All right.

I now call this meeting of the Law and Legislation Committee to order at 1101 a.m.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you.

Councilmember Plecky-Bong.

Councilmember Jennings.

Yes.

I expect Councilmember Dickinson momentarily and Chair Maple.

I am here.

Councilmember Plecky-Bong.

Would you please lead us in the Pudge of Allegiance and the landing on it?

That was the rose before.

The original people of this land, the Nisanan, the southern Maidu, Valley Plains, Miwak,

Patwin, Wintu, peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria Sacriminos only federally recognized tribe.

Maybe we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands

and choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacriminos and Indigenous peoples history, contribution and lives.

Thank you.

So, 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, of liberty and justice.

All right.

Thank you very much, Vice Chair.

And just generally speaking for those who wish to address the committee, you can do so by submitting a speaker slip,

but you can find it at the back of the room and bring to the front desk here.

Prior to the beginning of each item, we will not accept speaker slips after the item begins, and then you'll have two minutes to address the committee, so like to welcome you.

And we have a very robust agenda today, which is consent.

So at this time, we'll move on to the consent calendar.

Are there any items on consent that members want to pull or have discussion? Councillor Dickinson.

Thank you, time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I just need to recuse myself on item three on the consent calendar due to a campaign contribution received within the last six months exceeding $500.

Okay, so noted.

Do we have any public comment?

I do. I have two speakers on the consent calendar.

Let's see, Clark, Rosa, and John Park.

Welcome.

Honorable Chair and members of the Law and Legislative Committee, I'm John Park with Park West Casino Lotus.

I'm here to request a modest expansion of two additional card room tables every four years over the next two decades.

For total of ten tables.

It's been 13 years since our last two table increase, and since then our small card room has faced considerable challenges, including the sudden competition for the New Casino and Elk Grove, significant jumps in minimum wage, and the financial strain brought on by the pandemic and ongoing inflation.

These factors have made it much harder to stay competitive while preserving the jobs for our 170 employees.

Every new table we add will create ten more jobs, helping us protect local employment.

A reasonable table increase is crucial to our long-term stability, and this incremental plan allows us to grow responsibly.

By granting this request, you're helping us remain viable and continue contributing to the region.

We appreciate your consideration and look forward to your support.

Thank you.

If you're comments, Clark, Rosa?

Good morning, Chairman, and Council. My name is Clark Rosa, and I'm the owner operator of Capitol Casino.

We've been here in Sacramento in the card room business for 35 years.

We employ just over 200 people, a lot that have been with us for 20, 26 years.

We've taken no table since 2012, so we've been actually 12 years, and that's our only revenue source.

So naturally, we're a little bit behind on the cost of living increases that have gone on.

The two tables we have figured out through the CCC Card Club organization that each table promotes 10 living wage jobs.

So two tables gives 20 people a job who do not have a college education, and they're actually able to afford housing, cars, and raise a family.

So the two tables are important to us, and we appreciate your time to hear this.

Thank you.

I have no more speakers on consent.

Okay, wonderful. And then before we move on to, before I accept the emotion.

So what this will happen if this body passes this card room ordinance on consent today, then our staff are going to take this to the department, the California Department of Justice Bureau of Gamble and Control.

They're going to review those ordinances to make sure that they're in compliance.

And then it will come back to this body, and then we'll go to the City Council for approval.

So just so you're aware of the process that's before us, that's the expectation.

We don't have an exact timeline, but we expect that to be the process.

So with that, I will entertain a motion.

A motion?

A motion in a second.

And then we're noting the abstention of Councillor Dicconson on item three.

And okay, I'll just add for the record that I did leave the room during the course of comment on the item.

So noted, thank you.

Okay, all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All right, and one abstention.

Thank you.

Okay, and with that, we'll move on.

Do we have any public comment on matters not on the agenda?

Yes, Madam Chair, I have one speaker, Lisa C.N. Chess.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Hello.

I am here to just renew the knowledge of the amended shopping car ordinance that had been brought forth last year.

We were expecting to have that kind of evaluated and so forth, maybe by November or something, and we're still not doing anything with that.

So I just kind of wanted to kind of share where we're at with this.

So we submitted a letter in support of the amended shopping car ordinance as Sacramento's foremost volunteer group leading the charge to clean up and restore local waterways.

The recipient of the Sacramento Environmental Council, the Environmental Leadership Award and the Environmental Council of Sacramento of 2023.

We strongly support your amended shopping car retention plan.

In January 2023, we have removed more than 1200 shopping carts from our creeks and waterways, the vast majority of which had no antithep devices.

The number of shopping car ordinance we remove is a outstanding and the average is about 12 per week.

We are confident that the amended ordinance will substantially curb the number of carts making their way into our waterways.

Not only are stray carts a blight and a nuisance to our streets and neighborhoods, they are massive detriment to our waterways.

Shopping carts in our waterways catch trash and debris causing sand and sediment to build, bearing the shopping cart, trapping trash.

And this creates a false bank of an island creating a snowball effect, piling up more and more and more.

We have found that even harmful invasive plants and species thrive on the trashed banks and islands.

So keeping our shopping carts out of our waterways is a major step towards revitalizing and protecting our important riparian habitats while maintaining optimal water flow capacity.

Necessary to reduce the flooding hazards, which as we have recently experienced with the major storm, it's been a big issue.

So these smaller creeks and tributaries tend to flood quickly.

And then when you have these shopping carts, I can't think of.

Thank you, dear comments. Your time is complete.

Thank you so much.

And I do really want to appreciate the work that you do in the River City water lines for cleaning up our waterways and it goes, it goes seen by all of us.

So thank you.

Thank you very much.

All right. Do we have any other public comments on the agenda?

I have no more speakers.

Okay. Any comments, questions from my colleagues?

All right. But that we are adjourned at 1110 a.m.

Thank you.