Is it dark in here?

Is it just being a little broken?

All right.

Now that the council members are present, we have one council member who's not going to be with us tonight, Councilmember Gerina Orozco, will not be in tonight.

And our four council members that are here, I'll call the meeting.

Can you hear me?

Is the mic it is?

It is working.

I think it was just a lot of talking.

So now that everybody is quiet, I will speak a little louder too.

Um, I call the to order the August 6th meeting of the City of West Sacramento City Council, West Sacramento Redevelopment Agency, and Finance Authority.

We will begin with the land acknowledgement.

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, learn, and commune is the original homelands of the indigenous people of West Sacramento who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.

We acknowledge and we thank the original inhabitants who have occupied, maintained, and secured this place, and who still exist on this land.

We respect and celebrate the many diverse indigenous people still connected to this land on which we gather.

The council did not meet in closed session this evening, and we would like to invite our guests to join council and staff in the pledge, which will be led by Washington Unified School District Trustee Vanessa Castro, if she could come up to the mic and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please.

As is noted in our agenda, City Council is prohibited by state law from discussing or taking any action on items that are brought up under item one for public comment, but it provides an important opportunity for a public forum.

The public is given an opportunity at this time to address City Council on issues not listed on the agenda.

So we do ask that anyone wishing to address the council on this or any other item this evening, please fill out a request to speak card and to return it to the clerk.

We ask that the request to speak card also include the item that you are asking to speak under, whether it's public comment or if there's a particular agenda item.

And once the staff report has been read and we open the item up for public comment, the clerk will announce your name for you to walk to the podium and to speak.

Now, in front of the clerk, there is an analog, uh, there is a timer to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard, and we ask that all comments be limited to the specified number of minutes.

And also in front of the clerk is an analog flip chart, which indicates which agenda item the council is currently considering.

We also recognize that for some speaking in public can cause anxiety.

So we request that there be no applause or booze, cat calls, or other demonstrations.

Furthermore, so that we maintain a civil discourse here in the chambers.

We ask that those in attendance and those who address the city council abide by the code of conduct, post it and not speak in loud threatening, offensive, abusive, or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting.

Now this brings us to item one presentations by the public on matters not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council.

And each person has three minutes to speak.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

Yes, ma'am.

Guy Stevenson.

I have an issue with this high school down here.

And I've had numerous people tell me this, not just one or two, but numerous.

Vaping in the high school, sex in the bathrooms, drug usage in the school.

Do you guys have a like uh school police officers at work over there or what?

Fights.

That was the other one.

And you know, I told him, I said, you people need to come here and you need to address this because people getting bullied, vaping in the bathroom, sex in the bathroom, drug usage in the bathroom.

And then I was told that there was you know police officers at work there, and I said, Well, they're not these police officers because they would do something about it, so they have to be like resource officers, maybe security, but they need to do something because one of my friends took his kid out of school and put her in a private school on the other side of the bridge because of it.

And I know that you probably are not gonna do anything about it, so but it needs to be brought up.

The other thing I was gonna say is I've had a conversation with environmental health, and they always turn around and send it over here, and then you people send it over there about people doing business over here selling food without licenses, without permits, without their service stations being examined and looked at.

And like I've told you before, because of the industry that I'm in, food poisoning can kill you.

A lot of people say, Oh no, you just get a stomach ache.

No, you can die from it if you have a compromised immune system or you got kids.

So I do have an issue with that.

And if you don't mind if you could address those two issues, uh two issues, I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you very much, and God bless you.

And keep the people, families in your prayers about the two young ladies that got killed.

That really devastated me, but they're in my prayers, and that's sad.

Very sad.

But anyway, God bless you.

Thank you, Mr.

Stevenson.

Waverly Clements.

Johnny Zapara.

Thank you, City Council members, for just giving me just one minute.

That's all I need.

Not here to complain or even request.

I'm here on behalf of about 20 of my neighbors that are so thankful that the city, particularly public work, started cleaning a ditch in my neighborhood at Davis and Seymour that has flooded for years, and now that's not gonna happen this year.

Thank you.

Alfred Melbourne.

Thank you, Mr.

Safaro.

Good evening, folks, Madame Mayor, City Council.

Um, just uh want to say thank you for um representing the people, but a question that I do have is what have you done for me lately at a as a citizen, as a native and um uh indigenous person to this land, and I think that that's a question that we should all be asking of our city council as we continue to navigate a climate catastrophe, a global pandemic, and our current administration from the president down that is misrepresenting and taking advantage of the people.

Um we stay right across the river from a very powerful place with the capital of this state of this wonderful, amazing state, and we know that we are in a position of power here to be able to lead to set an example and continue to do for each other in a way that um other people are not.

So I just wanted to again say thank you to you all for being um servants of the people and for doing a job to help represent us in spaces where um our rights are being trampled.

So for you all that um have this opportunity to continue to um represent us um and pay attention to what's going on because um if we're not smart and protecting each other now, things are gonna continue to dissolve and get worse all around us, and we as a city, West Sacramento, should be taking care of one another from the smallest to the tallest, and all in between.

So thank you guys once again and have a good night.

Wavery Clemens.

Good evening.

My name is Wavery Clemens.

Thank you for your time and service to the community.

I'd like to speak with you this evening regarding the dangerous road conditions, specifically along Jefferson Boulevard and Baven Road, where my granddaughter Layla Clemens and her girlfriend Jaya Chapman were struck and killed by riding a bike by a drunk driver.

What I'd like to suggest is that the road be closed to any bike or anyone walking along that road.

Honestly, it's dangerous for anyone to walk along that road.

There's barely two feet of gravel on either side of the road.

I went out and took pictures.

It was closed during the gathering of evidence when they were evaluating what happened.

I suggest that this along that road be signed and posted, and fines should be imposed on anyone who violates the order.

Additionally, there needs to be a strong message sent to the surrounding communities that the changes the city commit to enforce these changes, I will volunteer my time to pass out all, I don't care how many notices there are, I will pass them out to all of those communities.

Please make the change to help save lives.

Thank you for your time in service to the community.

Thank you, Mr.

Clemens, and my condolences to you and your family for your tragic loss.

Thank you, and um my condolences to you and your family for your tragic loss.

I'm really sorry.

Please take my request into consideration.

I gave my card in my email, so like I say, I'm willing to pass off.

That road should be.

I mean, it's posted, it's either 50 or 55 miles an hour.

And I realized that the road is old, that it was there from the beginning of the city.

I was in, I'm just giving facts.

I know what it takes to develop a community.

I did land development for 50 years as a real estate broker.

It can be done.

Please consider it.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you.

We have no additional requests to speak on this item.

Thank you, Madame Clerk.

Do you have public comment?

Rhonda?

Rhonda Pope Flores.

I think I'll come to every city council meeting and remind you.

Of the games that were played with our community center, which led to the loss of our community center.

And then the two people I wish were sitting here, I would really want them to hear me.

When it went to my tribe trying to bring something good to this community.

When you play political games with people that you don't like, I know that I'm not liked by individuals here.

Because those kinds of infrastructure should be provided by the city.

And I rallied for my tribe to bring something good.

And we were thrown into all kinds of red tape.

And then to add insult to injury when I saw red tape after red tag after red tag put on our building.

This guy who now is going to operate a bar.

That you red tagged us on.

That you said that we lost our grandfathering on.

I watched this parking lot get built.

You want to talk about a snail with salt being just thrown all over it.

So I want to remind you every time I have the opportunity of how ignorant your actions were to do that to someone who is trying to bring something good to this community.

So I hope the individuals that were responsible for that extra red tape that probably didn't need to be there, are happy that now instead of a community center being there, there will be a bar there.

And when a drunk driver hits someone, like what happened here with those young ladies, you remember your red tape.

Thank you.

We have no additional requests to speak on this item.

Thank you, Madame Clerk.

Next is our consent agenda items two through seven.

Are there any requests to remove an item for questions or presentation by our administration?

Yeah.

Um five for me.

Any others?

Um is it just a question?

Okay, go ahead.

Um item five.

Let me see what that is.

It is consideration of resolution 25-18, approving final map 5235, Marshall Road subdivision along with the associated subdivision improvement agreement.

And mayor, actually, one more for me.

Oh, um, so we can start with five.

Uh just number two.

I think it is great just to highlight some of the things.

Since you're up here, why don't you go ahead and then we'll go with number two.

Okay, perfect.

Hi, how are you doing?

Yeah, there are you.

Good, good.

Um, thank you for the report.

Um, it was helpful.

I have a simple question that I couldn't couldn't figure out.

I'm sure it's in there, but I'm also not planner or developer or any of those things.

Um, so I was trying to make heads or tails.

Um, through this project, are we going to be adding sidewalks and frontage as part of the project?

We will on Marshall Road across the frontage of the project.

Okay.

We'll also be completing the cul-de-sac at the end of March.

Perfect.

It was easy and that simple.

Thank you so much.

Keep it.

And item two is consideration of resolution 25-87 approving amendments to the project budget and approval of services contract for calendar associates landscape architecture inc for the design of the Alice Norman Park Master Plan.

Okay.

Jamie?

Yes.

Hi.

So I I've I've read the report.

I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of the answers to this, but also just want to make sure the public is aware um of this.

And so when I think of Alice Norman and just the park around it, I also think of um YCCA and the services provided there.

And so as it relates to this project, all of the services and any impact on the social services unlikely will be happening, or do you picture there being disturbances?

Um as of right now, we do not picture there being any disturbances to what is programmed there right now.

Okay, perfect.

And then just the last question I have because I know that at least over the past couple of years, we've heard um from the softball team and others around this project.

What is the engagement envisioned for of this?

Yeah, so that was a huge um part of this master plan was how the community engagement was going to look like.

So we did uh discuss that.

So we will hold multiple community meetings.

Uh, we're gonna do online surveys, uh in-person surveys as well, so paper surveys, and then like targeted audience groups, so like the softball teams and baseball and little league.

Um, and then being a part of the city commission uh meetings, okay, perfect.

And now I'm gonna channel um one of my my colleagues on this one.

So door hangers, different languages.

Um will that be um mandated or required for this as well?

Yes, yeah, we did talk to so calendar.

Um that was one question that we asked them is how many languages, languages do they have, they can do any language.

Um, and same with the surveys online, um, they can provide okay, great.

I actually just last question.

Only because as we're gonna be um seeing hopefully the fruition of a master plan that was put into effect in 2013.

Um what is the general like if you could tell me just a little bit about what is imagined for the timeline, even knowing that, right?

And we can't guarantee anything, it depends on funding, right?

All those different things.

What is what is our hope and our aspirations of how this project would develop?

Um, so for design or through construction.

Um let's start with design, but then like, and then we would hope that construction might be.

Um, I mean, ideally it would be like a year, a year and a half for um putting the design together.

Um so after this, we would again start getting together, do all of the outreach, um uh, and then go through what we're sorry, what was timeline, right?

Just okay.

Um, so yeah, it would just be gathering all of that depending on um the community engagement portions, how long that takes, but um for the design itself, yes, probably a year, year and a half.

Okay.

And then um, promise last question, promise promise.

Um, our partnership with Washington Unified School District, and so what does as we're engaging here?

What is that partnership look like in regards to engaging the school district as well on this?

Um, it would probably be similar to like bright, um, just really keeping them engaged, um, knowing what the plan is, uh, going through the designs, just keeping everybody um aware of through these meetings.

Um, I don't know if there's any other further information on that.

I see Kate nodding, yes.

Yeah, okay.

Okay, great.

Thank you very much.

Kate, did you want to say anything else?

Okay.

Jamie, just Jamie, just one quick question.

Is this information on the city's website so that um if there's anything I can point, sometimes it's really hard to send the agenda online to people that I don't, is it is it on the city's website?

Uh for the master plan?

Yes, um, not yet, but we did discuss doing like a project web page off of the website.

So when we do do the flyers, emails, all the surveys, they will have a QR code.

So uh people can utilize that to direct them to all of the information that we're providing.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

With that, I'll accept a motion for items two through seven.

So move.

Early second, all right.

Madame Clerk, Councilmember Alcala moved, and council member early seconded, please call the roll.

Councilmember Akala.

Councilmember Early.

Mayor Pro Tem Sulpicio Hall.

I mayor Guerrero.

Aye, all right.

Um, since there are no public hearing agenda items tonight, next is our regular agenda item eight under city managers office is consideration of resolution 25-89 proposed changes to benefit summaries for unrepresented employee groups, updates to the publicly available pay schedule for fiscal year 2025 2026 and updates to the authorized position list fiscal year 2025-2026.

Matt, good evening.

So the item before you tonight is the update to the benefit summaries for our unrepresented groups, which includes specialists and professionals, uh confidential management, safety management, executive management, and then also the city council benefit summary.

Um, due to this item containing salary and benefit changes for department heads, the Brown Act requires an oral report summarizing the recommended changes prior to council taking final action on the item.

So, in summary, um the recommended salary and benefit changes that apply to all unrepresented positions, including the department heads, are uh five percent general salary increases on July effective July 1, 2025, um, but effective the pay period would go into effect the pay period after council approval.

Um, a one-time non-persible lump sum payment equivalent to the amount of two percent of annual base pay, as well as um a lump sum that is a uh retroactive uh uh equivalent of general sal of the general salary increase going back to July 1, 2025, um, and then salary range adjustments for various classifications outlined in the benefit summaries due to rebanding uh equity and compaction, effective July 1, 2026, uh 5% general salary increase and another two percent um lump sum payment of uh two percent of annual base pay and uh January, July 1, 2027, another 5% general salary increase and another 2% uh bonus of uh to of annual base pay.

Um all unrepresented groups, including the city council, will also get um uh their health intro health contributions, uh flat dollar amounts increased 5% um each year starting in January 2026 and then again in January 2027 and again in January 2028.

Um, as noticed in this as noted in the staff report and benefit summaries, there are also a limited number of other benefits for specified classifications that are not applicable to the department heads or the executive management group.

Um these include a new post incentive for the deputy police chief and a hundred dollar month contribution to a retiree health savings account for employees hired prior to July 1, 2019.

That concludes my presentation and I'm available for questions.

Thank you, Mendo.

Any questions?

Open it up for public comment.

Are there any requests to speak when I'm closing?

We have no requests to speak on this item.

Okay, closing public comment.

I do want to say that um we've come a long way.

Thanks to measure o and the success of measure o that we are able to um achieve this generous um compensation package to a well deserved um city administration who are unrepresented and I hope this this helps.

We want to maintain our employees that are doing a great job and um you want to be able to you know that continuity and um institutional memory is is valued here.

We know that times in the past we you know didn't always keep our employees um we didn't have healthcare coverage for the whole family it was just for the employee only so you know since I started it got banded and I'm glad to see that we're maintaining some level of competitiveness so it's not out of pocket that you have to pay for your healthcare coverage and um also just uh with the bonuses um sometimes that just makes a dent for Christmas or whatever you know bills you gotta pay we all accumulate them and I hope it helps so thank you very much to the entire city administration that are unrepresented for your for your service um and and I'm really grateful for this opportunity to be able to and thank you to the staff who um helped present this to us so appreciate it with that I'll accept motion early move second okay council member early moved and council member I'll call a second amendment please call the roll council member okay I council member early mayor pro timselpiece you'll hold hi mayor grero aye all right this item is approved next is item nine under parts and recreation is a presentation on the Bright Park master plan implementation uh and um the funding strategy and our parts director please present you're waiting for something good evening madam mayor city council um I do have a presentation for you this evening so um while the city clerk's pulling that up um my name is Kate Smith I am the director of parks and recreation here for the city um myself and my colleague J.

Chahal behind me here um are excited to um conduct this workshop with you this evening so um kind of a quick background uh before we go into our presentation so uh the council did see this item um in 2023 um at a city council meeting and again as everyone is aware this item has been on the city council strategic priorities for many years now um and in 2023 the council gave uh staff direction um that you wanted us to um come back to you with a hundred percent design plan uh for the full implementation of uh bright park um at that time you had approved a contract for uh Verde Design Group um and so that is what um we are here this evening to do um and so for our agenda um I'm first gonna again kind of review um some renderings that our uh design firm has provided um as a reminder um 100% design means means that that we have actually engaged with our community we have taken years and years worth of community feedback um and continue to refine what those plans are to best represent uh what our community needs here at this facility um we also are going to present to you um three different funding options uh for the park that was part of city council's direction for staff as well um and then an operational analysis which again um was um direction that you all provided um for staff um and so with that um i'll give you a a quick overview um and i'm gonna try to go through these somewhat quick um and if you have questions, if you want to kind of wait till the end, maybe jot down notes just because there is a lot of information um this is a 24-acre park um and if we start at the top left-hand corner there um of the graphic, the corner of Todd Hunter and Riverbank, we have an aquatic facility um and then moving our way to the right there is our maintenance yard, we have a dog park, fitness stations, an outdoor classroom that supports our Club West Teen Center, a tennis court, basketball courts as we wind our way down towards Carry Street, a ball wall court, our ball fields, which will serve both softball and baseball.

And again, I will go into a little bit more detail for each of these features here shortly.

And a synthetic turf field, which is number 10, and that was a previous grant that we were awarded, and then our natural turf fields, which will support soccer and open play and leisure.

And then kind of rounding out their number 12 is our plaza or outdoor amphitheater.

So taking a deeper dive, pun intended, we'll start here with our aquatic facility.

And so we are we have designed a six-lane lap pool that also has a zero barrier entry that you see there, which is labeled number five on the presentation.

This pool again is designed to serve as a community pool.

Surrounding the area, we have a shaded spectator area, which is number one on the graphic.

We have on deck storage, number three, our mechanical building, number four on the graphic, and this actually supports both the pool as well as the splash pad, which we'll see a little bit later.

And then number five, as I mentioned, the zero barrier entry or the waiting pool, aquatics building, and then a changing area.

Another view here of the community pool.

Another view you can see the aquatics building.

This is again from the pool deck, and then the changing area.

And so the changing area is designed.

So it's a structure that will have outdoor showers that's designed for pre- and post swim.

So obviously, bathing suits stay on.

We have storage area lockers, and then we have a bay of single use, changing and restrooms.

These are designed to be inclusive, all gender, as well as some larger family-style changing rooms.

So again, if you have your multiple children with you, giving families more space to be able to change and shower in a private area.

And then the sinks there are in the center.

And again, the viewing can be, you have sight lines from throughout the pool deck in this area.

This is a view from the front entrance of the aquatics building, and this building again is designed to support the community pool.

Here is an overview.

So you have on the left hand part of the graphic there the front entrance, which is labeled ticket counter, so we would have that staffed.

Our residents, uh community members would be able to check in there.

And then we have an open lobby.

There's access control beyond the lobby, which leads you down the right-hand area there, the hallway to what's labeled as aquatics training room and an athletic coordination room.

These are support facilities for not only staff training, they're labeled that kind of specific for our grant that we received.

But this will be available as rentals for our community.

And so that would be a program that we would want to offer throughout the year.

We have storage facilities, restrooms, as well as staff support area, and then the lifeguard area that overlooks the pool deck.

Here's just another look, and these are again rendering.

So the aesthetics right now is something that the design firm is continuing with.

The exact materials are not a hundred percent, but this does at least give you kind of a view of the vision and the look of what our design team had proposed.

Another look down the hallway, lots of open sunlight and windows, another look at the restroom, another look at the rental area, and this will have AV as well as a partition in the center, so it can actually serve as two smaller rooms or one large room.

And this is an area again to the lifeguard support area.

The furniture, this is not permanent, so we will have different needs for furniture, but it at least gives you an idea of where lifeguards would basically come in, take their break, ice machine for injuries, refrigerator store medications.

And then here we have again staffing support area that overlooks the pool deck.

Just another view of the staffing support area.

And then we kind of move our way towards Riverbank Elementary.

We have a restroom building, parking lot with drop-off there, the aquatics building number three.

So again, kind of orienting yourself.

Number four, we have multiple picnic shelters, those will be available for rental.

A number five is the splash pad, and six is the amphitheater outdoor terrace area.

Another look here.

So the this restroom will have both a men's and women's side and then single use on the end caps as well as an outdoor shower that is required by code for the splash pad.

And then another look at the splash pad here with the grant that we received.

There is a river theme.

And so you will note that our design team came up with really fun play elements, aligning with the river theme here in West Sacramento.

And then we have our outdoor amphitheater again, it'll be available for rentals.

The max capacity for this is 75 individuals, and also has, as you can see, inclusive elements.

So if someone is using a chair or mobility device, they can actually attend, you know, a concert there on that first level.

And then we move into maintenance yard and dog park.

So the genesis of the maintenance yard, keeping in mind with a pool and a splash pad.

We needed a space that we could actually deliver chemicals and store our equipment that is needed for this park, especially because of the synthetic turf that is there.

So there's specialized equipment that is needed.

And so this area is really critical to be able to support all the operations.

It's not a large area.

We hope to have anywhere from three to four maintenance staff that are on site, but it will allow us to mobilize and store parks equipment to service this area of the city in a quicker fashion.

So we are excited about that.

And then a small and a large dog park, additional parking, and then again the play fields, which I have a few more slides on.

There's another look there, the maintenance area, dog park again, small and large dog options.

And then we kind of move into the play fields, and again, orient orienting yourself.

The top part of your graphic is Riverbank Road.

And so number four is the existing Club West Teen Center.

So this remains intact, so we're not actually changing this facility.

We are building, though, with number three, that indicates an outdoor classroom that is there to support our teen center.

And then I'll go into more detail with the ball fields and then the tennis courts are there at number five.

Here's a look at the fitness station.

So again, inclusive equipment, catering to all abilities and all populations, the outdoor classroom.

So these tables again are not permanent, so it will be a permanent shade structure.

We are going to have some sort of fixed tables here.

So this is something that our design team came up with, but it will be secured, so you can see that we have the fence that allows for that space to be secured.

And so here are the tennis courts, and so this is a unique partnership again with the school district.

This is currently on the riverbank school property line and will remain part of the school.

So the adjacent fence there that lines up with the ball fields is essentially where the park ends, the school begins.

Whoops, school begins in regards to that tennis court area.

So as part of this project, we are funding the ADA compliant walkways surrounding the tennis courts, the security fencing, and there will be fencing that allows for the school to use this during the day.

They will be able to use it and secure it from the public so that the children will remain safe.

That's been one of their priorities that we have supported.

And then in the evenings and the weekends, we can secure the space so that the public can then use it, but then they will not have access to the school during that time.

As part of this project, so this is the only element that is actually going through DSA approval.

So that's the Department of State Architect, which is required for all school construction projects when it's tied to their curriculum.

So this is an area that we've continued to work with the district on.

And then again, kind of zooming back out.

We have the play fields, which I have more slides on.

We have fencing throughout, safety netting, concession building, and again another look at the fitness stations and the classroom as well as the tennis courts.

So here's another look.

We have one existing basketball court.

We're adding a second that will also have footsall lines and then a handball court.

And this area is also lighted.

So that will be available in the evenings.

And then our ball fields will support both softball and baseball.

So these are adult size, so 300 foot outfield fences on the first and third baseline.

You will have multiple anchors for bases.

So it will support youth and adult sports.

We also will have portable baseball mounds.

So to have any sort of little league programming, we will be able to bring out the baseball mounds.

And then council had made the decision back in February that these will remain natural turf fields.

And so that was also something that our community had expressed.

So that will be a dirt infield, dirt morning track, as well as natural outfields.

Here's a look at I might say a beautiful backstop.

So as you can see, large, durable, and something that we are hoping lasts a long time.

So we're really excited about the infrastructure that is designed with this park, as well as the dugout.

So you can see there, very durable, spacious, as well as storage.

And our youth and adult athletes are going to be very happy.

Concession building, so this is an area that is that will be a shared space.

We have not fully determined whether the city will need a concessionaire agreement here or if we will have a shared space with the various sports leagues, but that's something that will be available as an amenity as different tournaments are hosted.

And then another look at all of the soccer fields.

So again, number five is the one synthetic field.

Um that will remain secured, so that will have a fence and will remain locked, where the other areas will remain open for the community to use, obviously, when there's no rentals or practices that are going on.

And then all of this will also be have sports lighting as well.

There's safety nets and various heights of fencing throughout.

So again, that was part of the work with the design team, is really fully understanding what activities are going on and how to keep spectators safe that are walking to and from the different play fields.

And here's another look at the synthetic turf field.

And then this is just a good view again.

You can see kind of coming off of the parking lot there.

No fence and just the ability to play and enjoy the beautiful green space that we'll be offering there.

Okay, so with that, I'm gonna turn it over to my colleague Jay, and he is going to walk you through the various funding options that we have and our overall project costs.

Thank you, Kate.

J.

Hall, director of capital projects.

And I'm gonna before I start going into the funding options, I'm gonna kind of highlight some of the funding sources that we had on this project thus far.

Um important to note here is that in totality there's over 20 million dollars of grant funding associated to this project.

Uh, the numbers you see in orange at the bottom there is uh available as left in construction funding.

Um, after we paid our design contract, we paid our environmental fees, and most notably our our ORLIP grant that the parks and record department was able to secure.

This was one of the largest grants that this is the largest grant that we have on the project, and it was one of four to receive the 15 million dollar grant nationally.

So that really got us to the point that we are today, and we're very gracious for all these funding partners.

Now as I go into the construction scope and cost, I kind of grouped everything together into these 11 categories.

What these highlight is what these elements cost us.

And as Kate mentioned, this is a very large site.

So when we're going through here, site demo, drainage utilities, that sums up to 5.8 million dollars.

Some of the hardscapes, so these are some of the parking lots that we're adding, the ADA improvements, and fencing throughout the site.

Existing there right now, there's 47.

So this we are expanding the parking drastically.

Shown in there.

So those three ball fields are three million dollars.

And to highlight on here the synthetic and natural grass fields are 3.2.

One of the major costs in this area is the as you see, is the aquatics area.

That includes the pool elements in there.

The item above that park buildings and structures.

That's includes all the restrooms that we have there, all the shade pavilions, there's three of those, the concession building, the splash pad, and all the site furnishings.

So all that sums up to hard construction cost of 49.2 million dollars.

In that there's some soft costs that also that we account for.

We count for our staff time, special inspections, permits, fees, cost escalations that are built in there, and a contingency.

So when we run into any problems during construction to cover that, all of those and the then the I'll get to the land acquisition, sum up to 64.3 million dollars to build out this entire park.

The land acquisition, it has asterisk right next to there.

In the Orlip grant, we have to own the land.

So that's what we're going through with the Washington Unified School District right now and dedicated in perpetuity, and for that uh purpose, that 2.2 is half of that.

So we get half covered by the grant, half as a city contribution.

We are working with the Washington Unified School District right now to get an appraisal for that, but that is what we turned in for the grant.

So that's why I have it highlighted in the slide.

So last time I was here, and staff presented this.

We wanted to accomplish a couple things.

When we came back, we said we would give an operational analysis of how much this is going to cost to operate the park the size, because this is a very big asset.

And two, we said we would come back with some funding options and to see what what we could what options we would have to build this out.

If we wanted to build this entire park out, this is for a million our park, it'd be a funding gap of 36.8 million dollars for the city right now.

And that includes the land acquisition and soft cost.

Another option we could do this looking at it and not forfeiting any of the grant money for Orlip because it is tied to a lot of the elements that are in the park.

The only elements that aren't tied to that are the ball fields.

So if we did not do anything at the ball fields there, we would still do the hardscape that you see.

So the blacked out areas would be just plain grass, or if we we pivoted to that role, we'd be saving approximately five million dollars.

So that brings up total to 31 million dollars, except we keep that grant money.

The next option is the quiets facility.

So that 14.5 million dollar facility.

If we take that out, that is that is linked to the grant.

So Kate and her team did reach out to the grantor.

Um there is a lengthy process of trying to get that excluded.

It was a major scoring criteria as well in the grant.

Um, and as I mentioned, that is a federal grant, so that would have to go back into the scoring to get rescored to get that grant money out.

So I I took that out of this uh equation here.

So that leaves our funding for only 12.5 million dollars, and then our funding gap is 31.5 million dollars without the aquatics facility.

So to sum up all the options right here, um, I kind of created one we want to do, we would do one slide because that was a lot of information to digest.

Was option one, a funding gap of $36.8 million dollars, and build out the entire park.

Option two, we omit the ball fields for right now, and the funding gap of $31 million.

And option three is uh exclude the do the entire park, excluding the aquatics area.

Um that would still include the splash pad and the funding gap of $31.5 million dollars.

Um again, that option three is not having Orlic grant in it, and all these include all the soft costs and land acquisition for options one and two.

With that, um we also wanted to include how much this park is gonna cost for running it.

And now I'm gonna turn it back over to my colleague Kate to go over some of the operational analysis.

Okay, thank you, Jay.

So again, last component of our presentation here, um, and then we'll review those funding options with you again and open it up for feedback.

Um, but as far as our operational analysis, I was able to look at um how much um money and expenses are currently dedicated towards the maintenance of Bright Park.

So obviously we we have a park that's currently there.

Um so we're currently spending around $320,000 to maintain the park in the current condition that it is.

Um we also receive around $21,000 in park rental.

So this does not include the uh youth sports and athletic round table fees.

This includes picnic shelters, private parties, different events that occur at that park.

And so that's kind of where we are today if things were to stay as is.

Looking at the new facility of what we are proposing, I tried to put it in three different buckets for you.

Um so the first one there is looking at park operations and maintenance, and again, this includes labor, materials, supplies, repairs, equipment that is needed to fully maintain this large facility.

Um, the community pool and programming, um, we anticipate around 730,000.

Now, this is a full build-out.

So this would be a community pool that would be open if the possibly year-round.

So there would be limited closures here.

That could come down if we wanted to obviously adjust ours, um, but I've tried to provide that scenario of what it would take to really build a year-round community pool for this area of our city.

Um, and then um projected revenue.

Um, that includes swim lessons, uh, birthday parties, um, and specific aquatic um rentals, as well as um day use fees.

So um, uh, you know, a drop-in fee, we possibly would explore a monthly or seasonal pass for families.

Um, and so that's kind of what we anticipated for projected revenue for the building and the programming, so this also includes full-time staff, and I took maintenance staff to support both the pool and the building, and I kind of split it between both of those buckets.

Um, this includes all of the front desk staff that checks people in that you saw at the ticketing counter.

This includes being able to offer community rentals again to our residents in the area, and then a projected revenue there that um again would be received for rentals.

Um, I tried to be conservative to kind of give you a full full picture.

Clearly, there's a few different levers that we could um you know push, but um in general, we're we're anticipating around 2.1 million dollars expense-wise to run this 24-acre um facility that we um are proposing to build out um and bringing in around 220,000.

And so then what I took is I said, okay, of the 2.1 and the 220, roughly that variance is around $1.8 million.

However, we're currently spending $320,000 on expenses.

So I took the $320 that's already existing in the city budget, and I then subtracted it from that $1.8.

So really that total need is around $1.5 million to run this park as we're currently proposing.

We also asked our contractor, and this was the first time the city did this.

I think this is a practice we would like to continue to do, thanks to Jay and his team.

So part of Verde's contract was to actually provide us what does a 30-year life cycle analysis look like when we are building these assets.

Um, and so I do want to note that that number was provided from Verde, $638,000 as a proposed set aside annually that would actually go towards repair and replacement of a facility and park this size.

So that's basically telling us that when things go out, there's various lifespans, right?

So something might have a five-year, a 10-year, a 15-year lifespan.

So over a 30-year life cycle, that is an estimate of how much money that we should be thinking about putting aside to go towards capital repair and replacement projects.

So council also wanted us to take a look at what this pool, the operations here compared to our rec center pool.

I do want to kind of preface with this.

So kind of revisiting our rec center pool and that current facility is a joint use facility.

It actually has three pools.

We share that facility with the school district.

It includes a 13-lane competition pool.

It's 13 feet deep compared to the six feet deep that we're proposing here.

We have two water slides and we have a leisure pool.

And to run that facility, we're looking roughly around a million dollars a year.

And again, that competition pool is open year-round, and then our leisure and our water slides are open seasonally.

This was last year's revenue, was 190,000.

What is difficult to calculate at the recenter is if you are a pass holder, you also get access to the pool.

So we don't really have a way to calculate how many pass holders are coming in or choose to join to have a family pass and then get access to the pool over the summer.

So that number, that revenue, is really based on daily drop-ins at the pool as well as swim lessons.

And so then I took that and again compared to a year-round programming at Bright Park.

And so you can see kind of the difference between the two there.

So our next steps tonight, obviously, we're conducting our workshop.

We are in the process of working with the school district on the land acquisition component to the Orlip grant.

And so as of July, the school district did pass a resolution to surplus the property there at Bright Park, and kind of sharing with you all the intricacies that go with this.

It is one big parcel currently, and so part of this process is actually working with the district to agree on a boundary map that would actually divide the one parcel into two separate parcels.

So the school district will continue to own Riverbank Elementary, and then we as the city are obviously pursuing the purchase of the 24 acres, 24 acres of Bright Park that we outlined tonight.

The Orlip Grant Award, we are hoping to receive the contract and the grant award agreement also in November, which allows us to be able to break ground, hopefully shortly after that.

And then again, timeline-wise, Jay and his team will be looking to go out to bid, hopefully between October and November.

And then our construction, we are anticipating around a three-year construction timeline.

I know that our community is concerned that we have quite a few play fields that'll be offline during that time.

So we are aware of that.

We have been actively working with various groups, this the school district as well as Holy Cross and some other groups in the area to see how we can relocate, especially our youth programming that currently uses the space.

And then we will also work with the contractors to build out the play fields first.

Those won't take as long as the pool and the building.

And so there's some phasing that we could do to be creative and hopefully be able to have those online prior to the pool and the building being completed.

Oops, let me go back.

So in closing, we just kind of want to revisit what we are looking for from you all tonight.

Is your direction in regards to these three different options that we presented?

So the first one, as Jay outlined, is build the entire park.

We feel that with the amount of grant funding and city funding that has already been allocated, that this is something that it is doable.

That funding gap of 36 million, the city has identified various funding sources that that could help.

And as you know, we did a council did give us approval to apply for an IBank loan, and that was a couple months ago.

And so that is our current plan is to actually pursue that loan, which would then give us an annual payment.

And the city is confident that we that we could pay for that.

And I'll I'll turn it over to our finance director here shortly if you have questions as far as the funding sources.

So that's option number one.

Option number two was excluding the ball fields.

And again, this was really because the ORLIP grant, as large as it is, it requires so many elements that we're currently building out.

And so you have to execute those elements in order to get that grant.

The ball fields is really the only element that's not included in the grant.

So that was one option of saying, okay, we can keep the grant, and then we could save money if we did not want to build out the ball fields.

I think that would pose other challenges.

As you all know, we currently don't have enough ball fields in the city, and both our youth and adults are always looking for more.

So it's not something that uh staff would be recommending at this point, but it is an option that we wanted to present to council.

And then the third option is Jay outlined was not funding the aquatic facility.

That obviously is the biggest ticket item.

Um, and it would save money.

However, in talking with uh California State Parks, I asked them specifically, you know, what that would look like if we did not build out the aquatic facility.

It would require a downscoping, we would have to reapply to the grant, and when she looked at our application, the aquatic facility allowed us to get max points in every category.

So she did not feel that it would be something that we would actually be able to keep the grant over.

Um and then in addition, she shared with me that those scenarios because I think she told me two, only two times it's happened at a 2,500 um application.

So um, and she said that it could affect our future grant applications, and so especially as you all heard tonight with Alice Norman, we're prepping for that park as well as others, and we really want to pursue other grant opportunities.

So however, it is still an option.

Um, and so if we were to go that route, the funding gap would be at the 31.5 million.

Um, and it would also take away our ability to purchase uh the land from Washington Unified and just kind of reiterating the um acquisition cost.

So that 2.2 million is not the total property value.

So I want that to be really clear.

Um the total property value is twice of that at this time because we had to turn in a number based on previous data that we had.

We will not know that final property value until we and the district agree on a third party appraisal.

So I know that is something that both entities have brought up.

We are very committed to working through the legal compliance and process, um, and so that is just an estimate at that time, but that is what we would fund, and then the grant would match the other 50%.

So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and close and I'll open it up for questions.

Thank you, Kate.

Open it up for questions among the council members.

All right.

Um right, so taking a look at, um, I do have some questions.

Um, taking a look at option one is is going to require a payment, an annual or monthly or some kind of payment.

Um, and the just the difference that I'm seeing is five million dollars compared to the other two options.

Um if we cut back by five million, is it a huge differential on the payments?

Like by hundreds of thousands or like mil.

I mean, I don't know what that is, but is it like over that period of time of the 30-year repayment?

Is it a significant amount worth cutting out the five million?

Yeah, I'm gonna um defer to our finance director, Roberta Baber.

Roberta, I love your hair.

Um, I didn't do a lot of different um scenarios.

We just roughly looked at um 40 million uh to fund the option A um at about 5% over 30 years, and it's about 2.6 million a year.

Of course, the amount's gonna depend on the interest rates and effect at the time that we do the borrowing.

Um a change of about 5 million financed over 30 years isn't gonna make um a lot of difference.

Okay.

So I I mean that's what I want to know.

100,000 a year, maybe, but it's not go ahead, Aaron.

Put a finer point on that.

It's it's uh the difference between 35 and 30 million is roughly 8.6% less.

So the debt repayment would be roughly scaled to that percentage.

I looked at 37 and 40, and the difference was less than 100,000 a year.

Okay.

Okay, that's that's very helpful.

Thank you so much.

Um right, we'll open it up for public comment.

Madam Clerk, is there a list?

Yes, ma'am.

Rhonda Pope Flores.

I think it's clear that option one is the option we want.

Um, this is gonna be a very crucial time for you to determine uh whether or not you see all of West Sacramento equally, or whether or not you see one part of West Sacramento equally.

So if you don't choose option one, I think it's pretty clear where the quality lies.

This binder here is my binder that I have been carrying around since um Cheryl Castarina asked me to get involved uh when she got sick, and I promised that I would do that.

That's what this binder is.

I have all my electronic stuff on my laptop, which I figured I didn't need to bring, but um I just want to point out a few things.

Get rid of that tough cost of 12.9 million prop uh million, and you've solved your problem.

And quite honestly, I think it's very inappropriate that you would even stick employee costs in here for existing employees that are probably already funded under existing grants.

Which brings me to my next issue.

Okay, you can easily find all of your grants on USA funding, okay?

USA spending, they're all right here.

And I see exactly how much grant funds the city gets every year, and this aquatic center and this park would actually bring you more grant opportunities.

Okay.

Um I also printed up your tax measure revenues, and I've been studying all of those.

And so tell you that because we put pressure on you to start doing the tax uh the measures and allocating, you just started allocating these measures towards our park when these measures have been in place since 2001, which by the way, I will also note that the resolution that was um passed back in 2001 doesn't even reference Bright Park, talks about all these other projects, doesn't even talk about Bright Park, which is really pathetic, and it's also signed by the past mayor of West Sacramento.

Um, which we don't really care for.

This is a summary of your measureau, which I know some funds are going towards.

My point is this, this.

This is gonna be a crucial time for you.

I don't I'm I strongly disagree with those revenues.

I don't I think those revenues are underreported.

I think when you look at the whole park and everything that that is that projection is not accurate, take out those soft costs, do a go go get the money just the same way you did with the Rec Center.

You you borrowed money for that, you borrow money for this.

Five million dollars, but you lose all the opportunities with the grants or five million dollars, and you cut out the aquatic center of all the people that have been fighting for our park and for our pool.

Thank you, Rhonda.

Maria Garcia.

So, yeah, option uno que queremos ahora.

No queremos esperar muchos.

Then it was much decada just.

So my English, that's not the best, but I try.

So I need option one right now.

Right now is the time.

Or kids, they need the pool.

So thank you.

Alfred Melbourne.

Hello again.

Um thank you guys for the fine report you all gave and all the numbers you guys put out there.

Um, a song comes to my mind that it's a long time coming.

But we do hope that you know some change is gonna come and that we can uh experience uh the amenities that um this park will provide.

The splash pool, the um the pool itself.

Um there's not a doubt in my mind that we can um come up with the money to pay for that loan.

Um we've borrowed and gotten grants and did other things to make this happen.

Um I have one problem with the projected funding that you all intend to pull from.

I think I read it was a million dollars from small businesses in our community to help pay the interest or the the um loan back to this i loan or i bank loan, and I'm in disagreement with that.

We should continue just take all of the money from measure oh, if we were gonna build a police station or a fire department, we would only would not only build part of it, we would build the whole thing.

And in the same respect, that's what this park is gonna do.

It's gonna provide public safety for a community without police, so that we can continue to congregate, come together in a safe, well-lit place that has all the amenities that we know the rec center has and the jobs that it will create for the community.

We hope that you know there is gonna be some kind of hiring preference for folks in the north side of town, and for folks that don't have the 10 to 20 degrees that most people have to get these jobs nowadays so that there's not barriers for folks to work in their own community and give back in their own community.

So I also would like to implore you all um to fund the entire thing, not take the money from the small businesses because we know that small businesses have been struggling, and especially in the north along Sacramento Avenue, um, there are folks that have some great ideas to um create more access to the um north area and different um you know visions for the community, but we need to tap in with other folks as well.

We know that the city has not done the best job when it comes to outreach and building relationships and has left a large segment of the community far behind, and there are folks and voices that have been saying things for quite some time, and even though it might not all be pretty and like, you all should be glad that folks show up to say something.

Alicia Guterres.

Thank you all for hicia.

Hello.

I want to start off with congratulations to the city staff for securing one of the four grants in the state.

I'm sure that was a complex proposal to put together, and it would be a shame on several levels if the grant and future grant opportunities are sacrificed.

Should we decide to defer building of the aquatic center?

I understand the project budget exceeds maybe what was initially budgeted for this project.

As a parent of one of the of kids in our local little league, it's painful to see that deferring build out of the ball fields is on the table.

And uh, when as one of the presenters said that we are scraping to find playable fields for our kids ages 13 to 16 in particular, I also want to express support for option one.

The community has been fighting for a long time, I think over a decade, over two decades, um, for a pool.

Um that has been a big equity issue for a very long time.

Um, and this year, with the city increasing the sales tax by one percent, I would hope that this project is in alignment with appropriate uses for these increased revenues.

This project is a public asset.

The north side deserves the investment to have a state of the art park, which can be a host site for events like regional softball and baseball tournaments and bring in additional revenue.

Um I have some questions for the city.

Not sure if it's appropriate for me to ask, but I'll put them out there anyway.

Um the coverage on the baseball fields or ball fields was um very high level, but I understand that they will include pegs for different field sizes and base paths, base base paths and um and pitcher mound for youth games as well as adult softball um 50, 70, and 6090 distances is what I'm I'm um hoping they include, uh, along with any um softball requirements.

Uh I did want to ask what the increase revenue is forecast to be with the sales tax increase and how what what is the surplus or is there surplus that could be um allocated to this project?

Um, also curious about how the costs and original project timeline have changed since the last round of community workshops, and generally interested is in whether the public workshop is in really intended to collect input from the community on priorities for funding and phases or if the council is going to make those decisions.

So um, interested in in what you all have to say and uh hope that we can have option one.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Alicia, we have no additional requests to speak on this item.

All right, bringing it back to the council for questions.

No questions.

We are um thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, thank you, Kate J and all the staff, you know, Verde Design, everybody who's been working on this um for a very, very long time.

Um as somebody who grew up playing soccer at Wright Park and going to Club West, uh playing pogs that they remember what pogs was.

Um, this is really exciting to see.

Um, we had seen some initial um designs during our strategic planning, but I think uh for a lot of the folks watching and people in the audience to see um this incredible build out is pretty incredible.

Um I wanna confirm that um while there is a gap financing strategy mentioned in here, um, tonight we're not discussing that specifically.

Um, there will be feature conversation of what that looks like in detail, and we're just um commenting on the direction option one, two, and three tonight.

So I I can take that one.

So uh just to clarify what we're presenting tonight are um follow-up options to what the council asked us to do back in February, which is what you're seeing now.

Um, obviously in any scenario, there's a significant funding gap.

So I think the important point tonight in terms of direction we want from the council is considering this information, um, which direction would you like to go?

Um, is it is it build the whole park in um you know all at once?

See the numbers there.

Uh that will inform the next step, which is to uh come back and and tell the council here are our best options for how we would um secure the financing to cover that gap.

And then the other part that's related to that.

They did have some discussion in the report um is how we might go about funding the debt service for that loan.

Um I think what's important tonight is rather than focus on where uh specifically the money would come from and where it would move around to the finance.

Um I think we can say confidently tonight that we have enough options uh within some of the ones that you you see in the report, but also uh potentially some other ways to get there to where we can we can have enough debt service on annual basis to fund any one of the options in terms of uh securing the debt.

Um because I think um based on the initial option that was presented in the staff report, um, I would need some more specifics on what exactly that would look like.

Um I mean, just looking at this slide of summary of all options, option one absolutely makes the most sense for us.

Um this is an incredibly ambitious project.

We are a very ambitious city, and I know that we can work together to figure out how the gap funding looks.

Um, what that looks like specifically, I do think there needs to be additional conversation because I have concerns about and I just think we need more clarity on what um uh barring against or what it looks like with measure N and the small business accelerator program and funding measure O and how that all plays out.

And so um we're not there right now, um, but if we're just looking at which direction option one makes the most sense.

And if if I could just add a little bit of context to that, uh while you're you're correct, we're not asking you tonight to say this is exactly where we want the debt service to come from.

Uh what you do see in the report are some concepts in terms of how it could work.

I want to address specifically the business accelerator funding.

Uh so it's come out a couple times now.

Um the funding that we have currently allocated to that program is is definitely sufficient for right now.

Uh we have plenty of money in the last two years of budgets.

Uh, I think the the total amount was upwards of two million dollars.

Um, you know, we're getting a lot of interest in that program.

We hope that it's wildly successful.

Uh, but the amount of funding that we'll be spending to support that program, we don't see it uh nearly needing the funding need that we've been allocating for the last couple years.

Uh so that's why it's highlighted as something that could be looked at as a at least an interim measure to come up with some of the money that could go to debt service.

Um, there's also other funding sources that could uh be used to backfill that program should the need arise later to have more funding.

But I think to your point, uh we're not here tonight to get you know specific approval to uh fund the debt service from this way or that way.

Um I think what we're telling you is we have the capacity to do it.

Uh what we need to know tonight is which direction do you want to go in terms of um the options on uh building up the project?

Thank you.

Mayor, yes, council member, thank you.

I'm also in favor of option one, and I'm very confident now after hearing Roberta and the rest of you speak about the mechanisms that we would use and now hearing from our city manager as well.

I'm very confident that we can definitely do option one.

It's a long overdue.

Thank you.

Council member early, yes.

Great.

Um thank you for the report.

The park looks beautiful.

I am super excited.

I can already envision taking my kid to all the things.

Um, and so like my colleagues, absolutely, I think option one is the way that we should go.

And back from from my perspective, it to have started this project in in 2013 and um now to finally be implementing it.

One I think is a credit to this council, um, a credit to the team and our city staff for for really working to to hear from the community and and what um what is needed.

And I also sure it's um folks may not be aware, but I think under this council, we have implemented input for the most parks um out of all the councils um that we've had.

So I think that's also just a credit to us that we should we should call that out.

Um so so option one seems obvious to me.

Um I do appreciate uh Kate and the team going forward and really trying to articulate.

I know it wasn't an easy task, and I and I will say it it was me, uh, that asked um, hey, how how much will this cost, right?

Like in the future, so understanding that this is something we want to do, but what I think is really important when we talk about um when we talk about doing any projects that are gonna require operations and support in the future is really being able to be very clear and transparent about what the costs are gonna be to operate that moving forward.

And I say that because so many times um when we see parks um that aren't being maintained, right?

Because for whatever reason we no longer could afford it, was because of poor planning, quite frankly, whether that have been, you know, previously happened.

And and so for me that was it was really important, and it was also really important that we have informed um that our public is informed on how much right we are investing in our parks, and what I think I understood it to be from the cost that we saw there was it is going to be, and I had one clear, probably have a couple clarifying questions, Kate, um to be quite frank.

Um to be clear for the for the park, it's roughly about 1.8, not taking into account the differential of the 320,000 that we already spend.

I think 1.8 to maintain it annually, adding to that 1.8 another 638,828 annually in order to make sure that when things break down, we can actually afford to fix them.

Is that am I following that?

Close.

Okay.

So the the 1.8 is taking into account revenue generation.

Okay.

So technically our expenses, that bucket is that 2.1 million.

And then we bring in revenue, so then the variance is around the 1.8.

Okay.

Um, and then um your second.

Back to that slide.

Maybe that will that way we don't have to hold the numbers in our head.

Okay, perfect.

And then on top of, I'm I'm gonna call the 1.5 because we're already spending $320.

So I appreciate that, right?

Cause really it's the difference.

And what what I, you know, what we're seeing here, and again, I like to just like make it very, very clear for folks so that in the future when they're like, wait a minute, it's like, okay, fast forward to that video where we explained all these things.

Um, the 1.5 really is the subsidy, right?

And so to be very, very clear, it is um the city, our taxpayers subsidizing our parks, right?

Which I absolutely think we should do, right?

Like parks, public safety, that is what we are supposed to do, but that really is the cost of what the subsidy is just for this.

Um, and then on top of that, it's the 638 828 that we would be adding on to that.

Am I getting that right?

Yes, so um, I do not believe that we have a current I don't want to misspeak, so I'll let um Roberta um speak to that, but that number indicates how much money total we would need to be able to repair and replace all of the infrastructure.

So annually, yes.

But for example, we open the park, everything's not gonna break in one year.

Of course not.

Yes, but five years down the road, we might have to decide money for your roof.

Exactly.

We might have, you know, a two million dollar CIP that's needed, and then 10 years, 15 years, especially when it comes to an aquatic facility.

You have turf, you have um again, irrigation infrastructure, fencing.

So they looked at all of those features and they added everything up and then they basically divided by a 30-year number.

And so that's what that number represents.

How we as the city put aside to that, we have various ways that those are more one-time funds, right?

So it's not that we need that 630 every year, but it is a measuring tool for us as a city to plan ahead and say we do need to make sure that we have money set aside to um conduct the actual replacement and repair that's needed.

Okay, um, I've I've got just a couple more questions.

Um so I just wanted to make sure I was following Roberta, your math and Aaron, your math, because again, I just like math to math.

And um, and again, just for for clarity's sake.

So I think I think what we said was roughly 2.5 million that we would be paying back on the on the iBake loan, like a year.

Did I get that right?

Yeah.

If we went forward with the full project right, everything, um, which again, I'm in support of.

Um, perfect.

And then Aaron, what you said was, hey, I did some back of the napkin math, and it's probably if we took out the the five million for either one of the the situations options, it would be a roughly about eight percent that we could cut off of that 2.5.

Am I am I following?

Yeah, it's somewhere between eight and 10%.

And if if there's a relative difference on the uh debt service, it would likely be about the same percent less.

And the only reason why I highlight that is Roberta, I think you said um, and again, I just like math math, uh, that that would be like less than 100,000 a year.

On the three million over 30 years, it's a little, it's about 100,000 a year.

There's a little bit more because there's interest, but if you multiply 100,000 a year times 30 years, that's the three million dollar difference in what we're financing, and then it's the interest on top of that, right?

Okay, so it wouldn't so again I want to make sure my math is mathing then.

So we got 2.5 million a year um that we would be paying back on this loan.

When I did the I looked at 37 million, it was about two and a half million a year at 40 million, three million more.

It was about 2.6 million a year.

So if we're looking at a five or six million dollar difference, then it's probably a couple hundred thousand, two to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year difference.

Perfect.

Okay, because that's what I got.

I got roughly when I did when I did two point five, eight percent on that, I got actually the difference would be two hundred thousand a year.

That would be the difference.

I just wanted to again make sure we're all talking about the same things and um and that we're clear on that.

And again, I just like math to math.

Um, okay, perfect.

Um, I I think for for me, I will um I think this is long overdue.

I think it is important as we go into this very large investment.

That again, I think our our city needs and wants, um, that we not only stand understand what the one-time cost would be, but what how we one of the reasons why we got here, unfortunately, is because a pool was closed, not by the city, right, but by the school district.

And I think it is important that as we are moving forward with this, um, and looking at that, that we don't enter that situation again, that we are very going in eyes wide open of these facilities of these amenities so that we can make sure that it is maintained, um, that um we're able to continue to keep it.

Um, and and again, I'm I'm super super excited uh about what's to come.

So thank you.

All right, thank you.

Well, I think you're it's pretty obvious I'm in support of option one.

Um and um I do want to thank the city staff for all you've done to accumulate all the financing where we got to this point where the gap is significantly smaller, however, because it's long overdue, it's so huge.

It could have been, you know, constructed, we probably would not have had the thoughtful planning um if we went faster, accelerated it, you know, and um we you know you selected a good designer to come and get this done.

Um but instead um we were taking our time and being thoughtful, except it does accumulate an increase in cost if you the longer you wait.

Everything we're seeing that in all of our projects throughout the entire city, um the cost of um paving a road or um the the bridge um for any infrastructure project, we're seeing just doubling of the cost.

So, you know, just the sooner we can, and fortunately we got the EIFD um funding source for for our projects for anything that we can move things along, is especially this.

Um I just want to thank the community for being persistent.

Um, you know, mentioning that credit is due to this council, it's it's due to the community members.

You know, the Broadwick Wright needs a neighborhood association, needs a pool, really pushed hard and organized, and um it's their movement, it's Charles Castorina, you know.

Um may she rest in peace now that we're all singing kumbaya and asking for this to move forward.

So um that I hope she she looks down on this and and continues to um pray that you know we will see this through and um grateful for the community um when I canvassed out there that was one of the priorities.

Um and I and I strongly believe that this community that voted um in that area for the passage of measure O.

There was some connection to parks, and I think that there was a a connection that they would see a park.

It may not be through this funding source, but they are regardless.

And um we do need to, if it's gonna be Measure N, um, we do need to give credit, you know, to our measures so that the community can see that their vote made a difference um in the passage so that they see this investment is um coming back in into their neighborhood.

Um when I look at the six thirty-eight eight two eight, I did have one quick question.

I'm sorry I was gonna throw that in.

Um as uh council member early was speaking.

In other jurisdictions, is there a Melarus component for um financing um or any other funding source whenever things are not maintained where this area of of the city is does not have the benefit of a Melarus.

I got it.

Um yeah, so in other parks and other parts of the city, um we do have CFDs, Melarus districts, and and there's a component often in those that is contributed to the maintenance of of uh recreation communities, landscaping and whatnot.

Um in the older parts of town that long predate the Melarus law, we don't have those districts.

Um and as you know, they're they're very difficult to set up.

They require, you know, a full two-thirds vote of residents, and so um in this case a project like Bright Park, it really falls on the city to find other, you know, more classic funding sources, uh, general fund and and uh now that we have measure O, it's we're we're fortunate that we do have a new source uh to help with the maintenance of parks.

Uh, but we don't have the option here to have uh CFD or uh other sources sources like it contribute to the maintenance.

Okay.

I I think that's important for the community to be aware that um that they're because I think they I that they asked me where is my Malarus going?

Is it going to the parks or whatever?

And um and here you see this number, and um it stands out because this is not this is an area that's unique that's not gonna accumulate the financing.

The other question is has parks commission reviewed um or would they have reviewed this?

I know this is something council requested, but will they review it?

They um were presented with this project in twenty twenty-three.

I'm looking at day.

It was actually um predated myself.

Um and because again, today's focus is on the funding, um, we're presenting to city council.

So um our commission does not necessarily um review any sort of funding sources.

Um, they review design and engagement, and they have been a part of that um throughout this process.

Thank you.

That's helpful.

Um I I know there's been complaints that they would like to be a part of the funding, you know, includ it's just um for their awareness for your awareness, that's what I've heard.

Um so and I get that they're an advisory body on certain components of our projects, um, because I've been a commissioner, not on parks, I think I've been on parks, but um, but um on other projects where you just get one little aspect of the entire project, and that's your only discretion.

So um if there's any concerns, I'll direct them to you, Kate, um, from the park commission so that they're aware of of this distinction.

Um, because I I will get an email.

So you know.

Um with that, I would like to ask whether you have sufficient guidance from the council to move forward.

Yes, we do.

Um at this point um we will pursue option number one.

What that allows us to do is actually um work on putting together our bid documents um because it gives us direction on how we would go out to bid um and secure a contractor to actually build out the project.

I did want to kind of remind the council and the community the numbers we have.

We are very confident in the project cost.

But once again, these are estimates from our design firm.

And so as you all know that when a contractor actually bids, that is the real dollars at that time based on a point of time with the economy and materials.

So again, we're really fortunate to have them as a design partner.

But I did want to highlight that that the number that you did see tonight is still just an estimate, and that final number will be with the contractor.

Yeah, that is scary.

Sure, go ahead.

So just to be clear, hey guys, it could be more expensive is what you're saying.

Yes, I mean, the project the project costs.

Yeah.

Uh just for clarity.

And then I guess the the last thing I would I would say is it sounds like you've got direction from us.

You're gonna go forth.

How quickly will we be able to to get the RT out?

Maybe you have it in here and I missed it.

Just as far as timing goes.

Yeah, I'll let Jay actually um describe the time.

Every week we get a new tariff.

Yes.

Uh so again, in that in that soft cost, we do have a uh 10% construction contingency in there.

We have a five percent escalation cost because this is over multiple years, but we do have some safety factors built into that.

Um as far as getting our construction contract out, we'd be aiming at no uh October to November to secure that, and then we would come back here with that actual number.

Um important component is we cannot until we purchase the land and have the Orlip grant in place.

We cannot uh have a shovel in the ground until that grant is fully executed.

So that is one of our our components that's that's been um holding us back a little bit.

So we're waiting for that acquisition to clear with the school district.

Just to be I I went again to clarity help here.

Um the the timing on closing the that on when you say, like, hey, we've been waiting or hold up.

Is it us?

Is the school district?

Is it the federal government?

So that was a process of of the school district and forming their 7-Eleven committee.

They have a whole process of of getting that done.

Um now we're aiming at November.

So the November date is when we were planning on getting that shovels in the ground.

Um that is that is that could happen sooner.

So if we acquire that sooner uh in that time frame, what would be the world in which we would acquire that sooner?

Like the school district would come to us and say, like, hey, we want you to do that.

Correct.

So the process was um the last school district meeting they they declared it a surplus land.

Um so in that now we can start our appraisal process once they review the appraisals and then come back to them with an with an offer and then um go down that that pathway.

So potentially if we have a school board or a couple school board members um that work with their staff and say this is a priority for us, then potentially that can happen.

Yes, and the earliest I would expect that is like October, right?

So you're not shaving because we're we're we're into August already.

Um some of the items that we are uh going forward with is pre-purchasing.

So we will be back here.

We we usually accelerate our construction schedules by pre-purchasing our shade structures or pre purchasing our restrooms to kind of accelerate the schedule.

So those are be locked in pricing.

Um as far as uh tariffs and that goes.

Um that's why the design team kind of recommended that 5% escalation and some of the other soft costs we have in there is from what they have seen on other projects right now.

Um, it has mellowed out a little bit, but um they recommended keeping that soft cost a little higher for the right now.

Well, it sounds like hopefully there will be opportunities to have advocates on our school board to ensure that this gets done as quickly as possible.

Thank you.

And on that note, I think you are um clear on where we're at and by those ad by those advocates who are on the school board have been beating the drum on this long before they were on the school board.

So I know that their presence has been well known in this area, especially on parts of the mission as a former commissioner where they were representing that district, unfortunately couldn't continue, but um greatly appreciate that they maintained their presence and continued on to be a trustee for that area.

So um just to bring up the history.

Um so with that, um, really grateful for all the hard work, the history.

We have Tracy, who's also been a past advocate for the park, um, and the entire team um who's been working on this.

Um Kate years, continuing to um roll this ball down the road, the big a big uh bit up the hill.

And I anticipate this is going to be successful.

I have a good feeling about it.

Member Charles' gonna pray for this.

You know that.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Okay.

There's no vote.

There's no vote, right?

The workshop.

Uh yeah, just to clarify for um everyone that it's a workshop tonight.

When we do workshops, we we're here to seek direction from the city council.

Um there's no specific action, but we take that direction, then we we go and do additional work, we bring it back for future action based on the direction.

Okay, thank you.

Next, under general administration function part two.

Do we have any reports from our council assignments?

anybody?

Oh, yes, council.

Council member early.

Yeah, I I have several.

Um, okay.

Uh so um met with um, I'm chair of the YOLO transportation uh district, so YTD.

We had a um meeting last week, uh last Monday, uh, in which we uh accepted the audit.

Um we saw a report um based on um YOLO 80 uh uh tolling lane projects, our express lane project on um potential possibilities for an equity program um for the um tolling um tolling lanes that will be coming in the next five years or so um to both the causeway connecting us to Davis uh and and West Sack.

So that was helpful again.

It was just an informational item.

Um important to note for West Sacramento, we uh discussed the potential for um eliminating routes, um specifically the routes of Route 40 and 41, uh which are the routes that actually service Broderick and Bright.

Um, this was a discussion that was made as part of the short-range transit plan um and what they um in doing their engagement and um working with our staff um somewhat um was proposed.

Uh I push back on that um and asked that we have some more engagement both with our staff um as well as the community, um, seeing that uh Brighton Broad uh Broadwick Bright and Broadwick um need public transportation and so to eliminate um the main uh and only public transportation outside of VIA, which is funded um through our tax dollars, um, seemed um that it could have significant impact on that community.

Uh one of the reasons given for potentially eliminating those was uh low ridership, uh, but we didn't have data to actually support that um during this presentation, and so asked um for us to be able to have some additional conversations.

Um council member Alcala.

Uh I would be interested in engaging with you on that or making sure staff engage with you on that, um, as it is your district as well as um council member Orozco as well.

I think it's just really gonna be important um that before we do anything or even recommend something that um significant um that we really have public input um from those communities that would be impacted.

What was suggested to potentially um offset that elimination was that the 37, which currently runs from Southport um and then goes directly to uh downtown.

Um, so does it cross over to Broadway and Bright, was that 37 could uh potentially be extended and take um a somewhat secure uh uh route through Broader and Bright, but not quite the same, that 40 and 41 would.

Um, and then also potentially increasing the frequency of route to 40 as well.

I know we're getting a little bit in the weeds, but this is the only place we have to talk as a council on these things.

Um, and so want to make sure um that we are making sure that we get the word out that um this potentially would have an impact.

In addition to the short range transit plan, we also discuss we have been having a shortage with our drivers and having some issues around that, and so to combat that, what was potentially proposed um by uh staff of YTD was pausing routes 40 and 41 potentially um if they saw that drivership shortages continued.

Um again, I push back on that and uh and said that I would want something again that significant in pausing a public transportation in Broader and Bright to be brought back to YTD so that we could have again a public conversation about that and the impact that that could have on our community again, particularly because um that part of our community um is does have lower SES and may have a more dependence on public transportation, and again would really just want to see the data on that.

Um so that was that was YTD.

Um it was uh definitely a um uh a pretty important uh meeting with a lot of information, and I know staff tuned into that, and so I will I'll call that out as well.

Um, in addition to that, I am uh vice chair of Carta, and so we had a capital area regional tolling authority meeting uh yesterday and um voted and adopted uh had some conversations about what potential penalties for violators for the tolling lanes would look like and would be.

Um and so we um actually voted on that um yesterday.

In addition, we took the report um on the the potential equity program that was also presented um to YPD uh yesterday.

Um I have the transportation committee um uh that is part of SACOG tomorrow, and we will be talking about SNP funding.

Um the uh funding round our staff did an amazing job on applying for um state transportation funding.

Um and we did receive funding for um one of our uh trail projects.

Did I get that right?

I'm looking at you.

Oh, thank you, Aaron.

It's actually um, it's known as the North Fifth Street project, I believe it includes uh bike lanes and road improvements and sidewalk improvements from roughly C Street up into where it becomes Lighthouse Drive in that vicinity.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Um, and I think that was um to the tune of a couple of million, and so again, amazing job um to our staff for getting that, and we will um on the transportation committee tomorrow for SACOG be voting to move that forward.

And then the last um meeting that I also had uh last week uh was our housing authority, in which we talked about um federal funding concerns um and still um some uncertainty around federal funding and the potential of that impacting our available vouchers, and so this again is um also known as section eight.

Um, and for West Sacramentans, this would be a significant uh impact.

And so more to come on that again, we remain uncertain of what the future of that is going to look like.

And that's it for me.

Real quick.

Thank you.

I want to thank you also, you know, for advocating because it's true.

That area relies heavily on bus transportation.

Um, so give me a call and let's have that conversation.

Um, I'm just gonna report real quickly, Mayor, on the Yolo Solano Air Quality Management District.

Um, they have an annual contest, which is the clean air calendar art contest.

They had more than a hundred students submit, and 12 students are in the top honors.

This year's theme was why is clean air important to you?

And this is a contest that is uh for children from kindergarten through seventh grade.

Now the exciting part, um, the Yolo Solano Air Quality Management District uh launched a fresh air for all.

It's a home air filtration pilot program.

And what I'm really excited about this program is that uh it has um air purifiers, and these are um air purifiers are going to be given away for free.

The recipients are only to applicants living in tribal land or it's state designated disadvantaged communities such as Sacramento and Rio Vista, and we are having our first giveaway um at Holy Cross on August 17th from 10 to 12, and this is gonna be so important because when I canvas, there were many homes in our area, no air conditioning and heating, you know, they would run on these small heaters and stuff.

Many of these people, seniors, young children, asthma, a lot of problems.

These systems are great.

They clean the air of things like you know, dust mites and um and smoke during those times when we have a lot of um smoke in the air.

So um I'm just really happy that um this um is coming to West Sacramento, I think, for the for the first um city that they're going to be distributing these at.

And that's all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council members of Fizio Hall.

Thank you.

Uh I'll just mention that the Yellow Habitat Conservancy um is going through um some staffing changes right now.

We're currently working with a consultant who's acting as our executive director, and um we're putting some proposals together of what looks like the future of the organization and um how we staff working within the constraints of the county.

Um, so more to come on that, but we've been working on this for the past for the majority.

So I'm hoping we have some resolution for that soon.

Um, and then I just want to mention, you know, NAC last night was national night out.

I want to thank the police department for all the work um organizing that event and for the fire department coming out, um, and to all the neighbors who hosted community parties.

Um it is a fun event every year, and it's so wonderful to see the community gather.

Um, and then shout out to Deerwood um for the and end party um with um a live band, which is the first time I've seen National.

That was really exciting.

So um thanks to everybody for your work on that.

Thank you.

And thank you for um coming out to National Line Out.

It's really important to the community to see us all out there.

It was a great event, great um well organized.

I know since it was the day before um school started in in our city that we didn't have as much participation, but um, we can't control what is, but we've had it at the same time.

We cannot, and back to school night is the same night as our next city council meeting.

Last night was uh middle school orientation.

So that's where I was.

We should coordinate.

Well it was my son's birthday, and we had a big dinner for him, so um, yeah, well that's it's it's um all right.

Uh so next is um council calendar.

No report.

City manager report.

No report today, thank you.

All right, city attorney report.

Staff direction from city council members.

Do we have anything?

I think I did submit something, right?

I did, but I don't see it in here.

Tell you what it's about.

Do you remember that?

I do not.

What was the item?

It was okay.

So um, so I attended um the retirement of our US Army Corps of Engineer um uh general.

So he so that a proclamation proclamation.

Okay, yeah, I think we'll have to check whether that was gonna be a miracle proclamation or you intended for it to be a council proclamation.

I asked him to.

Okay, we can uh we can follow up on that.

Oh, thank you.

So um so it was supposed to be coordinated the timing is supposed to be coordinated um with Paul Dirtson.

And the general student participated.

So just keeping post it on that.

If I mean I I still would like to include it, even if it says vaguely at a future council meeting, so we can get a vote on it for our process.

Yeah, I think on that one we'll we'll take a look at if if it's something that staff's initiating, it may just come anyway.

So um, but we'll we'll look at the uh best way to handle that one.

Uh get back to you.

All right.

In other words, I I it may not need to be placed on a future generator than placed again if the timing doesn't work.

So we can I think we can figure that one out.

Oh sure okay great thank you so much.

All right.

And that's it.

No future agenda other than that um we'll adjourn.

Oh okay we don't have to vote.

Okay sounds good.