The West Sacramento City Council met on September 9, 2026, to consider a variety of items including proclamations, an amendment to the River Park Development Agreement, and the selection of a new solid waste collection provider. After extensive public comment and deliberation, the council approved a 10-year contract with Green Waste Recovery LLC and adopted a modified extension for the River Park Development Agreement.
Are we live streaming at this point, Madame Clerk? Yeah? We can start. All right. Now that the council members are present, a culture order, the September ninth 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 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 tonight. And I would like our um our uh girls, please stand. Um, and I would like for you to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. Everybody please stand. All right. One, two, three. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, ladies. As is noted in 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. The public is given an opportunity at this time to address city council on issues not listed on the agenda. And we do ask that anyone wishing to address the council on this or any other item this evening. Please fill out a request to speak card, which is there at the corner, and uh turn it in to the clerk. Um, right, notate what agenda item you're wishing to speak on so that the clerk can call you up during that point. And on the Zoom, um, for those that are on Zoom, please raise your hands when called upon to raise your hands. 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 up to the podium, and uh you will see um where the time is. The clerk will um put the time down. You have three minutes to be heard, and we ask that all comments be limited to three minutes. Also in front of the clerk indicates the agenda item, and the clerk will also announce the um will also reference the agenda item or you can hear it online. And uh, we also recognize that for some speaking in public can cause anxiety. So we request that there be no applause or boos, 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, or offensive or abusive or other disrespectful language that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting. Now, this brings us to item one. Um, Madame Clerk, is there anything I miss under our um you know uh live stream comments and uh public comment. We'll begin the in-person public comment portion following the in-person public comment portion. We will no longer take comments in person, and we will proceed with the virtual public comment portion. We have one public comment in person, Brhonda Pope Flores. Can I have everybody's time? Since I'm the only one. Well, I'm back again, and I said I would be back again. My name is Rhonda Pope Flores, and I speak for the neighborhood that I grew up in. Roderick. I speak for Bright, because that's where my other generations come from. And I speak on behalf of my indigenous side, which I grew up here, and I played along that river, and I am one of those people that you acknowledge, and I do exist today. So, with that. District one has been bypassed every single time. You know, it's so telling when people look down and don't look at you when you're speaking. But that's okay as long as you can hear me. On at least three separate occasions, I'm probably mistaken, it's probably more. Council members early, Orozco, and so Pio Hall have voted against District One for Mayor Pro Tem over and over. And quite honestly, I'm just gonna add my little sideline there. It's disgusting. It is we need more people in love with the people and not the power. And from where I'm standing, it looks like there's more people in love with the power, which is why now I had to resort to going to change.org, which some of you may say, that's not gonna do nothing, but I'm not gonna go anywhere.