Are we live?

Yeah.

About to be.

We are live, yes.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Good.

Um sorry, Scott.

I was trying to go live on the.

Do we have to push shout out to the meeting?

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

So, we'll just we'll move on.

Yeah.

Just let me know uh.

I'm not gonna do that.

It's okay.

We'll still have the recording and I'll have to ask the city clerk about that.

Okay.

Oh, we're on.

Okay.

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Um Bernie Wolf here.

Diana Michaelomi.

Gerald Brineff here.

Samantha Green and Scott Mees here.

And from the Housing and Human Services Division, we have Gracia Manna Ayon, program manager, and Shelby Neal, administrative specialist.

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Do we have any speakers, guys?

Yeah.

We did not have any public comment.

We're good.

Um we can move on then to item number three, which is the review and approval of the minutes for August 22nd, 2025.

Um, this broke the motion.

I second.

Um second by Michelle.

Um, we're all here, so all is in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

None opposed.

Um, all right, item number four.

Um, we're gonna be um now voting um on upcoming meeting changes, and um Gresham will be the one who's presenting this to us.

Thank you, President Means.

I did want to 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 want to 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 one that you all combine due to the holidays, and the other um 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.

Uh your October meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 23rd.

This is during United Against Hate Week.

Um, and the UAH AUAH committee will be holding a film screening that evening.

Um, 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 some minute.

Check the calendars.

You do we then vote on that?

Yeah, so we'll vote one by one, like over the minutes.

Yeah, does somebody want to make a motion?

I motion to approve the new date.

I'll check it.

All right, all those there, aye.

Any opposed?

No, folks.

United C passes.

Okay, 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 beginning of December.

Um I think I said that funny, but it uh you all would I we are proposing that you have your November December meeting on Thursday, December 4th.

Same time, same place.

No, because November December for the holidays you all usually combine into one meeting, right?

We do that.

And that's why Thursday is Thanksgiving, right?

Yeah, okay.

So December 4th.

So we know November meeting and no well, no regular December.

Yeah, same.

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 volunteer award ceremony, and I think do we want to make sure there's no other uh other community events on that date.

Oh it's on a Thursday.

When do you mean like holiday stuff?

I just I'm thinking of other events.

I know that they do the idea somewhere.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying of 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 only think 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 social the 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 tops up and then we can reconsider.

I feel like the like winter concerts and stuff like that or things are later a little bit later.

So at least we're kind of above.

Yeah, it's yeah, I motion to approve.

Oh, second.

Oh, but before we go to the vote, there was want to make sure because it's not it's on here.

Was there any comment from the community about the change?

I just want to make sure someone doesn't come back later and say you never offered an opportunity for them to meet this.

So no, we have no public comment on this item.

Great, great.

So make sure you cross our TC.

Um, excellent, everyone.

Um, then we have a second, so we can we can go ahead and vote.

No other comments for the board.

Um is in favor?

I opposed.

Uh post-yeah, she passes.

All right.

Good job, everyone.

Um wow, we're really flying through that.

Last meeting was pretty robust.

Yeah, I asked people to do their presentations during this meeting, but everybody wanted August.

Yeah.

September got left a little thin.

Um that's okay.

I think we will have a robust conversation about at least one of the the um work groups, I predict.

Yeah, so uh this item is for board discussion only.

There's no staff presentation, so we'll go directly.

Oh, let's go directly to public comments.

Any public comments on this?

What if I yeah, master what item?

I do have a presentation about it and understand the medications.

It's the six month reward.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, well, hold on.

Okay, okay.

All right, uh no public comment for this item.

Great.

Does any of the work groups want to present first?

Yeah, I mean we can okay.

Uh it's we bane.

Okay, copies of we don't.

I'm not sure.

I don't think they have yet, but okay, so a couple of things on the list.

Um so Scott was kind enough to reach out to uh 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 1st or October 6th.

I don't know if we got a response back on that one yet.

For what I'm sorry, um this was the uh United Against Hate work group meeting to discuss the draft of the race equity.

Oh, you mean meeting with her?

Yes.

Yeah, no, I haven't got a response back.

Sorry.

Okay, that was that was the first one.

And it's because I did I did meet with Tracy and the city attorney.

Okay, and so I I was going to bring bring it up as part of the discussion here.

Okay, and then I'll let you decide how you want to proceed 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 League program, which will be coming up on Gorge.

October 23rd, 6 p.m.

It'll be taking place here at City Hall Chambers in honor of our United Against Hate week this year.

We're not going to do a poetry slam.

We're gonna go with the movie.

The name of the movie is biased.

It talks about biases in general and how they affect people's lives around the country and around the world.

And 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 yourself.

Matter of fact, I think we had the document.

I was going to have to look now, but we had a document that was the picture for our.

I guess I didn't know.

Yeah, with the banner that actually showed the show it on the screen.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering.

Do you guys have uh the man?

The banner design.

We had that, and uh, it essentially has um a QR code and I'm not logged into it.

Oh yeah, we did tell you.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that's it.

So we should send it to we have, yeah, we should.

We've got um 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 is also I think it's a QR code on there, right?

Yeah, and a QR code is on there as well, so you'll 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 documentum or sorry?

Qui put on the flyer or the banner?

On the flyer.

Oh no, I don't think the banner 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 a link on to the trailer.

That's what I already have.

Okay, so yes, you can click on the link and I'll take you to the YouTube trailer when you see bits and pieces.

Oh, and uh, go ahead.

Gerald, did you want me to circulate the flyer?

Is that what you're talking about?

Okay.

So that is easy to pull up.

That's on the city website.

Okay.

So it's already on we've started to promote it, and that's on the city website.

Thank you.

I thought you meant the banner, the purple banner.

No, I wanted to show the flyer because that's what everybody could do.

Well, we see coming up pretty soon here.

Yes.

Yes.

Please come, please.

There you go.

That's it right there.

Oh cool.

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 a floating controls.

Hide the flowing controls if you want.

Pretty cool.

Hide flow controls.

Excellent.

And now that's where the trailer is.

Do we have time enough to see the trailer?

You guys want to see it?

That is so path today.

Uh quick question.

Am I sharing sound?

Do we know what I'm saying?

It should.

Yeah, I think it should.

Because there's a separate function for it.

So it doesn't do the automatic.

It does that.

It does it automatically.

Okay.

I'd flowing panel.

Sweet.

Hmm.

And it did not push it through.

I can put subtitles on at least.

You want to read the trailer.

I feel like I put out subtitles and everything these days.

Yeah.

Yeah, try to.

Because it's in that.

There we go.

Yay.

You're in the explicit bias.

Implicit bias.

Implicit bias, which means unconscious bias.

What is unconscious bias?

All of the horrible things that we gave to each other and that we remain what you don't do.

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?

What is its impact?

And is there anything we can do to change it?

We evolved over millions of years to have the kind of ready 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 uh have to scan my neighborhood for who's watching me and thinking I'm a threat.

It does suggest 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, workplaces saturated with sexual harassment and pay inequality is really lentless.

I have this sense that if I fail, it'll be like while you see it.

When you're standing across the table from the people who are writing your checks, telling you that you don't deserve this.

That's hard because you're literally putting your body on the line.

You can have that thought feeling.

It just has to be based on something that actually matters.

Where we tend to think about our phone behavior as somehow more fair and free of bias than it is.

We're concerned about bias being introduced into AI, it's already there.

It's really one teaching AI.

Trying to understand what is the base of some of my perceptions and judgments.

That's what led me on this journey.

It's great.

Yes.

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 convincer most people think.

Okay.

So we hope you will come down and join us.

Um hope you will enjoy it.

Um what else do we have?

We have the proclamation for the United Against Hate Week.

We've fortunate enough to we had Diane able to spin one up so that we can get it in front of the mayor, hopefully before.

They did it.

They did it.

You done it right.

You did it.

No, you rob.

Thank you.

Good job.

Thank you.

I was wondering because I was like, wow, I had zero time to actually get through this.

Thank you for being there.

Really, really appreciate it.

So you have a proclamation that's gonna go to the uh city council on the 21st.

And then it has it's being reviewed to go to city council.

That's my understanding.

So I haven't heard anything yet.

Okay.

So what is the what is on the proclamation?

Would you like to read it?

Are we we can't?

You can't do that, but okay.

It's not publicly available.

So I can't give to the rest of the public.

Okay, okay.

Let's just say it's a good proclamation that talks about the out we the unite against eight program and us being part of the national movement.

So it's related to the resolution.

Yeah, it it does it is.

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 21st city council meeting.

So it should be public soon.

If it is, I don't think it's posted yet.

I think it was I was on Zoom.

I mean it's I from my can you just make sure I'm clear?

The resolution that we had that we all voted on was sort of uh was we we weren't able to progress that forward, and so this is the or am I I'm they are separate, but I'll do separate things.

I think I think one thing that if you don't mind, leave.

So you know, proclamations can be for lots of different things, usually this is to celebrate something or to recognize you know something.

There's no legislative power, though, because it's not usually typically like a mayor can have a broad proclamation in some ways being age-friendly cities was kind of like a proclamation, but um no resolution is kind of taking it the next step.

It's like this like almost looks like a proclamation, but also resolutions are used to authorize expenditures and stuff too.

Uh 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 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, thank you for that.

So I met with the city attorney and council member Jensen about this.

Um something has happened between the last time we met and this one.

In fact, we kind of knew about it, but I don't know, it didn't really resonate to me until we were actually talking and saying, Oh yeah, that did happen.

So there was the LGBTQ.

Yeah, right, went to the council.

Right.

So you know they did it in the form of a council report.

Yeah.

Which was which was actually um the report that we see previewed.

Yes.

You're right, which which was done through referral of a council member, Tony Days on.

And it includes actually 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 we talked about like writing more reports or work print writing reports, it's is not something we want to like start doing 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 want to use semantics, it is different.

But the end result is council still votes on it and the good thing about this is that because I I've read theirs in detail I just I think I think it'd be a good idea especially for both of you to go online and uh I can this is all public this is all public information I can hands 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 would like you to consider that you know council reports are a little more like drawn out and and boring dry than resolution typically what people put in them though is historical information like like that paper that you actually shared me which was fantastic yeah um yeah I'm forgetting the name of it now but it but I that about the history of it's a history yeah yeah and I'll need it yeah that's yeah but so there's things like that you can actually really suss out and draw more if it's in the form of a report too and really actually explain what you're doing.

When up and I just I'm sorry I'm kind of filibustering here a little bit but just I was thinking of age friendly movement in Oakland and we were using council reports council reports council reports and eventually money came through.

And that's when actually the resolution happened was all about the communication plans and having the my senior center in communications for and that's where like then money was attached and actually came into the the program okay so there's this so we can keep things moving in that way here I just want to I'm sorry I I wrote the words proclamation resolution report up here because of notes but so well it's interesting to me what was the it was somewhat staff generated right the LGBT meeting I mean then Tony oh we did something did he staff didn't we're saying Tony didn't write it that's what you're exactly no no he but he brought it yeah but he was willing to bring you and the set priority at a city council meeting and from that and it staff generated it because it was brought up as a city council priority.

Can I just clarify I'm understanding these so we are concurrently proposing a proclamation which that just the mayor would decide on or would council specifically for the united against hate weekly program.

Yes so that's the mayor gets to decide yet yes or no not city council correct and that is just a salary week and then we had the resolution resolution that would be something that we've already discussed and reviewed 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 or like a report would do because it's directing staff.

Gotcha okay and then money could be transferred to so the report is then maybe perhaps the next level so the resolution would be attached with money that no the report would have to do so the report from what he was saying has no money.

No you typically wrote resolutions are are typically res resolutions can go I'm sorry no but they can be there they go outside this like someone's gonna listen to go well they can be this and this too but typically resolution are one of two things that's authorizing the spending or use of money or allocating money we need sources specifically right so if they were going to say a res after all this work we do we do pass report we do all the stuff we figure out oh my god we need a race and equity director here I'm just saying this right okay and then that would could be the council report would be authorizing that position to be created to that yeah important right there's more and you can also do the same thing let's say money came in the resolution would be like this authorizes city administrator to set a contract with HUD to accept this money for housing that's another way that we and that's not resolution house to work.

That's a resolution too.

You just accompanied by a company buyer report though, right?

You have to have a resolution to authorize that.

So you have these, these things get used in combination with each other a lot of times.

But reports so it which was 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.

When it was reviewed and accepted, but it wasn't a resolution or no, no, no.

And the resolution that this committee was putting forward did not have money tied to it either.

It was more directives for staff.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you for clarifying that.

And still 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 actually is like a writing folks 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.

Um you can 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 really have an impact like on that other kind of document.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm definitely taking a read only.

I just took pictures because it's so tiny, I won't want to try and uh burn my document.

Yeah, if you want to hold up, yeah.

So if you want to like find online and download some of the other documents, I can get out of there.

Yeah, uh I just I just think it's really important that we move forward forward and we don't do something that's just symbolic and it dies there too.

So that's why I thought was that was really helpful.

If you want to request her, what's the term he is on there?

Um if you want, we want to request.

No, we want to request her to be the not the author, the sponsor.

I think I can't remember if they told me that had to come from staff or I don't know.

You mean for a report?

We because we would want to request if we could want her to sponsor this.

Yes, we want to make a request for her to sponsor it.

So um could probably come from either.

I mean, your board members city appointed.

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

If they were sponsored, we would sponsor it.

And I'm just you can always find someone else, but Trace has said she was.

But you're talking about sponsoring a work plan, not working.

She's definitely on board for sponsoring the work plan and following on the work plan and making sure the work moves forward on the work file as what came in that meeting.

So I just think consider all that.

Yeah.

Okay, then we'll keep that one in.

And I don't know that we have much else.

Like we had a bunch of meetings that we did in between that were about the 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.

You guys did a lot for that as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Excited for the movie.

Me too.

Yeah, that's fine.

We have two high school students that we're talking to to be on the panel on the facility.

Okay, and I have not heard back from Rashid.

I checked again, I left him a message to the P.

Likewise.

Yeah.

But I don't want to think panel, because I don't think people are going to stick around.

I think well, the two youth one would be helping facilitate one be on the panel.

So I mean, if you got like two more of the books from the app.

Okay, that should be enough.

You know, yeah.

I asked a question about like what's the recommended age for audience?

Are we like junior high high school?

Like seven minutes.

Uh I did actually start watching the movie, and based on the content, I would say maybe at least middle school, uh high school.

There was not a rating of the documentary.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, but we'll have to discuss that to understand, yeah.

And to understand it in general at the school for sure.

And just curiously, make sure we don't just have to make sure.

And I believe that's everything we have, Ronnie.

Did you have anything you wanted to?

No, that was it.

But we we want to send it out.

So if people can help us promote it, that would be great.

Yeah, and that was my follow-up question coming in because we won't meet prior to the hate, like uh, uh I mean, again, it's against hate items about the other.

The hate weeks.

It's like no, no, no.

No, I think um, what can we do to support you besides like what how because I know this is kind of your big your big crunch time?

How can we support you guys?

Get the word out to as many people as you know if they're roots and friends, family, yeah, all out.

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 that'd be the best support.

Yeah, because 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 it at the like the book drop-off section, there's like upcoming events little thing.

Oh yeah.

Um, 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 city flyer.

Yeah, because I feel like that's a pretty visible place, yeah.

It's ironic you mentioned that because we were so focused on uh 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 like I I usually feel like people do look at that place or fast.

We just find that people really do look at five seconds, yeah.

That'd be a great place to put them.

Yeah, yeah.

Did we know that Henry has any more united against hate week 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 we would still like to get them out to the community and if you guys want to see it?

Yeah, I'm trying to walk by my favorite place.

I see that they still have them up, so I'd like to keep that number.

Can you let the post so that we can help with the distribution?

Yes, like last year we walked in the parking lot.

The posters are uh flyers, or both yeah, okay.

We can plan a day for the next couple weeks to do that.

Um I have to we definitely flyers are easy, I need to figure out what's going on with posters.

Yeah, but I think that those those the that library and um I feel like those are easy ones and also Bay Farm, like those that other one Bay farm too.

Okay.

Library, businesses.

Yeah, there's a library, yeah.

So I side.

And then we also have banners that are gonna be made, and that'll be hanging in the playground.

I don't know how many.

No, so we received approval for them to hang at city halls.

So 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 have a lab.

But we can do it.

We can we can uh plan some 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.

It's lovely.

Oh, the balcony.

But that's not even a video.

Oh, yeah.

It was actually on their uh United against hate week color.

Yeah, yeah, but the branding guys.

It just was fortunate for the belt.

Yes, there's some little.

Yeah, 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.

All right.

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.

You want to talk about your project?

Oh, and where we and ask me to consult with her on a domestic violence awareness video that she is making with building futures and uh helping them services and I guess I'm gonna hear from Sarah Henry and Live Sync and I'm so involved.

So it was actually good to know that we could make sure that we're what we're doing.

She's doing your coordinated.

Yeah, that's very nice.

Yeah, but um.

Uh we have some dates.

I that we're doing presentations.

I mean, if I can remember, was it October?

8th, right?

Is that the school one?

That's PAC.

Yeah.

So October 8th, we're gonna uh PTAP, which is the um all the PTA presidents for each of the schools, with the idea of rather than doing like our friendly home show like we have been doing, um, then this will be more focused on what services are available and specific to students and families and schools.

Um and then that'll be some recent things from community organizations, city and shrub members to kind of talk about what's out there with the hope of getting the PTA presidents more on their services for the schools, um, and helping them to actually have their faces and connections to the folks that are serving families, um, and then we're hoping that we can eventually work in our company USD will also be there so that they have the connection with school city unity or all of them together.

Um yeah, so it'll be very different from what we've previously been doing, but the idea is still around communications.

Um yeah, so that's the opportunity.

Yeah, and then we have don't we have a second one?

No, we don't have a let's have we don't want the library for I think we paused the library.

Oh we did, it's not right.

So we have the H3 by the library, yeah.

There we go.

So it's like a yes, we're doing the, I was confused about your question.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wait, before we do H5N, 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, um, which we will hopefully have uh both a youth and uh adult category, and we're trying to push out the nomination process so we have a survey um and we will celebrate the volunteer the year award.

Um 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?

Um so I will not be here at that meeting, I'll be out of town.

Um, but oh wait, yes, I will, because we changed it.

Okay, so I'll be here.

Um I would recommend that use the committee uh like select similar to how you do with like the C D G 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 the in previous years, I think all members reviewed and all this.

It's up to you.

You can do that too.

I folks are interested.

Volunteers from different organizations, any any Alameda in that is involved.

So um, and so who would they be who would who would nominate them is a question I have.

Anyone.

So you could you could nominate your 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 were it's more about highlighting someone who's going to give you back in the community.

I mean my question it pertains to folks over at the USS Hornet because there's a whole there's almost 400 volunteers over there at any even year at the Hornet.

So there's a lot of volunteering over there.

Yeah, and there's very small staff, very small staff, and would they be somebody to get involved?

So send me some information because I know all the we just have a survey.

So it's just anyone presenting the link.

Yeah, there's only a list of how we knew where all the agencies were we could send us to.

Oh, yeah, Scott.

Well we can use the volunteer, but yeah, but but you know, we also you know you know that volunteer list is now we can also host it on the post.

Oh, so I've if if we want to ask them, I know Adam would actually help us out with this.

You know, if you have if you want yeah, if you want to give me materials, I'll share with them ask them if you can follow it.

We should have a phone.

We do.

In the questionnaire, it does say like stuff you want him to have up there, just forward it to me.

It's an application, like ask for their name, but like well, I think it's a link and I'll give you a selection.

I also I would kind of develop that based on if we depending on how like how many applicants we got if we need to have like a uh 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 be the scale.

So I was gonna wait.

A whole lot of volunteers output, 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 football, it's just about volunteering, right?

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

So in that case, would it be the hornet as the outcome?

That's no it'd be an individual and an alchemy.

The 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, say yeah.

Yeah, yeah, she's so but it's just sort of giving back to Alameda is the point and not necessarily the yeah, whatever thing is your thing.

We want to celebrate that and that, maybe that.

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 uh 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 you folks are right there and and participate.

So it's 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 or community.

So it's exciting.

Okay.

Send me that link.

Just send me that.

I'm gonna put it so I will just I will put it as the um bar line.

I was gonna do it on keeps, but um we'll post right up.

If I may, um, 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, and then I'll leave it.

Okay, right.

I believe so.

Okay, we had to have it.

That's fine.

That's a good thing.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Yes, that I but I think we but I think what we were this emphasis, and I I'm saying this is an individual, not as our group, is that we really want 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 um the specific mission in our kind of social services lens.

Is that that's that means individual just I don't know if all these super cool yeah, and I think that's why we kept it pretty much just I like the volunteer list, I like to mute the post, I think social media.

Yeah, anyway we can get that uh break.

And you have another thing.

Oh, yeah, just uh November 5th.

Um we're doing another community listening session uh at the library this time.

Um and there's a couple of groups that I really want to get to the table that I'm give you some help from people in the community to get to the table.

As much as you know.

Mass it's interesting in Alameda.

Um 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 at Mastic is very much like it is in Oakland or other places where it's a clubhouse and 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 Mastic, I 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 the 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.

Um one interesting thing though, because as you're doing this, you you connect with people, right?

And uh with age family and the domains, and one of the groups I connected with was um the uh chamber of commerce, and one thing I had 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 should be building.

Yeah, exactly that.

So villages take a certain type of demographic to be the bedrock, and it never quite worked out in Oakland.

So they ended up jumping into Ashkey Village actually, all the people from that.

But um basically what it is, I don't want to do a huge education on this subject, but just in a nutshell, imagine a non-housing co-op.

So everyone is housed, but now we have to buy goods and services.

Some of us have nice houses but are cash for, maybe have some disabilities, others may be very able, maybe you're renting but have some extra money or whatever.

There's all these differences right with seniors.

So everyone has a buy-in, and so with that money at their co-op, they buy services that all of the group wants, like you're buying buying points into the group, but if you're like really able, not a lot of money.

Maybe you can mow some lawns or cook someone dinner or something, and so it's kind of like a a point system where people are co-hopping their resources together.

That's not this now.

It exists in um Ashby Village, has one.

They started with 30 people, they have yeah, they have 450 people now.

Um they had a fairly high buy-in at first, but they've never risen the buy-in in 15 years.

What they've done instead though is they've created these tiers where like people at the lowest tier, the lowest tier to buy in is $10 a month, and it's slight in scale.

It's up to 750 a year.

Anyway, I'm I I actually met with the person who's ahead of the village earlier today, and I actually want to just start doing things in the background, it's figure out if this is something that's possible.

You have to have a group of seniors that have some financial ability to join in 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 so cool.

And so it's a really interesting concept.

I think it's great that the chamber of commerce is interested because if you want to do a real like equity approach on this, what you do is try to get the local business so there's a seed money it so that wouldn't require buy-in to start with, and once it gets rolling, find ways of keeping people in with that financial burden.

That would be my goal.

So or local businesses, which you are providing the services, I give a discounted so that then you have a oh, like a subscription to the services to help local businesses.

It keeps 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 probably see that and that's why they like it.

That's so cool.

Yeah, it's very good.

Thank you.

I just sound like knowledge how excited you are about this.

I'm really you're it's it's it's interesting.

Yes, thank you.

Well, it is exciting.

Um, so uh, I guess that's it.

We have um uh staff communication presiding five, six months staff reporting the state of the housing and human services.

Thank you.

So I realized you do have a presentation today, and it's by me.

Um 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.

Okay.

Okay.

Great.

So as mentioned, um, 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 uh 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 feature, 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 progress, an assessment or evaluation of the progress that we've made as of fall of last year of 2024, we found that we had made progress in almost every goal and strategy.

This progress report is uh available online.

Okay.

So the housing side of housing and human services typically um is related to our below market rate home ownership and rental housing programs.

And I have a couple, you all have the detailed staff report um that's available online publicly as well, but a couple of highlights.

This is from January through June of this year.

In May, a lottery was held for six moderate income below market rate units at Alameda Landings Bay 37 development.

And since then, there has been we have conditionally approved buyers for all six moderate income BMRs.

Um, the home ownership wait lists 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.

So for the pro housing incentive, uh 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 one million dollars.

Right.

So here is a long list of the many wonderful programs we have related to services and shelter for the unhoused.

Um, 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 managed uh case manager or engagement specialist, and we also use that funding for aftercare services at Dignity Village.

Um, in addition, we did create a booklet which we're calling a resources list.

Um, it's pretty comprehensive, it's available online, we have it in our office, um, and it's like I don't know, five pages, it's like a booklet of different resources that are related to the prevention of homelessness.

So it's legal aid, uh, workforce, um, 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, um, our housing and human services outreach team.

So we the division welcomed Camille Rodriguez.

Uh, she is managing the unhoused services and programs for the city.

Um, we also welcomed Annie Flora as 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, um our engagement specialist provides uh 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 um connect with more families and children during that time for our emergency support of housing uh from January to June, the houses served 25 clients and 17 households for Dignity Village since opening, they have served 113 unduplicated individuals and moved 32 individuals into permanent housing.

The warning shelter um closed in March, the last day of March, and on average they served about 15 people per night.

They have 25 beds.

Um yeah, and during that, when uh what am I trying to say?

The winter warming shelter also offered case management, so building features would come in and do housing assessments as well.

All righty, shower and laundry continues to be offered uh 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 shelter months.

This is a picture of a client that uh was working with our division for years, um, and one of our case managers was able to break through to her, and she's now housed.

Okay, so goal three mobilize citywide response to homelessness.

Um 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, uh 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.

Um 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.

Yeah, um, and then the community development block grant social service awards.

You all participated in the review of those applications earlier this year.

Um, the request for proposals went out on January 16th, and the final recommendations were presented to city council at the May 6th uh public hearing or city council meeting, and the recommendations were approved by council uh for funding for two consecutive years.

Staff recommended based on your your all's recommendation um to fund the top five applicants for this funding cycle.

And next time you all will hear updates from July through December.

I'm really gonna try to do it in January.

Um, and that will be the final phase of our current strategic plan.

So we'll be wrapping up for the next slide.

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.

The edge.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for keeping it to a long time to get huge things in the non-simple.

Yeah, it definitely has lots of wheels moving.

So all right, um, we have uh I think sixed this for board communications, uh non-agenda, and I have one thing I want to bring up, and that's um I I'm going to send the mayor an email about this vacancy that we have.

Yeah, but please, we really need it filled.

Um, especially now, yeah.

I brought it to the work.

I know here's, uh, and Bertie's like we're gonna have zone basically on this.

So we're really thoughts about what any kind of other thing they were gonna add to the request.

I have a little odd thing I'm gonna put in the request, and that's that we're missing I'm really in the generational things.

We don't have any representation of Gen X at all on this on this.

So I was just gonna see if that's someone who at this point would be between 40 and 55.

That's Gen X.

That's Gen X.

We have no representation.

That's right.

What?

How about Yonker?

No, you are you really?

Yes.

There's our fire.

Okay.

I well, I I actually thought you were in your mid-30s.

I apologize for thinking you're much younger.

Because it goes to 1982.

Okay.

Well, actually, it's close enough.

I thought you were younger.

I thought we didn't have any of that age group.

So I won't put that in there.

That's splitting here that will be much split.

Yeah.

But that's really I'm sorry, I'm just get the millennials.

Put in the millennium.

Yeah, so now we have that.

I thought you were.

I thought you were I didn't just see.

That would be just that.

I I will say one of the things that I feel challenged as this committee as one who life 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, um, 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 maybe even uh I mean Gen Z is one thing, but being on the ground, somebody who's not necessarily in the people who are working on your boards, right?

That's your right.

I think that's that would be a real.

No, I'm not saying I'm just I I feel bad.

It's more my own stage, my own guilt.

No, I hear you.

That's because you're a person with type of meet, but I think you do great.

No, I'm serious.

Um you do a great job here, so don't feel bad about that.

Yeah, but if there's any other type of, you know, diversity or anything in the request or any focus or anything anyone wants me to add, let me know, but I do tend to ask for us to please.

Get a new board.

You need a reboard member.

I should still have my role.

Yeah, massive number of yeah, so we should have, yeah.

And it's it's not pretty us too bad now, but like one of us suddenly left it, we we definitely feel it at that point.

So we don't want to get to that point.

So um is there any any other uh board communications about agenda items?

I went to the show.

It was wonderful.

Yeah, it was really wonderful.

Um the whole thing that I think the one thing that struck me the most about the program was they talked about Russellville.

Now, we don't know what the Oakland museum.

Open museum has a have a program called Black Spaces Reclaim and Remain, like wonderful uh program where they've got all of the different exhibits of Oakland and how race was uh basically pushed around and pushed out of all the neighborhoods that they were in, uh using things like uh eminent domain as a way to take away the land of the people over there, and so very fascinating to watch as they talked about the neighborhoods like West Oakland and all the company, the businesses and the families that got basically their their whole stuff was jacked.

They took their stuff out of their places, they stuck them in the trucks and I put them on into storage places that they had to make them pay for, and since they couldn't, there goes your stuff.

But the thing that got me was Russellville, and if you haven't heard of Russellville, that means they did their job well because Russellville was actually a piece of unincorporated land between Hayward and Oakland that was the only place since the 1800s all the way through um that was the only place that black people could basically have their families and they built village type living they didn't have any running water or electricity and yet they made it work and then with the use of eminent domain the city promptly told them we're gonna be putting in new services here we'll make sure there's electricity and water and all you guys gotta do is just let us come in and do it and they said sure and they said well we'll be taking you guys out of here while we do it and they built a business park and that place that was Russellville that was home to many people for many generations is now a place where you can get your tires changed or some other small business that absolutely did not bring community together and so that was the one thing that struck me.

If you don't get to go to the show you can look up Russellville online but that those two things there was a news report about the lady who was watching it they were taking all of her stuff out of her sh her shop and she was basically being told being interviewed by the news reporter and then they talked to the gentleman from Barton said he said oh yeah there's uh we're gonna be putting all of her stuff into storage and uh she was like well I don't know where storage is but I'm sure they'll be taking care of it and he went and basically said yeah no we're not paying for this storage for any of this stuff this is they will be responsible for the stuff that we took out of there and of course if you were poor black and you were living in that neighborhood and your store is all you were using to make your money you no longer have any money so how are you gonna pay for it so it was a very fascinating show.

Let me know when you want to go out by a letter ticket you guys should all come we don't have to make it something but everybody should see that show it was uh it was very very interesting there was a lot to see there's a lot so that's that was and then there's a book it's Alameda Pride on October 11th and there's a bunch of activities going on um well that's a picture I took of the fire it is there's a pride fun run in the morning from Elks Lodge and then there's Pride in the Park and Chichonia from noon five very fun and there's a block party from six to nine at Alameda Ave between Park and Oak I believe it's been a year or I know and so it looks um the Pride Park is really a fun activity too.

Yeah I remember that was a fleet week and that same day and uh I think they're doing a 250 anniversary of the Navy at the corner too.

Yes as a matter of fact they so it is it is uh action packed day celebrating a lot of things anything else okay well um I guess that means we can't adjourn the meeting officially at 806 PM oh so