Dear Fellow ULI Sacramento Members,

It has been my honor to serve as your ULI Sacramento Chair these last two years.  During this time, so many of our members have stepped up to tackle difficult real estate problems, organize unique programming, and reinvest in our industry.  I want to highlight a few of these efforts, which I believe will have long-lasting benefits:

• Homeless Housing Efforts engaged multiple architectural firms to design transitional housing prototypes and look closely at how Los Angeles is building transitional housing at scale to see how Sacramento can begin to build similarly as soon as possible. Special thanks to John Hodgson and Bob Chase for their leadership on this effort.
• UrbanPlan programs at Sac State and Folsom High School exposed over 60 students to our industry.
• Our Womxn’s Golf Academy taught to 40 womxn enough golf skills to participate in future business development activities that take place at industry tournaments and awarded $4,100 for three scholarships to women at Sac State preparing for a career in our industry.
• Our YLG Mentor Program connected 6 mentors with over 75 young professionals seeking to grow their knowledge base and relationships.
• We brought in experts from Canada and the United States to provide out of the box thinking, during an Advisory Services Panel, on how to incentivize residential development in challenging commercial corridors in Sacramento County and Folsom.
• We leveraged our own Sacramento Region experts, through a Technical Advisory Panel, to advise Yuba City and Marysville on how infill development can be kickstarted on targeted parcels in or near their downtowns.
• Internal to our organization, we increased sponsorships and giving, devised a multi-year membership growth strategy, formalized philanthropy guidelines, and implemented a targeted media and social media program.

Due to an unexpected change in availability, our current Vice Chair, Amy Lerseth, will be unable to step into the Chair role for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 term as originally intended.  Amy will continue to be an active member of ULI Sacramento, and we appreciate her commitment to and continued involvement in our district.  Instead, starting July 1, Past Chair Randy Sater will serve as Interim Chair through December 31, 2023.  Randy will be supported by an engaged Governance Committee of past chairs of ULI Sacramento and our District Coordinator, Mary Clementi, during this transition time.  Randy will leverage his ongoing ULI Sacramento leadership and Mary’s 20+ years of experience to effectively guide ULI Sacramento during this transition time.  A new Chair will step into the permanent position by January 1, 2024.  We are currently interviewing candidates for the permanent Chair position.

Thank you for your continued support of ULI Sacramento and we look forward to your continued participation in shaping the future of our built environment!

Isabel Domeyko

Chair, ULI Sacramento  (2021-23)