A harmful and ignorant sidewalk ordinance
Thank you to our regular newsletter contributors Sarah Rabanales and Robert Gonzalez for their work on this piece! Once again the...
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- Jul 6
- 3 min
Criminalizing the sidewalk
Thank you so much to Sarah Rabanales, our Sac State intern, for this detailed write-up! Read more about Sarah by clicking here. Once...
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- May 3
- 2 min
Sac City's slow climate-justice progress
For 350 Sacramento's update on climate actions at the County level, follow this link. *all content regarding the Council meeting and next...
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- Feb 21
- 4 min
The City of Sacramento Earns a Climate Participation Trophy
On February 8th, Sacramento City Council held a Transportation and Climate Workshop to discuss a variety of issues in preparation for...
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- Feb 20
- 3 min
Affordable Housing in the City (of Sacramento)
The affordable housing saga plays on as million dollar companies compete for community dollars. This episode started innocently enough,...
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- Jan 17
- 3 min
How the police got $8 milli more from our general fund
On 1/4/22, in possibly the worst business deal of 2022, the Sacramento City Council was ecstatic to sign up to get $2 million dollars...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
Valuing Business over Human Lives
The City Council met for over seven hours on December 14th and spent the vast majority of that time focused on one issue: homelessness. ...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 6 min
The Results of Redistricting
Thank you for all the wonderful contributions of the following people for helping to put this piece together: Andrés Ramos - Community...
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- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
Item 24: Requirement to take Housing (right to housing)
Welp, it’s opposite day down at city council again. This time they’ve confused a right and an obligation. The Background Mayor Darrell...
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- Sep 19, 2021
- 5 min
The Absolute Gall of Council Member Harris
Jeff Harris recently published a disgusting op-ed in the Sacramento Bee in which he pretends to care about the homeless as a flimsy...
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- Sep 19, 2021
- 3 min
Don't Measure U our ARPA Dollars
Don’t “Measure U” - Our ARPA Funds Listen Up! Millions of dollars in Covid relief funds are heading to Sacramento, and everyone wants a...
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- Aug 11, 2021
- 3 min
Tenant Protections?
The Sac City Law and Legislation Committee met on July 20th to discuss tenant “protections” (also known as the Tenant Protection Program)...
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- Jul 18, 2021
- 1 min
Disregard for employee safety concerns at the BOS
Update: more information about Ryan Harris' struggle was documented in this Newsbreak article from December 2021 At the July 13th...
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- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
Asset Forfeiture: is it coo for the popo's to benefit from taking ya stuff?
The City Council discussed changes to what they do with the assets they confiscate from folxs What is asset forfeiture? Asset forfeiture...
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- Jul 5, 2021
- 4 min
Hope for the Housing Element?
On June 15th the Sacramento Council & Housing Authority met to discuss the development of a senior housing project, which was approved...
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- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
Final Take: The 2021-2022 City Council Budget
So many hours of discussion on what was the final City Council budget decided on 6/15 While Ashby boasts about her desire to give Chief...
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- May 13, 2021
- 6 min
Is the Sac City Council Finally Going to Listen to the Police Commission? Sorta. Kinda. (5/4 Mtg)
But Mayor Steinberg is trying to make a deal to make the most people happy What happened was….. Let’s just say…kudos to City Council...
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- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
One Step Closer to Participatory Budgeting
On last week’s episode of the Sacramento City Council Chronicles, members of the Measure U committee presented a recommendation to the...
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- Aug 15, 2020
- 2 min
City Council votes to put Strong Mayor on the November ballot
For those that missed the latest episode of the Sacramento City Council Chronicles and haven’t watched the news, read the newspaper,...
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- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
A Recap of the July 1st City Council Meeting...
(Thank you to Corp member Robyn Ayers for sending SJPC her report--the less snarky parts of this recap) On July 1, Sacramento City...
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