Last Thursday, a California court of appeals said accountability should take a number and wait in Sacramento.  Over the last 96 hours, I contemplated the consequences of waiting for City Hall to reform itself.  The time for waiting is over.  The question isn’t whether Sacramento should reform its government.  The question is how.

In the next two weeks, the Sacramento City Council has the ability to give voters a chance at immediate reform. The council can place a charter reform initiative on the June ballot.

The council can take the first substantial steps toward reform simply and openly in the next two weeks.

Tuesday night at City Council, I will ask my colleagues to place a collaborative executive mayor reform package on the June ballot.

My request will be based on charter review ideas that have been circulating for the past year.

I have listened to suggestions and concerns from across our city. I believe these collaborative reforms will resonate with the entire community, even among my critics.

The time has come to spell out in simple language a handful of points necessary to make executive mayor reform work in Sacramento.

In the next week, I will ask city staff to draft the appropriate resolution, which the council can place before voters in June.

From the start of this process, the only thing I have asked is for the citizens of Sacramento to have the right to vote on reforming their government.

If a majority of voters aren’t interested in reform and believe the system is fine, so be it.

But the people of Sacramento must be allowed to vote on reform, as soon as possible. Not next winter. Not in two years. Not when it’s convenient to elected officials.

Our city can’t afford to wait.