Council approves consent calendar including Fruitridge safety grant and 67-unit senior affordable housing; Woodlake Park walkway noted

The Sacramento City Council on July 1 approved the consent calendar (items 1–17) after several councilmembers requested brief comments and separate votes on specific items. Item 19 was withdrawn by staff and item 18 was pulled for separate public comment and consideration.

Councilmember Maple praised staff for securing a Caltrans Sustainable Communities Transportation Planning grant to study a segment of Fruitridge Road — a corridor she described as among the city's most dangerous — and thanked staff members Jennifer Wyatt and Jeff Gelsma by name for their work on the application. Councilmember Maguire also supported the Fruitridge Safety Improvement Project, which was described on the dais as extending from Power Inn to Stockton Boulevard and noted for pedestrian and school safety near Earl Warren Elementary.

Councilmember Maple and others also highlighted a 100% affordable senior housing project in Oak Park that would create 67 units along Stockton Boulevard and Ninth Avenue; council members said this tranche of funding should help complete the project. Councilmember Kaplan called attention to the SPLASH Education Program (stormwater pollution prevention outreach) that reached 105 classrooms across eight elementary schools and approximately 720 students and funded field trips to vernal pools.

Item 13 — funding for a walkway around Woodlake Park — drew a public comment from Lambert, who urged restrooms be added to the park; Lambert's comments were entered into the record. Councilmembers noted that the Woodlake walkway funding is tied to an affordable housing project across the street and described the walkway as a neighborhood amenity.

The clerk recorded a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Guerra and a second by Councilmember Vang; the consent items 1–17 were approved by voice vote.