Come learn what ECOS is all about! Attend our monthly orientation session on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 6:00 – 6:30pm via Zoom to get a broad overview of what ECOS does, why it matters and what you can do to help! This orientation can also help anyone wanting to learn more about environmental issues in the Sacramento region. We will cover our current goals that involve climate change prevention, promoting infill over sprawl development, transit, habitat protection and the wise use of water resources, among others.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) Sacramento/Roseville is partnering with the Climate Reality Project to host several Zoom presentations to keep you current with how tools to fight climate change will be impacted by the Trump administration.
It is incumbent upon residents to challenge projects like this that seem to plow through previous well thought out plans and agreements for the future. If there is no accountability and respect for previous plans, then why did we have the plans at all?
Read the article below to learn more about the efforts ECOS has been making to preserve open space in Natomas.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, the City of Sacramento city council unanimously rejected the Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance as proposed.
In a letter to the council, the [Sacramento Investment Without Displacement] coalition argued that the city failed to amend the ordinance with three main recommendations it made in February:
Ensuring residents can stay in their neighborhood through minimum benefits around affordable housing, transportation, workforce development and small/local business protections.
Community engagement in the negotiation process.
Community oversight to enforce the ordinance in a way that makes sure the community gets the benefits for their neighborhoods.
WHAT: Attend the Upcoming City Council Special Meeting WHEN: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 2:00pm WHERE: City Hall, 915 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 WHY: The Sacramento Investment Without Displacement coalition has spent the last four years working with the City of Sacramento to establish a Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance for Council consideration. In the City’s updated CBAO (view the posting here on the City’s CBAO website) most of SIWD’s demands to ensure that community voice is at the table have continued NOT to be met nor included in the CBAO drafts. We are asking our SIWD partners, our trusted messengers, serving our most vulnerable, to REJECT THE CURRENT VERSION of the CBAO that will be up for consideration next week. Your leadership and support are critical to establishing a true CBAO that will include community voices at the decision-making table and ensure that benefits come back to the community in future developments. The council meeting will begin at 2:00. All public comment requests will be accepted before the staff presentation is complete.
To make a public comment at the meeting:
Complete a speaker slip located in the back of the room (near the large glass windows)
This will be the only agenda item for that day.
Complete the form and hand it to the clerks at the front of the room To submit an e-comment:
Click on ‘Submit Comment’ to complete If you have additional questions about the presentation, feel free to send them directly to info[dot]saciwd[at]gmail[dot]com.
In Community,
Sacramento Investment Without Displacement Members
