1 Agenda
City Council Regular Meeting
Folsom City Hall | City Council Chambers, First Floor
50 Natoma Street, Folsom, CA 95630
January 23, 2024, 6:30 PM
Welcome to Your City Council Meeting
We welcome your interest and involvement in the city’s legislative process. This agenda includes information about topics coming before the City Council and the action recommended by city staff. You can read about each topic in the staff reports, which are available on the city website and in the Office of the City Clerk. The City Clerk is also available to answer any questions you have about City Council meeting procedures.
Participation
If you would like to provide comments to the City Council, please:
• Fill out a blue speaker request form, located at the back table. • Submit the form to the City Clerk before the item begins. • When it’s your turn, the City Clerk will call your name and invite you to the podium. • Speakers generally have three minutes, unless the presiding officer (usually the mayor) changes that time.
Reasonable Accommodations
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability and you need a disability-related modification or accommodation to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (916) 461-6035, (916) 355-7328 (fax) or [email protected]. Requests must be made as early as possible and at least two full business days before the start of the meeting.
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More information about City Council meetings is available at the end of this agenda
2 City Council Regular Meeting
Folsom City Hall | City Council Chambers, First Floor
50 Natoma Street, Folsom, CA 95630
www.folsom.ca.us
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 6:30 PM
Mike Kozlowski, Mayor
Sarah Aquino, Vice Mayor YK Chalamcherla, Councilmember Rosario Rodriguez, Councilmember Anna Rohrbough, Councilmember
AGENDA
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL:
Councilmembers: Rohrbough, Aquino, Chalamcherla, Rodriguez, Kozlowski The City Council has adopted a policy that no new item will begin after 10:30 p.m. Therefore, if you are here for an item that has not been heard by 10:30 p.m., you may leave, as the item will be continued to a future Council meeting.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
AGENDA UPDATE
SCHEDULED PRESENTATIONS:
1. Recognition of 2023 Folsom Holiday Lights Contest Winners
2. Folsom Tourism and Economic Development Corporation (TEDCorp) Quarterly Report BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR:
Members of the public are entitled to address the City Council concerning any item within the Folsom City Council's subject matter jurisdiction. Public comments are generally limited to no more than three minutes. Except for certain specific exceptions, the City Council is prohibited from discussing or taking action on any item not appearing on the posted agenda.
3 CONSENT CALENDAR:
Items appearing on the Consent Calendar are considered routine and may be approved by one motion.
Councilmembers may pull an item for discussion.
3. Approval of January 9, 2024 Regular Meeting Minutes
4. Ordinance No. 1341- An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Folsom Repealing Chapter
2.42 of the Folsom Municipal Code Pertaining to Initiative, Referendum and Recall Petitions (Second Reading and Adoption)
5. Resolution 11158–A Resolution Authorizing a Transfer of Police Special Revenue Trust Funds- Drug Asset Forfeiture, to the Police Department Operating Budget and the Appropriation of funds for the Purchase of Police Equipment and Training
NEW BUSINESS:
6. Ordinance No. 1342 - An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Folsom Adding Subsection D to Section 2.36.050 of the Folsom Municipal Code Pertaining to Design Immunity (Introduction and First Reading)
7. Resolution No. 11159 – A Resolution to Declassify Five Landmark Trees within the Joint Powers Authority Landmark Grove to Allow for Removal as Part of the Sacramento Regional Transit Light Rail Modernization 15 Minutes to Folsom Project
8. Resolution No. 11160 – A Resolution Approving the North Alternative Alignment as the Preferred Alternative for the Folsom Boulevard Bicycle and Pedestrian Overcrossing Project and Authorize Staff to Apply for Grant Funding through Caltrans Cycle 7 Active Transportation Program
9. Resolution No. 11161 – A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Citywide Quarterly Citizen Award and Recognition Program
10. Update on Placerville Sacramento Valley Railroad (PSVRR) License Agreement for Excursion Rail Operations and Direction to Staff.
11. Consideration of Letter in Response to Demand Letter Received from Scott Rafferty Regarding Alleged Non-Compliance with the Brown Act
COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
CITY MANAGER REPORTS
COUNCIL COMMENTS
ADJOURNMENT
NOTICE: Members of the public are entitled to directly address the City Council concerning any item that is described in the notice of this meeting, before or during consideration of that item. If you wish to address Council on an issue, which is on this agenda, please complete a blue speaker request card, and deliver it to a staff member at the table on the left side of the Council Chambers prior to discussion of the item. When your name is called, stand to be recognized by the Mayor and then proceed to the podium. If you wish to address the City Council on any other item of interest to the public, when the Mayor asks if there is any “Business from the Floor, ” follow the same procedure described above. Please limit your comments to three minutes or less.
NOTICE REGARDING CHALLENGES TO DECISIONS: Pursuant to all applicable laws and regulations,
4 including without limitation, California Government Code Section 65009 and or California Public Resources Code Section 21177, if you wish to challenge in court any of the above decisions (regarding planning, zoning and/or environmental decisions), you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing(s) described in this notice/agenda, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.
As presiding officer, the Mayor has the authority to preserve order at all City Council meetings, to remove or cause the removal of any person from any such meeting for disorderly conduct, or for making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks, using p rofanity, or becoming boisterous, threatening or personally abusive while addressing said Council, and to enforce the rules of the Council.
PERSONS INTERESTED IN PROPOSING AN ITEM FOR THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA SHOULD CONTACT A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
The meeting of the Folsom City Council is being telecast on Metro Cable TV, Channel 14, the Government Affairs Channel, and will be shown in its entirety on the Friday and Saturday following the meeting, both at 9 a.m. The City does not control scheduling of this telecast and persons interested in watching the televised meeting should confirm this schedule with Metro Cable TV, Channel 14. The City of Folsom provides live and archived webcasts of regular City Council meetings. The webcasts can be found on the online services page of the City's website www.folsom.ca.us.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability and you need a disability-related modification or accommodation to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (916) 461-6035, (916) 355-7328 (fax) or [email protected]. Requests must be made as early as possible and at least two full business days before the start of the meeting.
Any documents produced by the City and distributed to the City Council regarding any item on this agenda will be made available at the City Clerk’s Counter at City Hall located at 50 Natoma Street, Folsom, California and at the Folsom Public Library locate d at 411 Stafford Street, Folsom, California during normal business hours.