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City; City of Sacramento; Council District 3

STEVE COHN'S CITY COUNCIL RECORD (1994-2006)

1. DISTRICT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

East Sacramento

• Annual Pops in the Park summer evening concert series at McKinley, East Portal, Bertha Henschel and Glen Hall Parks and Sac State
• M Street Fountain Plaza at 48th and M Streets
• First Annual Screen on the Green movie series to East Sacramento
• Renovated Shepard Garden & Arts Center
• H Street Bridge bike underpass in River Park
• New and renovated park and playground projects, including:
• McKinley Park resurfaced tennis courts and panhandle jogging trail
• McKinley Park playground and duck pond
• McKinley Park Pool renovation and fencing
• McKinley Park picnic area and acorn street lights
• Bertha Henschel Park wading pool and fountain
• East Sacramento Little League fields at Phoebe Hearst (new snack bar, backstops, landscaping, batting cage, girls' softball field, etc.)
• East Sacramento Youth Soccer League soccer goals and other improvements throughout East Sac
• East Portal Park playground renovation
• East Portal Park bocce ball courts
• East Lawn Children's Park playground renovation
• Drinking fountains, benches and other improvements at all neighborhood parks
• Hornet Crossing pedestrian/bicycle underpass connecting Sac State to the 65th St. light rail station (2000 SACOG "Project of the Year" Award)
• Renovated Clunie Community Center and Library at McKinley Park
• East Sacramento Room for historic photo display at Clunie
• 65th Street Transit Village Plan and Redevelopment Area
• F-65 retail/lofts and East End Lofts at 65th & Folsom
• NBA's "Read to Achieve" program at Theodore Judah Elementary School
• Fire Station 4 off Alhambra Blvd. Designated historical landmark and future site of Pioneer Mutual Hook & Ladder Museum
• Rezoned cloverleaf across from Shakey's at 57th & J Sts. to open space
• Neighborhood police officer (NPO), expanded Neighborhood Watch and graffiti squad patrol programs.
• Upgraded combined sewer/storm drain system and reduced street flooding in several key areas, including south of Folsom between 39th and 42nd St.
• Sound walls along Highway 50
• Shamed the SCUSD into painting and better maintaining Theodore Judah School and later successfully opposed its closure
• Nighttime curfew for outdoor concerts at Cal Expo (10:30 p.m. on weeknights and 11:00 p.m. on weekends)
• Neighborhood traffic management programs implementing common-sense solutions to neighborhood parking and traffic problems
• Founding of East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
• Consistently protected neighborhood from unwelcome and incompatible development, from the high-rise and big box Centrage proposals to the more recent Mercy Hospital expansion proposal
• Successfully led opposition to the East Bay MUD Pipeline Project through Midtown and East Sacramento

• Most consistent leader on Council to finance and permit over 1000 new residential units in the Central City constructed by 2006:
• Pensione K (Barone), 17th & K, 200 units completed 1996
• Quinn Cottage Housing (N. B Street), 60 units completed 1997
• Metro Square (Sares-Regis), 28th & H, 45 units completed 1998
• Fremont Building (Kolokotronis), 16th & P, 69 units completed 2001
• 17th & N (CADA/Fisher), 18 units completed 2001
• 17th Street Commons (CADA/Fisher), 29 units completed 2001
• 1500 Q Street, 6 units completed 2001
• 10th & T Condos (Mogavero), 13 units completed 2002
• East End Lofts (Elliot Building restoration) (Loftworks), 20 units completed 2003
• Marshall Place (Mogavero), 25th & I, 8 units completed 2003
• Capitol Park Homes (Kolokotronis), 12th & Q, 64 units completed 2003
• 18th & O (Carson), 7 units completed 2004
• Q Street Lofts, 17th & Q, 4 units completed 2004
• Lofts above Zocalos, 18th & Capitol, 7 units, completed 2004
• 11th & S, 8 units completed 2004
• Ping Yuen Renovation, 5th & I, 82 units completed 2005
• Fremont Mews (Walsh Forster), 119 units, completed 2005
• R Street Market (Petrovich), 19th & S, 11 units completed 2005
• East End Lofts II (Loftworks), 16th & K, 21 units, completed 2006
• 21st & L (St. Anton Partners), 65 units scheduled to open 2006
• 18th & L, 176 units scheduled to open 2006
• Almost 2,000 more Central City housing units that are under construction or already permitted:
• Plaza Lofts (CIM), 9th & J, 225 units
• Sears Building Rehab, 12th & K, 23 units
• Capitol Terrace, 33 units
• Capitol Lofts/CADA Warehouse, 113 units
• Marriott Residence Inn condos (Giannoni), 15th & L, 30 condo units plus hotel
• East End Gateway I-IV (CADA-Loftworks et al), 16th St corridor, 227 units
• Hale Lofts, 831 K St., 32 units
• Globe Mills, 12th & C, 200 units
• North End Lofts II, 11 units
• 19th & O Lofts, 10 units
• St. Lukes/Sutter (Loftworks), 26th & N, 32 units
• CalPers, R Street, 166 units
• The Towers, 301 Capitol Mall, 790 condo units plus 276-room hotel
• Aura Tower, 601 Capitol Mall, 283 condo units
• 18th & L Lofts (Kolokotronis), 93 units
• And thousands of more housing/mixed use units that are planned for the Central City:
• CalPers, R Street, 200+ mixed condo/loft/rental units
• K Street between 7th and 10th, 500+ condo/loft/rental units
• The Grand Tower, 1215 J, 85 condo units plus hotel
• Library Lofts Tower, 8th & I, 295 condo units
• Epic Tower, 12th & I, 390 condo units
• Jibboom Street Riverfront, 200 condo units
• Cathedral Square Tower, 11th & J, 242 condo units
• Docks Area Project, 1,000+ mixed condo/loft/rental units
• Downtown Railyards, 5,000+ mixed condo/loft/rental units
• Over 1000 new hotel rooms Downtown, including Sheraton Grand at 13th & J, Embassy Suites next to Old Sac, Marriott Suites at 15th & L, and plans for several new ones Downtown.
• Midtown's emergence as the City's sidewalk café district and urban village, accomplished by attracting new market-rate housing and restaurants, street lighting, angled parking, and increased code enforcement
• Comprehensive strategy to fight crime in Midtown, including: improving crime surveillance, increasing graffiti enforcement, and improving communications between Police and the community, and NPOs devoted exclusively to Midtown.
• City funding to partner with Midtown Business Association to establish a new Midtown business district
• Rehabilitated Winn Park at 28th and P, including a new playground and renovated fire relay building (winner of the 2001 Art Deco Society Award)
• New playground at Washington School at 17th and E.
• Renovated Fremont Park at 16th & P.
• Renovated Grant Park with tot lot, sidewalk and street lights
• Renovated Stanford Park with street lights, sidewalks and new plaza next to B Street Theater
• Community driven Master Plan for Muir Park with funding for playground, water feature and other renovations in 2006
• Conversion of City Landfill at 28th & North B into Sutter's Landing Park, with long term plan to include Sacramento Zoo
• Renovated pond at Sutter's Fort
• 20th St. Bikeway Underpass connecting Midtown (on C Street next to Blue Diamond) to the American River Parkway
• New acorn street lights in parks and neighborhoods throughout the Central City (including Boulevard Park, Marshall School, Winn Park, Mansion Flats).
• Neighborhood Preservation Transportation Plan (NPTP) north of J Street, including conversion of G and H to two-way streets with bike lanes, new storm drains, pedestrian islands and traffic circles, and five new traffic lights on J, K and L.
• South Midtown Area Traffic (SMART) Plan, which converted L, N, P and Q Streets from 3-lane freeways to 2-lane streets, with bike lanes, pedestrian islands, bulb outs, and traffic circles
• New Safeway Shopping Center on 19th Street, the Central City's first large supermarket with loft housing.
• 16th Street Lighting and Landscaping Plan
• Free holiday parking, special events, Midtown Gardens beautification project, and Midtown maps/guides.
• Neighborhood-supported R Street Plan and Zoning Ordinance changes.
• Regularly participated with the Neighborhood Association Group and all of the Central City neighborhood associations to find solutions to problems plaguing the Central City neighborhoods.
• Central City Neighborhood Design Guidelines
• Negotiated "Good Neighbor" conditions in the Blue Diamond retention deal, including additional security patrol, $50,000 per year for Midtown street lighting, $50,000 per year in grants for community non-profits, and right-of-way along the river parkway for a new bicycle trail and future light rail
• Sacramento START program at Washington School, which had been previously targeted by the School District's closure list
• Reduced vagrancy problems at 20th and I streets by persuading the LIFE center to relocate outside Central City
• Replaced the old K Street shuttle with the new Downtown Area Shuttle (DASH) connecting Midtown to Old Sacramento
• Obtained federal transportation (TEA-21) funding for the two-way conversion study of L, N, P and Q Streets from one-way to two-way streets, and to add bike lanes on 19th and 21st Street
• Opposed the developer proposal to tear down six homes next to the old Newton Booth School (new housing project planned now for the site)
• Helped open and keep operating the new Planned Parenthood Clinic on 29th
• Free backpacks with school supplies annually for each and every student at Washington Elementary School
• Sutter District Master Plan, including Sutter Hospital expansion with new Women's and Children's Center and two new medical office buildings, new retail./residential mixed use project nearby, new home for the California Children's Theater and B Street Theater, a new Trinity Cathedral and 1,100 space parking garage to accommodate medical staff and community uses, as well as about 9,00 square fee of neighborhood servicing retail and restaurant.

• Pops in the Park to Glen Hall Park
• Closure of Glen Hall Park at dusk instead of 10:00 p.m. to reduce crime in the neighborhood
• New 4th R portable classroom at Caleb Greenwood School
• Landscaped median and roadside on J Street in front of Sac State
• Landscaped River Park entrance at Carlson and H Streets with fountain dedicated to the Yermols
• Replacement of unsightly asphalt H Street median next to Fremont Church
• Field work and other improvements for the River Park Bambino League baseball diamond at Ciavarella Field
• Dan McAuliffe Memorial Baseball Park (Babe Ruth and Senior Men's Baseball) next to Sac State
• Kindergarten and regular playgrounds at Caleb Greenwood School
• Partnered with the River Park Neighborhood Association and neighbors to fight the heron problem near Caleb Greenwood School
• Renovated Glen Hall Park Pool with shaded grassy area, decorative fencing, water slide and diving board

• Secured funding to construct storm drainage improvements in Campus Commons and city portion of Sierra Oaks
• Secured funding for a new Sac State Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan on campus
• Brokered agreement between neighbors and Sacramento Country Day School to preserve the existing greenbelt and ensure the school's continued operation and expansion will be compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and permits.
• Supported formation of the new Sierra Oaks Neighborhood Association
• Worked with all neighborhood associations in the area on improving safety and increasing flood protection and preparedness
• Brought Pops in the Park to University Park and Sac State
• Directed staff to offer a smaller garbage can and lower garbage service rate to residents in Campus Commons
• Worked with neighbors to help Police track down burglars in Campus Commons
• Worked with Campus Commons residents to develop common sense solutions to traffic problems
• Developed strong relationship with CSUS to work on major development projects that will tie the campus to the community at large, including pedestrian and bicycle iimprovements, housing and streetcar study

• First major street lighting program in the City in decades for Swanston Estates
• New baseball diamond and soccer goals at Babcock Park, and new playground and other improvements for Babcock School
• New playground and picnic facilities at Kenwood Mackey Park in Hagginwood
• New soccer field at Hagginwood Elementary School
• Coordinated volunteer-led effort to convert two empty lots in Hagginwood into landcaped "mini-parks"
• Negotiated with Arden Fair to install a new traffic light on Ethan Way at the back exit from Arden Fair (J.C. Penneys) and on Arden Way near the Sears entrance.
• Negotiated good neighbor conditions for Kaiser Permanente Point West Center, including portable classroom for an after school program and Swanston Estates meeting room at Babcock School, new street lighting around Babcock Park, new traffic signal at Challenge Way and Response Road, added security in the Point West Area, and new turn lanes at several intersections.
• Expo/160 Connector
• Neighborhood traffic management plan for Swanston Estates, including speed humps, stop signs, and other traffic calming devices
• Babcock school use for community meetings
• Swanston Transit Village study.for appropriate mixed use development at the Swanston Light Rail Station in North Sacramento
• $1 million funding set-aside for infrastructure improvements to the Ben Ali neighborhood, including neighborhood park, curbs, gutters and sidewalks
• New neighborhood associations in Ben Ali and Hagginwood

1. PROTECT AND PRESERVE NEIGHBORHOODS

• See District 3 accomplishments above and ordinances below.

• As Chair of RT, oversaw start of construction light rail expansion to South Area (Meadowview) and Folsom by 2003; developed plan to expand light rail to Airport and Elk Grove, with commuter or light rail connections to Roseville and West Sacramento/Davis; instituted neighborhood shuttle bus service in North Sacramento and Carmichael; started the popular shuttle bus from Downtown to Raley Field for River Cat baseball games; and spearheaded the new DASH Trolley and Bus in the Central City.
• As Chair of the Capital Corridor Rail Board, directed fastest growing intercity rail service in the nation, increasing ridership over 200% in two years, increasing the frequency from 8 to 18 (now 32) trains a day between Sacramento and the Bay Area, saved service to Auburn, reduced the travel time to 2 hours, and developed a plan for hourly service between Roseville, Sacramento, Davis and the Bay Area and extended service to the Reno/Tahoe area.
• As STA Chair, crafted compromise to allocate over $70 million in federal TEA-21 funds, including 45 percent to rail/transit projects, 41 percent to roadway projects, and remainder to bikeway, parkway and landscaping projects, such as CSUS Access and Tower Bridge projects, and projects to beautify aging business corridors, such as Fulton, Watt, Marconi, Stockton, Northgate, and Folsom Blvd.
• As STA Chair, promoted a program to offer free RT rail and bus passes on smoggy "Spare the Air" days.
• Significantly increased maintenance and repairs of City streets.
• Sponsored Council effort to expand the Downtown Shuttle to Midtown and Point West Area hotels.
• Voted to expand the citywide Neighborhood Traffic Management Program.
• Voted to accelerate the installation of wheelchair accessible ramps and curbs cuts throughout the City.
• Voted to adopt the Master Bikeway Plan and the Sacramento River Parkway and Bikeway plan.
• Led successful regional efforts to ensure that the California High-Speed Rail Authority's plans include a station in Sacramento.
• Led Council efforts to establish an intermodal station Downtown (Sacramento Valley Station).

• Voted to add police officers to help reduce crime rate seven years in a row.
• As past SAFCA Chair, helped secure federal funding for American River levee slurry wall and Folsom Dam modifications, and federal authorization for the Folsom Dam 7-foot raise to increase Sacramento's flood protection from 140 to 213-year level.
• Led Council to establish a more aggressive program to fight graffiti and vandalism, including additional funding and staffing, parental responsibility ordinance, portable Graffiti Paint Wagon, neighborhood strike forces to remove graffiti, and increased arrests and prosecutions.
• Helped establish the Neighborhood Accountability Board to allow citizen participation in alternative sentencing for youth offenders.
• Voted to receive federal grants to fund 23 new neighborhood officers and hire 33 civilians to perform crime scene investigation and lab work.
• Voted to reinstate Police Traffic Division and increase fines for red light violations.
• Voted for the City's award-winning Neighborhood Traffic Management Program to reduce traffic speeds and volumes and truck traffic through neighborhood streets.
• Voted to adopt an anti-camping ordinance to allow police to more effectively control transients in our neighborhoods.
• Voted to establish a 911 intergovernmental emergency communication system.
• Helped to establish emergency flood response plans for all City neighborhoods and activated them for the 1995 and 1997 Floods.
• Sponsored an agreement between the City and the District Attorney to expand neighborhood code enforcement and community prosecutor program.
• Continued program to attack and remove graffiti and crime.
• Voted to open a new fire engine station in the South area.
• Sponsored and developed the City's $1 million street light matching program for older neighborhoods and business districts.
• Opened the 72-hour hold detoxification center Downtown.

• Helped the Sacramento City Unified School District and the Area Congregations Together (ACT) coalition to pass a School Bond with over 80 percent of the vote.
• Developed a strong partnership with all of the schools in District 3, including those in the North Sacramento and San Juan Districts to work on the START (Students Today Achieving Results for Tomorrow) after-school program and other neighborhood, youth and recreational issues.
• Raised money to fund new little league baseball and soccer facilities.
• Helped raise private matching funds for the City's Late Night Sacramento and START programs.Supported a successful bond measure for North Sac School District.
• Supported youth employment programs.
• Used Pops, L&L and volunteer funds to install new playground and purchase new soccer goals at Babcock School and Park.
• Opposed Prop. 38, the voucher initiative, which was defeated 70% to 30%.
• Supported the successful Prop. 39, allowing school bonds to be adopted at local level with a 55% vote and instituting accountability.
• Worked with neighbors and school to use new school portable as community meeting room.
• Supported joint community and school partnership programs, including parks, playgrounds and libraries.

• As leading recycling advocate on the City Council (and past Chair of Sacramento Solid Waste Authority), led City to attain 50% diversion rate, one of the highest in the country, by expanding the City's recycling programs to include all types of paper products, including junk mail and cardboard, and by partnering with BLT to construct a new transfer station and recycling center to lessen need for more landfill space and decrease disposal costs.
• As the leading advocate on the Council for rail, transit, bicycle and other alternative transportation modes, obtained funding for the South Light Rail Line and other alternative mode projects.
• Voted to adopt the Master Bikeway Plan and the Sacramento River Parkway and Bikeway plan.
• Voted to upgrade the City's lighting and mechanical systems, resulting in thousands of dollars in energy savings and a prestigious award in conservation.
• Principal sponsor of Earth Day programs since 1999.
• Sponsored resolution for Sacramento to join Cities for Global Climate Protection.
• Started work on the expansion and aesthetic improvements to the Fairbairn Water Intake near CSUS.
• Voted to replace the three bin recycling cans with a single, more convenient rolling can, which is substantially increasing residential recycling.
• Recipient of the 1996 Sierra Club's Civic Courage Award.
• Recipient of the 1998 Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates', California Bicycle Coalition's, and American Lung Association's Award for Outstanding Service.

• Recipient of the 2001 Metro Chamber of Commerce's City Elected Official of the Year Award
• Worked closely with Metro Chamber of Commerce, SACTO, Valley Vision, Midtown Business Association, East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, Point West Area Transportation Management Association and city staff to improve the business climate in Sacramento in general and the Central City in particular.
• Helped retain Blue Diamond and its hundreds of employees in its corporate headquarters in Midtown (since 1910).
• Supported the successful staging of the Olympic Trials at Sac State in 2000 and 2004.
• Strongly and consistently supported Downtown's transformation as the business, entertainment, government and cultural hub of the region with City-supported projects such expanded and renovated City Hall, new waterfront restaurant and other attractions, Wells Fargo Pavilion/Music Circus/STC Performing Arts Center, over 3,000 new Downtown housing units built or permitted over the last 10 years, the Cal EPA high rise, the East End (Capitol) State Building Project, the Downtown Partnership, the Sacramento Riverfront Master Plan, the Public Market in Old Sacramento, the Hard Rock Café, the skating rink and, IMAX theater on K Street, Sheraton Convention Center Hotel, Embassy Suites Waterfront Hotel, restored Crest Theater and Memorial Auditorium, and approved plans to expand the Crocker Art Museum, build a Capitol Unit Center, a new home for the B Street Theater and Childrens' Theater, etc.
• As member of Welfare to Work Board and Council, developed a new structure to put former welfare recipients to work and supported homeless, social services, and welfare reform policies that reward individual responsibility and community service and relieve the strain on overburdened Central City.
• Supported 60 Quinn cottages for transitional housing and the Midtown Gardens project to employ formerly homeless.

• Established the Pops in the Park summer evening series of concerts in neighborhood parks attended by thousands of residents, and raising thousands of dollars for District 3 park improvement projects.
• Established partnerships with schools, labor unions, little leagues, community groups and the State to complete numerous park and playground projects in District 3.
• Adopted Master Park Plan, with new baseball and soccer fields, permanent parks for skateboarders, in-line skaters and bicyclists, and the use of Sutter's Landing Park (next to the old City landfill on 28th Street, north of the UPRR tracks).
• Pushed Council to set aside $1.4 million in funding for new parks acquisition, including acquisition of property along the American River to complete the parkway.
• Improved park maintenance with the Lighting & Landscape Fund, which received more than 70% voter approval to continue the program.

• Consistently led the Council's support of the Crocker Art Museum, the Sacramento Symphony, Sacramento Ballet, Sacramento Opera, and other arts groups.
• Started the Sacramento Poet Laureate Program in 1999.
• Started the Old Sacramento New Year's Eve Fireworks and Sky Concert in 2001.
• As Past Chair of the Library Authority, worked with volunteer community groups to establish and carry out a plan, approved by more than 60% of City voters, to substantially increase library hours and book collections; and more recently to install Internet computer terminals in all City libraries, and to open the Central Downtown Library two evenings a week.
• Arranged for Sac State basketball games to be played at Memorial Auditorium.
• Consistent supporter of the Sacramento Sports Commission's efforts to bring sports to the area, including the Olympic Trials in 2000.

• As only Councilmember with utility experience, I led the Council to adopt practices similar to SMUD, voting for no City residential utility rate increase for three years in a row (1996-98), holding average rate increases to under 3 percent during 5 years on Council compared to double digit increases the preceding 5 years, and establishing electronic utility bill payments.
• Reduced city's commercial garbage collection rates by 25%, while also pushing for more competition among waste haulers and disposal sites.
• As member of Council's Technology Committee, pushed to establish the 24-hour City Operator program (264-5011) which handles 35,000 non-emergency calls a year and the development of a City internet website (http://WWW.cityofsacramento.org).
• Conducted public meetings and sidewalk hours throughout District 3 neighborhoods.
• Served on the City Council committee that negotiated the deal to sell the City's interest in the Hyatt Hotel for a gain of $8 million.
• Supported variable garbage can sizes and rates so residents can save on their utility bills by using smaller cans.
• Opposed the City Council's $73 million loan to the Kings and asked that it be put to a vote of City residents.

• Joined with Mayor Serna and Assemblymember Darrell Steinberg to co-found the Capital Unity Council, a broad-based coalition of area leaders devoted to fighting hate crimes and establishing a new Unity Center.
• Leading advocate of City program to contract with small and emerging businesses on a non-discriminatory basis and to continue outreach into the minority communities in the post-Prop. 9 environment that prohibits many affirmative action programs.
• Strong supporter of Sacramento's Black Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Asian-Pacific Chamber of Commerce.
• Long-time participant in Martin Luther King Day march.
• Strong supporter of efforts to collect ethnic and racial data on Police stops and arrests.

• Chair of the Council's Campaign Reform and Law and Legislation Committees.
• Sponsored an ordinance reinstating campaign contribution limits, restricting independent expenditures, and requiring all campaign reports to be available electronically via the Internet in City elections, and drafted ordinances for public financing and lobbyist registration.
• Sponsored an amendment to the City ordinance to prohibit a landowner from destroying or moving a house without notice and a public hearing.
• Voted to adopt stricter historic building ordinance requiring notice and a hearing before a historic building can be demolished.
• Voted to adopt a strict new City ordinance regulating on-site and off-site liquor sales in over-concentrated areas.
• Helped develop several new city ordinances to address the growing over-concentration of social services in the Central City and supported an emergency ordinance regarding financial management facilities.
• Supported anti-camping ordinance.
• Sponsored anti-graffiti ordinance.

• 2004 River Park Neighborhood Association Award for H St. bike crossing
• 2004 State of California Greenway Project Merit Award for Sutter's Landing Park Bike Trail
• 2004 Grant Joint Union High School District Award for Outstanding Service to the District and the Community
• 2003, 2001 Old Sac Little League Awards
• 2003 Phantom Galleries Award
• 2003 American Congregations Together (ACT) Award of Honor for RT student transit discounts
• 2002 Veterans Affiliated Council Award for Patriotism and Community Service
• 2001 Metro Chamber of Commerce City Elected Official of the Year
• 2001 SACOG "Project of the Year Award" for Capitol Corridor
• 2001 Capitol Corridor Chair Train Award
• 2001 Veterans Affiliated Council of Sacramento Memorial Day Certificate of Appreciation
• 2001 East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Appreciation
• 2000 Sacramento Sports Commission Award of Recognition for the Olympic Trials
• 2000 RT Chair Gavel Award
• 2000 SACOG "Project of the Year" Award for Hornet Crossing
• 1999, 1998 and 1997 Midtown Business Association Certificates/Awards of Appreciation
• 1998 Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates', California Bicycle Coalition's, and American Lung Association's Award for Outstanding Service.
• 1998 Hiram Johnson High School Honorary Teacher Award
• 1997 City/County Business Roundtable Student on the Job Day Award
• 1997 Rio Americano High School Academia Civitas Award
• 1997 World AIDS Day Certificate of Appreciation
• 1997 Sacramento Cottage Housing Certificate of Appreciation
• 1996 Sierra Club Civic Courage Award
• 1995 Point West Business Association Certificate of Appreciation
• 1989 East Sacramento Improvement Association Orchid Award