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1920’s GRAND ELEGANCE This 2500 square foot home is waiting for your remodeling touches. 3 or 4 bedrooms 2 baths with large entry, high ceiling and sunny spacious living and dining rooms. Upstairs are large bedrooms, a summer porch/play room and sunning deck. Full basement, perfect for a workshop. Great walkability with popular restaurants, coffee shop. $675,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495

RED BRICK ENGLISH TUDOR Special features greet you: remarkable white oak Àoors and Honduran mahogany moulding and baseboards; leaded glass windows and French doors; Art Deco lighting ¿xtures; built-in cabinets with glass knobs in nook. Updated kitchen and downstairs full bath. Basement and attic with loft. Pool in Lovely Backyard. $1,080,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048, KENDRA KNAUER 916-529-2491

TRULY UNIQUE EAST SACRAMENTO HOME Built in 1912. Spacious 4,872 SF layout and bonus 2,200 basement on .23 acres! Original historical details: herringbone hardwood Àoors, mahogany inlays, built-in cabinets, exposed beams, high ceilings with huge crown molding and spacious formal dining, living and family rooms. 5 or 6 bedrooms 4½ baths library, butlers pantry, more! $1,495,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

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REMODELED EAST SACRAMENTO 4 bedroom 2 bath home with options galore in East Sacramento! The kitchen/dining area with ¿replace is open space for family time and entertaining. The 4th bedroom with glass doors could be a formal dining room, family room or of¿ce. The outside covered deck area and open patio has more room for entertaining. $719,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

STUNNING DOWNTOWN COMTEMPORY Single family home in a Planned Unit Development! 3 bedrooms 4 baths; plenty of space for guests, family, or work from Home. Main Àoor has the living and dining rooms, kitchen, master bed and bath, and balcony, laundry, ½ bath and storage. Upper level has 2 Bedrooms and full bath and loft. And lower game/party room, $739,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

WONDERFUL EAST SAC LOCATION The perfect home on one of the most desirable streets in East Sac. Remodeled kitchen with Wolf range, SubZero fridge, Miele dishwasher, espresso maker, wine fridge, pantry, custom cabinets and tons of storage. Large master bathroom. Hardwood Àoors, dual pane windows, of¿ce nook and private backyard patio has a spa/pool with water feature $965,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

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WALK TO EAST PORTAL PARK Fantastic updated 2 bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable East Sac neighborhood Wood and travertine tile Àoors, high ceilings, remodeled kitchen with antiqued cabinets, quartz counters and premium stainless steel appliances. Energy ef¿cient home with dual pane windows. Large yard with room for your imagination!! $565,000 KIM SQUAGLIA 916-205-2681, TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

IN THE HEART OF TAHOE PARK Enjoy this 3 bedroom, 2 bath, home with family room and 2-car garage. Long time owners have meticulously maintained and upgraded this home over the years including adding the family room, kitchen remodel with corian, newer appliances, dual pane windows in 2017, roof in 2016. Backyard includes patio, garden area and shed. $439,000 PATRICK VOGELI 916-207-4515

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ON McKINLEY Updated home with remodeled kitchen featuring Wolf oven, Miele dishwasher and soft close drawers. Downstairs master suite, of¿ce with outside access and 3 bedrooms upstairs. Fireplace in living room and double French doors in family/dining room make this home an entertainers delight. 1/4 basement and 2 car-garage and outdoor spaces. $825,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

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SPACIOUS TUDOR

Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1,860 sq/ft, Tudor in East Sac. Open and spacious living room with Àreplace and bay windows that make it cozy and comfortable. Dining area leads into the open kitchen with breakfast nook. Large master suite upstairs with large doors that open to the exterior space and a large bathroom with a walk in closet and plenty of storage. Backyard has a brick patio that is shaded and great for entertaining. Features include newly Ànished hardwood Áoors and classic light Àxtures and Ànials. $789,950

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STREET This 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom, 1500 sq/ft, Tudor kept most of it’s original details. Situated on a great street in East Sac, this home will go fast. Original hardwood Áoors throughout and a cozy Àreplace in the living room. The separate dining room with original built-ins leads to the spacious kitchen with breakfast nook. The backyard has a brick patio and is great for entertaining. $689,950

LUXURY CONDOMINIUM

East Sac’s luxury high rise condominium living in the Fab 40’s. A unique building set in the heart of the city that offers views from the 6th Áoor above the tree line with Áoor-to-ceiling windows. The open and spacious Áoor plan features a remodeled kitchen with subway tile and Brazilian granite. The bathroom has a Limestone walkin shower & Limestone guest bath and a bedroom closet lined with cedar and dark maple wood Áoors throughout. A must see! $615,000

SOUTH LAND PARK TERRACE

Great 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1780 sq/ft, South Land Park Terrace home. Features include newer kitchen cabinets and counters, stainless steel appliances and farmhouse sink. Newer Áoors throughout and dual pane windows. Home also has updated hall and master bath, large master bedroom with two large closets and a large backyard patio with mature landscaping that’s perfect for entertaining. $539,950

BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED

Beautifully renovated 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2,722 sq/ ft home in East Sac. Features include two master suites with one downstairs for overnight guests or in-laws. The large master suite upstairs has french doors that open to a balcony overlooking the exterior space and a bathroom with skylight for natural lighting.The spacious open Áoor plan with dining room/kitchen combo is full of windows that give this home light and warmth. $1,195,000

STYLISH BRICK TUDOR

Gorgeous three bedroom, two bathroom, 1673 sq/ft, brick Tudor in East Sac. This home is impeccable and has many original features that give it character. Living room is open, light and spacious with a Àreplace and leads to the formal dining room with original built-ins. Beautiful hardwood Áoors throughout and an outdoor patio perfect for entertaining. There is a large master suite upstairs with a large master bathroom. $799,950

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Hot Off The Press NEIGHBORHOODS STAR IN SECOND EDITION OF ‘INSIDE SACRAMENTO’

his past month we released the second edition of our book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” The updated version follows the launch of the first edition two years ago. With the first edition, we distributed and sold 7,000 books. Considering that the average book from a traditional publisher sells around 3,000 copies nationally over its lifetime, we are extremely proud and grateful for the community’s embrace of “Inside Sacramento.” Sales came from many places. Readers of our publications bought copies. Prominent Realtors gave them as closing gifts with a home purchase. Attorneys delivered them as Christmas gifts to clients and family. My accountant gave the book as client gifts and also delivered them to new residents in his neighborhood, along with his card and welcome message. Book sales came from folks who love our city and want to better know our unique neighborhoods. People handed copies to new neighbors and showed visitors from out of town. Mayor Darrell Steinberg proclaimed the book as Sacramento’s “bucket list challenge.” At our book launch he said, “Buy this book and visit every one of these places. And then when you have been to all of them, give the book to a newcomer.” Many people I know have copies proudly displayed on their coffee tables. Several residential developers, including McKinley Village, Bardis Homes and Fulcrum Property, hand

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the book to new homeowners. We’re working with a local television station president who wants to use copies of “Inside Sacramento” to help recruit young people to the company. Golden Pacific Bank gives copies to clients, since many of their smallbusiness customers are in the book. Sacramento State University gives copies to new faculty. And books are inside the hotels rooms at the Kimpton Sawyer, Embassy Suites and the Downtown Holiday Inn. Our sponsors—including Visit Sacramento and the Greater Sacramento Economic Council—use “Inside Sacramento” to share the city’s bounty and to help promote and lure business to Sacramento. The book helps sell convention planners on our city. “Inside Sacramento” went abroad as city leaders took copies as gifts for sister-city exchange trips. City Councilmember Steve Hansen brought the book to China. He says, “Even with a language barrier, everyone can relate to the gorgeous photography of our city’s great places and farm-tofork culture.” A group of musicians from Europe did a concert exchange with a local musical organization. The Europeans were presented books upon their arrival. I spoke about the book at several Rotary clubs. A nerve was struck with members when I talked about our city’s reputation not keeping pace with the reality of what Sacramento offers. I mentioned the book as a wonderful way to convince children and grandchildren to consider moving back to Sacramento. They loved that approach! Several business owners featured in “Inside Sacramento” told me they had

people stop by and ask the merchants to sign their page. The readers were collecting them! I heard about a woman who placed color-coded flags on each page to help track the places she visited—and the discoveries still ahead. A year ago, I met a Los Angelesbased cookbook author at a fitness spa in Mexico. We exchanged experiences about our books. She mentioned her frequent travels through Sacramento to visit her parents in Northern California. She said she was thinking of moving her catering business to Sacramento. On a lark, I sent her the book. Months later, she emailed me to say she was sitting in her new East Sac backyard enjoying “Inside Sacramento” with a glass of wine! She made the decision to move here when the book arrived, instantly connecting with our food scene. She knew she would fit in. Late last year, as our first edition supplies dwindled, we decided to publish a second edition. Each place featured is a locally owned business, so closures and turnover were inevitable. We post changes as they happen on insidesacbook.com. The first edition was a snapshot of the city when it was published in 2016. Since then, many new places have opened. In preparing the second edition, we carefully curated new entries. As with the first edition, there are more than 1,000 gorgeous photos by photographers Aniko Kiezel and Rachel Valley. Both covers have been updated with new photos. The first edition featured nine neighborhoods: Downtown, Old Sac, Midtown, The Handle, R Street, Land Park, Curtis Park, Oak Park and East Sac. For the second edition, we added

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The Bridge District (home of The Barn and Raley Field) in West Sacramento and the Sutter District, which is part of Midtown but with its own identity. The second edition has about 30-percent updated content. A new section called City Amenities features art galleries and performing arts organizations, “Lady Bird” movie locations, mural art and the Sacramento Walk of Stars honorees. Also noteworthy is a new colorfully designed neighborhood map on the first page of the inside cover. It’s a first for Sacramento.

In my travel experiences, great cities have great maps. In Vancouver recently, we were handed five different maps in four days. They included a colorful map of the city’s neighborhoods and districts, a cycling map, historic walking map, park attractions map and farmto-table dining map. I used smartphone maps only twice. Physical maps were much easier. They let me ditch the smartphone, relax and enjoy a new city. Last year, I visited Dallas and noticed every Airbnb rental online had a colorful map of Dallas neighborhoods displayed in the room. Maps were for

The colorful neighborhood map featured in the new book is also available in a larger format at University Art in Midtown. Show your neighborhood pride!

sale in many retail shops. There were a variety of designs, but each visually defined the city’s neighborhoods. When I researched Sacramento maps, I found exactly one: a business-like map of City Council boundaries on the city’s website. Clearly, we needed something to reflect Sacramento’s spirit. So we designed our own map for the book’s inside cover. And we produced a larger version for wall display. The large version is 24 inches by 36 inches and for sale at University Art in Midtown for $24.95. We hope many of the places featured in “Inside Sacramento” will display copies proudly in their locations. People take great pride in their neighborhoods—and they should. Neighborhood identity adds immeasurably to the textural character of our city. Not long ago, we all relied on printed maps. But in a digital world, printed maps take on a new and important purpose. Anyone with a smartphone or computer knows you can find anything on digital maps. While e-maps pinpoint locations, they make it difficult to understand a neighborhood’s boundaries or size. And they don’t help us understand how neighborhoods

relate to each other geographically. For walking or biking, context is vital. The second edition of “Inside Sacramento” includes a variety of neighborhoods. The Handle is compact, just a few blocks from East Sac, which covers many square miles. This isn’t obvious on a smartphone, but it’s clear on our map. Please consider buying the second edition of “Inside Sacramento” from our local sellers. They include Chocolate Fish Coffee, Display: California in Oak Park, University Art and Time Tested Books in Midtown, Avid Reader in Land Park, #Panache in East Sac and the Crocker Art Museum store. The price is $29.95. Discounts for larger orders are available by contacting sue@ insidepublications.com. “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital” is also available online at insidesacbook.com, with free shipping. Mention “Inside” and get a $5 discount on the new lower price of $29.99. And with the book each one of us can do our part to tell the compelling story of our interesting and beautiful city. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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In The Works COUNCILMAN HARRIS SHARES THOUGHTS ON NEW NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECTS

ast Sacramento has become a hotbed for housing developments as several ambitious projects have been announced for the neighborhood in recent months. The proposed projects include an upscale, 12-home development in an empty lot at 32nd and L streets, and a four-story mixeduse project at 1755 Stockton Blvd. In addition, a host of ventures near Sacramento State could finally turn the college known as a “commuter campus” into a true university village.

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With so many projects in the works, we wanted to get the thoughts of District 3 City Councilman Jeff Harris on how these developments will impact the neighborhood. We talked about housing shortages, air-quality impacts, parking problems and turning the Alhambra Corridor into “a recognizable destination.” What are your thoughts on the 32L project? This feels like a very Midtownand Downtown-like infill project? JH: This kind of medium-density infill is called “the missing middle”—the transition between traditional singlefamily, large-lot type living, and getting toward denser Downtown living. Just getting people to live closer and lower vehicle miles traveled has air-quality benefits, but also the Alhambra Corridor is starting to improve to a certain extent. I’m looking to clean up Alhambra and get it a little more energized, so this kind of development

is a good thing, in my opinion. I’ve got a call into the design director, there are some design tweaks. Other than that, it’s a pretty benign development, and I think a pretty good use of the lot there. Talk about the rebranding effort that is going on with the Alhambra Corridor. JH: The idea is to make it a destination. In its heyday, Alhambra was a pretty nice boulevard. With the loss of the Alhambra Theatre, things changed quite a bit over the years. By giving it a branding, it gives it an identity, it gives us something to start with to get people excited about doing commerce in the Alhambra Corridor. We’ve got some really good businesses there—SacYard Taphouse, the Cannery. We’re just trying to build upon that and get more use and more excitement out of the Alhambra Corridor. How about the proposed four-story mixed-use project at 1755 Stockton Blvd.? The HK3 designs have a really

striking, corrugated metal exterior, much like the Ice Blocks. JH: I think it’s a really great spot to do mixed-use. Again, it’s very close to SacYard and Canon, which are two businesses that have become pretty popular. What it means is you can have a little more population that can walk and make use of these local businesses. The issue is going to be parking. Onstreet parking is always the issue. If you bring commerce and more people to an area, where are they going to put their cars? That one will have onsite parking. It’s yet to be determined how robust that is, but we do have other parking options in the neighborhood. It will sure look a lot better than the busted-up concrete that’s there. It’s right next to a transformer station, a lot of power lines right there, and it will block that from view, which will be nice. There are several projects in various phases of development near Sacramento

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State that could provide housing for up to 4,000 students. The Crossings opened this summer, and six more housing complexes are planned for the next four years. Can you talk about the effort to remake what has historically been a “commuter campus”? JH: I’ve lived pretty close to that area for the last 30 years, just up in River Park, and it’s had the same kind of downtrodden vibe for four decades, so this is going to be pretty exciting. Sac State is growing. They’re building a brand-new science building, which is going to be fantastic for the university. Traditionally, it’s been a commuter campus. When you have 30,000 students, most of whom commute, that’s a tremendous burden on our roads and air quality. As well, many of those students are using up low-cost housing in other parts of the city. By getting them closer to the university, and especially close to light rail, it means we’re going to get more ridership for RT and connect students to the university. We’ll see how it plays out, but just the fact that we’re getting more

density next to light rail is a goal of the city, to change our mobility options and the way we get around. Even though these various housing developments that we discussed aren’t directly connected, do you think that they collectively say something about the city at large? JH: All these things are creating more living units, and increasing our inventory is absolutely crucial to the city right now in terms of alleviating rising rents. The scarcity of housing is driving the market up and up, and yet our wages are not increasing commensurately. The thing we have to keep an eye on, though, is not just exuberance with abandon in terms of building anything we can. They still have to be good and well-designed projects, and you always have to keep an eye on mitigating impacts to the existing neighborhood, which usually comes down to parking. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielbarnes@hotmail.com. n

Open Forum Will Address Measure U

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he East Sacramento Improvement Association will hold an open forum to discuss Measure U, the permanent 1-cent sales tax on this November’s ballot. The forum will be held Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Alhambra Room of the Clunie Community Center at 601 Alhambra Blvd. in East Sacramento.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg will speak in favor of Measure U. Craig Powell, president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group, will offer the opposing side. Each speaker will present their views, and then answer questions submitted on index cards by the audience. n

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8,000-square-foot memorabilia mecca that carries 30,000 unique and nostalgic collectibles and gifts. “With a lot of hard work, innovative thinking and the generous support of loyal customers, our shops continue to evolve and reflect today’s pop culture while also tapping into some of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood,” says Troy Carlson, CEO of Stage Nine Entertainment, Inc. To thank the region for its immense support, Stage Nine is holding anniversary events this month, starting with a red-carpet VIP gala on Oct. 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Courtyard D’Oro at 1107 Front St. A free public celebration on Oct. 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. will feature demonstrations, hands-on crafts, a “pop-up” exhibit showcasing

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winning LGBT newsmagazine Outword Magazine, as interim executive director. “As a founding member of the Chamber, Fred Palmer is someone who is both committed to the wellbeing of the organization and uniquely tuned in to the Sacramento LGBT and business communities,” says Rainbow Chamber president Diana DePaola. “We are fortunate to have him on board.” As one of the original founding members of the Rainbow Chamber of Commerce and the Rainbow Chamber Foundation, Palmer has served several terms as president on each board. He’s also helped produce numerous special events and fundraisers—including Sacramento Pride, PFLAG, Davis Pride, SIGLFF and Q Prom—to raise awareness for LGBT issues and bring in crucial funding. Palmer’s appointment as part-time interim executive director is a first step toward making the position full-time and developing additional staff support positions. For more information, visit rainbowchamber.com.

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company artifacts and the opportunity to meet Disney “greats” like Bill Farmer (the voice of Goofy), Bret Iwan (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Margaret Kerry (the original Tinker Bell model). For more information, visit stagenine.com. Stage Nine Entertainment, Inc. is located at 102 K St.

NEW PLAY AREA AT FAIRYTALE TOWN Fairytale Town has unveiled “Anansi’s Web,” the park’s first interactive playset in 21 years. Designed, created and installed by accomplished local sculptor Garr Ugalde, “Anansi’s Web” represents the West African folktales of Anansi the Spider, beloved trickster and keeper of stories. The new set features three vertical climbing webs populated by characters from various Anansi tales—a leopard, python, turtle and monkey. A sculpture of Anansi sits in the center, observing the goings-on. “We are delighted to bring a new story to life at Fairytale Town,” says Kathy Fleming, executive director of the children’s park, which opened in 1959. “The new playset is unlike any of our other structures. ‘Anansi’s Web’ will provide children with a challenging new play area and hours of fun.” “Anansi’s Web” was made possible by a generous grant of $100,000 from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and individual donations. For more information, visit fairytaletown.org. Fairytale Town is located at 3901 Land Park Drive.

SAC ZOO’S NEW SNOW LEOPARD CUB Coconut, a 5-month-old snow leopard cub—the first snow leopard to be born at the Sacramento Zoo since 2006— made his exhibit debut at the end of August. Because Coconut (named by the owners of Coconut’s Fish Café in Midtown) was born with multiple birth defects, he’s been living in an off-

Stan Atkinson (left), former news anchor/reporter for KCRA and KOVR, is interviewed by fellow journalist Steve Swatt. exhibit maternity den to make it easier to administer his physical-therapy sessions. Thanks to the extra attention, the cub’s future is bright. “Coconut is gaining confidence daily,” says Erin Dougher, one of the cub’s primary keepers. “It has been so much fun to watch him take it all in and begin to explore his new space.” Coconut will be on exhibit intermittently, so check in often to catch a glimpse. For more information, visit saczoo.org. The Sacramento Zoo is located at 3930 W. Land Park Drive.

BROADCAST LEGENDS LIVE ON Calling all fans of local media lore. The Center for Sacramento History—in partnership with the Valley Broadcast Legends—has made five new oral history interviews of notable Sacramento broadcasters available to

the public. The videos and transcripts are free online and at the center. “We’re excited to provide a home to these wonderful interviews,” says city historian Marcia Eymann. “The partnership with Valley Broadcast Legends ensures that the important stories and insight of those who worked in Sacramento’s media won’t be lost.” The videos chronicle the careers of broadcasters Stan Atkinson, Dick Cable, Walt Shaw, Anita Fein and Lou Coppola through oral interviews conducted by fellow broadcasters, such as Beth Ruyak and Steve Swatt. For more information, visit centerforsacramentohistory.org. The Center for Sacramento History is located at 551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Submissions are due six weeks prior to the publication month. n

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Measure U: The Basics

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acramento voters should carefully consider their vote on Measure U in the Nov. 6 election. The ballot measure would double and make permanent the existing half-cent sales tax that restored fire, police, parks and other basic services slashed during the Great Recession. Approved by 64 percent of city voters in November 2012, the original Measure U delivers nearly $50 million a year. The tax automatically expires on March 31, 2019. Starting next April 1, a renewed Measure U would

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create a 1-cent sales tax, increasing the total in Sacramento to 8.75 percent—one of the highest tax rates in the region. I’ve followed this issue since the original Measure U was proposed six years ago. I’d like to provide some context and background. I’m not telling readers how to vote. Measure U is a general tax, which means the money goes into the general fund. Under state law, Measure U dollars can’t be earmarked for specific use. Despite that restriction, most of the money goes to public safety—police and fire—with lesser amounts spent to restore parks and fund libraries. I was appointed to the citizens’ oversight committee that reviewed audits of how Measure U dollars were spent. The committee was announced before the 2012 election to help convince voters the city would spend the money responsibly.

My main criticism with the original Measure U is that proceeds have not been equitably distributed. Police and fire—with powerful unions—were fully restored fairly quickly. But today, park funding is only partially restored, despite a tax windfall much higher than the city anticipated. I live across from McKinley Park, where conditions have continued to deteriorate since 2010. Before 2008, the park had a dedicated staff. Now there is one staff person for dozens of parks. The nonprofit Friends of East Sacramento that I co-founded in 2011 manages hundreds of volunteers who have helped maintain McKinley Park. The Land Park Volunteer Corps continues—as it has for eight years— to provide hundreds of volunteer hours each month to care for that park. There is no guarantee the new Measure U would restore our parks to their 2008 budget levels—no

guarantee of relief for the volunteers who are getting burned out plugging the city’s maintenance gaps. Given that Measure U is a general tax without earmarks, it’s essentially a blank check to the City Council—a check worth almost $100 million a year. This means the decision for voters is really about trust and accountability. Citizens who favor Measure U must believe the City Council will spend the money wisely. There are no guarantees. I recently spoke with Mayor Darrell Steinberg about Measure U. He’s confident the new tax will pass. He needs 50.1 percent approval. The results of private polls organized by the mayor apparently support his confidence. In our discussion, he refused to discuss the possibility of Measure U falling short. The question of where the money would go is tricky for Steinberg and his allies on the City Council. Legally,

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rellesﬂorist.com 2400 J Street 441-1478 they can’t promise anything. When I suggested that approximately onequarter cent—about $23 million annually—would go to CalPERS for unfunded city pension obligations, Steinberg took great offense. The mayor described the link between Measure U and pension obligations as “a fiction created by Eye On Sacramento,” the local watchdog group. But Councilmember Jeff Harris—the smartest, most detail-oriented and honest elected official I’ve found in the city—agrees with my prediction. Harris says another one-quarter cent—again, approximately $23 million—has been promised to various organizations to secure their support. “The extra one-quarter cent, if applied only to the city’s road-repair needs, would take more than eight years to cover our backlog of needed repairs,” Harris says, giving some perspective. Steinberg and other Measure U supporters say the additional money would boost affordable housing and homeless services, provide job training for teenagers and economic growth in poor neighborhoods. The money would also free up bondpayment capacity for projects along the waterfront. Yet by definition, Measure U is a regressive tax—it applies equally to everyone who pays sales taxes, rich and poor. People with lower incomes carry a heavier burden than residents with higher incomes. When I asked Steinberg why he so quickly rejected the idea of making the original half-cent Measure U permanent, he said, “I just believe we have a unique opportunity in

Sacramento to gain the capital to invest in inclusive economic growth with this new tax. In my first yearplus as mayor, I believe that we have great aspirations. “But we do not have the financial tools to meet the aspirations of our city and to address the issues of equity and systemic poverty that exist in too many parts of our city.” If Measure U fails in November, the city could face painful budget cuts. The tax pays for around 150 police officers and 90 firefighters. The local firefighters union, which helped bankroll the original Measure U, urged the council to stick with the current half-cent tax to make sure the extension passes. The City Council opted to roll the dice and double the tax. If voters reject Measure U, the council will likely call a special election in March to renew the current sales tax. It will be a humbled council that does the asking. Today, as in 2012, I urge the city to control labor costs and make departments more efficient through a variety of measures as advocated by Eye On Sacramento. The city made progress by negotiating higher employee pension contributions and reducing retiree health benefits. But Harris notes there is much work to do. An example he cites is replacing one firefighter in city ambulances with a civilian paramedic. The move would save about $6 million a year. So far, the idea has little support. In August, Steinberg rushed to pass a collective-bargaining agreement with trade unions without a serious analysis of the cost. The agreement

could add millions to the cost of several expensive remodeling projects, including the Sacramento Convention Center, Community Center Theater and Memorial Auditorium. (See our City Beat column this month.) The watchdogs at Eye On Sacramento oppose Measure U. The group put together a list of savings it claims will total $125 million, mostly by reducing labor expenses. Eye On Sacramento notes the city’s pension costs are projected to increase by $62 million a year in 2022-23. The watchdogs believe Measure U would primarily support pensions. To help with both transparency and accountability, Steinberg has proposed a more robust citizens’ oversight committee for Measure U. The committee would recommend potential investments based upon a set of metrics to evaluate economic growth potential. The committee would measure whether the investments perform as expected. Here’s an idea for the mayor: Give Eye On Sacramento a seat on that committee.

YES ON MEASURE K The City Council placed a second measure on the November ballot. Measure K would establish the city auditor as a charter officer, which means the position can’t be eliminated without a ballot measure. It would consolidate the independent budget analyst’s duties under the auditor’s office. Measure K deserves a yes vote. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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on Measure U BROKEN PROMISES, HIDDEN PENSION AGENDA EARN REJECTION

very Sacramento resident should want to believe Mayor Darrell Steinberg will keep his promises about how he plans to spend the $100 million raised annually by Measure U, Steinberg’s permanent 1-cent sales-tax hike on the November ballot. But the mayor is an ambitious politician. And we know ambitious politicians make promises they cannot keep. Voters would be foolish to blindly believe Steinberg’s glib promises, particularly when they carry the cost of a major increase in a regressive tax that would hurt modest-income families and the poor—the very people the mayor promises to help. To assess whether city politicians can be trusted to honor their Measure U vows, let’s look at the track record. First, they promised the original Measure U, a half-cent sales tax hike in 2012, would be temporary. They promised the money would fill budget gaps until the city’s revenues recovered from the recession.

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Today, city revenues, not counting Measure U, are more than $120 million above their level from 2012, zooming up 16 percent in the past two years. Instead of honoring the city’s promise, the mayor wants to double the Measure U tax and make it permanent. Councilmember Jeff Harris urged the City Council to give voters the option of extending the half-cent sales tax to protect the city from budget cuts. But Steinberg and his council allies rejected Harris’ proposal. They knew voters would, if given a choice, be much more willing to extend the current Measure U half-cent tax instead of doubling it. Steinberg made sure voters don’t have that choice. Clearly, Steinberg wants voters to fear massive budget cuts if they fail to approve his permanent 1-cent tax. It was a reckless and coercive move, and it revealed how little the mayor cares for protecting city services from cuts. But the ploy isn’t likely to work once voters realize that, if they reject Measure U, the council will almost certainly order a special election next spring to give residents the option to extend the original half-cent tax. How can voters trust Steinberg to keep his Measure U promises when he’s demonstrated a willingness to

put city services in peril while denying residents a more prudent option on taxes? How can voters trust a mayor who seeks to coerce them into approving a major tax hike for fear of budget cuts? What kind of leader does that? At the start of his term, Steinberg proclaimed he should be held “accountable” if he failed to reduce street homelessness in Sacramento by 2,000 within two to three years. With two months left before he begins his third year as mayor, it appears the only way Steinberg can honor his vow is to buy nearly 2,000 one-way bus tickets for homeless people. He’s oscillated between opposing new homeless shelters, to supporting a new shelter, to wanting to build more shelters. Should voters hold Steinberg “accountable” for his confusion and broken promises on homelessness by handing him a 1-cent tax windfall—a $100 million blank check? Hardly. Is Sacramento a city that would impose an 8.75 percent sales-tax rate—highest in the region—on the backs of residents who have among the lowest per-capita incomes in the region? I hope not. Where would the $50 million in new taxes produced by Measure U really go? City pensions.

The city finance director estimates pension costs will increase to $62 million annually over the next four years. Do the math: Sacramento’s escalating pension bill will consume all (and more) of the $50 million in new dollars Measure U would generate. Eye on Sacramento released a report last month on how the City Council could reduce spending by $125 million annually without any reduction in core services. The report is called a “Blueprint for a PostMeasure U City.” Please read it and share it with friends. The report is available on the EOS website at eyeonsacramento.org. Given the broken promises and deceptions about where the tax-hike millions will actually go, residents must hold Steinberg and the City Council accountable and vote no on Measure U. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He chairs the “No on Measure U” Campaign Committee (dontdoublethetax.org). Powell can be reached at craig@eyeonsacramento. org or (916) 718-3030. n

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on Measure U TAX SAVES ESSENTIAL SERVICES, BUILDS CITY’S FUTURE

hen Sacramento voters approved Measure U in 2012, they were responding to the effects of the Great Recession. City budget cuts sliced deep across all city departments. Parks were overgrown. Police patrols had been reduced. Public pools did not open. Fire stations closed on a rotating basis. Today, the situation is much better. Measure U deserves a large portion of the credit for the significant improvement in city services. So, of course, does the economic recovery. So why do we still need Measure U? We need it because Sacramento is one of the fastest growing cities in California. Our population growth means we have increased needs. Measure U provided $46.5 million in the 2017-18 budget year. It currently pays for 184 sworn officers in the police department, 90 employees in the fire department and 137 in parks. Without Measure U, the city is expected to face a budget shortfall of

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$43.6 million in the next fiscal year. Police, fire and parks would face drastic cuts. Renewing Measure U will ensure the quality of our essential public services and allow us to tackle growing problems such as homelessness, a lack of affordable housing and economic inequity. We could make a demonstrable difference in homelessness, one of the issues that weighs heavily on us as a community. The number of people living without shelter in Sacramento County nearly doubled from 2015 to 2017. Under the leadership of Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the city is now pursuing solutions that work. The city’s Triage Shelter and Whole Person Care program have succeeded in getting hundreds of people off the streets and into permanent housing, including some people who had been homeless for decades. That number could become thousands if the city had more resources for shelters and permanent supportive housing. Our city’s future also depends on whether the children growing up in our neighborhoods today are able to obtain an education and become qualified for the jobs that will exist here in the future. On that front, we are currently falling far short. Three-quarters of the jobs in our region now require digital skills, but

only 18 percent of African-American and Latino residents obtain at least a four-year degree, and only half go beyond high school at all. We could use a portion of the Measure U proceeds to invest in programs to prepare young people for the workforce, and also in privatepublic partnerships to make sure our city has enough jobs that young people can stay and make a good life here. Opponents will suggest the city has been an irresponsible steward of public tax dollars, and will waste the additional funds entrusted to it by the voters. This argument is false. Due the implementation of government efficiencies, the city now has fewer employees and provides the same level of service. Sacramento now employs 9.3 employees for every 1,000 residents of Sacramento. That compares to 11.5 employees per every 1,000 residents in 2007-08. The city also eliminated or reduced retiree health benefits for new employees. Measure U funds lifeguards, forensic investigators, detectives and parks maintenance workers— positions essential to making Sacramento a safe and enjoyable place to live. Members of the Sacramento City Council have made it clear they are

committed to strengthening the current oversight commission that monitors Measure U spending. The new commission will help decide how the money is spent, rather than simply reviewing those expenditures after the fact. The council is also working toward adopting metrics that any Measure U expenditures would have to meet. Opponents have said the money from Measure U will be used for pension obligations. While pension costs are a concern facing every local government in California, the best way to fill any shortfall is to grow our economy so it produces more tax revenue over time, making our budgets sustainable. Measure U will ensure that Sacramento can protect and enhance vital services and emergency response while giving us the opportunity to grow our economy, address homelessness and affordable housing, and invest in our youth. For all these reasons, we urge you to vote yes on Measure U in November. Will Cannady is president of the Pocket Greenhaven Community Association. Devin Lavelle is a member of the city Parks and Recreation Commission. n

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eople think that taking care of your skin is about vanity, but it’s so much more than that,” says Venita Sivamani, co-founder and CEO of Dermveda, a groundbreaking online platform that combines the disciplines of Western medicine, Ayurveda, naturopathy and traditional Chinese medicine to provide skincare information to the masses. “The No. 1 request doctors get from patients is about skin,” says the East Sacramento resident. “Dermveda is here to help answer questions so patients can go to their providers informed.” Although not a dermatologist, Sivamani is good friends with many and married to one. Her husband, Raja Sivamani, is a boardcertified dermatologist and Ayurveda expert who serves on the Dermveda advisory board. Sivamani started noticing that certain complaints were coming up time and again. “Everyone lamented the fact that they don’t have enough time with their patients,” says Sivamani, who has worked in educational equity and leadership for nearly a decade. “They didn’t have enough time in an appointment to really delve into a patient’s concerns—and most of those concerns were about skin.” Because of Sivamani’s extensive educational background, she started to formulate a way to educate patients outside of the provider’s office—to give them a place to bring their questions and learn about themselves and their health in the process. Never one to do things halfway, Sivamani attended business school at UC Davis to study entrepreneurship (which included time abroad at London Business School) before turning her focus to Dermveda fulltime in 2015. Sivamani was passionate about including varied disciplines and approaches to health. She grew up in a blended Eastern-Western household, with a mother from Sri Lanka and a father whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. She was also adamant that her platform would bring patients the most medically accurate information in an accessible format. To achieve this, Sivamani solicited dermatological experts from all over the country to submit articles about different skin concerns, which were then sent through a vigorous peer-review process much like a medical journal. “We make sure claims are reinforced to meet the highest standards,” Sivamani says. “We want our site to be as safe and credible as possible.” Dermveda.com launched in July 2016 and has won praise, not only from the public but also from providers, whom Sivamani says often refer patients to the site or use it themselves during appointments to look up

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bring more than 250 providers together for “a meeting of the minds,” as Sivamani describes it. The provider-only symposium will be followed by the Integrative Skin Care Wellness Fair, which is open to the public. Attendees will meet skin and beauty experts, enjoy free makeup consultations and samples, shop local and national brands, create DIY skin products, and listen to world-renowned keynote speakers Drs. Keira Barr and Trevor Cates. Better still, 10 percent of ticket sales from the event will benefit Women’s Empowerment, a local nonprofit that educates and empowers homeless women to re-enter the workforce. “Beauty and wellness are not just about slathering on product,” Sivamani says. “It’s about getting to know yourself better and living an optimal lifestyle.”

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n about 32 years, the construction bonds that built Golden 1 Center will be paid off. Most likely, the place will be obsolete, or at least in serious decline, worn out and nearing the end of its useful lifespan. Modern arenas are only good for about 30 years these days. They don’t build sports palaces like they once did. Our ancestors were different. They created arenas and stadiums to last—if not for an eternity, then for many generations.

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To see how they did it, head down Freeport Boulevard and turn onto Sutterville Road. Along the railroad tracks is Sacramento’s legacy sports facility, a horseshoe structure that embodies the city’s entertainment history, having staged everything from the Oakland Raiders to motorcycle races, donkey softball, soccer, Triple A baseball and Pink Floyd. Hughes Stadium turns 90 this month. It was born Oct. 13, 1928, as Sacramento Junior College Stadium. The official christening was a football double-header, Sacramento High vs. Modesto in the warmup, Sacramento J.C. vs. Santa Rosa in the main event. The home team won twice. The stadium cost $190,000, which sounds cheap but bought a lot of concrete and steel in 1928. It took a community effort to raise the money. A public lottery collected $65,000. The rest was borrowed from a bank, secured by a $12,500 annual lease paid by the city.

The stadium was Sacramento’s first big-time sports facility, capacity 22,333. Civic leaders changed the name in 1944, when Sacramento City Unified School District took ownership and decided to honor its revered superintendent, Charles C. Hughes. Los Rios Community College District assumed control in 1975, and remains the landlord today. For everything that Hughes Stadium has given Sacramento, the place has received sporadic love in return. As the legendary Sacramento sports editor Bill Conlin wrote in 1991, “It seems somebody always wants it to be something it isn’t exactly. A grotesquely misshapen baseball field. A motorcycle track. A midget car raceway. A soccer field. A one-night stand for rock bands. An echoing cavern for Metro League football games.” There are other ways to judge Hughes. It reflects a city’s ambitions, thirst for entertainment and history

of sporting failures. Beyond the motorcycles and rock bands that packed the grounds until Land Park residents revolted over the noise, the stadium became a burial plot for teams that never succeeded. Among the semipro, minor-league and under-capitalized football, baseball and soccer teams that called Hughes home were the Solons, Capitals, Senators, Statesmen, Buccaneers, Buffaloes, Spirit and Gold. The jury is still out on the Republic. A 1977 retrofit saved the park from destruction after it flunked a seismic review. Another facelift in 2012 introduced a new track and artificial turf that gets mechanically fluffed and rejuvenated four times annually. “It’s a showcase for the community,” says Paul Carmazzi, assistant athletic director at City College. “Hughes has never looked better.” Happy birthday! R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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eople who know Mayor Darrell Steinberg often talk about his split personalities. There’s the public Steinberg, soft spoken and empathetic, a people’s champion who listens intently, nods his head in harmony with grievances and exudes sincerity. And there’s the private Steinberg, who dominates conversations, holds grudges and harbors the ruthlessness of a mob boss. As a city councilman, Assembly member and state Senate pro tem, Steinberg perfected his act over decades. He knows when the cameras are on, when the public is watching. And he knows when they are not. He rarely slips. But Steinberg is not perfect. At 9:56 p.m. on Aug. 21, at a City Council meeting designed to jam through a secretive and likely expensive collective-bargaining agreement with

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trade unions, the facade began to crumble. The split personalities—public Steinberg and private Steinberg— merged in the council chambers at City Hall. Determined to pass his union pact with minimal transparency, the mayor was angry because two council members raised questions about cost and accountability to taxpayers. Steinberg’s voice began to rise. His patience wilted. He waved his arms and jabbed the air. He rattled through several academic studies about project labor agreements—the term used to describe contracts such as the one Steinberg was trying to hurry into law. He called for the vote, knocking down a parliamentary request to postpone the decision by one week. The gift to unions passed 7-2. Under the agreement, any taxpayersupported, capital-improvement construction job in the city worth more than $1 million must engage unionized labor. There are components for apprentice training and local hiring, but trade unions essentially wrote the ordinance. Labor calls the shots at Steinberg’s City Hall. And despite pleas by council members Allen Warren and Jeff Harris, nobody at City Hall knows what Steinberg’s union requirements will cost. The price tag is a question mark. Coincidentally, Warren and Harris are the only two council members

DETERMINED TO PASS HIS UNION PACT WITH MINIMAL TRANSPARENCY, THE MAYOR WAS ANGRY BECAUSE TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT COST AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO TAXPAYERS. HARRIS AND WARREN SIMPLY WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE TAXPAYERS’ BURDEN. who have significant experience with building trades. Warren is a developer, Harris a contractor. Both made it plain they aren’t anti-union. They can take unions or leave them. The councilmen simply wanted to understand the taxpayers’ burden. Warren said, “We don’t know what the costs are going to amount to.” Said Harris, “The missing piece here is the cost. Show me some numbers.” Harris and Warren tried to get cost information from city staff. Staff said they didn’t know. The councilmen asked Steinberg and union representatives for cost estimates. No response. The private Steinberg, the politician with a quick temper, fragile ego and massive ambition, was not interested in delays or discussion. To pass the labor agreement, he ignored tradition and used a loophole to suspend the council’s rules of procedure. He skipped

a committee review and passed the agreement on its first hearing. During Steinberg’s time as leader of the state Senate, greasy business with unions was handled behind closed doors. The labor folks would come in, state their demands, make perfunctory threats and offer payoffs in campaign contributions. The Senate leader would secure support or opposition for an ancillary issue or two, and reminded them he was charge. Subsequent committee and floor votes were as scripted as pro wrestling. It’s worth noting that the Senate under Steinberg was unusually corrupt. At one point, 10 percent of his members were in jail or under indictment for various crimes. The public Steinberg said he was disappointed by the corruption. Steinberg intensely followed the machinations of his predecessor, Kevin

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All Major Credit Cards Accepted Before voting on the union agreement, Warren tied the labor giveaway to Measure U. It was a warning. He said, “What we’re suggesting (with Measure U) is that we’re going to be prudent with the money.” Any suggestion of prudence with money was absent from City Hall on Aug. 21. So was transparency. On that night, the private Steinberg publicly gave his union friends a gift from Sacramento taxpayers of unknown and unlimited value. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

HARRIS AND WARREN TRIED TO GET COST INFORMATION FROM CITY STAFF. STAFF SAID THEY DIDN’T KNOW. THE COUNCILMEN ASKED STEINBERG AND UNION REPRESENTATIVES FOR COST ESTIMATES.

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n February, Mohanna Development Co. expects to complete its mixeduse structure at 19 and J streets. This will not be just another building. Developer Nikky Mohanna is creating a community space that reflects Midtown lifestyles, tastes and budgets. Sacramento has never seen anything

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quite like it. With small, efficient micro-studios starting at below $1,000 a month, Mohanna believes 19J will appeal to an urban workforce threatened by Sacramento’s housing crisis. “In a lot of ways, millennials are the pioneers of urban living, so we have to build for them, and we have to figure out a way to meet their budgets,” says Mohanna. She designed 19J not by contemplating square footage, but asking, what can residents afford? Most units at 19J will be cheaper than the median studio price in Sacramento, but 19J is not an affordable housing project. Without subsidies or federal tax credits, Mohanna had to

build small and efficiently to make 19J financially viable. Eighty percent of 19J’s 175 units are between 300- and 400-square feet. Studios less than 400-square feet will come with Murphy beds and storage built into walls. European cities and New York inspired Mohanna to build micro-units, where urban lifestyles demand more mixed-use, communal spaces and alternate forms of transportation. Her vision includes patios, balconies and a 6,000-square-foot retail space where tenants will offer services for residents. The project has just 37 stackable parking spaces. “Sacramento is unaffordable and we need to do something about it,”

Mohanna says. “It makes me want to build.” Experience and education help explain why Mohanna elected to construct for community and inclusion. The daughter of Sacramento developer Moe Mohanna, a Sacramento property owner for more than four decades, Nikki returned home in 2014 after studying at London School of Economics and working with UNESCO in Tehran, Iran. Her sense of community was forged early in Sacramento when she volunteered with Loaves & Fishes and Women’s Empowerment, two nonprofits focused on homeless support. The volunteer work helped her understand

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Nikky Mohanna homeless women face as they transition into housing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because of their history, many were not getting housing and work,â&#x20AC;? Mohanna says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were competing against people without that history and without that bias against them. So I was sitting at a (Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Empowerment) graduation one day while I was entitling 19J, and I thought, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be

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hen Rio Americano High School senior Anna Chriss received the Girl Scout Gold Award this year for The Anna Chriss Homeless Care Package Project, it was not only an acknowledgment of a job well done in the eyes of the Girl Scouts of America—less than 5 percent of Girl Scouts receive the award—but also a celebration of years of hard work that started when Chriss was only 11 years old. “Sitting in the passenger seat of my parents’ car headed Downtown to Sacramento Ballet for Wednesday night practice, I would ask my mom about the people milling around our local Loaves & Fishes,” Chriss recalls. “I remember her kind explanation that the people in question are less fortunate than we are and have fewer resources than we do. This was a simple answer, but it was enough to get me thinking about what I could do to improve their situation.” Chriss compiled a list of supplies that she thought might be appreciated, and enlisted the help of her seventh-grade classmates to donate items and put together care packages that she delivered on Thanksgiving Day. Thus began an annual tradition for the conscientious Chriss. Every fall, she encourages the community to help her gather food—including chips and candy—hygiene supplies and water for her to personally deliver to the local homeless.

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“When you’re homeless, you usually just get the necessities,” Chriss says. “Chips and candy are the happiness aspect. I want to help people feel a little happier inside.” Five years into the project, Chriss began to think about the possibility of applying for the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting that recognizes girls who demonstrate extraordinary leadership through projects that have a sustainable impact in their communities and beyond. “It was a huge transition for me,” says Chriss, who’s been a Girl Scout for 11 years. “At first, the reaction of the people—the change I saw in them, the happiness and overwhelming joy—is what fulfilled me. But as I got older and saw how people treat other people, the stigma against homelessness became very present. As Sacramento’s homeless population continues to grow and people are having more and more issues, most of those seem to stem from a negative viewpoint.” Because the Gold Award project must have an educational aspect, Chriss decided to augment her project’s mission to include an informative component to alter the negative stigma. She researched the causes of homelessness and shared the information far and wide—with her family, her classmates, her Girl Scout Troop and beyond—to make her community that much more informed and compassionate. “If you share the research and change the way people look at homelessness, hopefully it will create a ripple effect,” Chriss says. To get involved with The Anna Chriss Homeless Care Package Project, email crranch03@sbcglobal. net or call (916) 488-4676. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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his November, California voters will be presented with Proposition 6, which offers the choice to either retain or repeal Senate Bill 1—the so-called gas-tax increase. Our purpose is not to argue pro or con about the measure. Instead, we want to present a fact-based assessment about what the added revenue has meant to the streets and roads of the unincorporated area of Sacramento County since SB 1 went into effect, and how its elimination or continuance will impact the county’s transportation system. Prior to SB 1, road maintenance and infrastructure had been in decline for many years, due to funding shortages at the statewide level. The state Legislature estimated a $130-billion backlog in total state and local road repairs, which led to SB 1.

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Sacramento County’s Department of Transportation estimates the current pavement-maintenance backlog for the unincorporated area alone is now approximately $700 million and growing. The combined pavement backlog for all of the cities in Sacramento County is in excess of $375 million, which places the total need for our area (county and cities together) at $1.075 billion. To date, Sacramento County has received partial-year funding of about $7.3 million under SB 1, with another $21 million expected in fiscal year 2018-19 for the unincorporated area. This dollar amount will increase in future years. It’s estimated the county will receive an average of more than $24 million per year over the next 10 years. The passage of Proposition 69 in June securely earmarked the gas-tax funding for transportation projects by ensuring money will not be diverted to non-transportation projects. The law gives local governments stability in planning future projects. SACDOT evaluates conditions of the roadways in the unincorporated area and calculates a Pavement

Condition Index for each road and street. PCI values range from zero (very poor) to 100 (excellent). The current countywide average is 50 PCI. A value of 50 to 69 is considered fair condition. A value of 25 to 49 is considered poor condition. The current average is somewhat misleading since newer subdivisions reflect better pavement and push up the average. Older areas are in disrepair and have not been repaved for 30 years or longer. SB 1 funding provides a revenue stream we would not otherwise have to mitigate the continued deterioration of our roadway system. Earlier this year, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors adopted a list of projects proposed to be funded by SB 1 taxes during the current fiscal year. The list identifies 17 projects for road maintenance, roadway

and bridge rehabilitation, safety improvements, and improvements for bicycles, pedestrians and disabled access. Sections of Eastern, Marconi and El Camino avenues are already being repaved. Without the revenue we receive from SB 1 funding, Sacramento County’s roadmaintenance budget will drop by more than $20 million per year. Such a drop will make it even more difficult to address, in any effective manner, the deterioration all of us experience when driving the roads of the unincorporated area. SB 1 includes public accountability and transparency requirements to ensure the funding generated by the tax is spent efficiently and improves the local roadway system. The county will continue to prepare a report at the end of each fiscal year detailing the actual expenditure of SB 1 funds during the year. The report will include projects funded and the amount of funding expended. The report will be available to the public. We also have established at sacdot. com a “Your Gas Taxes at Work” webpage that allows taxpayers to follow the projects funded under SB 1. We hope this information helps residents understand the roadmaintenance backlog and how the SB 1 gas-tax increase is being used to address our roadway challenges. We want everyone in Sacramento County to know how we spend gas-tax revenue, now and in the future, and how we will be accountable for those expenditures. Susan Peters represents the Third District on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. Michael J. Penrose is the deputy county executive for infrastructure and public works for Sacramento County. Ron E. Vicari is the director of transportation for Sacramento County. n

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Smart Design REMODEL TURNS DATED EAST SAC HOME INTO MODERN BEACH COTTAGE

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igh and low” is how interior designer Elizabeth Lake describes her style for remodeling her two-bedroom, one-bath home in East Sacramento. For example, she replaced the cabinets on one side of the kitchen with inexpensive open shelving from IKEA. But in the dining room, she went big with a modern, statement-making crystal chandelier by Baccarat. “Buy quality when necessary, but be smart about it,” says Lake. “There are places you don’t need the best of the best and places you probably do.”

Choosing such an impressive light fixture for her nearly 2,000-square-foot home is fitting for an interior designer who specializes in lighting. Lake worked as showroom manager and lighting designer for Lumens in Midtown for 10 years before leaving last year to open her own business, Elizabeth Lake Interiors. She purchased the cottage-style home, built in 1949, at the end of 2016, and wrapped up a four-month partial remodel before moving in. Lake’s family history dates back five generations in Sacramento. Her great, great, great grandfather came

to Sacramento in 1842 and lived at Sutter’s Fort, according to Lake. While working toward a bachelor’s degree in interior design at Sacramento State, Lake took a break from the River City and commuted to Los Angeles for “the weather and the beach,” she says. “I thought there was something better out there, but realized there wasn’t. Sacramento is home.” Lake moved back to Sacramento and bought her first house in Tahoe Park, where she lived for five years before purchasing her current cottage. “It was my dream to live in East Sac,” she says.

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“I wanted to live in a place where I was part of a community.” Despite the charming neighborhood, “The home was a dump,” Lake says. “Every wall had a different texture— most of it very heavy. It looked like they took mud and slapped it on the wall and swirled it around, then painted it all a dark green semi-gloss.” As a result, everything had to be resurfaced. Lake is tackling the galley-style kitchen in two phases. For the first phase, she added a farmhouse sink with an industrial-style faucet, range hood, wine fridge and, of course, a crystal and brass pendant light over the sink. The granite countertops were in bad shape, but all they needed was a good cleaning. For the second phase, Lake plans to bump the back wall out, allowing for the addition of a laundry/mudroom and a larger kitchen with an island, as well as a master bedroom with a bath. Phase two also will include refinishing the original hardwood floors, adding a gas insert to the fireplace and creating an outdoor dining/living area with a water feature. Lake gutted the “Pepto-Bismol-pink bathroom” and implemented another example of her high-and-low design style. After installing an inexpensive stock medicine cabinet, she attached custom-cut mirrors and mounted sconces on each side. “Instead of spending a lot of money to have the walls tiled, I did wainscoting to add interest.” For the bathroom floor, Lake discovered leftover Carrera-marble tiles, covered in dust, on a back shelf at Home Depot. Too few for the entire job, she traveled to eight different Home Depots in search of what she needed, then spent a little extra on a herringbone pattern. “I think it created a cool wow factor without spending a ton of money,” she says. Lake’s love of anything beachy is evident throughout the home, with seashore décor and colors of white, grey and navy. To tie the rooms together, Lake used a single paint color—“Silver Polish” by Dunn Edwards. “It looks different in every room depending on the time of day, lighting, whether it’s sunny outside or not,” she says. As an interior designer, Lake has participated in many local charity events, including the annual Sacred

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ugust is harvest time in the hop fields of California, so Rohit Nayyar has left the air-conditioned comfort of his RoCo Taproom & Bottleshop in West Sacramento to brave the sweltering Yuba City heat. “During the hops season, it’s all hands on deck,” says Nayyar, who is more known for selling and pouring beers than for harvesting their raw ingredients. However, growing hops has also increased Nayyar’s appreciation of how they eventually get used by brewers. “You’ll

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understand how many hours go into growing these hops, just to get the one pint of beer.” Nayyar’s nascent farming career started six years ago when his friend Julien Lux, owner of New Glory Craft Brewery in Sacramento, gave him the idea. California once had a rich history of hop farming, but now the industry is almost entirely centered in Oregon and Washington. “There used to be a lot of hops grown here, but that went away because a lot of the processing wasn’t here, and nobody was using whole cone hops, everybody started pelletizing them,” Nayyar says. “California lacks the equipment and the infrastructure for hops growing and processing.” Nayyar reached out to his best friend, Jaspaul Banes, and the two men decided to become partners in the hop business. They found a piece of land in Yuba City where they could grow hops. “We

planted an acre of hops just to see how it goes,” Nayyar says. “From there, we got such a good response and kept on growing more and more, and now we have two different hop growers that grow for us, and we grew our acreage up to almost 15 acres.” The enthusiastic duo handpicked their own hops when they first started growing, but that proved too laborintensive, so they invested in a small harvester. With each bine producing nearly 5 pounds of hop flowers, it would take several hours to handpick a single bine. They only grow nonproprietary hop varieties like Cascade, CTZ, Chinook, Magnum, California Cluster and Nayyar’s favorite varietal, Centennial. “It used to be one of the popular hops, it was a proprietary hop at one point,” Nayyar says. “It became the main hop in every West Coast IPA.”

Since the hop harvest happens in late summer, early autumn is the time for “fresh hop” (or “wet hop”) beers. These beers are brewed with freshly picked, whole cone hop flowers instead of the concentrated hop pellets that most brewers use year-round. “The local breweries like New Glory, Knee Deep and Jackrabbit, they supported us,” Nayyar says. “In the beginning, it was just those three breweries, but now we’re serving close to 80 different breweries all around Northern California.” Before 2018, Nayyar’s hop farms only produced enough to supply local brewers during fresh hop beer season, but this will be the first year that they produce enough hops to sell throughout the year. Any hop flowers left on the bine after the August harvest will eventually get picked and pelletized. “We finally are in a position where we have enough hops to sell all year long instead of having to rush off to market.” One of the most widely distributed wet hop beers made with Nayyar’s hops is Wobblies Wet Hop Ale by Calicraft Brewing Co. of Walnut Creek. However, the one that sticks out to Nayyar is an annual beer made by West Sacramento brewery Jackrabbit Brewing Co. that uses both fresh hops and fresh peaches from the Yuba City farm. “It’s a nice West Coast-style IPA with all locally sourced ingredients,” he says. “We asked those guys to make that one every year, and they do.” For all the rewards that Nayyar finds in hop farming, there are still challenges that come with a being a small-scale hop farmer in California. Their hops are more expensive than the ones grown on industrial farms in Oregon and Washington, where most of the processing equipment is located. “If you go to banks to get a loan in California, they’re not used to this kind of a crop and they don’t have data on it,” he says. “We’re spending our money, our own life savings, our own time to grow these hops.” Instead of adding more acreage for next year’s harvest, Nayyar and Banes plan to make investments in their infrastructure, such as buying a bulk harvester and having it shipped here from Europe. “Big farmers out of Oregon and Washington, they don’t even use a bulk harvester,” says Nayyar. “They have multimillion-dollar facilities built on their farms. “We’re not there yet, but eventually that’s where we want to get to.” Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielbarnes@hotmail.com. n

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I would certainly like to see more money spent on cost-effective, healthy bicycling. But to pretend that more transportation money isn’t needed is utterly irresponsible.

HOW COSTCO BROKE ITS PROMISE Earlier this year I wrote about biking to the Expo Parkway Costco and being unable to find a bike rack to lock my bike. After I wrote about that experience, it occurred to me that Sacramento has long had standards for customer, visitor and employee bike parking at new developments. I sent an inquiry to the city to see if Costco had met those requirements. City enforcement responded quickly with a check of the development conditions when Costco was built. They conducted a site visit to see whether Costco had complied. It turns out Costco failed to live up to its obligations. Back in 1999, it promised to provide spaces for 22 bikes, including 11 specially secured spots in bike lockers or an inside space that could be used for “long term” parking needed by employees. The city’s site inspection determined Costco had a bike rack for only six bikes. I was very surprised to learn Costco had a bike rack at all, since I was unable to find it. On a subsequent trip, I discovered Construction and maintenance costs the bike rack was actually being used as grew at a faster pace than inflation, while the gas tax was a fixed amount per part of the back wall for the shopping cart pen. It was unidentifiable as a gallon. Costs went up. Revenues went down. No amount of belt tightening can bike rack and functionally useless. The massive Costco shopping carts blocked reverse reality. One assertion by tax-repeal advocates the way. The good news is that Costco has is that more money should come from proposed a fix, albeit 19 years after its the feds. That’s both true and the initial commitment. By the time you height of cynicism at the same time. read this, new bike parking should be in Federal gas taxes have not increased place at Expo Parkway. since 1993. They were never indexed It does make you wonder, though, for inflation. The Highway Trust Fund, how many other new developments which is supposed to be self-sustaining, have failed to follow through on their has been running on fumes. It has promises for bike parking and other required rescue with general revenues needs. For bike riders who can’t find several times. bike parking, it may pay to ask. How can the same people who never saw a federal program they liked now Walt Seifert is executive director of argue for a federal bailout from an Sacramento Trailnet, an organization empty bucket? California rightfully devoted to promoting greenways with acted when it had to. paved trails. Seifert can be reached at People can and should argue about n bikeguy@surewest.net. how transportation dollars are spent.

Gas Taxes and Bike Racks WHY PROP. 6 MUST FAIL; CITY SHAMES COSTCO

he biggest transportation issue on the November ballot is Proposition 6, repeal of the new California fuel taxes. The transportation-funding mechanism put in place by Senate Bill 1 last year has already started pumping big dollars into the state’s beleaguered road system, focused mostly on repairing accumulated and inevitable wear and tear. Transportation infrastructure is vital for a vibrant economy and public safety. The state has many potholed streets and, more worryingly, many structurally deficient bridges. Locally, potholes on Interstate 5 damage cars. The collapse of a bridge in Genoa, Italy, where 43 people lost their lives

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in August, is a tragic reminder of what can happen if maintenance is constantly deferred and left for another day. Proponents of Proposition 6 say the fuel tax is unnecessary. Caltrans can just tighten its belt and squeeze billions of dollars for transportation out of its existing budget. Or maybe the federal government, instead of the state’s drivers, can pick up the tab and shovel lots more money into California’s infrastructure. But you can’t get blood from a turnip, water from a dry well or whatever other metaphor you want to use for lack of money. The fact remains that road-maintenance backlogs in the state and California’s cities and counties are immense. It’s magical thinking to believe the huge maintenance backlog can be eradicated, based on the same inadequate budget that allowed needs to go unmet for so long in the first place. California’s gas taxes didn’t increase for decades. At the same time, gas mileage in cars improved substantially and a sprinkling of electric cars joined the automotive fleet. Those factors meant less gas-tax revenue was available for every mile driven.

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n a Sunday afternoon, my wife, Becky, and I visit the Crimson Tattoo Co. in Auburn. We’re not looking to get a painful heart-shape tattoo, but rather to help alleviate the spiritual pain of suicide. Shop owners Jon and Brittney Hendricks invite us inside where a dozen volunteers are emulating a suicide-prevention tactic recently started by a woman in the UK. The idea seems beautifully simplistic—write and attach anti-suicide notes to any local structure known for suicides.

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Jon welcomes me at the front desk where we chat for more than a half hour as he laminates about 200 notes written on multi-colored construction paper. His local strategy calls for us to post these notes along the span of the Foresthill Bridge. I strain to read the writing of one person at an adjacent table. “Life is hard and impossible to go through alone. You are not alone. Call 800-2738255.” (This is the 24-hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.) Another writer composes “Silence is overrated. Scream at the top of your lungs when you need help. Call 800-273-8255.” Jon seems a gentle soul, a pastor’s son, so I ask what spurs his interest in the topic. He tells me he’s a combat veteran, an infantryman with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Some of my friends didn’t survive our coming home.” He points toward Brittney. “She knows those stories, so she worries about me.”

Jon checks his watch. The evening shadows hint at dusk, so he dismisses us to our cars. Ten minutes later, we find the Foresthill Bridge straddling a massive canyon, 730 feet over the north fork of the American River. I park near a special call box with a sign, “Crisis Counseling. There is hope. Make the call.” The call box is an unadorned reminder that since the 1973 bridge was constructed, 87 people have jumped from the bridge, the fourth highest in the country. Our group scatters along the halfmile span. Each of us carries a plastic bag holding a dozen notes written with a rainbow of permanent ink colors. With the blessings of county officials, we walk both sides of the bridge, zip-tying our inspirational messages along the fence line. The railings have been raised to 6 feet 6 inches in hopes of dissuading spontaneous jumpers. Sadly, I’m told, the retrofit does little to stop the single-minded who bring small ladders. Hikers stop to examine the messages. Some of them voice the hope that our notes might stop one person from “… making a permanent choice to solve a temporary problem,” as one bright piece of paper states. One young passerby asks Becky if he can hang one of our notes. “A good friend committed suicide just last

week,” he says, explaining his random request. Becky gives him a note along with an understanding nod. We start our walk back to our car with the aid of glaring headlights from passing vehicles. The darkening sky stages the obvious metaphor of overwhelming gloom descending on victims of suicide. “Do you think this will do much good?” Becky wonders aloud. “Maybe it’ll be like holes in the darkness,” I suggest. “Pardon?” “It’s an old sermon illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson,” I explain. “Stevenson spent his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 19th century. As a boy, he was intrigued by the lamplighters who used a torch to ignite the streetlights of the town. “One evening, Robert’s parents asked him what he was gawking at. With great enthusiasm he exclaimed, ‘Look at that man! He’s punching holes in the darkness!’” We look back across the bridge. The notes seem to light the span with florescent colors and vibrant messages. “May God bless our efforts,” I say, “to throw some punches through this darkness.” Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net. n

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or much of the world, fall is the time to harvest and put the garden to bed. Gardeners in Sacramento are harvesting, too, but we have to multitask. Autumn is our “second spring,” according to Angela Pratt, owner of The Plant Foundry in Oak Park. Now is the time to plant spring-blooming seeds and cool-season flowering plants, and then enjoy their flowers in the coming months. If you tend to collect packets of wildflower seeds, including California poppies, Pratt recommends stapling them to a calendar on the month of October because that is the “magic planting window.” Sow them and other

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spring-blooming annuals, such as sweet peas, bachelor’s buttons, cerinthe, larkspur, clarkia and hollyhocks, while the soil is still warm and before rains begin. Seeds planted now won’t bear flowers for months. What about plants that bloom autumn through winter? Pratt calls pansies, violas, primroses, stock, calendula, Iceland poppies and paludosum daisies the “usual suspects” for cool-season flowers. Often, we wait to plant these until spring when they flower for a few brief months and collapse when it gets hot. By planting them now, you get “more bang for the buck,” Pratt asserts. They will bloom while fall days are fairly long and nights are relatively warm, hunker down in the coldest, darkest winter months, and then explode with flowers as spring approaches. Pansies are the common term for a wide range of hybrids in the viola family. The plant labels may say “viola,” but most of us know a pansy when we see one. Like all violas, they have five petals. Pansies usually have three blotches forming a happy “face.” Their

flowers are large, up to 4 inches across, and come in an array of colors. Whether you want soft and subtle pastel shades or eye-popping primary tones of yellow, orange, red and purple, there is a pansy for you. It’s odd that “pansy” is a term used to insult people for being weak or lacking courage. They are the tough guys of the winter garden, undaunted by rain and frost. The term “viola” is usually used for pansies’ daintier cousins, but they are also tough and have brightened gardens for centuries. Thomas Jefferson planted Viola tricolor in his Monticello garden, so it is a true heirloom plant. Old-time gardeners like my mother called them “Johnny-Jump-Ups.” Viola tricolor does indeed self-seed and jump up throughout the garden, but rather than being invasive, they are a delightful if uninvited guest. They do best if you

regularly pick their flowers, along with some of their green growth, to keep them compact. What else do cool-season flowers need? Protect them from slugs and snails, fertilize them, and remove spent flowers to encourage continued bloom. If there will be a hard freeze (below 28 degrees), cover them to ensure they survive unharmed. Is it fall or spring? In Sacramento, you can have both at once, and flowers every day of the year. Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, contact the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 875-6338 or mgsacramento@ ucanr.edu. The last Open Garden of the year will be Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 9 a.m.–noon at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. n

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LESLIE TOMS CELEBRATES LIFE WITH A PAINTBRUSH

Leslie Toms in her home studio.

eslie Toms’ business card tells you a lot about her as a painter. It’s a 2.5-by-2.5-inch square— an unusual size and shape, but that makes the card stand out. The front features a high-gloss image of two sunflowers in a vase with her name printed across the bottom in bright red letters. The colors are so vibrant that you can’t help but stare. The card is the epitome of Toms’ artistic style: a little different, a lot colorful and always pleasing to the eye. When I visit her home studio in Campus Commons, where she’s lived for almost a year, Toms is preparing for her first private showing and open house.

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It’s a big deal that Toms finally has a space she can host in—she moved three times in two years following a divorce and a subsequent move out of her longtime home in East Sac looking for a new place to call her own. The property off Commons Drive not only fits her “even better than East Sac,” it’s also a mere 3.8 miles from her childhood home in Arden Park—a fact that might have shocked her younger self. “I’ve loved to travel since I took the train to San Francisco with my grandmother at 5 years old,” says Toms, seated at a glass table in front of one of her large California landscapes done in rich purples, pinks and blues—a palette that perfectly complements her beachhouse-meets-French-farmhouse interior aesthetic. “I went to college as far from home as I could (at Chapman University in Southern California) and I managed to travel around the world before the age of 21. I still love to travel, but now I find myself really slowing down and embracing Sacramento. Living somewhere so beautiful means I don’t have to travel far to get subject matter.”

Always artistic—she remembers painting on grocery bags as a kid to pass the time—Toms was living on a houseboat in Holland during a year abroad in college when a visit to a museum sparked her career trajectory. “I was sitting in front of Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’ at the Rijksmuseum and I suddenly went, ‘I’m going to go home and be an artist,’” Toms recalls. She did just that. When she changed her major at Chapman—she had previously planned on becoming a U.N. translator—she lost many of her scholarships, so she transferred to Sacramento State and ended up studying under the tutelage of Wolf Kahn, Gregory Kondos, Charles Sovek, Harrold Gregor, Joseph Raffael, Ann Toulmin Rothe, Jerald Silva, Wayne Thiebaud and others. “Wolf had the biggest influence on my style,” Toms says. “I’d never felt so free—I paint from the gut, not the head, and color is very emotional for me. He and I were on the same wavelength. I discovered that I love to paint in a way that’s fun and different. It’s how I see.”

Toms spent years working as a graphic designer and printmaker following her studies, but when she took a part-time job managing the museum store at the Crocker Art Museum in 1985, she was reminded of her love of painting. She made a point to pass by pieces by Thiebaud, Kondos, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn and Manual Neri on her daily breaks and, inspired anew, she returned to the medium and never looked back. Since then, Toms’ subjects have ranged from landscapes of California wine country to vistas of Tuscan village life (which got her “discovered” in Sacramento when the Piatti restaurant group commissioned pieces for all 17 of their eateries) to close-up studies of sunflowers, which hold particular meaning. “I was recovering from cancer surgery five years ago and people kept sending me flowers,” Toms says. “My surgeon suggested that I start painting at the table to speed my recovery and get me working again, so I started painting the flowers people had given

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