Welcome to the Alameda County Together for All ad hoc committee meeting.

Let's call the role.

Supervisor Marquez.

Supervisor Fortinana.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

I believe we're going to have some interpretation and public speaking instructions first.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

My name is Carmen Sulanya, and we will be interpreting with Su Yen in the back.

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Okay.

Welcome everyone to our March meeting of Act for All and Happy Women's History Month.

So Act for All is a forum to coordinate a proactive response to protect support and lift up our communities that are impacted by federal policies and budgets.

And we work to ensure that we're all informed, prepared, and coordinated and protecting critical health programs, social services, and our constitutional rights.

You can stay informed with our work by visiting our webpage at district5.acgov.org/slash act for all.

I will share a few opening remarks and I'll hand it over to our vice chair before we begin with our agenda.

So I do want to take a moment to acknowledge that these continue to be very challenging and turbulent times for our communities locally and globally.

Our board is actively dealing with the impacts of HR1 on health care and food assistance.

And then globally in the past two months, President Trump has deposed and killed the leaders of two countries in Venezuela and Iran.

And Trump has started a war with Iran, while the Senate has failed to pass a war powers resolution that were that would require Trump to seek congressional approval for any further action on Iran.

And so for those who have been concerned about where this administration is going, I think this is very, very telling.

And just as a point of history, the 1973 War Powers Act is legislation passed during the Vietnam War to give Congress a legal check on executive war authority.

The 1973 Act also requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying U.S.

forces into hostilities and to end the deployment within 60 days unless Congress authorizes or extends it.

So there are no checks or balances on this current war, as well as some of the challenges that we are already experiencing in terms of this administration honoring the rule of law.

So I do want to share that my heart goes out to all who have died in this war, including their loved ones, and these are both Iranian people as well as U.S.

soldiers.

In addition to that, DHS partially shut down.

And while Christy Nome is no longer the DHS secretary, which is good news, there's a lot more that needs to happen to deal with the chaos and harm that DHS ICE and CBP are perpetrating.

So our congressional representatives do need to stay strong.

There is a host of other things that C US administration is doing.

The US officially pulled out of the World Health Organization.

There are a number of other policies that are happening.

So this policy aims to restrict gender-based accommodation, remove gender options from surveys, and create sex segregated spaces.

So those are just a few of the ways that this administration continues to threaten and harm our communities and actually roll back a lot of progress that we have been making to become a welcoming county.

I also wanted to note as it relates to immigration, that our uh neighbors in the South Bay are uh very active in terms of protesting and expressing concern about 46 people who've been detained by ICE outside the Santa Clara County jail.

So there's still a lot that we're very concerned about across the entire country, the globe, as well as here in Alameda County.

Um shifting gears a little bit.

I want to uh bring our attention to the county and to what's on our agenda today in terms of immigration.

We do want to continue to remain vigilant here in Alameda County.

Um I'm sending our love and support to our neighbors in Santa Clara County as they deal with what is happening there.

And I do want to thank the thousands of people across our county who are connecting and organizing to keep each other safe.

They are incredibly caring community presence at our schools, foot patrols as well, adopt the spots at our worker job sites as well as at our schools, community assemblies and parks, and all of this is really important in order for neighbors to get to know neighbors and to keep each other safe.

And so I said this before, and I'll say it again that while the administration's mass deportation agenda is spreading fear, causing trauma, and separating families.

Our communities are demonstrating incredible courage, resilience, and an unshakable commitment to organizing and keeping each other safe.

And as many of you know, on January 27th, um our community, our partners, our county colleagues came together, and the board unanimously adopted two policies, which we will talk about today ice-free zones and a county readiness plan.

So I am very heartened by what we are doing here in Alameda County to keep each other safe.

Before I hand it over to my colleague, on today's agenda, we are largely going to focus on uh the implementation of the two policies, and we will have our chief deputy county administrator Lori Cox do a presentation.

Um, also with us is Kim Gassaway, the direct Kimberly Gassaway, the Director of General Services Administration.

So we'll have some updates in terms of the implementation of those two plans, and we'll have public comment after those presentations.

So without further ado, I do want to invite Vice Chair Supervisor Marquez to share any remarks.

Thank you, Chair Fortano Bass.

Welcome everyone.

Thank you for being in community with us here today.

I just want to start off my comments and just truly thanking our colleagues.

It was one of my proudest moments back at the end of January when it was unanimous vote to bring these two items forward.

It's really important whether we all agree on every political issue that our country is facing right now.

I think we're we uh what we do agree on is protecting the well-being of our residents here in Alameda County, and that unanimous vote demonstrated that.

So I'm really proud of that vote.

Thank you, Supervisor Rosana Bass and your team for your leadership and advancing these policies.

Um, we do have the benefit of seeing Santa Clara County come go before us and giving us a lot of good guidance.

I also appreciate that regional partnership because we're all in this together.

We can't tackle these issues alone.

Also want to thank staff.

I know we've put so much on staff's plate.

Not only are we dealing with the negative harms and impacts of HR1 in this federal administration, but we're grappling with Measure W, Measure C, Prop 1, Alameda Health System.

The list goes on and on.

So just know that we are all here committed to do everything possible to minimize the hurt, the pain, and the harm that's being caused by design by this federal administration.

So just want to let the community know we see you, we stand in solidarity, and we are going to do everything we possibly can to protect your right to be here in this community.

So I'm looking forward to the updated information and just really um proud of our ability to put the needs of our immigrant refugee and all community members first.

This is a very welcoming county, and it's important that people feel that they belong and they know that, and that their leaders and elected officials do everything they can to promote that and uplift that.

So thank you.

Thank you.

And we will move on to our first and our only item, which is an informational and action item to receive updates from the county administrator's office regarding our response plan for immigration enforcement activity in Alameda County and a policy that restricts the use of county-controlled and county-owned properties for immigration enforcement activity.

Before I hand it over, I just want to briefly summarize what these two items are.

So again, on January 27th, our board unanimously approved the creation of an immigration enforcement response plan and a policy to establish ice-free zones.

These initiatives were discussed extensively at the November and January Act meetings as well as the board meeting.

I do want to thank AC Health, Social Services, General Services, and our four public safety agencies.

Each of them weighed in on these items and shared information with us.

And also want to thank the county administrators' office for their work with us, and very importantly, our county council.

We had great collaboration with our county council's office on the ice free zones policy, which was very, very helpful.

So firstly, the county immigration enforcement response plan is a comprehensive coordinated response plan across county departments, community partners and local agencies.

This plan aims to establish rapid response protocols to protect individual rights, provide staff training and public communication guidance, ensure access to county services, promote public safety during immigration enforcement activity, and help safeguard access to public hospitals and clinics, schools, courts, and other essential facilities.

So again, that's our response plan.

The second item is the county policy establishing ice-free zones.

So this is a resolution which prohibits the use of county-owned and county-controlled properties for civil immigration enforcement activities.

This includes restrictions on the use of parking lots, garages, vacant lots, and non-public areas of county buildings for ice staging, processing your operations.

The policy will be implemented through standardized signage, clear internal procedures, and physical and logistical protections to ensure consistent enforcement across county facilities.

So again, these two actions reaffirm that every resident has the right to access county services without fear.

We know that when families are afraid to go to the doctor, attend court, or seek help, entire communities suffer.

So these are very important to continuing to build trust, keep families together, and make sure Alameda is safer for all of us.

I also want to note it's also part of a coordinated regional response to ensure our communities know that we all belong.

Santa Clara and San Francisco counties, San Jose and Oakland have all taken similar action.

And then finally, for details, please see the attachments with the agenda.

There's numerous attachments from our hearings, as well as the policy itself.

And this also includes information from the various departments that shared information with us.

So with that, I would like to invite Lori Cox, our chief deputy county administrator, to give us a status update.

Thank you.

You did a wonderful job summarizing my entire presentation.

I'm joking.

Not exactly.

If we could uh go to the next slide, I do want to provide just a little bit.

Some of this may be a bit repetitive, but a little bit of an overview of where we where we came and where we are today.

I'm super appreciative of your board and the actions that you have taken over the years.

In 2016, we declared Alameda County a welcoming county and established the first ad hoc committee on immigrant and refugee support.

In 2025, your board uh created the second Alameda County Together for All Ad Hot Committee, which really continued the work that had been started so many years ago and was certainly very much needed in the current moment.

Currently, the board's direction has asked county staff to look at the creation of an Office of Immigrant and Refugee Services to create the Immigration Enforcement Response Plan, as you mentioned, and to adopt the resolution that restricts the use of county-owned properties for immigration enforcement.

I will cover both items briefly in my presentation.

And as you noted, Kimberly Gassaway from GSA is here.

If there are some additional questions, but I'll attempt to summarize the actions that have been taken so far.

Can I have the next slide, please?

So the resolution that was adopted on January 22nd, in addition to prohibiting the use of county-owned and controlled properties from federal immigration enforcement activities, also included adding appropriate and clear signage to those locations, ensuring physical barriers, developing clear reporting policies for both county employees and or the security guards that work at those locations, requests that federal immigration enforcement officers identify themselves and clarify their role.

It also required that we develop signage for property owners and leaseholders in the community for them to post at their own description discretion and that we provide know your rights materials to the public.

So the first, if I can go to the next slide.

They've gotten bids that show the cost per sign, with this particular sign has braille added to it.

It's $500 per sign, and that does include polls if we need to create posts to put up the signs.

Consistent with the county employees process.

I'll talk about the employee process in just a moment, but we're trying to make sure that the message that we're giving to both county employees and to our contracted security guards is consistent.

And then we are going to provide modified sample language on the website for the public so that they can download it free of charge.

So obviously, it will not say that the property is controlled by the county of Alameda, so we'll need to adapt it in a way that they can use for their own business purposes.

Kimberly, did I summarize well?

Good.

All right.

So in terms of our internal and external communications, we were asked to develop protocols for communication across county agencies and across leadership.

What I can tell you to date is that protocols have been drafted by many of the departments.

They are still in that draft form, pending either discussions with labor or with county council or under county council review.

After those protocols for communication have been reviewed and approved to move forward, our next step is to ensure that we are collaborating across the department so that we have pretty much a single message that we aren't asking departments to have all the departments to have different messaging for different staff, but that generally there's you know general language that all departments will use, and then they will modify their communication plans specifically for their departments, and then we'll provide training to staff and contractors.

Um, including those that you mentioned earlier, our public protection partners, SSA, GSA, Alameda County Health, and some of our other smaller departments, so that we can begin to map out what we want our phone tree, so to speak, to look like.

We also need to meet with our county partner, our community partners.

I've been working with the Social Services Agency to get a meeting scheduled.

They currently have a rapid response network.

They are in communication and coordinating amongst themselves and have been working in collaboration with the county, but we want to make sure that we're clear about roles and responsibilities and that we're all sitting at a table together and developing what our response will be.

I also want to point out SSA has put out a website that, and I understand, I think from recent conversations that they're also going to put out some information in their monthly e-publications.

So thank you very much to them for that.

We will be ordering red cards and making those available across all departments.

There are larger client-facing departments, have the red cards.

They have the know your rights information either in their lobbies and they've got given it to staff to hand out to clients as they need to.

We're also recognizing that there's some of the other departments that are not necessarily client-facing, but also have opportunities where whether it's just for the employees themselves or they're out and about in the community, where it would be handy for them to also have know your rights information that they can share.

Next slide.

Some of our ongoing community supports and partnerships.

One of the other items that this committee recommended and is moving forward is the creation of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs.

Currently, there is a countywide assessment that is being conducted by a third party.

It was funded by several of our foundation partners.

I believe they raised a little more than 100,000 to support the effort, and they're expected to return with a report to this committee late April.

And we also, I just want to point out uh SSA reminded me just the other day we have an MOU that we need to get approved by the board for the work that we're doing.

And so they are planning to bring that MOU on March 17th to the full board.

Um we're also uh we supported the interim office of immigrant affairs within the Social Services Agency.

They are still in the hiring process.

They received 450,000 to support hiring of staff.

I don't have an exact timeline for when that will be done, but I do know that they are in the in some of the final stages of that hiring process.

We also supported an expanded funding for our immigrant serving organizations.

We used Measure W, about 5.7 million dollars to provide a rapid response hotline, know your rights training, legal services, community response and resources and community organizing, and we also increased the budget for the public defenders immigration unit so that they could continue to provide supports and services.

We do anticipate bringing back the contracts that we had approved, I believe it was in October of last year for continued funding so that they can continue to do their services.

Next slide.

So our next steps, I mean, it's it really is an ongoing process.

We do want to move forward with the implementation of our ICE free zones policy across all of the departments.

We'll begin rolling out the implementation of the signage.

That will be done on a phased phased plan due to just other priorities and where staff are.

What we have to look at is the workload that goes along with it.

So GSA is prioritizing, but certainly knowing that they can't get all 105 signs up in one day.

We will continue to coordinate on the development of our response plan and the community and regional coordination.

I was fortunate to be connected with Santa Clara County and their office of immigration.

It I got so much information.

I really appreciate the work that they've done and the groundwork that they've laid.

It's been super helpful as we continue to move forward.

And then we are looking forward to an update on the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs framework from our philanthropic partners.

Again, to reiterate, we're hoping that that will come at the end of April.

I have a couple of follow-up meetings, one at the end of this week, both with the committee that is working on the project as well as an individual meeting, just to be interviewed on kind of where we are and what we're doing.

So with that, um, this is just to remind folks of the county's commitment.

We are committed to upholding state law and county policy.

We want to continue to protect protect access to services.

We are ensuring that no county resources are used for civil immigration enforcement.

We will continue to coordinate rapid and compassionate responses to enforcement activity, and we want to continue to strengthen our long-term immigrant and refugee protections.

And with that, that's the end of my update, but I'm happy to take any questions that your board or anyone may have.

Thank you very much.

Supervisor Marquez.

Thank you.

Thank you for this wonderful update.

I really appreciate you front loading a lot of questions I had.

So thank you for flagging the MOU.

Glad to hear that that's coming March 17th.

I will ask if we could please have an update on the hiring process for the two interim positions through social services for the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs.

And then with respect to the signage, I believe you did indicate, but just want to clarify, I know it's going to be a phased approach to actually put up all the signs and get everything up throughout the county, but it I believe I did hear you say that we're going to prioritize the more public outfacing, specifically like social services where people are enrolling for benefits, Calfresh, things of that nature, where we see higher volume of activity, I think is going to be key.

Yes, I want to.

I don't want to speak for the GSA director, but I do believe that that is correct.

I will also add that there prior to this particular effort, there was some signage that had had we had begun to post.

And so in some of those buildings, the signage, there is some signage up, but this very specific uniformity, I think is going to be key.

This will be going up over the next near term.

Okay, and the consistent messaging and just kind of um the visual recognition recognition of um of indicating that those areas are um protected.

Um with respect to the contracts, do you know when those will come back to us?

Like how far advanced before they expire for the current um providers that are offering the rapid response, the legal defense.

I'm not sure exactly when they will come forward.

Um I do know that the social services agency who holds the contracts has been getting quarterly reports.

I um anticipate that once we have our meeting with them, we'll be able to determine really what the level of need is and what what the funding request may be.

Um it will be all I could say is that the intent is to do it before the contracts expire.

Okay, that's that's gonna be critical.

I think we've both have been very consistent on how we want to ensure those services through the duration of this administration.

The goal of the Office of Immigrant Refugee Affairs is more of the long-term solution and having that internal infrastructure.

But I think right now the baseline is we've got to get through the next um two and a half years.

Um, and then uh let's see, and I believe we are confirmed to have the consultant come back to this body on April 30th.

So thank you for that accommodation.

I believe it is a Friday.

I know it's out of our normal sequence.

Um it is a Friday.

So thank you for that accommodation.

But those are all my um questions and comments at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I think I largely have um a couple things I wanted to highlight.

So thank you for mentioning the work that social services is doing.

I did meet with Director Ford yesterday and complimented her on the agency's website.

So for members of the public, if you go to social services website for Alameda County and go to immigrant relations, there's a lot of great resources there.

And in particular, I talked with her about the um the family preparedness plans.

Um, I do think it's really important to make sure that for our staff who have uh clients, especially clients who are families who may be immigrant or refugee, that they are familiar with these resources, including the preparedness plan, which makes sure that you have a child care plan in particular in the um awful event that you might be separated from your child.

So um wanted to lift up those resources and great to hear that we're making sure that our staff has uh the right cards and other materials.

So I'm just very glad to hear that this is moving forward.

And then finally, we had some uh discussion about the courts in one of our last hearings, and I did want to bring to people's attention that there was a good article um by Lisa Fernandez, I believe it was uh with KTVU, um, and she reported that as of February, the Alameda County Superior Court, by order of the presiding judge, implemented a new policy prohibiting armed peace officers, including ICE agents from entering courthouses without official business.

So that's one more step in terms of our county taking action to create uh a safer community for all of us here.

So uh with that, why don't we go ahead to public comment?

Caller, you're on the line, you have two minutes.

Lindy.

Yes.

Hello there, hi, thank you.

Hi, this is Mindy Petchener, candidate for Oakland mayor.

And I want to speak to some things that uh Nikki uh Futuna Bas spoke to because she cited several things which are completely uh not true.

First of all, uh what she said about President Trump and what's going on in the current strategic situation.

In fact, the House today followed the Senate's action and the votes to let Trump's Operation Epic Fury continue in Iran.

So, hello, wake up.

Secondly, I find it very hypocritical when your guy, President Obama, read drone strikes and who's to have a kill Tuesday, I think it was, where he planned drone strikes against innocent people and invaded Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.

Thirdly, you know, thank God for a agencies that want to protect citizens of this country.

And it should be clear, we're not talking about anything except illegals that are criminal.

And look at what the FBI today did in Los Angeles.

It actually was able to uh clean out a major drug operation and get drugs and major cashier drugs off the streets.

Why has this board of supervisors?

Why has this county of Alameda not taken the action?

You have taken people and say you're protecting them, but you crowd them into homes which are filthy and dirty.

And secondly, and lastly, I'll just say this right now uh on the question of Venezuelas you raised uh Nikki.

Right now we have very good relationships with Venezuela.

We got rid of somebody arrested somebody who was a major drug launderer, human trafficking launderer, working for intelligence agencies.

I can give you a whole lesson on this, but I'm not gonna do it right now.

And so now we have very good relationship with Venezuela with the new president.

We're rebuilding the country, oil is going in.

So I think you need to re think about what you're saying for the citizens of Alameda County to have a good prosperous city.

Caller, you're on the line.

You have two minutes, Christopher.

Good afternoon, Supervisors Fortunatabas and Marquez and Ad Hot Committee Support Staff.

My name is Christopher Martinez, and I'm with the Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation, serving the East Bay communities since 1965 and a key partner in a CLIP.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

We are in strong support of the efforts to restrict the use of county properties for immigration enforcement activity and support the implementation of a coordinated response plan for immigration enforcement actions.

Thank you, Lori Cox, for your presentation.

The fear facing immigrant families right now is felt across our schools, workplaces, and in the clients we serve daily.

Proactive planning is not a political act, it is a public health and safety imperative.

We urge the board to continue these plans and make sure they include clear protocols so that all residents know their rights and provide guidance and leadership.

So all county employees and our community are prepared and know their responsibilities.

But it's not just fear that immigrant families face.

Families are directly impacted in their income and family stability, and we as a community must provide support.

We also urge the supervisors to continue moving forward to establish the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Services.

This office will be a lifeline connecting families to legal resources, language access, and essential services at a moment when that work has never been more critical.

All of this deserves sustained funding and full organizational support.

And finally, as enforcement actions escalate, families and service providers face a lack of community support, such as eviction prevention, rent, and living supports for ICE-impacted families.

We respectfully ask the board to address these emerging needs and to prepare for declaring a local state of emergency in the event of escalation.

Such a declaration would unlock resources and send a clear message that this board stands with all members of the community.

We are so grateful for your leadership and we stand ready to partner with you.

Thank you.

Kathy, you're on the line, you have two minutes.

For your leadership, I uh read a recent article in the Oakland side that was not only distressing but very disturbing, that unidentified federal agents arrested an Oakland truck driver last Tuesday and whisked him away to parts unknown.

And these videos were shared with the Oakland side, and the arrest was confirmed with the driver's company.

I'm concerned if this person was taken to a detention facility or where this person is.

Have there been any attempts to reunite him with his family?

As you know, beginning of this year, seven members of a family in East Oakland were separated from their families, one was disabled and sent to a detention facility in New York, and there was no um additional recourse.

Um, these things are probably gonna continue to happen, but I'm just wondering if the supervisors knew of this situation and what matters are gonna be done to try to resolve it, and moving forward.

Thank you.

John, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Yes, I have to uh concur with Mindy's uh comments about uh Venezuela.

We actually are getting along very well with Venezuela now.

And yes, I confirm that uh the Congress did uh reject the uh trying to uh limit the uh uh actions in uh Iran now.

You do leave out that fact that uh recently the Iranian government there has been killing by the thousands of its own citizens who are protesting by the thousands.

Estimates for since they took over in 1979, go all the way up into the millions that they've been killing.

Now I do have some good news though, is that out in uh Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tom Holm and the Border Tsar did visit with uh uh Governor Waltz and the mayor of Minneapolis, had an adult conversation and reasoned with them, and the uh Mike Wals and the uh the mayor now say that are now cooperating with ICE and they are honoring the uh the criminal uh detainers from ICE.

And they also are sending out the police to uh to break up any um uh ICE protests that are going on.

They're not ignoring them anymore.

They are actually uh enforcing the law and breaking up those.

So things are going actually very well now in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

When people get together and they talk and just reason out things like adults do.

Now, here in Alameda County, we are not Minnesota, we are not LA.

We are Alameda County, and we don't have the pro a problem with ice.

And I've and uh the uh court system or the sheriff actually confirmed it.

There were only like six six arrests in Alameda County.

Not Minneapolis where you have thousands in LA, like you have thousands.

Thank you.

I have no more speakers for item one.

Oh, one more for public comment, but not for item one.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

Um, well, very good.

So in relation to the item in front of us, I do want to thank our staff again.

I know that your plates are incredibly full, and so we definitely appreciate working across our agencies to make sure that we are ready for any potential escalation as well as for the ongoing enforcement that is happening.

Um, so thank you, Lori, and thank you to everyone in the city administrator or the county administration for making sure that we continue to sharpen that readiness plan, as well as ensure that our properties are secure, that our staff are trained, and we look forward to continuing to hear how this all uh develops in terms of our preparedness plan.

Um, this is an informational and action item.

I think the main action is receiving this report.

I don't believe we need to vote on that, do we?

Okay.

Um, so I will just note again as uh you heard earlier.

Our next meeting is actually going to be Friday, April 30th.

At that meeting, we'll hear an update on the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, and there are some board items that will come up in the interim, I believe, to make sure that we are continuing all of that work.

So with that, um we'll go ahead and take any public comment for items that are not on the agenda.

Bob Britton, I'm Bob Britton.

I'm speaking today on behalf of the Interfaith Coalition for Justice Center Jails, which is a table of faith in action East Bay.

Thank you so much for your leadership on these issues.

Uh, the issue I want to raise again with you, which I raised in public comment on January 27th, is regarding the SCAP program, SCAAP, where this currently the Alameda County Sheriff's Office through a contractor called DBI, uh reports uh the uh prisoners who have been in custody for four consecutive days and have on their record a felony conviction or two misdemeanor convictions because you have a conviction on your record doesn't mean that you're a criminal.

That should be clear.

Uh we believe in rehabilitation.

We don't believe in recidivism.

We don't want people to continue to be criminals.

We want to them to go back to the community.

The sheriff says that uh the report that she submits does not include any information about their immigration status, only their self-reported country of origin, which means that some of them are undoubtedly citizens that she's reporting to the Department of Justice, and that information is then shared with homeland security slash ICE.

The sheriff has said, being a daughter of immigrants herself, that in her heart she would like to see the program stopped, but she would like to see the one this year 1.27 million dollars uh replaced in the budget.

I want to bring to your attention just a couple of newspaper articles.

Um most importantly, this one last month in the Point Reyes Light, Marin County.

Uh there, the county executive took action on their own to uh remove that funding from the budget in the coming year.

In the spring, I believe it's in April, this DBI contract comes forward again.

John, public comment, you have two minutes.

Yeah, I'd like to bring up the the the rhetoric that seems to be emanating from this uh this group here and sometimes even even the speakers uh regarding you know the actions of Donald Trump.

Um, and I think we need to tone it down, because it does get people riled up.

And in particular, there are two attacks on the Alameda County Republican Party headquarters.

The first one was just you know spray painting of Swatsuka's and and you know mooning of the uh security cameras.

The second one's more serious, but they're but there are two big plate glass windows in the front and they came by and threw a rock through it.

And this got this kind of rhetoric really has to stop.

We need to tone it down before somebody gets hurt, and it seems to be that there seems to be a group of people taking it out on the Republican headquarters.

Now they're gonna I hate for it to go and escalate to start taking it out on Republicans.

So please tone it down.

Thank you.

Silasia, we're on item we're on public comment.

You have two minutes.

Thank you so much.

Um greetings, board of supervisors.

Um, I am Zila just Resh, the Deputy Chief of Strategy and Partnerships for Alameda County Office of Education.

Appreciate your leadership and um this committee space and wanted to share a couple of updates from ACOE that we have been working on over the past few months.

Um, the first that I've spoken about before here in this space are about the resources that are available on our website for um families as well as school staff as well as district staff and wanted to share that recently our staff presented with the National Center for Youth Law, along with other leaders from around the country, and they are sharing out um our resources in Alameda County as a model to um other cities and other counties around uh the country.

And so wanted to just share that celebration of the work that is happening here.

Um, second, we have launched our supplies for safe pathways to school, which is providing supply to schools that want to provide extra support and a welcoming presence for students and families at school arrival and dismissal times.

We have more than 70 schools that have already signed up to get supplies from ACOE to set up staff and volunteers there and all of these folks access community-based uh trainings on Zoom and learn about a CLAP and how to call and have a consistent um approach when there is federal enforcement activities happening.

So also just want to appreciate you funding a CLAP because it's a tremendous resource to have, and then finally want to let you know that our board of education on February 10th passed a new board policy limiting the use of county office of education property and prohibiting federal authorities from using COE facilities for staging or as a base for federal civil immigration enforcement.

Um so thank you again for your leadership in this space.

It was a tremendous model for us.

Um, so thank you again and really appreciate your work and your leadership.

We have no other speakers for public comment.

Thank you.

Um I know that we um have not agendized some of these items, but I do want to just share some points of information.

So, firstly, uh thank you to ACOE for always joining our meetings and for sharing those updates.

It's great to hear that you passed in February, uh February 10th, a similar ice-free policy.

I'm sure the students across the county are very glad to hear that.

Um, I forgot to uh let Kathy know who asked about the truck driver that I am aware of that case.

I don't have any uh information as of yet, but am trying to uh see what I can do, particularly because um my district does include the port of Oakland and I will be um talking with them as well to see if they have any information and then lastly um thank you Bob for mentioning SCAP uh this has come up in our past meetings the sheriff has discussed it as you know um my last correspondence with her she said that the grant application for SCAP is prepared by a third party contractor JBI this contract is set to expire and she is not seeking board approval for the contract extension thereby ending their participation with JBI on this program so I know that she's working with the county administrator's office um through the budget development process to address not renewing that funding I likewise am also going to work with the county administrator to make sure that um we don't continue that program and we find some other resources yeah I'll just share one brief update just kind of tracking all the act items uh there was also a request in January 27th with regard to uh bringing forward a resolution objecting to FCI Dublin and I know that that is in the works as well uh President Howard is leading that just wanted to close the loop on that.

All right thank you everyone we really appreciate your participation with our committee take care the meetings adjourned.

Thank you