Good morning.

I'd call to order the uh health committee meeting for Monday, November 10th.

Quick word take a roll.

Supervisor Tam.

Present.

Supervisor Miley.

Present.

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All right.

Thank you.

Okay.

So we have one item this morning's information item, public health commission annual update.

Supervisor Wilde, um commissioners are coming up to the podium.

Just uh some context.

This is our uh regular update that the public health commission provides to the health committee annually, and we also have Director Kimmy Watkins Tart available online if uh you want to elevate your teasing.

Okay, ready?

Good morning, Supervisor Miley and Supervisor Tam.

Thank you for having us here today.

We'll provide an overview of the Public Health Commission, just our annual update about everything that's been going on and just some of our milestones accomplishments and then what's going on with our committee work.

Okay, I'm gonna just skip over this.

Oh, before I forget, let me introduce myself.

So my name is Mitsi de la Penya Medina.

Um I am the chair of the public health commission, and I am from District 5.

And I'm Sally Miss Kelly.

I'm the vice chair of the public health commission.

I'm at large but live in district five.

All righty.

So our mission remains the same.

So our here, our goal is to focus and prevent on health equities, building community um capacities and champions, as well as policy and system changes within the committee, and then as or commission, as well as advocating and for the underserved communities of Alameda County, and as well as accountability for any initiative that is taking place, and then as well develop a vision for the future.

Okay, I don't know if this works.

Okay.

So currently, um, what you have here is our roster.

As you can see, for the most part, we are pretty covered in district four and district two, and at our at large seats.

We do have a few openings for district five as well as the district one and then district three.

With that being said, a lot of our commissioners are um in the newer end, so um, they have either recently joined us this year or the previous year.

Um we still do have a few longtime commissioners, so we still have um Zee, um Commissioner Harper, and then as well as Nestor, Commissioner Castillo.

Um, but I do want to note um Nestor will actually be leaving us this um this year, so he will be stepping down from his seat, making another at-large position open.

All our commissioners come from all different backgrounds with different experiences, um, and everybody has been great at trying to get involved.

I am sure some of these commissioners have reached out to some of you, um to both of you to get um more acquainted, understand what your priorities are as well as how they align to what the department um the department has also prioritized.

Next slide.

So we did recently update our bylaws and um sunseted a couple of our committees, and now we have this structure which includes the health equity and all policy and all policies, nominations, steering, and strategic initiatives.

So the strategic initiatives is a newer committee, and it's more focused on these ad hoc groups that um are temporary groups.

The focus at either an initiative regarding to access to care, housing, mental health, immigration, to name a few, um, and they are led by our commissioners in groups of two or three, where they really then develop a strategic plan on how we want to approach certain initiatives and also then some of them have even reached out to some of the BOS to collaborate more and further these discussions and see what's possible.

This is an effort to really have a cohesive dynamic between the BOS, the department, and then the commission itself.

We want to make sure that there's alignment.

We also want to make sure if there's an initiative already started that we help amplify it versus deterret and also provide feedback, what we see with our community members.

The steering committee is like our leadership committee.

So all the chairs of every one of the subcommittees join together before a week before our meeting, a little bit before, a little bit more than a week before our meeting, and discuss what we want the agenda to look like, as well as bring up any challenges that we are facing within these subcommittees, and then just overall what's going on from our regular meetings, so any follow-up that we need to do.

Then we have our nominations committee, which really tries to focus on having a standardization of our at-large seat interviews, as well as working with the clerk of the board and the department to ensure that we're getting applications and so forth.

They are also now leading the way in not just only recruiting at-large members, but as well as creating a system for our commissioners as they start.

We have noticed that a lot of our commissioners don't have a lot of commission experience or they're new to the system of what it is county bureaucracy.

So our nominations committee tries to focus on developing those tools for them to have a better understanding.

But it's obvious that we're also, you know, it's a volunteer position, so we only have so much time, but there is that gap of a lot of our commissioners don't really know how to work the dynamics of like the county or are knowledgeable on what as a commission we can we can do or amplify.

But the nominations committee has really tried to lead the way on that.

Now for the health equity in all policies, that's a more policy focus, and that really helps focus on the equity of Alameda County residents.