Darrell Steinberg Visits the "Downtown Club"!
Posted by Jay Lowden on Oct 18, 2016
President Dan McVeigh, (Downey Brand LLP) without his Peruvian Hat, called the meeting to order. Thanks were given to Clayton Lee for hosting the wine reception; Kevin Williams (KVIE) and Aaron French (Zanker Road Resource Mgmt) for spinning the tunes and playing the piano; Diane Mizell and Skip Lawrence for greeting everyone at the front door; JD Dannenfelser for handling the Audio Visual; and Ted White (Sacramento Delta Property Mgmt) and Dave Higdon (California Moving Systems) were serving as the day’s set up crew.
Mike Miklaus (Integrity Mortgage) provided the thought for the day, a lesson which was on Civilized People, thanks to some quotes from Anton Chekhov.
Introductions of visitors, guests and prospective members were made. A special welcome was offered to Sandi Sava from the Sacramento Breakfast Club who is the District Governor Elect.
President Dan gave an update on Denise Mazzucca-Barrett (Macias Gini & O’Connell) and asked everyone to keep her in your prayers and thought, and if you have a chance to send her a card.
Marilyn Park from Sacramento Doncasters, was the sponsor of the day and allocated her time to Shari Roeseler from the Sacramento Society for the Blind.
With the day’s speaker being the Mayor-Elect for the City of Sacramento a topic for fellowship was suggested for tables to discuss. “What is the most important issue for the people of Sacramento?”
Never lacking announcements we heard from April Javist (Sacramento Library Foundation), who thanked everyone that supported the Walk for Literacy; Todd Andrews (Andrews Construction), who let us know that there are still some Sac Century shirts available for sale, Elena Naderi who announced the 1st Happy Hour Networking night of the year will be on October 26 at Mix Downtown, and Dan McVeigh who let us know; there are free seats available for the Rotary Foundation dinner this Saturday evening-please contact the office to claim a seat, if you have a nomination for the 18/19 Club President-please email the name to President Dan by October 25th, in response to the closing of the Red Lion-Woodlake the Board will be discussing and voting on a 90 day trial contract with the Dante Club that will enable us to keep lunch fees as they are while we continue the search for a permanent home for our weekly meetings.
A variety of Roast, Boast and Toasts were made with including…
Rita Gibson (Rita Gibson Ins & Investment Services Inc.) celebrating her husband Charlie’s 80th birthday; Jeanne Reaves (Jeanne Reaves Consulting); Judy Daru (JA Collins 
Properties) celebrating her daughter’s marriage and move to Glasgow; Bob Gaines for 91 youthful years and showing appreciation to Todd Andrews and Susan Sheridan; Mike Bullington (Pacific Advisors) recognizing Jim Relles of Relles Florist’s 70th anniversary and reminding the club to “Petal it Forward”; and then 
we got into a dueling professors contest started with Walter Dahl (Dahl Law), a professor at McGeorge School of Law, followed by Rick Davis, a professor at University of Phoenix, then onto Jim Leet (Boutin Jones) teaching at McGeorge School of Law and UC Davis followed by Richard Kowaleski (Richard Kowaleski Magician) as a retired professor and rounded out by Robyn DeLong (Coldwell Banker), a former professor at American River College.
Properties) celebrating her daughter’s marriage and move to Glasgow; Bob Gaines for 91 youthful years and showing appreciation to Todd Andrews and Susan Sheridan; Mike Bullington (Pacific Advisors) recognizing Jim Relles of Relles Florist’s 70th anniversary and reminding the club to “Petal it Forward”; and then we got into a dueling professors contest started with Walter Dahl (Dahl Law), a professor at McGeorge School of Law, followed by Rick Davis, a professor at University of Phoenix, then onto Jim Leet (Boutin Jones) teaching at McGeorge School of Law and UC Davis followed by Richard Kowaleski (Richard Kowaleski Magician) as a retired professor and rounded out by Robyn DeLong (Coldwell Banker), a former professor at American River College.The clock
struck 1pm, and as if he was waiting in the wings, Darrell Steinberg entered the room to a round of applause as the new Mayor-Elect for the City of Sacramento. Darrell is in the middle of a six-month transition period and is using that time wisely to plan for his tenure as Mayor. When discussing what he plans to take on during the next four years he mentioned that we need to focus on only a few items and we must be willing to take risks. He recognized Bob Gaines and talked about Ted, Bob’s son who was a colleague in the State Senate.
struck 1pm, and as if he was waiting in the wings, Darrell Steinberg entered the room to a round of applause as the new Mayor-Elect for the City of Sacramento. Darrell is in the middle of a six-month transition period and is using that time wisely to plan for his tenure as Mayor. When discussing what he plans to take on during the next four years he mentioned that we need to focus on only a few items and we must be willing to take risks. He recognized Bob Gaines and talked about Ted, Bob’s son who was a colleague in the State Senate.
In regard to plans for the city the major topics were as follows: Building on the impact of the new arena and using it as just a beginning of an economic renaissance. Build on that momentum to diversity the economy and make it more of a private sector economy, not just a government town. Take time to fully assess the convention center expansion and not underestimate the need to have it be large enough to make Sacramento a destination city for conventions. Develop the riverfront. Make the city a thriving destination for young professionals. Create jobs, especially for youth. Make Sacramento 2nd to none in the state around a positive youth agenda. Solve the homeless issue with emergency housing and food, and supportive and trained outreach workers. In the Q&A when asked to clearly define the two or three key things he was going to work on, he referred to the buckets of Economic Renaissance, Elevate the Arts, the Youth Agenda and 
Homelessness.