City Council - Regular Meeting

Councilmember Andria Ota. I'm present. Councilmember Ready. Here. Councilmember Brown.

Present. Mayor Pro Tem Eckland. Here. Mayor Pearl. Here. Very good. We have a two session two items on the on the closed session tonight. And before that, we will be adjourning to another room. But before we do that, is there anyone in the audience or on Zoom who would like to make a comment about either 1A or 1B? And I'll read them off. 1A is conference with legal counsel existing legislation. Uh the gathering in versus the city of Lincoln. Item B, 1B, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D2. One potential case. Have anyone in the audience? All right. Anyone on Zoom? Mr. Mayor, I have no public comments through Zoom. Okay. That being the case, we will close this session and then move to adjourn to our closed session.

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Oh, that's a If we're good. Good evening everyone and welcome to the April 14th meeting of the Lincoln City Council and Redevelopment Agency. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Uh Madam Thank you. 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, YouTube and Zoom. Those wishing to address City Council on either a non-agenda or agenda item will be called upon at the appropriate time. Those who submitted a speaker card will be called first followed by those in the audience and finally those attending through Zoom. For those participating through Zoom that wish to provide public comment, please use the raise your hand feature or press star nine if you are calling in. Once public comment is opened, please wait to be unmuted. Once unmuted, your name will be called and you may proceed in making your public comment. This evening's invocation will be given by Pastors Jose and Carmen Berdanetta from the Light of Restoration. Once the invocation has concluded, Mayor Pearl will call the meeting to order. And um community members, thank you so

much for this opportunity. We are so um happy to be here. We give you thanks, Lord. For this beautiful moment. Yours is the glory. Yours is the honor. Forever and ever and ever. Lord Jesus, bless and continue to protect this nation. Continue to protect the state of California. Continue to bless the city of Lincoln. Protect. Continue to give us wisdom and especially to the government leaders of the city. May the grace of the Father and may the grace of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit be with every single one of them. Bless all the citizens the citizens of the city. Continue to protect them as you have done so. Bless this reunion bless this meeting of this day of this day in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen and God bless. Okay, with that we'll reconvene over here. Thank you very much. Meeting is called to order. Madam Clerk, would you call the roll, please? Yes, Council Member Andreatta. I'm present. Thank you.

Council Member Riady. Here. Council Member Brown. Present.

Mayor Pro Tem Eckland. Here. Mayor Pearl. Here. Very much. Uh Mr. City Attorney, do we have any report from closed session? Action was given to staff, but there's nothing to report out. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Okay. Pledge of Allegiance. Uh I see Nicole sitting over there. Her husband is here. Oh, okay. Well, I think we did it before. Darla, would you lead Darla, would you lead us in the pledge, please? I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. Republic for which it stands. And with that, the lights came on. What a What a concept.

All right, very good. Okay. Uh on the conflict of interest, do any Council Members have any conflicts of interest? We've talked about this. I don't think any other information items. Okay. Okay, moving right along over here. Um let me just see agenda modifications. I know we have one, nobody did any Council my colleagues have any agenda modifications? Okay, and there is a Madam Clerk, you there is a correction to uh one of our issues. The um redline ordinance that is noted in 14A, we have provided copies to Council and also for members of the public. Okay, thank you very much. Everything is out there. We're good to go on that. Thank you very much. Anything else that we know of over here, that's that's fine. Presentations. Originally, there was going to be no presentations, but actually we're going to have a presentation tonight. Because many of us were here just on a very fabulous day on on Thursday when the city of Lincoln was designated as a train town, official train town by the Union Pacific Railroad. I think there's only 150 of all there. They operate in 23 states. And there is um 153 officially designated train towns. We are one of them. And the other interesting fact about the the Pacific is that they operate in 7,000 communities. That's where all the their folks come from. So, to be one of 153 is a singular um a singular distinction and it's you know, trains go back so long in our history. All of us who are here, you know, we wake up to the train calls, we go to sleep to the train calls and sometimes we're woken up in the middle of the night by the train calls. Uh but it's part of the fabric of of of Lincoln without a doubt and to have them come here and to give us the uh that official designation, it it just shows

the partnership between between the city and and the railroad and and the way I think of it, I think I'm joined by everyone here, is that it's the railroad is just part of the fabric of of Lincoln. It's been here for what, about a century and a half, so just super. So, we were very fortunate. We actually we had a fabulous day. We were wondering whether the the weather was going to cooperate. And it's it cuz it rained up until I think just about the day before. And then all of a sudden the skies cleared and it was a picture perfect day out there. We're estimating that somewhere between 5 and 7,000 people were from just north of the city to south of down by the by the casino. They were lined on both sides of the street. There was a huge mass at where they stopped. We did the official proclamation in at at 7th Street. And then they also inched up forward and then they did some more stops on 5th Street and then they then they motored down. But it was it was just a fabulous day and everyone really enjoyed themselves. So, they gave us these plaques over here. We need to take a group picture over here. Mayor, let me just add to not interrupt you. For everyone to know that while we were riding from Lincoln to Roseville, we were with Union Pacific they were amazed. They said, "Wow, this is the largest reception we've seen in any town we've stopped at." And they said, "Lincoln wins. Lincoln wins." And we said, "That's how we roll." So, good job, Lincoln. Well, on top of that, we also had a flyover by one of our one of our 86 pilots and he said, "We've never They said, "We've never had seen that before." So, hey, Lincoln rules. We need We need to you know, roll out the welcome mat without a doubt. And for me, I had the the I I just was grinning the whole way down from Marysville cuz I got to ride up in the cab. Uh and so that was just Yeah, Shawn is just shaking his head over there. He just He wished he was with me, that's all. Cuz we're just a bunch of boys, that's all. But it it was it was a lot of fun. Uh the railroad is as I said is

just a part and part fabric of the of our city. Okay, so let's let's get out here and bring up the hats off. Put the hats on. Photo up here. And then we also have a uh a short slide video. Mayor might want to

Yeah. Well. Yeah, here's the Big Boy. And down over here so people can hear it. Uh The Big Boy was commissioned in 1941. It's 1.2 million pounds of rolling uh stock. They produced I think 25 originally of them. Uh they were built during the Second World War uh to haul uh traffic uh lot um fuel and everything else over the over the Sierra and then over the Utah range over here. And they were decommissioned I think in 19 in the 1960s. Uh there's a number of them that are around the country uh but there's only one that rolls and this is Big Boy number 4014. So, if we can have the next slide, please. Old number two. Nope. Didn't work. We'll have to pass on it. Oh, they'll get it. Yeah. Uh the expert. Our conductor for the evening.

Yeah. I don't know what we're doing in here. Give us a second. Oh, and a fun fact, speaking about conductors, always thought the engineer was the person who was the in command on the on the train. That's not true. It is the conductor. The conductor is captain of the ship. Rolling ship in any case. Okay, so here we are receiving the the proclamation and the emblem that we see here. Don't go too far, Dave. We're challenged here. Blair, do we have it? We good? Dave. Okay, there's a No, no, no. No, no. Okay, so there we are. Okay. So, well Oh, well, that's fine over here. That That was shot I think in the 1940s or something. Maybe maybe the the '20s on the left. And the '48. Okay. Okay. Uh late '40s and then that was shot by one of our photographers, uh Rick Manis, as the train was coming into town. So, next one. Okay, and there's the crowds. Uh as I said, we had somewhere between 5 and 8,000 thousand folks out there. It was just just absolutely fabulous. It's okay. Next one. All right, and then some shots over here from inside the cab. It was a lot of fun. And then just some more uh uh some more pictures. So, we're good. Is there Is that it? Blair, I think it may be the last one. Nope, there we are. Okay, we're accepting it. Good to go. All right. Perfect. Thank you. It was a little agony, but I think we finally got it.

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So, um public comment on non-agenda uh items within the subject matter of and the jurisdiction of the council, all speakers' time will be limited to 3 minutes unless extended by the mayor. All comments or questions should be addressed to this mayor and in most cases the city council prohibited from discussing or taking action on any item not appearing on the posted agenda but may engage in a brief discussion, provide direction to city staff or schedule items for future meetings. Okay, Madam Clerk, do we have any speaker cards? We do. First speaker is Stan Nader. Mr. Mayor and council, my name is Stan Nader and I live in the 12 Bridges area. On March 26th in Anaheim Hills a minor on a Sur Ron Light B {quote} e-bike, which really is an e-motorcycle which can reach speeds up of 47 mph ran a red light and T-boned a RAV4. As the youngster was being taken away in an ambulance and his mother arrived on the scene the police asked her what she wanted done with the bike. And she told him to throw it away. That is what many parents should be doing in our community as so many of their bike riders are violating basic traffic laws. Two weeks ago my wife and I were westbound on 12 Bridges Drive approaching Joiner Parkway preparing to make a right turn after stopping at the limit line because the our light was red

we began to make our right turn. Without any warning an e-bike rider came zipping down the sidewalk on the wrong side of the road. The e-bike rider failed to stop before crossing the crosswalk as required by law. My wife had to abruptly stop come to a stop to avoid hitting the rider. He was not wearing a helmet and he never looked our way as to act as if we were not even there. One week ago my wife and I were northbound on Lincoln Boulevard or approaching Ferrari Ranch Road preparing to make a right turn onto Ferrari. Our light was red and before we reached the limit line two e-bike riders going southbound crossed the Ferrari Ranch crosswalk against the red light. These type of incidents are happening all over our city. All you have to do is read the many posts on Facebook. When you adopted the ordinance for e-bike enforcement I had encouraged you to make the penalties for e-bike rider violations more severe. I am aware that the police department is enforcing e-bike rider violations on trails and pathways but this enforcement needs to be involved with city streets as well. The city of Galt began in March of 2026 cracking down on e-bike rider violating basic traffic laws and finding the riders' parents $500. This is what it's going to take to get the attention of the e-bike riders and their parents so that they will show respect for the

rules of the road and ride their bikes safely. I would encourage you to revisit your ordinance on e-bike riders and increase the penalties for violating traffic laws. Thank you. Thank you, Stan. Madam Clerk. Thank you. That was our only speaker card. Uh we'll now ask is there anyone in the audience that would like to provide public comment? Okay, I see two hands raised. Yes. Um I went to Home Depot today and then I went to the post office. I was traveling down Ferrari Ranch Road. Um I saw a fella on a four-wheeled go-kart on the sidewalk no helmet full speed. And another fella in the bike lane with a helmet, at least he had a helmet on full speed and they were going over the speed limit. So, this is a problem that needs to be addressed. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. And Nicole, thank you for showing up. I you were here about a couple of minutes late. I was going to call on you for for your Pledge of Allegiance. We'll do it next time. Hey Bri- Anyone else I'm so I'm sorry. Oh, it's Chapman. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh Byron Chapman, 12 Bridges area. The city council members as well as city staff and those here as well as at home. Um Dealing with the accessibility issues as

I've done over the years um just wanted to get a follow-up or at least where we are uh when it comes to any kind of grievance, complaint, whatever that might be if it's in position now. Uh the previous city attorney uh the procedure was to turn in the form, it would go to the city attorney. The city attorney would then uh pass that uh document around to the various departments to see what they could input. Once that was done, uh then the city attorney or someone uh would get back to the person who turned that in. Um so at this point in time, I don't know if that's the procedure we're going to follow still or is there something different with that? Um under the ADA when it comes to a city with 50 employees or more, which we qualify for, um uh must have an ADA coordinator. And they also have to follow the uh time restraints in which to receive um any kind of complaint or comment and back um maximum time on that is like 15 days. Uh so we were falling a little bit behind on on two that are still impending. And uh one is uh 6 months and one is 4 months. Um I certainly if I know a little bit about uh that procedure, I'd be more than happy to meet with anyone at the city to discuss that and answer any questions or any generation from that. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Manager. Yeah. I think that's [clears throat] a fair question. You know, the changeover in um this administration it has as people can probably tell at these meetings has given us an opportunity to change things up about how what the standard practice has been. Um so, I will personally reach out to Mr. Chapman and set up a time so we can kind of maybe talk with him a little bit about

how we design something that works from his perspective as well as ours. As clear. Okay. Just to just to add on to that, um I did have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Chapman I think at the last meeting for a short period of time. Um I'll try to either join in on that meeting or have a separate one to kind of outline what the legal process is that we will have going forward. Um they probably will be a little bit different, but we'll either do that as part of the same meeting or or what we'll set up a separate one to make sure that um at at least we're clear on on what my expectations are as how the process would work and and to get his feedback on the if he believes that's compliant or not. All right. Thank you, Doug. Thank you, Sean. Okay. Is um I just wanted to do a quick follow-up on that. Um so he should he'll get he'll be reached out to before the next council meeting. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Madam Clerk. I see no one else in the audience. One more. Okay, come on up, please. Um good evening, members of City Council. My name is Angela Valderas and I own a property at Zero Todd Lane. I have been before you guys back in 2024 to try to get city services on this piece of land because it's because it's not we're not able to do a septic system on it. Um during that time there was no clear direction of what to do with the city. Um after that we have tried to put the property for sale and we've had we've been in contract twice and both times we fell out of contract because both buyers didn't have any and clear

answers. After that we have exhausted all our options with the county. We've spent thousands of dollars trying to do soil testing and have no and they basically have said that it's un- it's not buildable. So, I'm here today to ask you if you guys can please help us move forward with this property. We know there's a connection with the city within 100 ft because my husband worked in the new development that's right next to it. And all we need is to be able to connect to city so we can do something with the property. Thank you. Mr. Manager.

really quickly, I was going to bring this up in um council-initiated business, so I will do that then, but but I'm sorry. I

No, no. No, Angela, that's fine. And thank you for for your comment. Yeah. I got you, girl. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about it in just a little bit, but thank you for that. No, no, no, you're perfectly fine. Thank you. The clarification was septic. Okay. You can stick around for a few minutes. Yeah. Yes. Okay, perfect. Very good. Thank you. The septic. That's what she said. Madam Clerk, anyone else before we go to Zoom? Hey, last call for audience. Nope. All right, we'll go ahead and move over to Zoom. Is there anyone on Zoom that would like to provide public comment? Please raise your hand. I see no hands raised. All right, we're good. We'll close that. Over comment then, uh consent calendar move to the consent. We have uh two items at 13A, 13B. Does anyone on the council, my colleagues or the Enter the CC. Mhm. We'll see. I'm sorry. Yes. Uh Anyone wish to pull an item or Don't wish to pull. Just uh for a 13B to say thank you to the Public Safety Foundation for that. Um Absolutely.

Yeah. So, that's really good stuff. All right, very very good. Uh do we have any speaker card, Madam uh Clerk, do we have any speaker cards on the on on on the consent calendar items? No speaker cards. Okay. And we'll ask anyone in the audience that would like to provide public comment. No one in the audience. Switching over to Zoom. Is there anyone on Zoom that would like to provide public comment? Please raise your hand. No hands raised. Okay, thank you very much. Bring it Bring it back to comments for my from my colleagues. Anything? Okay. Ali, thank you very much for that that note. That was that was I move approval of the consent. It's moved. It's moved. Second, John. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. Okay, we're good. Thank you very much. Motion passes 5-0. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Public hearings. Okay. Turn over to our manager. Thank you. So, as Nita comes up, um I will just um take all of her thunder and explain this entire ordinance. Starting with section 3.26. I'll just sit back here. kidding. Um [laughter]

So, Nita does something that is a in in um my side of the career is a real um luxury, which is that she is constantly making sure that our purchasing policies are uh fluid and responsive to what the organization needs and also are following government code and that changing state law. So, what you're going to hear in a moment is a whole suite of different things that we would propose you consider uh to make our procurement and uh purchasing process um a little more friendly and a and a lot more compliant. Nita. Thank you, members of Council. So, as Sean indicated before you this evening is a request to hold a public hearing and waive the first reading introduced by title only. However, we're going to modify that. An ordinance amending certain sections of the Lincoln Municipal Code chapter 3.24 and 3.26. So, these are our two uh purchase purchasing chapters within in the municipal code. Uh when I started back in 2022, uh we did a major overhaul of the purchasing code at that time. However, it does uh it is prudent to review it from time to time to ensure that the levels are uh adequate for the city's needs, that they're also complying with the government regulations, and that we are uh ensuring that our processes are efficient, effective, and streamlined. So, the changes that you have in the redline that was handed out at the at your dais and in available in the room are attempting to do make some minor modifications to do that, providing additional information, clarification, and streamlining of processes. Uh unfortunately, there was like a technical glitch and the redlines did not appear in the documents that were loaded in the agenda.

Uh the second document that uh was indicated as a redline was actually an accepted document, the same as the clean version, which is why we're providing a redline uh for your um for your information as well at the moment. Uh and so uh I do want to briefly go over we received some comments from Council and I wanted to uh read those into the record for your consideration. Uh under the definition for qualified vendors, we would like to replace the last sentence to read additionally qualified vendors may be identified as vendors previously qualified through an RFP {slash} RFQ process or who have conducted work previously for the city are in are and are in good standing. Uh an additional edit is under section 3. 24.040, we're making a modification and adding a sentence that would read a summary of purchases and warrants shall be posted on the city's website at least quarterly. Uh we are posting that information quarterly. We just want to add the at least and kind of change the wording around of that sentence that would give the city the opportunity to post more than quarterly if that should be the direction or desire of Council without having to come back to change the ordinance for just that small change. Uh and then also 3.24.0 I'm I'm sorry. 3. 24.801, we'll add a a uh sentence to letter e that says notwithstanding this provision, services identified in government code section 4525 are exempt from the criteria in that letter e. And then finally, under 3.24.910, we would adjust the limit down from 100,000, which is what's in the redline document, to 75,000.

So, we ask the council uh open this public hearing, uh take any additional comments from the community, consider these additional edits that have provided by uh council members, and uh if those are acceptable, I'll be happy to read these additional edits into the record as part of the motion if council should so direct that. Okay, we'll open the public hearing. Very good. Comments from my colleagues? Do any uh uh do I have any speaker cards someone? We have no speaker cards. And then moving on to the audience, is there anyone in the audience that would like to provide public comment on this item? Seeing none, we'll move over to Zoom. Is there anyone on Zoom that would like to provide public comment? I see no hands raised. I think I'll just make a comment that this is kind of the nuts and bolts of governance and and I appreciate the fact that staff has gone through and updated. Uh it's a living document and it's going to keep on changing as as conditions change, which is which is which is good. Uh with everything that we do within this document is there for the public protection. We want it to be as trans absolutely as transparent as possible. But, I think this is this is a great effort. So, we continue to improve on that. Do we have any other comments? Oh, I appreciate the information. This is really good. Uh very good. In that case, I will ask for a motion. Uh I'll move adoption of the item with the red to in record edits. I'll second. Very good. Uh let's call a vote over here. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? It looks like we have 5-0, so we're good. Yep. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Nita. Okay, moving on to uh 15 general business

uh item 15 15A fiscal impact analysis of community facility district CFD 2018-2. Again, Ms. Recca. I'm just going to stay up here. Mhm. Hi, good evening. And helping me present this item and provide additional clarification and discussion is our consultant with EPS, Jamie Gomes, who is online. Uh but, I told him I would kick this off uh requesting council adopt a resolution accepting a fiscal impact analysis of community facilities district 2018-2 and authorizing a maximum tax within the CFD project area. So, this as it's stated in the title, the CFD community facilities districts was created in 2018 uh with a uh tax methodology uh allowing for or and requiring a fiscal impact analysis anytime a development wanted to annex into the CFD, which is required as part of becoming a development within the city. And we wanted to evaluate that tax rate cuz there are varying tax rate for different areas based on the uh the cost of public safety and the uh assumed revenues. Uh we wanted to evaluate that and determine if we could come up with a more consistent and streamline process, uh also uh removing the need for a fiscal impact analysis, which would is a cost saving to uh developers, which is a cost saving that is then passed down to homeowners. Uh so, that is kind of the goal here. It's it's pretty unique. You don't typically see In fact, I'm not aware of any other agency within the state that would take an existing CFD and evaluate if the maximum tax rate is still a valid rate. One of the reasons we are um bringing forward this amendment is as well the uh

change in the sales tax. Uh so, when the CFD was originally uh formed there wasn't an an impact or a consideration of the amount of sales tax uh generated by households that would be in the CFD, and that was done for a number of reasons, uh but very specifically as a result of the increased leakage of sales tax dollars leaving the city, and that was as a result of the significantly diminished commercial base that existed in the city compared to now. So, as a result of the increased commercial and also the commercial that we know is going to be coming online with the developments that are currently in progress this year, as well as developments coming forward in the uh village five, village seven area, uh we felt that it was really important to reevaluate this and reevaluate that sales tax uh amount and include uh uh uh the effect of that revenue in determining this tax. And with that, I will open it up for questions and also turn it over to Jamie to see if he has additional information he'd like to add. Thank you, Nita. Uh I'm here to answer questions. I think you covered it very adequately. Uh yeah, the the main point I think I would add is that as noted in the staff report this is really an attempt by the city to help streamline the entitlement process for new development projects. It'll improve predictability [clears throat] for your developer partners and your homebuilding partners. It certainly will make a tax levy process and the administration of these CFDs much easier for your city team and city staff. And you know, for future homeowners, it'll establish a much more accurate and equitable tax rates so that everyone in the city will be paying a uniform tax rate to support their public services. So, with that I would uh entertain any questions. And it is lowering the tax rate for

almost everyone who's currently in the CFD. So, it's almost unheard of. Mhm. You know, nomenclature lowering the tax rate. So, this is good. This is what this is what we do as as a community up here. Uh we we call them as we see them and and if the rates should go down, we we we bring them down. I mean, that's what it should be. Also, because Lincoln is a an evolving city, uh most of our residents up to now and even in the very near future, you go to highway 65 and you go left, unfortunately. But, as our new developments come on, that's going to become less and less. So, the leakage that we have now, which may be what, 45%? It's going to shrink dramatically cuz we're just getting ready to stand up over the next uh 5 to 8 years some major developments here in Lincoln. And that's going to give our people the opportunity to shop Lincoln. It'll also give residents from outside of Lincoln, even better, the opportunity to come here and to pay us their sales tax, which which will be really good. Yeah, this is this is a great news. And so, thanks thanks to staff for you know, for doing all this analysis uh and bringing it forward. I think this is really good for our community. Okay. Any other comments from my colleagues? I just wanted to echo that that um I mean, like you said, unheard of, but to really highlight that it's that as staff and what's most important, we we want to make sure that it's livable and it's not hey, let's we need this and then it's a forever thing. It's a um as needed basis and and cuz it's anyways. I feel like I'm rambling over myself, but maybe it's cuz you know, you don't ever see this happen where the rates go lower. We can't make those statements too often or enough, you know, so. Thanks. Okay, very good. Anyone else from my colleagues? Yeah, I I also

wanted to say that I I am impressed and I appreciate the fact that we did extra work to lower taxes and how rare this is. And um I hope that everybody hears this and this is just something I think that will be continuing to look into as that's one of our vested priorities to lower rates and taxes whenever possible. And it's great that we are in the position to find a way to do that. Well, you did it. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Yep. Okay, good. Um Madam Clerk, do we have any speaker cards on this? We have no speaker cards. And we'll go ahead and ask, is there anyone in the audience that would like to provide public comment? Mr. Chapman.

Once again, Byron Chapman, Paul Ridge area. Mr. Mayor and council members, uh as I went through the packet uh I I I guess I'm kind of where you guys are. Uh as I went through that, I had to read it twice. This is in the tax went down. I'm like, no, that's got to be wrong. And had to go back and look through it. Um going through the majority of of the information, uh is it possible to give those who aren't here and maybe those in the room a little bit of an idea as to how low or how high those various taxes are. Um pretty sure you probably did do those numbers, but if you have it, it would probably be helpful for people to hear. And realizing it's probably not down to the penny or the dollar, but at least some sort of idea of what those percentages might be. Thank you. That information is available in the memo that's attached to the agenda item, available for all the public to see. Thank you very much. Any other comments? Okay, moving to Electron Land. We'll go ahead and switch over to Zoom. Is there anyone on Zoom that would like to provide public comment? Please raise your hand. No hands raised. Okay. Thank you very much. In that case, we're bringing it back to the council for a vote to it. Do I have a motion? Yes, John. Real quick, I just wanted to thank staff. They indulged me in a number of questions to understand the math behind all of this and the cushion that was built in to this to accommodate changes in sales tax over time so that it's still robust and meets the needs of the city over the long term, but provides the relief to them in the short term. So, I appreciate it. So, with that, I'll move to adopt the item. Very good. Thank you. We have a Okay. Motion and second, very good. All in favor, say I. All opposed? No? Okay, we have 5-0 vote. Thank you very much.

Okay, moving on to 15 Bravo, issuance of the City of Lincoln Community Facilities District number 2005-1, Sorrento Village. And I I have more help this evening. [laughter]

So, this is the item of requesting a resolution authorizing the issuance of Lincoln Community Facilities District 2005-1 special tax bond refunding series 2026. And I'm not going to steal the thunder of our bond council, Brian Forbath, but I will introduce him as well as our our PFM, Jaime, to provide the presentation and answer questions. Thank you, Nita. Good evening. Mayor Pearl, Councilmember Councilmember Brian Forbath from Stradling. You know, keep the good news parade maybe rolling here with the potential opportunity to save some additional money for some taxpayers in the city. These are the 497 homeowners that live within the Sorrento development. There was a series of bonds that were issued back in 2013, 2014, and 2016 to finance infrastructure in the the help that project develop. Now, there's an opportunity to potentially refund those bonds to create savings for the property owners in the district. Interest rates have been a little volatile lately and I'll maybe ask Jaime Trejo from PFM to talk about it in a minute, but they've improved somewhat in the last couple days and we're trying to hopefully time the market to get in to save the most money as possible for the homeowners. Um The action before you this evening is to approve the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $16 million. We actually think it's going to be closer to about 12 and 1/2 million dollars that we're going to issue. And the reason for that is uh we got a rating on the bond deal that Jaime led the effort there and the bonds are going to be rated A-rated by S&P. And with that rating, that allows the city to go out and get what we call

municipal bond insurance. Which provides like a wrap to investors that gives it a double A plus rating. So, again, lowers the interest rates on the bonds. And it also provides the flexibility to replace what's normally a debt fund cash funded debt service reserve fund with what we call a surety bond or like another insurance policy. So, we have to we can borrow less money. All this is designed to generate additional savings for the property owners. At the time the staff report was drafted, the savings were just below the 3% threshold, which is the city's threshold to move forward on the transaction. I think now and and I'll turn to Jaime here before I I sit down, it's it's over 3% and the resolution before you this evening requires that we achieve at least a minimum 3% savings threshold to um to in order to move forward on the transaction. That generates roughly about $1,600 in savings to the homeowners over the remaining 16 years of of the transaction on average. Um And again, the action before you tonight is a resolution approving the issuance of the bonds. It also approves an offering document for the bonds that the bond underwriter will go market that out to investors. It approves a bond indenture, which is the city's contract with the investors, a bond purchase agreement where the city will agree to sell the bonds to to the bond underwriter, Piper Sandler. And then a continuing disclosure agreement. So, those are the actions before you this evening and and I you know, obviously we're the approval tonight, there's still a couple steps to go before we get issue the bonds and I think our goal really is to sort of try to time the market as best as we can and maybe I'll turn it to Jaime if he wants to talk about the market just a little bit before I Hello, Mayor, City Council. Jaime Trejo, PFM Financial Advisors. Uh and when we first started this

financing, the savings were in excess of 5%. There were some geopolitical conflicts that happened um that kind of shook the market a little bit. Rates went up. That decreased the savings. And since we did the staff report, things have settled down. Rates have come down a little bit. So, now savings are in excess of 3%. So, the market has been relatively stable the past couple weeks. Um and you know, we were looking to go to market when it makes sense and also when it makes kind of procedure sense for the 2016 bonds cuz those bonds we can't refund those on an advanced basis. Have to do it on a current basis for taxes and bonds. So, we can't close those bonds till 3 months from the call date, which is September 1st. So, we can't close before June 1st. And so, with that, you know, more than happy to answer any questions about the about the project moving forward here. And again, the the request would be for authorization to move forward on on the proposed issuance of the bonds. Good. Do we have any questions from my colleagues? Okay. Very good. Madam Clerk, do we have anyone any cards? No speaker cards and we'll go ahead and ask, is there anyone in the audience that would like to provide public comment? No one in the audience. And switching over to Zoom, is there anyone on Zoom that would like to provide public comment? I see no hands raised. Thank you very much. Any final comments from my colleagues? John. Yep. I just want to [clears throat] make a note to staff that I want more agendas like this where we're lowering taxes twice in one meeting.

I agree. Ditto. I second that. I don't want to jump the gun if anyone has. No, good. Okay, I'll move to adopt the the item. Very good. Second. I'll second. First and second, okay. All in favor, say I. All opposed? No? 5-0. Okay, yay. Thank you. Can't go wrong with that. Thank you, gentlemen, very much. Thank you very much, guys. Okay, city manager reports. Mr. Scully. [clears throat]

Yes, thank you. Just uh three really quick things. Um we wanted to point out a forwarded around and but you can just go to the Sac Bee website if you'd like, but the chief shared an interesting article with me that framed our um new or improved uh kind of safety rating in terms of just low crime rates in a slightly different way that kind of gives a better perspective. The the title of the article is Lincoln's crime rate drops again in 2020 2025, making it the fifth straight year of decline. Um and so, I just encourage everybody to go read that because it sounds like Chief and his team actually gave the B some a little bit of data in terms of different things that we've done over that period of time, special response team, LPR, camera activity, etc. And um I I like to because it it wasn't [clears throat] just data-centric. It actually kind of showed the real hard work that they're doing and so, I just wanted to highlight that a minute. Um the other thing I'm just going to mention as a fun little aside is um Chief was messaging me earlier and he had this idea that perhaps since we're now train town um and he has a monolithic, very spartan-looking building over there that maybe an interesting mural art project would be to uh put that designation in a mural form on the east side of their building, which faces the train tracks, which is now a sturdy blue color, as I recall, or something like that. If you're ever in Chief's office when the train goes by, it's it like shakes stuff up when you're in there. So, it might make things a little bit there. Um And then um just wanted to thank Nita again. These two items the bond refinancing and then sort of reworking how we look at CFD 1802 is really difficult. Um

And she didn't mention it in her report, but one of the things we were concerned about is sometimes these CFDs are set up a long time before they ever actually mature to be something that's useful from a revenue perspective. So, the first couple years after they were established in 2018, they really did very little for us because you have to get people to build and then live there and pay their taxes and so, it takes a long time and we were concerned I can see why in many jurisdictions they just prefer not to address it because there's a lot of unknowns and if you under collect services or the or what suffer. Um but um part of this message is also just sort of a betting on ourselves component in that we believe our retail position is going to prove exponentially in the next number of years and so it makes sense at this time to do it and um it's one of the reasons why I like working with her she's willing to take some risk um alongside me. So appreciate your consideration of that. Uh aside from that the only other thing I'd highlight just real quickly is tomorrow there's a pretty robust airport commission agenda um that if you're interested in the airport you should tune in for or come down and check out. We're going to be talking about flight patterns, we're going to be talking about professional professional management options at the airport and a and a few other items and and uh so it's a more meaty agenda than normal. Um anything else I'm forgetting? I don't think so. I think so. I think that was I think that was it. Okay, very very good. Council initiated business. I do. Yes. So um so uh Miss Valdetas came to us a few years ago and explained what she just explained now. Her property is like literally within feet of city limits. And um they have water but they cannot do sewer there with their own like you know um system and so earlier on a few years ago there wasn't a lot of movement to kind of help um bridge that gap for her. We had a different council and different priorities at the time but I

I always wanted to help and so it's come back around again and I would like to just have staff take a look at and and um already had a conversation with Shawn about it and just look at um you know we we don't want to be extending way out into the county right county is county but she's so close and um just so much money uh invested in her property and my thought is you know why not help her and then you know maybe eventually somewhere down the road they can think about annexing in if they want to and so um this isn't about you know like using city resources for people outside the city but it's using our discretion to help people who are very close to us and uh her mother lives in Lincoln they've lived here their whole life and they are very um uh entrenched and valued residents and um gave a lot to the city and so my thought is like there's no reason for us not to do that. I mean of course they would pay for the connection but I would like to put that on the table and and have staff take a look at that and see what we can do. Yeah so uh happy to do that. The council's for for those newer council members um council held a workshop on this two years ago maybe? Um Yeah in 2004. Do you remember? It was June 2004. Close close-ish. Um and at that time um the direction I think she was correct was less than clear from some of the members of the council about whether or not they thought that it would made sense. There was some concern that you know um if you go back far enough people that uh have lived here in Lincoln that have paid property taxes here in in incorporated in Lincoln funded the beginnings of what ended up becoming our water and sewer programs. And so um you know uh I think some elected officials at that time felt pretty protective of making sure that the benefits went to residents in town uh solely. Um with that said there there

are plenty of options that other communities have for outside of service agreements um that we can workshop with you. In addition the other circle back I'd like to do uh cuz I was kind of sad to hear that that they haven't received much assistance from the county is um I I don't think that it's probably fair unless the county agency and the city have some sort of preset agreement for the county to not allow somebody to develop the core utilities they need on unincorporated parcel unless we've worked out with the county that hey we're willing to take all of those folks. So it kind of puts them in a between a rock and a hard place um unnecessarily in my opinion. So but you know I don't have that directly from anyone it's just a editorial comment. Um so yes I will we'll put together some um models and you can tell us which way you want to go. Mhm. All I have. Mhm. That's all I have. Ben. Yeah actually um I've had a phone call and um uh a couple of residents that have have come to me um about TGI uh location that they're trying to open here in Lincoln and they through their sources have said that um they heard that they're they're looking to close all of their other locations and put everything in on the location here and um being that I've never I you know I'm just awestruck that that would even be possible and wanted to find out if I could get some staff to look into it and give us a report back. Especially because of

how this whole thing has come about and now with a bold statement of you know closing air all of the other locations and making this the location I'm extremely concerned about that. Very good. Very good. Shawn you'll take that under direction. Okay. Thanks. Okay good. Thank you Ben. Great. Whitney. Don. Okay I've got one thing. Uh over the past couple of months I've looked at uh there've been newspaper articles about other cities in in our region and looking at the salary levels that that city council members are are being paid in those universally all of the cities uh of Folsom, Rocklin uh and and and Roseville uh the amount of money that current city councils pay in many cases just like Lincoln go back decades. I think ours goes back when it was set in I think the early 2000s at $660 per month that's pre-tax no benefits. Uh that equates to if we're generous probably to $7.75 an hour. Uh I don't think anyone is willing to work for that. No one no one works no no one looks to come to the city council to make it money. We come because we we love the city we want to give back. Uh we want to give to our community. Uh but there should be some recognition that we are spending a lot of time away from our families when by doing this and with a little bit more remuneration maybe we can say I'm sorry I can't come home from dinner today I'm going to be out all day tomorrow but we'll go out for dinner we'll take a weekend away and by increasing the salaries uh that that would be possible. The other thing that's changed over the years is that before there was no guidelines and now the state does have a

guideline on it by by size of population and that and that's really good. And so what I would like staff to do would be to come back do some research on it see what other others are are doing what's the the legality of it uh and give us some options you know for it and including including timing. Uh so any comments out from my colleagues on on this? I'm just willing that that's that's that's that's my ask. Uh you know I came on here in in 2024 um and it's I I just love doing this and I know I speak for my colleagues we all love being here. Uh but I think let's just take a look at it and see what what's out there because things are changing. I know Folsom is uh looking at it at the same level as we are. Uh they're planning on on having it come to the to the council that's the second reading tonight. Uh Roseville is a charter city so that has to go out to a vote of the people. Uh but everyone is recognizing the immense pressures and if and if you look at the responsibilities of city council members uh what do we have? Uh 200 Mr. Treasurer what do we have? $225 million worth of assets out there that we have oversight on and our budget is is um you know a couple hundred million dollars and uh you know the amount the amount of remuneration is is relatively is is is small you know with with with without a doubt in comparison to today. So uh if staff would take that under under consideration come back with with some guidance on that. Um um Mayor um there's been some changes to state law but this is part of the some of the stuff that we wanted to do to update the code and kind of make it in conformance. So um we'll be doing that. It may be included as part of our global kind of cleanup of the municipal code and kind of bringing in kind of the default state standards as it relates to compensation things of that nature. But really the way that meetings are to be conducted just in general. So right. Perfect.

Another quick comment on that. Um is there a way to put in language for it to just as part of general business just automatically be adjusted as needed based on state recommendations? I think there's some legal aspect to to that am I right Doug? Yeah so um so there's limits in and there's ways that you can kind of do it as a as a as a default. Um I want to preserve the ability for the council to always have the ability to do something different than what the state is. So we'll have all the mechanisms that are in by law so that so that what can be automatic is automatic. But I also want to give the council the ability to have the flexibility to do something different. Which to be clear is not something that you could do more. The state sets the maximums. It would be have the ability to accept less if they if they so chose. I think the biggest thing is is actually just giving you the ability and having those those components and measures and protocols built into your code as they as they should be. So. And just just to make sure that that it's clear, the what the other cities are proposing is not a giant leap from $7.75 cents. It's I think it's $7.75 cents to about $20, you know, even at the at the most. So, nothing else it's still below the minimum wage. So. I don't know.

Okay. I I wanted to add on to that. Um, thanks for bringing this up cuz I was actually following that Folsom situation as well and I saw that there was an article, I think it was in the B. And the headline, I think uh captured things well and the perspective is similar to what you just stated. They were trying to something like they were trying to find how it was how they were being greedy and they couldn't um because people um including myself, I know we spend I spend north of 40 hours a week on council business and and then it's not just you know, Monday through Friday and you know, balancing other things in between you know, responsibilities and phone calls and and I I am honored to do it. I love this work. I absolutely love this work and that's why I do it. But I I I would be lying if I didn't say that I hadn't thought this past year about how I'm in a position um to be able to do that and that I don't have a financial barrier that wouldn't allow me to do what I'm doing and work this many hours and I think that it would be it's still not enough to to live off of, you know, it's still the minimum wage. It sounds like what Folsom is trying to do, but it would perhaps open or uh lower barriers of entry for more people to be able to run for local office because it it really is uh time consuming and of course it doesn't have to be, but then you're not getting everything out of the role and you know, and so for people to have to to weigh that uh is definitely something that I have thought about and um and a city that is our size, we do have a lot of growth, a lot of work, uh a lot of uh research that we're doing uh that

because we all love it. But at the same time um we're still small enough that there's not a lot of people that are um stepping up to run. And so we do have elections that are being run unopposed and I can't help but wonder if it's because you know, it is it is a um it's a lot of work and it's a big responsibility and so anyway, that's that's where where I'm at and I think um that it's definitely worth a conversation. Well, and I'll add I'll add to that over the years um this is something that like I never asked for. I never wanted to talk about it. Um I just was happy with whatever the whatever stipend was um even though um because I did feel like you know, I signed up for it. I know what it was. Um and over the years especially when I was teaching full-time when I would have to take time off work that wasn't getting paid for. I've lost thousands of dollars in income over the years, but I I was fine with that. I'm like I could handle it at the time until we started having side conversations and and I think what Sean kind of explained in the middle of like, well, what does that look like? What Whitney just said that there might be someone like a single mom or somebody else who who would like to run, who could contribute to city council and really do good work for the city, but because the stipend is so low that they just there's no way they could do it financially. And so that kind of made me you know, shift my thinking a little bit. So again, I don't I'd like to see what you guys bring forward. I don't even know if I'm still in favor of it myself or like I like I said, it's not something that I ever when it was brought up before, I'm like, no, we're not going to ask for that. Like we're not going to do that. Um but when you look at the broader scope of we do need good people to step up and run and and that is that can be uh prohibitive. So. No, no worries. [laughter] Yeah. So yeah, I mean I'm I'm okay with having a conversation about it. But I'm yeah, that's fine. Perfect. Good. Anyone else have a comment on this?

Okay. Very good. On that case, we'll move on to committee reports. We'll start with Holly. Um you know, I have nothing. Yeah, we had a committee meeting for SACOG Policy and Innovation, but it was just uh general like advocacy updates from local, federal, state and it's kind of all the same thing like we're not sure what's happening, you know. So, nothing's nothing groundbreaking or earth-shattering except for I'll say what's coming up. Um we haven't talked about it yet, but um they are they SACOG and and the state are really getting ready to tackle this miles traveled tax thing. Um and that is something that I'm going to argue against uh very vehemently. I think it's uh not good for anybody and so um just unless anybody has a different feeling about that that I will bring you update on that as we go through. I was just going to ask have they related to that have they identified the alternatives? No. So, there's two things to it. It's like one is um building projects, housing projects near [clears throat] transportation so you don't have to drive as much. So like that angle and then the other side of it is actually taxing us per mile that we drive. So, there's two fronts to that. And so um you know, the SACOG generally is like they're they're they're okay to move towards that and I made a comment a couple months ago when it they first started talking about it again. I said, well, I hope we're not going to lay down for that. And well, and I said, well, just making it known I'm not we're not okay with that. So. They haven't we'll get I'll get more information. I think we have a board meeting on Thursday. So, I'll get more information, but that's something that I'm going to be really arguing against because we don't need that tax and it's for one, they somebody has made the argument. I don't know how the state's going to monitor that, how they're going to that's just more bureaucracy. That's just more money to try to keep track of how many miles we drive. We already have working families who are you know, paycheck to paycheck. That's

ridiculous and so it's very frustrating. Um so that's something that I'm going to be working on. We've also talked about that in PCTPA as well and one of the other agenda items was more of a just a report was um infrastructure that is going to be put in for charging stations for electrics and I think that they're they're looking at doing a charging station at the Lincoln Library, but for buses uh at that location and they have a few other uh places throughout Placer County that they'll be doing for uh trucks and then also another location for small cars. And against it, but it makes sense to make it available for those that that have it and have some infrastructure there, but there was a another member of the board that was uh based on you know, agriculture was vehemently against that spending money that way. So, anyways. Okay. Any other committee Okay, good. John. Yeah, uh two we had LAFCo um wasn't anything uh big there, although we're looking at some of the phase one scoping and there might be some adjustments there. Um some good news out of WMUD landfill, their first 1383 test uh came back at 82% um which passes the 75% threshold to be a high diversion organic facility, which is really great. They don't get that certification till they do it four quarters in a row. So, they stay on track, they'll meet that requirement and be certified at that level in the fourth quarter, which is super exciting. Thank you, Whitney. Yeah, we had LAFCo last week and we looked at the proposed budget and work plan and next month is going to be when

we're um going to finalize it and get it all ready for um when it's due in June. So, once we get that, I'm going to send that to all of our city managers in Roseville, Rockland and then uh Sean will take a look at it and provide any comments and feedback. It'll be part of the 60-hour work week. Yep. Okay. Good. And Sean already mentioned about the airport committee tomorrow morning. Uh Pioneer West Electric I've got next uh next week and Air Pollution Control District next week. Also upcoming. So, uh anything else on committee reports? Sounds like we've gone through that. Information items. We'll start with Ben. Um yeah, there's actually quite a few uh things that are going on in the community uh but more specifically um every second Tuesday is the meeting for Lincoln Serves where a lot of the nonprofits get together and I've I've been attending that and there's been um huge benefit for uh getting together and we have uh you know, the chamber's there. The we've got the Friends of the the Lincoln Library there and um we have new people that are coming uh all the time. And so they have a Facebook uh page uh that is for that that they're putting more information out on nonprofits and and the collaboration that's going on there. So, um stay tuned for some more of that. But, there's and there'll be events that are happening that should be posted a lot on there. Um the other way to to try to get some more of that information when those some of these events are happening would be uh the chamber's putting out um both on their Facebook page and as well as a

email push. Uh they call it um nonprofit Wednesdays. So, everything that's going on community for nonprofits in that push. And thanks for bringing up and stepping up for Lincoln Services. It's a great organization with the must be close to 40 organizations in there right now and it's bringing together all these different groups and how we can help each other, which is which is just fabulous without a doubt. John? And I am good. Also, yes. Okay. Whitney? Quick question. Can I follow up on I have a lot of residents asking me when the fitness center is going to be breaking ground and what the ETA is on that on 12 Bridges? Do you have any idea? I don't have a specific idea, but I'll tell you what, we will go and check to see what's been applied for and then we could give you a pretty good idea about when it's going to get built. Okay.

They're they're pretty pretty early on in the process. So, we we can't really provide a timelines at this point until they get further along. Okay. Would it be safe to say not this year? Yeah, I think that's safe to say. Okay. But, you know, you never know. Okay. And since talking about things are happening in this year and Vin, get ready cuz we have to talk about 193 and Oaktree Lane. Mhm. Cuz I'm I'm the new friend right now. So, it's okay. Right. Right. [laughter]

Uh yeah, the um the contractor Taiker um gave us tentative data Monday and unfortunately with the rain over the weekend, they were not able to you know, get some of the signs in place. I did uh got word from them this afternoon. They will be out there tomorrow starting to install some of the signs. The all-way stop will not be in place yet, but they'll you know, install the signs and keep them covered up. Um there is a delay in in trying to procure all the materials, especially the flashing beacon signs. Uh that's expected to show up Friday and hopefully, you know, by the weekend, we can have everything in place. So, that's the latest. Okay, but let me just cuz you and I had a conversation this afternoon and and while I'm positive that many people say, well, how could it be so difficult just to put a couple of four-way a couple of stop signs up there? There's so much more involved with it. It's it's all the safety aspects to making sure that there's signs before the signs before the signs before the signs and everything has to be coordinated um and so that so that's the reason for it. Safety first with that with that without a doubt. So, thank you, Vin. Okay. Any other Yes.

Yeah, just real quick. So, we did do our skate park groundbreaking, which was really awesome. Um it's really fun for me now to when I see if I just the other day I saw a couple of kids skateboarding around. They were I think they were at the train at Big Boy and they were standing there looking at the train and they had their skateboard and I walked over and I said, do you know we're building the new skate park right? And they're like, what? So, it's a lot of fun. So, um so now my question is when are we actually going to start um building? You know I'm a pain in the neck when

Well, They're on the clock now. So, they they use a Let me help me out here. They use their wet weather delay, which basically took them from about I think October through like the beginning of this month. Then we had a little bit more rain, which is very annoying.

Very annoying, yeah. And any idea? Yeah, we ran into a little underground utility issue. We found a PG&E and Is that what all the little flags are out there? Yeah. Yeah, unfortunately, when it comes to any type of construction activity, there's a lot of unknowns with underground. And uh you know, actually um we jump Erseli, our engineering manager, and I jump on it right away. We actually got PG&E here Monday morning first thing and we're working with them to try to allow the project to progress and move forward. Um you can never know what's underground, right? And and believe it not with the widening of McBean Park Drive, there is still so much underground work remaining. You probably see them dug up all the dirt and now it's, you know, moved and um again, there's several months worth of work left as far as completing the intersection and getting the signal operational. Uh but likewise with this park, we are, you know, initiating starting the the the undergrounding process and what what happened was they called uh 811 asked asked the utilities to locate all the facilities and found out that we have some unexpected utilities that we're trying to address. Okay. Thank I appreciate that. I probably I won't harass you every meeting. I promise. Yes, you will. No.

[laughter] No, I understand that's a big issue. So, Okay, good. Anyone else? Anything else? Good. Adjourned. Thank you, folks. Thank you, everyone.