Hello Supporters. Many of you have been contacting us inquiring about the upcoming “Outreach & Engagement Center”community meeting at SHA following an announcement from Supervisor Rich Desmond’s office.

 If you did not receive the email, please see details for meeting time and date:

”Please join Supervisor Rich Desmond, Councilmember Sean Loloee, and Supervisor Phil Serna for a meeting update on the Outreach & Engagement Center located at 3615 Auburn Blvd, featuring Hope Cooperative.

This meeting will be held on Thursday, May 25th from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at the Horseman's Association, 3200 Longview Drive, Sacramento, CA 95821.”

To put things in perspective, please read the following “open letters”. 

Open Letter to Mayor Steinberg:

Another incident has occurred in our neighborhood that negatively affects the safety of our community and is a direct result of the City of Sacramento's decision to place a Homeless Center in Del Paso Regional Park. In order to access our homes, we are required to pass through the park and by the Auburn Boulevard Center Facility. While returning home from work, one of our residents was followed/stalked by someone in the park. This person tried to get to her before she could get to her door. Fortunately, her husband was home and a confrontation ensued on their property. The person was armed with a large staff and threatened to kill both he and his wife. Law enforcement was called and when they arrived, initiated a search for the perpetrator. Sometime later this person was found in what appeared to be an unconscious state in the middle of Park Road near the Watt Avenue on ramp. He was transported by ambulance. 

Before the City of Sacramento opened this Center on Auburn Boulevard, our neighborhood was mostly clean and peaceful, now incidents like these are becoming more common in our Business and Residential County Communities surrounding the park. Transporting people from the City of Sacramento to the Homeless Center with these kinds of issues and then releasing them into the park and our Sacramento County Neighborhoods is unacceptable. The very presence of this Center in the park attracts others with criminal intent. There is open drug use surrounding the Center, there is more gang activity, prostitution and our neighborhoods have become dump sites for trash. 

The person threatening our residents in this incident is not someone just passing through. This person has been observed entering and leaving the Homeless Center on Auburn Boulevard. This incident happened as a direct result of the decision by the City of Sacramento to place this Center in Del Paso Regional Park. We hold the City of Sacramento responsible for these unsafe conditions which they have intentionally created in our County Neighborhoods. 

Ron Jellison

“Friends of Del Paso Regional Park”

Open Letter to:

Our representatives; 

Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

County Executive Ann Edwards 

City of Sacramento:

City Council, Mayor

City Manager Howard Chan

The City of Sacramento must stop transporting City issues to the County and using outlying City Parks as dump sites for City problems.  Placing a Homeless Shelter in a City Park is not only ill advised, but is prohibited by the City’s own Measure O initiative.  Time to find a better solution.

Unincorporated County Communities surrounding the park are also calling for a public meeting on the renovation of Renfree Field.  City Parks has received another state grant of $3.2 million dollars from Prop 68 and the current configuration of that grant will negatively impact county neighborhoods. The City of Sacramento has been in a decades-long cycle: infusion of cash for infrastructure, followed by a lack of maintenance/security (currently the city is $120 million dollars in arrears for maintenance), then to abandonment and takeover by criminal elements that promote havoc in our communities. Unincorporated County Communities want to break this cycle. 

We are asking elected officials:

Assemblymember Kevin McCarty

(District 6- Sacramento),

Senator Angelique Ashby 

(California’s 8th District),

County Supervisor Rich Desmond 

(Sacramento County’s 3rd District), 

County Supervisor Phil Serna 

(Sacramento County’s 1st District),

and

City Councilmember Sean Loloee

(City of Sacramento’s 2nd District) 

to tour previous grant sites in the Del Paso Regional Park- and view the current condition of those projects, then to host a public meeting that addresses the concerns from the community.

County residents living near Del Paso Regional Park deserve a park that is safe/secure and looks like other well maintained county parks. 

We firmly believe that all city lands east of Watt avenue should be transferred from the city over to the county for all of the reasons listed above. 

Respectfully,

“Save Our Suburb” 

(Unincorporated Communities of Arden and Carmichael)

SaveOurSuburb.org

“Save Del Paso Park Community Coalition”

SaveDelPasoPark.org