All right, good morning, and welcome to the Sacramento City Council Law and Legislation.

I now call this meeting to order at 1103 a.m.

Madam Quirk, will you please call the roll?

Thank you.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Councilmember Plecky Baum.

Councilmember Jennings is expected momentarily.

And Chair Maple.

I am here.

Thank you.

And then please rise if you are able.

Rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nissanon, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Putswan Winto 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 acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's contributions, history, 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 with liberty and justice for all.

All right, thank you very much.

As always, uh, if you would like to submit a public comment, uh you can do so in advance.

Um if you have any questions about how to do that, there's some signage in the back.

You also have our wonderful clerk staff up the front here that you can talk with.

Um we look forward to hearing from you.

And so with that, we're gonna move to the consent calendar.

Any items that members have questions, comments.

See Councilmember Dickinson.

Yes, uh I I have uh a question or comment and comment on um an item on uh item three.

All right, have at it.

Have at it, okay.

Floor is yours.

Uh I am curious, first of all, whether there is any element or plank in our legislative platform that speaks to tort reform.

I don't know if there's anything that specifically mentions tort reform.

Um I don't have it totally memorized.

I can check, but I know that there are you know broader statements about economic stability of the city, those sorts of things that it would probably fall under.

Thanks.

I don't I don't recall one either offhand, and I I don't have it at hand, so I can't access it.

But uh I would express my personal concern about the city taking a position in support uh of this issue of so-called urgent need for comprehensive tort reform to protect California taxpayers, survivors, and essential public services.

Uh I I think there certainly are um elements that uh justify consideration and in terms of civil uh liability.

Um but this letter uh is a rather broad-sided attack in my view on um on victims.

Uh on the plaintiff's lawyers.

Uh it it it um includes the the old go-to of its those greedy lawyers.

Uh in fact says are in track to profit over half a billion taxpayer dollars every year.

Uh I find that offensive uh and uh inaccurate.

Uh uh the idea uh that there should be caps on on damages, uh, sound great until you're a victim.

And so um uh I don't necessarily uh contest whether the city can sign on to this kind of letter or or not.

Maybe it's justified under the platform that that we adopted, although as we talked about at the outset, I'm not aware of it.

But I uh I just want to register that I uh personally find it find it um something that uh is very contrary to what I what I think is uh appropriate for the for the city to be part of.

Okay.

Um thank you for letting us know.

And then I believe if I recall that effort was uh it came from the California League of Cities.

Is that right?

Correct.

And then uh myself, uh Councilmember Kaplan and maybe some others had also reached out about it.

So I think there might be some differing views on the council.

So maybe it's something just worth like bringing up to the full council, either in an email or something like that, so folks are aware um uh about that position.

And there I believe there is this is a request for someone to look into the issue for there to be some so once there actually was a proposal, then we would probably do a more thorough vetting um to decide if it's something that the city wants to take position on.

Okay, sounds good.

And I do know that uh there is a California League of Cities conference that is coming up in the end of September that I will not be at, but uh Councilmember Kaplan and then our city manager are both our delegates, which I believe are voting on in the consent calendar at 2 p.m.

Um, and so maybe maybe you can uh have some conversations with them too there.

So thank you.

Um okay, any public comment on the consent calendar?

I have no speakers on consent.