The Life Enrichment Committee of the Oakland City Council met on December 9, 2025, at 4:02 PM. Four members were present (Councilmembers Gallo, Houston, Wong, and Chair Fife). The committee approved draft minutes, discussed outstanding items, introduced a new Human Services Director, and voted on grant agreements and an informational report on Head Start. All motions passed 4-0.
Good afternoon and welcome to the sorry life enrichment committee meeting of December ninth, two thousand twenty-five. The time is now four or two PM and this meeting may come to order. Before taking role, I will provide instructions on how to submit speaker cards for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber and would like to submit a speaker card, please pull one out and turn one turn one into a clerk representative no later than ten minutes after the start of this meeting or before the item is read into record. Registering to speak via Zoom is now due twenty-four hours prior to the start of this meeting time. This meeting came to order at four four oh two PM, and this and speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after, making that time for twelve PM. We'll now proceed with taking role with members present. Council membersgaillo. Council Member Houston. Here. Council Member Wong, present. And Chair Five present. Thank you. We have four members present. And before we begin, Chair, do you have any announcements at this time? No, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Reading in item number one, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting. Committee meetings held on October fourteenth, two thousand twenty-five and November eighteenth, two thousand twenty-five. I do not see him logged on Zoom. So that would conclude our speakers. I'll entertain a motion on this item. Thank you. We have a motion made by Councilmember Gaio, seconded by Councilmember Wong to approve the committee draft minutes from October 14th and November 18, 2025. As is on roll councilmember Skyo. Aye. Councilmember Houston. Aye. Councilmember Wong. Aye. And Chair Five. Aye. Thank you. Item number one passes with four eyes. Reading in item two. Determination of schedule of outstanding committee items. We do have one speaker that signed up to speak on this. Well, take the public. To say that the life enrichment for students at McClyman's High School is almost non-existent. McClyman's High School is going to the state championship this coming weekend. And they played on a field that was toxic soil. They were not allowed to play most of their games there because the soil is toxic. They didn't have the whole uh football season a working scoreboard. It would stop, it wouldn't work. So last week they rented a scoreboard instead of replacing a scoreboard. The PA system doesn't work. We have rats in the kitchen. The flow system, water flow system, we don't have it. We don't have an intercom system.