The Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) held a regular meeting on December 3, 2025, from 7:03 p.m. to 8:09 p.m. The meeting included the unanimous approval of minutes from October 22, 2025, a vote to accept six nominees for the Volunteer of the Year awards, a vote on the 2026 meeting calendar, work group reports, and staff updates. The board also honored outgoing member Diane for her service and discussed concerns about skilled nursing facility care in Alameda.
Note: The transcript begins with "December first, two thousand twenty-five" but the meeting date provided for this summary is December 3, 2025.
Just let me know. Welcome to the December first, two thousand twenty-five social service human relations board meeting. Um, this meeting is being recorded. The chat function has been turned off. If members of the public would like to comment on an item, there are multiple options to do so. If attending via Zoom, digitally raise your hand, and Secretary Manayan will announce when it's your turn. You will then have the option to unmute yourself and proceed with your public comment. Email your public comment to Secretary Manayan at G M A N N A H A Y O N at Alameda C A.gov. Before or during the meeting with your name, the agenda item number, you're referencing and your comment. Comments submitted during the meeting before the conclusion of the public comment section will be read into the record. Her email address is also on the meeting's agenda. If you are calling in by phone, please email Ms. Manayan. As we cannot see you, raise your hand. Second, under each agenda item, there will be an opportunity for public comment on that specific item. So we will now call this meeting to order at 7 03 p.m. Moving on to roll call. Bernie Wolf. He's absent. Diana Michira Omi here. Gerald Bryant, here. Michelle Buckholtz. Here. Samantha Green. Here. Scott Means. Here, that's me. And Robbie Creetz. Here. And from the Housing Human Services Division, Gresha Mania Ayan, program manager, and Shelby Neal, administrative specialist. And just want to take a moment to welcome our newest board member, Robbie Christ. This will be her first meeting. We are moving on to item number two, non-agenda public comments. The city welcomes speakers providing public comments, 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 and 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. Um do we have any speakers or comments? Yeah. There is no public comment. All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to item three to the minutes to review and approve the minutes from October 22nd, 2025. I motion to approve. We have a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second it. We have a motion and a second. Um we will uh oh, actually, we can just go ahead and do a uh consensus vote.