On March 4, 2026, the West Sacramento City Council, Redevelopment Agency, and Finance Authority met in a regular session. The meeting included a proclamation for Women's History Month, consideration of the consent agenda, and a workshop on the five-year consolidated plan and 2026 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. Public comments addressed food vendor concerns and proposed alternative housing strategies.
Everybody ready? Yes. All right. All right, now that all the council members are present, I call to order the March 4th meeting of the city of West Sacramento City Council, the 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 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 and celebrate the many diverse indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we gather. We would like to invite our guests to join council and staff in the pledge, which will be led by Danita and Anita, if you could just stand up and uh lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please. Thank you so much. And to the Republic for which it stands under God, indivisible with liberty and justice. As is noted on 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 important opportunity for a public forum. And in um and provide it to the city clerk. And if we have an agenda item that is up, if you can um upon the conclusion of reading the staff report or on any particular agenda item, you uh please uh that's when you have to submit um submit the request. And once the staff report has been read, we open up the 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, and each one will have about three minutes to speak, and we ask that all comments be limited to that amount of time. 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 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 address the city council abide by the code of conduct. Now this brings us to item one on presentations by the public on matters not in the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council. Madame Clerk, are there any requests to speak? Yes, ma'am. Guy Stevenson. There we go. Thank you. But there's an issue. An issue is with these food vendors. I know that you people don't, because most Democrats don't care. Uh but the food vendors out here, these restaurants are complaining about them being out there, and I have a problem with it. So I told people to call environmental health and blow up their phone. And let them know, and then they'll send it over here, and I guess old Josh Hurley will uh go out and address it. If he doesn't, then I'm gonna file a form of complaint against the state, because it's his job to go around and make sure these people are licensed and they're also have, you know, the health department. You know, they have to do that. And I, you know, I come in here and I try to have a dialogue with you people, but I really honestly, I don't think you people listen to people. I think you listen to yourselves. And I don't think you believe, you know, if it isn't you, right? Then you're not gonna listen to me. You're gonna, it's your own agenda. Whatever suits your need, but put the public and I'm gonna remember this when people are going up to re-election, I'm gonna blast them on uh YouTube. And I'm gonna say these people promise this and they don't deliver. You know what I mean? There's a lot of things that don't make any sense to me. I just had a conversation with that attorney about why you bought the pheasant club for 3.2 million and sell it for one point. That's two million dollars of tax money that you people wasted. That sounds to me like fraud with a big F. You know what I mean? You know, I know that you guys hold the purse and the money.