Community Services and Youth Committee - Regular Meeting

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Yeah, we're sick. Is this all that's happening? Hmm? Should I wait about five minutes? I'll wait about... We'll get started in about five minutes. We'll get started at 533, and if anybody pops in after that, okay.

Is it taped?

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Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call.

OK, taking roll. Commissioner Trim? Commissioner Stewart? Commissioner Dunstan? Commissioner Bertram here? Commissioner Rand? Commissioner Duran Sagala? Commissioner, sorry, Chair Tarmel?

Oh, me?

Yeah, I'm here. Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Vice Chair Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Pellegrino? We have quorum.

Okay.

Are you coming up? OK. This is the part of the meeting that is for public comment. So audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to three minutes. Please play the tape.

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OK. OK. So we now move on to presentations. Our first presentation is from the city attorney's office on the Brown Act.

All right. Good evening, everyone, members of the commission. My name is Ruth Ann Solera. I am a senior deputy city attorney from the city attorney's office. I'm here tonight to give you a Brown Act training and touch on also the Sunshine Ordinance and a little bit about the Code of Ethics. But you'll get a detailed presentation on the Code of Ethics later on this evening. The main reason we come and do this is that we provide this service to the board routinely so that you all stay up to speed on the Brown Act. And there have been some pretty significant changes to the Brown Act that we are going to go over with you tonight. So first is a reminder on the purpose of the Brown Act. And this is a quote that I've always liked from the Brown Act. It says, the legislature finds and declares that the public commission's boards and councils and other public agencies of the state exist to aid the conduct of the people's business. It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and their deliberations be conducted openly. And kind of the key takeaway here is that what we do here in this forum tonight is we conduct the people's business. And the people's business should be open and public. And that is what the Brown Act tells us how to do. So the first and kind of the key cornerstone of the Brown Act is the concept of the open meeting rule. All meetings of a legislative body, which is you all, are to be conducted open in public and that all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of the legislative body of a local agency except as otherwise provided by law. And so a key update here that is a new feature in the law, but not a new feature to the city of Riverside, is that Riverside is now going to be required by the Brown Act to provide two-way telephonic or audiovisual public access, and that goes into effect July 1. But as you all know, the city has implemented this practice back in COVID during the COVID years and has kept that practice and is actually a popular feature of having telephonic public comment. So that actually doesn't change our practice, but it is now being enshrined in the Brown Act. It also creates certain minimum procedural requirements during the conduct of the meeting. One of these is that the board is required to adopt rules for the conduct of its business, including the time and place for holding regular meetings, which you all have done through your standing rules that each board and commission maintains. Then effective July 1 Riverside is required to have a written policy on how to handle disruptions including from remote participants Ensuring that clearing the room during a disruption is a last resort and that non disruptants can stay or join remotely and additionally a policy on what will happen if the AV system fails and This policy is currently in the works. It is going to the city council on its July 23rd meeting and when that is adopted it will be shared with you all and it will provide guidance on how to handle such disruptions. Next is the general, one of the main points here is the concept of what is a meeting? And first on this slide, I'm gonna apologize. When I prepared this, I forgot to update some of the acronyms in this presentation because we have been providing this presentation to all boards and commissions. And so CHB here is intended to be referred to as this commission, and so I apologize for that error. But wherever you see the acronym CHB, it means this commission here. And so moving on, a meeting is any congregation of a majority of the members of the commission at the same time and place to hear, discuss, or deliberate on an item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. So here there's 11 of you on this board. A quorum makes six. So if six of you get together and you want to speak about an item that is within your subject matter jurisdiction that constitutes a meeting subject to the Brown Act, And the definition of your subject matter jurisdiction is in this municipal code that creates the Commission on Disabilities, which I'm not going to read them all to you today, but if you look at Chapter 2.66 of the municipal code, that is where your powers and duties come from, and that defines your subject matter jurisdiction. And except as part of an open and noticed meeting, the Brown Act prohibits the use of any direct communication by personal or intermediaries or technical devices by a majority of the commission to develop a collective concurrence. That's called a serial meeting, and we'll get into what that means. Generally, that is... found through emails or other types of communications is a quick way that people email in this day and age. And so you can't use any, basically, all your business and your discussions need to occur here on the dais so that the public can participate. So when you're emailing, you can run into Brown Act issues if you're emailing with six of the commissioners. So an update here that occurred is regarding, this adds basically a concept of the law that was already permitted but it is codified now regarding limited one-way distributions of factual information and then also social media activity. But I'm gonna warn you as we go through social media, still be as careful as possible through social media because I think in this day and age that's where we tend to see the most inadvertent Brown Act serial meetings. So a serial meeting is a series of communications that don't necessarily involve six of you at once, but by the time you get to the end of the conversation, Six of you could have been a part of it and developed a kind of collective concurrence on a matter. So it's forwarding. It'll start as like two people talking and then it forwards and add someone else in and then eventually you get there. And that collective serial meeting actually violates the Brown Act. So city staff can brief you all individually and provide you with factual information without violating the Brown Act. But when those meetings occur, what can't happen is they can't actually pass information of your own thoughts amongst commissioners. So they can't have a meeting with the chair and then go and have a meeting with the vice chair and during that factual meeting tell the vice chair, say, this is what the chair thought. That would violate the Brown Act, but the individual meetings passing the factual information alone would not violate the Brown Act. And this is a practice we've had for a while, but now it is enshrined in the law so that we know for sure that that is permitted. and this is what we just went over and then again on social media so our prior rules on social media were very strict about interacting and engaging with posts and social media information of other members but now the law is a little more practical in this area and that you can post social so factual information to social media and you can even reply individually with one other person But chains that involve multiple members or interactions of a post that involve multiple members can still reach a serial meeting. So that's why we warn to be extra careful on social media because its reach is usually broader and you could really inadvertently get to a serial meeting there. All right, next is public speech and public participation. The public has a right to address the commission at any meeting within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission before this commission deliberates on an item, which is why when you do discussion items, we have public comment first. And again, we'd already talked that this public comment and public participation now is required by law to include two-way remote access, but that is already a feature that Riverside has employed. And then some additional procedures regulating public speech. It's not an unfettered access. So we can impose reasonable restrictions on comments so long as those restrictions are not too broad and don't constitute what we call a prior restraint. So you can ask a member of the public to stay within the subject matter jurisdiction. So for example, if a member of the public wants to start speaking on an item that's actually before the Planning Commission, you could politely tell them that, well, this is the Commission on Disabilities. We don't have any control over that item. And so that's a proper limitation. we may request that the public wishing to address the commission fill out a speaker card but it's not mandatory so they they can't be required to give their name or sign a register as a condition of attendance at the meeting and this implies in person and remote But we are allowed to continue our voluntary practice just for meeting organization and also to facilitate follow-up with these members of the public. We can ask them to voluntarily identify themselves. But if a member of the public wishes not to, that's fine. And they're still allowed to attend and participate in the meeting. We can also regulate the total amount of time on a particular issue for each individual speaker as long as we apply this evenly. Usually this is three to five minutes are the most common adopted throughout the state. Three minutes is what the city uses. And the enforcement responsibility falls to the chair using the timer on here. And then we also saw some new accessibility enhancements that came out of the law. So one of them is that Riverside now is required to do outreach and assess the language needs of our community and provide interpretation services for languages spoken by more than 20% of the residents in the city. And agendas must include remote access details. One feature of this, the city has already got a head start because about a little over a year ago, we started putting our city council agendas out in both English and Spanish. And now the city will need to do an analysis of our community languages to see if there are others that needed to be added to that. are some further agenda requirements and other procedural issues that come up, is that the agenda is required to specify the time and location of the meeting, give a brief general description of each item to be discussed, and then if a matter is not on the agenda, it is not permitted to be discussed or acted upon. There are some limited exceptions here. So you can make brief responses by members to staff or questions posed by the public. You can ask questions for clarification. You are allowed to give references to staff or other resources for factual information. You can make requests to staff to report back on an issue at a subsequent meeting. You can request to agendize a matter of business for a future meeting. Or you can make a brief announcement by members of the body or staff and brief reports on their relevant activities. And so kind of my general rule of thumb for these last three items where you're asking for an item for future consideration is to be, first of all, be as brief as possible. This isn't meant to be a way to discuss an item. There's no real clear bright line in the law, but generally if it takes you more than four or five sentences to describe the item that you need, you might be discussing it. So really what you want to do when you're asking for a future item is give the staff members enough information so they know what to bring back to you. And then some brief notes on the Sunshine Ordinance. So the Sunshine Ordinance is the city's expansion of the Brown Act. It was adopted all the way back in 2015 and was amended very little until last year. And one of the biggest changes is one that this body felt is that you are now defined as advisory body under the Sunshine Ordinance, which means you have a much shorter agenda publication deadline than previously. So the 2015 Sunshine Ordinance imposed a 12-day agenda publication, but now this body follows three business days, which is still an expansion of the Brown Act 72 hours, but much shorter than 12 days. You can add after those three business days some supplemental materials to your agenda as long as it's done 72 hours before the meeting. And these are the reasons here that you can supplement your agenda, which is due to an emergency, to delete an item, correct errors or omissions, or continue a future item. Practically for you all, it's a really tight deadline because since you meet on Thursday nights, your agenda comes out on Monday, and then 72 hours is Tuesday. So it's really only a brief window for you, but you do have that opportunity if there is something that needs to be changed. And then, so another change from the Brown Act that is new and will impact you all is changes to remote participation. So previously we had what we called the Just Cause Rules. Those have sunset and SB 707 establishes a new set of participating remotely. There's two ways that you can participate remotely in a meeting. The first one is kind of an expanded just cause remote attendance that we used to have, but now what's new is that remote attendance can be a reasonable combination for a person with a disability. And so the reasonable accommodation, board members with a statutory disability, this adopts already established definitions in the state law and the ADA for what a disability, which disabilities qualify, can participate remotely. The general rule of thumb is that the remote participation needs to be like a two-way audio and video participation, but the law recognizes that if the person's disability prevents them from participating on video, they can excuse the video requirement and participate with audio only. And then additionally, if the person participating remotely has adults with them present over 18, they need to disclose that while they do it. But they don't have to be alone while they do it. They just need to disclose those present. And then I don't have a slide on Just Cause, But Just Cause is more open. Anybody can use this. There's a certain number of reasons, which is usually like a child care need, you have an illness come up, or just any other general caregiving issues. To do that, you're allowed to use the Just Cause excuse twice a year because this board meets once a month. And then to make use of that, you need to notify the board secretary at the earliest opportunity possible, which could be last minute because things come up. And in that case, the body needs to make sure that a quorum is physically present. So if you only have five of you here and someone is remote attending for just cause, that's not sufficient quorum to hold the meeting. You need to have six physically here. If one person is participating remotely because of a reasonable accommodation for a disability, that counts as them being in person, which gets a little complicated. But you can have five people in person, one person participating remotely for a disability and then others participating remotely for just cause. So it's a little bit complicated, but I think it'll work out in the long run for everyone. all right so um this is a summary of our sunshine ordinance updates um just a reminder like a few of the bodies did not get the shortened notice period mainly the city council board of ethics board public utilities the charter review committee the citizens police review commission and planning commission and all stay with 12 days but you all get three business days and And then a final preview is we made a note that there is new additions to the code of ethics you'll hear more about, notably is revisions regarding digital misconduct. So the city has adopted a policy of how members of public officials who can conduct themselves online And so these are the elements of the prohibited conduct is that it applies to online activity that create or appear to create bias, partisanship, or a predisposition on city matters. This communication needs to occur while the person is acting in their official capacity, meaning you would be posting as a member of the board, the Commission of Disabilities. and the content would need to fall within the subject matter jurisdiction of this commission and be part of a quasi-judicial proceeding using an official city account. And so quasi-judicial proceedings are proceedings where the board has to make findings of fact and decide on an application, which I don't actually believe any of that comes through you, but the example would be like a planning commission hearing or a city council hearing where they're actually making findings and ruling on some type of right And that is the end of my presentation. But if you all have questions, I'm happy to answer any questions that you have.

Thank you.

All right. Any questions?

No, that was very informative. Thank you.

All right. And just a quick note for you all, the city attorney's office is always available to you. One of our roles is to assist the boards and commissions. So if you, especially on procedures and how to conduct your meetings, if you ever have questions, feel free to contact your board secretary and she'll reach out to us on your behalf. And you guys have a great night.

Thank you very much.

I see on here our next presenter is from the Muslim Family Foundation. Can you hear me?

I can. And I hope you understand me too. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here on behalf of the Muslim Family Foundation. I may quickly introduce myself. My name is Ali . I'm a doctor in the psychology field. I'm the founder and CCO of the Muslim Family Foundation. The Muslim Family Foundation was in inception Next slide, please. I forgot to say that. The clicker. I got it. Zebra. So I don't need this now. The Muslim Family Foundation focused on mental health and behavioral health, issues that challenging the entire family or individuals. The Muslim Family Foundation founded in 2012. It was the inception of the organization. In 2015, we became 501C3. The board is all the board are volunteers and most of them they are donor at the same time. Our mission is to assess family and individual and finding support for issues that challenge their mental and emotional well-being. Our vision is to empower strong and thrive family by promoting health, balance, and resilience through every phase of the family life journey. This is our program is made out of two prongs to access. One is the educational, which is our main focus, which is the vehicle, introduce the community to the mental health and the services we provide. And the second one is the referral services. A member of MFF team, they also can provide services and we collaborate with partners and providers. Our educational program, it is designed to reduce the stigma and increase awareness about resources and mental health availability for everyone. Our referral service is the cornerstone facilitating a referral program for mental health services to connect uninsured and underinsured with the right source or providers. We made the process real easy. It's free. It's six sessions free. The type of service we provide is family counseling, depression, stress, anxiety, parenting, self-esteem, mental health, relationship, grief, and anger. Some of our members of our community they belong to the Islamic faith so they require or request Islamic counseling which is no different than the others just more related to the Islamic faith. The language we use to provide the services, mainly the English language, but once in a while we have members of the community ask to connect with the therapists who speak Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, Pashto, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu. People we served in 2025, in the referral service we provided services to 48 and others who would rather not to speak to provide their own records, so it's more than that. On Friday, khutbah, this is an Arabic word, means sermon. And that's when the president of the Muslim Family Foundations, he's very well known in the community, and he addressed the community sometime and averaged about 400 to 500 to 1,000 people and let them know there are resources available for them to connect with us. Our annual family symposium, it's average about 50 to 40. The first one we had in 2014, we have 400 people attended. Our annual friendship dinners average about 100, 100 plus. And premarital group sessions, about 26 people. Food banks, in collaboration with Food Bank in Marina Valley, Arrahma Food Bank, we get about 50 people. Total about 9,000 plus dinners. Disability. MFF is very passionate about supporting the family and individual by providing compassionate, culturally responsive services that promote mental wellness, strengthen the community, and ensure that no family face life challenges alone. Disability can impact family, mental health, behavior health, and increase stress, anxiety, caregiver burden, and change the family dynamic. That's one side of the coin. The other side of the coin that it could be, you know, with love and compassion and support and healthy coping strategy, family can build resiliency, strength, strengthen the relationship and improve overall well-being. Disability and mental health, this is very recent study done by CDC. More than one in four of you USA adult, this is adult only, not children or teenagers, disability about 28%. In my study in 2021, it was a little bit less than that, so not increased a lot, but due to wars and accident, the numbers is and disability at birth and others, the disability is increasing in the United States. I can imagine what is the youth nowadays. This is disability and mental health. That's how they could correlate. Again, this is to CDC most study done. If you notice, I don't know if this has pointer, The first one, it's about 14% that disability is related to more to cognitive, which includes many, many things. It's just lump summed under that title. Challenges to read, to understand, to comprehend, and others. Again, according to a CDC study recently, disability that is made out of six items or function. And this is again the study done for adult. The cognitive disability, serious difficulty to concentrating, remembering, or making decisions. And this is the one we focus on as a Muslim Family Foundation. We provide the mental health services. I think this is the same slide like the one before. Upcoming event, which is we encourage everyone here to attend, this is a bridge between the Muslim community and a professional provider's police officer who will come in contact with the Muslim, how to handle the situations. I include the flyer here. If you need more information, I'll be here. It's set right now, scheduled for July 18th at the Family Service Association in Marina Valley. Our second annual event, which is well attended by officials from different cities, is the annual friendship dinners scheduled for November 7th. We can provide more information. That's all what I have, unless I have one more slide. There you go, one slide. That's where I beg for money. If you'd like to help us, as I said earlier, that all the funds we collected from here and we give it to the community. So once in a while we get a small grant, but majority of the funds come from the Muslim community. So if you would like to donate or have a way to help us with a grant, we appreciate it. Thank you.

Good job. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Any questions? Anybody have any questions?

I think I do. Do you normally reach out to other... Your Muslim entity here, do you guys reach out to other people in the neighborhood? Yes, sir.

Thank you very much. I missed that one. So the service is provided to everyone. All our activities are open to everyone, period. on our form to request the service. There is no gender. There is no religion. You just fill out short forms, and then we'll contact you immediately, assess the situations, and see what kind of service you need.

OK. Any other questions?

Yes, I have a question. Doctor, how do you see our commission being able to assist you?

Education, as I stated earlier, is the most important part. So educated families, educated officials like you about what is the Muslim Family Foundation could do. That's a great source for individuals. So I appreciate it if you visit our website and learn more about the Muslim Family Foundation. Okay. And I think we have another question, right?

Yes. Do you have any referral for housing for disabled

No, but we have a lot of resources on our website because we focus on mental health only. But we have resources on our website. It's under community resources. There are tons of resources. We cannot do everything ourselves. So we collaborated with an organization that they provide the housing, the disability assistance.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else? Thank you. Thank you. Our next presentation is from Elevate Behavioral Health. And I don't have your name, so...

That's okay. Thank you everyone for having us. We are Elevate Behavioral Health. Today I'm going to talk about who we are, talk about our service, and why it matters for families that have a child with an autism diagnosis in the IE. So this is myself and Carly. We are two BCBAs, so we're board certified behavior analysts. We have 25 plus years of combined experience working with kids on the spectrum and their families. And our service that I'd like to share today is called Parent-Led Autism Learning, also known as parent training, caregiver training. And our values include therapy that's play-based and neurodivergent affirming. And I'm going to kind of talk about kind of the gaps in the current model and why we decided to pursue Elevate. So like I said, we provide parent-led autism learning, also known as parent trainee or caregiver education. And this service is really different from the traditional model of support that's available to families that have a child with an autism diagnosis. So currently, when a child gets diagnosed, the pediatrician may put in a referral or recommend ABA therapy. Thank you. And with that, Carly and I really saw a gap in the current model where it's really therapist-led, right? Very minimal training for these entry-level therapists and really leaving the families feeling ill-equipped. And something we know about behavior, Carly and I as behavior analysts, is that behavior is environmental. So that means how we act in one setting may or may not translate to another environment. So a common barrier that we see in the field is The child is doing all the things, the learning is happening, but when the session ends, the therapist goes home, the parent feels really ill-equipped. The parent didn't learn the skills or the strategies that the therapist was implementing. And so sometimes the challenging behaviors come back. The eloping, aggression, and We don't want that. We want the learning to continue to take place. So that's our service. No experience required. We work with parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, really just caregivers who want to learn the strategies themselves. We offer services across two modalities. So one is via telehealth. So we do provide virtual support as well as in-home support to families that are local. And this is what a typical session might look like in the picture, really sitting on the floor, playing with the child, modeling the strategies for the parent, and then stepping back and letting the parent do the hands-on practice, give coaching. I might say something like giving feedback. So that looks really good on the next try. Go ahead and kind of present the picture before he responds. And then the parent continues, and we're coaching her and supporting her in that way. I kind of said this before, but the current model is kind of comparable to a tutor. So someone comes in the home, teaches for a few hours, and then leaves. But with our approach, parent-led autism learning, our values are really empowering caregivers, giving them the tools and strategies to be able to teach their baby powerful new skills. No therapist required. Here are a few of our areas of expertise. We support with behaviors, so tantrums, aggression, pushing boundaries, property destruction, self-injurious behaviors. Our area of expertise really is very broad, so any behaviors mild, moderate, and severe. We also are experienced in toilet training and I'm certified as a behavioral sleep practitioner. So being able to support families in obtaining healthy sleep hygiene for their child. So if you know anything about autism, a lot of the time our kids on the spectrum have a lot of sleep challenges. So not sleeping through the night, tantrums before bed, waking up at 2 AM and not going back to sleep for the remainder of the night. And then they wake up early for school, and then they have to go to school in the morning. And again, that really triggers a lot of behavior. So when our kids are tired, behaviors increase. So we're able to support there as well. What makes us different? So like I said before, we provide parent-led autism learning. It's really different from the traditional ABA therapy model. I also want to talk about who is this service for. This support is meant or designed for the parent who wants to put in the work and ask the right questions and do, kind of do the heavy lifting. I know I touched on the traditional ABA therapy model is more like parent observing or sitting back. whereas our approach is very hands-on, letting parents practice the skills themselves in real time. So this is just kind of a visual of what the traditional insurance therapy model provides. So depending on the insurance, this is kind of the breakdown of what the support looks like. There's a BCBA at the top, which is Carly and I, board-certified at the top. Depending on the insurance, there's a mid-level supervisor in the middle. It's typically a master's level supervisor who is in school pursuing their ABA coursework. There's a one-to-one therapist at the bottom. Like I said, very entry-level position. These therapists are, the training is very brief. And the parents that we talk to, a common grievance is it feels like a revolving door. So it is actually a high turnover, a sad reality for the field. And the child is at the bottom. So the support is meant to trickle down. So the BCBA is supposed to coach the supervisor and coach the therapist, and the support trickles down to the child. But really, the parent is left ill-equipped a lot of times. And our current model looks like this, us really supporting the parent, learning directly from a board-certified clinician. And of course, the child learning as well. Just briefly touching on a few other points, how we're different from traditional ABA, outlines no inexperienced one-to-one therapist. Again, this is kind of a common grievance that we hear from parents, is like lack of experience. This therapist doesn't know how to play with my child. It's not a good fit. Another one is no 15 to 20 hour week commitment. So when a parent decides to sign up for ABA through their insurance, a lot of the time, traditional ABA companies will require a minimum commitment of 15. This is just an example, but 15 to 20 hours, sometimes more commitment from the family. So the child is receiving, um, a high-intensity treatment. And a common grievance from families is, that's way too much for my four-year-old. He has like a part-time job, especially if my child is going to school all day and he has ABA for two, three, or four hours after school. That can be a lot for our kids. So at Elevate, we really promote quality over quantity. One visit a week, one-on-one with the parent and the child. Like I said, equipping them with the strategies, coaching them to teach what they want for their baby. So if the parent wants to work on toilet training, right? Because with an autism diagnosis... There are delays across certain areas. And self-help skills is one of those. So if we have a seven-year-old who's still wearing diapers, and mom says, hey, I really want to work on toilet training, then we coach her. We create an individualized plan for her and support her, check in each week. How is it going? Here's your homework. OK, I want you to try this. We're going to tolerate wearing underwear for this week. Really small, incremental steps. no insurance restrictions. Another common grievance of the current model is insurance regulations. So with the traditional model, there are certain goals that are approved from insurance and certain goals that are not. And with Elevate, because we are private pay, we're not restricted by those kind of same regulations. We're able to work on what's important to the family, whatever they want to work on, and no wait list. Here is a support we provide to the community. We actually started earlier this year and we have a great turnout. We have a virtual mini-series designed for autism parents, moms, dads, grandparents, caregivers. It's really open to the community. These are no-cost parent learning support. In April, we talked about what is autism. In May, we talked about autism tantrums and aggression. We talked about tactical strategies for parents to implement at home. In June, we talked about what is ABA therapy. We don't have one in July, but in August, we're talking about autism challenges in public. So a lot of the time, parents have challenges when they go to the grocery store, to the movie theater, and... On August 1st, for that half an hour, we're really sharing with parents some strategies they can take home. September is toilet training, and October is how to create an autism-friendly home routine. So our kids on the spectrum thrive with structure, predictability. They feel safe when they're able to kind of have a vision for what the day looks like, right, in pictures. So that's October's webinar there. And here is our email. The best way to contact us is right there, our website, and here's our social media. And last here, we do offer virtual services to families in California, but here are the cities where we offer in-home services. That's the end of the presentation. Do you have any questions?

By the way, I recently did a presentation Instagram search on you guys, and I love some of your videos that you put out, especially my favorite was the Costco one, and the one that you were getting robbed by someone with autism, and I think I made the comment, is that the Riverside Plaza that you just...

Yes, it was you. Oh, it was a Riverside Plaza. Yes. Thank you for that. I appreciate that.

I love it. I love it when you post stuff. I looked at some of the clips and you had some familiar places that you posted on it. One was, I can tell it was the Merino Valley Costco and then one was the Riverside Plaza.

Good eye. You're right. Yeah. Thank you for that feedback. Appreciate it.

Anyone else have any comments?

Just a question. The workshops, these are all online or they are? They are.

They're live online.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

can email us to figure out how to do that. I'm, I'm old. I don't know.

That's okay. If you email us, um, this is the email at the very top. Um, and just let us know, Hey, I want to sign up for the workshop. We send the link and all you gotta do is just click on the link and it's Google meets. So it's a live webinar where we're, it's Carly and I sharing the information.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Anyone else have any comments?

Yes. Beautiful presentation, and you're so right. I've heard so much about the gap, and you guys are filling that, so congratulations on that amazing work. So it is private pay for your services, correct? Question for you, can the inland regional, if people have inland regional services, can that pay for your guys' services?

Yes, we do accept SDP. I don't know if you're familiar with the Self-Determination Program.

That's through IRC, right?

So, yes.

And then also, what age groups do you do, like, for parent training?

Yes, 18 and younger.

18 and younger, okay. And then all your workshops are free and online?

Yes. Okay, great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank you very much. We're going on to the consent calendar. Okay. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine by the Commission on Disabilities and may be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. Does anyone wish to pull an item from the consent calendar for discussion? No. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Yes. OK.

I'll second that.

OK. Taking a vote on the consent calendar.

OK. We're going to vote on the consent calendar.

Commissioner Dunstan?

Yes.

Commissioner Beltran? Yes. Commissioner Rand? Yes. Chair Tarmel?

Yes.

Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Vice Chair Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Pellegrino? Yes. Motion passes.

Next item on the agenda is item number five, the meeting minutes from May 21st, 2026. You should have a copy. I'm sorry, we're going on to discussion calendar number eight. Oh, and guess what? The audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to three minutes. Number eight is the Board of Ethics on Code of Ethics Annual Review. Any callers?

No callers online, no participants in chambers.

OK.

Okay, good evening commissioners of the Commission on Disabilities. Madam Chair, my name is Tola Perkins and I am a board member of the Board of Ethics who will be presenting to you today the Riverside Municipal Code 2.78 Code of Ethics and Conduct Annual Review. Next slide. The purpose of the Code of Ethics and Conduct pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.020, to achieve fair, ethical, and accountable local government for the City of Riverside. Public officials are expected to comply with the provisions of the Code of Ethics and Conduct and shall aspire to meet the standards in the conduct of their responsibility as a public official of the City of Riverside. Next slide. the scope pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code two point seven eight point zero three zero public officials subject to the code number one mayor number two City Council members number three all members of appointed boards commissions and committees appointed by the City Council and or mayor next slide Implementation, pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.040. A, upon election, reelection, appointment, or reappointment, public officials shall be given copy and required to affirm receipt and understanding. B, within 90 days of taking office, public officials shall receive training. C, city attorney or designee shall serve as a resource to assist public officials in understanding and abiding by the code. Next slide. Implementation. D, all bodies whose members are covered by this chapter shall adopt rules of procedure, which include provisions of this code. E, chair of each body is responsible to provide appropriate guidance to its members and, if needed, communicate concerns to the Board of Ethics. F, only those who live, work, including vendors and contractors, or attend school in Riverside may bring a complaint unless alleged violation took place outside of city limits and complaining party personally witnessed or observed the alleged violations. Please take note that the asterisk including vendors and contractors was adopted January 27, 2026 by city council. Next slide. Core values, pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.050. A, to strive to create a government that is trusted by everyone. B, to strive to make decisions that are unbiased, fair, and honest. C, to strive to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and in a just and fair manner. Next slide. Continuous of core values. D, to strive to create a community that affirms the value of diversity. E, to strive to ensure that all public decisions are well-informed, independent, and in the best interest of the city of Riverside. F, to strive to maintain a nonpartisan and civic-minded local government. Next slide. continuous of core values, to strive to ensure that all public officials are adequately prepared for the duties of their office. H, to strive to ensure that appointed members of boards, commissions, and committees attend regularly scheduled meetings. Next slide. I wanna take note the continuous of core values. This particular letter I was adopted by city council on May 19th, 2026. i digital communications must reflect the city's commitment the city's commitment to impartiality fairness and integrity online activity messages or actions should not create or appear to create bias partisanship or predisposition on city matters that fall within the subject matter jurisdiction of the public officials and our quasi-judicial procedures next slide Going into prohibited conduct. Pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.060. A, use of official title or position for personal gain, prohibited. B, use of divulgence or confidential or privilege information, prohibited. C, use of city resources for non-city purposes, prohibited. D, advocacy of private interest of third parties in certain circumstances, prohibited. E, endorsement of compensation, also prohibited. Next slide. Continuous of prohibited conduct, F. Violation of government code sections 87100. Regulating financial interest and governmental decisions made by public officials, prohibited. G. Certain political activity, prohibited. H. Display of campaign materials in or on city vehicles, prohibited. I knowingly assisting another public official in violating this code of ethics and conduct, also prohibited. Next slide. Continuous or prohibited conduct. J, negotiation for employment with any party having a matter pending, prohibited. K, ex parte contact in quasi-judicial matters, prohibited. L, attempts to coerce official duties, prohibited. M, violations of local law, prohibited. N, convictions of federal or state law affecting their office, prohibited. I would like to state that O, was adopted by the city council also on May 19th, 2026, which states digital misconduct is also prohibited. Next slide. Going into written complaint procedures, pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.070. A, only alleged violations of prohibited conduct shall be grounds for a complaint. The next portion I'm going to go into was adopted amendment on January 27, 2026, which states, complainants are covered by whistleblower policies and the city will not tolerate nor tolerate retaliation against those who, in good faith, report suspected fraud, waste, or abuse, or participate in an investigation of a suspected violation. Next slide. continuous of written complaint procedures pursuant to riverside municipal code 2.78.070 b complaints are submitted on forms available from the city clerk c complaints and evidence are filed with the city clerk d complaints must be filed out completely in accordance with this chapter next slide Continuous of written complaints. E, complaints must be filed no later than one year of the alleged violation. F, city clerk reviews the completeness. G, any filed complaint not in compliance shall be administratively rejected by the city clerk with the approval of the chair of the board of ethics. Next slide. Going into pre-conference procedures. Pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.075. A, complainants must submit one revised complaint only to add additional allegations within 30 days of the original filing. B, city clerk sets matter for a pre-conference for no later than 45 city business days. C, city clerk provides a copy of a complaint to public official within 10 calendar days. Next slide. Pre-conference procedures continues. D, Board of Ethics, also known as BOE, conducts a pre-conference prior to a hearing date set by the city clerk. All parties are to attend the pre-conference. However, the absence of a party shall not be grounds for a continuance. The pre-conference shall be conducted as follows. One, BOE reviews complaint to determine if it complies with all of the following to establish jurisdiction of the BOE. A, complaint procedures have been followed. B, complaint is against a public official. C, complaint alleges a violation of prohibited conduct. D, complaint does not restate violations of previous complaint. Next slide. continuous of pre-conference procedures. Two, if a majority of the BOE determines that the complaint does not comply with the provisions mentioned in the prior slide, the chair states the findings of deficiency and calls for a vote of the BOE to dismiss the complaint without adhering. The statement of findings is adopted by the next meeting and it is the final decision of the BOE. If a majority of the BOE determines that the complaint complies with all of the provisions mentioned in the prior slide, then the pre-conference proceeds. Three, the BOE shall facilitate settlement discussions between the parties by allowing the parties to confer privately to determine if a resolution can be reached. If so, then no hearing is necessary. If not, the pre-conference continues. Next slide. Continuous with pre-conference procedures. Four, the BOE reviews the submitted tangible evidence to determine if it is relevant to the issues raised in the complaint. If it is determined by majority of vote that such evidence is irrelevant, then such evidence will be deemed inadmissible at the hearing and shall be excluded. Five, the complainant may verbally present any and all evidence that will be presented at the hearing to prove allegations in the complaint. The public officials have the same opportunity. Six, the BOE shall determine by a majority of the vote whether the complainant has shown that the evidence, more likely than not, shows that there may be a potential violation of the prohibited conduct. I would like to state the next portion was adopted by city council on January 27, 2026, Which reads all evidence shall be taken in its totality with equal weight given to both parties next slide and continuous of pre-conference procedures. Seven, if it is determined by the BOE that the evidence shows it is more than likely not that there may be a potential violation of the prohibited conduct has occurred, then a hearing panel is selected by random draw of the BOE members to consist of five members and one alternate. The city clerk sets a hearing date for no later than 45 city business days following the pre-conference. If it is determined by the BOE that the complainant failed to show that it is more likely than not that there may be a potential violation of the prohibited conduct, the chair of the BOE instructs the city clerk to prepare a statement of findings for adoption at the next regular meeting of the BOE. This statement of findings is the final decision of the BOE. Next slide. Going into hearing procedures. Pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.080. A, public officials shall file a written reply no later than 20 calendar days prior to the hearing date. B, city clerk shall provide a copy of written reply to complain it no later than 10 city business after receipt. C, Board of Ethics shall have authority to adopt hearing procedures not in conflict with this chapter. D, pre-conferences and hearings on their merits are not formal judicial proceedings. Technical rules of evidence do not apply. Next slide. Continuous of hearing procedures. E, chair of hearing panel presides over the hearing. F, no new witnesses or evidence other than what was submitted may be introduced at the hearing unless hearing panel determines complainant discovered after the filing. G, prior to commencement of the hearing, either party may ask for continuance. H, only one continuance of the hearing shall be granted to each party. Next slide. Continuous of hearing procedures. I. Complainant goes first and shall have burden approved by preponderance of the evidence. J. Public officials proceed second and may make an opening and closing statement. Examine witnesses, evidence, and introduce rebuttal evidence. K, neither party shall be allowed to examine the other party, however may cross-examine. L, hearing panel may ask questions of the parties or witnesses. M, parties may present rebuttal evidence. Next slide. Continuous of hearing procedures. N, upon conclusion of evidence presented, the chair shall facilitate verbal deliberations by the hearing panel. O, all findings shall be approved by majority of vote and panel shall direct city clerk to prepare statement of findings or designate members to prepare statement of findings to include recommendations for sanctions. Panel must approve within 30 city business days. P, within five city business days of the approval, city clerk notifies all parties and writings of the decision of the hearing panel and the appeal procedures. Next slide. continuous of hearing procedures. Q. No member of the Board of Ethics who is the complainant of the subject of the complaint shall sit as a member of the hearing panel. R. Neither the complainant, not the public official against whom the complaint is filed, shall be represented at the hearing. hearing by an attorney. Although an attorney may be present and consulted at the hearing, the attorney shall not address the hearing panel or participate in any aspect of the hearing. Next slide. Going into the appeal procedures. Pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.090, A, decision of the hearing panel may be appealed to the city council. Appeals of pre-conference decisions may only be appealed if the appeal is based upon a clear procedural error. Appeals are filed in writing with the city clerk within 10 city business days following the date of the decision. Appellant must specify the clear procedural error or abuse of discretion. The city clerk shall place the appeal on a city council agenda within 30 city business days. Next slide. Continuous of appeal procedures. Pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.090B, if there is no appeal, the decision of the hearing panel becomes final and there shall be no further right to appeal. The city council would then determine if sanctions should be opposed, if applicable. C, the record on appeal shall consist of a transcript of the hearing, the complaint and tangible evidence and testimony considered at the hearing. No new evidence will be received or considered by the city council at the hearing on the appeal. Next slide. Continuous of appeal procedures. D, city council shall review record. If no finding of clear procedural error or abuse of discretion, the city council shall adopt findings of the hearing panel. If there is a finding by the city council of a clear procedural error or abuse of the discretion by the hearing panel, That finding shall be clearly stated and that the matter shall be referred back to the hearing panel for a rehearing to consider the matter in light of the findings of the city council on appeal. E, if the city council finds a violation was committed, the city council may determine sanctions. F, city clerk notifies all parties and there is no further right to appeal. Next slide. Continuous of appeal procedures. F, city clerk shall notify all parties of the findings and determination of the city council on the appeal. The findings and determination are final and there is no further right to appeal. G, complaints replies, supporting documentation, transcripts of hearing, notices of appeal and all decisions thereon shall be public records and retained by the city clerk for a period of two years. H, no public official who is a party to a complaint shall participate in the appeal of a decision of the hearing panel and must recuse from the participation. Next slide. going into enforcement and sanctions, pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.100. Upon a finding by a majority of the city council that any public official violated any provision of the prohibited conduct or no appeal has been made to a board of ethics, finding such violation, the city council may impose any of the following sanctions. Continue. Next slide. Continuous of enforcement and sanctions pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.100. A, elected officials. One, public apology by official to complainant. Two, recommendation for training. Three, removal from regional committees. Four, removal from mayor pro tem rotation. Five, public censure. Or six, restrict from traveling to attend meetings, conferences outside city limits. Next slide. Continuous of enforcement and sanctions pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.100. B, appointed officials of boards, commissions, and committees. One, public apology by the official to the complainant. Two, recommendation for training. Three, referral to the board, commission, or committee of which the appointed official is a member for public censure. Four, public censure by the mayor and city council. Five, removal of chair, removal from chair, vice chair, or other leadership positions. Or six, removal from office as provided by city charter. Next slide. Going into monitoring and oversight pursuant to Riverside Municipal Code 2.78.110. prior to the end of July of each year the boards and Commission shall agendize and discuss at a regular meeting the effectiveness of the code of ethics and conduct code and make recommendations to the Board of Ethics for consideration B, prior to end of August, Board of Ethics shall discuss effectiveness of this code, consider Board Commission recommendations and submit recommendations for amendments to the Governmental Processes Committee to be a GPC for consideration. c prior to end of september the gpc shall discuss effectiveness of this code and instruct the city manager to present a report to the city council for its discussion and consideration d prior to end of the year the chair of the gpc shall present a report to the city council at a public hearing in the evening The city council shall make an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of this code and consider those recommendations of the BOE, boards of commissions, and GPC. The city council shall direct city attorney to make any changes to the code it deems appropriate. Next slide. At this point, we have come to the end of this presentation. The recommendation is that the Commission on Disabilities discuss and review the Code of Ethics and Conducts for its effectiveness and forward any recommended revisions to the Board of Ethics for consideration. Madam Chair, once again, my name is Tola Perkins, and I represent it to the Commission on Disabilities, the Board of Ethics, Code of Ethics, and your review.

Thank you very much. Very good. Any comments from the commission?

No, but that was an amazing presentation.

Yes, you did an amazing job.

Thank you so very much, Madam Chair and commissioners. You have a fantastic evening. Thank you.

You do the same.

That was very thorough.

It was way better than the online training.

What's that?

Oh, great.

Okay. Thank you so much. All right.

Number nine. Okay. All right. Commissioners, an ad hoc committee to tour facilities. Okay. Do we have any comments from our audience? Call or callers to speak or state? We have no callers at this time. Hmm? Oh. Ad hoc committee to tour city facilities. Hmm? We talked about this last month and we're bringing them back next month Today no callers online no participants in chambers, okay After all the comments have been discussed, okay Do we have a motion to approve the touring facilities ad hoc committee I

It's for discussion. You guys wanted to bring it back this month because last month you guys were talking about touring. And you wanted to have commission, I'm sorry, departments come out and present first. Some of you wanted some presentations first. Some of you didn't. It's up to you guys to decide whether you want to move on with the touring of the facilities without the presentations first.

I do wish everyone was here tonight. I think that we've done the having people come out and present to us in the past, and nothing usually gets any further than that point. That's why I suggested that we start going out and being more active in our pursuit of of what this city offers people with disabilities.

Okay. i am wholeheartedly on board with that as well i'm going out to see what our parks have to offer yeah and being able to the facilities because it is kind of difficult to get a hold of some of these individuals that manage the areas as well so absolutely

It was my question and the reason we hadn't gone any further on this, and it's my fault, I need the name of the person who we would contact at Parks and Rec.

Well, we're probably going to have different people come help you out because there's different parks. There's a lot of parks. So we might have to contact a few people. It's not going to be just one individual showing you all the parks.

No, but I'd spoken to one individual, and I cannot find her card at one of the community connection meetings that Sean Mill puts on. Okay. and when I mentioned this idea to her, she was number one all for it, but also to contact her to get the ball rolling on their end so we can set up something in each ward.

Okay, and this one was for Ward 5th?

Well, this was in Ward 5, but this was a person who is one of the heads of Parkton Rec.

There's a director, but there's a lot of parks, and she's not going to go to every single park. No, I understand. She isn't going to be the one.

She's going to tell us who to contact at each individual park.

I'll try to get a hold of whoever that was that you were talking to. Okay. And then I'll reach out and give her your information.

Okay, thank you. You're welcome.

Excuse me. Did we get past... If we were going to have questions that we were going to have a set amount of questions that we were going to, or set items that we were going to be looking for when we go through these parts, did we get past that or where were we?

No, that was the commission's job to come up with questions. Yes. It's actually the ad hoc's homework to put those questions together and bring them back here so that you guys can approve those questions and move forward so when you go tour these facilities, you have those questions in hand.

So the ad hoc committee needs to meet.

Yes.

And you need to come up with a set of questions that you can bring back here.

It's different facilities. I just put city facilities. I didn't put parks. Right. He was just interested in the parks at the moment.

It was just a place to start. Yep. Mm-hmm.

I get and so we can I guess move forward with that having an ad hoc committee do his job and come up with these questions do we go back and determine who is all on that ad hoc committee so they can get together

That was going to be my next question.

Who is on it?

That was going to be my question.

Oh, that's going to be your question too.

Last month, I think we only got Vice Chair Cleary and yourself, right? It was just you two?

Was I on that?

I'm not sure. And yourself? Okay. We can add one more person if somebody wants to volunteer. If not, we can move on with the three. We have a few people absent that makes it a little difficult it does Well, you never know when I mean Whenever you can all get together

It wasn't the Ad Hoc Committee. The people on the Ad Hoc Committee would be the ones going to these different facilities. This is just to come up with a list of questions that we would like to ask. The Ad Hoc Committee could or could not, whichever, go. So time only for a meeting would be at this time. I'd love to have you on.

you know if you can okay yeah that hot committee will not necessarily be the ones that go on around there be the ones that make it easy for us to go around because we'll be honest everybody will be on the same page but that hot committee itself would not necessarily be the only one to go in and do this they're just gonna come up with the questions that put us on the same page

Well, the first thing you've got to do is just come up with a set of questions. Right. Okay? So if you can get together with them sometime in July.

Yes.

Sometime in July. Good. Then you can work out a time when you can all get together.

I would suggest as soon as possible. Yes. sooner rather than later would be good I would rather in June quite honestly from today to the next meeting I'm going to try to get someone to facilitate a tour at least with a few parks Commissioner Pellegrino said you said July would be better for you

Oh, well, then, okay.

Then June works for you, too. Perfect. Okay. So let's come up with something that we can do after real quick. Come up with a couple of dates. Okay.

Very good. Okay. Let's see. Who else said yes?

Who else is on there? It's Commissioner Rand, Commissioner Dunstan, and Vice Chair Cleary. Rand.

Okay. I was writing. I'm sorry.

What is that, on the ad hoc committee? Yes. Well, I'm on that ad hoc committee. Yes. Oh, my mouth. You are. You are. Okay.

Okay, so we need a motion just to move forward with the touring of the facilities.

So I need a motion to move forward with this idea, right?

I'll make a motion to continue on with the finding facilities that we can go to her.

Okay.

Okay, taking a vote. Commissioner Dunstan?

Yes.

Commissioner Beltran? Yes. Commissioner Rand?

Yes.

Commissioner, sorry, Chair Tarmel?

Yes.

Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Vice Chair Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Pellegrino?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Good. okay now we have okay uh let's see we're on number 10. okay the commission on disabilities meeting dates now if you look at the back the very last page of this nice big packet the daisy the daisy put together You'll see meeting dates, potential conflicts, and notes. You'll see a little graph at the bottom. I'd like to set a time for the meetings for this commission for the rest of this year and possibly going into next year. Because I know life gets in the way. Okay? So, the next meeting is July 16th. In my case, I will be in Mexico, but otherwise I... So I can't make it. How are the rest of you?

I can do the 16th.

Okay.

I can do the 16th.

Okay. The 16th also works for me. Okay. I will be available as well.

Okay, so I'm the only one absent.

I'll be available.

Okay, so me, you know. How's August 20th?

It's okay with me.

Works for myself.

Yes.

At this point, I don't have any gripes against any of them going forward because I can't tell what's going to happen that far in the future.

I'll be at the beach. I'll be at the beach.

If I just have to accept it and if something comes up, we won't be there.

Okay, so everybody but me. Okay, September 17th, how does that look? I will not be here. Okay.

Looks good for me.

Looks good for me.

I'm okay with it.

Got it. Okay. Okay. Then we're up to October 15th already. And I won't be here for that one. You won't be there.

I'll be out of town both those days.

Okay, now, the ones for November and December, I was going to just say no because it's such a busy time of the year for everybody, and we all get just a little stressed.

I love that, Madam Chair. Love.

So what do you think?

I think your main concerns right here are just the holiday ones. Yeah.

Okay. So I'm just going to write no for November and December.

So no meetings.

No meetings.

Well, you still have to take a vote. But we still have to take a vote.

And then you guys have to take a vote.

I would like to propose, or yes. I'm so excited at the thought. I can't even think.

okay so we still have to vote on this yes okay so do I hear a motion that we're going no I have to do the rest of the year okay take a look at 27 I take a look at the 27 or she said we could bring the 27 back at another meeting we can yeah

The problem is if we don't have a meeting in November or December, then you have a problem because your next meeting isn't going to be discussed. Right.

No, we just expect you to be here on January 21st. Yes.

All right, let's just keep going for the sake of this. Let's just keep going. All right, January 21st, okay, that's the mayor's State of the City scheduled, okay, January 28th. So it's no problem.

I don't think nothing conflicts on your guys' meetings.

I don't think that should be a problem. What might be a problem is February 18th. Maybe. Might be.

I don't have a date for the city holidays because it's too far in advance.

Okay.

That could be a problem in that we do meet on that day.

Yeah. Put a question mark on that one. I think March 18th is okay. April 18th should be April 15th. Oh, wonderful. How to spend your taxes. Right? Right. Okay. Then we have Memorial Day and Juneteenth. As far as Memorial Day...

Right, so I don't know if people take vacation before that to take advantage of that holiday.

Yeah Okay All right

So we need to vote on this calendar. And then you can all put it down in your date book of fun and games with the commissions.

Okay, so far we have that we're going to cancel.

Cancel.

Thanksgiving, November, Christmas, December, February of next year, and June of next year. That's all we have. So we need a motion and a second, and then we'll vote.

I don't know that we should cancel June, quite honestly. I think maybe we might want to take a look at that come May.

You guys can motion it, and then we can take a vote.

I'll make a motion that we at this time don't cancel June and decide that in April or May.

And decide it in April or May? Yes. And we can't move that date?

We have to check to see if there's any other available dates that we can move this meeting to because there's other commissions that also meet. So we might have an opportunity, but then you guys will come on a day that's not your regular day.

Oh, okay.

Yeah. It's the day before the holiday, so.

Oh, no, it's Thursday. Yeah.

Yeah. Right.

Yeah, so it should be fine.

It doesn't affect us at all. I'm just saying because sometimes people like to take vacation ahead of time. Sometimes they'll take the whole week off because of the holiday. Yeah. But it's really up to you guys. You guys don't want to cancel it. That's fine.

I don't think we need to cancel it.

Well, Vice Chair Clear just made a motion to only move with the three first dates.

I second that motion.

Okay. Okay.

OK so we're going to go ahead and take a vote to just cancel. November 19th December 17th and February 18th. Commissioner Dunstan.

I got a question. OK Thursday November 19. We want to cancel the 19th and again. Why do we want to cancel the 19.

You mean the 18th of February?

No, you said November, right? Yes. Thursday the 19th?

Yes, your meeting is on November the 19th.

So why are we canceling it?

It does not affect the meeting. It's just part of the holiday. I don't know if anyone can show up. If you guys will have quorum, it's just a suggestion. You don't have to cancel it. You don't have to agree with the suggestions that they're making.

I would probably agree with it if I knew why we wanted to cancel it.

Just because of the holidays because it's just part of the holiday it people get stressed they start. They start cooking for Thanksgiving. It's just people get stressed.

So I just figured it be easier. Okay, I'll go if that's what the majority wants to do. I don't see why we can certainly but I'll go if that's the majority vote that's where I put that.

Commissioner Beltran. Yes. Commissioner Rand?

Yes.

Chair Tomer?

Yes.

Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Vice Chair Cleary? Yes. And Commissioner Pellegrino?

Yes.

Okay, motion passes. And we will remind you when the commissions won't meet. It's only going to be three so far that I see.

Okay. We're up to number 11, right? Hmm? Yeah. Okay. Communications. Okay.

But just really quick. So did we vote for December as well on that right now? Okay. Yeah. So that's for President's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Correct.

Thank you.

I commit communications. Okay. Number 11. Updates from the web page ad hoc committee. Are there any updates from that ad hoc committee?

We were waiting on Fred to come up with the people that designed the web page so we could speak with them.

Blame it on Fred.

We'll come back to that.

Okay. That will carry over to next month. Okay. Number 12. Updates from the event ad hoc committee. Who else is on that committee with me? You? Yeah. Oh. I don't have any updates.

The one that we had at Janet Goski?

Pardon me?

That was the one when we were at Janet Goski. Is that the one you're talking about?

Well, I think that was the one at the Janet Goski Center. We were there. Shelley, Commissioner Dunstan, Commissioner Cleary, and myself and Fred were all at the Goski Senior Health Fair. And there were quite a few people, and it was a very successful event. So I strongly encourage, if they offer another one, I strongly encourage it's a good thing to do. It's a good thing to go to. And I think it went very well.

I think we had an opportunity to get out a lot of our advertisements to people when they come by our table. That's what that was about, so...

Commissioner Rant and Commissioner Beltran, if you guys are not aware, if there's events that you guys know about, or I believe you work at RCC, if you guys have events at those locations that you want to attend or you want one of the commissioners to attend, you can bring it up to the commission so that you guys can go and table at the event.

Okay, and at what part do we bring that up at?

Whenever you know the event calendar date so we can bring it up to the commission.

Like email it to you or what part of the meeting can we bring it up?

You can bring it up in items for future consideration, which is the last one, number 15. But if you have something after the meeting, like say you know of an event that's happening, you can send it over to me or Fred and then we'll send it over to you guys as a whole.

Oh, perfect. Okay, thank you. You're welcome.

Okay. Updates of conferences, seminars, and regional meetings. Oh, did I skip 13? Updates from the resource guide event ad hoc committee.

We haven't met since last meeting. Right now, there are no updates on that.

Okay. Now, number 14, updates of conferences, seminars, and regional meetings.

On June 5th, I organized a field trip with my community integration group from Yes to More Life. We went to the Riverside Police Department air support, and it was a big joy to see where the SWAT team department is and the aviation department. aviation department of how things run over there. I want to give special props to Sergeant Jeffrey Papp for putting this meeting, for giving the tour of the facility.

Thank you. All right. Item number 15, items for future commission on disabilities consideration as requested by members.

Now. Okay. If my fellow commissioners will remember, a gentleman by the name of Kevin Burnett, I believe, came to the meeting on a couple occasions to request that we help him in getting the city to establish another department.

Mm-hmm.

And so I had an occasion to be with the members of the Commission of the Deaf and spoke to them about this because they were included in the paperwork that was given to us, and at the brief meeting that we had just with a couple of them, they stated they weren't very interested in pursuing this idea with Kevin. And then at their meeting in May, they actually brought it to their floor and rejected his proposal. We had not gotten to a proposal with him other than the paperwork that he'd given us that seemed erroneous in the heading. It brought up the Commission on the Deaf, and it brought up the Commission on Disabilities in his paperwork when that had not been recommended previously. So it would be my suggestion to, at this time, not take his proposal any further, especially because the Commission on the Deaf decided not to, and that's who he was mainly stating that they were a proponent of this proposal. new department which they were not so everything that he brought up in there was his suppositions and not any definite plan that had been put together Well, I don't see how you can can take up take that up there from what you're saying You know We would be making our we ourselves would be liable, you know, if we wasn't follow along with him and agree with him, you know, absolutely we he wanted us to go to City Council and Basically ask them to put together a new brand new department Just because he wanted to see it.

Mm-hmm

Yeah.

Yes, he did. He wanted to run it. He was looking for a job.

He wanted us to establish it, though.

Well, here's the thing. He even came to the city council meetings. Yes, he did. And told them that they had refused to hire him. Once it was looked into, it was found that he had never put in an application for any position with the city.

Is that right? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, you can't do nothing with that, you know, because then you're going to label the disabilities, put a name on us, you know. That's just it. So you can't do that.

Yeah, it was kind of a very strange way to go about it, and he probably should not have been given a forum here to speak on it.

But we didn't do no.

We didn't know any better.

Everybody gets to talk.

right he was allotted more time than most yes he was he was allotted more more time because of his disability yes that was it yes does anyone have any future business that we need to bring up for the next meeting

I wanted to suggest, have you guys talked to, I'm working on currently talking with Pickleball for Special Needs, but what about Champion's Coffee? I had talked to Adrian about it.

Yeah, we're going to revisit all the ones that you guys suggested too. So we're going to try to put in two outside presentations and hopefully two internal ones from the departments. So you guys can have four throughout the year. I mean every month, I'm sorry. And we're going to try to do that throughout the year. But Fred has that list and I have that list too. So we'll be reaching out to them again. And we're also reaching out to Romeo and Friends.

I'm still wanting, yeah, I would love to get, like, Pickleball for a special because I heard the guy came back from his overseas trip. Okay. Okay.

I did want to bring up something that last month was brought up. The parliamentarian officer that one of the commissions asked for. It is an option for the commission to have a parliamentarian officer, but we have to amend the bylaws. And that's something that the city attorney's office has to do for us first. So if that's something that the commission is interested, we would have to bring it up into a item in the agenda and vote for it. Just something you guys can think about.

i believe the commissioner requested that is not here this evening exactly so i would like to put that on next month's agenda uh you want to bring it up as an item or do you want to bring it up as a just for me to bring in the information for information okay yes perfect

If there's no further discussion from the members of this commission, this meeting is now adjourned.