Budget and Audit Committee [Updated 05/26/2022 @ 3:40 p.m.] Meeting Time: 05-31-22 15:00
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Budget and Audit Committee [Updated
05/26/2022 @ 3:40 p.m.]
05-31-22
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Budget and Audit Committee [Updated 05/26/2022 @ 3:40 p.m.] 05-31-22 15:00
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7. Adoption of the Fiscal Y ear (FY) 2022/23 Operating Budget and 2022- 2027 Capital Improvement Plan File ID: 2022-01127
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Agenda Item: eComments for 7. Adoption of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022/23 Operating Budget and 2022-2027 Capital Improvement Plan File ID: 2022-01127
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Katy Webb
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Submitted At: 9:47am 05-31-22
The proposed budget still does not reflect the demands of what the Sacramento community has been asking for.
We want to see climate action as a priority in the budget, and we especially want to see more funding for staff to direct climate action programs in the budget, as programs that were intended to help with climate programs have not been able to get started due to a lack of staff. Y ou have met with us and heard our asks for the community.
Sacramento wants funding for climate action and for staff, and we want it now. Thank you.
Anne Stausboll
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Submitted At: 9:47am 05-31-22
Mayor and Committee Members, Please do the bare minimum and add more staff to the 2-person climate unit so that the city can finally develop a climate action plan and begin meaningful implementation. It’s past time to confront the difficult decisions necessary to protect our city and region from the impacts of climate change.
Waiting any longer will only make it more challenging down the road. Thank you.
Chris Brown
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Submitted At: 4:30am 05-31-22
The city is not stepping up to meet the climate emergency that Council declared in 2019 with appropriate levels of action. Allocating only one percent of each city department's budget for necessary changes to reduce GHG emissions would generate $14 million. We need action now to avoid the worst outcomes that will affect our community. The Sacramento Climate Coalition recently submitted a series of positive steps to increase the budget for climate programs in the city. We recommend that in addition to immediate increase in funding for this fiscal year, the budget resolution include the launching of an advisory board to explore options like a bond, utility user tax, or public bank. Such a Board should include members of the most impacted communities, as well as climate and finance leaders from the community.
Kathy Les
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Submitted At: 6:24pm 05-30-22
It's time for Sacramento to move forward mitigating climate impacts generated in our city. The best road map we can have is the Climate Action Plan. It's overdue and time is running out to take meaningful action. Please make provisions in the 2022-23 budget for additional staff as needed to complete the draft Climate Action Plan.
Rosie Yacoub
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Submitted At: 3:51pm 05-30-22
I am a 350 Sacramento member in District 5. I am writing to express disappointment in the delay of the CAP .
Time is of the essence and delays mean GHG reductions are being put off. This is suggestive that more staff support is needed, including allocating more time to this work from existing staff, and hiring new staff, which is one place where the current budget falls short. The City’s budget needs to be updated to include more on climate if the City is serious about addressing this issue. The good news is that these investments will have health and safety benefits beyond just the reduction of GHGs.
Michelle Petitte
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Submitted At: 3:12pm 05-30-22
Please provide more support in the budget to provide staff for the Climate Change plan It's the right thing to do..
Nancy McKeever
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Submitted At: 1:34pm 05-30-22
Staff presented the well-received “Seven Big Ideas” for transportation projects. The Mayor asked the City Manager for implementing programs prior to today’s budget discussion. Citing budget constraints, nothing happened. Climate investments, in the long term, are aimed at reducing heat exhaustion, crop damage, flooding, electrical outages and wildfires. It is cheaper to prevent than to repair-with the added human benefit of reduced suffering. It is fiscally and morally irresponsible to ignore climate actions such as the “Seven Big Ideas” and approved tree planting. These programs increase equity by cutting the cost of cooling homes and commuting.
Climate Action/Pubic Benefit/Economic synergism has been called the Triple Bottom Line. I ask the City to seek the synergistic benefits of climate investment and fund at minimum two additional dedicated Climate Office staff positions and double the value of tax dollars by providing reliable match funding for federal climate related programs.
Dawn Whitney
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Submitted At: 7:42pm 05-29-22
This budget doesn't include any funding for the staff necessary to move Sacramento toward its climate goals.
Right now, given the 18 month delay in release of a CAP , and the inattention that implies, it doesn't appear that the City is going to move on with any projects at all. The City simply needs to fund more full time positions that can move forward with specific plan. I've lived in Sacramento from 2001, in the Tahoe Park area, and intend to retire here. I can't do that if Sacramento isn't apace with the rest of California regarding climate action. Dawn Whitney, Tahoe Park.
April Ford
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Submitted At: 3:56pm 05-29-22
I oppose the proposed budget as it does not currently contain funding for more staff to accelerate work on the climate crisis. This is an urgent necessity. Please be responsible and forward-thinking and fund climate crisis staff positions. April Ford, Colonial Manor
Emily Edmond
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Submitted At: 8:24am 05-29-22
We should spend more money on staffing for climate action. The staff should be paid a living wage with good benefits and should have a diversity of people.
Jill Peterson
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Submitted At: 5:44pm 05-28-22
I am writing to voice my opposition to the proposed budget because it does not include additional staffing needed to not only complete the City's CAP , but also pursue the other recommendations included in Final Report of the Mayors' Commission on Climate Change. That report was presented two years ago to the Council but little to nothing has been done to implement its key recommendations since that time. Time is running out for us to address climate change and business as usual will not suffice. The Council must invest in needed staff in order to prioritize actions related to climate change as well as the poor air quality in which Sacramento residents must live. The budget committee must show leadership on this issue and cannot ignore the fact that our survival depends on it. Jill Peterson, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Sacramento Chapter.
Pat Ferris
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Submitted At: 2:54pm 05-28-22
I very strongly oppose the proposed budget. The City needs to add more funding for climate-specific staff positions. Unless the City allocates money in the budget to administer the critical recommendations of the Mayors' Joint Commission on Climate Change, we won't rise to the level of the climate emergency. After eighteen months of careful deliberations, the report from the Commission made numerous recommendations that must be implemented to avert the worst local outcomes from climate change, outcomes that will otherwise adversely affect all segments of our community.
Please rise to the challenge of these times, not passing this budget unless it includes additional climate-specific staff positions.
Patrick (Pat) Ferris
1848 Markham Way
Sacramento, CA
916-704-6062
Please take the leadership to assure that the City rises to the challenge of a changing climate.
Will Brieger
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Submitted At: 3:52am 05-28-22
The budget lacks sufficient positions to make progress on our climate change measures Nancy Shulock
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Submitted At: 5:39pm 05-27-22
It is essential to include more funding for staff to work on combating climate change. What is more important than working to keep our planet habitable! Thank you.
Nick Shepard
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Submitted At: 11:50am 05-27-22
The city needs to fund more staff positions that specifically support the acceleration of climate action. We are in a crisis and the city's actions have fallen far short of what is necessary.