The Sacramento City Council met in regular session on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at City Hall (915 I St.). The meeting was called to order at 5:07 p.m. and adjourned at 9:35 p.m. Major actions included adopting a large Consent Calendar package (youth Measure L allocations, public works and utilities contracts, housing and land use items), approving the Streets for People Active Transportation Plan, adopting a Railyards sign district ordinance enabling up to five digital billboard locations in a subdistrict, advancing Old Sacramento Waterfront reinvestment Phase A planning (and reimbursement intent for future tax-exempt bond proceeds), adopting a military equipment policy timeline resolution, and approving the Airport South Industrial Annexation (447.19 acres) with added restrictions and community engagement conditions.
Item 22 — Railyards Special Sign District & Subdistrict 3 Digital Billboards (M25-005 / M25-010)
Item 23 — Airport South Industrial Annexation (P21-017)
Item 24 — Waterfront Reinvestment Program (Old Sacramento Waterfront, District 4)
Item 25 — Resolution on Military Equipment Use Timeline
. Let's meet in order the Sacramento City Council. Please call the roll. Council member Kaplan. Council member Dickinson. Vice Mayor Chalamantes. Councilmember Puckabone is expected momentarily. Councilmember Maple. Mayor Pro Tem Guetta. Councilmember Jennings. Councilmember Vang. Mayor McCurdy. Thank you. Councilmember Dickinson can you listen the land acknowledgement and pledge. And tribal lands to the original people of this land the Nisenan people the the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains Miwok, the Patan Wynton peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples' history, contributions and lives. Thank you. And now if you would join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the color of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam City Attorney, do we have a report out from closed session? No. Thank you. We now move on to special presentations. The first is World AIDS Day presented by Mayor Patem Ghatta and Council Member Vang. Thank you very much, Madam Clerk, Mayor and Council. We're here today to honor and recognize World AIDS Day as December 1st. It was first declared in 1988 to not only recognize the loss of life, but also to support those living and suffering with AIDS. In June of 1981, the CDC first reported out a new unknown virus that had symptoms that were nothing like they'd ever seen before. Over the next two decades, as millions of Americans caught the virus and died, the federal government would wage war against the disease in the court of public opinions. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle would legislate against the victims. Medical officials in hospitals would deny medical care and treatment to people suffering from the virus. Whole communities would be stigmatized and dehumanized over this virus. and who they loved. You know, the first year alone, more than a million Americans, predominantly gay men, would die from the virus at the height of the crisis. Over 3 million people would die. And over the next two decades, the LGBT community would organize, protest, and fight the injustice being waged against them by the federal government, medical professionals, and the public. In the end, the AIDS epidemic would cost over 4 million Americans their lives. This year, even though the rest of the world is recognizing World AIDS Day, this year President Trump said to the federal government that we would no longer recognize World AIDS Day. We are here to say that Sacramento will continue to honor with pride those who have suffered, those who have lost their lives, and how we need to continue the education that needs to happen to prevent this disease. That action stripped the funding from the Ryan White HIV AIDS program that helped so many and prevented the loss of life of so many. Many of us remember Ryan White, who contracted the disease at the age of 13. and when he passed away at the age of 18, I remember being a teen myself and thinking how a peer of mine could have lost their life and what more could have been done at that age. At an age when you're a teenager and you maybe feel invincible, the disease did not discriminate. We're here today because so many people have stood up and said we need to make sure that we're doing everything we can to reduce the stigma increase education, and most importantly, support the survivors and honor those who have passed away. And in the past 40 years since HIV and the AIDS virus was first identified, researchers have been working hard to find ways to curb that virus. As we had our press conference yesterday, something to acknowledge is that the rates have gone down in Sacramento, And that's been done because of great organizations like those today from the Sunburst Foundation.