The meeting was the same day as the city council met, so Pluckebaum and McCarty sent spokespeople (also young!). A cop who is in charge of a big swath of downtown also reported on policing strategies to lower violent crime and subtract cops from mental health calls.
Slow Down Sacramento creator Isaac Gonzalez came to talk about how we have wayyyy too many traffic deaths here. I agree! He expressed frustration that the city has budgeted for several positions (championed by Caity Maple) almost a year ago to help create slower street and that still no hiring has occurred.
Cutest of all, a guy who created Rewild Sacramento came to talk about planting trees and needing volunteers. His group has planted over a hundred treees.
I marveled that people find the time to do these kinds of things. I have been letting my community garden plot languish for months, but I guess my extra time often goes to freelance writing. I wish I had time to do more.
I had an idea that I could create a program where people could adopt a block of protected bike lane to clean up during fall/leaf season. It's been driving me crazy how many of the lanes are filled with leaf piles, or even worse, sticks and other plant stuff that are under leaves and could make you slip or crash. To get that off the ground I would have to focus just on that probably for like a year.
People care about their communities and are doing cool things!
