Lodi Improvement Committee — September 8, 2026

Lodi Improvement Committee — September 8, 2026

Regular Meeting · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 6:00 p.m.

Carnegie Forum, 305 West Pine Street, Lodi, CA 95240

The night the committee votes on whether to replace itself. Staff contact: Kari Chadwick, CDD Program Specialist, (209) 333-6711. Agenda signed by Cynthia Marsh, Interim Community Development Director.

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Summary

This is the most consequential Lodi Improvement Committee meeting of 2026. Three items in a row put the committee's own existence on the table: a redlined bylaws rewrite that would dissolve the Lodi Improvement Committee and replace it with the "Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision," a possible recommendation of that rewrite to the City Council, and a reorganization vote for a temporary Chair and Vice Chair placed at the very end of the agenda, after member comments.

The rewrite is not a housekeeping edit. It would strip the committee's crime, blight, code-enforcement and infrastructure-advocacy mandates; convert membership from seven Council-appointed residents to seven seats filled by other City bodies with the Mayor as automatic Chair; drop regular meetings from monthly to quarterly; tighten removal for absence; and eliminate the committee's own fund account and audit provision.

The meeting also carries a Lodi Committee on Homelessness presentation, catch-up approval of two sets of minutes (July 14 and the one-minute August 11 meeting that died for lack of quorum), the 2026 activities matrix, and November scheduling of the 2027-29 CDBG application overview and NOFA.

Quorum is the live risk. The LIC has failed to conduct business at two of its last four scheduled meetings — June 9 was cancelled outright and August 11 adjourned at 6:01 p.m. with only three members present. The proposed bylaws would deem a seat vacated after two unexcused absences in a year, down from three.

Agenda at a glance

Agenda items for the September 8, 2026 Lodi Improvement Committee meeting

#	Item	Type
1	Roll call	Procedural
2	Minutes — July 14, 2026 and August 11, 2026	Action
3	Public comment, non-agenda items (5 min/speaker)	Public
4	Lodi Committee on Homelessness presentation	Presentation
5	Committee purpose and structure — continued discussion and possible recommendation to City Council	Action
6	LIC 2026 annual activities updates and task assignments	Discussion
7	Regular business — topics for October (TBD) and November (2027-29 CDBG application overview + NOFA)	Discussion
8	Member and staff comments, non-agenda items	Public
9	Reorganization — temporary Chair and Vice Chair nominations and votes	Action
10	Adjournment	Procedural

How to participate

In person at the Carnegie Forum; by Zoom webinar ID 880 2451 7154, passcode 191272 (1-669-444-9171 or 1-253-215-8782); by email to LICcomments@lodi.gov; by mail to Community Development Department, P.O. Box 3006, Lodi, CA 95241; or hand delivery to 221 W. Pine Street. Written comment must arrive no later than three hours before the meeting, goes to the City Council and into the minutes, and is not read aloud. Watch live on the City of Lodi public meetings channel. Language interpretation and ADA accommodation requests require 72 hours' notice.

What is in the packet

All attachments are bound into the single September 8, 2026 packet PDF. Page ranges below were verified page by page on September 5, 2026.

Attachments bound into the September 8, 2026 packet, with page ranges

#	Attachment	Packet pages
1	Agenda, September 8, 2026	1–2
2	July 14, 2026 regular minutes	3–6
3	August 11, 2026 regular minutes (adjourned for lack of quorum)	7
4	Staff memorandum — Kari Chadwick to LIC, "CDBG Updates and Regular Business"	8–10
5	"Current Bylaws with Redline Proposed Amendment 09-08-26"	11–16
6	Clean proposed bylaws — Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision	17–21
7	Lodi Improvement Committee 2026 Goals matrix	22–24

Total: 24 pages. There is no separate correspondence file in the packet — no letters from residents, agencies or partner organizations. The only written communication is the staff memorandum.

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Item 4 — Lodi Committee on Homelessness presentation

The staff memo says only: "Receive presentation from a representative from the Lodi Committee On Homelessness." No presenter is named and no slide deck is attached.

The LCOH is a community stakeholder body — not a Council-appointed commission — that meets at 2:30 p.m. in the Lodi Community Room, with the mission of bringing "people together to collaborate and advocate solutions to homelessness" (City of Lodi homelessness initiatives). Its chair is Lisa Meyers-Hill, who signs as Chairperson and appears in the minutes as "Chair Hill" — the same person, not two members (LCOH January 8, 2026 packet). Lisa Shinn was seated as Vice Chair on July 9, 2026 following Calvin Young's resignation (LCOH July 9, 2026 packet). Agenda requests go to lcohca@gmail.com.

Why this item connects to the LIC's own work: the 2026 goals matrix already assigns Member Mono Geralis a standing task to distribute the LCOH resource flyer and to route newly identified resources back to the LCOH Chair for future editions of the resource guide. This presentation is the natural venue to close that loop and to ask about the flyer's current version and distribution points.

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Item 5 — Committee purpose and structure

Central itemThe redline would rename and re-charter the body as the Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision, tied to the eight-priority Strategic Vision the Council originally adopted May 17, 2023 by Resolution No. 2023-98. That resolution was repealed and replaced on March 4, 2026 (item G.3), following a January 28, 2026 special Council meeting at Hutchins Street Square. The revised document is dated February 2026 and lists eight priorities alphabetically — Downtown, Economic Development, Fiscal Health, Housing, Infrastructure, Parks, Public Safety and Public Well-being (March 4, 2026 Council packet; City Council Strategic Vision). Note the arithmetic: eight priorities, but the draft seats only six commission representatives plus the Mayor.

Purposes — struck and replaced (Article II, Section 2)

Current committee purposes compared with the proposed replacement language

Current language (struck)	Replacement
Combat illegal drugs, prostitution and other crimes via Crime Stoppers / Neighborhood Watch	Advise Council on implementation of the Strategic Vision
Eliminate blight; encourage maintenance and rehabilitation of properties	Promote community awareness of City goals and priorities
Advocate for residents on streets, alleys, water, sewer, storm drainage	Encourage meaningful public participation in achieving Council objectives
Encourage compliance with building, housing, fire, health and safety and property maintenance ordinances	Foster partnerships leveraging public, private, nonprofit, education and volunteer resources
Coordinate with churches, civic and community groups to educate the public	Promote civic pride through recognition of individuals, neighborhoods, businesses, schools and organizations
Work with the business community for a healthy business climate	As needed, consider grant opportunities and serve as the body to score grant applications
Acknowledge properties and businesses showing marked improvement	(dropped)

Every operational, neighborhood-level mandate is replaced by advisory and promotional language. The one concrete retained power is grant scoring — which is how the committee stays attached to CDBG.

What else changes

• Membership (Article III). General membership "open to all persons" is deleted. The new committee is seven voting members: the Mayor or designee, plus one representative each appointed by the Economic Development ad hoc Committee, Lodi Senior Citizens Commission, Greater Lodi Area Youth Commission, Library Board of Trustees, Lodi Arts Commission and Parks & Recreation Commission. The Mayor automatically serves as Chair; the Mayor Pro Tempore is a non-voting eighth member who votes only when presiding.
• Terms. Three years, no more than two consecutive full terms without a one-year break, staggered by the appointing group's original appointment date.
• Transition. Current LIC members serve out their terms, then each seat converts to a body-appointed representative.
• Vacancies and removal. Vacancies filled by the appointing body for the unexpired term; removal by Council for cause, "including unexcused absence from two consecutive regular meetings."
• Officers (Article IV). Only the Vice-Chairperson is elected, annually at the first quarterly meeting. Absence forfeiture tightens from three unexcused meetings to two, with the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore exempt.
• Meetings. From "once a month, on the second Tuesday" to a "consistent quarterly basis established by the Committee (example: April, August, October, and January)." Brown Act coverage is retained.
• Communications. All external communications must route through the Chair in coordination with the City's Public Information Officer and be approved by majority vote. The old fallback allowing the Vice-Chair or a designated Board member to authorize communications is struck.
• Dissolution. Currently the body may be dissolved by Council or by its own Board; the draft leaves dissolution to the City Council alone.

Financial matters — deleted entirely

The current Article V requires all LIC donations, gifts and revenues to flow through the City Finance Department, expenditures to be approved by majority Board vote and signed by an Executive Officer, and the fund account to be audited within the City's annual audit. The clean draft has no Article V equivalent. This is the account Chair Davis asked staff to research the history of on July 14, and that Member Soto said he believed came from member-run donations and fundraisers.

Signature block: the approval-as-to-form line shows Janice D. Magdich struck and John M. Luebberke inserted as Interim City Attorney, with adoption and Council ratification dates left blank for 2026. The current bylaws were adopted by the LIC April 10, 2018 and ratified by Council May 16, 2018; the underlying authority is Resolution No. 2011-173 (City of Lodi boards portal). All bylaws detail above is drawn from the redlined and clean drafts at packet pages 11–21.

Where this came from

At the July 14 meeting Chair Davis said she had a Council update presentation assembled but was "unsure of how to proceed since the direction of the committee is unclear," and asked that the bylaws be agendized. Interim Director Marsh told the committee it could not discuss future plans for the bylaws because that is a Council purview item, but that members could comment when the item reaches Council or contact Council members individually. Ms. Chadwick explained the redline reflects requested changes from an earlier effort that stalled when the members who drafted it left the committee before it reached Council. Member Geralis raised concern that changes might not come back to the committee for comment; Member Soto and Vice Chair Hayre both urged moving the Council update forward regardless.

That is the direct predecessor to Item 5, recorded in the July 14, 2026 minutes at packet pages 3–6. The August 11 meeting, which would have taken it up, collapsed for lack of quorum.

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Item 6 — 2026 activities and task assignments

Source: 2026 Goals matrix, packet pages 22–24. The matrix has four headings, and the assignment gaps are the story: eight of the fourteen task lines read "TBD."

1. Informational Updates — Owner: TBD

The July minutes list Member Sharma as owner. Lines: Downtown Specific Plan briefing (Planning Division), due TBD; Community Improvement Division briefing, due TBD; CDBG Funding Awareness & Outreach, owner and liaison both TBD, ongoing.

2. Community Well-Being

• Advance Youth Programs — Owner Dawson Hayre. Youth Opportunity (Youth Commission collaboration, exploring a Lodi Lake event highlighting youth-owned small businesses) and Youth Gang Prevention. Enhanced Youth Programs — TBD. Youth Commission meeting attendance — TBD.
• Animal Services Support — Owner Dawson Hayre, liaison TBD. The July minutes record this owner as Member Davis.
• Environmentally Responsible Community Collaborations — Owner Christine Tran; Earth Day planning with Parks/Rec, Youth, Arts and Tree Lodi.

3. Community Improvement

• Neighborhood Quality & Livability — Owner Mono Geralis; route graffiti, alleyways, blight, lane striping, potholes, medians, lighting, crosswalk functionality, sidewalk obstructions and ADA concerns through the Report-A-Concern form.
• Community Resources — Owner Mono Geralis; LCOH resource flyer distribution.
• City Beautification — Owners Geralis, Tran and Davis. Arts Commission liaison — TBD.

4. Administration, Transparency, Accountability

• City Council Engagement — Owner: all members. First presentation due "August – 2nd meeting," assignee TBD; second presentation due December/January, assignee TBD.
• Public Awareness — Owner Christine Tran; one town hall, online and/or in person, all members assigned, ongoing.

The first Council presentation is now past its own internal deadline with no presenter named, and the presenter identified in the July minutes has not appeared in the July or August roll calls.

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Item 7 — Upcoming meeting topics

• October — TBD. The only open scheduling slot, and the practical entry point for public suggestions.
• November — 2027-29 CDBG Application Overview Presentation and NOFA.

The November item matters because Public Services applications run on a rolling two-year cycle, so the 2027-29 round is the next opportunity for Lodi nonprofits. For scale, the 2026-27 cycle opened December 8, 2025 and closed January 27, 2026, advertising "approximately $550,000 in CDBG funds," of which "approximately $310,000 will be available for capital improvement and public infrastructure projects" (City of Lodi CDBG program page). The actual HUD award came in at $665,263 — well above the advertised estimate, and the notice was never updated.

A change from the July minutes: on July 14 the committee slotted September for Bailey Caswell, Rick Freeman of Lodi Adopt-A-Child, and Lynsay Nuss of CPFSJ. The posted September agenda instead carries the LCOH presentation, and October is blank. Those three guests appear to have been deferred without an explanation in the packet — a reasonable question to raise under Item 7.

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Item 9 — Reorganization: temporary Chair and Vice Chair

The staff memo says only "Vote for new Chair and Vice Chair." The packet gives no reason for the vacancy, no reference to a resignation, and no explanation of what "temporary" means. The current bylaws set officer elections annually in April; the proposed bylaws move them to the first quarterly meeting. Dawson Hayre was elected Vice Chair on February 10, 2026, and Lyndsy Davis chaired through July 14; Hayre presided on August 11.

Placing an officer election after the possible bylaws recommendation, and after member comments, means whoever is elected may be presiding over a body whose charter has just been recommended for replacement — and under the proposed bylaws, the Chair's seat would belong to the Mayor by right.

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The staff memorandum, summarized

From: Kari Chadwick, CDD Program Specialist · Date: September 8, 2026 · Subject: CDBG Updates and Regular Business · packet pages 8–10.

Stated purpose of the LIC: support staff in implementing the five-year Consolidated Plan through outreach, process feedback, and funding and project-priority recommendations to Council; maintain and improve Lodi's quality of life and appearance; and create and implement annual goals.

• Public Services applications are on a rolling two-year cycle; no new round this year.
• The 2026-27 Annual Action Plan was adopted by Council June 3, after a review period running May 2 – June 3, 2026.
• 2025-26 award: $655,037. City guideline allocates 40% of the award net of administration to community-based organizations; HUD caps public services at 15%.
• Four capital applications requested over $419,000; staff recommended partial funding of one. Graffiti Abatement moved to Administration funding ($15,000) after it was determined it could no longer be funded under Capital.
• An LIC ad hoc of three members scored Public Service applications on April 24, 2025; Council approved the allocation June 18, 2025.

Where the money went: 2025-26 versus 2026-27

Sources: September 8, 2026 LIC staff memorandum (2025-26 figures) and the June 3, 2026 Council packet adopting the 2026-27 Annual Action Plan. The 2025-26 column totals $633,000 of the $655,037 award, with $22,037 carried forward to 2026-27 capital.

2025-26 awards as listed in the memo

2025-26 CDBG awards by category and recipient

Category	Recipient / activity	Amount
Program Administration	Planning and Administration	$95,000
Program Administration	San Joaquin Fair Housing — fair housing services	$20,000
Program Administration	Graffiti Abatement	$15,000
City Service	Graffiti Abatement (Public Services funds)	$15,000
CBO Service	Community Partnership for Families — Family Resource Center	$29,500
CBO Service	PREVAIL — Propel Program	$16,000
CBO Service	Second Harvest Food Bank — food assistance	$10,000
CBO Service	LOEL Senior Center — Meals on Wheels	$10,000
CBO Service	The Salvation Army — Hope Harbor operations	$17,500
City Capital	Public Works project	$235,000
City Capital	Parks and Recreation (prior year, closeout list only)	$215,000
CBO Capital	DCDC/HACSJ — Salas Park	$130,000
CBO Capital	Lodi House — Walnut Street project	$23,000
CBO Capital	The Salvation Army — security project	$17,000

What the memo does not say

The current year looks different. Council's adopted 2026-27 plan drops Lodi House and the Salvation Army security project entirely, reduces Salas Park from $130,000 to $115,000, and converts the fair-housing line from a $20,000 award to San Joaquin Fair Housing into a $40,000 "TBD" line with an RFP pending and City staff providing the service in-house. None of that appears in the September packet.

CAPER: the draft 2025-26 CAPER public hearing was held September 2, 2026 and the report is due to HUD by September 30. The LIC memo says it was posted for review "starting August 15th"; the Council staff report for the hearing states the period ran August 17 through September 2 at 5:00 p.m. (September 2, 2026 Council packet).

Fiscal impact: HUD's 2026-27 allocation for Lodi is $665,263 — up about $10,226 (1.6%) from 2025-26. The allocation letter arrived April 8, 2026.

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Context from prior meetings

February 10, 2026 — The committee adopted its 2026 task list and elected Dawson Hayre Vice Chair, nominated by Member Sharma, on a 5-0 vote with all five members present (Sharma via Zoom). Sharma took both Information Updates ownership and the CDBG liaison role; Davis took Animal Services. Sharma also asked that legal counsel attend future meetings (minutes in the March 10 packet).

April 14, 2026 — Interim Director Marsh briefed the LIC that the Downtown Specific Plan final draft was heading to Planning Commission May 13 and Council June 3, and that HUD's CDBG allocation had risen slightly. Hector Soto was welcomed to the committee at this meeting (minutes in the May 12 packet).

May 12, 2026 — Present: Geralis, Hayre, Soto and Chair Davis; Sharma and Tran absent. Neighborhood Services Manager Jennifer Rhyne told members a July Council presentation would require a PowerPoint agreed at the June meeting — the meeting that was then cancelled (minutes in the July 14 packet).

June 9, 2026 — meeting cancelled. The one-page notice states the agenda could not be posted 72 hours in advance, so the meeting would be called to order and cancelled for lack of a quorum. It is signed by Jennifer Rhyne, Neighborhood Services Manager (cancellation notice).

July 14, 2026 — Full attendance. May 12 minutes approved 4-1, with Chair Davis voting no on her own committee's minutes. Bylaws requested for agendizing; fund-account history requested; Marsh confirmed she is interim only until the Neighborhood Services Manager position is filled permanently. Davis asked what is happening to CDBG "now that Jennifer Rhyne is no longer with the City" — Chadwick confirmed she is still managing the program. Davis said she wants a continuing role in CDBG funding decisions. Adjourned 6:33 p.m.

August 11, 2026 — Called to order by Vice Chair Hayre at 6:00 p.m. with Geralis, Soto and Hayre present, Tran absent. Adjourned at 6:01 p.m. for lack of quorum. The purpose/structure item and the goals matrix rolled forward to September.

Departmental churn behind the agenda

Community Development has been unusually unstable in 2026. John Della Monica retired in February after six years; the City's own record fixes the vacancy date precisely — "On February 24, 2026, the Community Development Director position became vacant" — after which an executive recruitment firm was engaged. Cynthia Marsh has served as Interim Director since. Council ratified David Hanham as Community Development Director on August 5, 2026 (item G.4) at a base salary of $201,619.47, with his term beginning at 7:30 a.m. on September 7, 2026 — the day before this meeting (August 5, 2026 Council packet).

Jennifer Rhyne, the Neighborhood Services Manager who staffed the LIC, prepared the June 3 Council report on the CDBG Annual Action Plan and signed the June 9 cancellation notice, so her departure came after early June. The position remains unfilled. The City Attorney's office is also in transition, which is why the redline swaps Janice Magdich for John M. Luebberke on the approval line.

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Who's who

Committee members, per 2026 minutes and the goals matrix

• Lyndsy Davis — Chair through July 2026. Owner or co-owner of Enhanced Youth Programs, Animal Services and City Beautification. Driving the bylaws and fund-account inquiries.
• Dawson Hayre — Vice Chair, elected February 10, 2026. Owner of Advance Youth Programs and, per the matrix, Animal Services Support. Presided over the August 11 meeting.
• Emanuel "Mono" Geralis — Owner of Neighborhood Quality & Livability, Community Resources and City Beautification; the committee's Report-A-Concern and LCOH-flyer conduit.
• Christine Tran — Owner of Environmentally Responsible Community Collaborations and Public Awareness. Absent August 11.
• Hector Soto — Appointed by Council March 18, 2026 as consent item C.5, term expiring March 2, 2028 (March 18, 2026 Council packet); previously a Greater Lodi Area Youth Commission adult advisor.
• Janavi Sharma — Listed in the July minutes as owner of Informational Updates, CDBG liaison and lead on both Council presentations, but does not appear in the July or August roll calls; the September matrix now shows those owners as "TBD."

A seat has been vacant for much of 2026. The City's Lodi Improvement Committee roster page still lists Lisa Hill, Lynsay Nuss, Lyndsy Davis, Emanuel Geralis, Haris Kahn and two vacancies, and still names Jennifer Rhyne as staff contact — it does not match the members appearing in 2026 minutes and should be treated as out of date.

Staff and officials

• Kari Chadwick, CDD Program Specialist — agenda contact, minute-taker, staff report author and current manager of the CDBG program.
• Cynthia Marsh, JD, Interim Community Development Director and Deputy Director/City Planner — signs the agenda; interim role ends with Hanham's arrival.
• David Hanham, incoming Community Development Director, effective September 7, 2026.
• John M. Luebberke, Interim City Attorney — named on the redlined approval-as-to-form line.
• Jennifer Rhyne, former Neighborhood Services Manager — prior LIC staff lead; position vacant.

Organizations named for upcoming or deferred presentations

• Lodi Committee on Homelessness — presenting September 8. Publishes the resource flyer the LIC distributes (LCOH Agenda Center).
• Lodi Adopt-A-Child — deferred. All-volunteer nonprofit serving underprivileged youth, led by president Rick Freeman; its 35th annual Christmas Wish served nearly 1,000 children in December 2025 (Lodi Adopt-A-Child).
• Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin — deferred. Operates the Lodi Family Resource Center at 118 N. Church Street and was a $29,500 CDBG subrecipient in 2025-26. Lynsay Nuss became Executive Director in June 2026 (CPFSJ).
• Bailey Caswell — deferred. Lodi marketing and communications professional working across local nonprofits including the Downtown Lodi Business Alliance, Lodi Arts and Lodi Open Studios.
• Tree Lodi — named in the 2026 goals matrix as an Earth Day collaboration partner alongside Parks/Rec, the Youth Commission and the Arts Commission.

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Three questions that carry the most weight

1. What happens to the LIC fund account? The rewrite deletes the article that created it, governed its expenditures and required its audit — with no successor language, and no historical accounting delivered in response to the July 14 request.
2. Who loses representation under the new membership formula? Replacing seven Council-appointed residents with six commission-designated representatives plus the Mayor removes the direct-resident pathway onto the committee, and the sending bodies include no neighborhood, housing or homelessness-focused entity — even as CDBG grant scoring stays on the committee's plate.
3. Can the committee lawfully recommend, and should it recommend tonight? On July 14 Interim Director Marsh advised that bylaws direction is a Council purview item. Item 5 now asks for a possible recommendation, and Item 9 elects officers afterward. If the recommendation passes with a bare quorum of a body that failed to convene a month earlier, the durability of that vote is a fair question.

▶Discrepancy Report — 28 validated conflicts between City documentsClick to expand the full register, with the validation method, the correct figure and the sources for each row

Validated edition. Every row records a conflict between two or more City of Lodi documents, states what each document says, identifies which value the record supports, and documents how the finding was verified and which numbered sources support it. Compiled and re-validated September 5, 2026 from the LIC packets for January–August 2026, the September 8 packet, the City Council packets for March 4, March 18, June 3, August 5 and September 2, 2026, and the City's live web pages.

Method

Validation method codes used in this register

Code	Method
P	Primary document inspection — the source PDF was downloaded from the City's Agenda Center and the cited language located at the stated page.
Q	Verbatim string match — full-text search of the extracted document text confirmed the quoted words appear exactly as reproduced here.
X	Cross-document comparison — the same fact was located in two or more independent City documents and the statements compared side by side.
A	Arithmetic check — figures were summed, differenced or date-counted independently.
L	Live page retrieval — the City web page was fetched on September 5, 2026 and its current content recorded.

Rows are graded by status: Conflict (two City documents cannot both be right), Internal defect (a single document contradicts itself or carries an unresolved placeholder), Stale (accurate when written, no longer current), or Context (a year-over-year difference or precision upgrade, included for completeness rather than as an error).

Correction notice

Row 15 has been materially revised in this edition, and rows 27 and 28 were added after a page-by-page citation audit of Articles III and IV of the two bylaws drafts. The earlier register stated that the staff memorandum omitted the Committee Purpose and Structure item entirely. Re-inspection of the memorandum body shows it does contain that section. The genuine defect is narrower and is restated below. Rows 2 and 19 have been strengthened with additional evidence, and rows 23–26 are new.

A. Dollar figures and dates

Validated discrepancies in dollar figures and dates

#	Item	Document A	Document B	Correct value	Status	Validation	Refs
1	2026-27 HUD CDBG allocation	$665,236 — May 12, 2026 LIC packet, staff memo, Fiscal Impact	$665,263 — June 3, 2026 Council packet, AAP staff report; repeated in the September 8 LIC memo, p. 10	$665,263	Conflict	P·Q·X·A — Both PDFs downloaded and searched. The string "an allocation of $665,236" is confirmed verbatim in the May 12 memo. The June 3 packet states $665,263 in five independent places, including the AAP funding table, the federal SF-424 summary and the adopting resolution ("receive its annual award allocation in the amount of $665,263"). Arithmetic settles it: $434,263 + $98,000 + $133,000 = $665,263 exactly. Document A transposes the final two digits.	1, 2, 10
2	CAPER public review period	"made available for public review starting August 15th for at least 15 days prior to the meeting" — September 8 LIC memo, p. 10	The September 2 Council packet contradicts itself: the staff report and the adopting resolution both say "August 17, 2026, through September 2, 2026, at 5:00 p.m.", while the CAPER document's own Citizen Participation section says the published notice invited comment "starting August 15, 2026, ending on September 1, 2026."	August 17 – September 2, 2026 for the operative comment period	Conflict	P·Q·X — All three statements located verbatim in the downloaded packets. This is a three-way conflict, not the two-way conflict described in the first edition. The resolution the Council actually adopted is the operative statement of the "mandated public comment period," so August 17 – September 2 governs; the CAPER narrative is the outlier and the LIC memo tracks the outlier. Either window satisfies HUD's 15-day minimum, so no substantive harm — but the City's CAPER submission to HUD describes a period its own resolution contradicts.	1, 12
3	2026-27 Annual Action Plan review window	"available for a 30-day review period from May 2, 2026 through June 3, 2026" — September 8 LIC memo, p. 9	"made available for public review and comment for 30-days beginning May 2, 2026" (no end date) — June 3, 2026 Council packet	The stated dates span 33 calendar days	Conflict	Q·A — Both strings confirmed verbatim. Date arithmetic: May 2 to June 3 inclusive is 33 days; a true 30-day window opening May 2 closes May 31. The June 3 packet's own participation timeline separately logs "May 2, 2026 — notice of 30-day comment period and 6/3 public hearing," so the City itself pairs a 30-day label with a 33-day span. The hearing date is fixed by the noticed agenda, so the window ran long, not short — no procedural harm, but the label is inaccurate.	1, 10
4	2026-27 funds advertised vs. awarded	"The City anticipates receiving approximately $550,000 in CDBG funds"; "Approximately, $310,000 will be available for capital improvement and public infrastructure projects" — City CDBG program page, 2026-27 NOFA	Actual award $665,263, capital $434,263 — June 3, 2026 Council packet	Award: $665,263 / $434,263 capital	Stale	L·Q·A — The CDBG page was fetched live on September 5, 2026 and both sentences are confirmed still published verbatim, alongside "begins on December 8, 2025 and will continue until January 27, 2026." Not an error when written: the NOFA closed January 27, 2026 and HUD's allocation letter did not arrive until April 8, 2026. But applicants competed against a capital figure $124,263 low, and the page has still not been corrected eight months later.	10, 13
5	Community Development Director vacancy date	"retired in February" after six years — Lodi News-Sentinel, February 21, 2026	"On February 24, 2026, the Community Development Director position became vacant" — August 5, 2026 Council packet, item G.4	February 24, 2026	Context	P·Q — String located verbatim in the downloaded August 5 packet. Document B is the City's own personnel record supporting an employment agreement, so it controls. A precision upgrade rather than a conflict — the news account is not wrong, only less specific.	11, 16

B. Program-year content

Validated discrepancies in CDBG program-year content

#	Item	Document A	Document B	Correct value	Status	Validation	Refs
6	Which program year the September memo describes	"2025-26 CDBG Program Year Proposals": ad hoc scoring April 24, 2025, Council approval June 18, 2025, capital $405,000 / CBO $98,000 / admin $130,000 = $633,000 with $22,037 carryover — September 8 memo, pp. 8–10	Substantially identical text and tables appear in the May 12, 2026 LIC packet	Current-year figures are $434,263 / $98,000 / $133,000 = $665,263, adopted June 3, 2026	Conflict	P·Q·X·A — Both memos extracted and compared line by line; the ad hoc and Council-approval sentences appear at identical positions in both. The September memo carries the 2026-27 allocation only in its one-line Fiscal Impact footer, with no 2026-27 distribution table anywhere. Arithmetic confirms $405,000 + $98,000 + $130,000 = $633,000 against a $655,037 award, leaving the stated $22,037 carryover. The June 3 adoption of the 2026-27 plan appears nowhere in the section.	1, 2, 10
7	Salas Park (DCDC/HACSJ) award	$130,000 (2025-26) — September 8 memo, pp. 9 and 10; May 12 memo	$115,000 (2026-27) — June 3, 2026 Council packet	Both correct, different years	Context	Q·X — The line "DCDC/HACSJ - Salas Park - $115,000" is confirmed in the June 3 allocation table; the $130,000 line is confirmed twice in the September memo. Included because the September packet presents only the prior-year figure with no current-year comparison. The project is the 54-unit Seniors at Lodi Commons development, identified by that name in the June 3 packet.	1, 2, 10
8	Lodi House and Salvation Army security project	Funded at $23,000 and $17,000 — September 8 memo, pp. 9 and 10; May 12 memo (2025-26)	Not funded in the 2026-27 allocation table — June 3, 2026 Council packet	Both dropped for 2026-27	Context	Q·X — Both award lines confirmed verbatim in the September memo. Full-text search of the June 3 packet finds Lodi House and The Salvation Army named only in narrative passages about coordinating with service providers, with no funding line for either in the 2026-27 CBO capital table. The September memo lists them as current subrecipients without noting they do not carry forward.	1, 2, 10

Also not reflected in the September memo (validated Q·X against source 10): fair housing services moved from a $20,000 award to San Joaquin Fair Housing in 2025-26 to a $40,000 line marked "TBD — Fair Housing Services," with the June 3 report noting the amount is an estimate "due to request for proposals pending" and that City staff are currently providing the service in-house. A committee whose charter includes housing has not been briefed on that change in any 2026 packet.

C. Roster, roles and staffing

Validated discrepancies in committee roster, roles and staffing

#	Item	Document A	Document B	Correct value	Status	Validation	Refs
9	Committee membership	VACANCY, Lisa Hill, Lynsay Nuss, Lyndsy Davis, Emanuel Geralis, Haris Kahn, VACANCY — City LIC page	Roll calls name Davis, Hayre, Geralis, Tran, Soto and Sharma — LIC minutes, February–August 2026	The minutes	Stale	L·P·X — The LIC page was fetched live on September 5, 2026 and the seven-line roster recorded exactly as shown, then compared against every 2026 roll call in the downloaded packets. Four of the six members appearing on 2026 roll calls (Hayre, Tran, Soto, Sharma) are absent from the City page; two people on the page (Hill, Kahn) appear in no 2026 roll call. Only Davis and Geralis appear on both.	1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 14
10	Staff contact for the committee	Jennifer Rhyne, Neighborhood Services Manager, 209-333-6711 — City LIC page	Rhyne "no longer with the City" (July 14 minutes); Kari Chadwick, CDD Program Specialist, (209) 333-6711 named on the September agenda	Kari Chadwick	Stale	L·P·Q — Live retrieval on September 5, 2026 confirms the page still names Rhyne. The September agenda names Chadwick at the same telephone number, indicating a shared departmental line rather than a personal extension — so the number is not itself wrong, only the name attached to it.	1, 3, 14
11	When Rhyne left	Signed the June 9, 2026 cancellation notice and authored the June 3, 2026 Council CDBG staff report as Neighborhood Services Manager	Described as gone by July 14 — September 8 packet, p. 5	Departure falls between June 9 and July 14, 2026	Conflict	P·X — Signature block confirmed on the downloaded June 9 notice; authorship confirmed on the June 3 Council staff report. The July 14 minutes record Chair Davis asking what is happening to CDBG "now that Jennifer Rhyne is no longer with the City." No City document states a departure date. The position remains unfilled; Marsh confirmed on July 14 that her role is interim until it is filled permanently.	1, 7, 10
12	When Hector Soto joined	"The Committee Members welcomed Hector Soto to the Committee" — April 14, 2026 minutes	Appointed by Council March 18, 2026, term to March 2, 2028 — March 18, 2026 Council packet, item C.5	Appointed March 18, first seated April 14	Context	P·Q·X — Appointment confirmed in the downloaded March 18 consent calendar with the term expiration stated; the welcome sentence confirmed verbatim in the April 14 minutes. Both correct; the gap is a one-meeting lag between appointment and seating, and the March 10 meeting preceded the appointment.	4, 9
13	Goal ownership — Informational Updates and CDBG liaison	Member Sharma — July 14, 2026 minutes, September packet pp. 3–6; originally assigned February 10, 2026	"Owner: TBD" and liaison "TBD" — 2026 goals matrix, September packet pp. 22–24	Unresolved	Conflict	P·Q·X — The matrix strings "Owner: TBD" under the Informational Updates heading and the "Ongoing / TBD" CDBG liaison line were located directly in the packet text. Sharma's assignment confirmed in both the February 10 and July 14 minutes. Sharma appears in no roll call after May 12. Full-text search of all 2026 packets finds no resignation, removal or vacancy notice, so the seat's status is undocumented.	1, 3, 5
14	Goal ownership — Animal Services	Member Davis — February 10 and July 14 minutes	"Owner: Dawson Hayre" — goals matrix, September packet pp. 22–24	Unresolved	Conflict	P·Q·X — The matrix heading "Animal Services Support / Owner: Dawson Hayre" located directly in the packet text, with its liaison line still "TBD." Two current City documents in the same packet family assign the same task line to different members, and no minutes record a transfer.	1, 3, 5

D. The September 8 packet against itself

Validated internal conflicts within the September 8, 2026 packet

#	Item	Agenda says	Staff memo says	Correct value	Status	Validation	Refs
15	Scope of the memo's "Action" statement — revised in this edition	Item 5 is "COMMITTEE PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL" — packet p. 1	The memo's top-line Action statement reads "Lodi Improvement Committee will 1) City Council Update Presentation Discussion, 2) Update 2026 Annual Activities, 3) determine topics for upcoming meetings" — packet p. 8	The agenda governs	Internal defect	P·Q — Correction to the first edition. The memo body does contain a section headed "Committee Purpose and Structure Discussion with Possible Recommendation to the City Council," instructing the committee to "review the changes to the bylaws, and vote to recommend those changes to the City Council." The defect is that the memo's own Action summary omits the bylaws recommendation, the LCOH presentation and the reorganization — three of the four substantive items — and instead lists a "City Council Update Presentation Discussion" that appears nowhere on the posted agenda. A reader relying on the Action line would not know an existential vote was scheduled.	1
16	Item 9 scope	"REORGANIZATION - TEMPORARY CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR" — packet p. 2	"Vote for new Chair and Vice Chair" — packet p. 10	The agenda governs: temporary officers only	Internal defect	P·Q — Both strings confirmed verbatim. Under the Brown Act (Gov. Code §54954.2) the posted agenda defines the permissible scope of action, so a vote installing permanent officers would exceed the noticed item. The agenda's own posting certification on p. 2 invokes §54954.2(a).	1
17	Basis for the reorganization	Item 9 seeks temporary officers	No document in any 2026 packet records a resignation, removal or absence forfeiture by Chair Davis or Vice Chair Hayre	Undocumented	Internal defect	P·X — Full-text search across all nine 2026 LIC packets for resignation, vacancy, removal and forfeiture language returns nothing touching either officer. Davis chaired July 14; Hayre presided August 11. The packet supplies no stated reason for needing temporary officers and no explanation of what "temporary" means against the bylaws' April election cycle.	1, 3, 6
23	Duplicate allocation tables	—	The 2025-26 allocation table is printed twice, on memo pp. 2 and 3, differing only in that the second adds "Parks and Recreation - $215,000 (from prior year)"	Both are 2025-26	Internal defect	P·Q·A — Both tables extracted and compared field by field. The second instance also renders Salas Park as "$130, 000" with a stray space. Neither table is labelled with a year in a way that distinguishes it from the other, and the added Parks line is a prior-year closeout item, so the combined presentation implies a larger current-year capital program than the $405,000 the memo states.	1
24	Agenda typography	"b. Vice Chair Nominiation and Vote" — packet p. 2	—	"Nomination"	Internal defect	P·Q — Confirmed verbatim in the posted agenda. Cosmetic only; recorded because it appears in the legally posted notice document.	1

E. The proposed bylaws against themselves

Validated internal conflicts within the proposed bylaws

#	Item	Redlined version (pp. 11–16)	Clean version (pp. 17–21)	Issue	Status	Validation	Refs
18	Body name in the adoption line	"ADOPTED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI IMPROVEMENT COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION ON APRIL 10, 2018, ______, 2026 AND RATIFIED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 16, 2018"	"ADOPTED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION ON ______, 2026 AND RATIFIED BY MAJORITY VOTE … ON ______, 2026"	The redline leaves a hybrid, ungrammatical body name and both 2018 dates in place	Internal defect	P·Q·X — Both adoption blocks located and transcribed from the packet text. The current bylaws were adopted April 10, 2018 and ratified May 16, 2018 under Resolution No. 2011-173 authority; the clean version correctly blanks both dates, so the redline is the defective one.	1
19	Chairperson signature block	Reads "[Insert Name Here}"	Reads "[Insert Name Here}"	Unfilled placeholder with mismatched brackets — an opening square bracket closed by a brace — in both drafts going to Council	Internal defect	P·Q — Corrected and strengthened in this edition: the placeholder was confirmed at both locations in the packet text, not only in the clean draft as the first edition implied.	1
20	Membership arithmetic	—	Mayor plus six commission representatives, Mayor as automatic Chair, Mayor Pro Tempore as non-voting eighth member	The Strategic Vision the committee would serve contains eight priorities; two have no designated seat	Conflict	P·Q·A·X — Composition confirmed verbatim in Article III, Section 1 of the clean draft, naming the Economic Development ad hoc Committee, Senior Citizens Commission, Greater Lodi Area Youth Commission, Library Board of Trustees, Arts Commission and Parks & Recreation Commission. The eight-priority Strategic Vision confirmed in the March 4, 2026 Council packet, item G.3 and on the City's Strategic Vision page. Six seats against eight priorities, and no seat represents housing, homelessness, neighborhoods or public safety.	1, 8, 15
21	Meeting cadence	"once a month, on the second Tuesday" struck; replaced with "a consistent quarterly basis established by the Committee (example: April, August, October, and January)"	Same quarterly language, with officer elections keyed to "the first quarterly meeting"	No document specifies which month begins the cycle, and the parenthetical example is not evenly quarterly — April to August is four months, August to October two	Internal defect	P·Q·A — Both provisions located verbatim. Month-counting confirms the illustrative schedule spans 4, 2, 3 and 3 months. Because the Vice-Chair election and the membership transition both hinge on "the first quarterly meeting," an undefined cycle start leaves the officer term ambiguous.	1
22	Article V, Financial Matters	Struck in full — City Finance administration of all donations and revenues, majority-vote expenditures signed by an Executive Officer, and audit within the City's regular annual audit	No equivalent provision. Articles renumber so that Article V becomes Term of Existence/Dissolution	The clean draft is silent on the existing LIC fund account	Conflict	P·Q·X — Article headings enumerated in both drafts. The redline runs Articles I–VIII with Financial Matters at V; the clean draft runs I–VII with Financial Matters absent and every later article shifted up one. No successor language for the fund account appears anywhere in the clean draft. This is the account Chair Davis asked staff to research on July 14 and that Member Soto believed came from member fundraising — a request unanswered as of the September packet.	1, 3
25	Running header on the clean draft	Header reads "Current Bylaws with Redline Proposed Amendment 09-08-26" — correct for this document	Every page of the clean draft carries the same header, "Current Bylaws with Redline Proposed Amendment 09-08-26"	The clean draft is neither the current bylaws nor a redline, but is labelled as both on all five of its pages	Internal defect	P·Q — The header string was located at eleven page positions spanning both drafts, including every page of the clean version. Any member or resident printing pages 17–21 alone would reasonably conclude they were reading the current bylaws.	1
26	Cross-reference to the transition provision	Article VII, Section 1 conditions the quorum rule on "After the transition described in Article III, Section 2 above is complete"	The transition is at Article III, Section 4; Section 2 is Terms and Term Limits. The clean draft drops the transition qualifier from the quorum rule entirely	Broken internal cross-reference in the redline, plus a substantive difference in the quorum rule between the two drafts	Internal defect	P·Q·X — Article III of the clean draft enumerated section by section: Sec. 1 Composition, Sec. 2 Terms and Term Limits, Sec. 3 Appointment Process, Sec. 4 Transition from the Lodi Improvement Committee. Article III, Section 2 of the clean draft itself correctly cites "the transition described in Section 4 below," so the redline's citation to Section 2 is wrong on the draft's own terms. Separately, the clean version's quorum applies immediately while the redline's applies only after transition.	1
27	Officer election timing — when is “the first quarterly meeting”?	Article IV, Section 1 reads “New officers Vice Chairperson shall be elected by the Board annually at the first quarterly meeting in April” — the words “in April” are struck (redline, p. 14)	“New Vice Chairperson shall be elected by the Board annually at the first quarterly meeting” — no month stated (clean, p. 19)	The only fixed date for officer elections is removed and nothing replaces it. Because Article III, Section 4 also keys the membership transition to the quarterly schedule, two separate provisions depend on a cycle start that no document defines	Internal defect	P·Q·X — The current 2018 bylaws elect officers annually in April; the redline strikes that month while inserting “first quarterly,” and the clean draft carries no month at all. Article VI, Section 2 offers only an illustrative schedule “(example: April, August, October, and January).” Distinct from row 21, which concerns the unevenness of that example; this row concerns the loss of the fixed April election date and the resulting indeterminacy of every officer’s term.	[1]
28	Two different quorum rules in the same draft	Both provisions are carried through the redline at pp. 13 and 15	Article III, Section 6 (clean, p. 19): “A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Committee’s voting membership. No official action of the Commission shall be taken in the absence of a quorum.” Article VI, Section 1 (clean, p. 20): “Fifty percent (50%) plus one of all Committee Members then serving on the Committee[sic] shall constitute a quorum and may conduct business at any regular meeting.”	On a seven-member body the two rules give different thresholds — four members under Article III, five under Article VI. Article III, Section 6 also calls the body “the Commission,” a name used nowhere else in either draft	Conflict	P·Q·A·X — Both provisions located verbatim in both drafts and compared. A majority of seven voting members is 4; fifty percent of seven is 3.5, plus one is 4.5, which rounds up to 5. The clean draft also renders “Committeeshall” without a space in Article VI, Section 1. For a body that adjourned August 11, 2026 for lack of quorum with three of five members present, an ambiguous threshold is not academic — under one reading a four-member meeting is valid, under the other it is not.	[1] [6]

Summary count

Count of validated discrepancies by category and status

Category	Rows	Conflicts	Internal defects	Stale	Context
A. Dollar figures and dates	5	3 (1, 2, 3)	0	1 (4)	1 (5)
B. Program-year content	3	1 (6)	0	0	2 (7, 8)
C. Roster, roles and staffing	6	3 (11, 13, 14)	0	2 (9, 10)	1 (12)
D. September packet internal	5	0	5 (15, 16, 17, 23, 24)	0	0
E. Proposed bylaws internal	9	3 (20, 22, 28)	6 (18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 27)	0	0
Total	28	10	11	3	4

21 of 28 rows are genuine defects requiring correction — ten conflicts between City documents plus eleven internal defects. Three are stale published pages that were accurate when written. Four are year-over-year differences or precision upgrades included so the comparison is complete.

Change from the first edition: six rows added (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28), one row materially corrected (15), and two rows strengthened with additional evidence (2 and 19). Row numbering 1–22 is unchanged so the two editions can be compared line for line.

The two newest rows share a theme. Rows 27 and 28 both concern provisions the committee would have to apply at its very first meeting under the new bylaws: when officers are elected, and how many members must be present to elect them. Neither question can be answered from the draft as written.

Validation log

Summary of validation work performed

Check	Result
Source PDFs downloaded and text-extracted	9 LIC packets (January–September 2026), 5 City Council packets (March 4, March 18, June 3, August 5, September 2), 2 LCOH packets
Verbatim string matches confirmed	48 quoted passages
Arithmetic checks performed	9 — allocation sums, carryover, date spans, seat counts, cadence months, two quorum thresholds
Live City web pages retrieved September 5, 2026	CDBG program page; Lodi Improvement Committee page
Rows revised after re-validation	1 (row 15)
Rows added after re-validation	6 (rows 23–28)
Claims that could not be resolved from City records	2 — Rhyne's exact departure date (row 11) and the reason for the reorganization (row 17). Both are recorded as undocumented rather than inferred.

Numbered sources for this register

1. LIC packet, September 8, 2026 (24 pp.)
2. LIC packet, May 12, 2026 (contains the April 14 minutes)
3. LIC packet, July 14, 2026 (contains the May 12 minutes)
4. LIC packet, April 14, 2026
5. LIC packet, March 10, 2026 (contains the February 10 minutes)
6. LIC packet, August 11, 2026
7. LIC cancellation notice, June 9, 2026
8. City Council packet, March 4, 2026, item G.3 (revised Strategic Vision)
9. City Council packet, March 18, 2026, item C.5 (Soto appointment)
10. City Council packet, June 3, 2026 (2026-27 CDBG Annual Action Plan)
11. City Council packet, August 5, 2026, item G.4 (Hanham employment agreement)
12. City Council packet, September 2, 2026, item F.1 (2025-26 CAPER, staff report, CAPER document and resolution)
13. City of Lodi CDBG program page (2026-27 NOFA)
14. City of Lodi Lodi Improvement Committee page
15. City Council Strategic Vision page
16. Lodi News-Sentinel, "Designs on retirement for former architect Della Monica," February 21, 2026

All documents retrieved and all rows independently re-validated September 5, 2026.

▶Appendix A — Proposed bylaws, clean draft (full text)The complete text of the replacement bylaws as printed at packet pages 17–21, transcribed verbatim with the drafting errors marked

Source: September 8, 2026 LIC packet, pages 17–21. Reproduced verbatim from the packet's text layer, including the errors noted in the register. Internal pagination of the document is -1- through -5-.

Note on the running header. Every page of this clean draft carries the header "Current Bylaws with Redline Proposed Amendment 09-08-26," even though the document is neither the current bylaws nor a redline. This is row 25 of the register. The header is omitted from the transcription below.

BY-LAWS OF LODI COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION

ARTICLE I — ORGANIZATION

SECTION 1.

Under the auspices of the City of Lodi, there is hereby created the Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision.

ARTICLE II — PURPOSES

SECTION 1. GENERAL PURPOSE

The Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision (hereinafter "Committee") is organized and created for the purposes of maintaining and improving the quality of life and appearance of Lodi by the coordinated efforts of a broad spectrum of community representatives in an effort to advance the City of Lodi's Strategic Vision. The Committee will serve as a bridge between the Lodi community and Lodi City government by encouraging participation, strengthening partnerships, and recommending initiatives that improve the quality of life for all who live, work, learn, and invest in Lodi.

SECTION 2. SPECIFIC GOALS/PURPOSES

A) Advise the City Council regarding implementation of the City's Strategic Vision. B) Promote community awareness of City goals and priorities. C) Encourage meaningful public participation in achieving City Council objectives. D) Foster partnerships that leverage public, private, nonprofit, education, and volunteer resources. E) Promote civic pride through recognition of individuals, neighborhoods, businesses, schools, and organizations making outstanding contributions to the community. F) As needed, consider grant opportunities, serve as the body to score grant applications, and provide updates to staff or City Council

[Sic — item F ends without a period. Six lettered purposes remain, down from seven.]

ARTICLE III — MEMBERSHIP

SECTION 1. COMMITTEE MEMBERS - COMPOSITION

The Committee shall consist of seven (7) voting members as follows: the Mayor, or their designee, and six (6) members appointed as representatives of each of the following bodies: (1)-the Economic Development ad hoc Committee; (2)-Lodi Senior Citizens Commission; (3)-the Greater Lodi Area Youth Commission; (4)-the Library Board of Trustees; (5)-the Lodi Arts Commission; and (6)-the Parks & Recreation Commission. Each representative shall be appointed by their respective group.

In addition to serving as a voting member of the Committee, the Mayor, or their designee, shall also serve as Chair of the Committee. The Mayor Pro Tempore, or their designee, shall serve as an eighth, ex-officio, non-voting member of the Committee, and shall only have voting rights when presiding as Chair in the Mayor's, or designee's, absence.

SECTION 2. COMMITTEE MEMBERS – TERMS AND TERM LIMITS

Committee Members shall serve three-year terms. A Committee Member may be reappointed to serve additional terms, provided that no member shall serve more than two consecutive full terms without at least a one-year break in service. The limitation shall not apply to a member's initial term arising from the transition described in Section 4 below. Terms shall be staggered based on the original appointment date of their respective group.

SECTION 3. COMMITTEE MEMBER APPOINTMENT PROCESS

Committee Member appointment should be targeted to intentionally reflect a broad cross-section of the Lodi community, including experience in the City's Strategic Vision focus areas, as well as the following non-exhaustive representative list of essential subject areas:

• Business
• Neighborhood leadership
• Education
• Public safety
• Youth services
• Art and culture
• Historic preservation
• Environmental sustainability
• Nonprofit leadership
• Community and economic development

SECTION 4. TRANSITION FROM THE LODI IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE

The current members of the Lodi Improvement Committee shall continue to serve until their terms expire, at which time the appropriate City of Lodi Commission, Board, or Committee will appoint a replacement Member to serve as a representative on the Committee. Such appointment shall be either a member of that Commission, Board, or Committee, or a community member assigned by the Commission, Board, or Committee to serve as their representative. All such appointments shall be made by majority vote of the appointing body and approved by City Council.

SECTION 5. VACANCIES AND REMOVAL

A vacancy occurring before the expiration of a term shall be filled by the appointing Commission, Board, or Committee for the remainder of the unexpired term, following the appointment process described in Section 3 and 4.

A member may be removed from the Committee by the City Council for cause, including unexcused absence from two consecutive regular meetings, consistent with City Council policy.

SECTION 6. QUORUM

A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Committee's voting membership. No official action of the Commission shall be taken in the absence of a quorum.

[Sic — "the Commission." This body is called "the Committee" everywhere else in the draft. Compare Article VI, Section 1, which states a different quorum rule. Register row 28.]

ARTICLE IV — OFFICERS

SECTION 1. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

The Executive Officers shall consist of a Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson. The Chairperson shall be the Mayor, or their designee, or the Mayor Pro Tempore, or their designee. The Vice-Chairperson will only lead the meeting in the event that the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tempore, or their designees are not in attendance. New Vice Chairperson shall be elected by the Board annually at the first quarterly meeting.

[Sic — "the Board." The draft abolishes the Board of Directors but retains the term here. No month is specified for the first quarterly meeting. Register row 27.]

SECTION 2.

The Chairperson or Vice Chairperson shall serve as the sole official spokesperson and City Council liaison for the Committee . Communications made as the Committee spokesperson are subject to the requirements of Article VII, Section 3, below.

[Sic — stray space before the period. The cross-reference to Article VII, Section 3 is correct in this draft: Communications is Article VI, Section 3, and Article VII is Amendments — so this citation points to the wrong article. See note below.]

SECTION 3.

With the exception of the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore, any Committee Executive Officer or member who misses two (2) unexcused meetings within a one year period shall be deemed to have vacated the office.

ARTICLE V — TERM OF EXISTENCE/DISSOLUTION

SECTION 1. CONTINUOUS OPERATION

The Committee shall continue and be a permanent City body unless and until dissolved by action of the City Council.

[The current bylaws allow dissolution "by action of the City Council or the Improvement Committee Board of Directors." The committee's own power to dissolve itself is removed.]

ARTICLE VI — PROCEDURES

SECTION 1. PROCEDURES

Fifty percent (50%) plus one of all Committee Members then serving on the Committeeshall constitute a quorum and may conduct business at any regular meeting. A majority of those present may act by affirmative vote. No proxy voting is allowed.

[Sic — "Committeeshall," missing space. This quorum rule conflicts with Article III, Section 6. Register row 28.]

SECTION 2. MEETING

Regular meetings of the Committee shall be held on a consistent quarterly basis established by the Committee (example: April, August, October, and January) on the second Tuesday of the months so established, at a location to be determined by the Committee and open to the public. Special meetings may be held as necessary at the discretion of the Committee. All meetings shall be subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act (Gov. Code §54950 et. Seq.).

[The parenthetical example is not evenly quarterly: April to August is four months, August to October is two. Register row 21.]

SECTION 3. COMMUNICATIONS

Any and all external communications on behalf of the Committee to the public, media, or otherwise, shall be through the Chair in coordination with the City's Public Information Officer (PIO). Any such communications shall be approved by a majority vote of the Committee with express direction and authorization to the Chair.

ARTICLE VII — AMENDMENTS

SECTION 1.

These Bylaws shall constitute the empowering documents for the Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision and may be revised by the City Council or a majority vote of the Committee , at a regular meeting previously announced for the purpose, subject to ratification and concurrence by the Lodi City Council.

ADOPTED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION ON _________, 2026 AND RATIFIED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL ON _______, 2026.

________________________ [Insert Name Here} CHAIRPERSON, LODI COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION

APPROVED AS TO FORM

________________________ JOHN M. LUEBBERKE INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY

[Sic — "[Insert Name Here}" with a mismatched closing brace. The placeholder appears in both drafts. Register row 19.]

Note on internal cross-references in the clean draft

Article IV, Section 2 directs the reader to "Article VII, Section 3" for communications requirements. In the clean draft, Communications is Article VI, Section 3; Article VII is Amendments and has only one section. The cross-reference was correct in the current bylaws, where Board Procedures was Article VII, and was not updated when the articles renumbered after Financial Matters was deleted.

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▶Appendix B — Proposed bylaws, redlined draft (full text)The complete text of the redline at packet pages 11–16, with a reading of which words are struck and which are inserted

Source: September 8, 2026 LIC packet, pages 11–16. Internal pagination -1- through -6-.

How to read this appendix. A PDF text layer does not carry strikethrough formatting, so the extracted text runs deleted and inserted language together in sequence. Below, the text is reproduced exactly as it appears in the packet's text layer, and each passage is followed by a bracketed reading identifying which words are struck and which are inserted. Those readings were derived by comparing the redline against the clean draft at pages 17–21 and against the current 2018 bylaws preserved inside the redline itself. Where the direction of a change cannot be determined from the text alone, that is stated.

BY-LAWS OF THE LODI IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE LODI COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION

ARTICLE I — ORGANIZATION

SECTION 1.

Under the auspices of the City of Lodi, there is hereby created the Lodi Improvement Committee Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision.

Reading: "the Lodi Improvement Committee" is struck; "Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision" is inserted.

ARTICLE II — PURPOSES

SECTION 1. GENERAL PURPOSE

The Lodi Improvement Committee Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision (hereinafter "Committee") is organized and created for the purposes of maintaining and improving the quality of life and appearance of Lodi by the coordinated efforts of a broad spectrum of the community representatives in an effort to advance the City of Lodi's Strategic Vision. The Committee will serve as a bridge between the Lodi community and Lodi City government by encouraging participation, strengthening partnerships, and recommending initiatives that improve the quality of life for all who live, work, learn, and invest in Lodi.

Reading: the old name is struck and the new name inserted; "the" before "community representatives" is struck; everything from "in an effort to advance" onward is new.

SECTION 2. SPECIFIC GOALS/PURPOSES

This is the section where the substantive scope change is clearest. Each lettered item pairs a struck operational mandate with an inserted advisory one.

A) To combat illegal drugs, prostitution, and other crimes by such measures as cooperation with or establishment of groups such as Crime Stoppers and Neighborhood Watch. Advise the City Council regarding implementation of the City's Strategic Vision.

B) To eliminate blight and encourage the maintenance, improvement, or rehabilitation of properties throughout Lodi, with the cooperation of residents, property owners, business, and government. Promote community awareness of City goals and priorities.

C) To act as an advocate for residents in issues dealing with the upgrade, improvement and maintenance of all infrastructure, including streets, alleys, water, sewer and storm drainage systems. Encourage meaningful public participation in achieving City Council objectives.

D) To encourage compliance with building, housing, fire, and other health and safety laws, and local property maintenance ordinances by property owners, residents, and businesses. Foster partnerships that leverage public, private, nonprofit, education, and volunteer resources.

E) To coordinate with churches, civic and community groups, and other community based organizations to educate and inform the public on ways of achieving these goals, and to keep the public informed of the efforts. Promote civic pride through recognition of individuals, neighborhoods, businesses, schools, and organizations making outstanding contributions to the community.

F) To work with business community to encourage a healthy business climate. As needed, consider grant opportunities, serve as the body to score grant applications, and provide updates to staff or City Council

G) Provide acknowledgement to properties and businesses throughout the City that show marked improvements in service and appearance that contributes to the image and quality of the community.

Reading: in items A through F the first sentence is struck and the bolded sentence inserted. Item G is struck in full with no replacement, which is why the clean draft has six purposes rather than seven. The crime, blight, infrastructure-advocacy and code-compliance mandates are removed; the CDBG grant-scoring role at F is the one operational function retained.

ARTICLE III — MEMBERSHIP

SECTION 1. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE MEMBERS - COMPOSITION

General membership shall be open to all persons. The Committee shall consist of seven (7) voting members as follows: the Mayor, or their designee, and six (6) members appointed as representatives of each of the following bodies: (1)-the Economic Development ad hoc Committee; (2)-Lodi Senior Citizens Commission; (3)-the Greater Lodi Area Youth Commission; (4)-the Library Board of Trustees; (5)-the Lodi Arts Commission; and (6)-the Parks & Recreation Commission. Each representative shall be appointed by their respective group.

In addition to serving as a voting member of the Committee, the Mayor, or their designee, shall also serve as Chair of the Committee. The Mayor Pro Tempore, or their designee, shall serve as an eighth, ex-officio, non-voting member of the Committee, and shall only have voting rights when presiding as Chair in the Mayor's, or designee's, absence.

Reading: "General membership shall be open to all persons." is struck — confirmed by its absence from the clean draft. Everything after it is inserted.

SECTION 2. BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMITTEE MEMBERS – TERMS AND TERM LIMITS

The Board of Directors shall be comprised of five (5) to seven (7) members. A quorum of the Board for voting or meeting purposes shall consist of fifty percent (50%) plus one of all directors then serving on the Board. Directors shall serve three year staggered terms, based on their original date of appointment.

Committee Members shall serve three-year terms. A Committee Member may be reappointed to serve additional terms, provided that no member shall serve more than two consecutive full terms without at least a one-year break in service. The limitation shall not apply to a member's initial term arising from the transition described in Section 4 below. Terms shall be staggered based on the original appointment date of their respective group.

Reading: the first paragraph is struck, the second inserted. Term limits are new; the three-year staggered term survives in substance.

SECTION 3. SUBCOMMITTEES COMMITTEE MEMBER APPOINTMENT PROCESS

There may be as many subcommittees as deemed necessary by the Board to accomplish any specific goal to be achieved by the Improvement Committee.

Committee Member appointment should be targeted to intentionally reflect a broad cross-section of the Lodi community, including experience in the City's Strategic Vision focus areas, as well as the following non-exhaustive representative list of essential subject areas: Business · Neighborhood leadership · Education · Public safety · Youth services · Art and culture · Historic preservation · Environmental sustainability · Nonprofit leadership · Community and economic development

Reading: the subcommittee authority is struck in full and the appointment-criteria list inserted. The clean draft contains no subcommittee provision.

SECTION 4. TRANSITION FROM THE LODI IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE (new section)

The current members of the Lodi Improvement Committee shall continue to serve until their terms expire, at which time the appropriate City of Lodi Commission, Board, or Committee will appoint a replacement Member to serve as a representative on the Committee. Such appointment shall be either a member of that Commission, Board, or Committee, or a community member assigned by the Commission, Board, or Committee to serve as their representative. All such appointments shall be made by majority vote of the appointing body and approved by City Council.

SECTION 5. VACANCIES AND REMOVAL (new section)

A vacancy occurring before the expiration of a term shall be filled by the appointing Commission, Board, or Committee for the remainder of the unexpired term, following the appointment process described in Section 3 and 4.

A member may be removed from the Committee by the City Council for cause, including unexcused absence from two consecutive regular meetings, consistent with City Council policy.

SECTION 6. QUORUM (new section)

A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Committee's voting membership. No official action of the Commission shall be taken in the absence of a quorum.

ARTICLE IV — OFFICERS

SECTION 1. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

The Executive Officers shall consist of a Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson. The Chairperson shall be the Mayor, or their designee, or the Mayor Pro Tempore, or their designee. The Vice-Chairperson will only lead the meeting in the event that the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tempore, or their designees are not in attendance. New officers Vice Chairperson shall be elected by the Board annually at the first quarterly meeting in April.

Reading: "officers" is struck and "Vice Chairperson" inserted; "first quarterly" is inserted and "in April" is struck — confirmed by the clean draft, which reads "annually at the first quarterly meeting" with no month. The sentences making the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore the Chair are inserted. Register row 27.

SECTION 2.

The Chairperson or Vice Chairperson shall serve as the sole official spokesperson and City Council liaison for the Lodi Improvement Committee and liaison with the Lodi City Council. Communications made as the Committee spokesperson are subject to the requirements of Article VII, Section 3, below.

Reading: "the Lodi Improvement Committee and liaison with the Lodi City Council" is struck and "the Committee" inserted; the final sentence is new.

SECTION 3.

AnyWith the exception of the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore, any Committee Executive Officer or Board of Directors member who misses three (3) two (2) unexcused meetings within a one year period without the consent of one of the Executive Officers shall be deemed to have vacated the office.

Reading: "Any" is struck and "With the exception of the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore, any" inserted; "Board of Directors" is struck; "three (3)" is struck and "two (2)" inserted; "without the consent of one of the Executive Officers" is struck. The excuse mechanism is removed at the same time the threshold drops.

ARTICLE V — FINANCIAL MATTERS (struck in full)

SECTION 1. REVENUES

All revenues of the Lodi Improvement Committee shall be administered through the City of Lodi Finance Department, and into which all donations, gifts, or other revenues raised by the Lodi Improvement Committee shall be placed. All expenditures must be approved by a majority vote of the Board, subject to City Council overview and signed by one Executive Officer.

SECTION 2. AUDITING

The fund account for the Lodi Improvement Committee shall be audited as part of the City's regular annual audit.

Reading: the entire article is deleted. It has no counterpart anywhere in the clean draft, and every later article renumbers up by one. This is the fund account Chair Davis asked staff to research on July 14, 2026. Register row 22.

ARTICLE VI — TERM OF EXISTENCE/DISSOLUTION

SECTION 1. CONTINUOUS OPERATION

The Lodi Improvement Committee shall continue and be a permanent City body unless and until dissolved by action of the City Council or the Improvement Committee Board of Directors.

Reading: "or the Improvement Committee Board of Directors" is struck. Only the City Council retains dissolution power. Becomes Article V in the clean draft.

ARTICLE VII — BOARD PROCEDURES

SECTION 1. PROCEDURES

After the transition described in Article III, Section 2 above is complete, fFifty percent (50%) plus one of all Committee Members directors then serving on the Committee Board shall constitute a quorum and may conduct business at any regular meeting. A majority of those present may act by affirmative vote. No proxy voting is allowed.

Reading: "After the transition described in Article III, Section 2 above is complete," is inserted — but the transition is at Article III, Section 4, not Section 2. The "fF" artifact shows the lower-case "f" inserted and the capital "F" struck. "directors" and "Board" are struck; "Committee Members" and "Committee" inserted. The clean draft drops the transition qualifier entirely, so the quorum rule there applies immediately. Register row 26.

SECTION 2. MEETING

Regular meetings of the Board Committee shall be held on a consistent quarterly basis established by the Committee (example: April, August, October, and January) once a month, on the second Tuesday of each the months so established, at a location to be determined by the Committee Board and opened to the public. Special meetings shall may be held as necessary at the discretion of the Committee. All meetings shall be subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act (Gov. Code §54950 et. Seq.).,

Reading: "Board" is struck and "Committee" inserted throughout; "once a month, on the second Tuesday of each" is struck and "on a consistent quarterly basis established by the Committee (example: April, August, October, and January)" inserted; "shall" is struck and "may" inserted before "be held as necessary," converting special meetings from mandatory to discretionary. A stray comma survives after the Brown Act citation.

SECTION 3. COMMUNICATIONS

Any and all external communications on behalf of the Committee to the public, or media, or otherwise, shall be through the Chair in coordination with the City's Public Information Officer (PIO). Any such communications shall be approved by a majority vote of the Committee with express direction and authorization to the Chair. or authorized by the Chairperson, or in his/her absence, by the Vice-Chairperson or a designated Board Member.

Reading: the trailing clause "or authorized by the Chairperson, or in his/her absence, by the Vice-Chairperson or a designated Board Member" is struck; the PIO coordination and majority-vote approval requirements are inserted. External communication becomes harder, not easier.

ARTICLE VIII — AMENDMENTS

SECTION 1.

These Bylaws shall constitute the empowering documents for the Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision Lodi Improvement Committee and may be revised by the City Council or a majority vote of the Committee Board of Directors, at a regular meeting previously announced for the purpose, subject to ratification and concurrence by the Lodi City Council.

ADOPTED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI IMPROVEMENT COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION ON APRIL 10, 2018, _________, 2026 AND RATIFIED BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 16, 2018 _______, 2026.

________________________ [Insert Name Here} CHAIRPERSON, LODI COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CITY'S STRATEGIC VISION

APPROVED AS TO FORM

________________________ JANICE D. MAGDICH JOHN M. LUEBBERKE INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY

Reading: the adoption dates of April 10, 2018 and May 16, 2018 are struck and blank 2026 dates inserted. "JANICE D. MAGDICH" is struck and "JOHN M. LUEBBERKE" inserted, confirming the change of City Attorney. The signature block carries the unresolved placeholder "[Insert Name Here}" in both drafts. Register row 19.

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▶Appendix C — The two drafts side by sideA fourteen-row comparison of what the current bylaws say against what the clean draft would put in their place

	Current bylaws (as preserved in the redline)	Clean draft
Name	The Lodi Improvement Committee	Lodi Community Advisory Committee on the City's Strategic Vision
Articles	I–VIII	I–VII
Purposes	7 lettered items, operational	6 lettered items, advisory
Membership	Open to all persons; Board of Directors of 5–7	7 voting members appointed by 6 named City bodies, plus the Mayor
Chair	Elected by the Board	The Mayor, automatically
Term limits	None	Two consecutive full terms
Officer elections	Annually in April	Annually at "the first quarterly meeting," month unspecified
Absence forfeiture	3 unexcused meetings, excusable by an Executive Officer	2 unexcused meetings, no excuse mechanism, Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem exempt
Meetings	Monthly, second Tuesday	Quarterly, schedule set by the Committee
Special meetings	"shall be held as necessary"	"may be held as necessary"
Subcommittees	Unlimited, at the Board's discretion	No provision
Fund account	Article V, administered by City Finance, audited annually	No provision
Dissolution	By Council or by the Board	By Council only
Communications	Chair, or Vice-Chair, or a designated Board member	Chair only, with PIO coordination and a majority vote

References

Primary — meeting record

• LIC agenda packet, September 8, 2026 — agenda, July 14 and August 11 minutes, staff memorandum, redlined and clean bylaws, 2026 goals matrix (24 pages)
• LIC Agenda Center — 2026 packet archive
• LIC packet, August 11, 2026
• LIC packet, July 14, 2026 — contains the May 12 minutes
• LIC cancellation notice, June 9, 2026
• LIC packet, May 12, 2026 — contains the April 14 minutes
• LIC packet, April 14, 2026
• LIC packet, March 10, 2026 — contains the February 10 minutes
• LIC packet, February 10, 2026
• LIC packet, January 13, 2026

City Council records

• Council packet, March 4, 2026, item G.3 — repeals and replaces Res. No. 2023-98, adopts the revised Strategic Vision
• Council packet, March 18, 2026, item C.5 — appointment of Hector Soto
• Council packet, June 3, 2026 — 2026-27 CDBG Annual Action Plan
• Council packet, August 5, 2026, item G.4 — employment of David Hanham
• Council packet, September 2, 2026, item F.1 — 2025-26 CDBG CAPER
• Council Shirtsleeve Session minutes, December 17, 2019 — Lodi Family Resource Center address

City pages and portals

• Lodi Improvement Committee page — roster is out of date
• CDBG program page
• City Council Strategic Vision
• Homelessness initiatives and the LCOH Agenda Center
• Report-A-Concern form
• City of Lodi boards portal — Resolution No. 2011-173
• City of Lodi public meetings livestream

News and organizations

• Lodi News-Sentinel — "Designs on retirement for former architect Della Monica," February 21, 2026
• Lodi News-Sentinel — "Lodi City Council to consider next community development director," August 1, 2026
• Lodi 411 — Lodi Improvement Committee, July 14, 2026
• Lodi 411 — Lodi Committee on Homelessness, August 13, 2026
• Lodi 411 — Lodi City Council, March 18, 2026
• Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin
• Lodi Adopt-A-Child
• Lodi Open Studios

Contact

• Public comment on this agenda: LICcomments@lodi.gov — must arrive three hours before the meeting
• Committee staff: Kari Chadwick, CDD Program Specialist, (209) 333-6711
• Corrections or tips for Lodi 411: editor@lodi411.com

Prepared by Lodi 411 from the September 8, 2026 Lodi Improvement Committee agenda packet posted by the City of Lodi Community Development Department, with supporting context from City Council and committee packets and local news coverage. Page references are to the combined packet PDF. All links and factual claims were verified against primary City records on September 5, 2026.