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And welcome to the January 15th, 2026 Social Service Human Relations Board for the City of Alameda.

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The meeting is now called to order at 7:04 p.m.

Let us proceed to roll call.

Um Robbie Kreitz, she's absent, and um also I want to mention there's gonna be a new person uh starting next month.

Um board member Chantel Carter, um, and we'll save the introduction until she's here next week.

She's also absent.

Uh Bernie Wolf here.

Gerald Bryant, here Michelle Buckholz, for now, Samantha Green, and Scott Means, here.

We have a forum of four people.

All right.

We also have with us tonight from the Housing Human Services Division, Gresham Anna, program manager, and Shelby Neal administrative specialist, and possibly attending virtually Camille Rodriguez.

Is that yeah, okay, yes, great.

Um, welcome.

All right, we will now be moving on to item number two.

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So, do we have any speakers for item number two?

Yes, we do.

We have Harin, Hershenbaum.

All right, welcome.

Go ahead, you can start your time.

So, um, I uh formerly want to express my deep disappointment and concern regarding board's conduct treatment of public testimony and apparent district government for the community where welfare responsibilities you are entrusted to uphold.

At my first meeting, I used my allotted three minutes to speak about serious and ongoing issues involved being homeless services in Alameda, the village of blood, and millions of dollars in unaccounted public funds designated for vulnerable residents.

I came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Alameda resident, former educator, taxpayer, homeless myself, and a whistleblower.

Um raising documented concerns about the well-being of unhoused individuals and the integrity of public oversight.

What followed was not engagement, curiosity, or due diligence.

I was cut off.

No board member asked a single question, no one requested additional information, no one followed up, no follow-up occurred.

Instead, I was treated as a nuisance rather than a constitution.

I was given hostile looks when it entering a subsequent answering subsequent meetings.

I was passed over when requesting to speak, and most disturbingly, my public comments were omitted from the official meeting minutes.

This is not a procedural oversight.

This is suppression of public record.

Under California Browns Act, public bodies are required to provide meaningful opportunity for public comment to maintain accurate records of public receipts.

Meeting minutes are not curated summaries, they are the legal documentation of public process.

When a board omits public testimony from the official record, it effectively erases a resident's attempt to alert a city advisory body to potential harm occurring under municipal contracts.

That decision communicates one thing clearly, that uncomfortable information will be excluded rather than examined.

Your board's state purpose is to one identify and report social services needs.

Two, promote social welfare initiatives, three, foster understanding and respect among community groups, four inform agencies of unmet needs.

Five, advise city council on social services matters, including homelessness.

Yet we're presented with credible concerns about homeless services practice service practices, lack of transparency, transparent oversight, and conditions that place a vulnerable individuals at risk.

The board chose silence, dismissal, and exclusion.

I want to thank you for your comments.

I'll post this.

Okay, so that's yes.

And I'm not gonna say because the rest of it is all uh a bunch of nonsense.

You guys don't know what you're doing, you have no clue, no clue what it is going on out there, and that mayor is going to jail.

Thank you.

Did you hear that?

You're going to jail.

And it worked, I had to have a good car.

You were left.

Oh, you were so close, almost made it through.

I know.

Yeah.

Um, so we're gonna move on to item three.

Um, do we have any more public comments?

Oh, I'm sorry, it's three of them.

Thank you.

Do you have do we have any more public comments?

We do not have any public comments for this item.

Okay, thank you.

Um we can now look at um item three of the new approval minutes for December 1st, 2025.

Um I'll put forth the motion to approve the minutes.

I will not approve.

That's the problem.

The second?

Second.

Yeah, sir.

Okay, we're first the second.

Um, since we're all in the room, we can just do a uh F every day.

Oh, so we can't actually approve the minutes.

Oh, that's right, yeah.

Because we don't have a quorum of people who are at the meeting.

Is it possible that could we table this and revisit when Michelle comes back?

From the last meeting.

Yeah, because she would if you would she can't approve them as it was there.

Michelle was so I shouldn't shouldn't have a birthday.

Yeah, so we'll approve December is kind of January.

Next week, okay.

Or we can, if Michelle comes shortly, then um you can you can come back to the same.

Okay.

Sounds reasonable.

All right.

Um all right.

So this we'll move on to um item four to discuss uh season for nonviolence partnership with Alameda Collaborative for your children and youth and their families, otherwise known as ACCYF and the youth advisory committee, otherwise known as YAC.

Um in the past, the AUAH committee has collaborated with ACCYF's youth advisory committee to host an event commemorating the season for nonviolence.

The season for nonviolence is a 64-day period observed between the anniversaries of the death of Mohammed Gandhi on January 30th and Martin Luther King Jr.

on April 4th.

The goal of the event is to promote peace and nonviolence in the Alameda community.

The U AUAH will discuss ideas for cross-committee collaboration, how to promote the event, an overall vision based on best practices from previous years.

The event will be held the last week in March of 2026.

And uh it says here we have a conversation facilitated by Gerald.

Yes, so um I've been doing the season for nonviolence for the last two or three years now, and it's always been a high point for me as part of being on the board because you get to see a large representation of young folks who are actually promoting nonviolence, they're talking about the subjects that matter to them, and the speech contests really ring home some truths that most people don't know, and when you hear them, it's very it's very poignant for me.

There have been times when I've been brought to tears, just how powerful some of their speeches were.

They were really good.

Um, and so this year we're going to be doing similarly, we're going to have the ACCYF uh with the students.

I believe I did not find out the information on the readings.

Normally, we would have a reading for each day uh of the week for season of nonviolence, which are essentially readings from different uh great uh Nobel Peace Prize winners, and they usually touch on different subjects such as beloved community, courage, believing, and uh simplicity, they work within each of these different areas to describe what is actually important that this person was representing, and so it's really a nice thing.

The uh mayor generally will do one whenever the city council meeting, um, they do them in school, I think on a daily basis.

Every day, doesn't we want or every yeah, I believe it's every day.

They do one at the schools, so they'll hear a new word of the day and learn something new about Nobel Peace Prize winners and it's really a wonderful program.

I I believe that this year last year we we didn't have as many students as we did this year, or um the year before, but they were still powerful, and so hopefully this year the ACCYF would bring in some more of the young folks for it, and I'll be looking forward to it.

And I will leave it at that.

If you have questions, I can uh delve deep.

Usually, I'm kind of trying to leave that part everybody to ask questions on.

But I can tell you what the process looks like if you want.

What is the date again?

Uh the last uh week, I think that's what the 25th, okay yeah so they have right yeah, we didn't Shelley and I were able to attend their last meeting.

The what is that?

Yeah, yeah, is it youth advisory?

Youth advisory.

Okay, so youth advisory if you ready and um, they want to have it on a Wednesday because that's when they get out early.

It's not like they would have more of a turnout than on a weekend, and a lot of the kids have plans or other activities going on and they wanted to make it into mic so not just limited to poetry um and they have ideas about the list of clubs they want to invite they want to do different tables they still want to do it at the healing garden and they're looking for a partnership for you all similar to what Cheryl has done previously in terms of judging and then also promoting it's a wonderful uh opportunity to see the folks doing it and I'm um I'm interested they actually wanted to do the open mic style uh as opposed to doing the one here in city hall uh what do you um normally they would have uh the speech contest at the end of the program and the speech contest would be done over here in City Hall.

Oh I thought that that was at the healing garden last year.

Uh no that was the poetry slam that we did for the year before for the United Against Hate Week in September.

And so last year it was at City Hall.

Uh yes last year we had the uh yeah we had the adults and we had the the uh young folks and we did it is that the one where there was only like a few people I can ask them they mentioned the healing garden.

I I really appreciate the sentiment because that that was what I had always hoped for but we should get some clarification from them just to make sure pretty clear they kept saying they like that cam is the yeah that's for their cam is the ones I chose their advisor on the staff on our staff which is a human so that's what they're gonna so it's on Wednesday when would they start?

I believe 4 p.m.

Yeah it'll be early enough they'll have time that's not 4 p.m.

Yeah.

Some will still be up by time to finish or just coming down.

Okay.

And so this should be fun.

I'm I'm really looking forward to seeing I think they were going to have um I remember from the meeting tables.

Just oh that's right you were there too Bernie.

Do you want to give your summary um similar but uh the idea if they open mic was not just open right but they were gonna try to find some people of interest to speak.

It was they were gonna some kind of um process they were doing to involve people sort of games and you know some kind of stuff but it really was quite they were quite um it quite well thought out and really one of the issues was the timing because schools get out different times so I don't know what the fall was going to be but um they're also interested in domestic violence which is why I was there right doing stuff with that so but um so I'm not sure what the they're gonna get back to us or what they're gonna do about which piece.

The tabling yeah so their marching orders for for their next meeting they're gonna have a run of show um to have start coming up with some sort of uh program and then a list of the different clubs they want to invite to table.

So they were trying to figure out if they want to give them each like a theme for what the clubs want a table because the healing gardens like that big space at the stage so um raised by solo food would that be allowed or not and you can sort of make that a whole so I think it was I think that's school that was I don't know that they felt from what I understand, WABA is the ownership is the owners of the healing garden.

And they probably will either have already gotten in contact with them or will need to contact them if we make sure that everything can secure um I know the lady who is the president or president of WABAMO.

And we can reach out to her if we need to.

If they need somebody to reach out to her, I'm sure I can reach out to her.

No, but if they already have it.

I you did.

Okay.

See, these are all good.

Okay.

So yeah, that's basically I don't know but if you can sell things.

The issue was with the kids that it is like food.

So they're more likely to come up to the food.

Yeah.

Nonviolence is this that's what they like.

We gave away food because that's generally you know, trying to sell five dollar slices of pizza to kids.

That's that's not gonna fly.

So given food away.

Now you got them in drove.

Okay.

You free pizza?

We can bring peace.

Sure can.

Um do we have a just to stop a second?

Do we have any comments, public comments?

At all?

We have no public comment.

No public comment.

Okay, good.

So I just look to start with it.

I just want this open in case.

Um all right, so I think we can do we have any and we have any comment any more comments among the report.

What can we do to help?

Um be present.

Uh come out and support as the board.

The more uh social services and human relations board they see, the more they can know us to be part of the community that they want to get to know.

Do we need judges again this year?

Yes, I believe we will need judges.

I was asked to do judging, so I'll be doing judging.

I don't know if yeah, we can judge us.

I think so far they haven't won, which is true.

Have you talked to Kimmy?

The uh public laureate.

A local poet laureate has done stuff with us as well.

She's really, really good.

And she does focus word and poetry, so I think she can be an excellent decision.

And one I can give me her email address.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Okay, yeah.

Yeah.

Very nice young lady.

Sure.

Excellent.

Um, so our next agenda item is a presentation on point and time count.

Um yeah, so doesn't look like Cam is here, so do you want to skip to the next and then see if we can come back to that?

Sure.

Okay.

Um let's move to item for C that, um, which is the review the progress on the 2025-26 shrub work plan.

The City Valley meeting we just look at the states that one of the duties of the shrub is to adopt a plan for the performance of his delineated functions with advice and consent of city council.

Therefore, each fiscal year, the shrub needs to review and adopt a work plan as the March uh 20, 2025 shrub meeting.

Board members voted on and approved their 2526 work plan, which received city council approval on May 6, 2025.

It is recommended that the shrubs evaluate their progress on the work plan goals.

And I'm gonna turn it over to Gracia.

Great.

So as you all just heard, your work plan is adopted in May.

Your work plan falls follows the fiscal year, so you're about the medway point.

Um, that'd be a good idea for us to revisit what you've all set out to accomplish.

And I have a couple discussion questions uh to guide the conversation.

Uh now I'll just shift screen.

Well, you know what I mean how I have this thing.

I'm sorry, I want to hide it?

How do I remove this thing?

Oh, you just hide that meeting control set in the last loading meeting control.

There it goes.

Okay.

Great.

Hi.

Happy 30th.

Did you have a question?

Oh yeah.

Ma'am.

Sorry about that.

Oh, that's what we're here for.

We always welcome the community and everything with handbook by.

So yeah, but I think they may not like us too much either in there.

So thank you.

And happy new year.

Oh, sure.

Okay.

So for this first section, I'll maybe recall that the community music has met a couple of years ago.

You all had like a really hands-on role in writing the needs assessment, essentially for our division.

So this typically is not traditionally the role of the board, which you all are not a traditional board, you're very active board.

I think that you all should remain true to that spirit.

However, the needs assessment has been absorbed by the staff.

We think that that's appropriate.

So we are having a lot of this is being taken on by our staff, by myself, Cam, Simone.

We're having three stakeholder sessions with tons of groups that we've invited Scott and Sam to attend to be able to provide the perspective of Shrub.

And we'll be having three stakeholder sessions to then inform our needs assessment.

Working with a consultant who's going to help us write it.

And then that will then inform our next strategic plan.

So check.

Okay.

Administrative, this is kind of interesting.

We incorporated making a work plan into our work plan, um, which is fine.

So I think that this will we'll pick it off in a couple of months.

I think we said Sam, maybe March will start.

Great.

Infrastructure is one that we haven't really talked about as much, but it's something that the we have assigned to the president and vice president.

Then we have CDG, which you all have completed that.

And the next round will not be until 2027.

So the next section is the road home.

You'll note that you have all of you.

And then lastly, we have the domestic violence committee, which focuses on collaborating with local agencies and organizations, collecting uh posting domestic violence resources on the websites, a proclamation, a march, past the borders, etc.

I realize I didn't print it for you all.

I apologize, but I do have some of the guiding questions for us to discuss, so maybe I can just read it and then we can return if you all want to look back at the objectives.

So the first question I have for you is what is working well in terms of your work plan and how you're uh working through it and what strategies should we continue using for the second half of the work plan timeline?

Um actually I can we go back up to the first word first one the community's assessment.

I just I just want to understand the the flow of it because it so it seems to change so the the blue area with stuff that staff is doing I I'm I'm just trying to figure out what role we have in this.

So we are doing all of it.

We have completely absorbed the task of creating a community needs assessment because that's going to inform our strategic plan and which informs our day-to-day what we do, our programs, um, the roles and our scopes of work.

Your role is more advisory.

Right, and I understand that, but I'm just wondering where on the reporting chain, like would would it would that plan go before at what point would it go before this body?

You know, because it's eventually gonna go to council, right?

Yeah, so I was just trying to figure out where these, since we're not part of the actual development of the plan, where where we are in terms of the reporting process.

Yeah, so the planning, myself, Camille and Simone have created the plan in terms of how uh terms of timeline, the steps we're gonna take.

We are now moving to I guess what you would call the data collection aspect, and you all are part of the data collection.

So you're part of the stakeholder meetings, and I would like to present it to you for feedback.

So the stakeholder sessions, the first two are going to be um, I'm gonna get it wrong.

Quantitative data.

Uh so collecting information in terms of the community needs assessment, stakeholder session getting feedback and information from different providers on the island, what you all are seeing and providing your expertise.

So we're gonna have three stakeholder sessions.

The first two are gonna be really focused on collecting that information, and then the third one, we're gonna present you all with a draft of the community needs assessment to be able to um provide feedback.

That's the part, yeah.

Because I I I support this plan in terms of the staff doing it stuff.

I'm not this is not a pushback.

I just wanted to like that that part of it, like you said word advised before, so that that oversight and be able to write the insulator's important.

I just want to make sure we're inserted there somewhere.

So thank you for clarifying that.

Yeah, and the the first stakeholder session is gonna be a lot of people.

So it's gonna be people like at the executive level, people who do like the work day to day and are more hands-on and interface with clients, and then the second and third will be I think smaller groups, which you all will be included on.

Uh so you will be part of the group that provides feedback to our draft, and then we'll just plan to bring it back to the rest of the board and do specifically meetings.

I see you using the word version of the questions to you want to get in on me to make it.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah, so yeah.

Do we see will we get to see so previously like we've been able to see like what the primary and secondary data is going to be collected before it gets collected?

Will the board review that this time or will the executive?

I'm not sure for your question.

So previously, like we've been able to see what information will be collected so that we can make sure that we have enough information for the CPGB like decision we can grant.

Well, is that part of the process this time?

We know it hasn't been a part of the process.

Um I can follow up with you about that if you'd be interested.

Okay, that you have that's your background, so I can definitely go back and see I can get back to you about that.

So actually basically what I'm gonna say that.

Okay.

Scott, now we have to be.

Yeah, yeah, I'll be done right.

The meetings, yeah.

I I always like to look at things from the lens of like, is someone who doesn't know at all what we're talking about gonna be able to understand any of this.

I was trying to turn out on my read it before it goes out, you know.

Yeah.

So I see that Cam is here.

She's more of the data person.

I am like the narrative policy person that just talks, I guess.

Um, thank you for joining us.

I'm gonna put you on the spot if you don't mind.

Are you there?

Yep, I am here.

Sorry for my tardiness.

My day has been crazy today.

Oh, see is oh wait.

You don't need your no, she's not doing good.

Yeah.

I don't hear you.

Are you talking?

I am indeed talking.

I'm talking about.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Hello, can you hear me?

So this is a mission.

She is speaking.

Okay, can you hear me now?

Yeah, she got it.

Hello.

Hello?

Can you see she's talking?

Yeah.

I am talking, I'm sorry.

Check your output device here.

Well there's one option.

Okay.

Is there some way I can call in via phone?

I don't know if you can hear me.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Is your remote control muted for the sound data here?

Um, hey Cam.

Yep.

Yay!

There we go.

Hi everybody.

Sorry, I'm late.

My day's been crazy.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Um, so there is a right now we are discussing.

Can you see my screen actually?

I can see your screen, yeah.

So previously the short board has been really involved in the community needs assessment, and so they're clarifying exactly what their goal is going to be moving forward.

Um, I'm able to answer most of the questions.

There's a question around like data in terms of have we decided what type of data we're collecting.

I believe that we have like a rough list of what we want to collect.

Is that right?

So we're collecting data that we can get easily out of HMIS.

Um, and then we're also collecting some data for or the same data for people who may not want to be entered into the HMIS system, which is the homeless management information system that all um homeless services agencies are required to use by HUD.

So that that data system collects certain different data points about people, and um the services provided to those individuals at any given time.

So the data that we pulled from like the road home or for the road home report and things like that are all data that we captured in HMIS.

Okay.

And this reminds me that we are also going to be doing community service.

So that's going to be another data point, but I do recall in terms of because in addition to folks that are unhoused, I think we had more general city demographic data, right?

So we had data around like I do think that that was a point of discussion with um with the division manager Simone that we were gonna be a little bit more focused around what we specifically do.

So even if we don't really work in education or provide those type of services, so it's not really something we're gonna put into it.

It's gonna be data more around the type of people that we the services and the programs that we interface.

I can see potentially like maybe we provide like an overview, like a at the beginning or somewhere so there's like a snapshot of like what the city looks like in general, um, but I think the focus of like the core data is gonna be what Camille's referring to.

Yeah, but so like the only reason I would say that is the only concern I would have is because we have to use that data for the CGB grant funding, which is not just specific to homeless or housing services, that it's more general and it goes to domestic violence, mental health services, things like that, that the previous reports have included indicators that would allow us to identify those as primary issues in the community, right?

So we had the information on how many domestic violence calls there were information, so that I'm wondering if as a portable need to just develop a plan for supplemental data as we get so ready.

So I do feel hopeful that a lot of that's gonna be captured in our conversations with the social service providers, because we have a long list of people that were inviting to provide their input, and that was going to be survey in terms of like what is a need, what are you seeing out there?

I hear what you're saying around like the you're talking more like census or like because a lot of what was in the previous report was census data for what it was AUSD data, census data, um, I don't remember the other police fire and then social service for actually requested directly from that.

Yeah.

So I'm gonna make a note of that to me, because the way that I'm thinking about it, I feel like it's covering the areas that we have typically seen over the last five years, the type of the request that we get.

Um, but yes, that was my long way of saying I think we're okay, but I'm gonna make sure just as uh yeah, it's a bit of a before we get like too far down the road and take it off of our plate to make sure that information.

Yeah, and I do think that you're still gonna have like checkpoints that if there's a big glaring gap, you will have an opportunity to say there's a big glaring gap, yeah.

That's all.

Thank you.

Um well actually since we asked about, is there any other public comment that we have?

Because we can still ask more questions after that.

Was there anyone else on there?

No, it's not there.

Okay.

There is no help.

All right, so so we sort of look at one thing.

I don't I I don't want to make quite a I want to make sure everyone else has an opportunity to look at the structure too.

Is there anything else they want to talk about?

Oh, you have those other questions.

Sorry.

You can have questions because, you know, I mean, that is obviously a big item that you all are referring to, but you also have like a ton of objectives that you all that were like action items that you wanted to hit.

Um one of the recommendations that I thought was a great idea that Sammy was in addition to you know showing you the action items that you all as that you'd like to accomplish, uh you have your calendar of like your regular events, so as like a snapshot of what are the um it's you are already having on it.

I can I go back and ask a couple more questions.

Yes, not about the it's just about the the pit count and the road home stuff.

Yeah, so we're gonna have Cam present on that.

Is it okay if we hold off until now?

Sure.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

So are we discussing your questions?

Uh I was hoping so.

So let me just say from my standpoint.

I'm the work group, so I don't know if one of the other new board members is gonna join me in that.

So um yes, um Robbie actually, my conversation with her.

She said that she was the most interested in your work group.

Okay, that's one of the two new numbers.

Okay, but up until now it's just been me.

So, and I think you know what I've been doing.

Yeah, and it's um mostly been centered around getting information out.

Um working with the task force, which I think is the most important aspect of the everything that's done here for me in terms of the domestic violence, and uh, you know, some of the other things that were out there, like marches and resolutions were never really um anything I had much to do with, but when Cindy was there, that was kind of her passion.

So if somebody else wants to do them, it's fine, but I I really think the main focus is where it should be on the task force and on the you know and that what kind of spins out of the task force in terms of uh like the meeting you know the reason I attended the uh ACCYF meeting was it last week which I can't remember was to ask you know youth about domestic violence and we found that there was through elevator family services there was something going on we didn't know about there was a group and we were very interested in sort of you know maybe they could be part of the task force and we changed the media times so that's kind of been my my focus and the rest of it it's not being accomplished but although I think it's really important right now.

I'm not saying it's not important it's just not a priority.

I think one of the things I was thinking I guess talking about the pick on the road home is because I think maybe we want to pivot for our road home committee too.

Does that make sense?

So I think like people weren't so interested in our presentations on the original reports.

And I feel like we kind of have a missed opportunity for um providing information to the community when the pit count data comes up so we'll go back to that but I feel like that's a good opportunity for us to do outreach and maybe pivoting to outreach around that data when that data becomes available might be helpful and to partner with community groups that that might be more engaging for community members than a road presentation pivoting to that kind of outreach and okay um so right now we're talking about um we didn't checkpoint around the work so I don't see so I see here you all have put development plan to engage the community and regional crisis and homelessness community advanced understanding so which um can you say that one more time in terms of what your like what the pivot that you'd like to that you're suggesting that the outreach is less around like road home and more around just generalized outreach like information about particularly like the data around the pay count and then like what's that that might be more in that might be the since we're no longer in charge of like overseeing the road home and that's being done internally that maybe like our work group pivots as well right if that makes sense I there is this I'm so jumping in I'm sorry if this would be inappropriate.

The one thing that I we're talking about the possible pivots or things you want to focus I would um I would really like to focus on um overdose prevention um given that we I don't think the coroner report is out but there is an alumni amanda passed due to an overdose presumed overdose and I'd love to partner with uh Alameda Fire there's some other state and local organizations and how we can kind of do some PSAs.

I just want every high school student also to have a uh know how to use NARCAM and kind of think about how we can train that as way of like everyone knows CPR like everyone should know how to do this as a life saving measure and um as we think of like social justice or social and equity of just how how can we save more people's lives and this feels like a really low handy intervention just to teach people how to do it.

So it's a great idea.

So I'm spirits for us been with yes.

Videos and stuff with the working with the mayor on the domestic violence videos.

Yeah then bring the track down where they're at least one of them is going along the other one the reservoir that's that's the issue you run into it and it's all the same people but our department for these I mine is even more like just I totally agree with you.

Just like a distribution like a box box of that park of Narcan like I I I would do it as simple as like a box and then a poster by the box is like I would go I would go just distribute this is all I would I don't even you know how can we get more just accessibility.

Now I mean it is over the counter but it's kind of cost prohibitive and so just like like just how everyone could have one if they wanted it to keep in their purse or it would be a good idea to ask the waiver and see if she could have yeah I would think to go I'll stand out at my video at a park and hand out Narcan if they want anywhere that we can do like yeah and you can you can do it in HYA or um sorry yeah yeah all these acronyms but like it I I think also the focus and this is where I would actually focus more of the school is that I think that's the place where I would harm reduction.

Is it not harm reduction?

Harm reduction has got a whole there I would not use the word harm reduction hard phrase I'm like overdose prevention.

Harm reduction is like safe use supplies which is probably gonna be too controversial for the city.

Okay but like I'll you know like city colors like that would be a great opportunity yeah yeah so and and so in more practical terms is this like a proposal for something you'd like to see like our team take on is this like an event you want to see and none of the board posts or what's I would I think my outcome that I would love is one is to see partner with the high schools would be the first one is to see like where who we could champion within the high schools to do this those trainings because I think that would be the best to come from the high schools and come from peers.

And then my goal would just be have multiple sites of distribution for Narcan in public spaces are you um do you do those trainings?

Yeah like could you I do it all the time I give Narcan like I'm wondering well we have calm like could we train the yak board on the inside I'm sorry say that again could we train the young people on the YAC on how to use Narcan um I mean I don't see why not unless their parents don't want them to maybe we just like a more mission still it's like it's like CPR.

Yeah I I think I think just really I mean the the small the big would be like do we talk to the lifeguard like when they're getting lifeguards PR change the a part of the American Red Cross is they do add Narcan to that chain of like how to use the AED how to use CPR Narcan is part of using that but like just talk with a like the lifeguards hey I agree I think I'm just thinking like what can we do in the next like three months?

Three three months is one is we could just see like who could we partner to get free it's because there's a lot of nonprofits but just like how does the county have it who can do it could we set up boxes and then get permission from the like designate the sites of distribution.

And then get what about just also like city staff?

Like they're gonna staff up for all of like through parts and a rapture summer programs or whatever, which would be folks that are all being trained in CPR and like like could we just like that would be a simpler simple connection, right?

Yeah, and part of like I'd like just can we make this part of the trainee for this year's seasonal staff.

I think potentially then I could connect you to have like a conversation because you are so well versed and trained in that and you'd be like, hey, here's an idea, and like see what they say.

Yeah, I mean, maybe because maybe it is that easy, maybe they're about to onboard a ton of new staff that not just staff like the it's not just like the life legislative, like there's all these camps that are starting, so and they work with little kids, but they're in the parks all day.

Yeah, I I just don't like it is the easiest thing to use there like I agree.

I just I think having it around is also one of those things, yeah.

Okay.

So I don't know, sorry, road home.

I did not talk, I did not run that by any guys.

I was thinking, and I guess for our group, does that feel appropriate within that bucket?

Um, I think that it's not as it's there.

I don't see it tied to anything in like specific that you have here, but when I think about your committee, the way that we've described it, I just we just created this manual.

Um we were describing your committees.

You're the road home committee is the one that focuses the most around the content of our division, which is housing, homelessness, and human services.

So to me, this falls long, human services and also the law, yeah.

So I don't know, but you do have, yeah, I'll leave it there.

So do you all have other comments or just one thing, like kind of uh aspirational when I hope you for you're working on the survey for age friendly is there's going to be components of it inserted that actually address yeah, there's social issues.

So have you been discriminated because of age, because of gender, because of race.

So there's other things that be there.

Have you experienced domestic violence?

Those type of questions are going to be in there, hopefully, at least among the you know the senior population, it'll inform work.

Yeah, you know, there'll be some housing questions too, and so that's what's it's more of an aspirational thing.

I'm hoping that it really informs other work, like community needs assessment and stuff.

So yeah, well, that's a good point that the community needs assessment may inform what how you all are gonna build out your work plan this next fiscal year.

Oh, I was thinking this the survey with the form of this.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It goes both ways, yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

What about you, Gerald?

Do you have any thoughts on what's working well for your committee or other things, gaps you want to fill?

Oh, it'd be nice to have somebody else to work with on it, but that's okay.

So I just want to comment on both of your committees.

I did inform the new board members that her what I understand the rules of the shrub, it's the at the president's discretion to place board members and committees, and that they would either be on your committee or your committee because we're each of a committee of one.

So road home is full, and there's a slot to fill on TV and a slot to fill on AUH.

So we will not leave alone.

Um well, as far as where we are in what we've done so far, we've gotten through the whole city resolution.

We've still not met with black student unions.

Um we haven't done really ACCYF meetings.

I mean, part from their standard meeting, we haven't actually engaged.

We me personally have not engaged with them.

Um, LGPTQ.

So those are things that I would like to see us move forward with, especially now as we're getting into the second part of the school season.

This is the best time to really do it.

Um, we have not really engaged with the city of Davis on the free city best practices.

I'd like to revisit them again and have conversations with them this year.

I think we should continue to keep that going and uh so that's stuff that's left over agenda that we've done.

Um we've started to incorporate and link supporting existing community events, so that's already in the works.

We're already involved with that.

Library series, uh Friends of Alameda, Albina Free Library Partnership Lecture Series.

We really did not get any traction for it.

And I would I would like to think that we may have another option if we can't get the lecture series.

Um we could start it with something that was mentioned to me earlier about uh a book program where we do a book every month when we discuss the book itself, uh kind of a book club layer where now we can even get some maybe the author to come in and speak and have that be the if you will pivot from being able to do the lecture series, the book club with the actual author is pretty close to that as you can get, and usually they're good books with real depth that we can.

That would be hosted at the book, right?

Yes.

If we could work in partnership with the library, I think it would be a good place and a good space and a good use of ours, our supportive skill.

Um I think it might be hard to get 12 authors, I'll be honest.

I would start with one before we get one.

Um I had one that was mentioned to me earlier that I will talk about later, but essentially um it would be a great opening volley for the Black History Month period where we would be able to have them speak about the book that they're currently writing or have written, sorry, have written and kind of let people ask the questions.

Really uh again, I don't know how much I can really describe right now, but I can just say it's the kind of thing that makes sense to me because it's important for people to know about where we came from the history of how we got here and good storytellers are the ones who are able to tell those stories in a meaningful way that other people understand, and so this seems like a good opportunity to describe that how we got here just as a pivot, yeah.

So, would that be next month?

February, why not?

If it takes that much to really put together, it's more of a getting the folks from the library to commit, which is something that I'm sure we can work on.

Friends of Alameda.

Do you mean like a reading?

Like I'm trying to understand it.

Um, maybe reading excerpts, maybe a bit of a conversation where around the specific book that you're thinking about.

Okay.

And then the library does things like that already.

Yeah, yeah.

They do, and they also book like Wednesday, sure.

Yeah, but not a piece of failure, but a try.

And everyone we have I always try to know.

There you go.

No, I always try.

We we never know how many friends we have in strange places, so yeah, do what we can to try and move the ball forward.

So I'd be interested to see that as something to do, especially because it's um an author who's doing work around predominantly black history and things like how formations of certain organizations became what they were and how they were part of it and what the things were that were going on at the time, and it gives kind of a as Bernie would say, it kind of gives the information of what went on at the time so that it gives us a framework for looks to work today.

Yeah, I thought Gerald, this is off a little bit off topic, but as an assigned edge of what I'm sons of my daughter, love us in black space.

Wasn't we got there?

You got there, yeah.

So, wasn't it amazing?

Yeah, it's still up.

It'll be up till Marvel.

When you're done with the can we go back just for a second to the Alameda's uh again, section again.

I just think if also if we can't get it together for February, maybe it's something we could put onto the calendar for the end of the year to prepare for the next.

Well, we have the United States of the end of the year, right?

But something like this February, like if we wanted to follow that and see.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah, I was hoping to kind of fill in that whole lecture series thing because that was something that I thought would be of value, and yeah, maybe we won't be able to get it in for February, but I'm still willing to try and get it in and if they already have it.

If they're doing something, you should try and be supportive of it as part of United Against Hate.

And I know that they don't always necessarily talk about those types of topics in their monthly book clubs, so I just yeah thought this would be a good way to get us going.

I think the other idea I was thinking was um for the summer we usually have an intern.

Part of the challenge around finding like a speaker it's um it's just like a lot of making a lot of so I'm not always able to do that but an intern might be able to do that.

So we may like look for someone more specifically this summer that can help and like can help us find some speakers like make some contacts so like we can start building out a lecture series uh or there will be a do you think there'll even be a possibility for a lecture series next year if they were if they really weren't doing it this year I don't see the tide turning in that way.

I mean we know we would I think they need to understand a little bit more of like what the vision was so it was have like inviting people with a certain expertise of a library to provide like a talk.

Okay.

So I know that the library I believe already does that but where it's not in partnership with us and I'm assuming we would want it to be in more theme with what we're working on.

Yeah yeah the French validita uh library or Alameda free library or combination of the two I think we could probably get one or two because I look so we did we we had kind of like a a couple like what is it called like starts and fits where we have like a list of people and then we would try to reach out to them and wouldn't hear from them couldn't find the contact and then it just like petered out through it.

So I think that's part of where we would need a little bit more support is in getting the list of people and contacting them and booking the road I would uh I would just say it's it's doable we might be able to get something done so I will uh I will defer to you to check with them and if you want I can continue to reach out to folks to see what they can bring forth I think it would be an opportunity if I would prefer not to miss if we can get if we can get it.

But also if I think the speaker like maybe it's the speaker that's the focus and not necessarily the month.

Like I like if we can get a great speaker and have to speak that they're only available in April like woo.

Yeah no I agree.

I think it's more of a you gotta start somewhere you gotta draw a line and see if you can make it to that line.

If you can't make it to that line readjust that line you move it to the next goalpost and you're working from there.

Um are you talking about the 49er offense right now the hurry up offense though I wasn't going to metaphors but it should be going to be if you have an idea just let me get and I'll try to help you make it up then thank you that that would be for that slide there for I was trying to answer one of your questions though how do you hear it so go back to the questions again and I'm um forward and see what what can I have direct this oh yes number three I answer number three I think is number one and I'll be gonna say bring revised AUH resolution to city council for conservative approval I think we need to get that that started working on and I know there's gonna be a second person but we can those have a third I'm willing to help you know craft the wording stuff I think that's really important to get something through I agree I again the wording is done.

Oh it is yeah that's all done it's just through getting it past the mayor and then to city council that's really all it is okay so I know that I have the most recent version could you just you forward to me make sure I have it or are we is this supposed to stay within our group at this point.

Can I use it for talking points if I want we want to try to legislate with some of the council members about that's why I the direction I received was that it was not going to go next so I don't have a further direction system.

That was the conversation and the direction I received a staff a few months ago.

And it was changed into a proclamation and we moved forward with proclamation to be a other follow-up status or the proclamation that we need to be working on.

The attorney said though that oh okay.

So not a resolution but a council report.

That's what was suggested by the city attorney.

Um I could leave us in the same.

So that's so it have to be so it would be the format of so I don't need that.

I don't I actually don't need the old resolution.

That's what we so we actually just have have that format and template and move it into a council report type one.

That's that's what we need.

That action plan would be something similar to what we reviewed for um GPTQ was that the one that they did the action plan for they had one yes, yeah.

Oh, yes, yes.

So would it be similar format?

Wouldn't that be sorry?

No, no, would that process of gathering input be facilitated by us, or is that facilitated by city staff or city council?

Oh we can talk about it.

Yeah, I was gonna say if it's facilitated by us, then we need to put it agenda.

I think it's still and it seems like it might be too big for just your group, if the whole action plan, I'm always open for united against hate.

That's a simple subject for me.

Low-hanging fruit, anybody who can bring in more value totally for it, so yes, be happy to have two or three or the whole board.

Yeah, because the advantage of that over a proclamation is it's the council actually votes for it, so it's it's it's kind of like a resolution, and the council like has to adopt what you can put in there.

So it gives it more gives it T.

Yeah, right.

I was just wondering if that's yeah, that's a good reminder.

Thank you.

Okay, can you go back to the plan?

I have a quick question for the road home.

Is there gonna be a new five-year strategic plan?

Yes, and it's starting this year.

Yeah, I'll use some with input from the community again.

Yeah, we have a really aggressive tech point.

We're hoping to have it drafted in April.

No, the needs assessment be dropped by April by the fiscal year, July.

Yeah, and as they're gonna go through the same strategic planning process with community events and engagements.

Last one took like two years to build, yeah.

Uh I don't have I don't know yet.

Okay, I was wondering if we need to build those things sometimes.

Right, and remember, this is this plan goes to when it was the year that it was.

Oh this one, it goes to July.

Oh, fiscal yeah, yeah, yeah.

So June 30th.

Okay.

So but your question, Sam, sorry, um, I think my brain is frying.

Sorry, going back and forth here on the committees, yeah.

Um, because you were asking, it sounds like you all did seven community events about the larger strategic plan.

This was even before my tech, okay.

So they but they did like it was a very long like one I want to say two year process for the five-minute plan originally.

But we don't plan to take that on time.

Um I think that's it doesn't feel like we're starting from scratch because we're building off of the previous five-year plan.

Uh so we are doing the community needs assessment, which is supposed to be like our due diligence around the yeah, uh we'll feed it to those we can show plan.

Okay, but then will the strategic plan go back out, community, like as well.

Yes, it has to go to council, which counts as like our what is the the meet the form?

That's the opportunity for like public comment.

Okay.

And this is a little non-sucker, but can we also just remind orant ourselves of what everyone's term is?

Because are you how this relates to these plans?

When do you I think you guys you guys are both the most seen here?

I sunset at the end of this term, and the term goes to June 30.

So you sunset to you sunset.

I I can serve another term if I want to.

Gotcha.

Oh, you okay.

You both can answer both your terms out.

They are eligible for an additional term.

Should they choose to do so?

Gotcha.

And then they'll go through the process.

The city clerk check that the city clerks will reach out to you once you're close.

Okay.

But we're the only ones, right?

Yeah, everyone else has at least a year.

I have a paper.

I don't know that those are after.

I didn't either.

I was like June 30, 2027.

But I don't think it is.

Oh, I don't know.

Oh.

Yeah, that's why I was like, I think that I just wanted to put my reappointed last year.

Ask for it.

Yeah.

Oh no.

Well, people disappointed in what we said.

Those might be correct because there's a pencil to be a new role.

Yeah, you're fully.

Yeah.

That might be correct.

Because you finished like a partial term and it's a full term.

So it was a two-year term because I do the first two years and then the new one was supposed to be four.

We'll double check.

Okay.

So we have some complete.

How do we all feel about this item since we do have cam, and I know we wanted to go back to the pit.

What do you think?

Scott.

Oh, are we done with oh yeah?

If you all have other questions, you consider.

Um if we're back to it, I feel quite pleased with what we've accomplished.

Okay.

I think they were very smart goals.

Who is to Bella for really helping us with them?

That was a good retreat.

Yeah.

Well, if we're done with this item, we can move go back in time to item 4A.

Uh wait, no, no, for B, sorry.

Uh item for B, a presentation on point in time.

It count.

Like Male?

Yes.

Uh home assist manager for the City of Almuse Housing and Service Division.

Take away, take it away, town.

We came back to your item.

Thank you.

Like I said, I'm so sorry.

I was in class and we went over late, so I'm sorry.

Um, I just wanted to present about the pit count and just let everybody know that we're still looking for volunteers.

Um we have about 50 right now, and I'm looking for a few more so we can do a full wide, a full city wide census of everybody experiencing unsheltered homelessness within the city.

Um what this would mean would be that um the people who volunteer would come with us on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026, bright and early.

I'm asking that everybody start showing up at about 4 30, so we can start at five, and um we can start counting folks that we either observe experiencing homelessness or folks who are interested in actually talking to us and conducting or um completing the survey that uh SemTech has created.

Semtech is the creator of the counting us app, and they have a bunch of questions or not a bunch, but questions that they ask people about things like um where were they last housed, how long they've been homeless, what type of homelessness they're experiencing, whether it's unsheltered or sheltered homelessness, um, if they're a household, they ask questions about uh mental health, substance use, physical disabilities, or disabilities of any kind.

Um, other kind of very more personal questions, but when people feel like they're being respected and like their intention is known about like why we're doing this, they tend to want to answer the questions.

We have gift cards for incentives, we also have um care packages that the Girl Scouts are gonna be helping to assemble, and then we have some from like a Pee Wee baseball team or something, um that have already assembled some as well um to hand out to people that we may encounter doing at PitCal.

Um the pit count helps us secure vital funding for the city.

Um the more people we're able to engage, the better we're able to plan out our homeless services response teams, um, and just our response in general.

So we have seven days to get it together if people want to volunteer.

I have space on other teams, so I pretty much have the teams formed.

Um, and their teams of four, and I do have space on uh a couple of other teams or a few more volunteers.

So if anybody wants to volunteer, please let me know.

Um just register through the QR code that you see on the screen, um, or at alameda.point in time dot info and it'll take you to the registration portal.

Um, we pretty much have all the donations that we need as well, and whatever we don't use, we're gonna use for the engagement specialist team that the city of Alameda does now have.

We brought that in-house from um what we previously contracted through.

So we now have an engagement specialist team that has an engagement specialist supervisor who oversees the team.

Um we have a pretty great team that's really engaging, not to no pun intended.

Um, and they have been able to locate quite a few people that we were not previously connected with.

So that's always good.

Um, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me now.

Reach out.

I'm available.

Thank you.

Great.

Um we have any questions or comments?

You said groups of four people would be doing uh walking it together that how we would be doing this year.

Yes.

So we're gonna have folks, um, they're gonna drive to their census track, but I'm asking that they actually walk the track if they can, right?

Um, and uh we and it's gonna be to I have them in teams of four right now rather than three because most people said that they have four to six passenger cars and things like that, so and we had enough volunteers to have a team of four.

So um I'm waiting on a census tracks right now from SemTech to see how many tracks we have.

And if we have more than 11 tracks, um I'll move the teams from a size of four to a size of three to accommodate that.

But right now there's 11 teams, and I don't know how many tracks we have within the city yet, and they haven't given us that information yet based upon all the known locations that we've submitted.

But the expectation is that people walk the tracks when they get to their locations.

I think I are wearing a hundred percent coverage of all tracks in the city of Alameda.

Um, once I get them, I'll know if we have 100% coverage.

Um, like I said, I haven't gotten a track yet, but I'm assuming we might, because they told me that the 90 volunteers that they had two years ago was almost overkill, and we have 50 registered right now.

So we should have enough to cover most of the city.

Um, if I get a few more, I can make a few more teams, and then we can definitely cover the entire city.

Um I have a question more about data.

Um I'm just I look at some data about point in time 2026, and it's the known locations identified.

And it just someone actually asked me about this.

So, so for example, in Oakland, they have 735 identified spots.

Makes sense, right?

Hayward has 98 identified spots.

San Andrew has 113.

Alameda has 126, despite being geographically and population smaller.

Yeah.

I I thought maybe it was because we have more, we have less less people who are homeless.

So these are like almost almost like county individuals.

I but I'm not sure.

Do you do you know why our number, our number of locations are proportionally higher than anywhere else in this in the area?

Yeah, so just because it's a known location doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna find somebody there.

What the known location means is that we spotted somebody there, we observed somebody there, we engaged with them at some point in time, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're still there.

So there could be duplications, and like, okay.

So let's say Stacey, for example, I'm just making up a name here.

Well, we discovered her on the base at 150 West Hornet.

And then the next day, she was at 300 Island Drive, all the way on the other side of the city.

That would count as a known location, even though it was the same person.

Right, and a known location is it has nothing to do with numbers either, right?

So the the 62 known location in Berkeley could all have 30 people in each one or something.

Yeah, it could be individuals.

Okay.

So that's that's what I was kind of guessing was the right answer, but it's good to kind of hear it confirmed.

Yeah.

Because some people might look at that number and go, why is our number so big?

Right?

We will just don't look at things that deeply, you know, last night.

So thank you.

And then keep in mind too that for known locations, they are counting all the different numbers of longitude, latitude addresses, and things like that.

And you could be at 2529 Eagle Avenue, and that would be one location, but let's say somebody pinpointed that same person and they were a block down.

That would be counted as another known location.

So that's likely what's happening in Alameda.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

So if we have the repeating addresses, they're not gonna count the repeat address, but if the address was like a block away, they're gonna count that.

Yeah.

All right, thank you.

Mm-hmm.

No problem.

Do we have any other questions?

Um, oh, anything for the public.

We need to make sure we ask anyone has public comment.

We have no public comment.

Okay.

Well, thank you so much for your presentation and coming here this evening.

No problem.

Thank you, everybody.

Hopefully, you get out soon.

Thank you.

Bye.

Happy Thursday.

All right.

And that brings us to, it's especially we kind of work talked about this already, but our uh 4G, which is our work group report.

Before we do that, can we do the minutes now that Michelle is here?

Oh, can we do it?

Okay.

Sorry.

That's right.

We can um that doesn't need to be uh this the system, yeah.

So we can do it.

Oh yes, I I and to let you know I was at Kinder Info Knight.

That is why I was um so we have item three A, we approve of the minutes for December 1st, 2025.

Um I did actually put forth a motion to approve the minutes.

Um it was seconded by Gerald.

Um, we're gonna put this up to vote.

Um, all those in favor accepting those minutes for December 1st say aye.

I posed none, fast as name zero, whatever.

Okay, great.

I mean, I'm gonna say it was such delightful meeting.

It was it was it was a very delightful meeting.

It was bittersweet, yeah.

Um, all right.

All right.

Now we can go right the work group reports this item is the board discussion only, there's no staff presentation, so go directly to public comments.

There is some colour.

Okay, um, okay, this time if it's open for discussion.

Are you married?

Okay, well, um, we are currently looking for a new member.

So I'm looking forward to opportunity to meet and greet the new member of the United States, the United States group.

Um we are definitely looking for ways to get the resolution moved forward as an action plan.

That was something that I have been talking about in recent weeks with people who were caring to listen.

So I thought it was really important that we have the opportunity to do so.

Um, if there's anything else on the list that I should have remembered.

Um, very short kind of a break there, a month and a half.

So we did not really do a whole lot of work within that time period, but my goals are still the same, but we can forward with working on the ACCYF, advisory unions, the LGBTQ community, and those are the goals that I don't give a end of the month.

We have the next task force meeting on the second of February.

The mayor is going to attend.

And I think we're having a presentation there from the city attorney on charging domestic violence histamine or violation.

The victim advocate will be attending to share about it.

And as I mentioned, um I I didn't hit it with the Getsy and Shelby the I don't know who they were, the SCYF or the except the leadership or not.

Yeah, we met with the the youth advisory committee, which I believe is a subcommittee of the ACCYF, correct?

Okay, because there was two presidents and a vice president and the secretary and other outreach specialists.

So discussed about the I think everybody said it discussed it but discussed their interest in domestic violence, kind of what they would see, and perhaps see if there's a way to change the task force being a date so that we can have a youth network.

And so that's that's really it.

All right.

Um and then uh road home.

Um we don't have any huge updates.

Um you guys want us to the final report for the running home, like uh city council.

Uh I think we should should let me attend.

Uh like a presentation.

Yes, yes, yeah.

I'll um someone present.

I was actually gonna put that as a part of my staff updates, or I didn't put it for my staff updates.

Uh, but I can ask someone to get the presentation that she gave the city council.

I think that would be nice and a good idea.

Uh and that's all we have.

The only thing we I wanted to put on our radar too is given I thought how meaningful the the volunteers in celebration of volunteers, I want to just sort of think of what it would be like if I'm if I'm in town, I want to push for this to be an elevator parade and honor them during the parade.

Also, would it be weird if we as the provisional committee sent thank you notes to all the account volunteers?

Oh, let's see what I would give it all.

So we can send them like because it's hard to get volunteers at five in the morning, and I'm sure city staff don't have time, but we could probably send like a card.

Yeah.

That'll be lovely.

I don't know if that's on the microphone.

You should have the addresses and what they're okay.

You know, I have a lot of things.

So that's very boredly.

Right, very broadly.

So just be like the things.

You guys are cool.

So they guess kind of volunteer.

Yeah, I think that's a great idea.

That's a great idea.

Oh, we'd also talked about the I think we should have some other things, right?

Uh like pictures and thank you because of the volunteers at the body.

That's what we use.

Sorry, I don't know if what happened after that.

I'll just bring it up on our nice.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's like that.

Oh, and uh, I'll be bringing a the a senior survey for review to the next meeting, right?

Right.

So we're the hopes of having it happen in March.

So um, all right, we can go to anything else on this?

Yeah, we've got item five, the staff communications, assessment and city Oaklands, city of the Alamidas.

Sorry, say Alanita's how's housing services.

Oh, sorry.

I was under a lot of you know about that.

Okay.

All right.

And all right, I am going to see and I will be presenting uh the staff updates for our division.

So update on the day center after a competitive bidding process.

A uh contractor has been selected.

Marcon builders have been selected to complete the day center relocation project and the contract has been executed.

We expect construction to be completed late summer, early fall.

So we're really looking forward to that.

We have finally been able to execute after a long government shutdown.

We have finally been able to execute our federally funded contracts for social service providers.

We completed our five-year progress report that was presented to city council January 6th and it's accepted.

We will be beginning stakeholder sessions to inform our needs assessment, the first of which will be later this month.

The pay camp is January 22nd, as we all know.

We have a new interim city manager.

Um so after a competitive selection process, the city council appointed Mr.

Adam Pollitzer as interim city manager at the December 2nd this 2025 city council meeting.

What she left?

Mr.

Mulitzer comes to I should have added that on my last staff report.

I'm sorry.

Mr.

Paul, yeah, our last day was mid-December.

I don't think but it was kind of a quick like news was given November.

You'd let us know.

Oh, great.

Okay.

Okay.

Mr.

Pulitzer comes to Alameda with nearly 35 years of local government experience, including 13 years.

I think you're sorry.

Oh okay, sorry.

No side companies.

Sorry.

I thought it was the person.

Anyway, he has a lot of experience.

We have there are 17 below market rate homes that were sold from September to December, which I feel this is always like the last uh update that's like kind of sunk in at the end.

This is a really big deal.

That's huge.

There's 17 below market rate homes that were sold to low to moderate income households as we know in this country.

A big way to create wealth is through homeownership.

So there are 17 new households that now have that opportunity.

So that's really um.

So and my colleague Michelle, sometimes I put Michelle B and I sent it to the wrong shot B.

She has just worked tirelessly, kind of behind the scenes, doing all the paperwork and the loan documents, kind of like a unseen part of the process, but so Keith said, thank you to her.

Other Michelle B.

And that completes my staff updates.

Thank you.

I don't know if you would know this or not, but did they uh supply a timeline for how long people have this city manager in there?

Like are they gonna plan to do it until the new mayor is elected?

Or do you have there's no way anyone would ever tell me that?

Um, they do a durational period so that you're gonna read through the long term.

Okay, that's a good question.

So I know so I don't really have specifics.

I know that for interim, we were all told that they were gonna because they when we were told that they were doing hiring process external for interrogation that it was going to be very quick, and then as far as finding a permanent, not something that was less that was more vague, but that they would be having they would be doing a hiring process.

So I actually don't know.

Okay.

The person that was helped let the meeting.

That's not the part that's not the city manager that came to our meeting and let it.

Short here.

Oh, gotcha.

So she's still here, so she accessed our gotcha.

She's pretty gossip, so she I thought she was the top top.

She yeah, she's completely.

Okay, uh, thank you for your report.

Um and now we can move on to item six, which is board communications, not agenda items.

Okay, thanks.

Uh sure.

I was I got an email from Diane asking if we would be interested in co-sponsoring with the free library.

A book for black history month.

How could we?

And so I told her I would at least bring it up as part of a conversation.

The details that she gave me were that uh she has a friend who's got a book, and they were one of the pioneer recruiters for the NAACP in the South and the West.

And they do a real discussion of the black community during these time periods, and they would probably be good place to start to give people an idea.

So the question of whether we could do co-sponsorship with the library, question that I would think we want to talk about it for next month.

That's something we can think about.

It'll probably be recovered on.

Well, if you're talking about it next month, that would be too late, I think, right?

Because that'd be the end of February.

Yeah, you probably want to think next week or so.

Yeah, but that's not my very city staff on that thread.

If you if you're trying to partner with the library, then we would have to connect with your staff.

Yeah, yeah.

And that would be the goal here is why she asked if we would be willing to co-sponsor.

And I said it seems like a really good idea.

Um, if we can work with the library, if we work with that.

So does she have an event she's already creating, or what is the the ask that um like are we yeah, this is sponsored, but does she have the event already?

Or is she asking for us to start?

I believe she already has the event.

Oh, and that's anything.

Yeah, and that she wanted to know if we would be willing to go in as part of it.

I can verify that with her when we finish.

Um, get back to you by that by for that tomorrow.

Okay, that's good.

If you want to also loop me in, that makes it a lot easier.

I it literally showed up on me today.

Yep.

So timing is everything.

Excellent.

Beautiful, all right.

That's all for me.

Any other communications?

Okay, seeing none, we can move to adjournment and we will turn this meeting at 8 35.