Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the life enrichment committee meeting of Tuesday, October 14th, 2025.

The night the time is now four twenty-five p.m.

and this meeting shall come to order.

Do the chair can the chamber door be closed, please.

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I will now proceed with taking roll of members present.

Moving to our first item, item number one, approval of a draft minutes from the committee meetings held on July eighth, twenty twenty-five, July twenty second, twenty twenty-five, and September thirtieth, twenty twenty-five, showing no speakers.

From those previous meetings.

Moving to item number two, determination of schedule of outstanding committee items.

Any outstanding items from the administration.

I'll entertain a motion.

Second.

This is moved by Councilmember Guile, seconded by Councilmember Wong to accept the draft to accept the pending list as is on roll.

Council members.

Guile?

Aye.

Houston.

Aye.

Wong.

Aye.

And chair five.

Aye.

The motion passes with four ayes to accept the pending list as is.

Moving to item three.

Adopt a resolution waiving the local small local business enterprise program requirement and waiving the competitive bidding process and authorizing the city administrator to execute a second amendment to a professional services agreement with childcare careers LLC to increase the amount of the previous contract by an additional $500,000 for a total amount not to exceed $1,250,000 for as needed substitute teacher staffing services for the contract period fiscal year 2022 through 2027.

Thank you.

We'll put five minutes on the clock for our presenter and we can go.

You have the floor.

Oh thank you.

An additional $500,000 to this contract because they are the only substitute agency in the area that has responded to RFPs.

We have used them for the last few years and they meet the requirements that are necessary for all of our state, federal, and local funds.

They allow us to keep our services open, our classrooms open.

Because we are funded by three different funding agencies, our ratios vary.

So for infants, we have to have one qualified adult for three infants.

Toddlers, it's four for one with to one adult, and then for preschoolers, it's one adult for eight children, which is very low if you look at private preschools.

We cannot operate if we don't have those numbers.

We also have recently moved to year-round option for our infants and toddlers to meet the need of working families, and also 10 hour days.

Because of this, we have implemented a process with our teaching staff that where we still want to allow them the time they need to go to their children's events for vacations, they get sick, and so having these sub-services allow them to take care of themselves, meet their family needs without having to close our doors.

Did you have anything to add?

Um no, nothing else to add.

Um we well, I'll add one more thing.

So um also with these sub-services, we are able to request long-term subs.

So we don't, if we need a sub and we know someone's gonna be out for a month or for two weeks, um, we can request them for what we call a long-term sub, which then allows that continuity of care, teachers get to know them, children get to know them, families get to know them, and um we've also had success in bringing them on as City of Oakland employees when we really like them too.

So it's a good way for us to feel that out as well.

Thank you.

I remember performing services as a long-term sub.

And so, yes, that is a good way to get the foot in the door.

Um, are there any questions or comments from the committee before we go to our public speakers?

Councilmember Guile.

Yes, um, can you share with us what is first of all?

We're what is the relationship between the program and the Oakland Unified School District, and secondly, what are the numbers in terms of children?

Are they I know in the past we used to have our parks and recreations open to serve the children, but now many of the parks and recs are closed and closed on weekends specifically.

What is the relationship currently?

So our relationship with the with OUSD, we do partner with them when children are old enough to transition to TK or Kinder.

We also transition with their special ed department once we once children turn three and they need assessments.

Um but our age groups are very different.

So we're infant toddler and preschoolers, and we get them ready to move into the OUSD school system.

So we have that partnership where we get them ready and keep the communications going.

We aren't open on weekends, so the gap that you're speaking of, even with the parks and rec, that's not something that we're able to fill.

We have been able to fill the summer care with for the infants and toddlers, and this past summer, we were able to work with Parks and Rec to get some summer camp slots for our Head Start Children that we paid for.

And what what is the age group of the children?

The age group in our program, it's uh we have pregnant participants and we have infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

So zero to five.

And that's throughout the city.

Correct, throughout the city of Oakland, yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll call on the public speakers, please.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Councilmember Houston.

That's okay.

I wanted to find out how you're doing.

Hi, I'm fine, thank you.

I want to find out how much um will this impact district seven and what locations and and yeah, how much will it impact district seven?

Um, I was just talking to another one of my colleagues earlier.

We do have a number of centers in district seven, and so we will use them in district seven as needed.

We use them throughout all of our programs as needed.

Um I believe we have we have two centers in district seven.

Um, right now, actually, we have a long-term sub at one of our centers that has allowed us to keep our preschool classroom open.

Um, and so these subs are they go to any of our centers that are that are needed.

Thank you.

Yeah, where's the location that where they'll be?

It varies where it depends on where staff call out or where we we need someone to fill in.

So it's through all of our centers throughout the city of Oakland.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, and I will share with my colleagues that this contract is very critical because when you do have Head Start staff that call out, then if there's no one to cover that shift, then they have to close, right?

So I do have a question to staff.

Do you how often or how frequently have closures had to happen?

And then do families have to find other child care services for the day when we don't have staff due to illness or whatever reasons they may be absent.

So we get very creative.

The last time we had to close for the day was maybe a month ago, and it is a hardship for families.

Um, and that was our arroyo center.

We had absolutely we didn't have any staff at all that day, and it's not safe to have two substitutes.

They don't know the kids, they don't know our processes, so it was the safest bet to close for the day.

Um what we have we do get creative and the center directors will call each other and say, Hey, can you come and help me with breaks for 30 minutes?

Um, do you have someone to spare if you know if maybe attendance is low at another center?

Um so it it is tough for the families.

We try to get as creative as possible so we don't have to do it.

If it's a multi-classroom center, we combine classrooms as much as we can without going past our licensing um regulations.

But to your point, because we've had this partnership, this contract with them, the closures have been far in between.

Um prior to me coming on, there were a lot more closures in terms of uh because of staffing and then even the sub company didn't have enough.

Yeah, because the staffing shortage is is everywhere.

They've since increased their staffing.

Um and then also for a short time the contract ran out when we had to get really creative, which we understand we we hadn't paid them yet, but um they felt it and they said, you know what, you can you can start using us again.

We know you're going through the process and how long it takes.

So that was a really tough period about a month ago as well, but um, really proud of the staff and everything they did to keep the centers open.

We had people from central office giving breaks, um, just really working hard to keep the centers open.

So, yes, the contract is extremely helpful so that families who need to work um aren't stuck.

I want to just get clarity on a statement you just made.

Are we currently in arrears in terms of payment to yes?

How much?

Um, right now we're uh about a hundred thousand in arrears.

This contract will cover that, or are they awaiting a payment from a no it'll cover it?

This contract will cover it, and then it'll it'll get us through the next two years as well.

Okay, thank you.

Uh-huh.

Ms.

Asado Olabala for item number three.

If you could introduce yourself.

Can we have the mic on?

No, it was.

Oh, there we go.

Chrisha Esquival, education manager.

The report identified that we currently have 26 teacher vacancies in the classroom, and that's uh 25% of our classroom for workforce is not being uh attended to.

And the issue I want to address is the attrition loss of eight staff members uh voluntarily leaving.

There was a report given out at a meeting of the uh head start board, advisory board, and a document uh had some statements from the S EIEU 102 1.

And they were saying something about uh individuals working as staff members, some of the issues.

There's widespread uncertainty and and frustration among staff and parents due to poor communication from leadership.

Many staff members feel that they have disregarded have been disregarded or mistreated by management over a long period of time.

Concerns were raised about the lack of inclusion of staff's voices in decision making, in addition to low pay staff are also concerned about how they are treated on a daily basis by leadership.

Leadership has been unrepresented, unresponsive to staff concerns, which has negatively affected morale.

There is strong call for clear guidance, transparency, and meaningful engagement among moving forward.

So if all of these issues are going on according to people who are working as staff members, even if you're hiring people and these issues identified as being concerns, they have to be addressed at some time.

So when are these issues are going to be addressed?

I know they have had people come here.

We got lawsuits against his start.

We got people who come here, African Americans say they can't get hired at his start.

We got people saying African Americans are denied attendance.

Uh councilmember Wong.

Hi, I uh thank you for producing this report and and your work on this.

Um I'm just trying to understand what are we gaining exactly like?

Do we have a metric?

And this is a common not just directed at you, but in general, some of these contract amendments I've been seeing come to me where I can't figure out what exactly we're getting for the money that we're approving.

So can you just explain that?

Yes, and I'll uh so the way that um child care career sub works, they're essentially a temp agency, but for teachers, and so you pay, excuse me, based on the level of teacher.

They have what they call experienced teacher who has a bachelor's, uh, an assistant teacher, and I believe an aide.

And so each of the levels costs something different, right?

Like that they have a different amount.

So we get charged by the day per hour, and like any temp agency, um, we pay a lot because the company has to make a certain amount of money as well.

So, depending on how many hours a day we use them, how long we use them, and the level, that's how we get charged hourly for the staff.

And on any given day, we can have one, we can have four, we can have five at different levels.

So it really varies based on either what they have available that day or the length of time that we need them.

And so with this additional $500,000, do we have an estimate or do we build into our contracts that there's an expected number of hours that's going to be provided?

No, so this is this operates similar to an open purchase order where we know it's available for us to use uh as we need it.

So if tomorrow we need to call in for three different subs at three different locations, um, then we go into the system and and we make our order for a sub, if you will, and depending on the level that they send us, that's how we're charged.

Okay, and then we so we spin spin down that amount.

If now I'm not saying that is this is likely, but let's say our we fill up these vacancies and we actually have a fantastic um permanent teacher rate, and we don't need these substitute teachers.

Do we have any provisions to ensure that we can actually recoup that funding as a city?

We don't.

Um, however, even if we fill all of our vacancies, there would still always be a need for a sub pool because people get sick, you know, maternity leaves, long-term um LOAs.

So we don't for a while the city was trying to recruit its own sub pool or sub, you know, so that we can have internal subs.

Now we've moved to recruiting full-time.

Um, but there will always be a need for a sub pool.

Okay, I think and I've made this comment to not just you but a number of staff who have come before me today with just the request that we start looking into ways to hold people accountable to certain metrics, and if maybe we don't need that service or they don't hold up, that um we have some ways that we can as a city recoup some funds.

Yeah.

Now that makes sense.

Thank you.

I I want to thank the city clerk for trying to help our public speakers understand how to properly fill out a speaker's card.

I will recognize the public speaker for a minute, um, and then we'll continue on with the agenda item.

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Um, what is wonder to the Oakland promise is a validation of intergovernmental agencies uh based on competitive view to pay performance and then using it in Guadalupe?

Um I asked that there be a view um to part-time employment to child care at five to one uh within tracking to college education.

Um I ask that the state valid date and the legal use to the cell phone as well as it within the trial careers.

Um I ask that there be a mitigated viewpoint um to the use of it as um stable employment as well as education.

Um I wish to challenge a request and view of the allocation for the Oakland promise against the state.

Thank you for your comments to the committee.

Are there any other comments or questions that you have for staff?

I will say that um head start is under attack by this federal administration, and on April 1st of this year, the president and his administration closed our regional office in San Francisco along with several other regional offices across the country, which is why it's so critical that we are doing everything that we can to ensure that we have adequate services, and Oakland has a lot of challenges.

This being one of them, but this is a step in the right direction to ensure that we are taking care of Oakland's most vulnerable and precious that's our our children.

So I will entertain a motion on this item.

So move move approval.

Second, don't worry about it.

Thank you.

I have a motion and a second.

There was a motion made by council member Guiles, seconded by council member Wong to approve the recommendations of staff and forward this item to the October 21st city council agenda on consent on roll.

Council members Guile.

Aye.

Houston.

Aye.

Wong.

Aye, and chair five.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes with four ayes to forward this to next week's city council agenda on consent.

Moving to our next item, item number four.

Adopt a resolution one authorizing the city administrator to accept and appropriate Head Start Basic Training and Technical Assistance.

Early Head Start, basic and training and technical assistant grants for fiscal year 25 through 26 from the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services.

Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start in an estimated amount of $13,797,057 and committing the necessary local match.

And two, authorizing an estimated offset of $3,414,908.81 for fiscal year 25 through 26 central services overhead charges charges and three awarding grant agreements to fund comprehensive early care education and family services to community service providers identified in table three for fiscal year 25 through 26 for a total amount not to exceed 2,760,120 and four authorizing the city administrator to accept and appropriate additional federal head start early head start funds if they become available within fiscal year 25 through 26 and amend the grant agreements within the limits of the federal award.

And we do have two speakers on this item.

Good afternoon.

My name is Tracy Black.

I'm manager of governance and state contracts for early childhood family services division in the human services department.

So good afternoon, Chair Five, members of the Life Enrichment Committee.

Thank you for the opportunity to present this item.

I'm here today to request the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to accept and appropriate 13,797,057 in federal Head Start and Early Head Start grant funds for the fiscal year 25-26 and to commit the necessary local match to support early care education and family services for children and families in Oakland.

To provide a brief overview, the City of Oakland first received funding to provide Head Start services in January of 1971, and subsequent funding to provide early Head Start services in 2009.

The Oakland Head Start program delivers comprehensive early care education and family services currently to 622 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, pregnant people, and families in Oakland.

Services include center-based early learning, center-based early learning, home-based, home visiting programs, a model mobile classroom services, and family child care partnerships across 26 locations citywide with a majority in East and Deep Oakland, where need is the highest.

Open Head Start Centers, Equity, and Community Impact.

Head Start advances the city's equity priorities by serving families with the greatest need.

Over 79% of enrolled children live in Oakland flatlands.

70% identify as black or African American, sorry, black or Hispanic or Latino, and more than 60% speak a language other than English at home.

The program provides culturally responsive services, trauma informed, healing-centered supports, family advocacy, and family engagement.

Fiscal responsibility is critical to our work.

The total program cost for fiscal year 2526 is 20,506,266.

This does include 13,797,057 in federal funding and 6,709, two seven hundred nine thousand two hundred and nine in general purpose fund support to meet the required 20% local match.

In March 2025, the program passed the focus area to federal monitoring revenue and supports compliance with no findings and was recognized for six areas of strong practice, including program governance, data driven and data-driven improvement.

The Office of Head Start also confirmed Oakland's eligibility for a new non-competitive five-year grant cycle in fiscal year 26, 30 to 31.

Approval of this resolution ensures the continued local stability, uh local education system.

I'm sorry, excuse me.

Approval of this resolution ensures continued educational stability for 622 children and families, leverages federal and local investment, advances school readiness and maintains compliance with federal regulations.

Staff requests that this item be forwarded to the full city council for recommendation for approval.

Thank you again for the opportunity to present this item.

I'm here for questions.

Thank you.

Any immediate questions?

Council Member Guy.

How many how many children are we currently serving in Oakland?

62 are the number of children that were proposing to serve with this Head Start grant.

622.

Infants, toddlers.

That we're proposing to serve with the funding that were but currently enrolled in the program.

What are the numbers?

Let me just double check.

I'm looking at our report right now.

And if you don't have that number, have you seen the numbers grow through the years?

Are they increasing or decreasing in terms of the request?

In terms of the you want to share um Tricia?

As a current actual enrollment and Head Start.

Our current actual enrollment in Head Start only.

408.

408.

408 out of 622 funded slots.

408 children currently enrolled in the program, huh?

As of September, and we're continuing to recruit and then so the numbers keep growing and we're wanting the numbers to continue to grow.

That's the that's the plan.

And our staff capacity also makes a difference.

Let's see.

Thank you, Trisha.

Sir 97% enrolled based on staff capacity, and that's our teaching staff.

So they work hand in hand.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Other questions?

Through the chair.

Ms.

Black, how are you?

I think you can you pull up the the can K Top pull up the early childhood and family services continuation application as six page that I had you guys send to me.

Please.

Can I pull that up?

I don't know that K Top can.

I did not give them our report.

We could, okay, we could keep going and then send it to them because I want because I have some questions about this, and I heard my council member Fife uh mentioned to me.

I must say her words.

And you're referring to page six of the report?

No, it's six pages, it's called the early childhood and family services continuation application life enrichment committee.

Can you pull that up for me?

Okay.

Okay, thank you, thank you.

Can you is it possible to sit at the K Talk?

Yeah.

Just in it to K Talk.

K-top at Oakland.

Except, um, you did receive that report, right?

You said you received the PowerPoint presentation that no, I received uh yeah, I received a six-page piece.

Yeah, that's like that.

Okay, okay, okay.

Because I have some questions on these numbers.

Okay.

Do we have time to arrange for the slides to be sent to K Top?

Not at the moment.

No, that would have had to be sent to uh the clerks and K-top before the meeting and time to be included in the presentation.

Okay.

So what we can do is maybe answer questions that you have now.

So this was a part of it, so why can't we pull it up?

It was not a part of the staff report.

We received I think the request this morning was it?

What are the do you have questions about these are the numbers?

This is the numbers of the early head start numbers of um age, race, and gender.

I just got questions about it because um you had mentioned, and I love the words you said, just um the most vulnerable children.

You know, we need to serve the most vulnerable children in my district.

Um my black young kids is the most vulnerable in my district.

And I see some numbers here.

This is some high percentages of others, but not high percentages of my black children in my district.

That's the most vulnerable.

Um, this should have been a part of it.

So council member Houston, we can I think respond to some of your questions here.

My colleague Trisha Barua, Dr.

Trisha Barua can at least answer some questions.

Councilmember Houston, what are the questions that you have for staff?

About the participant race and equity when it goes to the Hispanic, American, Indian, Indian, Black American, African American.

I just wanted to know, give me some details on do we have the details on how many boys, and it's only like 26%.

I just wanted to go over and then they said something about the males and females.

I just wanted you to go over that page number two for me and page number three.

Um, so uh just to uh clarify, my name is Trisha Barro.

I'm a program planner with early childhood and family services.

Um we sent in um some data in response to a request from your office uh yesterday.

We sent it in this afternoon, which is why it's not in the um uh public report.

So um in the first uh couple pages of that PDF regarding it says like age, race, gender, um, as well as early Head Start and Head Start demographics by program option.

This is data from uh 24 our program 2425 program year um for our federally funded sites, and this is program-wide data.

Um when it comes to the uh participant race and ethnicity um last year overall, uh 26 percent of our participants are black and African American, and 51.8 percent um were uh Hispanic, and this crosses centers, um, our child care centers, home based, which is our home visiting option, and family child care, so home um home home-based child care.

Um, three are three main program options.

Um and uh the uh uh side you mentioned with um like the smaller percentages.

We have a race ethnicity breakdown based on um program option.

So for example, uh for center-based 57.7 percent um of participants last year were black or African American.

Um 11.6% of participants uh uh and home base were black or African American, and 35.1% um were in our uh family child care participants were uh black or African American.

So you can see that like center-based program options are the ones that are um primarily utilized by our black communities.

So, like our first couple slides, that's program-wide.

Um, the next ones that they say like district seven, right?

So that's specifically there are two ways to look at it.

Like our district seven sites, which include four family child care sites, um, one head start preschool Brookfield, and one early Head Start Infant toddler and Head Start preschool site, which is 85th.

So across our FCCs, family child care and um or head start early Head Start sites, we have um 31.2 percent enrollment of uh black and African American uh students, and then 58 percent Hispanic or Latino, all other groups are under 5%, and then the rate the the gender breakdown is like 44.6 percent um female, and 55.38 percent um male, and all in all, these uh sites in District 7, they have um 15.4% of total enrollment in our federally funded program citywide.

And then the last um slide with data um, and I'm essentially just like reading this out loud so everyone can kind of see this or get a sense of the information in there.

So I honed in, um, so like participants do not necessarily live in the same district or zip code is where their site is located.

So we pull data for uh participants whose home addresses are in zip codes 94603 and 94621.

Um so 26.7 percent of Head Start and early Head Start participants live in those two district seven zip codes.

And what's interesting, um, and I think it's worth uplifting our home-based programs because 41.6 percent, um, so just under half of district seven residents are enrolled in home-based program options, which includes Brighter Beginnings, one of our partners, and then our own City of Oakland um home based program, as well as our mobile classroom program that serves um unhoused families.

Um, and uh you can also see that um money, uh district seven participants, they go to sites that aren't in um their own zip code or they aren't in district seven, but they go citywide.

Um, and then just to amplify or uplift um the racial demographic numbers, um, with district seven, um, 20 or with the 94603 and 94621 um that's 21.98, so almost 22 percent um black or African American and 63.6 Hispanic or Latino.

You did a great job for them, giving you that just yesterday.

You did excellent.

Um, my through the chair.

I want how do we bring that up from that 21.

Um nine date and balance it out with the 63.61, and I'm continue to say the same thing every day.

Every time I get up here, I'm half black and I'm half Latino.

I want it to be even, right?

So I see that we had 20 my black side is 21.98.

How do we get that up to you know balance it out with that sixty-three percent?

That's my main concern.

We need more teachers for centers, right?

We do.

We were just sharing we need more teachers.

Yeah, black black families, like, or to the mic, to the mic, get to the mic.

Yeah, thank you.

Black families overwhelmingly prefer center-based options in relation to um uh our home-based and family child care option.

So if we had more teachers, if we staffed up our centers, then we would most likely enroll more black children or families into our program.

Let's do it, I'll move it.

Thank you, Councilmember Wong.

And we also need to pay teachers a living wage.

So that's a part of it.

Thank you, Dr.

Barua.

Uh, thank you, Chair.

Um, I'm just having a little trouble following some of this reports, uh, just specifically page 10, uh, table six, and um I'm just trying to understand it, looks like six hundred and twenty-two slots is the the key thing.

What is table six?

Um, what what is this table illustrating?

Because I see numbers like um 1,292 slots, the 330 in the first column.

What is that depicting?

So it's it's breaking down our enrollment across our head start in our early head start program and then totaling it to 622.

So you see that an early head start across uh the different uh the grantee funded sites and our partner sites, we have 330 slots, and for head start uh across our grantee and our partner sites, we have 292 slots, which totals 622.

Oh, okay, 292, not 1,292.

Okay.

No, we're just I was um confused about that, but thank you for clarifying that.

Um my other question, and don't get me wrong, I'm very supportive of early childhood programs.

I've worked on Head Start myself.

Um I'm just wondering, have we been able to, and maybe I don't have the history on this, been able to get the county to support this at all?

Um it looks like this is requiring six, um, is it million dollars in matching funds from general funds?

And um, I did a quick search and it looks like it's pretty commonplace, like Contra Costa County actually administers the Head Start program, LA county administers the head start program.

Um it's Monterey, maybe that's not a good example, but anyways, you can see pretty commonplace San Diego, I believe the county supports and I'm just wondering if we've had any conversations around the county at least co-administering the program and supporting with some of their funds.

We have not, but we can look into it.

Okay.

Um I can't answer that question for you.

Okay.

With detail.

Okay.

But it's certainly something that we can take back and look into and come back to you.

And I'm happy to advocate with the supervisors as well that um this is something that is commonly funded and supported by counties, and that we um the county should also think about their role in supporting us here too.

One thing is very specific is that um uh the process does involve the the grantee actually being um a county grantee versus like a city grantee.

So it starts off with that person or that agency or that entity being the primary grantee.

Or can you explain that?

Sorry, not totally following.

So the the county would need to be a primary grantee in order to.

Oh, okay, yes.

And so we don't we don't know much about um that history with the county.

We do know the structure of the county office of education of an Alameda.

Um, and we can, like I said, look into whether that's something that could be possible.

Sounds good.

Thank you so much.

And thank you for your question.

I will say that there has been conversation that's been floated over the last couple years about the county being involved in Head Start, and we had immense pushback from many of our child care providers, many in the industry.

So that is a significant shift in something that has not happened uh in the city of Oakland before, and just know you are opening the floodgates.

And so if we, if if that is something that's considered, we have to have deep community involvement because uh that's just that's not something you can just flip a switch and turn on.

The county doesn't currently have the infrastructure to administer a Head Start program.

Uh so I just wanted to state that for the record just because I've been here for a little bit, uh, and I I know several of the service providers.

Uh Councilmember Wong, did you have something to share before?

What was the nature of the pushback?

Like, what were the uh critiques levied?

I would I would love to have that conversation with you offline just because it hasn't been agendized.

Um, but it is uh there's been a lot of conversation on the record, and I can connect you with some of those service providers as well.

I I did have one or two questions before I I take a vote on this item.

So um and we have public speakers too, thank you.

Um Ms.

Black, is are any of these funds uh set aside for or allocated or could be used for operational costs at some of our sites?

It looks like there's three sites that these funds are going to, but um I've just been made aware by some of our staff and parks and rec that there are operational costs that haven't been paid at at city funded or city run sites.

Um there certainly are um funds in the budget to um support operational costs, um, but we also have historically been at park and rec sites if you're if you're referring to park and rec sites.

Uh in exchange, it has not there has not been a fee for that.

Is that what you're referring to?

People are asking to be paid for the space that we're using in park and rec.

That's not what these funds are are used could be utilized for.

Not at this time, no.

We do have operational costs.

We have um lease, you know, lease costs, utility costs, uh maintenance costs, so that's operations, um, but nothing specific to uh leasing Arroyo, Tasafaranga, Franklin, Manzanita, Manzanita, San Antonio Park, all of those, right?

Nothing related to paying rent at those spaces.

Okay, thank you.

Are there any other questions or comments from the body?

Then we'll go to our public speakers.

Mr.

Sada Olabala and Zach J.

Unfortunately, the statement that we are going to be able to have stable stability with this is not true.

The head start uh is in flux because in July of 2025, uh Trump with his craziness uh uh passed something that would allow for public funds not to be accessible to our undocumented community.

The courts are have that on whole, but there's a possibility that could come to fruition.

Um I'm a little bit confused about identifying a breakdown of how this money would be used because uh there has been statements about lack of equity at certain facilities uh that head or head start facilities, particularly the ones in Mr.

Houston's and district six and seven.

Uh I'm also concerned.

Does this money in any way a part of the seven sites that are run by the Spanish speaking unity council of Alameda County?

Or is are their fundings for head start separate?

I'm also concerned because whenever I hear report from the head start advisory committee from staff, there's always a waiting list.

That's a part of the reporting.

So with this 622, you're saying that this is going to accommodate everybody, or we're gonna go through some type of prioritization process.

How many kids will actually be capable of cundant coming under the umbrella of being served by Head Start?

It's gonna be more than 622 hours soon because that's the histor the history of how head start has work.

Every child who needs to be accommodated is not necessarily accommodated because we we can't do it.

But my my main thing is.

Uh based on model, um, death act.

The death act isn't understood in view of children to uh trekking uh in the view of the Oakland Promise as a prisoner in U.S.

of the Iran as someone that would be a promise underwriter uh interim resident and a I don't know, Prince Essex.

Um the Moderna validity to COVID is invalidating it compared to Alma Linux and Rocky, when this is wondered to instead of it to Deanum models, uh I mean college professors, and their inability to get their PhD in certain we uh Berkeley and UC Regions via Doe and Rubenstein v.

Doe, I guess I'm not that agent.

When that is wondered and tracking, uh that wouldn't be the specifics, the re the reason I am asking that this be investigated, um, when we're tracking it instead of food, language differences compared to how you see math and science.

I guess as somebody uh it's the alcoholic community called NATO.

Um, I guess all Seventh-day Adventist and Islamics eat pork and drink.

When you're asking it in American Canyon, Vallejo, and Fairfield, to tracking it in Southern Methodist University as a model.

I do ask that the Honorable Jeffrey White, Mr.

Kemper, report.

Thank you for your comments.

Are there any other questions regarding this agenda item for my colleagues?

If there are none, I will entertain a motion.

Through the chair, we do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston.

Just need a second.

Thank you.

There was a motion made by Councilmember Houston, seconded by Councilmember Gallo to approve the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the October 21st City Council agenda on consent on roll.

Council Members Guile.

Aye.

Houston?

Aye.

Wong?

Aye.

And Chair Five.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes with four ayes to send this to the October 21st city council agenda on consent.

Showing two speakers for open forum.

Ms.

Asado Labala and Zachary Faith.

I'm deeply concerned about the Human Services Department lacking a true director.

The interim director position has been in place for substantial long period of time.

I don't understand why an individual who has been historically working in the economic workforce and development department is now the interim director of human services with no official capacity to have expertise.

And this individual submitted the recommendations around homelessness and how we are going to perhaps defund 18 programs with one year contracts and six months contract related to the homeless community.

This individual has no historical background on dealing with housing for the homeless, but has made these decisions.

This individual has had no in no scope of work related to Head Star.

Why is the Department of Human Services not having leadership based on some type of capacity to make decisions?

That's not happening.

What is behind this?

This is serious.

And I just read to you a document that said people who work in Head Start as employees are disappointed with the lack of leadership, how their voices are not being heard.

I don't know how this move was made.

That this person was put in, I'm not gonna call a name because I'm sure they have expertise in some area, but it's not in the human services department.

So let's get somebody in that department who can produce some leadership.

I heard some excellent leadership.

And Anderson via the organization, Bo Kim v the U.S., thinker via the state of California by and Revis v.

U.S.

and James Huntman v.

the United States.

Um I am asking that the validity of the interim designation congressional medal of freedom, gross malice, intentional negligence in view of a prisoner of war, based on the war department, and blatant gross malice and intentional negligence be seen against the state of California, city of Oakland County of Almeda.

What is wondered to asset allocation, RIFTA, the PAC Act, and tied to the food stamps to No Child Left Behind isn't wondered on the original model.

With this big of a family application, and what happened tonight isn't the promise.

Most of these families are people within a 45-minute location that go back and forth.

As a city of Minister, being told I am overqualified for every job that I apply for an open stream in Alamo Linux Rocky based on the view.

Is it understood?

It's not Reddit, it's not e-script.

I am asking that in view of a bond allocation holding of the Rothschild Rockefeller Ames Kennedy job and the Eldon Anderson Estate be identified in a tri-regional.

I'm asking that there be a wonderment and first republic in Chicago title against the small business development tied to bond holdings and the regulatory reform act tied to the Interbanking Act.

Thank you.

I believe that concludes our public speakers for this item.

Thank you to my colleagues on this committee and to all the city staff.

I appreciate your service.

Thank you all.

This meeting is adjourned.