Okay.

You must have just taken it.

Oh, okay, good.

Okay.

So we should get there.

All right, we can get started.

All right, calling our uh City Council meeting to order now that all the council members are present except with one absent, Council Member Orozco.

I call to order the June 17th meeting of the City of West Sacramento City Council of the West Sacramento Redevelopment Agency and Finance Authority.

We'll 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 people still connected to this land on which we gather.

The council did not meet in closed session this evening.

And we do ask anyone wishing to address the council or on this or any other item to please fill out a request to speak card and turn it into 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 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, and to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard.

And we ask that all 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 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 and uh post it 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 on presentations by the public on matters not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the council, and each person has three minutes to speak.

Madam Clerk, do we have any requests to speak?

Yes, ma'am.

William Lana.

And if you could pronounce your last name again, please, Lana.

Lana.

Lana.

Lana, L A N A.

Okay.

Mr.

Lana, please proceed.

Good evening.

I'm from the north end of West Sacramento.

And I'm here about the issue of carports.

It's been around for quite a while.

This issue started last October, I guess November, when a gentleman built an over-the-top carport to house his motor home, very large motor home.

And frankly, if I had lived in that neighborhood, I would have complained about it as well.

Now, this gentleman, it seems, has gone around the area of North Sacramento and looked and found all the car ports that are there, all except for a couple that are still up, plus mine, and complained about them.

And everybody's had to take them down.

This is thousands of dollars of real estate that people have put up for the house to protect their cars in the winter, to protect their vehicles in the summer, and now they're all being forced to take them down, which is ridiculous.

These taking them down does nothing for the city.

It doesn't help the city, it doesn't help the person, it doesn't beautify anything.

And so I believe that the city council and the city has an obligation to change this.

It should be changed.

And as I understand it, the mayor, bless her heart, brought up a solution to this that we uh grandfather in all the rest of the car ports, which would be an excellent idea.

But the rest of the city council said no, we're not gonna do that.

And I'd like to know why the rest of the city council denied such a request.

It doesn't make sense, but there is a solution to this.

You change 17.22.020 in the city code to allow car ports.

A carport that is erected over an existing driveway area that was originally built when the house was originally built, and with a two-foot setback, just change that and people could have their car ports.

But there's another point to this that I don't like that's going on with front yards, concreted front yards as well.

And this is the complaint-driven idea of something that they don't do anything about unless it's complaint driven.

Well, the city should form a commission of three people, citizens, homeowners, and if somebody has a complaint against a carport or a concrete driveway, they put a written complaint in to exactly what their complaint is to make it accountable, and simply saying that because it's um against code, that doesn't, that doesn't fit.

And if this commission looks at it and says, Okay, that's a valid complaint, turn it over to co-enforcement.

And if the commission says no, that's not a valid complaint.

End of issue.

Thank you, Mr.

Lana.