Good afternoon and welcome to the Life Enrichment Committee meeting of Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.

The time is now 4.03 pm, and this meeting may come to order.

Spill one out and turn one into myself or a clerk representative no later than 10 minutes after the start of this meeting or before the item is read into record.

Registering to speak via Zoom is now due 24 hours prior to the start of this meeting time.

This meeting came to order at 4.03 p.m.

and speaker cards will no longer be accepted 10 minutes after, making that time 4 13 p.m.

We'll now proceed with taking roll.

Councilmember Guile.

Thank you.

Councilmember Houston.

Present.

Thank you.

Councilmember Wong.

Present.

And Chair Fife.

Present.

Thank you.

We have four members present.

Before we begin, Chair, do you have any announcements at this time?

Yeah.

I do not have any uh announcements at this time other than this is a very packed agenda, so I will be regulating time.

Uh but I want to go ahead and get us started so we can get along with the festivities.

Thank you.

Starting off with item one.

Since this is a special meeting, there are no minutes to be approved.

Item two, determination of schedule of outstanding committee items.

The district three office has no items at this time.

I would open it up to the city administrator.

We have no items to add at this time.

Thank you.

Council members.

I'll entertain a motion.

Second.

Okay.

That was a that was a motion made by Councilmember Guile, seconded by Councilmember Wong to approve the determination of schedule by standing committee items as is on roll.

Councilmember Guile.

Aye.

Council Member Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Five.

Aye.

Thank you.

Item number two passes with four eyes to accept the pending list as is.

Now reading in item number three, adopt a resolution honoring Creative Growth Arts Center upon their 50th anniversary for outstanding service to the city of Oakland and contemporary artists with develop developmental disabilities, and we have one speaker that signed up.

Wonderful.

I will ask the uh honorese to come up to the podium.

I want to uh along with our economic and workforce development department's cultural affairs team, honor this amazing organization who has now been in existence for 50 years engaged in impactful service to the city of Oakland and its residents.

Creative Growth Art Center was founded by Elias Katz and Florence Ludens Katz in 1974 as first as the first U.S.

organization dedicated to supporting artists with disabilities.

For decades, Creative Growth has helped people with disabilities to express themselves and exhibit their work professionally, helping advance inclusive creative development and artistic education for all.

Thank you to everyone at Creative Growth Arts Center for your impactful work and congratulations on this 50 years.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I will open up the microphone to hear from our honorees.

Thank you so much, Chair Fife and the City Council.

Um, good evening.

You said it all.

On behalf of Creative Growth Arts Center, I want to express our deepest gratitude to the Life Enrichment Committee and the City of Oakland for this recognition of our 50th anniversary as the first and largest progressive art studio in the United States.

Um for a half-century creative growth has been a pioneering force advancing the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities in the contemporary art world.