California Legislature’s Return Met With Calls to Stop the $1 Billion Capitol Annex Project
Organizations opposing the “Capitol Annex Project” are today urging legislators to focus on the needs of Californians and businesses recovering from COVID-19 hardships rather than wasting taxpayer dollars on a palatial project for legislators and lobbyists.
Stop the Billion-Dollar Demolition and Rebuild project!
State Legislators want taxpayers to pay for luxurious new offices for themselves, the Governor, and Lieutenant Governor. The Project would use revenue bonds for funding which would cost 30% more in interest on the debt over 30 years.
Stop the Blockade of the West Steps and Plaza
State Legislators want taxpayers to pay for luxurious new offices for themselves, the Governor, and Lieutenant Governor. The Project would use revenue bonds for funding which would cost 30% more in interest on the debt over 30 years.
Save Our Capitol Trees
“Development of proposed Capitol projects would require removal of 108 mature trees and likely cause significant damage to an additional 55 mature trees. Construction of the underground facilities will limit root growth and stability of future trees.”
Arborist Report: 2020 Tree Inventory
2020 Tree Inventory | California State Capitol Museum | Sacramento, California
Make your voice heard: A Free Public Forum to Mobilize Action
By California Preservation Foundation
Preservationists, small business advocates, government watchdogs, and environmentalists are opposing this project, and CPF is holding this public forum to inform and engage people so they can take action.
Construction, politics, secrecy clash in Capitol project
By Capitol Weekly
A fight is brewing in the Capitol – about the Capitol. It’s all about plans to build a new Visitors Center beneath the domed West Wing and demolish the 68-year-old East Annex, replacing it with one of three proposed buildings.
Letters: Delta tunnel, Sacramento Zoo, Biden, coronavirus, homeless
By Sacramento News & Review
Our leaders should be focused on helping California’s small businesses, rather than cushioning their offices at the Capitol and stripping us of valuable dollars.
Setting the Record Straight on the Capitol Building Boondoggle
By Save Our Capitol!
While politicians claim their costly project is necessary, facts prove otherwise.
Sacramento Taxpayers Association Opposes Costly and Unnecessary Remodel of Capitol Annex
By Sacramento Taxpayers Association
The Sacramento Taxpayers Association (SacTax) joins Save Our Capitol! alongside preservationists, small business advocates, government watchdogs, and environmentalists in opposing a project to demolish and rebuild the Capitol Annex.
FAQ: The Billion Dollar Vanity Project
By Save Our Capitol!
Californians are weathering a pandemic, historic wildfires, and an economic crisis, but state lawmakers believe the Capitol Annex project is still worth pursuing. So, what is it and who will it really serve? We have answers.
Paula Peper's Resignation from the Historic State Capitol Commission
By Paula Peper
I feel the Commission has been entirely obfuscated in our efforts to tend to the tasks we were legislatively assigned to complete. I can do more by serving the public at large.
Richard Cowan's Resignation from the Historic State Capitol Commission
By Richard Cowan
With regret, I hereby resign as a Commissioner of the Historic State Capitol Commission. I have taken my oath and duties as a Commissioner very seriously. But with regards to the East Annex project, I am being prevented from carrying out the Commission's statutory duties...
California Doesn’t Need to Build a Taj Mahal for the Governor and Members of Legislature
By Republicans of River City
"The taxpayers of California don't need to spend a billion dollars for members of the state legislature to sit in a Taj Mahal."
ICYMI: California’s Department of Finance Implements Permanent 5-percent Spending Reduction Across Departmental Offices
By Save Our Capitol!
On November 3, 2020, the Department of Finance sent Budget Letter 20-37 to state agencies and department heads calling for immediate actions to reduce costs while maximizing the efficiency of state operations.
California Preservationists, Environmentalists, and Small Business Supporters Call for a Stop to the Extravagant and Unnecessary Capitol Annex Demolition
By Save Our Capitol!
As California reels from humanitarian and economic crises, Save Our Capitol! urges Governor Newsom and the Legislature to pursue less costly Capitol restoration alternatives and direct critical state funding to struggling communities.
No Annexation Without Representation
Sactown Magazine
By Rob Turner
A billion-dollar plan to demolish and rebuild the State Capitol annex... is at least partly ill-conceived and entirely ill-timed. But there is the potential to create something great, if we just invite more people into “the people’s house.”
Stop The Demolition!
By Save Our Capitol!
The California Legislature is bulldozing ahead with the Joint Rules Committee's (JRC) billion-dollar demolition and rebuild project.
Sacramento’s most famous landmark is getting a makeover
The Sacramento Bee
By Hannah Wiley
The California Capitol is on track to get a makeover despite the economic fallout of the new recession, with plans to bulldoze the east wing office annex and replace it with an updated model by 2025.
