Law and Legislation Committee Meeting Summary – January 16, 2024
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Law and Legislation Committee Meeting Summary – January 16, 2024
The Sacramento City Law and Legislation Committee met on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 11:48 a.m. (noted in minutes as called to order at 11:48 a.m., though the agenda listed 11:00 a.m.). The meeting was brief, lasting approximately 3 minutes, and was chaired by Katie Valenzuela. All four items on the consent calendar were approved unanimously. One member of the public provided comments on a matter not on the agenda.
Consent Calendar
- Law and Legislation Committee Meeting Minutes (File ID 2023-01647): Approved the minutes from November 28, 2023, and December 5, 2023.
- Law and Legislation Log (File ID 2023-01661): Approved the log.
- Legislative Advocacy Correspondence (File ID 2023-01675): Received and filed.
- Ordinance Amending Section 2.13.040 of the Sacramento City Code, Relating to Campaign Contribution Limitations (File ID 2023-01692): Reviewed the proposed ordinance and passed a motion to forward it to the City Council for adoption.
- All items were approved by a unanimous vote (Members Jennings, Maple, and Chair Valenzuela; Member Guerra absent).
Public Comments & Testimony
- Kean Bliss, newly elected Chair of the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission, addressed the committee. He inquired about the status of a joint workshop that the committee had requested with the commission. He noted that the City Clerk had been working to determine a date and time, and asked for any updates on the format or schedule. Chair Valenzuela responded that the committee had a meeting about the topic that day and would follow up soon.
Key Outcomes
- All four consent calendar items were approved unanimously, including forwarding the campaign contribution ordinance to the full City Council.
- The committee took no other actions or votes.
Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 11:51 a.m.
Meeting Transcript
All right. I will call this meeting of the law and legislation committee to order. Thank you, everybody, for your patience as we waited for a quorum coming from another joint power meeting. So, Madam Clerk, will you please call the world roll to establish our quorum? Thank you, Chair. Council Mayor Jennings. Here. Councilmember Maple? Here. Chair Villenswell, I'm here. And Gera's absent. All right. And welcome Councilmember Maple to Law and Legislation Committee. We're excited to have you here. Would you like to lead us in the land acknowledgement and pledge of allegiance? Please rise to the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous People and Friday Lands. To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, the Valiant Plains Mi Wok, Putwan Wintum 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 today in the active practice of acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous People's History, contributions, and lives. Thank you. And I'll remain standing. Salute and 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. Thank you. And I should have said Vice Mayor Maple. My apologies. All right, we have an incredibly brief agenda today, four items on consent, and then we will take public comment for items not on the agenda. Do any of my colleagues have questions or comments about our consent calendar items? No, and in that case, I'll take a motion, please. So moved. Okay, moved by the vice chair and seconded by the vice mayor. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. And opposed abstention. That passes unanimously. Thank you. All right, we'll move now on to any committee comments, ideas, questions. Okie dokie. We will move on to public comment on matters not on the agenda. Thank you, Chair. We have one speaker, Kean Bliss. Greetings, City Council. My name is Keon Bliss. I am uh here uh as the chair, the newly elected chair of the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission. Um, just to uh check in about the status of the joint workshop, which um Council Member Jennings and this uh and this committee had requested of the commission. Um we recently discussed it at our last meeting, our first meeting in January, um, to get some uh updates around that. Last we had heard was that uh the city clerk was working with you all to determine uh the date uh and time in which we would have this joint workshop.
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