West Sacramento City Council Meeting - November 20, 2023
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And we would like to invite our guest
to join Council and staff in the Pledge,
which will be led by the West Sacramento Girls Softball
Teams.
Please stand and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
One.
Pledge Allegiance to the United States of America
to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, one God,
indivisible, liberty and justice to all.
Thank you so much.
As is noted, on our agenda, City Council
is prohibited by state law from discussing or taking
any action on items not listed under item one
for public comment.
But it provides an opportunity for a public forum.
This public is given an opportunity at this time
to address city council on issues not listed on the agenda.
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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 the item up for public comment,
the clerk will announce your name for you
to walk to the podium to speak.
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to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard.
We ask that all comments be limited to the specified number
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indicates which agenda item the council is currently
considering.
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can cause anxiety.
So we ask 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,
and not speak in a loud or threatening, offensive, abusive,
or other disrespectful language that disrupts,
disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct
of the meeting.
Now this brings us to item one, presentations
by the public on matters not on the agenda
within the jurisdiction.
And each person has three minutes to speak.
And you'll see the clock letting you know how much time
you have left.
You can keep track of that and wrap it up by the three minutes.
And Madame Clerk, are there any requests to speak?
Yes, ma'am.
Guy Stevenson?
Guy Stevenson.
I know that you got the letter that I sent to you.
I don't like taking anything outside of the city,
but I had to because it's obvious that some people believe
in their own minds that there is nothing wrong
with your little van service here in West Sacramento.
Well, that's why I wear a body cam all the time.
So I can record people's conversations
that I'm talking about passengers as well as drivers.
You're talking about a company that's in a base out of New
York.
Now they're going over to Sacramento.
And now they're trying to manipulate the drivers
into going to other places.
So I talked to the original France the other day.
And I said, you know, you guys should investigate this a little
more before you dig into it.
I don't agree with it.
Last year, I made a statement to the newspaper.
They printed it.
Then you got your damaged control people here
that turn around, called the owner of the paper,
and said, I want you to reprint that because that's wrong.
That is a big violation.
To me, it would be a Brown Act violation.
There's certain things that you can do.
If you don't like what the public says,
then you don't have to listen to them.
So I turned around.
I took all that information and all that.
And I sent it to the Yellow County
Grand Jury to have them review it and also audit that department.
Because they are not what people think they are.
They're going over to the Kings.
They got 16, what, 16 vans.
What do you think is going to happen when you got the Oakland,
I mean the A's here.
I'm not even going to say Oakland.
You know, it just doesn't make any sense.
So I spent a long time in this last week investigating it.
And I sent it to the board of supervisors for district one.
I said, I want you to review this because these people
in city council, they don't want to believe it.
They think that the public is full of it.
And that's just nonsense.
Excuse me because there are children in here.
But I do not like coming in here and advocating for any program.
And then you people just kind of turn your,
you just want to do whatever you guys want to do.
You're not listening to the public.
You're listening to yourselves.
And you guys do these little business
dealings in the back.
So I said, you know what, I just send it to the people that can review it.
And if they find that there's something wrong with VA,
which I think there's plenty, then they'll find out.
Because if I'm addressing something to you, Madam Mayor,
and the city council, and you're not listening to anybody about it,
then I just take it outside of here.
Thank you very much.
Have a great one.
Thank you, Mr. Stevenson.
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 Sacramento.
According to California YMB, majority of American voters
have expressed dissatisfaction with the majority of the majority of the majority
who have expressed dissatisfaction with current conditions.
High housing costs are a major component of that dissatisfaction.
Housing is the biggest expense for most families.
And early analysis show that metro areas with the highest cost of living
saw the biggest anti-incumbency swings on the federal level.
Voters seem to understand that prominent red states like Texas
build lots of housing, whereas prominent blue states like California do not.
Consequence is Americans are voting with their feet and moving away
from high cost blue states to lower cost red states,
taking their electoral votes with them.
It's no wonder that in an election where voters said high prices were their number one concern,
so many expressed skepticism of a California Democrat's ability to deliver.
So something we are doing is not working.
We don't build enough housing, then we spend billions to try to solve homelessness
with nowhere for people to go.
We are still focused on incentives for wealthy developers,
building bigger and government subsidized housing.
Little to no options in between.
The people want change.
Let's hear more about incentives for the people to uplift themselves,
to build their own diverse affordable housing.
Let's shift the focus on more self-reflection on what hasn't worked,
more innovation and more freedom of choice for the people.
And I just want to say we have really enjoyed working with Daniel in the planning department,
and we are looking forward to bringing you, Council, an amazing and compelling presentation
for the Tiny Home on Wheels ordinance in January.
Very exciting.
So thank you to Daniel for being so open to collaborating and representing the people of WestSAC
in an unbiased and inclusive way.
Lastly, if you have not already, please consider joining our West Sacramento Tiny Homes Facebook group
for more information and updates on the progress of this ordinance.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Davis.
We have no additional request to speak on this item.
Thank you, Madame Clerk.
Next, we have under item two presentations under the City Manager's Office,
and we have three presentations.
I'm going to take them out of order.
I will first start with the presentation of a proclamation recognizing National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
and Thriving Pink.
And if I can have, we have two representatives for that.
We have Thriving Pink Board Member Andrea Mayer and Executive Director Leslie Hunter.
If you can come to the podium.
As I read the proclamation, so exciting to have you here and to recognize this.
I'm going to read the proclamation, and then I'm going to ask you to share a few words
and then have the council members speak a little bit about, you know, why this is important for us in City Council.
And we have quite a few young ladies here.
So it's just an opportunity for us to share this education and awareness.
And so whereas breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women,
it is estimated that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime
with over, with over than, more than four million women now living in the U.S.
with the history of breast cancer.
Whereas during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we renew our commitment to fighting this disease,
providing education on risk reduction and early detection, and supporting those affected by breast cancer.
And whereas Thriving Pink established in Davis, California in 2016 as a local 501c3 nonprofit organization,
has a mission to help local breast cancer survivors thrive with a network of support offering all programs and services
and no charge to the community.
Whereas Thriving Pink volunteers represent breast cancer survivors, community members, business owners,
health and wellness professionals who come together to make a difference in the lives of those who are battling this disease.
And whereas Thriving Pink helps the breast cancer community from the time of initial diagnosis and throughout survivorship,
providing initial financial grants for immediate and essential needs and programs, such as pink peer mentors for newly diagnosed individuals,
renewal retreats for those who have completed treatment and wellness educational workshops for all.
And whereas Thriving Pink has expanded outreach to underserved communities throughout Yolo County,
including West Sacramento, to meet increased needs with the vision that no one will go through breast cancer alone.
Now therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of West Sacramento does hereby recognize the special efforts that occur
during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the outstanding support that Thriving Pink provides to breast cancer survivors in our community
throughout the year proclaimed this day of November, and we will do this annually and on time for the next time.
We didn't have a meeting in October, so this is being done in November.
So thank you so much. If you can please say who you are and present any remark you'd like to have.
Thank you. I'm Leslie Hunter, Executive Director of Thriving Pink, and thank you for having us tonight.
I'm here with our board member Andrea Mayer and Tammy Linker, who we met through the West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce.
And we are just so honored that you would recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month, recognize the work of Thriving Pink throughout the county
to support those with a breast cancer diagnosis. And Madam Mary, you did cover so much of what we do, which we really appreciate.
We know that almost everyone has been impacted by breast cancer, and the staff that you shared, one in eight women in the United States will receive a diagnosis.
And we find ourselves busy supporting those in West Sacramento, Davis, Woodland, Winters, and beyond in Yellow County.
We do have an office in Davis, but we serve all of Yellow County, and we are the only nonprofit that specifically addresses those with breast cancer.
So we're quite proud of our work and the volunteers driven by an incredible board of directors. So we're so pleased to have made the connection with you all.
And as our outreach in West Sacramento continues, we look forward to collaborating more with you.
Thank you. My name is Andrea Mayer, and I'm on the board of directors, and I am one of the eight.
So as a driver that we have been on the board of directors, it's really important work that is so valuable to be at every day and the people that we serve.
And so on behalf of our board, of course, in our many wonderful volunteers, and then the breast cancer community, we thank you for this recognition because
yes, awareness is so important in breast cancer. And we're out there, you know, really helping to both raise awareness and then provide support to those then when they need them.
We don't want anyone to go through breast cancer.
And one of the premier programs that was mentioned is our financial grant. And a little stat, a breastcancer.org survey that essentially 47% of people who responded that had breast cancer said their out of pocket expenses were significant.
And also that they forego regular expenses to help pay for their treatment. So one of our programs are financial grants called Granting Pink. And over eight years, we've given over $300,000 to yellow residents who are part of that program.
And it helps to have someone who's been there. And so that's another one of our programs that we offer, and we just want people to know that those services are available. And our office always been to learn more about it. So it's, it's the women of the anyone in yellow County that that needs our services.
Thank you for being here to support council members. Do you have any comments?
Council members will be easy.
Oh, okay. I thought you raised your hand. Sorry. Go ahead. I'll let you go first.
Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for all the work.
And so normalizing this conversation and creating community and space for us to talk about something that if it hasn't impacted, you know, the one in eight, if it hasn't impacted you directly, it's impacted somebody close and everybody knows someone who's been affected by cancer.
And so these conversations in the community that you're building is just so powerful. So thank you for the work you do and thank you for supporting us.
Thank you for being here tonight.
Go ahead.
Okay. Thank you. I was going to say thank you so much for this because as women, we're the first ones to rush our kids or family members are loved ones to a doctor for the smallest thing that can occur a small scratch.
We often neglect ourselves. And I was remembering back when I was working with the assembly assembly man and the shetty. That's how he lost his mother should press cancer back in the 1950s.
They didn't have that awareness at that time because the programs were into speaking about it. People didn't discuss things.
And I don't Anthony has been a big contributor. He and his wife also, you know, the risk awareness.
And I just wanted to say that these programs are so important for so many, especially in communities, you know, like the Latino community and the African American community and so many others that don't often have this information to disseminate it to.
So thank you again for being out there putting that information out there and the financial assistance.
That tremendous I didn't know about many of us have insurance we don't even think about it, but it would be a really, really hardship.
And they would probably, you know, put themselves on a back burner.
And then it may be too late.
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much, madam mayor.
I won't. I won't say all the things that my colleagues have said, because they've covered quite a bit.
I will say thank you for coming to West Sack. I remember when we did the ribbon cutting, madam mayor and I, for you guys coming out here and got to learn a little bit more about the work that you all do.
But I think that younger and younger, we are being impacted by breast cancer.
And so I think it is important for all of these young ladies around us what a perfect night for you guys to be here, by the way, to be able to hear about this.
And hopefully there are opportunities for you all not only to partner with us, but also to partner with our school district.
And so just to share to the public, I am a survivor and I caught it early.
And it was as a result of being taught how to feel lumps and found one and it was removed.
And fortunately we caught it very early, did not need any kind of treatment for it.
Probably one of the lucky few ones, but you being present here in West Sacramento is extremely important.
What I learned after is that I had just a very good team of people who when they saw something immediately went to the next step without having me leave the office to do the testing.
And that's what led me to immediately get the surgery to get it removed because you don't know how rapidly things can evolve.
I've been free for 10 years now. Nothing has returned.
But I still find that I have to continue to fight for screenings because the medical profession likes to stretch out the screening times.
And for people like myself and also in my family, we've had numerous cancers in the reproductive system that were far more aggressive and life threatening where one of my siblings passed away due to that.
So I now know that this is in my family.
And so we learn and we talk about it and we just want to make sure and that's why having you here present that we share with all of our community members.
We just need to continue to get the screening and thank you so much for I know what you do is helping women advocate on their behalf because sometimes your medical professional will kind of push it aside and not take it seriously.
And I think that we need to be an advocate for ourselves and you encouraging strongly to say, No, this is what I need to get done.
And I am entitled to it and know what your health insurance is required to give you is important.
I just I felt lucky that I just had a medical team that helped me along the way but I have seen others not getting that treatment and support and any delays does have a negative impact.
So thank you so much for being here and presenting in awareness education and your commitment and support to our community and love to be, you know, an ambassador for you in the public tabling and supporting you out here in West Sacramento.
Thank you. We'll go down for a photo.
Yeah.
Right. Next we have our presentations is the presentation of a proclamation recognizing the West Sacramento girls softball program.
And yeah.
I'm going to go down to the podium and if I can have everybody come on and around the podium and I'll read it from there.
All right. You're all ready. Let me see if this is on. Is this on?
Yep. Okay. Great.
All right. We are recognizing here in our city council chambers, our West Sacramento girls softball program.
Whereas the West Sacramento girls softball program is a proud member of the nationwide United States softball organization and is dedicated to providing meaningful and competitive softball opportunities for girls ages seven to 14 in our community.
And whereas WSGS actively collaborates with the Washington Unified School District, the city of West Sacramento local business partner, all American softball and River City high school staff to create an exceptional athletic program that enriches the lives of young athletes and fosters community involvement.
And whereas the WSGS program is supported by over 75 dedicated volunteers and 11 generous sponsors who enable 178 girls to participate in the 2024 season demonstrating the community's commitment to youth sports and positive development.
Prostrate not only athletic prowess, but also teamwork, resilience and community pride proclaim this 20th day of November 2024. Congratulations to all of you.
Is anybody going to speak on behalf of Oh, yeah.
Hi, my name is Olivia Bilsky and I'm here for the softball program.
Go Westsack.
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We have item four is a proclamation.
Oh, sorry.
Item three is a presentation of a proclamation recognizing November 2024 is Native American Heritage Month.
And we have, um, Council Member Ocala who would read the proclamation and then I will read the statement.
Thank you.
Whereas Native American Heritage Month has been established at the national and state levels with proclamations and celebrations to recognize the diverse cultures, traditions, histories, significant contributions and present day lives of Native Americans.
And whereas the city of West Sacramento was established in 1987 within an area of California that represented the unceded territory of indigenous people known as the Patwin or Southern Winton.
And whereas the earliest historic written records of the Patwin begin with Spanish mission explorations and registers, an ethnophysicoric record show the Patwin inhabited land from the hills of the eastern north coast ranges to the Sacramento river.
And from the Princeton South to San Pablo and Susan Bay.
And whereas like most indigenous people throughout the United States, the Patwin were forced from their ancestral lands onto reservations and rentorias during the early 1900s, where they currently reside.
literature, mathematics, medicine, music, politics, poetry, science and traditional cultural practices.
And whereas the city discourages any and all forms of racial slurs, names or imagery, but depicts indigenous people as mascots or logos in educational institutions, sports teams, or in any other organization within the city.
And whereas the city will encourage citizens to acknowledge and celebrate November as Native American Heritage Month every year to foster education, relationships and cooperation with the native people, while also supporting social and economic opportunities for them within the city of West Sacramento and
Yolo County. Now there be it proclaimed the city council of the city of West Sacramento does hereby recognize the month of November 2024 as Native American Heritage Month proclaim this 20th day of November 2024.
Thank you, Council Member all call and we did receive a written statement due to the weather we couldn't have a representative here today they had the their they live far away so
their statement is as follows and I'll say this was sent to us by Omar Carrillo the Yoche de he Winton nation extends their deep appreciation for preserving the rich cultural heritage of the Patwin people in all native Californians in the city of West Sacramento.
Yoche de he has played an active role in supporting many social programs to help the needy families within the city of West Sacramento Yolo County. Among many other efforts these are testaments of the Patwin people's commitment to preserving sacred sites, maintaining environmental harmony and support of Yolo County families.
These efforts not only are not only a responsibility to its ancestors, but also a gift to future generations. We invite all those here to learn more about the Patwin people and all native people and to continue building inclusive future together.
I do want to ask a question since you have this. What is the other questions among the members? Okay.
There was a reference to concerns around a levee breed and a potential flood happening.
And I do know that we have established flood protection levee repair work where we had some vulnerabilities.
And we do have reclamation district, which we are all board members, which where we monitor during tough weather conditions when breach could potentially happen.
And what the possibility of an incidence is like is that is a concern that I was like the traffic congestion is one, but you'd be able to leave the city in a safe manner.
What you know what that looks like if we're going to be, you know, all stuck and drown or if we're going to, you know, if it's not going to happen.
You know, more highly unlikely since we've done levee repair work.
It just seems like the people are unaware of what we've accomplished and we are doing a lot of work.
Want to see, you know, elevate that awareness.
Mr. City manager and we also have reclamation district 900.
Right.
If you can come up and provide a little bit more background.
Yeah, I think just just the kind of recap. A lot of this was covered in the last meeting during different presentations are are far Marshall who also oversees our emergency.
Coordination Brian Johnson gave some background in terms of how the city handles emergency preparedness and planning for things like.
Evacuations and in an event where it would become necessary because of a flood, whether it's a levy issue or an internal drainage issue.
I think for this project, some of the topics that came up, we were wanting to clarify some of the confusion around the SB 5 compliance.
Which is where we have to reach 200 year flood protection by a certain date that date has been extended to 242.
And then also the FEMA remapping process, which has always been kind of on the radar.
The city continues, as you mentioned, to make major strides and building out its levy system.
We do not foresee any sort of remapping issue.
Particularly one that would affect new development in West Sacramento in the future.
We are staying ahead of building out our levies to meet the clients deadline as well.
So Blake is here from already 900 like Johnson is the director of our 900 if you would like to comment on the levy maintenance piece.
We work with them. Obviously Blake go ahead and end up here in line.
We work with already 900 between our staff and already 900 staff.
Both on the internal drainage in the city, but also on the maintenance and monitoring of levy.
So Blake, you just wanted at a high level speak to the levy maintenance side of things.
Sure. Yeah. The district of course maintains have full staff for maintaining operating the levies.
As of right now with the rain out there, we do have staff tonight monitoring both the levies and interior drainage since the district is responsible for the major drainage components within the city.
Again, this storm is the first of the season. So it's kind of a first flush issue.
So we may have a little plugging here and there, but we've been at it.
Binging bitches. The levies are in great shape in general. We go through several inspections a year with the department of water resources twice a year and they give us the thumbs up with with the levies.
Like Aaron had mentioned the Southport levy. That's a new levy very robust levy in the system and has provided significant improvements to the city over the years.
And yeah, we continue to maintain and keep an eye on on the levy system and maintain as as necessary.
Thank you, Blake. And just to remind everybody as you are maintaining it and the city is working to provide the public safety enforcement that coordination is pretty seamless.
Yes, we meet with the city several times a year and the protocol is in place that we report up to the fire department and and between the fire department city and police department.
That's the information gets communicated towards the public.
And just to raise more awareness about reclamation district. It's a separate district that we as a council are have different titles, even there we are, you know, I'm the president.
And then we have trustees, each of us here at trustees and that separate responsibility preceded our time. There were actually two separate bodies, but then we merged it to be one with, you know, city council members being the trustees.
And you coming on board, I want to give you a lot of credit for a lot of the work that you've done to make improvements in the reclamation district, bringing us up to, you know, getting some of the storm drains cleaned up and some of the machinery upgraded, you know,
and just a lot of guidance and new trucks, things like that. I know it was it was an investment, but it was an investment that you took inventory and, you know, maintained it very well.
So thank you. I just want to say we should have a lot of confidence in Blake.
Well, thank you. The city's been great to work with also from the fire department, police department, public work, parks department. We all work together hand in hand with with these storms and events that occur throughout the summertime throughout the year.
It's been great community to work with.
Great. Thank you so much.
Mayor, I just wanted to say, thank you for that. And my objections for as a result of cumulative changes population, the building of new structures and all.
So I just want to be consistent with the vote that I have last time. So I didn't want this going to be a consent agenda. I still have those concerns.
Not. I think the garb of projects wonderful projects.
Mine was, I wanted a pated EIR. So for that reason, I pulled this just to be consistent with my vote.
Thank you.
Thank you.
With that, we will have a separate vote for agenda item.
Oh, no, no, do we vote later? Yes, we vote now. Oh, so early moves to move forward.
I hope we can early move and some of us a piece of whole second just a quick note. There wasn't a rat a memo that you have in front of you.
Oh, we have an irate memo to just to note that in the in the motion. I need to know the irate memo back. Okay, let's pull it back.
Okay. Make sense.
And actually, I'm going to ask for public comment. I'm clear. Are there any requests to speak on this? We have no request to speak on this item number 10.
And the applicant doesn't close the public comment and we have an irate.
You have to read it. No, we are approving the irate. Okay. So my motion is to include the irate memo in the approval of item number 10.
We have the same.
Second.
Council member sepizio whole council member Ocala, no, Mayor pro tem early. I Mayor Guerrero. I write this item is approved.
And we now have agenda item 12 visit a question with the question.
You have a question.
I thank you so much. So I would like some clarification on the municipal update chapter 9.28 aggressive solicitation. Can you explain that to me a little bit more and give me an example of what that might look like.
Yeah, absolutely. Let me put up here.
Got it. Yeah, so for that one.
It's largely addressing.
Event parking that we're going to have out at starter health park.
Industry really aimed at enhancing cities ability to manage parking and collect these.
Currently, if you look at the section.
It prohibits individuals from directing vehicles to parking spaces.
The proposed amendment introduces an exception.
Allowing individuals authorized by the city manager.
They're designated to direct vehicles to park spaces.
This is so that during a major events like those that started to park.
Authorize personnel can buy vehicles to the different parking locations that we're going to be offering.
Of course, this is going to help ensure smooth traffic flow reduced condition.
They help in these three events on time, which has been an issue and with some past events where traffic flow.
And back up that cause attendees to be late.
And if you look at this amendment.
You know, without it, this activity would actually need to be classified as a misdemeanor in our code.
Drivers may struggle to locate parking areas.
And this is leading to traffic backup.
Inclusion delays.
And Larry, just to be clear that this from a practical standpoint, this allows us to actually put people on the public street to be able to direct traffic towards the park.
Whereas right now it's technically considered a misdemeanor.
That's correct.
It's considered the aggressive solicitor.
That's correct.
So if you were to read it's not on here, but if you were to look at the next sections that defines this as misdemeanor.
Okay, that's really helpful.
And then my next question, and maybe it's more of a conversation about the new chapter on valet parking.
How I've seen valet parking happen in West Sacramento is a business is hosting an event on their property and they hire valet.
We've seen it happen at City Hall.
Our businesses might do it on their property.
A couple questions.
If the business is using their private park or valet parking, do they still need to know they don't this is what only apply to on street parking on street parking.
Correct.
Okay.
And then how are we going to get the word out.
And then do you only anticipate this happening in a certain area or, you know, do we anticipate businesses taking advantage of this and how are they going to know that permits are now going to be required for valet parking.
Yes, well, typically, the businesses will approach the city.
We received questions in the past about this, where businesses were actually events would want to host.
Or actually the one would offer valet parking, like, for example, at the barn.
And so at that point, you know, we didn't have any sort of framework for that.
And so by adding this into our municipal code.
We really making it clear that, hey, these are the requirements.
If you were to.
Offer valet parking, you can't just take a customer's vehicle and then.
Repark it down the block, picking up another city parking space. You got to.
Identify a lot, make sure that the traffic plan is approved at the city.
And so, typically they'll come to us first.
And of course, you know, will as we roll this out.
We'll be contacting the different businesses that typically offer something like a valet parking either that through our special events process or.
I just, you know, working closely with our businesses like we usually do.
Okay, so confirming if a business is doing an event and they're just valet parking on their own private lot permit not going to require correct.
That's really helpful. Thank you.
Those are your only questions.
Thank you.
Interesting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I don't know if I can follow up on that.
On the city owned and manage parking facilities.
Could you give me an example of those?
I see these lists here like the cigarette.
Which other ones do we have?
Which other facilities?
Are you referring to the book fees?
On where it says all city owned.
Which additional one?
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
430, thank you, Mayor.
30 in our binding.
The binding that we have.
It says all city-owned and managed parking reservation technology.
Oh, right.
So for that one, that's mainly going to be referring to our Ziggurat garage.
And so we plan to offer prepaid parking reservations there as part of the days playing here in West Sacramento.
And so we don't own the Ziggurat garage, but we do manage it after hours.
And so that's what the fee covers.
And when it first, the city managed a lot.
That's basically what what it means.
And then if we own it, obviously the bridge lot.
That would be the only spot.
We're going to be now having additional that we're going to have a parking manager and.
What is anticipated?
We call meter maids in my days.
Yeah, so it's legally defined in here as a parking enforcement officer.
And I believe we added that definition or it might have been in there previously.
Okay.
Yes.
So we did add it in here.
And so it's defined as a parking enforcement officer.
Different cities may have different terms.
But for the case of West Sacramento, I think that's also the actual job classification with our human resources department.
And a violation, let's say they go over the meter is usually how much?
So in the proposal.
Where the book if he's.
Me find it here.
Okay.
And while Larry's looking for that, I'll just clarify the other part of your question was about the parking manager.
So, so the code is, is being updated to acknowledge that we have a parking manager position.
So, which is Larry's position previously.
The second wasn't in there.
So just it just recognizes.
So we're going to have additional enforcement.
Right now we contract with Sacramento.
So go ahead Larry.
Yeah, that's correct.
So right now we contract with the city of Sacramento within our urban waterfront district.
So that's our Washington district, rich district and civic center districts.
Um, and they're currently patrol.
During the weekday nighttime and on weekends, they are going through some staffing challenges right now. So.
They are having a little bit of a challenge there.
They're, you know, not.
Providing the level of service that we would like them to, but.
That's something that they're working on in terms of recruitment and retention.
And how much is it going to be?
I stay over more than I should.
I get it for over park.
Okay, actually, I have it here. So the fine is $60 and then there is a $15.
Uh, that won't be in the total was $75 for parking.
That's correct. So that we, we did a regional.
Survey and this basically aligns with.
Um, other cities, particularly Sacramento.
Um, so that's what they're charging. Okay.
All right. No, that's good to know. And whoever's out there listening.
You're getting a text going to be important. Yeah.
Okay, that's it. Thank you.
Didn't city of Sacramento just raise their parking fees?
They did. And so, uh, part of this, uh.
Proposal before you tonight, um, is the match.
What they're charging. So we would be raised their fees because they're indebted.
No shade. Good job, staff.
I'm going to hear about that. Um, but.
So, I mean, different, different context.
What, what was their fees before?
Uh, so their fee before was $1.75 an hour for the first hour.
And then depending on, uh, what tier you're at,
because it increases the more time that you purchase.
Um, after a dollar, so I've actually, it's on here because our previous rate,
where I started our current rate today is what their rate was previously.
So if you.
Uh, what's our current ticket rate? Uh, for the parking.
Yeah. If you like, you know, if you.
Stay over what's our current rate.
So for the violation.
Um, for the mirror, let me see here.
Apologies, there's a lot of.
It's okay. It's not to go through. You were very thorough.
So the previous rate was 30, I'm sorry, $45.
I think that's the rate I'm used to seeing.
I think that's the rate I'm used to seeing is the 40 something.
For a ticket. Yes.
And now it's going to be basically $75.
That's correct.
I guess.
Steep ticket.
Yeah. You know, one of the things to about the meter expired violation is that,
um, depending on when you start your parking transaction,
if you were to start it, for example, in the morning.
Um, and you were parked, you know, all the way to a nighttime.
It may be cheaper to get a violation than to actually pay for the parking.
And so one of the.
Yes.
So, you know, one of the goals of this higher violation rate is.
So that folks aren't.
Oh, to incentivize folks to actually pay for parking.
Correct.
For the full day.
Right. And you know, one of the goals of the paid parking obviously is.
We want to see turnover with these spaces.
We just don't have enough supply, especially some nights in the bridge district.
You know, my favorite hangout spot man.
Yeah.
You know, we want to make sure that visitors can go to Drake the barn or Fran cat.
So that residents can come home and find a parking space.
And so we're just really struggling with that on some nights though.
With some of these amendments, we're really hoping to fix some of these.
Problems we're having, especially with the A's coming in, just a high frequency of.
Of events that we're going to be having out there in four months.
Last question, I promise.
I'm sorry, I didn't originally have any good.
She's laughing.
Um.
So let's say I get a ticket for 75 dollars.
How much is West taxi of that?
So for the contract right now, it's split 50 50.
After fees.
So if it's $75.
What's our fee rate?
After fees.
So I don't have the exact numbers with me right now, but can certainly provide that to you afterward.
But I was to take a quick guess.
It could be something like 30%.
So then we would pick me up in Sacramento.
We would let the rest of that 70%.
So we would.
So basically it starts with $75 pick 30% off.
Who gets that fees at that 30% comes to us.
The 30% fee that knows none of our cities get that one is to pay for like this patient processor.
It's like the contract basically.
That's like it.
Not with the city of Sacramento, but the private contractor who processes our citations, you know, runs it through DNV and all this other.
It's something like that.
I don't have the exact number, but it's somewhere around that number.
Okay.
And then after the 30%, whatever's left over, then we split 50 50 with city of fact.
That's correct.
I will stop asking questions.
I'm just wondering where does where's the revenue going to general fund?
Do we have specific fund?
Yeah, so it goes into the parking fund and the parking fund was established.
I want to say maybe seven, eight years ago.
And so all the revenue currently goes in there.
And then in terms of like the parking meter revenue, it's.
Respected by our municipal code where it has to be deposited into the parking fund and we can only use it for parking related.
Uses.
We do have a request to speak on this item.
Thank you.
And I was going to.
Ask for all for all items on the consent agenda.
If there any other requests to speak, you can call them all up.
Thank you so much, Larry.
I really appreciate everything you've been doing.
You're a great new addition team, especially now that.
Going to be receiving the A's and for this in depth, you know, analysis and presentation to the council.
I understand that only transportation mobility commission was probably one of the public, but if there are any other public.
Participations that you can cite that I do see that it was some.
Work group. Can you talk a little bit more about.
Yeah, so we do have an internal work group, but that's among staff.
But in terms of other public engagements.
Obviously we've been working closely with a lot of different residents throughout the city on parking parking and traffic is actually 1 of the top.
Request on the public stuff.
And so we engage normally, you know, quite regularly with the public.
For example, out in the bridge district, you know, we just been working with the residents.
Throughout the years about the ongoing parking issues out there, for example.
You know, big was parking on the levy parking.
In the dirt areas where they aren't supposed to be.
Block and crosswalk, you know, making it difficult for.
Residents really to walk around.
So it's been done through.
A series of different.
Levels.
Thank you. And I don't want to. I think there are some newer residents who come in as tenants.
They need to learn a little more and they see this.
Big price tag compared to the rest of the city with a.
For parking, they don't see the justification.
See all the streets and West Sacramento or public streets and.
They don't understand the rationale.
If there's a way for us, you know, because they come to us.
You know, I always pay this much money.
It's historical has been.
It's been established way before me. I think all of us were on council.
And to, you know, just to.
Go out on a regular basis and even newer items like this that are coming up.
Educate public both businesses or maybe through a chamber event or something.
So that we can get the public more involved in being educated.
And with that, all.
I'm going to go back to the public comment.
We just have one for item 12.
Chris Curtis.
I wanted to touch on what you were just talking about in terms of educating the public.
We didn't talk about the permit to be permits resident parking.
And I think that's the reason why we're getting for that.
When I first moved in the neighborhood, they were $90 a month per car.
I was grandfathered in that's still at the heavy lift neighbors.
And now I was like to understand that this new amendment could.
Provoke the B parking permit and then start over basically so and then it's moving everybody even with the B parking.
That's that grandfather everybody else go to 185 from 90 to 135 to 185.
And then we were talking about the $60 a month for family with three cars that are all working all paying taxes here.
That's a heavy lift.
You're talking about $60 for a ticket.
I'm talking about $600 a month for what?
And the Ziggurat when we started to get a permit for building, we were told that there was an element of the Ziggurat.
It's supposed to be free parking or permitted parking for residents.
We'd never seen that.
So how we built that we wouldn't have parked either.
There's room to park in our neighborhood.
But $600 a month without rates.
It's not just high.
It's absurd.
So who do you know that for that?
And what about the tenants that are renting and that are coming and going?
And what about the people that are wanting to park for an hour and a half?
Go to the park regional park.
You have to go for an hour.
There's no avenue for them to stay longer where you want to spend two hours at one of the bars or restaurants down there.
No way to do it.
Not legally not without a $60.
So you asked a lot of questions.
I appreciate that.
There's there's a lot of going.
I'd love to be on.
I'd love to be sitting in that room and advisory class because the neighbors around me upset.
And again, it's it's not clear.
I don't know what you guys are actually planning on doing because I can't find it.
So if I'm wrong, apologies, but it's upsetting.
Thank you for coming and speaking.
That's glad you're here because we hear about it out there, but we don't have you.
We don't have coming.
Can I bring stuff?
Okay.
Great.
Very come back up and we'll close the public comment and bring it back to staff.
Just ask you more questions about that.
You respond to those points.
Yeah, so regarding the.
The parking permit pricing that was adopted in 2022.
And it was really part of a broader strategy to support the sustainable development in the Washington district.
While protecting existing residents from increased parking demand, especially because we were seeing a lot of new high density developments.
And in fact, there are more in the pipeline that are coming to the neighborhood.
And we've also had actually a lot of cities and throughout the state of California are experiencing this challenge.
Because there was an assembly bill 2097 that was signed by the governor where new developments within a quarter mile of current or plan.
Public transit are no longer required to provide onsite parking.
And so, you know, as these projects are completed in the Washington district.
The burden of parking is really beginning to shift to the limited supply of on street parking that we do have.
And this shift is really began to reduce the availability of parking for businesses.
And restaurant customers, including existing residents.
And so, you know, really without any without us doing anything.
The limited supply is began to become severely strained.
You know, making it difficult for businesses to serve their customers.
For residents to secure their neighborhood.
And, you know, with the current B permit rate, it's really designed to maintain turnover with vehicles.
And ensure that the businesses have a reliable.
Act is for their customers.
You know, patronize your businesses.
For example, we have free house cafe out there that.
Periodically encounter parking challenges.
And really the other thing is, you know, a lot of the residents that have been out there for a very long time.
You know, to help make sure that they continue to have access to on street parking.
And that they're not as impacted as they would be with a lot of these new jobs that are.
Are you okay if I just only for.
I'm saying.
So we heard some, some very direct comments from our public comment.
And so I would love to just have like, yes, no, or like, this is the answer to that.
So, so one of the things we heard in regards to this, the potential for this item to actually take away what was grandfathered in.
Is that true?
No, so residents who were grandfathered in the room in grandfathered in.
Okay, good. Do we have some clarity there?
All right, perfect.
The other thing that we heard was we've gone from 90 to 135 to one.
Is it, is it at 185 now.
It should be 135.
Let me pull up the schedule here.
And also the Ziggurat free Ziggurat parking.
So it's currently 135 a month through June 30th.
Of next year.
Okay, per car.
Correct.
And I actually remember when I don't know.
Council member special hall if you were on here, but I remember when, because we actually had some pretty great discussion about whether to raise it, what not on us.
And then also we extended if you remember the two week noted because we didn't feel like there had been enough notice.
I don't know if you guys remember that.
So I remember when we did this.
So it's currently 135 it's 135 through the end of the fiscal year.
That's correct. And then it'll be 150 beginning.
Your life was 2025. Okay. All right.
What's controlling the, the, the increases.
So that rate, it's really to match some of the off street parking rates that are being offered over there. So if you look at, for example, the kind project.
Their rates are $150 a month.
And so typically a best practice and urban parking management is that.
On street parking is very valuable.
You know, you want to preserve those spaces for short term uses like.
People who want to go and visit your house cafe or maybe they're, you know, they want to go to the salon or, or somewhere for a short term.
Visit. And so really what we're doing is, you know, we're matching the rate of the off street to the on street at a minimum.
Because on the only thing I would just reflect back and then I also, I too want to hear about the Zurgorah as well.
Is that the kind projects and again, I'm only bringing it up because you brought it up is a it's affordable by design.
And so if you are comparing what parking prices are for what again is a ideally it still is affordable affordable rents and it may not be Apple to Apples, right?
Because if you're paying significantly less for your rent, you could handle a little bit more potentially in your parking fees than someone who is paying more market rate.
Right.
Just, I would just throw that out there something to reflect on.
The other one though is a capital yards.
The other comp that's probably a better comp to what your point the off street parking charge there, I believe is 150.
Yeah, somewhere around that. I don't have the latest numbers, but it's high.
Yeah, but this kind of that that that is the basis for how we set our rates.
We don't want to undercharge but private and that's a very large element.
A lot of people with multiple cars.
I don't know.
I'm just taking the cell and there's a new construction that's going to go in.
There used to be a whole trailer park over there.
Can you tell me, I mean, are they going to have onsite parking or is that all are they going to have to depend on?
You know, I'm not aware of any plans for that, but maybe someone here.
Yeah, so I can speak generally to it. So let's let's take that one for example, or any other lot for that matter in the Washington district.
Our parking standards are very, you know, urban by design. We try to encourage the parking is the most important, most expensive portion of a housing projects budget.
You want to see the infill development, especially the densities that are our general plan and zoning call for that's something that has to be addressed.
And so one of the ways we do it and the reason the Ziggurat garage is so important is to have these off street resources that can be shared.
So that projects like that 1 don't have to provide so much on onsite park.
They will provide some level of onsite park. I want to make it sound like they're not doing any.
But generally speaking, the kind projects, another good example, they're parked at closer to the minimum standard.
And then if people have a second car, they're often having to go to 1 of these off street options like the Ziggurat crash.
We don't have a lot of off street options like they do in say downtown Sacramento. We are, we are in the process of planning and building those.
But in the meantime, if you don't regulate parking pricing and on the street, especially in your streets become full of residential parking and your businesses.
So that's the balance we're trying to strike and we're in this evolutionary stage at this point with development where that's difficult.
The reason we're recommending pricing the parking the way we are has everything to do with that making that transition in that neighborhood.
I think the time when people going with open eyes, what what parking is.
They turn up here was every fold. There was a certain rate.
They were concerned, but I'm glad you cleared that up.
If Larry, if you could just touch on the spaces in the Ziggurat that are available for public use for.
Ones on the on the waterfront street side.
Yeah, so we do have 28 spaces that are available 24 seven. There's no gate.
You can purchase a monthly permit for it.
And they leave. I mean, look like it's our book if he's here.
Just to make sure I'm getting the right price.
But currently it's $95 a month.
Oh, it's not free.
No, it's not free. So.
Residents or anyone can go there and get the monthly park there.
How do they purchase? Is it? Do we notify the residents or.
You know, some of the residents have been notified before about this.
Although, you know, due to.
Some late night activities there.
We have temporarily restricted overnight parking. We've had them.
You know, we do plan to reopen it, but even when we did have it available.
Um, it wasn't a huge amount of interest just because, you know, it's kind of far back there behind the garage.
And the area is a little bit remote for now until we get more development there.
But it is available.
We do have at least 1 1 person on the site.
We do have at least one person who believe they work at
CalSTRS and they're a monthly permit parking holder there.
Then just one other thing, Larry,
if you could touch on the plan for the Washington District,
what it doesn't have right now,
part of the Bridge District is the hourly meter grade work on implementing that.
Could you just give it, because it addresses the other issue the speaker brought up about.
If someone wants to go to the Riverwalk Park for more than what the time rate is,
how do we accomplish that?
The same thing for the Treehouse too.
I mean, it's almost impossible.
Yeah. So I've talked with the businesses there, including Treehouse Cafe.
One of the common complaints I hear is there's just no parking.
So we talked about, hey,
what if we do this or do that?
I would just brainstorming different ideas.
Really, it comes down to having meter parking.
So a lot of businesses,
although it's not a very popular idea sometimes,
really that is a solution to clear up the basis.
Because once you implement that,
the people who really need a park there are going to be able to find space.
Whereas today, you go there sometimes during lunch hours,
especially it's bumper to bumper.
You're not going to find a space.
And so Treehouse Cafe, they've expressed support for that.
When I spoke with CalSTRS and folks at the Zegarat building,
they were in support of it.
And on putting a meter parking on waterfront place for Treehouse Cafe,
they were in support of putting meter parking on third tree.
And it's actually already approved for meter parking as part of 2017 ordinance.
And so typically, before we do roll out meter parking,
we would work closely with the affected businesses or residents.
If a resident has a B permit,
they don't have to pay at the meter,
just like today where they can see the posted time limit.
So if there was a meter in front of their home,
they could park here all day.
And also by having that meter in front of their home,
it opens up that parking space for them or for their visitors or in the piece of Treehouse Cafe.
It's the parking spot that's finally available for their customers.
No, Councilor McWilliam, you had to end up.
Just real quick question.
Dr. Menos gotten really creative about doing horizontal parking.
Is that even possible for us?
Are you talking about rather than this way?
Angle parking?
Yeah, so that would be more of a traffic engineering question.
But that's one of the strategies to increase parking supply.
So yeah, that's something that we can certainly look at.
I think it may be part of a broader effort in terms of looking at pre-design and everything else.
The only thing I would ask, and I think my colleagues have heard me talk about this at least a little bit,
is just my concern with the fact that it's going to be basically six months of games.
We continue to try to bolster folks coming to those businesses,
so not even just the games, but also activities around in both Washington and Bridge District.
And I've expressed some concerns about parking for the residents,
and it sounds like what we are trying to do is through raising certain prices,
incentivize or make it better, quicker for folks who are visiting,
but it does give me a little bit more pause because at what potential expense or costs are we impacting the residents?
I think that's something that I know we've chatted about before,
at the very least I've chatted about it with our city manager.
And so I would pose, again, not necessarily for this, but potentially we think about are there parking breaks,
parking passes or something that we could give to the residents around there in Washington and Bridge District
that are going to be significantly impacted by having basically six months of games around their homes to offset some of this.
Again, it may not be a permanent fix because it's a three-year contract with an optional four,
but I do think in the same way we are going to need to think creatively about how to put in more parking.
Love that idea by the way, Councilwoman Barracola.
We may want to think creatively about how to support and help the residents,
but again, by no fault of their own, some of which we'll enjoy, some of which won't,
will be dealing with some of these influx of folks coming in.
And also the concern I heard, we think about residents maybe possibly being people with separate incomes in one unit,
having their own each individual car when it could be a husband, a wife, an adult child in that unit.
And that pain we've heard is $600 out of their pocket, but their renting, the cost of rental is already very high from what I've seen.
I don't know, it can be very difficult for them to have a vehicle.
And if there's a way to assess having a discount for an additional family member saying to prove that in some way,
if there's additional workload, give a discount or a break, I would be interested in revisiting that so that it's not
cost prohibitive for a family unit that roommates situations just to make sure that some families are not struggling.
And it's really hard to find an apartment in another place to live.
So if we can help family members thrive in doing that.
One more question.
Seniors, the seniors have handicap placards.
Do they get a break? I know in Sacramento, they don't have to pay parking or anything like that.
So if a person lived in an apartment, do they, and they have their handicap, seniors?
Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, so let's actually state all that if you have a disabled placard that's issued to you, you can park on the street without having to get a permit.
If it's a meter parking space, you don't have to pay for the meter. If it's a green zone, you can park in the green zone all day.
If it's a time limit, what's like one hour time limit, you could park all day.
Well, so it gives you special privilege.
Okay.
Motion to approve early moves.
Okay. Madam clerk mayor early move council member, so please go second.
Council member, so please go whole council member, recall, mayor approach him early.
I mayor Guerrero.
We have our associate planner Elijah or Tega with community development department that'll provide a presentation.
Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Elijah or Tega associate planner.
So this item is the follow up item to the first reading of ordinance 24 fish 24 15. Excuse me, which was presented to you on November 6.
As a reminder, this item will amend the zoning code to achieve compliance with state housing element law.
Tonight staff is requesting that the city council induct the public hearing conduct second reading and adopt ordinance 24 15 to bring the city into compliance with state law.
That concludes my remarks. I'm available. Do you have any questions?
We still need to open and close the public.
We do need to open the book. Thank you so much for the reminder.
And madam clerk, we are open to public comment.
We have no request to speak on this item.
So we now have a call and move.
Seconded. Please call the roll.
Council member. Council member. Council member.
Mayor. Mayor. Mayor.
Right. Next we have our general administration.
We have no regular agenda items. So we have our general administration.
Council member assignment. Any update?
Yeah. Okay.
So let's see.
For yellow transportation.
District we met this past month.
And we will be at the beginning of the calendar year going through budget workshops, actually.
And this is the first time something like this is going to be happening.
Potentially ever in which we will have a better understanding of how the formulas are actually calculated.
Or what comes to white TV versus from federal and state dollars and what comes down to West Sacramento.
Not just what Sacramento, but the other jurisdictions as well. But of course I'm.
So thank you to about West Sac. This is particularly important because we use some of these funds.
For via and so for our micro transit here and so over the course of hopefully what will be January.
Through June, we'll get a better idea of through these workshops. How these calculations are made and then we'll also have discussions of.
The way that it's currently divided does that make sense across our jurisdiction.
Or if they need to be updated, as I said, these conversations have not potentially happened.
One ever and definitely not in a public space.
And so that's really exciting both.
I think for our jurisdictions as well as our staff as well as even white D to put in writing what has really been more just understandings and hands big agreements.
Amongst the the cities at the county level.
In addition to meeting with white TV, I also met last month with the transportation committee for say cog in which we approved or recommended.
Project to go on the transportation.
Priority transit priority for say, for the board of directors. And so.
And so 1 of the projects that were on there, at least for West Sacramento and Yolo County was our street car or now light rail.
To continue to be able to move that forward and that be a priority for the region.
And so really excited that that remains and continues to be a priority even at the bug.
Because this is something that impact not just West sock, but our entire.
And those are the 2 main meetings I would I would want to highlight.
One quick question on this.
I believe we were to get an M O maintenance.
You know how much to maintain it.
Is there any information they did during at least during a transportation committee meeting we didn't go into details on each of the.
Project that were on the list.
Really it was more discussing.
What across again, right? The various jurisdictions should on there.
There was.
It was vigorous discussion is what I would say.
But actually with that a couple of other things did also meet with the capital area region, polling authority.
Actually the same day as the transportation committee meeting.
And which Cal Trans actually put together a letter describing.
The cost offset that they would be able to provide as part of being part of the capital area region polling authority.
That was also approved this past Monday while I was I was at Y.
T. D. Y. T. D.
Lots of transportation.
So on October 16 I attended as an alternate yellow animal services.
We received an animal shelter update.
Really great updates from local community based organizations.
County is currently going to services he study and they updated on that.
And then there was a conversation regarding the big big break and the clinic in a can that I had to get briefed on which is something that was very new to me.
Which is a large installation where it's a movable clinic in a can where you can perform.
Procedures on animal.
I had to clarify that it was animals.
But some movements going to be happening.
They're working on that.
That's the yellow services APA.
And on November sorry November 7th Executive Commission address homeless Smith met and the bulk of the agenda was really going through our funding and discussing or pretty much updating on what was budgeted was been allocated what's been used.
The big portion is I mean talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The big thing that I'll mention is I mentioned at one point our contract with Bay Area Community Services back 2.6 million dollars for purchasing housing and they're actually buying property in West Sacramento closing December 11 that will act.
Permanent support of housing for.
Those that are in house staff know about that in our currently working project.
And then my last update is on November 4th the city school 2 by 2 met.
We didn't update from the yellow County Office of Education on the road map.
This is our first meeting that we actually got to discuss the Bright Park Master.
It was really exciting to sit with our school partners and talk about the 50 million dollar grant all the great work our staff did to pull that down so that we can do fun.
What bright park.
Thanks staff for all their work on that and the collaboration with the school district to get us over the finish right park.
Well I have a safe meeting.
Along with council member.
All excuse me my throat.
Where does he.
Okay.
Next we have council calendar.
Yeah.
Good evening just a reminder December 6th will be annual lighting here at City Hall and that starts at 6 o'clock with the lighting starting at 7.
City manager.
I have no report.
Thank you.
The attorney.
And no future agenda item requests.
Motion to adjourn.
Early moves.
Mayor Potem early moved and council member all call us in a minute and click please.
Council member Sopizio whole.
Hi council member Ocala.
Hi mayor Potem early.
Hi mayor Guerrero.
Hi we are adjourned.
We are adjourned.
Discussion Breakdown
Summary
West Sacramento City Council Meeting - November 20, 2023
A regular meeting of the West Sacramento City Council featuring presentations, public comments, and discussion of municipal code updates regarding parking regulations and housing elements.
Opening and Presentations
- The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance led by West Sacramento Girls Softball Teams
- Three presentations were given:
- Recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Thriving Pink organization
- Recognition of West Sacramento Girls Softball Program's achievements in 2024 season
- Recognition of November 2024 as Native American Heritage Month
Public Comments
- Guy Stevenson expressed concerns about the city's van service operations
- Robin Davis discussed housing affordability and advocated for tiny homes, noting an upcoming presentation in January
Key Discussion Items
- Municipal Code Updates (Chapter 9.28):
- Modifications to aggressive solicitation regulations for event parking management
- New valet parking regulations for on-street operations
- Updates to parking fee structures:
- Violation fines increasing from $45 to $75
- Resident parking permits currently at $135/month through June 2024
- Will increase to $150/month starting July 2025
Housing Element Implementation
- Second reading and adoption of Ordinance 24-15 regarding zoning code amendments
- Changes needed to achieve compliance with state housing element law
Key Outcomes
- Approved consent calendar items (except item 10 which received separate vote)
- Adopted housing element implementation ordinance
- Confirmed continuation of grandfathered parking rates for existing permit holders
- Discussed potential parking solutions for Washington District and Bridge District areas ahead of upcoming sports venue events
Meeting Transcript
you you you And we would like to invite our guest to join Council and staff in the Pledge, which will be led by the West Sacramento Girls Softball Teams. Please stand and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. One. Pledge Allegiance to the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, one God, indivisible, liberty and justice to all. Thank you so much. As is noted, on our agenda, City Council is prohibited by state law from discussing or taking any action on items not listed under item one for public comment. But it provides an opportunity for a public forum. This public is given an opportunity at this time to address city council on issues not listed on the agenda. And we do ask anyone wishing to 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 card. 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 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. Also in front of the clerk is an analog clip 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 ask 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, and not speak in a loud or threatening, offensive, abusive, or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting. Now this brings us to item one, presentations