The West Sacramento City Council, Redevelopment Agency, and Finance Authority met on July 17, 2024, at 7:01 PM. The meeting began with a land acknowledgement, pledge of allegiance, and public comment rules. The council considered consent items, public hearings, a midterm budget workshop, and appointments. Key decisions included approving a market-rate apartment project, confirming delinquent charges and liens, renaming a street to TEBT, and advancing a first reading of council compensation adjustments.
Oh yes, yes, thank you. Right. Now that all the council members are present, I will call to order the July 17th 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 learning commune is the original homelands of the indigenous people of West Sacramento. We 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 peoples still connected to this land on which we gather. The council did not meet in close session tonight, and now we would like to invite our guests to join the council and staff in the pledge, which will be led by our fire marshal Brian Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. As is noted in 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 opportunity for a public forum. The public is given an opportunity at this time to address City Council. Um City Council's issues not listed on the agenda. And uh once the staff report has been read and we open up the item for public comment, the clerk will announce your name for you to walk to the podium right here to speak. Now in front of the clerk, there is a timer to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard. So we ask that all 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. So we have I do see a few new faces. If you'd like to speak tonight, if you could please get a request to speak card and um write the number on which agenda item you'd like to speak on and make sure you submit that to the clerk. We also recognize that for some speaking in public can cause anxiety, so we request that there be no applause or booze, cat calls, or other demonstrations, and 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, which is posted, not speaking loud, threatening, offensive, abusive, or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting. So this brings us to item one presentations by the public on matters not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council, and each person has three minutes uh to speak. Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak? Alexander Hampton, good evening. Council. My name is Alexander Hampton. I am a field representative for Sacramento. And um first I would like to address some of the worries about the hard working men and women who are going to be able to produce in West Sacramento. 31% of workers lack health insurance. That's nearly three times the rate of all workers. We have seen the devastation from COVID-19 past calls and seen how important health care is for everyone. These workers should not be excluded for that from that. To help eliminate these problems, we need to make sure that prevailing wage health care apprenticeship, local hire, compliance is required on housing projects built in West Sacramento. As leaders of the community, what are you going to do to work towards this goal to make sure that doesn't happen to the workers anymore? They deserve better. And one of the reasons why I, you know, make this speech is because I go to job sites West Sacramento, Sacramento Davis, and as a carpenter, you know, one of the big things that you have on your side when you're working is the health care, the decent wage. And one of these, and a lot of these workers that I speak to don't have that. They don't have the health care. They don't have a decent wage. They're getting peace work on the same work that I'm doing. I don't think that's fair. So I think that we need to really think about the workers when I see contractors come in here, developers come in here, you know, to the city. We need to think about the workers that are working hard because they can't even afford the place that they're building, you know. So uh think of that. That is my speech here today, and I thank you very much for allowing me to speak. Thank you so much, Mr. Hamilton. Guy Stevenson. I know that oh Madam Mayor, Madam, all you ladies, sorry, I'm just nervous and tired also.