Are present.

Um call to order the May fifteenth meeting of the City of West Sacramento City Council, the West Sacramento Redevelopment Agency, and Finance Authority.

As you can all see, you're sitting in the dark.

So we shall receive lights soon.

We will begin with the land acknowledgement.

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, learn and commune is the original homelands of the indigenous people of West Sacramento who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.

We acknowledge and we thank the original inhabitants who have occupied, maintained, and secured this place, and who still exist on this land.

We respect and celebrate the many diverse indigenous people still connected to this land on which we gather.

I pledge allegiance to the nice.

Thank you, Chief Strange.

As is noted on our agenda, City Council is prohibited by state law from discussing or taking any action on items that are brought up under item one for public comment.

But it provides an important opportunity for a public forum.

The public is given an opportunity this time to address city council, not listed on the agenda on items not listed on the agenda.

And we do ask that anyone wishing to address the council on this or any other item this evening to please fill out a request to speak card, which is in that corner there, and return it to the clerk.

And we also accept the request to speak cards up to the conclusion of the reading of the staff report on any particular agenda item.

Once the staff report has been read, we open the item up for public comment.

The clerk will announce your name for you to walk to the podium to speak.

Now in front of the clerk, there is a timer to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard.

We ask that all comments be limited to the specified number of minutes that I will provide.

Also in front of the clerk is an analog flip chart, which indicates which agenda item the council is currently considering.

And we also recognize that for some speaking in public can cause anxiety, so we request there be no applause or boos, cat calls, or other demonstrations.

Furthermore, so that we may maintain a civil discourse here in the chambers.

We ask that those in attendance and those who address the city council abide by the code of conduct posted and not speak in loud, threatening, offensive, abusive, or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting.

Now this brings us to agenda item one presentations by the public on matters not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council.

And each person will have three minutes to speak.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak under public comment?

Yes, ma'am.

Our first speaker is Mary Dijong.

I've got kind of a long list, so I don't know how many I'll get through.

I guess I'll go with the traffic and parking issues.

Um I feel like the intersection of F and Fifth has been a really big problem for three or four years by now.

And it still has uh quite a few accidents happening because I think partly the uh traffic islands remained fairly poorly marked originally.

I think the neighborhood was so used to not them being there, and such a wide street, they would just kind of make this wide turn or a normal turn, and then there's this giant traffic island there that they weren't expecting.

So I think, and it was kind of hard for me to find uh kind of the chain of commands, so to speak, of how to address it.

It just seemed like nobody was in charge.

And I didn't try that hard, so I'll just leave it at that.

Um again, just real briefly, giant weed lots.

I live in that neighborhood between third and fifth, and there's a lot of big vacant lots in that neighborhood still to be developed.

So in the meantime, we deal with just these giant weed lots, and they got really bad this winter because of all the rain.

They provide habitat for all the uh wildlife in the neighborhood, which is sort of a problem at this point, and they potentially spread all those seeds everywhere and allergies.

I mean, they were up until today.

The last one close by me got cut finally.

Um but they were you know five, six feet tall.

So I think something could maybe be done about that.

Um I'll just say something briefly about noise pollution in the Washington neighborhood.

I've been there for 20 years now, and I expected development.

I knew I lived by uh a ballpark, but there's just so much noise pollution down there.

There's the really loud cars that come through sometime, and they're really so loud it's scary loud.

Um, all the leaf blowers, um, all the construction.

I know we can't do anything about that.

Um I mean, there's just so many machines going all the time.

It's kind of drives me nuts sometimes.

Um, then we have a pretty big problem in my neighborhood with wildlife.

Um skunks are the biggest problem as far as I'm concerned because uh I just had a friend's dogs get sprayed in my yard.

I had one I thought living in my furnace, which really had me going for a while.

I spent thousands of dollars to get them out from underneath my tough shed where they had been setting up residence for several years.

And um, there's also I saw a big coyote yesterday or the day before getting chased by some crows, and it was a big, a big coyote, and it ended up running, you know, which is okay, but um, we also have been getting more and more turkeys and pigeons, and now we have seals along the um harbor or whatever, the heart the piers, and um also the geese.

So uh there's a lot of uh kind of invasive species, you might say, and they leave a mess, and there's a lot of people feeding them, and it's kind of a problem.

Thank you, Mr.

John.