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roll ninth meeting of the city of west Sacramento City Council the West

Sacramento redevelopment agency and the finance we will begin with the land

acknowledgement we would like to acknowledge that on the land on which

we live work learn and commune is the original homelands of the indigenous

people of west Sacramento who have stewarded this land throughout the

generations we acknowledge and we thank the original inhabitants who have

occupied, maintained and secured this place and who still exist on this land. We respect

and celebrate the many diverse indigenous people still connected to this land on which

we gather. Council met in closed session this evening on the items listed in the agenda,

Mr. City Attorney, please provide a report. Yes, Madam Mayor. The council met in closed

session for the items listed on the agenda. No reportable action was made. We would like

to invite our guests to join council and staff in the pledge which will be led by Mr. Alex Hirsch.

Congratulations to the United States of America, the Republic, the Egyptian, invisible,

invisible, invisible, invisible. Thank you, Mr. Hirsch. As is noted on our agenda, City Council

is prohibited by state law from discussing or taking any action on items that are brought

up under item one for public comment, but it provides an opportunity for a public forum.

The public is given an opportunity at this time to address city council issues not listed on the

agenda. We do have an item on the agenda related to Bright Park and that Bright Park agenda item is

under the consent calendar. So if anybody's interested in speaking about Bright Park,

if you could please list the consent agenda item number and not speak under public comment for

that because I will ask you to pause and then wait until public comment if you do come up and speak

on that item. We do ask that anyone wishing to address the council on this or any other item this

evening to please fill out the request to speak card and return it to the clerk. And we accept the

request to speak cards up to the conclusion of the reading of the staff report on any particular

agenda item. Once the staff report has been read and we open the item up for public comment, the

clerk will announce your name for you to walk to the podium to speak. Now in front of the clerk,

there is a timer to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard. And we ask that all comments

be limited to three minutes. Also in front of the clerk is an analog flip chart which indicates

which agenda item the council is currently considering. We also recognize that for some

speaking in public can cause anxiety so we request that there is no applause, blues, cat calls,

or other demonstrations. Other demonstrations. Furthermore, so that we maintain a civil discourse

here in the chambers, we ask that those in attendance and those who address the city council

abide by the code of conduct posted and not speak in loud threatening, offensive, abusive,

or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct

of the meeting. So now this brings us to item one, presentations by the public on matters

not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council. Each person has three minutes to speak.

Madam clerk, do you have any requests to speak? Yes ma'am. Guy Stevenson.

Madam Mayor, City Council members, I had an interesting conversation with about three or four

people that come here to your City Council meeting and they stepped to me and they said,

Guy are you about regulations? And I said, yeah, I am as a matter of fact. And I think you know

where I'm going with this is that if any of the city workers here don't like the idea that I'm

bringing it up, that's too bad. I'm not going to stop. And you know what it has to do with? It has

to do with the food vendors that are here in West Sac that don't have licenses, don't have the health

department clear them. And they have to follow the rules. And if they're not going to follow the

rules, then why do any of these people on their own restaurants and own businesses, why do they

have to get licenses and stuff? So I asked one of my buddies who is called the area accountability.

He does a lot of stuff on YouTube. And I said, well, this is what we'll do if they don't want to

listen. Then what I'm going to do is I want you to go around and record these people. And I want you

to put it online. And that's what he's going to do because it's obvious that when you come in here

and you speak, some people up here might listen to you. Other people do not. So you know, they just

look at the ceiling or they just put their ears and close them and just say, I'm not going to listen

to that guy. Well, that's fine. Don't listen to me. I don't want you. But when you see you popping up

on YouTube about something and you're not doing it because of regulations that you don't want to

follow, then that's fine. And the other thing is I was going to bring up is the issue of people

signing in when they come in this building. That is a brown act violation. The only time that a

person is supposed to give him your name is when they fill out one of those cards. Coming into this

building is a brown act violation. If you want to check it out, you can. And so I'm about regulation

and I'm about the law. I mean, if you guys have a problem with that, I'm sorry, but that's just the

way I am. I took a lot of orders in the military and they're about regulations under the DOD.

And if you don't do something in the military, guess what? They're going to write you up and they're

going to make you look bad. So I'm not trying to make any of you people look bad. If you're not

going to make these people enforce these regulations, then I'm going to put it all over YouTube.

That's plain and simple. And I'm sorry. I'm not trying to make threats. I'm just telling you what

I'm going to do. You know, we already did it in Clusa County, but Clusa County has a little bit

of an tendency to do what they're supposed to do. Thank you, Mr. Stevens.

Mark Reyes.

Thank you.

We have a packet of

God, I'm missing my state. Okay. Hi. Good evening, everyone. Hello. I take it that each member

present has received an email with an additional statement that I trust has been read with more

deal to detail description of the situation. Is that correct?

You got that? Excellent. Okay. I'm here tonight asking for your help to put a stop to an order

and a threat of fines that I received demanding that I tear down a carport structure that was

built to cover my parked motor home. Now it's my understanding that I just happened to be the

unlucky one that lived next to or near an habitual complainer. I'm taking this act very

personally. I mean, how else should I take it? Since there are numerous similar structures in

the local area that fall into the setback ordinance in question. As you can see, looking at the

pictures that are provided in the folder. These are just some of the residents throughout the

city of West Sacramento that don't have the luxury or capability to park their vehicles in a covered

garage. It's the driveways where they park their vehicles and it's our driveways where the structures

must be located. Most of these carport structures are available for purchase at a local hardware store.

It's a fact that they are a growing and popular choice for relief from the elements that are

diminishing the value of our assets. Council member Norma has agreed and voiced the fact

stating that is an unfair situation and that maybe the ordinance in question should be reviewed

and possibly rewritten and amended with the consideration of these particular structures.

We are living in an extremely harsh environment that is only going to produce the need for more

of these shade providing structures to be built throughout our area. We're please help me to

put a stop to having my carport torn down and the threat of this outrageous fines proposed by your

community development department. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Reyes.

Miss D. Drew.

Hello. I'm here tonight in support of Mark Reyes. I just want to speak on

and just to support him and his wife Gloria because they own a beautiful property.

They're in our city. Their residence here. Mark is a military veteran and they take very good care

of their property and what's being done to them is really unfair and you know they are dealing with

a crazy neighbor who likes to complain and I'm sure that everybody's had to deal with crazy

neighbors from time to time and when you go around and you look at different houses in the city

I seriously doubt you're going to find somebody who keeps you know their yards as beautiful as

Mark and Gloria do. You know they take very very good care and there's it's somebody that when you

look at their house it's it's people that that we're proud to have in our city. Their house is not

an eyesore and I'm just you know I'm coming here to support them to ask you know that that you guys

take a second you know give them a chance to you know keep their structure up. It's not in

anybody's way. It's not obstructing anybody's view and and just to support them in in what they're

doing and and make sure that they're treated fairly in our city. Thank you. Thank you Mr.

Maria Grajava.

Good evening council members. I uh I was just going to comment that I was driving down Michigan

Boulevard. I live on Michigan Boulevard and I saw this RV cover and this nice covered RV and I was

like wow that is super nice and super brand new and I was admiring it as I was going down Michigan

Boulevard so I didn't know that that's Mark and I didn't know that he was going to come today and

so I'm really I'm here to compliment on how nice it looks. It's really really nice. I actually have

a barn for RV the same size and mine is rather old. This is wooden and so I wanted to compliment

this family for such a beautiful RV cover. The purpose of today that I'm here is to make public

comment and to bring public comment regarding district elections and three years ago almost three

years ago uh I my attorney won the first case ever enforcing the Fair Act the Fair Maps Act

that prohibited splitting neighborhoods. I'm sure everybody remembers this and so we created a

district giving a voice to the long neglected broad and bright neighborhood and Scott Rafferty

actually saved the city almost ten thousand dollars by getting a court order that prevented an

unnecessary ballot question and and the only purpose of that ballot would have been to polarize

the 2022 elections against Latinos so so yet he this attorney has yet to be paid

as required by law and all of us in the city are benefiting and two years ago we obtained

and found out from public records that the our city attorney has made at least a hundred thousand

dollars on uh billable hours and those billable hours are still continuing today because right now

this our city of West Sacramento is going to file an appeal uh and it does not make sense and so

it's time to update the estimate of the amount wasted in this feudal vendetta so please recognize

that my attorney Mr. Scott Rafferty achieved a permanent reform for our city that benefits everyone

and we really need to pay him and we really need a new city attorney thank you very much

thank you mr. Hava we have no additional requests to speak on this item all right now that um

don't have any more requests to speak we have three presentations under the city manager's office

and i'm going to be moving around items two three and four and um bring up item number four first

which uh councilmember al-qala will be taking up the child abuse prevention month um jennaba

la hayf the executive director of yolo county children's alliance will be the recipient council

member of college thank you jennaba are you thank you please come up

good to be going through the resolution and we'd love for you to make you raise up

all right i don't want to mess it up it's okay someone can help

thank you

thank you the proclamation of the city council city of west sacramento recognizing

april 2025 child abuse prevention month whereas child abuse and neglect continue to post serious

threats to our nation's children and whereas april is dedicated to raising awareness and

preventing child abuse and neglect each year communities join child abuse prevention month

to promote prevention and support families and whereas in 2024 yolo county child welfare services

investigated allegations of abuse or neglect involving 1,033 children with 124 entering foster

care black children ages 0 to 5 though only 2.5 percent of child population accounted for 10.5 of

these entries emphasizing the need to focus prevention efforts and whereas preventing child

abuse and neglect is a collective responsibility that requires community wide effort this year's

cap month theme it takes a village reflects the african proverb that emphasizes the importance

of community involvement in raising children research shows that strong supportive relationships

can serve as a protective factor against childhood trauma yolo county children child abuse prevention

council capc recognizes that no one can do it alone and whereas the capc of yolo county

and yolo county children's alliance program coordinates the community's efforts to prevent

and respond to child abuse and neglect and has members from child welfare services the criminal

justice system prevention and treatment services and the larger community and whereas west sacramento

residents are encouraged to support child abuse prevention efforts by participating in local

activities and initiatives that promote strong healthy families the it takes a village campaign

reminds us all the building safe stable and nurturing environments for children requires

action from every member of our community now therefore be a proclaimed that the city council

of the city of west sacramento hereby recognizes the month of april 2025 as child abuse prevention

month proclaimed this ninth day of april 2025 thank you councilmember akala good evening

madam mayor madam mayor pro tem and council members thank you all for having me here i'm

honored to represent the yolo county child abuse prevention council a program of yolo county

children's alliance thank you for standing with us in support of children and families

and for making their well-being a priority in your work and your decision making the mission

of the child abuse prevention council is clear to eliminate child abuse and neglect and to address

the adversary adversity it causes by strengthening families and communities so everything you do here

is child abuse prevention so thank you uh like councilmember akala stated in 2024 and this is

data directly from our child welfare services department in yolo county child welfare services

responded to reports involving over a thousand children while not all of these cases was substantiated

124 children entered foster care last year this represents a slight decrease from 2023 which is

really good but disparities still remains so for example black children ages zero to five

make up just 2.5 percent of the county's child population yet they represent 10.5 percent of

foster care entries addressing these disparities continue to be a top priority for us we are

committed to implementing culturally responsive strategies that protect vulnerable children

and help families thrive so since april is child abuse prevention month this year all the child

abuse prevention council in northern california came together under the theme it takes a village

highlighting the power of community in protecting children and supporting their well-being so the

reason why we chose uh the theme it takes a village research shows that strong social connections

are one of the most effective ways to prevent child abuse and neglect whether it's a teacher

neighbor or mentor every caring adult can make a difference in the child's life this year's campaign

is focused on raising awareness and inspiring collective actions through a series of key

initiatives so on april 25th pinwell guardians will bloom across the county as a symbol of hope

and advocacy for child well-being uh that day holds a very special significance it is the day of

its children's memorial flag day which is observed on the fourth friday of april since 1997 so hosting

a pinwell garden at your home school agency or business is a powerful way to show how positive

connection can shape a child's future each pinwell represents the bright and healthy childhood every

child deserves we invite you to also join the community art project so all of this information

by the way is on our website at www.yolokids.org we also invite you to attend an event at the family

resource center located in bright and broadrick area at alice mormon there will be an event honoring

child abuse prevention and of course we'll send all of those events invitation again thank you for

your commitment to this vital cause together we can ensure every child grows up feeling safe valued

and supported thank you again thank you we'll go down take a photo with you please

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Next up is a proclamation from the

city of west Sacramento recognizing

April 6 through 12 as national

library week. And we have a couple

of, I don't know how many raise your

hand, how many people are here to

receive that. Okay. Well, I have two

names and you can include the last

one. When you come on up to the

library, I will bring you to the

library. And you can also

bring the library to the library

in place. Alex Hirsch with

Sacramento friends of the library

president and Christa Panariado,

Yolo county library regional

manager. And while I am reading

this, if you can come on up, that

will be great. All three or four

of you. Whereas the Yolo county

library sparks creativity and

inspires lifelong learning by

serving as a vibrant community

program. And the Yolo county

library is a community that

is a community that is

innovative programming and

ensuring all residents, all

individuals, regardless of

background, have the resources to

learn, connect and thrive. And

whereas the Arthur F.

Turner community library hosted

free performances by the

Sacramento Philharmonic and

opera story times with the

Sacramento ballet and UC Davis

library. The library also

supports the city of Yolo county

library to maximize resources,

increase efficiency and expand

essential services, the city as

a whole. And whereas the

Yolo county library collaborated

with three sisters garden to

distribute free locally grown

produce, tote bags, and more

than 300 books to river bank

elementary summer school

students as part of the California

state library funded pop up

program. This is for many

teachers, entrepreneurs and

lifelong learners through

access of training tools and

opportunities that support

career growth and economic

success. And whereas the Arthur

F. Turner community library

staff offer English and

bilingual story times summer

programs to inspire lifelong

reading and protect the right

to read, think and explore freely

without censorship, upholding

and friends of the libraries across the country are joining together to celebrate National Library Week under the theme

drawn to the library. Now therefore be it proclaimed to the City of West Sacramento City Council hereby designates April 6 through 12,

2025 as National Library Week, encouraging all residents to visit their library, explore its resources and celebrate all the ways that the library draws us together

as a community proclaimed today. And Mr. Hirsch and Pano Riado, I have a quick bring your name. If you have any or anybody would like to speak?

Thank you so much. I think Alex is going to speak on our.

Okay.

Well, thank you mega raro and members of the City Council as shared. I have the pleasure to be the president of the West Sacramento Friends of the library and tonight I'm here with Christa from the Yellow County library team and

Satota, one of our incredible Westfall volunteers and Westfall for those who don't know is a 100% volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to a singular mission, which is supporting our incredible Arthur F.

Turner community library right here in West Sacramento. I know I share with many of you a love and deep affection for libraries and library staff and all that they do.

For me, my story, I grew up a latchkey kid and would often go to the library on the way home walking from school to home and would spend hours there as a safe space doing homework and developing my love of reading and my love of

learning. And I know again that that's a love that many of you share you bring your children your grandchildren to the library. You visited our library when you were a child in our community. And for all of us.

We are lucky to have you sitting at this week. Council Dias here in West Sacramento, our library is a true community cultural center which everyone in the community support.

The communities are not so much libraries and other communities are under attack, whether it's through censorship or through deprivation of funding.

Those communities aren't as fortunate as we are here in West Sacramento. You know the library offers programs, such as meals during the summer when students are out of school. It offers summer reading programs that offers lifelong learning

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and more sustainable future.

However, you guys have heard me actually talk,

and definitely my colleagues have

heard me talk about the fact that we are faced with a fiscal

climate to transportation, not just here in Yolo County,

but actually regionally.

And so I'm not going to sugar cut the fact

that we are going to be facing some tough realities when

it comes to transportation, and specifically,

transportation funding in this region.

However, we can't build everything we dream up.

We can be smart about what we are putting our funds

and our energy towards.

We can be strategic.

And we can invest in what matters most,

not only again here in West Sacramento, but regionally.

And that's exactly what Saqqaq does,

and that's what their purpose is.

This organization is a vital voice for our region.

It lifts up our shared priorities.

It makes sure we're heard at the state and federal level.

And when we come together, when we speak with one voice,

we become more competitive for funding

that we need, again, not just in West Sacramento,

but regionally to bring our vision to life.

And so I wanted to make sure to share that as you tee up

the blueprint, because it's our honor to have you here

as a champion for our region.

So thank you.

Thank you so much, Mayor Guerrero, Council Member

Early, Council Members.

James Corral is Executive Director of the Sacramento Area

Council of Governments.

Thanks so much for that introduction.

I'm really giving you an update on our long-range plan

tonight, the region's long-range plan

across all six counties and 22 cities,

looking out to the year 2050.

So this is the plan that knits together,

transportation, infrastructure, housing, jobs.

As Council Member Early said, without this plan,

we really are not going to be competitive for state grants,

for federal grants.

So I'm going to give you a little bit of an update.

We are, as I know you all know, you've

played an instrumental role, frankly,

in Saacog for a long time now with the Council of Governments.

So all 22 cities and six counties sit around our board table,

as you know, twice a month.

We're covering this much area from Davis to the Sacramento

Delta to the Tahoe Rim to Yuba City, Marysville,

and have every single local government at the table.

It's kind of remarkable.

It's very unique.

So we started the long-range plan,

and we really started two years ago,

and we're kind of in the home stretch here.

But we started it based on a framework

of a triple bottom line, which is,

how do we maximize equity, social and racial equity?

How do we make sure we are doubling down

on economic prosperity and tradeable growth sectors?

And how do we have a sustainable environment, clean air,

and clean water?

We've done a lot more outreach in this plan

than we have literally ever done before in any long-range plan.

We've done every kind of outreach

you can imagine from pop-up workshops

to polling, to focus groups.

And we've learned a lot through all that outreach.

We've distilled that down into about seven different themes.

And I'll name a few here.

One of the biggest things, actually, things we heard

is housing.

So when we go out and we surveyed and polled

on a transportation plan and challenges the region faces,

one of the first things that we hear back

is, am I kids afford to live here?

Am I grandchildren afford to live here?

We're becoming a fast-growing region,

but we actually have not been keeping pace

with the amount of housing and affordable housing

that we need to develop.

But people also care a lot about things

like safe and convenient transportation options,

preserving open space, and our amazing productive agriculture,

creating complete communities where you can walk, you can bike,

you can get to school safely.

So these themes are not necessarily new,

but they are the seven major things that we really

heard loud and clear.

And just from one of the folks's groups, which

is sort of rings true, Councilmember Early said about funding,

one of the funding clips that we face

is public transportation funding.

So we have to get smart and rally together as a region

to figure out how we're going to make sure

we have enough money to run our trains, our buses,

our microtransit.

But this was something we heard over and over again

from all of our outreach is people want options.

They want choices.

They want the ability to get around without a car

at all life stages.

A little bit of just the results from our survey,

as I mentioned, housing.

This was the survey that we actually

we worked with community-based nonprofits

to get this survey out into the hands of a lot of their partners

and their members.

And as I said, affordable housing, the number one issue

in the region according to the survey, crime and public safety,

a lack of transportation choices,

and rising traffic congestion.

So we've learned a lot too.

This plan gets very technical.

It's very detailed.

We have to model out the future growth and the projection

for the region.

We've done pretty well on that, by the way.

Going back to our plans, we've turned to the century.

We forecast that this region would be at about 2.7 million

people right now.

We're about 2.6.

But we do project we're going to grow by another 600,000 people

by 2050.

Our growth rate, and you may feel this every day

if you're on the freeways or anywhere,

our regional growth rate across the six counties

is higher than the statewide growth rate as a percentage

and higher than the national growth rate.

In fact, by the 2020 census, we were the fastest growing

metropolitan region in all of California.

And here in West Sacramento, that

means that while our region will grow by 600,000 people

and 260,000 jobs, and so we'll need 278,000 housing units.

Over the next 25 years, it does mean

that West Sacramento is also going to grow.

So we have to do all the balancing of infrastructure

and transportation and quality of life and schools

and everything else that you know about

and that you work on every day.

We're projecting to the 31,000 people here in West Sacramento

and the city by the year 2050, hopefully 15,000 more jobs

because your economic base is key, which

will require nearly 16,000 more housing units.

The good news is you and your staff

are doing a lot of planning and you have a lot of foresight

and you have a regional partner that's here to help.

Across the region, that growth is really

what we'd like to think of as a balanced portfolio.

A third of that future growth, those 278,000 housing units,

will be in infill areas, areas close to downtowns

and commercial corridors, what we call centers and corridors.

Another third of that growth will be in building out

our existing urbanized footprint, our general plans

across our cities.

And about one third of that growth

will actually be in the light blue on this map,

which are new growth areas, which are new developing areas

in Sacramento County, here in Yellow County, in West Sacramento,

in Sutter County, and Yuba County.

About a third of that in those new growth areas.

Talking a little bit about transportation.

Obviously, this is a key piece here

for the city of West Sacramento.

There's a number of bridge crossings

that you are all involved in and that we are helping out

as your partner, which is the I Street Bridge,

the Broadway Bridge, and the channel as well.

So all of these things are really important.

Also, things including Yolo TD and Yolo Bus,

as well as your microtransit, capital corridor

and making sure that we get good connections by rail

to the Bay Area and East,

and of course, our trail network here.

On transportation, while we're not gonna have

as much money as we hope, we still need to be very competitive

for state and federal grants.

But another big thing we heard,

actually, we did our outreach with safety.

So a lot of the public and the survey responses we got back

was around traffic safety and not feeling safe,

whether you're walking or biking or driving,

and the numbers bear that out.

Actually, our fatalities and injuries

from transportation-related accidents

are going up in this region

faster than other regions in California.

So the public knows that.

They are wanting safer streets and to feel safer,

they're wanting us to prioritize,

fixing our existing infrastructure

that's falling into disrepair,

and some lower cost and quicker projects.

So I mentioned we're in the home stretch of the plan.

We're calling the 2025 Blueprint.

We are gonna release a public draft in May,

along with an EIR for public review.

That'll be out for 60 days.

It'll come back at the end of July.

Our board will review a final draft plan,

and then we will hopefully adopt and certify the EIR

this November at the end of the year.

And just a couple of other things I wanna mention.

We don't just do a plan to have a plan

and to have it sit on a shelf or the internet website.

We wanna do a plan so we can implement it.

We are very proud of the programs

that we've developed and created with you and your staff

in cities and counties across the region.

One is Green Means Go.

When we've taken the state mandates

to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation,

we've translated that

into an economic development and housing program.

We've worked with your staff to identify areas

where we can get resources from the state

to fund infrastructure to enable more economic development.

We call that Program Green Means Go.

It took us three years,

but we won 600 million statewide

and 34 million for this region.

We have a trails program.

We have a plan to connect every corner of this region

with paved biking and walking trails.

And if we can connect all the awesome trails

that already exist,

a lot of the work that you're doing here in West Sacramento,

we can literally have a thousand mile network

of paved walking and biking trails

that will feel safe for everybody

regardless of age or ability.

And finally, this is in the bottom left,

I just wanna mention,

we are in a very formal MOU

and working relationship with the Bay Area,

the Metropolitan Transportation Commission

and San Joaquin County.

We have a dozen projects.

We call the Mega Region.

And those projects,

including projects like the Yolo Causeway,

the Capital Corridor,

bringing rail service up here from the Tri Valley

and the San Joaquin Valley

that will connect to the airport and someday to Chico.

Those are all projects that we're working on

together across the 16 County,

Northern California, Mega Region.

So I'm gonna end on this.

We're a six county region.

We have a bipartisan delegation to state capital.

We have a bipartisan delegation in Congress.

And it is more important than ever for us to be a team

across all six counties to work together,

going back to DC, for trips to DC,

working with our members of Congress back here at home,

working with our state delegation to the capital

to make sure they understand that we're investment ready,

that we're growing fast, but we have great plans

and we are poised for success.

I wanna say one more thing about the Mega Region,

by the way, and hats off to the West Sacramento Athletics,

as I understand the broader athletic.

Thank you.

The MLB commissioners, you probably know,

mayor came out of a meeting here about a month ago

and said, I thought this was just a couple of cities

of 600,000 people.

I now understand this is a Mega Region of 11 million, right?

So if we can put ourselves on that radar screen,

we got nowhere to go but up.

So this is our plan and guess what?

If you're a team, you look good in purple.

See?

Thank you.

So in all honesty, we do have to be a team.

We gotta work across partisan divide.

We gotta work across geographic divides.

We gotta work across our counties.

One of the few agencies that really represents

across along the Metro Chamber and GSEC, all six counties.

So we can't do it alone.

Gotta do it together.

And with this plan, we think we'll be in really good shape

to compete for state and federal funding.

Happy to answer any question.

Thank you, Mr. Corlis.

Greatly appreciate you taking the time to come out

and present to us with the status

of the 2025 Blueprint is.

I know a lot of work and your team is incredible.

They go into a lot of detail

and educate all the regions when it comes time for us

to apply for these grant funds that you've come down

the federal and state level.

I know it's been a hard,

challenging as far as what we are going to get

at the federal level.

State level is turning like that day by day

depending on what's happening.

And I did want to say though,

I didn't realize you wanted to speak.

And as a general rule, just for governor and sake,

you can let me know in advance.

Of course, and I appreciate you allowing and doldrum.

Yeah, I just didn't know what the presentation

was gonna be and if it was gonna be aligned

only because when we do speak as a council,

it'll be related to what is presented.

So that's what, that's the turnaround is to do it after.

And if you'd like to share in the additional comments,

that would be great.

Thank you, I probably will.

If, and at this time,

I wanted to open it up to council

to see if you had any questions.

How many members are there?

But for coming back in front of our council,

I've heard you speak on multiple occasions

in your leadership volumes.

As the longest serving woman on this council,

I gotta say I've seen your presentation in the past

and under the leadership of Christopher Baldwin

and Chris Ledesma who both took very big roles

as far as making sure that West Sacramento was represented

in these conversations about how it is that we interconnect

in the region with our transportation goals

and our environmental goals and our blueprint

and our footprint in this.

I gotta say it's exciting to see all the progress.

And of course we're in a very difficult time

with acknowledging that.

But I am grateful that we do have the leadership

of my colleague Dr. Hurley,

the president of the B. Carr City Council.

And I'm really proud and thankful and grateful

for the investment that they've gotten.

There are projects that people don't even know

that we enjoy every single day that weren't,

that were made possible as say Cog,

and I over West Sacramento.

And one that's underway currently that's going to affect

a lot of children here in West Sacramento

who get to join us from one side of the city

that is potentially been split in half by a highway.

And my son placed local soccer.

He has a colleague that we would pick up

to pick soccer but he lives on the other side

of the freeway and couldn't make it just soccer practice

without getting in a car and driving along the road.

But because of these investments,

talking about road and traffic calming measures,

we're talking about bikeable and walkable communities

where there's an energy that becomes contagious.

And we become a healthier community or cleaner air

and an ability to really utilize the city streets

for different purposes other than honking our horns

and running our vehicles on the fuel that powers them.

And so I just want to say that, you know,

as we look forward to the vision of the city

and our aging infrastructure and how it is that we find ways

of reinvesting in order to make the city brighter and safer

and just ready for our future, I look to say Cog

and I say, you know, thank you for reinvesting

in a community that had been traditionally neglected.

And we were this the passerby.

People would want to get to Sacramento or Dave

or other bigger cities and pass through West Sacramento

without stop, but now we are a destination

and we can only get better with help.

So thank you so much for bringing the presentation before us,

but also for looking at our city for the way

and making such tremendous investments.

And Council Member Roscoe, I would say,

I also want to thank your staff

because a lot of the investments that you just mentioned

are competitive grants.

They write amazing applications.

They work really well with us.

They are a professional team, right?

And they really have been incredible at drawing down those.

This is not a, there's not a guarantee

of that money coming to West Sacramento.

That is partly because you've got a very, very good staff

who knows how to write those grant applications

and really, you know, make the case.

I would agree.

Yeah. Sure.

Yeah. Perfect.

I look at this picture in regards to teamwork

and I see not only the entire region reflected here,

but many of my colleagues

from the Yolo Transportation District,

from Winters, from Woodland, from Davis,

our county supervisor, Oscar Villegas,

and it really is a team effort.

And what you touched on, Council Member Roscoe,

in regards to, I think you are behind,

Saekhag is behind the scenes for the entire region

helping to lift us up, lift the entire community up.

And when you say go A's,

the Bridge District would not be what it is

had it not been funded by Saekhag.

And in partnership with many of the dollars

that went to revitalizing that area,

making it what it is today is because of those dollars.

And I think it's really important for us

to really acknowledge and realize how important

these partnerships are.

And I absolutely agree with you.

I'm on weekly with our transportation department

and they're always downloading all of the grants

that they are applying for,

not only with By West Saekh, with other opportunities,

but also with you all.

And I will talk more when I report out later

on our transportation committee,

but we had, I think, a difficult conversation this past week

in regards to our fiscal cliff and what that looks like.

And the distribution of dollars for SACRT,

for YOLO transportation, for just the entire region,

and what we're really needing to face together.

And one of the things that Director Corlege,

you mentioned was what you hope the vision will be

for all of these different transportation departments

or districts coming together through Saekhag

is us trying to think and envision and innovate

of what is possible if we simply work together

and that we don't work in these cylinders

of excellence by ourselves, hoping that it will get better.

We are looking, YTD here in YOLO County,

YOLO Transportation District is looking

at a fiscal cliff of several million.

SACRT is looking at a fiscal cliff of 40 to 60 million.

And again, that doesn't just impact them,

it also impacts our West Sacramento residents

who rely on those transportation.

We are a logistical hub here in West Sacramento.

And so I just can't emphasize enough

how much of an honor it is to be a part of Saekhag,

how much of an honor it is to work with you all

and how appreciative I am for our own staff

and working hard with you to realize the possibilities.

So thank you.

Any other council members?

Okay.

Well, Mr. Corlege, so yes, working with you

on the Saekhag Court.

I also appreciate what you've accomplished

in the just coordinating feedback from the region on BEI

and some of what happened over the years

in the equity gap and trying to understand a little more,

how is that integrated in the blueprint?

And when we start with the triple bottom line, as I said,

we've actually got a really cool program

that we've just been standing up

with our staff called Mobility Zones.

This is actually gonna come to our board.

It's in front of our board next week

for information then adoption.

And here's just a great example, I think, right?

What we don't wanna do for any program across

these very diverse six counties have sort of copy and paste

like a one size fits all, right?

That's true for equity, it's true for a lot of things.

So we've had these councils get together in every county

and define how do you define disparities

and sort of disadvantage.

Is it income, is it age, is it abilities, is it race ethnicity,

is it English as a second language, what are those?

And every county defines those differently, right?

Depending on where you are.

Foothills versus the Flatlands versus rural

versus urban suburban.

We've taken those values sets, we've provided data

to those different councils by county

and up pops a map of neighborhoods and census tracks

that looks different every place.

And on those we've kind of layered

where we have transportation challenges

and thus pop up what we call our mobility zones.

Think of it as sort of transportation disadvantage.

The map is out, you have one right here in Sacramento,

West Sacramento.

And so those are gonna be in the plan

and those are gonna be areas in which we think

we'll be able to try to pull down at least state dollars

because as I'm sure you know at the federal level right now,

actually the way in which the feds actually just recently

have completely done a shift on equities

actually around opportunity zones

and areas of persistent poverty.

It's a slightly different screen

but it actually looks like it is still going

to be a screen that's used.

So we're still trying to understand what that means.

So it will be in the plan in terms of the,

some of the emphasis areas and the priority geographies.

Oh, it's helpful.

Only in that I'm concerned in the work we've accomplished

and at the federal level when we were drawing down

that funding, we did some, you know,

we accomplished more in the Sacramento Avenue area,

broader and bright than we ever had.

And that's thanks to the federal funding that we were,

you know, keep it looking.

I do wanna thank Caltrans real quick

because they hustled and got our last grant,

Green Means Go grant that has funding

for West Sacramento signed.

And I think it was January the 15th.

And so we got that signed, it's obligated.

So that, so we try to get, make sure that we got

an obligation for those dollars.

Thank you.

And taking a look at the future

of, you know, federal transportation funding.

I know it's gonna be hard.

We're like trying to, you know,

figure out what the planning is in the future.

And we're going to cap to cap and planning.

And we have some projects in place,

the I street bridge that's pretty significant.

We're looking at the enterprise bridge,

working together with you to plan for that.

It'll help West Sacramento.

One of the challenges I have in my mind is the,

you know, just the impact of that could have on the port

and making sure that conversation,

you know, with the port, if we take a look at a bridge,

that doesn't take out a port, for example.

That we take a look at a plan and a model

that protects, you know, the port of West Sacramento.

And I know that, you know,

TACOG is a part of those discussions in some way or another

when it comes to funding sources like that.

So I just want to make sure that you're aware

of my position on that.

And my interest to preserve the port as much as possible.

I know that a fixed band bridge is one of those places,

but that choice will close a port.

I don't know why that's completely in there,

but I'd like to preserve it and, you know,

have focus on the options to keep the port open.

In taking a look at a blueprint

and some of the federal and state dollars

that are, you know, going away,

how do you foresee being able to implement that

with the limited funding that we are noticing today?

Well, it's going to be challenging.

I think the first thing we've got to do

is we have to make ourselves present back in DC.

While I think we've seen a lot over the last two months

in terms of cuts and program cuts,

I do believe that transportation is something

that actually has, regardless of the state,

regardless of the district,

and how they're represented in Congress,

has a lot of support back in DC.

So the first thing I think we have to do is make sure

that they're, for the transportation program federally,

which will get reauthorized by next summer,

that's the schedule anyway, they're usually late,

that we really build a big coalition again.

That's why these six counties,

the six county regions is important

to make sure we don't have cuts

that are long-term for transportation.

I think what we'll see is fewer competitive grants

nationally and more formula money.

I worry a lot that federal transit funding

is definitely at risk.

And so we have to make sure, again,

all the transit operators,

Yolo TD, Sacramento Regional Transit,

UBISET or Transit, our associations are very present,

and we have frequent visits and communication

with our congressional representatives.

I think we have a shot at maintaining status quo

on federal transportation, that would be a victory.

Just to the extent that,

even through the U.S. Conference of Mayors,

that I am informed, I know we have a representative,

but I don't always feel informed.

I don't always am aware of everything that's happening

in ways at the federal level here.

So we would continue to push for answers

administratively here, it's not you.

Administratively here, what is that list

that we can be targeted for?

What is the criteria?

Is it a DEI thing that we need to take a look at

that makes us more vulnerable?

And if there's a comparable list

that you can share with us on where are our vulnerabilities?

Where do we need to be vigilant?

Where do we need to pivot quickly?

I hear this cliff, this cliff we've known about though,

for a bit of a time, has been ongoing.

Yet we planned Measure O without any understanding

that this should have been taken into consideration,

where we should be at this point,

thinking about the importance

because when you decided to support us with VIA,

it was a game changer for West Sacramento,

for our lower income populations.

It helps them with their first and last mile to get to work.

It opened up a lot of doors for our disabled

and older adult population

to be able to get to grocery stores.

And noticing, you know, and connecting with VIA,

that program itself, thanks to your involvement

and council member Ledezma, who was championing,

I wasn't a fan at the beginning,

because I saw it as a replacement to our

Yolo County Transit.

But at the same time, there was a gap of people

that we fully didn't understand,

that now we know who they are as a result of VIA,

and now I'm a big champion and proponent,

and go on national presentations with them,

to continue to push for the VIA expansion

and other jurisdictions,

explaining to them what I've learned along the way,

that there are people that may not utilize our buses,

because it's not as convenient to get to work

or to get to school or to get to a grocery store.

And today it's going to be a lot harder for those people

to be able to pay for gas money,

and VIA may be the choice to survive,

to get to where they need to go to,

to get to a doctor's appointment,

that's what we established with VIA

to get over to across the bridge,

to get over to their medical appointments.

So for me, it's being that creativity on your part,

being open-minded and trying something new,

and took the risk, and now all of us are on board,

and we're funding it with other creative funding sources.

That's what I like to see for us to be able to partner

with you with Yolo County Transit.

I don't like to hear just clips and no solutions.

I like to hear solutions.

I'd like to hear it from you

if you have to email me directly.

I don't want to wait for a presentation.

I'd like to learn about it in advance.

So if there's information that I can have,

so that if I have to go with my colleagues

at the U.S. Conference of Mayors,

I have a lot of mayors who are from California,

maybe struggling with me,

we can build a caucus to advocate for these things

at the federal level.

It would be very helpful.

And including Kevin McCarty, who attends there as well.

So to the extent that we can build that partnership,

as we go multiple times back to DC,

as we are advocating on a regular basis, meeting,

and I think a lot of us mayors pretty much have a consensus

that some of these cuts are gonna be detrimental

and painful to our community.

We are on the front lines of cities,

and we need as much intel and understanding

of these impacts as much as possible early on.

And any data that you can provide for us,

any ways to continue to push and encourage other mayors

in more conservative places

where they may not feel the vulnerability,

but can partner with us,

that would be very much appreciated.

Always happy to share everything we have.

However, that is the best way to share that, right?

I know the LOTD is doing some workshops

on funding and the fiscal cliff.

I would invite maybe there's a workshop to be had

with the council on transit funding

and the future of funding,

and also how you work with SACRT,

doing it across the river and the VA,

sort of what sustainable funding for VA

look like long-term.

Happy to share any and all ideas, absolutely.

Well, and I think the important thing,

because you're absolutely right, Mayor,

that, and we've said the same thing, right,

at our SACOG meetings,

that simply saying this fiscal cliff that's coming

isn't enough.

And so you guys actually right now,

SACOG staff are working to put together a plan for this.

Do you wanna just speak to that a little bit

since you have the news tension right now?

And you may know this, Mayor, too,

SB 125 was the budget, the state budget,

that really short up transit operators

a couple of years ago, five billion statewide.

It basically bought us time,

and it bought us time to do what, though, right?

So actually we all have to create

sort of a financial sustainability plan

with the operators.

We're working on that.

We just procured a contract or a consultant.

So there'll be some really good, I think,

information coming up in the next few months.

We'd be happy to share it with you.

That'll be great, thank you.

And then the last thing I would add to that,

for YTD, right now I am chair,

and that was one of the things that,

luckily my colleagues also agreed upon,

is putting together these workshops to address,

by the time SB 125 is fully phasing out,

not relying on that, having a plan.

And so what I can also make sure to do

is that Autumn, the executive director for YTD,

invites all of my colleagues to those workshops.

And so hopefully you guys have an opportunity to go

because I do think they're gonna be very educational

and helpful.

Right, I do think these workshops and attendance

is important among all of us,

as it relates to what's happening,

especially here in West Sacramento,

and the Clarksburg Trail, some of the residents

I'm hearing from those areas,

and they're not West Sacramento, by the way,

they're the Yolo County side,

where I'm hearing complaints about that trail

and how it is impacting their property.

So it's the landowners, and the concerns about that.

But I just hear about it peripherally,

it's not something I'm directly fully knowledgeable of,

but I just wanna make sure that when we do outreach,

that the locals are engaged.

I know that we have that challenge here as well,

trying to engage people who aren't directly,

like in social media, just being able to pick up

on these things.

As I've learned, I'll tell you in canvassing,

directly with the residents and sharing with them,

about what's happening in elections,

a good percentage are not tracking social media.

People overestimate the impact and the reach it has.

Doesn't reach people as people really think it does.

So I think it's, I don't know if it's a West Sacramento

thing, especially in the North.

And I don't know if it's a digital divide,

or exactly what that is, but there are some big gaps.

And if you're reaching out, that's the one way.

We have to figure out other ways when you're doing that,

more than happy to brainstorm,

more creative and impactful ways.

Okay.

Oh, with that, no other comments?

Thank you so much for coming, James, I appreciate it.

Next is our consent agenda items five through 13.

Is there any request to remove an item?

Seven, nine, and 13 for me.

Anyone else?

All right, we'll open up before,

so is it a whole presentation you're looking for,

any of these?

A couple questions, if not, we can pull those

and then vote on those separately, and is that okay?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so with minus seven, nine, and 13,

I will accept a motion to move the rest of the item.

Okay, wait a minute, who did first?

I was the same time.

Yeah, okay.

I'll take a second.

Okay, Council Member Roscoe moved,

and Council Member Alcala seconded.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

We did have a request to speak on item 10.

Did you want to hear the?

10.

Yes, why don't we do that?

Did you want to hear the comment before the vote was taken?

Please, thank you.

And that's the...

Member Goddard.

Is that only one person here?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Good evening.

I've submitted an email,

objection to the approval of this item,

as I read through it,

realizing that it's fraught with error.

This is an appendix of West Sacramento

to be attached to the Yolo County Emergency Plan,

as I understand it.

And particularly,

new information on the risks associated with flood

and emergency evacuation and levee breach

are presented in the document.

Reading it carefully, I see brand new language

about the risk level.

I also see inconsistent language.

That doesn't make any sense,

in accordance with that brand new language.

For instance, the document includes statements

that give our flood risk a high extreme vulnerability

with a result of catastrophe.

I haven't heard that language before,

and the result in property damage

of upwards of $4 billion if we had a flood in this community,

10 times more than any other city in Yolo County,

and still no emergency evacuation plan

in this document or in the main document.

Our emergency evacuation plan now shows colors

in certain sections, but it shows no routes,

particularly how to get around the same continuing choke points

that any kind of a large transition of vehicles

would be forced to gridlock over.

We can't seem to get around the traffic issue

for the new baseball field,

let alone an emergency evacuation plan

result in the particular flood.

In this document, it quotes OSAFCA,

our flood control agency, further,

and again, as saying that the city of West Sacramento

continues to work toward FEMA

200 year flood protection certification by 2025.

Over and over the document states the same thing.

Now that's old.

Everybody knows that's not the case.

Even you have admitted that is not the case here.

We have an extension to 2030 and then another one to 2040

because no one believes we can get

200 year FEMA flood certification by 2025,

and yet it asserts that we are trying to do just that.

So it's a state of wonderment that I mean,

when I read that misrepresentation,

that this is going to go into the Yolo County Emergency Plan,

the document's not correct, needs to be updated and revised.

Larger truth now known to the public

is that this 200 year FEMA certification or flood risk

is unlikely to ever be achieved.

The certification would have to apply to every centimeter

of 50 miles of circumference of levees

or lack of levees that surround West Sacramento.

Toting the amazing setback levee

or getting awards for it does nothing.

A remedy the other 45 miles of vulnerability

that remain in our levee system.

Thus the 1.2 trillion cost estimation

to redo an inside ring of 50 miles of levee

since this levee can never be brought to that standard

having been built without standards,

pushed up dirt by farmers long ago.

You should not adopt this without fixing the document.

Thank you.

This document has been thoroughly vetted

and it has been brought to us

from very clear examination among the agencies here.

And it's not something we're taking lightly.

We have Mr. Brian Johnson and our chief bins.

If you have anything further to add about the background

about this document and how much work we've done

to validate that it is right for approval tonight.

Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of the council.

Just a comment and some of the comments

that Mr. Goddard said,

if there's any inaccuracies we'd like to know about it.

You know, this document is a planning document.

Number one intent is to paint the picture of the hazards

that are in West Sacramento, mitigation strategies to fix them,

but more importantly, approval by the federal government

to be able to provide us that grant funding

when it becomes available.

This thing was planned over a five-year period,

something that we looked at in 2018.

Could be inaccurate now,

but when you're building something over the life,

it seems changed.

So it's a living document.

Anything that we approved today can be changed tomorrow

and built upon for that next five-year approval

moving forward.

I'd be happy to entertain any inaccuracies

that we can look at.

That's very helpful.

I appreciate the clarification that it is a live document

and the importance of being able to acquire the grant

as a result of approval tonight.

And for what it's worth,

it's already been approved by FEMA conditional

to our adoption here.

The county just needs one adoption from a member

before it becomes a overall approval.

As much as I appreciate a member from the public

asking me to point out flaws,

I do think that it's important for us in the urgency

to get this approved tonight is important.

Point that I clarified.

Could you please just tell us so that everyone understands

what the multi-jurisdictional, how many jurisdictions?

I could, it's in the,

I couldn't tell you off the top of my head,

but what it is,

Yolo County's multi-jurisdictional document includes

the major cities, winners, Davis, Woodland,

housing, the county's department of housing.

There's many others.

That's correct.

That's why the multi-jurisdictional nature of the document.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Very helpful background.

And I appreciate all of your hard work

and your, you know, your institutional memory,

Mr. Johnson is incredible.

It's why we get things accomplished,

why we receive grants,

and continue to improve and protect our city.

It's thanks to you and those that work with you.

I'm really grateful for your hard work on this.

I appreciate that.

I want to extend gratitude to Brenna Howler,

our emergency services coordinator that was lead on this.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

Mayor?

Yes.

Just one suggestion.

I believe what we're looking at here,

the document was likely drafted prior update

to the SB5 requirement for 2040.

So we would just want to note that

in the approval of the document,

what, deadline under SB5,

fairly simple change,

just having to do with that.

So you're asking for an amendment to the motion?

It doesn't need, it just needs to reflect

that we're going to make.

It means reflect that we should make it.

Those that made the motion,

once a member of Roscoe,

Paula who made the motion.

Well, what else we need to make the motion again,

what we can do that, make that adjustment.

That's okay.

So I can make the motion again,

remember to approve those items minus seven, nine and 13.

Do approve those items, seven, nine and 13.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council member Ocala.

Aye.

Council member Erli.

Aye.

Council member Roscoe.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tempsal Pizio Hall.

Mayor Guerrero.

Aye.

These items are approved.

Thank you.

And now bring up item seven.

Who's?

Registration approval, third amendment.

Commercial lease of police department facility

for 1025 Triangle Court.

Hey.

Hi, Fred Arnold here.

I'm the city's real property manager.

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

but by way of the report,

this is the third amendment to the police department lease

located at Triangle one 1025 Triangle Court.

And we're here to have those approved

so they can move forward to August 1st.

Council member Erli has a question.

It's hopefully it's a quick and easy question.

I know that we continue to explore finding new,

a new place to put our police department.

And so I'm just curious how this lease amendment

relates or is connected to the future

of where our police department could or we would like.

So this is just a continuation of the existing facility

at 1025.

I've recently been engaged in the site selection process

for the future police department location.

This is a five year lease.

At the rate these structures are awarded,

they're collected, designed.

You're right at about the point in five years

that you would be ready to transition.

Perfect.

Wasn't that easy?

That's just my personal professional opinion.

Yes.

Arnold always professional.

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you.

That was it.

I just wanted to see how it related to the future.

So I appreciate that you guys are already about that.

Thank you.

Next is item number nine,

consideration of resolution 25-40,

authorizing the submission of an application

to the California infrastructure and economic development

bank for financing bright park improvements

and intent to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds.

Council Member Ocala has a question as well

as Council Member Early.

No, go ahead.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

I know this is really just to get approval

to even just apply.

I was curious, it might be in here and I just missed it.

I really was trying to come through though

what the potential interest rate would be.

I know that no matter what,

we are gonna have a funding gap for bright park.

And so I was curious of what we would need

to fill the funding gap,

what the interest would be and sort of like

what would be on top of that.

I think the funding gap is something like 32 million.

I think I'm just operating off my memory though.

I don't think that's in here

versus if we potentially applied for the full amount,

what the interest would be on that full amount,

kind of like up fronting as we waited for reimbursement.

Is that, I know that's a lot of words.

Yeah, I believe the report mentions a funding gap

right now of about 32 million.

The infrastructure state revolving loan program through

or revolving from program through iBank

can offers up to 65 million.

The interest rates as with any bonds

or any financing are set at the time.

So I can't predict what those are, but the...

We have a guess.

Yeah, I mean, I made a guess to come up

with some numbers in the report,

but the last loan that they approved,

I think there was actually one recently,

and I don't know the rate on that,

but in September was 4.1%.

And so I was using 4 to 5% as an estimate

to look at some different funding amounts.

And at I think 40 million,

I think the total was about, it's a rough estimate,

2.5, 2.6 million a year.

If you go up to the 60 million,

it's something closer to 4 million,

but those obviously depend on the interest rates

in effect at the time.

And I did some really rough,

Excel amortization schedules.

I didn't have a municipal advisor help with that.

And the bonds are structured a little bit differently.

But yeah, we have a bit of a funding gap.

I think right now we've got about a million and a half

a year available in measure N.

That amount as sales tax revenues grow,

make grow over time.

So depending on the amount we go for,

there could be, there's a gap that we would need to fill

and find additional funding for.

Of maybe a million, up to potentially 2.5 million,

depending on how much we go for.

It kind of works like a line of credit.

And so we can apply for more.

And in fact, we've met with the iBank folks

to see if this project would be a good project

eligible for their funding.

They believe it would.

They recommend that you go high, like apply for more.

You don't necessarily have to use it.

But if federal funding or other funding might fall through

or something else happens, you have that guarantee.

So our job would be to find the funding to pay for that

on an annual basis.

But then what you don't use, you don't pay for, right?

And so it's a really good option for us,

but there's still work to be done.

The reason we're here today is one to get approval

to apply to go down this path.

But two, the date of the resolution,

you can go 60 days back as far as when we can reimburse

ourselves for expenses.

If we don't do this resolution or we wait until later,

I mean, that obviously makes the date later.

And so if there was any issue with any of our other funding

where we needed to use this funding for any expenses incurred

during this timeframe, this allows us to do that.

And just to give a little more context,

I think the reason the iBank, the ISRF program is attracted

from an interest standpoint is the 4.1 for 7, 4%

is typically the norm.

And that's definitely below market.

If we were to go to issue a regular taxis and bonds,

that's what's particularly attractive about the program.

Is that?

That's helpful.

I have two more questions.

One, how long would we expect,

I'm gonna direct you for that.

How long would we expect to keep the loan out for?

So would it be a 10-year?

30 years.

It is the 30-year.

It'd go up to 30 years.

I based it on a 30-year amortization.

And again, I just wanna make sure I'm hearing

and reflecting back.

And so the interest of the 4.1 would be roughly,

if it was on the 32 million, give or take

around two million-ish a year,

we would be stacking on top of that.

And then if we took out the full 65 million,

understanding that, hey, we'll apply for it,

but we don't necessarily have to take it out.

But that would look like an additional four million

a year of interest on top of.

Not interest, total payment.

So you're looking at a total payment of two to four million-ish

depending on the amount you go for.

The pay it down.

The interest rates, yeah.

Okay.

So two to four million a year for 30 years.

That was it for me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council Member O'Callus, thank you.

Remind us how much the total cost of the park

was estimated at.

Oh, that's a great question.

I referred to the report,

because I get this information from the experts

who are working on the project.

But I believe it's around 60 million currently.

Somebody will scream if I'm saying it wrong.

Okay.

That's accurate.

That's what the entire build out of the park.

Every park, yes.

So the question is, so how much are we looking at

in terms of when we do the application?

Well, we haven't gotten that far.

We're currently looking at a funding gap

of about 32 million.

But depending on what we could find

as far as funding options,

we haven't internally really decided.

We just know that we'd probably go for something higher

than that funding gap to make sure that we're covered.

And you said if we went, if we didn't need it,

then how does that work in terms of line ends?

It's like a line of credit.

You, as you get reimbursed, you're drawing down on that.

And when you're done, whatever amount you've used

is the amount you're paying off.

And we're looking at a 30 year.

30 year term, yep.

Yeah, you said how much that can be.

Again, these are very rough estimates.

And if it comes out higher, do not come back to me

in a couple of minutes whenever this happens.

But based on the most recent rate of about 4%

that was granted, I looked anywhere between,

I actually looked at, I think, 40 to 60 million

and I come up with two and a half to four million

a year rough estimate.

So we're looking at about 60 million over the course?

So if we were to do 40 million,

we're looking at two and a half million a year

as a payment.

If we were to do 60 million,

you're looking at about four million a year as a payment.

So I'm providing a range because these are decisions

that have not yet been made.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Roberta.

This is very helpful information.

And I still would like to pursue grant opportunities

wherever possible in our...

Oh, absolutely.

That's always our first option.

I think we did chat with Erin about some state funding

that we haven't...

I don't know if I did, Erin,

talk about state funding with you,

but there is an opportunity with somebody

that I wanna pursue further.

Whoever needs to be involved, okay?

We need to connect as soon as possible.

And everybody done with questions?

We have public comments on that, right, Madame Clerk?

Yes, ma'am.

Lori Gutierrez.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

Ms. Gutierrez.

I'm here to talk about Bright Park.

I'm a resident.

For 53 years, my family,

my grandson's a seven generation here in this community.

And a lot has been taken from us.

And I am only gonna support...

I don't got my paper.

Paper?

The money that's supposed to be done for the park

which we had a meeting,

the money needs to go to the park.

It needs to be done.

I don't know why we're prolonging it,

what's going on,

but I've been to a lot of the meetings.

It's a go, thumbs up, everything's lagging.

We have the money from what I was told.

Now we're negotiating.

Now the money should go to the park.

If we have money afterwards,

okay, then go ahead.

Let me have it now.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Then reimburse it back.

But first the money needs to go to the park.

Fix our community park,

give our children,

our elderly and our senior citizen,

something they can go to enjoy.

Because I'm tired of the line.

I'm tired of being put on the back burner.

I know people ain't here that I'm talking for,

but us the people are tired on our side.

So get with the money and get our park together.

So we can enjoy it.

I watch people when it's not being used

and it's not being used because it's not appropriate

or proper for people to be out there in the heat and the cold.

We want our pool.

And I've seen all you guys.

I've talked to all you guys, but I'm done.

And I'm here for West Sac the people,

and I want our money to go first on the park.

And what we have left,

then you go ahead and do whatever you want.

But the money needs to go to our parks first.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss.

And remember, it wasn't weren't you a under the understanding

that measure O was going to cover this?

That was what I believe.

Next, Bertha.

I'm sorry. What was the question?

No, I just we have another speaker.

Okay.

Rhonda Pope, Laura's.

Sorry, I'm losing weight.

Sorry.

Oh, my dang pants up.

Yeah, I'm a little bit confused because yeah,

I've been a little MIA lately,

but I thought we were good.

Then I hear about $32 million gaps and yeah,

I know things cost money,

but they cost money because that's the way it is.

But they cost money because let's see,

you got this little strategic plan.

I remember being in a room back there and I heard,

you know, when mayor Christopher Kabaldon was here,

that has been on the strategic plan since he was the mayor

for all those decades that he bragged about.

And the reason why we're on the right now that we're in is

because it's dragged on for far too long.

So when I hear all the rants and raves about Christopher Kabaldon

and all the great things he did,

this is the one thing he did not do.

And so today, as we sit here and have these issues happen

as to why we don't have funding,

let's remember who drug their feet all those decades

and allowed the Northside to suffer.

I heard this presentation for SACOG.

I have no idea who they are, but they have money.

Okay.

That's great.

Let's partner with them.

Let's get Bright Park done.

Let's do what we need to do.

But I am so frustrated to come back to a meeting

and hear that we've got a $32 million gap.

And yes, I did go back.

I didn't bring my binder.

I have a binder this big.

You bet when I get home, I'm going to be going back

and I'm going to be looking at all the funds

that were promised for Bright Park.

And if any of them are omitted,

there's going to be a lot to answer to.

Nobody's going to take the money that was promised

to Bright Park away from us.

Nobody, there's not going to be any back peddling.

If you think that we raised hell when we divide,

when that whole mapping issue took place,

oh boy, there's going to be hell.

Because we promised people this park was going to be done.

There was money that said this park was going to be done.

So I sure hope that everybody goes back to the drawing board

and finds that money.

I'm not sure what this $32 million gap is.

That is insane to me.

I can understand it because of the circumstances

we're in right now and the economic, you know,

what we have going on.

I understand it, but you know what?

It is not fair for this community to be penalized

because we had a mayor that let that strategic plan

and Bright Park stay on it for decades.

In decades and decades, and we are where we are today,

and now we have to find and scrape and find money.

It is so inappropriate.

We have a beautiful park on that side,

and I know how much we spent financing it,

so I don't want to hear complaints about what the interest rate is

and the terms and all of that, because we did it then.

Do it now.

Mayor, may I have the Roberta Comanche?

Roberta?

I think Comanche...

I'm sorry.

Why don't we do more public comment first?

We have no additional request to speak on this item.

Okay, we can bring Roberta back.

And Berna, you were going to go first.

Go ahead.

While our public wants to know on Measure O,

what funds are going to be expanded on Bright Park,

I think on the other parks as well,

and why isn't this covering when people put it to Measure O,

there were things that they were promised potholes

prior to Park.

Would you respond to that?

I won't. Yeah, I'm going to let the city manager take that one.

I just want to...

It wasn't that long ago, I think it was last meeting

or the meeting before where we did the Measure O budget,

just to provide a little more background context

for those that weren't part of that.

Measure O was per council direction,

and the entire context of Measure O,

the background for it was to address maintenance

and operations gap in the cities,

both in public safety and critical infrastructure.

And that's what the budget reflects.

So the Measure O budget primarily covers,

in addition to the fire positions that were restored within 1945.

There are several...

There's 13 additional sworn police positions.

There are several positions in parks.

I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head.

A dedicated road maintenance crew.

So Measure O is all about maintaining the city,

proving standards around parks and roads maintenance,

police and fire protection.

It has a component in terms of the road maintenance function

that will fund several CIP projects.

Similarly on parks, there are CIP projects

that will be funded out of Measure O,

but those are primarily repairing things at parks today

and kind of restoring them and bringing them up to a good new standard.

So when we look at Bright Park,

the strategy that we've constructed from day one

that has allowed us to raise so much money through grants

and other sources, the local side of that

has always presumed to be Measure N.

So people may be thinking about Measure N,

which was the prior tax measure,

which has a component for community improvements.

It's the same funding source that was the primary local funding

for Memorial Park when we redid the baseball field.

And so when we talk about the I-Bank loan,

it's a way to allow the city to finance the gap

on the local side of the remaining budget for Bright Park.

And we don't have any decisions to make tonight,

but as we look ahead, the projection would be

we're going to look to first, the balance available

and Measure N on an annual basis

as the primary source for funding the debt service on an I-Bank loan

if the council ultimately uses that.

So Measure N is kind of the primary target right now

for what the money that would pay this loan

would for Bright Park not measure of.

That was always a...

When it comes to repayment sources for these,

for any bonds, any loan,

all of the tax measures are considered general fund

because they're general tax obligations, they roll up.

And so the I-Bank does not differentiate between which fund we use.

So we would essentially say general fund

and it's because legally that's what we have to say,

but then it allows us to use general fund or any of our tax measures.

We internally would identify the specific source

that we plan to use for repayment,

but it's more general on the application.

So I just have a question, Aaron.

I understand what you're saying.

I think one of the concerns out here is

are we going to have the money available for the work that's being done?

Yeah, I mean, I want to also give more perspective here

in terms of why we're here tonight.

I mean, we are here tonight because we are following up on the direction

to move this project forward.

It has been a top priority for this council for several years.

That's reflected both in terms of the aggressive fund-raising effort

that our staff has put forward to secure grant funding through various grant funding sources.

I've been here a long time.

I have not seen an effort like this one for a park project,

and we're actually really excited and proud of that.

It is a full rebuild of one of our biggest parks in the city.

And so while there's a little bit of sticker shock for everyone

in terms of the total cost, keep in mind that this is the total cost for the entire park.

It's a scenario where it would not be phased.

It would be built all at once,

and that's a council decision that will have to be made eventually.

But we are trying to paint a picture here for getting this project up

and getting it done on the most aggressive timeframe possible.

And one way to do that would be to look at this iBank loan as a way to fund the gap,

which is it's on the city at this point.

We've gotten, I don't remember the exact number of grant funds,

but it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 million in total grant funding sources.

And so the rest, you know, we've really looked at all different options

and we're always open to look at more if there are other grant opportunities out there.

But the reality is we have still a fairly significant gap,

and the iBank loan gives us a vehicle to at least raise the amount of money

that would be needed to fill that gap.

Ultimately what we do with whether, you know, the loan is sized differently

and the project is scoped differently,

that's going to be a council decision that would be made fairly soon.

But we are here tonight because we're on this schedule

and plan to build this entire park as quickly as possible.

Okay, measure and money.

We'd borrow measure and money.

This application that we're making would then reimburse the measure and money as that.

Now I want to be, I want to clarify a couple of things because first,

there's been no money lost from this project.

So we continue to add funds to fully fund the project

and we're trying to fund the remaining gap,

but there have been no funds taken from this project.

And as our city manager said,

I have not seen a fundraising effort like this in any jurisdiction that I've been at

with the amount of money raised and added to a project in the timeframe that it has.

So number one, number two, we're not talking about reimbursing measure N.

So we're talking about utilizing measure N as the source of funding to repay the loan over time.

The reimbursement that we're talking about is essentially once bonds are issued, for example,

you have three years from the date the bonds are issued to spend the funds.

But you can't go back and fund any of the expenses that have already been incurred.

By adopting this resolution today, it says that these funds,

when they are approved, will allow us to fund project costs

that were incurred 60 days ago from 60 days ago from today through three years after the bonds are issued.

So it gives us a bigger timeframe.

Chances are we won't have to use those funds for any of the costs we're incurring now.

We have money in the bank for costs that we're incurring now for design, which is underway.

But with what's going on in the federal government, if there was any problem with the grant funds,

we wouldn't expect any problems.

But if there was a problem and we lost grant funding that is already on this project,

and that's money that we're using to fund the costs that we're incurring now,

rather than having to come up with city funding to fill that gap,

we would be able to use these bond funds that we get in the future to cover the costs that we're incurring now.

We don't expect that to be anything that we need to do.

This is just covering our butts, basically, to say,

hey, we have this option and the sooner we get to council,

the sooner we have a date that we can actually start using the funds once they're awarded.

That's the only reason we're here tonight.

Okay. I feel like there are residents a little bit in the dark.

You probably need a little more time to process what we anticipate with November 2025 construction start date.

I don't know if our residents are aware of that.

And that's the plan to start according to this staff report.

Right, Jay?

And Roberta is our fiscal person.

She talks about the bank stuff and Jay is here,

in case anybody has any questions and would like to speak with him outside about any of that.

I'm sure he'd be happy to answer any of your questions so that you can be familiar with what the planning is.

And we will expedite what we can to get the money going to Bright Park.

Yeah, I do believe one of the things with the timeframe is one of the loans that we did receive requires us to own the land.

There's a timeframe with that that says that we basically November 2025 is when we could purchase and own the land and we can't construct it until we own it.

And so I think that's the delay in the timeframe.

They still need to be aware of all those details.

Oh, totally.

Yeah, and just also this is in the report.

I don't expect people to have read this entirely, but we are at 80% design on the project.

That's a very significant milestone when it comes to a project of this nature.

Typically when we're looking at financing for it is, it is.

And so we definitely just to remind both, well, everyone that the council directed it was a little over a year ago to proceed with the full design of the project for the entire scope of the project.

Now, I want to I want to make one thing clear, though, we have, you know, a big funding gap and you have a project that can be built in multiple phases.

The direction we were given was to go design the entire project, which we have done and we're continuing to do to bring it to 100%.

We are also looking at scenarios to allow the council to make the decision to build the entire park as one phase.

The next step for the council will be to really look into the details of each phase and all the components of the park, the various requirements of the funding sources, and ultimately make the decision on what the final scope of the project is.

So that's going to be the next big milestone when we when we are at, I think 100% design.

They saying yes.

And we have better clarity around the details of the I bank loan and the other funding sources that we have for the project, but we are we have been full speed ahead on this project for.

Well over a year, even before that when we were raising funding.

And we're we're at a very significant milestone here where we're looking at an option that would allow us to build the entire park.

In this case, finance, what is a very significant gap, but in the context of the overall budget of the park.

You know, let's let's not put aside for a second that we we have raised $25 million for this project.

And again, that that is an unprecedented number took a lot of effort to get there.

We definitely don't.

We don't intend to, you know, slow down here.

So, so a big big decision is coming, but I want to, you know, I think tonight should be more of a, you know, acknowledgement of these milestones and hopefully build some excitement around what the project.

Yes. And as Miss Gutierrez mentioned, you know, with climate change and you know the temperatures getting hot and cold and the residents to go to because they don't have the air conditioning and all the amenities that some of our newer areas have.

And it's possible.

So a park is very good way to stay cool and recreational activities for the youth is incredibly important for that area.

And trying to get this built.

Been too long as another speaker.

Rhonda Morningstar.

Hope Flores has mentioned.

Been way too long and happy to see it moving along.

And the council member, I'll call it and invite a town hall presentation to include other members of the public to provide just a brief presentation on what's happening.

Sounds like a lot of steps need to be taken and your advocacy and support on this item is much needed.

And thanks to all the staff for all the hard work that you put behind all of this to get it to where we're at today.

Looking forward to seeing breaking ground and having all of you there with your kids celebrating that moment.

Next we have item 13.

Which is.

Would this be.

For the question.

I don't know between me and Amanda.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, um,

I just wanted to make sure I was following 100% the options that you gave us here.

So the total contract for 150,000 annually. I'm just reflecting the information that's in the report. Just for those who are also in the audience.

Um,

the last RFP if I'm if I'm understanding right was done in 2021. Right.

Okay, perfect. I'm tracking good. That was for a three year contract. And then what we have in front of us today is to do basically.

Annual renewals right so one year renewals.

Up to three that I get that correct as well or no.

Correct. The 2021 contract was a three year contract with the option for three one year.

Okay.

Um, couple of things at least that were at that I flagged as I was looking at their scope of work and their duties.

I see a couple of times in here work with city council.

And, um,

I appreciate that. However, I've been on city council since 2021.

I think I've met them once.

Many times.

Nope, I actually didn't get to meet them every single time I've gone every time I call it a thing.

Yeah, we typically in the past have done annual check ins with council with calling and I don't know that those have been occurring in the last year or two, but that's definitely so that.

Part of what's in the contract scope historically has been an annual check in with it.

We typically do it as a, we have a couple of council members at a time for obvious reasons, but that's something that I know has been a little less consistent lately and we can definitely get back to that.

In addition to, I know, in having conversations with some of you, having more engagement when we do things like cap to cap from Holland and I, I think that's definitely feedback that we're giving to them and hopefully can be put in place.

And I think that's something that we can definitely put into, you know, meaningful, meaningful action.

Yeah, and so thank you and I think you are picking up what I'm putting down because you have working with city council you have facilitating establishment of relationships between mayor council members and city staff or our federal government.

What this does is it fixes the we sort of considered kind of a clear clear in terms of the aligning the budget with the contract term.

So it fixes that part, but we still have the option to either renew or not every year.

So so it just aligns the budget with the potential term of the contract.

Okay.

I would be interested in seeing us opening up for RFP later on this year.

So it looks like our RFP time is usually in November.

I'm not even suggesting we amend this for that, but I am flagging that after maybe seeing more engagement, at least I can once again just for me.

Maybe that would give me less pause.

But yes, those are my thoughts on this particular contract.

Okay, yeah, I would recommend we we have several conversations around things like our fees, but what this does is gives it gives staff the option to make the extensions.

It doesn't mean that we're locked.

Yeah, it just a couple of your alternatives, which again I appreciate your alternatives one was declined to approve the amendment agreement and direct staff conducted a new procurement process.

I'm not necessarily defining the amendment, but I am flagging that I would be interested in seeing what an RFP procurement process could be like later on this year again have more opportunity to work with them.

Again, speaking for Councilmember early.

Thank you.

I just want to add Councilmember early is speaking for all in tonight.

Very reputable.

And they and they also are all in tonight is also Sacramento's firm.

To the extent that we can share experiences on what they experience and what we experienced to make sure that is comparable as well.

Yes.

And in addition to that, they, they, you know, in Los Angeles County, they do provide service there to you guys get lots of attention.

I'm going to add just kind of make you a little.

Okay, that's what you did there.

Okay, the mayors and CEOs.

I'm on homelessness and housing.

Man, we get, we get some good stuff.

Oh yeah.

I would like a little bit of a little bit of tension.

We get that we get paper, we get policies, we get hits on budget, we get strategies.

It's a lot of one on one engagement with them.

As that is that role, I mean I see them in a different and that and from there, there's a lot of engagement.

And not only that, but they hook us up with congressional members and so there's just rubbing it.

I'm just telling you, they are great.

Okay, so what I'm hearing is, hey, they have the potential to do this.

Maybe it's just, I know I certainly haven't asked to be fair to our city manager.

And so that's what you're hearing me at least not say I don't want to vote for this, but very publicly saying that I would like.

They know how to do it.

They know.

And so hopefully they're watching this video.

I would love that.

I would love that same engagement.

Yeah.

All right.

Sure.

For clarification, they represent the West Sacramento area of blood with Saifah and the port.

Is Saifah pay any portion of his?

Yes, I believe there's a breakdown in.

Yeah, so the contract is split 50% city 40% with Saifah and 10% port.

And that's just kind of a reflection of the overall federal priorities since flood protection is such a huge always been will continue to be our number one priority.

That's why West Saifah has most of the, you know, well, it's not most the city is most West Saifah is 40% and then the port their their main advocacy point for the port is to maintain the depth of the channel.

So for annual appropriations for channel dredging.

So that's the basis of why the port contributes as well.

I know it was on there.

Wanted it.

Right.

Yes, it's it's all a reflection of the city's priorities and what protection is number one.

They are effective in getting the funding for the dredging and the dredging so you know is is not to dredge deeper just to clear the sediment that grows and needs to get cleared.

I hope we continue to get that money.

We don't.

All right, we're all done with seven nine and 13.

I'll accept the motion.

Oh, I met that click.

Are there any requests to speak on this?

No, ma'am.

Okay, so we're all done with the consent agenda speakers.

Okay.

That all.

And you're on move.

I'll second.

Council member early move me.

I pretend so please you hold second.

And then I'm please follow the roll.

Council member Ocala.

Aye.

Council member early.

Council member Roscoe.

I mayor put him so please you hold.

I mayor Guerrero.

I write.

Next is our public hearing agenda items.

We have item 14 under community development of public hearing and consideration of first reading of ordinance 24 dash nine regarding amendments to title 17 zoning.

Facilitate tiny homes.

And on wheels and legal dwellings.

And with that we have Daniel Barouman presentation.

Can you turn your mic on?

It's off.

Good evening, mayor, mayor pro tem council members.

My name is Daniel Barouman.

That's senior planner for the city.

Tonight I will be presenting on the proposed planning home on wheels ordinance.

Just a brief history of how we got here in 2020, the city received a report that a tiny home on wheels.

Was placed and occupied on a residential lot in the bright neighborhood.

It was deemed not compliant as a housing type and was not connected to municipal utilities like water and sewer.

In 2021 2022 code enforcement began enforcing and violations.

Our enforcement enforcement activity essentially stalled as a property owner was working towards compliance with the city.

In 2023 the city council directed staff to look at tiny home on wheels as housing options in residential areas.

On September 7th 2023, the planning commission held a public workshop on tiny on wheels.

A couple months later, city council hold their workshop on tiny home on wheels and the direction provided by council was to move forward with an ordinance to allow tiny home on wheels.

Potentially as primary and accessory dwelling units.

On October 17, 2024, a planning commission held a public hearing, ultimately approving tiny home on wheels as legal dwelling.

And since that point last 6 months or so, staff is that communication with tiny home on wheels.

Owner in the community and as well as the advocates.

So what are tiny homes? They're essentially just compact homes.

Smaller homes, but they do have a specific definition.

They're generally generally under 399 399 square feet.

They can be stiff, stick built or factory built. They're usually on a foundation slab.

They do require sewer and water connection.

They must meet fire and safety requirements and the size of the unit, you know, isn't really relevant to zoning. Usually the footprint is pretty small.

They are allowed as primary and accessory dwelling units at the moment.

So they can be built in the city was at this time.

It's can be purchased online. They can be purchased home deep.

But they do still require building and development permits.

What are tiny home on wheels? This is the distinction and the reason we're here tonight.

So it's essentially a variant of tiny homes.

They're built on a chassis was essentially our support rates for vehicles.

Vehicles are not legal dwelling units. So they're essentially governed by the department of motor vehicles.

And they must not, they must get registered.

They are not subject to building code at the moment, but they are essentially regulated by the housing community development department.

And they are allowed in mobile home parks.

They can be towable, but they're they can't be movable under their own pouch. So it's not like an RV or a trailer.

And that they do require or they do have RV style power and water sewer cookups.

So that is a similar way of similarity between RVs and some of the trailers to home on wheels.

And they can be offered.

What tiny homes are not intended to be. And this is not the intent of this ordinance is what you see on the screen there.

We're not intending them to be trailers, motor homes, RVs. You can't just plop one of these and call it a tiny home on wheels.

What the current code allows is what you see here. These tiny homes would be permitted currently.

At the at this moment, these would not be permitted. See the just the difference is the actual wheels.

What the tiny homes ordinance really, you know, how this came to be, you know, through the city council workshop, you know, back in November of 2015, 2013, excuse me.

There was an attempt to look at tiny home on wheels as both primary and accessory dwelling units.

The critical issues that were brought up revolved around how to address appearance and design, health and public safety, considerations, sewage disposal, power and potable water.

What staff attempt to do through this ordinance is really to address these issues with the 20 categories that you see in the simple regulations on the left hand, left hand of the screen.

And I'm going to highlight a few of them because I think these are critical as we discuss.

Public utilities, the city would still require typical development standards such as connections to.

Water sewer electrical requiring permits impact fees will still be assessed continued on the type of dwelling. This unit will be, for example, ad use are exempt because tiny home on wheels typically are a different square feet.

Ad use are exempt from impact fees at 750 square feet.

Moving on to administrative approval.

Pro's tiny home on wheels must receive an administrative approval from the community development department. So finding would take the lead in terms of taking this application and reviewing all of the supplementary regulations that that are along with it.

When it comes to appearance and design, the tiny home on will should resemble a residential unit that you typically see in this community.

Rather than a recreational vehicle, as I mentioned, the shall be done by incorporating design features such as.

Roof pitch types of materials that you typically see in the in the residential neighborhoods.

And then lastly, parking pad. The wheels shall be squirted or essentially screened or be removed.

And shall sit within a leveling pad of sorts like foundation.

So this would be in accordance to the current code, just as any.

Residential.

You can see that there are amendments to our residential chapter chapter 17.08.

Tiny home on wheels would be allowed in 5 residential zones, excluding the high density zone.

So you can see towards the bottom permitted in all residential zones.

Provided that they get an administrative approval.

Through this process, we did develop a flow chart.

We understand that this is a new and interesting.

You know, process to develop tiny home on wheels as primary and accessory dwelling, dwelling units.

But we did want to make sure that we had a way of approving them that would be straightforward for all the divisions that are involved.

Begin with an application review administrative approval letter that we would planning would take in the permitting process, including the payment of impact fees.

Construction and inspection.

And then lastly, final connections and occupancy.

With that, we did have a draft.

The business of approval application that we included as an attachment to the staff report and see that right here.

And so lastly, staff for spectacular recommends that the city council conduct this public hearing.

Find that pursuant to section 15 305 of the secret guidelines minor amendments to land use land use are categorically exempt and conduct the first reading warden's 24 dash nine detailing amendments to title 17 of the municipal code.

You'll accommodate tiny home on wheels as legal dwelling.

That concludes my presentation.

I'm happy to answer any.

Thank you, Mr. Any questions among council members.

Yes, council member.

Who had mentioned.

Thank you for the presentation.

You mentioned that at the planning commission meeting and I believe it was maybe October 2024 that there was a free to vote.

Right.

Of the two people who were not an approval.

What were the concerns and how if at all were they.

The concerns were mainly around appearance and design.

And the utility connections.

So what we did was essentially tried to elucidate that they would just tiny home on wheels would would really look like any other residential dwelling unit.

They would have to follow the same guidelines.

And that's what we tried to do with the supplemental regulations.

And when it comes to utility connections, they're not exempt.

So tiny home on wheels would have to have.

Sewer water electrical and that would go through a permitting process.

And was that the presentation that we're getting tonight?

Or has there have there been any changes in the intro?

There have been any changes that we have worked with the tiny home on wheels.

Advocates just to go through the process of what that looks like.

But essentially when it comes to appearance and design.

We, we, we didn't.

You know, reinvent the wheel.

We actually just utilize the utility connections.

We reinvent the wheel.

We actually just utilize what we currently have and made sure that any,

any application that would be coming through would have to follow the guidelines currently in our residential code.

But despite it seems like the guidelines require that there have to be a hookup and some,

some stable permanence to the structure as it is.

If it's tiny home on wheels on a foundation, a slab looking up,

it was a case that people on the planning commission found issue with that.

Yes, that was correct.

And what we, what we wanted to do was just, you know,

ensure that this was that we had that obviously very clear in our, in our, in our report.

And what we wanted to do with our supplemental regulation.

So, you know, in terms, in terms of a foundation, that's absolutely necessary in terms of tie downs.

That's something that, that has to go through the manufacturer.

And when it comes to, you know, essentially does the design of the unit, it would just have to meet residential.

I'm an owner of a recreational vehicle and I'm familiar with the permanent types and the impermanent types.

And I understand.

Thanks for putting that into vision for those of us who are watching this presentation,

but not a recreational vehicle, tiny home or permanent home on wheels.

But can you explain for those folks who aren't familiar with skirting me and I mean, this isn't like a bed skirt.

Correct. This is something that looks a little bit more permanent.

Yeah, that would be some, some sort of screening that would be involved with, with making sure that the tiny home on wheels aren't visible.

So they would be putting some kind of material that would essentially make them not a visible, not a visible component from residential areas.

And so how does one, if they were to establish a setup, they, tomorrow they wanted to go ahead and pull up and, and that was tiny home on wheels.

They just set up as if they were any other home owner with the city and establish electricity and water and utility.

Well, they, in terms of this ordinance, they would have to follow a administrative approval process.

So if they were looking to, you know, set up, say tomorrow and we would, we would have to go through an application process that gives us all the information that we need to review.

Whether this is fire safe, whether this is has all the, the, the connections that are necessary for, for, you know, as a residential structure.

So we would, we would follow this just as any residential structure.

Sorry, I didn't even want to say tomorrow that wasn't valuable.

One of my questions, I just added that in, but I guess the question would be for the landowner.

What's to stop somebody from just moving and going and having multiple structures coming and going on a.

Or is there any.

It would, it would. Yeah, it's a good question. I think it would all depend on the utility connections.

So those connections are, are, are vital in this case, just because actually we had this question back and forth.

Certainly, tiny home on wheels is a movable option for, for, for a residential type. However, they're not intended to be, you know, moved regularly.

They're actually semi permanent.

So the utility connection is really that, that, that, that.

That, that lynchpin that would, that would say, no, you can't just move, go up and leave. You would, you would need to make sure that you're, you've got the hookups that are in place.

And if you, if you need to abandon them for a time period, then you can, but you need to make sure you're, you're working with the proper entities to make sure that happens.

If I might jump in, I'm over here.

Thank you. I'm like, where's everybody's looking around. I'm Andrea house, the director of community development. I just wanted to, to just put a little carry on the cupcake here.

So the administrative approval process, step three, we have on the screen is through the planning division and that would identify things like the design of the skirting and the exterior materials and.

The placement and to ensure that there's appropriate driveway access, etc.

Once that approval letter is issued, then it goes through a permitting process just like every other residential unit would, which would include things like utility connections and getting connection permits from.

The development engineering division and the flat work, the concrete to allow for a industry surface to lead to the pad and to lead to the.

For the driveway. So there are, there are kind of just a nuanced couple of steps there that I think what you're asking is.

Would this be an interchangeable thing where a tiny home on wheels could be wheeled in and wheeled out and there'd be a different one.

That wouldn't happen because the administrative approval letter would memorialize what the proposal would be and the agreement would be, it would be this tiny home on wheels and not any other one going through that process.

I hope that clear.

Okay.

May I just to build on that because I think I have clarity there.

One of the things that I don't see addressed here and if I missed it, I apologize.

Is ownership of the land. And so is there a world where a property owner who owns the land leases.

To a tiny home owner.

And if they did, they could go through the administrative process and get approved.

But if that tiny home owner left, they would need to be a new administrative process if a new tiny home came in.

Is that what I'm hearing.

I'll jump in. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Because we're memorializing a specific tiny home on wheel that came in and ostensibly once they got the letter has met all of the design criteria.

If you were to change out that tiny home on wheels, that would not be necessarily the case.

It would have to be re reviewed for compliance with the criteria that we're looking at.

Do you think there's a scenario where a land owner could lease to a tiny home owner.

I think that's that's foreseeable. Yeah, I mean that that could certainly happen. It's just like any other residential unit.

But the tiny home owner owns the home and then they bring it on the land.

Correct. Correct.

That could happen if they figure out how to deal with the impact fees and all the hookups and everything that looks like that.

It could happen. It could happen. Yes.

It doesn't seem very ideal. I'm guessing it didn't sound like that's how it works.

Can I ask another question because then you have a potential scenario where you have a land owner and a person who owns a home that is now on the land.

But if there was ever a situation where the land owner had different plans for land, but the lessy or the tiny home owner who had an agreement with the city was put out as a result of the land owner's decision making.

What recourse and have we have we covered all those bases with how it is that we would deal with the person that has these kinks been worked on.

So I'm going to take a stab at it and ask Jeff Mitchell if he wants to jump in if I'm going astray.

We have not put any of that into the ordinance because those are private agreements between a lessy and a property owner.

Correct. Correct.

In that respect, it's not substantially different than leasing your home to someone and potentially having a dispute. Landlord and it.

Landlord says the tenant shouldn't be in my house. Those kinds of issues come up.

Not often, hopefully, but the police will deal with those occasion.

You could be a similar situation to a mobile home park where the mobile home owner and the property owner and dispute over whether or not they have a right to be there.

So in that respect, it's not substantially different.

Other situations.

I guess I didn't think about it that way. I don't think that in terms of this because what the tiny home owner will have is a permit from the city that allows them allows them to be on the property.

But if it is not their property, that is with the consent.

If that consent is lost.

And if there's a dispute, that's a civil dispute that would be dealt with.

I don't know if there's a reason for this and how to explain the expense of following through with this administrative approval application with costs associated.

I received an email from someone who built an ADU.

And that's when I was candidacy and claimed to me I'm building an ADU and then followed up and said that ADU, the total permit fees came to $24,220.

I don't know who said that, but I just, yes, that ADU and he had to, you know, decide, you know, he had to make it just things result.

And I had asked for us to take a look at our permitting fees.

And I don't know how much it costs to get a tiny home.

But say, for example, this person thought, tiny home is a lot cheaper.

Maybe to get in here.

I don't know how to compare the two.

If it is cheaper to get a tiny home versus building an ADU and paying all the permit fees.

But I see there's some overlap somehow in this ordinance.

And I'm wondering if there is a cost incurred more on a tiny home who's doing, who's already coming with their structure versus an ADU who's building something or maybe they got a brief app structure.

I don't know.

I had asked for a briefing on this because I wanted to understand this better.

I haven't gotten it, so now we're here.

And because of this email, I wanted to understand our ADU policy.

And I would prefer, because nowadays it's just, I think, for family members to have, you know, their loved ones live close to them.

Another one, when I was kind of seeing, was talking about some of the barriers to be able to get a permit.

He didn't want to add some things because he had it in the home.

So he wanted to, you know, not have, I forgot what it is, but it was kind of like not having the whole ADU unit, having to modify one.

But the person was going to come into the home and use some of the facilities and having barriers to that.

But this is not somebody, you know, who we have coming here every council meeting reminding us of the importance of these modifications.

These are people who I bump into as a result of going out and talking to them individually.

So I understand that they're, that's one of the reasons why.

Because I wanted to understand the ADU world that the policies we have, the costs, why we're charging these things, and what we can do to make it more affordable.

I know the state legislature has been trying to reduce some of the barriers to build more, because that's the way to address getting more housing.

So when people are interested in doing this today.

Sorry that I throw all that much.

I think there's a, there's a couple of parts there.

When it comes to, you know, these tiny homes and tiny homes on wheels specifically.

I think there, there, you still have to go through the utility connections that still a process that we that we're mandating from, from this warden.

It would essentially just be like any other residential structure coming in and and like a prefabricated structure.

Could be, could be, you know, looked at as a similar in a similar way, similar way.

In the sort of approval, you know, just speaking really in the terms of following the parameters of the ordinance.

We re-envisioned something in terms of like a design review, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 for getting them to approval.

Now I know our book of fees may be updated soon.

So we may have that, that figure updated, but that's that's one component.

Now when it comes to impact fees, I, you know, that's it's outside of my realm.

But, but I know there's significant impact fees that are part of, you know, any construction and maybe.

Thank you.

Yeah, we and Daniel mentioned that we are updating our book of fees and we are looking at impact fees associated with smaller.

With smaller units, regardless of if they are on wheels or not.

This will be brought to the council in, I anticipate a few months.

And so at that point, we'll have a more robust discussion about the applicability of certain.

These as it pertains to a variety of different housing units.

Yeah, just to be clear that that that fee update is part of a much bigger effort that's been ongoing to adjust our fees.

In this case, it's looking at a different paradigm.

We charge residential development.

It's more based on the size of the unit versus traditional, you know, how many bedrooms it has that kind of.

The former way most impact fees are calculated.

But as you know, we've been working on a broader effort to really look closer at our impact fees across the city.

And trying to get those to a point where they're not an obstacle to all sorts of development, especially housing.

So when somebody like Davis Davis here comes in for our neighbor comes in and you know, they do they know up front all the I mean, I would have to say Mr. springer didn't.

He learned about it through the process.

That's that's probably not helpful.

It would be helpful for people as they're planning what to know up front.

But the costs are, is that possible.

It's most certainly something that we are targeting and anticipating.

It is a larger.

It is a larger project as Aaron had mentioned. We are looking at the comprehensive book of fees.

We are.

We're looking at how we can better provide the calculators for example for people to go online and to plug in what they want to do and have estimate of their fees.

It's a technological tool that we are continuing to refine and work on.

But that is definitely something we're working on.

We have the capability to provide fee estimates. I think a lot of times what happens is people get ahead of that process and they are far down the road where they're they have plans and it's just a.

I think what I'd encourage and this is true everywhere before anyone proceeds with spending real money on real plans and materials to make that stop at the city and get as best information as you can around what these.

Typically, you know, it's.

I know Andrea probably wouldn't say this is because we want to we want to be right all the time we want to be precise, especially in.

And we're quoting fees, but we have enough experience enough enough good staff that can give people kind of a ballpark.

Ideally, so before they, you know, are too far down in their process, they can at least get that early read. So that's something we always encourage. It's just, it's just, I think to your point.

Having both the word out that that's that's what people should be doing, but also Andrea's point.

Having easy to use tools on our website. That's something we're we're trying to add as a convenience for people who are looking at projects like.

Okay, good to know they can do some estimates before they start the project.

And then, you know, in the, I know we have speakers here. There's just an idea of how much these.

These costs and how much it would cost to get one on a property and what the barriers are if there was any kind of nimby ism.

Having one, you know, what city would have to address.

If there are ways to block, you know, getting one approved, you know, there's decisions people can apply. You know, I don't know how that works.

Certainly that people don't like a to use added on to a certain neighborhood. I'm familiar with that.

That is there a comparable experience with the tiny home or not. And is this going to be tiny home where residential city wide that people will start seeing if there's going to be a demand and a growth.

We should.

I can just kind of over that. I mean, these aren't to be permitted by right.

However, they must go through administrative approval process. So that's one avenue that essentially lets them go through the applicant must go through that process.

There isn't really a deal process for other homeowners.

As stated in the word, that's very helpful for the public to know by right means the council has no override decisions.

If they if they're called on to stop them going through the process and to be clear, neither does that.

It means the requirements. It means by right means by right. So we can set regulations, but this is something that is intended to be a streamlined approval process.

Yes, thank you for that clarification. That's really important for us to be aware.

Anything else?

Open it up to public comment.

Robin Davis.

I love this.

Exciting. I'm Robin and I live in my 160 square foot semi off grid tiny home on wheels on my undeveloped residential property here in West Sacramento.

It's exciting to be back on the agenda tonight and I want to express my gratitude to all the people who helped us get here.

To you council to staff to our neighbors to my family to friends and to all the supporters from around the state and country who have followed this movement in our mighty little city.

We want to give a shout out of course to Daniel in the planning department who gave such an awesome presentation of course he was thrown into the middle of this after David Tilly left us for another department but Daniel took this on with an open mind and heart and included the community's input at every step.

We appreciate all his transparency in this process.

Also appreciate David Tilly for having an incredible amount of patients with me since October of 2020.

I know that wasn't easy so we appreciate David equally as he worked hard to get us here as well.

We want to thank my district's council member normal Ocala for being bold and taking the much needed step to bring this request forward for consideration.

We thank you for all that you do for our district and the city and we'll continue to do we appreciate you.

And all the other council members for showing support and asking those tough questions along the way that should be addressed.

We appreciate all of you.

My last shout out goes to an advocate I met through this journey who showed up prepared with a USB and a stack of ordinances to our meeting with staff back in 2022 who I call my Earth Angel my first follower and soul sister her dedication.

Change the fate of this city's tiny home journey.

I'm on her.

She is many people's Earth Angel and one of the best humans I know the tiny home movement for this entire state wouldn't be what it is today without her.

So thank you.

Many of our fellow advocates from the tiny home movement the Yimby and affordable housing communities to leaders and municipalities across the entire state are closely watching what happens here tonight.

We are not just making a decision for our city.

We have a powerful opportunity to lead by example and set the tone for the entire region.

The choices we make in this moment will speak volumes about our commitment to real long term solutions to the housing crisis.

This ordinance is about more than policy.

It's about people.

It's about protecting the freedom to choose how we live the freedom to create more diverse housing options that reflect the needs of our diverse population and the freedom to build a future where everyone has a fair shot at safe stable and affordable shelter.

We are fortunate to be a seed a city already recognized by the state as a leader in pro housing policy.

Let's not stop there.

Let's keep the momentum going.

Let's stay competitive and show that we are not only serious about housing.

We are serious about equity sustainability and opportunity for all.

Thank you for your support and committed commitment to understanding this movement and bringing us to where we are tonight.

Andrea Montoya or Montana.

I'm glad to write a speech tonight.

After this, if there's any time, I'd be happy to go back and address some of the questions and concerns that came up as far as the utility connection costs across the state.

We do have some of those numbers that we'd be happy to share.

There are things where these are already approved along with some of the other design concerns and things that had come up.

Good evening, Madam Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tem.

City members.

City Council members and city manager and staff.

Thank you for the opportunity to present the first draft of the tiny home on wheels ordinance.

This proposal represents unity community in a heartfelt collaboration story.

A journey that has strengthened our bond and helped us grow together while adopting our region's evolving housing needs.

What began as a resident's innocent request for access to water has blossomed into a comprehensive study resulting in this new ordinance being presented here today.

And with your permission and feedback and the contributions of our local residents planning commission and neighboring city planners, we've taken additional steps to present a supplemental package, including an application checklist and a process flow to promote the transparency,

fluidity and quality controls for health, life and fire safety and balances.

We value everyone's input.

Even the hard questions and reservations and concerns that have come up.

They've all been thoughtfully articulated in this plan for the city of West Sacramento.

By including these additional artifacts, we aim to address questions that emerge regarding eligibility requirements and provisions, design standards, zoning regulations and administrative procedures for permit processing.

Our goal is to create a clear pathway for application to approval for occupancy while safeguarding the integrity of our residential land uses and public resources.

This ordinance represents another valuable tool in the housing toolkit, one that can allow thoughtful density that integrates seamlessly within our existing infrastructure.

Many homes can offer a residence the ability to sustain our own organic growth as a cogs blueprint plan has presented ensuring our young adult children are outpaced by the housing crisis and our parents and loved ones can gracefully age in place close to family and friends.

With this ordinance, we can recognize tiny living as sustainable, comfortable, efficient living spaces designed for one to two person households where they can become charming, cozy cottages, complete with welcoming porches and petite little garden spaces.

As someone who once looked over Tower Bridge and waved at you all with curiosity and a hopeful heart, I dreamed that one day this day would come and I want to express my deepest gratitude for that.

Though it may seem like such a small advantage for infill opportunities for some of us, it is quite a big deal to be able to live within our means.

Thank you for allowing us to stand before you and give us a chance to be seen and heard. I'm confident that the positive impacts of this ordinance will ripple back across the river and sub date benefit our entire region.

Just as little brother can grow strong and stand tall, becoming one day the big brother, I see the same influence what Sacramento has to set an example and this forward thinking approach to housing diversity.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Michelle Burke.

Many communities in California and across the nation via code policies, brands and fee schedules have loudly proclaimed a need for low income housing.

While simultaneously telling us that green space and ecological concerns dictate low impact development.

Tiny homes on wheels are an answer to both housing and ecology.

You should embrace the solution that grows your local sales receipts because people in small dwellings tend to spend a lot more time socializing away from home.

You should embrace a housing solution that leaves the land available for future development while building community and businesses in the present with affordable housing for teachers, musicians and business owners.

You should lead zoning code away from its discriminatory origins with code that respects people instead of prejudice.

And you'll be remembered for making a real difference in housing here and across the nation by approving a template for tiny homes on wheels to be approved. Thank you.

Thank you.

Maria Grahalve.

Thank you.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak.

This tiny tiny homes on wheels ordinance is going to put West Sacramento in compliance with California law.

We have been out of compliance for quite some time.

I think all of the city witnessed when this homeowner tried to put, I guess it was water, trying to get water into her home.

And it became an ordeal because someone in West Sacramento felt that tiny homes weren't aesthetically pleasing.

And so for three years, we all witnessed this homeowner go through living hell.

All of us witnessed it together.

And so the ordinance that has been created is requiring the wheels to be taken off.

And it sounds like it has some exorberant fees also.

And I think that is perhaps a plan indirectly to discourage people from having tiny homes.

That is what I suspect.

And it's just sad and pathetic, really, because it's a law and we are out of compliance.

And this ordinance is going to put us in compliance.

But there is also another law, the United States Constitution, that makes it illegal for us to have exorberant fees.

And I think there was one county that was sued by, not by ACLU, but another justice organization, another civil rights organization.

Because the homeowner had ADU for his worker and the city, the county was charging him an exorberant amount of a fine or a fee or something.

Anyway, they went to court and it was against the Constitution.

And so I'm wondering if that's not what's happening here.

I don't know what the rates are compared to Sacramento.

We need to do some comparison rates.

Because if our rates are exorberant, then they're unconstitutional in my personal opinion.

And it's an effort to discourage tiny homes.

I encourage everyone to build a tiny home in their backyard if you can.

Because it's a solution for a homeless situation and it's also the law.

Just because someone in West Sacramento, like our former mayor or someone like that, doesn't like them because they're not aesthetically pleasing, doesn't mean that we don't get to have tiny homes.

It's our right to have tiny homes and I think we should have lots of tiny homes.

Thank you.

Joyce Davis.

Thank you.

My name is Joyce Davis and I am Robin Davis's mom.

As many of you know, Robin lives in 160 square foot tiny home on wheels under undeveloped residential property here in West Sacramento.

As a parent, we never stop worrying about our children no matter their age or circumstances.

Robin's passion for housing, equity and affordability is more profound and personal than you can imagine.

She found a way to shelter herself in on her modest income and to live within her means.

This is not the case for Robin's sister who struggles with housing instability, living on the streets of Southern California and not able to afford medication, housing or food at times.

Just like thousands of others in this state, to say that Robin is on a mission to cure California of its unhoused situation is an understatement.

This ordinance and all that it relates to is her passion and will only serve to improve the housing crisis facing all of your constituents and their future.

And I also believe it will serve as a blueprint for all communities and generations to come in California.

If you have not guessed it already, Robin is an enigma with optimism, vision and wisdom beyond her years.

And I am blessed, thankful and proud of that girl.

Beyond words.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing an opportunity with this ordinance so that Robin can live in her tiny home on wheels safely and soon to be legally in your community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Kimber Goddard.

I just wanted to take a moment. I initially did not like this idea.

And I met Robin, one of the finest advocates I've ever seen.

I wanted to take a moment and say I appreciate that the way she handled herself, the way she changed my mind on the subject, not easy, and a lot of other people's.

I appreciate what she's done and the example that she has set.

And I think that what her advocacy has demonstrated is a commendable way to achieve.

Thank you for that. And I yield my time to much better speakers.

Rhonda Pope, Laura's.

I want to express my support for this much needed.

Also, just Robin.

Well, actually, both of these ladies just, you know, I know you guys were working on a contract with Holland and night, but you might want to look right here.

Because these are some serious advocates right there.

You might save some money.

Amazing.

The only thing the, yeah, maybe the only thing I'm going to miss about this is hearing her speech that she started with every single time.

And it was so amazing because you never, you'll never forget those words.

You're never going to forget her determination and what she's created for the future.

You know, while she did this for herself, she may not realize what she's doing for so many others that, you know, have economic challenges in California where we live.

You know, everybody's moving away.

And so Robin, don't underestimate or don't undervalue your crusade.

I will call it because I really do believe that what you've done is so amazing is going to open the doors for so many others.

And you're going to be the face that they remember, at least in West Sac, or actually both of you, because I remember both of your faces.

When I think of this subject, it's always these two that, that I always remember.

But, you know, please don't sell this short of what you've done.

It's amazing.

And you're going to help so many people that you probably have no idea.

Of course, I always have, you know, two cents to add.

I do have some concerns about the timings.

Just going through that situation myself here.

Hopefully there's some timeframes that are connected to the application process.

Shouldn't be open-ended response times.

There should be, you know, time connected to all of those things because otherwise we can get caught.

And all of that, and maybe that's been done.

But if it hasn't, I think that would be two cents that should be added.

But just amazing.

You are so inspiring.

I love your drive and what you've done.

And now you get to actually enjoy your home.

Assuming no pressure that you do this this evening.

It's the right thing to do.

It's a good thing to do.

It's going to be an amazing example that's set.

And I'm just so very proud to know you, Robin and Andrea.

Lori Gutierrez.

Hello.

Hello.

I may have met this young lady three times.

And she actually lives two houses down from my childhood house.

And when I seen it there, I was amazed.

I was amazed because I've been looking for this.

I've been looking at little houses because I take care of my mom and dad.

And it's really hard.

It struggles hard right now.

And one day I'm going to worry about where I'm going to be when I'm old.

And who's going to take care of me and where I'm going to live.

And she actually opened the door for me to set somewhere for me and my husband to be in life.

And when I drive down my old school street, I think that's awesome.

I've been in her house.

I watched how she got water.

I watched what she went through.

I followed her on Facebook of the struggle of this young lady.

And you know what?

As a mother, I agree with her.

I have a 33-year-old son and a 16-year-old son.

And every day I worry about where my kids are going to afford to live.

To live.

And what she got, it's a grid.

I'm born and raised here.

All these trailers, whatever you call, they got little things around their tires that she can do.

There's a lot she can do with this.

But she's on a property where she's safe.

She's got wonderful neighbors.

Wonderful neighbors.

How I know?

I was born and raised on that street.

But I'm really proud of you because you opened doors for everybody.

And I'm glad that your mom don't have to worry about where you're at because you are in a safe location.

And West Sac's a good place to live.

Bright and broad are a very good place to live.

There's good people.

There's good neighbors.

We live.

We help each other.

And what she's doing, keep doing.

I'm really proud of you because I didn't think you were going to get this far.

I really thought West Sac was going to push you out, but she stood you ground.

And I'm here to support you.

I may not be here all the time, but I follow you girl.

And she deserves a lot more.

And I hope she gets everything she deserves.

I'm just a support.

We have no additional requests to speak on this item.

Thank you so much.

But I'm certain thank you to all the speakers for being here tonight.

Four of this closing the public comment, bringing it back to council.

Hey, no other comments.

I'll let the motion to approve this.

I got it first.

Okay.

You go for it.

And who seconded?

Member.

Madam clerk, please call the roll.

I'm sorry.

Who made the motion?

Council member Ocala and council member Roscoe.

Thank you.

Council member Ocala.

I council member early.

I council member Roscoe.

I mayor Pro Tem.

Who is the next item?

Council leader, please.

Mayor Garrell.

Thank you so much.

Congratulations.

And we have.

Next.

Item 15 under community development as a public hearing

and consideration of first reading.

Ordinance 25 dash six regarding amendments to title 17 zoning

public noticing engagement and participation procedures

in the review of large development project.

Mayor, members of council, good evening.

Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem, members of council, my name is Andrea Ausa, I'm your director of community development.

I'm here tonight to present the first reading of ordinance 25-6, which proposes changes to the city zoning code, specifically chapter 1735, to increase engagement by the public in reviewing large development projects.

The objective of this ordinance is to promote more transparency and community engagement in large development projects, and those are often projects that generate additional public interest due to their size and their potential impact.

Furthermore, this modification reflects the council's commitment to more meaningful opportunities for public to learn about large development projects earlier in the development process.

So talking about the applicability of this ordinance, this ordinance introduces a new category called large development project, and those are defined as private development projects with over 500 residential units, and those that require a particular discretionary approval.

For purposes of this ordinance, a discretionary approval is one that's defined as one or more of the following.

A general plan amendment, a specific plan or a specific plan amendment, an amendment to the south port framework plan, or a zoning amendment or otherwise known as a rezone.

So some key enhancements brought about by this ordinance includes, and this is not an inclusive list, but expanded notification radius, and that would be notices would be mailed to a quarter mile radius around the development project boundary.

And currently the mailing requirement under our current code is 500 feet. So it would be expanding by about almost 1000 feet.

A public workshop would be required at this point. It's optional.

The workshop would be held early in the process after an application has been deemed complete. But before it gets prepared for a public hearing.

This would allow for more meaningful feedback and dialogue between the public and the applicant and for an opportunity to learn more about the project.

Agenda materials would be, and that's the staff report in the attachments would be available earlier under this ordinance.

It would be posted online at least one week in advance of a public hearing and hearings will be scheduled early in the meeting, whether it's planning commission or city council, and it would be agendized after administrative items.

So the pledge the land acknowledgement, etc. But before all other action items.

A couple of items to note the ordinance is exempt from from sequel because it doesn't directly impact the physical environment.

As with all existing applications, the costs of the enhanced public notification would be worn by the applicants in this case.

And that is the case currently and these changes would apply citywide to all qualifying projects that I talked about earlier.

They also reflect terms negotiated in the Arbor settlement agreement.

So with that, our recommendation tonight is for staffs to end this city council to conduct the public hearing.

To find that the draft ordinance is exempt from sequel and to conduct the first reading by title and number only amending chapter 17.35 of the municipal code.

That concludes my presentation.

I certainly want to get back to the closing public comment.

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

And, um, oh the questions.

Move.

All of them moved and mayor but him is your whole second and my life. I'm clerk. Please call the roll

Councilmember Ocala I councilmember early I councilmember Roscoe

Mayor pro tem so PZ a hole I mayor Guerrero. Yep. I next

We do not have any regular agenda items

Have a general administration

We have a new report

Remember early

All right. Thank you. We've got to hear a little bit about one of my assignments earlier, but I'm just gonna I'm gonna jump right in

As you be on behalf of our city

So on March 19th. I

met with

The commission set on the yellow crowning housing commission

And the commission approved the fiscal year 25 29 8c plans

That was strategic plan if you remember Ian had come and send it to us

We approved that plan and the capital fund updates mid-year budget as well

We had an option to ground lease surplus property in Woodland, which was also approved

And then one of my colleagues was sworn in as an alternate that move from Davis

On March 19th. I also set on the new Hope CDC

meeting and

That was also in Woodland both these meetings were in Woodland the board approved the previous meeting agenda

as well as

Minutes for the resolution of the 2019 infill infrastructure grant

We also approved the fiscal year 2024 through 25 mid-year budget update and then we elected a chair and

vice chair on

March 20th. I had the say cog board meeting which was in Rockland

The actions that we did we approved multiple transportation fund allocations and planning items

We also approved four point four point seven two million an active

Transportation program funds. Those are ATP two million of those four point seven were actually awarded to West Sacramento

It was a very very competitive process and this goes to what we were speaking about earlier regarding

Say cog funding and the partnership that we have

And how great our staff is by the way at writing

And submitting these applications for these for these grant funds again. It was a very competitive process across our six County region

We also held a public caring for our staff vacancies

We discussed the card alone that say cock has loaned the capital area region regional polling authority

We discussed regional workforce development and planning initiatives

The president of Sierra College came and talked about all the amazing work

They are doing and then we also reviewed progress on green means go regional trails and nor Cal go platform

on April 3rd

We had the say cog transportation committee meeting. This was

Actually in

Pasoville and

We approved the minutes obviously, but we also adopted SB 125 transit funding

And this is really important again. We talked about that fiscal cliff

And SB 125 is meant to fill in over the next few years

The fiscal cliff that is happening both in Yolo County ours is

significantly smaller and

Sac our keys we were presented with two options one of which would not have actually

met the capital needs of

YTD while meeting the operational needs and so we actually as a transportation committee voted to not only be

the operational needs of YTD, but also the capital needs by

Including an additional 2.8 million on sac our T. I will note

was made whole in their operations with a

50 million dollar

Allocation from those funds, which was important we reaffirmed we reaffirmed our transit

Representation policy, which is important that those who sit on these regional

Transportation districts like YTD

We have that across in El Dorado Placer Sat County. There are I think in total 16

members that sit on regional

transportation districts and there is a policy that

St. Caucasus to maintain that representation of those transportation districts

And so we reaffirmed that policy with MOU updates

We reviewed the 2025 blueprint implementation phase one mobility zones and the US

50-quarter framework and then we discussed transit access and plans for ace games

Here in West Sacramento

And we previewed May is bike month which by the way there will be another bike rodeo that I'm sure

Everyone is going to go to that will be I think it'll be back where it was a couple years ago

Which is on right in front of Franke

Everything is grounded there for me

And then we received a a Carter board recap on April 9th

Which is today? I had a Carter board meeting and a tour of Cal Trans

And so we met in Ranch Cordova

Which by the way if anything were to happen apparently is the safest place in regards to earthquakes or anything like that

I found that fascinating that would be the place that you would want to go

the actions that we took is that we

Approved what the towing hours would be for the capital area regional point authority

Here again in Yolo County that the cross the causeway

I'll just keep reminding you guys what's happening because it can sometimes feel far away

We made it so that would be it would be 24 7 that we would actually have

Access but the towing hours would be like during peak hours

We also talked about eligibility and how we would collect those towing dollars

We reviewed the scope for Yolo I-80 traffic and revenue study

And then we punted on a workshop of toll pricing and discount policy

Because we really got into what does equity look like when you are talking about

Tolling and you are needing to get across the causeway to get your job and you may

Not have a job that pays you a high income. So what does that look like?

And that's it for me

Any other updates?

Executive Commission to address homelessness met we had a special meeting to update our bylaw so that we could address

Just some administrative processes and identifying hat funding

A million dollars has been awarded to the county and in our bylaws it talks about

for the Commission about money being

Allicated fairly across all of the communities and one of the

Comments that was brought up and it'll it'll be nice to see is all of the organizations that are applying for funding

Many of them like you may be located in Woodland and 30% of your population that you service from West Sacramento

Digging more deeply into these organizations and not necessarily saying this amount of money is going to this

Provider in this city, but this is the amount of money that's going to services that are

respected in that community

So it'll be interesting to actually look at a breakdown of funding that's coming to West Sacramento

I'm to address homelessness and that was hot five and then we're preparing for a round of hapsick

I think there's another million dollars which will be allocated to service providers here in West Sacramento

My update

Any other

Thank you. I'm I attended the old Solano air quality management

District board meeting today, and we had a very long presentation on a mission conducting credit

interesting the way

these credits work counties

actually banks of these credits and

I

Don't how you drive it out there in something like Bitcoin the credits are there

And you're not in the county's not using them another county can actually buy these credits from them. So

The presentation

Is incredibly expensive we find out how these credits are exchanged back and forth within California and

I'm

Gonna tell you it was it was a very

It was a very difficult actually

Presentation because I had no idea I mean me very

It wasn't tangible

But that's the way California does business they

Use guidelines put up by the California Air Resources

And then also there was a quick little

Notice that the

also air quality management

Board will be having their annual save the air quality contest children from

Kindergarten through high school. They're gonna be 12

winners that they select the art contest and

Then let's say

The safe gun we have a meeting I believe on the 17th

councilmember

These you'll hold on I will be attending that and Aaron. I do have an April 30th EIFD

the enhanced infrastructure financing district that correct on

30th

That's still on I know we had to reschedule the one that was previously dinner, you know, okay

We anticipate that meeting being held on May 21st and I

Still need to confirm with a few people. Yes, the state's on that one

Doesn't need to happen in that time frame though. All right, thank you. And then April 19th

We will be the city will be hosting the recycle fair at Bright Park and I really love that fair

We have the different booths out there the kids really enjoy this

think I heard there was gonna be an Easter egg hunt as well and

The repair cafe, I believe will be on site and an excellent

Group that goes out

Teaches people how to sew how to fix small appliances. It's all about sustainability and I putting things into the landfill

They've been meeting at Holy Cross every other month

Thank you councilmember Ocala last week

At River City High School the school district met to discuss

With the parents there were a number of listening sessions to review the sorrow

Institution and

But what I gained from that is a

Very strong interest I mean among all those present

To receive an SRO and we will be getting from our two-by-two meeting

We will be getting an update about that but

Listed from highest to lowest the reasons why and 81 percent

For an SRO physical security and emergency procedures was one of the

One of the main reasons threat assessment and prevention

Active shooter response building positive relations for the top four the escalation techniques, you know is also

I know that

Sorrows can be a controversial issue because the way was jettisoned out by the school board in the past in 2020

without

any kind of notice to

council or police department really and

At this point the

School board has reversed

their

Their interest to reinstate that by a vote of four to one and this current listening session is primarily to

Establish a plan a program so they have approved it for the 25 26

Budget year and the letter that was shared to us when we reviewed measure O was to set aside our

50% to

Establish an SRO and I did make a commitment to achieve that and

I know that I don't think these listening sessions were tape other than then from members of the public

But I know that our city manager would be happy to give you more of an update because he is meeting regularly with the superintendent about

Before comes to us for a decision, but I just wanted you to be aware of

what I've gathered in

Understanding this a little better from the two by two. I know

Head and understanding and things were a little different than what we thought I I

Wanted to really figure it out myself and be more involved and

and also

You know be true to what we are making a commitment and making sure you're all aware what I'm learning

and

From that I

Also want to share that we we attended chief and I again another event that a lot of events this last week police department

Attended a with the

River City High School Black Student Union a great experience

That the students engaged with the police department

And it was it was I think very heartwarming to see many students come out in attendance for a

Hornhole toss yes, it was a great. It was a really

Many hours spent there and just want to show you know share my appreciation for Westside PD

For all that you do in the community

Not only that but keeping our Westside literally parade, you know safe as well

And just always being involved in the community whenever asked you do

I know court staff and all you guys do a lot to help out with that. So thank you so much

and staying engaged with the community

And with that move on next to our council calendar

Good evening just a reminder that next Thursday there is going to be a ground break groundbreaking at West Higger Park

It's gonna start at 11. The time has changed from what the invite that initially went out

So it's an hour later than initially