All right.

Good morning and welcome back colleagues and staff in all. I call this meeting of the

Law and Legislation Committee to order. We'll quick please call the roll to establish a

meeting of the Law and Legislation Committee to order.

Thank you, Chair.

I'm here.

We have a call.

Please stand if you are able. Please rise for the opening

Thank you Councillor Consland.

我有 some reflection.

Just the work that I do today.

Thank you.

and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous Peoples' history,

contributions and lives.

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, the liberty and justice for all of us.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, and thank you everybody who's come out to participate.

Friendly reminder, if you wish to make common on any item, please turn in this

lip here in the front before we begin public comment on that item so we can make sure to call on you.

And with that, we will start with our consent calendar.

We have three items on consent.

Do either of my colleagues have any questions or comments?

On the consent.

All right.

It is moved and seconded.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

I abstain. That passes unanimously.

So moving right along to item four, Councilmember Proposal request for committee consideration

to make revisions to the shopping carts ordinance.

We will start, I think, today because I see a lot of folks in the audience for this item with maybe public comment to get us going.

So, now, click, please call the members of the public.

Thank you, Chair.

We have five speakers for this item.

First is Randy Smith, followed by Lisa Sanchez, then Roland Brady.

You can line up in the aisle.

My name is Randy Smith.

I'm just on the outside of the East End of Sacramento City limits.

I've been participating many years removing shopping carts from wide variety of places, including in our creeks and waterways.

Driving down the roads, I see them on, you know, obviously on the roadside that late at night, they're dangerous locations.

I would urge to go forward with the revisions of this, the ordinance.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Lisa Sanchez, followed by Roland Brady, then Ed Brez.

Before I begin, I just want to make sure that you guys have the photographs that I was able to submit for part of this.

If you could, yeah, if you could take a look at them and distribute them amongst yourselves while I give them.

So, you kind of understand where I'm coming from on this.

Thank you.

Okay. Hi, my name is Lisa, and I volunteer with River City Waterway Alliance, a group dedicated to restoring and protecting our waterways in Sacramento.

I'm here to give my support to the updated shopping cart retention plan that is before you today.

Not only have we removed 832 shopping carts from our creeks and waterways in the last year and a half,

we have come to find out how detrimental they truly are to our waterways.

They help, they, sorry, they help move massive amounts of debris into our creeks, rivers, and parkway.

And once they are no longer needed, they are carelessly discarded and left there forever.

They snag and catch plastic bags, clothing, tarp, and sleeping bags, which then bankrupt excess sand and invasive weeds that reduce the full flow capacity of what our waterways are intended for as a flow channel and outlet.

The number of shopping carts found in our creeks and waterways is surprising even to us, and each one poses a massive hazard to the environment as well as for flood control, which is a paramount, which is paramount in a flood zone.

Requiring businesses to be more proactive and accountable with their shopping carts is a major step forward to preventing them from making our way into our creeks, creeks, rivers, and waterways.