NAG stands for Neighborhood Advisory Group and is a group of concerned citizens who meets to talk about their concerns with Neighborhood Services Area 1 of the City of Sacramento.

Each night starts out with a police update. This week's update was presented by Lt. Mike Bray of the Sacramento Police Department. The top three issues brought up were:

• Several instances of cat burgluary in the downtown region
• Graffiti, "KKK" spray painted on several buildings downtown
• Copper theft

Charles Ortner then presented about police coverage of several entertainment venues in Midtown. The police coverage is being paid for by the businesses themselves at $68/hr per officer. The presence of these off duty officers is often enough to deter many would be law breakers.

After a few quick presentations, the floor opens for any announcements and usually several are made. From announcing the opinions about the McKinley Village Project to talking about Christmas decorations.

Then the meeting proceeds on to issue updates, where on going issues are talked about, from Mercy Hospital to the B Street Theater.

Lastly are the presentations. These presentations range from new housing developments to announcing and explaining things like The Sacramento Press. Each presenter gets a varying amount of time, but this week, each presenter had approximately 30 minutes to get their point across and answer questions from citizenry.

Emily Halcon with the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency, made the first presentation about inclusionary housing. 

Next up, Tom Zeidnor spoke about a new waste-to-energy facility for the Sacramento area.

Lastly, Ben Ilfeld of The Sacramento Press, presented our newspaper to NAG, which is where I posted this story.