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of protecting and securing our spot here in City Hall

and all throughout the city.

Greatly appreciate it.

So I wanted to talk with the mayor before this

and said, hey, we should also probably talk about our Juneteenth

event that we had this past week, which was just so beautiful.

It was our third annual.

There were several hundred folks there.

And every year, it just gets bigger and bigger.

And it's just so amazing because as Mayor Pro Tempizzo Hall said,

this was something that was started three years ago.

And it was just we were unsure of what it would be.

I remember we said, like, maybe we get 50 people.

And that will be great.

That will be a success.

And to see what it is now.

And again, you all were there and continue to be there,

along with our River City football players, again,

along with a whole host of vendors and now our city staff.

And so I want to make sure I thank you guys.

I want to make sure I also thank our city staff who took this on and also saw the vision.

And in a world in which right now in this country, seeing diversity, seeing inclusion,

saying equity are considered woke and dirty words.

I think it is beyond that you guys are standing in the gap for our community.

You are doing something that's really, really hard when it feels like sometimes the world is against you.

And so as our mayor said, I hope that you feel that West Sacramento is your safe place and that you are seeing,

and that you are welcome, and that this is part of our values.

And so very excited that you guys were able to take this proclamation today.

I'm also very excited that our own staff get to have the time off to celebrate Juneteenth as well.

That was something that did not exist just a few short years ago.

And so thank you all for being there.

And thank you to my colleagues for being together in this celebration.

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Just really quick.

I was going to say thank you for your leadership.

You guys are so fortunate to have Patrice as a mentor.

And also for the younger generation that's out there, you guys are going to be incredible role models.

So thank you.

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All right.

Next is a proclamation recognizing Tom Ramos for his longtime service on the West Sacramento

Area Flood Control Agency Board.

Tom, if you can come on up.

I'm going to read your proclamation.

I have the City Council in recognition of Tom Ramos for his longtime service on the

WSAFCA Board.

Whereas Tom Ramos is a native of West Sacramento and a graduate of Our Lady of Grace Parish

School and James Marshall High School.

Whereas he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of

Nevada and was the owner and operator of Ram Auto Parts and Machine Shop in West Sacramento

for 25 years from 1981 to 2006.

And he has served as a trustee for Reclamation District 537 since 2007.

And whereas he has served on the West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency Board since 2008.

And has served as chair of the board since 2017.

Representing WSAFCA on several regional flood planning boards.

And whereas he encouraged and approved WSAFCA's early implementation projects including Ice Street

Bridge, the Rivers CHP Academy, Rivers Project, Southport Sacramento River Phase 1 and 2.

And whereas he attended and presented the West Sacramento general reevaluation report before

the Civil Works Review Board at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington,

D.C. in December 2015.

And where it received approval.

And whereas he participated in multiple cap-to-cap trips to Washington, D.C. advocating for the

West Sacramento project to receive authorization under the Water Resources Development Act and

to obtain a new START designation for full federal participation.

Whereas he approved the construction of the Southport Levy Improvement Project in 2017.

And whereas he remained committed to the project and witnessed the federal new START designation

being approved in the 2022 budget.

And whereas he consistently served as an ardent steward of WSAFCA's budget.

And supported the use of flood assessment funds for critical flood protection projects.

Now therefore be it proclaimed that the City of West Sacramento City Council hereby recognizes

Tom Ramos for his long-standing commitment to public service and his dedication to advancing

flood protection for the residents and property owners of West Sacramento proclaimed this 18th

day of June 2025.

Congratulations Tom and thank you for your service.

I'll give you a few moments to share your thoughts.

Okay well thank you.

I apologize to everyone for all that.

They said they needed to fill a page.

So kind of put a lot of stuff in there.

But I don't know I guess just thank you for recognizing you know I just enjoyed you know

being able to provide some kind of service to my hometown West Sacramento.

And something as critical as flood control.

You know I think it's beneficial to everyone that lives here to be able to see the improvements

we said.

And I guess just you know the thank the easy thing was kind of easy just my job was just

to say yes and vote yes on a lot of things and just keep things moving forward.

And that was easy to do because we had great flood and city staff that was always there to help us out.

Good consultants, good engineers, even the lawyers were nice most of the time.

And so with that it was good to easy to keep things moving forward.

And there's just too many people to really you know thank in person or name.

But I see Paul's here tonight representing the Wassefka Flood Department.

So you know he can thank everybody for me as we as we go along.

But I'd like to just mention one person and that's Congresswoman Matsui.

And I think we were very fortunate that she became our Congresswoman in 2012.

Because I think it really lifted our image there in DC and with the Corps here in Sacramento.

Because of all the work she had done previously and you know we worked well with our neighbors across the streets across the river Saifka.

We competed for funds but with her help you know we made sure all of us got you know we got what we wanted and needed you know during that whole process.

So I want to thank her for for that and I got my family here with me tonight and I just wanted to mention my wife and I just wanted to mention my wife.

Susan probably because you know in something like this you're supposed to acknowledge your spouse.

So that but also she was involved in flood protection here in West Sacramento way before me.

In the late 80s and early 90s she worked for the Corps of Engineers in Sacramento as a senior planner.

And her project one of her projects was the West Sacramento project that happened at that time.

And working with RD 900 they were they went through a similar process that we went through later.

But got authorization for a federal program.

Got it funded and we had quite you know quite a bit of work done.

And when it got done we thought we had 400 year protection.

But things changed Katrina and all you guys all know the stories.

You know we had to come back to the drawing board.

And because of that early project we were able to get the federal government's attention again.

And we're able to work through the process to get to where we are today.

So thank you Sue.

So with that just one last thing.

I spent a lot of mornings sitting back in here guys as council chambers.

And on your wall you have signs that say all your priorities and they go back years.

And all of them or almost all of them flood protection is number one priority.

And I think until the job's done we got to continue with that.

And I know you ladies with both the RD 900 and with the city here will continue it on.

So thank you very much.

Thank you madam mayor.

I have the pleasure of serving on the WSAFCA board with Tom.

And I think back to when we were with councilmember Alcala we're trustees.

I remember when we were electing the board chair.

And we looked at each other and we were like it can't be anybody else but Tom.

You have been an incredible president.

Thank you for your steadfast hand.

Um you talk about being service to your community.

And it absolutely you love West Sacramento.

And I just appreciate the time that you've given the community to serve in this capacity.

I don't think you give yourself enough credit for your knowledge base of flood protection in West Sacramento.

There have been many meetings and me being the newest trustee on the board.

Where there are conversations about the West Sacramento project and years have gone past.

And Tom's like wasn't that the and brings up some very specific item from five years ago.

And staff's like yes absolutely.

And it just it's so incredibly impressive.

Um that's the amount of information that you've been able to process and retain and bring to the table.

To make sure that our community is safe.

Because you're right flood protection has been a number one priority of the city for the last 20 years.

And it's it's so incredibly important.

And you've been just such a wonderful steadfast hand in all of it.

So just thank you for your service.

I don't know what a meeting is going to be like without you.

We're going to see you next Thursday.

And then after that you know what's up to us to figure out what's next.

So thank you very much for all your time and commitment to the community.

Thank you.

I also want to say thank you so much.

A lot of gratitude for the time and dedication.

It was safe.

And you always asked a lot of great questions that all of a sudden I was like I was going to ask that.

And you asked it.

And sometimes I was a little timid about that when I first got on there.

So I want to thank you for keeping us informed.

And even when some of the things that went way over my head,

stay over and ask you those questions.

And you were always available.

So thank you so much.

Well, we accomplished a lot together.

A little different right now with now it's a federal project.

But there's still a lot of work to keep track of to get to the get to the end.

Yes, Councilmember.

So I have not served on WSAFEGO.

But however, I do appreciate having strong levies.

As a resident and someone who's raising their family here.

The thing that I think about with our commissions and with our boards at the county or city level

that I think oftentimes people don't realize is that you often go unrecognized for

very, very important work that you are just volunteering your time.

And so what I would say similar to my colleagues and reiterate just thank you so much.

Thank you for being one of our unsung heroes here in West Sacramento and for making us safer

because that's exactly what you did.

Thank you.

Tom, you're going to be missed.

It's a huge loss for us.

But I know good things have to come to an end.

And you're able to enjoy some time off and on your own.

But we have truly benefited as a city.

Maintained our goals.

And you saw them on our strategic plan.

We'll be there for however long we needed to stay there.

And you have had the vision and have held it steadfast and shared it with us as leadership,

making sure that it was instilled in our thoughts and understanding the history.

I remember we spent time going over what we needed to do when we didn't get the New START money.

And once that happened during COVID, just being able to celebrate and was there present with you for the signing ceremony.

Right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that's thanks to you and your determination to make sure that our city is protected.

It's the number one, you know, just as far as whatever crisis we would ever have here,

as far as a climate action related activity, it's going to be flood.

And just the history of what you've seen in the past and what could happen.

And your wife, who's also, Sue has also been very supportive in allowing for you to join us and

you taking time off from work, just to make sure that things were in place and saw it come to fruition.

I'm sure you work closely with our staff and trained them and given them some guidance as well,

as I have felt, even on other things like where was this old bridge that I heard about?

You knew exactly where it was.

You whipped out your phone and showed it to me.

And I'm going to continue to tap your knowledge because I'm going to, you know,

as we move forward on doing some projects, I think your history and knowledge is invaluable for the city.

So thank you so much.

And with that, I want to be able to go down and take a photo with you.

Like I said, I was glad I was able to contribute.

Thank you.

Hold on.

We're going to go take a photo.

and we're gonna do that later.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next up is a presentation from one of our Youth Climate Action Fund grant recipients.

Here to share with us about the Youth Climate Action Board.

Ms. Jasmine Garcia, come on up.

Thank you.

Jennifer, do you have the present?

Perfect.

So excited to have you here.

Thank you.

It's great to be here.

Hi.

I'm here presenting on behalf of the Youth Climate Action Board based here in West Sacramento.

I'm just doing a quick impact report.

Essentially what we've done over the past seven to eight months that we've been in service.

We've been doing stuff here in the community.

And yeah, just a quick presentation.

Next slide, please.

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Our board started with essentially some listening sessions, which I thought were important to

any board that's starting up.

Identifying what your community has and what it needs.

Many of these listening sessions involved reaching out to community partners, including the Wonder

Grove.

Rachel from the Wonder Grove was amazing to talk to.

In terms of how youth are being, are really involved in outside environmental enrichment

learning, she really allowed us know what her struggles and her issues were with starting

what she continues to do, what her successes were, that really helped us in

knowing what exactly goes into running programs that are really necessary for

youth education. And we also met with Alfred, which is one of our strongest

partners here. We have him on our shirts too, he made our shirts, but we went to

his garden and we had a great time learning about just how to, you know, run

an organization that is so, he's so dedicated, how to nourish your plants.

Many of our members are actually graduating and they were really

interested, they're majoring in environmental science and chemical

biology or something, so they were really interested in that. We also had Seeds of

Solidarity. We had someone from NorCal Resist, which is kind of the program that

runs that, come to one of our meetings and talk about her passion. She's really,

really passionate about her little farm that she has and she was really great.

And of course we've worked with the City of West Sacramento, the County of Yolo.

We've worked with Girl Scouts doing their, some of their major projects, which has

been great to work alongside them. And then we just articulated three areas of need

recently, which was youth empowerment and leadership, access to environmental

education and sustainable community resources. And this really came from a lot

of our listening sessions, as well as some sessions we had with youth in the

community in Yolo County to kind of ask them what they needed from us, what they

thought was important. Here is a little bit about our funding overview, which I

think it's necessary to paint a picture of what we're like. A hundred percent of it

goes back again to our youth. We secured over ten thousand dollars in total

funding and I guess by we, more like me, I secured that within I think eight or nine

months, which was incredible. Just like support from the community, from

organizations just across the world who are dedicated to progressing youth, youth

driven initiatives. And really this is a hundred percent youth driven. Absolutely

no adult involvement unless it's like partners. And then we have distributed over

a thousand dollars in youth stipends. Stipends are really important when I was

creating this board just because I really, although volunteer opportunities are

great. I feel that our youth should be given some money for their transportation, for their time.

So we pay them thirty dollars an hour. Our meetings are an hour, which is just great pay.

But from what we've kind of talked about, it's a good amount. We've held eight regular meetings, as well as other meetings that are not kind of official. But eight meetings.

We were really, really lucky enough to have Blake from RD 900 to help us. He's been great in helping us host that in his space. It's been really great. As well as we've been out in the garden during one of our meetings. It's always really fun and informative. And we take time to just understand our planet, our world, what environmental education looks like, what it looks like specifically for youth.

40 plus youth have expressed interest. We got dozens of applications. However, not many of them went through, which is something I want to talk about later. And then we did one climate related bill. We actually talked to legislative directors from both the assembly and the state senate. I believe we talked to 14 of them, which was a lot of meetings. But really, this bill wasn't ever meant to be passed or anything. It was just because I thought it was very important. One of the most important lessons I've learned was how

how to propose a bill, what it takes to work with community partners to get something like that done. And I think that we learned a lot from that. We learned how to work with other people who have other interests that are completely different.

Yeah, we just worked with a lot of people we didn't expect to during that time. And again, that leads to dozens of local partners involved. Many, many people that we've talked to over these past seven months, just about all issues related to climate advocacy, environmental stewardship, which has been really great. And then in that graphic, you can see kind of the breakdown. More than 50% is spent on stipends. 21% spent on pilot program, which is something I'll talk about.

In the next slide. 9.3% spent on merch, which is kind of this shirt here. We spent about 9.3% of that. We give everyone a shirt, just kind of for publicity. And then we have 4.1% on events. We do big events, lots of flower making, planting, germination, things like that. We really like to try to be hands on when we're with youth because we find

that that's how they respond best, which makes sense. 1.2% on publicity, printing out stuff, flyers, and then 6.9% on food, which is just, we give them food because it's at five o'clock, second Monday of each month, and they're really hungry. So we give them lots of food.

So we're very happy.

Okay.

Okay.

Here is some of the stuff we're working on right now. We're super, super excited to be working

alongside city staff. Ryan from the Environmental Division of the City, and RISA. We're working

to do kind of a pilot program, what they kind of want to pitch to the city, a water and

energy efficiency program, one that's run in a lot of different cities, counties across

California, where you essentially analyze, we're going to analyze similar home energy

and water efficiency programs, really just how to improve your energy use, which could

be, and just, I don't know, weatherproofing your home, putting weather strips, putting aerators,

different things that we've come up with, LED light bulbs.

So yeah, again, we're just kind of identifying that, comparing it.

We have dozens of different cities that we're comparing that, and then we're evaluating how

they engage and incentivize residents to kind of be part of this program and how we can do

that in our own city.

So we're definitely looking at that.

We spent a couple meetings on that.

And then designing a household audit kit, which would be like a kit that a resident of West

Sacramento could get to improve the energy and water efficiency of their home.

This is, again, something we're just kind of researching, perhaps piloting, and our goal

is essentially to prepare a presentation for city staff.

We've been meeting with them about every month, summarizing kind of the research, methodology,

and the results of this, of our findings, and then perhaps establishing a water and energy

efficiency program here, if that is a possibility.

So it's been really great working with city staff to do this, because this is not a project

that many boards, especially youth boards, get to take on, but our youth members have really

proven that they can do it.

So here I have just included a testimonial.

It says, being part of the Youth Climate Action Board gave me a real voice in shaping local

climate policy.

I never thought I could meet with community leaders or draft actual proposals until now.

Here are some great pictures that we've taken over the past seven months.

We have one of our events, a couple of meetings, just a short snippet of a lot of things we've

done.

And actually we have Rachel from the Wonder Grove there in one of the pictures.

But yeah, this is a lot of youth have engaged with our programs, and it's something we like

to put on for them.

So now some of our takeaways, kind of why I'm here.

Despite offering stipends to youth, youth recruitment has been a challenge.

You know, it's a great opportunity from what we see, $30 to basically say you don't even

have to participate.

You know, as long as you take away some knowledge from our discussions, that is great for us.

We just really want some education to youth, even basic, minimal education on why environmental

stewardship is important.

Why, you know, our Climate Action Plan, which is currently in the midst here, which I had

talked to Ryan about when we first met, why that's important.

Why we should really care.

So it's really been a persistent challenge in getting youth recruitment.

And this is something that we really need the community's help, city council's help with,

really anyone's help with.

Because a lot of our senior members are again going off to UC Santa Cruz, Davis, 10 different

UCs.

Their board renewal is a top priority.

We need more people to come in in order to keep this sustained.

And then community support is again just critical.

If people want to come support us, I think the most important thing is bring someone in.

Help us spread the message, be there.

And I think the community support has been amazing in terms of everyone's willing to help

us, whether it be provide us a location, come and speak with us.

And again, that was actually a challenge, finding a meeting location.

But thanks to the mayor's help, thankfully we were able to find already 900, which has

been great.

And then Three Sisters Gardens recently opened up a new location where we can hold our meetings.

So yeah, again, if you have anyone who might be interested in this, please let them know.

Next slide.

Here's our email.

They can email us.

That would be great.

And we are more than happy to have them on our board.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jasmine.

Open it up for any questions or comments?

Just a quick comment.

Yes.

I'm glad you mentioned that because I've had a young woman.

She is with the API intern program.

She was very interested in getting some of the interns into this program as well.

And I know she spoke with Erin.

Erin said that that was something that they're going to explore for next year.

So thanks for doing that outreach.

I think we're going to have some folks in for next year.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No questions, just some feedback.

Yes, go ahead.

May I help them?

Thank you for being here tonight.

First of all, love the compensation.

I completely agree with you that volunteer opportunities are great, but compensating volunteers

for their work is important.

And so thank you for making that happen as part of the budget.

And I want to compliment you for reaching out to the Wonder Grove.

A lot of times when we talk about youth, people just think about high schoolers.

And the youth is everyone.

And the Wonder Grove, especially if they're Wiggle Worms playdates on Sunday morning at Heritage

Oaks Parks, focuses on kids from 2 to 9 years old.

And partnering with Rachel and getting that information about what our younger kids in the community

need, I think, is really powerful.

And so thank you for thinking outside of the box and making that partnership happen.

And then I just want to compliment you for a second.

You're the Jasmine that applied to the Parks Commission, correct?

Yes.

Yes.

You have an incredible resume.

And you've done just absolutely incredible work.

And thank you for your commitment to this.

It is so fun to see you in action tonight.

So thank you for all your work you've done.

And it's just wonderful to see you shine.

Thank you.

Yes.

I'll remember.

You stole my thunder.

Ah!

No.

I said it when we reviewed the commissions that evening.

And I think you actually reached back out to me afterwards.

I'm very impressed with you, your resume, and all of the work that you do in our community.

So thank you not only for this, but also the other work that you do.

A couple suggestions, and you may already be doing this.

However, I see Justine here.

Hi!

And we have our home run program.

And so hopefully if you guys aren't already coordinating together, I see her nodding, that

that is definitely a pipeline.

And then getting tapped into the high school as well.

I'm assuming that you already are.

If not, there's lots of groups that potentially you could reach out to, including my own organization

that works within the high school that I think could help in regards to.

I think this is a bit of a call to action, which is you're looking for potential applicants

and recruitment there.

So again, great, great work.

I'm sad that you're not on our park commission yet, but I continue to hold out hope that we'll

be able to get you there.

Thank you.

Jasmine, this is incredible.

Thank you so much for taking the time to come and present to us all of the activities

and reaching out for attracting more youth participation.

Just getting the outreach done is, it is hard to keep that momentum, especially when the

youth that are participating are going to be traveling to their new school.

And I was thinking of the community college.

They're going to open up a sustainability division there.

And I'll try to get the connection for you using this email to try to attract college students

to participate.

Because I know that I think that it's not just high school, right?

It's a little good up until like age 24.

Yes.

We are offering it to anyone really, young people.

That's great.

And also with our Yolo County Office of Education and our Washington College Middle School,

our college there in Brighton Broderick, we can connect with them as well.

So we'll continue to work together to get more participation.

If there is like an email, like blurb you can give, you can send me that I can do some outreach

and assist you with that via email to the contacts that I mentioned, that'll be good to have.

Perfect.

That'd be very helpful.

Keep up the great work.

So appreciate you and everything you've done.

This is very exciting.

And welcome to helping us out with the projects you have in collaboration with the city.

Looking forward to that.

I have another project that I'd like to see what I can do to work with you with your kit.

I'll reach out to you for something else.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay.

Next we have our consent agenda item 5 through 20.

And I'm going to poll 16 and 20 for, I believe there are comments from our West Sacramento Firefighter Association.

Are there any other requests to speak from items 5 through 20?

I mean other items you'd like to poll?

Okay.

All right.

Kaisa?

Is Kaisa here?

For item 16?

Oh, there you are.

I can't see you behind Paul.

Okay.

There you are.

You mean item 18?

18?

Oh, sorry.

18.

Sorry.

That's why I didn't, you know, I hear my cue.

So, item 18 is the updated age-friendly action plan.

Can you just give us a few highlights on the updates?

Sure.

Thank you.

Yeah.

All right.

So, good evening, Mayor, City Council members.

My name is Kaisa Miller, for the record.

And I work for the City Manager's Office as a Senior Program Manager.

That's what I'm doing.

And so, we recently updated the last one.

So, we started in 2015.

We added the AARP's network of age-friendly communities.

And then right after that, the team began to write up the first age-friendly action plan.

That was adopted by City Council in 2017.

That one ended in about 2020.

And so, now we're in a weird spot then.

So, we're back at it now.

We were at the Parks Commission, or I was at the Parks Commission in April.

And they recommended, or we did a presentation on the updates.

And so, there's just a couple of differences.

We just refocused a little bit from the last time.

We did some more outreach.

And we came up with kind of a new set of goals.

We, in all of the different outreach events that we did, really the top priorities that

came from seniors really were about streets, sidewalk maintenance, and public safety.

So, you'll see why when we have the different categories, there are more goals in certain

categories than others.

So, connectivity is one of the larger grouping of goals.

And that is primarily by my team in the Community Development Department and Transportation.

That's about many of those you'll be hearing and have been hearing a lot about, and will

be continuing to hearing more about those.

And so, we also have some safety elements of the goals.

One of them is one of the programs that I have the opportunity to work with, with the Safe

at Home programs.

We're approximately 60 homes, residents that we have been able to connect with.

We're re-upping our contract as we speak right now, looking to expand a little bit on that project.

We're also looking at the scope slightly based on our experience of what we've been working

with so far.

Very excited about that expansion.

And then the latter part of our goals, the last two, they're not less important, but about

quality of life.

And those are all of the programs and offerings that we have provided for a long time.

And we just want to make sure we're still having them in there as a priority.

But this is really just a lens.

It's not the only things that we're focusing on.

Just like we were talking about earlier, having a strategic plan, having a plan put together,

making sure you're staying focused.

And then we'll revisit and we will see where we're at the next time.

And we'll re-prioritize and reconnect out with the community and see what's going on at that

time.

Thank you.

Anything else that I didn't answer?

Councilmember Alcorn.

No, I just wanted to say thank you so much for this program.

When I talk with my mother and other seniors, one of the things that resonates a lot is isolation

and loneliness.

This is a great program.

On the quarterly newsletter, how are you sending that out?

I know it's printed material, but what base do you have?

You know, it's getting seniors.

So in all of, in a lot of different ways, we connect with seniors and whenever we do,

we tend to ask them, like, are you getting this information?

So the community center is a wonderful way for us to, you know, stay with the seniors,

come in for different services or being connected to different services.

And that's one of the things that they ask them.

Would you like to be on this?

Any time we're out at one of our events when I saw you at the Senior Resource Fair,

I mean, that's what we're doing is, you know, taking new folks on there.

If anyone calls in and I'm talking to them on the phone, I just ask them about it.

So there's quite a bit different ways and we just keep adding, you know, people to that along the way.

So.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kaisa.

This is, I'm so excited about this update that we have here to approve tonight.

So thank you for all your work.

Yeah.

I know it was years in the making.

Yes.

Thank you.

Item number 20.

That is our consideration of adoption of the total tentative agreement on economic terms

for the successor memorandum of understanding between the City of West Sacramento and the City of West Sacramento Firefighters Association,

and adoption of Resolution 25-73, approving amendments to the budget for fiscal year 25-26.

And I believe we have our representative from the Firefighters Association who would like to speak.

Representatives?

Plural?

Please come on up to the podium and share your thoughts.

Good evening, everyone.

I know we all know each other very well, but I'll do an introduction real quick.

My name is Miguel Altamirano.

I'm with the West Sacramento Firefighters Association president and I've been a firefighter with the department for about 20 years.

We also have Anil Khan here.

He is the West Sacramento Firefighters Association treasurer.

He's also about a 10-year firefighter here with West Sac.

And we also have Captain Greg Fonse who is the vice president on the 522 executive board for Sacramento area firefighters.

So I think we all have a lot that we'd like to say.

But honestly, Greg Fonse, before he made it up to the 522 executive board, he was our association president and he's been involved with our union work for about probably 15 years.

So he's been at this a long time and I feel it's appropriate to kind of give him the microphone first here to say some few words.

So come on up, Greg.

Greg, come on up.

There we go.

I was hoping the clock was running and Miguel took all three minutes of it.

So, again, Greg Fonse, VP, our local 522 of districts.

It's kind of a surreal moment for me to be up here.

One of the first times I was in this room, it was in support of my captain at the time, Wally Enos, and he was the association president.

He was up here speaking about Engine 45, trying to prevent layoffs and the shutdown of the engine.

And ultimately after that, the fire department was pretty gutted and minimally staffed.

So it is pretty amazing to be able to stand up here with a new chapter starting and being a fire captain in the same department representing the same union.

And unfortunately around the same age and being able to say Engine 45 is back in service.

We just had 11 firefighters graduate the largest regional fire academy last week.

And with the ratification of this contract, the city is reinvesting in its fire department.

So I couldn't be happier.

Assistant City Manager Amanda Berlin, I know firefighters think differently over the years.

We've been in a lot of meetings together.

So thank you for getting this thing over the line.

Council, thank you for listening to us and delivering on your promises to make our fire department and take it to the best place it's been in my career in 23 years.

So I can't wait to see what the future holds.

And Aaron Laurel, City Manager Aaron Laurel, we've met quite a few times over the years, probably as much as you wanted to meet with a labor rep.

I apologize for that.

But there's one meeting sticks out for me.

It was a while ago and you said, from labor's view, how can we make this fire department better?

And I had your standard answers.

And one of them really was just, hey, for once we would like to be average pay, average benefits, average training, average opportunity.

And you stopped me in that meeting.

And then you said, what do I need to do to make this a destination department?

And I would like to congratulate you because as of tonight, West Sacramento is a destination department.

And in fact, I was at an executive board meeting this morning representing it was at the 522 E board.

We represent over like it's around 2000 firefighters regionally.

And I had people pulling me aside on breaks going, hey, do you think West Sac is going to be taking laterals in the next couple of years?

So I'd like to just, yeah.

So I'd like to congratulate everyone in this room.

Thank you for hearing us and thank you for making the changes.

Great job.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello again.

My name's Anil Khan.

I'm a firefighter with West Sacramento and a treasurer like Miguel said earlier.

Sorry, I'm a little nervous.

I'm not a public speaker.

I'd rather run into a burning building than talk in public to be honest.

But Madam Mayor, council members, city manager, assistant city manager, thank you very much.

We appreciate your guys' support.

The morale is at its peak right now and hope that it continues.

Again, thank you.

Thank you for support.

And the city staff, Kaitlin and her staff, they've been awesome with us.

Sorry, you got to put up with our questions, but thank you for everything.

Thank you for all the support, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'll second with what Anil Khan said.

I got to thank Amanda Berlin, Kaitlin, Leanne, Laura, I know she's not here tonight.

But we had a good exchange in getting this contract knocked out.

So I appreciate you guys so much and your efforts.

I felt like there was a lot of hours that went into this one, probably more than usual.

But we couldn't be happier with the result.

And we appreciate your efforts and the contract.

I also got to mention Measure O.

I know a lot of this wouldn't have been possible without getting that done.

So a big thank you to city council, city manager, Aaron Lowell for getting that through.

I got to thank the citizens of WESAC for actually trusting us to give us that extra 1% sales tax.

And to get the support for the fire department and the infrastructure for the city.

To say that with all the police department and the fire department has the highest paid workforce.

And you know, out of all the cities in the region is amazing.

I was unthinkable a few years ago.

So I appreciate everyone's efforts for getting that over the finish line.

Also, I got to recognize Vernal Sopizio-Hole and Dante Early for being willing to come out to Fire Ops 101, which is an event that was put on in front of the state capitol.

Where you can be a firefighter for a day and kind of see that some of the arduous work that were put through between live fire training, climbing a ladder, forceful entry stuff.

And I think everyone was able to kind of get a better appreciation for what it is we do.

So I couldn't be more appreciative of that.

And I got to say also, I was up here speaking about a year ago, talking about the contract we passed that.

It was a one year contract.

And at that time we had a 100% yes vote to ratify from the association.

And this contract also achieved a 100% yes vote.

So that's two back to back.

I know it's gonna be tough to keep that going.

But I'd love to hear that.

But no, we appreciate where we're at.

Again, that was unthinkable in the past.

And again, with that, I know Erin Laurel was kind of a big piece behind this to get Measure O on the ballot, came up with the language, emphasized infrastructure, the workforce, and public safety.

So yeah, so thank you.

You're a man of your word.

You did what you said you were gonna do.

So thank you.

I think you have an agenda item for maybe a raise later on tonight.

I don't think it's enough.

You should give this guy everything you possibly can.

So, but, but thank you.

I know I'm gonna make it turn right right now.

No, but we appreciate you.

Thank you.

Council members of Pizio Hall.

Thank you.

Since we're reflecting on meetings, I remember the first meeting I had as an elected official with the Firefighters Association.

It was with Miguel at Frankhet.

And we talked a lot about the history of the department and needs.

And I remember saying to him, give us the opportunity to do right by you guys.

And tonight really feels full circle that we've done that.

A couple meetings ago, I had the honor of presenting a proclamation recognizing May 4th as International Firefighters Day.

And it was a very special, meaningful meeting.

I love proclamations.

I think they're very, they're meaningful.

I hope we can continue doing that.

You mentioned the morale being high.

I felt it in the room.

Proclamations don't pay the bills.

And actions speak louder than words.

And so me supporting Measure O, that was an action.

When we campaigned for Measure O, we asked the community a fundamental question, like, what kind of city do we want to be?

And we answered that is we want to prioritize public safety, ample staffing, competitive wages.

We want to be a city where the fire department has the resources, support, and personnel needed to do the job well.

When we had the push-in ceremony for Engine 45, I said in my remarks, with Measure O passing, this is no longer a conversation about wanting.

It's about becoming.

And tonight we are becoming.

And that is huge.

We are becoming the city that pays firefighters the highest wages in the region.

We are a city that honors commitment with longevity pay for those who've dedicated years of service.

We are become a city that respects the physical and emotional toll of the job by expanding sick leave, ensuring time for recovery and rest.

And those are just the highlights.

These are huge strides forward, and I'm really proud of what we're doing tonight.

But none of this wouldn't have been possible without the West Sacramento Firefighters Association.

Captain Altamirano, Captain Greg Fonce, Firefighter Khan.

Your education, your advocacy has been so incredibly powerful.

You are representing your fire family so well.

Thank you for all of your work to bring just a stronger department to our community, keeping our community safer.

This is an entire win for our city, and I'm just so proud to be up here with my colleagues supporting this tonight.

Oh, man.

We also had a conversation at Franquette.

Do you guys remember that?

Uh-huh, uh-huh, okay.

So, one, I'm very honored and proud to be where we are at right now for our city.

I know that sometimes we have previously had very, very lean years.

And our last contract, as you pointed out, we did everything we possibly could within that budget to make sure that our firefighters knew, one, how much we appreciated you,

but also we wanted to make sure that we were paying you what you should be paid.

But that was all we had, right?

And we were really clear about that.

There was nothing left for us to be able to increase that.

And that's where Measure O came.

Thank you all for believing in us and for taking the chance.

I was at the Fire Academy graduation.

I also went to the Fire Academy and got a chance to see our recruits then and now our firefighters going through all of the tests and the hard work that they go through in order to make sure that our community stays safe.

However, for Measure O, one of the things that we talked about after graduation was the fact that you all suffered a loss during that campaign.

And I remember turning to you and saying, hey, what can we do?

Can we take on more?

I don't want to be asking of your brethren to be walking and campaigning while they are also mourning.

And I remember you all saying, but this is important for all of us.

This is important for our future and we must keep going.

And I just remember being so touched because it is the truest form of service to our community above all.

And you really epitomized that and continue to epitomize that.

And so I'm very, very proud to be able to support this.

It is only because of Measure O.

I'm very proud to, Miguel, your point on our police as well.

One of the commitments that we made in campaigning for Measure O was we would immediately turn and invest in our public safety.

And that's exactly what this council has done.

And so once again, thank you for trusting us.

Thank you to the community for trusting that we would actually do and live up to our commitment and what we said.

That doesn't always happen in this region when measures are passed.

And it was really, really important, I think, not only to me, but to all of us that we stay true to the essence and spirit of what that is.

And this contract is a representation of that.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You've all spoken.

And said everything that could be said.

I want to thank you all for everything that you do for this community.

Well, it's been a long time coming that we arrived where we're at today.

To have unanimous support by the city council here.

And Greg, you led the way.

You paved the way with your steadfast determination.

A little hot head at times, but you got your message across.

And I will say that having those one-on-one conversations over the years, I never took anything for granted.

Never took any of you for granted.

Knowing that you all, not only your family stand by you, but make the sacrifices with you, but your brothers and, you know, sister you have there.

And growing maybe in that way too.

But you have 11 more now jumping in to your fire stations, working side by side with you.

And doing that rotation.

I know you've been holding up the, you know, Engine 45, doing all you can to maintain that.

The Safer Grant, first round and second round coming through successfully.

So grateful.

You know, Greg, I think you helped out again that get 522 on board to review that and tighten up some of the application.

You know, sections that needed to get worked on and we were successful.

We just need to make sure we get all that money.

So, so with that, we are going to continue.

In our budget, there are so many areas, you know, little things that make a huge difference in your quality of living while you do work.

Yes, you do work, you know, 48 hours, you know, and in round the clock.

It's not an eight hour day, but it is a very hard, you know, time that you are in the fire station, sometimes not even sleeping.

So, you know, you are having little things like weight training, and, you know, getting, you know, just the resources and support.

You know, the medical, you know, wellness checks.

Cancer screening.

You are our firefighters, you do make those sacrifices.

I do see that, you know, even with, like, two homes getting burnt down, you do need the right equipment to protect you, but also who you are out there to protect.

And so that is what I see in you.

That is what I have appreciated the most

is your dedication to the community.

You know that those you go out and take care of,

they're like your mother or your father.

They're one of you.

And you serve.

And everybody that has received your service

has been extremely grateful.

And I'm hoping now that we can maintain that appreciation

and perpetuity here on this council.

We'll work hard to memorialize it more often, which

is why I'm glad you're up here speaking, all three of you.

You know, I know that when I first ran,

as Councilmember Early described a loss,

I left my father's deathbed for an interview

with the Firefighter Association.

Came up from LA.

Didn't know if he was going to be gone when I came back.

And I came back, and that same day he passed away.

And so earning that endorsement from you and your support

meant a lot to me.

And you know I'm going to stand by your side, continuing

to fight for you, making sure that you get everything you

need and you have a good quality of life in the fire

stations and around the clock.

And getting the care you need to take care of your families,

as well.

So thank you for all you do.

Thank you for standing firm, never giving up,

and reminding us of what's important for our community,

because that's what you're doing it for.

It's not just yourselves.

It's for our community.

So thank you.

All right.

Anything else from anybody?

All right.

All right.

All right.

And with that, we have consent agenda items 5 through 20.

I move.

Second.

All right.

Mayor Patem-Sapizio Hall moved.

And Councilmember I'll call a second.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Oh, there's one more.

Are there any comments, members of the public speak?

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

All right.

Please call the roll.

Councilmember O'Kala.

Councilmember O'Kala.

Aye.

Councilmember Early.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Temsapizio Hall.

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero.

Aye.

I plan to, I'm going to be pulling up agenda item 26

under finance, which is consideration of resolution 25-71,

adopting the operations and maintenance and capital

improvement program budgets for fiscal year 25-26.

And I think we have Roberta coming up, our finance director.

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All right.

All right.

I thought I was last.

I was really banking on the fact that everybody was going to want to go home.

So I have a very brief presentation.

Which is good because you've got a big agenda after this.

So, good evening.

I am your finance director, Roberta Raper.

I am here tonight to present our fiscal year 25-26 budget for consideration by Council.

I want to make sure I know how to use this.

There we go.

I mentioned my presentation is brief.

It will focus primarily on changes to the budget, outside influences which are impacting our budget, process and timing.

And the report you received is very detailed.

So I won't spend much time at all on the numbers and the individual requests.

I will instead allow time for you to ask questions and lead the presentation, the timeframe however you wish.

So first, what are we asking?

We are asking you to consider and approve resolution 25-71.

Which will adopt the operations and maintenance and capital improvement budget for fiscal year 25-26.

That is the timeframe from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.

Along with the authorized positions and the salary schedule.

So you might be asking why we are considering a one-year budget when we have always adopted a two-year budget.

So I have a little bit of information on that.

There are several reasons.

First, and is this still going?

Yeah.

Okay.

First, since the pandemic, we have been in front of Council with budget adjustments a lot.

I have done budget more than in the last few years than I have done in a long time.

So we have come with not only the normal mid-term adjustments, which are adjustments that we do between the first and the second years of the budget, which are typically expected.

But we have also brought mid-year adjustments every year.

And even the mid-term adjustments are getting to be much more significant.

That alone eliminates the economies of scale of doing a two-year budget.

Because the changes are not just in capital projects and little things that have come up throughout the years.

But it's in labor costs and other things that requires to redo a lot of what we did originally.

Additionally, we are implementing a new budget system.

And while that budget system does, I confirmed before we purchased it, does accommodate a two-year budget.

A lot of the functionality that was desired and the reason we purchased it, it doesn't work well with a two-year budget.

There are workarounds that makes it very complicated.

And finally, the economic environment, at least currently, and forecast into the future, is volatile.

So we'll talk about a little bit more of that on the next slide, some of the more significant impacts to our budget.

But the unknowns that I mentioned, which used to pop up between budget years, are increasingly popping up next week and next month.

And so making it really difficult and inefficient to try to predict what next year will look like.

So for all of those reasons, and the fact that we've had so much going on this year, we just adopted Measure O in March.

The timeframe doesn't allow.

This year we are proposing a one-year budget.

And ideally that is something that I would like to continue going forward.

Of course that is up to the Council.

So that's why we've got a one-year budget today.

So looking at economic influences, I mentioned there are some significant influences to our local budget.

Sales tax, while showing a slight projected increase in the documents proposed to you tonight.

I just got some very preliminary first quarter numbers for the year.

And it looks like they could very well come in under that budget.

And not only under that budget, but under the projection for this year.

That would be the third year in a row that we're seeing a reduction in sales tax revenues year over year.

And with the adoption of Measure O, that is a more significant issue, right?

Because we rely on it a lot more.

So that does impact the general fund and the tax measure funds.

So the general fund is slightly more shielded due to the greater diversification of revenue sources in that fund.

But if I recall correctly, I think sales tax makes up about a third of our general fund revenues.

As we see a slowdown in the real estate market too, and I'm not going to say that it's not doing well by any means,

but it is slowing a bit, we can expect a smaller increase in year-over-year property tax revenues as well.

And a reduction in supplemental property tax and documentary transfer tax.

And we're seeing some of the revenues that align with home sales.

I've mentioned in the past that these impacts are more delayed, so we have more time to respond.

And this is the time we have to prepare, right?

This is where we know things are slowing down.

And so we know that the growth is going to slow over the next couple of years.

So on the expenditure side, we're seeing significant increases almost across the board.

More pronounced with fuel, utilities for sure, construction costs, software and technology costs, and of course labor on benefits.

And outside of our general fund, our utility funds require rate increases to continue to fund operational and infrastructure needs.

The last study was adopted in 2017, and the last rate adjustment was in 2021.

And so there's obviously been growth in expenditures since then.

And then of course labor negotiations are underway for several groups, as you're aware, and congratulations on successful adoption of an MOU with the FIRE group.

And then there are a number of operational and capital needs which continue to be reviewed by staff with the goal of bringing what we can recommend with our limited funding capacity to the council in the fall for consideration.

So tonight's budget is very small.

It's essentially a status quo budget.

What do we need tomorrow to do what we're doing today?

Along with a handful of priority things that can't wait for the fall.

But there are a lot of other requests that have been submitted that we're working our way through and figuring out what we can do.

And we'll bring those back to you.

So with that, tonight's presentation will be fairly brief.

We're just going to give a brief general fund update.

Me, myself, and I.

I don't know why I said we.

Tax measure funds.

We'll look at the supplemental budget proposals and impacts at a very high level.

And then the recommended action.

So general fund.

The general fund.

This is for the current year, 24-25.

We had budgeted revenues of 85.4 million.

Budgeted expenses of 84.5 million, which gave us a projection for a $900,000 surplus for the year.

Our revised projections are very nice.

85.9 million in revenues.

83.3 million in expenses.

And we're projecting about 2.6 million for a surplus this year.

That's made up from a couple of different things.

One, investment revenues are doing really well right now.

That is also very hard to predict.

We haven't gotten the end of the year fair market value adjustment, which could go either way.

Right now they're doing very well.

And we've had a lot of, we've seen an increase in work order reimbursement revenues for our capital project staff,

who spends a lot of time implementing capital projects and gets reimbursed for their time from those projects.

And so those are two sources that have increased our revenue.

On the expenditure side, we've seen savings due to vacant positions, right?

Their labor savings primarily.

A portion is vacant positions and a portion is increased charging out by recreation staff for ACES and other programs.

So we're seeing an increased labor offset there.

So, current year looking pretty good.

So 25-26.

We expect revenues of about 86.6 million to fund expenses of about 84.2 million.

And that is before considering the supplemental budget proposals tonight.

So that gives us a proposed budget surplus of about 2.6 million.

I have that number wrong.

It might be 2.4.

I might have those flip-flopped because that looks like the same number to me.

Anyway, 2.6 million.

After the supplementals, if everything is approved tonight, we would have a budget surplus of about 1.1 million for the year.

Which is still good.

It's a balanced budget.

It just doesn't leave a lot for ongoing expenses.

The largest request for the general fund is to move a portion of the subsidy for the lighting and landscape district,

which if you recall a few years ago was transferred to Measure K, which has capacity and a category specifically for that purpose.

But the utility costs within the lighting and landscaping district have ballooned.

They've gone up quite a bit.

So at the time we made this transfer is about $800,000 or $900,000 a year.

The subsidy this year is $1.5 million.

And the Measure K fund does not have enough to handle that on an ongoing basis, especially as we're seeing sales tax reductions.

So we're proposing to shift basically the growth in that subsidy to the general fund.

Maintain the base amount in Measure K, shift the growth to the general fund.

That's the biggest adjustment to the general fund.

There are also some positions that are fully funded we'll talk about in just a moment.

So the one-time fund balance prior to consideration of supplementals in the general fund is $5.3 million projection.

After approving the supplementals, which is primarily there's about $2.2 million in one-time in CIP requests,

primarily the ending fund balance would be $3.1 million.

And that would be funds available to fund one-time items in the fall.

Moving on, Measure O.

So Measure O expects revenues of $20.1 million or thereabouts for 25-26 to fund total expenses of $22.4 million.

That is in deficit for the year, but so much of that is one-time.

There's about $9.5 million of that is for CIP projects.

Two CIP projects.

One is $5 million towards the Road Reconstruction Rehabilitation Program and $4.5 million towards a park furniture, fixtures, turf,

all the things replacement program to do work in all the parks in the city.

And then the rest of the budget projections here for Measure O are appropriating the funds for 25-26

that were presented to you in that five-year forecast that we presented in March.

So I mentioned at that time we were just adopting the budget for the current year.

We're just bringing back and asking you to adopt the budget for next fiscal year.

And Measure O has a balance, again, if you recall, because of the loan from Measure B.

And so it will have an ending balance of about $483,000.

There is an updated five-year plan for Measure O in your packet as well.

The tax measure funds, this just gives a brief slide of the tax measure funds and their projected balances at the end of 25-26.

The only requests really outside of what I mentioned for Measure K, that reduction, and Measure O is a $400,000 funding from Measure E towards the CIP project.

But I don't recall the name.

And this slide gives you just a breakdown of the supplemental requests overall by category.

So $22.6 million in net overall requests.

$16.7 million of that is for capital projects.

Again, $9.5 for Measure O.

$4 million of that is water fund projects, which, if you recall, in March we had to reduce budget in several of those projects

that wasn't going to be spent right away to meet our debt covenant requirements, given the delay in setting new rates.

So we are adding that funding back to those projects this year.

$1.5 million in one-time O&M, $500,000 net personnel costs, and we'll show you what that looks like in just a moment.

$2.2 million vehicles and equipment, $1.8 million supplies and services, and again, majority of that is Measure O.

This slide just breaks it down by funding source to show you that the majority is Measure O.

And then this slide shows you the personnel requests.

So outside of those couple of things that I've mentioned, the next biggest thing, the really only significant change in this budget,

is the proposal to add four new positions.

Three of those are in the capital projects department.

There is an asterisk there because they're general fund positions.

They're necessary to carry out EIFD and Measure O and other projects that we want to get done over the next few years,

and they are fully reimbursed by charges to those projects.

So there is no impact to the general fund.

And then a new assistant city manager position is proposed in the city manager's department.

That is part of the general support services fund, and those costs are allocated out based on support provided to all of our funds.

We're also proposing to move the capital projects GIS team to the IT division, which just makes sense.

And there are two HR recommended reclassifications.

There's an error on the slide.

One of them is flood, and that is fully reimbursed by WSAFCA.

The other is not sustainability.

I think that is actually IT.

And the net personnel related requests are 368,000.

Oh, it adds four positions.

Our total employee count, full-time employee count would be 496.55 after that change.

And this just shows you the 25-26 general fund balance for reserves.

So at the end of the year, I've projected if everything is approved, 3.1 million in fund balance for the general fund,

2.2 million in the budget stabilization reserve, which is remaining somewhat steady,

14 million in the general reserve, which actually gets us to about 18%.

And that is projected to get there right now just from interest revenue.

So without a contribution from the general fund, which is great.

And then the staffing continuity reserve remains untouched at 500,000.

However, we are really, really close to fully staffed and having really good progress and success in our recruitments.

And so if that is going to be tapped, it's going to be tapped this year.

So that concludes my presentation.

Again, we're asking you to approve resolution 25-71, which adopts the budget for the fiscal year 25-26,

approves the authorized position list, and approves the salary schedule.

And with that, I'd like to open it up to the council for questions and discussion.

Any questions among the council members?

Yeah.

Thank you, Roberta, for your presentation.

Can you hear me?

I've been told my microphone's not working.

I think you need to get closer.

Lean in.

Lean in.

Oh, you need to go back to your two parts again.

It's very awkward.

Okay, Roberta, thank you for your presentation.

Let's talk a little bit about the sales tax decline.

You'd mentioned you pulled quarterly reports.

Tell me a little bit about if you can share what you saw.

If I'm correct, Erin and I were actually talking about this earlier today.

The annual reports are public, but quarterly are confidential.

Is that what?

No, the detailed information is confidential.

We can't provide essentially business secrets, right?

I can't tell you how much a particular business is generating.

So the information that we can provide, and our new consultant is giving us a public council report, basically, that can give you in the public all the information that is not confidential.

We don't have our first report yet from them.

So what I received was at the end of the quarter, all the data, the returns are sent to CDTFA.

Once CDTFA, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, which administers the sales tax, gets all of that, our consultants get the data, and then they analyze it and work on projections.

They have not done any of the analysis and worked on projections.

All they've done is compiled and said, this is what you got last quarter.

One of those does have a projection of sorts in it, and the projection is lower than what I received the last quarter.

But because I don't have full information, I'm not relying on it yet.

Also, this data is only through the end of March, and so it won't include baseball.

However, our consultants have said that their projections do include baseball.

We differ on what we think that looks like.

And in fact, this consultant and our old consultant differ a little bit on what they think that looks like.

So we're wanting to do more work to dig into that.

And that's why I'm not proposing that we reduce the numbers I'm giving you tonight.

I'm just saying that, hey, it still looks like it's not really recovering yet, but we don't have baseball numbers yet either.

And so this year looks okay.

I'm kind of taking a wait-and-see approach to next year.

But I just want to alert you to the fact that, I mean, they're pretty volatile.

And so it could come in lower than what I'm projecting.

Just for council's general awareness, so I think going back to your question,

while the reports can't disclose individual business sales tax like quarter to quarter,

it does break it down by sector.

So that's something that, you know, as we receive those reports, we meet with our consultant

kind of do a deeper dive on if there's overall trends in the city around certain sectors.

So for example, general retail versus auto sales.

So we can kind of see within those numbers are there things that are more volatile

and then do we need to make adjustments downward going forward.

So I think by the time-

We're also doing some geo-coded, looking at certain areas so we can track sort of the areas around the ball field

and kind of what those are doing so we can get a better picture and other sort of areas.

Right.

So we'll have a lot of that information that we can share when we get our next report.

I just don't have it.

And the reason Robert is saying, when we talk about the baseball season, obviously,

the first quarter numbers of this fiscal year don't tell you anything

because the games didn't start until really April.

So the April to the June quarter will be more telling and we'll work together

and figure out the best way to kind of communicate that information to the council.

So I think that kind of gets to your question, how are you going to see what those trends look like?

So we can provide those up forward.

I'd like to add to that.

It might be a little premature for me to say this now, but it's been a goal of mine for a long time

to provide quarterly updates to the council with the implementation of our new budget system

where we will be able to get more real-time data in a format that we can present.

And so it's my goal, not with, because I'll be in front of you in the fall with a budget

and I can provide a report then, but likely after the first of the year at the end of the second quarter

that we'll start providing some quarterly updates to council so you can see how those things are faring throughout the year.

And so if we need to pivot or make adjustments, we'll be able to do that with just more advanced notice and more insight.

We'll have more opportunity to touch base on those things.

That's wonderful and really helpful.

And I love the concept of geocoding and looking at specific areas and seeing trends too.

So thank you for working on that. That'll be great.

So there is, and I don't know where it is, we just got this big old packet.

That's your budget book, Madam Mayor.

Our big old budget book.

It's got all of the detailed, it's huge, but it's got all of the detailed reports.

So I hope that is giving you...

Erin did show me something in there and I can't find it.

I've been looking for it, Erin.

Is there were additional police officer positions.

Can you approve those in March?

Oh, you know, I believe you're referring to the changes to the authorized position list?

Yes.

So yes, what you're referring to, I believe it's worth pointing out.

Yes.

Roberta mentioned earlier, when you approved all the Measure O expenses in April or March, whenever it was...

March, March 19th.

Yeah, you approved the ones that were going into effect right then.

The police positions, I believe, fell into the category of...

They approved both.

There was two levels.

In March, you approved the positions that were going to effect right then.

There might have been 39 total.

18 of them are actually going to effect July 1st.

You approved those in March as well.

So what we did at that time was said, these are the ones we're doing now.

These are the ones that we're doing in July.

But we want to start recruiting to get them filled as quickly as possible.

So we asked you to approve them in March.

Very good.

All right.

So in that particular item, I do want to elevate awareness.

There was this conversation about an SRO at Washington Unified School District.

And within this group of police officers that are being hired, which is great.

We're getting them in...

You know, we're trying to recruit either laterals or new people.

This is going to be the opportunity.

But the key element for an SRO is getting an MOU.

And that is, I think, the key element that is being discussed.

We had a two-by-two school board meeting with them earlier this week.

And that is something that we had shared.

And we just wanted to, you know, just share that for now.

That that is probably the best way to do this process to be able to hire.

And our priority is to hire to get them out on the street.

That experience is significant.

But they can be one of the...

From one of those tapped.

We don't have to have a separate budget item for an SRO from, you know, to fill that position

with the partnership with the school district.

And I wanted to mention that.

I'm not part of those conversations, but...

I want to make sure I don't do a Brown Act.

Because that's not what this is, right?

I can give a little more context to that.

Perfect.

Just to stay within it.

Are we allowed to talk about it?

It's a two-by-two update.

Sure.

So let me go ahead and expand on that.

So the discussion right now is that, you know, the district has made the request for

that position.

I think the point here is that I think the mayor is alluding to, the council's priority

with Measure O has been to bolster patrol.

And the, I think it's 12 or 13 new sworn positions that are part of the Measure O budget

are intended to do just that.

I think what that also allows you to do is have, once the police department is fully staffed

and patrol resources are more robust than they've been in years, it enables a further discussion

around a topic like that.

So whether it's a new position or a person drawn within the ranks, if that moves forward

at all.

We're not here tonight to talk about the merits of that program.

The point is, having the police department have more staff for patrol and be fully staffed,

we need both things to be true, enables us to have a greater discussion around that topic.

So it's significant tonight because all those positions are continuing in the budget and

we're working on getting those filled.

And the goal is to have the police department fully staffed and patrol resources on the street.

So I think that's about all I'd want to say on that tonight.

So, again, unsure of what we're allowed to talk about, not allowed to talk about.

I don't want to brown-neck.

So, Jeff, you, no, I'm just, now I'm going to look at the lawyer.

I appreciate you, Aaron, but I'm going to look at the lawyer on that one.

So you, feel free to jump on the mic when I say something I'm not supposed to.

So, when it comes to our strategic plan and the conversation that we had specifically, Chief, with you, around our police positions,

I will reflect back to the questions I asked you then as well as reflect on what I continue to hear from my constituents in District 3,

which is not enough patrol, have stopped calling the police because we don't feel like they respond.

And part of why I work so hard on Measure O was because it was not fair to our police because, as we've heard,

for the past several years you haven't had the ability to be staffed up fully for various reasons, right?

Budget being a large part of that, not having enough positions.

And so, for me, the thing that I'm probably most excited about, and I will speak for District 3,

is to be able to have a fully staffed up police department to be able to respond to many of, again,

as we were walking, including Sabizu Hall in your district as well, hearing from Southport residents,

but they just didn't feel like they could possibly compete with some of the things that were happening in District 2

and District 1 in regards to the severity of the issues.

One of the questions that I asked you during that strategic planning meeting was, hey, is this going to be enough?

Are these positions going to be enough to be able to respond to, again, what I continue to hear from literally my neighbors, right?

Which is on Marshall, there's just not enough patrolling, right?

On Southport Parkway, there's just not enough patrolling.

And your response was, let's see, right?

Like, this is going to be a significant increase, but we're unsure of what that looks like.

We haven't been fully staffed in, I think, as long as you've been there, right?

And so I hesitate to say, hey, let's pull out potentially or start talking about pulling away from the goal of what, as I was walking on Measure O,

what we promised to you all and what we promised to our residents, which was fully staffed up police department that was going to be able to respond and patrol.

And again, I would love to see what that looks like because to, again, reflect back on the responses that I got from you during that strategic planning meeting, we're unsure of if this is going to be enough.

Those are my comments on that.

Jeff, you didn't jump in.

So I stayed on topic.

There you go.

I'd like to add a little more about that.

I think the chief has done a good job in speaking to the CityGate report, which is what we hadn't seen prior to that conversation.

So reflecting on my comments, reading the report, I have a different perspective since that time in reading the report and learning that I think our chief really focused on the gaps that CityGate had identified

and has been doing probably a robust process in filling in those gaps, not just with bodies, but with technology.

And just I think the number of things that I spoke at on the State of the City speech that I think people had learned about what has happened,

the difference of things that have happened, just even seeing it live in the implementation today,

in seeing that those that had committed a homicide and repeatedly tried to commit another homicide were captured immediately.

And that's thanks to the work that the police department and the chief has done to implement quickly once the financing.

And I think the chief, visionary as he is, you will foresee where the funding is and prepare to spend it quickly.

So once that once we have, you know, the financing to be able to fund it, that's what I've observed.

And immediately you have like, OK, let's get this approved and out the door and let's get it purchased.

And that's been my observation of what you've done, Chief.

And so with that, I will say, in the City Gate report, alongside with the other recommendations is the SRO recommendation in there,

which is why I think this conversation with Washington Unified, where I have said, look, we are prioritizing, filling, you know, the gaps in the street.

And I believe that that is a priority in the City Gate, making sure we have X number of police officers covering the different shifts,

looking at the geography.

We are going to be growing.

But, you know, for them, but also from, you know, these officers in the future, you know, as we continue to grow and fill those gaps,

this is going to be an area where I think we can tap someone who is going to be working alongside you in the future.

And there is no time referenced.

There is no time referenced on that.

But it is being pointed out.

I mean, I'm pointing it out because I think that's important to reflect that there's probably not going to be a separate budget item for that.

And this is going to be within this budget.

And that's why I'm pointing that out.

I don't want to be, I don't want to misunderstand something.

So are we talking about it here?

Because I have, I don't have a problem talking.

No, I think the point is that's a future decision.

That's a future decision.

I don't understand.

Really no determination yet on whether it will be a new position or not.

We, the point is the Council's, I think.

Yes, please tell me the point.

What I hear from the Council is essentially two different ways of the same message.

The goal of the Council for Measure O was to increase patrol.

And we've been focused on that.

We've been, you, approved the positions.

We've been focusing on filling them.

And until we do that, yes, we are working with the district on something that will take the form of a MOU that will be considered by both boards.

And until all those things happen, we don't know today whether it would be, if that actually does get implemented, whether it would be a new position or not.

That will be something we'll assess at the department level and with the budget.

And we'll make that recommendation to the Council when that time comes along with the discussion of that overall program.

So that's something the Council has not addressed yet.

Do you have an ETA on that?

I mean, like, can I ask that?

I'm unsure of what I'm allowed to ask because we're bringing it up, but we're not talking about it.

It would be within the next fiscal year.

It would be later in the fiscal year.

Okay.

Of 25, 26.

Okay.

Yes.

So at some point in time, we will see an MOU.

Potentially, it will be reflected in this budget, and that's why it's being brought up right now.

It's not reflected in this budget right now.

Okay.

I have no preference.

I am not yay or naying this.

I just would like to understand the point what we're talking about here.

Yeah, we are not recommending it being reflected in the budget.

We are proposing the budget right now to include the dispositions that are allocated to patrol.

The 13 new sworn positions are continuing in this budget.

And once the time comes where that MOU is ready for Council consideration, it'll mainly be about that topic specifically.

If the council directs us to, yes, we want to move forward with this, we would also have a companion recommendation on whether it's a new position or it's one that is pulled from within the ranks.

Those are both future council decisions.

It's not under consideration tonight.

I think the mayor was just making the point that the discussion is happening and people who are looking at it and wondering, hey, when is this going to come up?

Why isn't the council adding a new position?

That's why.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm sure they're following at home.

I know this is such a huge distraction from your whole presentation.

Thank you for the presentation.

And I gather we need to.

Can I have a couple of questions?

I mean, I appreciate.

Let me open it up for public comment really quick.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

I don't want to forget.

There are no requests to speak on this item.

Closing public comment.

I'm going to back line.

Yeah, okay.

So just to bring it just back to some of the your presentation.

So on there you showed four positions.

And again, I just want to reflect back what I heard from our city manager, which is yes, it's four.

But technically, we have positions that are actually starting more than just the four during July 1st.

So in total, can you just remind me of that number?

Because again, it wasn't in the slide.

Apologies.

Pulling my gray matter.

I want to say it was either 39 that started last fiscal year and additional 18 that started July 1st or 39 in total and 18 of those start July 1st.

I know 39 and 18.

There were 18 positions approved on March 19th that are effective July 1st that we are recruiting for.

Okay.

That I know 100%.

I appreciate you.

I got the number right here.

I got you if you wanted.

So you approved 21 in March.

There are 18 that are starting.

Well, actually you approved them all in March.

21 started right away.

18 kick on with this fiscal year.

So 39 total.

Okay, 39 total.

This is measure row.

Yep.

Nope.

I feel you.

39 plus the four we just are here.

Right.

The four tonight are yes plus they add to the 39.

Perfect.

So I'm going to lump all those together because when I saw the four I was like, huh, I'm confused.

But it makes sense now going back to what we approved.

Where are most of the new positions actually being added?

Of the four?

Mm-mm.

Of the four?

Of the four.

Yeah.

So I'm going to add to the 39.

So I'm going to add to the 39.

So I'm going to add to the 39.

So I'm going to add to the 39.

So I'm going to add to the 39.

So I'm going to add to the 39.

Mm-mm.

Of the total?

I have it right in front of me if you want.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I have it like 10 parks, 12, 14, 15 PD.

Go for it.

Yeah.

So there are 19 in public safety.

But that seems low actually.

There's that's that's including.

So far.

So that that number is actually higher because fire is being funded out of the safer grant.

Okay.

So it's not included in that.

Those were added previously.

So 19 out of measure row in public safety for now.

10 in public operations and maintenance.

An additional 10 in parks and recreation maintenance.

Parks maintenance.

Okay.

And of those 19 I think two are fire and the rest are PD.

Okay.

So the bulk is being on the bulk of our positions are public safety and the bulk of the positions

are public safety funded through measure row.

And just as a reminder, the safer positions will eventually default to measure row.

Roll over.

So it'll be.

Nine additional.

Yeah.

It was 48 with those.

And then those are not only coming from the general fund, but it sounds like coming from

various measures that really.

And again, I'm going to ask you sort of like a wonky budget question.

Those measures feed into the general fund or do you look at the general fund and the measures

differently?

So for the four that we're talking about tonight, three of them are general fund positions.

They're in the capital projects department.

They implement projects, manage projects, engineering.

And so they charge their time directly to those projects and the reimbursement comes from those projects.

It's a variety of sources.

It's grant sources, other external sources, internal funding sources that fund those projects,

whatever they may be.

And then there's the assistant city manager position, which is in our general support services fund.

That fund includes things like city managers, city council, IT, finance, HR, fleet and facility maintenance,

things that are citywide.

And so all of those costs get allocated based on our cost allocation methodology,

which takes things like building square footage, number of vehicles, number of accounts, payable checks,

those types of things to allocate those costs.

And then one of them is not a new position.

It's an upgraded position in the flood support services division.

And all of those costs are ultimately funded by WSAFCA.

Okay.

Last question that I have is just our reserves.

I think we got a great question from Mayor Pro Tem as well about just where those measures,

the dollars that are going to be in those measures.

But what is our overall reserves?

And are we, now I'm trying to channel Council Member Orozco because she asked about these reserves all the time, right?

What are those reserves looking like?

And are we maintaining sort of our commitment to that percentage?

Yes.

So that's your general reserve here.

14,022,547 is expected at the end of fiscal year 2526.

And that actually increases.

It's an 18% of our general fund revenues.

If you recall, the council policy says that we need to maintain between 15 and 20% of general fund revenues.

We've been around 17.

It is projected to increase to 18%.

Awesome.

Thank you so much.

All right.

With that, I'll accept a motion.

Thank you so much, Roberta.

Early moves.

I'll second.

All right.

Madam Clerk, Council Member Early moved.

Mayor Pro Tem, Sulpizio-Hull seconded.

Please call the roll.

Council Member Ocala?

Aye.

Council Member Early?

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tem, Sulpizio-Hull?

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero?

Aye.

This item is approved.

Next is item 21, under Community Development, Public Hearing regarding an Appeal to the Proposed

Tentative Parcel Map, Number 5247 at 3071 Davis Road.

And who will be presenting on this?

Andrea.

Good evening, Madam Mayor.

Members of Council, I'm Andrea Ouse, the Director of Community Development.

Thank you.

I'm here tonight to request a continuance of the appeals.

Oh, continuance?

Okay.

I'm here tonight to request a continuance of proposed tentative parcel map, Number 5247

at 3071 Davis Road.

This continuance is requested by the applicant to a date uncertain in order for the applicant

and staff to work out particular details that were subject of the appeal.

And that concludes my report.

Do we need a vote on that?

We do.

Yep.

Oh.

All right.

We'll vote on it.

We'll make a motion.

Second.

Madam Clerk, Mayor Pro Tempizio-Hull moved and Council Member Acala seconded.

Council Member Acala?

Aye.

Council Member Early?

She stepped away.

Oh, sorry.

Mayor Pro Tempizio-Hull?

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero?

Aye.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Next is item 22 under economic development and housing as consideration of resolution 25.67

adopting the 2025-26 annual action plan for the community development block grant program.

Who's presenting on that?

I did see Mr. Alford here earlier, but.

Yeah.

They.

We can go to the next item until he comes back.

If not, I can present it, so.

Okay.

Up to you, Mayor.

Can you present it?

No, Isaiah's here.

There he is.

Yeah, he's right here.

There he is.

Okay.

If you want to go to the next item, just give him a breather.

We can.

Isaiah, do you want to go or do you want to wait?

Go ahead.

Thanks.

Good evening, Mayor Guerrero, members of the council.

My name is Isaiah Alford.

I'm the community investment planner in the economic development and housing department.

The purpose of this presentation is to provide information on proposed activities for the

2025 community development block grant funding.

Staff requests the council to open a public hearing to take any comments.

And upon closing a public hearing, staff respectfully requests the council to vote to approve resolution

25-67, adopting the 2025 annual action plan.

On May 14th, HUD announced the CDBG allocations for the 2025 program year.

The city will receive an allocation amount of $546,333.

And staff anticipates receiving $15,000 in program income.

Lastly, a carryover amount of $277,438 will be used from prior year resources.

These funds were not drawn down yet because we have to spend any available program income first.

As the council may recall, staff held a workshop on May 21st, 2025 to discuss the proposed CDBG activities.

Staff's following recommendations have not changed from the workshop.

Staff recommends the following activities for the 2025 program year.

The Homeless Emergency Housing Rehabilitation Project, up to $550,452.41,

is proposed to be used for ongoing improvements that are needed at the existing homeless shelter sites.

The city just recently closed escrow on the former Westwood Motel, and will require rehabilitation work.

We may also have additional rehabilitation needs at other emergency housing sites.

The next activity is the Homeless Supportive Services, up to $123,565.

It's proposed to be used for continued funding for case management services, which is critical for homeless emergency housing program,

because we connect participants with permanent housing and supportive services.

And the last activity is General Administration and Planning, up to $164,754.

It's proposed to be used for the preparation of key HUD documents, such as the Annual Action Plan,

the Five-Year Consolidated Plan, and the Performance Evaluation Report.

A 30-day public comment period was initiated from February 14, 2025 through March 15, 2025,

and no formal comments were received during this public comment period.

Additional comments were received have been considered by staff.

So in conclusion, staff request that the Council open a public hearing to take any comments,

and upon closing the public hearing, staff respectfully request the Council to vote to approve

Resolution 25-67, adopting the 2025 Annual Action Plan.

I'm open for question and comment.

Thank you, Mr. Offer.

Let me open it up for public comment.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

We have no requests to speak on this item.

All right, closing and bringing it back to Council.

Any comments, questions?

Go ahead.

I just have one quick question.

The homeless population that we serve, what percentage is single, and how many are actual families?

That's a great question.

I'm going to refer to Raul on that one.

I don't have that data with me right now.

Someone asked me some reason I'm asking.

I think just a general answer is probably you can do that.

So if we're talking about our homeless program, we try not to serve families.

So all of the individuals that are served are actually individual people.

We may have, say, a roommate situation where we place two individuals into one unit, but we try not to place households, and that was done by design.

That's because we try not to put families in that environment, our homeless shelter.

Can you give a little bit of background on the county resource available for families that are experiencing homelessness?

Correct, yeah.

Our homeless coordinator, Mark Sawyer, he does have other resources.

So when there are families that come to him in need or we get calls from families that need immediate assistance or emergency shelter, we do refer them to Mark Sawyer.

And he has other resources that he can tap into to help them with some immediate shelter needs or other referrals for other services that are adequate.

Okay, thank you.

I call Mayor.

Yes.

Okay, early moves?

I'll second.

All right.

Council Member Early moved.

Mayor Procham, Sefizio, host, seconded.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Acala?

Aye.

Council Member Early?

Mayor Pro Tem.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Sulpizio-Hull?

Aye.

Mayor Grero?

Aye.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Next is item 23 under finance.

Is a public hearing and consideration of resolution 25-59 confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering improvements for the storm drain maintenance district number one.

He walked out and I don't want to embarrass him but are you all aware that Elijah is an author and he's an author.

Yes.

And he's got all of his-

I follow him on LinkedIn.

I sure am.

Yes, and did you go to his book signing?

It's pretty cool.

Wait, what?

He's a-

Girl, I didn't know that.

He had a book signing at Barnes and Noble recently.

He's an author of children's books.

Isaiah, sorry.

Or, yes, Isaiah.

I think I said the wrong name earlier but just released another one or two children's books and did a book signing.

Check it out.

I'll share it with you.

I'll share it on LinkedIn.

Oh, I love this.

Oh, I love it too.

I love that.

Anyway.

All right.

So back with you again, Roberta Raper, finance director.

This is a routine annual public hearing for the storm drain maintenance district.

Had I known we'd be done so early I would have made Mark's day to do this.

But this district was formed prior to the adoption of Prop 218 which has a lengthy requirement for updating fees.

We're not proposing an increase to the assessment but the county requires an adopted resolution to place the existing assessment on the tax rule.

So tonight we're asking council to hold a public hearing and adopt resolution 25-59 confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering the assessments to be placed on the tax rule for fiscal year 25-26 for the storm drain maintenance district.

Thank you, Roberta.

How do I click rather than request to speak?

We have no request to speak on this item.

All right.

Bring it back to council for comment, questions, or motion.

Early moves.

I'll second.

Council member early moved and council members, please, you'll second it.

Council member Acala.

She stepped away.

Oh, gosh darn it.

Council member Early.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Sulpezi-Oho.

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero.

Aye.

You can ask council member I'll call again.

She's walking back.

This is item 23, under finance.

Is a public hearing and consideration of resolution 25-59 confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering improvements for the storm drain maintenance district number one.

It's been passed and seconded.

Council member Acala.

Council member Acala.

And you're going to be called on for a vote.

Council member Acala.

Aye.

Passed 4-0.

All right.

Thank you so much, madam.

Thank you.

Are you going to stand for the next one?

Item 24 under finance is a public hearing and consideration of resolution 25-58 confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering improvements to be made for the landscaping and lighting district number one.

Ditto.

It's exactly the same.

We're not proposing any increases.

This was done prior to Prop 218 and the county requires a resolution.

All right.

Thank you.

Oh, go ahead.

Oh, madam.

Madam, are there any requests to speak?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Any requests to speak?

We have no request to speak on this item.

All right.

Any comments or questions?

Early moves.

All right.

dann-

Erin Laurel, Ms. Amanda Berlin.

Good evening.

Per the municipal code, the city manager is a position appointed by the council

and subject to an employment agreement, which is renegotiated from time to time.

The amended and restated employment agreement before you tonight includes changes to the existing city manager

agreement culminating from the performance evaluation of Mr. Laurel

completed by the council in closed session in early June.

Due to this item containing compensation changes for a local agency executive,

the Brown Act requires an oral report summarizing the recommended changes prior to the council

taking final action on the item.

For this agreement, the recommended salary and benefit changes include a 3.5% salary increase

for fiscal year 24-25, effective in the payroll period inclusive of June 18, 2025,

which results in a base salary of $294,828, and a 3.5% salary increase for fiscal year 25-26,

effective the payroll period inclusive of July 1, 2025, which results in a base salary of $305,148.

The recommended action is to approve the amended and restated city manager employment agreement

dated July 18, 2025.

That concludes my presentation.

I'll take any questions.

All right.

Thank you.

Madam Clip, are there any requests to speak on this?

We have no requests to speak on this item.

Closing the public comment, bringing it back to council.

No comments or questions?

All right.

I will just add on this a little bit.

And the employment agreement.

So I would like to say that I would like to see an annual done.

This is like over two years.

And annually, this gives us an opportunity to compensate, you know, at the rate that, you

know, annually should be done as all employees receive an annual.

And so with that, there's a compounded amount here to cover for last year.

And so the city manager has had quite a workload in the last two years, one for the surprise A's

arrival and making sure that our city is safe and then the passage of Measure O and the implementation

of the expenditure and the implementation plan of that.

And also the EIFD and consideration of where we're going with getting that spent.

Priority number one being High Street Bridge.

You know, our traffic mitigation, you know, is pretty huge.

And also for our flood protection, accomplishing all those things.

And getting Fire Department ramped up with Engine 45, launched and 11 firefighters coming into West,

new firefighters coming into West Sacramento.

And over like 25 West Sac PD staff hired and brought on board a robust surveillance, you know,

system where we're able to, you know, get higher ways of public safety throughout the entire city.

And you heard it from our Firefighter Association that Aaron is very receptive and takes the time to learn.

Among our employees, what's important and likes to hear from them directly.

So, you know, with that, I'm supportive of this.

Motion?

I'll move.

Early seconds.

All right.

Madam Clerk.

Mayor, please, you all moved.

And Council Member Early Seconded.

Council Member Ocala.

Before I cast my vote, I want to clarify that it's not reflected on the reinstatement,

but on the salary adjustment.

So I'm voting no on this.

Council Member Early.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Temssel-Pizio Hall.

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero.

Aye.

Item is approved.

Next is General Administration Function Part 2.

Do we have any Council updates from our assignments?

Anybody?

Council Member Early.

I'm sure you'll want to talk probably a little bit about this, too.

So we had the Fire Academy graduation that we attended last week.

That was just really amazing to, as we've heard the whole night, just a lot of the hard work

over the past couple years that have gone into making sure that our public safety departments

are able to truly reflect the needs of our community.

And so I was very excited about that.

I also had a chance to go to our Police Academy graduation as well, which was in Rancho Cordova.

And again, it was just very, very exciting to see Chief there with our new recruits.

And so just a lot of activity and a lot of good things coming to West Sacramento.

And so just very proud of this Council and all the hard work that we've done.

And it felt like a culmination being able to attend those graduations.

Yes.

Real quick.

I attended the Ulusolano Air Quality Management District meeting, and we passed our budget for 2526.

I also...

Whoops.

I'm going to turn this off.

Sorry about that.

I attended the Indigifest this last weekend, and it was a wonderful event.

It was there on the Riverwalk, and it was presented by Three Sisters Gardens and Alfred Melbourne.

Native American culture was presented through music, dance, crafts, food, and they had a lot of resource booths.

It was a really great event.

It's their fourth annual, and I really encouraged folks to attend.

It gets bigger and bigger each year.

Great event.

Anybody else?

So I don't have my notes with me, but I do want to say 2x2 met.

Was it earlier this week?

Oh, geez.

It just flew.

It's been a busy week.

And the 2x2 did have several discussions.

We discussed Bright Park and the progress of the 7-11 committee, and they're going to continue

to meet and make a decision.

I think they have three more meetings before that decision is made for the sale of Bright

Park to the city using our grant.

Thank you, Kate.

There you are.

And the other item on the agenda was the SRO discussion.

And the key component of the SRO was, you know, looking, you know, finalizing between,

it's going to be the administration, our administration and their superintendent, the MOU to establish an agreement.

The MOU that has been drafted by the school district reflects the feedback from the community.

So that feedback is complete.

And there are a number of items that they are hoping to ensure that the SRO personnel is going to accomplish.

And we have our asks, which is, you know, in discussion.

We shared some ideas of where we're at.

Hoping to get that MOU.

It doesn't necessarily mean we're going to have a police officer or anybody out there running in there, you know,

in the next six months, three months, or two months, it's a process.

And we want to make sure that this process, this is not an SRO we want to hire just for a year, six months.

We want somebody who's going to be there prepared, trained, you know, and able to be there for a period of time

to cultivate and build a relationship.

We're not rushing into this.

We know parents are wanting somebody there and hearing from them tomorrow.

But this is a delicate process to reinstate somebody, especially hearing the feedback that I've received from both sides on this.

And we are sensitive to that.

And I just want to make sure that this process is being nurtured in a way that is supportive of all different points of view.

Did I miss anything, Council Member, Mayor Portem, on that meeting?

Is there anything else that I think...

No, I think that was...

Those are the two big...

That's our own...

Okay, good.

And sorry I missed the police academy.

I hope to have an opportunity.

I did...

I went to the all-girls state briefing, and that was really fun to do, but that was where I was.

And tomorrow, next one, I'll be in Tampa Bay.

U.S. Conference of Mayors is meeting this next four days, and I'm looking forward to, you know,

chairing the International Committee, Vice Chair of the Children's Health and Human Services Committee.

Thank you.

So, this chairing for the International is just...

I'm a member, and there's a lot of people out.

It's been a busy time for mayors.

A lot of crises going on in their jurisdictions.

So, as you can imagine, a lot of mayors are struggling.

We somehow are doing well, and hope to keep that...

Continue to pray for ourselves.

That it is safe.

And we're going to continue...

We're going to learn from other mayors about how to face those challenges of civic discourse

in a way that is supportive.

So, in conversations with Mayor Bass and other mayors that are experiencing this locally,

we're going to have a special session to learn some...

And I want to be able to include our chief and have a chief's briefing once that happens.

And then this last Saturday, we had Playball Weekend, and we had hundreds of kids attend

and participate.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is a partner with the Major League and Minor League Baseball

team, and we had a blast.

We had a lot of kids.

West Sac Little League, 12U, helped out pitching in, and they're going to be taken to a suite.

And there was a big team there, so they're going to watch an A's game from the suite,

and we're looking forward to that.

And that's...

I think that's all I have to report for now.

Council Calendar?

No report tonight.

City Manager, report?

Just a note.

I think I've reminded some of you.

After tonight, I'll be out for a family wedding and then a few days off after, so I'll be gone

for the rest of this week and all of next week.

So, I believe I've already taken meetings off the calendar.

Yeah, and I'm fine with canceling.

Amanda will, I think, be here.

Yeah, Samantha will be here, and we'll be Acting City Manager, and we'll be here when

we're going to contact you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

City Attorney, report?

Nothing to report.

Staff direction from City Council Members, none future agenda items.

I don't see any with that.

I'll accept a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Second.

Madam Cook, please call the roll.

Council Member Kalla?

Aye.

Council Member Early?

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tempsel-Pizio Hall?

Aye.

Mayor Guerrero?

Aye.

Bureau now adjourned.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.