The West Sacramento City Council, Redevelopment Agency, and Finance Authority met on June 3, 2026. The meeting included a Pride Month proclamation, a public hearing on city staffing vacancies under Assembly Bill 2561, two annual assessment district hearings, and public comments on law enforcement rhetoric and local trail conditions.
All right, now that all the council members are present, I call to order the June third meeting of the City of West Sacramento City Council and the West Sacramento Redevelopment Agency and Finance Authority. I will be your mayor for two more years. I just wanted to bring that to your attention right up front. We will begin with the land acknowledgement. We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, learn, and commune, and 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 people still connected to this land on which we gather. The council met in closed session this evening, Mr. City Attorney. Do we do can you present any updates? Thank you, ma'am. The council met in close session, no reportable action was taken. We would like to invite our guests to join the council and staff in the pledge. And we would like to bring up Reverend Scott Hill to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. But it provides an important opportunity for a public forum. The public is given an opportunity at this time to address the city council issues not listed on the agenda. And we ask that anyone who wishes to speak, um, we have a request to speak card. And if they can bring it up to the clerk for the public comment and for any items on the agenda, which upon the conclusion of the reading of the staff report on any particular agenda item that card needs to be presented. Once the staff report has been read, we open the item up for public comment, and the clerk will announce your name where you come up to the podium. And in front of the clerk, there is a timer for you to um track to make sure that everyone has a chance to be heard. You'll be giving them a maximum of three minutes. And we ask that all comments be limited to the specified number of minutes that I just um announced. Also, in the 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, 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 posted and not speak in loud 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 of the council. And each person has three minutes to speak. Guy Stevenson. I gotta be honest with you, mayor, I gotta be honest with her. What you guys said a couple weeks ago pissed me off and it pissed off a lot of my friends. You should never ever compare any cop. ICE agent, because they're feds, and they're not ICE is not just one unit, they got ATF, DEA, US Marshals, all of it, HSI. But when you stood there and said that they're terrorists, are you kidding me? Do you know what a terrorist is? That's somebody that'll kill you for just for the hell of it. And you know what's funny? It well, it's not really funny, it kind of uh bummed me out. Two cops yesterday got killed in New Jersey. You know what they were doing? They were doing a traffic stop on somebody, a female sergeant and an officer. I don't like people doing what they call political grandstanding. That's what you're doing. You're taking your personal beliefs about the feds and taking it to another direction and say, Whoa, I don't, you know, I don't like them, I don't even consider them cops. They're feds, and it's several different units that are involved with ICE, it's not just HSI. I'm a very easy-going person, but I'm also a big advocate for the police, and there are people just like you, and there's cops, there's cops on the other side of the bridge that are not that great. They got problems too. So every agency, but when you said all these people, they just want to go around and kill people. That ain't true.