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File ID: 2024-01975 1/7/2025 Consent Item 1.
Confirm Mayoral Appointments of City Councilmembers for Calendar Year 2025: Vice Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council Standing Committees, and Various Regional Authorities, Agencies, Commissions, and Committees
File ID: 2024-01975
Location: Citywide/Regional
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution confirming mayoral appointments of city councilmembers for calendar year 2025: Vice Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council standing committees, and various regional authorities, agencies, commissions, and committees.
Contact: Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk, (916) 808-5442, [email protected], Office of the City Clerk
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
3-Exhibit A - City of Sacramento Mayoral Appointments Roster Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: This action is to confirm the mayor’s appointments for 2025 including Vice Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and of members of the city council to serve on council standing committees and various regional authorities, agencies, and committees as shown on the roster that is included as Exhibit A to the Resolution included in the report package.
Policy Considerations: This action is consistent with Council Rules of Procedure, Chapter 11, and is done yearly or when circumstances require a new or replacement appointee. The appointments must be confirmed by a majority vote of the City Council.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations:
File ID: 2024-01975 1/7/2025 Consent Item 1.
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): This action is not a project that is subject to CEQA because it is an organizational or administrative activity that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. (CEQA Guidelines §15378(b)(5)).
Sustainability: Not applicable.
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
Rationale for Recommendation: Each year, or as needed, the Mayor appoints councilmembers to serve on council standing committees, and the various regional authorities, agencies, and commissions for the calendar year. This recommendation is consistent with that practice.
Financial Considerations: Not applicable.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
RESOLUTION NO. 2024-xxxx
Adopted by Sacramento City Council
Confirm Mayoral Appointments of City Councilmembers for Calendar Year 2025:
Vice Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council Standing Committees, and Various Regional Authorities, Agencies, Commissions, and Committees
BACKGROUND
A. Sacramento City Charter Section 45 requires that at the first council meeting in January of each year, the city council shall elect one of its members, other than the mayor, to serve as vice mayor during the ensuing calendar year. The Council Rules of Procedure Chapter 2, Section B(2) provides that the vice mayor and mayor pro tem shall be elected annually from among the members of the council, other than the mayor, by a majority vote at the council’s first meeting in January.
B. Chapter 11 of the City Council’s adopted Rules of Procedure calls for the mayor’s appointment, with approval of the council, of councilmembers to serve on Council standing committees. These committees are the Law and Legislation Committee, Personnel and Public Employees Committee, Budget and Audit Committee, and Racial Equity Committee.
C. Chapter 11 of the City Council’s adopted Rules of Procedure calls for the mayor’s appointment, with approval of the council, of councilmembers to serve on various regional authorities, agencies, commissions, and committees.
D. Mayor appoints members of the city council to serve on council standing committees and various regional authorities, agencies, and committees as shown on Exhibit A, City of Sacramento Mayoral Appointments Roster.
E. Mayoral appointments of vice mayor, mayor pro tem, council standing committees, and regional authorities, agencies, commissions and committees require confirmation by a majority vote of the city council.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City of Sacramento declares that Councilmember Karina Talamantes shall serve as vice mayor for the calendar year 2025.
Section 2. The City of Sacramento declares that Councilmember Eric Guerra shall serve as mayor pro tem for the calendar year 2025.
Section 3. The City of Sacramento declares that Councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Rick Jennings, Caity Maple, and Phil Plukebaum, and shall serve on the Law and Legislation Committee and that Caity Maple shall act as chair.
Section 4. The City of Sacramento declares that Councilmembers Rick Jennings, Lisa Kaplan, Karina Talamantes, and Mai Vang shall serve on the Personnel and Public Employees Committee and that Rick Jennings shall act as chair.
Section 5. The City of Sacramento declares that Councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Eric Guerra, Caity Maple, and Karina Talamantes shall serve on the Budget and Audit Committee and that Roger Dickinson shall act as chair.
Section 6. The City of Sacramento declares that Councilmembers Eric Guerra, Rick Jennings, Karina Talamantes, and Mai Vang shall serve on the Racial Equity Committee and that Mai Vang shall act as chair.
Section 7. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code sections 4730.11 and 4730.12, the City of Sacramento declares that Councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Rick Jennings, Lisa Kaplan, Phil Plukebaum, and Mai Vang shall serve as primary members and Councilmember Karina Talamantes shall serve as an alternate member on the Sacramento Area Sewer District Board (SacSewer).
Section 8. The City of Sacramento declares that the Mayor and Councilmembers shall serve on the regional authorities, agencies, commissions, and committees as indicated on the attached Exhibit A as primary representatives or alternates where applicable.
Section 9. Exhibit A is a part of this Resolution.
Table of Contents:
Exhibit A – City of Sacramento Mayoral Appointments Roster
Board Name Seats Mayor D1
Kaplan
D2
Dickinson
D3
Talamantes
D4
Pluckebaum
D5
Maple
D6
Guerra
D7
Jennings
D8
Vang
Aggie Square Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District Public Financing Authority 3 chair x x Crocker Art Museum Mayor + 1 alt x alt
Downtown Sacramento Revitalization Corporation 2 + 1 alt x alt x Downtown Sacramento Partnership
Mayor or Designee
& District 4 x x
Freeport Regional Water Authority 1 x
Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) Mayor x
Lower American River Conservancy Program Advisory Committee 2 x x Mayor's and Board Chair Forum (MBCF) Mayor x
MBCF Core Group (subcommittee)
Mayor and
Vice-Mayor x x
Regional Bike Share Policy Steering Committee 2 x x
Regional Human Rights / Fair Housing 1 x
Regional Water Authority 1 x
Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) 2 + 1 alt alt x x Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA) 3 + 3 alt x alt alt x x alt Sacramento Area Sewer District Board (SacSewer) 5 + 1 alt x x alt x x x Sacramento County Disaster Commission 1 + 1 alt x alt
Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA) 2 x x
Sacramento Groundwater Authority 1 + 1 alt x alt
Sacramento History Alliance District 4 x
Sacramento Homeless Policy Council 2 + 1 alt alt x x
Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) 1 + 1 alt x alt Sacramento Metro Air Quality Mgmt District (SMAQMD) 4 x x x x Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Commission 3 + 1 alt x x x alt Sacramento Public Library Authority 5 + 1 alt alt x x x x x Sacramento Regional County Solid Waste Authority 3 x x x Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) 3 x x x
Sacramento Transportation Authority (STA) 5 + 1 alt x x alt x x x Sites Reservoir Committee and Authority Board x
Stadium Area Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District Public Financing Authority 3 x x x Law and Legislation Committee 4 x x chair x
Personnel and Public Employees Committee 4 x x chair x
Budget and Audit Committee 4 chair x x x
Racial Equity Committee 4 x x x chair
Cal Cities Board 1 x
U.S. Conference of Mayors Mayor x
Vice Mayor x
Mayor Pro Tem x
City of Sacramento 2025 Mayoral Appointment Roster