This petition requests opposition to a proposed subsidy for a K Street bar/restaurant/night club facility because it will damage the existing Hospitality businesses in the Central City of Sacramento.
This petition requests opposition to a proposed subsidy for a K Street bar/restaurant/night club facility because it will damage the existing Hospitality businesses in the Central City of Sacramento.
We the undersigned urge the Sacramento City Council to reject the proposal to subsidize Hospitality establishments on K Street at this time.
Exuberant construction during the boom times has created an over-supply today. General economic conditions have reduced demand. Together, these factors mean that most local businesses are barely hanging on. This project will bankrupt businesses that invested their own money in Sacramento and will send the message that reasonable Hospitality investors should avoid the central city in the future.
Again, we urge you to vote no on this subsidy request and instead focus this $5 million on supporting local business and preserving key government services.
We signed the "Preserve our Local Hospitality Businesses" petition!
# 360:
1:48 pm PDT, Mar 10,Jennifer Granatelli, California
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# 359:
12:00 pm PDT, Mar 10,Lee Martinez, California
# 358:
8:57 am PDT, Mar 10,Jessica Holcomb, California
This is not the time to be giving money away to a proposal that makes no sence. Think about what 8 million could really do for our city,economy, children, savings account??? To give money like this to a private investor is irresponsable. I'm a small business owner and I did it all by my self! Maybe he should invest his own money.
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6:28 am PDT, Mar 10,Lori Nalangan, California
I have a family and live in Midtown. We are committed to living in Midtown. I do not believe that using public money at this time to subsidize another bar and nightclub is the best use of our money, nor does it help to bring about a public space, that all people who live in Sacramento can enjoy. The money would be better spent on a children's museum.
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# 356:
11:20 pm PDT, Mar 9,Monique Castano, California
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6:45 pm PDT, Mar 9,Janet Ramey, California
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1:44 pm PDT, Mar 9,Name not displayed, California
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12:48 pm PDT, Mar 9,Jon Marino, California
We don't want this!
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# 352:
10:34 am PDT, Mar 9,Rebecca Stimson, California
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1:18 am PDT, Mar 9,Name not displayed, California
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8:12 pm PDT, Mar 8,Timothy Gergen, California
Please do not approve the spending for the development of a K street restaurant/night club. At these times, the City should be more fiscally resonsible! Not only will this damage existing busniesses of similar type, it is ridicuoous to subsidize this busniess with so many other things that shoud be addressed...education funding to name one!
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# 349:
6:44 pm PDT, Mar 8,Rose Berghash, California
It is competley ufair to use tax payers money to build a bar! This money should be put to something much more useful. Many students at the community colleges can not afford to go any more because their finicial aid checks were delayed and they could not afford to pay class fees. They should use this money to fund more education. Education is the key to success which would really be the way to turn the ecomomy around not by building another bar in down town.
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# 348:
6:30 pm PDT, Mar 8,Name not displayed, California
Prior comments say it all. Citizens are supposed to tell the government what to do, so listen up legislators!
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# 347:
2:56 pm PDT, Mar 8,Ashley Harrell, California
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10:11 pm PST, Mar 7,Mary Neithercutt, California
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6:41 pm PST, Mar 7,Amanda Bonham, California
Let the business that are successful remain successful. They have worked hard to make their name known. Don't take that away from them.
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# 344:
4:00 pm PST, Mar 7,Karena Douros, California
While I am all for increasing development in downtown and midtown, it absolutely should not be done right now at the taxpayers expense, especially as so many businesses are already struggling in this current economy.
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# 343:
3:23 pm PST, Mar 7,Name not displayed, California
Now is not the time to be subsidizing new bars, restaurants and night clubs. The city needs redevelopment that include museums, cultural centers and more urban living to make Sacramento a true destination city with a wide variety of activities and urban landscape. The restauranteurs currently in the midtown and downtown areas don't need more competition, but more reason for visitors to be in the Sacramento downtown area on weekends and during holidays.
95816
# 342:
3:17 pm PST, Mar 7,Iris B, California
The hospitality businesses that are there are already perfect! I don't think there is a need to replace these fine dining and classy nightclubs with ANOTHER set of bar, restaurant and night club, it's almost like you feel the need to waste money to build the exact same type of hospitality!!
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# 341:
10:30 am PST, Mar 7,Nichole Red, California
# 340:
1:54 pm PST, Mar 6,Ryan Rose, California
Sacramento, the state capitol, is not playing on a level playing field by giving money to a business where others used their own finances to support their efforts.
# 339:
9:21 am PST, Mar 6,Aaron Amaro, California
Take care of the hospitality workers and businesses who have taken care of Downtown Sacramento for all these years.
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# 338:
9:03 am PST, Mar 6,Martin Tokunaga, California
Sacramento business owners pay alot of taxes and employ many people. They took on risk with their own capital to make things work. Why would the local government subsidize other business ventures that could destroy the local entrepreneurs and compete with the Sacramento business owners that have supported the city for many years? The city's desire to promote such a partnership makes absolutely no sense.
Martin Tokunaga
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3:06 pm PST, Mar 5,Name not displayed, California
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# 336:
2:38 am PST, Mar 5,Alan Honda, California
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10:14 pm PST, Mar 4,Genevieve Groom, California
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9:31 pm PST, Mar 4,Name not displayed, California
I work downtown in the hospitality industry. From experience, I can tell you that there are NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE to make yet ANOTHER bar/restaurant/nightclub a success story. It is the visitors to such places that bring a profit, and this proposed complex will just be catering to the SAME crowd of people. Any club/bar/restaurant worker can tell you that we see the same faces all over downtown. But now, instead of frequenting a couple of places, they spread the SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY between numerous places. This proposed complex will make downtown suffer more. It will place the hundreds of hospitality workers who depend on tips in an even greater hardship. It will cause the hardworking businessmen and women, who put their own money into revitalizing downtown, to suffer. This does not sound like a plan that considers the best interest of the workers and citizens of Sacramento. If you want to bring in more people and more money, perhaps consider building housing. Avalon, Empire, MiX, The Park, Social, Cabana, Dream, R15, DeVeer's, Elixir, Old Ironsides, Whiskey Wild, Golden Bear, ... I could go on and on all day. I haven't even gotten to the restaurants. We clearly have plenty of bars/nightclubs/reastaurants to choose from in downtown. Maybe we ought to focus on making those stronger and more profitable first, before you start spending our tax money on another one of these places.
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# 333:
9:21 pm PST, Mar 4,Steven Leesha, California
Borned and raised in Sactown, we have seen may changes for the better in the Downtown area over the past few years 5+ years, from hard working business people of different backgrounds, but not once have any of these people been given the support from the city to accomplish these feats of helping this community grow and strive, if anything they had to worker harder finding investment backing on there own along with putting there necks on the line for living the american dream, please don't kick'em in the teeth now. I know many of these folks, having supported for many years, feeling safe and comfortable in each location, and having seen the myraid amount of sweat and labor they put in making the community successful and helping Sacramento thrive, now in the "not so good times", when we have to put state employees on the dreaded work "F" program, which is already hurting each business in the Downtown area no matter what you do, with lack of foot traffic they have been use to seeing for the bottom line isn't there, we can't afford to keep the streets safe w/city police and fire, the city we call the capitol of this state which is struggling is willing to offer up this amount of money for a program that has trouble written all over it for yet another bad business move, putting us in even more trouble.
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# 332:
5:02 pm PST, Mar 4,Diane Dong, California
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# 331:
4:04 pm PST, Mar 4,Samantha Brown, California
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12:37 pm PST, Mar 4,Name not displayed, California
This is a horrible idea. There are ALOT of better uses for this money. This use is unfair and a waste... something smells fishy to me.
# 329:
10:51 am PST, Mar 4,C. Michael Berghash, California
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9:59 am PST, Mar 4,Calvin Leong, California
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8:53 am PST, Mar 4,Jerry Leong, California
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6:40 am PST, Mar 4,Ian Baxter, California
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2:42 am PST, Mar 4,Name not displayed, California
# 323:
11:28 pm PST, Mar 3,Name not displayed, California
I work in the hospitality industry in downtown sacramento and the least of my worries is business hurting at my work. My main concern is however, that CA is already cutting all these state jobs and education funding. shouldn't money be going toward that instead? Our whole nation's economy is going through a recession, NOT JUST SACRAMENTO!!! The objective of this plan is to "clean up" downtown sacramento or to "bring in more people, so we can bring in more money"... exactly where do we plan on the "cleaning up" or "money" to come from? everywhere else is suffering. There is NO wealth to spread, we will only be shifting it. it's like a game of tug-a-war, there's no slack and there's no other way to go. Instead of using $8MILL to subsidize this project why won't we use it for something that'll benefit our future and our children's future, LIKE TOWARD EDUCATION?! Maybe the money can help fund California Sate Universities? they're cutting back on admissions next year because of our states deficeit, don't ya think that accepting more applicants would move more college students into the state or even Sacramento? more students can "clean up" or "bring more money" into our city too. hmmm... something to ponder?
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10:23 pm PST, Mar 3,Kenny Luong, California
# 321:
8:40 pm PST, Mar 3,Kenneth Johnson, California
Why increase the already stiff restaurant competition with a government funded business?
Where does the line start to receive TAX DOLLARS for a private business? I want to be next! I guess you'd have to have 'inside connections', ridiculous !
# 319:
3:23 pm PST, Mar 3,Linda Yang, California
# 318:
3:11 pm PST, Mar 3,Brian Bangs, California
Please take into consideration the many businesses that already exist in this and the surrounding areas... We are struggling already, don't spend valuable tax dollars, that could be used elsewhere to take our already thinning clients away...
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Work - 95816
# 317:
2:20 pm PST, Mar 3,Name not displayed, California
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12:50 pm PST, Mar 3,Name not displayed, California
WE CANNOT AFFORD to neglect our children's education and the safety of our citizens (police support) to give public funds to subsidize a bar/night club/restaurant. There are plenty of STARVING restaurant/club businesses downtown right now. WE DO NOT NEED MORE- Especially from the citizen's tax dollars. WHAT ABOUT PUBLIC EDUCATION AND POLICE PROTECTION. Those should come FIRST! NO MORE WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS SUBSIDIZING. Take care of the needs we already have for those paying taxes! EDUCATION FIRST! If you must spend $ on hospitality - support our museums, existing theatres and arts!
95864 - WE LIVE IN THE CITY LIMITS
# 315:
11:01 am PST, Mar 3,Name not displayed, California
You really ought to think about the citizen and the community instead of your own pockets only!
# 314:
9:33 am PST, Mar 3,Maureen King, California
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9:16 am PST, Mar 3,Patricia Ward, California
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9:12 am PST, Mar 3,Brittany Ward, California
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12:17 am PST, Mar 3,Chris Clawson, California
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12:15 am PST, Mar 3,Ben Horpedahl, California
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11:56 pm PST, Mar 2,Name not displayed, California
This proposal is ridiculous! Sacramentans are going to PAY for someone from San Francisco to come to our city and build a night club?? I could maybe see if it was someone from Sacramento but this isn't fair to the Sacramento nightclub/bar/restaurant owners who spend their hard earned money to make downtown/midtown Sacramento what it is today. Support local businesses and your fellow Sacramentans!!
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11:15 pm PST, Mar 2,JUSTIN FATZER, California
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11:10 pm PST, Mar 2,Carol Kwong, California
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11:01 pm PST, Mar 2,Raymond Kwong, California
# 305:
9:58 pm PST, Mar 2,Name not displayed, California
The entrepeners who have invested millions in the revitalization of downtown are being assaulted by the very ciy in whom they have invested their sweat and tears. In fact, their very survival is now threatened by the city council. This is madness! Jim Downs
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# 304:
6:43 pm PST, Mar 2,Bethany Rich, California
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# 303:
6:41 pm PST, Mar 2,Jessica Nuti, California
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# 302:
6:28 pm PST, Mar 2,Geri Ximenez-Fujitani, California
The city should appropriate funds to complement existing businesses rather than compete against them. Furthermore, it is ludacrous to fund development projects that stymie overall commercial growth within our city, while reducing critical public services (i.e., policemen, fire fighters and public health workers) during the current economic crises.
We all need to band together and stop this senseless utilization of public funds to promote a given few.
