All right, now that all the council members are present, I call to order the June third meeting of the City of West Sacramento City Council and the West Sacramento Redevelopment Agency and Finance Authority.

I will be your mayor for two more years.

I just wanted to bring that to your attention right up front.

We will begin with the land acknowledgement.

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, learn, and commune, and 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 met in closed session this evening, Mr.

City Attorney.

Do we do can you present any updates?

Thank you, ma'am.

The council met in close session, no reportable action was taken.

We would like to invite our guests to join the council and staff in the pledge.

And we would like to bring up Reverend Scott Hill to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance tonight.

But it provides an important opportunity for a public forum.

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

And we ask that anyone who wishes to speak, um, we have a request to speak card.

And if they can bring it up to the clerk for the public comment and for any items on the agenda, which upon the conclusion of the reading of the staff report on any particular agenda item that card needs to be presented.

Once the staff report has been read, we open the item up for public comment, and the clerk will announce your name where you come up to the podium.

And in front of the clerk, there is a timer for you to um track to make sure that everyone has a chance to be heard.

You'll be giving them a maximum of three minutes.

And we ask that all comments be limited to the specified number of minutes that I just um announced.

Also, in the 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, booze, cat calls, or other demonstrations.

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

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

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.

Guy Stevenson.

I gotta be honest with you, mayor, I gotta be honest with her.

What you guys said a couple weeks ago pissed me off and it pissed off a lot of my friends.

You should never ever compare any cop.

ICE agent, because they're feds, and they're not ICE is not just one unit, they got ATF, DEA, US Marshals, all of it, HSI.

But when you stood there and said that they're terrorists, are you kidding me?

Do you know what a terrorist is?

That's somebody that'll kill you for just for the hell of it.

And you know what's funny?

It well, it's not really funny, it kind of uh bummed me out.

Two cops yesterday got killed in New Jersey.

You know what they were doing?

They were doing a traffic stop on somebody, a female sergeant and an officer.

I don't like people doing what they call political grandstanding.

That's what you're doing.

You're taking your personal beliefs about the feds and taking it to another direction and say, Whoa, I don't, you know, I don't like them, I don't even consider them cops.

They're feds, and it's several different units that are involved with ICE, it's not just HSI.

I'm a very easy-going person, but I'm also a big advocate for the police, and there are people just like you, and there's cops, there's cops on the other side of the bridge that are not that great.

They got problems too.

So every agency, but when you said all these people, they just want to go around and kill people.

That ain't true.

Did you see what they were doing in New Jersey?

They were throwing rocks, they were uh some guy got stabbed in the arm, one of the officers, and you're telling me that they're killing people.

Come on, man.

I mean, that rhetoric and and stuff that you people doing, all that political grandstanding, that's what it is.

It's your personal belief.

I'll stand here and say that I do support ICE.

I do support the FBI, ATF.

They're right on the other side of this bridge, believe it or not.

Right over there in the federal building.

It's funny that you don't like them because they're right next door.

So I do have a problem with that.

I'm sorry that I'm angry, but when I heard this, I left and I heard it on YouTube and heard what you guys said.

I bet I had a stroke.

You should never treat anybody that wears a badge like that.

I don't care who they work for because you're gonna have bad cops in every agency.

You know, it's not just ice, so get off this ice cake, man.

You people are putting all that propaganda out there, and that's feeding the lion.

You know what I mean?

Just stop.

Pray about, pray for them, or pray for the family for those two cops who got killed in Jersey yesterday on a traffic stop.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Michael Root.

Hello, council.

I'm here again.

Same item as we've had with in the past about uh being getting a runaround between the building department and the uh code enforcement over a permit on a house that um is being remodeled for uh a flip, and um didn't get inspections, and I talked to uh uh last month.

I talked to uh Andrea, Martha had me talk to Andrea, and uh of course I got zero response.

I got lied to.

I got told that I would get a call back that day.

I got no response.

Um I don't understand why I'm not getting any kind of feedback on it.

This has been going on.

I forwarded an email to Martha, so she's got some dates.

This has been going on since last September, and um I can't get everybody wants to point the finger at somebody else.

So uh something needs to be done.

My next item is uh a couple weeks ago, since the last meeting, my wife and I decided to take a walk and go on the trail.

Okay, so we decided we went over to the old high school and walked up the Sycamore Trail.

But so I I love it.

I love being in West Sacramento, there's a lot of nice stuff.

It's a great trail.

Um the problem I have with it is that the destruction that's been going on.

There's benches that are tore up, and I mean these are heavy duty things at right at West Capitol and the trail.

The benches have been some of the some of the tables that have literally been ripped apart.

You can see that there's been a they've started fires in there.

Three different locations, including the school at the very north end.

There were people either smoking crack or shooting up.

My wife and I saw it on three different locations, okay, and one of them was right in the back of the school at the very north end up by Rice Avenue up there.

And why don't we have the um a patrol that patrols that I don't I I my wife and I did it, and I after I walked it, it's a great trail, but I'm gonna tell you what I would never let my wife go walk it by herself.

Okay, why we don't have something like the CHP does downtown and put a couple of officers on bicycles to patrol that park, a bunch of the parks that are around town.

Why can't we why can't we do regular patrols on our parks?

Okay, um, especially when the with it was right out in the open.

These people were sitting at a table right out in the middle of nowhere, jabbing needles in their arms, and there's no reason for it.

Middle of the day.

It was on the 25th, it was on it was on Memorial Day, you know, and uh it it's it's disheartening to see.

It really is, and we have a nice trail that people aren't gonna use it.

You know, people are only gonna see that one time and never use it again.

Thank you, Mike.

Um, I did send your information.

I don't know if anybody wants to work with you on that right now.

Yes, I'd appreciate uh getting the copy of the email.

We will follow up and actually Tristan Osborne.

Let's uh go ahead and have you talk to them again.

I've got a whole list of yeah, we will follow up by email too.

So thank you.

Tristan, that'll be great.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Eric Dwayne Johnson.

Hi.

Um can y'all hear me okay?

We can hear you.

Yes.

Um, Eric Dwayne Johnson.

Um I come here uh to address some concerns that's been going on in my life.

Um I met a young lady, um, randomly one night, and I I can't like for some reason.

We like we were like we were like, I don't know, I don't know how to say this, but we were like, it was like mixed.

Like she understood me and I understood her for so many reasons.

Because from what I understand is that um there is some people, I don't know who they are, but um this was going on for years.

Um most of my life, I would say, um, more than 20 years.

I would say that.

Um I don'll have access to uh my original cell phone with my account on it.

I'm in Yolo County, my phone was stolen, and I'm looking for that phone.

And I I spoke to the FBI about some things that were um they were like given to me from someone in Hollywood that they know my situation, they know the backstory.

But from what I understand, um there's people out there that's um withholding that information that they know that I should know about my life.

And for some reason I I'm I'm um I'm confused about that.

And um there's some um there's some other things that for some reason they told me that my mother said some things that wasn't true and um they supposedly I heard that Solano County uh they made a deal with um the family and we were supposed to get some money.

The whole family.

I mean, well, me because of my because of what's going on in my life and the reason why I met this girl for some reason she knows.

Um but um we we were we were supposed to get some money and that money was given to someone without uh knowledge, without like without my understanding.

But um can you wrap it up, please?

Your time is up.

Um I'm looking for my car and I'm looking for my phone.

That's why I'm here.

Okay.

And I'm trying to find out exactly who is trying to uh who's out there with my phone and they're telling me that they're trying to uh harm me.

We can have um thank you.

We can have our we have our chief here if you can follow up with you, thank you.

Thank you, Jen.

Hi, good evening, Mayor Guerrero, council members.

I'm um rising tonight on behalf of Anna Domek because June is gun violence awareness month, and so we just want to take the opportunity this month to take time to honor lives that have been lost, to stand with survivors, to raise our voices for safer communities, um, because every community in America has been impacted by gun violence.

And so I'd like to share an invitation um in support of gun violence awareness month.

Folks can wear orange on June 6th, and uh thank you for your time and listening.

And we'd like to take a photo with you if you don't mind with the council to receive a proclamation.

Sure.

Uh mayor, just uh wanted to clarify for for your benefit there that uh we did issue a mayor or proclamation for that item.

Uh that was a mayor proclamation.

Yeah, we'll be adding it to uh the list of the the reaction.

Well, thank you so much.

So I just I just wanted to in case there was any.

I didn't understand what was happening.

Right.

So a proclamation was issued uh by the mayor for that item, but we will have it on our list going forward for our annual ones for the council.

I appreciate that.

And um, Mr.

City Manager, in the past, haven't we done a proclamation during the time of a meeting?

I believe we have in the definitely in certain years, but not every year, but we are going ahead and adding that one to our annual list.

So, thank you.

I just don't want to do a disservice to the movement given that it had to be in public comment.

I think that this is an issue that affects our own city, our nation, and definitely.

Um, if we've had it in the past, we would we I'm sure all of the council would love to be prepared with comments.

Yeah, absolutely.

Because it wasn't on the agenda, we we recommended handling it uh during public comment.

But like I said, we'll add it to the reoccurring list going forward.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Any other requests?

We have no additional request to speak on this item.

Thank you so much, Madame Clerk.

Next is agenda item 200 presentations proclamation of the West Sacramento City Council recognizing June 2026 as Pride Month.

Whereas the City of West Sacramento stands in solidarity with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer questioning, intersex, asexual, and allied community, affirming the right of all individuals to equality and freedom from discrimination, and whereas West Sacramento recognizes the intrinsic worth of every person, regardless of age, gender, identity, race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation and physical ability, and affirms that all people deserve fair treatment and respect, and whereas the contributions of the LGBTQIA plus community enrich the city of West Sacramento culturally, socially, and economically, and the city remains committed to fostering a community where all individuals can live free from discrimination and prejudice, and whereas to honor the ongoing journey and raise awareness within the Pride Movement, West Sacramento will proudly fly the rainbow flag, symbolizing light, healing, sun, tranquility, creativity, and spirit at City Hall throughout June.

Now, therefore, be a proclaimed by the City of West Sacramento City Council that June 2026 be recognized as Pride Month in the City of West Sacramento, proclaimed this day of June 2026.

And we have a few people I see.

Um I don't want to exclude anybody who we can bring all of you up and um if you want to stand and speak.

Um, we would love to have you share your thoughts about what this um what this month means to you.

And um just anybody would like to come on up because I do see some members here.

The LGBTQ, come down.

Don't be shy.

Okay, Reverend Scott Hill.

Oh, okay, good.

Thank you.

Well, good evening.

Thank you, uh Mayor and City Council for once again flying the uh pride flag and doing the proclamation this year.

But our work is not done.

In the United States, 400,000 LGBTQI plus youth experience homelessness each year.

Despite representing less than 10% of the general youth population, LGBTQI plus teens account for 20 to 40 percent of homeless youth nationwide, according to the National Coalition of Homelessness.

Disproportionate risk of LGBTQ plus youth are more than likely or 120 percent more to experience houselessness than our non-LGBTQ plus peers.

The primary causes are family rejection, abuse, and being forced out of the home solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

My friends, the fear of coming out and being one's authentic self is real.

The Trevor Project states teens who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual are over three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.

Roughly 37% of gay and lesbian youth seriously consider suicide each year, and approximately 19 to 25 percent actually attempt it.

According to the Center of Disability Rights, gay seniors face compounding set of social challenges, including high rates of social isolation, lack of traditional family support networks, and widespread economic insecurity.

As now that I am a gay senior, I see it all the time.

The core social issues for our gay seniors is social isolation, health care and house discrimination, economic insecurity, and the invisible generation.

The AIDS and HIV legacy left many men without their friends and other support networks.

Our work is not done yet.

Because society continues to be harsh on all of us in the LGBTQ plus community, we often resort to coping mechanisms.

The addiction center estimates that 20 to 30% of the LGBTQ population commits abuses of substances compared to about 9% of the general population.

Well, in the last 20 years, the LGBTQ community has made terrific strides.

Our work is not done yet.

The flying of the pride flag is the ultimate global subu of the LGBTQ pride and the social movements.

The mayor just read the significance of each of the colors, but the progressive pride flag, which is flying out front, includes the traditional rainbow stripes alongside the chevron of the left side.

The added black and brown stripes represent other marginalized folks within the LGBTQ communities of color.

The pink, the white, and the light blue stripes represent our transgendered community.

Equality is for all people.

Our work is not done yet.

I will end by saying the words of the first century Jewish scholar, Hillel the Elder.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

And if I'm only for myself, what am I?

And if not now, when you for your continued support of the LGBTQ community this year and the work of making West Sacramento a welcoming home for all, and helping to get this work done.

And in my tradition, we say Amen.

Amen.

Thank you.

Invite other speakers.

Who nobody?

Okay.

We'll go down and take a pick.

Oh, sure.

Oh, sorry, go ahead.

Yes.

Awesome.

Thank you so much.

Um, so I was talking to my colleague on the other side of the river about city stuff at an event, and he said a lot of stuff having to do with the cities is about peas.

Parking, potholes, pickleball, and tonight it's about pride.

One of the things I love about Pride, Pride Month is the celebratory nature and just the incredible spirit that's built around this, but it also creates a wonderful opportunity for us to gather, elevate LGBTQ voices in our community.

And so I just wanted to take a moment and highlight a couple events that are happening in West Sacramento where we can celebrate Pride together.

First shout out is to IKEA in West Sacramento, who is hosting shopping cart pride parades every Saturday and Sunday in June at 3 p.m., featuring Pride themed floats rolling throughout the store.

The Sacramento River Cats will celebrate Pride Night on June 4th.

The barn is hosting a drag brunch on June 7th from 11 to 1.

Reservations are recommended.

Our very own Gallery 1075 is featuring a Pride Month art show on June 11th from 6 to 8 p.m.

Admission is free.

Our very own West Sacramento Democratic Club will be participating in the Sacramento Pride March on June 14th.

We'll be meeting at Southside Park at 11 a.m.

We got members of the club here.

And then Emil's is in talk with us right now about housing our first West Sacramento Pride Party in July.

So we have so much room in West Sacramento for all kinds of people, all kinds of families, all kinds of perspectives.

So happy Pride Month West Sacramento.

Council Member Orozco, thank you.

Thank you very much.

This past Thursday, the great opportunity and privilege to award personally on behalf of the Sacramento Stonewall Organization to our former Mayo Christopher Cobaldon, the Four Freedoms Award.

It was an award that was provided to heroes in our community who stand for pride and LGBT rights and to amplify the platform for everyone, of all backgrounds, to come forward and be as they are as in West Sacramento, as it is in our region, we want to represent a place where all are welcome.

In doing so, I remarked upon an incident that happened in this actual building downstairs in the galleria, wherein Christopher Cobaldon was providing his 2006 state of the city address to our community members.

It was recorded because unbeknownst to members of the public, their MTV was doing an episode called Coming Out Stories.

And he was in the second feature, and his he had an opportunity, and that was to do one of the scariest things he's ever done in his life.

And he would say that himself because when Comstoc did a story on him, he did mention that that was it required intense courage.

And that's because people in the city of West Sacramento, perhaps many of them who were in positions of power or many who are in attendance of that state of the city, may have expressed disdain and resentment and an unwelcome presence to those who are from the LGBTQ, trans communities.

And uh in watching that video, I remarked also about how several people courageously stood up and applauded him for that courage, but many others did not.

And it's always been my hope that we recognize the current courage of people who have paid a sacrifice to themselves, their safety, that don't get to exercise the freedoms that others take for granted, whether or not they can travel to certain countries, whether or not they can express themselves freely without backlash.

In West Sacramento, I hope that I can say that I and I believe I can that on behalf of this council, we welcome everyone.

And the examples that were set well before we had an opportunity to sit on this dais with our gold night shiny nameplates and our leather seats behind us, whether or not they're leather anymore, I can't really say.

Um, that they are hitting deeper and resonating more with me because of everything that is happening in our country.

And when you sit and reflect on both Pride Month but also simply the rights of LGBTQ community, it was not that long ago that people who loved each other were the same gender couldn't get married.

I am 44, and I remember voting on that to be passed.

And I think it is easy as we fight for civil rights across all of our different communities, and we move on.

We say, okay, great, we're done with that fight, now comes the next one.

And the reason why I think even more recently we are reminded again with everything that is happening across our country and rights being stripped back, and communities, including the LGBTQ community being under attack, is that those rights, as hard fought uh as they were, can easily be rolled back.

Which is why it is so important that we acknowledge, it's why it is so important that we continue to speak up and speak out, and it's also why it's so important that we not only not forget, but we actually keep fighting.

We keep reminding folks why these rights matter.

Because again, it was a very long time that that was allowed to exist, that that prejudice was allowed to exist and was acceptable.

It is still in some parts of this country very acceptable.

And so it is incumbent on all of us to actually rise up and fight and say something, to be allies, to be co-conspirators in this movement, because it is still important today.

And so I'm very proud of this council that we do this work.

I'm very proud that we participate not only in Pride Month, but activities and all the things, and that it not just happens today, but it is every single day that I know this council is fighting for these rights.

And so thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Councilmember Ocala.

I just want to say thank you, everyone, for being here, and it's great to see you again year after year.

Scott, thank you so much for um providing the flag for us to be able to put it up on our on our flagpole to recognize when you first um presented this several years ago.

Um, you know, I think um taking a look at what we've accomplished here in West Sacramento.

I think it's incremental.

I think we could we have some room to grow, um, given that we did have a past mayor who you know came out, but um as uh councilmember Orozco, you know, identified that not everybody stood up, and I kind of feel that still people are not standing up.

The the vulnerability of our LGBTQ plus community uh is is real, and especially now in this national climate, on how we've seen um in this administration, federal administration, put fear and and you know, just reignite the trauma of the past of those men and women and members who um are identifying with the different gender into a traumatic situation, fleeing their jobs and and finding refuge wherever they can.

And I I hope that we can create an environment here in the city to increase more counseling support is what I think we need.

More safe environments where people can gather.

I remember in the past, we used to have drag show, um, and I don't see those anymore.

I don't know what happened.

And um I I think we need more um leadership in this area, and I welcome it.

We have the YOLA Pride Democratic Party who is coming to um to West Sacramento July 1st, Wednesday, July 1st, and that'll be a council meeting, I think, or maybe not.

Um, and uh from 5 30 to 7 30 at Bike Dog in West Sacramento.

And I'm so grateful that I think they're they're growing stronger, and um, and I appreciate their their um effort to come all the way out to West Sacramento.

They're based in like in Woodland, and they're coming out here to provide that support, and um we're looking to, you know, where we can get more organic support from members of the community, uh, because I know if we put something together, people just are shy and hesitant and fearful to gather publicly because of the threat of retaliation from their workplace, retaliation from their peers, it's still real, and um, you know, discrimination and harm coming to them.

So what we need to do, and you know, that has the residual effect of um, you know, mental illness, um, crisis situations, and I don't even think we have enough places to send people to get that kind of support, or enough counseling people, people with that counseling experience, you know, to provide that support.

So I think we have a ways to go, and I'm and I would, you know, I'm really grateful to that YOLO Pride Democratic Club is stepping up to, you know, create more spaces and and encourage people to, you know, help us provide a safer place for them in our city and in Yellow County.

So thank you, and I look forward to we have several several proclamations.

You can all kind of take some home.

Thank you, and we'll take a picture down below.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

I'm back on that.

And Madame Click, are there any requests to speak on for these items?

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

Alright, are there any um requests to pull any items from the consent agenda?

No.

With that, I'll accept a motion to approve early moves.

Second.

Okay, council member early moved and council member called a second amendment.

Would you please call the roll?

Councilmember Early.

Aye.

Council Member O'Cala.

Aye.

Council Member Roscoe.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Temsal Pizio Hall.

Mayor Grero.

Aye.

Alright, this is approved.

Next is uh we don't have any regular hearing agenda items, but we do have a public hearing.

Uh a few here from the city manager's office item number eleven is a public hearing pursuant to government code section three five zero two point three to receive a report on the city of West Sacramento vacancies and the recruitment and retention efforts.

So take it away.

Hi, good evening, Mayor and members of the council.

I'm Caitlin Montez.

I'm the HR supervisor, and I'm going to be giving a presentation for this public hearing.

I emailed it to you last month.

You have a hard time getting the screen on.

Yeah, we don't see anything in on our screen either.

Yeah, technology has not been on January.

Sorry, thank you for your patience.

I'll blame it on the clerk.

Done.

Yeah.

Make a background the background on the item.

Um so we are here today for the public hearing pursuant to government code 3502.3, which fulfills the city's obligation under assembly bill 2561, which was signed into law September 2024 and effective for January 1, 2025.

The law mandates that public agencies must annually report prior to budget adoption on our vacancy levels, recruitment and retention strategies before the governing body.

We appreciate the participation of our recognized employee organizations and members of the public on this matter.

So Assembly Bill 2561 added a new reporting duty under the MMBA, requiring greater transparency and public accountability for our staffing levels.

At a minimum, each agency must report our vacancy data to the public, inform and consult with recognized bargaining units, detail current recruitment and retention efforts, and identify any policy or procedural changes that may negatively be affecting our hiring process.

If a bargaining unit exceeds a 20% vacancy threshold, then additional reporting is triggered, requiring us to report on the number of applicants per role, average time to hire, and compensation and working condition improvement plans.

So here at the city of West Sacramento, we chose to use December 31st as our annual reporting date because it could be a moving target.

So we felt December 31st was a good data point in time to where if new positions are added throughout the year, it'll give us an adequate time to try to fill those positions.

So as of December 31st, 2025, we had 505.55 authorized positions with 68 vacancies.

We have five represented employee groups here with the Battalion Chiefs Association, the Firefighters Association, Local 39, Police Officers Association, which is made up of sworn and non-sworn members, and then our police managers, as well as our unrepresented employee groups.

So those 66 vacancies result in a 13.45% citywide vacancy rate.

Among our represented units, we have a 6.57 vacancy rate percentage.

All vacancy data was formally shared with our respective employee groups, and each of them was given an opportunity to be here tonight to address the council if they felt it was necessary.

As no units exceeded our 20% threshold, we did not need to do any of the special disclosures that are triggered by the assembly bill.

So I know that this is a little hard to read, but this breaks down each of our employee groups and their respective percentage vacancy rates.

So as of 1231 2025, our Battalion Chiefs Association, our firefighters association, and our police management unit was fully staffed with zero vacancy.

Our local 39 had a 15.04% vacancy rate, which was impacted due to a meet and confer process on some of the new positions to establish job descriptions on some of the measure O positions that were added.

Since that time, though, we have gotten that settled with the union, and the lead positions in public works have been filled.

Reported 17.82%.

Many of this was impacted by four employees starting the January Academy as well as February for some of the non-sworn positions, and due to their longer pre-employment process, those positions naturally take longer to fill.

So again, this slide validates that no groups triggered the enhanced AB 2561 reporting.

So the city has implemented a number of measures that are assisting us in our recruitment efforts.

We utilize NeoGovATRACT, which is improved visibility and reach of our job postings.

It allows us to have easy to navigate recruitment websites where we can display our benefits information for candidates.

We can use analytics to track applicants in our recruitment pipeline, and we can also have an enhanced applicant tracking and speed, which allows us to fill our vacancies at a much higher rate than our counterparts and other jurisdictions.

So again, our time-to-hire metrics have improved through this streamlined internal process.

We also utilized blind screening.

So an applicant in our system does not have a name, an address, or any personally identifiable information associated with them.

So this removes bias from the recruitment process that they're strictly being evaluated based on their resume and their application that they're submitting.

We also have utilized social media outreach and have expanded it to increase applications from underrepresented communities.

So strengthening our workforce retention and engagement.

So as of again, 1231 2025, all of our bargaining units now have multi-year contracts, which provide wage stability and predictability through and beyond fiscal year 25 26.

We have reinstated the leadership academy and have expanded it, and I believe they're now going on their fourth cohort.

I was fortunate enough to participate in the first cohort.

So that lends itself to enhance professional development and opportunities for candidates to grow within our organization.

The city also offers flexible flexible working arrangements, including remote work and alternative schedules.

We're operationally viable.

And we also have a renewed focus on employee wellness and recognition, which fosters engagement and reduces turnover risk.

So AB 2561 compliance is not a one-time event.

It represents a shift towards transparency and accountability in public staffing.

And the city's committed to monitoring outcomes and feedback to adapt recruiting and onboarding.

And it supports a superior workforce that reflects West Sacramento values and serving our community effectively.

Today's public hearing is one component of an ongoing dialogue to ensure we maintain robust and resilient staffing.

We also have a link up here to our career page if anybody uh attending this meeting is interested in looking at employment opportunities with the city.

Um so thank you, and I'll open it up to any questions if there are any.

Is there any public comment at this point, Madame Clerk?

We have no request to speak on this item.

All right, thank you.

Close the public comment, bring it back to council.

Are there any questions?

I have a quick question.

Sure, council member mayorportem.

Um thank you.

Thank you for the presentation.

So the um the additional reporting on the 20% if vacancy exceeds 20%, where did that?

I mean, obviously that's state mandated, but like where did that number come from?

So initially in the draft bill, I want to say it was like 10%.

The number was a lot lower.

Um, I don't know the history behind where 20% came from.

My assumption is during COVID, when a lot of organizations had upwards of 40% vacancy rates, or they are authorizing positions but leaving them unfunded and having to go to their constituents and you know talk about why city services are being cut when authorized positions are really high.

Um I think that was kind of the driving factor behind this assembly bill was so um represented employee groups could kind of have it on record that cities aren't filling their vacancies.

Yes.

Um I had some questions about our police department because I see that that is our highest percentage, at least as December 31st, that weren't filled.

Uh, Chief Strange, do you mind?

Thanks.

So I am I'm excited that we continue to be working to recruit.

Um, I know that, or I remember two years ago, we had put aside, I want to say 100,000 in trying to increase recruitment for our open positions then, and I think we have had a lot of success.

Um, you know, I have pretty strong feelings about um wanting to get our police department fully staffed, up all the things that are needed, and that was one of the things that at least I personally, when I went door to door for measure O campaigned on because it was something at least in my district that I continue to hear needs um uh growth opportunities, is what I would say.

Um so when we were here roughly six months ago and we approved the SRO position.

One of the things I asked was, okay, so we've got all these open positions within our police department.

I have some concerns that we are potentially going to take from one of the already, again, we're trying to meet the needs of our entire community to be able to fill the position of the SRO.

What do we think our what do we think our capacity is going to be?

And when we had that conversation, you said, hey, I'm working really hard to fill these positions.

The staff are working really hard to fill these positions.

Um, I think we should be good.

Um, how many open positions do we have right now within our police department?

Um, I know I sent a memo today.

Uh, I think the number I have in front of me.

I just want to allow you to.

Yeah.

I think the number today is 12 openings at the sworn level.

It said 13.

Okay, but you might have hired someone today.

No, no, but one starts on Monday.

Um, but the I think the the positive news is yeah, though we have uh open positions, um, our staffing level in patrol is gonna really be aided by a lot of what has kind of broken free finally for us, which is lateral experienced officer hiring.

So we have brought on a couple already just in the last month and a half, two months, and again, one on Monday, and I think three or four more in the pipeline right now.

So the the beauty of that is that the train-up time, which if we're taking somebody straight out of the academy is probably another five to six months.

The latter officer, it's usually a month, maybe six weeks.

Okay.

So it strengthens the patrol um force very quickly compared to somebody who's uh coming out of the academy.

With that said, I think on the 18th in a couple weeks, we're graduating two more from the academy, which adds to the staffing that we have that's already in training.

Um my understanding is we have somebody that's gonna be getting off-field training that was a recruit candidate in just the next month, and then one within the month after that.

So at that point, we'll be a lot stronger in patrol.

But at this point, we're still maintaining a staffing level of um at least the minimum staffing level of four when we deploy, but teams are scheduled to at least five, and most of the teams are scheduled above that.

Um thank you for that, Chief Strange.

And what I will say, and I want to make sure I commend you on is I do perceive, right?

I don't know if that's the case, but I I do feel like I am seeing more patrol officers out there, which I think is something that the community wanted.

I think we heard tonight, um, and that was I feel like one of the fears for Sycamore Trail, for instance, right?

Is that potentially that could become a place that's not safe for not only women but children to walk, and our our hope, right, for that was that we were connecting the two parts of our city and kids could walk to school.

And I too would not allow my my kiddo to walk to school and uh along something that I didn't feel safe.

And so loved the idea of um potentially having more bike police or something along those lines.

Um, but what's I I would hate to let that pass because I I do think that was a good suggestion.

But with that being said, um I appreciate your memo tonight.

What I would love to see, and I I had a uh I had an opportunity to meet with our city manager earlier today about this, is that as in the same way we've been able to staff up our fire department and get them fully staffed.

I was happy to see a hundred percent.

I really want the same for you and us for our police department and want to be able to stay on top of this, right?

As you said, you know, I'm periodically asking for these numbers.

It would be great to know um just what our benchmarks are, right?

Like by this time, I would like to have this much staff.

By this time, I would like to have this staff, with hopefully in two years being fully staffed, whatever the case may be.

Um, and so it sounds like potentially we're gonna be able to work with you and the city manager to get that.

Um because uh obviously this whole entire council is fully invested in making sure our police department and our entire community has what they need, and I think part of our responsibility is to be and transparency here, um, is to be able to understand what's happening, and if there's um something other additional resources that we need to provide to you or to our HR in order to hit those benchmarks, then I think having more check-ins and more tangible um outcomes related to our staffing would help us to be able to help you.

Yeah, I'll just chime in there.

I think uh what the conversation we had is really focused around uh data metrics regarding the status of hiring and you know, kind of looking at the whole picture.

It's really it's it's data that HR has best at its fingertips, but I think the memo that the chief provided is really giving you a good um qualitative picture of the status of things, but also the the quantitative data of where we're at.

But I think for the council um as more of a regular um report, uh we can do something that's more tabular and at some level of frequency, we can communicate it through the newsletter or other means.

Uh, but we'll work with the chief and HR to uh to format that going forward.

Yeah, I mean it would be great, Chief, to have the goal of um our police department not having the the highest percentage of unfilled, right?

Whether that's like right, I think in the report it was 17% as of December 31st.

I think as of today, it's like roughly 15%, right?

Um hopefully by you know the end of this calendar year, it's more like 10.

And so whatever our goal is right for you, based on what the cadence of hiring is, right?

It's not an easy position to hire into.

We have very high standards.

That's a good thing, right?

But could we look at previous data from the past five years and say, here's what we think might happen based on our trend of hiring, and therefore these are reasonable goals that we could set.

No, I I appreciate that, and actually from every single one of you, I think it's important your constituents know.

This is uh inquiry I get across the board here.

Um the interest is unanimous.

Um you all care about public safety.

Um, so yeah, it's not an unreasonable request at all.

And frankly, a lot of times we have our head down doing the work and we don't do a really good job of telling the story behind that and telling the story of where we're at on those things.

Uh, and especially where we we do, we have regular conversations, not just with the um the district two council person um who cares a lot about West Capitol, um, but we hear it from all of you because you represent the whole city.

So thank you.

Yes, member, go ahead.

Thank you.

And as the district two council member, I will say that I did have a conversation with the chief probably the day before yesterday regarding the same issue.

There are obviously concerns from the community regarding what's visibly um in as we heard today, even um, you know, offensive to to the safety of our our residents here.

And we as West Sacramento are growing, and we're with with the growth uh net naturally would come the necessity to grow our public safety.

We are doing everything we can as a council to ensure that we are uh securing the resources in order to get that.

Now, the other thing I know is um on a personal level, because um law enforcement is in my home and 30 years of um of policing with my partner, my husband, um, is that um it is very difficult to recruit and retain uh officers uh in this day and age and and quality officers.

We don't want just anyone representing um the West Sack Police Department and carrying that duty belt in our city.

We want people who are of high quality and and very responsible and respectful of our residents and that um that have the honor and integrity of being a part of our department.

So uh I want us to maintain those high standards.

Um, but uh in the in the same line, and I don't want to get outside the boundaries too far of of the the purpose of this presentation, but my my um colleague did mention, you know, the the presence, and I'm I'm sure uh chief, as we've talked about this and in our multiple conversations, not only from constituent complaints but also just my own, um that uh we certainly want a presence.

We brought this up in a in a another public meeting in February, the uh strategic planning retreat.

I brought that up and took an immense amount of time um really driving that issue with respect to the corridor and West Capitol Avenue.

Uh we've gotten others, you know, from from our our walkways, pathways, and whatnot um to ensure that West Sacramento is one of the safest and most desirable places to live in the region.

Um I'm very certain that we can get to that place.

I know that we have a unique infrastructure along West Capitol Avenue that has existed for multiple generations and decades, that it's very hard to just uproot and overturn.

We can't reinvent the complexion overnight.

Uh with that, I um I have confidence that the message is being um sent and received.

I think that we um we and it's interesting to see um our uh I don't know if it's detective sergeant uh but angle is here, and and when I first started on the council, we were doing the hotel uh inspection program up and down West Capitol Avenue.

We had a dedicated team.

Um, and as a wife of an officer who'd been a pop officer, police-oriented policing, uh, uh wait problem oriented.

Problem-oriented position.

Thank you so much, it was redundant.

Um, that those have been very successful models and interfacing with members of the community, becoming very present, whether that's on a bike, whether that's in a unit or a motor, uh, to ensure that there's constant presence.

That's not to say it should only be concentrated in West Capitol Avenue, but I do know that you know some of the more visible everyday activities have a tendency to be along that area.

And I I just as we consider moving forward, um continuing to have those conversations, because it you know, the problem is ongoing and the concerns certainly are all of our desires, including your own, to be addressed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council member.

Chief, I want to thank you for getting back to me so quickly.

Um I had on Saturday some people approach me, and you and I were back and forth on this because I think there's a lot of miscommunication about you know what the police force does.

Um I know the individual that I spoke with, they were a little frustrated sometimes, like with response time, and there are a lot of things out there.

He was asking me, he says, Is it true that we're the that West Sacramento has lowest paid officers?

And I said, No, it's that's uh true.

You all can check that box.

Yeah, uh yeah.

So anyway, uh, but I think it's it's important, um, and I want to thank you for this because I'll be able to um share this with some of the people that came up to me on Saturday and had a lot of these questions.

But again, thank you because this clears a lot of things up, a lot of mis um information that goes out there.

Thank you.

Yes, Mayor Partem, thank you.

Uh so Chief, uh I wanted to just compliment this memo again.

I appreciated the numbers, the specifics, um, and you mentioned like we're not great at the storytelling part about that.

Um, that's what we have to spend our time doing a lot in the community.

And I think we've got, you know, our social media team that's doing really good telling the measure o story on social media, but you know, we're having conversations with folks on panel discussions and um in grocery stores, and you know, like what's happening with measure o' and then when we get the opportunity to say, you know, we've got five new lateral officers coming from I think it's Citrus Heights because of the great pay and benefits we're offering in West Sacramento now.

Like those, those bits of information are so valuable for us as we're communicating with folks in the community about the power of Measure O and what we're doing for this destination department that we've been talking about for so long.

So I appreciate this um memo.

Um I would be fine with it someday with just a bunch of numbers and it just be more of a regular thing that we have a conversation about because like our my colleagues said, would love we're all shooting to get that number that you know the vacancy right down.

Um we want to be fully staffed.

I know you want to be fully staffed, I know all the officers want to be fully staffed, because we've got a lot of stuff happening in our community and having you know strong PD is really important.

So just thank you for taking the time to put this together.

Um, you know, I I want to see more of this.

Okay, yeah, thank you.

That and again, that's that is something I have to own about that flow of information and making sure you have you know the script, the bullet points, all the things that that give you the ability to really answer those questions when they pop up.

So I will work to improve that.

Chief, thank you for the memo.

Um, I'll go back to the Citigate report.

I think that was a very helpful report.

And um, seeing that we've um established measure O, maybe uh considering another City Gate report where we're at today.

Um, but I do want to highlight a couple of things that I don't think has uh been addressed in the City Gate report, page 10.

The span of control for the chief and deputy chief was examined by City Gate and identified to be too large to be managed effectively.

With the absence of a deputy chief now, that that responsibility now lies on your shoulders, and um, you know, I think that it um it's it's quite a workload to manage and to juggle.

I don't know if you're getting any sleep.

So, you know, the the deputy chief of police has oversight of four of the six broader work units with seven direct reports.

Um and and you know, the chief has the remaining two divisions with three direct reports.

The recommendation was to have either two captains or two deputy chiefs to break it down and to give you more space to have what it is you're you're saying you're going to be doing.

I don't want to put more of a workload, you know, and have an expectation that you're going to be providing more communication to us when you have all these reports already to perform.

It's a lot of work.

And I'd like for there to be some consideration of the city gate report to expand the operations and to have more than one deputy chief at this point.

Because I think that the workload for just one, which which, you know, I don't I don't know what happened, has proven to not work.

I don't have all the details, but uh, but it it it seems like it's quite a bit.

Now my other concern I've been hearing over the years has been the requirement of overtime and the overtime of our police officers needed to be able to provide coverage.

I don't know if we have that detailed information, but in 2003, we had 65 total sworn employees today, and that's again from the City Gate report.

I think we have covering 50 something based on your report here.

I apologize.

What was the City Gate measure and when was that?

65 total sworn employees in 2003.

And believe it's 72 today.

So while the department has 72, all not all the signed personnel are immediately available.

It seems like we're a little short.

Um that this takes the department operationally available sworn staffing to 56.

Yeah, we actually have 85 authorized uh 72 total um on staff today.

So there's 13 vacants.

I don't have the city gate report in front of me.

So I don't know if it took into account how many people in that moment of time were off due to injury or light duty or other protected leaves, or if they were in training.

So that that operational uh operationally capable number number, I think it was 5756 from the memo that I provided.

Yeah.

That's a really important number.

That's probably the most important number because that's really speaks to what we're able to staff with on a given day.

So um, but it also does reflect that we work in a police department.

There's there's things that get us injured sometimes.

And so um there's some level of normalcy to having a handful of folks injured for a period of time.

And that's where I think the the move, you know, enabled by measure o with the support of you all is really important to make sure that even recognizing when we're staffed at 85, the reality is 85 won't be the operational number.

That we're not gonna have 85 operationally capable people just because we're funded to that level.

So it is really about just understanding uh our operations and what we need to not just to get by, because that's rarely what measure 0 signified is we're not gonna just get by anymore.

We're gonna try to really honor um the standards that are that our community wants us to meet, and so yeah, I think we're moving in the right direction.

I appreciate you bringing up the City Gate report, it was very influential to how we we started shaping and illustrating some of the deficiencies that we felt we were um enduring for for quite some time, and I think it really served us well for helping inform the community and and ultimately really informing you all about some of the reasons why um measure O was so important.

Right.

I think if we are to provide some level of relief for officers who are doing the work and are working overtime, um minimize um injuries, provide coverage.

I've you know, been out there and I seen officers not, you know, if they're writing alone, they have support immediately available.

But I've been out there where if there one traffic accident and it'll take two office, two cars down, um, you know, just to maintain that that incident, and then you just have two others covering the rest of the city.

And it's um, so yeah, I I do get as we continue to grow that that we will have increased demand for coverage.

I like that we have um uh community um officers out there providing the support when we have you know the the games and um other special events happening around the city that they step up and provide that support.

That's an important um resource that you've expanded on, which I think is is helpful.

I would also take a look at what else we can do to bring in retired and nuitants to backfill any any losses as you are doing that.

Um but also taking a look at your office and what we can do to increase more coverage and reduce the workload, free you up a little more for that public relations.

And uh, you know, this is uh a challenging department.

I I retention was constantly um referenced everywhere.

My goal is to see that retention our goal through measure O and you know providing the increases and um you know um getting people promoted when from within is so that it it maintains an incentive for them to stick around a little longer rather than go to another police department that there's some future and some potential opportunity to grow.

Um so with that, I I'd like to see how if we needed another City Gate report kind of free you up to focus on other things.

Um don't expect you to continuously like stay up late, stressing up, but I know it's a stressful job already under the circumstances.

It's a lot, it's a lot of work to you know for one person to be doing.

And um, you're gonna need help.

A lot of help with this.

When I hope when I know that I have your support, that that makes that a lot easier.

Yes.

Um, so with that, I know you were thinking about a you know, um a plan for adjusting for your office.

Um we have some changes sooner rather than later would be best.

I don't want to rush it, but um hiring does take a long time once you release to um you know to get that exam out, and you know, you want to be able to get you know get that work done um carefully to be able to fill in the jobs, but also I I don't think this council is holding back any um support that you need.

I think it's I think it's really on your shoulders to reach out and ask for that support and communicate what it is you need so that um that that office is run smoothly and um efficiently um and and communication is and the collaboration is there among everyone that needs to need to serve our community.

Um, and just for your department in general, we are really grateful for your service and and uh all the first responders here, and uh we really want to preserve and protect what their their work, you know, the workforce and um taking care of making you know making sure that they're not stretched too thin.

Um so whatever we can do to fill back, you know, provide some support for capacity and you know that they have a healthy workplace psychologically, physically, you know, are two major things in my book.

Yeah, thank you.

And and we are blessed to have great people in the police department and all the public safety really citywide.

Um and I would say I know that there was mention about response time, um, and mention uh about really the concern about our employees' wellness, and I I am so so grateful to hear that.

Um the data transparency cab and now my the community advisory board that I have, they're continuing to track on our data transparency site, the commons, uh, a policy goal related to response time.

Um, and it was um second or in competition with tracking wellness vis-a-vis tracking over time.

So I think we're gonna be tracking that as a new policy goal probably soon.

I don't think I'm gonna be able to hold off the community uh advisory board and their desire to track that, but uh but we are actually tracking the other the response time right now.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Anything else among the council members?

Okay.

I may I actually have um I understand you guys have some questions that you raised related to seeing where our vacancy rate is now from POA.

So as of the December 31st date, when we were at 17.82 percent today for our POA sworn and non-swarm, we sit at 11.88%, so we have increased by six percent on our vacancy rate.

Um also within the next six weeks.

We have two CSOs, one lateral, and two to three recruits, I believe, coming on board.

So that'll be an additional five or six bodies that are starting with the police department.

Um to address your comment, Mayor, about um relief related to overtime and things like that.

This year we also made a big push to double our extra help officers and our non-sworn extra help traffic enforcement officers, which helped alleviate a lot of the overtime concerns working baseball games and to be able to staff that with non-sworn extra help positions as well.

So I believe that has also been a big addition to the department.

Thank you.

Do we need to take action on this, Mr.

City Attorney?

I think it's just receiving the report.

I believe it's just to receive the report, right?

Correct.

All right, we receive the report.

Next next item is 12 under finance.

Is the public hearing a consideration of resolution 26-42 confirming the diagram and assessment of ordering improvements and maintenance to be made for the landscaping and lighting district number one?

And we have, oops, who we have.

Becky Robertson.

Hi, Ben.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

I'm Becky Robertson, finance manager with the city.

So the first of the two public hearings I have tonight is related to the landscape and lighting district number one, which provides the street lighting and landscaping maintenance services within the boundaries of that district in the city.

Each year the city assesses levies assessments related to the maintenance of this district.

As we have in previous years, the city has not increased the rate for the for 2026 2027 property tax rule, and therefore it does not trigger voter approval under proposition 218.

However, before we can place the uh assessments on the property tax role with the county, there are a couple of actions that need to be taken.

So at the closure of this public hearing, staff respectfully um request that uh the lighting and landscape district number one annual report for 2627 uh is approved, and then uh adoption of resolution 26-42, which confirms the diagram of the district and authorizes the assessments to be placed on the property tax roll.

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

Thank you.

District number one is the one in blue.

Uh there are six benefit zones within the district.

Oh, I see.

So there's a couple of uh a few different maps showing the different uh locations throughout the city.

Maps, okay.

Any questions among the council members?

Anything from the public, madam clerk.

We have no request to speak on this item.

Okay, um, all right.

If we're all okay, I think we have to take a motion to approve this uh resolution.

Oh, so moved.

Second.

Madam Clerk, um, Mayor Pro Tempse PCOH moved, and council member called the second to please call the roll.

Whoops, council member Alcala.

Aye, council member early.

You stepped away.

Council member Roscoe.

Mayor Pro Tempsel Pesio Hall.

Hi.

Mayor Guerrero.

Aye.

Alright, this item is approved.

Thank you so much.

Next is item 13 under finance public hearing and consideration of resolution 26-43.

Confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering improvements for the storm drain maintenance district number one in Rayleigh's landing.

Becky, you're up again.

So this can feel a little bit like deja vu, very similar to the last request, except for this one is um looking at the storm drain maintenance district number one, which provides the ongoing maintenance of the facilities within the Rayleigh's landing uh sub area of the Washington neighborhood.

Um, at just as the last one, each year we levy assessments within this district boundary.

Uh, we are the city is uh not increasing the assessment rate for the uh year 26-27.

Um, so it remains at its current rate, which is 144.11 cents per acre.

Um, just as the last item in order to include these assessments on the property tax role with the county.

Uh, there are a few actions that need to be taken.

Um, so uh similar as what I just said.

Uh staff respectfully recommends um that upon closing of the public hearing that the city council approve the storm uh storm drain district number one report for 2627 and adopt resolution 26-43, which confirms the diagram and authorizes uh these assessments to be placed on the property tax roll.

Thank you, Becky.

Any questions for Becky?

Any any comment, uh Madame Clerk?

Public comment.

We have no request to speak on this item.

All right, closing public comment, bringing it back to council.

I'll accept a motion.

So move.

All right, Councilmember Cala moved.

Mayor Petemp Sopezia hold seconded.

Please call the room, Madame Clerk.

Councilmember Ocala.

Aye.

Councilmember Early.

Aye.

Councilmember Roscoe.

Mayor Pro Temsel Pizio Hull.

I Mayor Grayro.

Aye.

All right.

This item is appreciated.

Thank you so much, Becky.

Next, under general administration function part two.

Do we have any reports from council assignments?

Yes.

Yes, Councilmember Olesco.

Thank you.

The Sacramento Area Sewer District and the Northern California Sanitation Agency's financing authority met on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.

We had a very long agenda.

I'm going to only pick a couple things to remark upon that would be relevant to our community specifically.

And that included our status update for the community-wide septic to sewer program.

The reason I mention it is because there are still residents within West Sacramento that are on septic systems.

And this is a program that has been grant-funded and started years ago to connect communities from septic tanks to sewer systems.

That's not to assume that everybody wants to abandon their septic tank systems.

However, this is an opportunity for uh folks in many times rural communities to have access to a sewer system and hookup.

They did over the many years that I've been on this um this body as a director.

Uh we took on the pilots of Freeport Boulevard, Old Florentown, Linda Manor, which is in Rio Linda, as well as Hood Franklin, and there have been multiple miles of sewer uh pipeline placed in there to assess uh hundreds of property owners with the ability to now flush the toilet on a sewer line as opposed to a septic system.

Um, as I mentioned, not everybody opts into this, however, this is very important to me, and I did mention that as we expand the program, I would like to make sure that they outreach to our city and ensure that residents have access.

Um this has been awarded the Natural Environmental Achievement Award for the National Clean Water Association.

And frankly, they're they're looking to expand this program and want to continue to leverage federal funds and state grants.

Uh special thanks to our Congresswoman Doris Matsuya for $3.9 million of federal funds that she uh brought to the board in order to protect our regional waterways through this program.

Um it has been an amazing success.

Um, we also um in a variety of other things, but um, we also did receive our presentation on the local public employees' vacant positions presentation, quite like we did today.

And um the others I don't know that they're necessarily um so relevant, but just one moment, please.

Uh we just received um uh updates on our harvest water project and um the ah the increased costs that's our absolutely detrimental to the future of sex sewer uh as far as maintaining our budget reserves.

Um we have done a phenomenal job, but I will say that there has been an intensive increase in chemical costs, something that I've mentioned year after year after year.

Um, for example, uh the extreme volatility of chlorine, for example, it was sixty-two cents a gallon years past, now two dollars and forty cents a gallon, um, showing that the market is uh quadrupled for uh the cost of chlorine.

I just um wanted to express that as we expand our nest our need for chlorine in our city through to the promise of uh other projects in our city that require such in order to ensure uh the safety of our community, um, that we should be completely aware of this uh expense because we are uh a very fiscally well tend to be, and I I take much pride in that too, is uh be very fiscally conservative and ensuring that we have a reserve, but to make sure that all of our projects maintain um our within costs because as or they can't they don't have the negotiating power uh to not use choring that we have to clean our water in order to make it usable, and um, but as we navigate our in the the um services and amenities in our community uh to be knowledgeable of that.

So thank you.

Any other updates?

Oh, okay.

Council calendar.

Good evening.

We have coming up the uh your mic's not on.

I was gonna say I can hear you.

Can you hear me?

There we go.

Sorry, it's far away from me.

Um was just put on your calendar today, I believe that uh June 19th is um June 19th, June 18th.

I'm sorry, is the Washington Park ribbon cutting?

Um that's at 10 30 a.m.

Oh that's so what's and there is um a grand opening for the West Gateway Place on the 25th of June.

And that also just went out recently, so that should be we could barely hear you, Amanda.

I'm sorry.

This microphone is so far away.

You might expect normal.

Go ahead.

Or use your outside voice.

Two events coming up.

So one is um in reverse order, June 25th.

It's the uh ribbon cutting for the bridge at West Gateway, also known as West Gateway Place 2, just down the street here.

Um that's at 10 a.m.

Um at the project site, and then on June 19th, we have the grand opening of the Washington Park.

Yes.

What time?

At uh 10 30 a.m.

Washington Park, 426th Street.

18th and and you have Juneteenth, 18th.

June 18th.

And we have the youth fire academy as well on the twelfth.

Yeah, and then Juneteenth celebration at Bridgeway Lakes Park is that um at evening on uh Friday, June 12th.

Okay, thank you.

And our next council meetings June 17th.

Right.

City manager report.

I have nothing tonight, thank you.

City attorney report, nothing.

And staff direction from council members.

And um, I just want to say thank you all for your help on the major league baseball expansion.

Um announcement that happened last week.

Great job, everybody.

It was an exciting moment for our city's history.

Um, no future agenda item requests by council at this point, so we are adjourned.