City Council - 5PM, May 26, 2026
Approves Direction to staff to create TOT Priorities Plan and reserve policy, unanimous
How this board votes
The City Council approved 98% of 82 recorded land-use decisions this period. Most frequent dissent: Mai Vang (5 of 19 recorded votes).
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See the full board record, member by memberWhat happened
This was a Sacramento City Council 5PM session with no zoning or land-use entitlement decisions. The only substantive action was Council directing staff (via a motion by Vice Mayor Talamantes, seconded by the Mayor, passed unanimously) to create a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Pr…
- Jurisdiction
- Sacramento, CA
- Governing body
- Final authority
- Date
- May 26, 2026
- Decisions
- 1 zoning decision
- Outcome
- Approved, unanimous
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Direction to staff to create TOT Priorities Plan and reserve policy
Council directed Convention and Cultural Services staff (Director Megan Van Voorhis) to create a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) priorities plan and a cash reserve policy for the community center fund, to be brought back for review informed by industry stakeholders, with annual reporting on bonding...
Meeting Summary
This was a Sacramento City Council 5PM session with no zoning or land-use entitlement decisions. The only substantive action was Council directing staff (via a motion by Vice Mayor Talamantes, seconded by the Mayor, passed unanimously) to create a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Pr…
Key Decisions (1)
Direction to staff to create TOT Priorities Plan and reserve policy
Development Activity (1)
Granite Regional Park youth sports field complex
Infrastructure
Market Signals (6)
Commercial Demand
Sacramento added only ~634 hotel rooms (three hotels) since 2018,…
Commercial Demand
TOT revenues recovered from a pandemic low of ~$18.6M to…
Commercial Demand
Strong stakeholder push for a large youth-sports field complex (Granite…
Who Spoke (20)
On the record: the mayor, 6 councilmembers, a staff member, a witness, and 5 members of the public.
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