Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Turned on the mic.

Okay, so roll call. Commissioner Debra Pauley.

Present.

Commissioner Huynh.

Here.

Vice Chair Molden. Here. Commissioner Raymond. Here. Commissioner Stoss. Here. Commissioner Stevenson.

Here.

And Chair Frechette.

Here.

Okay. And then the video recording as well, Chair.

Yes, 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.

And for the Pledge of Allegiance, we have a volunteer.

All right. Will you please rise and join me at the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

OK. All right, moving on to 3.1. I believe we have a birthday to acknowledge. Commissioner Deborah Pauley, would you like to say something?

We should say happy birthday.

Well, we're going to sing happy birthday. He's not getting away with it. He's not getting away from that. Well, how about if you all would join me in a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday? And a one and a two and a happy birthday. Congratulations. Okay, and with that, I believe we have a new employee introduction.

Yes, thank you, Chair. I'd like to call up Brian Pineda, who's our new planning technician one. Brian, can you come up here at the podium? Brian joined us about a month ago, and he's been a great addition to the planning team, and a lot of the things he does are kind of the face-to-face interviews interface with our residents, our businesses and our applicants. He's been going out there doing building inspections and helping with business license reviews. So Brian, you want to say a few words?

Yeah, good evening, everyone. Thank you for having me here today. My name is Brian Panetta. I'm the new planning technician one. It's a great honor to be in front of the commission. And yeah, thank you very much. And let me know if you have any questions. If not, thank you for your time.

So, Brian, where do you hail from?

Oh, I come from Sacramento. I grew up in Citrus Heights.

Okay.

Yeah.

Very good.

Yeah. So I've taken bus here, went to school here.

Okay. Where'd you go to school? Where'd you attend?

For high school.

High school?

Yeah, I went to San Juan High School. And before that, I went to Earl Rogers Middle School.

Okay.

And then before that, I went to COIL.

All right. Yeah. Good. A local boy, more or less. Yeah.

I mean, it would have been better if you went to Mesa being from Citrus Heights. So what brought you to the planning world?

Well, I just really want to help communities out and, you know, with development and also build new housing, build more businesses and kind of help everyone out in the community.

Well, I can't believe I'm going to say this because we have been new for so long. But if you have questions, you can always reach out to us as well.

Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. It's great having you here. Thank you.

Welcome.

And then chair, if I could, we actually have one more introduction. It's not on our agenda. But I did get to meet our new one of our new city attorneys, Arianna Jean Johnson, who's here with Myers Nave. So she's joined the team fairly recently. So Arianna, did you want to say a few words?

Hello, everyone. Nice to see you. My name is Ariana Jean Johnson. I just joined last week and today is my first day here at City Hall. So it's a pleasure to be here and I look forward to seeing all of you as time progresses.

Thank you. Welcome aboard. I take it that's the end of our introductions. Okay. And Kelly, if you would be so kind.

So for 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 when the item will be heard. Speakers are encouraged to keep comments to three minutes or less and to state 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.

And do we have any public comment tonight?

I do not have any public comment cards for our general public comment period.

Alrighty. So we can move on to, well, first I need to close the public comment period and then There's no, I guess we move straight on to the consent calendar. Is there anything for me to read on that?

Yes. Would you like to read that? So consent calendar items consists of matters deemed routine and non-controversial by staff. Unless a member of the planning commission wishes to pull an item for individual consideration, all items will be approved by one motion.

Thank you, Kelly, for those of you that don't know. So I use readers. I'm now approaching 70 years old, so I rely on readers. And I've got two sets of readers, one for the computer that far away and then one for actually reading. I grabbed the wrong set tonight. So the screen here is really in focus, but this page down here, the top of the page I can kind of read. The bottom of the page, it's a little too blurry for me to read. So Kelly has been... reading for me graciously. Thank you. Yeah, that kind of thing. And with that, getting back to the meeting. Let's see, what do we have for items on the consent calendar tonight? I don't think we have anything, right?

For a consent calendar, it is our meeting minutes from the September 10th, 2025 regular meeting, and as well as your 2026 planning commission meeting schedule.

Okay. Help me here, Kelly. I'm lost in my trying to read and catch up.

Commissioners would like to pull any of the items from the consent calendar.

No. OK. So with that, we will move all items with one vote. And do we have any public comment for that?

We do not have any public comment cards for consent calendar.

OK. Very good. With that, I'll entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to adopt the minutes from the previous meeting along with the schedule for 2026. I'll second.

All righty. We have a motion and a second. And Kelly, if you'd be so kind as to call the roll.

Commissioner Deborah Polly.

I abstained 5.1 meeting minutes because I wasn't present. But I say yes for 5.2.

Should we take those separately? Yes.

Take two. All right. So can we just amend that motion to take it as two separate?

Yes. So can we have a motion for just a minutes, please?

Yeah, we should do separate motions. I'll make it. Go for it.

Make a motion to approve our .. Second.

Second. OK, motion and a second. We have no comment cards for any of the items. So Kelly, if you would roll for.

It's going to be sure to have a body of steam. I sure Molden yes missionary bond I question ourselves yes commissioner Stevenson all right and chair for shit I motion passes with the 6, 0, vote.

And then do I have a motion for this second part for our calendar.

I'll make the motion to approve the planning commission counter a second.

All right. Motion and a second. And again, we had no comment cards. So if you'd be so kind as to call the roll again.

Commissioner Deborah Pauley.

Yes.

Commissioner Huynh.

Aye.

Vice Chair Molden. Yes. Commissioner Rayvon. Aye. Commissioner Suss. Yes. Commissioner Stevenson.

Aye.

And Chair Frechette.

Aye.

Motion passes with a 7-0 vote.

All right, so we're moving on to 6.1.

Correct. Would you like me to read the language for consent public hearing? Yes. So consent public hearing items consist of matters deemed routine and non-controversial by staff. Unless a member of the Planning Commission wishes to pull an item for individual consideration, all items will be approved by one motion.

Does anybody wish to pull an item? OK. Do I hear a motion?

We'll need to open the public hearing.

Oh, excuse me. I'm going to open the public hearing and ask you if we have any comment cards.

We have no speaker cards for our consent public hearing items.

So I'm going to close the public hearing. And with that, I will entertain a motion.

Yeah, I will take the motion to approve.

All righty. I have a motion and a second. Kelly, if you do the honors, please.

Yes. Commissioner Deborah Pauley.

Yes.

Commissioner Huynh.

Aye.

Vice Chair Molden. Yes. Commissioner Raymond. Aye. Commissioner Stoss. Yes. Commissioner Stevenson.

Aye.

And Chair Frechette.

Aye.

Motion passes with a 7-0 vote.

Okay. There are no public hearing items, as I understand it. Correct? Okay, so we can move on to regular calendar items.

Correct.

And with that, would you please announce the subject for 8.1?

Item 8.1, selection of the 2026 chair and vice chair.

All righty. And I guess I have to ask for public comment first. Or Arlene, you got something to say?

Yes, I can just go through just the process that we'll take tonight, this evening. So it's that time of year again, as some of you already have gone through before for nomination and motion of the new chair and vice chair for the planning commission. As we've done in the past, it's been agreed that the sitting vice chair would move into the chair's position. And we do need an official nomination and motion for that position. And then the planning commission will also need to nominate and vote on the vice chair.

so i'll turn it over chair to you that's my quick little intro um i'll turn it over to the chair on how he wants to get this rolling well first let's get the public comment out of the way do we have any we have no speaker cards for this item all righty uh with that um uh i'm kind of caught in a quandary because based on conversations i had some time ago I was under the impression that the one remaining original member of the Planning Commission wasn't interested in serving as chair. So I have committed to supporting somebody else after talking quite a bit about that. But I understand surrender may have changed that interest. his mind on that, and I probably should have followed up with him on that. But I'm going to stick with the commitment that I made, since I did make a commitment at this point, surrendered. I hope you understand that. So with that, I will entertain any nominations, but I am going to nominate Commissioner Stevenson for vice chair.

And Commissioner Stevenson, do you accept that nomination? I accept. Is there a nomination for chair?

I would like to nominate Tegan, not Nifton, but Maldon as our next chair. Excellent nomination.

And Commissioner Maldon, do you accept that nomination?

I do, thank you.

Are there any other nominations?

Dang, I nominated her first. For chair?

Or for a vice chair. I don't want to just assume that, you know.

Or for a vice chair. Either one, either one. Well, I'm as one of the last three original members of the planning commission. And knowing I had made a faux pas last time, I am going to rectify that politically. And I am going to nominate surrender. He's been here since day one. He's been here through the thick and thin of it all, all the trips, all the training. He's put in the time, and I think it's his turn. And I totally adore Elliot, and it's nothing personal, but he's new to the commission, and he's got plenty of time for that. So I nominate surrender.

All right.

And he has to accept.

I accept, yep.

So we can bifurcate, I guess, for the chair. If there are no other nominations, I want to make sure that I'm not speaking over anyone. So we can bifurcate the process and take the chair nomination and the motion and the vote, and then we can do the vice chair as well.

So let's, I'll take a, well, motion, do we need a motion to, or do we just go to straight to a vote? You need a motion and a second, and then a vote. Okay, so I'll take a motion. I'm open to a motion and a second for chair.

I'd like to make a motion that we vote for Tegan for chair.

I'll second.

All righty. I don't need to do public comment, right?

We already did that, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm just checking.

Commissioner Debra Pauly.

Yes.

Commissioner Huynh.

Aye. Aye.

Chair Molden or Vice Chair Molden. Sorry. Do I abstain from voting for myself or? No. Yes. Commissioner Raymond. Aye. Commissioner Stoss. Absolutely. Commissioner Stevenson.

Aye.

And Chair Frechette.

Aye.

Motion passes with a 7-0 vote.

Very good. Okay. And now for... Motion for a second just to take, we just make a motion to vote on one or the other or how do we do that? Marlene?

Anthony, how would we, would you take it one at a time?

For the vice chair?

Yes.

Yeah, one at a, yeah, go one at a time. And then if we have a second and yeah, I would vote on the first. And then if we have a second remaining, then vote on that.

So we're, Well, we should be voting for one or the other, right?

So there's two that have been nominated. Okay, then I would vote on one first if someone would make a motion, and second if the Planning Commission can vote yes or no on that individual. And then if we have...

I'm still a little confused. It seems...

Yeah, if the majority or not.

It just seems like we just go ahead and vote for either or. But OK, however you want to, I'll let you figure it out. And I'll follow the directions.

Yeah, that's how I do it. Unless we've done it a different way.

I think Darcy is going to come up and make a suggestion.

We need the suggestions.

Bring in the big guns. Hello. So here's what I would suggest. The nomination for Elliot came first. So I would do a motion and a second for that and do your roll call.

Okay.

If you don't get that one to pass, then move on to the next one.

Okay. All right. So I'll entertain a motion for Commissioner Stevenson.

We'll make a motion that we vote, uh, take a vote for, uh, vice chair, uh, Elliot Stevenson.

And I will second that since I'm the one that started this whole mess. So with that, would you please call the roll?

Yes.

Kelly.

Mr. Deborah Polly. No commissioner. Hi vice chair. Molden. Yes. Commissioner Raymond. I, No. Commissioner Staus.

No.

Commissioner Stevenson.

Aye.

And Chair Frechette.

Aye.

So motion fails. Does it pass? Okay. I lost count. Sorry. Okay. Motion passes with a 4-3 vote.

Okay. So that kind of settles that then. All right. Surrender. I wish that I had talked to you again. I just knew that at one point in time, you really didn't feel comfortable and wanted to do this. And I felt honor bound to keep my commitment. So, but you would make an excellent chair and I hope you will be our next in the next round. So, okay. With that, The hard part of the evening is over, folks. You can take a deep breath and sigh. I think with that, we move on to training 8.2. Correct.

Item 8.2, code of conduct for council boards and commissions training.

All right.

And Arlene? I'm actually going to hand it over to city attorney to go over the code of conduct training for commission today.

Very good.

Thanks, Anthony.

Thanks, Arlene. Anthony Amara, deputy city attorney. And I'm going to be going over the city of Rancho Cordova code of conduct policy. Um, so as, as a little bit of background, um, this policy was suggested to the city council on July 7th of 2025, and it was adopted by the council on October 6th, 2025. So it's currently in effect. Um, and I'm going to be just going over some of the brief highlights of that code of conduct policy. Yeah. Oh, wait, I got to turn it on. That would help. So a quick overview. The code of conduct policy applies to the city council and all city commissions and city boards, which, of course, includes the planning commission. And it's broken up into four separate parts. It deals with Planning Commission and City Council members' interactions with each other, their interactions with city staff, the public, and other agencies. Just the what, the who, when, what, and why, the why to establish clear expectations for conduct within the city of Rancho Cordova and with dealing with other agencies, so outside of the city as well. So why does the code of conduct matter? So to summarize, the code of conduct's goal is to assure that elected and appointed officials conduct themselves in a manner that instills public confidence and trust in the city's local government and the fair operation of that government. So it also ensures that residents and businesses are entitled to fair, ethical and accountable local government. We previously didn't have a code of conduct policy, and it's a very common thing for cities to have, which is one of the main reasons why what prompted us to to institute it. And yeah, I think it's a very important thing that all local governments have one of these in place. And it's important to the public as well. So planning, the next few slides highlight some of the more important parts of the code of conduct, which obviously includes the conduct of planning commissioners. So norms and expectations. um kind of the main purpose of the code of conduct it's it's to go above and beyond what what the law states it's not just to comply with the letter of you know public law but also the spirit of it and um and those policies that affect the operations of the government and that includes you know some of the highlights are being fair and independent um impartial planning commissioners being attentive and limiting interruptions and distractions and conducting public deliberations as openly as possible. So yeah, these are kind of some of the reasons why or what it's hoping to accomplish the city's code of conduct. so the first theme that the code of conduct covers like i said it's broken up into four parts the first is uh it is dealings between members of of the planning commission and city council and includes the following honoring the chair and maintaining order practicing civility and decorum in discussions and debate, and really avoiding personal comments that offend other members, but also, you know, it's okay to defend your position, but there's a line where it crosses that we're hoping to avoid in implementing this code of conduct policy. So the next is conduct with city with the city manager and staff and the policy emphasizes these points when dealing with with city staff and the city manager treating all staff as professionals and avoiding disrupting them from doing their job and really avoiding open public criticism of individual employees as well. Don't get involved in the administrative functions of the city. And remember that it's the city manager's job to deal with individual city employees and implement city policy. It's not the job of city council members or planning commissioners. So those are kind of some of the main highlights of conduct with city manager and staff in the policy. Next is the planning commission's conduct with the public is another theme of the policy. So the code of conduct in large part applies to public meetings such as this. And we really want to, what we want to accomplish is making the public feel like they can openly talk about issues to their local representatives and speak their mind and not feel like you know feel like a reaction to what they're gonna say is gonna be so strong where they they don't feel welcome at a public meeting um so that includes treating you know treating the public with respect and being fair and equitable to individual speakers, which includes active listening and maintaining an open mind. And like I said, it's the same with dealing with other commissioners. You can ask for clarification and argue your point, but, you know, avoid open argument with members of the public if possible. And then kind of the last theme is conduct with other agencies. So when you're representing the city, when a lot of people are representatives of other agencies or on boards of other local agencies, I think it's important to remember that you're still a representative of Rancho Cordova. and to maintain this code of conduct, even with dealing with other agencies. And so that includes projecting a positive image of the city and explicitly stating when your opinions don't represent the city of Rancho Cordova, if you're appearing on behalf of yourself or somebody else. And kind of as a final point, the city's code of conduct is self-enforcing. So that means it's up to the commission and the council to hold yourselves and each other accountable. So, yeah, this was in accepting accountability for, yeah, your own violations as well as other people's. Um, so this was kind of a brief summary of the policy and, uh, encourage everybody to, uh, to read the policy and kind of dig in a little deeper to, to understand what's in it, what's in it. But, um, yeah, so with that, I'll, I'll turn it back to the chair. Thank you.

All righty. Anybody have any questions on specific questions or wish clarification or. Marlene, do you have anything to add? OK. Well, Anthony, I'd like to thank you for that. Obviously, you did a pretty good job of communicating all of that, if nobody has any questions. Actually, this is a very good thing. It's true. We didn't have a code of conduct for a long time, and we just assumed that we would all follow proper decorum. And I'm very proud of this body because it has. But it's also good to codify that into an actual adoption of a code. So thank you. All right. With that, I think that concludes the two business items that we have public comment and then public comment.

We have no speaker cards on this item.

Thank you. So with that, I'm going to move on to commission comments, ideas and questions.

We just for the record, officially close that comment period.

Oh, by the way, one of the great things that happened this year is we actually got a gavel. I started the year off by capping my can of Coke. Yeah.

We're in trouble tonight. There's no Diet Coke.

So with that, I'm going to open up to the commission. Who would like to start? Don't make me call on you.

Well, uh, with Halloween behind us and, uh, all that, I just want to give a shout out to Lee Frechette for his work at the, uh, the haunted house, uh, terrific job. It really puts a good image on the city and helps out the youth and provide a lot of entertainment for the public. So I just want to congratulate you on a fine job. And, um, And on the presentation, I think it says a lot that we have to codify behavior. But like you said, this body would never break anyway. So I understand why we have to do it, but sad that we have to.

Just on the heels of Veterans Day, I want to thank those who have been commissioned for your service, Commissioner Frechette, Oh, so, so sorry. Commissioner Huynh as well. So does Elliot and Commissioner Stevenson. Thank you all for your service. And then just a reminder that there's a ton of fun stuff coming up in the city over the next several weeks. Don't forget about the Mac. There's always great things. There's a Spanish guitarist on Friday coming, so... come out for that. We have the tree lighting coming up on the 30th and then the Powell holiday run, which is always such a fun morning if you haven't participated in that on December 13th. So just one of a few things that's happening in the city. And this is the time of year where I just adore living in Rancho. I mean, I do year round, but particularly this time of year where it's just, I love seeing the community out and participating and just really engaging. And it's just, it gives me so much pride to be out enjoying events like this. So hopefully y'all get to enjoy those this year as well.

I just want to say we had a great State of the City. Most of us were able to attend. That was a wonderful night, great public turnout. I was going to talk about Veterans Day, but Tegan already took care of that. One thing I want to bring up is that this is Chair Frechette's last meeting as chair, since he's not going to be here for the December meeting. So I would like to thank him on behalf of all of your fellow commissioners. I'm sorry. It's been a long road, Lee. We've been doing this a long time. So thank you for actually making me look good as chair. Because I read the public comment quote. But Tegan's going to do great. She's going to make us all look bad. But you did a great job. Thank you. And thank you for all you continue to do. And that's it.

Before you go any farther, I'm going to see if I can't amend my travel plans so that I will be here at the last meeting. But at the moment, I'm not supposed to be here.

Well, if you can, I will send out a memo about what kind of hats everybody will be wearing.

Okay.

After you. Sure. Oh, yeah, I echo the sentiments. Great job, Chair Bichette. Congratulations on a successful year. And also took my son to the Haunted House event, and that was great. He had a great time, and he was just laughing and giggling the whole time, so that was an awesome thing. But, yeah, everything else is good. Life is good. The kids are progressing through school, and everything's going good. Thank you.

I also want to piggyback on just this sentiment. Thank you, Lee. You've been a great leader. And just for someone who's new to the Commission, I'm thankful to have someone like you to lean on just for information, background, and just guidance. So, I really do personally appreciate your leadership. I'm really sad. I did miss the event last week. I was planning on coming, but ended up in urgent care with my kid. But everything's fine. But just sad after I saw all the pictures. I was like, ah. But, you know, that's life. I also want to just say that I'm also very happy to be part of this community. But one of the biggest things that I have noticed also now being engaged with the commission is just the opportunities that we have to do – community service and to be able to help people in this community. I think it's great. We have the Cordova Council. There's so many things that, you know, although this is my fourth year living here, I think being more involved as a planning commissioner, I've learned so much more. And so I'm just grateful for the opportunities that everyone puts forth to make our city a better place. You know, having that food drive last week, I think was huge. I mean, especially what's happening across the country with food shortage and, you know, food scarcity. So I think I personally am just really proud to be part of this community that is willing to help out others. And I think that just speaks true to everybody here who's sitting alongside me. So thank you.

Okay, I call the comments, I mean, especially leadership of Lee and he has a lot of knowledge about the city, so he used to provide a lot of information to know. Veterinary attendance day, I also. Say thank you for your services. And last week, I missed the Halloween one because I was out of town. I went to Atlanta to my nephew's marriage. So we had a family time entire week, and we had a good time.

OK. And I'm going to round up the comments. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who was involved in Heartstoppers this year, including some of our own city staff who were out there during the event working and helping, and then some of the city staff that helped in terms of getting things ready to go before that. I'd like to point out that Commissioner Huynh donated some of his services and actually made a sizable donation that was needed when our makeup trailer that served as our makeup studio failed and we needed to build a new makeup studio really quickly and we needed air conditioning for it. And Commissioner Huynh made that happen. So I'd like to thank you and acknowledge that. Anyway, I'm blessed in that I have a lot of help. I'm surrounded by a lot of competent people. And so it's easy to look good when you surround yourself with the kind of people that are around me. So I'm thankful for that. The Christmas tree lighting, I think this is your... 26 or 27, I forget which, is coming up. The tradition in this town is we always light the Christmas tree on the Sunday following Thanksgiving. And once again this year we'll be doing so over in Village Green Park. I invite all of you to be there. It's a really wonderful event. You know, part of the reason that we do some of these events is, you know, we try to do things and create memories. We now have kids that were going to the Christmas tree lighting as little kids that are now starting to bring their children to that. And we have, you know, we will have kids that will be there this year that 20 or 30 years from now will be saying, you know, in my hometown at Christmas, they... And those are the kind of things that, you know, the memories we want to make, those are the kind of things that lift the whole community up. And everybody has a positive image of the town they live in. And that wasn't always the case. And there's a whole host of people that are involved in that. Once again, you look good when you're surrounded by really good, dedicated people. And I am very fortunate today. to be surrounded by those kinds of people all the time here in Rancho Cordova. I would like to thank our city staff once again, and I know I do this almost every meeting, but it's important to acknowledge the staff. We do some really good work here. We have a really wonderful city, and it's because we have a really great staff, not only our planning staff, but the entire city staff, but especially our planning staff. Anytime we have a question or we need help, staff is there. It's just so easy to work with the staff we have. It's wonderful when you have a great staff that supports you. And the citizens of this city should be very proud of the city staff that they have. So thank you very much for that. And next, I also want to acknowledge the planning commissioners. Once again, we are very fortunate in that we have a planning commission where everybody here is really dedicated to the city, wants to see the best things happen for this city. Typically in local government, a lot of times commissions are things that people try to get on as a stepping stone to greater political objectives. And frankly, commissions, that's what commissions are designed for. They're designed as a training ground to train the next round of leaders. And there's nothing wrong with people serving on a commission and moving on. That's really the way the system is supposed to be. We are fortunate in that this commission, everybody is focused first on doing the job here and not trying to play politics and thinking about the next step. That I can honestly say, after spending time and talking to all of you, whether it has been at the annual statewide planning commissioners convention we go to, or the other trainings or things we've had, that everybody on this commission truly wants to serve the community and do what's best for the community. And I'm very, very thankful that we have a commission like that. And I'm thankful for each and every one of you. So thank you very much. You've made you've made my year very enjoyable being up here at the head of the dais and i'm looking most of you know i like working in the background so i'm really looking forward to not being up here in the center of the dais anymore but with that said um i was planning on not being here because i originally thought that we wouldn't be having the uh planning commission meeting in December. So I had scheduled some travel that I need to do. But I'm going to try to change that. I will try to be here for the last meeting. And I am going to challenge all of you to dress for success. I expect everybody to show up in festive holiday dress, whatever that may be, for whatever holiday you wish to celebrate in December. But We are going to call out whoever doesn't show up in holiday dress. So whether that be fancy hats or fancy jackets or ugly sweaters or whatever else, this is a time to enjoy ourselves. And I will also challenge our staff to engage in this and hope that the staff will join us in having a little bit of celebration at the end of the year here. And everybody come dress for success. With that, Arlene. I turn it over to you.

Thank you, Chair. And if you are not able to make it to that meeting, I just want to express my gratitude. This is my first year as planning manager and sitting here. And it's been a learning experience with everyone. And I appreciate your patience. and your responsiveness and just everybody's kind of demeanor has been very supportive and encouraging for all of planning staff. I hear from the staff all the time. They do appreciate, you know, you say it every meeting, but we appreciate it because, you know, usually we hear a lot of other things during the week. So we like it when we, we hear those positive things from the folks that we try to serve and help and assist. So with that, a couple of things. We already have the PALREN. Commissioner Malden mentioned that. But if you have not received the email from city staff, the city will cover one of your registrations for the PALREN. If you haven't gotten that email from staff, please let me know and I can forward that email to you so that you can get the code for the registration. And then there is an RC luncheon next Friday on the 21st. It will be the executive director of the community food hub, Rancho Cordova food locker, Carrie Johnson. So I encourage you to attend that. And I think that's all I have. There will be a Christmas in Cordova toy drive at the power run as well. So just remember that part of that event. So thank you.

And if anybody's going to do the pal run, I think we should all talk after and maybe have a little present. So, OK.

I was just reminded that traditionally we have engaged in the Lincoln Village Christmas Parade. And I'm not sure if it's It is happening this year. I happen to know that. And I was remiss in not bringing that up earlier. But if the commission would like to engage in the past, we have entered a float. And it seems to be well received by the community. I also happen to know that there is now a new parade that's being formed in Anatolia as well this year. course it always begs the question how many parades can you go to but how many generators do you have no do you have a date for that lee do you know the date uh not off the top of my head i'm sorry okay but um i'll have our lean send out a email to everybody so we can kind of coordinate that and see who wants to uh do that i would encourage us to do that i think it's important for uh the citizens of the community to see their local leaders and have access to them and see the support and support their community. So I would encourage us to be involved in that. I am actually committed to another project for the Lincoln Village Christmas Parade this year. So I won't be joining you on our float, but I will be there this year involved in a project. uh that's the problem when you're involved in too many community things you get spread thin sometimes but i would encourage us as a body to have some representation there and with that i think we can call the meeting adjourned