Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order.

I don't have the time on my screen. Are we at 5.31? 5.31. All right. And Kelly, will you announce the meeting's video recording, please?

Tonight's meeting will be recorded via Zoom and can be viewed on the city's website within 48 hours of adjournment of this meeting.

Thank you. And Commissioner Stoss has agreed to lead us in the pledge.

Thank you.

You're ready, set, go. Show me off.

All right, we're on to item three, public comment. Members of the public wishing to address the Planning Commission for any matter not on the agenda may do so at this time by completing and submitting a speaker card to the Planning Commission clerk. For items on the agenda, speakers will be called by the chair at the point on the agenda which the item will be heard. Speakers are encouraged to keep comments to three minutes or less and to state the name and community of residence. Under the provisions of the California Government Code, the Planning Commission is prohibited from discussing or taking immediate action on any item not on the agenda unless it can be demonstrated to be of an emergency nature or the need to take immediate action arose after the posting of the agenda. Kelly, do you have any public comment? I have no speaker cards. Okay. We'll go ahead and close public comment and move on to item four. We have a first presentation with Arlene. Yes, good morning.

Thank you, Chair. Good evening to everyone. I haven't seen you all in two months, so it's nice to have everybody back in the chamber. Today, we do have an introduction for new staff. We have Brooke Lindquist, who is joining us at Planning Tech 2. Brooke is actually coming from the Building and Safety Department, so I poached her earlier. and she wanted to be part of the planning team. So we're very thankful that she's decided to join us in our little crazy world of planning. And so she'll be mostly doing a lot of our administrative entitlements and permitting. So she won't be coming too much to the meetings, but she is available as another resource that you can access for any information or questions you have about planning. Brooke, do you want to come up and just say a couple things? I didn't really prep her for this, so...

I don't have anything prepped for sure. Hi, like Arlene said, my name's Brooke. I've been a Ranch Cordova citizen my entire life, so this is a very exciting position to be in at the city. I raised my family here, my children go to elementary school here. I believe we live in District 1, we're in Cordova Meadows area. So we really enjoy being part of Ranch Cordova and getting to see this part i guess the behind the scenes part of it's really exciting for me so i'm excited to see how planning commission works and uh look forward to working with you all thank you so cool thanks so much brooke yeah thank you you're welcome i was not actually but yeah thanks thank you welcome thanks

All right, we'll move on to consent calendar items. Consent calendar items consist of matters deemed routine and non-controversial by staff. Unless a member of planning commission wishes to pull an item for individual consideration, all items be approved by one motion. Are there any items planning commission wishes to pull from the consent calendar? None on either side. Okay. And do we have any public comment?

I have no speaker cards on our consent calendar.

Okay, we will close that. May I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Motion to approve. Thank you. And a second? Second. Great.

And Kelly, for call roll. Commissioner Devrapalli?

Abstain.

Commissioner Huynh?

Aye.

Commissioner Frechette?

Aye.

Commissioner Raymond? Aye. Commissioner Stoss? Aye. Vice Chair Stevenson?

Aye.

And Chair Malden? Yes. Motion passes with a 6-0 vote.

Thank you. And we have no consent public hearing items tonight. So we'll move on to item number seven. And Kelly, if you'll announce the subject for us.

Yes. Thank you. Item 7.1, subject, a resolution providing a recommendation to City Council for the adoption of an ordinance amending Title 23 Zoning Code, Article 9 specific use provisions of the City of Rancho Cordova Municipal Code exempt pursuant to Section 15061B3 of the California Environmental Quality Act CEQA Guidelines.

Thank you. Thank you. And Chance, you have a staff report for us.

I do. I think it is. also i apologize in advance my i'm a little nasally tonight getting over uh cold all of last week so bear with me we'll forgive you um all right i think we're ready to go um so good evening chair and commissioners chance finley ross with the city's planning division i'm just going to be presenting a few municipal code amendments to you tonight i'll try to make it quick and painless, but let's just get into it. So we are going to be looking at various revisions to the accessory dwelling unit section of the municipal code. The requested action, as Kelly had mentioned, is to recommend that the planning commission adopt a resolution recommending that the city council adopt an ordinance for the zoning text amendment to the accessory dwelling unit section of the municipal code. So why are we updating the code, you might remember me coming before you about two years ago actually I think it was in August of 2024. I brought a. Similar item for the ADU ordinance. And since then, the state has continued to revise ADU and JDU regulations. And the Department of Housing and Community Development has identified sections of our ordinance that need to be updated. So the proposed amendments are primarily to clean up and to align with compliance changes to keep our ordinance consistent with state law. Those recent updates to State AD law included changes related to application completeness review timelines, appeal and denial procedures for incomplete or denied applications, clarification of development standards, unit allowances and definitions, junior accessory dwelling unit owner occupancy requirements and rental term restrictions, as well as fire sprinkler requirements. The proposed ordinance amendments incorporate these changes into the municipal code to maintain consistency with state law. And you'll see that that's just entirely what we're doing tonight. So these next few slides are just gonna briefly go over the changes that we've made. So the first category of updates relates to application review procedures. The amendments add state required timelines for determining application completeness and establish procedures for incomplete applications and appeals. The updates are primarily to ensure procedural and ensure consistency standards are met with state law. So the next amendment clarifies the number and types of ADUs that can be permitted on a parcel. For single family properties, the ordinance allows one ADU and one junior accessory dwelling unit, one detached newly constructed ADU, as well as one additional ADU otherwise permitted by state law. For existing multifamily properties, they are allowed to have up to eight detached ADUs. The revisions that are before you on this slide address HCD's recent clarification and ensure that ordinance does not inadvertently limit ADUs that are otherwise permitted under state law. So this slide summarizes updates to ADU development standards related to height and setbacks. The amendments clarify that additional height may be permitted to accommodate roof pitch alignment with primary dwelling and clarify that front setback requirements cannot prevent construction of a qualifying 800 square foot ADU otherwise permitted under state law. There were also several revisions made to ensure consistency with state ADU law and HCD comments, such as removing subjective design compatibility standards, removing deed restriction requirements for standard ADUs, and clarifying fire sprinkler requirements for ADUs and JEDUs. These updates also help to ensure the city's ADU review process remains objective, ministerial, and consistent. And finally, this slide summarizes the several updates related to the junior accessory dwelling unit section. The amendments provide new bathroom access requirements. They clarify that JEDUs must be located entirely within the primary residence. They update owner occupancy requirements and establish a minimum of 30-day rental term. This is intended to ensure, once again, consistency. Lastly, we did have to do environmental review. We went with the common sense exemption 15061B3. The amendments do not approve any physical development and would not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment and any future development projects or ADUs that are proposed would be reviewed under their own separate environmental review. So with that, staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt the resolution recommending that City Council find the project exempt from CEQA and adopt an ordinance for a zoning code text amendment to amend Title 23 of the Municipal Code. And with that, I am available for questions.

Great, thank you. Straightforward. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing period. And Kelly, do you have any public comment? I have no speaker cards for this item. Thank you. We'll close public hearing. And Planning Commission comments, questions? Nope, nope, nope. OK, hearing none, is there a motion on this item?

I'd like to make a motion that we find the project exempt from CEQA and adopt the ordinance. for the zoning and text amendment.

Commissioner Huynh, do we have a second? Commissioner Stevenson? Kelly, will you call a roll?

What do we do? No, she's...

Sorry, just making sure. I think I heard you wrong. So it's Commissioner Huynh was the first, and then who was second? Stevenson. Elliot? Okay, thank you. Commissioner Debra Pauly?

Yes.

Commissioner Frechette?

Aye.

Commissioner Hewton?

Aye.

Commissioner Raymond? Aye. Commissioner Stoss? Aye. Commissioner Stevenson?

Aye.

And Chair Malden? Yes. Motion passes with a 7-0 vote.

Great. Thank you. Moving on to Item 8. Kelly, if you'll read the subject, and then Arlene's going to introduce our topic tonight.

Correct. Item 8.1 is Community Engagement Division Update.

Great. Thank you, Chair. So, Commissioners, we are going to have a little presentation from Lorianne here from the Community Engagement Division. And this is just, you know, the ongoing effort for, you know, kind of my priority for Planning Commission is to provide information, right, on the different departments in the city, the things that are happening in the city that you may not hear of all the time. but maybe see in the community. And we just want to make sure that you're aware of the programs that are available so that you can convey it to your constituents and anybody else in the community who'd be interested. So Lorianne, thank you for coming tonight.

Absolutely. Thank you, Chair, Vice Chair, Planning Commission. I'm excited to be here, and I thank you for your time. My name is Lorianne Carl, and I manage the Community Engagement Division. And just to give you a little bit of background, so the Communication and Public Affairs Director is Maria Neistat, and under Maria Neistat, there are multiple divisions that Community engagement is one, and that is what I manage. So we want to be able to give you an update to give you a little bit more background. What is that? What makes up community engagement? What happened in 2025? And then open it up for a little bit of question. So to give you a little bit of background. So we will talk about our division, what makes up their division. We'll talk about a little bit of our accomplishments, and then we'll go over some of the priorities that we are already doing this year. So for our community engagement division, we break it down into neighborhood engagement, beautification, community support and partnerships, and then special projects and events, which kind of always ends up being a catch-all for anything that comes our way. And we just take it on with a smile. My team also consists of Matt Bulin, uh ryan um for no and also um matteo donato who i apologize i work them a lot so they have this evening uh free So our neighborhood engagement, we include a lot of things that fall under neighborhood engagement. And one is our actual neighborhood engagement program. This is unique because we flip the traditional city-led model to putting real ownership in neighborhoods. the seat of our residents. So our residents work together with facilitation from our team and we help identify projects and we help build community within their neighborhoods. So These are the neighborhoods we've worked in. And Rio Del Oro was one of our new ones in 2026. And they have hosted several events in their neighborhood already. The one nice thing about what happened with Rio Del Oro is that Not everybody always goes to our website and it was nice that they actually reached out to us to start a neighborhood engagement program in their neighborhood. So that means that our website is working and people are paying attention. And we continue to work. We've worked with several neighborhoods. And Chair, you're very familiar with some of the work that we've done in neighborhoods in Rancho Cordova. Another way that we support our residents through neighborhood engagement is through our community microgrants. So these are all the microgrants that we actually did. We increase every year. So we hit a 27% increase from the year prior. And these allow our residents to actually do fund projects in their community, and they're reimbursed for the funding that they would spend. So we're asking people to get involved. We're asking them to do these engaging projects. And now we actually can say, well, we help fund them, which has been a huge benefit it gives the ability to be able to be reimbursed for the engagement, which I think helps residents. We also do our school field trips. So we're very proud of our field trips. We try and engage all of our school districts, but we offer an opportunity for kids to come and actually sit where you're sitting. We take them through a mock meeting and they get to learn what it is to be part of the planning department, part of city government. And we actually take them through a real topic that was controversial at the time. And that was, do we allow chickens in Rancho Cordova? And they actually get to vote. And then we share what the real outcome was of the real meeting. And so our field trips have been so successful that now we are on a wait list for future years just due to capacity with our school districts. We also host our Good Neighbor Days, which I'm hoping, I think some of you have been, and I'm hoping you can continue to come to our Good Neighbor Days. And this is where we actually get to take the city out to our residents. So we have city staff, we have other agencies, we provide food, we provide fun, and we go out into the communities and host an event on a weeknight. We've tried multiple nights. We keep changing based off of what works for our residents. And what has worked is Thursday night, 530 to 730 seems to be a sweet spot. So we're increasing the numbers by every event. In 2025, our newest locations was White Rock, Labyrinth Park, and Cordova Gardens. And then we have actually hosted one in Rio Del Oro. this year so far. We've had 12 to date. They continue to grow. Our residents now are asking, so we have a wait list already for 2027, which is a good problem to have, that these are now becoming popular And people appreciate us going out to where the community is versus hosting something here at City Hall. Not that people don't like to come to City Hall, but it's a lot more fun to go out to where the communities are. I want to always thank our partners. We have so many different partners that help us make these Good Neighbor Days successful. Lots of different organizations that have really benefited from being out in front of the community. So always thanking our partners. We couldn't do it without them. And of course, our city staff. We have pretty much everyone on deck those evenings. And I'm always happy to see how many city staff actually will come out as well and support these events. They've become kind of a tradition now. Our beautification programs, this is very unique to Rancho Cordoba. I have to say I've been contacted by several other organizations, including the county, and they never seem to be able to duplicate these efforts. A lot of it is due to staff time and funding. So we're very I'm blessed to be able to offer these to our communities. So we have multiple programs and I'm going to just kind of go through each one so you know what we offer. So our residential beautification program, this is actually impacts our residents in the front yard. So this provides residential properties an amazing opportunity to have their front yard transformed into a drought tolerant like sustainable landscaping. We provide the contractor. We provide the work. The funding is provided. They have to qualify. There is an income qualification. But if they qualify, this is free to the resident. And they don't have to worry about hiring a contractor. We take care of that for them. So this helps with anything that you're seeing from the front yard, front yard landscaping, fence repair, and even trash removal. Another incentive through our good neighbor assistance is we provide a contractor will come and remove your inoperable vehicle and pay you for it. So we offer up a $500 incentive to remove your inoperable vehicle. And we also offer up to $1,000 for a chain link fence removal. So if you're tired of your chain link fence or you have an inoperable vehicle, you can contact us and we will reimburse you for those removals. Our home revitalization programs are a little different. So we have Rebuilding Together is one nonprofit that we work with. And Rebuilding Together doesn't just do the outside of the homes, but they also work on the health and safety inside. So they provide critical repair. So you could need an HVAC, a roof leak. They've done new flooring, new windows, And these programs help residents stay in their homes. Sometimes people just cannot afford to manage the upkeep. And some of the homes we find are built in 1959, you know, in the 60s. And some of these homes need revitalization. So Rebuilding Together is one that we have worked with for a long time. They also work with volunteers to do skilled and unskilled work. And the other organization is Habitat for Humanity. So they also do what they call a brush for kindness. And their brush for kindness also helps with electrical, windows, flooring, and critical repairs. to help keep people in their homes. Sierra Service is another nonprofit. They help with, this organization was one of the first ones that I saw actually put in lifts. So if you're in a wheelchair and you can't get in and out of your mobile home, or you can't get in and out of your home, They actually installed lifts, which were helping seniors actually access just to be able to leave their homes. So they have done a lot of different repairs. They also use youth to provide them with skilled. Yes.

I'm going to interject and say two of my kids are in that top photo. And that's my daughter. That's my daughter with that power tool. I need these photos. We appreciate that. I didn't even know that.

So that was a good setup. But we did not know that. They do use local youth and the local youth get volunteer service hours. So great for your kids to participate. I will send you those photos. We also have a urban forest program. So our urban forest program, we partner with SAC Tree Foundation. We partner with SMUD. We are always trying to provide shade trees, educational workshops. We offer free tree stump removal. And with removing a stump, we will plant a new tree. um in since the program started and this is data through 2025 we had planted over 2500 trees so we are our goal every year is 365 trees and sometimes we hit over that goal but we are always looking for ways to plant in parks schools residential and of course in our basin areas What we started that was new to try and make these programs and projects sustainable is two ways. One, we were getting ahead of with beautification workshops. So we can bring the nonprofits out, do the beautification workshops, help answer questions. Sometimes this is a too good to be true and people don't believe it. And so it takes a lot to get people to sign up for these programs, believe it or not. The other thing we did was we have tips. We provide care packages so that we're helping residents know how to keep up with their properties so that they do not revert back and they become sustainable. So we try and give them tips, tools, and care packages to remind them how to take care of these yards going forward. So just to kind of show you where we have worked and where these projects have been, we really follow the need. So our good neighbor assistance, our chain link fence removal over the years, our cash for clunkers, our rebuilding together Sacramento, which you can see we've worked with them for many years now. Our Habitat for Humanity and Sierra Service. And then just to show you, this is all the programs put together where you can see where we are really trying to make an impact all over the city where there's a need. Moving into community support and partnership building. We have lots of partnerships. We are always trying to work with all of our partners in many ways. We provide microgrants to our larger organizations. So we have our residential microgrants for more of the neighborhood level, but then organizations and nonprofits can also apply for community microgrants. These are a little bit larger in size. They can apply for up to two per fiscal year, up to $5,000 per grant. And we have seen lots of events. If this just gives you a snapshot of what we did in one year. Um, the events are last year we increased it by 57%. I'm reaching over 17,000 people just from these different events. We have our Volunteer Central. And Volunteer Central is one place where local organizations and volunteers can go for the same purpose, and that is how to get involved in my community. So we try and offer this as a free site for residents and organizations. They can list their events. So organizations can use this page to list their need. And then if you're the resident or student, you're looking for service hours, you're looking for a way to get involved, all of the locations that we try and connect with all of the organizations in Rancho Cordova. And they can list their site. They can even use their own sites, like the Cordova Community Council. They list their needs, but then it takes them back to their website, which is perfect. But at least we're all sharing the same needs in one location. We hit over 1400 at this point in this snapshot, but I know with one event that we just had, we had over 2000. So we were celebrating our 2000 volunteers registered with over 60 organizations or 60 opportunities from the organization. So this is a great opportunity for people to, these are all the organizations that are listed, and then what we do is we try and help keep their pages up for them and keep their information relevant. So Volunteer Central is a great place to send any of your kids that are looking for volunteer service hours. And then we have our special projects and events, which we help support. We have a lot of events that we support, but we also have some that we support other organizations through their events. Cordova Community Council, again, is one. They are really the largest community event organizer. So we try and support by having a booth or we have a presence at their event. But some of the events that we do host, Holiday Star, which will be coming up at the end of the year, and our Holiday Parade, which those two are deer projects to our heart. And then we had the spring service day. So at the time of this presentation, we had our second annual spring service day, but we have just finished our third. So on May 16th of 2026, we held our third annual and we exceeded even these numbers. So our volunteers this year We had 450 volunteers with over 24 projects. This was a... It was an incredible morning. We do a huge kickoff in the morning, and it always surprises me to see all the new faces that these types of events bring people out in the community. We did projects from the mine shaft to school sites to cleaning up creeks. We had... so many different people participate schools participating and we are already looking forward to our fourth and we do have a date in uh in may so we will be sharing that date although i need a breather from that event before i start talking about next year's um But I would like to now just show a highlight of kind of a snapshot of what we did, and then we will show a little bit about a snapshot for 2026.

Oh. Oh.

Thank you, Kelly. Thank you. Just going to move to our last slide.

There we go.

Thank you. And so just a snapshot, I know we're into 2026, so just giving you a snapshot. We did host a beautification workshop. We've also hosted a Good Neighbor Day at Dave Roberts Park. And we have countryside coming up. So that will be on September 17th. We have Gold Brush Park, which is in Rio. And that will be in October. Again, we have our school field trips. So six are already in the books. So we're trying to just move along and continue trying to add to our field trips. And then, of course, we held our spring service day And now we're already looking at what 2027 is going to bring. So we are midway through 2026. I have an amazing team. I couldn't do this without them. We have amazing leadership and amazing residents who without them, we wouldn't have a job. So I appreciate everything. I hope that you all have some questions and that you appreciated the presentations.

Thank you so, so much. This was such great information. And thank you to Arlene for making this presentation happen.

We need to see if there's any public comment. I have no speaker cards for this item.

Okay, thank you. Public comment period is now closed. And then we'll open it up for commission comments and questions. Surrender, you want to start on your side?

Yeah, it's a great program. I see a lot of help to the community members and everything. One thing I would like to ask is the beautification program. You said there is income qualification. Did you guys published on the website?

We do publish all of our beautification programs and applications are on the website. And then when they click on the application, they can see what the qualifications are. But anybody can always contact us as well, and we can share that with them. So we have multiple ways that we are able to share those. But we do share in the application, it does list the income requirements.

Okay.

Well, this is a lot of work that you put in. It shows. And nothing good comes easy. And this is really, really good. This is the kind of thing that sets our city apart from the rest. And great presentation. I loved everything I saw. Most of it I knew, but some of it I didn't. So thank you.

Thank you.

A-plus. Way to go. It was wonderful. I love to see the city moving in the right direction. And so I commend you for a great presentation and thank you. And especially for Cordova Meadows and Cordova Gardens. So it was wonderful. So thank you very much.

Thank you. Yeah, Lorianne. I mean, even someone who is attends all kinds of stuff and has had the benefit of the Good Neighbor Days and the activities that you funded for our neighborhoods. There was a lot that was new to me as well. So it's exciting to see. I especially appreciate the tracking and data, those slides that show where, because I think that's an important visual. So that's really great. My mind is already reeling about how we can get... You have so many good partnerships, too, which I recognize. You're not doing this work alone, but you've brought in Habitat and Sierra Service Project and the Tree Foundation, all these other organizations. So we're not duplicating effort, but we're working really efficiently and cohesively. So just... Keep it up. How can we, aside from attending and spreading the word, are there other things that we can do as a commission to support the work that you're doing?

That's a great comment. And I think it's always, I don't pretend like I know everything. And sometimes some of the best connections I've made is through commission and council. So if there's ever organizations that you think we could partner with, That's fantastic. I mean, we have a great partnership with SMUD. We have a great partnership with a lot of our organizations, but sometimes it's organizations outside of Rancho that I don't mind bringing in as long as they're going to do good things in Rancho.

Yeah, I have some ideas, so I will email you tomorrow.

Perfect.

Thanks. Yeah, I want to piggyback on a lot of what Tegan said. Although I knew a lot of this stuff, a lot of it was also brand new. And I was actually, I'm really happy that we do these updates because every time I think I know a lot just because I go on the website, I'm always pleasantly surprised by how much I don't know. And it kind of gave me some ideas on just coming to you for, you know, I'm really involved in the elementary schools in the South Rancho area. And so I was like, oh, I have all these ideas on, we're always looking to engage and look for ways to do more things with our school community within Anatolia, Kabbalah and that area. So I have some really great ideas. So I'm really glad to see this update because I already feel like, oh, there's ways for us to kind of get that community A little bit more engaged and when I provide updates on like next door and on Facebook groups different neighborhood Facebook groups like this would just be a great even just the highlight video would be awesome to be able to share that some of the things that you guys are doing so thank you.

I appreciate that. And just to give you a little quick sneak peek. So we've been doing a Christmas parade, a holiday parade in partnership with Lincoln Village for the last 10 years. And it's become a really big tradition. And I just met with some amazing ladies from the, they represent Cypress, Sunridge, Somerset Ranch, Anatolia, Kavala Ranch and the ranch they represent and they're wanting to really showcase a holiday parade this coming year which we will be um and staff doesn't really know this yet um but we will be doing another holiday parade uh which is a good problem to have I I don't think that's a bad problem is to want to partner and do great things. And so trying to engage some of the newer residents that have just moved here and aren't that connected is our goal. So December 13th is the second parade. So exciting.

I love that. Well, you're actually speaking right to me because I'm new-ish, like I've been here five years now. And so- it's taken a little bit of time to get more engaged. And so, and I feel like there's so many of us there. And so I'd love to hear it. And we're actually, we always do, at least from Kavala to Anatolia, they do like a candlelight, like light up around Christmas time. And that's kind of like our holiday thing that some community members just throw on on their own, but this would be like such a huge highlight and I would love to be involved. Wonderful.

Laurieann, my hat's off to you. I have, I've lost track. How long have you been with the city now? I just hit 20 years. That's what I thought. I knew it was somewhere.

And I live here and work here and you can't get rid of me. So I'm not leaving anytime soon.

I have seen you where the rubber meets the road for the last 20 years. All the events and other service things. Just thank you for all your dedication to our city and thank your entire staff for some of the marvelous collaborations you do with various groups, including the community council. I can't wait for the new holiday parade. But thank you. That excellent presentation, excellent work by you and your staff. And keep up the good work.

Thank you. Get the fire truck ready. well thank you very much and actually i have to say and everybody on the commission will know this i'm super proud to see my neighborhood in district one getting a lot of of your services um we get forgotten sometimes and you guys have not forgotten us so thank you so much um it was new to me some of this information and i'm going to be sharing it with my neighbors so this presentation was excellent um i know it totally motivated me to give back a little bit more so and you make Rancho Cordova the place why we're proud to be here so doing things like this this is a really great community that sometimes gets a bad rap and all they need to do is go watch your video because it's an excellent place to be to raise kids to retire to be a resident so thank you and I really appreciate it thank you

I just want to plug city staff and my team because I couldn't do this without them. And I think when you love what you do and you love your job, you never work another day in your life. And I really do feel that about Rancho. So we're all fortunate. But it's leadership like yours that makes it easy to be here as well. So I appreciate all of your kind words. And we will make sure we come back and present to you way more often. So thank you for your time.

Thank you so much. All right. We'll just keep it right going with commission comments, ideas, questions. I'm going to start with you.

I don't have much because we've been gone. I feel like it's nice to see everybody. Gosh, we're already almost to fall. It's like summer's here and gone. So I don't have a lot. I think we've got a lot of things coming up in the city and I haven't given up on my Cordova-Coloma Road mission, so stay tuned for that. But that's about all I have. Welcome back, everybody.

Well, I don't know. Two months off, I'm kind of like a monkey. You have to retrain me. Lots happened since then. We had a little party for about 30,000 of our closest friends and neighbors, so... over the last while we were out um the uh heart stoppers is starting is going full blast right now i am uh dreading the fact that i have a whole new group of uh 150 uh screaming uh junior high and high school kids to corral out there um but uh Gosh, I don't even know if there's so much has happened. I don't even know what to cover, but it's great to see everybody back. Thank all of you for all your help during the 4th of July. It was a pretty big event this year, and as always, it takes a village, that's for certain.

I don't have much to add, except that i'm glad to be back, I was happy to take part in the parade this year and again loved the. July 4 celebration fireworks were excellent as usual and honestly the drone show was really it was pretty cool too, so I think both of those things were kind of the highlight for me this summer.

I'll jump in and say, yay, that school's back in session for Folsom Cordova. So everyone's excited about that in my house. And then I want to highlight, I don't know if you all saw the news that Wellspace is expanding their space in Rancho from administrative to a clinic. And so I know many people are wanting, you know, pushing for a hospital space. And this is where you have to start. You don't just get a hospital. You have to start with clinics and go from there. So that's exciting news. They should be ready to serve patients early 2027. So-

figured you'd be thrilled about that so that's all to share for tonight life is good in district two um we're rocking and rolling so um thank you for everybody for your support and we're just going to keep moving forward city of roche cordova is the best place to be in my mind you know and that's what we

live by so thank you to everyone everyone all my uh my peoples i love you all well it's been a minute it's good to see everyone um i just want to express some some public thank you to to lee for uh drawing me into the the pyro crew i haven't had that much fun or worked that hard in quite some time. 12 hours of work for 12 minutes of joy, and it was worth every bit. I'll be there next year. The parade was awesome. Thank you, Rihanna. We had a really good time out there. And like Ellie was saying, Rancho is the place to be. And it's because of the programs that are out there, the things that the community is doing, our city council, our staff. It's the whole group that makes this a great place to be. So thank you, everyone.

Yeah, I missed July 4th parade. I was in different city. I have to attend some other family party. So I couldn't able to make it July 7th, July 4th parade. And also seeing you guys after three months, I missed complete May out of country. So I missed three months of these meetings and seeing you guys. So good to see you. All right.

All right. And we have Arlene, you have a report for us? Yes.

I don't have much. Like everyone, good to see everybody. We're two months break. My son is back at school. So yay. Hallelujah. So we will have a busy next quarter. We are going to be doing some just updates on for the next year for planning commissioners. We're gonna try to find ways to make it easier for existing planning commissioners, for reappointments, for new planning commissioners coming in. So there's gonna be some adjustments to the ordinance just to let you know that that's coming down the line. So that will be before the end of the year is gonna come up. And I don't really have anything else. I wanna put somebody on the spot here. Palmer had a very important thing happen to him this past weekend. So congratulations to Palmer. He got married this past weekend. So we just want to, you know, give him a little kudos. Yeah.

Thanks, Arlene. Appreciate it.

No problem. And that's all, too.

Thank you so much. All right. Well, with that, we'll adjourn at 625 and see you all in two weeks.