West Sacramento City Council Meeting - February 19, 2025
West Sacramento City Council Meeting - February 19, 2025
The West Sacramento City Council held their regular meeting, primarily focused on commission appointments and transportation updates. The meeting included presentations on Black History Month and Yolo County Housing's strategic plan.
Opening and Public Comments
- Update provided on YOLO Transportation District's plans for 2025 baseball season service
- Concerns raised about food vendor regulations and enforcement
- Discussion of climate resilience and power infrastructure
- Request made to declare March 2025 as National Nutrition Month
- Update on tiny homes ordinance development progress
Key Presentations
- Proclamation recognizing February 2025 as Black History Month presented to California Black Health Network
- Yolo County Housing presented their five-year strategic plan, noting:
- Currently manage 431 public housing units countywide
- Housing Choice Voucher waitlist has 4,700 individuals
- Public housing waitlist exceeds 14,000 people
Major Agenda Items
- Council considered appointments to various city boards and commissions
- Approximately 105 applications received for 55 positions
- Council ultimately did not reach consensus on appointments
- Current commission members will remain until new appointments are approved
- Approved application for Permanent Local Housing Allocation Program
- City eligible for $763,253 for calendar years 2021-2023
- 55% allocated for affordable housing at Grand Gateway development
- 40% for accessibility modifications to low-income owner-occupied residences
Meeting Outcomes
- Commission appointments not approved due to lack of consensus
- Approved exception to 180-day waiting period for CalPERS retired annuitant hire
- Approved housing allocation program application and five-year plan
- Meeting adjourned with several proclamations and recognitions scheduled for March meetings
Meeting Transcript
you you you you you you you you you you your questions about how to the about how to allow us to address this item for public comment the clerk will announce your name for you to walk up to the podium and speak. Now in front of the clerk there is a timer to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard. We ask that our 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 for it for some speaking and public hand-caused anxiety. So we request that there be no applause or 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 wish to address the city council abide by the code of conduct posted and not speak and allow 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 comment is not in the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council and each person has three minutes to speak. Madame clerk, further any request to speak? Yes ma'am. Michael Barnbaum? Yes. Mayor Guerrero, council members, Michael Barnbaum and Mayor Guerrero has promised him here to provide an update to the council on what happened at the February 10th meeting of the YOLO transportation district but specific to West Sacramento as it pertains to 2025 service to Sutter Health ballpark and which was on the agenda on February 10th. Just a quick background that there will be 69 home river cats games and 81 A's home games for the 2025 season for a total and all of 150 home baseball games for the 2025 season. Staff is not proposing any new service for any of these games but rather for the 7 p.m. A's games. Staff is proposing what would be called sweeper bus service. This would not be anything new or a new route but instead YOLO TD will add what is known as a sweeper bus. The sweeper bus will run behind the regularly scheduled bus essentially doubling the capacity. When YOLO TD regularly scheduled 42 A and 42 B buses get too full, the second bus sweeps into pickup and the remaining passengers. YOLO TD staff is proposing to run the sweeper buses alongside their existing 42 A and B service on days with 7 p.m. games. There would be an eastbound and a westbound sweeper bus. The westbound sweeper bus would go as far west as the UC Davis Memorial Union in Davis and the eastbound sweeper bus would circle in and around downtown Sacramento, Doco and Golden One Center. Finally staff discuss marketing and partnerships. YOLO TD will continue to work with the City of West Sacramento and the Sutter Health Park to identify opportunities for collaboration and cross promotion. YOLO TD marketing team has begun developing draft marketing collateral, an example of which is included in your packet mayor that is the slide presentation in the Manila envelope. One public speaker at the meeting reminded everybody and I think this is a good reminder here. There are three dates in April which the A's will be playing and on the same days the Kings will be playing at Golden One Center
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