For more than two decades, elected officials across Sacramento County have consider creating a government entity to address homelessness. A joint powers authority, could allow elected officials from each city and the county a place to gather and untangle the region’s most intractable issue.
Now, the Sacramento City Council is taking a step to create a joint powers authority, or JPA. The council on Tuesday is scheduled to vote on how a JPA could be structured and ask other cities if they would like to join. The council members in support of a JPA have said that the government agency would allow for the public to hold officials accountable in one place.
But the City Council’s efforts have one key detractor: Sacramento County Supervisor Rosario Rodriguez, who chairs the county’s most powerful elected body. The Board of Supervisors is moving forward separately with a different idea…