

I know you're gonna be proud of that,

but we do think that's the future.

As an old guy who did the old RDA type of field

a long time ago, this is the new type of financing.

So one of the things that makes the BAND program unique

is we saw the future.

CEDA was looking to help facilitate that.

So our program is designed not only for the Melrose

and assessment districts that are quite familiar

in a lot of new development,

but also the new programs that are coming out,

which are the EIFDs, CREAs, CRDs

that will be coming in the future

and also allow multiple agencies to issue under single issue.

So oftentimes your developers say DR Horton

and you're gonna build 200 units in an area,

you might do a CFD for a school district and the city.

And ours is designed to do it under the auspices

of just one issue, saving the city and homeowners eventually,

some more money and some more efficiency.

So those are the general benefits of the CEDA BAND program.

Once again, we do land security, CFDs and Melrose

and the new tax increment types of financings

and hopefully like the EIFD

that you'll be doing in the near future.

Are the benefits of our program in particular

or in a sense any kind of conduit is there's flexibility.

We talked about the ability to do different types of financings.

It's a streamlined process.

So once you pass a resolution like any agency,

the city can simply go and hand this off

to the financing team

because there is a financing team in place.

So those are the primary advantages.

It saves time and cost.

And frankly, if you have a conduit issue or do it,

you now are freeing up your valuable finance team staff time

and they will also deal with not have to deal

with the ongoing administrative costs.

So ours will be one of three options.

Hopefully it's one that you consider in the future.

If you have any further questions,

these are the members of the financing team.

All of us unfortunately have decades of experience.

I started when I was very young

and this was just a comparison

with different types of financing districts

or your reference, a lot of acronyms.

So typical process is here outlined,

but in short, if you decide to use a conduit issuer,

you pass a resolution and then it goes off

to a financing team that is pre-selected.

And from there, the staff really does not have to deal

with the financing side.

You may on a Melrose or a CFD,

public works is still involved

with the financing team now as their arms,

the burden relief from their arms.

That is the short part of the presentation.

If you have any questions, I'm here to answer it.

I do.

How do we keep track of the financing, the investment,

whatever the process is?

How do we keep track of that?

That's an interesting question.

You have continued disclosure requirements

that you have to do.

So it's on your ACFER.

That's if you are the actual issuer.

What the conduit type programs are

is once you pass that resolution,

you are no longer responsible

for doing continuing disclosure.

In fact, CEDA band would be doing

continuing disclosure and the administration.

Also, the property tax role will say CEDA band

as opposed to the city of West Sacramento.

Yeah.

So how do we, like, what is the mechanism

where we could go online to see what's happening

or do you provide a report?

You can go, the MSRB, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board,

for all publicly issued debt

would give you that information,

but it is not even a conduit obligation of the city.

Does that make sense?

No.

When you issue a bond,

like let's use the CFD that you have in place,

it is your CFD under your name,

but it is not your financial obligation.

You have administrative roles,

but the property owners are the ones

who actually pay that debt.

It's not the city's financial obligation.

You were facilitating this process.

That's why it's called a conduit debt.

It's not yours.

It is not your financial responsibility

to repay those bonds, but you help administer it.

There's actually a fee paid for the administrative process

that your special tax consultant.

And because you actually issued it in your name,

you put it on your annual financial statement.

What a conduit agency does is it says,

we don't wanna maintain this administrative burden

for the next 30 years,

so the conduit agency actually does that going forward.

And just in general, whether it's this program

or other programs that Julio mentioned,

that we are currently members of other JPAs

that do similar things, these are not debts of the city.

I just wanna be clear about that.

These are, Julio, could you explain that a little bit more?

Cause this comes up a lot when we,

when we're issuing bonds related to CFDs or otherwise.

The other example would be when we do

an affordable housing project

and they are receiving taxes and bonds

as a piece of their financing.

We have to do a TEFRA hearing,

you've all been parts of those before for similar purposes,

but those are debts being issued for projects

within the city, but they're not debts of the city.

So you can elaborate on that a little bit.

So once again, conduit debt, the IRS says

there are certain types of projects

that we want private companies

to be able to access tax them bonds.

So you would issue a corporate bond at say 6%

and a tax income bond might come at 4%, for example.

So there's a great benefit to doing that,

but you have to meet certain requirements

for the use of the proceeds and other concepts.

So in essence, airport docks and wharves,

environmental facilities, affordable housing,

as you mentioned, 501C3s, hospitals,

a lot of actual facilities are financed

with tax and bonds, but they need someone's name.

It has to be a public agency or joint powers authority

to issue the bonds on behalf.

That is the IRS and the legal requirement.

Now, in short, you do not have to repay those bonds,

you do not have any direct financial obligation

to pay those.

So it's just your name on there,

but you don't have to repay a single penny.

If the hospital goes bankrupt,

something happens to affordable housing,

it does not impact your underlying rating.

What you had been doing is loaning your name

to benefit the project because it benefits

economic development for the general public good.

That's very important.

You have no financial obligation.

You do, however, have an ongoing administrative obligation

because you've issued federal securities.

And because of that, you have to each year issue

what is known as a continued disclosure report.

Lots of lawyers and bankers like me

that you have to do this every year.

So one of the advantages, as Erin was saying,

of this conduit, JPA, is they take that administrative burden

off of your finance department every year

and it no longer has to go on your books.

There's a little section in the notes

that no one reads except for me

that talks about conduit financing.

You'll have a list of all your CFDs

and a hospital transaction or some kind of nonprofit

that you helped finance,

but you don't owe any debt service on.

And each year that list for Roberta

gets longer and longer and longer.

So we think one of the advantages of a conduit financing

is that you don't have to take on that administrative burden.

Is that helpful?

Yes, it is. Thank you.

Any other questions on the council members?

I do.

What are the cities involved in band program?

Could you tell us?

Band is new.

There are 900 members of CEDA

and we have like 178 though, Erin,

you may know better than me.

I think it was like 160, 178, I think members.

Yeah, I don't want to just give a disclosure too.

It's a check with the city attorney on it.

I'm actually on the CEDA board.

I'm on the executive committee for Caled,

which by being on...

I'm sorry?

Oh, so you can't?

No, I can't. I can't.

I just want to make that clear though.

So yeah, so by being an executive member of the Caled board,

you automatically are a board member for CEDA.

So I was actually involved in the early days

of the formation of this concept around the band program.

The main driver, and it kind of relates to your question,

is with EIFDs now becoming a thing,

what Caled was one of the interests we had

was trying to create a bond conduit option

for cities that were issuing EIFD debt.

Obviously we are talking about doing that,

planning to do that in the first half of next year.

So right now band is new.

I don't know how many cities have actually joined CEDA

since band was established,

but there are I think hundreds of CEDA members.

We just haven't ever joined CEDA until now,

but part of the reason the rationale for us joining,

it's kind of articulated by Mark and the staff report,

is because we're planning to issue EIFD debt,

band could actually give us an option

that has lower fees potentially

than some of the other options we have at our disposal.

So that's why we recommend,

one reason we recommend going ahead with joining,

but it is a fairly new thing.

So just give me maybe the name of one city

that's involved in this.

Right now we've not issued bonds yet.

So you have Lancaster,

who was one of the original members of the band program,

Adalanto certainly has already joined,

but we have not issued bonds yet.

It's a brand new program within a year.

But I will unfortunately say,

to all that experience,

people on the program all have 20, 30 years of experience.

It's just a brand new program,

but I've issued $2 billion worth of CFDs

and over $10 billion of bonds through my career.

So all the people here have extensive experience.

This was a new program that we tried to develop

to address it.

And you're here today giving yourself that option.

Early moves.

Do we have any other public comment, anything?

Did we open the public hearing?

I don't think we did.

I feel you.

It was like, did I say it and come back?

It's okay, it's late.

Madam Clerk, we open it up for public comment at this point.

We have no request to speak on this item.

Okay, thank you.

Bring it back and all of us get the motion

if there are no other questions.

Early moves, I'll second.

Okay, Madam Clerk, I'm really moved

and Council Member Sopizio on a second.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Sopizio,

Council Member Acala,

Council Member Roscoe,

Mayor Pro Tem Early,

Mayor Guerrero.

All right, thank you so much both of you

for this new creative band.

Next is our regular agenda item 16

and update on the Comprehensive Safety Action Plan.

Our transportation planners, Yvonne, Rosen,

will present important information to us.

Well, good evening.

I'm Steve Rosen from the Community Development Department

and I'm here to share the department's progress

toward the Vision Zero Action Plan.

The CDD is preparing this plan

with the assistance of Nelson Nygaard and Civic.

I'm gonna go through these pretty quick.

This is the Vision Zero Action Plan.

This is the Vision Zero Action Plan.

I was looking at this when it first popped up

and it was confused, okay, good.

I like to go through slides real fast

and they're all good slides with good maps and graphs on them

so please let me know if you want me to linger.

So we're gonna start with a quick glossary.

The Vision Zero Action,

the Vision Zero effort comes from

the Federal Safe Streets and Roads for All Program

which funds local government's efforts

to reduce fatal and serious injuries in the street network.

And I'll be using two other terms,

fatal and serious injury crash or FSI crash

and vulnerable road users.

Vulnerable road users are people

who are not protected by the body of a vehicle

and for this project include pedestrians

bicyclists and motorcyclists

and people who use mobility devices.

Vision Zero is a new approach to traffic safety.

Earlier approaches to traffic safety

aimed to reduce all vehicle crashes

including non-injury crashes

by reacting crashes that have already happened.

And the effect is that is to expect perfect driver behavior

at all times while creating roads

with that are as free from obstacles as possible

which gives the drivers the cue

that they can drive as fast as they can

because it'll always be safe for them.

Vision Zero prioritizes reducing fatal and serious injury crashes

because those are the ones that destroy people's lives.

It aims to predict crashes before they occur

by identifying dangerous roads

whether or not crashes have already occurred there.

Vision Zero's goal is to accommodate imperfect human behavior

by changing the transportation system

to reduce potential for dangerous behavior

and to reduce the consequences

for inevitable dangerous behavior.

The objective of the Vision Zero plan

is to create, is to plan for the next generation

of city investments in its streets.

What makes the Vision Zero plan go

is that the top level decision makers

commit to a certain reduction in fatal and serious injury

crashes by a certain date.

That's a requirement of the Safe Streets and Roads

for All program as well as the four driver of Vision Zero.

So the Vision Zero is all about the Safe System approach.

This is the idea that these five concepts

all back each other up and support each other

to reduce the fatal and serious injury crashes.

The idea that the loss of life and injury is preventable.

The way that this works is all five of these

will support each other to prevent that loss of life.

And a loss of life in other tragedies.

The plan will be finished by September of 2024.

Now I'm gonna describe what the experts

in West Sacramento streets had to tell us,

the people who used them

and how that helped shape our analysis.

So our community engagement effort included these means

that we used to learn what our residents and visitors

had to say, had to tell us about our streets.

First were these pop-ups.

We put tables at the Breathe Bike Best

and the Senior Resource Fair.

These were very productive and we learned

what older people and bicyclists are most worried about.

We also held these Community Active Transportation Audits.

One toured West, sorry, Jefferson Boulevard

in the area near Lake Washington Boulevard.

And the other toured the area

near Westfield Elementary School.

And these helped educate our community advisory panels

about what to look for when they're out

assessing their streets on their own.

So this helped, yeah.

And this gave us an idea of what they were most concerned

about and helped us teach them the transportation

engineering plan or e-words that they can best communicate

their feelings about the streets.

We did hold stakeholder meetings that we planned

to target group that we had not been able to reach

through other means.

These included the young adults that were

at the City College campus and the school-aged children

and their parents throughout the national night out

held by the Washington Unified School District.

Our most productive engagement was an online survey.

We promoted this online survey

through the City's social media accounts

and through the residential utility bills.

We got 400, we got 491 respondents.

The respondents were mostly residents

and a slim majority of them were most dry

or primarily drivers.

And most of the respondents, unfortunately,

only spoke English.

So the respondents to the survey were pretty clear

that they wanted to get the zero deaths

and they wanted that as soon as possible.

Their concerns, nearly all participants

were most concerned about the people driving while impaired,

people driving while texting or looking at a phone

and people driving fast.

And nearly all of the respondents had concerns

about visibility or participants,

not just the respondents survey,

but participants in all of our engagement efforts.

We're worried about visibility across walks and driveways,

the quality of sidewalks and walkways,

street lighting at night and sidewalk lighting at night.

Less than 20% of respondents feel that our streets

are safe for school-aged children walking.

So our participants wanted to see more biking

and walking facilities, more public transit,

more education enforcement and more traffic calming,

less dangerous driving, hot holes, fewer trucks

and fewer dark streets.

And our team prepared a map of places

that our participants identified as dangerous areas

on the city streets and overlaid that

with the fatal and severe injury crashes that we identified.

You can see that our residents named all the places

where there had been serious crashes

and a bunch of other streets that we took into account

and developed some of our analysis.

So yes, this next set of slides

is based on reported crashes.

The dataset we used was crashes reported

through the West Sacramento Police Department database

and we used the period of 2017 through 2023.

That was the end of the last year we have data for.

And the analysis concentrated on fatal

and severe injury crashes and all crashes

that involved vulnerable road users.

The period of study had 101 fatal and severe injury crashes

that resulted in 29 deaths and 117 serious injuries.

So vulnerable road users were the people

who weren't protected by a vehicle's body

and over half of the fatal and severe injury crashes involved.

This map shows the location of the crashes

where victims were in cars or motorcycles.

They're grouped together.

Although motorcycles are vulnerable road users,

they're grouped together because they travel

at similar speeds and may benefit

from similar countermeasures.

Now here's a map that shows where all the pedestrian

and bicycle, fatal and severe injury crashes occurred.

And this chart shows the days of the week

and the times of the day when the crashes took place.

This data may be useful for education

and enforcement efforts later on.

Young adults are very overrepresented in crashes.

You can see here how much more of the injured,

of a proportion of the people hurt by traffic.

Yeah, of course.

I know you're going through and you want me to pause you.

Of course.

I just wanted to take a look at the crashes

of the pedestrian and bicycle.

I was gonna say that.

While you're doing that,

I appreciate Stephen moving through this quickly

given the time, but we will follow up

with this presentation.

There's a lot of information you probably want to see more of.

Can we have like, yeah, follow up on this?

That's just that.

We actually have the presentation.

We will get that to you after the meeting.

Because what I recall is a couple of accidents with youth.

Yep.

Kids in my district.

I'm just looking for them.

I can't, can you see them?

No, I was actually thinking the same.

I was gonna let you finish, but I appreciate you pausing.

I think it was, and so I was debating about

whether it was because these are fatal and severe.

I'd be curious what your definition of fatal and severe.

I'm assuming fatal is death.

I'm just assuming.

Kid getting hit for severe for me.

It feels severe.

But what is your definition?

So the fatal and the, excuse me, the Caltrans,

but the California Highway Patrols definition

of serious injuries is the one used

by all departments in the state.

And it is any injury other than fatal,

which results in severe laceration,

resulting in exposure of underlying tissues, muscles, organs,

or significant loss of blood,

broken or distorted extremity, crush injuries,

suspected skull chest or abdominal injury,

other than bruises or minor lacerations,

unconsciousness when taken from the collision scene

and paralysis.

Those are severe injuries.

And we made the choice when looking at data

for vulnerable road users to include minor injuries as well.

Though it would not show up on this map,

because this is the FSI only.

Got it.

But in our later data and in developing our,

the map you'll see later about our plans to move on,

we included minor injuries to vulnerable road users

because that's just an unlucky step

or a few inches away from becoming a serious injury

because they're just out hitting the pavement

with their bodies.

So they're just this far away from serious injuries.

Two more.

Two slides.

Okay.

Yeah, so young adults overrepresented in crashes

and males are also overrepresented.

So these are the common causes of fatal

and severe injury crashes,

which is based on the officer's best judgment

of primary cause of the collision.

That's defined as one driving behavior

that had it not occurred,

the collision would not have taken place.

They record this as a specific code violation,

an improper driving behavior

or something other than driver or unknown.

This map shows the economic and social context

in which these crashes occur.

The US Department of Transportation

designated certain communities as disadvantaged.

And because this is a federal program,

we work with their definitions on it.

Crashes impacting vulnerable road users

are concentrated in the...

So defining high injury location,

this is what all of the two prior sections

of this report are moving toward the analysis

of reported crashes and the community engagement.

High injury locations map is based on crash.

Yeah, and it will be used to prioritize community

and safety or prioritize safety improvements

and identify locations that are similar

to the high injury locations we've mapped

so that we can make safety improvements there

before waiting for crashes.

We included all locations where there were

two or more fatal or severe injury crashes

or where there were two or more crashes

that caused any injury to vulnerable road users.

And also included locations that were identified

by the public as being dangerous

or exposing them to near misses.

We chose two or more to...

Because we had to concentrate our efforts

and because there could be one off and then things,

but two becomes a pattern.

And we found that street segments

with reported crashes significantly overlap

with places the public identified

as being dangerous or frightening.

So this high injury location framework

is a helpful way to achieve vision zero goals

because it shows the public that the goal of vision zero

isn't insurmountable or hopeless.

When we show them that 70% of these fatal

or severe injury crashes happen on only 3.5% of our streets,

it sends a message that it's something we can do something

about.

So that's why the vision zero framework

is a powerful way to...

We've...

Like West Capital has had significant rehabilitation,

but yet I'm seeing the deep red on West Capital the most.

Can you help me understand?

Is that prior?

Yes, the...

Well...

Is it like the data timing?

We have...

The project was finished in 2022.

So this one shows the years and those crashes took place

and we can still see that people were injured.

Vulnerable road users here were injured in 2022

and 2023 near Harbor Boulevard.

Near Harbor Boulevard, I see.

But our assessment of countermeasures

and prioritization of projects will take into account

projects we've already implemented

or ones that we're already planning to implement.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's helpful.

That'll be our next steps.

So...

What we're gonna do is learn what we've used so far

to guide our research into traffic safety countermeasures,

which would include infrastructure,

education enforcement, and emergency response.

So when we learn what are the most dangerous situations

and locations in the city,

we can then propose effective means

to prevent those crashes in the future

and identify places that'll target it

for priority investment and enforcement

and people that identify the populations

that would benefit most from education measures.

We also want to include a study of the costs

for implementing the countermeasures,

information on the costs,

and the city's capacity to meet those costs

will help you set a Vision Zero goal

to required programs.

So, thank you for saying so, like,

you're my presentation.

And I'll be happy to answer any questions you have

on the after Vision Zero team.

Remember Ocala.

Real quick, collaboration with school.

Is that something you're gonna be doing?

Well, we will, we have a safe routes to school plans

already developed by Civic Red,

and we will hold that in to this project.

We've reached out to the schools

for the community engagement

through their national night out.

But.

And that could be,

coordinating with schools can be one of the,

could be one of the countermeasures we use

to encourage safe behavior around schools

or kind of measures that they would,

those populations would suggest.

Go for Mayor Patemmerli.

So, just a couple of questions

and you were flipping through and I understand it is late.

I know at least in my district,

particularly in the Bridgeway Lake areas,

but near Bridgeway school,

as well as just quite honestly,

along Marshall going up to Southport Parkway.

I hear a lot from my constituents about safety

as it relates to visibility of the crosswalks

and also our kiddos.

And I think, and I'm pretty sure

that's where our mayor was going with some of it,

but I might have just been assuming

that I didn't see those things on the map,

but to your point, potentially on some of your later maps

or maps that weren't in this presentation,

you take into account when children,

whether it is severe or not,

have been hit by vehicles,

whether it be on their bicycles or not.

I know, again, at least in my district,

in this year alone,

I have unfortunately heard stories of kiddos getting hit,

trying to just get to school in the morning.

And so two things,

one, picking back in off of council member Alcala's

suggestion on partnering with schools,

I'd actually go a little deeper,

although schools I think would be great to partner with.

I specifically would partner with PTAs.

PTOs, PTAs and boosters,

because those are gonna be the parents,

one that have their ear very close to the ground,

and two can then get you further access,

kind of like cultural liaisons to the other parents,

because as I said, I hear a lot from parents.

And then I'd again, go a step further,

and potentially when we think about partnering with schools,

I think about reaching out to the trustees

for Washington Unified,

because they too may hear from parents

around school safety,

and just safe streets for their kiddos,

is what I would say on that one.

And then when you think about prioritization areas,

I would be fascinated,

and then I think about your district,

council member, sub-peasal whole,

and just not having sidewalks and the high schoolers, right?

I'm constantly seeing them jet across,

and so would again,

be really interested to know how that was taken into account,

even if it wasn't fatal or severe, right?

They're one step away to your point.

Any other?

No, okay.

Partnering with PTOs is a great idea.

That's a great connection there.

I appreciate all of the data that you gave us,

and I'm processing it all.

One of the concerns that we have in my district,

and it's funny now that all of us can say my district,

you know, we have the deep intimate knowledges

of these areas, is issues of speeding,

and areas that need stop signs.

And then I think of the intersection by the high school,

where the high schoolers are not crossing on the path,

they're just running across the street by target,

and all of these near misses,

those aren't accidents, those aren't reported.

How do we know those intersections that are issues,

because we're being told they're issues?

We drive it, we see it, we feel it,

but there's not an accident happening there.

For us to know, like, let's prepare,

because I am waiting for something horrible to happen

in front of the high school, by the Target Shopping Center,

with all the high schoolers crossing right there,

that's not a stop sign, 7 p.m. the sun comes,

you can't see people crossing the street.

That's a scary space to be for our kids.

How are we capturing that?

Well, that was through our community engagement efforts,

and I'd like to scroll back to the map,

where we mapped with the R input.

So you can see that through our engagement efforts,

we, our maps indicate that a lot of people

were worried about the areas around the high schools.

Those are represented by the lines on the road segments,

where the dots are the actual reported crashes,

through the police data.

So the colored street segments are where we mapped

the community telling us that they thought a road was dangerous

and it observed dangerous behavior,

and that's overlaid with dots that represent crashes.

This is really helpful.

Thank you for calling this out again for me.

I'm looking at where the high school is right now,

and I'm wondering if it feels like it did.

I was like, I need glasses.

Hey, does anybody want to borrow mine?

So, my next question is, how this informs what we do next?

When I think of, more recently, we sat down

and we chatted about what Sacramento Avenue

needed to look like, and obviously, based on this data here,

yes, Sacramento Avenue needs a lot of attention.

Are we prioritizing the areas that we're going to be focusing

on based on this data?

Yes, the result were those high injury locations maps.

Those were injury locations, not just concerned locations.

It is based on community input and injury.

Both, okay. Yes.

So these are the areas that were the product

of the community engagement and the mapping of crashes.

You're overlapped.

Does this look right?

It's really interesting, if you guys look at,

you ladies, excuse me, I apologize,

to the absolute south, that bend in the road

when you're coming to enter West Sacramento,

right at Kilder Farms,

what a dangerous intersection that has been.

And you can barely see it there,

but I mean, I know from the residents in that neighborhood,

how dangerous that bend in the road is.

And you asked what the next step would be,

what we would do with this data.

So right now our team is looking through research

into effective countermeasures that could prevent

the all kinds of crashes,

and we'll be trying to match those countermeasures

to the types of situations where these,

in these dangerous areas.

Can you go back to the slide of community input?

I wanted to look at Park Boulevard real quick.

Did they?

We can't see.

Whatever you got.

Yeah, that definitely seems right.

Okay, thank you very much.

I'll come to my brocala.

No, don't worry, we got more questions.

So you did outreach,

and I noticed it was in front of City Hall.

District one has a lot of folks that walk,

they don't have cars,

and I've seen a lot of different cultural communities.

I sometimes see moms wearing a Shador,

they're all black,

sometimes it's late at night

and they're crossing with their children.

That concerns me because someone might not see them.

I know you did outreach and you said,

was it 14% Spanish speaking for us for English,

but there are other languages in West Sacramento.

How are we getting the information out?

The three languages included in our engagement program

were English, Spanish, and Russian.

So we're limited to those.

We do have much larger communities for now.

I think it would be really important

to reach out to them.

There were other stakeholder meetings

than the one you noted by City Hall.

So I just want to clarify that.

Steven, you could just go over that again,

where the outreach activities occurred.

Oh, sure.

Just so we have a complete picture of that.

Yeah, we had the pop-up events,

which were at the Senior Resource Fair

and at the Bike Festival.

I remember that.

And then we held these community audits

that took place in your Westfield Village Elementary School

and we set up a tent.

We set up a tent and some of the team remained at the tent

with all our information posters.

And some of the team went for a walk around the neighborhood.

And the same was true for the Jefferson Boulevard pop-up

where we set up in the shopping center out by the street,

by those fountains.

The stakeholder meetings,

we targeted groups by age, not by language though,

but we held them at the National Night Out

for the school kids and their parents.

And then the young adults at Sac City College

because we identified that the young adults

were being hurt and crashes much more frequently

than anybody else.

Thank you.

I do have some, I did have that language question as well.

And the businesses that like on West Capital,

I don't know if you better or, you know,

the QR code to check in and provide feedback.

Not everybody's on the internet.

Just to be able to get the word out.

That may have happened, I don't know.

But also in hearing reaching out to the school,

when there were a couple of accidents,

I did reach out to the PTOs,

so I tried to get more education to the kids

and there was no reception.

I had the resources to connect them with the PTOs,

but there was, I just don't know if they were already

overwhelmed at the time.

So with the Youth Climate Action Fund,

Saba has been able to come in and begin the bike buses.

And so they're out in Southport Parkway

and they have a pop-up tent after school

trying to get the bike bus going

and it's trying to create safe routes

and also treating parents as volunteers

who contribute to do that.

And so it's separate and apart from the PTO,

it's Youth Climate Action Fund

and just trying to keep that momentum going.

We're gonna look at providing resources

like helmets, bicycles, things like that

for you who are interested in participating

and expanding that city-wide

with the next hopefully round of funding

that we're gonna be getting.

Hasn't been announced yet, but we're lined up.

Just need to do a few more things.

I'm gonna address, hopefully, we can partner with Saba

to expand on that.

The other idea is to work through our two-by-two

and to do this similar presentation at our two-by-two

so that we can take a look at other ways

to engage our school district

and with our county partners.

If there's a way to include any kind of education,

inserts to participate,

I don't know if you're still gathering information,

this is still a process.

We have another engagement cycle

where we will share the countermeasures that we propose

to make sure that you can support them.

Okay, so to the extent that we can partner with the county,

that if they have any CalWORKS information,

we can include outreach to populations

that are disadvantaged community members

who are participating in CalWORKS, CalFresh,

our seniors in our in-home supportive services program.

These are individuals who are lower income on MediCal,

on public benefits,

who may not traditionally be able to access

information to the school.

Just so we can partner with other public organizations

in getting the word out.

Go ahead.

Just a couple of things just on that.

I would say that the schools have a community schools effort

in which you have facilitators,

particularly for some of our more high-need schools,

that you definitely would get more response

from potentially there,

and again they're plugged into,

again they connect with PTOs, boosters and that kind of thing.

I would also potentially again take it a step further

and so I don't know if you've had a chance

and maybe you have to also talk to some of the supervisors,

whether it be Supervisor Vegas or Dr. Mary Fixie-Sandy

about again what they're hearing.

And so you may have engaged already with these electives,

if not, I think that also would be helpful

because they are hearing from constituents as well.

Oh, good.

I'll try and be short.

I mean, our city has been built on highways

going through our city.

I mean, West Capital Avenue used to be an actual freeway

for the after highway was built.

And I imagine that each of the fatalities

or the high injury accidents,

however, I apologize, it's late,

have different causes of, you know, I mean,

in some areas of the city, I know I've heard from residents

too coming after knocking on many doors.

Striping is largely inadequate in several areas of our city,

including the whole of our city.

And so folks can't see at night,

they can't see the reflection.

But, you know, lighting, striping are huge, I think,

were the biggest bits of feedback.

But also, even if you have a well-lit corridor

with perfect striping, like something like West Capital

Avenue, there's also user errors as well.

Like, I mean, I saw that was 19% of,

were caused by pedestrian errors, like, I mean,

I presume it's like walking outside of crosswalks

or wandering into the road,

with people who are driving at places

where they're not expecting to see

the one wandering on the road.

That's not victim blaming, just like,

that's one of our last presentations that was an issue.

But, you know, we're getting places

with like the sicklemore troll overpass,

the Fifth Street widening project.

I mean, we used to be a lot more dangerous

when before those happened, especially Fifth Street.

And also with the Riverwalk extension

and our road rehab efforts, I just think that

our community needs to be informed of where these issues are,

which I guess is the first step to that.

But also be able to welcome traffic calming effort,

because it seems that that's one of the most

controversial things ever is years ago,

when we did the traffic calming efforts

over on the Linden Loop.

And then, of course, now we have lots of feedback

about the medians that have been installed.

But I think just feedback now is police presence,

which I hope we can accommodate and moving forward.

But lighting, striping, I've also heard, you know,

some folks feel like trimming trees,

but and Bush is back for visibility purposes.

But even if you have all those things,

you have folks that still want to engage

as speed, and put our community at risk,

they are for enforcement, could come in.

I had a question on my thing,

and I was wondering what the Transportation Mobility

and Instructor Commission did to make recommendations.

They reviewed the data and provided another layer

of community input on top of what we gathered

directly from the community.

They pointed out areas that they also thought were dangerous,

which were included in the map.

Well, as someone whose children learned how to ride a bike

at a very late age, because I live on a thoroughfare,

and I have to back into traffic every single morning,

multiple times a day, get in and out.

I understand how dangerous,

and you have a difference in boulevard and other places

where you have businesses and people will slow down

automatically, or you have bicycles.

I think all of us, for all of us when I say we would really

love to have a more vital, walkable community.

So I applaud the effort that looked us a little bit

more closely on the feed, Holly.

Just to have a couple more.

The trucks on Marshall have posed a huge threat

to residents who feel like they're overbearing.

And I just wanted to make sure you're aware of that.

You get calls, like it happens a lot.

But you can put that on your,

I know there nobody died from it yet,

but somebody will, that's what we keep hearing.

Poplar and Michigan is where there's a new school,

and I get complaints about that frequently,

about the speeding cars,

and the driving through the stop sign there.

I raised it with the school district to see

if there's a way to try to keep things safe.

And I get requests for speed bumps.

There's a way to reduce speed.

I don't know, I mean, we could probably put where people

have been asking for that, but I've been hearing about that,

especially where there's a car that's constantly

crashed into a house.

And that, I don't know if...

The Cummins.

The Cummins?

The Cummins.

That was gonna say, right?

Yeah, and I know they put a stop sign there.

I don't know if it's addressed any concerns yet,

but I haven't heard any complaints.

I drive that road every day.

When you see people driving right through it?

See if I could actually have the rest of it.

Thank you, Mayor, because speed bumps,

I was gonna say, I think,

is a great deterrent for cameras.

I often ask, do we have cameras?

And they say they're very expensive,

but what price is life, right?

So I think cameras are a great deterrent.

People know they're getting their picture steak,

and they're gonna have to pay a really huge ticket.

I think that really slows things down a lot.

We don't have any.

We really encourage...

So Steven, with Measure O, around the corner,

if you have recommendations to put in

for enhanced traffic safety,

consult partners, fair notes, we're all ears.

That's what we're here planning to do.

Yeah, I think just to give a big picture context to this,

and I'm glad you just mentioned Measure O.

So we're gonna be doing a lot of CIP projects,

having to do with road rehab.

We have other plans in place,

whether it's the bike-ped master plan

and other efforts to make improvements throughout the city.

This data will be very informative

in terms of how we structure CIP projects.

If you've identified corridors

that have known safety concerns,

that we're already going to show attention to

from either a Measure O project

or other implementation plans,

it will lead to other design considerations,

other improvements that otherwise may not have been included.

So that's one of the purposes of this plan,

is to better inform us when we design CIP projects.

Yeah, what I would love to see is that every time,

we have a thing called the Project Development Team,

which has a representative from all of the departments

in the city that touch street safety,

traffic enforcement and traffic safety.

And my goal for this project is that anytime,

anybody does anything that touches the street,

they go back to look at the plan

to see if there's a way

they can incorporate safety improvements.

So if it's time to fill a pothole,

maybe they go to the plan

and maybe there's a striping improvement

they can do while they're filling the pothole.

So that it's just always there.

Council Member Acala.

I had a video sent to me by a constituent

on Douglas Street, I believe,

and they're asking for a bike lane.

I mentioned it on an email to you, Erin.

I'm not sure if you saw it.

What a video.

Yeah, there was a video out there.

And he's an old gentleman, but he's real concerned.

And I've heard this also from a resident

on that street on Lighthouse

that they don't have a bike lane

that's creating issues.

There's been a few near misses there,

so I think that's really important.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

And I'd like to open it up for public comment

really quick, but are there any requests to speak?

We have no request to speak on this item.

In the public comment, bring it back to council.

We received a presentation and provided our feedback.

And will you be coming back to us?

We will be coming back sooner than we planned

because we're a little bit...

Our schedule is a little thrown off

by all these busy city council meetings.

So you'll be seeing me sooner than you otherwise

would have normally, because we're already halfway done

with our countermeasures analysis.

So we'll be bringing back a menu of countermeasures

and the whole engineering team will be here

to share those with you and their respective benefits.

Maybe we'll also be working on the prioritization table,

which will be how we rate each area

and its priority for improvement.

I've heard you say that schools should rank highly,

for instance, so if there's an area

that's with some of the dangerous areas,

but we would, if it's near school,

maybe that ranks higher than another area,

that's equally as dangerous.

So we can prioritize the safety improvements.

We'll be back with that to learn from you

what kind of countermeasures you think are best for the city.

And then we'll be asking you to start thinking about

what you want to set that and what's the Safe Streets

and All program calls an ambitious goal

for reducing fatal and severe injuries by a specific date.

And federal government will require the city council

to set that goal.

So next meeting we'll be asking you to start thinking about it.

Thank you.

All right.

Next item is item 17 under economic development

and housing presentation of tourism

improvement district feasibility study

and consideration of authority to pursue formation.

We have Megan Styles,

our economic development manager.

Go by the name of the mayor.

There we go.

Okay.

So good evening mayor and council members,

Megan Styles, economic development manager.

And tonight I will be giving a short presentation

on the proposed tourism improvement district feasibility

study and asking for authority to pursue formation.

And just as a note,

pursue formation just means enter the legal process.

We have not done any legal work on this yet.

This is purely feasibility.

So I'm asking for authority to continue that conversation

into the process.

And so just for a little bit of background.

As part of the council strategic plan priority staff was directed

to explore the possibility of pursuing both a tourism

improvement district or TID and a property and business

improvement district or a P bid.

And in January of this year staff released a formal request

for proposals and through a competitive bid process,

we entered into a contract with Civitas advisors in March of

2024 and they provided consulting services to assist with the

formation of both a TID and a P bid.

And this was a two phase process.

So phase one is a feasibility study and they were tasked

with producing a report outlining the feasibility of a TID to

provide stable funding for tourism programs within West

Sacramento.

So the formal TID feasibility study is included in the packet

and a P bid feasibility report is forthcoming at a later date.

And so Civitas and staff worked with local lodging businesses,

business owners to determine what concerns they have,

regarding long-term prosperity in West Sacramento and the services

that are needed to drive overnight visitation to the

destinations.

And after these engagements with the stakeholders,

many of the hoteliers in the city, it was determined that it is,

there is an appetite for a TID to be established in the city

through kind of conversations with some of the larger hotel

owners and being considerate of our smaller motel owners.

We did establish that it would only apply to hotels with 55 or

more rooms.

And that list is included here.

So there are six major hotels that would be included in the TID

and any hotels that were built in the future would be grandfathered

in to the program.

And so kind of the overall impact of a tourism improvement

district, like I said, provide long-term stable funding.

So kind of where it differs from TOT taxes,

that's a general tax that goes to the city and they can choose to

invest or use that money at their will.

TID money is specifically, it is set aside for the tourism

improvement district and it is facilitated by the third party

that is responsible for running the tourism improvement

district.

The budget cannot be cut or slashed or used for anything other

than services specifically for that group of hotels.

It drives economic growth in the community.

It can create a sense of camaraderie among the hotel owners

that are part of that.

There is a steering committee that will kind of go through the

process together and really decide what their needs are,

what they want to see.

They would develop a management plan that only,

that would address the needs that they are concerned with.

And it is a self-governance model.

So there's a board of directors and they decide what their

needs are and they decide what is done with the money,

where it goes, and how they can best benefit from it.

So the proposed assessment, so 2% is the maximum allowable

assessment for this type of assessment.

So our numbers, which is $370,000 annually,

that's based on a 2%, but that doesn't mean that we would

pursue a 2%.

That's just the maximum allowable.

This is based on the TOT revenue that's collected from those

top six hotels.

So the proposed timeline to formation is about six months

from this point.

So January 2025, we would form a steering committee and drop

the management plan based on those needs of the stakeholders.

May 2025, we would do a petition drive where the hotels that

are impacted would need to submit either a yes or no vote

to continue and we would have a council resolution of intention

with the notice of public hearing and then June,

we would conduct a public hearing and adopt a resolution

of formation.

So I'm happy to answer any questions that you have.

Any council members have any questions?

Yeah, I do.

This is so exciting.

Thank you for all of your work on this.

So the assessment, you said 2% was the maximum allowable.

That does not land with me.

Was there a change to the property and business improvement

act law because downtown Sacramento has a 3% or a 3%

assessment.

For TID?

Yeah.

I would have to check on that.

That was what was included in our.

So I actually believe that there is not a percentage limitation

on what that assessment is.

I think how I interpreted the feasibility report is that 2%

was the conversation that was had with property owners.

That would be the assessment that they were comfortable with.

We didn't get into specific conversations about we did discuss

a 2%.

We had modeling for both a 1% and a 2%.

And so that's not something that at this point is set in stone.

I would have to talk to Civic House about the 2%.

I know that was the max that we thought was, I don't know if that's

just what we thought was reasonable based on the assessment

model, but only 1% and 2% were looked at.

There may be different.

I'm sorry.

Oh, good.

Just my vast research I just did.

There may be different opportunities for larger cities.

But we'll check into that.

I did see when we have the chart with all of the cities, you know,

from my experiences with these districts, my thought was that the

hoteliers saw what our TOT was and what a potential TIT rate was

and they put those numbers together to put together what the

final number would be that we'd keep us competitive in the

marketplace.

And so I guess I'm a little concerned that the percentage and

the budget wasn't talked about with the property owners.

I know that all comes out in the management district plan.

One of the other things that comes out in the management

district plan is what the owner's association looks like.

And I'm just wondering if there were any initial conversations

about what that could look like.

You mentioned it was self governing and my recommendation is

that we have a standalone nonprofit with the board of directors.

That is our local hoteliers.

And I also would like to see a member of our economic development

team on that board as well so that we have a tight connection

with what we're doing with our programming in West Sacramento

and that we always stay aligned to keep conversations supportive.

Yeah, there have been conversations with other TIDs or folks that

support TIDs just in conversations of different types of

governance models.

But there hasn't been any conversations that put any of that

emotion.

That would definitely be something that the steering committee

would have conversations about and decide.

But obviously self governance has been discussed at large.

Thank you for all your work on this.

Okay.

All right.

We have to open up a public comment.

But I'm quick.

Are there any requests to speak?

We have no request to speak on this item.

Okay.

Closing the public comment.

Megan, I did hear some opposition.

So we have a couple of questions.

I'll just go back to the question.

I don't know if you have any comments on the MOTEL 6.

Has that been addressed?

So we did have a hat length conversation.

There was a little bit of confusion about the threshold and how

that might affect the smaller MOTEL owners.

So there wasn't a ton of research, excuse me.

There wasn't a ton of outreach done to MOTEL owners that were

under the 55 threshold because they were not going to be

affected.

So we had a lot of discussion and I think that's why we

had to be engaged.

We had further conversations with.

MOTEL 6 was not one of those, but I've had an at length

conversation since that point.

And all the hotel, when we only have six, they're all welcome to

be on the steering committee and have those conversations.

And so I was kind of making it clear that tonight it, while it

is a council action item to move forward, it is by no means

deciding that we are submitting something to form this today.

There is, that's where the real reach out starts.

At this point that we are entering the legal process to begin

those at length conversations with the affected hotel and MOTEL

owner.

Okay.

Good to know.

Yeah.

Any.

Council Member Roscoe.

I just wanted to commend my colleague, Bernice L'Occisio-Holl,

for bringing this to our strategic council retreat.

I think at the time there was no understanding of what the future

might hold.

We are just a few months away, less than four months away from

inviting our first game, the A's.

And not to say that we can capitalize before they come, but

the idea of knowing that we're going to have thousands of people

coming through West Sacramento and eating a piece of their

heads, once we have this in place, this could be a change

or a change of the future.

And so it's amazing to see, you know, we all come from, as on the

council, we all come from different backgrounds.

And I know that Council Member Solpecio-Holl was previously our

Chamber CEO and previously did work with Sacramento.

Was it Visit Sacramento?

And is familiar with this type of model where that expertise that

hadn't been represented on this council in the past.

So thank you, first off, for leading this vision and bringing it

to us, because I think this was an untapped resource that, you

know, a blind spot nobody would have noticed until she was

selected.

Thank you.

You're up to attempt early.

So just a couple of thoughts as you're getting feedback and huge

support of this.

I'm looking at the annual, again, if 2% is the rate that,

whether it's decided by the hoteliers who would be participating

right and what the market can support or not, I would, I would

hesitate, just as someone who runs a nonprofit, if 370,000 would

be what would be generated annually to have, even though I

love the idea of it, to have a fully formed staffed, supporting

that only because that would, and I don't know how that would be

paid for outside of this 370 annually, and I know how much it

costs to run even a small organization.

And I would imagine that when we're thinking about the advertising

and all the things, annually for those six hotels, 370,000,

particularly as you're trying to get up and start in that kind of

thing.

It's not actually a lot of money and then to put it over head.

And so that would be my only hesitation as I think about offering

you some feedback on that.

And so although self-government can also be challenging in regards

to organizing, really seeing and moving things forward, I would

just be concerned about starting an organization and where those

dollars would go.

That's all.

And thank you.

And just as a note, we do have at least one that I know that has

pulled the building permit, but we have a couple of hotels that

are on the books.

And under the TID formation, they are immediately grandfathered

in.

And so the kind of life expectancy of a TID is five years

initially.

So I would expect that we would absorb at least one more hotel,

large hotel, which would then add to the budget for this.

May I make a comment on that?

Yes.

Go ahead.

What's great about a self-governing model is once the board of

directors is created, they can choose whether to employ staff,

contract with the market.

And so the self-governing model will keep our local hoteliers

making the decisions about the money and they can decide if it's

do they want an executive director, do they want to contract a

marketing agency, how do they want to make the money go the

other way?

Right.

I do have a few questions.

So in speaking with the motel owners, I've learned that there is

an interest for their expansion among their own property sites.

And in seeing how we can work with them as they are considering

expanding, growing, like their current business model is

kind of restrictive.

And what they see in the future as we are continuing to grow as a

city is an opportunity to grow as a business.

And so would this allow, so if this tourism improvement district

allow for a future partner if they wanted to participate?

I think that is something that's decided during, I know that other

TIDs do have members that aren't necessarily within the boundaries,

but they pay a fee to be a member at certain levels.

So I don't see why that wouldn't be something that would be

offered.

And then we're a member of Visit Sacramento, although we're not

in their boundary, we are a partner with them.

So I would imagine that that's something that could be worked out.

Okay.

And in taking a look at the tourism improvement, so I just see the hotels,

are we looking at businesses as well?

Is that the PBID?

That is a PBID, yeah.

Only lodging establishments are eligible for the TID.

Okay.

That's all I have.

And I think you're just looking for the authority to move at this point.

Yeah, I'm happy to move.

Council Member Sopizio-Hul moved and Council Member Colisec.

Council Member Sopizio-Hul.

Hi.

Council Member Ocala.

Hi.

Council Member Morosco.

Hi.

Mayor Pro Tem Early.

Hi.

Mayor Guerrero.

Hi.

Thank you so much, Megan, for all your hard work on this.

I know it's not easy.

Next, we have our general administration function part two from our council

assignment.

So are there any updates from our council?

No.

Okay.

Council attache?

Council Member?

Good evening.

Just a reminder that this Friday is the tree lighting ceremony and then city

hall will be closed over the holiday break from December 25th and reopen on

January powiedział.

You'll be open December 24.

What is that?

Yes.

Oh, wow.

here. Some people.

Good to know. Thank you.

And we have the

Station 45 push out.

Yeah, I was I was actually I had two quick things my manager's

support. Thank you for that. I was actually going to remind you

about the event that I was talked about earlier and also

congratulate the council on the passage of measure. Oh, I

really wanted to be that point.

Having a front row seat with the discussion that was had back in

February to see it come together now. It's it really will

change the city and work we have a lot of work to do on staff

to respond to the you know, the hopes and dreams of the

council when it came to putting them on the ballot. But I wanted

to start by congratulating you all on on the passage and the

event tomorrow will be our first of hopefully many events to

implement measure. Oh, so the station 45. I'm sorry, engine

45. Hope to see you there. I have one other thing that I'm sorry

for the late hour of doing this, but it's our last meeting of

the year. It's a bit of breaking news. It's also very bittersweet

that I tell you back in July of 1998, we had a young energetic,

very intelligent, very creative, redevelopment program

manager come to us by way of shra. I believe he was immediately

given the task of figuring out how to land a manly baseball team

in West Sacramento. He was given a few things over the years on

that and held I think a record for number of job titles at the

city. We were talking about that today. But most recently, he's

been our deputy city manager and a very close friend and colleague

of mine and many other people in the city, someone who's been

respected and revered by staff and by council members past and

present for the 26 and a half years that he's been with the

city. John Robinson is going to be retiring at the end of the

year. He hates that I'm doing this and he doesn't want any

fanfare. Don't please don't make him come up here. But this is

his last meeting officially with the council. He's going to be

with us through the end of the year, as I said, but I just

want to congratulate him on that. We had a little moment with

staff earlier and we'll have lots more to say to him. But I

wanted you to have the opportunity to know first and

be able to comment to him on the side or or here. But thank you.

And I just want to open it up to the council members. This is our

last opportunity. I know. You share a few words. Well,

yeah, I got that news earlier and I can't I've been able to

shake it off. I've been trying to beg you to stay for the rest

of your life. I had the voice on you are irreplaceable. Years ago,

my office, the DA's office, I was sharing some time with a very

good friend of mine who was also GA and now a judge. And he's

the intern, the US Sacramento and he said my fondest memories

for working for a man you might know him, John Robbins. And, you

know, you have been the quintessential state when it comes

to working with concerns coming like just this vast knowledge

that many of us don't possess just because of your longevity

here in the city. You have a demeanor that puts everyone at

peace and calm. You just you really are a unique and amazing