New technologies play a central role in longtime Mayor Christopher Cabaldon’s vision for making his city the best place to raise a family or find talented workers.
In 2016, West Sacramento voters easily approved a 0.25 percent sales tax hike that was allocated to, among other things, enhancing internet access and “the use of smart technologies.” With the public on board to improve government services through new uses of technology, Democratic Mayor Christopher Cabaldon says it was an opportunity to partner with startups and entrepreneurs to test new ideas that would be hard to test in a larger urban area and also stay open to the idea that the city might find and solve some new problems that officials didn’t even know they had.
Now, he says he wants West Sacramento to be “the smartest small city in America.”
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