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Everybody ready?

Madam Clerk, we're ready.

All right.

All right.

Now that the council members are present, we have one council member who is absent.

Um, Councilmember Orosco.

Um, I will call to order the June fifth meeting of the City of West Sacramento City Council, West Sacramento Redevelopment Agency and Finance Authority.

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 homeland 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 heared this place and who still exist on the land.

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

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Please come to the podium and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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

We accept the request to speak cards up to the conclusion of the reading of a staff report on any particular agenda item.

Once the staff report has been read and we open the item up for public comment, the clerk will announce your name for you to walk up 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.

And we ask that all the comments be limited to three minutes.

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

We also recognize that for some speaking in public can cause anxiety.

So we request that there be no applause, booze, 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 hosted on the wall and also on the podium.

And not speak in loud threatening, offensive, abusive, or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, and otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting.

Now this brings us to item one on presentations by the public on matters not in the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council, and each person has three minutes to speak.

Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

First request to speak is Guy Stevenson.

As of last weekend, nice to see you uh Martha and Norma last weekend at that uh fitnall uh awareness.

I think it's very, very important that people need to know that that is a killer drug.

And outside of here, you know that I'm a licensed mortician, so I uh deal with a lot of those uh type of cases.

It's very, very sad, you know, when you have 18 to 45 that die.

This drug is very, very hard, and it will kill you in a minute.

And I want the community to have more shops like last weekend because I think it's very important that people know that this is a deadly drug, but everybody has this attitude, it ain't gonna happen to me, or it ain't gonna happen to my family members.

It can happen to anybody, it's not a discriminating drug.

It's it's like profanol, it's they're drugs that are just take your life in a minute.

So that was the one thing.

The other thing is city council member hall.

I think what you did with the PID in the South area in Sacramento, and you did a really really good job.

I just wish over here that they would do what you did over there because you did a really good job.

I've talked to a lot of people about it, and uh there's a big mortuary actually right there, Sacramento Memorial Lawns, it's cleaned up.

That whole area is because of that PID with all those businesses getting involved, and I think every couple of months they have meetings and they share information, and it's productive information.

So I give you props for that, and I hope in the future moving forward, they're gonna have a P bid here right here in West Sacramento on West Capitol.

I think it's important, and it works.

And they have one over there in North Highlands off of uh I-80 and uh Watt Avenue, all the way down, that's all P bidded too.

So, and they work with the police, they work with different agencies and different stores, and and they all work together and share information.

So, yeah, that's what I want to see happen here.

And maybe if I put enough fire out there, they'll do it.

So thank you very much.

All right, ladies, have a great night, be safe in the heat.

Thank you, Mr.

Stevenson.

If you could take a look at our calendar, I mean our our our goals, you you will see that it's already included in our and you could speak with staff further about about that particular Robin Davis.

Hello, I'm Robin, and I live in my 160 square foot semi-off-grid tiny home on wheels on my undeveloped residential property here in West Sack.

Plenty of housing news as usual, and I was able to have an impromptu conversation with a state assembly member today who is on the budget committee, and they are serious about holding local governments accountable on where all the funds for homeless is going, and they want to see results.

So we can look forward to more state oversight on that.

Also, Assembly Bill 2433 was passed by the Assembly last month, which is to help streamline the building permit process and make it more efficient.

Again, everything we have been talking about and advocating for at the local level is now at the state level, which is why I'm looking forward to the Tiny Home on Wheels ordinance coming back to council that includes a very simple streamlined permit process to go with it.