Law and Legislation Committee Meeting - November 15, 2022
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Law and Legislation Committee Meeting - November 15, 2022
The Law and Legislation Committee met on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. via hybrid teleconference and in-person format. The meeting included approval of consent calendar items, discussion of an ordinance on alternate water systems, and a status update on an outdoor digital media display policy. All votes were unanimous. The meeting adjourned at 1:18 p.m.
Consent Calendar
- Approved Items 1–4 unanimously (4-0): Law and Legislation Log, Legislative Advocacy Correspondence, Committee Meeting Minutes (October 18, 2022), and an ordinance amending cable television commission code sections.
- Item 5 (Fire Code ordinance) was pulled from the consent calendar and continued to the December 6, 2022 meeting.
Public Comments & Testimony
- No public comments were made during the meeting on any agenda item or on matters not on the agenda.
Discussion Items
- Item 6: Ordinance on Alternate Water Systems (File ID 2022-01836) – Staff presented a proposed ordinance requiring gray water systems for outdoor subsurface irrigation in new commercial buildings over 10,000 square feet, and separate piping for gray water reuse for toilet and urinal flushing in buildings over 50,000 square feet. No treatment systems are required. The committee also reviewed environmental exemptions under CEQA. After discussion, the committee voted unanimously (4-0) to forward the ordinance to the City Council for consideration, with an effective date of July 1, 2023. A second phase studying indoor water reuse and costs is planned for 2025.
- Item 7: Outdoor Interactive Digital Media Display Policy Update (File ID 2022-01855) – Staff provided a status update on developing a policy for digital kiosks in public spaces. A consultant (Third Plateau) has been contracted to perform best-practice research and community outreach, with findings expected by March 2023. Councilmembers Guerra and Harris stressed the importance of robust community engagement, with Harris expressing skepticism about the devices' usefulness. No vote was required; the update was received.
Key Outcomes
- Consent Calendar adopted (4-0), with Item 5 continued to December 6, 2022.
- Item 6 forwarded to City Council for adoption (4-0).
- Item 7: status update received; no vote.
- Councilmember Valenzuela requested adding an item to the committee's log to consider adjusting the ordinance for digital display signs at large entertainment venues to use a 2,000-person capacity threshold instead of 2,000 seats.
- Next steps: Item 6 will be considered by the City Council on December 6, 2022; a consultant report on digital media displays is expected back to the committee by March 2023.
Meeting Transcript
All right, let's go ahead and call this meeting of the legislative committee to order. Please uh call the role to establish a quorum. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem Gera. Here. Vice Chair Harris. Here. Councilmember Valenzuela. Here. And Chair Shineer. I am here. Let's go ahead and do the land acknowledgement. Ms. Valenzuela, will you do the chair? Okay. Okay, please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Miwok, Petwan Wintoon peoples, and the people of the Walton 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 today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples' history, contributions, and lives. Thank you. And salute pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag 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. All right. We are going to pull item five off the consent to be rescheduled. So we have items one through four on the consent calendar. Any comments or questions on those items? Move consent. And a second, please call all those in favor say signify by aye. Aye. Opposed, abstain. The motion carries unanimously. Let's go to item six. Welcome back. And for the record, Chair, I had no hands raised to make public comment on the consent calendar. Or the record. So we'll we'll take item six, the item that never ends. The feelings the same here. Um so good afternoon, chair members and chair and members of the committee. My name is Yvette Vencon. I am the chief of staff to the director of utilities. Uh, thank you for having me here today. I want to take a second to thank uh my colleagues in the community development department, the city attorney's office, and local 447. This was all truly a team effort. Today we're asking that the committee review the CEQA exemption and the ordinance and pass a motion forwarding the ordinance to city council for consideration. This work was first initiated in June of 2021. Staff completed a feasibility study a year later, presented the findings to this committee, and the framework for an ordinance. Again, today we're here for an ordinance with an ordinance for your consideration. As we have mentioned before, this work was broken up into two phases, and I'm happy to share that we have completed phase one. Next year, we plan to move on to phase two. In phase two, we will study the treatment operations and maintenance requirements and costs for indoor water reuse, as well as study program administration requirements and potential incentives. When we were here in September, we were given a few follow-up items from the committee in attachment two of the report.
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