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Construction Is Underway The City of Sacramento, Department of Utilities and its construction contractors are working on water meters, water mains, and water service lines in the area.

Visit www.MetersMatter.org to learn more about the project and to find out what may be happening in and around your neighborhood.

This work may result in: • Traffic delays • Sidewalk closures • Construction-related dust and noise This work addresses the State’s mandate for water meters to be installed on all water services.

Thank you for your cooperation on this very important project.

Contact us for more information: www.MetersMatter.org Meter Information Line: 916-808-5870

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TO DO THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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“Julius Caesar & Macbeth” Theater Galatea March 29–April 7 William J. Geery Theater, 2130 L St. • theatergalatea.com Theater Galatea’s groundbreaking new production of William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth” will be performed in two acts with only four female performers. Use code “INSIDE” for $5 off your ticket.

William Ishmael Tim Collom Gallery March 6–April 5 Opening reception Saturday, March 10, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

Rhoades' artwork will be on display this month at E Street Gallery.

915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com Artist William Ishmael’s solo exhibition includes colorful works, mirrored works, translucent plastic printmaking sheets, sand-colored pieces, a 7-foot metal grid and an installation of metal tubes to explore emptiness and the lack thereof.

“Messiah” Camerata California Sunday, March 25, 4 p.m.

Books Before Bedtime Celebrating Dr. Seuss Fairytale Town Friday, March 2, 6–8 p.m.

First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. • cameratacalifornia.net Parts Two and Three of Handel’s iconic “Messiah” will be performed in the chamber tradition of the Dublin premiere by this professional chamber choir.

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org Don your pajamas to celebrate Theodore Seuss Geisel’s 114th birthday with Seuss-themed hands-on activities, bilingual story time, poetry, arts and crafts, and more.

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216 O St. • crockerart.org In this new exhibition, sculptor Cyrus Tilton explores the world’s burgeoning human population and the trend of mass consumerism using the locust as a cautionary metaphor.

216 O St. • crockerart.org Youth Art Month, a statewide program presented by the California Art Education Association, celebrates exceptional arts education programs in this exhibition of student artwork.

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Winter Shorts Fest Sacramento French Film Festival Saturday, March 3, 7 p.m.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. • sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org The Sacramento French Film Festival will present this year’s Césarnominated short films, complete with a wine and champagne bar.

Classical Concert Bring the kids to Fairytale Town for some Easter fun at the spring Eggstravaganza, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, March 31 and April 1.

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“Spring Fling” Sacramento Symphonic Winds Sunday, March 18, 2:30 p.m.

Crowne Plaza Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. • sacwinds.org This family-friendly concert features trombone soloist Tony Collins playing “Colloquy” by W. L. Goldstein, “The Hounds of Spring” by Alfred Reed, symphonic dance music from “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein, “Mock Morris” by Percy Grainger, and more.

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Crocker Art Museum Sunday, March 11, 3 p.m.

216 O St. • crockerart.org Sacramento soprano Susheel Bibbs will perform art songs built around the theme of “Songs of Love and Parting.” Bibbs will be accompanied by baritone Omari Tau and pianist John Cozza.

“Color Fields” E Street Gallery March 4–31 Second Saturday reception Saturday, March 10, 6–9 p.m.

1115 E St. • (916) 214-3496 Abstract painters Matt Rhoades and Cherie Hacker present spirited, emotional pieces that explore the dialogue between the artist and the painting.

Spring Eggstravaganza Fairytale Town Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org This fun-filled family weekend features egg hunts, prizes, handson activities and visits with Peter Cottontail. Daily egg hunts are held at noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Puppet Art Theater Company will perform “Bunny Bootcamp” in the Children’s Theater at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.

Sharing Session Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, March 21, 12:30–2 p.m.

Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Bring your genealogy problems, questions and puzzles for a sharing session to help ease research roadblocks.

Behind the Cellar Door 2018 Amador Vintners March 2–4, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

Various locations • amadorwine.com More than 40 Amador County wineries will participate in this weekend event, which will include food pairings, live music, a silent auction, educational seminars, and demonstrations and tastings galore.

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FACTS THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR MONGERING ITSELF

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e all have fears, and as we mature we learn to live with most of them.

But we now have a media that thrives on fear mongering.

It’s part of the great polarization of our society and has contributed greatly to it.

People trying to make a case for their side do their best to raise fears about what the other side is proposing. In the past year, this has risen to proportions that would be almost comical if it weren’t so harmful and sad for our country.

In our community, one of people’s biggest fears is that of encountering others who are homeless, drug- and alcohol-addicted and mentally ill. The problem affects almost every aspect of our civic life: public health and safety, economic development, even the garbage that this group of people generates.

I live in the McKinley Park neighborhood and help run a nonprofit that manages Clunie Community Center and McKinley Rose Garden. On a daily basis, we encounter problems with homeless people in McKinley Park facilities.

As avid cyclists and walkers, my husband and I were excited about the city’s recent announcement of the Two Rivers Trail. The project, now in its second phase, will extend from Sutter’s Landing Park to the H Street Bridge, alongside the River Park neighborhood. The trail project was planned and approved as part of the county’s parkway master plan in 2006 after extensive community outreach.

It joins the 23 miles of parkway trail already in existence.

The trail will provide a safe, off-street bicycle-and-walking link

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between Sac State, River Park and Midtown. The ADA-compliant trail will be built on the river side of the levee. Wherever possible, the trail is designed to avoid natural areas and the top of the levee, in order not to interfere with critical levee maintenance.

City Councilmember Jeff Harris, who lives in River Park, believes that this project will provide significant benefits for the broader community.

But a small opposition group recently formed to stop the trail from being built. The group generated a petition signed by about 200 folks who also oppose the project.

“Unfortunately, the information they used to get the signatures was based on a flyer that made fear-producing statements not based on fact,” said Harris. As a councilmember, he carefully considers opposition and works to keep an open mind, even on a project he sees as beneficial.

The group claims that the trail will increase car, cycle and foot traffic, which in turn will increase crime and lower quality of life in the neighborhood. It also compared photos of a pristine American River scene with a homeless camp along the river near Downtown, implying that the trail will attract homeless people and their camps to River Park. The group invited people to join a private Facebook page to help oppose the project. (Only opponents of the trail are allowed to see the content.)

Harris recently met with the group and included city officials to address each of its claims. He noted that the group then seemed to shift its objection; some said they simply did not want the existing dirt trail to change. “I can actually understand some folks just wanting to maintain the status quo. It is not unreasonable at all,” said Harris.

When neighbors who support the project found out about the petition to oppose it, they started their own protrail petition. It attracted hundreds of signatures in just a few days.

The project goes before the City Council in a few months for approval.

Harris said the council will weigh the costs and benefits and make a decision based upon the benefit to the entire community. He will hold a community meeting on the subject in River Park in early April.

“It is my belief that this trail will provide a scenic experience without intruding on the privacy of neighboring property owners,” said Harris. “Trails have been identified as one of the most desired community amenities by the National Association of Home Builders. Improving the trail and increasing the users to provide ‘eyes on the trail’ is one of the most effective ways to reduce crime.”

Fear mongering affects just about every neighborhood at some time or another. In the Pocket, homeowners along the Sacramento River levee fought for decades to deny public access near their homes because of their fear of the “undesirable elements” bringing crime. Our son bought a condo at The Mill at Broadway in Upper Land Park and said that a master planned city park in the development has opponents who fear it will become a homeless camp.

I’m glad the experience we have had with 23 miles of trail over three decades will help guide our civic decision makers on the wisdom of expanding the trails with this project.

I’m also happy that we didn’t have this type of fear mongering—made much worse by both traditional and social media—in those early days when our civic leaders made the decision to develop the gorgeous parkway, often described as the “jewel in the crown” of our region.

Our publications have given us the benefit of covering land-use decisions for the past 25 years. This experience has led me to see a pattern of opposition based primarily upon fear mongering.

I recall the cataclysmic neighborhood changes some people feared would result from the

expansion of Mercy General Hospital and Sacred Heart Parish School.

Early in the process, neighborhood groups raised some potential problems. The developers were responsive and made changes that helped make the project much better.

But that didn’t stop opposition from a small group that continued unabated for years. It is now hard to even imagine the beautiful East Sacramento Mercy campus as anything but a huge neighborhood asset.

More recently, that pattern of fear mongering was repeated before the city’s decision to approve the McKinley Village housing project.

The opposition group claimed the development was certain to become an urban ghetto, and that traffic on neighborhood streets (including my own) would be gridlocked.

If you haven’t seen McKinley Village, go see for yourself how beautiful the award-winning development is.

There is no doubt that homelessness has caused myriad problems for our region. But I am—for the first time—guardedly optimistic that our local governments and the private sector, working together, will be able to make a significant dent in the problem, given the funding and attention it has generated. It would be a shame to see public-policy decisions about our long-term civic future shaped by this current problem.

While social media offers benefits to some, it also contributes to fear mongering in our communities that wouldn’t have been imaginable a decade ago. We all need to stay fairminded and try to carefully sort out the facts from the fears.

For more information about the Two Rivers Trail project, go to tworiverssac.org.

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Signs of the Times LAVENDER HEIGHTS GETS NEW STREET SIGN TOPPERS

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n Jan. 25, Midtown business owners and community leaders gathered at the intersection of 20th and K streets for the unveiling of new Lavender Heights sign toppers demarcating Sacramento’s historic LGBT neighborhood.

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about maintaining a sense of community. “SacYard is designed to be welcoming to everyone, including kids and dogs,” Melody says.

SacYard was built on the site of a former automotive garage. It has SacYard Community Tap House recently opened in a unique half-dome roof and glass East Sacramento. garage doors designed by Jake Moss of DIY Network’s “Yardcore.” intersections all over the area, which “The signage alerting visitors SacYard’s outdoor beer garden is home to many LGBT-owned clubs, they’re in Lavender Heights will features farm tables, a communal fire restaurants, galleries and shops. attract more visitors, bring more pit and games such as cornhole and For more information, visit traffic to local businesses and boccie. The owners plan to feature rainbowchamber.com. capitalize on the LGBT tourism live entertainment, such as acoustic boom,” says Paul Weubbe, former performances and stand-up comedy. president of the Sacramento Rainbow Food is sold on-site from food SACYARD TAP HOUSE Chamber of Commerce, who helped trucks. There is also a small selection OPENS IN EAST SAC lead the campaign to install rainbow of sandwiches, pasta salads and crosswalks at 20th and K in 2015. charcuterie prepared by Sacramento East Sac just got a hot new “Even more importantly, it will Natural Foods Co-op and Corti gathering spot. SacYard Community be a way of connecting with and Brothers.

Tap House opened to the public on instilling pride in future generations SacYard Community Tap House is Jan. 24. as a symbol of the history and open Tuesday through Thursday from SacYard offers a rotating selection accomplishments of the leaders who of 24 craft beers on tap and wine from 3 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday have gone before us.” from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday the Western United States.

The street sign toppers—approved from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Owners Dan and Melody Thebeau by the Sacramento City Council It is at 1725 33rd St. For more share a love for craft beer and the last November—will be installed at neighborhood, and they’re passionate information, visit sacyard.beer.

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BENEFIT EVENING AT 24TH STREET THEATRE On Friday, March 2, 24th Street Theatre in Curtis Park will hold a benefit dinner and concert.

Patrick Landeza, a chef and Hawaiian slack key guitarist, will cook a Hawaiian dinner at 6 p.m., then give a concert at 8 p.m. Tickets are $60.

Proceeds will go toward replacing the theater’s seats, carpet, stage, signage and roof.

The theater was designed by Dean & Dean and constructed in 1929.

For tickets to the March 2 event, go to sierra2.org/hawaiianshow.

The theater is at 2791 24th St. For more information, go to sierra2.org.

SOUTH LAND PARK AUTHOR PUBLISHES BOOK In his new book, “The Story of El Dorado Hills,” 87-year-old author Carl Kowall details how the community of El Dorado Hills almost never came to be.

“My wife and I were one of the first four families who volunteered to set up a mobile home park so we could establish residency,” says the real estate broker, who now lives in South Land Park. “It was pretty rustic—my other car really was a horse. But it gave us the start we needed to make the idea of El Dorado Hills come to life.”

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The development was the vision of Kowall’s boss, Allan Lindsey, who decided to build a “modern community for a modern time” on 10,000 acres of rolling hills just east of Sacramento.

It was no simple process. Buying the land in the first place was tricky, as was obtaining water rights. When building began, the first development plan was rejected, and the area’s rocky terrain presented such a huge obstacle that the developers had to create a new way to dig water and sewer lines.

When the bottom fell out of the local real estate market in 1967 and the project’s financial partners pulled out, the land sat idle for almost a decade.

“The community of today is Allan’s legacy. It’s a vision that can still help guide the future,” Kowall says.

“The story of what he created there deserves its place in history.”

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Beer on Broadway OAKHAUS IS A NEW-STYLE HOFBRAU AND BEER HALL

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neighborhood more than a century old, Oak Park was a “streetcar suburb,” easily reachable by streetcars that were first drawn by horses and eventually ran on electricity. At the turn of the last century, the neighborhood was a thriving center for arts, culture, shopping and dining.

Throughout the 20th century, events conspired to bring Oak Park down. The freeway building boom of the 1950s and ’60s dealt a double blow to Oak Park, cutting it off from

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adjacent neighborhoods and allowing middle-class and prosperous residents to move out to the more remote suburbs farther from the city center.

Recent revitalization efforts, however, seem to be taking hold. A handful of businesses have staked their claim around the newly named Triangle District, and their fortunes are on the rise.

This isn’t luck or good timing, however. Many of the businesses nestled in the crook of the triangle, around 35th Street and Broadway, are serving quality food and drinks.

They’re the kind of places that would be successful no matter where they set up shop.

Two such spots are La Venadita, a Mexican restaurant, and Oakhaus, a hofbrau-style German bar and restaurant. Both are owned by Tom Schnetz, a successful Bay

Area restaurateur who grew up in Sacramento.

Schnetz was raised not far from Oak Park and now owns a house just a few blocks away from his two restaurants. He grew up in a family with both Mexican and German roots, and his Sacramento restaurants bring together the national strains that make up his background.

As a native of Sacramento, I grew up going to Sam’s Hof Brau with my grandmother, and I still love going there today. Oakhaus’ take on the hofbrau is more modern and streamlined. Think ’50s German electronics and kitschy midcentury beer posters in place of red velvet wallpaper and gilt-framed portraits of Rubenesque ladies.

A large, sunny patio stretches along Broadway and is a perfect place for soaking up the sun and downing a

liter of fine German beer. Oakhaus pours multiple German beers—lager, Pilsner, Kolsch, Dopplebock—along with a wide selection of California brews. Some of these local offerings are in the German style, while others are strikingly American. In the fridge sits a vast array of imported beers brewed throughout Germany.

Between tap and bottles, Oakhaus has one of the best German beer selections in the area.

On the menu, you’ll find a host of German favorites like schnitzel, the pounded/breaded/fried pork cutlet nearly synonymous with Central European cuisine. Oakhaus’ take on the old standard is pretty standard.

The fry is crisp and the pork tender.

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What is a German eatery without sausage? Here, the tube meat comes from V. Miller Meats in East Sacramento. Have it on a roll with an overly generous spread of mayo and mustard, and topped with a particularly aggressive sauerkraut.

Or opt for the sausage plate with condiments and a side of that great potato salad.

Small bites might be the best thing on the menu (as well as the best thing for riding shotgun to your lager). The house-made pretzel is simply the best pretzel I’ve had in recent memory.

It’s especially delightful with a side of cheese sauce and mustard. And the “kraut balls”—small morsels of sauerkraut and carrots, breaded and fried—are a winsome treat. They’re a perfect accompaniment to a dark schwarzbier or earthy maibock.

Oakhaus typically has at least one kind of cupcake at the ready for those

with a sweet tooth, but since it's only a few minutes from Gunther’s Ice Cream, there’s no need to put on a big show for dessert.

Unpretentious and casual, Oakhaus provides a relaxing space in which to meet, mingle and kibitz with friends over a fine German beer and a small bite or two. Although it’s much less traditional than the hofbrau you might expect, the same feeling of conviviality makes Oakhaus a worthy overseas cousin to the beer halls and drinking tents of Germany.

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Music Woman THIS SINGER AND CELLIST TEACHES STUDENTS THE MECHANICS OF MUSIC

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oAnn Ross could not see herself as retired. The singer, cellist and music teacher has performed in choirs, orchestras, chamber music groups, jazz bands, opera and musical theater for more than 50 years, so when it came time to retire from her career as a podiatrist, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her newfound time.

“Teaching was always something I thought I would do,” says Ross, who teaches cello and singing lessons out of a studio in her Carmichael home.

“My parents were college professors.

My daughter’s a teacher. My sister’s a teacher. But I knew I didn’t want to stand up and control a large room. I

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prefer one-onone.”

Ross teaches singing to a wide range of students, from 9 to 85-plus years old, in a variety of styles that includes classical, musical theater, jazz and pop.

Her own musical background is equally varied. She started playing cello out of necessity when she was in fourth grade: She wanted to play the flute but wasn’t allowed to until fifth grade, so her parents suggested she try the half-sized cello. Ross fell in love with the instrument and became versed not only in cello but also string bass and sousaphone. That allowed her to play in her school’s traditional band as well as a dance band that played at

proms and other social events in her hometown of Whittier.

“In high school, I played with seven different organizations,” Ross recalls.

“I would take academic classes during the summer so I could do more music during the school year.”

In college, Ross decided to major in her other musical love, singing.

But after graduating, she realized that making a living in music would be challenging. So she became a podiatrist instead.

“Podiatry allowed me to have a practice during the day instead of being called out at night,” says Ross, who raised her children while studying at California College of Podiatric Medicine. She practiced for 15 years in the Los Angeles area until music came calling once again— only this time, Ross was even better equipped.

“As a podiatrist, you study biomechanics—how your muscles and nerves make things happen in your

body,” Ross says. “I use that anatomy and physiology background in singing.

Your instrument is a wind source, and you contort the spaces in your vocal folds to change the amplification of your voice.”

Ross’ medical knowledge and the state-of-the-art technology she employs in her studio help her students get the most out of their voices.

“I have software that maps the acoustics and frequencies of the voice so students can see what they’re doing,” Ross says. “Then we can manipulate the sound with the tongue and the larynx and change the color of what comes out.”

This high-tech approach has made Ross a sought-after instructor for all kinds of students: those just starting to sing, people who perform in local musical theater and choirs, people preparing for college or already studying music who want to improve their skills.

Despite Ross’ demanding six-daya-week teaching schedule, she takes cello lessons herself from one of Northern California’s premier cello

teachers and performs in groups like Beethoven & Friends Chamber Music Ensemble, which returned Ross to her very first instrument.

“I didn’t play cello for 30 years, then took it up again 10 years ago,” she says. “I loved playing in local orchestras, but the evening rehearsal schedule made it hard to do lessons.

So now I love getting to perform every so often with a dedicated group. Each experience feeds the other—it’s an overlap of ideas.”

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Cleanup Crew

HE FIGHTS TO KEEP THE AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY SAFE FOR ALL

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ierra Oaks resident and capacity building consultant David Lukenbill loves the American River Parkway. In 2003, he founded the nonprofit American River Parkway Preservation Society to make sure it stays as safe as possible.

Here, he discusses the future of the region’s favorite outdoor playground.

How did you get inspired to found ARPPS? I’ve been involved with nonprofit work most of my adult life, and I’ve always spent a lot of time in the parkway and on the river. I was president of the board of the American River Natural History Association about 20 years ago and was contacted by developer Bob Slobe, who wanted our help dealing with illegal camping in the North Sacramento Cal Expo area

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of the parkway. I was unaware how deeply illegal camping was degrading the parkway in that area and how seriously it was impacting the adjacent neighborhoods and businesses. After meeting with Bob and doing some research on my own, I asked the ARNHA board if they were willing to become advocates for the parkway. They decided it was outside their turf, so I left the ARNHA board and formed ARPPS. (Lukenbill serves as the founding president, CFO and senior policy director for the organization.)

Why do you think stewardship of the parkway is so important?

It is one of the most valuable and enjoyable river parkways in the country. It’s a relatively natural area in a suburban setting, providing a real getaway from the workaday world for walkers, runners, bike riders, dog walkers, photographers, artists and just plain sightseers. Right now, most of the parkway from Cal Expo up is pretty user friendly and safe, with occasional exceptions. But the area of focus needs to be on what we refer to as the parkway skid row, from Discovery Park to Cal Expo. With

our efforts, we hope to see the laws regarding illegal camping strictly enforced and to see the parkway expand—both of which, in our opinion, can only be satisfied through daily management by a nonprofit organization, like it’s done with Central Park in New York City.

How has illegal camping degraded the parkway?

In just the past three months of Parkway Ranger reporting, 508 unlawful camping sites have been discovered. All of those hundreds of people—plus many more whose campsites have not yet been found— use the parkway as a bathroom, kitchen (cutting wood for campfires, many of which wind up burning parts of the parkway), bike chop shop and general trash dump.

How do you plan to relocate the people who are camping there?

Our concern is with the devastation that illegal camping has been causing to the parkway, rather than determining the fate of the homeless when and if they are ever fully removed from the parkway. However,

we suffer when thinking about the misery and destitution that is part of the fabric of living without a home.

We’re a big proponent of the Housing First approach: that until homeless people are actually housed, they will not have the internal resources to devote toward rebuilding their life.

ARPPS is advocating the creation of a homeless transformation campus based on the model of Haven for Hope in San Antonio, Texas, which is the largest and most comprehensive homeless transformation campus in the United States. It provides residence to approximately 1,600 individuals on any given night across 15 buildings on 37 acres with almost 500,000 square feet of service space under roof. And, of course, if all of the improvements Mayor Darrell Steinberg is proposing actually come to pass, that will be of great benefit.

Hope springs eternal. We believe that local leaders are operating with good intentions and will eventually get the job done.

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Mixed Blessings BOLD DEVELOPERS ARE THE KEY TO SOLVING HOUSING CRISIS

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n “The End of the Affair,” author Graham Greene writes that stories don’t really have beginnings or ends, only “the moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Similarly, it’s impossible to bookend Sacramento’s current housing crisis.

Do we begin before or after the 2007 recession? Or in 2011, when Gov. Jerry Brown drastically cut funding to redevelopment agencies?

Or in 2015, when former mayor Kevin Johnson launched his “10,000 housing units” initiative? Each provides context for the story, but characters really tell the tale. Enter Ali Youssefi of CFY Development, the developer behind a mixed-use, mixed-income project that will be built at 1717 S St.

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Youssefi describes CFY Development, which his father founded in the 1980s, as an “an old-school, vertically integrated company.” CFY serves as developer, contractor and property manager for mixed-income housing, which includes both low-income and market-rate units.

In housing discussions, “low income” refers to 80 percent or less of the region’s Area Median Income (AMI), determined annually by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sacramento’s AMI in 2017 was $52,000, so low income is considered $41,600 or less. In Sacramento, a one-bedroom unit renting at 100 percent AMI would cost $1,392 a month, while that same unit would cost $1,114 a month or less for low-income tenants. Rent for market-rate units typically begins at 120 percent AMI. CFY projects like 700 K Block and 800 Block challenge the stereotype of what low-income housing can achieve architecturally and aesthetically.

Projects such as these are integral to the redevelopment of Sacramento’s city center.

“Large projects like you see in Detroit and New York,” says Youssefi, “you don’t see anymore. Affordable housing is better integrated into communities, and our goal is to design projects that look like normal marketrate apartments.”

As Youssefi puts it, mixed-income housing is “diversifying at the micro level.” By creating housing for the barista and the CEO, Youssefi believes mixed-income development encourages increased tolerance for socioeconomic diversity while providing better amenities and higher-quality housing for low-income tenants.

Typically, mixed-income developments like 800 Block, 700 K Block and 1717 S St. include more market-rate than low-income units. Another of CFY’s projects, Warehouse Artist Lofts on R Street, is an exception: 75 percent of its units are considered low income. Though unusual, the high ratio of low-income units allowed CFY Development to take advantage of the federal Low-

Income Housing Tax Credit program, which funded nearly $20 million of WAL’s $41.2 million budget. Youssefi expects to receive approximately $4.5 million in tax credits for the $63 million project at 1717 S St., because only 20 percent of its 159 units will be for low-income tenants.

Once tax credits are approved, developers like Youssefi sell them to third parties, such as banks or companies like Google, which then become partial owners of the project.

“From Google’s perspective, you’re either giving $20 million to the government or $20 million to mixedincome housing with added benefits,” explains Youssefi. “But for us, one of the major consequences of the recent tax reform is that, by dropping the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent, all of a sudden Google doesn’t need those tax credits. We just took a major blow, because now those tax credits aren’t as valuable.”

Which raises another problem developers face when financing mixed-income projects: For projects that include low-income units, they can apply for federal tax credits or low-interest loans through the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. But they have less incentive to build units in the 80 to 120 percent of AMI range, which aren’t considered low income.

That hasn’t stopped Youssefi from including 32 units of the 1717 S St. project that will rent to tenants earning 120 percent AMI or less (in addition to the 32 units rented at 50 percent AMI or less). But the remaining 95 units will rent at unrestricted rates to justify the cost of construction.

In recent years, Sacramento consistently has ranked high among major U.S. cities for the highest increase in rental rates. According to research firm Yardi Matrix, Sacramento’s occupancy rate hit 96 percent in 2017. With such high demand, Sacramento developers should be lining up for new projects.

This would be good news for tenants if more units translated to more affordable rates. But Youssefi says a general shortage of skilled laborers is both slowing down development

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“You can’t justify new development otherwise,” he says.

“Right now, there is a shortage of construction laborers, and I’m running into an issue where I go out to the market to get proposals for a project, and they have all the leverage,” says Youssefi, noting that Sacramento developers have to compete with Bay Area developers for contractors and construction workers. “[Bay Area rates] set a price for construction that’s almost unfeasible for us to work with here in Sacramento, and market-rate housing developers had been waiting for rent to get to a point that it justifies construction. They have no other choice, and the pieces fall into place only when you can afford to pay the framer who’s doing jobs in Oakland to stay and do jobs in Sacramento.”

Which introduces a housing Catch-22. Supply and demand should dictate that more units will lead to lower rents, but to justify more housing, rents have to increase first.

One solution, Youssefi suggests, would be for local and state agencies to offer better financial incentives for development.

“The more favorable the terms of financing, the less pressure on developers to underwrite projects at higher rent levels,” he says.

Or, like CFY Development, developers could explore financial opportunities and incentives to construct successful mixed-income housing projects like WAL. “If developers were to set aside a portion of their units for low-

income tenants, as we are doing at 1717 S, then they could qualify for additional funding like tax credits or low-interest loans,” says Youssefi.

“But right now, those funding sources are predominantly available for just the lowest income targets. One way to increase production would be to expand the types of units that would qualify for below-market-rate financing.”

That, practically speaking, would benefit the average Sacramentan—the teacher, laborer, artist—who exists just above the “low-income” threshold but cannot afford rent at 120 percent AMI. From a civic standpoint, the push for new housing to attract new residents is a push for more tax revenue. But if new housing comes at the cost of increased rent, which threatens to push out current residents, does it exist for the Sacramentans of today, or the Sacramentans of tomorrow?

More than ever, the city of Sacramento needs to explore how to incentivize developers to think beyond the market-rate tenant.

Because an even rarer commodity right now than skilled labor is developers like Youssefi who have the experience and conviction to build housing for the entire spectrum of tenants in Sacramento. They are the characters who will play an important role in how the story of housing in Sacramento develops.

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James Williams and Tim Stagle

The Backyard Restaurant LOCAL CHEF BRINGS ‘POP-UP’ DINING TO PEOPLE’S HOMES

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local chef wants to bring fine dining to Sacramento backyards.

James Williams, who works at South restaurant in Southside Park, recently started a company called Nomad Roaming Kitchen, which

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offers pop-up dining experiences at people’s homes.

The dinners are multicourse affairs served family-style at communal tables outdoors. Nomad brings everything: tables and chairs, lighting, cooking equipment, food and wine.

The host supplies a backyard with space for at least 14 diners, who pay $55 to $85 per person. The diners can be friends of the host or strangers; would-be diners can sign up on Nomad’s website for upcoming dinners. Hosts dine free as a way to thank them for the use of their yard.

The menus are seasonally driven.

A typical menu might include smoked

duck breast on toast; farro salad with Tuscan kale and goat cheese; roast leg of lamb; pan-roasted trout with prosciutto and pickled cauliflower; truffle risotto cakes; grilled mixed vegetables; and lavender poached pears with blackberry port sauce and toasted macadamia nuts.

According to Williams, Nomad is not a traditional catering service.

“The primary difference is that we do not take orders from clients or even modify the menus,” he says.

“We emphasize and feature what is best in peak seasonality. Plus, by highlighting paired wine offerings served by stewards and sommeliers,

we emulate the essence of five-star dining while maintaining backyard coziness.”

Feedback from diners, says Williams, “has been off-the-chart positive. I think it’s because people don’t know what to expect. Once the transformation is complete on their own property, they witness how magical it can become with the string lights and torch lamps, our reclaimedwood tables, and the unique attention, focus and presentation given to both the food and the wine.”

Since he began offering the service last fall, Williams has done backyard dinners in Land Park, South Land

Park and Downtown Sacramento.

“Our customers are people looking for a different experience: fine dining without the pretentiousness,” he explains.

“We have been pleasantly surprised by how many people who didn’t know each other at the beginning of the evening slowly begin to interact and laugh comfortably with each other as the meal progresses. By dessert, they are like long-lost friends. And an added bonus is that we, the staff, get to sit down and mingle with the clients in a way not experienced in traditional restaurant settings.”

Recent backyard diner Kim Moore gives testament to the concept’s success. “One of the highlights of the dinner I attended,” she says, “was the opportunity to sit across the table from the chef and discuss preparation and techniques used on a dish, something that just doesn’t happen in restaurants. It felt like I was a guest in his house, talking to him one-onone in a relaxed, very comfortable setting.”

A laid-back, giant bear of a man, Williams started Nomad Roaming Kitchen after two bouts with Hodgkin lymphoma. Originally from Michigan, where he had owned a restaurant, he was looking for ways to continue in the high-pressure restaurant business without succumbing to its trademark levels of stress.

“Moving to and living in Sacramento’s leafy, outdoor-oriented Midtown got me thinking about social skills and ambience leading to a more healthy lifestyle,” he says.

“I urgently needed to get away from high-pressure crowd feeding and

concentrate on low-key, intimate dining.”

Williams partnered with Tim Stagle, a Sacramento auto mechanic and wood craftsman who makes the reclaimed-wood tables that are used at the dinners.

“Working and dining in a beautiful natural setting like one’s own backyard, with small groups of intimate friends and family members, is such a fun, relaxed way to focus on each other while dining and drinking all the best that culinary California has to offer,” says Williams. “The whole experience is so therapeutic for client and chef alike.”

Williams credits his wife Kate for supporting him. “She is the person I trust more than anyone,” he says.

“She has been there taking care of me through my worst times. She helps me fulfill my lifelong goal: to live by the saying ‘Do what you love and you never have to work another day in your life.’”

The couple loves to host dinner parties at home. Their three children often help out.

“Kate makes our guests feel welcome and well cared for,” says Williams. “She is the very model of what I hope to accomplish at Nomad, and she plays a big part in making my dreams a reality.”

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Hometown Heroes MOMS OF EASTWOOD FILM STARS SAY ‘THEY’RE STILL OUR BOYS’

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n August 2015, the lives of three young Sacramento men changed forever. Traveling from Amsterdam to Paris by train, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler foiled a terrorist attack and saved countless lives. International fame, a book and now a movie followed.

Life with never be the same for their moms, either. Carmichael residents Joyce Eskel (Stone’s mother) and Heidi Hansen (Skarlatos’ mom) have a hard time believing their

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sons are the stars of “The 15:17 to Paris.”

Directed by film legend Clint Eastwood, the movie opened nationally on Feb. 9. Weeks before, Stone, Skarlatos, Sadler and their families enjoyed a private screening in Sacramento. “The boys had seen the movie once before,” says Eskel. “They were extra nervous when we were all there. We were anxious too. We were seeing our lives exposed for all the world to see.”

“The boys are still in awe that they’ve made a movie with Clint Eastwood,” says Hansen. “He’s their hero.”

Eastwood befriended the men after he presented them with a Guys Choice award in 2015. The irrepressible 22-year-olds suggested he should make a movie from the

book they wrote. Eastwood read “The 15:17 to Paris” and struck a deal. His casting people considered many actors to portray the heroes, but Eastwood liked Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler as is. “He loved the connection between them and felt it might translate well to screen,” explains Hansen.

The men asked if they should get acting lessons. “Clint said no,” says Eskel. “He wanted them to be themselves. He took a risk, but he was right. The boys did a great job. The way they interact on screen is exactly how they are together. They hardly had to act at all.”

The 90-minute drama leaps from their childhood to August 2015.

At the time, Sadler was at college in Sacramento; Skarlatos was in the Oregon Army National Guard; Stone was serving in the U.S. Air

Force at Travis. Stone and Skarlatos had been inseparable since grade school. They’d played war games in Schweitzer Grove and been on the Del Campo High football team. “The script explains how they grew to trust each other, how they always had each other’s back,” says Eskel. “Though Anthony Sadler and his family lived farther away, the three boys had been friends most of their lives.”

The Carmichael scenes were filmed in an Atlanta neighborhood. The two Carmichael moms and Sadler’s dad, Pastor Anthony Sadler, were portrayed by actors. “They never met us or got a chance to get to know us,” says Eskel. “Heidi and I are always laughing. The two screen moms are so serious. But we accept the movie’s a drama. Actors have to play the script they’re given.”

Carmichael neighbors for 20 years, Heidi Hansen (left) and Joyce Eskel are the mothers of Paris train heroes Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone.

The re-enacted train attack was painful for all the parents. “It brought back how Aug. 21 could have been the worst day of my life,” explains Hansen.

Watching the same scene, Pastor Sadler reached for his son’s arm. “I was aware of the violence from what the guys had shared with me,” he says. “It was challenging to watch.

I really felt how close we came to losing Anthony. Our pride in him is secondary to our gratitude to God for saving his life.”

“The moment when the attacker lifted his gun to Spencer’s face and pulled the trigger was overwhelming,” says Eskel. “Even though I knew the terrorist’s gun malfunctioned on the train, it was awful watching all his other weapons come out and seeing him slash my son. It was a miracle everyone survived. Spencer called and told me they planned on taking that train to Paris. I was uneasy; I knew with virtually open borders, Europe wasn’t the safe place it used to be.

There had been so many terrorist incidents. I tried to tell him France wasn’t so great. Who needs the Eiffel Tower? But he wasn’t listening. I put

down the phone and asked God to watch over those boys. That was the day before the attack.”

The morning after the Sacramento film preview, the young men attended Pastor Sadler’s Shiloh Baptist Church in Sacramento. All three were raised in Christian homes and believe providence shaped their lives.

Before Skarlatos served his 10-month National Guard tour in Afghanistan, his mom asked for divine protection.

“I prayed and felt God telling me Alek would be all right in Afghanistan,” says Hansen. “But He also told me that something very exciting was in store for him. I told Alek this.

“After the train attack, Joyce and I flew to Paris and met the boys at the American Embassy. I remember running up the embassy stairs, holding my son and saying, ‘This is what God was talking about.’ Alek just smiled.”

Both now 25, Skarlatos and Stone have been honorably discharged from military service. Skarlatos placed third in TV’s “Dancing With the Stars” and has returned to Oregon.

Stone bounced back after a stabbing incident outside a Sacramento

THE MEN ASKED IF THEY SHOULD GET ACTING LESSONS. “CLINT SAID NO,” SAYS ESKEL. “HE WANTED THEM TO BE THEMSELVES.”

Anthony Sadler with his father, Pastor Anthony Sadler. restaurant; he now lives in Southern California. Sadler, also 25, graduated from Sacramento State University with a degree in sports medicine. All three are interested in careers in the movie industry. For now, they are traveling to promote the Eastwood movie.

“They’re living exciting lives, and it’s thrilling we get to share it,” says Eskel. “But our sons are still the boys

they always were. When they visit, they sleep in their own beds. I still tell Spencer to pick up his room.”

“Alek leaves candy wrappers around,” reports Hansen. “America may see them as heroes and movie stars, but to us, they’re just our boys.”

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Back in Sac THIS COUPLE MOVES HOME TO NEIGHBORHOOD THEY LOVE

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usic plays an important role in Tom and Kellie Hallenbeck’s remodeled East Sacramento home. Classic rock flows through a multi-room stereo system. Musical instruments are prominently displayed in the living room. A downstairs office hides away a hightech sound system, set up for all types of musical mediums, including vinyl.

“It was important for Tom to have speakers in all the rooms,” says contractor Joedy Zapara, of Sacramento-based JAZ Developments, whose workers benefited from the Hallenbecks’ taste in tunes.

“Homeowners can make an amiable environment for the contracting crew by including classic rock on demand,” Zapara adds with a smile.

The Hallenbecks purchased the five-bedroom, two-bath home in 1995 when their third child was on the way and they needed to upsize.

“I’ve always liked the older homes, the established areas,” comments Tom, an engineer who retired from Caltrans. “I wanted to ride my bicycle to work and the farmers market.”

But just as the couple was beginning to think about remodeling the 1924 home, Tom’s job offered him an opportunity in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County. “I accepted the job with the idea that we would come back in about two years,” Tom notes. So the family rented out their East Sacramento home and bought a second house in Bishop. “But we fell in love with the town. … So we stayed there for 17 years.”

The family, however, never stopped thinking about their home in East Sacramento, and they finally moved back in 2015. “We wanted to come back,” says Kellie, who grew up in Sacramento and worked for Tower Records in its “heyday.” “It felt like home,” adds Tom. “The trees, the diversity of housing, the neighborhood, the people.”

At first, the changes to the 2,800-square-foot home seemed simple: expand and remodel the galley-style kitchen and add a bathroom off the master suite. But as they considered the requirements of an older home, the remodel “just grew,” sighs Kellie.

“Since we were remodeling the kitchen and adding a bathroom, as an engineer, I knew that was a good time to do the plumbing,” Tom points out.

“But I was not too keen on rewiring the house. Everything works fine; just don’t touch it,” he adds with a laugh about the original knob-and-tube wiring. “But I wanted to respect this house. This was the opportunity to give it a new lease on life.”

Tom admits that the rewiring was more than they bargained for.

Channels had to be ripped in the lath-and-plaster walls throughout the house. “At some point, the whole thing just exploded,” says Zapara.

“Every wall surface, every piece of trim, every ceiling got touched.”

The couple also lived in the home throughout the 15-month remodel.

“It became ridiculous after a while,” laments Tom. “As they tore up a room and went to the next one, we would have to vacate it.” The couple “made the most of a fairly traumatic environment,” adds Zapara.

In the end, all the trials and tribulations were worth it. The kitchen now features quartzite countertops, porcelain tile floors, custom cabinets, under-counter and recessed lighting, and new windows and appliances. A wall was pushed out 10 feet to create an additional

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200 square feet. A brass foot rail was added under the sink cabinet for Tom to rest his foot on while washing dishes.

The couple also credits interior designer Roxanne Stellmacher, who helped with many of the decorative decisions. “I told her I wanted my bathroom to be like the Fairmont in San Francisco,” says Kellie. Now, the homeowner enjoys a freestanding bathtub (complete with a crystal chandelier), a steam shower, heated floors and towel rack, a closet with a built-in vanity, and a bidet.

The living room maintains its 1920s character with the original ceiling light fixture, red oak floors, glass doors leading to the dining area and a wood-burning fireplace.

The couple added a guest bathroom upstairs and a wraparound deck off the kitchen with built-in seats, a hot tub and storage. In addition to electrical, the utility and

infrastructure upgrades included new high-efficiency heating and air conditioning, a water heater, sewer and water lines, underground cable and a whole-house fan.

What would the Hallenbecks do differently? “Maybe not live through it,” says Tom. “The first year, Tom went to work, and I would take off with the dog,” says Kellie. “We scheduled a number of things around the dog’s mental health,” Zapara adds.

But the Hallenbecks could not be happier being back in East Sacramento. “Even though it’s a big city, we knew this neighborhood would make us feel like we were part of a smaller town,” says Tom. “Like Sacramento is at its heart.”

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COACHING PARENTS ON HOW TO NOT BE ‘THAT DAD’

Zach Streight

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here is something about sports that can turn parents into fools. Consider the ride home after a kid’s soccer or softball or Little League game. Win or lose, the best thing a parent can do is say something like, “Hey, how about a little detour for some ice cream?”

But no, this is when parents become fools. They squeeze the steering wheel and look into the rearview mirror and say, “I can’t believe you missed that open goal (or dropped that pop fly or struck out).”

Fortunately, there is help for those of us—raise your hand if you have grilled your child after a game—who, despite our best intentions, simply can’t help ourselves

from blundering into the realm of post-match commentary after the final whistle. It’s natural. And it’s devastating.

“The No. 1 mistake we make as parents is the postgame analysis in the car ride home,” says Zach Streight, executive director of the Sacramento chapter of Positive Coaching Alliance, a national nonprofit dedicated to turning kids into better athletes and better people. “All the kid hears is, ‘When we get home, you’ve got to work on your hitting.’ Those encounters in the car are the leading reason why kids drop out of youth sports.”

Positive Coaching Alliance is not a therapy session for wounded parents. It’s based on academic research (many of the strategies were designed at Stanford), with strong influences from the disciplines of psychology and philosophy.

The idea is not to turn young athletes into wimps or indifferent losers, but rather to encourage athletic participation by making the games fun and challenging.

“We embrace competition,” Streight says. “Our programs encourage them to be more competitive and better athletes, but also better people. The goal is to keep kids healthy and active and to teach integrity, sportsmanship and character—all life lessons.”

Working with local youth sports organizations and schools to reach coaches, parents and young athletes,

Positive Coaching Alliance provides video tutorials and speakers series to help organizers and participants understand the difference between “fixed mind-sets” and “growth mindsets.”

Basically, people with fixed mind-sets are afraid of failure.

The possibility of failure becomes paralyzing, thus guaranteeing the outcome that was feared in the first place. Conversely, the growth mindset hardly recognizes failure, even when clobbered by it.

The growth mind-set tries to figure out new strategies to overcome setbacks, believing that if one approach didn’t work, another might.

“The growth mind-set knows it takes hard work to succeed,” Streight says. “But they never really consider failure. They just say, ‘OK, what can I try next?’”

The Sacramento chapter of Positive Coaching Alliance has taken some of its own medicine. The local group opened shop about 10 years ago after getting its start in the Bay Area.

It had some success but eventually foundered beneath a model based

on one-time coaching seminars and lectures. Today, the group seeks to build years-long relationships with middle and high schools and youth sports organizations, delivering follow-ups and reaffirmations of lessons learned.

Streight himself is a story of how the fixed mind-set can transform into growth. He studied business at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and earned an MBA at UCLA. He moved into software development and management with no thought of working for a nonprofit.

But as he reached his 40s, he felt burned out and, with his family’s support, decided to try something completely new. During the arduous interview process for a management position with Positive Coaching Alliance, he realized he had discovered his calling.

“We deal with some pretty deep stuff,” he says. “People don’t set out to mess up their kids, but we all have blind spots.”

Streight had his own blind spots, residue from his days as a high school athlete. He was able to apply

Positive Coaching Alliance lessons to his relationship with his own son, who struggled with fear of failure.

Together, they found pathways to success.

“I’ve always been supercompetitive.

I want to win,” he says. “And it’s OK if your definition of success is wanting an athletic scholarship for your kid.

But you have to figure out how to use that in a positive way.”

Few of the young athletes who benefit from Positive Coaching Alliance actually win athletic

scholarships, and even fewer earn their living from sports. Not surprisingly, former college and pro athletes are among Streight’s favorite encounters. They know exactly what he’s talking about.

“College athletes and beyond are the easiest people in the world to work with,” he says. “After a game, they ask their kid, ‘What kind of ice cream do you want?’”

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Tax Tsunami MULTIPLE TAX-HIKE PROPOSALS ARE LOOMING

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ere’s the good news: 80 percent of all Americans will get a tax cut under the recently enacted federal income tax-reform bill, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. But before you start spending your tax cut, you should prepare yourself for local governments in Sacramento to take it all away (and perhaps more) through a number of tax-hike proposals over the next two years.

Here’s the story: When city voters in 2012 approved a half-percent “temporary” salestax hike, known as Measure U, city officials said it would raise $28 million each year. They money, they promised, would be spent to restore positions lost to layoffs during the Great Recession, and it would not be used to fund salary

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hikes or employee pension costs.

Measure U was sold as a six-year gap filler, needed only until the city’s other revenues recovered from the recession. In fact, due to an estimation error by city officials, Measure U actually brought in $41.5 million in 2015. This year, it’s expected to bring in $45 million.

Measure U expires on March 30, 2019. Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the Sacramento City Council and The Sacramento Bee editorial board all seem determined to see it renewed— if not doubled and made permanent— by voters this November. So much for promises that Measure U would be a temporary tax. The political establishment is so committed to keeping Measure U in place that they’ve used their considerable clout to persuade other local taxing agencies to keep pending tax-hike proposals off the ballot until 2020 lest they overwhelm city voters with a tsunami of tax-hike measures.

The handwriting has been on the wall for some time. City politicians consistently rejected staff advice over the past few years to set aside a portion of Measure U revenues to help

the city wean itself from reliance on Measure U revenues in its final years.

Councilmembers were even overheard discussing plans to renew Measure U just days after the measure passed in 2012. It’s been Sacramento’s most open political secret. Everyone seemed to know about it except the average voter.

WHAT WILL MAYOR STEINBERG DO? What we don’t know at this point is whether Steinberg will follow through with his recent talk of possibly seeking a doubling of the Measure U tax hike, raising it from a half-percent to a full one percent sales-tax hike, as well as not just extending the tax but making it permanent. What we do know is that Steinberg has been promising to move forward on the funding of a number of new and expensive projects, including a $120 million expansion/renovation of the Sacramento Convention Center, a $90 million rehab of the Community Center Theater, a $25 million rehab of Memorial Auditorium, a $30

million construction subsidy for Powerhouse Science Center, a $25 million investment in riverfront development, ill-defined subsidies for a new convention center hotel and $21 million to build 1,000 tiny homes for the homeless. Whew!

To fund all these projects, he’ll need gobs of borrowed money. His challenge is that the city’s bonding capacity (its ability to borrow more money) is pretty much tapped. He wants more city tax revenue to support more borrowing. The problem is that city debt levels have exploded in recent years, rising from $1 billion in 2010 to nearly $3 billion today, due to rising bond debt (remember the arena bonds? utilities bonds?) and escalating unfunded retirement liabilities. State Sen. John Moorlach— the Legislature’s only CPA and a former Orange County treasurer— recently issued an analysis of the financial condition of California’s 482 cities, ranking them from best to worst. Sacramento came in at a dismal 427 in the fiscal rankings.

City tax revenues from non-U sources have fully recovered from recession-era levels. Measure U has

performed its intended function as a budgetary gap filler: making up for the city’s revenue losses until economic recovery restored the city’s non-U revenues. So why should it be extended, let alone doubled? Frankly, it’s because our city leaders have little to no control over their spending appetites.

There was a time when oldfashioned liberal politicians cared about the impact of tax hikes on average working families, the poor, seniors and those on fixed incomes.

That’s why they were instinctively opposed to increases of regressive taxes, such as the sales tax. Such tax hikes have little impact on the lifestyles of the wealthy while doing real harm to those who lack the discretionary income to bear the burden of higher taxes. But today’s progressive politicians don’t think like old-fashioned liberals. They push for regressive tax hikes that harm the poor and working families while scrambling to find ways to ease the impact of federal income tax increases on a much smaller number of California’s affluent taxpayers.

So much for caring about the “little guy.”

POLITICALLY HANDICAPPING MEASURE U Until 2016, Sacramento’s political class thought voters had an inexhaustible appetite for tax hikes. But in November 2016, voters narrowly rejected the two tax-hike measures on the ballot: Measure B, which sought to double the one-half-percent countywide

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transportation sales tax, and the city schools’ Measure G, a $75 parcel-tax hike. Both those measures required a two-thirds majority for passage.

A renewal or increase of Measure U will be structured, as Measure U itself was, as a general tax increase, requiring only a simple majority vote for passage. Measure U passed very comfortably in 2012 with 63 percent of the vote. But will it pass again, now that the recession is over? Will Sacramento voters swallow a doubling of the Measure U tax hike if the City Council asks for it? It’s not clear.

At this point, it appears likely that the statewide initiative sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to repeal last year’s hike in the state gas tax will qualify for the November 2018 ballot. The gas-tax repeal measure is proving quite popular among California voters, according to recent polling.

While we have no data on how Sacramento voters feel about the gastax repeal, past elections show that Sacramentans vote pretty much like the rest of California voters do. Will local voter enthusiasm for repealing the gas-tax hike impact how city residents vote on extending or even doubling Measure U? Very possibly.

It’s also possible that the presence of the gas-tax hike repeal measure on the ballot will drive up turnout among anti-gas-tax hike voters, which could diminish support for an extension or doubling of the Measure U tax hike.

All of the taxing jurisdictions that are holding off placing tax-hike proposals on this year’s ballot will be back in force in 2020 with a number of tax-hike proposals. Yes, Steinberg is already lining up support for a “housing tax” measure in 2020, along with a housing bond measure of an uncertain amount to finance the construction of affordable and/ or homeless housing. (A proposed $4 billion housing bond will be on the statewide ballot this year.) The housing tax measure will likely take the form of a parcel tax, but it could be framed as a sales tax, depending on which polls better with voters.

In 2012, LA voters approved a $2 billion housing bond, as well as a onehalf-percent sales-tax hike to fund

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TRANSPORTATION SALES-TAX HIKE The Sacramento Transportation Authority will try in 2020 to avenge the 2016 loss of Measure B, its proposal to double the existing Measure U one-half-percent countywide transportation sales tax. However, a “Son of Measure B” proposal will have to overcome the fallout from the transportation authority’s serious management problems, including its 40 percent overestimation of revenues from Measure A, which led it to overspend and overborrow against future Measure A revenues over the past decade, as I reported last month. One update to my most recent column: The amount by which the transportation authority overestimated its Measure A revenues was not $1 billion, as I’d reported.

According to a more recent staff

report, the authority’s overestimate was $1.94 billion.

The transportation authority will also face the claim that it’s being greedy: It’s already collecting 60 percent of what it sought with Measure B from money it’s receiving from the recently enacted statewide gas-tax hike.

CITY SCHOOLS TAX HIKE In November, following the negotiation of a new labor contract between Sacramento City Unified School District and Sacramento City Teachers Association, Steinberg, who played a major role in bringing the feuding parties together, pledged to back a 2020 city schools tax measure that would fund arts, music and sports programs.

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Divergent dreams and conflicts abound within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena. Lena will soon receive insurance money because of her husband’s death. She has dreams about how she will use the money, including buying a home in a better area. But her son has other plans. The tensions and prejudice the family faces form a classic American drama. The Younger family’s heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.

A middle school boy in detention learns deeper values in life when forced to read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

A delightful tale of awakening set to Hip Hop and Indian Classical music.

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Sacramento Theatre Company Thru Mar 18 1419 H St, Sac 916-443-6672 SacTheatre.org After receiving a prophecy from a trio of fantastical witches claiming that he is fated to be King of Scotland, Macbeth becomes consumed by the prospect of political advancement. Spurred to action by his equally ambitious wife, something wicked this way comes when Macbeth proves not a man worthy of the Kingship, but an immoral and tyrannical madman.

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Big Idea Theatre March 9 – April 7 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org Sir Robert Chiltern’s perfect life centers around his successful political career, his loving and brilliant wife Gerturde, and his supportive and quick witted sister Mabel.

Lord Arthur Goring’s perfect life centers around lounging, partying, flirting with Mabel, and avoiding his father’s instance that he should marry. Life is easy! That is until the perfect world of these men is turned upside down by the arrival of old acquaintance Mrs. Laura Cheveley who has come with blackmail in mind. As gossip and lies begin to fly, it’s revealed that the man thought to be perfect is flawed, the man with all the flaws must do something right.

The question remains: what makes an ideal husband?

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19th Annual Sacramento Jewish Film Festival at the Crest Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 19, 21 and 22, 2018. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Yom HaAtzmaut – Israel Independence Day, the festival will showcase six feature films: * Hummus! The Movie * Epilogue: Ben-Gurion * Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story * Fanny’s Journey * Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema and 1945 (based on the acclaimed short story “Homecoming” by Gábor T. Szántó).

OPENING NIGHT – Friday, April 19 will feature a hummus and pita reception with The KlezMeerkats of Sacramento performing Israeli and Klezmer music.

The band will also perform on stage between the films. A special short film, Gefilte Fish, will be shown before Hummus: The Movie. Saturday, April 21 will welcome filmmaker Alexandra Dean who will introduce her film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story and lead a post-film discussion. A reception, catered by Solomon’s Delicatessen, and a Havdalah service will precede the film. The festival closes on Sunday, April 22 with screenings of Fanny’s Journey, Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema and 1945.

Prior to Shalom Bollywood, dance troupe Arts of India will perform on stage. Central Valley Holocaust Educators’ Network (CVHEN) President Liz Igra will also lead a discussion after the 1945 showing.

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Sat , March 10 & Sun, March 11 $ 95 per person (Includes light breakfast, lunch and snacks both days. Space is limited.)

The symposium brings together teachers, community leaders, school garden initiative parents, volunteers and university staff with local non-profit and business resources. The program can create opportunities for our children to discover fresh food, to make healthier food choices and to become better nourished.

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www.soilborn.org FROM page 35 retirement system. Sac City Unified is known for providing a relatively rich benefits package to its teachers, including generous retiree health care benefits. (Its unfunded liability for retiree health care costs now exceeds $700 million.) The district has also historically had a salary structure, banged out in bargaining with its teachers union, that compensates its senior teachers more generously than most other area districts, making it difficult for Sac City to compete for and attract the most qualified new teachers.

ROADMAP TO A POSTMEASURE-U WORLD Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group I founded and head) is launching a new project called A Roadmap to a Post-Measure-U World, which will outline ways in which the city can adapt to the loss of Measure U revenues. It’s designed to be a collaborative effort with the community. If you’d like to participate

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in the project and offer suggestions for ways the city government can reduce costs, I encourage you to contact me and share your ideas.

At Eye on Sacramento, we try not to just criticize the actions and policies of local governments without offering our own alternative policy solutions—solutions that offer people the opportunity to keep more of what they earn and that require local governments to function more effectively and efficiently in the delivery of vital public services. We welcome your input! We plan to widely distribute our roadmap well in advance of the November election.

Please let me know if you’d like a copy. Or you can sign up to receive updates at eyeonsacramento.org.

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The Hotel Next Door HOW TO DEAL WITH AIRBNB IS AN ISSUE FOR RESIDENTS AND GOVERNMENT City Councilmember Jeff Harris

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o city wants to develop a reputation as being unfriendly to business.

But there are exceptions. What if the business is disruptive to neighborhoods? What if the business is all about quick profit and minimal returns for the community? What if the business is parasitic?

Such is the dilemma faced by Sacramento regarding the short-term home rental trade, typified by web platforms such as Airbnb.

It’s called the “sharing economy,” which sounds so friendly and benign.

But in some cases, the only thing shared within the shared economy is headaches.

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Under the storybook scenario, Airbnb gives homeowners a chance to share their homes. They make some extra cash by renting out a room or granny flat. In the worst cases, the property owner lives in another state, ignores local ordinances, habitually breaks the law and removes desperately needed housing stock from the market. Some landlords are a little of both.

All of this has been very much on the mind of City Councilmember Jeff Harris. Among his eight elected colleagues, Harris has been the loudest and most articulate voice willing to discuss the neighborhood scourge of pop-up hotels as represented by the Airbnb phenomenon.

Harris is alarmed because he’s researched the damage Airbnb-type rogues have inflicted on other cities, often places with more robust tourist markets than Sacramento. As the city’s popularity grows, he knows the same things can happen here.

“I want the bad actors, the bad operators, to know I’m coming after them,” he says. “We’ve had plenty of warning about what can happen when the Airbnb thing takes off and they spring up all over your city.

In Sacramento, it hasn’t taken off like a rocket ship, and that’s a good thing. But we want to have the right ordinances in place in case it does.”

Sacramento already has rules to cover the short-term hotel game. But the rules are vague and practically impossible to enforce. Neighborhood residential hotels are required to apply for business permits. They are limited to 90 days of guest visits per year, with never more than six guests at a time. Anything beyond 90 days and the innkeeper must seek a conditional-use permit, which requires public hearings and provides an opportunity for community opposition.

Harris has tried to maintain an open mind about Airbnb-type hotels, but the more he learns about

them, the more he leans toward a stricter approach to governing them.

Ultimately, the direction he may favor involves banning any Airbnb-style hotel that doesn’t have an owner living in the house full time.

“We really have to ask ourselves if we even want off-site operators at all,” he says. “Do we want to support that kind of business?”

HARRIS IS ALARMED BECAUSE HE’S RESEARCHED THE DAMAGE AIRBNBTYPE ROGUES HAVE INFLICTED ON OTHER CITIES.

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Locally, the permit program won’t even begin to pay for itself until more than 2,500 short-stay hotels are registered in the program and generating the mandated temporary occupancy taxes. The city figures there are about 400 Airbnb homeowners currently selling room nights around town. Maybe 15 percent have even bothered to pull a business permit.

“These people are clever,” Harris says. “They know what they are doing and what they can get away with.

They are thumbing their noses at us.”

City Hall hasn’t been inundated with complaints about neighborhood Airbnb hotels, which explains why Harris has been a lonely voice of

alarm. Other councilmembers express concern when they hear stories about bad innkeepers, but they don’t want to slow Sacramento’s momentum as it strives to become a destination city.

Harris is sympathetic to homeowners who try to cash in on the rental bandwagon—at least the homeowners who actually live in their mini-hotels. He’s a small-business man himself. But he’s also been subjected to the community upheaval that takes place when a good neighbor sells his or her house to an absentee Airbnb landlord.

The councilmember recalls a long night suffering through a Sacramento State party held at an Airbnb house near his home in River Park. He speaks from experience as he says, “When it happened to me, I thought, if this was my next-door neighbor and a bunch of Sac State students were carrying on out of control all night, I’d be going ballistic. Nobody should have to live with that. I’d call my councilmember.”

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Making Sac Safe POLICE ASSOCIATION WORKS TO FOSTER CONNECTIONS

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Timothy Davis, president of the Sacramento Police Officers Association, chats with a bike patrol sergeant.

ike many police departments across the country, the Sacramento Police Department has at times been knee-deep in controversy in recent years.

Issues have included lack of transparency and questionable police officer actions in lower-income and ethnically diverse neighborhoods.

As the head of the Sacramento Police Officers Association, Timothy Davis works to create connections between police officers and the community.

SPOA does more than negotiate pay, benefits and staffing levels for its members. It is as much a fraternal organization as it is a union. It awards scholarships, provides crisis relief for its members and the community, and supports charities and athletic activities.

“We don’t see ourselves as a union,” says Davis. “We don’t require anyone in the department to be a member, but we have almost 100 percent of all active officers as members. They see the importance of what we do overall.”

For Davis, the connection between law enforcement and the community is personal.

“I grew up in Sacramento, went to high school here, and my dad was in the police force,” says Davis, who worked in the ranks of the police department and later received a law degree before being elected president of SPOA. “I have family here, and I want Sacramento to be as safe as it can be for the longtime residents, new residents and visitors.”

The Great Recession that started in 2007 hit Sacramento hard. The city was cutting budgets across the board, and the police department had to cut budgets, too. Layoffs hurt the department.

“We lost a generation of peace officers,” Davis explains. “In California during those years, no one was hiring.

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Those who might have considered law enforcement chose other careers and won’t likely ever go into law enforcement.”

As jobs returned, recruitment became competitive, and Sacramento wasn’t keeping up with compensation offered by other police and sheriff’s departments in the region. Quality applicants went elsewhere.

At the end of last year, the city and SPOA reached an agreement for a pay and incentive package. The first increase in many years, it brought Sacramento in line with other law enforcement agencies.

While the new contract and higher pay have had positive impacts on morale, it’s not the cure-all for a department and community still trying to communicate and connect with each other.

“We know the majority of Sacramento supports us,” says Davis.

“Police officers are like any other human beings. They want to do a good job and want the recognition by the people they serve. We (law enforcement) don’t sign up for a job and a paycheck. Service to the community is a noble profession. We want those who want to serve, and we want diversity in the department.”

Davis says it is disconcerting when small, vocal groups criticize law enforcement. “To our detractors, I say come join us,” he notes. “Let’s work together.”

Davis worries that if segments of the community continue to harbor negative feelings about law enforcement, quality candidates from those communities won’t join the

police department and help shape the future from inside.

“On a daily basis, our officers make countless sacrifices to ensure our community stays safe,” says Vance Chandler, a police department spokesperson. “It is imperative for our officers to connect with the people in our community to show how much we care about the people we serve.

We appreciate the support we have from many community members and leaders.

“We serve our community with great compassion and professionalism to ensure every person, in every neighborhood, has the opportunity to thrive in our city,” he adds.

Davis says the department is changing the way it works.

“Technology is helping us do things faster and better,” he says. “It’s giving us more transparency with the community. We embrace these changes.”

The police use cameras to monitor public areas and capture crimes in progress. Officers use body cameras and drones. Sound-recording equipment enables law enforcement to hear gunshots in real time and not wait for a 911 call.

“After the Sept. 11 tragedy, we were able to upgrade to a state-ofthe-art communications center,” says Davis. “We really don’t even know what might be next with technology to allow us to be more responsive to the communities we serve.”

Even with technology, Davis says, officers on the street are critical to law enforcement. They learn the neighborhoods, know the residents and can identify problem areas. “If

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an officer responds to three separate car crashes at the same intersection, then the officer is going to take action.

They don’t want to see a fourth crash,” says Davis. “The officers are vested in the community personally and professionally.”

Davis is quick to point out that police officers are human.

“I remember when I was an officer,” he says. “I’d get upset over things at home, even small things like a broken washing machine. It’s hard not to bring frustrations to work sometimes. We try not to let these things affect us at work. We do our best, but we are only human and we will make mistakes.”

For the Sacramento Police Department, recruiting the very best candidates is a high priority. The hiring process is complicated and includes polygraphs, psychological testing, background checks and training at the academy. Most candidates don’t make it through.

“When it comes to new employees, we look for integrity,” says Davis.

“That’s the most important trait. You just can’t show up and get a badge.”

Davis is confident and upbeat about the direction of the Sacramento Police Department. He points to renewed optimism in the department under the leadership of Sacramento’s new police chief, Daniel Hahn.

“We all just want to make Sacramento safe,” he says.

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From Page to Stage LOCAL PLAYWRIGHT BRINGS FIRST FULL-RUN PLAY TO HOWE AVENUE THEATER

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ast month brought a lot of firsts for Arden Park resident Irwin Rosenblum. His first full-length play, “Family Cabins,” enjoyed its world premiere. The show also marked Rosenblum’s first time producing, as well as the first full-run production at Howe Avenue Theater on Cottage Way. “I’m so excited to bring this production here,” says Rosenblum.

“It’s really a neighborhood theater.

People don’t expect to see a show at the park across the street from The Home Depot.”

The theater recently underwent a $100,000 renovation so that it could accommodate live theatrical productions, as well as the cultural festivals, weddings and bingo nights it was already hosting. Upgrades were made to the lighting, sound, acoustics and flooring. Rosenblum will be one

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of the first to benefit from the new facility.

Rosenblum, who grew up in Carmichael, calls himself a “software manager by trade, playwright by passion.” On New Year’s Eve 2016, he made a resolution: write a play by the end of the year. He followed through, writing not only several short plays but also the first draft of “Family Cabins,” a family drama.

He held readings of the play with friends and at Playwrights Collaborative, a Sacramento group that meets once a month to workshop and discuss new plays in progress. “It got a lot of positive response, which was very encouraging,” he says.

“Family Cabins,” which contains strong language and mature content, is about a family trying to help a loved one cope with mental illness.

Rosenblum plans to donate all profits from the production to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

“I have a personal connection to mental illness, and I tend to write things that are familiar,” he explains. “I saw the subject matter as something that could be very dramatic onstage, but also an area I haven’t seen dealt with in the way I’m dealing with it. I decided to take it on.”

Irwin Rosenblum Rosenblum decided to produce the play himself—without any prior experience.

“I figured that the only way I’d get it produced is if I did it—no one’s knocking on my door,” Rosenblum says with a self-effacing laugh. “I’ve seen other people produce their own plays, so I said to myself, ‘That’s the way you’ve got to do it if you want to get it done.’”

Like any smart producer, Rosenblum surrounded himself with other talented people. He asked veteran playwright, director and producer Leo McElroy to direct the production, secured his female lead

long before auditions, asked his friend Erik Finnerty (who runs FatCat Bakery) to donate baked goods for concessions to maximize profits for NAMI, and enlisted childhood friends to design poster art and compose original music for the show.

“It’s a nice way to start,” Rosenblum says. “Everyone is very enthusiastic, which just makes me even more excited.”

“Family Cabins” runs the first two weekends in March at Howe Avenue Theater, located at 2201 Cottage Way. For more information, visit familycabinsplay.com. n

LIKE ANY SMART PRODUCER, ROSENBLUM SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH OTHER TALENTED PEOPLE.

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Team USA: Paul Carras, Craig Deihl, Lothar Erbe, Ryan Butler, John Fink with Danny Johnson in front.

The Meat Olympics LOCAL BUTCHER LEADS U.S. TEAM IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

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eam USA, with local butcher Danny Johnson at the helm, will travel to Northern Ireland in March to take part in the biennial

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World Butchers’ Challenge. This is the first time that newcomer USA will compete in this arena, and the stakes are high.

The team—made up of Johnson and Paul Carras of Taylor’s Market in Land Park, along with four other skilled butchers from around the United States—will compete against 11 countries at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast on March 21.

France, the reigning champ, might

be the team to beat, but Johnson says their competitors are worried about what the United States can do.

Team USA has asked for and received some rule changes. “We have them scratching their heads,” he says.

Writer Jenn Rice described the World Butchers’ Challenge “as the butcher industry’s Summer Olympic Games” in Food & Wine magazine.

Despite the hyperbole, the event has gravitas in the meat business. “This

thing is a big deal for Paul and I, and for Sacramento,” Johnson says. “[It’s] the opportunity to do something in your trade on another continent.”

How does the competition work?

Each team has three hours and 15 minutes to perform butchering magic on a side of beef and a side of pork, a lamb carcass and five chickens. They will be judged on craft, creativity, time and a whole lot of other stuff.

Johnson says all of the team members

have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about the competition.

He may have meant “worrying” rather than “thinking,” but I didn’t press him.

Before heading to Belfast, Team USA will have practiced five times.

The practices usually take place over two days at Taylor’s. The meat has to be purchased beforehand. The meat has to be sold afterward. Strategies have to be developed.

Unlike some teams, which receive government stipends and can afford to choose alternates and hire coaches and managers, Team USA is selffunded and self-motivated. Despite tremendous support from customers, friends and family, the team is short on funds, but Johnson doesn’t seem too worried. Taylor’s is selling caps and T-shirts that say “Meat us in Belfast” to beef up funding.

They need to shave 15 minutes off their practice time, but Johnson doesn’t seem worried about that, either. He filmed the last practice, but you won’t find the video on social media. Everything is top secret prior to the competition. Team USA has a few tricks, but Johnson won’t share them.

So what is Johnson worried about?

“We want to win,” he says. “Winning would be the cherry on the sundae.”

He also wants to promote a positive image of Americans. In light of the current world opinion of the United States, that might be better than winning.

Let’s step back from the stage and focus on Johnson, the team’s captain.

He wasn’t practicing for the big event when we spoke; he was painting trim. In 2007, Johnson and his wife, Kathy, became sole owners of Taylor’s

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT NEWCOMER USA WILL COMPETE IN THIS ARENA, AND THE STAKES ARE HIGH.

Market and Taylor’s Kitchen. He began working at Taylor’s in 1983 when he was 19. You can find him behind the meat counter most mornings, or with a paintbrush in his hand, but he says he does more dishes than butchering.

“It’s the only thing I ever wanted to do,” he says when I ask why he became a butcher. He also wanted to be a professional baseball player, but his other career has worked out well.

Young Danny Johnson couldn’t wait to run to the butcher shop when his grandfather brought him into town. It didn’t hurt that the butcher gave him hot dogs. His happy place is behind the meat counter, even though fish is his preferred protein these days.

For a while, “butchering kind of went away in the United States,” says Johnson. Factory farms, chain stores and shrink-wrapped meat were a huge blow to the profession. When he graduated in 1982 from Oregon Meat Cutting School, there were about eight butcher shops in Sacramento.

Today, there are three: Taylor’s, V. Miller Meats and Corti Brothers.

After Time magazine came calling in 2010, Johnson was featured in an article about butchering’s comeback.

It’s one of his proudest moments.

Despite his dedication to the craft, it took convincing to bring Johnson on board. He and his wife were on vacation in France when he got the email from Tia Harrison Holmes, cofounder of The Butcher’s Guild in San Francisco, about forming Team USA and taking on the World Butchers’ Challenge. His wife encouraged him to compete. Now, he’s looking forward to the clock starting so the team can go to work. “Cutting meat is the easy part,” he says.

The folks behind Visit Sacramento hope to host the next World Butchers’ Challenge in Sacramento. If their bid is accepted, 20 countries are slated to compete in Sacramento during the farm-to-fork celebration in 2020.

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J.J. Pfister and Noonan Farms have a passion for quality produce and environmental sustainability. Nitrogen is mother nature’s fertilizer and migrating birds provide plenty of it. Noonan’s farming methods call for flooding fields prior to cultivation, creating wetlands that attract birds which in turn help feed the soil organically. That’s why J.J. Pfister donates a percentage of profits to help create wildlife in the Klamath Basin.

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