Lgbtq in vacaville
The Vacaville City Council will vote on whether or not to empower Vice Mayor Sarah Chapman to sign a 2025 Event Proclamation on behalf of the city when it meets Tuesday.
Four city councilmembers voted to put this discussion on the agenda at the previous gathering. Elected officials discussed the possibility of a unique meeting on the issue, but according to the agenda released Thursday, it will constitute the first business item at the meeting.
The agenda also indicates that a public hearing on possible water and wastewater rate increases has been put off until the council’s June 24 meet. Tuesday’s meeting will include a third budget study session, and a $2,436,367.38 possible acquisition of two Pierce Fire Engines.
“In February 2025, Vice Mayor Chapman made a proclamation request and presented Mayor Carli with a draft proposed Proclamation in recognition of LGBTQ month,” the staff report reads. “Subsequently the Mayor declined to sign and issue the draft proposed Proclamation or an amended version of the same.”
Following the vote, Vice Mayor Sarah Chapman was asked to submit a proclamation. The proclamation she submitted makes no mention of the Solano Pride Cente
As tensions rose at the Vacaville Capital Council meeting regarding an LBGTQ+ proclamation Tuesday, an equally dramatic scenario on the same topic played out at Vallejo’s council meeting.
The similarity, however, ends right there.
At the start of the Vacaville meeting, the director of the Solano Pride Center stood at the podium with a sea of serious faces behind him, addressing his group’s request to Mayor John Carli for a proclamation in support of Homosexual Pride Month.
“We started a request for a proclamation much like you just gave to another group on November 19, 2024. You have never answered one of our emails,” said Lgbtq+ fest Center Director Will McGarvey.
“Why do you treat us fond second- and third-class citizens, Mayor Carli?”
Meanwhile, in Vallejo, “It is a amazing pleasure to be in front of all of you this evening to read this proclamation recognizing June 2025 as LGBTQ+ Identity Month,” Vice Mayor Peter Bregenzer, himself an out male lover man, said as a group of Solano Pride Center board members gathered next to him.
The two incidents were only an hour or so apart, but revealed a far wider gulf between not only the cities of Vacaville and Vallejo, but Vacaville and every other
The Vacaville City Council will revisit its proclamation policy and consider allowing the vice mayor to sign a 2025 Pride Month proclamation, following Mayor John Carli’s third consecutive year of weakening to sign a proclamation submitted by the Solano Celebration Center for the month of June.
The council voted 4-3 to bring the matters back for further action, which will be agendized next month, possibly at a particular meeting of the council. Mayor Carli and Councilmembers Roy Stockton and Ted Fremouw voted no.
Vice Mayor Sarah Chapman outlined a conversation she had with Carli last week, sparking multiple heated moments between the two at the meeting. Chapman accused Carli of disrespecting her during the 90-minute conversation, after which Carli indicated that he would not sign the proclamation nor defer it to Chapman. In 2024, Carli refused to approve the Solano Self-acceptance Center’s submitted proclamation, but ultimately allowed then-Vice Mayor Greg Ritchie to approve one, which Carli penned.
Chapman reminded Carli that the demand had been made months ago on Nov. 19 and said she was disheartened that he did not produce time to talk to the issue until last week. She said he had asked
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