Senate Floor Session

to the flag. Sister Gorman. We gather in God's presence. God of life, the world feels fragile right now. War spreads, fear grows, many hearts are heavy with grief. Hold us steady in this moment. Help us remember that love still matters, that compassion still matters, that the work of tending life still matters. Give us courage to keep planting seeds of goodness in our communities, in our relationships, in the fragile future we cannot yet see. Let fear not shrink our hearts. Gracious God, teach us to live with faithfulness in uncertain times. Amen.

Thank you, Mr. President. I'm proud today to introduce Mr. Rana Sikar, Council General of Canada in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. and Ms. Sylvie Bedard, Acting Council General of Canada in Los Angeles on the Senate floor today They are accompanied by Mr Andrew Fisher Director of U West and on behalf of Alberta as well as Representative of Maple Lake, Canada's eighth largest institutional investors on the floor and in the gallery. Must be somewhere. Mr. Sikara has held the position of Consul General of Canada in San Francisco and Silicon Valley since 2017 and is well regarded around the capital for his diligent work on behalf of California Canada relations. His counterpart in Los Angeles, Ms. Bedard was appointed acting Consul General in November of 2025 and is making her first visit to the Senate chamber. We welcome them both here today. The delegation they lead is visiting in association with their annual Canada Day at the Capitol, where key Canadian diplomats and business representatives travel to Sacramento to highlight the close relationship between California and Canada. While in Sacramento, the group has participated in a program of activities focusing on the many shared areas of cooperation between our two regions, including environmental protection, economic trade, and emergency assistance. Canada serves as one of California's largest trading partners, accounting for $18.36 billion in trade in 2024 alone, and its businesses support over 90,000 local jobs. President John F. Kennedy, words remind us, geography made us neighbors, history made us friends, economics made us partners. With our shared interests and active exchanges, we expect the relationship between our two regions to flourish. Please join me in giving a warm California Senate welcome to our special guests from Canada.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I have a very special introduction this morning. And I hope you all join me in congratulating and acknowledging a group of athletes from my district, a soccer team known as the Under 11 San Juan Spirits. This is the competitive level of youth soccer, which is the highest level, and the San Juan Club is one of the premier clubs in our area. This team has been undefeated this fall season, making them region champions, winning tournaments all over Sacramento and the Bay Area. That is a total of 39 games in a row. And get this, 162 goals scored. They show no mercy. On March 1st, they won the NorCal State Cup Premier Trophy, making them the number one team in their age group in northern and central California. On March 15th, after winning the State Cup, they won the first ever pre-ENCL top soccer tournament playing against teams from the Bay Area and Texas and Washington State. But wait, there's more. we're celebrating them today because not only have they won the state cup tournament but tomorrow these girls head to san diego to lay around all weekend and enjoy the beach except they do they do have a few soccer soccer games they will play two teams in southern california to hopefully be named the top team in our entire state. So if you ask the girls what they attribute their success to, they will say, and this is a quote, I'm sure from one of them, they have a coach who believes in them and works really hard to train them. They all really like each other and are friends and happy for each other when they do good stuff. And these kids are doing good stuff. So let me introduce each one of them. Yuval Evaneri, you can wave your hand when I say your name. Olivia Babb, Harper Blandford, Marion Elbaschiti, Sophia Eslinger, Ariel Gray, Autumn Grace, Aria Condola Juliana Kistner Novella McAllister Anne Rooney or is it Annie Either one Hannah Sheldon Maya Woods who is the daughter of our own McLean Woods a part of our Senate family here, and she played soccer with my daughter several years ago, well, a few years ago, and Zaley Zerhusen, and Coach Haley Jones. Please join me in not only recognizing them, but wishing them good luck for this reason.

Thank you. members AB 2156 requires the governor to proclaim March 31 first as Farm Worker Day. The bill comes in light of recent accounts from brave sexual assault survivors whose truths have prompted swift action by the legislature. The California legislature thanks the survivors for sharing their truth and hopes that by renaming this day we are supporting the values of the movement of dignity and justice. From the start of the movement, the work to protect and advance farmworker rights was centered on community. From the migrant workers who traveled hundreds of miles season to season to pick the food that we eat, to the children who moved with their parents as they worked hard to make ends meet. The farm worker movement is about the thousands of women and men whose hard work not only feeds our nation, but creates lasting change. For years, our farm workers faced harsh conditions. Working long hours in extreme heat, exposed to dangerous chemicals, paid low wages. Through years of organizing, hundreds of strikes, boycotts, and a demand for fair treatment, our farm workers won better pay, safer working conditions, and the right to form a union. That work is ongoing, and it's still necessary today. Just last year, we saw the federal government carry out one of the largest raids against farm workers in California state history, right in my district. The same people that we are honoring today have been repeatedly demonized and targeted. I saw how our farm workers were rounded up while doing the critical work of feeding our country and torn apart from their families. We cannot forget Jaime Alanis Garcia, a farm worker who died while being chased by ICE agents during those raids. His death is a reminder of how much farm workers risk every day to put food on our table. Our farm workers reminds us that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Farmworker Day is a recognition of a movement, of movement that has fed this nation whose hard work and dedication to agriculture drives our state economy and lives and their lives and their work inspires us to push for a better California. As we remember and reflect on the work that farm workers do, may we remember their contributions and their struggles from the past and the present and as we go forward. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank You mr. President and on behalf of the California legislative Latino caucus comprised of 38 members that represent every corner of the state of California with our over 50 year history I ask and rise in support with madam pro tem on a 2156 and the naming of March 31st as Farm Workers Day As mentioned since the founding of the Latino caucus over 50 years ago, we have fought for the interests of our state's farm workers who were Latino, Afro-Latino, API, and were so incredibly important to this state. Those that toiled, struggled, and survived while feeding the nation and built a movement. They were termed essential workers and they are the representation of the great mosaic of diversity that defines us today. Many if not most are immigrants seeking the American dream. They hail from all parts of the globe and they contribute to our state in countless ways. So many that are here today are sons and daughters of farm workers and most importantly their work had empowered us to be the fourth largest economy and their bravery also supported the fight to secure essential worker rights and recognition of their humanity. It was their collective actions that brought justice, their collective action that brought representation and equity. And this holiday will be a time for all Californians to honor them and advance the lives of every farm worker. And while the circumstances that brought us here today are extremely tragic, they were heavy for many of us in the caucus. We reflect and uplift survivors and ensure that we are advancing an important message, that they too are part of that message, and this was very long overdue. In honor of everyone who has proudly worked the fields, past and present, for the sons and daughters that are represented here today, I urge your support for AB 2156.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. colleagues they rise in support obviously a difficult few weeks but an opportunity as well to reorient and to refocus and to remember the origins and the spirit and the beating hearts and the labor and the souls of the collective people who've made up the movement that recognizes and lifts up the conditions and situations and circumstances for farm workers as someone who has a personal connection to folks who helped organize that movement many decades ago last few weeks have been a little tough. But it also reoriented me to remember that a movement is collective action. It is never about any individual as vaunted circumstantially as they may or may not be. This is an opportunity to lift up those beating hearts, those working hands that toil all the time to feed themselves and to feed all of us and to soberly reflect and to acknowledge that we as a body and as a community will always stand with those who are exploited, those who are harmed, those who are preyed upon, and those who have the courage and the strength as survivors to stand and be heard, some of whom are dear friends. So I respectfully ask that my vote.

Thank you, Mr. President and members. Today I rise as both the co-chair of the Hispanic Caucus and as a proud co-author of Farm Workers' Day. This recognition is deeply personal to me. My family came to Bakersfield in 1911 and 1917. They lived in tents for years until my great-grandfather saved enough money to buy land and build a home on Myrtle Street in Lamont. And I still talk about that house with my dad and my aunts to this day. The pomegranate tree in the yard, the best you'd ever taste. But what I think about more is everything it took to get there. My grandfather Juan was one of nine siblings. My grandmother Rachel was one of 11 sisters Every single one of them worked in the fields Grapes peaches onions cotton watermelon wherever the work was they went My great-grandmother, Lupe, would wake up at 3.30 in the morning to make breakfast, to pack lunches, and then to head out to the fields herself for a 12- to 16-hour shift. And when I hear those stories still today, it doesn't feel like history. It feels like something that still lives in me, in my family. Because that was their life. Long days in the heat of Kern, Delano, Tulare, Taft. Too often without reliable water, without rest, without even basic facilities. Wages that changed with the season. Families that move constantly just to survive. And for generations, farm workers were excluded from basic labor protections. No overtime, limited rights, little ability to change wage theft. And that is a part of our history. And yes, the labor movement brought needed change. It gave farm workers a voice and protection. They had long been denied. But my family also remembers the complexity of that time. Stories of intimidation, families caught in the middle, because history is rarely simple. What I remember most from my grandmother's stories is that farm workers came from everywhere. Filipino, Mexican, Japanese, Black, Portuguese, different journeys, but the same hands in the soil, the same goal, build something better for their children. And at times, even our country recognized that need, like during World War II with the Bracetto program, bringing workers legally to sustain American agriculture. Because that work has always mattered, and the people who do it have always mattered. My grandparents eventually left the fields for Pacoima, and my grandfather got a job with L.A. County Flood Control. Not because farm work wasn't honorable, but because they wanted something more for their kids. My dad worked in the fields every summer, though, and when he became a young father, he went back to do it again to provide. And I remember him telling me very frequently, this is why I push you, so you have choices. And even now, every time I drive out to Bakersfield, I look out at those fields, and I don't just see crops. I see my family. I see my great-grandmother waking up before the sun. I see my grandmother in a packing house. I see my dad as a young dad working to provide for us. And I know that behind every field in California, there is a family story like mine. So when we talk about honoring farmworkers, this is not about one person. This is not about one narrative. It's about honoring generations of sacrifice, of resilience, and hope. Because no one person owns this story. There are thousands of stories like mine rooted in the fields of California. And today, I get to stand here as their granddaughter, the daughter of a farmworker, the granddaughter of a farm worker, the great-granddaughter of a farm worker, and somehow their story didn't end in those fields. Their granddaughter is now a state senator standing on this floor telling their story, honoring farm workers across California. I respectfully urge an aye vote.

Senator Cabaldon you are recognized Thank you Mr President I too rise in support September 8 1965 in Delano at the Filipino Community Hall the place where the community would come together for birthdays, for weddings, to roast a pig, to celebrate. That night, Filipino farm workers came from throughout the region for a raucous debate and discussion and a fight and a battle. Should we strike? Should we strike in the fields? And if we do, will anyone else support us? Or will the story of California that has been happening since the mission era repeat itself once again? If we strike, will someone else come in to take our jobs? Will even anyone in our own community back us up in this strike effort? For eight days, they were arrested by the sheriff. They were killed. They were all evicted from their farm-provided housing. eight days, eight days waiting, fighting, wondering whether or not they would succeed. And they did. And they did because it became a multiracial fight eight days after that, September 8th, 1965. And many communities came together, the Mexican-American and Filipino-American communities in particular, but many communities came together for the first time in our history. You do go back to the mission era. Those were the first farm workers in California, indentured, enslaved by the missions to work the fields. But then after that period ended, we started importing Chinese labor to come to this state to make our economy prosper, to build opportunity. But then our racism overtook our commitment to economic prosperity. We just couldn't live any longer as a state with Chinese Americans in our midst. And so we pushed the United States to exclude all Chinese immigrants in 1888 through the Chinese Exclusion Act. And then, as we did so many times after, found ourselves with no one to provide, no one to pick the grapes and the lettuce and everything else in California. And so then we said, how about Japanese immigrants? Why don't we bring them here? And so Japanese folks came to this state and to this country to work the fields and to make California prosper and make us grow. and by 1912, 1920, we were at it again. Who brought all these Japanese folks here? What are they doing here? They're taking our jobs, and we pushed for the passage of the alien land law to prevent Japanese Americans from owning the very farms at which we're producing our food. 1920 then, after they were excluded, the Filipino population in California went up by 10 times because between 1920 and 1930, Filipinos were the new labor force, the new farm workers for California. And they could not be deported. We could not be excluded because the Philippines was a colony, a protectorate, a territory of possession of the United States. We could not be deported. And as Filipino-Americans came to California, they began labor organizing because so many of them had come from the sugar plantations in Hawaii and along with the International Longshoremen's Union developed a taste for organizing, for civil rights, for equity. And they fought in the Watsonville riots for lettuce organizing, even when the AFL would not recognize their Filipino union, all the way through the 40s and 50s. And in 1965, that September 8th night, that happened because just months before in Coachella, the Filipino farm workers had won a 10-cent-per-hour wage increase from $1.40. a 10 cent per hour waging And as they migrated, as they did each year, to Delano to work the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, there the growers said, no, we will not give a 10 cent increase. And that is what, that along with the horrible living and working conditions, caused that strike. So our story of farm workers in California is so diverse. It is so rich, but it is also the story of California's dark side and how we've had to reconcile our distaste for diversity with our desire for economic power and prosperity. And it is why we celebrate and why we continue the work today. And so I rise in support because it is absolutely essential that more than any other class of workers in California, farm workers tell our story at its best, often at its worst. the lessons of how we can become better and how we must, I urge an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, today I rise to speak on this bill first and foremost as a victim's advocate, to add my name in support of proclaiming March 31st as Farmworker Day. In recent days, we have seen deeply troubling reports that remind us of a painful truth. Victims often carry their pain and silence for years before they feel safe enough to come forward, and when they do, they need us to not dismiss them or doubt them, but to offer support. And whether the harm came from a trusted leader or someone in their own home or their community, we have a responsibility to listen carefully, compassionately, and without prejudice. As someone who understands physical and emotional abuse and has secured multiple restraining orders, I can attest there's nothing more harmful to a victim than to be questioned when the evidence is clear and compelling. We must do better as society, not only in how we respond when victims come forward, but how we create spaces when they feel so they feel safe enough to come forward. Because justice begins when we start listening. So today we stand with victims, past, present, and those still finding their voice in this moment. I'm so proud of this legislature in taking swift bipartisan action to remove the name of a person who, according to personal and compelling accounts by victims, violated a community's trust. And as difficult or conflicting as this moment is for so many of us, We must acknowledge the victim's pain and trauma. I want to commend the women who have come forward. I know it wasn't easy, and I know they're still going through their trauma. Their courage matters, and their voices matters. And as we make this change to Farmworker Day, we are making a broader statement to honor farmworkers who have labored day in and day out, long hours in the hot sun in unbearable conditions to put food on our table and sustain our communities, which have included people like my father who came over as a bracero worker who worked so many hours, who had calluses on his hands, and spoke about the indignity and the hard labor and the conditions they had to endure. Those are the people we need to thank. We're choosing to elevate their dignity and their work. Today we recognize their sacrifices and their contributions And today by changing the name to Farmworker Day we reaffirm our gratitude to good hardworking people who work hard on behalf of their families who come here for opportunities and do the work that most people couldn do or don want to do So today we honor their history, their legacy, and the opportunity that they have given so many of us, like myself. And I heard my colleague earlier speak to the honor of being on this floor and coming from a farm worker. So today I also want to honor everyone's parents here who have been on those fields and who have fed us. With that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, today I rise in support of AB 2156, which renames Cesar Chavez Day as Farmworker Day. I was raised in a small town called Arvin, California, by a single mom, where I was the huera, the gringa. And I lived next door to some of my best, the best eight childhood friends you could ever have. I would name them all, but you guys probably wouldn't think I would remember them, but they are. They're Maria, Sophia, Mercedes, Isabel, Juan, Elia, Susanna, and Angelica. the Sierras, and often we would spend summers in the fields while the senior Elias would go check as the farm manager the grapes and things like that. And I did work in the Uvas and Savoyas in the summers as a childhood friend, earning a little bit of extra money. Some of my friends that were childhood friends are still toiling the soil today. California's agriculture is the backbone of our state's economy, and nowhere is that more evident than Kern, Tulare, and Fresno counties, where it's the top three food-producing counties in the nation. These regions are among the most productive agricultural areas in the world, feeding millions of families across our state and beyond. But none of that happens without the men and women in the fields. Farm workers perform some of the most physically demanding essential work in our state in order to make food available at our kitchen tables. this bill is about recognizing the whole totality of the farming industry and the farm workers that depend on it we need to be serious about recognizing farm workers as we are today but also we must be serious about supporting the entire agricultural industry they depend on that means reliable water because with where water flows food grows and it doesn't if it doesn't flow then fields go fallow and jobs and food disappear. Fertile fallowed farmland is disappearing every day in place of solar fields. Colleges can't eat solar panels and farm workers don't have jobs in the industry if there's no crops growing. It means policies that keep farming viable here in California and not exporting the products or the food or the commodities that we eat out to other states or for that matter other countries you cannot support farm workers while undermining the farms that employ them farm workers don't exist in a vacuum their livelihoods depend on a healthy sustainable agricultural industry and the food that we grow here is some of the greatest food in the world and we have a process where we control the the chemicals and things that are put on the foods that we eat, that we control out of this building, and it's some of the healthiest food that you can eat anywhere in the world. This is about more than recognition. It about protecting the workforce that feeds the state and the nation and the surrounding industry that protects their jobs and their livelihood Respectfully ask for an aye vote

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise in support of AB 2156. As one of the senators representing Bakersfield and also representing one of the largest agricultural regions in the state, if not probably the world, fighting for farm workers has always been a priority for me because of the area that I represent, because of the history that I have, coming from immigrant parents that worked in the fields, that worked in poultry, that worked in packing houses, it almost seems like their stories have gone unheard, you know, here in Sacramento and in D.C. So coming to Sacramento almost eight years ago has been about fighting for my neighbors, my friends, and, yes, my own family as well. and it seems like there's still a lot more work to be done in this space. Today we are acknowledging Farmworker Day in the state of California, but we must be able to practice it as well because we know there's a lot of issues that they're facing at the moment that have gone unheard, and I hope that we, as we move forward, that we also reconsider some of those issues that are really hurting them at this moment. With that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote on this measure.

Thank you, Chair. I rise myself for strong support of this ballot measure, AB 2156, recognizing as a California farmer's day. As we are so blessed in California with the rich, fertile land and the weather, we produce so much food. However, somebody has to work on the field, and we know and we have heard how difficult times the farm workers have gone through and from generation to generation from many different ethnic backgrounds and to solve the problem many different ethnic groups have been imported here and mistreated in this country. I would like to myself remind you that Korean Americans are part of that group who came early 1903 as we celebrate the Korean American Day as first group immigration day in 1903, 2,102 farm workers landed in Hawaii as sugar plant farm workers. And they were treated so badly and underpaid. And their stories have also many individual suffering stories behind when I landed in Hilo Hawaii during my physical time I heard I encountered those first generation people and who are living there second generation third generation in that land From there, a group of people moved to California and they worked on many different farms and and they migrated to Southern California, and they picked the oranges and the strawberries, things like that. And then those farm workers with the minimum pay, and that era happened to be the Korea's very struggling time for independence from Japanese. So they gathered funds for Korean independence and sent to Dosan An-Chang-Ho under his leadership. As we know in California we recognized Dosan An-Chang-Ho day. We proclaimed and we tribute his contributions for educating Korean farmers who organize and work hard so that they would be recognized. and that his legacy is continuing and Young Koreans Academy was built in Los Angeles and that has been designated as a historical building and trying to renovate it. and many of you have co-signed my petition for Los Angeles to recognize that the historic value of that building to permit them for remodeling to recognize there's no net loss of dwelling units. And I think that your cooperation, the letter that you signed together is moving along. And finally, at the final stages of getting the possible results, outcomes, they are simply waiting the final stamp for them to go ahead and start the remodeling work. That's an example of the Korean farmers, how they came to California from Hawaii, and they made also sacrifice and contributions to the farm generations and the hard work that the farm workers have gone through, and they share the same difficulties and sacrifices they have made in California. Thank you, and I owe you aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. For generations, farm workers have labored under a relentless sun, breathed toxic pesticides, and lived in conditions that would be unacceptable to most, all to put food on the tables of a nation that has repeatedly looked the other way. But these farm workers organized anyway. They marched anyway. They got arrested, and some were even killed. They built one of the most consequential labor movements in all of America. history, not because of any one person, but because of their collective strength, their sacrifice, and our refusal to be invisible. They inspired me to dedicate my life to the labor movement, to organize garment workers and hotel workers and janitors. Today reminds me of what it was like when I picked grapes. when I picked cotton, when I had to sleep on the back of our father's flatbed truck because we had nowhere else to sleep. Today, I cast my vote to redesignate March 31st as Farm Workers Day because this day and this movement have always belonged to them.

Apologies. Colleagues, this bill does something simple but deeply right. It says the people who rose before dawn, bent their backs in the fields under the sun, wore down their bodies, and fed this state and nation should be honored in their own name. Their labor put food on our tables. their sacrifice, helped build California and this nation, their dignity should never be an afterthought. This is not erasure. This is truth. The farm worker movement was never carried by one person alone. It was carried by the workers, different ethnic backgrounds, different societal circumstances, by mothers and fathers, by families who endured hunger, heat, pain, and injustice. It was carried by organizers, by sacrifice, and by those whose names in history are often forgotten because maybe they had a smaller role. And when serious allegations of sexual assault come forward, I want to highlight that the state of California does not turn away. We do not excuse. We do not hide behind legacy. we do not ask survivors to stay quiet for the comfort of others. We choose dignity. We choose the workers. We choose the survivors. Farm workers deserve more than symbolism tied to one man. They deserve to be honored directly, fully, and without compromise. They deserve a day that belongs to them. A day for the hands that harvested our food. a day for the people too often unseen, too often underpaid, too often overlooked, a day that tells the truth about who built this nation, who built this movement, and who still carries it forward. So let us be clear, this bill honors labor, it honors survivors, and it honors the truth. I'm proud to support AB 2156 because California should celebrate the workers who carried this movement not just one individual we should stand with the people who did the work endured the hardships and earned this recognition I respectfully ask for an aye vote Seeing no further discussion or debate

Thank you, Mr. President. Today I rise to adjourn in memory of Caitlin Mardell Mallett, known by many who loved her as Katie, a cherished member of the Salinas community whose life was taken far too soon. She passed away February 7th at the age of 34 after a courageous battle with glioblastoma. She was known for her warmth, her kindness, and her contagious laugh. Friends and family describe her as someone who made people feel welcomed and loved, someone who built lifelong friendships and meaningful connections wherever she went. She was born in Santa Cruz, attended Vine Hill Elementary School, Scotts Valley High School, and later Chico State University. After graduating, she made her home in Salinas, where she built a career in the produce industry, working with companies throughout the Salinas Valley. It was in Salinas that she met her beloved husband, Keith, at the Salinas Rodeo. They got married and began their life together, including their cherished Labrador retriever, Avery. Above all else, her greatest joy in life was her family. She was a devoted wife to Keith and a loving mother to their two young children, Walker and Madeline. Becoming a mother meant everything to her, and she poured her heart into caring for her children every day. She is survived by her children, Walker and Madeline, her husband, Keith, her mother, Sandra, her father, David, her siblings, Elisa, Jilly, Taryn, Marissa, Justin, Mason, and Nico, her nieces Claire Casey and Haley and her grandparents Judith Thomas and Marty. Her life reminds us how precious time is, how powerful love can be in family, in community and the legacy we leave behind. On behalf of the State Senate, I ask that we adjourn today in memory of Caitlin Katie Mallett and that we keep her family, especially her young children, in our thoughts and prayers.

Thank you, Mr. President and Senators. I rise today to adjourn in memory of Roxanne Miller, who passed away from Alzheimer's on January 31st at the age of 78. Roxanne was born on June 25, 1947, in Stockton, California. Her parents, Harry Miller Sr. and Fern Hanford Miller, moved the family to Davis in 1961. After graduating in 1965 from Davis High, she attended Utah State University, where she graduated with degrees in journalism and art. Roxanne began a professional career here in the state senate, where she served as the local government committee secretary. She then went on to work for the city of San Jose for 44 years where she dutifully served the city across six mayors In the 1970s Roxanne became one of the first registered female lobbyists in California and helped pave the way as an exemplary advocate for the people of the city of San Jose and beyond Roxanne was polished and thoughtful, and her work was invaluable for my district. She successfully secured funding to expand the city's highway and public transit systems. Her budget advocacy was particularly important to support the San Jose Moneta International Airport, which remains one of the busiest airports in the Bay Area. In 2016, Roxanne also lobbied the City of San Jose's innovative Tiny Homes Policy to address the affordable housing crisis, which later became the model for statewide implementation. In these instances and others, Roxanne proved herself to be an incredibly effective spokesperson for the South Bay. Although she worked for the City of San Jose, Roxanne lived here in Sacramento, and she stayed actively involved in her neighborhood. She served on the City's Design, Review, and Preservation Board in the early 1990s, and was also appointed to the City's Sacramento Heritage Incorporated Board of Directors in 1997. Ms. Miller was also active in the Land Park Community Association and the Freeport Boulevard Improvement Committee, where she fought to preserve iconic historical architecture in this city, examples of which are the cast-iron streetlights in Land Park and the Tower Theater. I first met Roxanne through her friendship with my parents, Dominic and Suzanne, 93 and 90 years old, respectively, at this time, and they extend their condolences as well. During my father's tenure in Sacramento, Roseanne became not only an advocate but a friend and that friendship included me especially as I got to know her through my eight years on the San Jose City Council in her spare time Roxanne enjoyed gardening finding new projects to renovate her home and visiting various garage and estate sales we've missed seeing her around here for some time and of course now we'll miss seeing her permanently. Roxanne is survived by her sister Robin Wetmore, her brother Harry L. Miller Jr. Her public service and lasting impacts both here in San Jose will not be forgotten. May she rest in peace. I respectfully ask that we adjourn in her honor.