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Do not fill this in! === Modern era === {{See also|Urban redevelopment in Sacramento, California}} [[File:Tower Bridge Sacramento edit.jpg|thumb|left|Built in 1935, [[Tower Bridge (California)|Tower Bridge]] connects Sacramento to [[West Sacramento]].]] The city's current charter was adopted by voters in 1920.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sacbee.com/<!-- Incomplete URL --> |newspaper=[[Sacramento Bee]] |date=September 26, 2009 |title=Status quo for city governance? |access-date=November 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120223741/http://www.sacbee.com/ |archive-date=November 20, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> As a [[charter city]], Sacramento is exempt from many laws and regulations passed by the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]]. The city has expanded continuously over the years. The 1964 merger of the City of [[North Sacramento]] with Sacramento substantially increased its population, and large annexations of the [[Natomas, Sacramento, California|Natomas]] area eventually led to significant population growth throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Sacramento County (along with a portion of adjacent [[Placer County, California|Placer County]]) is served by a customer-owned electric utility, the [[Sacramento Municipal Utility District]] (SMUD). Sacramento voters approved the creation of SMUD in 1923.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Sacramento Bee]]|date=September 26, 2012|title=Endorsements: Michael Picker is best pick for SMUD Ward 5|author=Editorial Board|access-date=November 21, 2012 |url=http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/26/4855122/endorsements-michael-picker-is.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109061646/http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/26/4855122/endorsements-michael-picker-is.html |archive-date=November 9, 2012}}</ref> In April 1946, after 12 years of litigation, a judge ordered [[Pacific Gas and Electric Company|Pacific Gas & Electric]] to transfer the title of Sacramento's electric distribution system to SMUD. Today SMUD is the sixth-largest public electric utility in the U.S. and is a leader in innovative programs and services, including the development of clean fuel resources, such as [[solar energy|solar power]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hydrorelicensing.smud.org/public/pub_com.htm |title=UARP Relicensing Public Participation Community Oriented Utility |publisher=SMUD |access-date=November 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208105239/http://hydrorelicensing.smud.org/public/pub_com.htm |archive-date=February 8, 2013}}</ref> The year following the creation of SMUD, 1924, brought several events in Sacramento: [[Standard Oil]] executive Verne McGeorge established [[McGeorge School of Law]], American [[department store]] [[Weinstock & Lubin]] opened a new store at 12th and K street, the US$2 million [[Senator Hotel]] was opened, Sacramento's drinking water became filtered and treated drinking water, and Sacramento boxer Georgie Lee fought [[Francisco Guilledo]], a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] professional [[Boxing|boxer]] known as Pancho Villa, at L Street Auditorium on March 21.<ref name="Prohibition">{{cite news|page=27 |newspaper=[[Sacramento Bee]] |date=July 30, 1989|title=1920s A Wet Prohibition, A City of North Sac, The First Woman Mayor |first=Don |last=Stanle}}</ref> [[File:Sacramento DSC 0063 (5673641314) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Elks Tower]] was built in 1926 in an [[Italianate architecture|Italianate style]].]] Early in World War II, the Sacramento Assembly Center (also known as the Walerga Assembly Center) was established to house Japanese Americans [[Internment of Japanese Americans|forcibly "evacuated" from the West Coast]] under [[Executive Order 9066]]. The camp was one of fifteen temporary detention facilities where over 110,000 [[Japanese Americans]], two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were held while construction on the more permanent [[War Relocation Authority]] camps was completed. The assembly center was built on the site of a former migrant labor camp, and inmates began arriving from Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties on May 6, 1942. It closed after only 52 days, on June 26, and the population of 4,739 was transferred to the [[Tule Lake Unit, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument|Tule Lake]] concentration camp. The site was then turned over to the Army Signal Corps and dedicated as [[Camp Kohler]]. After the war and the end of the incarceration program, returning Japanese Americans were often unable to find housing and so 234 families temporarily lived at the former assembly center. Camp Kohler was destroyed by a fire in December 1947, and the assembly center site is now part of the Foothill Farms-North Highlands subdivision.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sacramento%20%28detention%20facility%29/ |title=Sacramento (detention facility) |publisher=Densho Encyclopedia |access-date=August 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810173504/http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sacramento%20%28detention%20facility%29/ |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Sacramento-Yolo Port District was created in 1947, and the ground was broken on the Port of Sacramento in 1949. [[File:Ford rushed from Sacramento assassination attempt image A6320-24A.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento|1975 assassination attempt]] of President [[Gerald Ford]] in [[Capitol Park (Sacramento, California)|Capitol Park]]]] On June 29, 1963, with 5,000 spectators waiting to welcome her, the Motor Vessel ''Taipei Victory'' arrived.<ref>{{cite book|last=Avella|first=Steven M.|title=Sacramento: Indomitable City|year=2003|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-2444-3|page=124}}</ref> The [[Nationalist Chinese]] flagship docked at the [[Port of Sacramento]], being the first ocean-going vessel in Sacramento since the steamship ''Harpoon'' in 1934. In 1967, [[Ronald Reagan]] became the last [[Governor of California]] to live permanently in the city. The 1980s and 1990s saw the closure of several local military bases: [[McClellan Air Force Base]], [[Mather Air Force Base]], and Sacramento Army Depot. In 1980, there was another flood. Despite military base closures and the decline of agricultural food processing, Sacramento has continued to experience population growth in recent years. Primary sources of population growth are an influx of residents from the nearby [[San Francisco Bay Area]], as well as immigration from Asia and Latin America. In 1985, Hugh Scrutton, a 38-year-old Sacramento, California, computer store owner, was killed by a nail-and-splinter-loaded bomb placed in the parking lot of his store. In 1996, his death was attributed to the Unabomber, [[Theodore Kaczynski]]. After acquiring the majority stake in the [[Sacramento Kings]], the team's new owner, [[Vivek Ranadivé]], with the help of the city, agreed to build a new arena in the downtown area. With a final estimated cost of $558.2 million, Sacramento's [[Golden 1 Center]] opened on September 30, 2016. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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