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Council unanimously backs Proposition 36 ballot measure in legislative report
Summary
City Manager Grama Mitchell presented a legislative update and staff recommended support for Prop 36 (a measure described in the transcript as restoring certain felony theft charges and adding treatment). The council unanimously adopted a resolution in support after members voiced strong endorsements.
The city manager presented a legislative update and asked the council to adopt a resolution in support of Proposition 36, a statewide ballot measure described in the presentation as restoring certain felony theft charges in certain circumstances while also providing mental health and addiction treatment.
Grama Mitchell (city manager) said the impacts of earlier Proposition 47 have been harmful, describing increases in homelessness and retail theft in cities across California, and noted district attorneys and a group called Californians for Safer Communities collected signatures to place Prop 36 on the ballot. Mitchell recommended council support for that proposition; councilmembers spoke in favor and said they had been active in supporting the ballot measure.
A councilmember described collecting signatures and urged support, calling the measure necessary because the legislature had not acted. Another councilmember called it “a case of our citizens rising up to fix something that the legislature refuses to fix.” Councilmembers moved and seconded the resolution and the motion carried by unanimous vote.
The transcript records the council’s policy position and vote but does not include the resolution text or any fiscal analysis in the item. The item had no public speaker cards and was adopted by unanimous council vote.
