City Council - Regular Meeting

Can the flea market afford to lose any more vendors? I mean, they're already gone, and making them required to have these, the wholesalers and the produce vendors will reduce the amount of spaces they have, and they will cut down on it, and the rent will go down for the market. The guys I work for, they're already cutting down on their spaces. I mean, they used to have 10 spaces. They're cutting it down more and more. You can't make money. And basically the free market depends on customers coming and spending money. That's how the vendors make money. But reserving the east parking lot for food vendors to park their personal vehicles there is nonsense. Because a lot of wholesalers like to park on that lot because most of the wholesalers are on that backside of the fence and it's easier to get out to load your car. The city lot behind McDonald's is designated for vendor parking, but it needs to be secured fencing. That's why a lot of vendors will not park there. If you secured it with a nice fencing, probably works, you can probably put it up for free because they have the materials. And so basically, and then we get down to the fire sources. The food vending truck, they have the self-contained fire suppression. But the open pit barbecues on the market, if you look, I can't never find a fire extinguisher near their open pit of barbecues. They are starting to fence it off so kids can't put their hands on the hot surfaces. Basically, the generator isolation is okay. The trucks have them mostly bounded on the outside of the trucks, but you cannot have one inside a canopy. The motorized carts in the flea market are now equipped with fire extinguishers, first aid kits, Narcan units would be nice. You never know when a homeless guy might stick somebody. And I always... have the mounted distinguishers. But there's always announcements telling customers not to park in the fire lane. And I've seen it one time where the fire engine couldn't get in because they were parked there. So they make an announcement, please move your car. You're parked in the fire lane. And the Tuesday night market that's coming up, they said they might supply the 10 by 10 pop-ups for the vendors in the back to move them up to the front with limited materials from the booth. But the market said they were going to supply these 10 by 10s maybe. So who are going to supply that? Because the top vendor, he will not be able to supply them if he doesn't have the fireproof ones. And so I needed to know, too, is this going to apply to the Saturday markets, too? Because, you know, you have some open flame vendors, you know, barbecuing and stuff. I don't see a visible fire extinguisher. The only one that I see is in the Gart booth. But to get one out of a vendor in a truck, they're gonna have to see a fire. They won't give you one just by saying there's a fire. Give me that fire extinguisher. And then basically, there was a sign put up there, do not enter on the east parking lot. It's missing now.

Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lee. No more comment. No more comments and no online? No comments. Okay. Okay, let's go ahead and go back up to our presentations. It looks like our people are here.

All right, good evening, Council. Tonight I want to introduce our Planning Commission Chair, Michaela Johnson. She'll be presenting the 25-26 Planning Commission Annual Report.

Good evening, Council, Mayor. As I stated, I'm Michaela Johnson. I'm this year's Planning Commission Chair, and I would love to present the annual report that staff has put together and we reviewed at our last and approved our last meeting. So you've all received this report ahead of time, and I would like, can you put it up on the screen for us? Is that possible?

No?

No? Okay, you guys have it in your packet, so sorry So at the front of the packet I put together a letter this year in preparation of the report we also have an overview of Our Planning Commission consists of five members and me being the chair this year we meet on second Thursdays of each month Our purpose is As the Planning Commission is to review matters relating to planning and development to make recommendations on goals and policies affecting the future development and growth of the city, and to consider land use matters such as general plan amendments, specific plans, rezoning, use permits, and subdivision. We've reviewed several significant projects and policy items this year, including Dry Creek West and the Shetfield Subdivision Single Family Residential Objective Design Standards and the Housing Element Annual Progress Report, as well as the Galt Ranch Commercial. When you look at the numbers, they really demonstrate the amount of development activity happening in Galt. During the fiscal year, the commission approved 225 new single family dwelling lots, 117 new apartment and triplex units, and two rezones, and two general plan amendments. Beyond the project coming before the commission, the city issued 329 single family dwelling permits during the fiscal year, which gives us another indication of residential growth and construction currently taking place throughout Galt. On the commercial side, one of the most significant projects we considered was Galt Ranch. We received an unanimous five to zero approval from the commission. The project represents more than just additional shopping opportunities. It's potential to bring new retail, restaurants, and services to our community to create jobs, strengthen our tax base, and contribute to Galt's long-term economic vitality. So if you flip through, you'll see all of our commissioners and their terms and who've appointed them. And we've all put together a letter about ourselves so that you guys can get to know us a little bit better. We have some terms ending at the end of this year. SUMMER OF ACTIVITIES, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, WE DID THE PLANNING COMMISSION ANNUAL REVIEW REPORT, THE SHUTFIELD SUBDIVISION PROJECT, THE HOUSING ELEMENT ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT, THE DRY CREEK WEST PROJECT AND SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS. PLANNING COMMISSION AUTHORITY APPROVALS WERE FAIRWAY OAKS, GROCERY OUTLETS, BONDS DRIVE, LIPPY RANCH, GALT RANCH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, SHUTFIELD SUBDIVISION DESIGN REVIEW AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY. We also did joint study sessions with city council for objective design standards and preliminary project review process. Some of our key accomplishments this year were during the fiscal year of 2025 and 26, the Planning Commission carried out its responsibilities under the California Planning and Zoning Law and Galt Municipal Code by reviewing development proposals, advancing long-range planning initiatives, and making recommendations that support the city's vision for responsible growth. We also attended, myself and Commissioner Jackson and Kristen attended the League of California Cities Planning Commission Academy in Anaheim this year. We all really enjoyed our time there. This is my second year on the commission, so it was nice to meet with other like-minded people that are developing their city and having an impact on their city as well. So we immediately brought back a lot of information because we're putting together our general plan, as you know, and so it was nice to hear how people are dealing with design review objectives. That was a huge topic this year. Our commission is built or is made up of a very diverse group of people and different backgrounds and specialties, and we bring a lot of different perspectives. And so I think it's a great commission this year because we all have a different perspective. We may not always agree, but we collectively talk about it and try to make the best decision for the community. So I want to thank staff for putting this together. They did a great job this year. And if you guys have any questions, let me know.

Thank you, council. And the reason I know there's a lot of reading, lot of knowledge you need to before go to the planning commission meeting because I was a sixth year on a planning commission before I elected as a city council. So thank you for your delegation and all your commissioner and staff, thank you.

Yes, ma'am. No questions, but I'm going to kind of echo what Council Member Sandu said. Thank you. And if you could take it back to the rest of the board members, thank them, or the commission members, thank them for us as well, because all the hard work that you guys do on the planning commission makes our job, most of the time, easier when we sit up here. So thank you.

Thank you for the report. I just want to say the report itself is very impressive. It's nice to have all that information in front of us before we get here.

I can't take any credit. Kristen definitely spearheaded that.

I enjoyed it because we don't always get great presentations sometimes. It only creates lots of questions. This one answered a lot of things without us having to dig too deep. So I appreciate that.

And I will echo that and apologize as well because I meant to email staff that was very impressed with this report and felt like you just really raised the bar and I feel really proud to be able to take this and show anywhere in any city and say look at what look at what we are and and I too want to thank the commission I do understand as well how labor-intensive it can be and especially with some of the projects that you mentioned I know there was a lot to that so thank you very much for all of that with that and anything else all right well thank you for coming and thank you for everything thanks so much Okay, do we have our public safety, not yet?

Vice Chair Schamber is working right now. He's a fireman for our CSD. So he's on his way right now. So we can wait for him or?

Yeah, no, we can wait. Just remind me, because I might forget. Okay, so reports by city council members on regional boards, commissions, and committees. Vice Mayor.

I got to bring up my notes real quick.

All right. I attended one library authority board meeting, which was on August 27th. They gave us their end of the year, they went over the end of the year budget, some expenditures, all that looks good. We talked about some contracts that they had that they wanted to put in place for the next year between waste management, network support, facility cleaning, and some other subscriptions. And then they gave us some numbers. HOWEVER, THE SUMMER THEY HAD MORE THAN 23,000 SUMMER READING PARTICIPANTS AND OVER 10,000 PARTICIPANTS IN THEIR LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY PROGRAMS. AND THAT'S IT.

OKAY.

COUNCILMEMBER PRATT.

JUST ONE MEETING. I WENT TO THE CGA MEETING ON AUGUST 19TH. THAT'S THE CONSUMING GROUND WATER AUTHORITY. Not anything really new to report. They're still working on reporting back to the powers be for their commitments. And the goal is to reduce water usage within the authority. And so they're working on a plan and program for that. So that's the only one I attended since the last meeting.

Council Member Sandhu.

I would like to the only report the Council Member met President he was on a vacation so I was the alternate so I attend that on the Board of Director air quality meeting this was on August 27th and this was like in a regular agenda the only thing I would like to report because there was agenda item to prepare for very energy storage system expansion in Sacramento County. And I believe this mud is going to, there is a project, the project name is Hedge Solar Farm. That's on the north of Sacramento, it's north of Elk Grove. well, not in south of Elk Grove, but that was in Board of Supervisors Pat Hume's jurisdiction, so he highly spoke about the safety, because a year ago, there was a largest fire facility was most landing in California. So there was a city council member, Roger Dickinson, he also spoke about highly on the safety. So this was the presentation from the staff. I think they can working on that project. And that's all on that meeting. And that's all. Thank you.

Thank you for filling in for me on that one. Thank you.

Okay, I attended on August 20th the Board of Directors for SACOG. It was an interesting meeting because there was a very important topic that they were trying to make sure we were all there for and all of us city people were there. Apparently all of the COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES, WE COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES, WE DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM OF DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM OF THEM. THEM. WE HAVE TO HAVE TWO DIFFERENT WE HAVE TO HAVE TWO DIFFERENT QUORUMS. QUORUMS. THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I LEARNED THAT. THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I LEARNED THAT. THAT'S GOING TO BE PUSHED OFF. THAT'S GOING TO BE PUSHED OFF. SO WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT MEETING SO WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT MEETING WAS OUR EVALUATION OF THE WAS OUR EVALUATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. HOWEVER, I DID ATTEND THE Yesterday, August 31st, the Policy and Innovation Committee for SACOG, I was actually a little excited about this, and I think staff might have more of an excitement over this as well. So years ago, I guess the state passed something for vehicle miles traveled, right, VMTs. and the impact, so when a developer comes in to do a specific development, whatever it is, they have to evaluate how many miles, vehicle miles traveled, and then they have to pay mitigation fees for that. So the state has created a bank, so you pay those, the developer pays those fees, it goes into a statewide bank, then they decide where maybe a low income housing development should go and they use the monies from that bank. So however, SACOG said why are we shooing out all this money outside the state, let's keep it here. And so we are proposing to the entire board to approve a VMT exchange, And in this route, if we have a project coming through a low income housing, just as a example, but they may be having some funding issues, we can go on a project list and if there's someone, a developer in the area that needs to pay these mitigation fees, they can choose to put their mitigation fees specifically to that project. So it's actually kind of, I thought it was a great idea. Only the entities within SACOG that are involved in their Green Means Go program are eligible. I did double check to make sure that GALT is on that and we are. So something to possibly look at some of any projects that might be coming through that to see what these qualifications are to get on that list. That will go before the board on the 17th of this month to start that up. So kind of a, I thought it was a pretty great idea. All right, let's go ahead and go on to our information 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. I'll go ahead and read through them. Number one, receive and file warrants for period ending August 24th, 2026. Item two, minutes of the regular meeting of August 18th, 2026. Item three, treasurer's report for period funding July 2026. Item four, authorize the city manager to execute an agreement to purchase an MVB 3X modular vehicle barrier system from Advanced Security Technologies LLC. in the amount of $530,000, I'm sorry, I do this every day, $530,326. Item five, approve memorandum of understanding with Parker Industrial Center LLC authorizing acceptance, subdivision, and reconveyance of dedicated land. And item six, senior nutrition program clarification of annual meal services. Would anyone like to pull anything from the consent calendar?

I have five.

Five? Anything else? Okay, I'll entertain a motion for one, two, three, four, and six. I'll move it.

Second.

Okay, moved by Mayor Rodriguez and seconded by Councilmember Pratton.

Roll call. Vice Mayor Reed.

Aye.

Councilmember Pratton.

Aye.

Councilmember Sandu.

Aye.

Mayor Rodriguez. Aye. Motion passes 4-0.

Okay, item five, Mr. Sandhu.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. This agenda item, I did the report. It was with Ms. Buckman-Wright. This report? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. The reason, let me explain. The reason I pulled that report, because this report, I read it, and I like to add a transparency reason because there is, on this parcel, there is a three community surrounding this parcel. There is a Creekside residence, there is a Fair Oak residence, and Cornell residence. And I'd like to ask Mr. Berkman, can you give for the public or us like in brief presentation instead of just brief presentation on this agenda item, what's on this agenda item, and why we are doing this?

Good evening, Mayor Rodriguez and Council Members. Council Member Sandu, the item before you is to convey a parcel of land that used to have a water line within it. And the water line's since been abandoned and it's kind of a useless strip of parcel as it sits. It's not useful for development. It's very narrow, it's about 33 feet wide and I can't remember how long, but it's several hundred feet long. And so it's not really usable in its current form. And the current property owner is proposing to deed that property to the city, subdivide it, and then we would reconvey it back and it would be conveyed to adjacent property owners for beneficial use by the adjacent properties.

Okay, and that means there is the property, the bond site is the Creekside residence, right? And did we hear any comment, anything from the Creekside? Because this project, I believe, according to the report, the reason we're doing is better for the city. It's better for the creek side because if they need to something in back side of the yard, they can talk to that owner and they can buy or whatever they can do and it's better for the city because there is no useful. That why the reason we're doing, right?

That's correct. It allows for beneficial use of the properties by the adjacent property owners or the property by the adjacent property owners.

So that means it's like a win-win position. It can be better for the Creekside residents. It can be better for the owner because that owner cannot make his subdivision because it's not going to 19 lots, right? Because the city can have kind of any cost including in that or maybe kind of minimum basis, right?

No, there will be that staff looks at it as a win win as well. But there's no cost to the city. The current property owner will pay the recording costs and has paid the cost to draft grant deeds that will be recorded. and the city will be retaining one of the properties that contains a utility within it. So one of the 19 parcels that will be created, the city will retain and the other 18 will be conveyed back to the property owner for ultimate convenience back to the adjacent property owners. And we understand agreements have been reached with all the adjacent property owners.

And that one lot we are keeping, are there any plan what we can do on that lot?

It's essentially adjacent to Bernal Road, and it's just going to continue to house a water line within it.

All right. Thank you for your explanation. And that's the reason I just want to add your transparency reason. I just want to make sure everybody understand why we're doing this. This is for better for the community and better for the city. Thank you, Mr. Buckman. Of course. And I will support on that.

Okay, do we have any public comment?

I have a couple questions. So it's my understanding that this property was thought that they would make it into a walking path to connect around the other communities, is that correct?

If that's the case, I'm unaware of that. My understanding is this parcel, the primary function was to, it had a water line within it, a water main within it, and that was its primary function.

Council Member Reid, I can answer that question. There was a time when it was thought that that unique parcel would serve as a continuation of the pedestrian path in the new development and then connect pedestrians from the new development to Lincoln Way. So that was a thought at one time, but due to some complications, it made it difficult.

And what's stopping us from doing that now?

Probably the way the new development is built. It doesn't lend itself well to basically that connection. So the redesign based on not having this path available, the subdivision was redesigned and making the connection would be difficult.

All right.

Anything else, Mr. Crenn?

Nope.

Okay, do we have any public comment on any? No public comment. Okay. Okay, so Mr. Sandu, was that a motion to approve? Yes. Okay, so I have a motion on the floor.

I'll second it.

Okay, moved by Councilmember Sandu and seconded by Councilmember Pratt in roll call. Vice Mayor Reed?

No.

Council Member Pratton?

Aye.

Council Member Sandu?

Aye.

Mayor Rodriguez? Aye. Motion passes 3-1. Okay.

We have our speaker here. Okay, let's go ahead and go on with our Public Safety Committee Annual Report.

Mayor and Council Members, tonight presenting the 2025-2026 Public Safety Committee Annual Report is Vice Chair Chris Schamper.

Thank you madam mayor and members of council apologize for the tardiness, but we're kind of got got in the way here I do appreciate the flexibility with the time As a long-standing member of the Public Safety Committee, I'm honored to be able to present to you today. On the Public Safety Committee, we are joined by Vice Mayor Sandhu as a non-voting member, Jessica Selby as the Chair, myself as Vice Chair, as well as, over the past term, Ms. Kuradeep Sandhu, who has since resigned her position, and Mr. Jerry Sautter and Jason Hubert. This council is appointed by individual council members, this Public Safety Committee, I'm sorry. And we also have, as a resource, the Chief of Police, Public Works, the Cosumnes Fire Department. We're joined by the Parks and Rec staff, as appropriate, and obviously Ms. Wendy Masters, our liaison. We hold meetings every other month, the months of July, September, November, January, March, and May. It's the fourth Monday at 6 p.m. in the community room of the police department. Our purpose and function is to act as an advisory committee only, to take our information, our thoughts, information from the public, their concerns, to help basically polish that, not really filter it, but to polish it and provide council with maybe a little bit of an assistance in getting to some of the decisions that you guys have to make. It only deals with public safety issues and it doesn't talk about internal operations of the city, including the police department. Those are obviously decisions just for this council and not for the committee to weigh in on. Over the course of this last year, we obviously were very glad to see the increase in enforcement on July 4th by Code Officer Supervisor Guidotti, T.J. There's a joint effort with the fire department on that, but the the impact on illegal fireworks in our community and decreasing the fires on that day and injuries has been noticed. Moving on to our November meeting, there was a nose ordinance presentation by our code compliance officer And we also reviewed the police department statistics, an update on the drone program, as well as growing concern with e-bikes and how those have been functioning in our community. In January, we did also receive the We reviewed the shooting cases from January 9th and 10th in the community. There was some discussion about the Walnut Avenue speed clarification and information, as well as the preliminary police department statistics with us receiving the annual report from the police department in March of this year. At that meeting, we elected myself to be the chair and the vice chair to be committee member Selby. We did receive the military equipment use report, as well as discussion about the Carilion extension and how it's impacted traffic flow and emergency response in that area. At that meeting, there was the issue of student safety and traffic concerns around the original Galt High School. And we listened to some comments about that and Public Works was present and kind of identified not only some police enforcement opportunities but also some engineered safety measures for that area. We did not have a meeting in May and that's the update on our year's work to this point. Be happy to answer any questions, provide any additional information. I do feel like the committee may not be the most active in our community, but from a good example of the last meeting we had with the traffic plan and a lot of community members coming out because of our infill development as well as our expanding community, they've got their concerns about our streets, they've got our concerns about access issues. This last meeting was I think very important to see that when people have a concern, they are definitely showing up and they are thankful for that opportunity to get information and to speak their mind on the safety and function of our community.

Great, thank you. Council, questions? Mr. Sandhu?

I don't have no question, but again, I would like to thank you for the chair and thank you for all the safety commissioner and your time and your dedication. And I'm also on the non-voting member on this committee. This, like in public safety, is always top of everybody's council's top priority. And I usually, that's my job, I was thinking I doing, I just watch overall, observe it, if anything need to bring to the council level at the first take, as I report back to the council what we're doing gonna come on that public safety meeting. And that's all, thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

So thank you for your presentation. Everybody knows I might be a little biased to this commission because that's what I was on right before I came to the committee, the council. But thank you. I know all the hard work you guys do and the things that you go over. Thank you for all the work that you've done on the drone for first responder program. I think that's going to be great. A couple of things that I'd like you to take back that are really important to me is still us examining ways to guarantee access of first responders to the west side of the tracks. That's always going to be a high priority for me. And then, like it's said a couple of times in here, just the increasing amount of problems that we're having with e-bikes throughout the city. So thank you.

Council Member Pratton.

Thank you for your presentation. I would ditto everything I've just heard and say that I believe this is a very important committee that we have. So keep up the good work. Thank you.

I too am grateful for the work that you do, but I'm going to put you on the spot really quick because I'm curious. Not sitting in those meetings, what was the Walnut Avenue speed clarification and information about? Do you remember?

I'm going to go by memory, but I know that we've had a lot of discussion from the residents of the speed and the speed limit on that being set at 45 miles an hour. And as it becomes more populated, there is concerns by those residents. There's been a lot of conversations through several meetings with public works about identifying one measures that are in place or that we could put in place to assist drivers go slower, such as speed tables, such as narrowing of lanes, reducing it from two lanes in each direction to to one. CONVERSATIONS ALSO HAVE BEEN HAD ABOUT LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT. WHILE IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S SOMETHING WITHIN COUNCIL'S ABILITY, PUBLIC WORKS HAS EDUCATED MYSELF AND SEVERAL OTHERS ON MANY OCCASIONS ABOUT THE NEED TO DO A VALIDATED SPEED SURVEY AND HOW OUR DESIRE TO HAVE A LOWER SPEED ON THAT ROAD MAY BACKFIRE BY ACTUALLY VALIDATING THE SPEED AND INCREASING IT. OBVIOUSLY PART OF BALANCING A SLOWER TRAFFIC PATTERN ON WALNUT IS A SLOWER RESPONSE FOR YOUR POLICE AND FIRE. SO AS MUCH AS WE WANT TO INCREASE SAFETY ON THE ONE SIDE, WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE NEEDS OF EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. AND WITH ALL OF OUR DISCUSSION, I CAN SAY THAT THERE REALLY HAS NOT BEEN A RECOMMENDED ACTION. Now, obviously, as we look about roundabouts and other traffic control measures, the city is actively engaging in city planning and its network of city streets. And I feel like Carilion will fall into that as well as Walnut. But that's the gist of what I can remember.

I appreciate that. I walked that in the morning, so this morning, I don't know if the developer or the construction crew put up the digital sign that's out there. It does say the speed limit is 40, so that was part of my question because, so is 45 supposed to be 45? Anybody, anybody?

I can't speak with certainty to that. Okay, I thought it was 45. I thought it was 45, but I could easily be mistaken.

Okay.

It may vary by segment, too, and I don't know.

Oh, that's true.

Without checking.

Okay. I mean, I don't mind it being the lower, you know, if people are actually going to obey it, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Then do your speed survey. But no, I appreciate it. Appreciate all the work that you guys do. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Okay. So if I was taking notes and following, doing this correctly, I think we are on item G. Any matters of notice of public hearings? None. Okay, on to our regular calendar. City Manager's Office. The 2025-2027 City of Galt Strategic Plan Update.

Good evening, Mayor, members of Council, Amy Mendez, Assistant City Manager. I am going to be providing you with a brief update on the 2025-2027 City of Galt Strategic Plan. I got the stink eye when I walked in because my presentation was so long, so. I promise I will run through this. I need to make sure I make it to my time, though, before we finish. I was going to ask because Chris got a 7 o'clock time or something. Tina, can you adjust for full screen? So as you recall, the city council approved the strategic plan back in November of 2025. The plan established six strategic priorities, including quality of life, economic development, fiscal stability, infrastructure, responsible growth, and employee engagement. I think you need to zoom it. little bit make it a little bit smaller Tina the adopted reporting framework calls for periodic updates to the City Council so progress can be reviewed and the plan can continue to guide policy direction resource allocation and departmental work There is a strategic plan tracking document that's included as part of your staff report, which outlines the individual priorities, outcomes, and tasks associated with each of the strategic priorities. I will highlight this evening Some of the items that are currently in progress and some that have been completed to date, it is important to note that several of the tasks that are associated with the plan are intended to be ongoing and will never show as being completed because they are ongoing efforts. The first strategic plan priority is quality of life. The outcome is to preserve and improve Galt's small town charm. Thank you. Instead of reading each of these, I will run through some of the ones that are in progress or completed that I think are worthy of updating tonight. So number one under quality of life is to adopt and implement the parks master plan. This is in progress and we anticipate that the parks master plan will be to city council by the end of the year for approval. COMPLETE AND BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVISED GALT MARKET MASTER PLAN AND OLD TOWN VISIONING. THE DRAFT CONCEPTUAL GALT MARKET MASTER PLAN AND OLD TOWN VISIONING PLAN ARE COMPLETED. BEFORE GATHERING COMMUNITY FEEDBACK STAFF NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT UNION PACIFIC IS GOING TO IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THE FOURTH STREET RAILROAD PROPERTY. SO WE ARE IN DISCUSSION WITH UP RIGHT NOW AND WE DO HAVE SOME DIRECTION. SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN BEGIN OUTREACHING THE GULT MARKET MASTER PLAN AND OLD TOWN VISIONING PLAN. I WOULD GUESS THE MONTH OF OCTOBER IS LIKELY WHEN WE'LL START WITH THAT OUTREACH. ensure continued public safety outreach and communication with the community while maximizing the use of technology and grant opportunities. One of the items that council is aware of that we've introduced is the Drona's First Responder Program that I believe is underway. YES. AND UPDATED AXON BODY CAMERA AND IN-CAR SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN UPDATED AS WELL ON THE TECHNOLOGY SIDE. ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED IS RELATED TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION MATERIALS ABOUT THE SAFE AND LAWFUL USE OF E-BIKES AND E-SCOOTERS. I KNOW THAT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER BY VICE MAYOR REED. This has been completed and is continuing to move forward. Staff recently updated the city's e-bike ordinance and Galt PD has conducted in-person education at the schools, created materials for distribution to the youth and parents, engaged in regional e-bike social media campaigns and continue to enforce and educate on the use of e-bikes and e-scooters. The next one that I would touch on will be community engagement. We are continuing our efforts with social media outreach and reels within the social media platforms that we utilize. We do have a few new ways that we've been outreaching to the community. Surveys has been one of them, most recently with our branding initiative. So as part of the branding initiative, there was a considerable community outreach component and so we, distributed surveys to the community through social media our newsletter also through our utility bill and we had over 1,000 respondents to the branding initiative survey so we're really excited about the feedback that we gathered through that the other would be a new and I provided this evening to each of the council members our greetings from Galt postcard CONTEST THAT WILL LAUNCH THIS EVENING. IT'S GOING TO BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. WE'RE ENCOURAGING RESIDENTS TO SUBMIT PHOTOS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY OF GAULT, PLACES AND DIFFERENT CHARACTERS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT WE THINK ARE UNIQUE TO THE CITY AND WE WILL BE DOING COMMUNITY VOTING AND THE WINNER WILL HAVE THE OFFICIAL 2026 CITY OF GAULT POST CARD THAT WE'LL BE PRINTING AND HAVE AVAILABLE ANOTHER INITIATIVE THAT WAS INCLUDED AS PART OF QUALITY OF LIFE HAD TO DO WITH BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS AND A CAMPAIGN SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO KEEPING GAULT CLEAN AND LITTER FREE. WE DO HAVE A CAMPAIGN THAT WILL BE LAUNCHING NEXT YEAR IN APRIL ALONG WITH THE BEAUTIFICATION AND GAULT YOUTH COMMISSION. IT'S A CAMPAIGN RELATED TO CLEAN AND ALSO WILL BE IN LINE WITH EARTH DAY WITH A COMMUNITY CLEANUP. In terms of the code enforcement action, one of the items had to do with emphasizing code enforcement action on blighted properties, including pursuing boarded and vacant commercial properties. We've had so far three commercial properties that we have recently come into compliance as a result of the abandoned buildings municipal code. In addition, we have eight residential properties that are currently in enforcement under the blighted properties portion of the municipal code. The next strategic priority is economic development. To pursue economic development opportunities to attract and retain quality industrial and retail users that enhance the quality of life for Galt residents. One of the ones I wanted to highlight this evening was the 400 acre industrial property north of Twin Cities. The strategic priority was to assess pre-development requirements including annexation, CEQA, and infrastructure needs for the 400-acre industrial and commercial property north of Twin Cities. This is west of 99. We have not started this initiative yet. We have been working with a consultant on the environmental and annexation we have a proposal we'll be moving forward with but first before we can do that we have to establish a vehicle miles traveled model within the city and we hope to have that completed soon so we can kick off the annexation and environmental process related to the 400 acres The next would be pursuing strategies to reduce the floodplain constraints on the 95-acre Kessler property to unlock the full potential for development of the industrial annexation area. We did conduct a flood evaluation of Dead Bands Gulch and determined that the options to reduce the floodplain were cost prohibitive. We were estimated... was $5 to $10 million to shrink the floodplain in that area. And so we are continuing to work with the commercial broker and the property owners to facilitate development and try to incentivize development. However, minimizing that floodplain is going to be difficult. So we have completed the evaluation, but it doesn't look like we'll be doing anything with that to move forward. One of the items that has been on social media and talked about by city council has to do with code enforcement efforts related to illegal pop-ups for food vendors. Code enforcement staff has spent significant time working with Sac County Environmental Management with Public Health, Caltrans, CHP, and CSD to combat illegal food vendors operating along the county and city border on Twin Cities. NUMEROUS OPERATIONS HAVE REMOVED ILLEGAL FOOD VENDORS. THIS WILL CONTINUE. HOWEVER, THEY REAPPEAR AS FAST AS WE REMOVE THEM. SO IT HAS BEEN AN ONGOING BATTLE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH EMD AND THE COUNTY ON THOSE EFFORTS. I DID TALK ABOUT THE WORK WITH UNION PACIFIC ON THE FOURTH STREET PROPERTY. IN ADDITION TO THE FOURTH STREET PROPERTY WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE PROMENADE EXTENSION AND SO THERE IS A CONNECTION THAT'S BEING MADE BETWEEN THE EXISTING PROMENADE WHERE I BELIEVE IT'S AT B STREET AND THIS WILL CONNECT TO A STREET. IT'S A SIDEWALK EXTENSION AND PARKING EXTENSION. We do have funding, some funding that we received from Matsui's office. We'll be putting this in the CIP for next fiscal year and the design is complete so we're hoping that we can work with the railroad to continue that project in the future. Fiscal sustainability is the next outcome. Ensure the city has viable and sustainable financial resources. One of the items under fiscal sustainability was to assess the necessity of implementing a city pension stabilization policy. that outlines strategies for pension liabilities. Staff researched options for establishing a 115 trust for pension stability and determined it was not feasible. One of the other items had to do with funding the new financial, the new city's financial system, and that is underway. We have a contract for a new ERP system. We anticipate that to go live at the end of the calendar year. We've talked about updating the cost allocation plan and converting to monthly utility billing. Both of those will be looked into once the new ERP implementation is completed. We know that monthly utility billing is a hot topic and it's something the staff and I know council's interested in seeing. So more to come on that as soon as the ERP system is complete. under infrastructure, maintain and improve the city's transportation, utility and facilities infrastructure to ensure and protect the community's health, safety and quality of life. These are several of the projects underway in the Public Works Department. If one department in the city is busy, it's definitely Public Works. These are CIP projects that are part of the strategic plan. And I'm gonna touch on just a few of them that I think the council would be interested in The Gore Aquatic Center poolside, obviously everybody is aware that that has been completed. We have the skate park expansion, which should be underway in October. That project is out to bid right now. Walker Park phase two, the baseball fields, parking lot are under construction currently. The other would be the 4th Street Promenade I talked about. The Carilion Boulevard safety improvements. I know we talked about Walnut a little while ago. Carilion is the other safety improvement project which is currently under construction. And the Old Town Water Main project. We just posted that on social media. There was quite a few people who were interested in seeing that move forward. It is currently under construction and will go through, I believe, next year. THE LAST ONE WOULD BE THE EAST AND WEST GUN RANGE. WE DO HAVE THE EAST GUN RANGE IS CURRENTLY STARTING. THE WEST GUN RANGE HAS BEEN COMPLETED. SO CDCR WILL BE ABLE TO RETURN UTILIZING THAT GUN RANGE. Identify funding for consultant support for future grant applications. This was talked about potentially looking at bringing a consultant on board for grants and contract management and we have approved funding for that position to move forward. It's currently in recruitment. Kudos to Rodney, our IT director, because he has completed all of his tasks within the strategic plan. And those include expanding usage of fiber optic connectivity to improve network performance and reliability. The new fiber optic connectivity is now installed in production at Littleton Center. The Galt Market Parks and Recreation admin and the Gora Aquatic Center, the corp yard, was also added to the fiber network. CONTINUE IMPROVING CYBER SECURITY DEFENSE, THE CITY HAS IMPLEMENTED MULTIPLE SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDING GOVERNMENT CLOUD SERVICES, CONDITIONAL ACCESS, CITYWIDE MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION, MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE, AND THE LIST GOES ON. ALL I KNOW IS THAT MY PASSWORD TAKES 27 CHARACTERS, NUMBERS AND PUNCTUATION TO GET THROUGH. UPGRADE AGING HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, THE CITY HAS CORE SERVERS, BATTERY SYSTEMS, NETWORK SWITCHES, DESKTOPS AND LAPTOPS. WE ARE COMING OUT OF THE DARK AGES IN OUR TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS. UNDER RESPONSIBLE GROWTH, THE OBJECTIVE IS TO MAINTAIN THE CITY SMALL TOWN CHARM AND QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH INNOVATIVE AND EFFICIENT GROWTH. The number one strategic task under responsible growth has to do with the general plan. The general plan project is in process. We have meetings, I believe interviews in the next couple of weeks with consultants who have responded to the RFP for the general plan. Objective design standards, that was something the planning commission chair talked about a little while ago. Those were adopted by city council in 2026. CREATE A FEE REDUCTION PROGRAM CREATE A FEE REDUCTION PROGRAM TO INCENTIVIZE RESIDENTIAL TO INCENTIVIZE RESIDENTIAL INFILL AND HIGH DENSITY INFILL AND HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENT THAT WAS COMPLETED. DEVELOPMENT THAT WAS COMPLETED. COUNCIL ADOPTED THAT IN 2026. COUNCIL ADOPTED THAT IN 2026. IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION OR REHABILITATED CONSTRUCTION OR REHABILITATED AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT USING PHLA FUNDS AS AN USING PHLA FUNDS AS AN INCENTIVE. INCENTIVE. THOSE FUNDS W in the community. Oh, the last one was permitting system. So there's a new permitting system that will be put in place, I believe after the new permit supervisor is hired, which is underway. The last one is employee engagement, build a strong culture of connection, recognition, and growth, foster collaboration and boost employee morale, enhance job satisfaction, drive performance across departments, and foster a workplace where employees feel valued and appreciated. Tricia has a really long list under hers. develop retention strategy unique to Galt to encourage living and working in the city of Galt. That has been completed in September of last year. The city council approved a new home buying assistance program aimed at recruiting and retaining talent at the city. implement employee surveys for both current and departing employees to gather feedback on workplace culture, identify strengths, and address areas for improvement to enhance employee satisfaction. Both stay and exit survey data are being collected for use in strengthening the city's workplace culture and discovering potential areas for improvement. Routine updates, routine updates from human resources on employees utilizing the tuition reimbursement. We currently have three employees who are using tuition reimbursement currently. One is pursuing a master's degree, one a bachelor's degree, and one an associate's degree. Promote cross-training to build versatility and resilience. Currently, Parks is rotating leads through different divisions. The police department is rotating sergeants as acting lieutenant. HR is cross-training on risk management. Public works, streets, and distributions have been cross-trained between divisions. E is leadership academy. Encourage participation in an annual leadership academy to strengthen our supervisors, managers, and future leaders. The city held leadership training for current and emerging leaders at the city covering topics of building and rebuilding trust, critical conversations, successful workplace cultures, and helping individuals own their roles. PROMOTE THE YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION. THE HR DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTES A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER AND ENCOURAGES NOMINATIONS FOR STAFF GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND. WE RECENTLY LAUNCHED A COMMUNITY NOMINATION PLATFORM SO THAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE ABLE TO NOMINATE EMPLOYEES THROUGH OUR WEBSITE. ENHANCE THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE THROUGH ROBUST ONBOARDING PROCEDURES. HR PROVIDES A NEW WELCOME PACKAGE TO ALL FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES AND SCHEDULE STAY INTERVIEWS WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF HIRE TO SUPPORT CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVE THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE. SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE GALT EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE, THIS IS THE GEEK COMMITTEE, TO IMPROVE MORALE, SUPPORT A HEALTHY WORKPLACE CULTURE AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT. THE GEEK SCHEDULES CITYWIDE QUARTERLY EVENTS THAT FOSTER A CULTURE OF ENGAGEMENT AND IMPROVE MORALE. THE CITY HAS NOTICED A HIGH PARTICIPATION IN THESE EVENTS. And lastly is developing a job shadow program that provides part-time and temporary employees with opportunities to explore other departments and roles fostering career development and preparing them for advancement into full-time positions. This has been completed. The job shadow program is active and all eligible employees are able to take advantage of the program. There is a lot included in the strategic plan, and so I would encourage you to take a look at the matrix that's included, and if there are any questions, the directors are very familiar with this plan and can answer any questions that you might have.

Okay, that was a lot. Council. Vice Mayor? No. Council Member Pratton?

Yeah, it was a lot. It was a lot. It's a great presentation. The matrix that you put together, yeah, I spent a lot of time looking it over. Try and decide who was the MVP because there was so much in there. Yeah, great job to everybody. And forming this way lets us know that. So the only thing I would recommend is possibly this presentation or the matrix, have that available when you guys have your have your booth at the Saturday market or something. It answers a ton of questions for people. Just like the other presentations that we get sometimes. A lot of times when community members ask me questions, I'll say, if you really want the information, these are the things that that if you care and you want the information, we pull out these things and send them to them and people love it.

We will be at the Saturday market in October and so we will have that available.

Yeah, I think it's a great idea.

That's all I have.

Council Member Sandhu.

No question, but thank you for the presentation. I know we're working very progressively on that strategic plan. There's a couple, like for a clarification on the economic development. MBT, that's currently working. Can you just kind of explain what that means and who is working on that?

I'll go ahead and let Jenny take that question. It is being handled in the Community Development Department.

So the VMT study is vehicle miles traveled. It's an environmental analysis that's being completed right now by GHD. They're our consultant. We kicked that project off about a month ago and we're hoping to have it done by the end of the year or early next year. And basically that the new policy for the city will allow us to move forward on some of these larger projects where there is currently no VMT policy. So once this is in place, we can work on the annexation and a couple other projects that have been stalled pending this new policy that they can use as part of their environmental analysis.

Thank you. The next information about the 95 acres, right, there was a two component, and then one is the flood zone, right, and the other thing on that property does not have a water and sewer. Correct. And I think the report said we, this is too much cost, we are not going to do, can you just tell me how we come up with that?

So the Kessler property is a 95-acre piece of property that is currently for sale. It is zoned industrial. It was included as part of the industrial annexation that was done, gosh, probably in 2021. So it has been for sale for a long time and one of the challenges with the property is that it is encumbered by a flood plain. So about 50 acres is usable and can be developed. Unfortunately that 50 acres is on the northern portion of the property. and there's no infrastructure. So water and sewer infrastructure are in Live Oak and you need to bring infrastructure to the property to the north and so it's a significant cost. So the idea was that we would complete the floodplain analysis to see if there was a way that the city could work with maybe our federal partners to obtain funding to minimize the floodplain so that we had a larger piece of property to develop. And unfortunately the results of that floodplain analysis concluded that it would be really costly to do that. So we are still looking to work with the property owner to develop the property and to potentially incentivize development as it relates to infrastructure, but the floodplain is definitely a challenge and that's not something we're going to be able to overcome.

Okay, so that the five to 10 million, just the flood plan, what about the water and sewer, if somebody wanted to develop the 50? My concern is, because there's property in the, can become middle of the city, and we can focus on 400, but we need to do something on that property, otherwise this can be middle of the city, can be nothing, so.

Vacant, yes. We are, so the floodplain is going to be a challenge to remediate. We can't do anything there. The 50 acres that is usable is adjacent to the walnut interchange that will be constructed. And so there is value there. The timing of the interchange being so far out, it's hard to get developers interested at this point in time. However, there are things that we can do. We're looking at enhanced infrastructure financing, which is a tax increment financing that we could potentially look at for the property. And there are other tools that we can utilize. It's just finding a willing developer who wants to work with us on the project.

Thank you. And my last clarification, you know, the illegal food vendors. We get a very good job, all the city, except one location. And I drive every day, and I don't know how many times we told them it's not moving. Even if we give them notes, it's not even two, three days, it's come back. So

I think it's been determined.

Anything else we can do it because the same people complaining and then they come back.

And it is an ongoing problem and we have worked with the county partners. As I mentioned, as soon as we close them down, they return. This is an operation that is likely not going to go away anytime soon. And so we have to work with our county partners, with CSD and with CHP in order to continue to address it. And so code enforcement's doing what they can. They are looking at other alternatives that other cities have taken, the approaches they've taken with similar circumstances. And so they are meeting with other jurisdictions, I believe this month it's scheduled, so.

Okay, thank you. What happened is this, and another thing, I don't know, maybe it's small, and your patrol can save, when I drive, you know, when the customer park, they just park almost on the road. So there is, I don't want to be say unsafe, but it is, if you look map or, you know,

And the police department's aware of the potential traffic issues there, and we've asked supervisors to pay attention to that. And so if there are any traffic impacts, especially that come into the city limits, because again, this location is in the county technically. But yeah, we would address those as they come up.

Okay, thank you. And that's all. Thank you again for the presentation.

Yes, thank you. It's a great presentation and I do appreciate also having the visuals to be able to take and show other people or pull up when people are asking. The one thing that I did learn from this is that Rodney needs more to do. That was one of the things. But knowing IT that he probably got everything up to standard tomorrow it'll be obsolete so that just happens but but I appreciate because it you know so much has been done already for a two-year project and our outlook and I am very impressed so thank you. To piggyback a little bit on Mr. Sandu's comments about the pop-ups I don't know who is meeting with the county or and Caltrans because Caltrans owns part of that property Have we asked them to put up a fence along that so that they only have the sidewalk to navigate? Can they put up no parking signs on the other side and allow us to ticket for that if the customers, I mean, it seems like the more of a nuisance we become to those, they'll need to move on somewhere. So those are some of my suggestions, the things that I see happening. That could make a difference. Caltrans probably will complain because it'll be harder to maintain that area with the fence. But maybe there can be some negotiations happening because I do believe they contract that maintenance out. So it really won't bother them as much as they may claim. but those are just some suggestions specifically for that site. I do know that occasionally they, well probably more than occasionally, I'm just not down there but in front of the new Summerfield area because it's so big and there's a lot of space and I know that that has become popular as well but anyway. But otherwise thank you staff, this phenomenal job and everything you do and the human resources part makes me want to come work for the city. All right, any other questions or comments? All right, so we'll go ahead and move on to the Human Resource Department. Resolution of City Council of the City of California establishing one part-time extra help special events police officer position and authorizing a six month over hire for up to two police officers. Trisha.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, Tricia Cobey, Human Resources Director. The item presented before you tonight is a staffing proposal to authorize one new part-time extra help special events police officer position. Our police department continues to face staffing challenges while maintaining adequate public safety coverage for special events and routine operations. The department heavily relies on overtime to staff special events, which has caused scheduling challenges. This part-time position would give the department flexibility to staff special events and other operational needs without creating an ongoing full-time position. The fiscal impact of this request is approximately $79,000. The city and the GPOA have met and conferred in good faith and have agreed to keep this position and remain it unrepresented. Additionally, we are anticipating staffing fluctuations from retirements, resignations, and promotional opportunities. This proposal also includes authority to temporarily hire up to two additional police officers over the authorized budget of 35 full-time equivalents for a period of six months during the fiscal year to address anticipated vacancies and reduce recruitment timelines. The overhires will fill positions that are already budgeted and will be vacant when there is internal movement. So with that said, I am available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, Ms. Kobe. Vice Mayor?

Nothing.

Council Member Pratton?

No question.

Council Member Sandhu?

No question. Thank you.

I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION, SORRY. AND IT'S PROBABLY IN THE STAFF REPORT BUT IT CAME TO MY MIND. IS THE FUNDING GOING TO COME OUT OF MEASURE R OR GENERAL FUND?

THE FUNDING WILL COME FROM GENERAL FUND AND IT WILL BE WITH SOME VACANCY SAVINGS.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

No public comment, I guess.

I'm sorry. It's a public comment. Thank you.

I'll move to approve as stated in the agenda. Second.

Okay, moved by Council Member Pratton and seconded by Vice Mayor Reed. Roll call.

Vice Mayor Reed. Aye. Council Member Pratton.

Aye.

Council Member Sandu.

Aye.

Mayor Rodriguez.

Aye. Motion passes 4-0. Okay, any communication? None. City Clerk's report? None. Comments by staff?

I believe we only have one and that's from Parks and Rec Deputy Director Jackie Garcia.

Good evening, Mayor and city councils. Today, I just wanted to invite you and remind you guys that our Saturday market is this Saturday from 9 to 2. It is going to be our Chalk It Up event. So we have some local artists that will be showcasing their art, and we have over 125 vendors. So we'd love to see you guys out there, as well as we launched our After Hours Tuesday night market. So social media and marketing has been pushed out, and we're getting some great feedback. So hope to see you guys out there, too. Thank you.

That's it?

That's it. All right. Comments by City Council. Vice Mayor Reid.

Let's see. Let's start with Parks and Rec. Do you have the dates of the night market again? I know they're on some document somewhere, but.

Tuesday, October 20th and 27th.

All right, thank you. And then let's just go down the line. Assistant City Manager, do you know, the food vendor thing brought it back to my mind of a conversation that we had before about AB 2315. Has there been any updates on that or where we sit on that one?

for anybody that doesn't know that's the um allowance of people to start selling food out of their homes to people it's like called micro micro enterprise home kitchen that one yes um i haven't heard and i'm on like a news alert for that so it i'm guessing it's still in health committee um i can check up and follow up and let you know but i have not heard that that's moved okay

Well, it would have to have moved yesterday.

Yeah.

So that might be a good thing that you didn't hear anything.

All right. And then we will travel next. How many people have taken advantage of the home buying program?

So far just one, but we have had a lot of interest. Everyone's in different positions to buy and they're kind of basing their decision off interest rates in the market right now.

Yeah, okay. Mr. Buckman, I think you already know what I'm gonna say. Do we have an update on Marengo?

GOOD EVENING, VICE MAYOR REED. I GOT AN UPDATE TODAY THAT THEY STILL DON'T HAVE THEIR FINANCING. IT COULD HAPPEN ANY DAY. THE LAST UPDATE OUR CONSULTANT GOT OUT IN THE FIELD WAS IT COULD BE ANY DAY. BUT APPARENTLY THE DEVELOPER IS BEING GRILLED BY THEIR UNDERWRITER FOR THEIR FINANCING. It's got some concerns with the current absorption rate. And so they're being very they're doing their due diligence very carefully before approving the financing. So, again, it could happen any day, but we've been hearing that for a couple of weeks. Yeah. And once it's approved, Argent has committed to getting, mobilizing the contractor. Immediately, the contractor's waiting for the approval, and then it'll be about six weeks to construct the improvements.

Yeah. And, and I know if there's anything we can do to push them harder or whatever we have to do to get it done, that would be fantastic because, um, even my son the other day asked me when, cause he has to drive that way to go to school every day. And he's like, when are they going to get this done? It's been happening for like three years. But, um, I just, and it's not directly at you. The frustration is at them and I get it, you know, but you know, it's been over a month and a half now that we were told six to eight weeks and it's, or it's five weeks now into the six to eight weeks and they haven't even gotten the financing yet.

Yeah. There, there, there are four weeks where the financing was about two weeks ago. Yeah. It's been continually slipping. So we, we have told them to keep us surprised good or bad. And then we will, do everything we can to get them mobilized as quickly as possible and expedite their construction. Is there anything we can do to put more pressure on them to get this done? OUR REAL LEVERAGE ON THEM IS OUR SUBDIVISION AGREEMENT, AND TECHNICALLY THEY'RE OVER TERM ON THAT. SO WE COULD THREATEN THEM WITH DECLARING A DEFAULT ON THE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT. BUT AS A PRACTICAL MATTER, I'M NOT SURE THAT'S GOING TO GET IT DONE ANY MORE QUICKLY. IF WE SEE CONTINUED DELAY ON THEIR FINANCING, SIGNIFICANT DELAYS ON THE FINANCING, WE MIGHT HAVE TO

staff might have to reevaluate different approaches okay i just i ask that we keep pressure on them because it's they're just stringing us along and not doing anything and it's been too long for them to to fix this project and it's just it seems like it's never gonna get done. I know that's not the case, but that's what it looks like to the people in the community, and that's what it looks like to the people that I hear from all the time.

In their defense, a lot of the delay wasn't on them, it was on AT&T and SMUD getting the utility relocated, but then when that finally happened, their financing went away. And that's because some things changed with their development. They acquired a property and they had to change their improvements and it added some cost. So there's been, some of the delay hasn't been their fault, but we'd like to see them wrap up their financing and have that stop dragging out. You and me both. All right, thank you.

Can I jump in just really quick? What happens if they don't get their financing?

Well, the city has recourse. We have an agreement with financial security that would allow us to complete the improvements if they're unable to. Okay.

And that huge bond that we approved for them to have money, that wasn't part of this financing? No.

I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT. I KNOW THEY'VE DONE FINANCING THROUGH THE CFD FOR SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE. I'M NOT SURE THE EXACT STATUS OF THAT OR HOW MUCH OF THAT BOND FINANCING HAS BEEN USED OR WHAT'S STILL POTENTIALLY AVAILABLE TO THEM. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY NEED ADDITIONAL FINANCING TO COMPLETE THIS INFRASTRUCTURE. And it's an additional subdivision as well. It's all wrapped up into one package.

So, I'm sorry to jump on this, but. It's fine. It sounds like if they don't get their financing we can go in and do it and then what tag it on the back end for them correct or somehow recoup those fees if that's the case is can we set a deadline and say the city's gonna go out and do this and so we can get it done and then they can pay us an interest or something I don't know just to get it done.

So what I'm going to suggest is we either agendize this or have an offline discussion because we're getting a little bit onto something that hasn't been agendized. And it's important to remember that because for the public, if they knew maybe, you know, for example, Council Member Reed's son, if he knew they were going to be having this discussion, maybe he would have wanted to show up to participate in this discussion. So let's just, I'm going to encourage us to move on.

Okay. But that being said, can I, since we're here at this point, can I request this to be a future agenda item?

It's part of the agenda item, so you can. All right.

And you just need three of us to nod our head, correct? Yep, I'm for that.

Yes, I'm with that because I also get a lot of emails on the same area and the same subject. So since Vice Mayor Brigham, I'm not going to make my comment. But it is important. We need to take care of whatever we need to do.

Okay.

That's all I got.

All right, Council Member Pratt.

No comments tonight?

Council Member Smith.

Thank you. First of all, thank you for the staff doing hard work. They're good report, a lot of time. Thank you for the public comments, especially Ken Lee. Thank you, Ken. And thank you for anybody or everybody who ever joined this meeting. Thank you for I'm not asking agenda item, but I would like to ask city manager or chief some kind of presentation if we can in the future about the flood camera. I know public safety is the top of everybody's. We did approve four year. When public bring that kind of comment, I believing in myself and I believe the other one well or not, we have to explain to the public. So if there is any way, instead of agenda item, some kind of presentation from the council, kind of thing, so let's, you know, whatever is out there, so we wanna make sure they're safe, what we have it, if you can.

And the assistant city manager can help me because my memory isn't as good as hers. But my understanding is that the chief of police is working on some information that he will plan to get to the community probably in a couple weeks or so. So I think he's been working on that, but just due to unforeseen circumstances has not been able to complete it at this time. But the plan is to get some information and really more data that's accessible by the public to get information on the flock system. So I would anticipate that coming in a few weeks or so.

Okay, thank you. And with the public, it's something you guys bring to the council. I like to like some kind of short presentation, so it's from the council. Thank you. And that's all.

Thank you. Just really quick, I attended the Harminder Gray Wall wreath laying. That was a very nice ceremony, very nice presentation. And it's always that bittersweet seeing the families there and the Tawn family showing up for support for everything. And it just reminds you of how close-knit our community UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE TO HAVE THOSE TYPE OF EVENTS. THOSE TYPE OF EVENTS. THOSE TYPE OF EVENTS. IT WAS A VERY NICE EVENT. IT WAS A VERY NICE EVENT. IT WAS A VERY NICE EVENT. UNFORTUNATE WE HAVE TO HAVE I NEGLECTED TO MENTION THAT I NEGLECTED TO MENTION THAT I FORGOT TO CHECK 100% THAT I FORGOT TO CHECK 100% THAT I GOT THROUGH SENATE BUT IT GOT THROUGH SENATE BUT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO. WAS SUPPOSED TO. SACOG HAD WORKED ON SOME SACOG HAD WORKED ON SOME LEGISLATION. EXPEDITING BUT MAKING IT MORE EXPEDITING BUT MAKING IT MORE STREAMLINED TO GET PROJECTS STREAMLINED TO GET PROJECTS THROUGH FOR FUNDING AND GIVE US THROUGH FOR FUNDING AND GIVE US MORE ACCESS TO SB1 FUNDING. MORE ACCESS TO SB1 FUNDING. SO IT WAS ALMOST A PARTY WHEN SO IT WAS ALMOST A PARTY WHEN THEY GOT THAT ANNOUNCEMENT WHILE THEY GOT THAT ANNOUNCEMENT WHILE WE WERE SITTING IN THE MEETING WE WERE SITTING IN THE MEETING THE LOBBYIST CAME THROUGH AND So it was pretty exciting. So I'm looking forward to see if the governor signs that, which it sounds like he will. His office was involved in that to help facilitate getting this legislation through. So hopefully that will help with some programming. So with that, is there anything else? Nothing? All right, well, let's go ahead and close this meeting at what, 728?