This evening the SacRT Board violated the Brown Act. Item 4.3, the subject of our previous post (what is SacRT surplusing?) was moved by the board to ‘electronic communication’. What that means is that the public will have no opportunity to comment on the item. This is a violation of the Brown Act, which requires that the public be allowed to comment on all agendized items. The board has the authority to defer agenda items to a future meeting, but that is NOT what happened. The board instead decided that the item would be considered through board and staff electronic communication, not in a public process. STAR Action Team Lead Dan Allison had submitted a request to comment on the agenda item, and at least one other member of the public had as well. There may have been more. We will never know. The decision of the board means that all public comment is thereby rejected and will not be allowed or considered.
This is a violation of the Brown Act. Board Vice-Chair Bobbie Singh-Allen and the entire board should be ashamed of itself.
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 
SacRT General Counsel claimed that the board had deferred agenda item 4.3 ‘midtown surplus properties update’ to a future meeting, which is legal, if that were the case. This was clearly not the case, as can be seen on YouTube video of the 2025-07-28 board meeting, at time 2:24.
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