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invite Mr. Jessie Ortiz to

please come up to the podium and lead us on the

pledge of allegiance.

Thank you, Mr. Ortiz.

Thank you, Mr. Ortiz.

Thank you, Mr. Ortiz.

Thank you, Mr. Ortiz.

Congratulations.

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Thank you, Mr Ortiz.

All right.

Now for a speaker again,

Madame Clerk, the name, please.

Rosa Fernandez.

Okay.

So I don't normally come to these things,

but like many Americans right now,

I just want to give you some time.

But I think that's the first thing

I've been asked to do is to think

about how to make life better

and to make our communities

frustrated and see local change

as an outlet to make lives better in our community.

I watched the last council meeting

and I decided to come here

because of something someone said

where are the community members

who support this development.

I am here.

I am here to say I support community

break ground. I agree that flooding is a concern, but we are in a climate crisis.

The solution to a climate crisis is not to block the development of housing.

The fact of the matter is we have much more pressing crisis that has the most harmful

effects on our community right now, and that is the housing crisis. We are in an affordability crisis.

Had I not purchased my home when I did in 2019, I could no longer afford to live in West Sacramento.

We are a family of four. We love living here. It is close to my work and my neighbors are amazing.

And every day when we ride bikes to the school bus stop, I think how lucky we are.

This place is special. Because West Sacramento is small yet mighty, there is a real opportunity

to lead the charge in California to add housing quickly. And I am so happy to see so many new

projects come to fruition. But by opinion, it is not happening fast enough to meet the man.

California is notorious for regulations and how easy it is for third parties and a small but

loud contingent of community members to stall development. People are leaving the state because

it is so expensive to live here. We have the highest rates of homelessness. This is not helping anyone

in our community nor our state when we stall housing. We are in a crisis. Please make it easier to build.

We need any and all housing, tiny homes, medium homes, apartments, be the solution to the housing crisis.

Provide opportunities for low income folks, for young families, for seniors on fixed incomes.

This is not to say no government oversight. We all want competent governance. We all want efficient

government. We want our taxpayer money spent responsibly. We want leaders we can trust who can

make the decisions needed to move West Sacramento forward. And while I am here, I hope with the new

developments, there will be increased building of bike trails away from traffic. I ride my bike to

work on occasion and I would ride it every day. But when I do ride, I fear an oil tanker is going to

take me out. And I won't make it home to my kids every time I ride on South River Road between 15th and

1.5. The new lanes under the freeway are very welcome. And again, the red tape to do these projects cost the

city extra time and resources like housing. These projects should be made faster by removing red tape.

Thank you, Mr. Hernandez. Jesse Ortiz.

I'm here tonight to ask for your support of SB 226, which is a bill by Senator Cabaldan or Senator.

You have a copy of a fact sheet of the bill in front of you. You've got a copy of that there.

Again, my name is Jesse Ortiz. I'm a member of the U.S. Community College District.

I'm not here representing the board. I want to make that very clear for the minutes. I'm here

here as an individual at the board and someone who believes in SB 226. On September 1975, the California

Board of Governors, which is the California Community College Board of Governors that runs the

116 community colleges, voted to put a Spardle in Woodland into the U.S. Community College District.

It was the first time in history that the Board of Governors could a community in an area

or part of a community college district that they did not want to go into. 50 years later,

we in Woodland and a Spardle are dealing with the issue of what is best for our students and

higher education. I like to give a brief synopsis, a very brief synopsis with the

limit of time I have on how we got here. So in 1972, the California legislature gave each city

until September 15, 1975, a part of the community college district. And during the 73, Davis and

West Sacramento voted to annex into the Los Rios Community College District. In November 74,

winners voted to annex into Salona Community College District. In 1974, there was a measure,

it's called measure C for Woodland and a Spardle to see where they wanted to go. Unfortunately,

the California Community College Board of Governors only gave those constituents or that community,

those communities, one vote. And that was to either vote into U.S. Community College District.

That was it, yes or no. Well, 81% of the people in Woodland and a Spardle voted against

the community college district with the intent of coming into Los Rios. 52 years later,

or 53 plus years later, we're still in that situation. This bill SB2216 sponsored by Senator

Cabaldin is called the territory transfer between district, which would put Woodland and a Spardle

into the Los Rios Community College with Woodland with West Sacramento and Davis. It makes economically

sense. It makes a career planning sense for all five districts to be in one district.

And we're hoping for your support with a letter to support this to the senator.

Thank you for your attention on this matter. Thank you, Mr. Ortiz. If you can work with Doug

Dross, he helps. He's right there. And he can help bring it to our attention.

Robin Davis.

Hi, I'm Robin and I live in my 160 square foot semi-offered tiny home on wheels on my undeveloped

residential property here in West Sacramento. I just wanted to share the update on the tiny

home on wheels ordinance from the planning department. It should be added to the April 9th council

agenda and had to be moved due to assembly bill 2904, which requires at least 20 days of notice

of an ordinance impacting real property. And the notice was posted on March 7th in the news ledger.

So we need to weigh the minimum of 20 days from that date. Thank you again to Daniel in the

planning department, who remains very transparent with all the updates each week. We appreciate him

as always. So as of now, the tiny home on wheels ordinance may be coming back to council on April 9th.

And I just wanted to quickly recap a little history of our potential ordinance and how we got here.

We started this tiny home journey together in October of 2020, which was such a unique time in the

world where there were no in-person meetings, the CDC issued to not displace camping of

and house and had shelter in place mandates. As I navigated COVID, speaking with staff,

learning about zoning, impact fees and codes, I realized our policy and mindsets have catered

to wealthy developers while excluding the average person from the building process.

Then November of 2022, I started to attend council meetings to escalate my request for legalization

after I received the notice to debate to move my home. We then shared all the jurisdictions that

were creating ordinances that would legalize homes like mine. Since then, I've been to every single

council meeting, attended SAICOG meetings, neighborhood association meetings,

SAIC Regional sewer meetings, commission meetings, board meetings, any meetings that anyone will

listen or talk to me, countless amount of time to figure out ways forward. I've even been accused of

being a paid lobbyist for tiny home developers and how I wish that was the case. But in reality,

I am just an average persistent resident with a very average income that lives in a shipping

container who just wants affordable access to water. Overall, I've learned so much and I would not

create a minute of it to wrap it up with a quote from Joyce Meyer. Patience is not the ability to

wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting, which is what I will keep trying to do.

Thank you, Ms. Davis.

Guys, Stevenson.

Madam Mayor, City Council members, I appreciate you because you checked that out and which I did too.

I call Woodland just about every day. An environmental health says that they've had numerous complaints.

Not just a few, but numerous complaints about the food vendor. And I'm going to tell you where the

problem is going to come in. When the A's come here, they're going to be everywhere. And you have to

get a grip on it and get a hold on it. You can't let it go on. I don't want anybody with food poisoning.

If you've never had it, it's not pleasant. I'm not saying that the food that these people are serving

is bad for you, but they have no way of regulating the heat. So I do appreciate talking to you about

that and following up. I think a lot of the police department here, as well as the fire department

here, they're doing an excellent job right now, cleaning up West Capital of these drugs. And I do

appreciate them. And I appreciate the fire department being very good about keeping people healthy.

One of the ladies that I take care of down here on West Capital, they had two in the last

couple of months, fitting all over doses and they died and they ended up in Woodland. So

I'm glad that the police are taking a real good stance on that because it's very, very important.

And I was just talking to the sergeant, they're doing a really, really good job. And public work.

They've been filling these potholes and that makes my friends and me very happy. They've done

an enterprise industrial and they're trying to get a hold on it. So I'm not here to throw any of

these departments under the bus. I want them to be aware of how the public feels about

things that go on here. I haven't been here that long. I've been here three years

and I came from San Diego. So I used to go to city councils all the time down there and Vista

and Oceanside and I know how it works. So I'm just saying, please focus on these vendors. I don't

want to run them out of business because I know that's their livelihood and they're making money.

Just make them be compliant. You know, get a license, have the health department check them out.

I don't want a seating buddy gets sick and I definitely don't want to get a seating buddy

end up in the morgue or end up in the hospital. And yes, food poisoning can't kill you. So

anyway, ladies, have a great night and God bless each and my everyone. Thank you, Mr.

We have no additional requests to speak on this item. Right. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Next,

we have under presentations, three presentations under the city manager's office

and we'll go in this order. We'll begin with the American Red Cross. Next is the Friends Bender Day

and third will be the Saiser Chavez Day. So with the first one being a proclamation of the City of

West Sacramento City Council recognizing March 2025 as American Red Cross Month and we have

Councilmember Kirina Roscoe. We'll be doing that presentation, please. Thank you Madame Mayor.

Thank you for that presentation of my name tonight. That was beautiful.

I'd like to have Guy Michelear and Fred Castiles and Laura Barrett, please approach podium.

Thank you so much. You're adorned in red.

Thank you. Well, I've had the opportunity to present this proclamation. Thank you to the

Madame Mayor to for allowing me to do so tonight. And what I'm going to do is read the proclamation

before you offer the opportunity to for any one of you to give free from work to the community

about Red Cross. I understand we all received an envelope as well where I put it is that you've

cited and let the community know how you support and probably every single

be very helpful. So tonight we're going to offer the proclamation of the City Council.

Designating March 2025 as American Red Cross Month. The proclamation reads,

whereas since the early 1900s the American Red Cross has provided aid to local families and

need and played a critical role in helping prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.

And for us today dedicated volunteers in our community and throughout the Red Cross,

California Gold Turnfield Region, contribute a serve as a beacon of hope with those in need.

And whereas over the past year, a local chapter of the American Red Cross has conducted two

significant free smoke alarm installation events in West Carolina. Thank you. One of the

Alhalla Mobile Home Community and another in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity

in the Brighton Broadwick neighborhood, while also facilitating individual alarm installations

by appointment city. Whereas the American Red Cross has partnered with Westville,

School to deliver a bilingual hand only, and only CPR presentation for parents.

Whereas in March, we'll implement paired with federal

presentation for elementary school students along with two be read cross ready

presentations, one tailored for middle school student and another for faculty ensuring

comprehensive disaster preparedness within the school community.

And whereas this life shape for remains and vital strengthening in our community now for

their four-bit proclaim that the city comes from the West,

hereby, as America, as a being, support with its humanity.

Madam Mayor, I'm sorry I was remiss and asked, do we want as soon as I pick photo?

And I would like to include chief bins in the photo please when we do come up because

they work hand in hand and there is an uneven in a home.

Oh thank you, Madam Mayor. Council members, city manager.

Red Cross month being March, 2025. The mission of the American Red Cross is to prevent

and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers

and the generosity of the donors. The American Red Cross has been able to provide help,

comfort and services for more than 130 years because of the tireless and dedicated work

of its volunteers and partners. As a nonprofit organization, the Red Cross depends on the

public's generosity to perform its humanitarian mission and we really, really appreciate

all your support. Myself being part of the American Red Cross, we are dedicated to be in the

DAT team, D.A.K. Disaster Action team, colleague here, Laura also and Wally.

We basically respond to all sorts of emergency from house fire to flooding to fires.

And it's an honor for us to be here and accept your problem.

Press the microphone to my colleague.

Thank you. It's an honor to serve the city of West Sacramento and I was going to mention some

of the things that we do to kind of help in the night but you already did such a great job of

listing some of the programs, not only the DAT team that responds to fires but also some of the

classes we serve to help with preparedness and the Sound the Alarm has done. Thank you for

highlighting those. We're really proud of our programs and we're really honored to be here

and want to present the Red Cross into the mayor. I don't know if I...

Let's leave it here.

He fensil, right? He's standing up.

Absolutely.

In the microphone, please. Yeah, I would personally like to thank the Red Cross for everything you do

for our citizens. We've been calling you for my entire career. You show up at every residential

structure fire where the tenants or homeowners are placed and they don't have a family members house

to go to. I'll red cross. Take care of you. Find them a place to stay. It happened again this morning.

So every time we call someone shows up and I really appreciate everything. Thank you very much.

I just want to highlight one more thing is that over 40% of the blood donated in this country

comes from volunteers that donate blood on a regular basis over 40% is and we need more

blood donors especially where we call the power donor as myself because they take the platelet

and all the fancy stuff that they do with the blood. Thank you.

Madam Mayor and council members, as you mentioned, you did get a brochure which I had staff

distribute to each of you and inside that is a several pages it has to do with opportunities

with the Red Cross and there's a number of mentioning of the free things that we offer to people

that are affected by these disasters and emergencies. There's no charge for any of the things that

we do and we are always as I said opportunities are always looking for other people to join us

in Red Cross. So I direct that to the guests that are out here as well because it's a volunteer

organization and if you have that desire to help then we're definitely the place to come. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here tonight. I'm going to read the proclamation give you an opportunity to speak and off my colleagues an opportunity to speak and then I have to comment

as well. The proclamation of the city council, the west Sacramento City Council recognizing March 31st has

been a very important event for us to be able to recognize the lives and contributions of the

people by also drawing attention to the poverty discrimination and violence in the community.

And whereas March 31st is a day to honor and celebrate the achievements and resiliency of

transgender and gender diverse people and acknowledge their determination to live openly and authentically.

And whereas transgender people still face systemic barriers for freedom inequality including high rate of violence, harassment,

discrimination, employment, housing, health care and public accommodations. And whereas the city council of West

Sacramento has a vision of community that is welcoming and safe for everyone including transgender and gender diverse people.

And whereas transgender day of visibility is an opportunity for the city as a whole to recommit the building partnerships with

transgender and gender non-conforming communities to address challenges and further to work lifting the voices and needs of this community.

And whereas we recognize the bravery of all community members who decided to live their lives being their most authentic self.

And whereas March 31st is an opportunity to acknowledge a progress made by recognizing there's much work to be done.

Or much more work to be. Now therefore be it proclaimed that the city council of the city of West Sacramento

hereby recognizes the 31st day of March as transgender day of visibility and encourages all residents to observe this day.

Like you don't give you the opportunity to share a little bit about yourself in the club.

Thank you. My name is Wyatt. I accept all pronouns and this is Phoebe.

I give them.

From under the.

Really appreciate this.

I.

And hopefully other place.

It's just really.

For our community in our school.

Getting this.

Honor.

We.

Our club, the gender health club.

Great to save space for queer people at our school.

I don't really know what the day next.

That's perfect. Any comments from anyone.

I want to thank you for being here. I know these are really trying times under the current administration.

So the fact that you're visible and you should be very visible and very proud.

I think that's.

Setting very strong message and especially here in West Sacramento when we.

I think it's something that I'd like to see in other cities as well.

We stand strongly behind the rights of people to express themselves and be who they are.

So thank you.

I'm.

All right. I'll go.

So one. I just want to thank you guys for.

Frankly, the safe space that you make at your school for others who may not always feel seen.

I know that you're.

I know that you're.

I know that you're.

I know that you're.

I know that you're.

I know that I know that I speak for all of my colleagues and saying part of why this is so important for us is because we want all of West Sacramento to be a place in which.

Everyone feels included in which everyone feels seen and which we are leading with.

I know that you guys are doing.

And I know that you guys are doing an amazing thing at your school by showing up and making space for folks who.

They have different backgrounds.

And then we also stand in solidarity both with our transgender and non binary community members.

Thank you.

I mean.

That.

I'm going to say what I felt that I will say.

Thank you.

It's hard enough come to a podium as an adult.

You know, public speaker experience and come up.

In your office.

So as your.

Say your name.

I think that.

I think that.

These days it's really hard to yourself live without fear.

Reject.

In the greater world, regardless of.

Even if you live whatever the mainstream.

I think that.

The world is going.

And I'm.

I'm great.

I'm.

I'm.

I ask correct.

We.

We can.

The environment.

So.

And just.

I want to say that.

I know this.

Times today is very.

Prime and.

Helening.

You feel embraced.

Who you are.

And I know that.

We're here.

We're here in West Sacramento.

Have a diverse community.

And you are part of that.

And you know,

I think that.

I think that.

A community that.

I hope to shine more light.

Bring more visibility.

Bring more love and peace.

So that we can eradicate the hate.

We can remove any.

Any sign of rejection.

That we also, you know,

even through the medical system, you know,

that we take a look at.

Support.

You know,

whenever anybody decides to make any transformation with

you, you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

we're here.

We're here today in society.

In just trying to control people.

And make them who they want them to be not who you are.

And accept you for.

You know, who you feel.

And have decided to become.

And that's what we all do.

In our own way.

And we want you to feel comfortable.

You want you to feel accepted and appreciated.

And that's what I'm going to do for you.

For the community.

Most importantly,

your courage,

your strength,

your resilience.

And I hope you are the beacon of hope for our community.

So continue the good work.

And then I'll just say.

Thank you for the work that you do with the Gender Health.

My.

As my colleagues let me do this.

Shade space you create on campus is so powerful.

bringing this proclamation board a wonderful

scenario for you on this at a times when the right

and dignity of transgender non-binary people are being

challenged across the country. This proclamation is more

than just words. It's our commitment to you that we see you,

we value you and we will continue working to make our city

a place where you can not only exist but you can really

thrive. I'd like to close with a quote from a true icon,

Lady Gaga, because really have fun as I get to bring up

Lady Gaga at a city council meeting. But in a conversation

recently about our song Born This Way, which has inspired

somebody to come out to you responded with these works. I

believe that we will continue to show people that are

filled with hatred and ignorance. They should be looking

up to the queer community following and learning about love

and learning about grace and kindness. And so today we

look up to you. We honor your courage, your authenticity, and

your love. Thank you for being exactly who you are because

you're on the right track, baby. You were born this way.

Let's take a picture.

Next is our Proclamation of the West Sacramento City Council

recognizing March 31st, Saisar Chavis Day. And we have today

Dr. Jessie Ortiz, if you can please come up to the podium and

share a few words and like to allow for council and share a

few words as well. Chair of the Board of Directors of the

Farm Workers Institute of Education, is that the current?

Farm workers to the education leadership development field.

And former Yolo County Superintendent of School, he's got a

long resume, but I'm going to just mention a few things and he

helped establish the Head Start program in West Sacramento

here in our city, which my little friends ended. It was a huge

help, especially with his disabilities and his challenges.

And has also been a big supporter of our boxing programs in

Yolo County, which is redirected many young lives in West

Sacramento. And I'm going to read the Proclamation and then

Dr. Ortiz, if you can share a few words. Here from you, from you.

Whereas Saisar Chavis dedicated his life to advocating for

the rights, dignity, and fair treatment of farm workers,

championing social justice through non-violent activism and

unwavering commitment to economic and labor rights. And whereas

Saisar Chavis co-founded the United Farm Workers of America, AFL

CIO, the first successful farm workers union in US history,

securing vital collective bargaining rights and improved working

conditions for countless laborers. And whereas, to his

leadership, the UFW won landmark agreements that improved wages,

health protections, and living conditions for farm workers,

setting a precedent for labor rights movement across the

nation. Whereas Saisar Chavis was a visionary leader in the

broader fight for civil rights, organizing peaceful

demonstrations, strikes, and nationwide book cuts to amplify the

voices of marginalized workers and to demand dignity, quality

and respect for all. And whereas the city of West Sacramento

honors the enduring legacy of Saisar Chavis, recognizing his

profound contributions to the labor movement and his role in

inspiring future generations to continue the pursuit of social

justice and workers right. And whereas on March 31st,

individuals and organizations throughout the country commemorate

Saisar Chavis' birthday by engaging in community service,

educational activities and advocacy efforts that reflect his

commitment to equity and service to others. Now, therefore, be

it proclaimed that the city council of city of West Sacramento

hereby recognizes the 31st day of March, Saisar Chavis day,

and encourages all residents to reflect on his teachings,

honor his legacy and take action in their communities, uphold

the values of justice, equity, and dignity for all proclaimed

this 19th day of March 2025. Dr. Ortiz, you truly embody all

of these values. And it's been such a role model for our youth

for the community and for the entire community. I'm so grateful

that you're here to accept.

Thank you, and thanks to the city council for doing this

proclamation. I think it's important that Saisar Chavis spirit

and life continue. He would have been 98 years old this year,

this month, I should say. On behalf of the many advocates that

work on behalf of the farm workers and those behind the scenes,

I'm, I'm, thank you for letting me attend this meeting and,

and appreciate really accepting the certificate.

You know, there's approximately 8,000 farm workers in Yolo County,

a little bit more of various from 8,000 to 10,000 over the last few

years. And what Saisar Chavis did for those farm workers and many

vulnerable communities during the civil rights struggles of

1960s, in particularly obviously, he demanded human rights and

human dignity for those vulnerable population. More important to

me as an individual and my family growing up. And I had my first

view of Saisar Chavis as an individual and, and, and,

and Easter Sunday in 1966 when the U of W marched from the

Lano to Sacramento to the capitals. I was there and was a very

young person, honestly. But that day was very critical to

me and, and, and, and, and developing my philosophy today as an

adult that people should be treated with treated with dignity.

People should be treated with respect. But one thing that I learned

that day was the power of one person, the power that one person can

make. And I would call it something called spiritual power,

because that individual says, Saisar Chavis and many others behind

them and supporting them, including the Lord of Swerta.

Um, taught the lesson that with, with vigilance and, and

persistence, you can change the world and you can change it on

behalf of those that are at least spoken for less, have less

political power, but you can make the difference in people's

lives in general and beyond farm workers too. So I'm really

happy and thank you for letting me here, enjoying you this

evening.

Thank you, Dr.

Are there any other questions?

Do words to share tonight?

Like it briefed. Yes.

So,

it's interesting because I think Saisar Chavis day,

did me as more than just a celebration. It's a call to

action. And I think we've talked about this during some of

our strategic planning meetings, right? Where it's like, no,

we do we want to celebrate, but how can we actually in the

spirit of, of the work that was done, really represent that?

And I think now more than ever, in which people need to be

seen as human beings, and we need to respect the dignity and

human rights of everyone in our community and across our

country. I think this proclamation in a state is even more

important as a call to action with everything that we are

seeing in our values as Americans being challenged. And so

that is what Saisar Chavis day means to me. That is the legacy

that he left behind for all of us that the step up to and

truly embody an honor. And so I thank you for being here. I

feel a privilege to be on this council because I do think that

those are the values of West Sacramento. And my hope would be

that we reflect those and be a beacon of light for this

reason. So thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Ortiz.

Jesse and also his wife, Cruz, also very involved in

supporting farm worker rights. And I was just going to mention

you all know I've met Carlos worked with Caesar and with

the Lord, who wasn't just their attorney who was actually their

neighbor, but that spirit, I think of, of commitment and wanting

to help others just permeated the entire farm worker movement.

There were attorneys, Ellen Eggers and to lion Markwood, I'm

sorry, Markwood, who Markwood, he has lobe is there we go, who

admitted themselves to working endless hours and they used to

get a $7 a week stipend.

These are people who made a lot of money, but it was more

important to be out there representing the individual.

Carlos often mentions also that they didn't have paid

after those they had volunteers accountants from the Catholic

Earth, they had priests and nuns that would go out there on

their decent Sundays and they would do all the accounting for

the union. One of our own Davis residents, Desiree Rojas and

her family were very involved in the farm worker.

Whole family was El Rojas wife.

They were one of the primary organizers for the great boycott

from 1968, 1975, long time.

They were getting paid 10 years, $5 a week.

I would just it just embody so much when we celebrate Caesar

Chavez with a resolution every year because it the commitment

and the incredible spirit.

I think we all try to capture on this day.

And I did have a quote that was I think one of Caesar's most

powerful and inspiring.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about

progress and prosperity for our community.

So all the work being done, fallen.

That is really the legacy.

That's my brother.

Excuse me, my voice is a little tempered here.

First off, I just think.

I'm an

I'm sure our

and if I'm being in

isn't

and why he went out here.

I'm supposed to.

I'll tell you what, I won't fast to fit into address, but when I was

in college back in the 90s, I fasted for several days in order

to rename or you see Berkeley Golden Bear Center to set

up a student union.

And part of the reason is, you know, my grandfather,

Kirino Orozco, excuse me, that's my name.

Kirino, he and Wéva was a

his heroes for very young and

a little bit of clues and work alongside

the south of town is there in the UK.

He's been

really trying to get

voices from our

and he was a first

and you know, it's

I think I, you know, I echo my colleague when we

think about just celebrating a birthday.

It's about celebrating a split.

It's about celebrating community and the power of these, you know,

the other

don't have power on their own voices.

So tonight for us, I actually was

saved by my colleague Pete because frankly, there's so much

more power from what's unsaid, but if you want to say thank you

from our reminding us and

and thank you so much for being champions for our community.

Members, may I apologize please?

Thank you.

Thank you for being here tonight and thank you for all of your work.

And I'll just echo my colleagues.

I think it's incredible that you have such powerful personal stories

about these ashaves.

To work alongside

who continue his legacy.

Great face folks

to

to step up to serve on this day is really valuable.

So thank you for being here tonight.

And we'll go down and take a photo.

Next is our consent agenda items 5 through 13.

Are there any requests to remove any items on the agenda or request a presentation?

Not are there any public comment?

Madame Clerk.

We have no request to speak on any of the items on the consent agenda.

Okay, then I'll accept a motion for items 5 through 13.

I'll move second.

Council member early move.

Council member, I'll call the second in Madame Clerk, please call the roll.

Council member, I'll call it.

Hi, Council member early.

Hi, Council member Roscoe.

Mayor pro Tim, so piece your whole mayor Guerrero.

Hi, all right.

Thank you.

The items are approved.

Next is on our public hearing agenda items is item 14 under community development.

We do have we did have a public hearing and consideration of first reading of

ordinance 24-9 regarding amendments to title 17 zoning of the municipal code to facilitate

tiny homes on wheels as legal dwellings and staff is requesting a can you answer the

March 19th public hearing to April 9th City Council regular meeting in order to meet the

recent state mandate and noticing requirements that went into effect on January 1st, 2025.

We need to take a vote on this yer.

We need to take a vote.

I'll accept a motion.

Mayor Patem, so piece your whole moved and council member.

I'll call the second did that.

Council member, I'll call it.

Hi, council member early.

Mayor pro Tim's.

Opusio, all right.

Mayor Guerrero.

I said, is move now and next is item 15.

And Dr. Economic Development is a public hearing to consider adoption of resolution 25-30

approving the issuance.

The California Statewide Community Development Authority of the exempt facility bonds for

courtyard village in our economic development housing manager, Roel Huerta, will present.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor Guerrero and members of the council.

I am here this evening to request that the City Council conduct a public hearing pursuant

to the Federal Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act or Tefra.

Tefra requires that a public hearing be held by the governing body of the jurisdiction

in which a project will be financed with tax exempt bonds where the project is located

and that the governing body approved the proposed financing.

In 2009, the California Statewide Community Development Authority, or CSCA, issued 10

million dollars in multi-family affordable housing bonds to assist evergreen circle investors

to acquire and rehabilitate that 294 unit affordable housing project known as courtyard

village.

At the time, the City Council held a Tefra hearing and approved a resolution to issue

the bonds and support the courtyard village project.

The bonds matured on December 16, 2024 and the bond purchaser is requesting an extension

of the maturity date by six months to June 16, 2025.

While no new bonds are being issued, the change in the maturity date is considered a re-issue

in for tax purposes and the new Tefra hearing must be held to comply with tax law.

There are no other changes to the financing terms of the bonds.

The bonds issued in 2009 by the CSCA will continue to be the sole responsibility of evergreen

circle investors.

The City of West Sacramento will have no financial, legal or moral obligation, liability or

responsibility for the repayment of the bonds.

Upon closing of the public hearing, staff recommends that the City Council adopt resolution 25-30

approving the issuance or in this case the reissuance of the bonds by CSCA.

This concludes my presentation.

Staff, along with the representative from the developer, are available for any question.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ward.

Are there any questions among the councilmen?

I'll open it up for public comment, but I'm clear for any request to speak.

We have no request to speak on this item.

I'm bringing it back to council or do any other questions?

Well, I'm really glad that we had this opportunity for these bonds and taking a look at what

we can achieve here locally is significant.

And thank you for bringing this back to us and staying on top of it.

Mr. Ward, you're always on top of these type of things that help our communities.

So greatly appreciate it.

And with that, I know we're missing a, but I'll accept the motion.

So moved.

Early second.

Council Member O'Cala moved and Council Member Early second.

And I'm clear, please call the roll.

Council Member O'Cala.

Council Member Early.

Mayor Pro Tems, Sulepecio Hall.

Aye.

Mayor Grarrel.

Aye.

The item is approved.

Next is item 16.

Is there a fiscal year 2024, 2025 mid-year budget workshop in consideration of resolution 25-41,

adopting amendments to the operations and maintenance O&M and capital improvement program,

CIP budgets for fiscal year 2024, 2025?

And we have here our director of finance department, Mr. Roberta Repair.

Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the council.

I'm Roberta Rape, the finance director and I'd like to briefly present an overview of

the proposed mid-year budget adjustments.

As with all the past times we've done a budget, you have detailed packet in your binder.

And we continued the change to the format of the documents this time where there's a summary

report and the details that goes into further details through your attachments.

So.

We've got started.

I always have to remember how to use this.

There we go.

Down.

All right.

So as I mentioned, tonight's presentation will be brief.

I usually provide a general fund update of projected revenues and expenditures compared

to the budget.

We'll go over an overview of the proposed measure O spending plan, a summary of the proposed

mid-year budget adjustments for all funds and then a summary of the general fund after

proposed mid-year adjustments.

Members of the council may then ask questions, provide feedback and consider approval of the

proposed mid-year budget adjustments.

All right.

So to begin, we'll start with a little bit of background as to why we're here in March.

The fiscal year 2425 budget was originally adopted by council in June 2023 as part of

the two-year budget process.

In the second year of the budget, we typically do a mid-term review to look at the second

year and adjust for anything that happened during the first year that was revenue adjustments

or other things that come up.

And we did that in August of 2024.

But following adoption of the mid-term budget, measure O in November, measure O, a one-cent

district sales tax measure, which applies to taxable retail sales in West Sacramento,

was approved by voters to become effective April 1st, 2025.

So measure O is intended to meet unmet operational needs and improve service to the community in

several areas, including public safety, roads and parks.

And as these are all important priorities and to ensure swift visibility to the public as

to the value and the measure, staff and council intend to be fully prepared to start implementing

and spending the funds once they're received.

So as a result, the proposed mid-year budget was developed, which includes both mid-year

adjustments proposed for various city funds and a five-year spending plan for measure O.

Tonight we'll be asking you to adopt the budget adjustments for measure O for the current

fiscal year.

Future years will be brought back in the upcoming budget processes.

The measure O spending plan was presented to council in February of which time feedback

was provided and that feedback has been incorporated into the proposed mid-year budget

for your consideration tonight.

All right, so first we'll take a look at the city's largest and only really discretionary

fund, the general fund.

The general fund collects general tax revenues and fees for service for the departments

at funds, including fire, police, parks, capital projects and the code enforcement division.

A couple of nuggets on this fund that I'm not sure you will aware of or anybody in the

community really, but approximately 70% of the general fund expenses are for public safety,

the fire and police departments.

And over two-thirds of ongoing general fund expenses cover labor costs for the four departments

that I mentioned.

The fund is expected to end the current fiscal year with 83.4 million in revenues to fund

82 million in ongoing expenses, leaving projected surplus of about 1.5 million over budget

due to, I primarily increases in property tax revenues and reimbursements for firefighter,

participation and strike teams.

After funding one-time expenses of 14.9 million and it looks like I have a little error

on my, oh, is this my old one?

It could be.

It's all right.

I saved an updated PowerPoint presentation, but we will skip through because I had a couple

of minor adjustments.

So after funding one-time expenses of 14.9 million for the year, the net use of fund

balance is 12.9 million, leaving a fund balance of 4.5 million for the year.

All right.

So we will dive into measure O briefly and then as I mentioned, I'll provide a summary

of the total mid-year request so that council can see the full picture.

The measure O spending plan includes annual ongoing expenses growing to 15.5 million per

year by fiscal year 2829 to fund 48 positions, including the nine new firefighter positions

that were recently added to reinstate engine 45.

Once the safer grant expires, we're proposing to fund those expenses with measure O and the

annual operating cost of implementing the proposed programs, which include a dedicated

road response through.

Ten-time expenses of 28.3 million are proposed in the first two fiscal years to implement

22.2 million in infrastructure projects and to fund the purchase and implementation of

6.2 million in vehicles, equipment, and one-time operational projects related primarily to the

new staff that are being proposed.

The measure O positions proposed over the five-year period include 17 police positions, including

12 police officers, a sergeant, two mental health clinicians, a property records manager

and a program technician.

I mentioned the nine firefighters and there are two other positions in the fire department.

A road response crew, dedicated road response crew in the public works O and M department.

There are 10 positions proposed for that.

And then 10 positions in parks and recreation over the next two years, including eight parks

and grounds maintenance positions.

Overall, it is 48 positions in the measure O fund over the next two years plus the nine

firefighters.

There's 22, a little over 22 million in proposed CIP projects funded by measure O over the

next two years, including 9.4 million in road projects, 7.6 million in parks and trails

projects, and 5.2 million in facility projects, primarily public safety facilities.

I'll go back.

Road projects include 2 million toward the pavement preservation program, 6.9 million toward

the pavement rehabilitation and reconstruction program, and about 500,000 contribution to

the emergency vehicle preemption system project.

Parks and trails projects include 5 million for various improvements at all parks, which

may include replacing and upgrading turf playground equipment and furniture and fixtures.

And facility projects, as I mentioned, include several improvements at fire stations,

planning and design funding for a new police station, tenant improvements for the park operations

maintenance team at the old corporation yard, and a few other related facility projects.

So this is a table to show the five year proposed spending plan for measure O. It's a lot

more complicated in your packet, and this is the simplified version.

I know it's a lot of information on the screen.

But essentially, measure O is expected to bring in at little over $5 million this fiscal

year, and around 21 million annually going forward, and those revenues are projected to

grow at a rate of about 3% per year.

The measure O revenues are sufficient to cover the operating needs and one-time costs with

a slight deficit projected in the first year.

However, this lower trickle of funds doesn't allow for immediate visible progress to be

made toward both filling significant operational gaps in the city's primary operating departments,

and the implementing necessary improvements to the priority roadways and most used parks.

So in order to fund these necessary and priority projects, as well as to make visible progress

in the areas where residents and council would like to see it most, a loan of $15 million

from the Measure V Fund is proposed with a repayment term of 10 years.

This loan of funds reserved for future use will enable several projects to be implemented

now, rather than waiting for funds to be collected over time.

An internal borrowing is both simpler and more cost-effective than issuing bonds or otherwise

seeking private financing from a bank.

The loan is proposed to be structured in accordance with the city's standing practice

on interfund loans, which means it's repaid at the rate that the funds would have earned

interest if they had been sitting in the bank and not being used.

So the Measure V Fund is made whole.

It also has a defined repayment term of 10 years, and the annual repayment amount is expected

to be approximately 1.85 million for 10 years, beginning in fiscal year 2627.

The resolution asks for approval of up to 15 million because it may not, depending on cash

flows and timing of spending funds, that that amount may not actually be needed.

Additionally, reserve of 15% is proposed to be funded during the five-year period and

maintained indefinitely.

So with the number of staff positions being proposed to be funded under Measure O, and

the fact that sales tax is a very elastic revenue source, which means it moves very quickly

up and down with economic impacts.

It's important to maintain reserves like we do in the general fund to ensure that an economic

downturn or significant impact to sales tax revenues like we saw during the pandemic don't

require us to immediately turn around and lay off staff or make other cuts, right?

So reserves help us weather these downturns and allow the council to make strategic decisions

rather than being fully reactive to economic conditions.

So at the end of the day, the balance in the fund after five years is expected to be about

7.2 million, and we'll have an annual revenue surplus of about 2.5 million.

After funding, that's after funding the Measure V loan repayment.

So the Measure V loan repayment is a 10-year term.

After that 10 years, you would have an additional 1.85 million.

Those are funds that would be able to be programmed for additional staff or other one time

or ongoing needs.

So in February, when the Measure O spending plan was initially presented to council, it

included a proposal to implement a park range or program.

That program has been delayed to allow staff and council to monitor the impacts of today's

proposals after they're implemented to determine where remaining funds should be programmed.

Whether that's a park range or program, additional police officers, roads, other things,

the park range or program as initially proposed is estimated to cost around 2 million annually.

So there will be sufficient funding available to fund that program or anything else that

the council may desire.

And at the end of the day, the reserve balance at 15% will be a little over $3.4 million in five years.

All right.

So moving on to the rest of the mid-year budget requests.

For all other, so this includes Measure O here.

This is all funds and total requests are 24.6 million, including 11.1 million in CIP project funding.

10.7 million in one time O&M funding operations and maintenance and 2.8 million in ongoing annual

expenses across all funds.

These are offset by 4 million in one time grant revenues and 7 million in ongoing annual

revenues, including the 5.3 million for Measure O that we mentioned.

For the mid-year O&M operations and maintenance adjustments by category are listed here.

The department requests proposed for council consideration with mid-year budget include 10.7 million in one time funding and 2.8 million in ongoing annual funding across all city funding sources.

This slide provides the breakdown by category details for all of these requests are included in attachment 5.

And many of these, as I mentioned, are Measure O requests, which were presented a moment ago.

The large amount in the other category, you see an other 4.4 million of one time funds.

4 million of that is a proposed contribution of funds from the flood in Lew B fund to West Africa to fund their 5% cash match local cash match toward the federal levy project.

All right.

For the capital improvement program, the request total 11.1 million dollars that includes 4 million dollars in awarded grant funding, leaving a net request of city funds of 7.1 million.

A number of the requests that are included in your packet are swapping funding sources for bridge district funded projects.

There are a small handful of bridge district dedicated funding sources.

And so we are we are clarifying which projects were funded with bond funds.

So there's some minor administrative adjustments there.

And then several requests are reducing funding from the water and sewer funds water fund primarily toward capital projects to ensure compliance with our bond covenants.

These are funds that will be added back in July.

It's just a timing issue and we need to add them in next fiscal year.

It does not impact the timing of the spending or the projects themselves.

All right. Moving on to positions.

We talked a little bit about the measure O positions across all funds.

There are 33 new positions requested now for this current fiscal year.

21 of those are funded by measure O and an 18 additional positions are proposed for July 1st 2025.

While the budgets for these positions for the 18 that were proposing next fiscal year will be considered by council in June, we're asking to add these positions to the authorized position list now with little note that they're affected July 1st to allow for there's a lot of work to prework to get those ready and start recruitment so that we can get folks hired.

And in place as soon as possible after the fiscal year begins.

And then this this slide just shows the positions by department, which I thought was a view you may want to see.

The operating departments police, parks and recreation and public works operations and maintenance primarily will be receiving the largest number of new positions and those are the measure O positions primarily.

This chart does not include the nine firefighters that we were able to add a few months ago due to the safer grant award, but those will be moved into measure O in a couple of years.

And for the other positions, sorry, there are a few other positions. Capital projects has two positions as you I'm sure are aware with the number of capital projects that we're looking to implement.

That's going to take a toll on their project management staff. We want to make sure that we've got staff and all departments to be able to do these.

And move these things forward economic development and housing is is requesting two positions that are funded by air PA funds and other grant funds for the homeless program and then community development has three positions included, which include a permit technician.

And off the top of my head, I can't I can't remember one of them an analyst and the sustainability fund and one other one.

All right. So when all is said and done, as you can see an attachment seven, all of the funds can handle the proposed budget adjustments and end with positive balances and operating surpluses unless otherwise described in the report and directed by council.

In a lot of cases when we spend one time funds on CIP projects, you might it might look like a deficit in a fund, but that's because we save up fund balance until we can afford the projects and then we we spend that.

So

The general fund, this is looking at the general fund. The general fund has ongoing requests of 209,000. That's for the positions.

Primarily for the positions in the capital projects department plus some other operational impacts and plus the expected cost allocation impact of all of the mid year request, which is close to $900,000.

This fund will end with a projected surplus of about 400,000 after funding the proposed mid year budget requests.

And on a one time basis after funding the one time proposals of 470,000, the general fund will end with a balance of 3.7 million.

So there are a couple of actions on the agenda tonight. First resolution 25 dash 41, request the council approval of the mid year budget adjustments.

The resolution also includes repayment of 845,000 or about one third of the 2.6 million dollar loan from the police department impact fee fund to measure N.

That was this was a loan that was approved in April of 2024 and it does this through funding to police department expansion projects.

Using measure G.

We're also requesting approval of the loan of up to 15 million from the measure B fund to measure O to fund one time projects and expenses to be repaid over the next few years.

Also as the mid year budget proposes adding 33 positions now and 18 additional measure O positions in July. We're asking the council to approve the authorized position list and the salary schedule incorporating those changes.

And finally, there is an item I didn't mention the exhibit B to your resolution is a list of completed projects, which we'd like to close out. And so we're asking that you authorize me finance director to take the necessary actions to close that list of projects.

That does include adjusting the budgets down to match up or down to match what they spent returning funds to source and across all of the funds.

There's positive money that's going to be going back to each of the funds.

So that concludes my presentation and I'd like to turn it over now to council for questions or comment.

It was going to come in this year for measure O funds.

Sure, we it looks like it's about we're projecting 5.1 million in ongoing revenue and a little over.

Probably about 120,000 maybe we're estimating some one time revenue from from based on other sources, but yeah, it's about 5.3 million total is what we're expecting this year.

But that's that's just one quarter of the fiscal year.

Okay. Yeah. Next year it'll be four times that.

Yeah, it's our it's effective April 1st. So April, May and June are the months that it would be affected.

And that's the 5.1 million that we expect for this year.

Okay.

Turned it off. Okay. So I do have a couple of questions.

So on page.

I don't have your page.

Sorry. Let me figure out what you have here.

Well, I may. I don't I don't know how it was printed. I probably do go ahead.

So it would be I will name the chart.

Table 18.

Dash 11.

These.

There are these are. So this is the measure old revenues that councilmember O'Colo point.

And then the ongoing revenues and then there's one time revenues for baseball. Can you.

Help us understand what that line item of 200.

I see 31,000.

Yeah.

So it's a three year period that the A's will be playing here.

And so the first year crosses to fiscal years. The season is about April to September.

So we have estimated that we expect to receive about 462,000 annually in measure.

Oh, in those one time costs. But for the current fiscal year, it's only the first half of the first season.

So we are budgeting half of that amount 231,000 this year. 462,000 next year, which would include the second half of this season in the first half of next season.

And so it just has to do with the timing when the fiscal years fall and the dates for the baseball season.

And then.

When the fund in is for.

What was that?

And you would know maybe the answer question with the fund in this right now.

I've got it included here as one time funding. So it goes to toward the one time needs, which would include either the one time.

Oh, and expense is a lot of that is vehicles and equipment for your road crew and your new police officers and other positions.

And park park park improvements park equipment.

And CIP projects.

Yeah, and just and just so we're clear.

We're going to kind of said this already, but just to be a little more detailed on that.

And the basis of that is how we actually generate a sales tack from operations stadium.

It's it's purely through concessions and merchandise sales.

There is of course some multiplier effect of having, you know, larger crowds in the city during those three years.

You know, people will eat at restaurants, people buy gas and there's sort of those purchases, but this is just at this point, it really is an estimate.

And then we're going to see the gas based on historic data of operations at the stadium.

As we get into the first season, we'll have a better picture of what that revenue actually looked like.

But just to re emphasize what we're birded just said, there is no specific program.

Expenses related to this revenue. This is purely just to capture the additional revenue we're going to see because of this temporary.

Operation the stadium, but it is truly one time money. It's not something we can rely on as we go for.

And notice there's zero in year five because after the three years, we we don't count on that anymore.

I just want to make sure only because it it sounded like we were, especially when you talked about sort of like the one time funding and some of the expenses associated with it.

What we were talking about here on this chart, the chart is actually up here in the chambers.

I have no idea if you can see it on the screen, because these are revenues. These are not expenses.

I just, I just, I want to be clear just for sort of like your, your novice person listening to be reading these are dollars that again still one time that we are expecting to receive not put out.

I just want to be clear.

That is correct.

Yes.

No, I'll ask additional questions.

Thank you.

I have a question about.

Now.

It's about the general fund reserve.

What percentage.

The general fund is right now at 17.3%.

So just to be clear, this would be a separate reserve for measure O fund.

Correct.

And yes, it would be a separate reserve specifically for measure O because measure O has significant ongoing costs associated with it.

Are there any other reserves and any of the other funds that have been sent out?

Yes. There are reserves are water and our sewer fund maintain reserves.

Most of our funds maintain a fund balance. However, one of the things that we have been planning to bring to the council that I'm hoping now that we've got someone in our budget finance manager position is a formal fiscal policy document where we capture and incorporate all of the policies that the council is adopted related to reserves.

I am going to propose that in any fund that has staff that we do come up with some reserve to maintain.

The levels might be different depending on how much staff they have.

But this would be separate. This is for the measure of fund. We do have them for water for sewer for some of our more significant operating funds.

I'm a large big advocate.

I think that we do have to have fund.

To hedge ourselves from risk that is down.

I want to make a maneuver independently before faced with the downturn or bad conditions.

I appreciate that. I was wondering also is when you have a reserve visit for NINI and President.

Oh, yeah, it does earn interest. So all of our.

All of the cash is pooled for investment purposes. You often get better rates when you pull your cash together and it's allocated to every fund based on its daily cash balance.

So any reserve amount would would be incorporated into that cash balance and the fund would earn more in interest because it has a higher balance of cash in it.

What are the conditions that would trigger any one.

Well, typically we well, not typically we cannot withdraw out of those reserve funds without council approval.

Usually identified as emergencies. There might be an economic downturn where we are expecting to have a deficit that we need to find.

We would come to council to either request use of a reserve for a short period of time or look at other other things or a combination of factors of making cuts and potentially dipping into reserve.

Looking at a pandemic potentially an economic recession disasters as well often those reserves are maintained, especially in the general fund.

For in the case of a disaster where we have to pay out money and wait several years for FEMA for example to to reimburse.

I appreciate.

We made it.

I know you're giving a presentation post on measure was general fund.

We have a lot of funds and supplies.

A measure on this.

Whether or not they would willing to spend more money and dedicate back to road cart trails.

I address homeless people.

Reading through measure.

There's a huge one.

The large.

We're looking at that.

For any pet product not for any.

I'm actually going to defer to the city manager.

He played a big role in that.

The request that came in were quite a bit larger than this, but I know that he focused very much on the what it was intended for the ballot language and what council was intending to see.

I think that's a good answer.

I think what I would do is just kind of remind the council where this all started.

We go back to when it was two strategic planning sessions ago when we, you know, conveyed to you some concerns around operational gaps in the city that we had been experiencing some for many years.

Others that were more recently on the horizon.

I think that's something that we wanted the council to understand and see it not just as a problem, but as a way to think ahead and look at interim measures that we could take it at that time to address some of those gaps, which, which you did.

But also to think boldly about what we could do on a more sustainable basis to not only bring the city up to this elevated standard of operations, but.

But then some.

And then we found that, as you can see, even higher standards when it comes to public safety and roads and parks me so we followed that last year with a workshop at your retreat on options that we could look at to address some of those gaps.

And it was at that time the council got behind the idea that hey, let's look at this tax measure as an option.

a bit and the council approved putting it on the ballot. You gave us direction on the specific

items that you wanted to address. That was reflected in the ballot language very strongly.

And in the interim time between that and the November election, which fortunately it passed,

I asked our staff and especially the staff in the operations departments to bring us what

their best version of meeting the needs that the council identified would look like.

And they delivered on that and then some I showed you several weeks back what the initial budget

would look like had we been able to do absolutely everything. We can't yet we don't have quite

enough money for that, but we do have a significant amount of funding that can address every one of

those things that the council said was important to do with measure O. So I hope when you look at this

report, you hear the presentation and see the things that we're proposing and tie them back to

what you said to voters in terms of what measure O would accomplish. It checked all those

boxes and then some I would say. And so that's pretty much how we got here and I think what you're

seeing tonight is just the first step of implementing mostly the staff positions, but a lot of equipment

and vehicles and and CIP projects that fill purpose of measure O. But we also see it as the five

year spending plan shows. This is something that will live forever in our city and will really make

a huge impact on things that are very visible to our residents, to our businesses and to our

visitors. So I really want to take a moment tonight just to acknowledge and thank the council for

taking that that step, you know, starting with two years ago, getting to tonight, you know,

we're asking you to consider these proposals, but I hope you'll take a moment of reflection to

see where you came from to where you are tonight. And hopefully people, anyone watching or who's

been paying attention to this process, I appreciate that also.

I'm just finding everyone not us, we know we're there, but there was a strategic planning

question that we had last month for the five past talk about priority city and how it is

to correct measure of funds with those priorities behind that bench. And of that, I'm just

about the park ranger program that is a big center piece. I'm looking forward to several other

two I definitely want to see how does it need a correct risk for the quarters to help the safe

wells come up. One of the things that I've very strongly of and I still look at I still look at

a budget when it comes to our city as a whole not about just to me, I think we we're all elected

into district, represent districts and we have one elected mayor that's still overseed the city

as a whole for me. I oversee as a advocate for my, but when I look at the overall city as a whole,

I think about crime, if you for which of this these funds should be directed, I think about

homelessness, I think about the impact and incidences of, uh, uh, uh, has been a city where we're

located next to the large one of the largest capital of the state of California and its own problems

and their policies affect our policies and what we receive is direct reflection of what it is

that they voted on them. So with that stated, West Capital Avenue has been a historic roadway

in the state of West Sacramento. When people think of West Sacramento, they often say thing is West

Capital Avenue, that's what they know. That is a corridor that back in the 50s, um,

is annotated and there are residents that still live in West Sacramento that remember it as being

the glorified area where people actually sun-baved in front, there were palm trees and it was the

magnet. I hope that wanted to travel to this area as a

part of the city. I view walk down West Capital Avenue today. Um, and it's, uh, no, surprise,

you know, we've all stated, we've all toured and I think that, um, you know, one of the,

that I felt very strongly about, I want to bring West Capital Avenue back to its core days and I

want to make sure that it's a safe place for families and children and our community members to

walk and buy and goot and enjoy the outdoors. I want to make sure that it's an investment,

that we as a city want to invest in as far as having a dedicated off-team out there that are

monitoring corridor. Um, oftentimes there, we all hear about that curve and, um, to get in front

of those and ensure that our community is protected. We all are being affected every city, every

city council that is, uh, at the dius with a touch of a short minority. I'm sure is, is talking

about the same type of problems affected that he rode, homeless, um, issues with, um,

you know, police and fire and recruitment and retention because these are just problems that

are plaguing the entire state. Um, but we are in a very unique position because we do have this

new authority that we can direct the strategic to impact the outcomes of how this

and so when I think about the investment on West Capital Avenue, I think about okay, well,

we're gonna hold off on on some things in order to test the waters and see what we can do, uh,

about making more direct impact immediately. Um, I'm okay with that. I look at these obligations

right now and there are some, of course, I, I had questions that I wanted to make, I didn't have

this meeting here until one in the morning. So I asked those questions early in order to take

care that I completely understood what were the dedication going, but so long as I understood

that each and every dollar is being directed for the particular purpose. I know our community

members are, they want potholes filled, they want road repair, they want more cops walking our street,

they want more fire trucks to know that response time is is next enough. They want to make sure that

we reduce the impact and incidence of homeless. And so, uh, looking at this and seeing the dedication

of dollars, I do feel confident that we are doing that and I do appreciate, um, I'm as grateful that

you come before our community with a very straightforward mechanism community. I know when we get to our

annual budget, or buying a budget, that's those, that's your goal and we always see the simplified

version with all that way people in the public don't have budget backgrounds to correct

purpose. Um, but, um, yeah, I appreciate that you've incorporated, uh, health feedback on the

measure and um, don't think I have any other comments or questions at this time. So I'll turn it back.

Thank you. Any other questions among the council members?

Any new questions?

comments?

Okay. Um, thank you Roberta. I just, um, you know, on the transition, um, for the CIP projects that are

listed that, um, you know, we're, we're taking a look at a loan, um, from one of the other measures to,

you know, to help jumpstart some things that we feel are, are urgent, um, here in the city.

And, um, as we take a look at the road resurfacing project I'd like for us to, um, instead of,

you know, the staff deciding immediately which, which area to work together and make and, and,

you know, kind of assess what, where we're going to prioritize that, um, area together.

And, uh, as we take a look at future, um, spending of measure, oh, and, um, you know, even other, um,

measure funding, incorporate more, um, engagement with the community. I feel like the, the community, um,

has is very much invested and interested in, um, how we're spending our money. And I know we

are making a commitment to provide more transparency through, um, identifying projects that

are, um, have an attachment to a particular measure. And I think it, I think it helps the

community to feel like they're making the right decision when they vote for these projects,

um, when they vote for these measures and see the project improve their quality of life.

And, uh, um, this is, I think, you know, the measure of e-loan is, uh, you know, given where,

where ad, I know the question has come up, why are we continuing to save money for, um,

a light rail, you know, it's not going to happen. We shouldn't have to worry about a loan.

Um, I, I do think that we provide a, an explanation. It's been a long time, um, since that money has

been sitting there and nothing has happened, um, yet, uh, I, I know there's something happening,

but there's no updates, even an update, um, to our transportation commission, um, as well. Even

if it's an update that, hey, we're still, um, you know, here, here's measure v, here's where we

spent, where we're redirecting the money. Here's the reason why, um, I do believe our commission,

our commissioners are interested in what we're planning on doing here, um, even in like economic

development, transportation, parks, um, even in the consideration of park rangers versus something

else, as, you know, you present to us what, um, we are assessing. They'd like to be involved as well

as what I've been hearing loudly among the commissioners. Um, and as we take a look at, um,

addressing some of these expenditures and, you know, what something, you know, a, a surprise, you know,

having, um, the A's present and us having to navigate, um, you know, heavier traffic and more, um,

involvement, um, among our local businesses, where we, you know, injected some, you know,

financing for their business so that they can, um, you know, make some minor improvements, um,

and helping other businesses who are taking a look at, you know, who, um, are connecting with

the community. Um, it, it'd be very good to help, you know, as we can provide a contribution,

taking you put up a measure and sign. That way, I think people feel like they, they know whether,

because they know it's sales tax, business owner knows it's sales tax, and they feel they're

getting some of that money back, but, but it is from a particular measure. Um, and I think that helps

the entire community, you know, know when they go to a restaurant and they have, um, you know,

a, a structure that's, you know, keeping them from the elements of one of their favorite restaurants

out in the community or sitting in and, and they have more beautiful chairs or the owner looks

happier because their electricity bill went down because they got a new refrigerator that's not

absorbing all the costs of, you know, um, you know, higher utility rates, things like that.

I think that our community, um, would benefit from knowing all of what we're doing, um, as a city.

And so, I think in, um, taking a look at these expenditures are a priority. I did do a, um,

you know, a community meeting and, um, you know, there were a lot of representatives from the

community as they take a look at where, where we have spent money in the past and how they would

like to benefit, um, whether it be our trails or bike pedestrian trails, they also like to see more

involvement in, um, save, for example, the equestrian community where they do chime in a lot and

they do say, hey, we like to ride our horses all throughout the city and, and, and some of these

trails and we find that there's signs up, um, saying they're, you know, we, you know, there's no

trespassing and, or we have to turn around and there's no loop or whatever. So as we engage in the

community to open up these corridors so that everybody can add, you know, utilize it, access it

and benefit from it, um, incorporating their involvement and incorporating their input as we,

you know, build things out and making sure that, you know, they feel satisfied. So there's just,

I think a lot in the community from what we hear, public safety being one of them. Um, in, um,

the South area and the North area, you hear a lot of break ins and, um, a lot of demands for public

safety and I, and I know we had a robust conversation about whether the, you know, positions that are

being filled is sufficient. Um, we'd like to guarantee to see some, some movement to making that

sufficient as well as, you know, seeing that there's a fire engine that can immediately, you know,

put out a fire, we want immediately a police officer to protect the community when they

feel threatened. Um, when there's somebody out there hitting run, you know, earlier today and they,

they have a gun. We don't know if it's loaded, we don't know why. Um, but the community, you know,

being told to shelter in place, you know, makes them feel less safe and we like to make sure that,

you know, fortunately, we have our canines that we can get out there and we have more, um,

equipment that we can put out there to be able to track people, learned a lot about that and thank

you to the police chief to, you know, with the open house to see our upgraded equipment.

And very much support our ongoing, um, investment in that so that, you know, we can, you know,

provide the protection and the security that the city needs. Um, and also, um, partnering with our,

you know, businesses, um, as we also see that we have an investment, um, for, you know, any kind of

theft and recovery that we can provide with the city. But, you know, working and partnering with, like,

the riverfront, as the A's are coming in, um, sharing the information, um, so that there is, you know,

public safety out there and collaborating with whatever technology they have with our technology.

I think that partnership is pretty key not only up in the riverfront, but throughout the city.

And, um, taking a look at, you know, innovative ways to use technology to provide more security

and safety throughout the city. So, you know, with that, there's also the request by our schools,

for a student resource officer. And, uh, just to address that, they, they, um, had the

interest to see a line item for a student resource officer. And, um, just to provide some feedback

on that from what I've heard in, in the inquiry that we did receive that we did have a conversation

in the, in the retreat. And, um, we, I think, um, are taking a look at what the community, um,

stakeholder engagement feedback is before we move forward with the decision in matching, um,

you know, 50% of the costs for a student resource officer. If there is that, and I hope that, um,

you know, the parents and, um, whoever else is engaged in the conversation, um, contribute so that we,

as a council, are informed. Um, and if there is a commission that needs to be, you know,

vetting this as well, parks and rec, you know, we do, um, have, you know, that, um, parks and rec department,

are the, um, parks and rec area to maybe also listen in because they can contribute in maybe other

ways, um, as well to provide support for our youth in the after school programming. Uh, you know,

so I'd like to be able to, if it's not just an SRO, what are the resources can we provide for our

students, um, who are challenged today and, and having a hard time? Um, you know, just, uh,

what happens in the schools, um, does affect us in the homes and whether it be in high school,

it affects the middle school, they're, you know, siblings and everybody talks and, um, you know,

my little grandson will tell me stories about what's happening in other schools already. He's tuned in.

Um, so, you know, we just like to make sure that, um, that those needs are met and we, um,

can collaborate closely with our school board members. I know the school board has sent this

letter, but we were under the impression that there is a community, um, stakeholder process before

we made that decision and that's why I think at this point, we don't have the SRO line item. Correct.

I would have to defer to the, uh, police chief on what his office is. There's a, there's a ongoing

dialogue with the district and like you said, they're doing a, uh, community survey process to,

I think sort of validate what their direction will be. Um, and in the meantime, we're having

conversations internally about some of the things we, that would be important to the city in order to

have that sort of partnership. So, so yes, it's a little premature to, uh, include it in this budget.

By the time we get to the two year, uh, we'll have that, uh, probably more, uh, built out at that point,

to the chief coming up at some point. Yeah, just, just, uh, add to the question, I think that was asked.

The school district will be announcing those input sessions very, very soon. So they'll be

happening in April. Um, so there's going to be sessions for parents and, and open community members

for, um, dedicated staff for, um, other staff. So they're going to have a pretty broad outreach

both in person, multiple languages online. Okay, thank you. And I did, um,

um, you know, receive via email. I don't know if you received it as well. I forwarded to you, um,

you know, just stay signed on, you know, petition of, and I don't, so as far as that being the process,

it's not what we had agreed to with the, um, two by two. It was this, and if you can provide a

little more of a description of the input and how this would weigh into our decision making process.

Yeah, I'm not certain what you're referring to that was not in alignment, but I know that we

did ask them to get community input on what a program would look like rather than us just

restarting a program that we had in the past that was then quickly eliminated. So we wanted to

make sure there was community input. So through surveying through these community input sessions,

the school district is hosting that and facilitating that so that they can get a broader

reach of community input find out what it is that the community thinks are gaps and how best

okay, thank you. So, so I can speak to you just as a parent in the district. I've received numerous

emails from the district, um, both for the survey as well as the informational sessions. And so,

I think they've done a really good job. I had an opportunity to, um, see doctorates super

intended on Monday at the YCOE super intended leadership meeting for the community and

and told her there as well. I have gotten many, many emails, um, wanting and requesting feedback

specifically about our, our SROs and what safety looks like within our schools. And so,

I appreciate that and the questions have also happened that are um,

coffees with principles. And so again, I think they've done a really good job of trying to make sure

that they um, and by community, I mean, because I think we use the word community a lot here,

but by community, we're really talking about parents, um, our administrative staff, our school

district staff, right, our teachers, um, and getting here. Thank you. And, and I did want,

and the reason why I'm bringing this up because I didn't want to dismiss the emails, the

sign, you know, change.org petition that was emailed to us and the school board letter.

Um, uh, I, I really want to, you know, I think we agreed, you know, in the two by two, um,

with the super intended that this process was going to take place first.

And then we were going to come back and make a decision, um, on what we, what kind of programming

would work best? And so with that, you know, I'd like to avail, um, you know, the process of our

resources, commissioners as well, either other opportunities to help our youth, um, you know,

to provide, you know, to receive the support that they need. And um, you know, just making sure

we accomplish that as well as an SRO if that's what it, if that's what it is.

Yeah, thank you. And I, and I do think that that what you're saying is true of reflects what was

asked and, and determined out of that two by two meeting of the process and that the process

is very, very important before we, uh, find a solution without a defined problem

and, and rush to the end that we need to do the process, this input process first. And so,

yeah, the question I think about the commitment of funds, not being made fully yet. I think that

was the core of your question. I think you're, you're accurate that that commitment of funds

wouldn't happen until we understand what the actual ask is. Thank you. Thank you.

Yes. Um, so I just want to clarify, um, you know, what I heard in that meeting was

significant amount of outreach, getting feedback from the community, um, students, parents, uh,

and then they would come and I say they, the school district, um, the school board would make a

decision of, with the support of the police department of what the future of SROs would look like.

Um, and that would not be a decision that we would be making here at council, but they would be

coming to us with a proposal and then there would be a discussion about resources. Is that correct?

That, that is my impression. In fact, I've even encouraged them not to even use the name and

convention if they could avoid it because that, that sort of can suggest an outcome. So,

yeah, their, their sessions are intended to really be open to trying to understand what the

needs of, of the communities that are truly there, their media stakeholders will be and then

trying to develop, implement best practices solutions and really understanding that we're going

to have to scale our way into this, um, candidly, you know, as much as MESROs going to really,

really promote in a profound way the growth of the police department to catch up to some,

on some of the gaps. The reality is, is it takes time to get folks higher. It takes time to get

them trained. We don't want to rush the process of training and hiring, uh, with the risk of

compromising on what we really should be doing. And so, there's a reality that, that may mean that

we aren't even ready to staff at position that they might want in the fall. And so we've had open

conversations about managing expectations about when we could actually implement and even considering

what, what Dr. Hilldrich and I have been talking about is, is really if we can't do, make a

commitment and that's what they want of, of full-time staff right out of the gate next school year,

then what can we do? What are the, what are the, the bite-sized things that we can actually manage

until we can reach a point where we have the resources, um, to actually supply in a way that meets the

needs? Oh, yes, that's a member of. And, and what I would say about, on the two by two conversations

that I appreciate and about, um, understanding the process is that the issues that we are facing

now in regards to feelings of public safety, um, by our parents, by our students, and by our teachers

are, are not new. Um, they existed when we had SROs as well. They existed when we had, you know,

one SRO, two SROs for, you know, over 7,000, um, kids within our school district. And, and so what I

respect and appreciate about this process is really actually working back with the understanding of

what is the issue that we are really trying to solve here and learning also from our history of

and did that solution that we're landing at now, solve those issues back then. If not,

then can we get more innovative and creative about what the solution can be and what our partnership

both with the city as well as the school district can be? And so really trying to think outside of

the box, um, because it might be that we actually haven't discovered that solution. And so I,

I appreciate the process. I appreciate the fact that there's a, uh, a facilitator also helping

through this process, helping the school district and also working, I think with our police

department as well, um, as I said, to really think through this. And so it's not something that we're

going to probably arrive at quickly, but my hope is that what we will arrive at is a, is a better

solution that truly meets the needs of our, and I use the word loosely community. My community,

I mean our students, my community, I mean our parents and my community, I mean our future and our

and our school district as well. And that's me with my city council hat on as well as my, my parent

hat on as well. Any other comments or questions? All right, I'll open it up for public comment.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak? We have no requests to speak on this item.

Thank you for bringing it back to council.

Oh, just comments.

You know, thank you here. When I take a step back, look at the

and we have a balance budget to reserve, which is an incredible position to be in right now with

cities around us millions of dollars in debt that's laying off the entire fire department.

We're in the process of growing. For Measure O, we were very intentional in our

verbiage to the community. It was let's grow with Measure O and we're growing to see

48 new positions. You know, I don't expect a lot of folks in the public who are listening to

go through these entire staff reports, but increasing the health and wellness budget for fire,

vehicle replacements for the fire department, new police officers, new vehicles for police officers,

our dedicated road maintenance team, increasing our park staff.

This is this is tangible things that we're going to be kicking into gear soon. And I'm excited to

see how quickly we're going to move supportive of our measure V loan so that we can make this happen

quicker. One of the first things we did with Measure O passing was we restored engine 45,

which is a fire truck with water. And today we actually saw it work in our best

eight off. There was a fire not too far from my home. And engine 45 was at the station. And when

the call came in, engine 45 was immediately able to get on site and extinguish a fire on the

second floor, just like that without having to hook up water immediately and be able to see

our investments so quickly pay off. It's it's powerful when we look at these numbers that we were

having the conversations with the community about what we wanted our city to be. And now we're

going to now we're actually putting dollars to positions and programs and we'll be able to

execute on these things. And it's going to be incredible to look back in two years and three years

to see how different our city looks. And I'm just I'm very proud of the work we did with Measure O.

And this quick implementation to be able to activate on the promises we made to the community

is incredible. So I just want to thank staff for all the work that they put into this.

You know it's going to take time to hire, but I'm excited to share those job postings when they

come out. And we've got you know nine firefighters and they Academy right now that are going to be

graduating in June. It's it's an incredible time to be blessed. I'm very proud of the scheme for

all the work that we so thank you for getting us here presenting on this.

Early. Yeah. Thank you. And thank you to my colleagues. I do want to just speak to

the things that I'm excited about about this budget. When I when I look at this people of numbers

and I love love love numbers, I do want to translate. Particularly for folks in my district

because over the past couple of years what we've heard over and over again and what I've heard

personally from literally my neighbors as well as just residents throughout my district is just

the general sense of not feeling not feeling safe, but also not even feeling to the point where

they can even call the police anymore because the sheer amount of needs throughout our city

may not compare to some of the issues that we are facing in in district three. And so when we had

our strategic planning meeting last month, one of the things I I challenged our chief on and I

appreciated him really stepping up on this is really what we are looking for immediately again

particularly in the district that I represent is wanting to know that the police that we have

staffed up are going to be able to respond to the calls in district three right so in bridge

lakes in in south port are going to be able to deal with the the traffic issues that we face in

regards to speeding in regards to the big trucks going down Marshall Road and I'll say it again the

big truck going down Marshall Road right I hear that a lot and as it compares to some of the things

that we see on West Capital it can be a challenge when you're having to deal with you know someone

getting us stabbed or some of the drug issues that we're dealing with West Capital versus maybe

some of the still real safety issues that we're dealing with in district three and so my hope as I

translate these numbers to what does that mean immediately for folks in in district three is

immediately feeling that you can pick up the phone and that a police officer is going to respond

and that you you are going to get a response that you are no longer seeing people flying through

stop signs on south port parkway because we have really addressed some of the traffic needs that

that we're feeling there and so that for me is what these numbers immediately translate to a real

life tangible things and then our roads as well again potholes potholes potholes they impact our daily

life and so seeing those already as we heard actually during a public comment already getting filled

but really in earnest taking on those capital improvement projects within south port I'm

extremely excited to be able to turn to our residents and say not only are we working but you can

immediately feel the work that's happening through this measure that we all work really hard

to get past so thank you thank you can you be the other council member if I can I mean I know you

still have what you're going to do but this this this was a big lift I did very very little of this

I pull everything together and I stand up here and give you a presentation but as with all budgets and

especially this time I mean this was huge everybody was working together this is months of

pulling these things together and really prioritizing what we're presenting tonight and we like

tomorrow I go in and we're jumping right into continuing to evaluate the adjustments that are not

in front of you today because we'll be back in a couple of months with the two-year budget proposal

implementing you know more of these priority priority needs and and spending measure out so

yeah I appreciate nice stand-up here and I'll take all the thank you thank you thank you but it's

not me it's you know it's all the others sitting back here ready to jump up and answer your

questions so and and I appreciate all of all of their help and their hard work it doesn't look

like much once we get up here but so it's a big slog to get through all of that and get here and

people put a lot of time and effort into this so yeah like I appreciate and I say thank you but

that goes to them thank you and and just as far as if you know for the members of the public to

really read through the details of this spending plan which when we when we dug in together you

know with all the leadership team was to identify the areas that we felt the community resonated in

the passage of this measure in addition to the fire engine that was something that I've been

fighting for because I've been hearing that from the fire department and I have to say we have

a good fire chief who's been really pushing for that through the years and you know just

seeing that the that there are areas not only you know with the fire department but with the police

department and and our chief you know being on the ready to prepare budget proposals you know it

feels like we are still behind thinking using uh setter health park as as an analogy when you come

in and we're growing then we're going to be a bigger city with more you know you you heard about

the housing plans and um just bringing in you know more people we needed to grow and jump start just

just quickly as setter health park got themselves major league baseball league style ready to go

we needed to do that and I am so grateful to the voters for the passage of this measure we we are

having this dialogue today and taking a look at not having a budget deficit but a budget plan

to meet the demands and and of the city potholes being one of them that's something that is dedicated

in here and we'll and we'll continue to invest in that and if we're not meeting that need

we're leaving a little bit of space so that we can address that um also our police department

you know just adding more um police officers we didn't realize we were have you know um a change

here with the major league baseball team coming um but we do have that in our city um police

department pivoted quickly um lieutenant Jason Winger is amazing he's he's one of the best I have

seen his work when we did a drive-through for a covid um you know et cetera health park you know he

was our lead in getting all the cars driven through um and moving quickly to get covid shots they

was a drive-through process and um you know he he I just remember um uh the county health department

saying this is the best city that can accomplish a traffic management plan and get people in and out

very quickly and so it's been very impressive and we're very lucky to have somebody like um lieutenant

Winger who's guiding us here in our city and also teaching others to do the same thing so um

you know we're you know we're gonna see him you know um move on to retirement planning soon but he

is here one more year with us to help us with this plan i'm so grateful um one or two column out

and you know mention that um but also to um our our union you know but you know brothers and sisters

all three of them who stepped in um and helped rally um all of the workers you know to you

know back this and so you know as a council we moved it forward but you know we we saw a lot of

support out there among our union brothers and sisters um and uh this this is going back to invest

in them to make their jobs easier to help them have more pride in the work that they are doing and

delivering for our city um and as a council we are so grateful and thankful for that work um and

all of you here as management who is providing the guidance um public works parks um police

and um and a public works you you're always unseen but you do a lot of the work um in the community

to you know make it look beautiful and our commissioners who are so thrilled to be commissioners

today and eager you know in many of the areas to see how this funding is getting spent the more we

share the information the more they can go and talk about the good work that the city is doing

so it's just um a great opportunity for our city's future seeing all this additional revenue um

seeing new things coming in and us being ready and prepared um and grateful for the staff you know

who you know who always do more work um with fewer hours on a shoot-string budget you hung in

there and we're so glad and appreciative of you being here for us so um with that i'll accept

an emotion to early second council member Rosca moved and council member early seconded

but i'm personally call the role council member Ocala council member early hi council member Roscoe

mayor pro temsle pizio hol hi mayor grero hi thank you thank you everybody thank you

just want to say thank you guys okay next is our general administration function part two um we

have our council assignments are the any reports from our council members thank you

right remember early um okay so today i actually had um the housing authority as well as our new hope

CDC um we adopted our mid-year budget as well as our strategic plan i will remind you all that

Ian Evans actually came to executive director um for our housing authority and presented and

and got our feedback all that feedback was incorporated not only from west acro minnow um but from

other jurisdictions in yola county and um and adopted into the first ever actually if you can

imagine it should you plan that the housing authority has put forward um we were also reminded

that they are turning 75 uh this year and so they will actually be celebrating in west acro minnow

um at a river cat game which is pretty darn cool um in addition for um easter the housing

authority will be hosting um their annual easter hunt across um their public housing uh spaces

including the one in west acro minnow and so if you guys are interested uh Ian will be sending out

a invite and i can make sure that that gets forwarded um to you all as well it's really fun they hide

something like a thousand eggs um and so just very fun and very cool um and then in addition to that

we had real conversations around advocacy um with everything that is happening federally um with

hood and the potential of what budget cuts would look like um with the adoption at least of the

budget through september um we at least are are good right now although holding steady at 2024

rates even though we are now in 2025 and so that doesn't actually cover 100% of the cost because

just like everything else every year costs increase um and so that was um part of one of the things

that our executive director uh shared that we'll be watching for and then um i um suggested advise

that our executive director make sure for our our housing authority but they're working both with

the counties advocacy um arm um and consulting um firm as well as wherever possible our local

as well because we are going to be impacted significantly by this and so whatever we can do to make

sure um that we are supporting that because again our residents um as we heard during the

presentation of the strategic plan are again a significant uh proportion of our vouchers

that the housing authority has um in addition to that we had a capital area region

tolling authority in which i'm the vice chair that meeting uh was uh last monday and then i will share

just in general what uh karta is working on right now is really actually staffing up this next year

is going to be extremely busy uh we have gone to having quarterly meetings to actually monthly meetings

as we are are trying to build out uh a tolling authority the first ever by the way tolling authority

in this region it's starting first in yolo county and um as i said west Sacramento plays a really

big role in that um and so what does equity look like what um do the act will just a pulling

structure look like whether that be that you actually have um barriers do you have uh just a line

or um for the lane i mean it's that level of conversation but again are going to impact every single

one of us in this region uh that we are deciding right now um as well as the staffing and then how do

you even fund um something like that up front right because we know that we will have pulling revenue

in the future in years from now but right now in order to even build it it requires um it requires

funding and so those are the conversations um that are happening right now and then i will flag

for everyone uh that this month coming up will be the first of a three um workshop um um

educational learning um experience that yolo transportation district is putting on um and it really

is just one-on-one about the budget and trying to make sure that we are level setting as we will be

going into a fiscal cliff um when it comes for our transportation probably in the next five years or

so and so what does that look like where's our funding currently going across our jurisdictions

and as we are going to have to start to make really tough decisions um where exactly are the areas

where that could potentially happen um and so it will uh start as i said as uh with a one-on-one

z-cog will be presenting so will the fta um and a couple of other folks um and again it's it's kind of

wonky but it's actually very very important um we know surrounding us there are um as we heard not only

jurisdictions that are dealing with budget deficits there are transportation districts across

california that are dealing with significant budget deficits and they're uh this is just a start of it

um and so this is not too little this is again we really need to start to be strategic and prepare

and that's what we do in west Sacramento um and i'm currently chair of ytd and so that's

what we are doing preparing for the future and that is um my council update

um

the other uh i'll just mention quickly an executive commissioner to dress homelessness we had a

conversation about HUD funding as well and just the uncertainty of uh what that might look like and

having e and evans actively engage this has been wonderful and as we were getting the update

i was thinking about um you come about the conversations that you're having there as well and so

um can't report back anything specific as in as to how it's going to affect the

mission to dress homelessness is funding programs um but it's something that everybody's watching very

um i tend to say a little salon air quality management district on mark 12 it was pretty

short mating we just went over sundry items like uh approving long-range planning calendar approving

revised job descriptions date and then we had a budget meeting um immediately afterward so

that was also we had a budget not a committee meeting budget for the year was approved online

or i'm going to save it for the next meeting

oh great that that council calendar good evening our report tonight

for no report March 31st is a big day for the city of west sacrosan oh my god it's historical day

yes it is what you'd like me to give the managers report on that why don't you go ahead and

give the managers you go sure um yeah as you mentioned um opening day march 31st um

and then it's 150 three-night baseball so um give or take so we have a significant update that i will

actually be following up with an email to the council that was put together by amber ciaset

who has been coordinating all things um baseball that's related related to aes and river cat

season along with the staff team so i wanted to give just kind of the high level tonight though just

because there there has been significant progress in uh reading ourselves for um opening day and then

some on communications uh we're we're happy to announce that we we have uh we're calling it a

soft launch the website that we've been working on is uh is live now we will we'll be sending that

out to the councils you can see the features of it but basically it's a helpful way for residents

to find out or not residents but visitors the west sack to find out how to get around and and

where to park how uh where you can go to eat and uh where you can stay um the other parts of that are

you know all the questions around parking and and you know everything i just talked about there's an FAQ

section that'll should be very helpful um another significant update is i want to make sure the

council knows that we're going to be doing a press conference on march 27 we've already sort of

communicated this to you uh to kind of reiterate some of that same messaging um sorry

and then on traffic i just wanted to highlight a couple of things we have a uh traffic management

plan that we've been working on uh that is that is fully developed um part of that update is we are

issuing access placards to people who live and work in the vicinity of the stadium

so that's something that we're going to be rolling out to the people who are eligible for that

very soon um on security there's a security master plan or management plan that we've been working on

with the teams and nlb uh you'll get some details on that as well and then probably the most visible

things you'll notice driving around town right now in fact some of them just went up

uh we have wayfinding signage in the bridge district around Washington i saw that yeah that's

that's brand new um we also as an aside related to parking we are going to be posting um sort of

a frames and other signage directing people from the zig-r-ah garage to restaurants in the third

street corridor right uh in hopes that you know that'll drive some traffic that way uh there's

also going to be the street banners that you've seen kind of the proofs of those are going to be going

up very soon i think as soon as uh they'll be up by next week and uh finally um we have the

business accelerator program which thus far we've awarded grants to about a dozen businesses

and hopefully more on the way so that's just a quick synopsis of of the various topic of

work the staff has been involved with and preparation for the for the season ahead um you know i

can't say enough for the work across all departments that staff has been involved with and then i

think hopefully the council will through this update you'll receive from me and as we roll out

to the season you'll be proud of what uh what sack is done to make it self-ready for the majorly

season so remember i'll come here we hit off it'll yeah so the digital billboards is kind of a

separate initiative but we are um i believe they're in under construction right i'm crazy yeah five

weeks from now they say yeah um now that's kind of separate from this but it is another um option for

um businesses and and the the teams to utilize to promote uh baseball and

thank you for that update city attorney report thank you i have nothing to report

to see me that direction from city council members i think we have anything on our agenda correct

all right um no future agenda items um this time so i'll accept the motion to adjourn

i'll second okay um council member early move mayor pretends to piece you a whole second and

but i'm click please call the roll council member o'cala hi council member early hi council member roesco

mayor pro-tempts will piece you a whole hi mayor grero hi all right we are now adjourned thank you everybody

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