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

I hear phone dinging.

I can just mind mayor on silence, please.

Thank you.

The council did not meet in closed session this evening, so there are no reports.

And to the Republic.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

As is noted on our agenda, there's 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.

And the public is given an opportunity at this time to address the city council on issues not listed on the agenda.

So we do ask that anyone wishing to speak and address the council on this or any other item this evening to please fill out a request to speak card and return it to the clerk.

And we 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 and we open up the item 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.

We ask that all comments be limited to this to three minutes.

If you are not done within three minutes, I will politely ask you to um conclude and wrap it up.

And at that point, if you're not done and want to continue, I will turn off the mic.

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

So 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.

Now I'm gonna say may comment in in English.

When I get to this country, I get uh with my son, my son was two years old, and my wife.

And then my wife was pregnant, and thanks to uh to working to one uh uh guys who provide contractors, I'm sorry, to provide uh medical insurance.

Thanks for that.

I can afford to live in this country and everything.

I know I work in construction, it's hard, hard work, but it's is with it with a well paid.

That's so my uh excuse me.

So my comment is for that.

So to emphasize to uh to all the projects to have the same opportunity to other workers right here.

That's all I got.

Thanks so much for the time.

Thank you.

Guy Stevenson.

How are you?

Uh I'm here to address a problem that maybe you guys have the answer, maybe you don't.

But you have a lot of food vendors right down West Capitol that I know for a fact do not have licenses to sell food.

Food uh can be very dangerous.

And if they don't have the right temperature and they don't have a place to wash their hands, and they're selling food to the public.

What what gives?

I just asked the city attorney about it.

You know, if you're gonna do business in West Sack and you're gonna serve food to any of us or any of you, it should be clean.

You should be able to have a sink or a place to be able to regulate the heat of the food, because you can get food poisoning and believe it or not, you can die from food poisoning.

It can kill you.

So I have a big issue with it.

Now I was told that the city, you know, they don't regulate that.

Well, that's not true because on the other side they do.

And in El Grove, they just nailed a bunch of them for selling food without a tax license, you know, to pay their taxes to the state, which is a state problem, but they need to be licensed here in West Sacramento, or you're not getting tax revenue from them.

These people are getting money, big money, believe it or not, and they paying one single bit of taxes to the city.

So what gives?

What uh what does it take?

Is it code enforcement problem?

Who knows?

And I know it's the health the problem, but I have a pet peeve of about it.

I do, because I've gotten food poisoning, and I ended up in the ER, and I do not want to see anybody else end up in the ER.

So they need to have a place to wash their hands, get a license from the city to sell food.

Because it's all profit.

When they sell something, it's all profit.