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CITY OF FOLSOM CITY COUNCIL

SPECIAL MEETING

www.folsom.ca.us

FOLSOM CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS

50 NATOMA STREET, FOLSOM, CA

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2018

5:30 PM

Steve Miklos, Mayor

Ernie Sheldon, Vice Mayor Kerri Howell, Council Member

Andy Morin, Council Member Roger Gaylord, Council Member

AGENDA

1\. Call to Order

2\. Roll Call:

Council Members: Howell, Morin, Sheldon, Gaylord, Miklos

3\. Adjournment to Closed Session for the Following Purposes:

a. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation, Initiation of Litigation Pursuant to Government

Code section 54956.9(d)(4):

i. One Potential Case

State of California

b. Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation - Pursuant to Government Code section

54956.9(d)(1):

i. Wyatt Larsen v. City of Folsom

Sacramento County Superior Court Case No. 34-2013-00140947

4\. Reconvene:

Announcement of Final Action, If Any

5\. Adjournment


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CITY OF FOLSOM

>>> we will reconvene this special city council meeting for tuesday, March 27. City attorney do you have anything to report after those meetings? All right we will adjourn the special meeting and call to order the regular meeting for city council tuesday, March 27 clerk please call the roll. Councilmember three -- kerri howell, council member, andy morin, council member, roger gaylord, council member, ernie sheldon, vice mayor, steve miklos, mayor. >>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >>> good evening, everyone. Take you for joining us this evening. I hope to have you out here in the next 30 seconds of the short meeting. With that, and agenda updates? >>> no agenda updates. >>> call your first object please >>> item five a the percolation -- proclamation of the mayor to call April 4 eight through 14th national public safety telecommunications week in the city of folsom. >>> andrea taylor dispatcher of the year for 2017, if you will meet me down here at the microphone, I have something to present to you. >>> I would like to have you come over here as well. To get a picture taken. It is my honor on behalf of the fulsome city council to proclaim national public safety tele-communicators week in the city of folsum. Whereas the dispatchers in the city of folsum are responsible for answering incoming calls for emergency services and dispatch help to help save lives and save citizens. Dispatchers are the vital in to our police officers and monitor radioactivity in ensuring their safety. And whereas the safety of our emergency responders depend on the quality and accuracy of information obtained by the citizens. In 2017 folsum's communication dispatchers had more than 104,000 telephone calls and dispatch more than 58,500 events. In 2017, folsum's communication dispatchers answered 98.9% of all 911 calls in 15 seconds or less. Let's take a moment and get a round of applause for that. [Applause]. Folsom communication dispatchers contribute substantially to the apprehension of criminals. And they have compassion, understanding and are able to perform their job for the past year. And I folsom of the city of folsom, hereby deep proclaim the week of April 8-14, 2018 is national public safety telecommunications week in the city of folsom and extend our gratitude to for folsom dispatchers for the dedicated service to our community and diligence to keep our communities safe on this 27 the day of March 2018. [Applause]. >>> it is an honor to serve the city of folsum and its citizens. Everyone who calls is usually unhappier need something for us. It is a rewarding job because you help somebody every day. It is my pleasure to serve. >>> we could not do it without everyone being as capable and helpful as they are. We appreciate your recognition. [Applause]. >>> again, thank you very much for a job well done time in and time out. Clerk call the next item. Your next item is scheduled presentation item 5b the proclamation of the mayor of the city of folsom proclaiming April 6-14 as creek week in the city of folsom. >>> you are working hard. >>> this is the town of creeks. We ride around and do fishing. This is a great one. Today, I am making a proclamation of the mayor for they city of folsom declaring April 6 through the 14th 2018 as creek week in the city of -- in the city of folsom. Rested council is a non-profit organization working to preserve protect and restore urban streams and the habitat urban creeks including world, home book, altar, cold creek and in the city of folsum as an important immune amenity in our community providing recreation, wildlife habitat and really all of the benefits whereas most of the creeks go to the american river as an important source of drinking water, fishing, recreation resources for the region and whereas actually take to promote creek health and all rivers and whereas citizens are being called upon to be a part of the effort to improve or enhance our urban waterways by cleaning trash and debris as well as we move into exotic planes. And whereas, the city -- city of folsom sponsors creek week activities. That will help to cover costs to publicize the event and provide lunch to volunteers and staff to guide and assist with the April 14, 2018 cleanup of folsom area creeks, collecting and disposing any debris and providing other materials and services as needed and whereas the sacramento area creeks council have been created April 4-16, 2018 and will consider creek week in the sacramento region. Steven l nichols -- steve miklos, mayor hereby proclaim the week of April 6 to the 14th 2018 as creek week in the city of folsom and recall the citizens of folsom to acquaint themselves with the activities and adventure during this special week to benefit our creeks and our rivers. Proclaimed this 27th day of March 2018, signed by steve miklos, mayor. [Applause]. >>> I had to ad lib. A little bit because the creeks are a big job. He told me how he went to eagle creek and sat there, is about six foot three and x submariner, and he started drawing birds and he sat there for hours and eagle creek and that is what he loves. So he's got a good thing going. >>> thank you very much for the recognition of creek week. We have over 200 folsom residents who have already registered to volunteer for the cleanup on the 14th. Folsom loves their creeks. We ran the annual creek week event this will be the 20th year countywide. And folsom, you guys take the best care of your creeks. Of any jurisdiction in the county. And there is more community pride. You get a lot of volunteers every year. You have the least amount of trash to get out of the creeks because you guys take such good care of your creeks already. We love the partnership. We work with the parks department and combine it with the trails day event. We get help from the water people who provide equipment for us. It is a great partnership and we appreciate it. Thank you very much. [Applause]. >>> again congratulations for the wonderful partnership and all of the work you guys do. We appreciate it. Thank you have a good evening. Clerk please call the next item. >>> the next item is business from the floor. We have two speakers tonight. >>> good evening. >>> good evening, Mr. Mayor, council, thank you. I want to ask your help. Myself and some workers at the park and the zoo have noticed a problem with homeless in the park and at the zoo. drugs use littering, and it is concerning because of the children and their families. I feel like I'm compelled to talk to you guys about it because I have noticed that these people hang out at the property and moved into in September and I reported it to my landlord. The first night I moved into my apartment somebody try to break into the window. The police were baffled. I have not been able to sleep. >>> components yourself will compose yourself. Which park are you talking about the one next to the zoo? We have our commanders and several officers here taking note as well. Do you have a particular time where you see them more than others?>>> honestly, I walk a lot because of my dog. I enjoy nature out here. I work downtown for the secretary of state. I take public transportation. What I see more in your park over here is usually during in the morning on the weekends when I walk there, early in the morning, he could tell they have slept there, they get out before anyone comes. But I also see men going in the women's bathroom with homeless women. I find that disturbing. Children and families are getting ready to come to the zoo. There is so much trash and it's not done by the families of the children. It is cigarettes, alcohol bottles, I see them walk across to the circle k and come back and eat food. The workers I talked to my want to start talking to people because I thought it was just me. The park workers complained to the supervisors and they came out and told them to leave. Because there is heroin and other things. They told me to come and talk to you guys. The superintendent has come out. Those men have moved on. But there are people squatting. My landlord found people squatting. To have been evicted this month for housing homeless people and there are drug addicts, heroin and meth addicts. One of the tenants who started was living there for I don't know how many years, she was not supposed to she has a criminal drug record. She has no drivers license and drives around town in a car. Walking in that park it is beautiful. Now that people have broken into my house, but they were going to do I have no idea. I just -- thank you. >>> before you go, right behind you are two of our finest right there. Can you give us your contact information so we can get more detail from you.>>> I think I gave it to the dispatches here and I'm sure I've spoken to them they were wonderful. >>> I don't know if it will make you feel better or safety or -- safer, but I think the probability of homeless people watching the city council meeting or having access to channel 14, if you're being threatened it's not from talking to staff. >>> I'm being threatened because of the tenants they knew it was me. They hang out at the park as well. I reported that this weekend. >>> did you see the email that I forwarded on to pd?>>> I called the police when I was at the aquatic center on sunday. And they confronted me. >>> we got a couple of officers over there in we're watching as well. But the police dispatch number in your phone. Those gentlemen right behind you will wake you down so they can get more information. Especially since you feel threatened. Thank you. >>> the next speaker is coco coco zella and coco is followed by greg marrazzo. >> I am coco coco zella a resident of midtown sacramento. I work in intel and folsum. By choice I do not have a car. I like -- write the light rail to work and take the bus up the hill from the light rail station or the folsom stage line. I am here to request increased frequency of the folsum -- folsom stage line. I don't know if this is a volunteer request or a folsom request. I also come to lots of meetings. I have filed for transit efficacy boards and forums. I am super interested in things that relate to transportation equity. And how communities grow and flourish with good transportation options. Like I said, I by choice use public transportation because I find driving stressful. The point is it is really hard to take the train and then the bus because the bus only comes once an hour. So if one is not on time for the bus, you are kind of screwed and have to wait for the next hour for the next bus. The stage line, the number 10, if he could be increased from every hour to every half an hour that would meet the train it would be awesome. >>> are you talking about the morning commute after you commute a couple of hours in other words increase the frequency during the commute morning times and also the afternoon commute times? Soon that would help, yes. The train arrives and leaves on the half hour basically. It would really make commuting quite a bit easier to have the choice of writing the train every half hour instead of every hour. I can take the lift from the railroad station I am not destitute without choices, but I am trying to advocate for holistic public transportation experience that is just part of it. I think it would also be great to have things like an expanded light rail service especially on days when folsom college has an event like increase bus service to and from events so that those of us who live in the town can come up here. And we can avail ourselves of that kind of thing. >> that is something we have been talking on and off to rt about since light rail open. Just real quickly, what would you say the window for commute hours in the morning would be most helpful for folks to get off start and stop at around the same time you do?>> I would say from the colleagues I see on the light role on the bus, probably 7 am until 9 pm. Our meetings are heavy in the morning between 7 am and 9 am. And then we are leaving before -- between 4 pm and 6 pm in the evening. I have quite a few colleagues who live in midtown and drive and who have expressed interest in public transportation but say they are not going to because they cannot deal with the wants and our thing it's really hard. >>> it is a lot easier to pick a window versus holistically picking a travel time. We were looking at peak times. That's what we are interested in. >> I think there is an interesting artifact in writing of the will be more interest in the whole experience. >>> we would like nothing more than people actually writing the bus. >> like I said people are interested they are just shy about the scheduling dilemma. >>> have you brought this up to the people in -- ? >> yes. They suggested I come here. I hope you have a right if you Miss That last train. Thank you. >>> if you want to email us updates anytime you want we would appreciate it. >> I am willing to keep talking about it. >>> if you keep emailing us that's fine we are interested in it. >>> coco has frequented our regional transit meetings. I was tell her she comes to the right place. We appreciate hearing that. We are undergoing the beginnings of a major route optimization study for the whole regional transit. There have been discussions here as far as extending service and things like that. Your comments are timely and you've come to the right place.>> great. >>> how are you taking county bus? >> I use the connect card and the number 50 express on our point station is also on the hour and it leaves us in front of intel. They usually come at the same time but it is like five minutes earlier and gets me to meetings a little earlier. >>> it took five years to get that card going. >> that thing is cool.>>> every time we get close technology changes. Mark had to live through it as well. If anything you can use the connect card and interchange. Thank you, coco. Nick speaker please. >>> the next speaker is greg moore out so -- marrazzo. >>> good evening. Be in good evening counsel, thank you mayor. I am here to talk about -- basically my name is greg marrazzo and I live on the diablo area. I live on the west and of serena drive. I am just bringing to counsel and mayors attention that we have been having a lot of flooding in that area for the past couple of decades. Last thursday, we had a tremendous amount, I believe the highest would ever recorded, I have pictures for you, of before and after. We had 4 feet in the center of the street for about a block. We had four or five homes that were flooded in front. This also occurred as you can see in one of the photos back in May 2015. This is not just a storm cell that came through, it is something that is ongoing. I wanted to come here tonight and let you know and address it and see if we could take action into investigating this a little further. As you can see on the map, there are only two trains in this one block area or half a block area that drains about 12 or 13, 14 homes. What has been going home back in the 90s this was addressed. In 2000 it was addressed. They went in and expanded the pipes underneath. That helped for a while. At around 2014/2015 this came back. We had few -- huge cells come through folsom and it followed our areas. I talked to people who have been living there since the 80s and they said they have never seen anything like this. The last surge that came through was the highest. as you can see there is a power box that's about a foot from being covered completely. Other than knocking out all of the power in the neighborhood. My biggest concern is safety. We were trapped in our homes for four hours. My daughter could not go to school until noon. We have other people that live in the street that were trapped. They were trapped unless a boat come in. Were not sure if emergency services could get there quickly. The second of course is obviously home damage. Drainage from the backyard. It needs to go somewhere. I am wondering if I can address those issues and see if we can take further steps into looking at getting this drained. Last year I called the city and let them know about the training -- draining because I was concerned about it. They inspected it and said it was fine. We always keep an eye on that one drain. We are definitely babysitting that drain. I wanted to ask all of you if there was something that the city can do to make sure that this will not happen again or that maybe we can keep this from happening again. >>> the appropriate people in the room are taking notes. I will get direct contact information from you this gentleman right here and then he can look into it. I cannot address what happened last week because that was highly eventful and what disturbed me the most is that if we are looking at drains and it's clear but something is backing it up we have to look at what's going on. >>> I appreciate even the city manager as well as we don't know everything but we appreciate when people come over and giving us these photos are very traumatic and it helps us pinpoint your area of concern. We will make sure someone comes out and takes a good hard look at what is going on out there. It is very unusual. One other matter I forgot to add is we had a few neighbors witnessed during heavy rains at certain times of the year and the winter, actually water coming out of the dream. Apparently, that is evidence that the drain cannot take the amount of pressure or the amount of homes, maybe it's development. I don't know.>>> I'm not sure if there is any training in that area.>>> with those pictures, he gives these guys a good indicator of here is the issue. Other than saying hey this is what happened, they can see it. Thank you for doing that. >>> the only thing you need to keep in mind for what happened on thursday, we have that issue all over town. Part of the problem is that when we do the lines with the city approval, there is what is called the design storm. Basically you are designing for a storm that has a probability of happening once every 10 to 20 years. Last thursday morning between about 4:50 and 20 after five, you got an inch of rain and a half an hour which is two inches in an hour that is a two hour -- 200 year storm. >>> three years ago there was about a three quarters of an inch an hour. This is not a one in 20 year storm. >>> we can have a whole long conversation about whether there are other factors that are influencing the frequency with which these storms of high intensity take place. >> I feel like in this area that storm drain has a problem. >>> please see him before you leave so you can get direct communication. Thank you very much I appreciate it. Speak and think you. >>> the next speaker is rasheed. >>> good evening. >> good evening. I would like to inform the city of folsom about the humanitarian piece ambassador and the -- foundation in the sacramento area that for the first time on April 16, we will be holding what is expected to be the largest -- in its field. This has happened in many peace processes throughout the globe including in columbia they negotiated peace between -- and the cambodian government. And between factions in iraq. The technique has brought peace to more than 350 million people around the world. Art of living has been operating in folsom for more than 30 years now. Having to help millions of people lead happy healthy lives. We would like for you to take advantage of this opportunity and practice with us and participate in the largest meditation event. >>> that is not in any way you can invite that many people. >>> what time is the event?>>> 730 to 9:30 pm. >>> thank you for letting us know. We appreciate it very much. >>> you have no more requests to speak. >>> the next item is your consent calendar. I would like to pull item h and also item c. >>> so you are moving them. Okay so second, call role on the items. Ernie sheldon, vice mayor, kerri howell, council member, andy morin, council member, roger gaylord, council member, and trend one. >>> item c is ordinance number 1282 and on a codified ordinance of the city of folsum approving amendment to to the first amended restated tier 1 development agreement between the city of folsom and that t and hc russell ranch llc relative to the russell ranch subdivision project second reading. >>> I will go ahead and move that item. >>> I second that. Call role please. Ernie sheldon, vice mayor kerri howell, council member andy morin, council member roger gaylord, council member steve miklos, mayor. >>> yes. And item h please. >>> I will move item h, second, call role. >>> andy morin, council member, ernie sheldon, vice mayor, roger gaylord, council member, steve miklos, mayor, yes. >>> next item city manager report. >>> thank you, Mr. Mayor, good evening everyone. I know this is the number one place to raise a family I will just call out the particulars because this is also a sports town as we all know high school, basketball college basketball season winds down, it is now time for beach volleyball. As many of you know, our livermore community park is the home of the sacramento state hornets beach volleyball team. They are hosting the big west beach volleyball challenge at their home court at livermore park. >>> that is beached on U.S.? >>> yes it is. Beach volleyball follows right along. That is friday, March 30 through sunday, April 1. You can generally catch teams playing out there representing cal poly, california state university bakersfield, long beach state, cal state northridge, hawaii. I am looking forward to hosting all of those young people playing their sports and go hornets. >>> okay. We will do counsel comments next. >>> I cannot top the beach volleyball. I will say good evening but that is cool I like that. Struck a just the usual morning, I encourage all of the residence of folsom to understand that it could rain again. If you see a big bottle, go around and go a different way. It is better than destroying the engine in your car or putting our public safety folks like police, fire, public works staff at risk. Please drive carefully. Stay off of your phone while driving.>>> I just wanted to thank -- for letting me right along. It was amazing. It was amazing to see folsom fire at work. I want to also give a special thanks to folsom pd, folsom fire, and montrose and waiting in the water and showing folks how to get out of their cars. It was amazing to see the response. Thank you.>>> roger gaylord, council member. >>> on saturday I had the honor to go and speak to a group of submariners from world war ii. It was the submarine veterans gold country in sacramento california. I cannot tell you, it is the only base, but it is one of them. It was an honor. They treated me extremely nice. They are very proud to be a part of folsom. They have been in our veterans parade three years. They have a submarine float which is very neat. They promised me they will come back this year. They are coming back this year. They love being in our parade. I call it like it is. as long as I have been around, in this town everywhere, it is great to listen to people that are in the program to see how close they relate to other things as we do. They have kids programs, hospital programs, a lot of things that are very necessary and they do a great job. And the titles that they have, the chief of the boat, it's like a major in the military. The column chief of the boat. The base. Basically the submarine. All of these things I never knew and all of the years I was in the military. And talking to the city manager, I find out he's got a history with that. In a submarine. It's quite interesting. With the one thing I was -- of people understand this. Maybe people do not take off their hat. Most other services, especially air force, you go inside a buildi