Two Sacramento City Councilmen are leading a campaign against a November ballot measure that would overturn a 9.2 percent utilities rate increase.  Councilmen Kevin McCarty and Steve Cohn are heading the recently formed campaign to oppose Measure B, the Utilities Rate Rollback Act of 2010. Opponents also created the No on Measure B committee to raise funds for its efforts. “We don’t think (Measure B) is a good idea for the city of Sacramento,” McCarty said Tuesday. “The bottom line is, it’s going to blow a big hole in our budget.” The 9.2 percent utilities rate hike began July 1. Council members approved the increase last year. Measure B would eliminate that rate hike and also link cit

The Sacramento city clerk’s office has gone digital.   In one of the presentations at the city’s first eExpo Wednesday, the office provided a sneak peek into its upcoming electronic agenda system. The office estimates it will save about 50,000 reams of paper each year by creating its agendas to digital form, according to Assistant City Clerk Dawn Bullwinkel. She emphasized that the figure of 50,000 reams was a conservative estimate. Bullwinkel told about 20 city staffers at the technology expo that the city will launch a new system to create paperless agendas by February or March. The city currently offers electronic agendas on its website, but the new Automated Agenda Workflow system wi