Commission on Persons with Disabilities - Regular Meeting

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So, yeah, I'll fall. Do we do we just push out to be here?

She didn't she didn't say she wouldn't.

So Okay. So we'll just we'll move on. Yeah, just let me know.

I'm not gonna do that. It's okay. We'll still have the recording. I'll have to ask the city clerk about that. Okay?

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Second, we will ask if there are any comments on this agenda item. And last, after public comment, we will open the item up to board discussion and a vote if recommended. This meeting is now called to order at 07:02PM. We will do roll call. Bernie Wall. Here. Diane and Michelle Momy. Here. Joe O'Brien. Here. Michelle Buckholz. Here. Samantha Green. And Scott Nee's here. And from the housing and human service division, we have Garcia Mana Leon, program manager, and Shelby Neal, administrative specialist. This will be your first meeting, so welcome aboard.

Yeah. Can do anything. Item

number two is, non agenda public comments. The city welcome speakers providing public comment, but please be advised this is a limited public forum. Comments from the audience may concern matters either on or not on the agenda, but must deal with matters subject to the jurisdiction of the social service human relations board. Comments will be limited to three minutes. Comments concerning matters on this evening's agenda will be heard when that item is called. If speakers fail to follow these rules, they will be warned. And if they continue to disregard the rules, their opportunity to speak will end. Do you have any speakers,

We do not have any public comment.

Okay. We can move on then to item number three, which is the review and approval of the minutes for 08/22/2025.

I don't what the party machine number.

Samantha has broke the motion.

I second.

Seconded by Michelle. We're all here. So all is in favor? Aye. Any opposed? None opposed?

Passes. Alright.

Item number four. Foray, we're going to be, now voting, on upcoming meeting changes, and, will be the one who's presenting this to us.

Thank you, president Means. I did wanna mention we have a funny speaker thing here today. It's a little shorter, the line I mean, like, a literal speaker, not a person speaker. So we might wanna speak up so that when we look back at the recording, we can hear folks. Okay. So I brought an I have an item for you all in terms of rescheduling a couple meetings. One is traditionally what might you all combine due to the holidays, and the other, is to accommodate a shrub event. Somehow oh, there we go. I've been on Teams for too long. Okay.

So this was the staff report you all received. Your October meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 23. This is during United Against Hate Week, and the UAH AUAH committee will be holding a film screening that evening. There weren't very many dates that they would be able to do it. So to accommodate that and for you all to be able to attend as well, we are proposing to move the meeting to the previous night at the same time at the same place. So I'll give folks the minute. I know. Check the calendars.

You do do we then vote on that?

Yeah. So we'll vote one by one, like, under the minutes.

Yeah.

Does somebody wanna make a motion?

I have a motion to approve the new date. I'll check-in.

Alright.

All those there? Aye. Any votes? None votes? United States.

Great. Thank you. And then the second item was your original meeting date is going to so you actually don't have a meeting scheduled for November, December. You all typically combine to one meeting at the December. I think I said that funny. But if, you all I'm we are proposing that you have your November meeting on Thursday, December 4.

Oh, so no.

Same time, same place. No. Because November for the holidays, you all usually combine into one meeting.

Right. We do that by

the 04:00 now. Thursday is Thanksgiving.

Right.

Yeah. Okay. So December 4?

Mhmm. So

no November meeting and no, well, no regular December.

Yeah. The same reason I want.

The only thing I just want to think about is I think that was the meeting we would plan on celebrating our volunteers for our Yeah. Volunteer award ceremony. And I think we want to make sure there's no other

Community events.

Other community events on that date.

It's on a Thursday.

When

does You mean, like, holiday stuff?

I just I'm thinking about other events. I know that they do the Yeah. I feel so much time. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's, like, any school, like, things or if they're because we're high school students. I I think their Christmas break is later, so that's we're fine. I the only thing I could think of that typically happens there is that Christmas tree lane thing, but I don't think that's on a Thursday. I think they do that on, like, a Friday. Do you know what I'm talking about? They have, like,

the oh, I'm so sorry.

But, yeah, they do, like, a whole event, but I don't know. It wouldn't be. It wouldn't be on a Thursday. Yeah. So I think that should work. I just wanted to be mindful back end of the calendar if there was any

I haven't heard of any community events that conflict. There may be something that pops up, and then we can reconsider. But I feel like

the, like, winter concerts and stuff like that or things are later a little bit bigger. At least we're kinda above. I see. Yeah. It's I I motion to approve.

I'll second.

Before we go the vote, there was wanna make sure because it's it's on here. Was there any comment from the community about the change? I just wanna make sure someone doesn't come back later and say we never offered an opportunity for them.

We have no public comment on this item.

Great. Great. Just wanna make sure you awesome. Everyone. Then we have a second, so we can we can go ahead and vote. With no other comments on board. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? None opposed? Nancy passes. Alright. Good job, everyone. Wow. We're really flying through that. Yeah.

Last meeting was pretty robust. I I asked people to do their presentations during this meeting, but everybody wanted August. Yeah. September got left a little thin.

That's okay. I think we will have a robust conversation about at least one of the the, work groups, I predict. Yeah. So this item is for board discussion only. There's no staff presentation. So go directly oh, let's go directly to public comments. Any any public comments on this?

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Oh, so yeah.

Alright. No public comment for this item.

Great. Does do any of the work groups wanna present first? Yeah. I mean, we can we can Okay.

It's. Do

you think they copies it?

Don't. I'm not sure. I don't think they have yet. But okay. So couple of things on the list.

So Scott was kind enough to reach out to, Tracy Jensen and see about having her take a look at our resolution, and she said she'd be interested in doing so. And we also have two dates on the board currently, October 1 or October 6. I don't know. Have you gotten a response back on that one yet?

For what? I'm sorry.

This was the United Against Hate Workgroup meeting to discuss the draft of the race equity. Oh, you mean meeting with her? Yes.

No. I haven't gotten a response back. Sorry.

Okay. That was that was the first one.

It's you and and it's because I did I did meet with Tracy and the city attorney. Okay. And so I I was gonna bring bring it up as part of the discussion here. Okay. And then Well, I'll let you decide how you wanna proceed with with with with Tracy.

Okay. I'll let you do that part then, and I'll just keep going with the rest of

our Yeah.

Go ahead. Okay. We also have a screening coming up for the United Against Hate Week program, will be coming up on, of course, October 23, 6PM. It'll be taking place here at City Hall Chambers, in honor of our united against hate week this year. We are not going to do a poetry slam. We're gonna go with the movie. The name of the movie is bias. It talks about biases in general and how they affect people's lives around the country and around the world. It's pretty thought provoking kind of a movie. I've seen bits and pieces of it on YouTube.

And trailer is good. If you go to the website, you can actually see a trailer. As a matter of fact, I think we had the document. I was gonna have to look now. But we had a document that was the picture for our and I guess I see it. Banner? Yeah. For the banner that actually showed the

Showed it on the screen?

Yeah. That's what I was wondering. Do you guys have

The banner? Yeah. The banner design?

We had that, and, it essentially has a QR code and It

not log in to Oh, yeah. We do Oh,

okay. Yeah.

Gotcha. So

the We

should send it over.

We have yeah. We should. We've got a flyer that's going out that has the name of the movie and the description of it, and it's got a little link on the bottom that everybody will be able to click on and go to. There's also I think it's a QR code on there. Right? Yeah. And the QR code is on there as well. You'll So be able to get a chance to actually see what biases look like and and be prepared for the movie. It should be a really wonderful program. Is it

a documentary? Or

Yes.

I'm sorry. Do you ever put on a flyer or the banner?

On the flyer.

Oh, no. I don't think the bat the flyer does not have a QR code. The banner that you all are working on has a QR code.

So it has a link then. Right?

It has a link.

Okay. That's

that's link on to the trailer.

That's what I remember. Okay. So, yes, you click on the link, and it'll take you to the YouTube trailer when you see bits and pieces.

Oh, and the oh, go ahead.

Gerald, did you want me to circulate the flyer? Is that what you're talking

about? Yes. Forward? Okay.

Yes, please.

So that is easy to pull up because it's on the Citi website. Okay. So it's already on we've started to promote it, and it's on the Citi website.

Thank you.

Thank you. The

the I thought you meant the banner. Oh. Purple banner.

No. I wanted to show the the flyer because that's what everybody one one machine coming up pretty soon. Will want them to actually Yes. Get up. Yeah.

Please come.

Please come. Please come. There you go. That's it right there.

Oh, cool.

Yeah. Share your screen. And if you hit the more with the three buttons up there, you can click on that, and it'll actually hide. You click and say hide the video panel and the floating controls. Hide the floating controls

as well. Wanna see the trailer? It's pretty cool.

Hide floating controls. Yep. Excellent. And now that's where the trailer is. Do we have time enough to see the trailer? You guys wanna see it?

That is so packed today.

Quick question. Question. Am I

sharing sound? Do we know if I'm sharing sound?

Should. Yeah. I think I'll

It should.

Seems there's a separate function for it.

Zoom, it it doesn't Zoom is automatic. Mhmm. It does that. Does it automatically? Yep.

Alright. Floating panel.

Sweet.

It did not push it through.

No.

You can

put subtitles on it at least.

You wanna read them for the read? No. I

feel like I put up subtitles and everything these days. Yeah.

Yeah. Try now.

This is impact.

There we go. Oops.

Yay. You're you're Implicit bias. Implicit bias. Implicit bias, which means unconscious bias.

What is unconscious bias? All of the horrible things that

we do to each other that we pretend we don't do.

I feel like everyone has the bias, you and I be taller. There are countless biases that affect all of us. I wanted to explore unconscious bias and how it relates to gender and race. Where does it come from? Where is its impact? And is there anything we can do to change it? We evolved over millions of years to have the kind of remedies that we have today to be suspicious of people who are different from us. We should ask ourselves, is that useful in the modern world? You as a neighbor on next door don't create one of these posts thinking I'm about to stereotype an entire race.

I would like to not have to scan my neighborhood for who's watching me and thinking I'm a threat.

Your data suggests a moderate automatic association for harmless objects with white Americans and weapons with black Americans.

Objective quantitative studies show that men and women both perceive women different and lesser.

The news about toxic culture, workplace is saturated with sexual harassment and pay inequality is relentless. I have this sense that if I fail, it'll

be like, well, you see, this is why we don't even ask

the women. When you're standing across the table from the people who are writing them checks telling you that you don't deserve this, that's hard because you're literally putting your body on the line. Bias at its core is survival heuristic. You can have that gut feeling. It just has to be based on something that actually matters. We tend to think about our own behavior as somehow more fair and free of lies than it is.

We're concerned about bias being introduced into AI. It's already there. It's we're the one teaching AI.

Trying to understand what is at the base of some of my perceptions and judgments. That's what led me on this journey.

It's great.

Yes. Mhmm. So encouraged to come out and check it out. I'm sure it will be a wonderful day. We're also supposed to be getting a panel together to have brief discussions afterwards about biased programs and things that we can do in our community to maybe change that. So that'll be good. Oh, and we will be serving food as well. Food's the biggest connoisseur most people say. Food. Okay. So we hope you will come down and join us. Hope you will enjoy it. What else do we have? We have the proclamation for the United Against Hate Week. We've fortunate enough that we have Diane able to spin one up so that we can get it in front of the mayor hopefully before.

Hopefully.

They did they did it.

They did it? You did it. You did it? Yeah. Yo. You robbed. Thank you. Good job. Thank you. I was wondering because I was like, wow. I had zero time to actually get through this. You for being there. Really, really appreciate it. So

Yep. Proclamation. It's gonna go to the, city council on

the twenty first. Think it has it's being reviewed to go to city council. Review. That's my understanding. Okay. I haven't heard anything yet. Okay. Cool.

So what is on what is on the proclamation? Would you like to read it? Or you can't.

You can't do that.

Okay. It's publicly available.

So I can't give it to the rest of the Oh.

Okay. That understands.

Let's just say it's a good proclamation that talks about the Almeda Unite Against Hate program and us being part of the national movement. So

It's related to the resolution.

Do you

think that?

It it does. It is. Yeah.

Yeah. And it should we should be able to it should

be posted publicly soon because we're actually late because it'll be for the October 21 city council meeting. It should be public soon if it is I don't think it's posted yet.

I think it was I was on on Zoom. From my can you just make sure I'm clear? The the resolution that we had that we all voted on was sort of was we we weren't able to progress that forward. And so this is the or am I I'm

They are

separate seen something?

They all do separate things. I I think one thing if you don't mind, leave. So, you know, proclamations can be for for lots of different things. It's usually just to celebrate something or to recognize, you know, something. There there's no legislative power, though. Like, he's not usually typically typically, like a mayor can have a proclamation. In some ways, being age friendly cities is kind of like a proclamation. But, no resolution is kind taking into the next step. It's like this, like, almost looks like a proclamation, but also resolutions are used to authorize expenditures and stuff too. Oh. And then there's the third thing, which is a council report. And that's when you actually explain everything you're going to do and what you plan to do in in great detail. And sometimes that includes direction for staff.

Like Thank you.

And the whole reason why I'm explaining this is because that was actually the nature of our conversation. So Oh, interesting. Telling you that.

You got it.

Oh, so I met with the city attorney and councilman rear Jensen about this. So something has happened between the last time we met this one. In fact, we kind of knew about it, but I don't know. It didn't really resonate to me till we were actually talking and saying, oh, yeah. That did happen. So there was the LGBTQ Yeah. Right, went to council. Right. So, you know, they did it in the form of a council report

Yeah.

Which was which was actually The

report that we which you previewed. Yep.

Yes. You're right. Which which was done through referral of a council member, Tony Daison. And it includes actually, like like, hard, real concrete things that they're actually directing staff to

do. Okay.

And I I know okay. So I know at one point, talked about, like, writing more more reports or work plan planning reports. It's not something we wanna, like, start do more of. Right? But this isn't the same thing as that either. So I just want you to hear me out here. This is this is actually going to that council level, which I think is what you want. You want it to be on record. It's something that's actually passed and voted for by council. It there's no there's no real money attached or anything, so it's not a resolution. It's a council report. So if you wanna use semantics, it is different.

Mhmm.

But the end result is council still votes on it. And the the good thing about this is that because I've I've read those in detail. I just I think I think it'd be a good idea, especially for both of you, to go online. And I think this is all public This is all public information. I can hand this over to you so you can find it easier. But there is a lot of teeth to it. This is moving things forward and not just generating another work plan. This is this is actually having city staff and directing city staff to do certain things to move things forward. So I just I would like you to consider that. Now council reports are a little more, like, drawn out and and more in dry than resolution.

Typically, what people put in them, that was historical information. Like like that paper that you actually shared with me, which was fantastic.

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm forgetting the name of it, Albedit, that I that about the history of Yeah.

The history of that.

Yeah. Yeah. And Albedit. Yeah.

The red blood.

Yeah. But so there's things like that. You can actually really suss out and draw out more if it's in the form of a report too and really actually explain what you're doing. What and I just I'm sorry. I'm kinda filibustering here a little bit, but just I was thinking of age friendly movement in Oakland, and we're using accounts reports, accounts reports, accounts reports, and eventually money came through. Okay. And that's when actually the resolution happened. It was all about the communication plans and having the my senior center communications for it. And that's where, like then money was attached and actually came into the the program.

Okay.

So there's this so we Yeah. Think moving in that way. Here, I just wanna I'm sorry. I I wrote the words proclamation resolution report on fair piece of notes that

Well, what's interesting to me sorry. What was that it was somewhat staff generated. Right? The LGBT community. I mean, then Tony I mean, did Tony did he

Staff didn't what you said? Tony didn't write it. That's what

you're asking. Exactly.

No. No. He but he

brought it.

Yeah. But he was willing to bring it.

He didn't bring it.

He flagged it as a priority at a city council meeting, and from then, staff generated it because it was brought up as a city council priority.

Can I just clarify for the council I'm understanding these? So we are concurrently proposing a proclamation, which the just the mayor would decide on or would counsel besides

specifically for the United Against Hate Weekly program.

Yes. That's that's just the mayor gets to decide yes or no, not city council.

Correct.

And that is just to celebrate the week. And then we had the

Resolution. Resolution

that would be something that we've already discussed and reviewed Yes. That then the city council would have to vote on, and it becomes in record. Right. But it does not set policy.

It doesn't move policy forward like a report would do. He's just directing staff.

Gotcha.

Okay. And then

Moneys could be transferred.

So the report is then maybe perhaps the next level.

So the resolution would be attached with money?

The No. The report would have to do. So res

The report from what he was saying has no money.

No. The other way

word, do you typically resolutions are are are typically resolutions can go I'm sorry. No. It's they can be they they go outside of this. Like, someone's gonna listen to and go, well,

they can be this

and this too.

But, typically, resolutions are one of few things that's authorizing the spending or use of money or allocating money we need sources specifically. Right. So they were gonna say a res after all this work we do, we do the passport. We do all this stuff, we figure out, oh my god. We need a risk and equity, the director here. I'm just saying this. Yes.

Right.

Yes. Right.

Okay. And then that would could be the council report would be authorizing that position to be created.

Yeah. Overreporting that. Right?

And you can also do the same thing. Let's say money came in. The resolution would be like, this authorizes the city administrator to set a contract with HUD to accept this money for housing. That's another way that

And that's our resolution not

to work. That's the resolution too. You that's a company buyer report, though. Right? You have to have the resolution to authorize it. So you have these these things get used in combination with each other a lot of times. But reports so which with Age Friendly, the great thing was whenever we did the reports, things were always being added every time we had a new report because it would be requests. There would be some requests to do certain things. Right? So specific things.

And then, like, our road home, was that or that was a report. Right?

It was the report, and it was reviewed and accepted.

But it wasn't a resolution or anything?

No. No.

No. And the resolution that this committee was putting forward did not have money tied to it either. Yes. It's more directives for staff. Gotcha. Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you for clarifying.

And it's spelled what I'm saying is if you can beat it, but it's it's like a here as kind of thing, right, where where a council report can act it's like a regular post report. You can actually detail things in, you know, great detail what we want people to do and how you want them to do it, you know, methodology and all that kind of stuff. You can also you also I don't know. I haven't looked very, very closely at the format, but usually, there's a section where we talk about history and bringing that kind of stuff too. So you can really have an impact, like, on that on that kind of document.

Thank you.

Thank you. I will definitely take a read on you. I just took pictures because it's so tiny. I won't wanna try and burn my animals out.

If you wanna, can. Just say if you wanna, like, find online and and download some of the other documents, I could

get out

of there. Yeah. I just I just think it's really important that we move forward forward, and we don't do something just symbolic, and it dies there too. So that that's why that that was I was really hopeful. If you want to request her what's the term he used on there? If you want, we wanna request

Insomnation?

No. We wanna request her to be the not the author. The Sponsor. Sponsor. I I think I can't remember if they told me that it hadn't come from staff. Or

Oh, I don't know. You mean for a report?

We because we wanna re if we we wanted her to sponsor this.

Yeah.

We wanna make a request for her to sponsor it. So

It could probably come from either. I mean, your board members, city appointed.

So we could bring it to somebody on the city council and ask them.

If they would sponsor it. Would sponsor it. And I'm just you can go by someone else, but Trace has said she would.

Okay. About sponsoring a work plan,

not Yes. The work work plan. She's definitely on board for the work plan and and following on the work plan and making sure the work moves forward on the work plan

is is what came in

that meeting. So I just Thank you. Consider all that. Yeah.

Okay. Then we'll keep that one in. And I don't know that we have much else. I you had a bunch of meetings that we did in between that were about program itself and getting the different things set up for the program, but most of that was based around that, and the proclamation was also part of it. So that we did a lot for the last month. Guys did a lot for the last month. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

We're

excited for the movie.

Me too.

Yeah. That's what I'm asking.

We have two medical students that we're talking to to be on the panel and to facilitate.

Okay. And I have not heard back from Rashid. I checked again. I left him a message just to give few words.

Likewise. Yep. But I don't big pill because I don't think people are gonna screw me.

I think well, the two youth, one would be helping facilitate when we'd be on the panel. So, I mean, if you got, like, two more for the panel, that should be enough. You know?

Yeah.

I have some question about, like, what's the recommended age for that audience? Are we, like, junior high, high school people? Like

Seven. Seven. I

did actually start watching parts of the movie. And based on the content, I would say maybe at least middle school, but high school. There was not a rating

on the documentary.

One rating. Yeah.

Yeah. But we'll we'll have to discuss that. To understand. Yeah. And to understand it in general.

He's curious. And I believe that's everything we have for Ari. Did you have anything you wanted to No.

That was it. But we we wanna send it out so people can help us promote it. Would be great.

Yeah. And that was my follow-up question coming in because we won't meet prior to the hate. But I don't mean it against hate. Was about to say The

hate week.

I was like, no. No. No.

No. No.

What can we do to support you besides, like, what because I know this is kind of your big your big crunch line. How can we support you guys?

Get the word out to as many people as you know if they're groups and

friends, family.

Yeah. A whole lot. Don't post it on social media. If you have social media, let people know that this is what we're doing so that they can come out and see it. That's gotta be the best support. Yeah. It's more people that actually realize what biases are and how those unconscious biases specifically affect things around us, the better we have an opportunity to have more listening from community at large.

Do we have ability to post it? I feel like the library there at the, like, the book drop off section, there's, like, upcoming events little thing. Oh, yeah. But the You know, there's, like, the fire right there. I know most of it is library events.

Oh, we definitely can put city we can put cities with flyer.

Yeah. But I could I feel like that's a pretty visible place.

Yeah. It's ironic you mentioned that because we were so focused on spreading the word virtually. Because I think last time, the emphasis has been on paper flyers, and that hasn't been as successful.

But we can do we should do both.

Just I mean, I feel like there, I see things that like, I I just feel like people do look at that place.

Or massive. We just find that people really do look at. Yeah.

That's that's that'd

be a great place to put

them too. Yeah. Do

we know that there

are generally tabs anymore in the United against hate, weak flyer

or posters?

You know, I never heard back from the communications director, so I'm assuming she doesn't have any. But I can follow-up about that.

Would you?

That Yes.

Absolutely.

Because we would still like to get them out to the community, if you guys want them. Yeah. I'm trying to walk by my favorite places. I've seen that they still have them up, so I'd like to I'm gonna keep that number at best.

Can you leave the post so that we can help with the distribution? Yes. Like, last year, we walked into the parking

The posters or the flyers? Both. Both. Yeah. Okay. We can plan a day for the next couple weeks to do that. I have to we def flyers are easy. I need to figure out what's going on with posters. Okay.

Yeah. But I think those those the vast library and feel like those are easy ones. And also Bay Farm like, those that other one, Bay Farm too. Okay.

Library. And the businesses Over in Bay Farm?

Yeah. There's a library there.

Yeah. On

the West Side. And then we also have banners

that are gonna be made,

and that'll be hanging in the playgrounds. I don't know how many playgrounds.

So we received approval for them to hang at city halls. So Cool. Just at city hall? We can do we can do all of

them if you

want, but we have to hang them ourselves.

So there's a lot

of places.

Gotta hang them out.

But we can do it. We can we can plan on getting volunteers maybe. But, yeah, we can do multiple places. I just know the priority is city halls. Yeah. That's what we got approval for.

And

it's really pretty.

Yeah. Shelby did a great job. Yeah.

Really, really.

It's loud in here. Both the balconies.

That's I didn't know that's why you asked for that. How

did It we was actually on their, United Against Hate Week color Yeah.

So with the branding guy.

It just was fortunate for the Val. Yes. And it was.

Made it further in the playoffs.

So yes. So that was our report. I guess that was everything. I wanted to make sure I got that last bit in there.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

Alright. Verdi, Mine

won't be nearly as long. We're waiting for November for the updated task force meeting to get direction on where to go, And, basically, that's what we're doing.

Do you

wanna talk about your project?

Oh, and and asked me to consult with her on a domestic violence awareness video that she is making with Building Futures and Elmington Family Services. And we think it's something to hear from Sarah Henry and live synchronous Zoom call. Thanks. It was actually good to know that we make sure that we're what we're doing and she's doing is very coordinated.

Yeah. That's Very.

Roanoke? We

have some dates. I that we're doing presentations. I'm just trying to remember. Was it October 8. Eighth. Right? Mhmm. Is is that the school one?

That's PTAT. Mhmm.

Yeah.

So October 8, we're gonna get the PTAT, which is the all the PTA questions for each of the schools with the idea of rather than doing, like,

a ride home show like we have

been doing, that this will be more focused on what services are available and specific to students and families and schools. Mhmm. And then there'll be some representatives from community organizations in the city and SHRUB members to kind of talk about what's out there with the hope of getting the PTA residents more aware services for schools

Right.

And helping them to actually have their faces and connections to the folks that are serving families. And then we're hoping that the McKinney Vento coordinator from the USD will also be there so that they have the connection to school, city, community Perfect. All of them together. Yeah. So it'll be very different from what we've previously been doing, but the idea is still around communications and services.

That's that's very

good. Yeah. So that's the option of late meeting.

Yeah. And then Agent.

We have wait. Don't we have a sec one? No. We don't have a this one we don't want the libraries for

I think we passed the library.

Oh, we did?

Okay. Right.

It's not.

So we have an aged friend by the library. Yeah. There we go. So It

was like a yes. We're doing I was confused about

your question. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Before we do

aged friend, can I say about the volunteer thing?

Yeah. Yeah.

The other exciting, exciting thing is we're doing the Shrub Alameda volunteer of the year award, which we will hopefully have both a youth and a adult category, and we're trying to push out the nomination process. So we have a survey, and we will celebrate the volunteer of the year award in on our December meeting. I guess the question is, are we gonna vote is that gonna be agenda item in October for people to to should we select it at the meeting?

Or That's probably a good idea. So I will not be here at that meeting. I'll be out of town. But oh, wait. Yes. I will because we changed it.

We changed it.

I would recommend that you as a committee, like, select similar to how you do with, like, the CDBG awards. Like, make recommendations to the committee, and then you all can vote. And then you would have award them in December.

So I think that

In previous

years, I think all members reviewed anomalies.

It's up to you. You can do that too.

The folks are interested.

Incredible. Volunteers from different organizations?

Any any Alamedan that is involved. So

And so who would they be who would who would nominate them? It's a question I have.

Anyone. So you could you could nominate your you you have to disclose your relationship to that person. But if you wanted to nominate your partner, you could, you know, or, like, if you thought they would it it's more about highlighting someone who's food giving back in the community.

I mean, my question pertains to folks over at the USS Hornet because there's a whole there's almost 400 volunteers over there that he even hear at the Hornet. So there's a lot of volunteering over there. A lot volunteers. And there is a very small staff, very small staff. Yeah. And would they be somebody that So send me some information because I know all the

We just have a survey.

So it's just anyone me the

Yeah. We got the Yeah.

Because we're gonna list somehow. We we knew where all the agencies where we could send this to.

Only on. God. Well, we can do the volunteers. Yeah. But but,

you know, we also also, you know you know that that volunteer list is now we can also list on the post.

Oh, cool.

So I if if we wanna ask them, I know Adam would actually help us out with this. If you want yeah. If you wanna give me materials, I'll share everything and ask them if you can publish it.

We should do that. Tier people.

So We do. In in the questionnaire, it does say, like

you want them to have up there, just forward it to me.

It's an application. Like, okay. Ask for their name, but, like Well,

I just the link, and I'll

be able

thing. I So I was gonna develop that criteria. Based on if we depending on how, like, many applicants we got, if we needed to have, like, a a scale that we were evaluating. I I was going to create that based on the volume. Okay. If it because if there's three, maybe it will be very easy for us. If there was 50, then I feel like we would need the scale. So I was Yeah.

Gonna wait. Yeah. A whole lot of volunteers out there.

Yeah. But I I think it's just volunteering, and I don't think it's necessarily I mean, the hornet is is just as honorable, wonderful volunteer versus the midway shelter or the pooping. It's just about volunteering.

Right.

We're not necessarily putting a weight to the type of problem.

So in that case,

would it

be the Hornet as the outcome? No.

Would be an individual. Now But

if president or the c CEO of the Hornet, she could put in a recommendation or any of the other people who are actually

Another volunteer. Yeah. Like, what this person does. Right now. Yeah. Yeah.

She's so

But it's it's just more of giving back to Alameda, you know, the point and not necessarily the The yeah. Whatever thing is your thing, we wanna celebrate that and that giving back.

There there's a whole and, again, I bring up the Hornet only because so much of the city goes through the Hornet on any given day. Like, today, they had, what was it? They had the report for Alameda for the Chamber of Commerce. So the all the Chamber of Commerce people were over there at the Hornet today and dressed finely. And all the major business people from all the big and small businesses as well as the mayor and the fire department and the chief of police, all these folks were right there and and participating. So a lot of work in there.

Yeah. And the radio society, they're also

They're right there as well.

Great places people that really give their time to organizations that they're passionate about that benefit our community, so it's exciting.

Okay. Send me that link. Just just send me that link, and I will attach that link.

Put it so I will just we can I will put it as the I was gonna do it on peeps, but Mhmm? We'll post

Do that. Write up.

If I may, I would say that maybe there should be some sort of tie to your mission as a board or, like, your purpose as a board. So the hornet, it could be related to, like, human relations. Right? But there should be, like, a tie to it. There is a question

of that in the nomination.

Okay. Right. I believe so.

We have a have a tie too.

That's fun. Send that link. Okay. That's a good thing. Thank

you. Mhmm. Absolutely.

Put that in. Yes. The but I think we but I think what we were this emphasis, and I I'm saying this as an individual, not as our group, is that we really wanted to celebrate the human relations aspect of it rather than necessarily the social service. So it's the connectivity, the the giving back that I really want to highlight than necessarily the specific mission in our kind of social services lens. Is that I that's I mean, it's individual. Just I don't know if all speaks to the

Yeah. And I

think that's why we kept it pretty open.

Yes. I like the volunteer list. I like the new the post, I think. Social media. Yeah. Any way we can get that? Excellent. You have another thing.

Oh, yes. It's November 5. We're doing another community listening session at the library this time. And there's a couple of groups that I really wanna get to the table that I'm getting some help from people in the community to get to the table. As much as, you know, Mass, it's interesting in Alameda. I'm learning some things by doing this. As much as Alameda has, like, one senior center. Right? So everyone goes to Mastic. Right?

But that's not actually the truth. The Mastic is very much like it is in in Oakland or other places where it's a clubhouse, and a specific group of people start going there. And there are groups of seniors who will never go there because they don't feel like that's their club. And so in some ways, having it so I don't regret having one at MassDick. Think it's important.

It is a bedrock here. It's where senior, you know, senior programs happen. But having a neutral location like the library and getting people who are involved in, like, Meals on Wheels programs as volunteers, people who are volunteers in the library and other places in that mutual location, I think we'll get a better we'll we'll see what happens in reality, but I think we'll get a little bit better participation from a wider group of people this way. That's what I'm hoping for. One interesting thing, though, because as you're doing this, you you connect with people, right, and and with age friendly and the domains.

And one of the groups I connected with was the Timber Commerce. And one thing I had a meeting with them, and they knew all this stuff about villages, which I didn't know I didn't know generally was really known very much in our

Ashby Village.

Exactly that. So villages take a certain type of demographic to be a bedrock, and it never quite worked out in Oakland. So they ended up jumping into Ashby Village, actually. I love people from that. But, basically, what it is I don't wanna do a huge education on this subject, but just in a nutshell, imagine a nonhousing coop. Everyone is housed, but now we have to buy goods and services. Some of us live in nice houses that are cash poor, maybe have some disabilities. Others may be very able. Maybe you're renting, but have some extra money or whatever. There's always differences, right, with seniors.

So everyone has a buy in. And so with that money that they're co oping, they buy in services that all of the group wants. Like, you buy in buying points into the group. But if you're, like, really able and not a lot of money, you you can move some mods or cook someone dinner or something. And so it's kind of like a a a point system where people are co hopping their resources together. It's been

a So this now.

And it exists in, Ashby Village. It has one. They started with 30 people. They have they have, yeah, they have 450 people now. They had a fairly high buy in at first, but they've never risen the buy in in in fifteen years.

What they've done instead, though, is they've created these tiers where, like, people at the lowest tier the lowest tier buy in is $10 a month, and it's sliding scale. It's up to 750 a year. Anyway, I'm I I actually met with the person who's the head of the earlier today, and I actually was just start doing things in the background and figure out if this is something that's possible. You have to have a group of seniors that have some some financial ability to join and to start with. That's your bedrock. You need a few homeowners who are maybe fragile or missing something in their lives. That will actually coalesce people together.

That's okay.

So it's a really interesting concept. I think it's great that the chamber of congress is interested because if you wanna do a real, like, equity approach on this, what you do is try to get the local business so there's a seed money in it so that it wouldn't require buying to start with. And once it gets rolling, you find ways of keeping people in without an interfinancial burden.

Or

That would be my goal. So

Or local businesses, which you are providing the services, I give a discount in so that then you have a

a It's cycle.

Like, a subscription to the services to help local businesses.

They keep seniors independent in their own home and ability to purchase those goods and services. Yeah. That's yes. It's really good for business too. They they probably see that, and that's why they like it.

That's so good.

Yeah. It's very good.

Thank you.

I just need some stuff

and acknowledge how excited you are about this. I'm really you're it's it's yeah. It's dangerous.

Yes. Thank you. It was exciting. So, I guess that's it. We have, staff communication presiding in five, six month status report in the city of Elkhorn's Housing and Human Services.

Thank you. So I realized you do have

a presentation today, and that's by me. We have our six month report that I wanted to do last month, but that's when we had all our guest speakers. So I'll be doing it today. And here it is. I'm going to share screen.

K. A little trick

that my friend taught me.

Okay. Great. So as mentioned, this is the status report on housing and human services in the city of Alameda for you all, the social service human relations board during your September meeting. Okay. So some background.

You all are familiar that in 2021, the Road Home five year strategic plan was passed and accepted by city council. This then provided a directive to staff to fulfill the strategies and goals laid out within this, strategic plan. We are now getting to the tail end of the strategic plan, and we'll be starting a planning process for the next one, hopefully, in the end of year, getting there beginning of the next year. So we did have a progress report completed last year. Here outlined are the three goals of the original road home plan.

So goal one, secure housing future. Goal two, increase access to homeless emergency response services. And goal three, mobilize citywide response homelessness. So when we did our evaluation of how our an assessment or evaluation of the progress that we've made. As of 2024, we found that we had made progress in almost every goal and strategy.

This progress report is, available online. K. So the housing side of housing and human services typically relate is related to our below market rate homeownership homeownership and rental housing programs. And I have a couple you all have the detailed staff report, that's available online publicly as well. But a couple of highlights.

This is from January through June year. In May, a lottery was held for six moderate income below market rate units, at Alameda Landing's Bay 37 development. And since then, there has been we have conditionally approved buyers for all six moderate income BMRs. The homeownership waitlist remain open. And based on construction timelines that we as a city have received in the next six to eight months, the city anticipates offering newly constructed below market rate homes for sale at about four properties.

For the pro housing incentive, you all may remember recall that Alameda has been designated as a pro housing city because of the policies that we've adopted, and we have received a conditional commitment of funding that is tied to that designation of $1,000,000.

Right.

So here is a long list of the many wonderful programs we have related to services and shelter for the unhoused. I'll give you all some highlights. So we had our prevention program, which we were able to provide funds to hire an additional part time case manage case manager or engagement specialist, and we also use that funding for aftercare services at Dignity Village. In addition, we did create a booklet, which we're calling a a resources list. It's pretty comprehensive.

It's available online. We have it in our office, and it's, like, I don't know, five page. It's like a booklet of different resources that are related to the prevention of homelessness. So it's legal aid, workforce, affordable housing leads, and things like that. So that was a big thing that we were proud to complete in the first six months.

We continue to have our flexible funding program, our housing and human services outreach team. So we the division welcomed Camille Rodriguez. She is managing the unhoused services and programs for the city, and we also welcomed Annie Flores, our engagement specialist. We did receive during this period, we received approval from city council to bring our outreach team in house, and I'll be able to provide an update for how that's going at the next six months staff report. For library support, our engagement specialist provides, support at the library two days per week on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

What is great about her being able to go to the library on Saturdays is that she's able to, connect with more families and children during that time. For our emergency supportive housing, from January to June, the houses served 25 clients and 17 households. For Dignity Village, since opening, they have served a 113 unduplicated individuals and moved 32 individuals into permanent housing. The warming shelter, closed in March, the March, and on average, they served about 15 people per night. They have 25 beds.

Yeah. And during that, when what am I trying to say? The winter warming shelter also offer case management, so building features would come in and do housing assessments as well. Alrighty. Shower and laundry continues to be offered weekly by We Hope at the Village of Love, and Christ Episcopal Church also offers their shower program on a weekly basis and twice during the winter warming sheltered months. This is a picture of a client that, was working with our division for years, and one of our case managers was able to break through to her, and she's now housed.

Small steps.

Yep. Okay. So goal three, mobilize citywide response to homelessness. We always have a mention of how, like, the existence of our division and what we do is pretty much related to mobilizing citywide response because we work with other departments and social service providers. And our mission as a division is to facilitate affordable housing and support residents who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

The collaborative process aspect, we continue to have two to support two recurring social service provider meeting spaces, which is coordinated outreach team, and the CARES team, which is the collaboration for advancing resource efforts and supports for Alameda's homeless. This is a few of us doing a site visit from the CARES team. You might recognize a couple of us.

The tall, handsome fellow.

Or you have the white beard.

Yeah. And then the community development block grant social service awards that you all participated in the review of those applications earlier this year. The request for proposals went out on January 16, and final recommendations were presented to city council at the May 6, public hearing or city council meeting. And the recommendations were approved by council, for funding for two consecutive years. Staff recommended based on your your all's recommendation, to fund the top five applicants for this funding cycle.

And next time, you all will hear updates from July through December. I am really gonna try to do it in January. And that will be the final phase of our current strategic plan.

So we'll be ramping up for the next

year? Yeah.

That's right. That's right. And my recommendation or staff recommendation is to accept the status report on housing and human services in the city of Alameda.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Takes a long time to get these things moving. Nonsense. Yeah. And it definitely has lots of wheels moving, so I understand.

Alright. Have, I six is for floor communications, non agenda. And I I have one thing I wanna bring up, and that's I I'm going to send the mayor an email about this vacancy that we have.

Yeah. But please We

really need it filled. Especially now, you know, I brought each of these, like, extra work item, and here's and and Ben Verde is, like, working on his own, basically, on this. So We're really Thank you. If anyone has any thoughts about what any kind of other thing they're gonna add to the request, I just I have a little odd thing I'm gonna put in the request, and that's that we're missing. I'm really into the generational things. We're we're we don't have any representation of Gen X at all on this on this. So I was just gonna see if there's someone who, at this point, would be between 40 and 55.

That's Gen X.

That's Gen X. We have no gen we have no representation. That's right. What?

How about yogurt?

No. You Are you really? Yes.

There's no options. They're certified.

Okay. I'm not asking.

I thought well, I I I actually thought you were in your mid thirties. I apologize for thinking you're much younger than

Because it goes to nineteen eighty two.

Okay. Well, actually, it's close enough. Then that's that's good to I thought you were younger. I thought we didn't have any of that age group, so I hope the better there. That's splitting hair that we'll do most. But but yeah. But that's really yeah. I'm sorry, babe. It's gonna be

Get the angels and put up the money

in there.

Yeah. Aw.

Yeah. So now we have that. I thought you were. I thought you were.

I think Gen Gen

That would be a suggestion.

That would I I I will say one of the things that I feel challenged as this this committee, as someone who, like, works full time, I find this I feel like I can't contribute as much as I can because just the meetings are during the day. If you're working, I I feel bad in my ability to contribute because a lot of our meetings are during the daytime. And if you're working and don't have that flexibility, that can be challenging.

Yeah. But we

need we need somebody who's part of the community and and maybe even I I mean, Gen Z is one thing, but being on the ground, somebody who's not necessarily in the

Yeah. There are people who are working on your voters.

Right. That's your

that's your Right. You

are. Right.

Right. For Becker. Yeah.

I I think that's that would be a real

No. I'm not saying I just I I I feel bad. It's more of my own a safe state of

my own guilt.

No. I hear you. That that's because you're a person of integrity, but I think you do great. No. I'm serious. I'm do a great job here, so don't don't feel bad about

that. And yeah.

But if there's any other type of, you know, diversity or anything they request or any focus or anything anyone wants me to add, let me know. But I do intend to ask. Rest of these.

Get a new board member. Yeah. You need a board member.

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