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Come on. What are you Okay, we'll go ahead and start today's meeting. We are the at the regular city council meeting on Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. Thank you all for attending. Let's go ahead and start with a roll call vote or roll call.

Vice Mayor Reid here. Council member Prattton here. Council member Sandeu here. Council member Farmer here. Mayor Rodriguez here. If you would please join me in a silent prayer and then the flag salute. Salute pledge.

I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you, Mr. City Manager. I see a new face in the crowd.

Uh, good evening, Mayor and Council. Uh, yes, you do. We do have a new member at the table. I would like to introduce our new interim director, Fritz Buckman. He's replacing Chung. Uh before introducing Fritz Moore, I would really like to thank Chung Trin for his time that he spent in the chair, did an absolute fabulous job, stepped up on a number of uh high-profile and somewhat difficult issues. So, I really appreciate the effort that he gave. So, Fritz uh comes with a lot of experience. Uh he's been a director most recently in Sanwaqen County, but he's had uh a number of stops at different cities. I'm probably not going to get them all, but I'll just say Sacramento, Elkrove, and then Sanwaqin County. So, it brings a ton of experience. We're very excited to have them on board. The last name may sound familiar to you. Uh we had a finance director uh briefly with the same last name, and they are related.

Well, welcome, Mr. Buckman. Thank you. No, there we go. Thank you, Mayor Rad Brigus and council members. I'm happy to be here and look forward to working with you. Great. Thank you. Welcome again. Um you didn't say Mantika though. It was close though. Okay. Uh okay. Any uh additions and or deletions for the agenda? Okay. Seeing none presentations. California Department of Water Resources.

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Okay. Well, thank you for having me. Uh, my name is Chelsea Spear and I am with the California Department of Water Resources. We have four region offices and I'm out of our North Central region office based in West Sacramento. And we have um within our office, we have points of contact assigned to every single groundwater basin within our region which goes from Ukaya to Stockton on the south end. Um, and I'm the point of contact for the Cassumnus basin. I also coordinate for with all of the points of contact in our office and um, convey what's going on with our headquarters and other groups within DWR. Um, and so for today's presentation, I'm going to go over just briefly uh, what the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is. U, the roles and responsibilities. There's a little bit of a complicated governance system there. Um how success is measured under Sigma. Um a a really brief timeline and then a little bit about the assistance role of uh my department and and there'll be time for questions at the end too. So um the sustainable groundwater management act uh involves uh local government and two state agencies. So it's kind of unique in that respect. Um from the very beginning when it was enacted the heart of Sigma is really supposed to be local control unless something goes wrong. Um so the two state agencies involved my agency department of water resources has uh a dual role. We review the plans that local agencies put together and evaluate their progress towards uh implementation of that sustainability at regular

intervals. Um, and then the state water resource control board, which is our sister agency, if uh we determine that plans are not going as they should and um not in a place where they look like they're going to be able to reach sustainability, then the state water resource control board would step in as um they're considered the backs stop, but they could implement measures such as um demand reduction, uh restricting pumping, mandatory uh reporting of pumping with uh a lot lots of fees. So um even in the worst case scenario where a subbasin is determined ineligible and they go um under state water resource control board uh control. The goal is always to get that basin back to local control as soon as possible once their plans have been updated and they can show that they're ready to uh manage. So the the the local role is really um to develop plans and then to implement them. And the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is um set up over a 20-year time frame. So that clock starts um well I I have another slide with timelines, but it it started in 2022 for most basins. So we have until 2042 to fully reach that those sustainability goals. Um and then um sigma is really uh measured the success of local agencies and the groundwater basins is uh measured based on real time results and measurements. It's not just based on model predictions. So monitoring is really important to the uh evaluation of whether or not uh basins are meeting their metrics. So it's really um the law centers around six undesirable results

and avoiding those undesirable results. So the basins need to uh avoid lowering of groundwater levels uh reduction of groundwater storage. They need to avoid seawater intrusion which doesn't apply in this part of the state since it's not right on the coast. Um they need to avoid degraded water quality specifically due to overping. Um land subsidance is a huge one. Uh luckily in this area there's not too much issue with land subsidance but in the central valley there's billions of dollars of infrastructure that's uh damage that has occurred from land subsidance. So that's a really big one. And then um they want to avoid depletion of interconnected surface water because when you're pumping water out of the ground um within any proximity of a river or a stream, it's going to pull some of that water out of the river and stream and there's ecosystems and uh lots of things that depend on that surface water as well. Um so a quick timeline. Um, Sigma was enacted in 2014 under Governor Jerry Brown. Um, following that, local agencies had until June 30th of 2017 to form brand new agencies called groundwater sustainability agencies. And these um there can be several groundwater sustainability agencies per basin uh which need to come together and create uh either a single plan for the basin or multiple plans with a coordination agreement on how they're going to reach sustainability of their groundwater within that 20-year time frame. Um so those initial plans for the basins that were in the critical condition and already had signs of

overdraft um were due in 2020. For all other basins they were due in 2022. And following that initial plan submission, basins are required to submit um plan evaluations and if they want they can amend their plans at the same time every five years. So my department reviews those plans, the initial plans and they either are approved or if they're found inadequate, the basins have uh six months to uh revise those and if they're still inadequate, they go to the state board process. Um and that same evaluation happens every five years with those updates. Um and then um in addition to that there is data reporting required every year which is due um April 1st of every year and the department looks at that um and then this continues for that 20-year time frame and hopefully that the end goal is within that at that 20-year time frame that basins will have met their sustainability goals that they outlined. Um and then my last slide u I wanted to highlight some uh assistance programs that my department has because we have the dual role of um we do have that regulatory role of reviewing the plans but we also are uh have a lot of assistance out there. Um we have a lot of grant programs. I I would say in the last five years we've administered over a half a billion dollars in um planning and implementation grants for Sigma. Proposition 4 was passed in 2024 uh which is a bond that has $10 billion statewide for climate resilience. Um,

and there's uh I want to say 280 million, maybe it might have been 380 million for Sigma specific projects. Um, so those uh those grants will be coming out in 2027, but if you're interested in that, um, they're starting scoping meetings. There's the first of those will be April 30th. Um, we also have uh technical assistance. We do a lot of data collection in the department. Groundwater level monitoring, water quality, surface water. Um, a really good website, uh, if you're not like super technical person, it's designed to be easy for the lay person is Cal Groundwater Live. And I put some, uh, flyers on that back shelf there. And on the back of the brochure here, there's a link to it if you guys are interested. But that one's really fun to just look at your local conditions. You can see what the groundwater levels are, what the subsidance has has been, where how many wells are going in, and how many dry wells there have been. Um, and it's easy to select um like by county or whatever time frame you're interested in. So, um, I'd recommend checking that out. We also have technical support services that has drilled uh several hundred wells, monitoring wells throughout the state over the last 10 years um to help with this uh the monitoring required under Sigma. Um we have facilitation support services and we have a whole lot of guidance documents and educational resources. Um, most recently we just put out a best management practice on managing subsidance and we should be having a interconnected surface water guidance document being finalized in the next few months. Um, so that's all I had, but if

there's any questions, um, I'm happy to answer that. And I also left some of my cards back here if you guys think of questions later. All right, council. Any questions? I do first if you do. Oh, I don't Well, I do, but not a comment for public. I just want to thank Chelsea for coming out. Well, thanks for having me. Yeah. No, it's good information. Uh, the groundwater thing is something I think we're kind of getting more and more into. So, uh, I'll be reporting out on it more as I learn more. So, thank you.

My question is just for to kind of better understand. So Matt's our designated representative. Um is so for our basin, how many you said that some basins have more than one uh board that's formed.

Um it's really variable whatever local agencies were interested in it at 2017 when they were first formed. Um so in in the Cassumna subbasin there's seven GSAs. Um, in some subbasins there's one G GSA where they have multiple agencies that are part of a JPA, but there's a lot of different structures. Um, Eastern Sanwaqin, who's 16, um, luckily all of the basins in our area decided to come together and do a single plan for the basin, which makes it a lot simpler. Some of the areas like in Sanwalk King County where it's a lot more complicated, they actually have like five or six different plans and then they have to coordinate everything. Makes it quite a bit.

So our board for our basin, but you guys have seven. Yeah. Okay. So we come up with a plan and then you guys just oversee to make sure that plan is um doable or just trying to think of So you guys submitted your initial um plan in 2022 and then with each of those submissions the department has up to two years to review it. So we approved it um and said it looks adequate. Um all of the approved plans come with um recommended corrected corrective actions that um there's expected to be progress on by that next 5-year update.

Just just for so just for the audience or somebody watching this back, what what would be an example of some of the things in our plan for our basin? Is it what were some of the things or maybe you don't know or maybe Matt could comment? are those things like we're saying what we're going to do to um you know control the use of I mean what what are some of the what give me an idea of some of the things that are in that plan that we submit to you guys that you guys then approve like like give me an example for ours would be some of those things like that we're going to okay first you got to remember we only been to one meeting okay sorry

yes no there is a new plan and it's being submitted I have gone through But um I think the big my biggest takeaway from from what I've seen so far is just it didn't feel to me like they really had a great plan before. It looks like they're actually gathering more information now. They're you know I think they were afraid to go out and you know oversee a lot of the farmers and stuff in the area. Some of them get a little grumpy when you know when the government's overlooking their shoulders. But it's but it's for them, right? What we do here is not is the intent is not to uh control them. It is more of to find out what's going on in the basin. And you can't do that without good data. And I think so we assess

that's the biggest piece of what I see in the in the so we assess the data then determine based on that data what what possible problems could arise in the future let's say that uh you know uh there's massive development new housing development in a certain part of the basin and then based on the data that we might be at a critical level that would be of a concern then they have to come up then we have to come up with a plan of how we're going to mitigate that impact something like that would that be yeah sure okay

I mean that makes sense but also So there's there's just you know where is again some of the stuff I was learning was you know where is the water how is it actually flowing under the ground so they're getting a better and better picture of that you know aquifers and stuff like that I think are in the future I don't you know I don't know where that comes from but but the grant piece and stuff that she was talking about helps the farmers out you know they uh um I was going to report out later today they had a a barbecue recently that was open to anybody interested in coming and uh was surprised. There was quite a few farmers there that um that took an interest and uh were the ones that I talked to, the ones that I knew um they were excited to be able to get the information and the help from from our uh CGA.

So Chelsea, two more questions for you. is one of your roles as a department to oversee uh for example disputes. I don't know if this I'm trying to figure out how to phrase this. So a while back we had I think another city or not another city but I forget. Sm we were redoing one of our wells and there was some people upset that came and said we weren't you know we weren't giving everybody the heads up that we were dig redigging one of our wells because it became not sufficient. So we're redoing an existing well. they came before us and kind of put us on the spot about that. Is that something that if there was disputes within that that you guys are the mediate over that or No,

no, that's that doesn't fall within Sigma. That's that would just be like local. So Sigma is really like broader basin scale. So we wouldn't be looking at like one well going in here or there unless it was like say just like a massive one where it's dewatering like all the domestic wells nearby. But just maybe to add just a little bit more to your last question, I I've been with this basin since 2019. Okay.

Um but the the original plan is like very structured. What sections need to be included? Um but the like the monitoring data like you mentioned is a a big one that is a corrective action for almost all basins to kind of fill in data gaps. um nobody's going to have like there's like the six different things that you're monitoring for. It's a lot of like measurements that we're looking for. Another uh big corrective action is making sure that all of the thresholds that are set um are tied to the beneficial uses and users and showing the linkage of how those thresholds are protective of say domestic wells or how are they going to be protective of um say wetlands that rely on interconnected system. So does your department report to a higher do who do you guys report to?

We're under the uh natural resource agency. Okay. Whereas and then state water board who is like the back stop they're under Cal EPA. So we have different So is your department is your department involved in policy at all? Like do you guys have input in policy at the state level? Do you do they do legislators look to you guys to get information before they set policy or do you guys is there a chance in the process of something like so there's some new piece of legislation that's coming out regarding water. Do they look to you guys to kind of consult give give input or do you guys actually go and and you know put your hand up and say hey this is concerning because of XYZ. Does that stuff happen or no?

That's a little beyond me. I think there's like certain situations where they do ask for our advice. Um, and then there's a lot of other situations where we're like strictly prohibited on taking a side one way or the other. And I'm not sure exactly where that line is.

Well, this leads me to my last question. And this just this I'm just very curious about this subject because there's a question I get a lot in the last seven years I've been in office and I this is me just thinking if I was someone in the audience or someone watching this meeting back what would be something that someone general citizen or farmer or something would ask from the audience and this is the one that I that I come up with. People always ask me why is it that we have these guidelines and plans per se and so on and so forth to make sure we control how much water we use in G. We have metered water. We're told, you know, we can only water your wansa certain days of the year, etc., etc., and all that, which makes sense because we're always concerned about our lakes and our water um supply, right? But at the same time, you have a state that's probably the most aggressive and pushing new develop housing development, which in turn is putting a more burden on the water supply. So, explain that one to me. If I was just somebody on the street, what would you say to that? Um there is like a lot of conflicting stuff and I have heard that one a lot. I personally I won't speak for the department that does feel like a gap in Sigma where they didn't tie in land use to it because

that that's like a big I think um there was like a lot of negotiation when they created it. So that was just like one piece they didn't come in. But I have seen that come up in lots of basins where like what do you do if there's like another huge housing development and you're required to try to expand your housing right under and I'm sorry I'm not putting you on the spot for the question. I just you know I just curious I'm just curious if you heard that before and but I definitely have heard it and I think it is kind of a gap.

It's just something I never have an answer for. I honestly don't I look people and I go you know I wish I could give you a good answer and it's just frustrating as an elected official the people of G when they're told don't water your lawn on this day and then they see houses being built across the street from them they're like really so yeah and there is no tiein like Sigma groundwater sustainability agencies can go to the point where they require pumping or restrict pumping but there is no like nexus for like restricting land use with that. All right. Well, thank you for answering my questions. Oh, yeah. Thanks.

I just that actually triggered a question and now it just left my mind. Um, land use. I can see why the legislators wouldn't want that part of it because uh not just residential but all industrial all which probably are the heaviest water users than anyone. But um shoot it. You want me to go and you can go ahead. All right.

So, I I kind of piggyback off of what uh Mr. Farmer said was that's one of the biggest complaints that we get in the other GSAs that are in our group is that we just keep building housing, right? And they're told by the state that they need to restrict water and the city of Gaul just keeps building houses. On the flip side of that, I really want to give uh kudos to our public works department because we're the also the only group or the only uh water entity in that group that can tell you exactly how much water it's pumping out of the ground, exactly where it's going and how much water we're putting back into the stream. And when it comes out there, it's a very little water use compared to most other people. And that's because of the great job that our public works people have done. That's all

Mr. Sandu. No, I don't have question but thank you for your presentation. And it's still gone so must not have been important but thank you very much for your presentation. We do have public comment. Oh, we'll take public comment. Bob Wilson. Miss Spear, you can step aside and let them. Thank you.

Hello everyone. My name's Bob Wilson and I live in G. And what she's saying is really critical um for us in the upcoming generations. Um we don't want to get to the point where um we have to um you know have water come in like in a truck like some countries do and the situation there is is not good because not only is it costly but it might be contaminated water and you can imagine if your family are waiting for your delivery water when it's going to come. Um, also we don't want to get to the point where we have to um be tied into a desalidization plant on the coast and the water would be pumped here because as you know those are very expensive. There is a lot of new good technology but the filtration process takes a lot of energy and then there's a contaminants that return back to the ocean and as you that's happening in Southern California and another thing is we don't want to have to pump in water from another state. So by doing these measures as she was talking and other things um we will hopefully get to a better level of control. Also you're aware in other states um um the farmland has been like shut down in cases and they buy the water rights and when this occurs there's a lot of um legal activity that can go on for years. So um as you all know the Colorado River Basin has experienced this. Um, so, so anyway, um, in order to set a good example to talk about this, my my wife and I, um, what we did is we took out all our lawns, front and back, and a lot of neighbors said, "We're crazy. You guys shouldn't be what are you doing this going to look bad?" And so, we said, "Well, let's just give it a try." So, what happened is we replaced um, the lawn in front um, and we put in all rock except the shore up by the porch. And um, it took a while for the plants to grow. you got like native plants that take less water, uh, drought resistance. So, at first, everybody goes, "H, this

looks like rock." But guess what? Now, several years later, people are coming by our house all the time, um, walking their dogs and everything. They're saying, "Oh, how nice it looks. It's not boring like, you know, green grass. Oh, look at those nice flowers." Um, another thing that um, doing reading um, for let's say like a new development, let's say like the addition to industrial park, um, I read that um, you may have if you want to go more advanced in all this, you may have to have like two pipelines to the water treatment plant. You have like a brownwater plant, groundwater like pipeline and then you have um, other water pipeline. And I thought, well, why couldn't you just like have the the other water pipeline, you know, go go go from your house into the garden? But that is not recommended because the water should be treated more extensively. So for the future, especially for like a dumpster park or some maybe and that would be closer to the sewer water treatment plant. That's another, you know, consideration um to consider as time moves on. Um another big thing about we talked she talked about the wells. Um as you know if the well goes deeper and deeper it gets more and more expensive and the maintenance is all also um increased and that that of course can cause you know more more issues and things like that but now in um there's a lot more technology now for drip systems is better in sensors over the years and u so so big thing too is water quality and Jeep um mentioned that and listing on the acryer And also um as you know some cities have programs where they pay money for people to take out lawns like so much per square foot and to do other things like you know um inside the house appliances and reducing the toilet flow and things like that. And there should be a program because we kind of have our own water district where we you know look in look

into that in in in the future. And any way we look at it it's unfortunate the bills are going to go up. So regardless of what we do. So anyway, just kind of like um food for thought and this is like a huge topic. So thanks very much for listening today. Appreciate all your time and attention. Thank you Mr. Wilson. Gavin Voin.

Mine will be a little shorter. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, I mainly just have some questions about the monitoring or metering of our wells and if fees are going to be attached to properties that have existing wells. I would like explanation of that fee structure, if it's going to be per acre and how often we're the fees are to be paid and who sets that fee amount. So, if that's something the city of G is determining, uh, I would like that they keep in mind that we have citizens that have wells that are on fixed incomes. Um we also have small farms that are already working within tight marginal you know limits and this would directly impact their their profits of um that whole production. So that's my main question and if we're going to start implementing uh landscaping that calls for less water I think that should start with these new developments before they get imposed on the existing residents. Um, and that's really all I had, but if I could have a little more information on whatever fee structures are coming and if it's uh something we're voting on or if it's if it's just a fee that we're going to have to be assigned to and when that's proposed to start. Thank you.

Thank you. I I believe just really quick to answer that question is not the city of G. It is the GS the GSA GSA GSA. Yeah. So I think attend one of their board meetings. Yeah. Mr. Prattton will, you know, probably help in that. Yeah, I brought it up at the last meeting just to make people aware that it's coming. Um, but not right away. So, we're in we're in talks with them right now. We'll try to get that information out to the public. I mean, you could attend a meeting at that's what I would recommend. I would recommend bringing that issue up to the CGA itself, attend the board meeting and ask those same questions. They have control of it. The city does not.

Okay. And if there is some I I reached out to other people that I've heard were already paying these fees. They told me they were not, but they were provided with exemption forms. So if your well is dry or not in use or if you don't irrigate certain portions of your land, you're able to exempt that from those fees. So if we could just as residents get some help with any of that information that you guys are aware of if it's passed on to us, I will make my best effort to attend that meeting. Thank you. But uh just it would be great if we had some insider, you know, information on any of those types of programs. Thank you. Thank you.

I'll just add that the fees have to be implemented um per Prop 218. So there would be a notice period just like we do for regular uh residential water users. They get their fees and rates. So all of the affected property owners will receive that notice and there is a majority protest proceeding under that that allows you to vote no for those. And so that obviously that's all going to be public notice. There's going to be public hearing on that. Um so you will the public will definitely have outreach and notice and opportunity to respond. This I don't know if Matt knows the question or answer but maybe you do. Mr. to read. Are the other members inside the G I already forgot what it is. GSA

GSA. Are they paying well fees? And it's just the G inside G residents that are not. Amodore County does and they're in our GSA. Yes.

So, I should probably clarify the structure because I just learned this myself. the CGA, which is the Consumerous Groundwater Authority, is a JPA, but the actual J and and uh the state water resource control representative Chelsea can rec correct me if I'm wrong, but all of the seven members of that JPA are each in their own GSA. And she's not in her hand. Yes. So, we are a GSA under the Sigma that she just outlined. So those so each of those members will pass on those fees and charges to their respective property owners within their jurisdictions.

So in our GSA are specific what Amador is not in ours are they? No no we the city of G is a GSA just like there is the um Amodore is a GSA and then Slooh House is a GSA. Gotcha. And then and then the board that we go to is a joint a GPA a GPA basically of all those. So the others in the GPA because some of those people that came that you were referring to were people just outside of the city limits who had wells who were already being charged. So or at least that was No, this was another entity. I believe it was somebody else on the board that we sit with came and

Right. But I think that they were rep Yeah. wanting to know why those within the city of G were not being charged for their well. So something like that. Anyway, so my so my question now I guess back to Frank would be if the others in our GSA are already paying a fee, would this prop 218 only apply to how many do we have? 20 in in the city of G. Uh there's there's probably more. I mean, but I I we do have a survey that identified all the wells, uh, whether it be residential or commercial. Uh, I just don't have that number with me. Okay.

And that was actually one of the findings that came out from them to the the Consumerous Groundwater Authority was they wanted every single GSA within that JPA to identify their wells. and the city obviously identified their wells, but there were several private wells that were inside of RGSA that had not have been identified and so they worked through it was John at the time.

So that's that's ultimately the disconnect. The disconnect is the city pays a fee to the GSA for the water we use much like you know the G Irrigation District and the others that are part of the regional GSA. there wasn't a mechanism for the city or for the greater GSA to then provide that fee to that individual private wells. They kind of fell through the cracks so to speak. So there's an effort now to figure out how to fix that but we don't have the answer to that at this time.

Madam Madame Mayor one comment just to answer Mr. Um Gavin's question, the new development there is right there is a certain percentage. The developers are not allowed to put in over a certain amount of of landscaping on the new developments that require water. There certain amount of it has to be drought tolerant type thing. But not to make you feel better, if a homeowner was to move in, they could just rip all that out and put all grass in and they can do whatever they want. So, but at least the developer is not allowed to. So, just to answer that.

All right. Any anything else? Well, thank you, Mrs. Spear. That's probably went much further than what you had intended for. It's obviously a hot topic. All right. Uh, presentation number two, Measure R. Citizens Oversight Committee fiscal year 202425 annual report. Chief. Oh, yes. Uh, Madame Mayor, members of council, the um our chair, Chair Harvey, will give this year's um annual report for the measure our activities on behalf of the police department and finance. Mr. Harvey,

thank you council members and others here tonight. I am Paul Harvey, a member of the Measure R Independent Citizens Oversight Committee. On behalf of the committee, I'm I am privileged to present the fisc year 2024 25 annual report. The committee's role is to review the spending of major R's revenues to ensure that the use of these funds complies with the voters's intentions and the council members have received the audited financial statements. Major R is a November 2008 voter approved half cent sales tax rate increase to fund public safety services within the city. As our police chief presented during a previous council meeting, the 2025 reported crime data show this funding is beneficial in helping the police department provide their public safety services. The major R revenue supplements close to 20% of the department's annual budget and helps fund program cost including equipment and personnel for patrol officers, gang detectives, school resource officers, professional standards officers, dispatching and administration, and recordkeeping. Our committee is comprised of five Gulf citizens that meet quarterly to review the financial reports provided by the Gulf Finance Department. The fiscal year ending in 2024 2025 measure our R accountability report was reviewed and approved by the committee on February 25th 2026 during our quarterly meeting for this past year. The starting unspent carryover balance was 1,714,843. The reported revenue from the major tax was2,491,433 and expenditures were $2,945,190.

And then the fund balance decreased during the year by $453,56 resulting in an ending balance of 1,261,787. and capital outlays and increasing cost for supplies and materials were some reasons for expenditures exceeding revenues. Committee members confirmed that proper stewardship was maintained over these funds in accordance with the major r sales tax ordinance. On behalf of the major committee, I thank you for the opportunity to present this information. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Harvey. Does anyone have any questions, comments? I just would like to say that um thank you for serving on that committee. I mean obviously it's an important uh measure R is very important to the community and uh sometime to time you know I'll hear people you know they like to complain about cult sales tax and stuff but things like measure R measure Q you know serve a important purpose but measure R you know there's a lot of public safety things that the police department has and that we're able to do that just simply wouldn't exist without that half cent and a half cent is such a small price to pay honestly for for some of those things. So, I just want to say thank you for that. Um, thank you to our predecessors for, you know, for Measure R, people that came before us

and the voters. I agree. I No taxes hardly ever go away when they're implemented, but this is one that I I really think is very important for the city. So, but thank you. Right. Thank you, Mr. Harvey. All right, madame clerk, you want to read the public comment statement?

Under government code section 54954.3, members of the public may address the city council on non-aggenda items. The public comment section is for the city council to receive comments except for brief responses to questions. No discussion or action may be taken on any item that is not listed on the agenda. Please limit comments to a maximum of five minutes. Consistent with the city council procedural guidelines, the mayor reserves the right to shorten the time limit for speakers to ensure the efficient and timely completion of all city business on the agenda. Kenley.

Good evening, council members. I'm Ken Lee. I live at G place where I almost got hit by a bicycle. It was going 10 miles per hour and that was in the hallway of the apartment, not even on the street. So, I want to bring up all my research that I've done in the past 20 years now has been lectured by historians and historical society. Upcoming May is Chinese Historical Month. And due to all the new milestones, I want to bring up uh because we're going to be doing our three book tour. April 18th is the 128th great 128th year great quake 1906 anniversary and the uh Wall Street Journal reported the Chinese survivors were left to defend for themselves. uh relief and housing for the thousands of Chinese, Portuguese, and Italians were offered up at our Oakland Canary because food still had to be canned during that earthquake and the refugees had to live someplace. And our family has some influence in G over 100 years ago, being that my great-grandfather was the CEO of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1922, he he could have had a little bit of say. And it's the 150th anniversary of the Chinese attack on Monteray in 1875 where they use seven warships from China to demand that they leave the Chinese alone or more ships would be sent. It's documented in the army's book uh strategy and as well as the college thesises being used in San Bruno. Our ethnic studies book on Chinese immigration laws using the UC college system in China and New Zealand has reached the 25 year mark and basically we were the first family to use I want a lawyer for immigration and they're using that same slogan now and the reason why it worked for us is because we were the

flying tigers and basically they had to uh keep us in America and so they made these laws to change for immigration. Buckskin foods that were that used Buffalo Bill Cody on the label was the secret canning process of the Chinese caneries. They were kept out of the public knowledge because our secret process of sterilization and soldering was a national defense because food had to be shipped for the war effort. And Chinese workers couldn't tell anybody because they couldn't speak English. And these men were also used by the CIA to overthrow China in 1910 and then fight against Ponttovia in Mexico as general person's mercenary soldiers. These men ended up in the can four canries in the delta uh Antioch Monteray and Oakland because we had to put them somewhere. And we also christened the Liberty ship for John Wilkey. He was the OSS founder which became the CIA and that shows you how deep our family was involved. So our books are the textbook called Remaking Chinese America. It's all about our family's immigration. Bitter roots is focuses on Chinese racism that we encountered for the last 125 years. China Men Tycoon is the accounting of the richest China men in the world in the early 1900s. And basically we had uh General Bidro's ranch in Chico. And he's also known as the father of assimilation because he told all the Chinese people after the 1906 earthquake, if you're going to remain in America, you learn to speak English, you dress like an American and you cut the ponytail. He wanted to uh basically assimilate. And so basically he learned English and he made friends with the big four railroad men. And that's what how

he got his ocean liners and that's how he got uh specials to to ship his uh foods and also he had the biggest silver mine in Virginia City. So he cut his cost shipping it by train and he also shipped immigrants from Mexico. That's why we were in Mexalei. We were bringing food to General Persing and putting on the immigrants back up here to America. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Amy Amy Fesnock. Hi, I'm Amy. I'm the preserve manager of Cassumnus River Preserve. And while I understand the importance of a cohesive logo and brand for GT, I appreciate the need to differentiate G from the sprawl of Elkrove. And I appreciate the desire to not just be a bedroom community of the greater Sacramento area. I don't really know or understand how you can identify the uniqueness of G without talking about the Casabnus River Preserve, the Cassumnus River, and the wildlife and plants that call us home. The Cassumnus is the only unregulated river coming out of the Sierra Nevada. And while that creates challenges for all of us during times of floods, it's what brings the bountiful life to this area. I don't know if you're aware or not, but the Cassumnus Forest was designated a national natural landmark in 1976 specifically because of the outstanding biology and bird life. We are identified as an Ottabon important bird area and while there are many of those across the state of California, Cassumnus is one of the few that are identified as a globally important bird area, not just a regionally important bird area. We host more than 250 species of bird, the sand

hill crane being one of those. In 2003, the California Fish and Game Commission designated the preserve as one of its ecological reserves. It's the only ecological reserve to my understanding, that is four different land owners. Normally, the Game Commission only um identifies lands that are owned or managed by CDFW. And we are unique in that that reserve designation incorporated other lands outside of CDFW holdings. I am unsure if you're aware that we host more uh 8 to 10,000 students from the Gold School District every year. Second and third graders come and collect acorns and plant trees. Third graders and fourth graders look at coo salmon eggs in their classroom and set them free in the Cassundus River. Sixth graders are joining us this week and next week in our canoe mobile started today. We have a Sunday uh community paddle from 9 to 12 and I invite you to come join us and experience the river. I am not sure if you know that we conducted a visitor use survey in the year 2024 and our data documented that more than 130,000 people used our core trail system in that year. We have and bring a lot of people to the area. And while I understand Oops. While I agree and understand that the city is more than just cranes, I challenge you to really think of G

without the preserve, without the Cassumnus River, without the wildlife and the plants that call us home. We bring vitaleness to the gold community as much as the gold community provides to us and we bring in the economics of ecoourism that gold benefits from. I invite all of you to either um come for a special tour or perhaps I could come and give a presentation more in depth of what the preserve does and what we bring to the city of G so you may not be so quick as to throw the crane off your logo and perhaps just make it a smaller part of the greater hole.

Thank you. Thank you for your passion as well, Carol Smith. Good evening, madame um mayor, all city council members, everyone here. My name is Carol Smith and I reside on Cornell Road. So my comment is just brief tonight and it's just one of respect. So, everyone knows about the Fairway Oaks or the Fairways development and we've dealt with a lot of issues tonight. Mine is one of, like I said, respect the trash that the people come out on the site and they leave their trash. They were there today um paving Bernal Road. The tarp that they used is still at the corner of my property. when I left here this evening, left there this evening is still sitting there. And I'd like them to to respect us. You know, their development over there is beautiful. It's very nice and clean, and I would hate to see anyone go over there and trash it. Also, the weeds that are up against the walls, I've asked this for months, to please have them removed. Do weed abatement?

Residents are supposed to abate their weeds. The city of G says so, but it hasn't happened and it's not happening in my neighborhood. Now, there's a couple of challenges on Cornell Road. Most of the neighbors there, most of my neighbors, we try to keep our areas neat and clean. And some of us pay to keep them neat and clean. I have a neighbor, Mr. Frank. He goes through with his own equipment and he uh ms down Cornell Road on the north side of the road these days, but he does do it. So, I'm just asking for consideration. I've spoken to several individuals regarding this like I said for months since really not too far after the inception of the uh development being started. But uh I would ask you all members please to uh have the developers to respect us just as they want it done would want it done in their own neighborhoods. Thank you.

Thank you Mrs. Smith. No more public. All right, we'll move on to item E. Reports by city council members on regional boards, commissions, and committees. Vice Mayor Reid, I don't have any. Council member Prattton.

I have a few. All right. Uh, Thursday, March 26th, Air Quality Management District. I attended uh Sacramento at the board of supervisors chambers. Um it was a fairly long meeting. Um but nothing really to report out on. It was just uh just a lot of updates and and uh some presentations. I don't think we even voted on anything. So that was that one. Uh, of course I attended the special city council planning commission joint meeting. Um, that was excellent. That was on Monday, March 30th, right in right in these chambers. Uh so the first Wednesday of the month I have both the the CGA consuming groundwater authority and the uh Sacramento local agency formation commission the LAFCO meetings. Uh there was no CGA this month. Um but for those who want to go to that CGA meeting, it is the first Wednesday of the month. Um and they do post and all that. So but anybody can get a hold of me if you're interested in going to one of those meetings. um be welcome to meet you there. Uh now as for the LAFCO, LAFCO was fairly quiet also. Um I think the meeting was about an hour and a half. Uh it also is at the uh at the chambers the board uh county board chambers in Sacramento. Um consent calendar. Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of notes on this one. some public hearing items. Um, nothing really to report out that um,

uh, South Sacramento reported. So, South Sacramento has a a water district that's that's had a lot of problems. So, they're uh, the interesting part with there was they tried to raise their rates years ago and they were denied. So now they're in a situation where their water rates are going from $40 to $90 all all at one time. I just thought that was interesting and uh they're hoping that'll get them operating decently again. But um but they claim they're doing all right, but uh but they're way behind in dollars. And that's all I have. Thank you, Council Member Sandu.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. I have a couple things to report now. One thing same thing Matt said uh I also joined that city council and planning commission meeting and we tried some discuss some new uh code development for the new development for the new development. Uh the other thing on March 23rd I did join the safety committee uh meeting uh in in the G and on this uh one thing they appointed uh the new chair uh Mr. Chamber and the new vice uh chair Miss Shelby and we also discuss uh on that four-way stop on Krillian and Boso and Mr. Trunk was there. He very much explained to that that four-way stop is already there. So that's uh done. And the other thing uh we did discuss with the Lincoln Bay and 8 Street that's the student safety and traffic concern and chief uh did hear that and uh he know that uh what kind of action overwatch we going to look that and the last thing was not an agenda item and that's just a public comment uh because late and uh that on a public comment same thing we discussed the same thing last council meeting uh illegal food benders uh there on 99 and twin city road the reason we discuss as a vendor because one thing

they don't have license but is not that much safety committees is concerned but I feel myself and there is a little bit safety concern and because when I watch myself I have some picture I can put them on but when the customer park there is no parking they park almost in the street and then I talk to chief he going to talk to the city manager and I believe all council last time was agree if we can do I know this is outside of the city restriction because this is in a Sacramento County. But I will just ask the staff if anything we can do to do that and that's all. Thank you.

Council member Farmer.

Thank you. Um yeah, I too was obviously at the uh joint meeting plan commission. I want to thank Jenny and other staff that brought stuff. I think it was very productive. I think it was um good. And for those of you in the audience who may have not known that happened, uh I feel like part of that was answering, you know, some of the deal things we've had to deal with, you know, on the back end, such as the fairways, for example, things with that project that the planning commission had to try to do a little damage control on because we don't have, you know, better objective design standards. So I I feel like sometimes you can't fix things. Um but what you can do is you can take the adequate measures to try to do what you can to prevent things not happening again in the future. So I think that meeting was a step in that uh direction. I look forward to seeing the final stuff that comes back from staff and I think it's going to really be uh important. I think that what we're going to where we're going to end up with is going to be very helpful. I think. Um then I had my uh youth commission meeting last night with the G Youth Commission and uh we um just went over our normal business, but I but I did use that opportunity and I think Amy Mendes might find this fascinating is I did use that opportunity uh to ask 12 high schoolers uh that serve on the G youth commission. Um, we briefly talked about the branding campaign and I asked them uh, you know, one of the questions that was asked to us in our kickoff meeting. It was very funny. One of the questions was if G was a person, what would that person be? Would that person be a female or a male? How would they dress? What would they be into? What would their hobbies be? And the kids were very fascinated by that question. I'll preface their answer with in our kickoff

meeting, which was maybe 10 or 12 of us in that meeting, was all middle-aged people, more or less, right? Um, almost everybody in that room said G was a female that was of a certain age, such and such. I was the only person that said, "I think it's a male." Every one of everyone except one of the youth commissioners said it was a middle-aged 50-year-old male. 11 of the kids said it's a 50-year-old male who is hardworking, probably is an a in the a business or a somehow or another. Um, and then there was a couple other nuances, but Bailey, I thought it was very interesting that they all felt that it was someone of middle-aged male. The one person who said something different said it was a it was a teen female, but she was shy and she grew up on a dairy.

So, it's very interesting. Uh, and then I followed up that with asking each of them to give me one word that described Galt. And the words that they gave me were humble, homey, dairy, old-fashioned, small, traditional, quaint, little, hospitable, farm, and little. Those were all the words that I got from the 12 commissioners. So, I'll leave you guys to think about that for a moment. That's all I have. to ruminate like a dairy cow. Interesting. Um I I like all five of us, Mr. Reid was there as well, um attended the special meeting with the planning commission commissioners and uh I agree with Mr. Farmer that I think that was one of the most productive meetings that we've had in a in a long time. And I uh really appreciated staff and everything um and everyone who worked hard on that and is probably still now probably working harder because of it. But um I I think it was a very productive meeting. Uh yesterday I attended SECOG's um policy and innovation committee uh kind of like yours Matt the long meeting and not much to report back. Um we went over the the budget uh which will now move forward to the full board and so I get to listen to it again. Um, and we also heard uh from the lobbyists both state and federal on behalf of transportation and things like that. And um there's some interesting things um trying to play out both at the state level and federally. Um, as many of you know, federal funding that had been promised and awarded for transportation with the new administration was at least

at best put on hold if not completely taken away. So, um, there is people are rallying to try to get some of that back in the queue. um some of the things that some of the transportation programs that SECOG had been working on um like the green means go which was a big initiative. They did come and talk about it at one point but um we many of the entities who had received funding for that through the green means go have not accomplished their goals. So, it's a huge possibility that SEIKOG's going to lose millions of dollars and these projects are mid or just starting. So, um it's a little disappointing. So, they're trying to scramble to um see if they can get a little bit more time. Um they're working hard on that new bill that uh Senator Calderon is working on on state um and federally. And of course, I had to contact my little birdie back in uh DC to see the perspective from a sta uh DC staffer and versus the lobbyists who are lobbying um and what they're reporting and um that they were not on par. Um but I would say that the lobbyists were a little bit more positive than what I was hearing from staffers. So, um, which for GS, I don't think it's going to affect us tremendously. Um, we're not in the running for a lot of these fundings. Um, but one very important statistic that I learned that stuck in my head through this is that there's what's called the um, basics act, which is trying to be pushed federally. And what that is to do is to basically reroute the money through local entities um

because and this is pretty specific to roadways and bridges and I don't think we have any bridges in our jurisdiction um that would be covered under this so it might not pertain to us but the interesting fact is that 75% of the bridges in the US are are owned and governed by local agencies. However, local agencies only receive 15% of the federal transportation monies. So, uh this bridges act is trying to um allocate get more of that money to in our case to the state so they can distribute it a little bit better. Um but we'll we'll see. This was the act um the push that there was a little bit difference in view on from the lobbyists and the staffers. So um because some of the although and here here's a positive for G or for uh California because California has more of their thumb on their entities that we have a better money distribution coming from the federal government that it's it's better distributed or more um competent in its distribution whereas other states and I'll just name one to say they don't have that go between for state. And so the federal government has a hard time giving f huge federal funds to say a small county of 15,000 people. And so that's where kind of the hang-up is. And so if the states don't have things in line to um help manage over the littleer entities, there's that's where the the hiccup is. The federal government, the leaders are like I don't know. So, um, but California in this respect has a little bit more respect back there because California has more control over their smaller entities

in this case. Anyway, it's just a little interesting. So, all right, with that, we'll move on to item F, the information consent calendar. It is recommended that items one through six be acted on simultaneously unless a separate discussion and or action is requested by a council member. Council members, I just had a brief question about uh F5. Maybe sorry. I just had a brief question about F5. And maybe if I can just ask that question and then we can still do the consent all at one time instead of pulling it. Okay, that's fine. Uh Mr. Buckman, welcome. And here you go.

I had to find a question for him just so he can feel welcome. I'm just joking. Um the it's my understanding that the 250,000 that we're asking for for general fund money is to for for the engineering services etc etc but that's all reimburseable once we do that we collect those fees back from development and then it gets reimbursed. Is that correct?

That's correct. Council member former uh public works has experienced a higher than anticipated level of development review activity this fiscal year. Um and the item before you is to uh provide additional uh expenditure authority to cover those costs. And as you mentioned uh there there will be no net fiscal impact because those additional costs will be uh recovered through developer fees. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you.

And I see that Miss Manor was nodding and agreeing with she's backing them up. Okay, with that, um, I will let me go ahead and read them all. Number one, receive and file warrants for period, uh, ending March 23rd, 2026. Number two, minutes of the regular meeting of March 17, 2026. Number three, military equipment use annual report. Number four, city of G routine maintenance agreement project initial study mitigation negative declaration. Number five, funding increase for development support. And number six, n a national fitness campaign grant funding.

So moved. Second. Moved by council member Farmer and seconded by council member Prattton. Roll call. Vice Mayor Reid. I. Council member Prattton. I, Council Member Sandeue, I, Council Member Farmer, I, Mayor Rodriguez,

I. Motion passes. 50. Um, doesn't look like we have any public hearings. Um, we'll go ahead and go on to the city clerk's report. Sacramento homeless and housing board representative. And just to back up real quick quick for communication, I just want to remind everyone in the public there's no city council meeting on April 21st, 2026. Thank you. So, for the Sacramento Homeless and Housing Board representative, uh the recommendation is to appoint a council member as a representative to the Sacramento Homeless and Housing Board. On February 3rd, 2026, city council was informed the Sacramento count Sacramento County Board of Supervisors would create a new body, the Sacramento Homeless and Housing Board, known as SHHB. Uh, the SHAB will be made up entirely of elected leaders from the county and participating cities. The current proposal of the SHHB is comprised of two county board members, two Sacramento city council members, and one member from each additional participating city. The first anticipate anticipating meeting is uh Friday, April 17th. However, we just found out that is for staff only to start discussing discussing the logistics for the SHAB including meeting frequency agenda items. And it is anticipated that the SHHB itself will not meet probably until after May.

So, you're looking for an appointment? An appointment. But but we really don't have any details as of yet. Can we do they need that appointment now? Because I'm afraid I I would I would make a motion to table this item because I don't think I for one couldn't volunteer to be appointed unless I knew how often they're going to meet and what day of the week, what time of the day. I mean, that's all important to me because I, you know, have work and stuff. So, um, this was all kind of last minute after the agenda.

I mean, can we just can we point somebody after we find out what that is? You could do that or you could they someone could appoint u somebody provisionally and then if the schedule doesn't work out and then appoint a backup and then if it doesn't work out for one or both then we would just come back here anyways. So the appointment could be made provisionally and then if it doesn't work out we would just come back. It would effectively be tabled and come back anyway. So I don't think there's harm in making the provisional appointment tonight. How long is the appointment for? Do we know that?

Hey, this this this this whole thing they're organizing is off to a real great start. Yeah. I mean, if I said I was real skeptical if it was really going to accomplish anything, I guess I should hold my comments. Um I don't know. I I would have to honestly I would have to know. So, do we have to make a motion to do what? To table it. Yeah. Okay. So, I make a motion for us to table this appointment until after we get more clarity from the board on their frequency and their meeting times. Yeah, I second that. How long term and the term? Correct. I support that.

Okay. Do we can we just do a consensus for that or um is there at least three of you that want to just do it that way? Yeah. Yes. Okay, then we'll just table it. Okay. All right, moving on. Item K, comments by staff. Uh, we have a couple. Uh, first up, Armando Solis, parks and recck director. Good evening, mayor and city council. I just wanted to give you a save the date. Our, uh, blue monster slide is complete or near completion. We just have a punch list to go through

and uh we have Saturday May 23rd if you can put a save the date and at this time I invite you slashchallenge our council members to go down the slide that day. So uh besides bringing your scissors to cut the ribbon, bring your bathing suit and um and attempt uh to go down there. Attempt attempt. I've heard some have failed, but uh we can uh hopefully you guys will all succeed. Is there an elevator to get you all the way up there? No, bring bring a bottle of water and uh some sunscreen to get up there. So, I'll get you more details as we get closer. All right.

And then next up, Assistant City Manager Amy Mendes.

Good evening. Um, I wanted to let everybody know that we are beginning our outreach efforts for the branding initiative and the utility bill will include a QR code. Um, there's a little advertisement in there. We're asking residents um to take our survey. We also were at the Saturday market this weekend. We have a newsletter that will coming um out on Friday. We will be distributing a flyer to the Chamber of Commerce, to the school districts, trying to get um additional participation from residents outside of just social media. So, that will begin this week. Uh I believe all of the council members received an email in regards to a one-on-one interview. We do have one-on-one interviews that are being conducted um in the next couple of weeks. We also have group interviews that we will be coordinating. So, there's a lot going on. um as it relates to the outreach. So, just wanted to get everybody heads up.

No further comments. Okay. Council member comments. Council member Reed. All right. Uh so, I'm going to start with uh some kudos for the police department. Chief already knows because I texted him directly. Um, I was out shopping with my wife and I had the great pleasure of seeing some of our police officers, I feel, go above and beyond what they had to. We had a gentleman that was stranded on the side of the road right there in front of the antique store on Sea Street. And um, Officer Little and another officer, which I don't know what her name was. And the only reason I know Officer Little is cuz I've been around for a little while. It was Officer Maramontes. Her a little while. Um,

they pulled up, got out of their cars, they popped their hoods, they got the the jumper cables out and they did everything to try to get this vehicle up and running and they actually got it done and assisted him and I got to watch. I took a picture and sent it to the chief and I I just I appreciate that our officers do that kind of thing cuz they could have just said, "Oh, we'll call you a toe or we'll, you know, call somebody else that, you know, I've seen it many of places where some law enforcement don't think that that's their job." So, I'm glad to live in a city that sees it that way. Uh, the next thing uh because Tuesday was a holiday, I got the the uh the great pleasure of visiting the G market, which I haven't done in a while because I work every Tuesday and Wednesday. Um, and I just wanted to reach out to or say to Armando that it's fantastic. I loved it. It was really nice to see the carnival that was there with all the little kids running around and having their having their fun jumping on their carnival rides. So, um I haven't been there in a while, so it was a very nice uh it was had way more vendors than I thought. So, uh thanks for that. And then the last thing, and Chris knows where I'm going with this, so this might take a a minute. Um, as you guys know, I closely monitor everything that do that happens with 911 emergency in our city. Okay? And I'm just going to read the email that I sent to Chris because it says it a lot better than I could do it. Uh, as you know, I closely monitor the availability and reliability of 911 emergency response resources in our city. And based on some recent incidents that I have previously shared with Chris, my Lola concern is growing particularly in G experi with with our ongoing population growth. For context, on March 17th, multiple fire apparatus, not just ambulances like it normally is, but other fire apparatuses

were also responding to 911 medical calls within the city of G. Uh there was at least three G ambulances in or three Elkrove ambulances in G at the same time. On March 19th, we also saw a significant presence presence of G unit or Elgroveve units in G because we had five separate 911 calls that originated from Rancho Seiko skilled nursing facility in the span of 2 and a half hours. So at 4:45, 538, 752, 833, and 829. That's more than our two ambulances can handle here in G. Uh these events highlight the importance of maintaining clear visibility into our system performance and mutual aid re uh reliance. So, with that in mind, I'm requesting with the the council's um concurrence a quarterly report that's due to the city council from the fire district to incorporate multiple things. Total 911 calls in the city of G, total number of patients transported by our GT units, both emergency transports and non-emergency transports, which identifies the critical patients versus the not critical ones. number of incidences requiring ambulance response from outside of the city of G into our jurisdiction and then average response time for those ambulances that are coming into G and then the number of transport transport patient transports by those units outside of the city of G and then also categorized between non-emergency and emergency and this was again highlighted today on my way home from work there was an ambulance that was dispatched to the city of G from Kaiser South Sacramento because that was the closest ambulance available. And the total response time for that

ambulance was 35 minutes. And so this is why I'm so passionate about this because this is what I've lived my entire life since 1997 when I started on an ambulance fresh out of high school. And this is very concerning to me. And that's why I would like to request this quarterly report from the fire department. And Mr. Reid, that's it. Has this been brought up to the two on your 2 by two? That we've had one 2 by two meeting since I was assigned to that and uh we discussed it in length and um yes,

let's put it that way. You've had one 2 by two in a year and a half. Yes. But Mr. Mr. read I was thinking I was on that meeting too we don't discuss that detail we need to go back a is okay we can discuss but we need to go back to 2 by two meeting we can discuss more briefly on that but it's up to the council over there absolutely I I still think that we um I think we're in a position it's different between us and and the police department right the police department works for the city

right any of us can reach out to the city manager or the police chief and ask them any questions. They they technically work for the city which works for the city council, right? The fire district is totally different than that. They work for a completely separate board of directors. And so there's that difference in that relationship between the city services and the and the and the district. So that's why it's I'm putting it out there for us to ask for that information because it with the population growing, the population hasn't grown yet and you saw just for the information that I've presented that it's it's a problem that certain people don't want to identify as a problem. Well, I know we can't really discuss this because it's not an agendaized item. So we got to be careful not to get into a whole um but I I would I support your concern for sure. But I think what I would be looking for is I'm more concerned that you guys aren't having more 2 by twos because I felt like this could have been brought up in the 2 by two and then if you came back to us and said that it was pretty much had no traction in the 2 by two then we can figure out how we can better address it. But

yeah, I'm going to we got to call it. So either we want to give the staff direction or not. We can't get into more discussion on this just because it hasn't been agendaized.

Just re real quick. Uh I did uh exchange uh uh some emails with uh the CSD general manager and he's open to providing reports. Uh so a couple other things. Yes, we need to schedule a uh 2 by two uh soon. And then the other is we are having a representative from CSD come here in like a month to give an annual report. So, I think a quarterly report by them is not asking for something crazy. I think that's something they can accommodate.

Yeah. Well, that's good. Let's let's see what he has to say when he comes and and seems like the city manager is making some and then we can go. Is that Yep. And then was there was one more future agenda item and I'm and it too bad that she's gone. I really would like the preserve to come out and if that's something and give a presentation like that lady said to the council. Yeah, that's a possible future future agenda item. Support that. There's three we can reach out. She had me on the protected forest, right? So I would I would I would I would uh I I would definitely support that, but obviously up to the council.

Yeah, I think there was three at least. So that's all I got. All right. Thank you, Council Member Prattton.

All right. Attended the Saturday market. Mr. Sleece, excellent job. I didn't stop and say hi because you were working, so I just moved on. Um, but it was great. Uh, there was a huge attendance by city staff there. So, I think we were, you know, it is our event, but it was well, uh, well attended. Um, so I mentioned earlier the CGA had a lunchon that was on March 19th. I attended that, talked about that a little bit already, so I'm not going to go into detail on that. Um, I I uh I did have my branding one-on-one already. Um, that was good. It was about 20 minutes. took a little bit of time to get the uh Zoom working for some reason, but uh once we got it going, it was it was a very good conversation. It wasn't just a list of questions. It was it was actually conversation. Felt to me like, you know, there was an intent there to to gather as much

uh organic information as possible. Um just for the record, I didn't ask them to take the bird off or anything. But did you ask for more trees? Goats. go.

Um, I attended a a Helping Hands general meeting. It was on March 25th. Now, Helping Hands um is a fairly new outfit here. They've come, they've done a presentation and uh I was very impressed with their general meeting. They've got almost 75 members now. Um it's pretty good. And uh you know I think when they came to town there was some concern that you know when they opened that up and started that that there was some concern that there would be some kind of conflict or or you know sometimes folks don't like how things are going with one one uh one outfit. So they'll go and create their own. But this I don't see that with this group. I think they're they are what they say they are help helping hands and they're they're absol absolutely trying to help anybody who's asking for help. So just wanted to pass that on. Uh in two weeks cap to cap's coming. I'm not going to go because it was a lot of work last time. So I want to thank those of you who are going to that and good luck. Um that's all I have.

Council member Sandu. Uh thank you Mr. Mayor. Uh the few things first of all I would like to thank you all staff in city of G. They work in their heart. Uh thank you for the public comment. Thank you for the public came to this meeting. And lastly I would like to welcome and congratulation to Mr. Buckman. Thank you for joining the team. And that's it.

Council member Farmer. Um yeah, so first of all, uh Saturday market was good. Thank you. Please pass on to your staff, not only the people that run it, but the people that clean up in the aftermath because that's really those are the people, you know, after all the funds over and everybody's gone, they're out there picking up litter and stuff. And you know how I feel about litter. So they do a good job. They they they made they cleaned it very well and uh they they always do a good job with that. Um it was actually really really busy and uh it was so busy we actually caught the attention of Congressman Matt Suie and Don Nulli and some others that had gotten together and they were going somewhere in the area and then they noticed they're like hey what's going on over here? Oh it's a Saturday market let's go. So we had a Loi city council member Mikey Hothy was there uh not Natalie was there and Congressman Sue was there with her staff. She actually talked to quite a few people uh in the area there some citizens. They took a lot of photos and stuff and it was uh it was good. They they were really impressed by the turnout. Um, I want to thank Mr. Buckman uh for answering my questions earlier and welcome. I know um Mr. Chung left unfortunately, but I was going to thank him for filling in. I know it was not an easy job. It was really a trial by fire and I'm sure he's happy to to have you here. Um uh but uh with all that with you know with all the fun aside though as you can see there there are concerns that you know you've kind of jumped in both feet right now and there are some issues. You've heard from some Cornell Road folks today. I think um I'm sure that the staff and city manager are perceptive to the the complaints about the weed stuff that was mentioned and the trash. that has been an ongoing thing and I think that um you know it frustrates me when existing citizens are burdened um by something like that. I mean they're already being burdened because their way of life is changing for sure because of the development, but

it doesn't need to be uh burdened in ways that are not acceptable. So I would appreciate staff look into this ASAP and take care of those issues. Um, I support that

and I want to thank PD for their extra ebike enforcement. Um, I appreciate the social media. I think it was well perceived. Um, general majority uh agree that there is a concern with the certain types of vehicles that are being used. And the crazy thing is I went to Loi on Easter morning actually. Uh and in my short trip through Loi to drop something off and back, I probably passed at least 10 or 15 illegal emotos that were just going down the street with kids on them. And I was like, "Wow, it's it's everywhere really." Um so and that's great. The story you heard about the true story. The battery on my bike died. My motorcycle I was riding and G PD was nowhere around. to jump my bike. So, I had to make other arrangements to get home. So, uh anyways, um I think that's all I have. Um the water slide, I heard somebody got stuck in it. Is that true? No. Somebody started rumoring said somebody got stuck in the tube. Kind of made me a little nervous. I'm not going to lie.

I was able to fit through it. So, all right. Okay. All right. Uh I think that's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thanks.

Um I attended the uh Commission on Aging meeting. I've been trying to get over there and finally did and I was very impressed. Um there it was a very strong conversation. Um they have a lot of ideas and um some deeper ideas and there was some transportation questions uh for seniors. So, I kind of preempted them and and um passed along some information to the city manager. So, hopefully we can see some um movement from the commission on aging. I other than bingo, they do they throw a great party, but they really are trying to do a little bit more than just social interaction. So, um that that was really nice. I also attended the Saturday market. It was wonderful as always. Uh just keeps growing, it seems. Um, and it's great to see the local brick and mortars actually getting uh, you know, a lot of foot traffic. We I had heard through the grapevine that the new sourdough place runs out of sourdough. So, that was the first place we went early in the morning and there was a line out the door. Um, and then of course went over to the coffee shop and there was a line out the door. So, um, that's great for our local merchants. It's, um, and then just all of the vendors. It's just been it's been great. So, please pass it along to your staff that extremely happy. They're doing ex a great job. It's been wonderful. Um, I did have one small issue. Unfortunately, my issue was with the police department. Someone stole my coffee or at least attempted to.

I was thirsty. Where were you? Uh, he was the one doing it. Someone took off with my coffee. He was in this uniform and bald head and Gee, I wonder who that was.

Uh, no. But no, all all was good. I do have a question though, Chief, because it was someone asked me and I I don't completely understand the ebike thing, what what is an ebike and what's a eoto or whatever. But someone asked me before these motor motorized bicycles came along, those original scooters that you just used to kick with your foot now are motorized and were motorized before that. Are those under what are those rules? Are they the same?

They require you to wear a helmet first and foremost and then follow all the regulations that we put in the ordinance. So there's speed controls and rideway considerations um and general conduct. So they fall in the matrix that we have for um that equipment. And the moto bikes are the ones with VIN numbers. And then the ebicycles do not have VIN numbers and they're classed one through three. I don't know if that means a lot of money or a lot of information to you, but those are the three the three tiers that we have. Okay. But they're all following the same basic laws that we have that Yeah. that you guys approved in the emergency ordinance last October. Okay. Yes.

Um other than that, if anybody has anything else Yeah. Just just the simple thing for the public that's watching is if it doesn't have pedals, if it just has pegs, it's not legal to be ridden on the street or on the sidewalk or even on the bike lane. It is basically a dirt bike for off-road use. That's the simple thing. The classifications, you can Google it, call PD. Very happy if you call PD. They can help anybody who's looking at purchase one or find out if their kids riding something that's legal. But the simple one is pedals versus no pedals. That's an easy one. So, and always wear a helmet.

Are But there's a different rule. Adults don't have to ride a or use a helmet on a regular bicycle, correct? But they do on on those. Okay. All right. And welcome, Mr. Buckman. Um, again, like Council Member Farmer said, jumping in the deep end here. Um, yeah, good luck. Um, no, we're very glad that you're here to to help us along here. So, all right. Okay. With nothing else, we'll go ahead and close this meeting. Well, I'm using this time. 7:37