5PM City Council (Closed Session Begins @ 4:00 p.m.) [Updated 03/01/2022 @ 2:10 p.m.]
Meeting Time: 03-01-22 17:00
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5PM City Council (Closed Session Begins @ 4:00 p.m.) [Updated 03/01/2022 @ 2:10 p.m.] 03-01-22 17:00
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1. City Clerk’s Log of Councilmember Pending Requests File ID: 2022- 00063
1 0 1 0
2. Teleconferencing Meetings During the COVID-19 State of Emergency (30-Day Finding) File ID: 2022-00350
1 0 1 0
4. City Signatory Authority for the Storm Drainage Property-Related Fee Ballot Election File ID: 2022-00472
1 0 1 0
5. Contract Amendment for Dangberg Consulting Services LLC File ID:
2022-00224
1 0 1 0
6. City Council COVID-19 Response: ARPA Framework and Funding Priorities: Arts and Creative Economy Funding Allocation and Framework File ID: 2022-00021
5 5 0 0
7. ARPA Framework and Funding Priorities: Supplemental Agreement:
City Agreement No. PRC001357 with First Step Communities for Continued Emergency Shelter Response Operations (Two-Thirds Vote Required) File ID: 2022-00356
1 1 0 0
17. Budgetary Adjustments and Professional Services Agreement for the Capitol Mall Revitalization Project (T15175100) File ID: 2022-00287 1 1 0 0
18. Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) Fee - 2022 Adjustment [Noticed 02/18/2022 & 02/24/2022] File ID: 2022-00477 1 1 0 0
19. Coordinated Access System Presentation File ID: 2021-01438 1 0 0 1
20. Comprehensive Siting Plan Update [Oral Report] File ID: 2022-00522 2 0 1 1
21. Resolution Establishing Weather Criteria for Opening Seasonal Respite Centers File ID: 2022-00534
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Agenda Item: eComments for 1. City Clerk’s Log of Councilmember Pending Requests File ID: 2022-00063 Overall Sentiment
Bill Motmans
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Submitted At: 9:42am 02-25-22
It would appear the highly touted EIFD proposed for Aggie Square has already been abandoned, the Committee having not met since October of last year. Now, after the Mayor proposes one for central city and downtown, he recommends hiring another consultant to guide it through, even thought no evidence exists that EIFD's actually work.
Agenda Item: eComments for 2. Teleconferencing Meetings During the COVID-19 State of Emergency (30-Day Finding) File ID:
2022-00350
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Jane Macaulay
Location:
Submitted At: 2:54pm 03-01-22
Still not done hiding, ignoring the public and giving yourselves awards? City Hall should be opened up for homeless services - it’s vacant/underutilized
Agenda Item: eComments for 4. City Signatory Authority for the Storm Drainage Property-Related Fee Ballot Election File ID:
2022-00472
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Matthew Kessing
Location:
Submitted At: 4:28pm 02-28-22
The City Manager should not get over 2,000 votes to determine if it is appropriate for the City to levee an additional fee on ratepayers because it represents a huge conflict of interest. The City should abstain from voting on their properties, and let ratepayers decide the fate of the drainage fee.
Agenda Item: eComments for 5. Contract Amendment for Dangberg Consulting Services LLC File ID: 2022-00224 Overall Sentiment
Bill Motmans
Location:
Submitted At: 9:27am 02-25-22
Billionaire Burkle bailed despite the overly generous tax credits and give backs from the City. There are ample incentives for MLS to consider coming here. Why do we need to pay a consultant for "future" work that may never come?
Agenda Item: eComments for 6. City Council COVID-19 Response: ARPA Framework and Funding Priorities: Arts and Creative Economy Funding Allocation and Framework File ID: 2022-00021 Overall Sentiment
Amie Tokuhama Chapman
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Submitted At: 6:01pm 03-01-22
I am President of the Natomas Garden & Arts Collective and a long-time supporter of Art in Sacramento. I would like to express my support for the GBI proposed for participants in Sacramento's vibrant creative economy.
Independent artists serve the city's plans and goals for growth within the Arts Sector of California and deserve appropriate compensation and recognition. Unfortunately, Sacramento boasts a large community of working artists who struggle to pursue and develop their work while paying the bills to live. Because of this, the art currently produced and shown in Sacramento reflects this inability of many artists to focus on and further their craft. All Sacramentans benefit from the economic and cultural contributions of a lively Arts Sector. The time required to develop and produce significant works cannot be reduced to a living hourly wage. Please support the GBI which reimburses artists and creatives for the investment of their heart and soul into our community.
James Cornett
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Submitted At: 2:51pm 03-01-22
I am the Owner of Harlow’s & Director of the California Capitol Venue Coalition.
CCVC is the unification of Sacramento’s independent entertainment venues to advocate for the city’s brick and mortar establishments that are the foundation of its local creative economy.
Members include the Torch Club, the Crest Theater, Laughs Unlimited & Café Colonial to name a few. These venues are crucial to the city’s creative economy and to Sacramento tourism. In Sacramento, for every $1 spent on a ticket at a smaller venue (1,000 capacity and less), $12 in local economic activity is generated in restaurants, hotels, and retail establishments. On an average ticket price of $15 to an event, $14.4 million in local economic activity is estimated per year from just one of these venues The proposed ARPA Framework and Funding Priorities provides additional help to these venues and we want to express our gratitude to the Council & Staff for the work done on this.
Allison Cagley
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Submitted At: 1:19pm 03-01-22
Thank you for recognizing the critical role arts and culture play in our creative economy and building a vibrant and thriving community. Thank you for recognizing the tremendous contribution made by the creative sector and the thousands of residents who bring you the plethora of arts experiences and arts education opportunities. We urge you to approve the funding outlined in Item 6 and continue your commitment to the arts and the creative economy,
Michele Noufer
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Submitted At: 6:33am 03-01-22
I want to thank the City for supporting our arts organizations and individual artists throughout the pandemic. The impact of the pandemic, on the creative sector, has been debilitating with artists and arts organizations struggling to continue to bring the arts to the region. Artists and arts workers are workers and they contribute to our economy and make Sacramento a vibrant city. I urge the Council to support a Guaranteed Basic Income for artists, and to provide additional support from the America Rescue Plan, to the creative sector, to ensure the arts are here to stay and thrive in Sacramento, post pandemic. The arts enrich our lives and connect us to one another. They teach empathy and illuminate the human condition. Thank you for your vision and leadership in making Sacramento a great place to live.
Michael Stevenson
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Submitted At: 4:45pm 02-28-22
Michael Stevenson, Artistic Director Capital Stage: I want to thank the City for supporting our arts organizations and individual artists when the pandemic was at it height. Arts organizations and individual artists are just now beginning to climb out of the shadow of COVID - but there's a good chance that new variants will challenge the progress we've made. This will likely mean close to 3 years of revenue lost to Sacramento's creative economy.
This is a devastating loss to Sacramento's arts community, unlike any we have known in history. An entire sector of the economy has been essentially shut down for years. I urge the Council to support a Guaranteed Basic Income for artists, and to direct additional aide to the creative economy from the America Rescue Plan to sustain our recovery through the final phase of this pandemic.The need now is perhaps even more crucial as federal aid is coming to an end, and most arts organizations are running at a half to two-thirds capacity.
Agenda Item: eComments for 7. ARPA Framework and Funding Priorities: Supplemental Agreement: City Agreement No.
PRC001357 with First Step Communities for Continued Emergency Shelter Response Operations (Two-Thirds Vote Required) File ID: 2022-00356
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Shelly Hubertus
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Submitted At: 5:53pm 03-01-22
I think more shelter is needed in our community, and I think that shelter and Respite Centers should be available year-round and not just an extreme weather events. Our neighbors experiencing homelessness deserve to be indoors if possible no matter the weather, and it would allow for services and support to be more centralized and consistent.
Agenda Item: eComments for 17. Budgetary Adjustments and Professional Services Agreement for the Capitol Mall Revitalization Project (T15175100) File ID: 2022-00287 Overall Sentiment
Matthew Kessing
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Submitted At: 4:54pm 02-28-22
Maybe the City could begin by acknowledging the racist origins of the initial Capital Mall project in the 1950s and the perverse impact the demolition of West End neighborhoods had on non-white citizens. Let's consider in any proposal a plan to add at least as many residential units as were initially demolished to make way for the mall.
The mall looks like as good a place as any to set up temporary shelters for the County's unhoused until a plan for permanent supportive housing can be implemented.
Agenda Item: eComments for 18. Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) Fee - 2022 Adjustment [Noticed 02/18/2022 & 02/24/2022] File ID: 2022-00477
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Heather Fargo
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Submitted At: 5:58pm 03-01-22
Please consider scheduling a public hearing on the status and future of the Natomas Basin Conservancy, in light of the staff approved request to annex the South Industrial parcel in North Natomas, and the proposal developments in the Natomas farmland in the County. I think the new councilmember and the community would benefit from an in-depth presentation from the NBC, city staff and the wildlife agencies, with an opportunity for the public to comment. thank you.
Agenda Item: eComments for 19. Coordinated Access System Presentation File ID: 2021-01438 Overall Sentiment
Shelly Hubertus
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Submitted At: 5:50pm 03-01-22
I think that a coordinated entry system would be a valuable contribution to our community if and only if we are able to meet the inventory need to match the demand. We have tried to do coordinated entry in our community before and it failed as it became a list to nowhere without adequate outflow which lead to false hope, broken promises, and bottlenecking the system.
Agenda Item: eComments for 20. Comprehensive Siting Plan Update [Oral Report] File ID: 2022-00522 Overall Sentiment
celeste romo
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Submitted At: 7:00pm 03-01-22
I do not support the City's plan to open a homeless outreach center in my suburb of Arden Arcade at the former Science Center. We do not have a homeless problem on our streets now, but the minute you invite them all to this location, they will be on my sidewalk, my parking lot and my front porch. Y ou can promise "guards" and tell them not to litter, but we are not dealing with upstanding citizens here. they will not comply as we all see in all the other areas where homeless congregate. These types of individuals who live on the streets suffer with mental illness and drug addiction. the answer is not to dump them onto County neighborhoods. the answer is offer and enforce drug rehab and provide inpatient care for those who are unable to care for them selves. this is NOT just because they can't afford housing. This problem is much more complex than that. NO homeless outreach center on Auburn Blvd!!!
Matt Huber
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Submitted At: 10:59am 03-01-22
No matter what else you think of the siting plan, it has not met or made serious progress toward its stated goal of making space for all of Sacramento's homeless (the threshold at which the city could legally resume clearing ("sweeping") camp communities). They have resumed sweeps despite it.
If the city really means to improve conditions for unhoused and housed Sacramentans, there are simple and cheap solutions they can take without further legislation. Provide water, toilets, showers and trash collection to existing communities upon request. Stop sweeps, which help no one, but cause harm and cost money. If the city wants fewer encampments in public spaces, stop clearing people from unused / vacant privately owned lots.
People's right to space to live in is more important than speculators' "right" to exclude.
If the city and county government would stop cruel "responses" like sweeps, fines and harassment, and provide basic services everyone needs, it would improve all our lives.
Agenda Item: eComments for 21. Resolution Establishing Weather Criteria for Opening Seasonal Respite Centers File ID:
2022-00534
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celeste romo
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Submitted At: 7:37pm 03-01-22
I am in opposition to the Arden Blvd. Homeless Center. Just because the city benefits from a "ready to go" facility, my 17 families who live directly across the street from the center will be negatively impacted by increased transients and illegal behavior. I provide safe affordable homes to many people and I can't look them in the eye and tell them their safe environment will continue once the City bulldozes their homeless center through. No homeless outreach center in my Sacramento County Suburb on Auburn blvd! Bethany Harman
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Submitted At: 11:12am 03-01-22
Why are you backtracking on promises to open year-round respite shelters, regardless of weather? In your own proposal you state "On March 9, 2021 the City Council directed the City Manager to adopt a City policy that overnight respite will be provided year-round in Triage Centers, regardless of weather conditions, dispersed throughout the City. (Resolution No. 2021-0058.)" Now you want to reverse course and propose extremely strict temperature guidelines? Only to open with nighttime lows of 37 degrees 2 nights in a row or over 100 degrees two days in a row in summer? It's extremely cold in the 50's and hot in the 90's outside. This is embarrassing. Y ou need to create staffing positions for these centers all year round. Stop relying on volunteers in the community to service these places. Centers only open under specific standards will earn no trust in the unhoused community; you need to demonstrate you care about them all year round.
Muriel Strand
Location: 95820, Sacramento
Submitted At: 11:00am 03-01-22
I gather that this ordinance would displace the resolution of 3/9/21 # 2021-0058 committing to 24-7 triage centers in strategic locations in the city, triage centers that have reportedly not happened.
WE NEED BOTH triage centers and weather criteria. i support weather criteria and i support triage centers. the city needs to figure out how to live up to its commitments.
Tiffany Tran
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Submitted At: 10:18am 03-01-22
My name is Tiffany and I am a medical student at California Northstate University and Co-Advocacy Chair of Sacramento Street Medicine.
I strongly oppose Item 21, as the establishment of weather activation criteria for opening respite centers goes directly against promises made by the city in January of 2021 to keep the respite centers open regardless of weather criteria.
According to a Sacramento Bee analysis, nearly 200 of our unhoused residents died in 2021. Introducing arbitrarily determined weather criteria to these respite centers will ensure even more deaths of our vulnerable neighbors in 2022. It is not a question of “if,” rather a question of “how many?” People can still die in 38 degree weather or 99 degree weather even if it’s for one night.
The weather activation criteria is unreasonable and dangerous. I urge you to vote no and to consider more humane solutions to this crisis.
Bob Erlenbusch
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Submitted At: 3:12pm 02-28-22
The Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness [SRCEH] strongly opposes the direction of Item 21. 13 months ago we had 4 unhoused neighbors die in a storm and on 1/27/2021 the Mayor stated: 'No more emergencies being defined by artificial temperature criteria.' Despite 195 deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2021, the City Council is reverting to a failed policy of artificial temperature criteria that will surely be a death sentence for some of our most vulnerable unhoused neighbors.
We urge to vote no and instruct staff to return with a more humanitarian solution. We do not need to sink to the lowest common denominator of our surrounding communities that do use arbitrary temperature criteria.
The blood will be on the City Council members hands that vote for this.
Paul Shaw
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Submitted At: 7:27pm 02-26-22
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`Item 21 - Resolution Establishing Weather Criteria for Opening Seasonal Respite Centers
Thank you for allowing me to provide some updated information on this issue.
The plan to establish any kind of a Homeless Outreach and Respite Center in the former Discovery Museum Science & Space Center on Auburn Blvd is based on out-of-date, and now inaccurate, homeless census data. The plan was predicated on a need to provide indoor respite for homeless people encamped within a radius of 1/8th of a mile of the proposed center. A spot-census taken by the city at that time, established that number to be between 40 and 50 people.
What wasn’t known to city employees at the time of the spot-census, was that a Sacramento City Council Amendment to section 12.72.060 of the Sacramento City Code had recently been discovered, and for the past several months has been actively and effectively used as a tool to maintain a camper-free zone. The Amendment as written restricts the entrance and use of the Natural Habitat Area of Del Paso Regional Park to: Horseback riding, walking and bicycle riding, and educational purposes.
Park Rangers established a reporting relationship (a type of neighborhood watch) with residents who live adjacent to the park. As a result of this partnership and the good work of the Park Rangers and Sacramento City Police officers, there are no longer any homeless campers within 1/8th of a mile of the proposed shelter. The entire area has been returned to its natural “wild” state by park employees and neighborhood volunteers.
If the plan to open a shelter in this location is allowed to proceed, it will open to a customer base of zero.
Thank you for your time.
Paul Shaw
(916) 835-4184
[email protected]
Thank you for allowing me to provide some updated information on this issue.
The plan to establish any kind of a Homeless Outreach and Respite Center in the former Discovery Museum Science & Space Center on Auburn Blvd, is based on outdated, and now inaccurate, homeless census data. The plan was predicated on a need to provide indoor respite for homeless people encamped within a radius of 1/8th of a mile of the center. A spot-census taken by the city, many months ago, established that number at between 40 and 50.
What wasn’t known at the time that the spot-census was performed, is that a Sacramento City Council Amendment to section 12.72.060 of the Sacramento City Code had been recently discovered, and was actively and effectively being used as a tool to protect the park’s Natural Habitat by campers. The Amendment prohibits the entrance and use of the Natural Habitat Area of Del Paso Regional Park to: Horseback riding, Walking and bicycle riding, and educational purposes.
Within the past year, Park Rangers have established a reporting relationship (a type of neighborhood watch) with residents who live adjacent to the park. The result of this partnership, and the good work of the Park Rangers, is that there are no longer any homeless encampments within 1/8th of a mile of the proposed shelter. If the plan to open a shelter in this location is allowed to proceed, it will support a total of zero homeless customers.
I thank you for your time.
Paul Shaw
(916) 835-4184
[email protected]