City Council - Regular Meeting

you so much. Good evening and welcome to the city of Lincoln's regular meeting of the city council. Tonight's meeting will be televised and available on cable channel 18 and via Zoom. This evening's invocation will be given by Pastor Bill Raith of Christian Life Center. Once the invocation has concluded, Mayor Pearl will call the meeting to order. Um, Mr. Mayor and city council people um and city staff, thank you for giving me the opportunity to pray and I appreciate it very much. Uh, if you would bow your heads and close your eyes with me. Uh Lord God, thank you for the opportunity that uh you've given me today to pray for these uh city servants, these people who serve our community. I pray that you would bless this meeting. You'd give them wisdom and uh just favor in everything that they do and every decision that they make. Lord, I pray as uh I do every time. I pray for the the workers that are out in the city that are taking care of us. uh police, the fire department, the city workers, um all those civil servants that are out in the field making sure that everything that the citizens of this city need are taken care of and and are taken care of, Lord God. And so I just pray that you would protect them, be with them, bless them, and uh I just thank you for them. I pray you'd be with city staff as they help our city run smoothly and efficiently and uh and make the decisions to run the day-to-day operations of Lincoln. And I just pray that you'd be with them and again be with the city council members and and the decisions they have to make for our city and uh to help this city be the best it can be. And I just again I pray for blessings for our city and for the people in this room protection and your presence in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you president. Thank you very much. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the March 10th 2026 regular city council meeting and Lincoln redevelopment successor agency. We'll call the meeting to order. Is hope if

you would call the role please. Yes. Thank you. Council member Andrea present. Council member Rei absent perhaps. Perhaps. Okay. Council member Brown here. Mayor Prom Ecklund here. Mayor Pearl

here. Okay. We'll have the honorable elected city treasurer. of the United States of Okay. Um, report from close session. I don't think we No closed session tonight.

Okay. And tonight we uh our city attorney Christine Molikov is on leave right now. We do have a special counsel substituting. So, uh, Doug White of White Brener is here substituting. Thank you very much. We appreciate you're being here and assisting us. We have any agenda modifications? No, mayor. We do have one, I think. Didn't you want to pull the just

Oh, I apologize, Mayor. Thank you. It's good that you have a better memory than I do. Um uh we will be uh pulling item 9A uh which um is the tobacco and vape uh retailers ordinance. Um we identified uh a series of issues with um some of the language that we need to work on a little more clearly and then we'll circle that back to the city council at a at a future date. We're not are we continuing to a date certain or Oh, I if if I may. So it since it has been noticed as a public hearing, we we will need to request the council open the hearing. However, we will not be presenting the ordinance or item. So we're not necessarily pulling the item. We are just going to

okay open the hearing and then request if there is any public who wish to make comment on it, they may comment, but then we will ask that we close the hearing and not move forward with any action. So very good. Thank you, sir. Okay. Any agenda modifications? Uh, council member Rey just text he was stuck in traffic and he's parking be here. Okay, perfect. Very good. Okay, thank you. Okay, we'll move on to presentations 6A the art league uh by Janet um

yeah so as Janet comes up I just wanted to say that so I got the chance to meet with Janet and um Dr. Judy Smith uh yesterday and um we had a really nice meeting and uh kind of cleared up a couple of uh concerns that we had on some other matters and then talked through some of their progress they've made on their programs funded under ARPA and also the most important well as important as the others the public art uh component and so they're here to give you a little bit of an update and it's pretty exciting so I'm excited for you to hear it.

Thank you Sean. Good evening, council members. My name is Janet Phoenix of the Art League of Lincoln. I'm grateful for this opportunity to present our accomplishments over the past year upon receipt of the American Rescue Plan um act funds. I do have a slide presentation here. Um I don't see it up on the screen. Okay, can we get that? Okay. And do I have three minutes or five minutes? I thought I had five minutes. Talk fast. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. So, this is talking about feats of clay. Um, back in 2024, we launched Feats of Clay after a 12-year recess. Um, and it was a regional contest. We had 177 87 entries, 69 artists. Then we went from regional to national. And so you can see there's a significant increase. And then from this last year to this year, we currently have 389 entries, 147 artists. So you can see the growth trajectory. U between 25 and 26 alone it's um 18.5% which is significant. Um so also with the ARPA funds we wanted to talk about the fact that we're using the ARPA funds to match our donors. So that creates um consistent relationship with our donors each year and we have a um pretty good um following. So that is significant. Um so just last year we were able to bring in um around 15 165 in donors. Um some of them was matching.

This year uh we're going to get close to that goal. We did have a reception where we had about 200 people attend this year. We're expecting around 300 people to attend. Um and it looks like, you know, it's going to be a great show. So, also we're doing a street festival for 2026 for Clayfest and that is going to be on May the 16th and we're going to be engaging some nonprofit organizations to do some youth art projects and uh we're also going to be preferencing local vendors for that. This might look familiar somewhat maybe not. Um I was here last um March and did a presentation for a public art project with local schools and this is um the result of that. We do have plaques. So you're seeing the backside of them. So they've been turned around. We have plaques and it identifies the students the grade and the schools they went to. So we had the teachers and the principal got involved with that. We had leather bees ice cream and it was um a really great event and it's also on YouTube if you would like to watch it. Okay. So, we're going to talk about the public art project that we're working on now with the consultant. So, we recently procured the services of Stacy Ray trauma Thomas of Ray Coaching and Consulting to guide us through this process. And she's been helping us design um the program so we can deliver a comprehensive public art program for the city. And this is the first phase. We're about midway through and we'll begin the second phase in April. And so it's four phases and we expect to have them done by the end of the summer. This is kind of a schematic of what it looks like the in of a decision tree. So this shows the flow um of um applicants that come in and we would do the screening and then if it pass then we would send it on to the city and they would do further screening to determine if it met certain regulatory guidelines,

ordinances, that sort of stuff. And the bottom line is we have an efficient program that we've rolled out to the public. It's clear, everyone can understand and it's got a solid framework. I'll talk a little bit about arts and education in the schools. Um last year about this time we piloted a program with funding that we received from the state of California and the county of Senate of Plaster. Um they funded the program 100% and we use that for several things. One of them is to go into Phoenix High. We've been there four years now. We've helped their students graduate with art credits, which they wouldn't normally have. Also, we've been doing part of this component is professional development. We're bringing in the artists into the classroom and they're learning how to teach art, which is important. Um, this year we added four charter schools and we're planning on adding um two more. Um and so significant number of those charter schools have students that are disabled or they're homeschooled. So they don't have access to um normal classroom settings. Okay. And then uh what's moving forward is this last year we had our fourth youth art show which was fantastic and we're having another one this next year that that's a perpetual program that we offer to the community local schools. Um we had two new venues this year. the library. Thank you city for offering that for us to use. Um as well as the county offered the um veterans hall for us to offer classes and so we were able to bring up 30 uh classes online and that was a pilot program and most of the students that attended are from um charter schools which was just something we're just starting. Uh so we anticipate that's going to be very successful for us in the fall. We also have a class coordinator is going to be preparing adult classes and

um also summer camps and Steve Pagono with the event centers offered for us to use some of his spaces. So exciting to put that out. Just to let you know what we do with 1.25 full-time equivalent employees. We have the main gallery. So six street gallery have seven shows a year. We have a spotlight gallery. We have eight shows a year. We are currently using the retenda um with six shows. We have 12 receptions that we roll out. Um again, we had 200 youth um parents and families come to our show um in um January. Um and personally, I'm um as an arts advocate for uh representative for Lincoln and Pler County. um uh been involved with developing the strategic art plan which is going to be rolled down to the individual districts once districts once the county office of education completes it which we're anticipating will be done towards the end of the year. So then that will go down to the schools. So that's um three levels in that pathway. also involved with um regional arts organization. Tomorrow night I'm going to be um uh attending the heroes event. We've been coordinating with um Jennifer Latin of the Western Plaster Unified School District attendant uh superintendent's office on that. We've been doing um collab collaboration on a lot of other things as well. um and and also a woman um active with the Lincoln Serves organization on behalf of the um Art League of Lincoln.

So, how do I do three minutes that I go over? Any questions? Uh thank you for that. What are you doing with the Lincoln SERs? What what um I think that's great that you're getting involved with them, but what how how are you coming in with that? So, we're working with organizations like Kowanos. We're, you know, we've been doing quite a few things, planning with them. Um, we're looking at doing a, um, we're actually planning a poetry out loud program and they have the literacy thing, so we're going to be working on that. And then just being there and listening and finding out ways that we can collaborate. It's kind of a think tank, you know. I think I found it very useful. Yeah, it's a great group.

It is. It certainly is.

Okay. Thank you. Anyone else questions? Thank you, Janet, very much. Okay, next presentation. Uh, Jennifer Brown. Yeah. Title two, digital accessibility compliance update. All right. Good evening, city council mayor. Uh, thank you for having me. I'm here to give you an update on our digital accessibility and compliance. Uh, welcome to my world of unfunded mandates. Uh, most of them have good intentions to start like this one. uh we just have to get creative um on how we solve the problem. And so that's what I'm showing you how we did that here. So today we're going to talk about what is digital accessibility because that's you know pretty broad two big broad terms. Uh what the current laws are and what new 88 title 2 does. Uh some key points and deadlines some exceptions and our our approach and then we'll give you a demo. So what is digital accessibility? So regardless all people regardless of their disability get access to the same functions can same information and can do the same functions. We have amazing technology and uh you know my son has both intellectual and physical

disabilities and I think he's lucky to grow up in this day and age because the uh information that he's able to access that 15 20 years ago people wouldn't have been able to access and things that he can do now things that assist him in learning is amazing. we've come a long way and so you know I think this is um really good steps in in continuing that effort and making uh you know the changes positive for people. Uh visual, auditory and speech disabilities have always been things that have been within the um uh the WG standards. Fine motor and cognitive are are most of the things that they're adding now. And you can see that because most people are on tablets or um on cell phones and they're using their fingers and stuff more. So fine motor comes more into play and then every know everyone loves a capta. So cognitive disabilities and captas I mean you know you can imagine how hard it would get through those. Uh just a stat um on average one in every five people has some form of a physical or hidden disability. And it seems like that's a lot, but when you look at this list of what um the disabilities are, you know, like uh dyslexia, a lot of that goes un unhidden or it goes hidden and un um found um autism, language barriers, you know, just not even be able to speak the language when you're trying to access and get information. And then like physical disabilities. So, um, I thought this was a interesting little slide image over here to kind of explain what the difference is. So, we've always had AB434 that's been around. You had federal section 508, which has had 38 requirements for WAG. Within that was uh the California government code section 7405 and 11. These are just numbers, right? But they

just they all had the same information in them. and AB434 just said government has to do this. That's what that was. Um but the ADA title 2 that was published by the Department of Justice um and gave us this new timeline added the 12 new uh f like things that you have to do to comply uh to have success the success factors. And um they this was passed in um 2024 and they gave uh people with a population of over 50,000 two years to complete it. Sounds doable, right? So um with that I'll show you what is in those requirements. Um, everyone who, these are all the people that complies, pretty much any kind of form of government, be it library, schools, um, any thirdparty contractor or software vendor who works with um, a government agency. And what's interesting is the services that you're providing that have to comply. You know, you um, you go online and make a public um, uh, records request. That form needs to be in compliance with these rules. uh you have emergency or you have educational services. Uh I want to find a book. Those things need to be um able to comply. Uh emergency alerts. You want to sign up to get emergency alerts in your in your city. Those things need to comply. Um I'm going to go over the exceptions first because they sound great, right? There's things that we don't have to do. Um the first one is archived web content. Those would be uh agendas that um were posted prior to April 24th, 2026. And they have to actually be in an archive section of your website, which we do. Um then uh pre-existing documents

that um don't have uh they're they're not needed for people to gain information. So, they're just there for um information. That would be an example might be in a financial report, an archived financial report. Um, a another example would be a something that was uh posted to a by a third party to a website. So maybe like a community calendar. You don't have control over what information someone's putting into your calendar to post to to to make it available to people. If they put put a picture in there and the picture isn't compliant, then you don't have to change their picture. you can let them post their picture and then pre-existing social media posts because we're not going to go back and change those. So, our approach was to um make the digital content access as accessible as possible with our limited staff and resources where possible. Don't change people's workflows. You know, we have different departments that post things to the website and to um to change their workflow or to train them on how to do this is uh is not uh sustainable for what our staff what our staff does. And the cost is a constraint. You can't give someone a blank check to some cities are actually paying companies to make their website accessible and make every PDF accessible and it's costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. So what we did was we um found two products. One we we took we broke it into two pieces. You have your website that needs to be accessible and then you have your um PDFs that need to be accessible. We couldn't find one tool that could do both real well. They're they both had

their strengths. Um our PDFs can be complicated. They can have um graphs and tables. tables are really hard for screen readers to read. Uh so if you don't find a um a accessibility PDF reader that can actually change those tables into something a screen reader can read, then you um it doesn't it doesn't work. The other benefit of this uh PDF tool is if our uh document is too difficult for the screen reader to read or the person's not understanding it, there's a live assistant. they can actually contact someone live and they can be on a call with them asking them questions and the person can walk them through what's actually in the PDF which I thought was really a neat option. So this is um where that they live. The recite me is the little thing on the bottom right corner of our main website and then the doc access when you open a PDF it um opens the toolbar on the side. So now I'm going to do a demo So, here's our website and I just want to make a little note here. Third safest city. We updated it. My so old, but um so here's our website and this is the uh recite me tool that I was talking about. And I'm um going to go to a page that has some text on it. And I'm going to launch this um which brings up this toolbar. I'm going to turn her off to play automatically because she can get kind of annoying. Um, and so when you click on something,

the planning division provides professional guidance and technical assistance to the So then, you know, you can walk through and have her read to you. I have it so that it doesn't go automatically. Right now, I have to push play. If I turned on auto, Jen, you picked the classic Lincoln accent. Yeah. Okay. And you can change it. Do you want a male voice? planning is responsible for managing the all the text to speech. I love that you picked all the British accents. Yeah, it's always my top choice.

So then um you can adjust the font size however you would like. You can um change the font uh to something that maybe is more readable for you. You can do the focus text, which is how um it helps dyslexic readers read. Um Yep. That's You see how it's um bold like on the beginning words? Oh, I see that. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. So, that helps them be able to read it.

Yeah. You can um turn it into another language. Uses, you know, Google Translate. So, it has thousands of languages for you to choose from. You can change the colors. You can um this is what something I think is really cool. This is for people with like a ADHD. Um you if you have a page with a lot of text, you can um walk down it. Um so, if you want to see the page structure, gives you like how everything's laid out on the page, they have dictionary, right? So like maybe um you have an intellectual disability and you don't know what administering means. So it'll get up a well that didn't work. It tells you what development is, you know, and it gives you a a definition of what that is. Live demos are really fun. I'm just going to tell you right now. Um, and then, uh, page summarizer is an AI tool that they use. And, um, this is really neat because, uh, what it does is it'll break down the page, um, so that it's not as, um, doesn't have so much information on it. So, it just gives you kind of the key bullet points of that page so you don't have to read the whole thing. So, um, I'm going to go back to this to our website. turning off the recite me um toolbar. And then I'm gonna um pick a a development plan because they are really complicated and long and lots of words and the PDFs are hard for screen readers. Um just to give you an idea like um to make a PDF accessible things that they think about are what the order is of everything. um when when something is all caps like this um it thinks that's an acronym so it's going to spell it doesn't read it um so you have to take all those things into

considerations when you're using capital letters and acronyms and there's just there's so much that goes into um a PDF but what I'm going to do is I'm going to this is a really good example so this is a table that's like when when you're looking at it and you're reading it it might take you a few minutes to go through it and but you can understand what what it's telling you right so um but that a screen reader wouldn't be able to because it doesn't know the colors. Like it's not going to be able to say this is a separated color and it has these columns and you know that kind of information. So you can turn off you can turn this into um an accessible view. And what that does then is it um breaks it so that it's easier for a screen reader to read. And then uh it's telling you that this page is really complex and the screen reader will read this to the person. It's telling them that it's really complex and use live assistance if you want. It's on the sidebar and then we can walk you through on what this table means. And so it's just it has like I think it has really neat things if you wanted to translate it into another language. And I don't know what language that is, but um you can it it translates everything. It'll do it for uh PDFs where they're fillable forms. Um, so if someone is filling out a form for new utility service or something that they can change it into another language, how back to the summary um part like how how the AI will summarize is that is it able to do that on every single page or even just a specific area? Can you show really quick how to do that again?

Yeah. So, um, if I turn on the recite me toolbar, and she's probably No, she's she remembered. Um, and if I go to let's go to a page that has I need to find a page that has some good information. That's okay. So, this talks about server rates and and everything, right? So what we're going to do is we're going to simplify the content and what it does is it says so for I have to turn let me close this. So it what it does is it takes all the information that you had and it just does like a bullet point of it. So it says it's not going to summarize this page because I'm in a live demo. Um, I think I'm in. Okay, I'm in simplifying. So, it's trying to simplify everything as I visit it. I don't know. It um it worked for me this morning.

Yeah, that's okay. Um but so that is where we are with um with the tool. we've met actually met and exceeded compliance. We are also um uh doing all PDFs. So any agendas even that are archived, they'll show up in that doc access and um you can uh do all the same stuff with them. Um I want to take one second to give um some major kudos to my admin who's right there and she did this.

Wow. I uh gave her this project and she ran with it and she implemented the whole thing. Um and she did an amazing job and um we're lucky that she's here. How many hours do you think it took for you guys from combined start to finish ballpark and do hours? So this is Clarissa. Nice to meet you. Um, this project took many months of meeting and fine-tuning things. So yeah, it took took a while.

Yeah, very impressive. So useful. So every every jurisdiction's going to have to comply the same thing. Is it this? Sorry if I missed you saying that, but is this the same software that everybody uses or is it they're all kind of a variation of this? So, people are taking different approaches. So, a lot of people are doing training of staff to get their staff trained to to create their pages in compliance. Um, which is not sustainable. Like that you just there's so many little things that you have to worry about when you're making these page. I mean the color the the color between um like blue on white is okay but blue on yellow might not be okay. So like contrasting of colors and colors there's just a lot that goes into it fonts. Um so

well I am thoroughly impressed with your implementation. I love this stuff. Jen I'm really feeling my age let me tell you comments. Yeah, I was gonna say more and more um I am finding how useful AI is. So my question to you would be how often did you use AI in your quest in the last months to put this together? Well, and hopefully I I the answer is a lot because I find it to be very useful.

Yes. So we we um use AI for doing all kinds of things. This is for um what's really nice about the AI for this is it's on the fly um just a public information um simplification. Um it does say that it's um been translated or you know been queried by AI. So um there's that that piece to it. Uh but I mean yeah it's it's a tool that is going to be useful when used correctly.

Right. Well, that's kind of what I was getting at. You don't use AI to do your homework for you, but it it's kind of like what Google used to be, right? Where people were like, "Oh, this is so or whatever is going, but it was a very useful tool and and this is going to be the same."

Mayor, if I may, just wanted to um little bit of praise. So, because I spent a lot of time talking with other cities about things like this, mandates that we have to comply with and timelines, um, one of things I'm really proud of is I can tell you, I won't point out who, there are many other jurisdictions that aren't anywhere close to getting to a compliant level. You know, we've look, we've been there at times with with things that we need to do by a deadline and we just couldn't practically do it. So, just wanted to thank Jen and her team that were ahead of this curve um, big time. I am not surprised and you're not allowed to go anywhere.

Thank you very much. Any questions from the audience? Oh, do we have anyone on Zoom? Thank you, Jen. Superb. So impressive. Brag on that later.

Okay, we'll move on to public comment on non-aggenda items. All speakers will be limited to three minutes unless extended by the mayor. All comments or questions should be addressed to the mayor and in most cases the city council is prohibited from discussing or taking action on any item not appearing on the posted agenda but may engage in brief discussion provide direction to city staff or schedule items for future future meetings. Hope. Do we have anyone uh do we have any cards today?

We do. Thank you. We'll go ahead and start with Stan Nater. Mr. Mayor and Council, my name is Stan Nater. I live in the 12 Bridges area. The last time I spoke with you, I was highlighting the importance of the city placing a halfsent sales tax measure before the residents of Lincoln in support of public safety. As I stated, the city has made many promises to the men, men and women who serve and protect our community. It's time for the city to deliver like a new uh police station. The city has provided a very nice facilities for the city's firefighters, and it is time for the police officers to receive the same treatment. In the late 80s, the city's police station was located behind the downtown civic center in a modular building about the size of a shoe box. From there, they were moved to the old city hall at Beerman Plaza. And from there, they were moved to the current location at 7th and H, which has required numerous renovations. There was at one time a plan to locate the police station next to the corpyard at the airport which never came to fruition. I realize that finances are tight at this moment, but it would do the city well to put a solid plan in place to provide a police station

that this community deserves given the expanding growth of our community. Thank you. Thank you, Stan. Anyone else?

Yes. Next is Stella Greenhouse. Hi, Mr. Mayor. Uh, I live in downtown Lincoln. Um, I was just wanted to make a public comment about the um tax sharing agreement and the conversations we had last year and just want to make sure we keep a a thumb on that to ensure that as we go forward in developments or negotiations that we are negotiating for the we're what we're due what we're what we're eligible for and what we um should receive as a city. So, I just wanted to put that back out there as um we don't forget and also as we go to recoup some of the um inequalities I think is the term that's there. So, I just want to bring that to the attention. Thank you.

Thank you. So, the discussion goes on. Thank you very much. Open anyone else? No one on Zoom. No one on Zoom either. Okay. Very good. So, we'll close public comment over there. consent calendar. Uh council, any of my colleagues want to pull an item, staff,

public comment.

Thank you, Mayor. I do have several cards. Um first one is from Stan Nater regarding item 8D. Mr. Mayor and Council, six months ago, the city manager announced that the staff would be bringing forward the 2025 water master plan update for council consideration. He indicated the discussion between the staff and the council would be robust and mind-bending. After reading through the document, that was not an understatement. I found the most chilling realization was that when I studied figure ES-1, which shows the city's max day demand exhausting the city's current available water supply, including water supply coming from groundwater. From the chart, it appeared this will occur at the 15-year mile marker from the date of the update. That may seem like a threequarters of a generation from now, but when one considers the time it takes to complete environmental reviews for projects, including moving entitlements were needed, planning and design of projects and construction, and most of all being able to pay for all this. Today is is not too early to start preparing for the future given there is not a patch of dirt that is not being built on in the city.

The chart that should catch everyone's attention is in chapter 10 of the update which shows existing funding requirements to be 7,186,000 and the five-year need to be a 100 million349,000 and the buildout cost coming in at 500,539,000. If that doesn't take your breath away, I don't know what will. The update has considerable discussion around the use of groundwater wells to augment the city's water supply. There is a potential challenge to doing this which includes a state wanting to control how much water can be drawn from groundwater wells. 2012 an aquifer water level depression was identified near the city and still exists to until today. There are some lands and sidence and some areas have elevated levels of boron, bold solid, dissolved solids and nitrates. This clearly I will have further comments in the future.

Thank you. Any other comments?

Do uh Stella Greenhouse would like to comment on 8 and 8 J. Yes. Uh the Mc Bean pool, I just wanted to call that out. It sounds like we're doing some focus there and as we near the summer, I think it's really important that we think about the community overall in regards to um accessing it. Um, when I went to the pool this last summer, I took my 14-year-old at the time and then my three other kids, all year younger, um, to try to check them in and have them swim at the pool while I got some things done at the house. And there was like a rule against it. So, I just wanted to talk to the staff through you, mayor, and see if we can understand how we make that accessible to the community. Um, someone there had said that 5 10 years ago, it was much easier for the kids to go and use it. Um, I think that uh it would be an attraction for our local residents and if we can really look at the management of the pool um I think we have a great um training program for the the um lifeguards and I think we have a well staffed team there but um maybe why it's underutilized is some of the restrictions or how do we make it open access so that more kids can have something to do over the summer. So thank you.

Thank you. So I had another comment on there which was Jay. Was it Jay? Okay. Oh, that's the community center park. I just want to tell you guys I'm really excited about it. So, good go get it team and I appreciate getting extra funding from the county and I look forward to seeing that um that come into fruition. So, go get it. Thanks. And we will. We will. Thank you. I don't see anyone else in the audience with comments and no one through Zoom. No one's on Zoom. Okay. Very good. Bring it back to the council. Any comments at this point? Okay. Very good. Call for a motion. I'll move. I'll second. Okay. Good. All in favor say I.

I. I. Post. Nope. Good. Very good. Thank you very much. Okay. We'll go on to public hearings. Now we can now we can make the adjustment. Okay. Thank you, uh, Mr. Mayor and city council. And again, uh, this has been agendaized as a public hearing. So, uh, we would just state for the record that, uh, no draft ordinance is being presented at this time and we are not requesting any additional access by council until staff has an opportunity to provide further review and input and and bring back a draft ordinance. But, however, because a public hearing has been noticed, we ask that you public open the public hearing and take any comment that may be available.

Thank you. Okay, we'll open the public hearing. Public comment. arising.

Hi, uh, Cella Greenhouse in downtown Lincoln. Um, so I came at the first public meeting hearing for it and I shared something very personal that's happening in my house and why I was excited to see this um, topic be discussed in our city. Um, I really appreciate what the council, I think you guys might have heard me from the gallery speaking about. Thank you for um, putting this off and sending it back to the staff. Um I did have a chance um council member Reedy to uh take a look at the ordinance. So I appreciate uh the team of our council members doing that. Mayor um and in regards to um the ordinance first off I kind of just searched mayor who else has tobacco vape um regulations and um I found that that uh Beverly Hills had one existing for like the last six years. And so I kind of looked at it and compared between what their ordinance was and what we are. And I agree with the council's conversation that um this ordinance isn't going to solve the problem we're having. Um and I think that it's good that we the staff wants to take it back and take a look at um what the council's direction was. Um more so I I I do understand this kind of like three and a third football field, a thousand yards or feet that we're looking to uh do. But where my comment comes in is we're wanting to I think we as a city are want to be a destination city having events and having things to draw public into um our city and so uh when people come to visit they might want to buy those kind of products and we need to be able to vend them as a city um as well. Um but specifically on the on the ordinance um there was one section on compliance monitoring. I thought that the Beverly Hills had really nice um the Beverly Hills city um had compliance monitoring where they actually listed that they might have a youth go out and like test out the waters um I for whatever that may look like. So I thought that was a difference between us. Um the other

thing that I tabbed on the Beverly Hills um one was in regards to um about no person that's vending that's under the age of legal age to uh to purchase that they should be vending. And I think that makes a difference for our schools that might be combating kids that might be retailing on the campuses. Um, but one thing and I got a minute left that I didn't really like in our ordinance and I'm going to say it here is um this comment about severability. Uh, and I believe we pay our legal team very well hundreds of thousands of dollars that they should be able to protect us constitutionally. Constitution doesn't change. So, we had this like pardon in the in the in the ordinance that said if anything's deemed to be unconstitutional, we are sorry. But I don't think that we should ever be sorry and compromise our constitution. Anything we put forward should be straightforward to the constitution. So, that's in there actually twice at the beginning and at the end of it, Mr. Mayor. Um, and then, um, the last thing in the the amount of locations, uh, I think that Thank you. Thank you. So,

no other comments. Okay. Any comments uh from Zoom? Okay, good. We'll close the public hearing. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And again, we're just not uh requesting any action at this time and we'll come back at a later date. Time to be determined. Very good. Thank you very much. General business. Uh 10 alpha. Adopt a resolution amending and restating special assessment and community facility centric goals and policies. Miss Racker.

Okay. I'll just start this off and then I'm going to hand it over to our bond council Brian Forbath who is online but I just wanted to briefly uh remind everyone that uh our policy current policy is very very old and uh we have been working to update it uh for a period of time uh and communicating with council doing workshops public outreach we've also connected with our development community in fact we have done so much work to uh partner on this with the development velment community but still build a strong policy that uh preserves the community that or preserves the city that our uh local representatives from the BIA you will notice are notably absent and that is because they agree with the intent of the council for this policy and it's I think a ringing endorsement that we are partnered with them in in a way that protects us and with that I'm going to hand it over to

and kudos to the staff by the How long has that policy been in exist? I remember when I read it, it's a long time. Yeah, I think it's Brian helped me out. Was it like 50 years old? That's probably 87. 1987 was originally drafted. Yeah. And then there was a policy directive in 2018 that related to some services, CFDAs, but the original policy dated back to a long long time. So, a little out of compliance with current law. Nothing's changed. They were just Yeah. I mean, thank you.

Yeah, good good evening, Mayor, council members. Brian Forba, thank you for allowing me to zoom in this evening. I really appreciate it. Um, so, uh, you know, I think Nita did a good job setting the table of how we got here today. Just remind folks to remind everybody in the audience that we first showed up with the draft policy back in March of 2025. And at that point in time, uh, council directed staff and us to reach out and share that policy with the business community. that was done. The council held a workshop on October 23rd, 2025. And at that point in time, we received um some policy direction from council and um you know, Nita and myself and Councilman Rei went back and sort of fine-tuned some of that direction that we received from council. And that's reflected in the red line of the policy that's before you this evening. if if you have that red line that really shows sort of the changes from the workshop and I'll I'll briefly summarize those changes. I think you know the first uh significant change was just the direction that uh the council is not going to allow for the financing of deferred fees particularly the Sparta fees. Uh the second piece of this would be that there's a maximum 40-year term for any of the special taxes to be levied on property. uh a prohibition against the concept of transition events where the uh facilities tax transitions after 30 or 40 years to a services tax in perpetuity. Um again uh there's much discussion we had about conduit issuers and the policy allows for the use of conduit issuers for developments under 150 units and if they're over 150 units uh the consent of the city council is

needed prior to proceeding with that on a conduit issue basis and then I I think pursuant to um council's directions and And maybe it was the city managers also. There's a provision in here that that says that, you know, essentially staff's got 90 days to present the request to um the developer request to council for consideration. Um another aspect of it um of the policy changes is limits on payo to developers. Essentially, developers are entitled to POGO really only until the first series of bonds or or if there's a multiple series of bonds uh until the final series of bonds is issued just so that there's not a fluctuation in the levy of taxes on homeowners and it's intended to stay levy but not allow for PIGO on a long-term basis to developers. Um, and it only allows the city to collect payo for infrastructure which it determines to be a public benefit infrastructure, something that benefits more than just the development itself, but the larger um public benefit. Um and then another aspect that's memorializing the changes is that any refunding of CFD bonds, the savings that gener that's generated from the savings uh generate from that refunding would would enure to the benefit of homeowners and not be like a cash out refunding where we take those savings and then monetize it for more public improvements. Um and then again I think the final one really is just that uh there would no there would not allow what we would call wraparound debt service financing on future series of bonds where you know if the first series of bonds went out 30 years and had level debt service or debt service that slightly escalated say 2% a year we

wouldn't you know two years later issue another series of bonds for 30 years that the last two years had, you know, giant debt service to match what the the previous bonds were. And I I think that was all sort of direction that we got at the workshop and working through staff and uh with council member Rei to sort of finalize and what's reflected in the um red line before you this evening. With that, I'm more than happy to answer any any questions you all may have. Thank you very much. comments from or questions from the council.

I'll just make a comment. I I know how much work and um discussions and deep dives everybody went into this and I think this is such a a win for homeowners that there will be an end eventually and it's not just a continuation of um payments and perpetuity. So, this is really um beneficial for homeowners and I'm really glad again that Nita confirms that we've got partnership and and everybody's on the same page. Agreed. The fact that the building industry associate is not here, you know, says just great things about the staff and how well everyone work together.

Yeah. In fact, I saw him just this afternoon and just confirmed everything was all good and he's like, you know, I can send a letter saying we support it. He's like, but I think it it's, you know, you know, we support it. You can tell them we support it. At the last regional BIA meeting, in fact, uh, Jeff Schwar was defending the policy to the rest of the development community in the room and telling them, extoelling its virtues. It was I called him out. I said, "Are you supporting me right now? What is going on?" That is not happen stance. Take the win, Nita.

I did. I took I took it. No, I just want to um thank Brian and our partners in the development community and the staff. Um we got to a good place and I think it'll serve Lincoln for a long time uh to come. So, thank you. Cool. Uh anyone in the audience wishing to speak on this subject?

Do Mr. Mayor I have a speaker card from Stan? Mr. Mayor and Council, when the council previously discussed CDF, CFD management, there was a conversation about bringing that in house. In reading the staff report and the goals and objectives and the resolution, it did not appear that this matter was being addressed at this time. My question is am I correct in that in my assumption? Also, I noticed that something no longer appears in the staff reports and that is report accountability which states that this report has been reviewed by the city attorney for legal sufficiency and the city manager for content. I went back to a council meeting February 11th, 2025 to find that language. I will assume that this agenda item does comply with that verbiage. Thank you.

Thank you, Stan. Did you want me to respond to that? Yes, please.

Okay. So, I uh will affirm that the city is uh managing some additional CFDs in house. In fact, uh we did two this year. uh that were well I'm sorry I apologize one that was interior as kind of a pilot case to determine that uh we had systems in place to develop those and to manage them effectively. Uh and um uh that has proven to be successful. Uh so that is the case right that the policy does say that over a certain size they can still go out to bold with no problem. If they are a larger size and want to use a conduit service such as Bold or Skip, they can still do that. They just need the approval of council, which we would support. If someone wants that, we'll bring it forward and say, "Here's why, and here's the reasons." Uh, and so that's easy peasy. And as for the change in the uh agenda item format, we have an electronic approval system. So, in fact, I had this conversation with our auditors with our new finance system. We have an electronic approval system uh within our uh our agenda management process. And so these written hand approvals are no longer required because there is an electronic footprint of everyone who touches the document and approves the document.

All right, moving forward. Sean,

I'll just add a couple things. um in reverse. Um I won't say that there isn't periodically a report or so that's very routine in nature that I don't read every single word of, but virtually everything else um I have eyes on and legal has eyes on before it ever clears to get onto an agenda. So uh but I think the point is well taken that I think Mr. ator's comment is that that language reinforces to those people in the public that hey somebody's look at this. Um the reality though of course is that if that wasn't the case um we have a pretty attentive community and council that would be calling us out on that I think pretty quickly. Um uh as it relates to in-house um CFD management, one other thing that Nita didn't mention is um whether or not bold makes sense will end up being a very interesting kind of policy discussion for council on a case- by case basis. Um remember that early on when we had this discussion some of the initial feedback we got from the building community was look we don't mind if you were to be the ones who manage these CFDs in house but our concern is that you know Lincoln has a kind of lighter staff compared to most other agencies and to do you have the capacity actually to do this and is a fair comment. Um so the pilot one that we did this year we actually challenged one of our developers who wanted to go through bold and we said can let us do a sales pitch to you. can you let us try it this time and if it's a huge embarrassing failure, you're going to tell everyone it is and then we obviously won't ask again. Um but that didn't happen actually. I think we ended up beating some timelines and the flexibility of working through the process directly with a person that you can go see every day like Nita. Um what I heard back was that they were very very happy with the service they got. And so our theory is that the council could certainly choose to

force developers to do that. um we think we're actually going to provide a better service and so they're going to choose willingly to do it because it'll be probably less expensive, quicker, and more kind of abject local control. So we'll see what happens. Perfect. Thank you very much. Good comments. Yeah, just shows our wonderful finance staff. Hope anyone else anyone on Zoom? Good. Thank you very much. shall bring back to the colleagues for any comments, final comments. If not, motion to accept. I'll move to adopt. Second. Okay. Favorite say I

opposed. Oh, good. Okay. Perfect. Very good. Thank you very much. A great win, Nita. Without a doubt. Uh 10 Bravo, adopt a resolution authorizing staff to file reports with the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and California Department of Housing and Community Development and review and accept the 2025 general plan and housing element annual progress report. Jeff Sanchez,

thank you. Um, good evening, city council. I Sanchez, senior planner with community development department. The item we have before you is the 2025 annual progress report, which is a report designed to monitors the city's implementation of the general plan. State law requires that each California jurisdiction prepare an annual progress report. The same state law requires that the APR be presented to the local legislative body for review and acceptance prior to submitting to the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, LCI, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development, HCD, by April 1st. The housing element portion of the APR is prepared through the use of a standardized Excel workbook adopted by HCD, which is why it's been included as attachment number three. In addition to state law, the city of Lincoln general plan policy LU8.1 requires staff to share the APR with both the planning commission and city council annually as part of a procedural matter. The city of Lincoln's general plan has a total of 109 implementation measures across seven elements. The table found on the slide is a summary of the progress the city has made towards implementation. Additional specific information about this implementation measures can be found in attachment one. 16% of the implementation measures are completed, 65 of them are in progress, and 19 are yet to be initiated. The 2008 general plan guides the orderly development of the city with a planning horizon of 2050, representing a builtout population of of 132,000 residents. This slide is a summary of the information available in the housing element portion of the APR. In two in 2025, the city permitted 411 dwelling units. Of those, 12 were ADUs. Currently, we're in the housing element six cycle, which spans from May 15, 2021 through May 15, 2029. The state has assigned the city of Lincoln arena of 5,120 units.

To date, the city has delivered 2,886 housing units towards meeting the RENA targets, which leaves us the remaining balance of 2,287 units by the time we reach the end of the housing element six cycle in May of 2029. Reno numbers themselves are planning targets, not direct build quota. So, the state generally does not find or penalize the city simply because the market did not produce enough housing at those income categories. Serious consequences are only triggered when the city fails to adopt and maintain a compliant housing element and fails to plan and zone enough land to accommodate its arena, which can result in reduced local decision-making authority, including build remedy, increased litigation risk, and loss of eligibility or competitiveness for certain state funded programs. As you can see here in the table, um this past year in 2025, we were able to build 411 total units. And of those, um you know, mo most of them, 396 were at market rate and then um 15 of them were affordable. As part of the housing element annual progress report APR, I reviewed permit records for 411 dwelling units and classified each unit into five HCD affordability category. For ownership units, ownership units, HCD's affordability thresholds indicates that homes priced above 111,000 for 411,000 do not qualify as affordable. This is difficult in Lincoln because the average sale price is about $319 per square foot. At that rate, a home would need to be approximately 1,200 square f feet to be priced at or below the moderate income affordable threshold. Um, for rental units, ADUs and one-bedroom apartments are typically rent uh typically rent for about 1,600 to 2,255 per month. Based on these

rents, the units that meet HCD's affordability thresholds in our APR documentation were primarily ADUs, including such as garage converted ADUs. Um, so this table here, as you can see, um there we go. Um the first four categories are affordable. And then this category here on this row, that's um market rate. So, I have a breakdown of what um you know those would be classified as affordable. The right here where it says AMI, that's the area medium income for a family of four, that's 120,800 a year. And so, anything above this uh 411,000 is essentially market rate. So, that's where like the cut off is. Um, so it's really hard to create affordable housing when all new construction that we're building is, you know, above that. So that's just wanted to state that. Um, so that leads us to our recommendation. Staff recommends um the city council determine that the general plan and housing element annual progress reports are not a project under section 15378 of the SQA guidelines. review and accept the 202 2025 general plan and housing element annual progress reports and adopt a resolution authorizing staff to file the reports with the with LCI and HCD by April 1st. That concludes my presentations. Let me know if you have any questions.

Open up for my colleagues. Okay, thank you for that. Really appreciate it. Did I understand you correct that in this uh reena cycle from 2021 to 2025? 2029. That that was is that the years? Yeah, 2029. So, I'm sorry, eight years. So, when's the final year? Uh May 15, 2029. 29. Okay. Thank you. When I was looking at the chart, I thought it was 25 and that confused me. Oh, no. Sorry. because we're because we're only like halfway there, right? Okay, that's okay. That's I just wanted to clarify. I mean,

not that I really care what the state thinks, but I I just was wanted to make sure I had my numbers correct. 29. Okay, it's eight years. Yes, I knew. Okay, I thought I saw 25 on there and that was that confused me. Okay, thank you for that presentation. I really appreciate that. There was an amazing amount of information in there. Thank you. I went through that. Yeah. Yeah, we're we're doing um I believe a lot better than other communities when it comes not just meeting the numbers but doing our best to make it. Oh, doing whatever we can and as much as we can. Absolutely.

Well, and at the right rate, too, because as much as the state wants us to build tons, you know, responsibly and I think we're doing Okay, good. Take it out to the audience. Do we have any cards? Anyone? Cella,

I sell a greenhouse. I still live in downtown Lincoln. Um I I just I just I just wanted to get a chuckle and but I I did really want to say, Mr. Mayor, how important the general plan is. Um, and I, um, took attention to it and I kind of got a superficial understanding of the general plan and how hard the team and our staff is working on updating it and asking the appointed as well as elected officials in the city to give input. So, um, I just want to exhort our council to try to wrap your head around this general plan work that's been done, what needs to be did, and go forward. If you have not had a chance, there's a lot of topics, Mr. mayor that you guys are to deal with. Um, but this general plan and this update and revision they're going through is um is very robust and you saw the update that he said of all the things they've already completed and what's going forward um in one of his slides. So, um I I know that it's something that's on my mind to come back and look at as a public person and providing feedback as possible, but um I really appreciate all the work the staff's been doing and the attention they've been putting on this this general.

Thank you very much. Anyone else in the audience would like to comment on this item? Okay. Zoom. No one through Zoom. Great. Very good. Final comments from the colleagues. No, I just appreciate the all the work. It was That's good. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. Very good. And and we're just accepting the report. I think that's is that it? We're just accepting the report. Do we have to do we have to take a motion on it? We do. We do have to take a motion. Okay. I I move to approve the the other part. Do we hear a second? Then thank you very much. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Nope. Okay. Very good. Carries.

Thank you very much, everyone. Thanks very much. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Okay. Ten Charlie um adopt a resolution approving the salary schedule for the newly established senior property and evidence technician classification. Veronica.

Good evening, mayor, council members. As outlined in the staff report, the city recently established the senior property and evidence technician classification for the Lincoln Police Department. Previously, this uh series consisted of two levels. The level one which was entry and level two journey. Um the series did not include the advanced level to provide technical leadership and independent decision making. The police department currently has one property and evidence technician, too, and no additional dedicated property and evidence staff. The department's operational needs require an advanced level role to handle complex evidence work. The current incumbent that holds the two level possesses possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform at the advanced level. Establishing the senior level will allow the department to allocate the current incumbent to the appropriate level. And in accordance with the city's municipal code and Kalpers's regulation, staff is recommending approval of the proposed salary schedule for the newly established senior property um and evidence technician classification. And the estimated cost of this proposal for the remainder of this fiscal year is $3,223 which can be absorbed I'm sorry it's $3,233 and can be absorbed within the department's authorized budget. This concludes my presentation. I can now answer any questions you may have.

Thank you Veronica. Colleagues I think it's a very good but on an annual annualized basis what would that be Veronica? roughly approximately it's $30,000 critical 13,000 13,000 per year. Sorry. Yeah. Very good. Okay. Move it out to Do we have any cards? We do. Thank you. Stella Greenhouse.

Hey, Mr. Mayor. Uh just a comment in regards to this position. Um sounds wonderful and it's good to know that we're adding classification for that position. Um, I didn't know if that means that we have a classification if we ever need to expand from one person to two people or three people and that she can have some support or he or she um can have some support in that role. Um, and then just another thing in regards to adding roles to the police department, I think that one time during budgetary they talked about adding dispatch and so I just didn't know if uh she could also speak on that. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in the audience wishing to comment on this item? Do we have anyone? No. Okay. Anyone on Zoom? No one through Zoom.

Okay. Thank you very much. Final comments from my colleagues. Nope. Very good. Accept a motion. I move approval. I'm sorry. Say again. Was a question answered. Oh, which question was that? So, come back up please and just repeat the question. By creating the classification, does that allow us to grow as a department to add a secondary or third principle in the future? Um and then also in regards to um the police department maybe adding a dispatch that was something that was talked about in the past during budgetary options. So the dispatch Sean or or Matt I think Veronica can handle that.

So yeah establishing the senior level does allow for the future um uh authorization of positions that can report to this individual but at this time there is no additional positions in the budget for the police department. Thank you. And what was the second question was What's up? Oh, um, yeah, that doesn't pertain to this particular item. And so, um, I can defer to to Chief Elves on that item. In the future, it's definitely part of the plans. Uh, just not at this moment during this budget cycle. Okay. Thanks, okay. Uh, we said no one else on Zoom, right? Okay. So, we have move second.

Second. Thank you. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. No. Good. Thank you very much. Okay. Very good. Got through the agenda. City manager reports. Mr.

Yes. Thank you. A couple things. So um just to touch real quickly. We got notification that um Safe Wise, which is the organization that rates um crime crime rates and statistics uh throughout California, uh has upgraded Lincoln from the fourth safest city in California to the third safest city, which is pretty cool. And um one of we had this kind of tongue-in-cheek discussion last time that depending on uh one of the cities above us I believe was Danville and if you count down Danville as Northern California which I don't um we would be number one in Northern California. Um but um more seriously, what I I think you've heard Chief and I kind of talk a little bit about um crime statistics and this concept that you know you live and die by them if you spend too much time obsessing over them. They're an important part but they're not the only part of policing. But one interesting thing if you believe in you know the law of probabilities is that um the data indicates that in Lincoln um we have a violent crime instance of 0.9 per 1,000 residents. Um so what does that even mean? Well, the best way to think about it is it's it's roughly four times better than the state average of 4.24 violent incidents per 10,00 residents. Uh so um as I've said a bunch of times in other places um if you if you believe in that then you're less likely to be a victim of violent crime in Lincoln than virtually almost anywhere else in in California. So it's a good place to be. The reason why I think it's important to highlight and of course be proud of isn't just that it's an achievement, but um it kind of goes towards something that um Stanator has mentioned a couple of times and I know the council's talked about that this is a great position to be in, but it doesn't remain this way

just by having a great police department and keeping doing what we're doing. Crime evolves and it changes as the culture of community shifts and changes. And so continuous investment in police and fire is is super important and we'll be having more discussions on that here very shortly. Um only two other really quick updates. Um we have EDC tomorrow and a couple of interesting updates on our business support program. Um strategic planning. We are sending uh for the first time I believe ever um uh two people. We're sending Daniela and one of first time I believe ever. one of our EDC uh committee members to the shop uh international shopping center convention in Monterey where they will go and try to work on a variety of different brands that we're interested in bringing into Lincoln and offer some uh various incentive programs that we have to incentivize them to attend here. Um you may recall I attended one last year. It was a really big one that almost was overwhelming on one person and probably 50,000 people in this place. So it sort of was tough to make a whole lot of progress there. This is a smaller, more specific and California centered um convention and so u it's a good place to be as an organization where you can send people to this um proactively to try to get some of the retailers that the community has told us that they're interested in. So super excited about that. And finally, just also kind of on the economic development communication side, Erin and Danella have done a really good job and they have submitted the city of Lincoln for a variety of different um awards based on work that this council and previous have done over the years um in kind of an effort to be a little better at not just completing something we're very proud of and then forgetting about it, moving on to the next thing. Um so our all-americ city uh application is in. We would hear about that later this month. Um we are submitting for at least one if not two

Helen Putinham League of California City awards which is the most prestigious award you can receive as a jurisdiction in California. Um and then a few others one a couple of regional ones to greater Sacramento uh Sacramento Economic Council and and another so um and we you know regardless of whether or not we're successful it's been a worthwhile process to kind of go back and think about those projects and make sure that they continue to move along. Um, one of them that we are submitting, uh, we picked all kinds of different things we've done over the years and you can contact me on offline if you'd like to know the details, but one of them was the Village 7 school agreement, which is so different and unique that we thought it might be interesting um, for a reviewing body to to consider. And um, along those lines, I just wanted to give council an update. We have a deadline approaching that I was reminded of um that we have to have joint use um agreements in place uh I think by late April is our deadline, maybe. And um so we've started those discussions. They're going super well with the school district coming up with some interesting ideas about how to program the large multi-purpose um gym for city events and sports on those fields. And um conversations have gone really well um so far. So, we'll have hopefully have something to um workshop with you at a future meeting to make sure that the temperature is what you think it is. And then we're going to expand beyond that um as part of this process to redo all of our joint use with the school district from pools to high schools to parks that we own. So, re and the library of course too. So, we're going to be rewriting a lot of that to fix some things that don't work for either party and hopefully be able to move forward from there. Um, that's all I have. If I had one other thing, I forgot it.

Well, good news. It's okay. Good news. That's not a little That's a lot. That's a lot.

Oh, I can't wait till we go to the next thing. I just want I just wanted to add on to the third safest city have a story. So last week um we I was at the um joint government relations meeting at PECAR and one of the Rockland council members stood up and said introduced themselves and said you know Rockland was ranked one of the best places to live in the state or country or whatever which is great. Everybody applauded, right? So after a little while, it came around to me and I stood up, introduced myself, and I said, "Well, until the new ranking comes out, Lincoln is still the fourth safest city in the state." And Tori was sitting there from the chamber. And she looked it up right then. And then she was like the next person down for me. And she said, "Oh, and now the new rankings came out and now we're the third." And the whole room just erupted. It was kind of cool.

So I said, "There you go." Yes. Because I've been waiting for that to come out. So very very Yes. I know. Yeah. I was like, Tori, you did that in real time. That was awesome. Uh, so that was kind of a cool moment. But I just want to say congratulations to police and fire. Like that just is that's not something to to take lightly and and um we're very very proud of that. Yes. Thank Thank you. And to your point, Sean, about Danville. Um the week before that I spoke at the SERS group for Lincoln and I was sharing that we were the fourth safety that we were seven. Now we're fourth. And I said, "The new one's coming out soon, but I don't know what it is." And I asked them, "How are you from the Bay Area?" And someone raised their hand and I said,"Is Danville considered Northern California?" They said, "Yes, of course it is." And I was like, "Darn." Okay. So,

so that was Bay Area. It's Bay. Yes, I know. Yeah. So, can can we go to initiated business because I Okay, thanks. I just have one for initiated business. So, um, a few weeks back I brought up the, um, the topic of an entertainment zone for downtown. And so, I was just wondering if we could workshop that or if we've got talked about it. And even if we can't, even if we don't have the time to like get it in place like permanently, could we at least do a one day thing for the Winefest coming up? I just wanted to bring that back up. Yep. And I'll we'll uh add that on to that probably we probably don't need a whole workshop on that but maybe we'll do a in councsil meeting briefer workshop so that you can we can define what it looks like and okay great

move forward but as far as wine fest goes we'll work with them to make sure they have okay great freedom there you go both Auburn Auburn and and Lumis have them already well Lumis was working on it but they but they decided to table it because they they had a few residents that complain about everything so they're They're gonna table it for right now, but it the topic is still out there, but that doesn't mean that we can't do it like Yeah. But it's a thing. It's a thing happening these days. So, yeah. Very good. Very good. And that's all I have, sir. Thank you, Holly. I don't think I have any initiative. What was that? A cheering section back there. No. No. Unless the mayor's decision, unless the mayor lets you, but

Tori, come forward, please. I will not deny Tori. I know, right? I was in a meeting that Tom had me in. I don't even know what it was. Anyways, I was in a meeting something on Zoom and there was they were that was talked about in different counties and so a gentleman that is on my laptop in the email uh in Sacramento they have got that established. So I have a zoom call with him next Friday between 1 and two u to talk about that and see what they went in place what the procedures were so that I can bring that to you guys. So just want to let that be helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ben. Okay, good. Okay, committee reports. We'll start the I have nothing. I gave mine last time. So,

everything this week. Okay. Uh, next week we have uh Pioneer and the airport committee. Yes, thank you. EDC tomorrow. Tomorrow. We're always at LFCO. I know. Seems like it. Ben, uh, nothing significant. Oh, and we have our Western Plaster Unified School District 2 by two past Friday. Okay, good information items. Want to go over there? Anything?

Oh, sure. I mean, we got a lot lot going on. um nonprofit wise meeting this afternoon going strong with Lincoln serves and keeping excellent that's what about close to 35 organizations in there it's just fabulous 35 thank you Ben John why

I went to a uh fun event in Sacramento at Cal Expo for Verizon in and it kind of uh touches on everything that we were just talking about with what's going well with our public safety and why we're improving and succeeding in in in that um in that area. I think one of the reasons why we're doing so well is that we are always looking at uh becoming more efficient. What new technologies are coming out? We embrace ways to do more with less. Um, and that was what this whole forum was about. It was a disaster resilience forum and there was a lot of different companies that were demoing uh they're really cool new technologies. One of them um is it detects lightning strikes um really really early on. Uh there's a micro micro grid that gets deployed whenever there's a disaster so people still have access to internet and also um public safety has access uh robotics and drones. Um my favorite was the burnbot and it's this big uh robot. It's like a Roomba that clears um fields out for debris. Yeah. for um fire mitigation and preparation. It's unmanned and anyway that was really cool. Um so anyway, learned a lot. There's a lot of things coming coming at us. Technology

sounds like we're all good. Okay, everyone good? We're a journ.