City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, good evening, everyone. Hope if you would start the meeting, your segment of it.

Thank you, Pastor. Thank you very much. All right. Call the meeting to order. August 25th, 2026, City Council meeting. All right. Hope, call the roll, please.

Here. Thank you very much. Okay, Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Foote, would you lead us in the pledge, please? Mr. Attorney, do we have any report from a closed session?

Agenda modifications. We're going to move on the printed agenda, number 13, to just after number 9. Up. Items and disclosures. 9A. Anyone else have anything that they want to change? Okay. Staff, anyone changing? Okay. Very good. Presentations. All right. Recognition of Lincoln Youth Global Disc Golf Champions. Is anyone going to be presenting this, but is anyone going to be giving a talk on it?

Go ahead, thanks thanks so um I saw these boys be recognized at church, a few weeks ago, and I thought what an amazing opportunity for the Council to recognize them, we always like to highlight students and residents who. go out and do great things and represent Lincoln well and all three of these boys who are brothers. participated recently in the Global Disc Golf Championships, not just national, but worldwide. And I'm going to let you read their awards. But I thought, and I appreciate the mayor and council allowing us to do this, that it would be really great to bring them here to recognize

Good. Thank you much, Holly, and thank you for that introduction. Okay, let me move this.

There we go. Okay. Okay, so certificate of recognition presented by the City of Lincoln to Jack Bucher, if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Bucher, thank you. Thank you. William Bucher. And since the brothers Cody, okay.

And Mayor, would you please say what place that each of them got on their certificates? It should tell you there.

Cody, first place. Yeah. Jack, second place. And William, second place also.

William, second place. And so I just want to reiterate that this is global. This is worldwide. What amazing achievement. Congratulations, boys. Would you like to say something? You don't have to if you don't want to, but you can if you want to. Great. Thank you.

Excellent. And young men, if you would like to come up over here so we can all grab a picture with you.

We often have to deal with a lot of hard things. And when we have the opportunity to do something fun and to recognize wonderful young men and women in our community, it's a great thing to do. So thanks for allowing us to do that. That's awesome. That's so great. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. Okay, thank you very much, Holly. Okay, so we're going to be moving up on number 13, which is information items and disclosures. Does anyone, any of my colleagues have anything to add or to disclose at this point?

Well, not disclosure, but the information items. Okay. I just wanted to add in that if you hadn't had time to go down and check out our Thursday night presentation, Farmers market, please, please do is like from four to like eight or 830 something like that. It's just pretty amazing. It's been hasn't been going for a long time. It was just reinstituted recently. I've been a couple of times and I think it's a real big community booster. So

I go along with that, Ben. I think it was like 10 years that we didn't have one. And this is the third time and they've been very, very successful. More so, I think, as much fun as the people have in being able to shop at night. They were also able to go out to the stores and all our stores are getting an uptick in sales, which is really good. And also the plaza, what they told us, they would start filling in on the plaza with with the information things for our community and that's being done. So it's cooking along very well. And they'll probably go till about mid November and then they'll ho

The other informational, I'll let you take over and do the plug, but the wings and wheels.

Since I have to talk about wings and wheels, okay, I'll do that. Okay, so this Friday night and Saturday, Wings and Wheels, Lincoln's, I think this is about our 15th time we're doing this out at Lincoln Airport. Friday night, we'll have a Moonglow out there with hot air balloons. It's open to the public, $5 admission charge. There'll be food trucks out there and a band and just a lot of fun. But the Moonglow at dusk is really fabulous just to watch these five hot air balloons. They elevate and you can just see the lights shining through. It's fabulous. And Saturday, we just have a lot of aircr

Saturday, the entrance fee is $10 for adults. Under 18 is free. Best $10 you can spend. No fee for parking. family oriented. So we're gonna have a lot of fun. Thank you for that segue, Ben.

Bring your fast cars and wear your best swag.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay, good. Anyone else for information items? Okay, very good. Okay. Public comments on non-agenda items within the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the council. All speakers' time 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 items not appearing on the posted agenda, but may engage in brief discussion, provide direction to city staff, or schedule items for future meetings. So, Madam Clerk, what do we have?

Thank you, Byron. It's nice to see you again.

I have a quick question really quick. I know we've already talked about this before, but I don't remember. And I wasn't looking it up recently. But since we're on the topic, what is the average acreage that's required or minimum for disc golf course?

Well, we had a proposal a few years back that became very contentious and we didn't move forward with that, but I was gonna ask Sean, I'm trying to picture the ground. Is there enough room left at Foskett Park, or is there another location that would be feasible? Because we've talked about this a lot.

If they want to sponsor our course, that would be great.

Anyone else in the audience like to make a comment? Yes, sir.

Thank you very much. Okay. Anyone else like to make a public comment at this point before we go out to zoom? Okay.

Okay. Uh, in that case, we will go through, finish off on a public comment over here, a consent calendar. Uh, does any of my colleagues want to pull a, an item off the consent calendar today? Nope. Okay. Staff, anything that we're good? Okay. In that case, we'll take one motion for all the items. Do I hear a motion?

I move approval of the consent calendar.

Do we? Second. Second over here. All in favor say aye. All opposed say no. Five-zero. Thank you very much. Okay. We have no public hearings tonight. General Business 15A, authorizing the issuance of a response to the Placer County Grand Jury 2526 report titled Public Communication by Placer County Cities, Correctionable Deficiencies, presented by City Manager Sean.

Thank you, John. You and I have seen a lot of grand jury reports in our careers, and this city has received some that are very critical. We've cured all of them. We've received some that are pretty benign, and I think that certainly goes into the benign category. I thought your responses were very charitable, frankly, because we really do go to great extents to try and make sure that we communicate with our with our citizens or anyone else that calls in. So yes, thank you for that. And I think we'll make the corrections that have to be done and move forward. But I think it's, I look at it as a

Comments? So, John, it's a requirement to send the response from the city. Do we ever get any comments or feedbacks from our response? We don't generally, do we?

Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Very good. Let me see. Do we have any speaker cards on this?

OK, very good. Bring it back to my colleagues. Any comments? All right, very good. So we're just, we'll consider approving the draft response to the Placer County grand jury reports entitled public communication by Placer County cities, correctable decision deficiencies.

And I'll take a motion and move to authorize the issuance of bonds.

Thank you, Ben. Second. Thank you, John. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Five zero. Thank you very much. 15B, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager or designee to enter into a pledge agreement and amendment to the school facilities agreement between the city of Lincoln, Lincoln Landholding, Western Placer Unified School District and the South Placer Regional Transportation Authority for the deferral of up to 50% of the tier two spotted development fees. And that'll be presented by assistant city manager, Nita Racker.

Thank you. First, questions from the Council before we open it up for comments, and then we'll bring it back for comments. Okay, good. Okay, let's open it up. Do we have any speaker cards?

Bring it back to my colleagues for comments. John? Yeah. Is someone from SPARTA here that could help me understand some policy things? Oh, great.

Thanks. So, SPARTA affirmants, somewhat common, happened before this, yes? Okay. What is the process that was used in some of those other ones?

Right, okay, so are you saying that the CFD that we adopted does not permit it to be used for deferred fees?

Right. Okay. Well, that wasn't the question I asked. Oh, I'm sorry. So I asked if the CFD we adopted permits us to use proceeds from a second, third, or fourth issuance to pay deferred sparted fees. Is your opinion that it does not allow us to do that? Yes. Can I get someone to weigh in on that? Because it was my understanding that it very clearly allows us to pay fees.

Okay, so I'm sorry, because you feel like you're repeating the same thing to me and it's the same words and you're drawing a differentiation. The CFD we adopted, the city council under either CFD verbiage, is the one that controls the issuance. And we have, every time they do it, there's a resolution that comes that we have to approve. It's pretty perfunctory normally. It's allowed to cover SPARTA fees, right? Our CFD that we adopted in 2025 can cover SPARTA fees. So if the city of Lincoln says that we agree to pay the fees to you and our CFD allows us to ensure that those come from the CFD th

You talked about verbiage before, and now you're talking about projections. Right. The CFD can't generate enough money to pay the $2.9 million? That's correct. That's correct.

Okay, so as someone who was pretty involved in the development of that CFD, I can assure you that there is a lot of money in that CFD that is available in PAYGO and otherwise to cover the $2.9 million, because there's millions in there to help for a school, plus extra to help them if they run into a problem, plus extra on top of that. I mean, it's nearly a billion dollars, but those are obligated for... They have other obligations to this. They have the obligations in the CFD the exact same as the SPARTA fees. Because what you really need is the city of Lincoln to commit that we're going to pa

And correct me if I'm wrong, as far as the pay go goes, and when we crafted this deal, we crafted it to that where Lincoln has control over the pay go, correct? Correct.

Right. But we had language in there that made sure that we weren't just giving it away. Correct.

And we are legally responsible for it in any case.

So let me so when I when I read through it there's there's two mechanisms, as I read it, maybe you can clarify if I have this wrong. The first mechanism is this proposed language which i'm still not failing to see the difference that you're drawing between. How much they obligate us to do it or not, but the second one is is that the board of Sparta has the ability to adopt an alternative one correct. So is there a reason that we can't provide an agreement with us and Lewis to solidify that these will be paid and provide to the SPARTA board for approval as an alternative mechanism?

Okay, so the MOA very clearly says, BFD language reviewed by staff, or alternative funding approved by board. It does not say that all the member agencies have to effectively do an amendment to the MOA in order to do it. It says the SPARTA board can approve an alternative, which could be an agreement that says the City of Lincoln and Lewis Development commit to do the thing they were already planning to do the whole time. So is there any reason why we can't do that and it be brought to the SPARTA board for approval?

But his question was, no, if we provided you one, you can provide to the Sparta board and meet your MOU criteria as written today.

The approval of an alternative mechanism to approve a deferment is the board. And they're represented by their representatives. What you're doing here in this document that I'm seeing is effectively an amendment to the MOA, which is crazy.

That's not what the individual jurisdictions all approved that the Sparta board can approve an alternative deferment. That was already done. It's those four people's decision about whether they will accept that deferment or And staff can provide advice about whether to do that or not. But the decision was already made by the four jurisdictions that those four presentives have the power to approve an alternative. It's already in the MOA.

There's two separate things. There's what the MOA says, which is the SPARTA board can approve a deferment. That's a process that was already adopted by the four jurisdictions that gives those four people the power to approve it. And then there's what the actual agreement would be before them to approve, which can have lots of opinions and needs to have specifics that you're talking about. Those are separate things, and you're conflating them.

Yeah, I mean, I think- You want to do that? My problem is that this process is crazy. It involves our staff going around the whole community to get everyone else to agree on essentially what amounts to an MOA amendment.

Thank you, Mayor. Well, and we don't know because we haven't voted, but I wouldn't say that there's not support here. The point is we kind of resent having to go through this process when literally what he said and then your council's arguing and then you just said, just take it to the SPARTA board, which is exactly what we're just saying.

Right. I understand that you're trying to do the right thing.

OK. You've got the chair right next to you. OK. Yeah. I am just beside myself that it has taken this long to come together to make a determination of what is acceptable based on things that have been said already tonight. The whole point of a JPA for all of these communities to come together is first to work together. Everything I've seen in this year that we've gone through is beside that. It has not been at all coming together and working together for the benefit of all. In my opinion, based on what I've seen and how I've been party to it, is there was one word that was left out and because

But the thing that makes me super sick, Matt. is why are we here tonight more than a year later going over this when collaboratively you could have said, hey, you know what? It really doesn't need it based on a word that we really need to have in there. Why don't we bring it to the board and provide a solution that makes it easier for everyone to collaborate and do that instead of just digging your heels in and causing what we're going over now.

But that's in your point of view, right? Yes, that is the legal opinion of counsel. Correct. So is there any reason that you couldn't have said, look, we don't agree here. Why don't we just bring it to the board and say, hey, board, we don't agree with what they're doing here. This is what they're proposing. Ultimately, it really needs to come down to what you say. Why are we so far in the process? We have not crossed that road yet.

It's not just one sided. Did you want to say something?

Not the way that it's crafted. Again, as Holly had clarified, although there's three in there, the language ultimately shows that the city has the first say of how those are going.

Thank you, Doug. I'm done. Any other comments? Do we have a motion?

So it'd be my motion that we either say no or table this proposal and direct staff to come up with a deferment agreement that looks more like the one that they did with the county between us and Lewis in consultation with Sparta's staff that tries to meet their obligation without this crazy whole thing and then take it to the SPARTA board as an alternative mechanism. Before we take the crazy out of the direction.

Yeah, I agree. I am in favor of the deferral for the project. And we'll get there. But I don't think that we need to do all this. I think it needs to go to the SPARTA board and let them decide.

Okay, good. Does staff have any problems with the language? Nope. Good. Any comments on it? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. 5-0. Thank you very much. You're welcome. 15C, adopt a resolution approving the reclassification of the police department's public safety director position to police chief. and adopt the revised police chief salary schedule presented by Veronica Rodriguez.

Thank you Veronica any questions from the Council before we go to public comment and bring it back for comment.

I was just going to say, you know, we did this because it was necessary under the circumstances, and Matt did a fabulous job in maintaining the continuity and the morale and the professionalism of both departments. But this is the time to go back to where it's the proper venue for it, and so we're back there again.

Honestly, I thought we already did this. So when I read this, I was like, oh, did we not do this?

I don't ever remember anybody saying director. Right.

So I move approval. Okay, very good. Second? Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Nope. 5-0. Thank you very much. Okay, city manager report.

Okay, very good. Thank you. Okay, council initiated business, anything that my colleagues have?

There's been, as you are all aware, quite a lot of talk about flock camera misuse and so on and so forth. uh with some concerned citizens i feel that it would be a good idea to maybe do a workshop community workshop so that we can involve the community members that are very concerned about it allow them to present you know information that they feel like they've gathered allow us to collaborate back and forth to get some good education on the matter so that the concerned citizens.

Yeah, I agree. Didn't we say we were going to do that? Did we talk about that last time?

Yeah, this is a topic that is evolving right now with the companies themselves making significant changes.

Cool. Thank you very much. Okay. Committee reports. Holly. I don't have a lot. I had a SACOG meeting last Thursday, and we really didn't get to do much business because we didn't have a quorum. They didn't have enough supervisors. Some of them were at the State of the City of Roseville. Some of them were at a funeral. So we talked about the CEO, the executive director's performance review, and then we literally had to go because there was not enough people there. And so we had a budget information to talk about. So that was kind of frustrating, but getting back in the swing of things, you know

I don't really think there was anything really important that I needed to report out from library and EDC, but let me know if you think of something that same with EDC.

Yeah, just a minute new initiatives sports complex. Okay, john anything else. So I had what ma and not wasn't so much with the with the facility, but an important update and there's a Regulation called 1383 about organics and it's a critical factor for why mama the landfill invested $150 million in an update. is to become a 1383 qualified facility that provides for all of us that are part of that to be qualified, which allows us to continue to have the one big Ben, which is a huge cost infrastructure savings for us not having to run extra routes and everyone having three bins versus two and al

We just use MARF. MARF, okay. Materials Recovery Facility.

That's right. She sent a direct message for Joey Mitchell when we named the highway because she met him, they were friends, and we watched the video. She sent a message to us, yeah.

So, yeah, it was very cool, yeah. Good. Well, my committees were adjourned for the month, so with that being case, we're adjourned.