City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right, I'm going to go ahead and adjourn this meeting to closed session. Are there any public comments related to closed session item today?

STACEY, THIS ONE, STACEY, THIS IS YOUR ONE-MINUTE CHECK. ONE MINUTE.

YEAH, BUT THE ONE MINUTE GOES TO TWO, TWO GOES TO THREE, THEN IT'S SEVEN. All right, let's go ahead and call this meeting back to order and do a roll call.

Here. Adam, would you like to read out of closed session, please?

Thank you very much. I'm gonna go ahead and adjourn the meeting and rejoin the meeting for a regular meeting. Stacy can roll call again.

Here, can I go ahead and have Stacy read the television announcement.

Excellent. Thank you very much. I'm going to go ask Darrell to come up and give us the Pledge of Allegiance. And then after that, you can stay standing for our invocation from the BAPS charity.

And my call on Sani. Yeah, because you're just going, we're going to have that. That's not raising that name up. There we go.

Excellent job. Now I'm going to have the doggies up to the front. And that's Jody Groves, who is a volunteer with Canine Companions. All right. We're going to do this thing, and then we're going to have you talk because the puppies like to talk. This proclamation is given on National Service Dog Month. Whoever wants an amazing dog, you get to take one home tonight. So that's free. And I will be taking home this guy. Whereas there are 70 million adults and children in the United States that live in disabilities, while only approximately 1,600 service dogs from accredited training programs are a

There you go. You want me to hold the dog?

I don't know if I have a house to go home to. That's because he loves me. I'm a dog person. Now, just as good, but not as fun as dogs, let's talk about prostate cancer. All right. Come on up. That was the best transition I could do. All right, sir.

So this proclamation is near and dear to my heart. I have many a family member that has suffered from prostate cancer. So it's Prostate Care Awareness Month, September 2026, whereas prostate cancer is frequently diagnosed in men and second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. This year approximately 300,000 men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States. Roughly 36,000 will die this year from the disease and every 15 minutes a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer. African American men are the highest at risk of prostate cancer with a rate of one in six. Incidents of 70% h

All right, thank you for everything you do. The more people that know, the more people you've survived. All right, we're now gonna move to public comment. Members wishing to address the council for any matter not on the agenda may do so at this time. Public comment is a period is limited to the matters that fall within the city council authority known as council subject matter jurisdiction. For items that are on the agenda, speakers will be called by the mayor at the point on the agenda when the item is heard. Speakers are asked to keep their comments three minutes or less and are asked to beg

All right, let's go ahead and move on to Council Reports. Joe.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, aside from the routine monthly meetings we all attend, for me, it's sewer, air district, um sacog a couple of other things of uh of interest cordova football team is now three and oh beating rio americano at rio americano except they don't have lights so they had to play somewhere else but they beat them uh 27 21 unfortunately it was out of town i didn't get to go to that game but um People who saw it said it reminds them of the Cordova teams of old, where they may not be the most talented kids on the field, but they are definitely the most tenacious.

Absolutely. So congratulations to them. If they stay on this path and they get another win or two, they will earn a playoff berth, which is pretty exciting. That hasn't happened in a couple years. So that would be a nice accomplishment for this year. They play this Friday somewhere in the East Bay, I think. and they are projected to win that one as well, so we'll see, we'll see. But we should be very proud of what they're accomplishing over there this year. I am chair of NLC's Suburban Municipalities Council. That used to be the First-Year Suburbs Council. The mission hasn't changed, the name

Thank you, Mayor. I remember reading about this hanging umbrella in the alleys. I think it started in Portugal in the early 2000s, and then it took off from there.

Yeah. Well, again, that's all I remember from that piece of it. Yeah, from my update, there were social engagements. I've been there. You've seen me there. The one thing I want to point out is on the STA meeting that I attended, So as all of you are aware, the Grant Line Road is a dangerous road. And a few years earlier, we'd received, the Rancho Cordova segment of the connector had received 25 million as part of the TCEP award. And last week, we were hoping to get prioritized by the STA board to get another $25 million. And we got approved.

The fun part is, or the part is, you know, every time when we approve this amount, grand dollars, grant dollars, it's just something that we approved. But this time I knew that when we were approving this $25 million, we were literally going to save lives. So six people sitting on a podium, we were out there saving lives. So that's what we do. Thank you.

Wonderful. Linda? So it's all about the money. I attended a couple of pretty routine money-type projects. Regional Transit is still trying to settle funding with SACOG. The library staff is still trying to deal with the the imbalance between the city of Sacramento side of the budget and the county and city side of the budget. SACOG, I attended the SACOG meeting for David, who was off having a good time with umbrellas in alleys, and their action, they took action on a federal funding cycle item that ended up giving, ended up prioritizing preservation of projects as opposed to simply performance

Number two versus number three would be a heck of a game. Although I'll warn you, the last time those two teams met, it didn't turn out well for Georgia.

No, you're right. I remember that. Donald never let me forget that one. That was a long time ago.

Pre-Kirby Smart. Great job talking at the whistle stop and everyone that came. Thank you for my Chamber of Commerce and Kirby Community Council. Throwing that, Joe jumped in the dunk cake at Lincoln Village. Everyone had a bunch of fun with that.

It was hurtful. But I was soaking wet and these kids had the best time dunking their mayor in a suit. My wife was not happy because the suit is now officially stretched.

That is just a great precedent to set, too, let me tell you.

Yeah, and it's fun because, like... Who's going to be mayor next? Yeah, whoever's mayor next...

Always seem to wear the wrong clothes to the wrong event. You wear your white and your designer clothes to the holy event.

Yeah, I didn't know that. That was your fault, and you're, like, dressed nice, and then they're like, cool, I'm going to splash you with color, and... REC three suits, that's how we do it. Diane's 15 year, so congratulations to our Chamber of Commerce. You've been an amazing partner of the city. Let's see, what else? Great job on the 9-11 event, that was fun. Got to go down and be with GSEC. They are planning out interesting stuff they're trying to do. They're trying to sign three year contracts instead of just going year by year and other weird ways to try to get money from people. And I was

Two, consent calendar. Consent calendar are items deemed routine and non-controversial by staff, unless a member of the council wishes to pull the item for individual consideration, all items will be approved in one motion. Stacy, are there any, oh, council, is there any items you wish to pull? Is there any public comment, Stacy?

So hearing none, I will move approval of item 16.1 to 16.13.

Can I ask for a roll call, please? Second. Second. Second. Roll call, please.

All right, let's go ahead and move on to public hearing items. No, consent public hearing items. Consists deemed, matters deemed routine and non-controversial by staff unless a member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration. All items may be approved in one motion. I'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing. Stacey, is there any public comment?

I'm going to go ahead and close public comment.

I'll move items 17-1 and 17-2. Second. Do I have a roll call, please?

Excellent. Stacey, you can go ahead. We're moving on the regular calendar. There's no public hearing items. Moving on to regular calendar items. Stacy, can you go ahead and read us the subject?

That was the extra. Thank you. That was the extra. I'll do it again.

I would just say I think this is probably the most significant project we've undertaken as a council. Maybe you would put the remodel of Folsom Boulevard up there on that level. but this might be more impactful than that in the long run. Virtually every resident in Rancho Cordova could be positively benefited by the sort of activities that will happen here. It's focused on doing this the Rancho Cordova way. This is not government doing everything. This is government providing a place where residents can do things to pursue their own passions and their own interests and improve our community. A

It's a good example of not having settled for something less and just having the good sense to hang on until the right piece of property came along.

Right. I mean, in the modern sense, we were looking for independent theater space or independent veteran space. We thought Mills Crossing, we could do big public space there and kind of community center kind of activities. We thought remodeling the mine shaft might provide the other part of that. We looked at another building. We have a partnership with the community council looking at this. How do we best execute this kind of a plan for the city? I don't think anyone had decided this was the spot until we were undertaking all of those looks, all of those steps got us here. So I'm really happy

So since David didn't, I will move approval of the resolution to approve.

All right. Council, any questions, comments? Sounds good.

Then I move that we adopt the resolution to go forward with the application for the Transformative Climate Communities Grant Program.

Next, who we got, who's doing this? Micah, oh. Stacey, can you go ahead and announce Micah?

There are some things around civility we could do at our annual meeting. There are ways of describing civil behavior or uncivil behavior or rating yourself for how civil you can be as a group. National League of Cities has done quite a bit with this in the last year. So I was happy to bring sort of this idea here and add us to kind of a national movement to try to restore more civility to government.

Excellent. Nice job, David. So you're going to move it?

All right. There is anyone who got any future agenda items? I do. Oh, what you got?

So there's a lot of talk about having a data center. Recording in progress. And our residents are usually opposed to it. And I flip back and forth between having one from a perspective of revenue to the city and no from being a resident. But there seems to be a lot of pros and cons. And I've seen some cities use it for the benefit of the city. So I would like to bring... that topic with staff actually doing the due diligence. Maybe some of us visiting these data centers to see how it benefits our cities and what do the residents think of it and have this decision ready for us to go. So wheneve

I like that forward thinking. You talk about it. I have a lot of good options for it and bad options. Well, some of them have done it really wrong.

Yeah, and being at meetings with constituents or public events with constituents around this issue has raised a lot. Most of them are kind of surprised to hear we're already home to five or six or seven or I don't even know what the number is, 11, already here. Yeah, not the modern mega form, but a different form. I think with our AI focus and our tech base, this is a different sort of an issue for us. I hope that this issue is turning a bit in the public mind, although I'm not sure it is. We're in a political season where that might not be in the interests of people running for office. But I'

I want to add, so, I mean, all companies, including the one where we are, we're pushing the need for more AI in terms of for optimization on all our software tools, and all of that requires data centers. So it has to come up somewhere, or we stop trying to, you know, use all those filters and look beautiful on Zoom. But so...

So let's talk about our position right now.

Cool. All right. And now we're going to go ahead and go to closed session. Are there any public comments on closed session? Should I gavel out for the guy, or when I come back?

Alright, we're gonna go ahead and go into closed session.

Yeah, you usually do it at the end, the bitter end.

Excellent. I'm going to go ahead and adjourn this meeting in the name of Robert Bejarano. Good and faithful servant, I found you a way home.